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Mr. Grugorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act regarding this notice for this meeting?
Madam President, I do confirm we are in compliance with Texas Open Meetings Act rules in regard to this meeting tonight.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's board work-study meeting.
To prepare for this meeting, each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Thursday, June 13, 2019, and have had four days to study its contents and to seek clarification from the superintendent.
This evening, the items posted on the agenda will be presented to the boards by staff, administration, and the superintendent.
The board will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss agenda items during tonight's meeting.
The Board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussion in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting.
We're going to start with Agenda Item 4.1, Police Officer Oath of Office.
office. President Doyle, board members and Superintendent Grigorski, newly commissioned
peace officers are required to publicly swear or affirm an oath of office. Tonight we have
two newly commissioned officers. I would like to ask officers Larry Johnson and Nicole Emity
to come forward to take the oath and be recognized as members of the KDISD Police Department.
If you'll face me and both raise your right hands.
Aye.
Aye.
There you go.
Nicole, Emmett.
Do solemnly swear.
Do solemnly swear.
That I will faithfully.
That I will faithfully.
Execute the duties.
execute the duties of the Office of Peace Officer, of Katie Independent School District,
of the State of Texas, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend
defend, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this
state. So help me God. Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Officer Larry Johnson was born in Tyler, Texas, and was the fifth child in a family of eight Johnson children.
After high school, Officer Johnson enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for a total of 10 years in both 1st Cavalry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division.
During his military service he held two specific positions, life flight medic at Fort Hood,
Texas and behavioral science specialist at both Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Camp Hylia
in Busan, South Korea.
Upon completion of his army service, Officer Johnson was recruited by the Houston Police
Department.
They completed their police academy in 1983 and then worked for several years patrolling
in the streets of Houston and participating in PALS, Police Activity League.
As a baseball coach, Officer Johnson transferred to the Sugar Land Police Department as a patrolman,
where he spent several years as a DARE officer in elementary schools.
Officer Johnson's desire to educate students led to careers at both Fort Bend ISD and Aleaf ISD.
Officer Johnson was recognized by two commendations from the ALEAF ISD School Board.
You make the Difference Award and Lifesaver Award for service.
Larry Johnson is married to Linda Sheehan, a retired middle school principal.
He has two adult sons and a stepdaughter, seven grandchildren calling Papa,
and three of them attend Katy ISD schools.
In his free time, Officer Larry Johnson is the lead vocalist for a Motown band in the
Houston area.
Should have had him sing.
Officer Nicole Emity was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
She moved to Tucson, Arizona after graduating high school to attend the University of Arizona
where she earned her bachelor's of general studies.
Officer Emity began working in law enforcement in 2009 as a police dispatcher in Arizona.
In 2013, she moved to Katy, Texas, and shortly thereafter became a licensed peace officer.
After graduating top of her class from Pasadena Police Academy, she worked as a patrol officer for the Webster Police Department.
In 2016, Officer Emity began working as a police officer for Rosenberg Police Department.
Later that same year, she earned her master's in public administration from American Military
University.
While working for Rosenberg Police Department, Officer Aramendi served as a patrol officer,
accident investigator, and school resource officer.
She also established the department's first federally recognized commercial vehicle enforcement
program.
In 2019, Officer Emity joined the Katy ISD Police Department.
Officer Emity lives in Katy with her husband and four children who attend Katy ISD schools.
In her free time, Officer Emity enjoys running 5K races with her father and sons and competing in triathlons.
I don't know why.
Please help me welcome Officer Larry Johnson and Officer Nicole Emity.
Thank you.
Thank you, Jill.
Welcome. Thank you both.
Thank you.
Next, Agenda Item 5.1, Pre-AP Name Change.
Welcome.
Good evening, President Doyle, Board members, and Superintendent Grigorski.
I'm here this evening to share the recommendation for a name change to our advanced academic
courses currently labeled Pre-AP.
In the early 90s, the concept of Pre-AP began in the state of Texas, and at that time, Katy
ISD changed their honors courses to Pre-AP courses to better align or to better convey
that they were aligned to the AP courses as well as to broaden that access into
those courses so we wanted open enrollment for that broader access we
started working then with vertical teams to refine our advanced academic
curriculum to more closely aligned to the AP courses and currently KDISD has
pre AP curriculum from grades 6 through 10 and pre AP is one of the designations
along with AP that determines which courses get weighted grade points in the
summer of 2017 college board announced the launching of a new pre-ap program they redefined
the term and they created courses that contain on grade level content rather than advanced academic
content so the definition of pre-ap has changed according to the college board who owns the
copyright or the trademark beginning in the fall 2022 all courses labeled pre-ap must be subscribed
to, submitted, and approved through the College Board. And schools and districts
that wish to continue using the Pre-AP designation will have a transition
period of up to five years from 2017 to adapt to these new expectations or
change the name of their courses. Beginning in the fall of 2017, we
started having conversations about how to proceed by first taking this
information to the AP District Advisory Council. They came up with some
suggestions which we floated by several groups AP vertical team members the
instructional coaches the content coordinators and specialists we had a
few other conversations and we landed on a final recommendation that went to the
GT parent Advisory Council this spring and their reaction was positive to the
name change and so I recommended name change for our advanced academic courses
is KD Advanced Program, CAP, or for the GT sections, CAPGT.
This is a sample list of those course names.
You have the complete list of the courses in your documents.
And our plan beyond this is after presenting this recommendation tonight,
we'll begin the process of making the transition through the course revision process
over the course of the next year and implement the new name change in the
fall of 2020.
Or do you have any questions? Madam President, Ms. Gasol. Is it Ms. Lindley or
Dr. Lindley? Yes. Ms. Lindley. All right. So I want to make sure I get it right. So why? Why
did they make that? Why did the College Board make that change? What was their
thinking well they've always had the trademark for the title and they've
always struggled with how to define it when it was originally implemented it
was defined as a set of strategies to support advanced academic content AP
vertical teams was a strategy to use to support that content and they had
several other strategies that they used but they never in the past they never
really saw it as a set of courses and of the districts that call courses pre AP
85 or so percent of them are in Texas. The rest of the country does not do that.
So this was something that was started in Texas and was adopted in Texas and they pretty much has just left us alone
until they got kind of a handle on what they really wanted to do with this program.
And they're in a position now to make the changes.
They're they considered an on grade level program
just to broaden the access to
to students that have access to it, but it's so ingrained in our community as the Advanced Academic Program,
it just seems appropriate to change the name.
And so we defined the content before, and we will define the content in the future?
Correct.
Okay. Thank you very much.
Any other questions?
Okay. Hearing none, I would also like to thank you for your time that you've been with us.
Ms. Lindley will be retiring this year.
So I wanted to say thank you again.
I know we had a party for you.
Next, Agenda Item 5.2, Planning for Growth, Attendance, Boundary Modification.
Mr. Cruz and Ms. Poole.
Good evening, President Doyle, board members, and Superintendent Grigorski.
The arrival of our June work-study meeting means that school is out, summer break has arrived, and it is once again time to turn our attention to attendance boundary review.
This time for the 2020-2021 school year. That's hard for me to even say.
Keep in mind that we begin our decision-making process over a year from the date of implementation
and that any boundary decisions would be implemented in the fall of 2020.
I'm joined tonight for this presentation by Chris Poole from Population and Survey Analyst.
They are KDISD's contract demographer.
Here you see the ABM process which was established in 2012.
We have modified the process slightly this year, creating an opportunity for an earlier
Board decision in October, which will provide more notice to families that could be impacted
by any changes.
As has traditionally been the case, the process begins with district staff, including representatives
from central office and campus principals, working with our contract demographer, population
and survey analyst to develop ABM options.
options. Tonight, Chris Poole with Population and Survey Analysts will be presenting those
options and following tonight's board meeting, we will seek stakeholder input with a final
recommendation brought to the board in October of 2019.
This year's process included our annual review of campus capacities and boundaries district-wide
with special attention given to the opening of our two new buildings in 2020. Those were
Elementary 43 and High School 9.
As mentioned on this slide, the ABM is intended to provide enrollment relief for Bethke Elementary
and an initial attendance boundary for High School 9 along with a proposal for a long-term
enrollment balance of high schools with attendance boundaries south of I-10.
Here you see the timeline for this process.
Note that there will be a survey progress update in September and a final ABM approval
will be sought in October.
The presentation tonight officially kicks off our education phase with our participation
phase beginning at the conclusion of this meeting.
Notification of the approved ABM to those families impacted would begin in November
through various mediums.
It is now my pleasure to introduce Chris Poole with Population and Survey Analysts to discuss the proposed options and provide insight into the considerations for developing these options.
Good evening.
I'd like to start the presentation tonight by just looking at the current attendance zones and the projections that we have for them based on the fall 2018 demographic update.
date. These figures shown here, like always, are the geocoded student population, and that is they
are the counts of students that we would expect to reside in each attendance zone, but we do know
that transfers will occur that will affect the actual enrollment at each campus. So this doesn't
actually reflect the actual enrollment of each school, but we have to start with where the
students are residing. Beth is in obvious need of relief, and elementary 43 will open there at the
the top of your map there and it will open in Ellison to provide relief to Bethke.
This slide shows the recommended ABM for Elementary 43.
On the western side of the zone, the boundary here for Bethke is the Stockdick School Road
and on the northern side the boundary is the property line behind Kings Crossing.
That's a property line there just above the label there for Bethke.
so that what we have is we've got subdivisions fronting south headed south and future land and
subdivisions that will front north headed north. The eastern boundary here is the Grand Parkway.
Elementary 43 is carved entirely from Bethke and then you can see that we have a large enrollment
expected in Bryant but Elementary 44 in Kane Island will relieve that in the future.
Elementaries 45 and 46 will relieve Elementary 43 and then Bethke and Leonard as needed.
Those will be opened in the northern part of the district later.
When we design attendance zones, we try to take a lot of things into account.
It's feeder patterns, stability, proximity, major roadways.
But we know that this is an art, not a science, and there's no one thing that is more important than another thing.
We have to take everything on balance.
This slide shows the current junior high attendance zones laid over the recommended ABM.
Elementary 43 will split to Katy and to Stockdick, but we're sending large chunks in each case there.
That black line right down the middle shows that the western side of that is Katy Jr. and the eastern side of that is Stockdick.
We have assessed and reassessed and reassessed Laney Sons 3A and 5A.
and this map is the same but with the labels there for lane new sons 3a and 5 or for all of the lane
new sons i wanted to point out though 3a and 5a they're right at the southern part of elementary
43. so there are 21 total elementary students projected there in 2020 or roughly three or four
fifth graders that number is projected to grow to as many as 106 total elementary students by the
end of our 10-year projection period but that still only makes for 17 or 18 fifth graders
original versions of this ABM called for those 3a and 5a those two lane you sons to be a Bethke
but as we continue to assess where these students would be in the long term we got concerned about
feeder patterns for the new junior high the next junior high will open in 10b they're just south
of 5a and so our concern is that if we leave those students in Bethke that they're always
going to be split out in very small numbers from the rest of the population
that they attended elementary school with at Bethke. So as a result we've zoned
these students to elementary 43 choosing to preserve the feeder pattern over
proximity in this particular case since there were so few students expected in
the area in question and since we think this ultimately sets them up for a solid
feeder pattern in the future. We just wanted to go ahead and explain that
because we thought we might get some questions about how they seemingly might
be closer to Bethke but we wanted to explain why we had sent them to
elementary 43. So similarly for the high schools, we're starting again with the
geocoded student population and you can see that this is very high projected
enrollment for the next few years in Tompkins. Just by 2024 we'd be looking at
5,400 students there at Tompkins. So if you do a little math you can see that we
could pull 2,400 students off of Tompkins within the next several years
and we can also pull 766 off of Seven Lakes. Both of those schools have a
capacity of 3,000 students. So if you add the 2,400 and the 766 together, you get 3,166,
which is more than the capacity of the new school that we're opening. And so in normal circumstances,
that would be great. That means that all three of those schools are going to be really well
utilized and things look good. But in this case, we also have to look at Katy. Katy's zone stretches
to the north and abuts Payto there in the northern part of the district. Katy also has a capacity of
three thousand students ultimately high school 10 should be able to relieve it
in the future but high school 10 is not expected to open until 2023 or 2024 so that means we have
to get through that 2022 number at katie which is almost 4 100 kids and high school 10 is only
going to be open with a passage of a new bond so as a result we had to look at the
figures here in katie and see other ways that we might be able to relieve katie
This map shows the initial recommended ABM for high school 9.
And the previous map, I show you guys geocoded students all the time, but I've made a little change here.
So the previous map showed geocoded students, and for 2022 and 2024, that's what we've got here.
But the 2020 number leaves all of the 11th and 12th graders at the campus that they've been currently attending.
attending. And so you can see the best way to understand that is to look at 2020. The enrollment
figure there for high school nine is only 1271. That's the ninth and tenth graders there, and we've
left the 11th and 12th graders alone. And so it gets a little fuzzy when you look at some of the
others, the numbers ebb and flow a little bit, but the easiest way to understand that is to look at
high school number nine. And when we assess the quality of the ABM, we have to look at that opening
year and understand it and be sure we're good with that. But then the real true measure of the
the quality of the ABM is the future years when the facilities are for grade campuses.
This slide shows the current high school attendance zones in black,
and the idea behind this and the next several slides is to help you understand what's moving.
