The board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, May 20th, 2019, and the time is 635 p.m. 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. Agenda item 4.1.
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Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in a closed meeting.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, 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. Next, do we have any scouts in the audience? Yes, of course. Go, Mr. Gowerski.
Thank you, Madam President. Sorry to interrupt, but I do want to take a moment. As part of the personnel report that we did just approve was our head coach for Cinco Ranch High School football and campus athletic coordinator. I'd like to go ahead and recognize Mr. Chris, Coach Chris Dudley, please. And we're welcoming Chris back to Cinco Ranch. He spent a considerable amount of his career over there. It's great to have him back on staff over there, even though he escaped for one year. We don't know why we won't bring that up, but Chris got a few folks with him I'd like you to go ahead and introduce some of the people that come out with you tonight Chris
Thank you, okay now I will ask are there any scouts in the audience Okay. Oh wait, go ahead. If you would stand up and come to the podium and give us your name and your troop and the badge that you're currently working on.
I'm Ben Crow. I am from Troop 557 and I am working on, is it what I am or what I'm working on? I'm working on Eagle.
Oh, very good. Thank you so much for being with us tonight. Next, we are going to move on to recognitions. Mr. Grigorski.
Next on our agenda, I'd like to introduce Mrs. Maria DePetta, Manager Media Relations and Multimedia for the recognition portion of our meeting tonight.
Good evening, Madam President, board members and Superintendent Grigorski. Tonight, Tonight we would like to present the top two students from each high school ranked highest academically in their respective graduating classes. At this time, in absence of Principal James Cross, we're going to ask Assistant Principal Jane Baker to please come forward to introduce the valedictorian and salutatorian for Cinco Ranch High School.
Good evening, Madam President, Board Members, and Superintendents. Gagorski, Jane Baker Cinco Ranch Senior Principal and I'm here tonight on behalf of James Cross Principal to present our salutatorian and our valedictorian. Nevin George is a salutatorian of Cinco Ranch's high school class of 2019. His parents are Babu George and Deepa Joseph. Nevin will be attending Yale University with a double major in math and computer science. He plans to eventually work in the tech industry or in academia. At Cinco Ranch High School, Nevin was the Math National Honor Society President, National Science Bowl Club President, Computer Science Club Vice President, and Drumline Captain. He was a USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad Qualifier, TMEA All-State Percussionist, winner of the Clear Lake Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and presenter at the 2018 Rice Data Science Conference. Mr. Nevin George. William Wang. William Wang is the valedictorian of Cinco Ranch High School. His parents are Don Wang and Bo Lee. William will attend Rice University in the fall. After working with a chemistry professor last year as part of his internship, William has decided to major in chemistry and he hopes to be a college professor in the future so he can continue to share his love of science. William William is a three-year member of the academic decathlon team and he guided the team to state competition this year. As a member of Mu Alpha Theta, William tutors students in all levels and types of math. He enjoys competing in math and chemistry competitions such as Science Bow and Science Olympiad. This year when the school needed a science team to compete in the UIL at the last minute, William called in several of his friends and they assembled a team. William served 100 hours at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital as junior volunteer. He's also an avid ping pong player. Mr. William Wang.
All right guys, let's center up a little bit and come towards the front.
If we have any parents in the audience, if you want to take photos, you can also come up at this time.
Okay.
Let's give Nevin and William a round of applause. Thank you Ms. Baker. At this time I would like to introduce Dr. Rick Hall, principal of Katy High School.
President Doyle, members of the board, Mr. Gorgorski, Katy High School has a tradition of excellence. beginning in 1898 our graduates have gone on to become doctors politicians educators leaders in their field they have contributed to contributed to society in many ways the 2019 graduating class will continue this tradition of excellence and further our legacy it is my honor and privilege to present the valedictorian and salutatorian for Katy high school our salutatorian is miss Sarah Hatcher she will be graduating with a 4.75 GPA and will be attending the University of Texas at Austin where she plans to study biology. While at Katy High School she has been involved in that roaring band from Tiger Land. I'm proud to present Katy High School's salutatorian Sarah Catherine Hatcher and unfortunately Sarah this morning when I was talking with her had a prior engagement so she won't be able to be here this evening. Katy High School's valedictorian is Mr. Joshua Durker. He will be graduating with a 4.7547 GPA and will be attending the University of Texas at Austin as well in the fall where he plans to study computer science. He has been active in many clubs and organizations while at Katy High School including National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, and Academic Decathlon. Joshua is the son of Alan and Rita Durker and I'd like to introduce them at this time. And again, it's my privilege to recognize Katy High School's Valedictorian, Joshua Durker.
Congratulations to Joshua and Sarah. Now please welcome Mr. Ronnie Edwards, principal of May Creek High School.
Board of Trustees, Mr. Gagorski, it is my honor as the principal of May Creek High School to introduce our salutatorian and valedictorian. First of all, we have our salutatorian is Monica Arambide Valdez. Monica is represented today by Jesus Arambide and Maria Valdez, if they will stand up. and it happens to be Father Jesus's birthday today so please wish him a happy birthday today. Just a few things about Monica. When Monica was younger she lived in Mexico and for a time she was raised by her grandparents due to her parents engineering career. After moving to the United States when she was seven she had to quickly learn a new language to accommodate to a new culture and fit fit in. She tried hard and became extremely dedicated to her academics and extracurricular activities. She tried her best at school in order to make her parents proud and as you can see by her performance she has done that. She will be attending Texas A&M University. She will be majoring in computer engineering and hopes to pursue a career in software development. While at May Creek High School she was one of our drum majors in the band. She was in the full orchestra, National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, class president, varsity tennis, computer club, science club officer, math UIL team, and superintendent student leadership club, and RAM student leadership team. Next we have our valedictorian, Owais Ghulam. He is represented today by his mom, Farzana Ghulam. Just a few things about Owais. When I spoke with him about his journey that he has traveled through his high school career, Oase has had to overcome some tremendous adversity in his high school career. In February of his freshman year, Oase's father passed away unexpectedly. In June of that year, he attended the Maid Creek graduation with his mother. When the parents of the top 10 students were recognized in their special seating, Ms. Gillom leaned over and told Oase that someday she would like to sit with the parents of the top ten. Owasse said he promised his mom that day that he would sit that she would get to sit in one of those seats one day and as you can see Owasse has made good on that promise by finishing as number one of 600 students. Owasse will be attending the University of Houston and majoring in chemical engineering. He was the National Honor Society senior officer, National Honor Society president, and Computer Science Club president. Congratulations Owasse and Monica.
Let's hear that round of applause for Monica and Oase from Maid Creek High School. At this time I'd like to introduce Mrs. Julie Henson, principal of Morton Ranch High School.
Good evening members of the board and Mr. Krakorski. Tonight I'm honored to present the 2019 Morton Ranch High School valedictorian and salutatorian. Our salutatorian is Khan Vu, who unfortunately couldn't be here tonight, but she is represented by her favorite teacher, Ms. Divya Kashal, who teaches AP Calculus. Ms. Kashal, could you please stand and be recognized? Khan is graduating with a 4.7368 GPA. During her time at Morton Ranch, Con was a member of the Symphony Orchestra and Regional Qualifier for Violin, National Honor Society, and Mu Alpha Theta. Con is known as a student who always walks around the hall with a smile. Con will be attending Stanford University with a scholarship of $272,000 to pursue a degree in economics with aspirations to have a career in international business. Please join me in congratulating our salutatorian, Con Vu. Our valedictorian is Frederica Kizik. I would like to introduce you to Frederica's parents, Benjamin and Dagmar Kizik. Please stand and be recognized. Frederica is graduating with a 4.7778 GPA. During her time at Morton Ranch, Frederica was a varsity swimmer, member of National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, a Mavs volunteer, and an elite swimmer for Power for Life Aquatics. Fun fact about Frederica, she has broken every single female swim record for Morton Ranch High School. Due to her outstanding accomplishments as a student athlete, she was recently featured on Fox 26 for Making the Grade. She will be attending SMU with a scholarship of $215,000 to pursue a degree in biology and wants to be an anesthesiologist. Please join me in congratulating our valedictorian, Frederica Kizik.
