June 24, 2019

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The board will now reconvene an open meeting. Today is Monday, June 24th, 2019, and the time is 6.32 p.m. Mr. Gugorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?

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Madam President, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act in regards to this meeting tonight.

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On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting. Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting Thursday, June 20th, 2019, and have had four days to study its contents and to receive clarification from the superintendent. Additionally, the board met last week in a work-study meeting to receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent on these agenda items. Board members were able to ask questions and receive answers and should be prepared with responses and action tonight. The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. Any action arising from discussions in the closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. I would like to welcome our scouts who are in the audience. Welcome boys. Would you like to tell us what troop you're with and what badge you're working on? Great. Welcome, boys. We're glad that you're here. Next, I would like to introduce Corporal Evans. If you would please come forward and share the pledges with us, that would be great.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible.

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Thank you so much. Next we're going to move to the recognition portion of our meeting.

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Next on our agenda I'd like to introduce Mrs. Maria DePetta, Manager of Media Relations Multimedia for the recognition portion of our meeting.

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Good evening Madam President, Board Members, and Superintendent Gregorski. Earlier we had the privilege of watching some of our robotics students demonstrate these spectacular machines that they have built. Members from Cinco Ranch Seven Lakes and Tompkins High Schools robotic teams are here this evening to present their annual update. At this time I would like to introduce Ms. Lana Henderson, mentor for the Cinco Ranch High School team 624 Kryptonite robotics team. Ms. Henderson.

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Superintendent Gorgorski, President Doyle, thank you for having us here tonight. I'm I'm Lane Henderson. I've been a volunteer in KISD for 23 years and my husband and I have both been volunteering with robotics for 14 years. The outstanding students here tonight are from the FRC robotics teams and we have five teams in the district. That's Cinco Ranch, Morton Ranch, Tompkins, Seven Lakes and Maid Creek. All the teams had a very successful year this year. The spring was the season of competition. competition. This year was the first year in the new district model in FIRST Robotics. There were seven, excuse me, ten different districts in the state of Texas. This is the first year that each team attended a minimum of two district events. And those ten different districts were spread out all over the state of Texas. All of our KISD teams designed and built competitive robots that performed well at each and every competition. At the April District Championship in Austin, all seats were filled with standing room only for spectators from across the state, certainly a statement about interest in robotics in Texas. We'd like to thank Steve Adams and Liz Dethloff for dedication to the Robert Shaw Center, our home for robotics. With the support of Steve and Liz and the vision of those who brought about the creation of the RSC Robotics and STEM activities are thriving in KISD. Corporate sponsors and grants are of utmost importance to our robotics teams as these fund the competition entry fees which include our kit of parts, additional supplies, and tools needed for robot construction, ultimately raising the level of technology to which our KDISD students experience. I'd like to recognize Transocean and Williams as as new sponsors to Team 624 this year, helping to provide much needed funding. Subsea Seven generously awarded $1,000 scholarships to five of our 2019 graduates this year, while other sponsors have provided students with internships and jobs after college. Cinco Ranch would like to thank Dr. Jack Muscoff. He served as our faculty sponsor for the past five years. He recently retired and will be missed by students and mentors but I'm sure we'll see him again mentoring at the RSC. We are proud to have Megan DeBacco, physics teacher at Cinco as our new faculty sponsor. I'd like to ask all high school teachers to please consider becoming a faculty advisor for an FRC robotics team. Administrators please help reward these dedicated individuals who are willing to go the extra mile with exciting academic activities like robotics. Without a faculty member, the team simply cannot exist. A comment we often hear from parents that they make about robotics is, wish they would have had this when I was in high school. It goes without saying these students, some of KISD's finest I will say, have an opportunity that will play a role in their future education and careers. careers. Robotics elevates physics, math, and science education to the next level with hands-on, real-world engineering skills. These teams will be competing in an off-season competition Friday and Saturday at Straight Jesuit, so I invite everyone to come out and see the robots in action. So, thank you, and next we'll have one of our students speak. Thank you.