The current high schools are in black, like I said,
and so you can see that high school 9 is carved from Tompkins and from Seven Lakes,
and that Katie also gives students to Taylor, to Cinco Ranch, and to Tompkins.
And we'll go over those here in detail.
So we start there in the north, east of the Grand Parkway.
With Laney Zone 43, it's moving to Taylor.
And that includes Governor's Place, West Memorial, and West Memorial South.
I was going to walk through these because a lot of times we get questions from you guys about, you know,
which of these subdivisions are moving and which ones are involved.
So then the area there that is south of Kingsland is Laney Zones 55, 56A, and 56B.
So that's Heritage Square, Cascade Ridge, Cimarron, Silverstone, and Creekstone.
That area would shift to Cinco Ranch.
They're also very close to Cinco Ranch instead of going to Katy.
Then shifting westward, we've got 52E, FG, and H from Katy to Tompkins.
That's Reserve at Katy, Morgan's Park at Wood Creek, Parkview, and Avalon at Spring Green.
They're on the western side of that new Tompkins zone.
And then on the eastern side there, there's a handful of land use zones.
There's 60A, 60C, and 54B that would move from Katy to Tompkins.
We've got Mills Point, and we've got several large lot subdivisions that are on some streets like Lakeview and Raisner.
And we've also got Lake Point Estates.
Then we have quite a few land use zones that are moving from Tompkins to High School 9,
which, of course, makes sense with where those two schools are located.
The area here just south of that box is 74 in Avalon at Cinco Ranch, 74 O Rollingwood at Cinco,
and then quite a few sections of Cinco.
Once again, those are moving from Tompkins to High School 9.
Then we've got 74 A, S, R, K, and L.
They're moving from Seven Lakes over to High School 9.
Those are Westheimer Lakes North, Glendale Place, and Cinco Ranch 39 and 40.
And we've got 52C and D, Cinco Ranch Northwest, and 73B, Churchill Farms, and all of Cross Creek moving to high school number nine.
We also want to look at feeder patterns, so that's what this slide shows here.
The black line here is not the current high school zones like the previous maps, but it is the current junior high attendance zones.
And so the one that was of interest to me especially was West Memorial Junior High there.
you can see that by making these changes, some students from West Memorial go to Taylor,
and presently some students from West Memorial go to Taylor.
We've actually added to that figure.
Then we send some students from West Memorial down to Cinco,
and some students from West Memorial remain at Katy.
The good news is, though, that we looked at that split and the breakdown of those kids,
and so we've got 257 students, I think that was probably for 2020,
you know, it's going to vary by year, that go from West Memorial to Katy.
We got 354 to Cinco and 368 to Taylor.
So it's large chunks of students.
And so we were happy with that.
We weren't looking at splitting out and splintering off 20 students from junior high
and sending them to high school with somebody, you know, with students they didn't know.
The other junior highs here in the southwest, they either feed perfectly
or they split into two of the high schools.
And I do want to point out one particular land use zone here, land use zone 51C.
There have been three laney zones that we have talked about just ad nauseum in the last several months.
The two in the north that I mentioned, the 3A and 5A, and then 51C.
So initially when we designed these tendon zones, this recommended ABM,
we were following junior high patterns where we could and elementary patterns.
You've got to balance and look at all the enrollment and stuff.
And so initially we moved 51C from Tompkins to Katy because it cleaned up the feeder pattern.
But what we realized is that sending 51C, sending all of those students up to Katy High, they're really, really close to high school nine.
And so we didn't necessarily want that to happen.
If they're going to Tompkins, that's one thing, but driving those students to Katy is an entirely different deal.
Lansing's own 50C is projected to only have six junior high and six high school students in 2019,
and it's growing to 64 junior high and 104 high school students by the end of the projection period.
So after much discussion, we decided to recommend a change to both the high school and the junior high zones
right there for landing zone 51C.
Currently 51C is at Tompkins, and so here it would attend high school 9,
and then it would also move from junior high from Wood Creek to Adams.
Adams. Development is occurring there in 51C and perhaps it's maybe going a little faster
than we had projected. So if we move it now, there aren't nearly as many students. It's
better to move it now than after we have 100 or more high school students driving up 1463
to go to Katy. So this map shows the final high school nine recommended ABM. And then
just for completion, we've got 51C highlighted here. So this shows that minor change between
Wood Creek and Adams so in addition to the elementary and the high school ABMs
we're recommending a minor junior high ABM that moving in that one lane use
zone 51 C to keep feeder patterns in good shape and by the way 51 C currently
attend attends Campbell Elementary and so that would give us a good feeder from
Campbell to Adams a complete feeder
year.
For the first time in many years, the administration is recommending an attendance boundary modification
that would shift students between existing four-year high school campuses.
As a matter of fact, we could only come up with one other time that that's been done
and that was so long ago no one could remember exactly how it happened.
We did some calling around, trust me.
The overarching goal in this is to create a long-term balance between high school campus enrollments on the south side of I-10.
Because this is not a common occurrence, the administration is recommending that ninth grade students in attendance before the fall of 2020
at a current four-year campus who would be rezoned to an existing four-year campus have the option to remain at their current high school until graduation.
An example of this would be a student from the West Memorial area that she just discussed
that attends Katy High School during the 19-20 school year.
Approval of this recommendation would move their attendance zone to Taylor High School.
But since they have established attendance at a four-year campus, an existing four-year
campus, they would be provided the option to remain at Katy High School through graduation.
The attendance boundary modification for High School 9 will be implemented using our historically
established pattern or parameter with 9th and 10th grade students in the
impacted attendance zone enrolling at the new campus in the fall of 2020. 11th
and 12th grade students in all impacted areas would remain at their currently
zoned high school. So in conclusion, an ABM is necessary for 2021 due to the
opening of 43, elementary 43 and high school 9. We are recommending a slight
slight modification. It's very slight just for that 51C to the junior high zone or ABM, and I
think that's a good idea not to have kids going up 1463 all the way to Katy High School, by the way.
If you've driven 1463, it's going to be much better to go south there. The ABM recommendations
have been crafted collaboratively with our principals and central office administration
and, of course, our demographer, and then the process this year provides for an earlier decision
date and that I really was hoping to do that for our high school students so
that we can give those families lots of advance notice before we we make this
change and at this time we will take any questions that you you have regarding
our presentation this fan question back to the grandfathering as you will to to
those already existing at a four-year campus as of 19 and 20 these would be
the kids that are impacted in the West Memorial area per se that are being moved to Cinco and
Taylor? There are some there. There are some, if you look, moving into Tompkins, if you look at
that Tompkins zone, that are moving south to Tompkins out of Katy. So anybody that's moving,
really, it's away from Katy. Their ninth grade year, they're in ninth grade in 2019, 2020. We're
We're going to let them finish at Katy High School because I got to tell you, going to a new school is one thing.
But moving from an existing campus to an existing campus, in my opinion, and I was a high school principal, is an entirely different thing.
I think it's a great opportunity.
But transportation would not be provided?
We are going to provide transportation for the first two years because of those 11th and 12th graders.
The third year we have not made a decision on yet because we would only have ninth graders.
So right now we have not decided to provide transportation that third year, the senior year.
But for the first two years, since 11th and 12th graders are already going to be staying, we would provide transportation.
That's great.
And so the kiddos that are being...
rezoned to the new high school since it's not opening in 1920?
Unless you're grandfathered by an older sibling at Seven Lakes or Tompkins,
you're moving.
This opportunity does not exist.
The new high school will open with ninth and tenth graders, yes, ma'am.
But the opportunity because the 1920 school year.
I just want to make sure everyone understands.
Yes, ma'am.
In that 20 school year, if you're a tenth grader going to the new high school,
you have to remember you get to set the culture, all the tradition,
and you get to be the first graduating class.
And to me that makes it a little bit different than moving to an existing high school very different
But but if they had an older sibling, yes
And they're the grandfathering as the head has been practiced in our district. We do have a transfer option for that
Yes, the legacy transfer. Thank you
Madam president miss champagne. I have a
couple of questions first of all for the 43 and
55 56 a 56 B who are all
going to be impacted by this ABM.
Those kids go to West Memorial Junior High.
I just wonder, because I was just looking at the numbers at home,
I was wondering why can't we just move all of those kids to Taylor
and just for the purity of the feeder pattern thing.
And the reason why I was thinking about that is because years ago,
I know that we rezoned Taylor because Taylor was shrinking due to the demographics in the area,
the people aging and not moving, and this could happen again in the future.
And I'm just thinking that if we want to be done with the south of I-10 and in this area,
maybe that would be, even though it might be more inflated at the beginning,
in the long run it might help out the numbers, you know, 10 years down the road.
So we looked at basically every possible combination of moving those lane use zones around.
We had, I don't know, 12 or 15 high school options of ways that we were looking at that.
So by moving 43 to Taylor, that puts Taylor basically at its capacity, right?
So 56A has 219 high school students in it, and 56B has 201, and then 55 has 48.
So it's a huge number of students.
You know, everybody thinks this would be so great.
We just make a clean line like at the parkway and it's real nice and pretty but it's a ton of high school students there
And so that was why we ultimately decided to go ahead and split it that way because it would just be too many students at
Taylor and I don't I think I'm not speaking on a turn
They don't have as much space for for temporary buildings for portable buildings there at Taylor like Cinco Ranch and it's good
Okay answer your question well it does I just I
I don't think people, I don't know, to be switched into three different junior highs, you know, that the kids, I'm sorry, the junior high is going to be switched into three different high schools.
That's kind of a lot, but I mean, I'm sure that you've done all the research you could.
I just was wondering about how it would look, you know, even 10 years down the road as the aging population goes and we're not going to rezone again, you know, to try to fix things for long, long term.
We think we've seen long term a lot of the decline in Taylor.
And as a matter of fact, we go back and we look at how to explain this best, but we sort of age the kids forward and we look at where we might be beginning to see a little bit of regeneration.
And so a few subdivisions here recently, starting about 18 months or so ago, started to pop up as ones that had large kindergarten and small fifth grade in this area.
And so we think, I think maybe we've kind of flattened out in Taylor.
We're going to have to keep watching those.
Whereas in Cinco, we've lost student population at some of the elementaries and junior highs.
It's dropped off.
That happens really routinely.
And so the long-term projections for Cinco are for it to go ahead and drop off a little bit
and for it to be easier for Cinco to handle these students in the long term.
I have another, Madam President.
The 60A, 60C, and 54B that's going to be moved to Tompkins,
where do they go to junior high now?
I know you put it, but I don't know what it is.
It's on the slide.
It's in the name of the junior high.
So some of them are at Katy.
And then also it's Cinco.
Okay.
Oh, they probably all got a Katie, Katie junior high.
Oh, Wood Creek junior high?
Oh, Wood Creek junior high.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
Real quick options.
I mean, several of my questions have already been asked, so I'm not going to regurgitate them.
But I do want to say thank you all.
I know that this has been very laborious.
There's a lot of different options that you all have looked into and moving from one to another.
And it's never easy.
and it's never easy for the parents or for the kids especially when you look at
some of the neighborhoods that are traditionally been in Katy high school
and very steeped in the Katy high school tradition but I agree with you it's
going to be exciting and to see how these kids move to these new schools and
start their own traditions one of the options you talked about with the kids
if they start if they're currently at a school and they will get to stay at that
grad school through their senior year and graduate from there. How is that going to affect UIL? Not just athletics, but we're also looking at fine arts. We're also looking at band competitions. UIL covers a lot of things that a lot of people don't necessarily think of. They usually just think of athletics.
As long as the district is granting the ability for that to happen, it should not be a UIL issue.
And, you know, we've discussed, you know, do we need them to fill out a transfer form?
We might have to with the ninth graders because that might make it legal in the UIL sense.
But as long as the district is allowing it and our enrollment screen shows that they can be enrolled at that school,
it should not be an issue.
And if it is a transfer, I'll use athletics as an example.
I think Ms. Decker is here.
So if it is an athletics thing, let's say it is a freshman that started at a school
and their area is transferred to another, will that person,
I just want to make sure there are those unique athletes,
there are those unique people that are in band and thing that compete at that very high level,
at a varsity level.
Will they still be able to compete at that level at their home school?
Moving to the new school, I think, is the question.
Right.
So, I mean, obviously, you know, they've got new schools.
But if the school district is basically saying this is where you will go to school,
we're allowing you to go there, basically they get a choice that first year on where their eligibility is.
So, again, you know, we haven't had any issues when PAYTO opened up.
We've done really well.
We tracked the kids.
It's we fill out PAPFs on them.
Even sometimes we don't have to just to make sure that we've done our due diligence.
But, you know, we'll work hand in hand with everybody and make sure these kids are eligible.
That's super.
It just sounds like it's a real unique situation that we may not have had previously.
I just want to make sure, and I know that y'all probably have,
I just want to make sure that it's addressed in public,
even though y'all have discussed it and looked into it.
I appreciate it to both of y'all.
Thank you.
Go ahead.
For any of those kids who maybe wouldn't be eligible for some reason, I'm just saying, depending on what the situation is,
we do have the ability to file a residency waiver on their behalf and show that it's not their fault,
but that's why they're maybe at XYZ school and whatnot.
So we have options.
Super.
Thank you.
If you don't mind, Ms. Decker, I'm going to get a quick one in while you're over there just to remind folks.
I know your office over there and the assistant ADs as well have been very helpful to parents,
And at that time, I would encourage any parent who transfers, moves, wants to move back,
take another option, has played sports or activities or UIL competition,
always call that athletic office and talk about those requests
and what might impact the student before they start transferring around.