Congratulations to Maverick, Federica, and Con. next I'd like to introduce miss Carrie Finison principal of Seven Lakes High School good evening
members of the board tonight I am honored to present the 2019 Seven Lakes High School valedictorian and salutatorian our salutatorian is Naveen Kumar Venkat I would like to introduce to you Naveen's parents, Thiru Venkat and Poongan D. Venkat. Will you please stand to be recognized? Naveen is graduating with a 4.8571. During his time at Seven Lakes High School, Naveen was a member of the Science National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, and Computer Science Club. Navin will be attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, to pursue a degree in computer science and math. Little fun fact about Navin, not only is he super smart, he also is extremely gifted in origami. Please join me in congratulating our salutatorian, Navin Kumar Venkat. Our valedictorian is Suraya Indukari. I would like to introduce to you, oh come on up Suraya, sorry. I would like to introduce to you Suraya's parents Raju and Himalatha Indukari. will you please stand to be recognized. Surya is graduating with a 4.8615 GPA. During his time at Seven Lakes High School, Surya was a member of the National Honor Society and has been awarded as an Eagle Scout. He will be attending Hofstra University in New York to pursue a degree in Bioscience. And Surya is also quite the cook. And his favorite dish is chicken curry, which is very fortunate for me because it is also mine And I know that I will be getting some very short shortly Please please join me in congratulating our valedictorian suraya in Dakari
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Congratulations to Spartans Naveen and Surya. At this time, let's please welcome Mr. Christopher Morgan, principal of Taylor High School.
President Doyle, members of the board, Mr. Grigorski, Taylor has almost 40 years of academic excellence. Our graduates have gone on to have great accomplishments in their careers and made significant impacts in their communities. These past graduates have represented us well. The 2019 graduating class will be no different and tonight is my honor to present the valedictorian and salutatorian for Taylor High School. Our salutatorian, Ms. Sunny Tain. Her dad is here tonight, James Tain. Would you please stand and be recognized. Sunny will be graduating with a 4.8125 GPA and will be attending Harvard Harvard University where she plans to study chemistry. While at Taylor High School, she was involved in the jet marching band for four years. She was part of the Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, four-year all-state oboist. If you don't know the oboe, it's one of the most difficult instruments to play. Houston Youth Symphony, Mu Alpha Theta President, Chemistry Olympiad, National Qualifier, and National Honor Society. Sunny has also received seven different scholarships to further her educational pursuits. and also I have to say she plays a mean electric wind instrument she can play some sweet jams if you need to invite her to a party I now proudly present Taylor high school salutatorian Sunny Tang next I have Taylor high school's valedictorian miss Lauren Wynn her Her parents Ming and Candace Wynn are right over here. If you'll stand up, guys. She will be graduating with a 4.8148 GPA and will be attending the University of Houston in the fall to study biology. She has been involved in multiple clubs and organizations, including National Honor Society Secretary, Vietnamese Student Association, HOSA Future Health Professionals, and Habitat for Humanity. Lauren has also received the University of Houston Excellence Scholarship and the Natural Science and mathematics endowed scholarship it is my honor to recognize taylor high school's valedictorian lauren win
It's here for Taylor High School, Mustang, Sunny, and Lauren. Thank you. Next, I'd like to introduce Mr. Mark Grisdale, principal of Tompkins High School.
on. Good evening, President Doyle, members of the board, Mr. Grigorski. It's a great night to be a Falcon as it's my honor to introduce the valedictorian and salutatorian from Tompkins High School. The salutatorian for 2019 is Christy Zhang. Christy is not with us this evening as she is traveling back from New York City where she has been competing with the Tompkins Economics Challenge team competing in the National Economics Challenge finals. Tompkins is one of eight teams from around the country who advanced to the championship and they finished fourth overall in the nation today. Christy is the daughter of Fu-Shan Zhang and Susan Lee. Christy has a GPA of 4.8226. She will be attending Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where she will major in mechanical engineering. Christy has been active in the Science Olympiad, Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, the Eaton Challenge, and she has also been a tutor at Kumon Academy for three years. The Tompkins High School valedictorian is Blake Romero. Blake is the son of Craig and Jennifer Romero. Blake has a GPA of 4.8438. He will be attending the University of Texas at Austin where he will major in computer science. While at Tompkins, Blake has been a member of the Steel Talons robotics team, the computer science team, the National Honor Society, the Science National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, the Forest Community Service Program, the URL spelling team, and the economics challenge. Will you please join me in congratulating the Tompkins High School valedictorian Blake Romero.
Congratulations to Blake and Chrissy Tompkins High School. And let's extend that applause one more time for all our KDISD valedictorians and salutatorians. Next on our list of recognitions, communication disorders are among the most common conditions in adults and children. Because of the tireless work our audiologists and speech therapists perform, we would like to salute these 132 KDISD professionals in this field. This recognition reminds our school community of the thousands of students who have a form of hearing, speech, and or language impairment and are served by these particular individuals. Thank you to all of them for their hard work. Let's give them a round of applause. And at this time I would like to introduce Dr. Christine Caskey, Chief Academic Officer, for our next recognition.
Thank you, Maria. Good evening, President Doyle, Board Members, and Superintendent Kragorski. Because KDIC has consistently expanded access to advanced placement courses while maintaining a high standard of excellence, the College Board recently recognized KDISD as the ninth annual AP Large District of the Year. We were selected for this national honor based on an analysis over three academic years of advanced placement data for successfully expanding access and increasing performance on our advanced placement exams. Over the past three years, KDISD simultaneously and continuously increased the number of students taking AP classes while improving successful outcomes on AP exams. The number of students taking AP exams increased 18% with over 77% of exams scoring at a score of 3 or higher in 2018. The district has also increased the percentage of traditionally underrepresented minority AP students earning a 3 or higher on at least one of their AP exams. This recognition This recognition illustrates how our amazing Advanced Placement teachers, counselors, and curriculum staff have partnered together to identify and prepare motivated students to be successful in Advanced Placement coursework. We're very honored to have received this award. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Dr. Caskey. And this concludes the recognitions portion of our meeting tonight.
Thank you, Mr. Pitta. Next, we have agenda item 6.1, consider and elect officers for the 2019-2020 Board of Trustees. Office of President. Madam President. Ms. Vann. I nominate you, Courtney Doyle, for the position of President. A nomination was made by Ms. Vann to elect Courtney Doyle as President. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, the Chair will entertain a motion to close nominations.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board close nominations for the Office of President.
I'll need a second. I have a motion to close nominations made by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed, nay. The nominations. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Aye. I'm sorry. The nominations are closed by a seven to zero vote. A nomination was made by Ms. Vann that the Board elect Courtney Doyle for the Office of President of the Board of Trustees for the 2019-2020 school year. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Sorry. A nomination was approved by a seven to zero vote. Thank you all. all. Office of Vice President. Nominations are open for the position of Vice President. Madam President. Ms. Vann. I nominate Bill Lacey for the position of Vice President. A nomination was made by Ashley Vann to elect Bill Lacey as Vice President. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, the Chair will entertain a motion to close nominations. Madam President. Mr. Lacey.
I move that the board close nominations for the office of vice president.
Second. I have a motion to close nominations made by Mr. Bill Lacey, seconded by Ms. Ashley Vann. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? The motion to close nominations is voted on with a 7-0 vote. A nomination was made by Ms. Vann that the board elect Bill Lacey for the office of vice Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the 2019-2020 school year. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? The nomination is approved by a 7-0 vote. Congratulations, Mr. Laird. The Board now will nominations are open for the position of Secretary.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I nominate Ashley Vann for the position of Secretary.
A nomination was made by Mr. Lacey to elect Ashley Vann as the Secretary. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, the Chair will entertain a motion to close nominations for the position of Secretary. Madam President. Ms. Vann.