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Hi all, my name is Kina McGill and I've been in robotics for almost a decade, which is nearly two-thirds of my life. I started my journey in second grade, building, programming, and competing with small Lego robots. By eighth grade, me and my all-girl team had won several awards and advanced five times in a row to the regional competition level. I saw the benefits robotics had to myself and my team members, so I started mentoring younger teams and teaching groups of 70-plus Girl Scouts about robots. In the ninth grade, I graduated to the next level by joining team 64 or Kryptonite out of Cinco Ranch High School. Kryptonite is a FIRST Robotics competition team that is regularly ranked in the top 20 out of more than 4,000 teams globally, earning a spot in the World Championships for eight out of the last 10 years. Just this season, 64 won both of our district tournaments at which we competed. We're semi-finalists at the state level competition and quarter finalists in our division at Worlds. We also hold the most innovation and control awards out of any team in the world. Kryptonite provides hands-on experience and leadership expertise through robotics. The challenges may differ every year, but the teamwork, leadership, and technical skill required to solve engineering problems remains the same. Once the challenge is released, we have just six weeks to design, prototype, fabricate, program, and test a robot capable of competing at the international level. As to me, I do a little bit of everything on Kryptonite. I led to the development of a new curriculum for team members that include nine courses covering hard skills such as electrical as well as soft skills like project management. These lessons combined classroom and hands-on learning to ensure that all students were well equipped to be successful not only on our team but in the real world as well. We also plan to provide this curriculum to and learn from other teams both locally and globally. globally. Last year, I further developed my leadership by running our 10th annual science day camp for 120 plus young students to expose them to STEM early. Last season, I also led the sub team that designed and built the drive train for a robot. More recently, I've organized and ran a four day summer camp for disadvantaged children who typically do not have the option to attend paid science programs. programs. Finally, at the end of the summer, I'm planning a multi-day program to train and encourage students and coaches to join FIRST LEGO League to ensure our FRC team and other teams have a strong future pipeline of students. I cannot overstate the impact that both Kryptonite and FIRST has had on me, the others, and the KD community. This team has helped me and many others develop soft skills such as leadership, speaking, and teamwork, as well as many hard skills including fabrication mechanical design kryptonite has also helped the katie community by supporting other frc teams and mentoring literally hundreds of local students in stem and robotics and also hosting local food drives overall the true test of success is that more than 90 percent of our team members pursue stem careers after they graduate my name is keenan mcgill and