Because I know your office has always been helpful to explain the rules to the parents
because they are quite complex.
Yes, thank you.
Correct.
And we try to put on anything that goes out when it has to do with kids transferring
We try to put on there that that does not guarantee their athletic eligibility
They have to call us and we'll go through the steps to ensure that so thank you for that
Is there any other questions?
Okay, thank you so much. Mr. Cruz you also get a round of applause because you are retiring as well
Madam President, may I say something about Mr. Cruz? Absolutely. He's already turning red.
Mr. Cruz and I got, we got to know each other very well, and I'm honored to say that we got
to know each other very well when a previous administration opened up Cinco Ranch High School
as a Harvey vessel for our community to be able to use. And I saw his work ethic there. I saw the
the amount of hours and the time that he was there.
And then I found out after all this time that he was there that he lived up near College Station
and would travel back and forth.
Mr. Cruz, it's been an honor and a pleasure.
I still will go on record again as saying I do not accept your resignation or your retirement.
And if you need something to do, you can always come and be our pool boy at my wife and my house.
Thank you, Mr. Lacey.
Next, we have Agenda Item 5.3.
2019-20 budget update. Mr. Smith. All right, well good evening. President Doyle, Superintendent
Dicker-Gorski, and trustees. I know y'all are excited to hear from me. This is month six of
six in this budget process, formal budget presentation. Tonight I'm going to go over
some things. We've started in January and now we're in June and we're going to take a look,
closer look at what happened in the legislative session and speak to the
effect on the primary funding bills and their impact on KDISD. Of course as a
reminder our goal is to maintain a balanced budget. We were working
under that under the old law or under what is as of
last week old law but we've been developing that really since October
We're formally speaking with you guys since January.
We want to maintain a competitive compensation plan.
I think from what I'm going to talk about a little later and what Mr. Shuss is going to talk to you about tonight
is going to help us maintain the competitiveness and, in fact, do far more than House Bill 3 prescribes.
We're going to react to the legislature.
We are trying to do so.
It's a statewide effort right now, but we're reacting.
We're maintaining our health care program.
Mr. Nauman, I think, is going to be able to, it's our plan for Mr. Nauman to next month
be able to make a recommendation that does not change any of our health benefits or any
of our premium increases on our employees.
So when you do have, consider a salary increase, you will be able to do so knowing that it
It will not be offset, or it's not our plan to have it offset by increases in insurance premiums.
Statewide information that was released, I think it was in March or April,
was that TRS active care, which is where the majority of school districts are,
their employees were seeing a 7.5% increase in their premiums starting in September.
So our plan doesn't start until January,
but we do not recommend or we do not anticipate needing to recommend any
increases in our health insurance premiums. We're putting as always we put
a high priority in this budget on student and staff safety. We're opening
Leonard Elementary School, Adams Junior High and the final grade at Pato High
School. In the budget that will you'll be adopting in August we're going to have
some expenses associated with the opening of elementary 43 and high
high school nine. So the 86 legislative session just a quick recap of the major
funding bills. I'm going to start off with this statement. I'm going to read it.
It says this was released just last week from the Texas Education Agency and says
the Texas Education Agency that that given the magnitude of changes
prescribed by House Bill 3 it will be several months before the agency can
put up a new report with all the new data fields and allotments. Several
months. Now we have a tool and that tool is on release three in three weeks and
I've been working through that tool. There's still blanks in that tool. All
the big blanks have been filled in but we are still working through the details
of House Bill 3 and again the summary of finances, this document that the agency
speaking of specifically, is the mechanism that describes exactly how the
the state's going to fund us, any school district, and those payments of course start September 1.
Just as a brief budget, the state budget included House Bill 3, which was just from an education
standpoint. House Bill 3, which is 11.5 billion dollars, that's not all going to our children.
6.5 of it is going to our children and five percent or five billion is going to tax relief
and you're going to see tonight that it does compress and push down our tax rate
but it's not all going to children so 11.5 is the headline and it can increase
to public education but that does not get released to the children 280 230
million dollars for TRS care that's an increase for retirees insurance to help
offset the increases to that fund. NIFA they feel has been fully funded at
$200 million. We were supposed to get $1,000 in these last couple of years for
the new children in our new facilities because there wasn't enough
appropriate to go around we ended up getting about $235 per student.
It is anticipated that $200 million over the biennium will be
be enough to deliver the full thousand dollars in these new schools that we're
opening which helps I call it the spoonful of sugar that helps the
medicine of the opening those schools with fixed cost and principles and all
that that that we have in utilities and when we open the school instructional
materials allotment has actually gone down in this budget and and Senate bill
11 has a hundred million dollars in it for new safety things and we think that
we'll be eligible for some of that and and be able to add on to what the things
that you guys are already doing from a safety standpoint. First, next I want to
talk about Senate Bill 500. Senate Bill 500 was signed into law last week. It
does offer us 807 million dollars for Harvey expenses. When I put this slide
together you see that on the right those little fingers crossed. We hoped that we
We would be some recipients of those funds.
Mr. Gagorski received an email from the agency late Thursday afternoon.
And going through that, it does appear as though we are going to be recipients of that.
And in fact, I'm going to be bringing one, a budget amendment.
I'm going to change the one that you're going to hear tonight to the one that, and ask you
to pull that off the consent agenda so we can massage that and change that to do some
things with saving, with a budget amendment.
So that will hopefully save some money, result in some savings to our taxpayers.
Teachers retirement, $101.1 billion.
That for those folks that retire before December 31st of 2018,
they're going to get a 13th check capped at $2,000.
If they make less, it'll be what they normally get.
If they make more, it's capped at $2,000.
Those are for retirees.
and then a $524 million increase in state's contributions to keep the fund solvent.
So Mr. Cruz and Dr. Lindley can retire comfortably as they have planned.
Not comfortably in the sense that without worrying about the solvency of their plan.
Actually, lower enrollment growth has allowed the agency to request less funds that go to students.
You know, when you get more students, you get more money.
The state of Texas didn't grow from an enrollment perspective as much as we thought or as they thought.
It's hard to believe here in Katy, but statewide it didn't,
so that freed up some money to be spent for Senate Bill 500.
Idea B, maintenance, $219.6 million.
Those are some of the issues that the agency and the state has gotten in with the federal,
and I think that takes care of that issue, if I'm not mistaken.
and then again an additional $110 million or $111 million for school safety, which will accent what we're doing here in Katy.
We hope we can get, we qualify to gain some of that locally. And again, I think I had the fingers crossed on that.
I'm not sure at this point.
So Senate Bill 12, by, by
Senate Bill 12, it does require a gradual increase in the state's
contribution there in that column the state it'll increase over time towards
again TRS the employees contribution at in two years from now will begin
increasing or it'll increase 30 basis points or to 8% so it's going to be more
coming out of my check in two years but it goes to my account and again that's
all in an effort to keep TRS solvent and then the districts portion this time
next year we'll be budgeting an increase of that 1.6 percent from 1.5 percent.
Again, based on my last couple of presentations, that was new as of 2015's
legislative session and that's a new a new deal that the districts are
contributing again all in an effort to keep TRS solvent. And I think it's
working. Okay, what no one thought possible, I'm gonna read a quote, we will
do what no one thought possible, we finally we will finally fix school
school finance. I'm proud to tell you today that we have done exactly that.
I'll tell you that's a big statement. To fix school finance is a
gargantuan task because no community is the same across Texas from one side of a
city or a town to the other. We're always very different depending on the type of
people that decide to put up a shingle for a business or a tax base or have a
lot of children. Everybody is different and every district is different so it's
really a tough gargantuan task and I'm going to talk about that here in a few
minutes but I'll start with House Bill 3. It's 311 pages, I'm sorry 308 pages and
it requires, it costs at 11.6 billion dollars. Of that cost, 4.5 billion
dollars goes to increase of funding schools. Most of that going, it goes
increases schools and so it's going to increase the basic allotment six out to
six thousand one hundred sixty dollars I want to be careful and cautious of that
headline I'm gonna poke fun at that a little bit just to try to get my point
down earlier because that does look like a large increase but if you take
everything into consideration especially in a district like Katy it the headline
might be more than the content. 3.6 billion for recapture. So districts that
are very wealthy and have big checks that they send in their tax dollars back
to Austin for equity reasons, those were reduced if you will. So those districts
that are very wealthy, very very wealthy, can keep more of their tax dollars. I
think it creates an equity issue because you know a child in a district that's
not subject to that kind of strict recapture is as much worth as much as the
child in the district that is. But they are getting a break. 3.6 billion dollars
in less recapture monies going to Austin from those rich districts and in five
billion dollars in property tax compression. The average I think
statewide is going to be an 8 cent reduction. Remember most districts around
us have had TREs and they've had a dollar 17 tax rates. We're going to see a
tax rate compression as well. Not quite eight cents but because our tax
rate is not quite at the average but it'll be our maintenance and operations
tax rate but it will be a over a seven cent tax increase as well. Moving forward
it calls for compression of property value growth and where growth cannot
exceed 2.5 percent. So after this year districts are going to be at a handful
of maintenance and operations tax rates. After this year, with the way I'm
understanding the formulas and I'm understanding people are understanding
the formulas, maintenance and operations tax breaks are going to go all over the
place. Because if you have a lot of value growth, they're going to cap it at two
and a half percent and force the compression or the force the rate lower.
And if you don't have any growth, your rate would stay the same or it could
increase. But if a billion dollar company set foot, you know, right
outside with no children our value would increase substantially but we may not be
able to keep it because it would be capped and because the rate would go
down saving all of our taxpayers dollars but it would be different from district
to district across this state two billion dollars for employee
compensation I'm going to talk about that at length night we're doing more
than was prescribed by House bill three changes to current values rather than
prior year values. This was a 1.9 billion dollar price tag when it came to the
state's budget. Again, anytime you're going to make a change, you're going to
have winners and losers. You've heard me talk about this elimination of the CEI
and how that would hurt anytime you you you re-apportion, recut a piece of pie
somebody's going to lose. This is one that loses to KDISD because we've had
year after year value growth and when managed correctly that can be a very good management tool
and this board has managed that over the years that save taxpayer dollars on our capital programs
etc and have always been able to manage it it eliminates that lag and puts us on current year
values so when you saw me speak to last month to the property values and the porridge we thought
we were estimating just right well if we under when it comes to the maintenance and operations
fund. If we overestimated it, it's going to be less state funds immediately. If we
underestimated it, it's going to be more state funds immediately. We're no longer
going to have that budgeting tool and that's a large portion of a
school district's budget that's now going to be outstanding along with how
many children are going to show up on the first day of school compared to what we
projected. It's going to be as an educated guess as everything else where
where that used to be a stable thing when it was a lag.
There is a provision in here of hold harmless
that keeps a district up to a 3% gain compared to old law.
That's into effect, as I understand it,
for the 24-25 school year.
So if a district through these new formulas
does not gain 3% over current law, this 3% kicks in.
We are a hoverer near that.
We are just above that, and I don't
think we're going to need it.
but the way these calculations are happening and the way this information is coming
and the seesaw that I've been on emotionally, we could be subject.
We're not way above it.
We could touch that.
But it's limited to 3%.
So 3% is going to be the floor.
Everybody statewide should get a 3% increase in their funding.
The states, going back to those apples,
the statewide share is going to increase from 38% to 45%. You've heard me speak to those rotten apples in Katy. Right now the state only pays 31%. The local taxpayers pay the difference. That's going to increase at least for this next year to 42% paid by the state. So again, you can see the increase in state funds and the compression of taxes in these apples.
All of our veteran teachers are going to see a total compensation package of about $4,000.
Well, if you went back to October or November of last year, it was $10,000 for teachers.
And then it became $5,000 in Senate Bill 2, I believe it was.
And now it's House Bill 3 with a compensation package of about $4,000.
Mr. Schist is going to talk to you tonight, and we think we can have the ability to meet that, and we do beat that.
it's tough it's tough it's it's not like we're trying to figure out ways not to
do it I will say now that we're doing everything we can with House Bill 3 to
do to do more and we are going to trip that that's our target I'll let mr.
Schuss hit on that a little later so because the gain from House Bill 3 if I
was working on the budget now and they're all under what's now old law we
We would have a surplus budget, not a big one, but a surplus,
and we would be able to offer some small cost-of-living increases to the tune of a total of 2%, okay, under current law.
This House Bill 3 delivered has a $29 million gain or about 3.5%, 4%.
Okay?
So we are gaining with House Bill 3, and there's some quirks about that gain that I will talk to you about later,
but we are gaining some monies over current law.
The amount of money that we gained under old law from 1819 under new law for 1920
is 54 million dollars. Now remember old law had the property value increase that
I was anticipating and before the current year values there was a gain for
us temporarily but a gain and then there was a gain in the Austin yield or the
Golden Penny gain. Those two were pretty substantial. You can add that to the 29
million dollars or subtract it and that's the difference. I'm sorry I should
should have done that math for you, but you know what is that 15 million dollars
is what the old law was going to gain us and now we're going to get 29 million
dollars on top of that. That's how we were able to under old law adapt a
balanced budget. Not adopt, but be preparing a balanced budget. So House
Bill 3 requires that of that 54.6 million dollar increase, not the new
new money but the 54.6 million dollar increase so that 30% of that or 16
million dollars goes to compensation must go according to law TA is going to
grade us on this and sometime next year and and and that's a minimum of 16
million dollars as a reminder and sherry is it seven million dollars per one cent
for one percent in salary increase seven million dollars as a one cent salary one
one percent salary increase so that's not that doesn't go very far on that and
but 16 million dollars is the requirement for Katie amount of teachers
counselors librarians and nurses 75% of that 16 million dollars must go to them
okay and the amount of compensation that must go to other staff is four million
one hundred ninety five thousand dollars the compensation plan that I'm going to
to speak to and that Mr. Schist is going to speak to later tonight will exceed that substantially.