I move the board closes nominations for the office of secretary
And a second second I have a motion to close nominations made by miss van a second by miss guests off all those in favor Please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye all those opposed Nominations are closed with a seven to zero vote a nomination was made by mr Lacey that the board elect Ashley van for the office of secretary of the Board of Trustees for the 2019-2020 school year. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed, the nomination is approved with a 7-0 vote. This concludes the election of officers. Thank you all. Next, we have reports. Agenda item 7.1, 2019-2020 budget update. Mr. Smith.
Good evening, President Van. I'm sorry, President Doyle, Superintendent Gorgorski, and trustees and new trustees.
We've given you a year, Chris.
I'm sorry. I don't know why I did that. Tonight, I'm going to give you a quick budget update, see where we are. Remember, we adopt our budget in August, so we're still way ahead of the curve. We've got three months. We'll be doing this again in July and in August. We'll be adopting. A lot of surrounding school districts have a fiscal year-end date of June the 30th, so they'll be adopting their budgets either within the next couple of weeks or before the end of June by law. Their budget will start July 1. Our budget will start September 1. So when you start reading about budgets being adopted, please know that we are a September 1 fiscal year date. So we've gone through those first four months of the year, and we're in May. We're taking a closer look at the budget projections. I'm going to go through here relatively quickly. What I want to convey tonight is we're still working under current law, and that we are on top of our budget when it comes to some staffing that you're going to be asked later in the agenda to look at, which is the department staffing that reflects our growth. You've done the back in March we looked at the board approved our campus staffing this would be the department staffing that's more centralized that would include things like bus driver pool, custodial pool, maintenance workers that work on Boeing crews, new office staff in this building, that kind of stuff. That's going to be later on in the agenda. So we want you to see that we're on top of it. And I wanted to start out with the fund balance. That's the district's health card, our health report card if you will. We're having our ratings call as a reminder. We're going to be having a bond sale in the early part of June. We're going to be the second sale or second tranche of our six hundred nine million dollar authorization this transaction will be 209 million dollars we have our ratings call for scheduled for next week and I will not bet but I will tell mr. Gorski now he's going to hear these two things out of Moody's and Standard & Poor's one of the first things they say tell me about the health of your fund balance so these guys are going to be given the credit ratings and they're going to want to know the health of our fund balance and our fund balance is over that black line which is three months represents 25% of the year three three months and we have all heard in finance 101 or consumer finance 101 that you want to have three months supply or cash reserves for hard times that you may fall on well districts or municipalities aren't any or aren't exempt to that so that black line represents three months so we are a little over three months and that difference there of about six percent is is is healthy what you want in a district like this is to see that line go flat and when we're growing we're going to add expenses we need to add fund balance so that line doesn't go down but you don't want to see that line grow and get so much fund balance we're not letting money work for children or to use that money on something that's a recurring expense or it will continue to go down so to have that level is the goal and that goes with the maintain a balanced budget with our first goal of our objective of this budget process we We want to maintain a competitive compensation plan. We want to react to whatever the legislative session does in the next seven days. We're going to maintain, we want to maintain our health care program, avoid TRS active care. Talk about that in a few minutes. And a high priority on student and staff safety, as always. We're going to open Leonard Elementary and Adams Junior High, as well as the final grade at Paytoe High School. And then in this budget that you'll be adopting in August. We're going to have some expenses associated with elementary 43 when they open, well when we get them online in June of next year, some expenses will be associated with elementary 43 and high school number 9. So again, the primary focus, I won't go through all these numbers, but we're working on current law. Okay, it's the original budget and what we're projecting off current law. That's really the only accurate thing we have have at this point because everything else is a moving target but current law. We're looking at a pretty large increase in enrollment of 3,308 students. That's budgeted to budgeted enrollment. If you look at our enrollment as of Friday, we're up one, it was, it's only an increase of 1,842 students. So our enrollment was quite a bit higher than we budgeted. It came in hotter than we than we budgeted so it shows a 4.2 percent increase but I would say that's probably more like a 3% increase when it really boils down to it. Our taxable values we did receive those in the first week of I'm sorry the last week of April. This last year I was using porridge little pictures of porridge too hot too cold just right. This is what we think is just right these are not sandbag numbers they're straight from what we have historically received from our three appraisal districts and what they have historically done between when we receive them and when they actually certify in late August those two numbers we compare and track all the time and so we really think that that's a good solid number based on trend it could be higher we've been surprised before we've it's been lower but we think that that's that porridge is just right there at five point seven five percent and I think last time I mentioned that to you we We were at 6% as our estimate, so we are just slightly below what we were estimating prior to receiving those values last month. Teacher growth, again, we're opening a junior. Last year we opened an elementary school and one grade level at Paytoe. This year we're opening an elementary school, a full junior high, and Paytoe High School, plus substantial more growth, or about 1,100 students more. more. So with that comes additional staff, additional money, but additional staff is necessary to supervise and to instruct those children. Right now we're working on, we don't know what the salary increase is. You see what we did last year. Anytime, and you've heard me say this before, any ISD is at the mercy of the state of Texas of what they do to allow us to do things that are subject to inflation such as salary increases. We're waiting and watching House Bill 3 both from the Senate's perspective and from the House's perspective at this point in their conference committee. That's going to largely determine what we're able to do as a race based on what ends up landing between the next seven days or who knows, even in a special session if necessary. There's our value growth over time. That goes back to 2006, so I guess that's 13 years. You can see that Black Line is an average over that time of 9.4%. We are just under 6% at 5.75%. We had a dip there last year at just under 2%. I called that the Harvey effect with some of those values that we had on the eastern side of our district, both in the north and south side. But we're rebounding from that. And, again, next year from a long-range plan perspective, we're back to 8%. Still below our average, but we're anticipating back to 8%. There's no sign of slowed growth. We're still growing. We think that even the 6% is somewhat suppressed by still some of the Harvey remnants. This is it by county, and you can see this tracks as a percentage by county. So if you look at Waller County out there on the right, you see they almost had in Waller County growth of 15% property values or just short of 15%. That doesn't drive the percentage up overall at 5.75% because it's only 3.7% of our entire tax base. So there's very little amount of tax base in Waller County. Our second size is Fort Bend County at 39.6%. And you can see that there in the orange. And they had just over, we're anticipating just over a 5% or 5.5% increase or percent increase and then Harris County is 57 percent of our values or about 23.8 billion dollars and they're showing it just over a little over five and a half percent increase as well from a revenue perspective you can see the the increase in that that five point seven five percent increase from the 435 to the 458. We are continuing to build this budget under 6 and 26.08a of the tax code which is allowed because of Harvey and because of the stunted growth that we have with our appraised values. We've continued that and we think we can based on the proclamations that were approved at the state level. But that's 8.1 million dollars in taxes and that would result in a 14.3 million dollars in state matching funds because of that tax swap. Remember, we lowered the debt service tax rate to do that, and then we just transferred general operating fund fund balance to make the debt service fund whole. And that's a good investment that this board has made to help make up for those stunted property value growth. TOS contributions, I expect this to be changed as part of Senate Bill 12, to change. It's got an offsetting revenue. um and it's associated with i'm sorry an offsetting expense uh so as that expense rises the revenue will rise uh and you'll see that later on in blue uh we're building the budget to continue to be around 88 percent uh salary and benefits uh somewhere between 87 and 89 percent is probably where we're going to end up depending on what happens at the state level with the raise again the purple section is the second largest part of our budget at five percent but the vast majority of that 5% or just under $18 million is on utilities. So when you take utilities and salary and benefits out of the budget, you're not looking at a lot that we really have say over, especially when you look at fuel is expensive and et cetera. So new positions that are associated and tied to the teacher salary schedules, we have $18.8 million. And new positions associated with