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Good evening everyone. My name is Anna Khan and I'm the Outreach Director for Team 4639, the Robo Spartans. I would like to start off by telling you a bit of our team's history. It all began in 2012 when five Seven Lakes High School students decided to create a robotics club due to their passion and curiosity for the field of STEM. Their first seasons were spent working long hours in dusty garages with whatever tools they had available. cut to 2019 and our 100 members work out of the KDISD Robertshaw Center with ample tools and resources. Over the past seven years our team has grown through learning from every season and opportunity with members joining and graduating. We've exceeded all expectations and reached extraordinary levels in terms of outreach programs and build capabilities through the passing down of wisdom and skills from generations of students. As we grow into the FRC team we are today we see the STEM Center as provided by the KDISD board as an enabler to our successes. In terms of build, our team has grown each year and became well known throughout the FIRST community. This year marks strides in new techniques and mechanisms made possible by members having to learn and experiment. We switched our programming language from LabVIEW to Java which created some obstacles but is something we adapted to. We also competed in the FIRST championship in Houston for the first time in team history which is extremely exciting. Additionally we were especially proud of this year's robot because of its elevator mechanism which we created for the first time. However, our accomplishments would not have been possible without the STEM facility available to us. It has revolutionized the way we build our robot, our organization, and most importantly how the team functions as a whole. Having a plasma cutter and a mill readily available would have been unimaginable to our original members who worked out of mentors' garages. There is no doubt that the STEM Center has contributed to our team's prosperity. Furthermore, in terms of outreach, our team's efforts have been received internationally as as well as locally. In the past, we've had our Onslaught project, which is where we video called FLL and VEX teams in Onslaught, Australia, in order to mentor and guide them with their robots. We cooperated on this with our neighbors, Team Kryptonite. We also hosted Girl Scouts at the RSC and helped them in getting their home science badges. More locally, we created and currently mentor six FLL teams at our feeder middle schools. Every year, we have demos at our surrounding elementary schools, showing our robot and informing students and parents about the build process in order to foster interest in STEM from a young age. In previous years we had our STEMspiration workshop where we partnered with a nonprofit organization I Educate USA in which we went to numerous underfunded middle schools in the third and fifth ward to teach children about robotics. We're currently in the process of planning our very own STEAM camp here at the RSC this July for the very first time. When interacting with children we get to first-hand see the sparkle in their eyes when we roll our robots out intrigued in the world of robotics. We hope to become more active within our community in the future because we understand how important STEM is to everyone around us. With all that being said, the five founding members of our team never would have imagined the massive steps forward our team would take in their near future, both in robotics performance and community involvement. Aside from being able to interact with our community and build a robot, the STEM Center allowed us to form long-lasting relationships that continues even after graduation. The The center acts as a second home for a lot of us, since we're here so often, and allows us to be with our second family. Having somewhere to meet with like-minded people to do something we love, building robots, has created friendships that otherwise would not have existed. We, the RoboSpartans, are dedicated to inspiring our students to work hard, to achieve goals, and to see the world as not what it is, but what it can be. The Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM allows for everything we do to be possible. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to enhance our knowledge in STEM, them all while having an amazing time.

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Hello, my name is Philip Dupont and I have had the honour of serving as the President and Drive Coach for the skilled talents at Tompkins High School in my senior year. I would like to begin by thanking the Board of Directors for giving the robotics teams in their district the opportunity to have us speak and update you on everything that's been coming out of the Robert Shaw Centre this season and everything great that's been going on. I'm here to represent Tompkins High School and their robotics team. We are known as the Steel Towns or team number 5427. This year was a Steel Towns fifth year as a team and because of all the work that our team members have put in we had the opportunity to advance to the World Championships in Houston for the very first time even as a young team. Anyone on the team will tell you this was a life-changing experience being with hundreds of teams from around the world that worked so hard especially for seniors like myself that have put in hundreds and hundreds of hours over the last four years to improve every every part of our team and continually advance our robots and our legacy in the community this year not only have the design mechanical electrical and programming groups created the most well-designed and highest performing robot that we've ever had in our five years but everybody on our team has worked with our marketing and outreach groups in order to give back to our community and help all of those around us over the last year our team has partnered with with the arts and robotics small business in Katy to provide robotics workshops and camps to young kids over the summer and throughout the year. We have built a stronger connection with child advocates of Fort Bend County in order to provide birthday gifts and Lego kits for young kids who are suffering from abuse or graduating from therapy. And we brought our team members and our robots to elementary schools all over Katy ISD for their STEM nights in order to get kids involved in STEM programs early on. Last summer, a group of our students went to Ecuador in order to start FRC teams and FLL robotics teams, to hold technology workshops and electronics camps in order to teach people their skills that can help them in the future, and to help rebuild part of Ramar Orphanage. And I'm happy to say that another group of our team members is returning to Ecuador this summer to further build our connections in that community and get more children there involved in the STEM programs that can help shape their future and the future of their communities. Our investment into our community and those around the world has given us the opportunity to go further with our recognition at our district competitions with a Chairman's Award and an Engineering Inspiration Award and at the Texas State Competition with a State Chairman's Award. The Chairman's Award is the most prestigious award in FIRST Robotics. Only three of the 64 teams that even advanced to the State Competition got one for their dedication that they have to FIRST and for their community and the young team such as ours winning one is almost unprecedented. Team 5427 was able to do so much in such a short amount of time in a growing field of competitors around the world because of the tools that we have had as a young team. Having the RSC to design and build our robot and meet to plan our projects, having businesses in Katy and Houston that are open to supporting our team and the What First is doing, and having a school district that understands the critical importance of investing in its students are all things that have made our growth as a young team much smoother than other teams out there and is is why part of the idea of our legacy is that to whom much is given, much is expected. This idea and the idea that FIRST believes in for the world is why our members continue to push further and dedicate so much of their own time to our team. On a personal note, this team has had an unimaginable impact on my life. Before joining my freshman year, I had no real aim in what I wanted to do. And my first semester in high school, my grades suffered because of my indifference. But FIRST and my team has given me the opportunity opportunity to grow and lead in engineering and the community that it has put me in pushed me to work harder and do more than ever thought I could in high school I will be attending the University of Texas at Austin for aerospace engineering in the fall and I can say that with no doubt in my mind that I wouldn't be anywhere close to this achievement without my robotics team this same idea can be heard from all the students on my team and teams across the world because first changes lives. But without the support of KDISD through the Robert Shaw Center, all the board has done. Our team sponsor and my engineering teacher Chester Hahn and the enormous dedication and time and energy from our team mentors, the Sealtowns might not have ever been able to do so much in such a short period of time. Investment in STEM programs breeds more STEM majors coming out of KDISD schools that will impact the world for the better, so thank you.