In fact, the compensation for everything that we're going to be talking about tonight is
above $16.3 million, it's $28.9 million.
The amount for teachers, counselors, librarians and nurses is above the $12.3 million, it's
$21.2 million and the amount of other compensation that must go to other staff, again, besides
teachers, counselors, librarians, and nurses, and that excludes administrators, but it's $4,095,000, and that's seven point, but we're going to be recommending a total of 7.7, so we're doing quite a bit more than the minimum required.
required. Commissioner Murath, the Commissioner of Education, is entrusted with resolving any
unintended consequences resulting from the school finance formulas when it comes to a gain or a loss.
If something happens and they didn't intend to it, remember there's a three percent old harmless, but
if there's something else out there that's hiding in the weeds, the Commissioner does have the
ability to try to resolve that and that's a good thing. It's a good thing for children. New
new allocation of tax rates. I'm going to show you this is the the verbiage you
can look at on your pleasure time on your own but this is how it would work
for KDISD. It would compress make our compressed rate this is starting from a
dollar fourteen there in the middle of the with the asterisk
it in the middle of a column. That would be our total tax rate, I mean our
maintenance and operation tax rate, and it would be compressed to 93 cents and
then everything back added on to that are 8 cents for golden pennies. So yes we
go from 4 to 8 golden pennies or 6 temporarily to 8 golden pennies.
Unfortunately the value of those golden pennies is no longer tied to Austin's
wealth. It's tied to an index associated with the basic allotment. So the Austin
yield or the golden pennies is now at a $96 yield. I believe it's a $96 or $98
yield. It's less, it's not a $126 like it was. It's more like $98 now. So it
goes down quite a bit and it's tied to the basic allotment. So that's, that's a,
they're not quite as golden, but they're, they're there and they're there more in
and for us and then it puts us in the copper penny now it compresses the
amount above that down to 4.3 cents so our total tax rate would drop from a
dollar fourteen six six on the maintenance and operation to a dollar
five three two that's a a seven point three four cent reduction in the
maintenance and operations sorry nine nine percent nine cent and remember I
talked about eight earlier is the statewide average the reason why is
is because the INS tax rate here is showing 37 to 39.
Now, we did that tax swap conscientiously,
and we've been using those two pennies that we had shifted over as a result of Harvey
back over to the debt service fund.
Our debt plan that you guys heard in February is built around 39 cents.
And for the last two years, we've made that tax swap
because it was a very good investment to generate more monies.
I think it was $8 million in tax revenue for $14 million of state funds.
Pretty darn good investment.
So we're moving away from that because House Bill 3 moves away from that,
and so we're going to do the debt service back to where it was at two cents.
It's still the tax rate decrease that people are expecting and they're getting.
We're just making it whole through this because we had to make it whole at some point
when the Section 26.08 provision went away.
So a seven point three four cent tax reduction
So I won't belabor on all of these. I'm just gonna they're mostly there for your pleasure
I do need to talk to about a couple of them
This and when it comes to calculation of tier one does eliminate the cost of Education Index. You've heard me since
January talk about if they eliminate that that's not good for Katie ISD it got eliminated in House bill 3
We expected it, we've kind of been anticipating it, and it was eliminated.
That puts us in a hole. So when you hear about the increase to the basic
allotment, we're in a hole already because the elimination of the cost of
education index. So all of those that green column says the basic allotment,
that goes straight back to the basic allotment, whereas on the orange column
it has AA, that's the adjusted allotment. The adjusted allotment was adjusted by
by the cost of education index.
And without that gone, it's the basic allotment.
And that moved several people.
It shifted a big piece of pie from high CEI districts
to low CEI districts.
And there were some winners, and some there's always going to be.
But it was an outdated thing that
had been in effect since 1993.
I don't think it had changed.
Although the legislature was charged with updating it
every two years. It never was updated and I think they just threw it out. They were
tired messing with it threw it out. But it meant something in Katy. Special
education weights are increasing and that's a good thing but the basic
allotment is not increasing as much as we'd like so I've got a mixed signal
there but it's still a good thing that they're doing it for children across the
state. Career technology allotment again good thing. It's more children are
going to be eligible to repeat to qualify to generate those funds grade
seven and eight now we're offering courses that are CTE expense but they're
not generating any revenue Korean technology allotment does increase and
allows those children us to count those children for funding that's a good thing
it repeals the gifted and talented allotment it's not going to repeal our
program we have a very good gifted and talented program we're spending far more
than that that orange column generated when it came to that but it repeals it
again there's no plans to make any changes based on that being repealed
with that said the comp ed allotment does make some major changes this is
probably the one that's caused me the most gray hair or loss of hair because
trying to figure that out but it basically takes just completely
completely reduced, it redoes how we calculate the combat story education a lot.
I mean it's a big paradigm shift and it's one that frankly we're changing
with the airplane in flight. We're trying to build the plane while it's in the air,
trying to figure this stuff out or the state is. But it's working
its way through. We got an email from Texas Education Agency on Wednesday that
shined a light, Wednesday of last week that shined a brighter light on it and
And things are becoming clearer every week as people are being able to provide guidance and interpretation of House Bill 3.
Bilingual Ed goes up and provides some more allotments.
It does offer a dual language allotment.
That's a good thing.
Linear density.
I heard somebody say, well, that's been there since – it's an outdated formula.
It needs to be updated.
It hadn't been updated since 1984.
It went down for us.
It's supposed to make it easier.
maybe it does but but the allotment that KDISD receives I expect to to decrease
with the new formula. Repealed the high school allotment and we're spending more
than we're required to spend on that it's not going to change what we're
doing it just changes that funding stream. Does increase a dyslexia funding
it provides a mechanism to fund dyslexia. We do everything we can and know to do
in KDISD for dyslexic students that's not going to change this is now just
going to recognize those students and those students will generate funding but
similar to the GT going away we're doing best we can and I think we're doing a
pretty good job with both of those whether that's generating funding or not
we're doing what's what those children need in those cases early education this
is kids children grades K through three that are economically
disadvantaged they generate some more monies because they're recognizing the
the fact throughout House Bill 3 that it's more expensive to educate
socio-economically disadvantaged children. The fast growth allotment that
exclamation mark, I wanted to read a couple of statistics. This was as I
understand it a last-ditch add to House Bill 3 and we are a recipient of that
and it's worth all by itself, there's some other mechanisms in
place but it's worth 18 million dollars to this district. Okay and so we're
because we're fast growth we know it. But TEA released on Thursday of last week a
list of how they're ranking those districts right now and Katy ISD not
surprised, is Ms. Poole still here, not surprised is second on that list with a
growth of 4,485 students over a two-year period of time or 5.9 percent.
Okay we're second on that list from a number of students standpoint. The
The average growth of all students on the list of 319 districts, the average growth was 287 children.
There are, let's see, 195 districts that are on that list of 319 districts.
195 of them gained less than 100 students, but they're on that list because of a percentage.
And I won't say the district's name, but there's one district on there that gained three kids over a course of two years, and they're on the list to get that bump.
There's a district that I'm familiar with that's next in line with over 40,000 students.
students. And they're not going to get that bump because the way that the information
went out has been released thus far anyway is that they're doing it by percentage gain
and not number of student gain or some hybrid in between. KDISD ranks when it comes to a
percentage gain. We're number two on the list for net gain of students, but from a percentage
gain it's we're 181st or we're about 56% of the way down the list or less than on the
the bottom half of that ranking when it comes to percent gain. The average gain
was 10.55% for all the districts on the list and again I want to
reiterate that of 195 districts had less than 100 students but they're on there
they're taking up 319 spots on that list. So just FYI it's volatile that's it's a
two-year period of time and as I understand it at least now anyway if you
You get leapfrogged during those two years, the allotment goes away.
Or if you get on in those two years, you get it.
It's something that is, from what I'm understanding, is very volatile and a red flag to be able to say,
better be prepared for it to go away someday.
I think we're probably pretty safe in Katy because we're so fast growth,
but it is something that is risky.
Dropout recovery, that didn't exist.
I don't know how to recalculate it yet, and it's not included in any numbers that you
see here tonight, but it will add to or enhance what we're doing.
They've not put a pencil to it yet or given us a tool to do so.
Same with the teacher initiative.
But those are good things.
Again, I mentioned NIFA earlier.
I think we'll be able to fund our almost 2,000 students in these new campuses that we're
opening.
I think we'll be able to fund it at the full $1,000.
That's over $2 million, and that's a good thing that we need here in Katy.
These other things did not exist. They still aren't out there for me to go in and calculate, so the numbers that I'm talking about tonight will not have those numbers in there, but that's all still to come. Still baking that cake.
Again, I talked about local values and the fact that they're going to limit our growth
to 2.5%.
And this next slide I put in here is because I'm more than halfway through and it's to
be enlightened.
And this is no...
This isn't to be...
I think Hospital 3 is a monumental effort.
But I think from...
If you read the headline, we increased the basic allotment by over $1,000 per student.
when you look at the details you need to think about this ad big headline so that increase to
the basic allotment of 1,000 over $1,000 under the old rules would have been awesome if somebody
would have told me nine months ago or a year ago hey we're gonna put thousand
dollars in the basic allotment I'd do cartwheels I really would but because
the loss of the CEI puts us in a 60 million dollar hole to start we need
five hundred eighty four dollars to get out of that hole okay now remember we're
gonna compress our tax rate seven cents that takes away from our revenue the
increase in the basic allotment fills that revenue takes four and twenty five
$25 and then the difference is $11 that's going towards new programs. Now
there's some things that are happening outside of the formula or this basic
allotment stuff but I wanted to say that if you really look and pull up the pull
up the bun and look into it the headline of a thousand dollars over a thousand
dollar increase to the basic allotment is not all that for us. For some people
yes it is it's it's a fan for a lot of Texans it's a fantastic thing it's not
for not for a district with a .16 CEI. So this is a statewide look at
something that that myself and the Technology Department, Dr. Allaune and
his group put together for me and this is a database of all the this is the
runs that the Legislative Budget Board released the day that they voted and
passed in the chambers House Bill 3. But you can see that's KDISD there in the
yellow that just flashed up those are all districts so you see there's one
district way out to the right just to help you know that that's the color but
when you can put a lot of districts over a thousand districts and charter schools
on top of each other you kind of get that blob but that's where Katie is is
is that so we're less than ten thousand dollars per student everybody above us
on that chart every district or charter school on that chart above us currently
has access to more revenue for their children okay everybody that on above us
gets more access and then those below us yes they get less access to revenue for
their students okay and everybody out to the right of us all of those districts
to the right of us that's the new monies that they got so that district that's on
the very far right got over ten thousand dollars per student under these new
formulas and the one right in the middle got six thousand dollars and I want to
say the average is about 8% which is you know probably well I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna but it's to the right of us you can see that we're back we're are on the
wall at that 3% minimum as is that line there so we're that's what it looks and
again I want to reiterate that the agency has said we're not releasing this
information for several months so what what information that we're going to
adopt a budget on I presume will be still on the tool that we have but not
from anything from the Texas Education Agency. So major
legislative recap the budget got adopted Senate Bill 500 was additional
monies that's where we're going to get some Harvey funds they did have school
finance reform it was a tremendous effort I'm very grateful to the
the sessions for the legislature for doing as much as they did.
I wish that the CEI hadn't been eliminated.
But, you know, that is what it is.
It was still a monumental task and a gargantuan and hard to please everybody on that.
But we do come out ahead, and I'm pleased to say that.
We come out ahead, and our people, our kids, and our parents will benefit both.
It doesn't have the $5,000 pay raise that was included in the Senate Bill 3.
It does have some property tax reform that was passed. It fixed the teacher pension or shorted up a little bit.
It does some other things or did not does not do some other things that would stabilize or provide more revenue statewide from a revenue standpoint to the state of Texas.
What's important to Katie is some ballot language that I think you need mentioning.
We have to go to our voters when it comes to adding our growth.
And we'll we'll have to do that at some point in the future.
This one requires you when you go into that first bullet there requires when
you go into the voting booth that the entity that's having the election
provide all the information and all the special stuff that you're going to need.
Let's look at it as going into voting for a student council president and going
behind that curtain and finding the resume of the two candidates and making
the decision based on what you're reading in the booth and not maybe what
you did your homework for. So that's going to require a lot more time in the election booth
and a lot more information that's going to be provided. We've always been very transparent.
Hey, whatever it takes, we'll do. There's no reason not to put it out there. It is a requirement,
as I understand it now moving forward. They didn't get the ballot reviewed by the judiciary.
That didn't make, but they did say unspent bond proceeds need to be approved in public.