non-teacher pay groups at $6.8 million. Again, those would be custodians, food service workers, central staff, additional principals, etc., that are necessary to open those two new schools. I've left salary increases on here blank and then you can see that the new facilities there at the bottom that $600,000 that's some expenses that will take that this district will take on with elementary 43 and high school 9 next summer just we're continuing to build a budget based on our stipends Substitute teachers, we trend that based on our school year and how it's gone. There's really no way to tell what kind of substitute uses we just trended off statistics. And so right now that's being looked at and it will continue to use data through through next week or through the rest of this week to to build that. But it's coming together. And then overtime is also under construction with with trends and with our departments. Our departments are nine-tenths of the way done administratively working through that line item. Most of these are estimates. I do want to point out, excuse me, I'm seasick here, health care insurance. That does show an increase. That's due to new staff. We're still contributing $385 a month per employee. I think the minimum that the state requires and has required is $225 a month. Is it what it is, Lane? $225 a month, so we're well over what we're required to contribute. There's not an increase in that contribution. That's just an increase in the number of people that we estimate will be on our insurance plan. Everything else, I will just briefly mention that we expect TRS care to go up. I believe Senate Bill 12 addresses TRS care. This is the insurance that we that we paid in 4.2 million dollars we anticipate to pay into TRS care, which is our retirees insurance. This doesn't go to the children of our district. It goes to the retirees of the state of Texas. And we love them, but that is an expense that's not associated, and we expect that to go up. The TRS local contribution, expect to go up. That was new in the 2015 legislature. That's just a tax. It's just a new expense. And TRS stat minimum, we expect to go up. Right now I've got an $8.1 million, or Ms. Butterfield has an $8.1 million placeholder. If the, depending on what happens with salaries and what they're speaking at at the legislative level, with the reduction of the CEI, the formula that calculates that $8.1 million is going to increase by $3 million or approximately $3 million. So we're watching that closely to see if we're going to have an expense associated with the elimination of the CEI. We know we're losing significant revenue from that elimination, but we're still wondering about the expense and won't know for another eight days. So that's the total salaries. We're building the campus and department allocations now. Campuses have been done since before spring break. That's a lot of moving targets. Now we're dealing with a lot fewer departments, but bigger budgets like the utility budgets and et cetera, et cetera, fuel budgets that are all very large in a district this size. We hope when it's all said and done that that blue column on the left, again, that's not next, that's the year we're currently in, not next year's budget, but we expect that graph to look very much. There's nothing changed in our staffing plan or the administration's views that would that would change where those colors and how they shift out. The dollar amounts are going to change because of growth, but we're still going to spend 65, 66 percent of what we what we have in our classroom and that 15.3 million dollars for administrative expenses of anything may increase depending on what happens with salary increases but it'll be lower from a per student standpoint moving forward because of some of the things the administration has done to try to be efficient. So this is where we are we're over there with that back box on the that box on the right I think we're almost midway or just a little past midway last time that I spoke to you We're seven days away. I think the legislative session ends one week and four and a half hours from now. Are scheduled to finish. Don't know if we're going to have a special session or if they're going to be able to come to an agreement there on state funding. At this point all bets are on. There's two things. Budget impacts of the House Bill 3. I'll just mention them quickly. House Bill 3, both from the House side, would reduce property taxes statewide by three billion dollars, so the state would send that to school districts to make up for that. The Senate's a little bit more aggressive with that at eight billion dollars. There's a five billion dollar difference. New revenue to schools, school districts, 6.5 billion from the House side of 6.8 billion dollars from the Senate's version, a 0.3 billion dollar difference, and remember of that 6.8 billion dollars the Senate has very strict rules about the amount that's necessary for teacher pay increases, which teachers and librarians would be subject to a $5,000 per on those. So that's where that adds up to 2.8 billion dollars statewide. House has a pay increase in there. It's for all staff. It's not as aggressive as $5,000 for teachers and librarians, but it does a pay for all staff with the exception of administrators. Okay, and I did the definition of administrator is very vague at this point. We don't know what if it's that includes a principal or an assistant principal. Pretty sure it does it does not include the chief financial officer, but it's still vague and we're again we're still working through it over the next few few weeks but it does require a pay raise just not as significant as the Senate's version so this is a picture of state funding and I'm I promise I'm going to zip through here real quick but I think I need to show you what what the highlights are of the difference between that so this is if somebody would learn this one slide you'd learn seven tenths of school finance and I'm gonna just draw real quick because and so here's where here's where our tax rate is it was compressed to back years ago at a dollar nine and we've added those four golden pennies see me moving that to the right we've added those four golden pennies that had that for 11 years and then we because of Hurricane Harvey we were able to make that adjustment where we got the additional six golden pennies so we have six golden pennies and then we have a compressed tax rate that's right in here that's the basic and the foundation for how schools are funded right now the yield or the basic allotment is five thousand one hundred forty dollars so as a and here's Katie's wealth this is our total property values divided by our students and actually I'll take that's last year's it's 38 21 now so we've gotten wealthier those are those rotten apples the closer you get to that purple line the less state funds you get the more you get if a district's above this if a district were right here they would have to pay fantastic word recapture so that is the target revenue or the basic amount that districts get brought up to or pulled down from in the form of recapture so remember that I that I mentioned that, let me talk about tier two, our golden pennies. $99.41 was the yield last year because Austin, and that's golden penny, it's also the Austin yield, was a term that they used for it because it's based on Austin's, you take their property value divided by students, so you can see that Austin's quite a bit wealthier when you take the property value divided by students than Katie at 106 versus 38, right? But that's rising and so in current law it's expected to go 126.88. Guys, that's why we have a current law budget that's not too bad because we were able to take and to benefit from the increase in the Austin yield on those four or six golden pennies. So So, oops, I'm a bubble. Y'all are happy that slide went away, I'm sure. But I do want to show you this. Real quickly, House Bill 3 increases this to 60.30. So about right here. okay it increases the yield remember when they eliminate the CEI are $38.21 by the definition of number of students we're going to increase and we're going to get closer to here and that's a 60 million dollar hickey meaning we get less state funds so we're getting in a 60 million dollar hole with the elimination of the CEI so that increase of 890 dollars sounds really good and And that's the headline. Schools to get in House Bill 3, $890 to increase to the basic allotment. And that sounds fantastic. But remember, we're getting knocked down in that calculation by $60 million. And then when you increase the basic allotment to what that is, we get out of the hole, but it doesn't get us far out of the hole. So moving forward, they want to House Bill 3 decouples the Austin yield to $94.48 and that's tied to the 96th percentile of wealth and then the copper penny yield is not relevant really so I won't spend your time on that but then the house is from the Senate's version increases this to $58.80 so not quite as much the yield is also tied or close and then And then both of those yields of House Bill 3 and the Senate's version of House Bill 3 are about right in here when it comes to copper pennies. But those aren't relevant to us right now. House Bill 3 compresses the tax rates and reduces tax rates by 6.9 cents, rounded. And then Senate Bill's version increases taxes. Remember, it's a lot more expensive, by 12.8 cents, rounded. So you're getting a lot more tax compression or tax relief, if you will. lower tax rate when it comes to this compressed tax rate. So they're going to move it from, in our case, $1.866 down to $1.7. Well, that's a lot for $1.7 or to $1.1, depending on which version. So that's going to come back this way on one of those versions. So as far as the timeline from where we are now, again, Again, I want to mention that there's a bond sale that we'll be having in June. It's $209 million. Interest rates in the last few weeks have gotten a little bit better, a little better, and we're hoping that that continues as we gear up for this transaction. And we'll take a closer look at what happened in the legislature in June or July, and we'll start looking at our debt service fund a little closer and our food service fund, And then of course will culminate in August like everybody else is culminating in June will culminate in August up and to Have a public hearing to discuss the budget so at that point at this point. I've that's early all I wanted to say
Thank you so much. Mr.. Smith before do you have any questions for mr.. Smith miss gossan?
Mr.. Smith start again at the beginning just kidding
I appreciate that.