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Hello, my name is Steve Adams. I'm the facility coordinator at the Robert Shaw Center. I really, I don't feel like I can add much to what they've already said. They're amazing students. I will say thank you for your support. I've worked in KDISD for over 20 years and I continue to be impressed with how the robotics program hits every one of our cornerstones. And then in our mission statements, we talk about unparalleled learning experiences, we talk about creating the future, and there's no better example than this what they're doing. So it fits perfectly with our KDSD mission and I feel privileged and honored to be part of that as a KDSD representative at the Shaw Center. It's fun to see these students voluntarily learning manufacturing, applied science, applied math, applied engineering, communication with business partners, and And I think you might have heard a strong emphasis on community service, whether it's all the way in Ecuador or around here, just a huge emphasis on community service, educational outreach. I love watching these kids work with younger kids. It's amazing. And teamwork. work. So my co-worker and I, Liz Detloff at the Shaw Center, are committed to continuing to work with them and as well as serving over 16,000 students who visit us on field trips during the day and summer camps and family steam nights and we can't do it without the board support so thank you very much. Thank you.

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At this time, will all the students, their mentors, and Mr. Adams please join the board members at the dais for a photo. And as they make their way down up front, let's give them a well-deserved round of applause.

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If any parents would like to also take photos, you can come up to the podium where our photographer THAT AS WELL.

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Congratulations to all of the robotics teams for their hard work as well as to their mentors.

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Thank you.

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I know right. Just a minute.

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Okay. Sure, no problem. I figured I wanted to. I figured, I was thinking it was pressing the return key and it was going crazy.

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I was like, look at that little girl, look at her.

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She's really excited. Why are you so excited? That is. Okay, it's gonna go real fast. You won't realize. I'm not kidding.

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No red.

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Thank you.

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Okay, next this past spring, several students and teams earned outstanding honors and a state championship. The following students were named to the All-State Soccer Team by the Texas Association of Soccer Coaches Organization. Students and coaches, if you're here tonight, please come forward when I call your name. From Maid Creek High School with coaches Van Daniel and Vicky Minnis, Kirsten Batson and and Henry Martinez. From Seven Lakes High School with Coach James Krueger, Justin Artis, Juan Dominguez Garza, and Isaac Peterson. And from Tompkins High School with coaches Thomas Jones and Jarrett Shipman, Avery Burchette, Daniel Espinoza-Cruz, Barbara Alivary, Skylar Parker, Jovan Prado, and Bryce Robish. congratulations to all of these students

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Sorry, might have gone a little too fast.