I don't understand that. I know always when you folks, when our Board of
Trustees has approved unspent bond funds like project savings, had built two
elementary schools out of the 2014, I'm sorry the 2010 authorization, we had some
savings because of the market was very good and we got lower contracts. Our
board publicly in a public meeting voted to add two new schools to that
authorization. What a great thing for children. It was done in a public meeting
and very transparent. This just requires it. Not sure why, but it could be that
it's a specific public hearing. With that the only thing on the agenda, but
regardless it's not going to change anything but maybe the way our agenda
styled and has operated in my time in this district anyway. Bond propositions
grouped by type as I understand it. So now if you're going to go vote for
schools you vote for schools yes or no and you vote for buses yes or no
technology for those schools yes or no etc I think they'll require different
propositions is how I understand it now anyway but it's all fresh so this is our
budget again we've been working on that middle column for now for now and now
we're working on the right-hand column that what really change changes is that
there's the increase of the basic allotment. Remember, it's not all that, but it's still an
increase and it's still a good thing for children, the majority of children. It decouples the Austin
yield with those golden pennies. There's the Austin yield of $126 where it was a six golden
pennies. Now it's eight golden pennies at 96. Those two will now move forward harmoniously.
When the basic allotment increases, the Austin yield increases. No longer when Austin's wealth
increases will we benefit as all other districts. It's now the basic
allotment. So no longer the Austin yield, it's the Golden Pennies. Salary increases,
again, we've been modeling a 1% and 1% and just being able to, what we
thought would be to have to meet that goal of having a balanced budget. House
Bill 3 is going to able us to deliver much more than that at this point.
We're looking at a 4% and 1%. That'll be the recommendation that Mr. Schust is going to speak to you about.
And that's both for the teacher pay scale and the non-teacher pay scale.
And I'll talk about that here in just a second.
So our tax revenues, as you can see with the compressed tax rate, even with a 5% increase in our property values,
the compression of $0.09 on the M&O tax rate reduces local funds.
by $36.8 million.
That makes sense.
Local taxpayers will pay less.
You can see an increase of $65.7 million in state funding.
So they're making up for the compression of the tax rate
plus our growth, because more students bring more money.
And so that's reflected in these new formulas,
at least as much as the big ones are reflected in these numbers
as we interpret them today.
and the TRS contributions they really don't change but that's offset with an
expense it's an accounting error entry that's why it's in blue so salary
increases we're our increase from 1% goes from 3.5 million dollars up to
fourteen point two million dollars or again we're we're quadrupling that
recommendation or what we're what we've what we're working now with same with
the one-time salary increase it stays in there at 3.7 million dollars for our teachers counselors
and librarian nurses that's those are folks tied to our teacher pay group and those not tied to the
teacher pay group are oh i'm sorry let me sit back and say as part of house bill three we're required
to to fund a performance incentive uh now there's incentives that are mentioned throughout the
the legislative session we've included,
and Mr. Schuss will talk to you about the performance incentive
tonight, as well as we set aside money
just to implement full-day K. Right now, we
don't offer full-day K everywhere.
We offer half a day.
For pre-K, we set aside some for teachers associated
with that in the future.
So I think I changed the slide.
So for the non-teacher pay group, again, you can see the quadrupling of the 1.4% up to 5.6,
1.4 million up to 5.6 million.
That's a 4% salary compensation increase.
And then the compensation increase of $1.5 million is what it costs to do 1%.
And, again, that's staying the same.
We've got some expenses associated with a performance incentive.
we have instructional classroom instructional aides that are not in the
classroom but I mean certainly they are in the classroom and therefore they're
not tied to the teacher salary schedule because they're instructional aides so
they're on this schedule but we do have some some performance incentive built in
there for that again those folks Paris instructional aides we rely on in our
pre-k program so we've set some money aside for that as well stipends we're
We're still reviewing stipends.
We're getting darn close.
I don't see any material changes that we haven't spoken to
on that.
Substitute teachers, we're doing some things
to try to nominate, to push that cost down,
that Mr. Schuss will talk to you about tonight.
But that is a large expense of almost $9 million.
Well, it's $10.8 million or $10.7 million
when you look at teacher and non-teacher folks
that we have to have substitutes for.
So it's a large expense to this district.
Just real quick, there's a big increase that looks like an increase that our district's making in contribution toward health and medical insurance.
I want to make sure that that's not.
The district's going to continue to contribute what it has contributed toward health insurance.
That's just more bodies that we're contributing for represented in that increase.
increase. And again, I want to reiterate that it's the administration's plan and current plan to come to the board in August with our plan to not have push on a increase to employees for their premiums that come out of their checks. So that's a good thing. TRS care, I showed you that one schedule. That stays the same for this year, but over time that's going to creep up and I want to forewarn you about that. Stat minimum. Deep inside the
formulas of the stat minimum calculation is TRS 9. I'm sorry, statutory minimum. And it's because we pay more than the state minimum salary schedule. We owe more to TRS. And we expect that with the elimination of the CEI, that to go up by $3.5 million. I mentioned that to the board at one point. There are expenses in addition to revenue that's associated with the elimination of the cost of education index. And that's
expenses. Now they did update the state's minimum salary schedule. We've not had
time to work that through, but I do think that there may be a chance for some
relief on that. I wasn't sure enough and confident enough about it to show you
that relief now, but it will go up from 8.1. That's for sure because of the
elimination of the cost of education. Will it go up three and a half million? I don't
know. Somewhere in the middle probably. Okay the debt service fund. I'm going to
just talk about this. This is our second. Shifting gears now. Talking about a whole
NIFRD fund. Cert. Debt Service Fund. It's what we pay our mortgage with. That's all
what we've paid our utilities and salaries and allowances and supplies
fueled with. This is our mortgage payment and with the 39 cent tax rate, which is
what our plan has been built on for the last many years, six years, generates 159
million dollars. Now that does increase from last year because it does show a 5%
gain in value, or gain in property value. And it should because we don't need to
sell bonds if we're not building new houses and so values increase and so
that revenue increases but we do build it around 39 cents because we need to
have that to maintain a smooth tax rate and to maintain a debt plan that is what
I've been told is very good. I can't brag you on it but I've been told it's very
good and we enter we invest the interest of the monies of the tax dollars and our
fund balance of this fund and we are going to earn some interest on that
there's the obligations that's through expenditures of seventy eight point five
million dollars in principle now that includes a payment that we we sold bonds
last week on Wednesday of last week we sold two hundred nine point two million
dollars in bonds it was our second tranche of the 2017 bond sale that
that interest payment and the principal payment,
because we're already going to pay principal on it year one
because we're buying technology with it.
So we pay those, I think, our $8 million as a principal payment next year.
We don't want to borrow something that's a short-life asset
and not pay it off in that short life.
So that includes that.
The interest included in that is off the old schedule.
The new sale reflects the new sale from last week,
and it also reflects our third tranche of interest that we're going to sell about this time next year.
So that's all included in there.
We have some inter-fund transfers.
I won't talk about those now.
I'll talk about those more at length.
But those are revenues that the fund generates.
One comes in from the general fund.
The other one is interest on investing the sales proceeds before we spend them with contractors.
We earn some interest on those dollars.
So with that, we'll be looking at about a break-even budget.
Again, that's built around a 39-cent tax rate,
and it does include the interest for a bond sale this time next year.
I think I've said that.
So future considerations, I'm winding down, guys.
I know this is tough.
Enrollment growth, when we open school in August,
is the number of students that come in
and the type of students that come in that we put in through these formulas,
are they going to fit?
We hope so.
We'll never know. I mean we'll know when it's here, but
they're complete estimates based on numbers of moving vans that
are loading up moving to Katy right now. Or they're finding out today, but odds
are that they're getting transferred to Texas and they're gonna end up in Katy.
We're a fast growth district. We're a destination district. That's not going to
change. They're coming. We hope they come to the number we projected. Economic
uncertainty both locally and on a statewide level, and I'm going to talk
about that in a second. Property value growth, there's my porridge out there. I'm not sure that
with our maintenance and operations fund it matters anymore. We're still working on that
paradigm shift. Again in debt service it matters on property value growth. House Bill 3 implementation
and ongoing rulemaking, I expect that to last over the next several months as you saw straight from
TEA. And then state sustainability of state to fund House Bill 3. I think this is a big concern
and something that is being talked about and it's not easy to talk about.
One of the most stable mechanisms that we have to fund public education in Texas is the property tax rate.
It's stable and it's good and it's reliable.
What's not reliable is how the state generates their tax dollars or their dollars.
It's based on sales tax, things like oil and gas tax.
So when the economy slows, people still pay their taxes.
They don't go spend and buy new cars.
And oil and gas, nobody can control.
So it concerns me that we're shifting some money.
We're robbing Peter to pay Paul on some of the statewide issues with the budget.
And what that does is makes the revenue for our children and our programs a little bit more at risk.
And if we hit a tailspin in the Texas economy, we're more at risk.
or we've put more eggs in the volatile basket.
That's our calendar moving forward.
You're not going to hear from me again at this length this summer, I don't think.
I hope not.
I know you pray not.
We're going to culminate that on August the 19th with a public hearing,
and that will be brief because we've exacerbated this throughout these last six months now.
Next month we're going to look at all funds.
We're going to add food service, our third budgeted fund.
We'll summarize where we are with our general fund, our maintenance and operations.
We'll finalize things.
with our debt service fund and number three our food service fund and we'll
have that budget hearing and with that said I appreciate your time very much I
know I was long but there was a lot here that you that the public and and and the
board needed here I will say as I wrote this down and I was just things that I
may repeat but I really wanted to get across House Bill three the pros it's
landmark and it's a very good effort at its gargantuan task and I don't want to
just demean that by showing where's the beef and thinking that I'm not
appreciative of that. I think it's important that something like that stick
in your head to help you thwart the headline of a thousand dollar plus
increase to the basic allotment. That all sounds good. It is good. It's not as good
for the folks in this district, but it's landmark and it's very
appreciative and it is providing better than old law. You saw that to the tune of
$29 million, at least currently. It provides the opportunity to enhance our
instruction, provides us the tools to do so, provides us the ability to do more
for our staff. That's important. That's one of the things that this
administration and the board has always wanted to do is how much we can do for
our staff because that's where that's our most important thing other than the
children is our staff. And it does give us, it does give the taxpayers of this
district a seven plus cent tax reduction to their tax rate which reduces the
amount of checks that they have to write the cons it's going to be difficult to
budget it's already a difficult estimating those number of beautiful
children that are going to show up like we anticipated or not and what can they
are what kind they are that sounds bad but what what type of student they are
we're going to be because of that current year value where there's nothing
stable in a budget now that we'll be presenting there that's the it there's
we're more dependent on the state for cost of education cost of living
increases now that the Austin yield is no longer the Austin yield is tied to
the basic allotment we've been being able to pass on salary increases because
of the increase in Austin yield now we're going to be at the mercy of the
legislature to increase the basic allotment and hence increase the value
those eight golden pennies does not take into account the differences in
geography to costs that goes back to the CEI mr. Lacey I think it's you could
probably say is it answer this question is it cheaper to buy a house in Katy
Texas or in somewhere in the middle of West Texas or East Texas the right
button it depends it depends on the market you get in the middle in Odessa
It's much more expensive over here than what it is here. Good point. So it depends on where you're at. If you're in the middle of nowhere in
West Texas where there's no jobs, it's gonna be much cheaper. And it is in my opinion cheaper in some areas of the state
versus the metropolitan area of the Houston
area. It's more expensive. It no longer recognizes those differences in expenses from one side of the state
to the to the panhandle of the valley to the east east of us to El Paso. It shifts
revenue from the from the more stable portion of our funding to the more
volatile. We saw a result of that back in 2011 when when the economy the Texas
economy didn't do so well. It pushes that back in there and now we're more
dependent on sales taxes and oil and gas taxes, etc. The state tried to add some
things that would increase the state's revenue but those were red X's on it. And
then the state's long-term ability to afford this. If the economy does hit a
tailspin or a bump, what's going to happen with their ability to fund
what they just put on their plate? And that's a concern. Me as a financial
planner have to look out for that may not happen. I wish I were more optimistic, but I was born with
a pessimistic deal, and that's a burden I bear for everybody.
Thank you, Mr. Smith. Board, do you have any questions?
Ms. Gessoff's eyes are so big, I'm sorry.
That was a lot. Ms. Gessoff, go ahead.
I have a lot of questions. I'm not going to ask them all here.
but um and thank you so much and don't ever retire and also well this can be
forever Tom I wonder I was just thinking if he taught could you imagine him
teaching you like AP physics that fast anyway sorry um so the one the back to
the salary increases the one-time salary increase that's the bonus and everybody
Everybody gets it, so it's not a bonus.
It's just a one-time payment based on their salary,
what's at an average of 1%.
And that's just the way we've chosen as a district to do our compensation,
and that has nothing to do with the state.
And there was discussion way back when they were first talking about the $5,000
for teachers that it was only going to be for one year,
it was only going to be for three years,
and the state wasn't really going to fund it.
We were going to have to fund it as a district.
How does that shake out?
House Bill 3 currently funds it at this point.
Now in our case for House Bill 3, we're relying on that fast growth allotment.
If you pull that away, that $18 million, if you pull that out of the funding formulas,
we are held up to the 3% hold harmless that kicks in.
Right now we're above the 3% because of that fast growth allotment.
That's why I wanted to put the importance of that.
But if that goes away, then we got the 3%, at least till 2024-25.
And then if that goes away, we'll have to do some things locally to try our best to control our revenues.
Right.
And then the other part that you were talking about with the M&O budget, estimating the M&O budget,
and the fact that you're going to have to, the big changes, I just want to make sure I understand.