I wanted to thank you for your thorough review, but I also wanted to thank you and the members of your office because some people might not know, but I know you all have been back and forth to Austin and in contact with the people in Austin and doing your best to influence as best you can the outcome for the benefit of Katy ISD. And also, I know there's a lot that you can't influence, but I wanted to thank Mr. Cruz crews in his office for their work in around the utilities and the electricity and trying to secure monumentally great rates for this district. I felt like George would have said thank you so I wanted to make sure somebody said thank you for all your hard work.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
Mr. Smith. You don't get to leave? One real quick question. You mentioned that the golden pennies that were tied to Harvey, do we still get them this coming year?
We are building under current law budget that continued transaction.
And it's that following year that we may lose them?
That's correct.
Thank you.
The disaster of Hurricane Harvey spilled over into 2018, and because of that it's the following tax year that you can do that. And so that transaction makes up for the stunted value growth that we've seen.
Thank you, Mr. Lacey. Anyone else? All right. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Next, we have 7.2, School Health Advisory Council Annual Report. Welcome.
Good evening, Madam President, members of the board, Superintendent Grigorski. My name is H.C. Grim, and I'm the PE Health Outdoor Learning Center coordinator as well as co-chair of the School Health Advisory Council and tonight also have co-chair Mr. Scott Power who will be helping present tonight. We are here to to do our annual School Health Advisory Council detailed account of activities that we discussed throughout the school year. Our focus areas are based on coordinated school health and those are our health, physical education, parent and community and involvement, staff wellness promotion, counseling and mental health services, healthy and school safe environment, health services and nutrition services. Our membership is made up of parents, teachers, administrators, health care professionals, community members, law enforcement members and nonprofit health organization members. We met this year four times and we've already set set our dates for next year and so we will be. We will also be having four more dates, two in the fall and two in the spring for our annual school Health Advisory Council meetings. Now Mr Power will cover our summary of activities. Alright,
thank you. Good evening board Superintendent Krakowski President Doyle. I'm just going to run through a little bit of what we sort of worked on this year as far as the shack committee when we had our meetings throughout the years Mr. Grimmett mentioned. The beginning of the year we had representatives from the American Heart Association bring us information and Kids Heart Challenge which was benefits and things that our campus and our schools and community could benefit from. We received information from the catch program an e-cigarette prevention program called Catch My Breath which was free and then something we could implement in our junior high and high school level. We also received information about the Common Market which connects local farmers and locally grown produce for our cafeterias. We also received information on food tasting opportunities that our KDSD Food and Nutrition Service Department provides for our schools and campuses. We received information about spinal screenings and immunizations. We also received information regarding increased safety measures on KDSD campuses. We received information on type 1 and type 2 diabetes and the differences between them. We also received information from the KDISD bullying prevention program and student support program and then we received information from the Harris County Public Area SHAC meeting and additionally we received information on an update on flu and measles and then at the end we reviewed and approved the annual SHAC report. So that concludes our
presentation do we have any any questions there any questions madam
president I have some questions miss champagne okay hi mr. Bramitt hello mr. power okay first of all I'm really interested in this vaping issue yes ma'am I've gone to some of the presentations that the high schools are doing and I think the presentations are really good for the adults but I don't think they're actually scary enough for the kids but that's not really what I'm I want to know but it's catch my breath but what are we gonna do I mean is there any plan I know you've captured the information you met you talked about things but is there any plans to show this information to the children in the
junior highs and high schools yes ma'am as mr. power said we we received information and we actually have already had a staff development training for our high school teachers. And we are planning to roll this out to our students this coming school year. And so like I said, it's a free program. And it goes with our catch curriculum that we already currently have in our elementary school. So this just tacks on to junior high and high school as well.
So how will it be presented? Will it be just a one-time thing?
It's part of our unit. So every year part of our TEKS we have to cover so many activities and in topics And so that will be part during our drug prevention Unit and and it will be covered in that unit
I have a couple other questions. Is that okay? Yes, okay Okay, and the safety drills so I'm interested in knowing
if
There's any plans to do safety drills during passing periods or lunch well as far as our presentation we had one of
the officers from the police department come and just give us a safety update of what the district is covering so they could probably address that further what they did is they shared with us like for instance we put up six six foot fences around Katy ISD this year we're also putting in some some glass enclosures in the front of our schools and and so they shared those types of activities as far as further activities that that they will be doing that will that's something we'd have to address with our
our police department okay and then one last one um i attended one of the parent academies i really found it to be very good i don't know if we're going to get any and any kind of feedback or surveys or anything to get you know feedback from the people who attended those and see what their feedback is what their opinions are on it I
personally liked it but well that's what the school health advisory council is for as well so to have parent input into the the values we hold near and dear to us as far as our our coordinated school health topics go thank you very much
Mr. Grimmett. Thank you. Are there any other questions? Okay. Thank you so much for your presentation. Thank you. Next we'll move on to our consent agenda. Agenda item 8.1, consider future board approval of the 2019-2020 School Health Advisory Council SHAC representatives. Mr. Grimmett. Sorry. Sorry.
Part of the school board's job every year is to approve our membership for our school health advisory council. So in front of you, you will see what we call our executive shack. And those are the areas of coordinated school health that we have department chairs that are head of those areas, such as physical education, health. That's my position. position, you would see like food and nutrition, that would be Donna Pittenger and so on. And then you also see the parent and community list. And so this is just part of your approval process for this.
All right. Are there any questions? All right. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
8.2 Consider future board approval of the 2019-2020 Honors Pre-AP courses identified identified as exempt from No Pass, No Play. Dr. Steele.
Good evening, Board President Doyle, Board Members, and Mr. Rogorski. I'm here this evening to present the 2019-2020 courses that are exempt for No Pass, No Play. Each year, we review honors courses in the subject areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, economics, and languages other than English for the purposes of extracurricular eligibility. Honors courses that are automatically included are all college board courses, dual credit courses, and precalculus and fall under these same categories. After review, the no No pass, no play honors courses for this upcoming school year are as listed in your board packet and are being submitted for your approval. I'd be happy to respond to any questions that you may have at this time. Are there any questions?
Thank you, Dr. Steele. Thanks so much. 8.3, discuss and consider future board approval of the waiver of the timeline for accelerated instruction. Ms. Holland.
Good evening, Madam President, members of the board, Mr. Gorgarsby. you. Some of you may recall in the spring of 2018 the board adopted two years of instructional calendars. In accordance with board policy BF legal following the adoption of instructional calendars the district may request calendar waivers
from the state. Ms. Holland I'm sorry I don't mean to interrupt you you're on agenda item 8.4. Do you want to go ahead and finish? We just go out of order. Okay yeah go ahead and and sorry board I just wanted to draw your attention to it board members we're at 8.4 and we'll go back to 8.3. I'm sorry Ms. Holland. No worries. In accordance with board policy BF legal
we as the district can then apply for a waiver for up to 2100 minutes of professional learning. The calendar that we adopted for the 19-20 school year was already sent forward, but our staff development plan was approved by the KDM Improvement Council at our May meeting and approved moving a waiver forward for our waiver for the 19, it's hard to say, the 2019-20 school year. So we are asking for the board to approve us moving forward with a recommendation for our professional learning days. There are two days scheduled within the calendar. One of it is January 20th, and the other is February the 17th. Then secondary campuses will have four early release days for professional learning, and the elementaries will have two days. The reason for that is that elementaries will use two of their days for parent-teacher conferences. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Are there any questions? Ms. Gasloff. Ms. Holland, is this a change from previous years? Yes, it is.
The 2,100 minutes prior to that you applied for each of the days, but now you may cover up to 2,100 minutes. minutes. So it's a more inclusive kind of waiver.
So we'll have more teacher development? Or is the total amount of teacher development
time increasing or decreasing? It's just a total number of minutes off of your calendar. So your professional learning days, the January and February date, are actually in exchange for an instructional day. So we earn up to 420 minutes as far as minutes within the calendar but we cannot have more than 2,100 total minutes of
professional learning. Okay. Ms. Gasoff, I think I can provide some clarity as Ms. Holland was saying. A couple of years ago the state of Texas changed the way that we consider instructional time for our children. So instead of actual school days, instead of having to go 180 school days, they changed it to minutes. So the change that Ms. Holland is talking about reflecting here is simply a change from the number of days to the number of minutes. So it is very consistent with what we've done in the past.