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Congratulations to our soccer stars. The following students brought home gold medals from the UIL State Track and Field Championship. Students, please come forward when I call your name, and if the coaches are present tonight, please join your athletes. Jonathan Baker from Pato High School with Coach Kenneth DeCure. Lance Broome from Seven Lakes High School with coach Marvin Rathka. And Cole Lindhorst with Tompkins High School with coach Walter Ural.

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Congratulations on winning this top award. On Friday, May 31st, the Katy High School softball team defeated Keller High School 1-0 in the UIL State Semifinals and advanced to the state championship game against Kline Collins. On Saturday, June 1st, the Lady Tigers held Kline scoreless for the first four innings en route to an 8-2 win and claiming the team's second state championship in four years. Pitcher Alyssa LeBlanc was named the MVP of the game after shutting down the high-powered bats from Kline Collins. Coach Hack has successfully guided these Lady Tigers to 14 district championships and three state title appearances, winning it all twice, that is in 2015 and then again this year with an overall record of 37-2. He has had the pleasure of having assistant coach Megan Brown-Burell for the past five years, and this year the addition of coach Judy Willock. We are also extremely proud to announce that Coach Hack was nominated for the U.S. Today National Coach of the Year. Athletes, please come forward when I call your name. And also will each board member, have them hear the coaches, and assistant athletic director Lance Carter, please join this team at the front for a special presentation. We begin with Sydney Blackman. Kate Caland, who was also named the 6A Softball State All-Tournament Team. Elise Castillo. Aaron Castillo. Chloe Cobb. Dominique Crespo. Kendall Driver. Shannon Flowers. Marlee Gilmore. Amy Hicks, also named to the state team. Jackie Kissimus. Lauren Kutosh. Alissa LeBlanc, also named to the state team. Olivia McFadden. Emily Parks. Tori Willock, also named to the state team. Chloe Woodward. and Kaylee Wykoff also named to the state team congratulations on this super win

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On behalf of the softball team, we've got a state championship medal that we would like to present to each and every one of you. And thank you for all you've done for KDISD and KD Softball. Thank you.

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Let's hear that round of applause for our softball champions.

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I'm going to win. She wrote that. I didn't know.

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Oh, shoot. Y'all were supposed to stay? Yeah. Can y'all stay?

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Yeah, we're not going anywhere. We weren't going anywhere. We're staying down here, guys. Go ahead and go back.

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And next, the district learned this month that Katie ISD was identified by Forbes magazine as one of the best employers in Texas. Market research was conducted by Forbes and Statista to identify the organizations liked best by employees. A sample of more than 80,000 U.S. employees at companies with at least 500 people were surveyed. Katy ISD was the only school district in Texas to make the top 25 on the list. Board members, thank you for providing the support and the resources that allow for a productive workplace and encourages peak performances. Let's give our board members a round of applause.

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NEW SPEAKER 1. ONE MORE. ONE MORE. NEW SPEAKER 1.

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NEW SPEAKER 1.

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THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBERS. AND THIS CONCLUDES THE RECOGNITION PORTION OF OUR MEETING.