You have to, before you put a forecast and then as the year went on, depending how many people showed up,
you could adjust that.
Now you've got to kind of write it in stone at the beginning of the year?
What happens now is the state's portion to fund public education is on a one-year lag.
So building this budget, it's on the 2018 property values.
So those property values are collected.
That value is in stone.
Now we're going to move forward and we're going to use that value under the old law to our budget for this next year.
And there was a one-year lag, so that we knew what it was going to be.
Right now both our taxals the tax receipts that we are going to collect this year and
The value that the state's going to use are going to go hand in hand and they're no longer going to lag
We're going to have to estimate both of them, but if taxable values go way up if that porridge is really hot
We're going to get less state funds if that porridge is really cold
We're going to get more state funds if it's right on track. It's right on track
right so you need a crystal ball if you have one I'll take it okay thank you
very much thank you for the thorough review
madam president all right I'm sorry to jump in there I did want to clarify one
thing and make sure I heard that correctly mr. Smith before we move on
with another question miss guess off was talking about those one-time payments
one one percent lump sum that the board approves on occasion that we bring forward to the board
But I thought I heard you say that those one time or the one percent is based off an employee's salary
But I want to be clear that those are midpoint based off the midpoint of an employee's salary, correct?
Okay, if I said sorry, I apologize based on that point
I'm average is about one percent some if they're above the midpoint
It may be a little less or maybe a little bit less if you're below the midpoint
It may be a little bit more but it's based on the midpoint
one percent perfect thank you sorry sorry about thank you mr. Smith mr. Lacey
okay I'm gonna pair mine down to about 30 questions so I appreciate everyone
being here tonight I hope we get out by midnight everybody's still asleep okay
the Harvey money is that a one-time thing or we and in addition to the
Harvey money are we going to be able to use those funds for everything since
we've already, I'm assuming, written those checks.
That's a good point, Mr. Lacey.
When I presented the Harvey update, those back in March, I believe it was,
I spoke to the expenses that we have collected on the general ledger,
expenses that we had as a direct result of Harvey,
things that were scientific, if you will, or accounting-wise that we could support.
One of the things I said is we may never know the estimate of what that did to us long-term
with the types of families that were moving here,
the type of turnover in houses that happened, things with our families, the stunt in our
value growth because sometimes our values appreciate we pay more on taxes even if we
didn't sell our house because our people want to come here.
That was unestimatable.
I think what the agency has done with this money is they've done their estimate to try
to provide to us where our values were trending and what kind of revenue we would have received
had that not happened.
We'll never know but it is based on that that trend and and and and it is a it is a very good effort
By the state and the legislature and the Commissioner and how he's delivering that to try to make up for that unknown
Okay, you mentioned the seven cent tax reduction. Yes, sir. Overall seven cent tax reduction
So question is that a requirement that we have to reduce our taxes by seven cents? Yes
Yes.
Okay, well that ruins that.
I was wondering if we could take that and use some of those funds and
those tax savings rather than go a full seven cents, maybe do five cent reduction.
And take the two cents that's left over to go towards paying off some of our debt,
funding some additional funds for our teachers, things like that.
But you're saying that's not available, that's not something that we can do?
It's a requirement.
I know of a district that was gonna have a tax rollback election.
They had it queued up and ready to go on June 3rd.
And the results of the legislature and some of this mess I've talked to you about, I say mess,
the minutiae that I spoke to you about basically said you can't do it and they dropped their meeting.
But they were going to move forward with the TRE to try to do things locally to get their tax revenues up outside of these formulas.
Okay. And then my last question is I remember reading, it was more in the media, and it's more just,
I remember meeting something where the legislature was looking at adjusting the maximum 10% increase in value of the appraised values for homes and businesses to change that to a smaller, lower number.
For some reason, I have in my mind 8%.
Are you familiar with that, or is that not anything that you were even looking at?
I'm going to look at Ann because she's our tax guru, but I think that the property value is based on comps, as you know.
And if a certain neighborhood is selling good, the value of that house goes up supply and demand, right?
Sure.
So the value and the taxable value may go up more than 10%.
And you've been limited to 10% increases on what you're taxed, not what that value is.
But your taxed amount is limited to as if your value were capped at 10% increase.
And what we're expecting with this is that's going to now be squeezed down to 2.5%.
Okay.
All right.
Super.
I don't know if that's per house, Mr. Lacey, or if that's as a government entity like KDISD in aggregate.
I'm not sure.
Those details are still being worked out.
But it's a 2.5% tax growth cap that we will be subject to in our maintenance and operations fund moving forward.
Okay, cool.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate all the work you've done on this.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Lacey.
Anyone else?
Yes, Madam President.
Ms. Champagne.
Thank you so much, Mr. Smith.
I see that you've had to do two different proposed budgets, and so that's, I can't even imagine.
But one of the things was on one of your pages way back when you're talking about the 75% that we have to pay to the teachers and the counselors and the nurses.
And so is that where they're getting the average of $4,000?
But then, first of all, that's like 1.A.
But the Part B of that is, if that's true, you said something about it was incentive-based?
There's a portion that's incentive-based, and Mr. Schuss will talk to you about that.
That gives a teacher the ability to earn even more than $5,000, I think, is Mr. Schuss's.
So it's not a $4,000-a-person thing?
You know, right now, it won't pop in my mind.
I'm trying to grab it, but I can't.
Mr. Suss will talk about it, but it's going to be substantial to our teachers, counselors, librarians, and nurses,
and the ability to have those folks in the classroom make even more.
Okay, that's awesome.
Also, I want to know, I've seen something floating around there, and this may be false information,
but I knew about the 75%, but then the other maybe misconception is the 25% is a discretionary spending.
is, you know, when I looked at your budget, I didn't see any extra 25% out there.
Well, it's 25% must go to teachers, counselors, librarians, and nurses compensation.
And the other 25% of the gain goes to all other staff with the exception,
must go to all other staff with the exception of administrators.
Although the definition of an administrator is not defined right now,
I would presume that to be myself and those type of people.
But we are delivering through this far more than the minimum of House Bill 3's requirement.
And I want to make that clear.
When Mr. Schust comes up to talk to you, we're going to be delivering more than the required amount.
The required amount would not come near that $4,000 per teacher.
And we're going to get there with Mr. Schust's information.
Okay. We're going to get to potentially $5,000 with his information. All right. And then my last question is about gifted and talented. I know that they've repealed that, but I know that we're going to continue with gifted and talented. You're just going to manipulate the...
No, we're still going to receive X number of dollars per student.
Okay.
And some of that money comes in in pockets that's designated to go to gifted and talented.
As an example, and I'll use some round numbers here, but we spend somewhere in the terms
of $10 million a year on gifted and talented students.
Sherry, is that getting the ballpark?
Ann, is that in the ballpark?
Okay.
We only receive about $3 million as part of that allocation that we were getting.
So we're doing what we think we need to do what's best for our children, regardless of how the money comes in.
It's just now we've been doing as much as we could for dyslexic students over the years.
Now there's a funding stream associated with it.
It's not going to change how we're delivering it.
We're delivering great things for what those kids need now.
Now there's just going to be revenue associated with it.
It's just a way to flow money.
All right.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Thank you, Ms. Champagne.
Mr. Grigorski.
You know, Chris, I'd love to see this presentation end, but I do want to clarify one thing just to be sure here.
You know, I almost hesitate to get out here, but I'm going to say it only because it relates to this compensation deal,
and I think it's important to talk about that.
From your presentation, that 75% required from the state, I remember a number flying up there of about $16 million in change.
Yes, sir.
Required that we invest at least $16 million.
million dollars but your budget overall is going to invest into compensation for
our employees closer to 30 million dollars. Yes sir that's correct. So we are
almost doubling what the state is asking to do and I know we haven't got to that
part of that presentation we'll get that from HR when they get up here but I just
want to clarify that that we are well above that 75 percent. Well above it.
thank you anybody else okay mr. Smith anything else you want to add don't give
him a chance I'm not Brian you have some big there's a lot expected of you all
right guys we're gonna move on to agenda item 5.4 Simon youth Academy optional
flexible school day program miss Leslie hack good evening that's kind of tough
tough to follow. That was great, Chris. You did a great job. This is an update on the
Optional Flexible School Day Program, the data for this year and also for moving forward
for year four of the five-year agreement. Our Optional Flexible School Day Program,
or better known as Simon Youth Academy, this is specifically for eligible students who
meet the Texas Education Code 29 and specifically the bolded one students are eligible to attend
a community-based dropout recovery education program.
Basically, it's the students that are at risk of dropping out of school, and those reasons
can vary.
The Simon Youth Academy is located at Katie Mills Mall.
The primary goal of the program is to enroll and recover qualified students from all our
district high school campuses.
Generally, these are the students that have stopped coming to school and have what we
call a lever code of a 98, which does result in a dropout.
So these become priority students that the district works very hard to try to recover
and offer an alternative type of situation to finish their high school diploma.
The program does provide a small personalized learning environment that's focused on increasing
the high school graduates in the district.
And I believe many of you saw the facility over at Simon Youth or over at Katie Mills
Mall and what a unique space that is for the students.
The scheduling, it's changed a little bit this year.
The Simon Youth Academy will offer two scheduling options this year, from 8.30 to 12 or 10 to
2.30.
And they will offer lunch to all the students regardless of which session they attend from
12 to 12.30.
and during each of the four hour sessions the students will work to
complete two two-hour blocked courses and just a little bit of information it
generally takes a student 40 to 50 hours to finish an original credit course and
about 30 to 40 hours to finish a credit recovery course and they do average a
bit they attend like they should they should average a course completion about
about every three to four weeks.
It is important to note that sometimes the students
do attend fewer than the allotted three to four hours.
Simon Youth Academy works very hard
just if they can get them in there for an hour,
two hours, whatever they can to continue their efforts
to finish their course requirements.
Things happen, there's life-extenuating circumstances
that sometimes impacts their ability to attend school,
but they consistently work to keep them enrolled.
The benefits, it ensures that Katie is able to accrue attendance funding for all times in which the students receive instruction.
And kind of the important point here is that attendance accrual begins after the first 45 minutes the student is in attendance.
I think if you go to the comprehensive high schools, you know our mandatory ADA period is second period.
You must be sitting in that seat second period in order for the funding to occur.
Here, it's when that moment that student is in attendance at Simon Youth Academy.
Forty-five minutes after that, we begin accruing the ADA for those students.
They can offer a flexible school day for our at-risk student population.
There's flexibility in the number of hours a student may attend each day,
as well as the number of days they may attend each week,
which is very different from our comprehensive high schools.
Our data for this year, and it has improved, 139 students enrolled at the Simon Youth Academy,
18 students graduated in May.
We have 66 students currently enrolled, and five are on schedule to graduate in August,
which will give us 23 total students for this year.
Fifty-five students are currently withdrawn.
They have been reassigned that lever code of a 98,
and that is when they are immediately referred to our KDISD dropout prevention, intervention, and recovery coordinator team.
This particular team does work year-round, and in fact, they are very busy in the summer actively working to recover these students
and to address whatever the circumstances are that the students are incurring and to help them return to school.
Sometimes returning to a comprehensive high school, maybe even Simon Youth Academy, is not an option.
they will help them with other viable educational settings and even to enroll and pursue a GED.
They do connect them with city and county resources to meet their life's needs if they're experiencing difficulties.
And then they're also very good about getting in contact with campus personnel who may know the students well
and to garner additional information to try to help them out.
But this is a year-round ongoing team effort, and they do a great job with it.
Any questions?
Are there any questions, board members?
Okay.
I have some questions.
I'm sorry.
Yes, ma'am.
Okay.
First of all, I really enjoyed the graduation.
I'm sorry I didn't get to go to it last year, but I really did enjoy that.
But from what I understand, is this just a one-year thing,
or can they be in it more than one year?
They can be in it for more than one year.
Okay.
Yes.
But even when Mr. Scott was here, you weren't here, Mrs. Hack,
but he had asked for some kind of success data report.
Is there any way that maybe we could have something like that which would show?
I know you've shown the numbers here, but, you know, the number of kids who are in it versus the number of kids,
more like a chart type thing, how much it costs and those kind of information on some kind of chart that we could look at?
Yeah, go ahead and jump in on that one there because miss champagne you might recall we do the quarterly reports to the board
And I do recall when mr. Scott asked for that we did go ahead and add that as a quarterly report
I believe it will be coming up soon
But I don't remember the exact month that we present that but I'll make sure the board gets that information by Friday of when that's coming
But we have a full comprehensive report shows the number of students that come
Costs number of students who graduated moved on dropout recovery and all of those things that you guys had requested in the past
I believe it was October when I looked at that. I think that way we'll have captured all the graduates through
And what we were covered after the snapshot
Are there any other questions?
Okay hearing none. Thank you so much. We'll move on to 6.1, which is the public hearing
Receive public input regarding the Simon youth Academy optional flexible school day program individuals have the opportunity to spend president
Mr. President, we don't have any speakers signed up, so we can go ahead and move to the next item.
Okay. I was actually fixing to read that.
All right. We'll move on to consent agenda.
7.1, consider future board approval of the June 2019 budget amendments.
Mrs. Butterfield, welcome.
Thank you, President Doyle, Trustees, and Superintendent Gorgorski.
Tonight we have a couple of General Operating Fund budget amendments to speak to.