We must have a total of 75,600 minutes.
Are there any other questions? Thank you, Ms. Holland. We're going to go back to agenda item 8.3, discuss and consider future Board approval of the waiver of the timeline for accelerated instruction. instruction. Our presenter is Ms. Terry Murphy.
Good evening, Board President Doyle, Board members, and Superintendent Korkorski. I'm here this evening to present the Timeline for Accelerated Instruction Waiver. As a component As a component of the Student Success Initiative, districts are required to provide accelerated instruction for students in grades 5 and 8 who do not demonstrate proficiency on STAR math or reading following each administration of the test. Those students who take the third administration of the test in June must complete accelerated instruction before they can be advanced to the next grade level. The timeline for accelerated instruction waiver allows districts to extend the timeline for providing accelerated instruction to these students. The waiver allows accelerated instruction to take place during the first six weeks of the school year. This is a three-year waiver that the district has routinely applied for. I would be happy to respond to any questions that you may have at this time.
Are there any questions? Hearing none, thank you so much. Thank you. Now we'll go forward to 8.5 consider future board approval of the May 2019 budget amendments miss Butterfield
Thank you, President Doyle, Trustees, Mr. McGregorski. Tonight we have one General Operating Fund amendment to speak to. General Fund revenues increase by $14,000 even, with an equal increase recognized in expenditures related to summer camp at the Shaw Center. The remainder of the General Fund budget amendments are direct offsets between different functions, and these result in no change to the general operating fund balance. We also have one construction amendment for $7 million to establish expenditure budget related to safety and security upgrades as approved last month by the trustees and will be funded from 2014 and 2017 bond project savings. Are there any questions?
All right. Thank you, Ms. Butterfield. Agenda item 8.6, consider future board approval of the residential lease associated with the Gerald D. Young Agricultural Center. Mr. Nelman.
Good evening, President Doyle, Board of Trustees, and Mr. Grigorski. As part of the 2017 bond, the newly constructed Gerald D. Young Agricultural Center included an on-site residence to provide facility support. This residence was strategically located on the grounds to provide frontline security observations, general maintenance inspections, and to support the ongoing instructional needs of the facility. An interview process was undertaken to select the most qualified occupant candidate, which would support the goals of instruction and facility requirements of oversight. The term of the lease is for a period June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020 with an automatic renewal mutually agreed upon by the district and the occupant. The imputed income value of the lease will be $900 per month with the occupant responsible for all utilities. It is recommended the Board of Trustees approves the residential lease for the dwelling located at the Gerald D. Young Agricultural Center.
Are there any questions? Ms. Kessler? Mr. President, Mr. Nauman, how are you?
Fine.
So this is a new thing. Have we done anything like this before?
Yes, we have in the past. If you're familiar with the Outdoor Learning Center, behind us a very similar situation occurred there. And this is just modeling that same format as we had over there. And currently that location, that facility is unoccupied at the time.
Okay. I just have a question about description of responsibilities. I number four occupant may not allow students while attending the KDIC Agricultural and Science Center during a learning event to enter the dwelling occupied by the tenant is there any reason that we would ever have students
in that dwelling we would not and that's just strictly to outline the responsibilities that students would not be permitted in that residence in the the same way that students are not allowed in the OLC residence center as well.
I'd just be more comfortable if it said never, but that's just my two cents.
Well, at times the occupant could have a family member that would be a student, but it would not be related to the KDISD function.
Okay. Thank you. Are there any other questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
For the life of me, I'm trying to think of where that residence is going to be located.
If you know where the barns are, if you look due to the west, it's strictly almost right behind the old well, water well.
Got it. Thank you.
Madam President, Ms. Champagne. I would just like to say, personally, I think this is a good idea because I remember when the Outdoor Learning Center had a person that lived there. I think it serves a dual purpose and I just really I like this idea does it does a person is this person without a family or is he just alone or he or she
it's the the resident or occupant is a KISD staff member okay thank you mr.
Gorg or ski I just want to go ahead and have a few comments on that related to to what Ms. Geshoff was saying there when you had mentioned, is this a new thing that we're doing here? It is new to the Ag Science Center. As part of the master plan there, there was this plan to put the residents on the location to do the things that Mr. Nauman described there. That also is, it is new that we bring the lease to the board. In the past, we had not done that. I've talked to Mr. Graham. He can give us a legal response if you would like it. but in discussion with Mr. Graham, we thought it was best to bring these forward to the board for approval. We'll also see a lease come forward to the board when we reoccupy the OLC. You'll see some plans coming forward in the near future for Mr. Cruz and their department and Ms. Kassman. There will be a redesign of OLC as part of the bond projects, which is an update to the house back there as well, and you'll see that lease come through as well, hopefully with a KDIC employee living there as well.
Yeah, trustees, let me go ahead and piggyback on what our superintendent said. Chapter 272 of the local government code is very specific, as is chapter 11 of the Texas Education Code that all titles and interest in property vest within this board itself. So the only people who can dispose of the property and decide what's done with it is this board of trustees unless you go ahead and grant the superintendent that authority so this is one of those things that when it was brought to my attention we thought it best to go ahead and make sure that you were aware of it and took action on it miss guess off I want to also talk about that when you said number four the occupant allowing students while attending they're not in the residence during a Katie is the event I will tell you that the the individual that who's going to live on the property is a senior teacher, been around for a very long time. And so all of the ethical responsibilities that attach to a teacher such as himself, which he's very aware of, will, those don't go away simply because he lives on the property and he will be held to that high standard. So having said that, I'm happy to answer any legal questions this board may have.
Madam President. Yes, ma'am. Can I just follow up? Go ahead. So, the part that bothers me is just the wording about during a learning event. So, you know, ag kids are out there in the morning and they're out there late at night. And so, you know, can this person make pancakes for them in the morning and have the kids at the house? You know, there are so many exceptions that could, and maybe that's okay. I don't know that it's okay with, I don't think it's a good precedent to set that any student should be in that residence at any time. That was just the point that I'm trying to make. So there's that carve out that they can't be in the residence during learning activities, but they're ag kids. They're all
Hours, so I'm gonna go back to I'm gonna go back to this is a lease document for the use of the facility the standards That are going to apply to that ag teacher are going to come from his supervisor And so whatever whatever is decided whatever is directed Those are things that we may not want to want to detail line by line in a lease document, which will have to come back to this board if we want to amend it. That's something that the administration, at their discretion, can choose to amend. And I can assure you that those things have been thought about and will be put in place.
Okay. Thank you.
Mr. Graham, would it be possible, since we're reviewing the lease tonight for approval at the next board meeting, can we change that part of that lease to make that a little bit more concrete to where it says no students, other than a relative would be in the residence at any time?
Certainly. It's, again, this is your document, Board. It's your property. I'm happy to make some suggested change, which I can send to you this week in order for you to approve next Tuesday.
Mr. Graham, if we're going to make adjustments to this, we need to move this particular agenda item to action to be represented?
Again, so we have a custom here at KDISD when we do make a change to something. normally it's a more substantial change or something that we want additional discussion on we pull it off the consent agenda but having said that we have discussed it today and knowing that that change will be in that board document next week I am comfortable leaving it on the consent agenda for next week however it's at the at the pleasure of this board as to whether or not they feel like it needs they need to pull it off and take additional action on it or whether or not you're comfortable with the consent being being left on the consent agenda again this is a minor change it is something that I do think is appropriate for the consent agenda but again it's it's at the pleasure of the the board president the board as to what they would like to do that
impression I have another little piggyback on it too so if we add that the issue about the relative the if the child is the relative of the occupant I hate to be nitpicky but if this person has children then their children were we're going to have friends, you know, and this is where he lives, right?