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thank you

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from pay and go mr smith

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Good evening Superintendent Gagorski and President Doyle and Board of Trustees. I drew the short straw tonight and I'm presenting on an effort that is multi-department wide. Dr. John Launay in technology is involved in this as is maintenance and operations and Mr. Mr. Vierling and his food service group, of course my group, communications, we're all involved in this exciting thing I want to talk to you about tonight, online payments. In addition to Dr. Alaune, I want to recognize Jamie Hines, Stacey Wright, and Tam DeAtlee from technology. I think they've done the lion's share of the weight lifting on this project, as well as Donna Pittenger and Alyssa Decker, who I think are here tonight. they've also been very instrumental. So just a little history, back in 2003 KDISD purchased a, let's just call it a cash register system throughout the district at the time that allowed students to have their monies loaded on a card and as they swipe their ID it took money from their account just like you know our debit cards do. Shortly thereafter that system enabled our parents, our moms and dads across the district who wanted to participate to pay online or to put their put money on their child's account. More on that a little later but that was kind of the infancy of it 2003. In about 2013 we added course fees, some activities in inter-district transfers we added shortly thereafter and in retiree insurance billing. This is a little bit of research as of this last school year at least when I grabbed this data just about 70% of online meals or meals that were purchased were made online meaning that moms and dads loaded those those their children's accounts whether it be from a mobile app or from a website and course fees is about a little less than that about 65% of course fees were paid online in addition to that we have through our fine arts department, our CHARMS system, which is not currently taking payments, but does have quite a bit of impact in KDISD, as you can see, affecting some 13,000 students. I'll talk about that here in a minute as well. But some concerns with the old system. Again, old system is the key word there. 2003. We were concerned because when we wanted to add the online fees portion and to expand on this, we were tied to the cash register system that we had since 2003. Primarily, one of the reasons that we were leery of that system is 4.99%. So when I, as the business manager at the time or the CFO wanted to go add money to my children's account, if I wanted to put $100 in there would cost me $104.99. It was adverse to me. I didn't want to pay $5 fee and I would send a check. When you send a check, your child has to get it there, the teacher has to get it recorded, send it to the cafeteria manager, etc. And it just slowed down instruction. So we wanted to try to do away to lower that fee and we're unsuccessful in doing so. Systems integration, how our computer systems talk to each other. Free and reduced lunch enrollment. Through that system, children, moms and dads, registered to be, to apply to be whether, free and reduced lunch. Excuse me, I'm stuttering. For their free and reduced lunch applications. and it ran management reporting that was a major before House Bill 3 a major way in which we were funded was based on our number of students on free and reduced lunch so moving forward our strategic goal to wanted us to respond to the needs of a growing district with rapidly changing demographics go for the next generation of digital content and tools for all stakeholders more specifically important for is implement district and campus expectations for technology. E-commerce is kind of the current day and goal seven capitalize on the strengths resources and talent of our stakeholders in order to engage the entire community. We feel that those goals are met through this. Main thing we wanted to do with this program is to improve customer service for students and their moms and dads who are applying for free and reduced lunch we We wanted an easier experience for those with multi-families, one that was a little more user-friendly, et cetera. We wanted to enhance what we were already doing. We already had a pretty good foothold. We already had a lot of traction. We couldn't do any more, but we wanted to do more. We want to increase efficiency district-wide. That's always a goal. How can we be more efficient, leverage technology? and almost biggest of all we wanted to increase instructional time and then one that I like to say is reduce risk anytime that you don't have a check or even cash moving around the district you're reducing your risk so I'm going to introduce you to pay and go paying goes an app that we have been working on since February it is a app and it's actually a website this is kind of a brief look at what it was and you can go in and make these type of transactions to your students account. This is what our website currently looks like. If you'll focus on the upper right corner, that's what our website is going to look like. So old, new, you can see the social media icons have moved up to the far over top right and then in replacing those there's a social media apps and replacing those are the three apps that are going to be new to that. One of those those being the pay and go that I'm speaking of today. So benefits, we hope it's an improved resource for parents and students. We want it to be an easier experience for people to make payments or people to load their children's accounts up. We want it to be easier access. With Premier O Edge, moms and dads are able to view interactive menus. They can build a tray and find out the nutritional information of what their students are eating, they can track the history of what they've been eating. They're going to have faster access to their funds and serving line. I believe it takes two hours when a mom and dad loads the money. It takes a couple hours for our systems to integrate and connect, but it will be there the same day, whereas we had an over a day-long delay prior on our old system. And we want to make this free to the user. You know, that adverse 4.99 percent, we want it to be free to the user, and we are working on a plan. We've worked out a plan to make that happen. More on that in a second. In addition to the enhancement of what we are doing, we want to be able to do more. And over time, we want to be able to accept summer school payments over our website, community education payments, additional activities that we're not already doing. We hope that this system will be easier and easier to manage and communicate how those activities can be paid. and then online retail. You know we've all bought a t-shirt and we've all sent money up there to buy the t-shirt and this is a way that we can do so online again reducing risk and increasing efficiencies district-wide. So the benefits, we hope it's an improved resource for parents and students. We're going to continue our relationship, we are able to continue our relationship with charms because as a partner company with the background engine of the pay and go app we hope again it's an improved resource for parents it's going to be free it's going to provide a lot easier free and reduced lunch application processes it'll be faster friendlier etc more accurate we hope when it comes to reporting not that we're not accurate but we do have to sometime manually make it work if you will and this will this will be an improvement we're going to lower the fee from four point nine nine percent based on our volume it goes down to two point five percent we have worked in and I didn't want to say this up here but I have to because y'all are tired hear me talk about budget but we've worked that into the budget to where the district is going to have that is going to pay the fee but by doing that we think that it's It's going to increase more commerce. It's going to dial those numbers further around toward 100%. And we probably cannot ever eliminate it or not anytime soon. But the closer we can get those to 100% activity, the number one factor besides efficiency is increased instruction time. We think this will enhance our administration, the administration for our management team. It accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discovery and eChecks. It reduces our expenses for staying with CHARMS and the relationship was going to have to change and go away or be increased. This doesn't allow us to keep all those systems and systems working together. Again, the little timeline, we began this in February of 2019. We've been working on a communications plan that you're going to find more about released very soon. I'm going to go over that schedule very quickly. We hope to fully and we plan on fully starting this at the 19-20 school year. This is where we are today. Our website is going to be updated like I showed you based on July the 10th. July 15th we're going to start putting up posters, sending back to school flyers, information out, etc. July 17th we're going to send down our e-news back to school e-news again on August and then we're going to highlight it throughout the fall semester on social media. Long-term benefits again easier on the end users easier to manage for both the end user and for staff. It's going to be free to the end user and again hopefully to increase volume. It's going to be lower risk, fewer cash transactions more efficient. And that's really all I have today. I'm excited about this. I think that it's the way the district can and should go from an electronic standpoint. It's going to be a great thing for moms and dads throughout Katy ISD. Board members, do you have any questions