The General Operating Fund revenues increase by $54,966 and $200,000 even,
with equal increases to expenditures to recognize revenue related to center point rebates
and to recognize increased participation in summer recreation, respectively.
The remainder of the general fund expenditures are direct offsets between different functions.
Approval of these amendments will result in no change to the general fund balance.
There's one construction amendment tonight.
night for $1 million. This is to establish funding for summer projects that were presented last month.
And I think we're going to not move this to consent.
I would request from Mr. Gorski and the board that we not move this to consent with the
the information from Senate Bill 500, there may be a jump that we need to get on expending
some of these funds that we, if necessary, we may amend this slightly between now and
next week.
Slightly.
We may amend it to recognize some debt service expenses or to pay down a principal, payment
of principal.
So you'd like for us to move this to an action item?
Yes.
Yes, ma'am.
Okay.
Okay, board, we're going to move this to an action item for next week.
Thank you.
7.2, consider future board approval of the interlocal agreement with Harris County Department of Education for specialized therapy services.
Dr. Malachuk.
Good evening, President Doyle, Superintendent Gagarski, and board members.
Item 7.2 is the Harris County Department of Education interlocal agreement that provides our special education students in KDISD
with occupational therapy, physical therapy, and music therapy and these services are for the
2019-2020 school year. Do you have any questions about this agreement?
Are there any questions?
Okay, go on to 7.4 Mr.
Ma'am. Item 7.3 is the Harris County Department of Education interlocal agreement that provides services for eight special education students at their ABS West
West facility and this is for the 2019-20 school year. Do you have any questions about this agreement?
Okay. Thank you so much. 7.4, consider future board approval of the contract with Harris County
Department of Education and Katy Infinite School District for the promotion of adult education in
Harris County. Ms. Marchani. Good evening, President Doyle, members of the board, and Mr. Gorgarski.
This evening, I am bringing forward an agreement with the Harris County Department of Education
HCDE provides an adult education program to prepare individuals for the GED, offering
services to limited English speakers, and providing instruction in basic education skills.
This is a reoccurring interlocal agreement that we've actually had in place with HCDE
for many years.
No dollars are exchanged hands between the two entities with this agreement, and we are
asking for the board to approve the continuation of the agreement for the
1920s school year are there any questions okay thank you
sorry 7.5 consider future board authorization for the superintendent to
form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for high school number
nine per board policy mr. Gorgorzky we'd like for you to go ahead and start
putting that committee together agenda item 7.6 consider future board approval
of the Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct for the 2019-20 school year.
Ms. Bonnie Holland.
Good evening, Madam President, members of the board, Mr. Grigorski.
In accordance with Chapter 37 of the Texas Education Code,
each board of trustees of a school district is required to adopt a student code of conduct.
The Student Code of Conduct and Discipline Management Plan that we are presenting is
the result of collaborative effort with our KD Improvement Council, with committees representing
administration from each level of the organization, our assistant supes for school leadership
and support, the chief of police, our transportation department, health services and technology.
Most of the changes that we are proposing in the plan incorporate provisions to create
greater clarity and transparency, both in terms of expectations and definitions.
One of the changes that are one of the new provisions that has been added to this year's
plan is that in our efforts to ensure safety and security for our campuses, and it's one
one of our many efforts in the district is that we now have a provision where an individual
student can be placed in our Opportunity Awareness Center for up to one full calendar year, depending
upon the severity of their offense, the degree of disruption, and of course, potential safety
risk to either the facility, to students, or to staff.
want to make very clear and send a strong message to our students that this
type of behavior will not be tolerated. If we do have occasion to make that kind
of decision, parents of course will be notified that their students are being
placed for a longer period of time that is the general provision within our
discipline management plan. Fortunately this year our legislature was so intent
on helping Chris provide information for his presentation tonight that they spent
spent very little time on discipline. There were really only four bills that finally made
its way to the Governor's desk and impacted us in some way. We have mentioned in previous
presentations that there are four factors that we've had to consider before placing
a student in out-of-school suspension, a D-AEP or a J-J-AEP. And now the State is adding
adding two additional factors. Those factors include whether or not have to consider the
student's status under the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective
Services and whether or not the student is considered homeless. If in fact a student
is considered homeless, one of the additional bills indicates that we may not suspend the
student who is homeless unless the offense is related to weapons, drugs, or violence.
That's the same provisions as exist for a child below third grade in our ability to
assign OSS.
In regard to some notifications that we have to make, the legislature passed a bill that
we had to place on our website the names of our behavior discipline behavior
coordinators and we elected as a district in our district of innovation
plan that we did not need these people because we already had to find those
same duties to our principals and assistant principals but we now will
list all of their names on our website by campus their email addresses and
and their dedicated phone numbers.
So that will be one of the requirements
that we will have to fulfill.
Then we also have a bill that requires
that when a student has been placed
in either a disciplinary alternative education
program, in our case, our OAC, or juvenile justice alternative
education program, that parents and the campus
must be notified that the student is returning
to the campus.
And once the student is back on their home campus,
within five days, instructional days, that they're returned to that campus,
we are required to create a transition plan for that student to ensure that they have a smooth transition
back into the general population and do their regular classes.
So I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have, but I know in the materials that you review,
we've added a lot of definitions.
we've added some additional points simply for clarity to help our parents
and students have a better understanding of what it is that we expect.
Board, do you have any questions? Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I want to point out to
anyone that's in the public this is what we get to be able to get to review and
to look over and it is quite extensive the number of changes that that we have
had and thank you so much to whoever has gone through and tabbed this because it
makes it a lot easier for us I just have one simple question and ballpark off the
top of your head big-time guess oh I know so how much of what these changes
are that you've proved that we're having to review and over and do is simply
simply because of the legislation and clarification of definitions?
Really, most of the time that we spent this year was in the collaboration with all these different teams.
Of course, we've been tracking legislation throughout the session,
and there have been many bills that have been introduced that did not make its way to the governor.
But most of our energies have really been focused on what is it that we do that we can do better.
and we do keep a file every year of calls that come in of interactions with
parents and then when it's time to discuss some of these things we take
them to these various advisory groups and say this is a concern for example
the definition of self-defense I've had several calls this year from people
saying exactly what do we when we say self-defense what do we mean because it
may mean something different to us than it does to a parent so that definition
issue was added based upon the need that was addressed. So much of our time this year actually
has been more devoted to internal reviews and trying to gather information on what we could do
to improve our own document. And as I said, we really ended up with only four bills that we
had to address, but we monitored a lot of them throughout the session.
Thank you so much for all you do. It's wonderful that you were able to do this for us and keep us
up to date. Thank you. Any other questions, board members?
Okay, Ms. Bonnie Holland, you also are retiring.
And so we want to give you a round of applause and a big thank you for everything you've done.
Anybody else considering retiring?
The answer is no.
We're at our limit.
7.7, consider future board approval of the compensation increase for 2019-2020 school year.
Mr. Brian Shush.
You have 7.8 as well? So once you finish the 7.7 with no after the questions, go ahead and move on to 7.8.
I have Ms. Connie Davis with me this evening. She's our compensation manager slash expert.
So President DeWall, members of the board, Superintendent Gorgorski, I want to talk to you about the compensation increase for 19-20.
As Mr. Smith alluded to in his presentation, we are looking at a 4%, 1%.
But before I get into that, I do want to reiterate what he told the board about the plan to not increase insurance premiums.
I just want to make sure that that doesn't get lost because I think that is very important.
Because, you know, as we see, it's a common occurrence in any organization where you receive an increase in compensation,
but then sometimes it's shortly followed by an increase to health insurance premiums,
which can eliminate that or dip into that increase.
So the increases we're going to talk about tonight, once received,
will actually be realized without an increase to insurance contributions.
So to start with, we're recommending a 4% general pay increase for all employees.
To illustrate what that looks like for an employee, we'll use teachers as the example.
that's $2,475 for all teachers. That 4% is based on the midpoint as it will be
for any job classification and pay range. In addition to that, the 1%
one-time lump sum in December as we have done in the past, we're also recommending
that and that for that same teacher is $635. We're going to go a step further.
we're also recommending an additional 1% one-time lump sum payment August 15th
for all of our returning staff. So for that teacher that's an additional that's
that's an additional so that no no no no please so that's an additional six
$635. Okay, so that's a total of $3,745 or what would be a 6% compensation increase for returning employees.
And we think that's pretty significant. We're excited to bring that to you tonight.
The performance incentive that was discussed, we're looking at recommending that being for classroom teachers
and instructional paraprofessionals and it will be an attendance based
performance incentive worth $1,200. We're still, since this is you know new
information, we're still working out some of the details on on the attendance
incentive but it we are recommending that the value placed on that is $1,200.
So again looking at that as a percentage of of the teachers that's an additional
2%. So we just talked about 6% for returning employees and now we're
talking about teachers and in classroom paraprofessionals earning up to 8%
compensation increase for the 19-20 school year. So you know that's something
that we're very excited about. The August 15th 1% lump sum, you know in
discussion we thought you know people are coming back to work, there's always
expenses associated with starting the school year but you know what a great
thing to do as well you know it's a welcome back you know kind of a shot in
the arm to start the school year so that's a recommendation and we can take
any questions are there any questions board members miss gas off so 6% all
employees yes ma'am returning employees so so you've got the 4% general pay
increase and then the 1% in December. The additional 1% in August that will be for
returning employees. So yes, so employees that are currently with us now that are
coming back in 19-20 will be 6% of their midpoint.
And maybe you're gonna address it in the next part but how does that affect new
hires? Maybe that's in the compensation plan you can answer that in the next part.
Well I mean so new hires you know they would realize a teacher for example.
Let's say we've offered them a position you know over the summer you know any
compensation we're going to talk about would be based on that 18-19 teacher
hiring schedule because the 19-20 hasn't been approved yet. So you know they would
realize you know that that 24-75 because you know they're going to be coming in
new and then they would also realize the 1% in December. So there should be five
and have access to the the performance incentive of 12-15. One thing I didn't
mention so the that total compensation you know if realized for the teachers
comes to four thousand nine hundred and forty five dollars so that's above the
the four thousand dollar mark and it's pretty close to the five thousand dollar
mark I'm sorry no just for clarification when you talk about teachers and
instructional paraprofessionals are the instructional coaches in lumped in there
where the instructional coaches so the performance incentive is just going to
to be classroom teachers and instructional paraprofessionals, the folks that are actually
in the classroom. Okay. And I don't mean this to sound harsh in any way, but the performance
incentive, is that what the state, is that how they framed it up for attendance or was it meant
to differentiate instruction? Right. And, you know, there's not real clear guidance on how they
expect that to be structured, but in discussing it with Mr. Grigorski, he said, hey, you know,
Let's go ahead and put something out there and let's make it attendance based
So that's how that's how that came about as far as Katie I see goes in mr.
Shots, I'm gonna jump in that a little bit because the legislature did encourage school districts to create different types of performance incentives
But they gave no guidance on that. They haven't put any rule sets out on that. We think possibly there could be additional monies
Distributed from the state based on performance incentives. Well, once again, that's that moving target that mr.
Mr. Smith talked about that, we think we'll hear more about over the next few months.
So in looking at all the legislative priorities of hitting the 75% target,
the 30% target, looking at performance incentives, looking at ways to prioritize
the amount of dollars going into our classroom teachers.
These were the ideas we came up with as a team to go ahead and
give an increase to all employees, which we thought was important.
but then also focus just a little bit more on those classroom teachers.
As we know in the classroom, it's those classroom teachers and
those instructional paraprofessionals that are working with our students every day.
Those are the ones that are really driving the performance in the classroom and
that academic performance from those kids.
So we wanted to put something in place for those folks.
Okay, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Madam President?
Ms. Champagne?
Is the $1,200 incentive, is that going to be part of their permanent salaries as per year thing?
No.
So just like the 1% lump sums, that's not actually a part of salary per se that the 4% will be.
It will just be an additional amount of compensation.
But I do want to add in there, Mr. Schust, that we anticipate once designed for this opportunity
for our classroom teachers to earn up to $1,200 as an attendance and performance
incentive that that will occur every year it's not just one time next year
it'll be a reoccurring plan that's in place for all of our teachers for next
year in future years there any other yes so mine the understanding is it's a 1%
or 4% of the median salary for the district so if a teacher say been here
or 20 years they're not necessarily gonna get 4% they're just gonna get that
that same amount that's wrong yes sir so you know all teachers will see the two
thousand four hundred seventy five dollars and so our our teacher hiring
scale is is is 40 years and so that midpoint is based on that 20 year mark
and that's how we that's how we determine the 4% any other questions
Ms. Gessler?
Sorry.
No.
Just why did we make that decision versus just giving people percentage, straight percentage?
You mean as far as doing it on the midpoint?
Yeah.
Okay.
So, you know, that's something that I know KDISD, that has been the practice over to Ann and in several school districts,
and we're going to talk about that a little bit when we get into the compensation manual.
You have to be careful at giving just a straight percentage across the board.
that would be great to do but when you have pay ranges and salary scales that those start to expand when you give
percentages across the board because you know you're right you know you have your your four year that does you know get the 40%
Get the 4% which is a larger number than than the one year the 4% so those so salary schedules start to expand and
then
In the end that becomes more expensive over time, so that's why you do it over the midpoint
And that's just been the practice okay. Thank you very much
Thank you.
And awesome.
Just awesome.
As a former classroom teacher.
Woohoo!
That's great.
Thank you.
Trustees, I wanted to hit upon something.