Correct.
Right. So.
I think, let me take a look at this language. I'll get with Mr. Grodorski, and I'll get with the staff that oversees that facility, and we'll propose something, and y'all will get to see it this week. And if you're comfortable with it, we'll leave it on consent. If not, we'll pull it off, and we'll have further discussion on Tuesday.
Are y'all okay with that? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Graham. Thank you, Mr. Nauman. You're actually with us for 8.7 as well. So go ahead.
The University Interscholastic Lead Accident Policy is paid for by the district and provides supplemental medical benefits for accidents incurred by students who participate in UIL activities such as athletics, fine arts, and career and technology education. The plan is secondary to any other available insurance participants may have and includes supplemental catastrophic policy. State law allows school districts to purchase this type of insurance, but it is not mandatory. This insurance also provides voluntary active insurance for students, which include at-school or 24-hour coverage with or without dental coverage. Those who elect voluntary coverage pay the associated premium on an individual basis directly to the carrier. General operating fund expenditures for this coverage in 2018-2019 were $204,629, which included premiums of $189,000 for UIL coverage and $15,629 for catastrophic coverage. The premium for 2019-2020 will be $204,629, of which $189,000 will be for UIL coverage and $15,629 for catastrophic coverage. The applicable deductible remains the same at $250, with voluntary rates remaining the same. This program represents year three of a three-year plan previously approved by the Board. The UIO insurance provides for student growth and success by providing district paid insurance for student accidents while participating in those covered activities. For students without other insurance plans, it pays primary. A provision of the voluntary student accident insurance is deemed as a public service that provides a low-cost accident insurance alternative for students. Authorization to purchase coverage is granted through FFE legal. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2019-2020 Voluntary Student and Universe UIL Sports Activities Accidental Insurance as presented. That's a mouthful.
Are there any questions?
Okay.
Thank you so much. Agenda item 8.8, consider future board approval of additional department staffing needs to address growth for the 2019-2020 school year. Brian Shush. You're also with us for 8.9, so once we complete this one, just roll right into the next item.
Good evening, President Duhamel, members of the board, Superintendent Grigorski. I'm here this evening to present to you our recommendation for additional department staffing units to address district growth for the 19-20 school year. After meeting with these departments, I want to say I appreciate all of their support in this process and bearing with me since it's my first go around for the KDISD staffing season. But they've all been great, and in the end, as our recommendation, we have 56 additional department staffing units. These will be allocated over 14 different departments, as you can see. In addition to the 56 additional units, we have 25 growth units that we are requesting. The past couple of years, 17, 18, 18, 19, we requested 35 growth units. these growth units can be allocated to campuses, departments as needs arise for growth. In March, when we approved the campus staffing plan in the special education department's presentation, they requested 10 growth units at that time, so that's why we're only requesting 25 additional growth units this evening for a total of 35 for the 19-20 school year. So it's our recommendation that these units are approved.
Are there any questions? Ms. Gassoff. Yeah, busy growth.
I have a lot of questions this time. That's good. So Mr. Gorgorski and I had a little bit of conversation about this, but 56 and 25, so 81. 81 additional positions, which to me when I saw it, I was like, 81 additional positions. But can you talk a little bit about what that represents on a percentage basis and how that compares to last year?
Yeah, so last year, not including growth, so just additional department staffing units, there were 34 requested and that is smaller than this year but also remember our growth projection is was more aggressive this year for for staffing and for budgeting purposes and so when we presented the campus staffing plans they were significantly more as well and so with that projection we're hoping that we can you know staff on the front end speaking with mr smith earlier about the percentage as roughly about 3% as far as administrative growth and as you see earlier tonight that's a little lower than what the district is growing now again that's that's not how we develop but it does kind of fall in line fall in
line with with that growth helps give you a little bit of perspective so last year was 34 compared to 56 or 34 compared to 81 no 34 compared to 56 okay
Yeah, not including the growth.
Okay.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Are there any other questions? Madam President, Ms. Champagne. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Sush. I'm wondering if some of these are brand-new positions. For example, the Medicaid clerk, is that a brand-new?
So that's an additional position. Well, let me back up. All of these are brand-new positions. Brand-new. But as far as do we have a position like that in the district right now, yes, we do.
This is an additional okay, and the 504 coordinator. We've had that is a new position And the administrative assistant for legal affairs is a new position. Okay. Thank you. Thank you any other questions
Madam president Since all those are in my area. I think it's now's a good time for me to speak to that I think everybody is aware by now that we are losing somebody who is irreplaceable Bonnie Holland is leaving us. She has announced at the end of this school year, after how many years Bonnie? 55? 53 in all, 37 with the district. So irreplaceable. Part of what we did when we looked at our staffing plan for my department is we looked at the money that is allocated to that associate superintendent position. And we have decided that not one person can do the work that Bonnie Holland does. It's going to take three. So it's actually a cost neutral proposition for our department. But that's it gives a little bit of background at it, which I think is historically relevant for this board
Are there any other questions Can we add an agenda item that we will not let Bonnie Holland leave Look at that Look at that
You're gonna go I know I even got the crowd involved you were gonna be greatly missed and I do agree that that I don't know if anybody can do your job. I know under all those fabulous clothes, there's a superwoman cape as well. You just keep it well hidden. All right, we will move on to Agenda Item 8.9. Go ahead.
Yes, ma'am. This is simply a request for approval that all principals and assistant principals be on a list for second T-TES appraisers if necessary. And this is something we do bring to the board every year.
Any questions? All right. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. 8.10. Consider future Board approval to award the purchase of installation of security cameras, package number 2. Mr. Christopherson.
So good evening, President Doyle, members of the Board, and Superintendent Grogorski. As part of the 2017 Bond Safety and Security Improvements Security System Retrofits, KDISD has contracted with Leaf Engineers to provide engineering services and project management services for the upgrade of security camera hardware and cabling. The solution will replace the remaining analog cameras at three support facilities, Rhodes Stadium, Education Support Complex, and the Merrill Center, with IP-based digital cameras that will integrate with our district's video management system. The solution will increase security camera coverage for each facility and improve the quality of that video. Based on responses to RFCSP 1834, it is recommended that the Board of Trustees award the contract to Fisk Electric in the amount of $276,095. The funding source will be the 2017 bond.
Are there any questions?
Ms. Gasloff, I'm sorry, Mr. Christopherson.
Yes, ma'am.
So looking at the tabulation, I'm just curious why Fisk came in like almost $100,000 cheaper on Rhodes Stadium?
again. So we walked all the locations with all the vendors and Fisk actually spent more time and effort at that stadium trying to figure out how they could better engineer the solution yes so use the existing conduit we're available and those type of things where other the other providers decide they're just gonna they need to install new fresh
everywhere so great I knew there was a logical answer I just had to have it
any other questions all right thank you so much 8.11 consider future board Board approval of the contract for the replacement of the HVAC chillers at Kilpatrick Elementary. Mr. Teed.
Good evening, President Doyle, Board members, and Mr. Grigorski. It's recommended that the Board of Trustees awards the contract for the replacement of the HVAC chillers, pumps, and drives at Kilpatrick Elementary to Hunt and Services in the amount of $662,110 hundred and ten dollars and the total not to exceed amount of six hundred and seventy six thousand one hundred and ten dollars utilizing the choice partners contract number 14 dash or slash 021 jn-05 the replacement of the HVAC chillers at Kilpatrick is part of the 2017 bond component replacements program the chillers at this campus are original and have exceeded their estimated life cycle for replacement. They are no longer economical to repair and keep in daily operation. The equipment will be replaced like for like, however, the new equipment is built to a higher energy efficiency standard. An allowance for a temporary chiller rental is also included in the project cost should the chillers fail before the new equipment is delivered. The utilization of the rental chillers will enable the campus to remain in daily operation. Replacement will be scheduled around the campus activities and completed by September the 20th, 2019. A copy of the proposal for replacement is attached for your review. Again, the project funding source is the 2017 bond component replacements. The chiller replacement project cost is $662,110. The allowance for a temporary chiller rental cost is $14,000 for a total not to exceed project cost of $676,110. This contract has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and approved as to form.