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for Mr. Smith? Ms. Goswap? So what if mom and dad don't have credit cards or e-checks? They'll still be able to use cash, right? That's still an option. They'll still be able to use cash, yes. Okay. And then my other question is, so will this be the way that people register for free and

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reduced lunch yes this will be this will be the electronic way that moms and dads sit down to register their children for free and reduced lunch and because it's an improved enhancement if you have multiple children you don't have to do it I believe it's you know one one time and it does it for all the children is that correct Donna Donna?

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Yes, in the link. Great.

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Okay. Thank you very much.

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Other questions? Okay. Thank you so much, Mr. Smith. Agenda item seven, consent agenda, board members.

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Madam President.

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Mr. Lacey. I'm sorry. Your voice is.

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I'm like a frog today. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.14.

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Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.14. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Ms. Champagne is out tonight. Next, we'll move to agenda item 8.1. consider board approval of Simon youth Academy optional flexible school day

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program and president miss van I move the Board of Trustees approves the application to be sent to the Texas Education Agency for the Simon youth Academy optional flexible school day program as presented last week at the board work-study meeting I have a motion by miss Lacey is second by mr. I'm sorry

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All right.

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Sorry. Now let's move to the next.

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Let's pay back. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees approves the application to be sent to the Texas Education Agency for the Simon Youth Academy optional flexible school day program, as presented last week at the Board Work-Study meeting. Are there any questions? Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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All those opposed, motion passes 6-0. 8.2, consider Board approval of the 2019 budget amendments.

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Madam President. Ms. Phan. I move that the Board of Trustees approve the June 2019 budget amendments as recommended by Administration.

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Second.

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I have a motion by Ms. Phan, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approve the June 2019 budget amendments as recommended by Administration. Board, is there any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed motion passes next is information items The board was provided a copy of the donated items to Katie ISD and finally future board meetings Please note that the board will only be having one meeting in July. It will be taking place on Monday, July 29th 2019 there being no further business before the board this meeting is adjourned. The time is 721 p.m. Thank you all