I don't think that this number, I don't know, I stepped to the restroom at the beginning
of this, so I don't know if this number has been said, but what Brian is talking about
is an 8%, almost an 8% raise for classroom teachers and classroom paraprofessionals.
Monumental for this district.
And if this board decides to go in that direction, I mean, kudos to us, doing exactly what the legislature tasked us to do at a very, very meaningful level, 8% classroom teachers.
Thank you, Mr. Graham.
Any other questions?
Okay, we can move forward.
Okay.
Situated here.
Okay, so moving on to the compensation plan for the 19-20 school year. This is something that
comes, the administration reviews and updates annually. It's something that the board approves
annually. The 19-20, there's a little more of an update than in previous years. After the beginning
of the 18-19 school year, the district brought in TASB Tech Association of School Boards to do
a comprehensive study on the compensation plan. And that is something
that is one of TASB services is something that they do a lot and they do
for a lot of school districts. The good thing about that is they have a lot of
data at their disposal so they can look at comparability, they can look at
how we compare to the market, and that was one of the reasons bringing TASB
in to do that study. So just to give a couple of points of the purpose of the
study, evaluate competitive market prices, determine whether employees are being
paid within an appropriate market range, determine whether jobs are placed
correctly in the pay structure, build or align district pay structures within the
competitive job market. And so when they did this study, and it does take some
time because it was very comprehensive, they get in the middle of it and they go
all the way down to the individual job classifications and pay ranges. And in
the end they determined that you know our plan was a good plan but there was
some concern that maybe there were pockets that we that we had out you know
in the district where maybe we were a little short of the market and that it
did end up being the case in a couple areas. I'll just highlight a couple of
those. One in our teacher hiring scale from the five to ten year range we were
a little under the market there. One to four slightly under but in the five to
ten range when you look at a trend line you could see a dip there and you could
see that we were under that market. So we have corrected that in this compensation
plan and in this teacher teacher hiring schedule that is in the plan. Another
area where we saw some deficiencies was in some of our trade areas and our
auxiliary positions. Some of those had to be realigned within job classifications
but also some of the pay ranges just increased to come up to a market level.
We've accepted those recommendations, we've made those adjustments in the
plan and and this is the plan we're recommending to you. We do feel and it's
one of Mr. Gagorski's goals for the district to be able to recruit
and retain the best and we feel with what we previously talked about with
with compensation and now with this compensation plan that we are competitive in the market.
We have an equitable plan and we'll be able to compete for the best staff.
Are there any questions?
I have a question, Madam President.
Okay, I'm going to let Ms. Champagne go.
Okay.
First of all, I'm so happy you fixed that five to ten year thing because I had noticed
that last year, so I'm really happy about that.
But I'm looking at all your jobs here.
Are crossing guards anywhere on this list?
So crossing guards are actually in some separate pay tables.
They were a job that Ms. Davis and I looked at, and we have made an adjustment to crossing guards.
Actually, they're part-time positions, so they're paid by the hour.
So we have many on the campus that actually complete their day and then move into a crossing guard position.
So they're actually paid through a pay code through payroll, but we actually looked at making an increase to those hourly rates from $12.50 to $15 an hour.
So I've done some surveys in other school districts, and many of the school districts are around $13 an hour, so I think this is a good…
$15 an hour?
Yeah, $15 an hour.
So they typically make about $30 a day.
okay so this is going to be an effective this school year uh yeah we we we just made the change
in all of our paid tables thank you they're hard-working people so
i really appreciate that thank you miss gessler
uh two quick questions one mr smith had mentioned something about substitute teachers and the
expense there and i don't know were you going to talk a little bit about your ideas in that area
Have we raised that it's $100 that isn't that what it's been the yes the adjustment we did make a small adjustment to substitute pay
But it was with substitute
Administrators that was the only adjustment for this year
and I think what mr. Smith was alluding to is when we were talking and discussing the
Attendance incentive and you know obviously if you know there's more attendance. There's going to be less substitutes
There'll be savings in the substitute from, I think, almost $11 million is about what we pay for subs for a teacher and non-teacher.
So hopefully coupled with that incentive, we'll see some savings in the substitute.
Okay.
That makes sense.
And then my other question, and I think I asked this last year as well, $1,200 for advanced degrees, masters or doctorates.
Does that mean if I have a doctorate, I get twice that amount a year?
No, it's $1,200 for one advanced degree based on what we were paying for.
So much of an incentive to have advanced degrees.
Is that standard across the state of Texas?
It's definitely not standard across the U.S., but.
So, and kind of if you'll speak to this too, but that it was a TASB recommendation from their compensation study.
And I think from what we understand is more districts are moving into that direction.
that kind of you could get some history if you want to well I've looked at other
school districts that have implemented the TASB model and they I think Lamar
consolidated their advanced degree stipend is a thousand so they chose to
lower that amount for their advanced degree teachers I believe spring branch
also has the thousand dollars so school districts do it differently but I think
I think the recommendation is to, because some of our teachers at the lower steps get $1,000 for that stipend,
where as we go up the pay scale, I was calculating some of our doctoral teachers receive almost $3,000.
So there's such a disparity of how we manage and how we pay for those doctorate degrees that it just didn't make any sense.
So TASB looked at it and said, here's the standard.
Here's what we're recommending for advanced degrees, whether it be master's or doctorate.
So it's going to be the $1,200, or that is the recommendation, the $1,200.
It's just interesting.
It doesn't seem like much of an incentive especially when you think about how much it costs to get those degrees, but
Anyway, thank you for answering my question
Are there any other questions board members?
Okay, thank you so much. Thank you 7.9 consider future board approval of the interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County Municipal
Utility District number 58 and Katy Independent School District for recreational facilities
Mr. Tede and you have 7.10 and 7.11. So we'll just roll through all three
Good evening, President Dorrell, Superintendent Gagorski, and board members.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement
with Fort Bend County Municipal District MUD 58 for recreational facilities at Jinx Elementary.
The Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District 58 has agreed to fund playground equipment
for the expansion of their play area at Jinx Elementary.
The total donation by MUD 58 is $30,000 with the remainder of the project funding to be $88,630.52 being supplied by the Campus Parent Teacher Association.
The total project amount is $118,630.52.
The Maintenance and Operations Department will oversee the installation of the playground equipment and provide future upkeep and maintenance.
The interlocal agreement has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and approved as to form.
Are there any questions?
Okay, go ahead.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent or his designee
the authority to execute a natural gas supply contract for Katy Independent School District for up to 60 months
following the present contract's expiration on July 31, 2019.
2019 the Katy independent school district is issuing a request for proposal for natural gas services to allow Katy ISD
to obtain and negotiate natural gas prices
Excuse me for the district's natural gas needs
Due to the fluctuating and volatile pricing on natural gas rates are typically valid solely for a day or possibly hours
The district is seeking approval by the Board of Trustees to accept a rate at or
below the standard as being offered by Centerpoint Energy utilizing competitive
tariffs. The existing term expires on July 31st 2019. This will allow the
district to take advantage of low pricing and lock in a rate for budget
planning. If you'll recall back in December we brought a similar proposal
to the board for electricity purchase and on the open market and we actually
did a savings on that based over the TASB rate of that they were offering of
3.4 million dollars saved and a total of 14 million dollars saved by going on the
open market. Are there any questions? Okay 7.11. It's recommended, excuse me, that
the Board of Trustees approves the use of 2017 bond savings for six identified
projects at various district facilities in the amount not to exceed one million
dollars. The gym bleachers at West Memorial Junior High are original to the
campus and parts are no longer available to make the necessary repairs. The
bleachers have been taken out of service to prevent accidental collapse or
potential injury. The replacement bleachers will be upgraded to our
district's current district standards and meet all current life safety and
Americans with Disabilities Act codes.
Expected completion of this project is
December the 1st, 2019, and
once the manufacturer has confirmed a
delivery date, the maintenance and
operations staff will work with the
campus and the athletics department for
the earliest possible installation date.
The second item is chiller number two at
Cinco Ranch High School is in need of a
motor replacement in order to remain
operational. This chiller is 21 years old
and has 40,156 run hours on it with 6,556 starts.
The estimated cost for the motor replacement and the renewal
is less than 25% of the cost of replacement machines.
Replacement, our expected completion date of this project is August 14, 2019.
The third project is the Natatorium at Cinco Ranch High School
has pool piping that is original to the campus
and has deteriorated resulting in reduced pool circulation.
The black steel piping will be replaced using our current district standard of CPVC pipe and fittings,
as well as fiberglass insulation.
Expected completion date for this work is September 1, 2019.
The fourth project is tennis courts at McMeans Junior High School has light fixtures and poles original to the campus.
the poles and top fixture mounts have deteriorated and are no longer able to hold the fixtures securely in place.
They were removed from service to prevent possible injury.
The replacement poles and fixtures will be designed to the current district light LED standard.
Expected completion of this project is September 1, 2019.
The fifth project is the emergency generator at West Memorial Junior High School.
It is not economically repairable and needs to be replaced.
The unit is out of manufacturer's warranty and the replacement unit will be like for like.
However, a different brand will be utilized.
Expected completion date is August 1, 2019.
And then finally, the Maintenance and Operations Department is currently in the process of conducting a third-party inspection
of the exterior bleacher seating located on all of our district facilities.
facilities. During this inspection process, we have identified numerous sets of bleachers
that will require replacement in order to conform with life safety and ADA code requirements.
The bleachers are not able to be modified to accept the required side and rear fencing
for seating above 30 inches to prevent any accidental falls, or they are the age that
replacement parts are no longer available to correct regular maintenance issues. Materials
and parts cost for seating that can be repaired will be purchased through our maintenance and
operations based budget expected completion of this project is september the 30th 2019
or sooner dependent on manufacturers delivery of the bleacher components
funding project sources of 2017 bond savings
the west monroe junior high bleacher replacement estimated project cost is 148
$38,000. Cinco Ranch High School chiller motor replacement estimated project cost
$135,000. Cinco Ranch High Natatorium piping replacement
estimated project cost $110,000.
McNean's Junior High Tennis Court lighting replacement
estimated project cost $185,000.
West Memorial Junior High emergency generator replacement
estimated project cost is $55,000.
And exterior athletic bleacher replacement estimated project
cost $367,000 for a total not to exceed project budget of $1
million.
Are there any questions?
Mr. Lacey.
Mr. Lacey.
One real quick question.
So I remember when they redid, I believe it was Memorial Parkway Junior High, they took
the old bleachers and used them architecturally for, you know, make it all look really pretty
and then on the walls and things.
Is there any plans for that for the school that we're at Westmo, not Westmo.
West Memorial.
Yeah, West Memorial.
West Memorial.
West Memorial.
At this time we don't, but we can certainly salvage some of the wood seeding components for that.
I think that would be neat to be able to tie in the old with the new.
The very first one.
Excellent. Thank you.
Are there any other questions?
Okay. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
7.12, consider future board approval of the change in construction delivery method
for the replacement of underground fuel tanks at east and west transportation centers.
Ms. Kastner.
Good evening, President Doyle, trustees, and Mr. Gagorski.
In December of 2017, the Board approved delivery methods for the 2017 bond projects.
At that time, it was recommended that the project to replace the fuel tanks at East and West use the competitive steel proposal method.
As we've worked into the design process, it has been determined that the construction manager at risk is a method that is preferred.
The advantages of scheduling, phasing, and material procurement offered by this method will benefit this project.
We would anticipate bringing the contract to the board in August all for completion date of September 2020.
Are there any questions?
Okay. Thank you.
7.13 consider future board approval of the commercial driver's license third-party testing agreement with Spring
Independent School District for testing of Katy Independent School District school bus driver trainees. Mr. Veerling.
Good evening, President Doyle, Board Members, Superintendent Grigorski.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Commercial Drivers License Third Party Testing Agreement with Spring Independent School District for the purpose of skills testing KD Independent School District bus driver trainees.
And when I say bus drivers, I mean anybody from drivers on routes to coaches that are driving as well.
The purpose of this interlocal agreement is to allow Spring ISD to test and certify our new drivers.
Each year in July and August, it can be difficult to get driver testing appointments with DPS.
If anybody's tested their own child at DPS, you know it can be difficult.
This will allow us to get our drivers certified quickly and avoid the wait time associated with DPS.
The cost of KDISD for new driver testing in Spring will be $150.
$50 the cost to retest a driver is $100 our long long term goal
Which is about six to twelve months out is for Katie ISD to be able to certify and test our own drivers
Thank you for your consideration and dr. Wood and I are here to answer any questions you have are there any questions from the board?
I'm sorry mr. Verling how long has spring had this program how long have they been certifying drivers? I'm not sure it's been several years
I know that
that Lamar Consolidated has done, as well as other districts around us.
And the benefits are huge when it comes crunch time,
and we're trying to get drivers behind the wheel,
as well as coaches certified to drive those buses.
So long-term, we'll just have our own trainers?
That is the goal long-term, yes, ma'am.
We're working on getting personnel identified to do that
and getting them trained up and move forward.
Great.
I suppose that would be helpful during the year, too,
because you have people coming and going all the time.
It will be incredibly helpful.
Awesome.
Thank you so much. Are there any other questions?
Okay. Thank you.
Next on our agenda was open forum.
We do not have any speakers that signed up,
so we can move on to our regular board meeting,
which is Monday, June 24, 2019.
There being no further business before the board,
this meeting is adjourned.
The time is 9.04 p.m.
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