Are there any questions? Thank you so much. You can go on to Agenda Item 8.12, Board Approval of the Contract for the Foundation Repairs at Maid Creek Elementary and Maid Creek Junior High. Yes, ma'am. It's
recommended that the Board of Trustees awards the contract for foundation repairs at Maid Creek Creek Elementary and Maid Creek Junior High to facility sources in the amount of $496,879 and the total not to exceed amount of $594,379 utilizing the Choice Partners Contract No. 16-054JN-04. The foundation repair at Maid Creek Elementary and Maid Creek Junior High is part of the 2017 bond component replacement program. Maintenance and operations department staff worked with Price Consulting Inc. to develop the project scope and specifications. There were three respondents to the request for proposal. The repair work will commence on May 29th, 2019 and is scheduled for completion by August the 1st, 2019. An allowance for any unforeseen conditions is included in the total project cost. A copy of the recommendation letter from PCI and a bid tabulation is attached for your review. Again the project funding source is a 2017 bond component replacements. Maid Creek Elementary project cost is $285,669. Maid Creek Junior High project cost of $211,210. The owners contingency of $97,500. For a total not to exceed project cost cost $594,379. Again, this project has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and approved as to form.
Are there any questions? Okay. Thank you so much. Next, we have Agenda Item 8.13, Consider Future Board Approval of a Blanket Electrical Easement to Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric LLC associated with the construction of Elementary School No. 43. Ms. Kastman, and you're going to close us out so we can just move through.
All right, thank you. Good evening, President Doyle, Board members, and Mr. Gagorski. I'm bringing forward three items this evening for your consideration. The first item is to consider a blanket electrical easement for Elementary 43 in the Ellison development. This will allow for the installation of electrical service to the site, and final information is to be recorded for the deed for this easement.
Are there any questions?
Second item is to consider a future board approval of proposal for construction manager risk contract for the renovation of the outdoor learning center. This project was identified in the November 2017 bond. Since the facility opened in 1982, it has not undergone any type of renovation or upgrade other than routine maintenance. and renovations will include life safety, fire, ADA code, safety, security, and finishes, etc. The project will also address site and infrastructure issues. SEAL proposals utilizing the CM at Risk delivery method were received on April 18th for this project. Seven proposals were received and Ansel Bryant Construction ranked first overall. The tabulation of proposals is attached. As a result, we are recommending awarding the project to Ansel Bryant for a fee not to exceed 1.5% of the cost of the work and pre-construction services totaling $5,000. The project manager from our department will be Ryan Wotipka, and we have representatives from OLC and Ansel Bryant here this evening.
Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey and then Ms. Champagne.
So I understand that the what's going to be done to the residents that's there and that additional portion of that building that's up near the front?
We're still working through the design. We'll be bringing to the design development to you this summer, but there's a good chance that existing facility would be leveled and new facility be constructed.
And then the roadway, is it still kind of fluid as to where the roadway will be so we can get emergency vehicles back there?
We're looking at adding emergency access behind the site.
So to the west of the learning center that's at the very back?
Kind of. You go to the north of it, behind the barn and everything. Okay, cool. Thank you.
Ms. Champagne. I would just like to say I'm really excited about this project. I've been out there with the anglers, with Mr. Grimmett and Mr. Dunk, and are we going to be able to build another pond, do you think?
We're looking at that right now as well as a clear up clean out the existing pond for more capacity.
Because I really like that you know the kids to be able to have access to the pond and more children will be able to go out there and have fun fishing with Mr. Grimm out there. Thank you.
Anybody else? Okay.
Go ahead. Okay, the final item is the approval of the retention of Salas O'Brien for design services associated with the safety and security upgrades at various campuses. Design work is planned to commence immediately and following approval with the construction packages as we discussed earlier. So it can be done by August 2020. Ryan Wotipka is also the project manager and we have representatives here from Salas O'Brien.
Are there any questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak. A meeting that is open to the public under the Texas Open Meetings Act is one that the public is permitted to attend. The Act does not entitle the public to choose the items to be discussed or to speak about items on the agenda. A governmental body may, however, give members of the public an opportunity to speak at a public meeting which KDIC Board Policy BED Local does allow. As defined by this Board policy, the first 20 speakers who signed up at least 15 minutes before this meeting began and have provided their first and last name will be allowed to speak. A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated, with the time divided equally among those who have signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is 3 minutes. If you are not finished speaking at the end of your 3 minutes, your microphone will turn off. off. If speakers wish to share written material with the Board, 10 copies must be provided to the Secretary for Board Services, for Board members, the Superintendent, the Chief Communications Officer and Permanent Record. Due to posting requirements of the Open Meetings Act, the Board is able to respond only to a statement related to a posted agenda item with a statement of specific factual information given or a recitation of existing policy in response to the inquiry. If a speaker has not attempted to solve a matter administratively through proper channels as stated in Board Policy, the presiding officer shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through the appropriate policy. Board Policy BED Legal states that it is a criminal offense for a person with intent to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting to substantially obstruct or interfere with the ordinary conduct of a meeting by physical action or verbal utterance and thereby curtail the exercise of others' First Amendment rights. Board Policy BED Local provides for removal of any member of the audience after at least one warning who disrupts the meeting by his or her words or actions. Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code sections 551.074 and 551.0821, the Board will not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee, or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or 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 and state your first and last name for the record our first speaker this evening is Georgia Strickland good evening mr.
Gorgorsky president Doyle and school board members and have an update for y'all I'm sure you've seen our beautiful ginormous sign in the hallway which we will figure out where it's gonna go it just doesn't fit in my car under my bed at this moment. So update though that sign says that we have 30,800 members. Within two weeks from that sign being printed we now have 31,681. So we've grown even more. We have 10 PTAs out of 60 that have over a thousand members. Over 400 of our, excuse me, over 400 total awards for all 60 PTAs combined. So So that's really remarkable for our district. We still are the largest council in Texas. So we love to brag about that. And to add to that bragging rights, we also have one of the largest, no, we do have the largest campus, the largest PTA in Texas. And that's Seven Lakes High School. So they are beating out Richardson High School. It's like neck and neck, but Seven Lakes won't let it go. So it's awesome. Awesome. And three of our campuses have won the Voice for Every Child, which means that every student is represented by a PTA member, which is a remarkable feat. It's always been a dream of mine to have one of my campuses succeed that, but I have a four-year-old, so there's still time. Those campuses are Alexander, Kilpatrick, and Woodcreek Elementary. and then we have one student from Seven Lakes High School who advanced from state reflections contest to the national PTA. She received a honorable mention award from the reflections contest and she's from Seven Lakes High School. A lot of mentions about Seven Lakes. Two out of 23 students from across Texas from KDSD, we are represented by Morton Ranch High School, Seven Lakes High School. These two students will attend a training in Austin to learn more about legislative stuff that they can apply to the community. And then we did have three new PTAs, Leonard Adams and Taylor High School converted from PTO to PTA. So we're really excited to welcome them to the PTA family. There's a lot of benefits to becoming a PTA that a lot of PTOs don't see and part of that is the remarkable training that we provide we have provided training to over 200 leaders in KDISD so that's really awesome we you know want to make sure they're not struggling that they know what they're doing and they're not feeling like they can't go anywhere because when I took over for PTA and my campus the lady I took over for literally moved to Canada so I don't want anyone to feel like I did lost without a paddle in the middle of the ocean and so anyhow I look forward to seeing y'all next school year i hope you have a restful summer thank you thank you miss strickland
that's amazing all those numbers and updates thank you so much our regular board meeting is next tuesday may 28 2019 and there being no further business before the board this meeting is adjourned The time is 8.19 p.m.
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MOTION 001 · AGENDA 4.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |