The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, July 29, 2019, and the time is 6.38 p.m.
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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, July 29, 2019
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- 0:00 to 0:58 Item 3 Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting. The presiding officer will verify that the meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted for the time and manner required by law.
- 0:58 to 3:49 Item 4 Pledges of Allegiance
- 3:49 to 5:50 Item 5.1 Recognitions New Katy ISD Administrators
- 5:50 to 9:15 Item 5.2 National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) Golden Achievement Award
- 9:15 to 36:02 Item 6.1 Reports 2019 - 2020 Budget Update
- 36:02 to 46:55 Item 6.2 2019 - 2020 Health Care Plan Update
- 46:55 to 1:07:50 Item 6.3 Katy ISD SpeakUP Campaign
- 1:07:50 to 1:29:18 Item 6.4 Academic Achievement and Class Ranking
- 1:29:18 to 1:29:57 Item 7.1 Discussion/Action Consider Board approval of the minutes of the June 2019 Board meetings.
- 1:29:57 to 1:32:43 Item 7.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of voting for a candidate for a position on the Board of Directors for the Harris County Appraisal District.
- 1:32:43 to 1:36:24 Item 7.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Notice of Public Meeting to Discuss the Budget and Proposed Tax Rate.
- 1:36:24 to 1:38:01 Item 7.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the May 2019 financial reports.
- 1:38:01 to 1:42:01 Item 7.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of the July 2019 budget amendments.
- 1:42:01 to 1:48:33 Item 7.6 Discuss and consider Board approval of revisions to the 2019 - 2020 instructional calendar.
- 1:48:33 to 1:51:09 Item 7.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Interlocal Agreement with the City of Houston and Katy Independent School District for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program.
- 1:51:09 to 1:52:43 Item 7.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Fort Bend County.
- 1:52:43 to 1:53:47 Item 7.9 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Harris County.
- 1:53:47 to 1:55:53 Item 7.10 Discuss and consider Board approval to utilize the General Operating Fund (GOF) for the replacement of the Live Action Media Broadcast System (LAMBS) at Rhodes Stadium.
- 1:55:53 to 1:58:29 Item 7.11 Discuss and consider Board approval of qualified vendors to provide remediation services following major property loss.
- 1:58:29 to 2:02:40 Item 7.12 Discuss and consider Board approval of growth units for Pre-Kindergarten staffing for the 2019 - 2020 school year.
- 2:02:40 to 2:03:55 Item 7.13 Discuss and consider Board approval of a delegate and alternate delegate to the 2019 Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Delegate Assembly.
- 2:03:55 to 2:04:01 Item 8.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 2:04:01 to 2:04:07 Item 8.2 Quarterly Investment Report
- 2:04:07 to 2:16:29 Item 9 Open Forum - In accordance with BED(Legal) and BED(Local), the Board shall allot 30 minutes to hear persons who desire to make comments to the Board. Persons who wish to participate in this portion of the meeting shall sign up at least 15 minutes before the meeting begins. Speakers shall provide their first and last names and shall indicate the topic about which they wish to speak.
- 2:16:29 to 2:16:37 Item 10 Future Meetings 10.1 Board Work Study Meeting - Monday, August 19, 2019 10.2 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, August 26, 2019
- 2:16:37 to 2:17:17 Items 11 - 13 11. Closed Meeting – Closed Meeting will be held for the purpose authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Section 551.001 et seq. concerning any and all purposes permitted by the Act, including but not limited to the sections and purposes listed below. 11.1 Consultation with Board's attorney. (Texas Government Code 551.071: For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law; and Texas Government Code 551.129: For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney by telephone conference call.) 11.2 Conduct and consider a Level Three FNG grievance (FNG-18-040 and 041 combined) pursuant to Katy Independent School District policy FNG(LEGAL) and FNG(LOCAL) regarding student and parent complaints/grievances. (Texas Government Code 551.0821: For the purpose of deliberating a matter regarding a public school student if personally identifiable information about the student will necessarily be revealed by the deliberation; and Texas Government Code 551.074: For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.) 12. Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting. 12.1 Consider Board action regarding a Level Three FNG grievance (FNG-18-040 and 041 combined) pursuant to Katy Independent School District policy FNG(LEGAL) and FNG(LOCAL) regarding student and parent complaints/grievances. 13. Adjournment
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Item 3
Mr. Gorgorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to this notice for this meeting?
Madam President, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act in regard to this meeting tonight.
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, July 25th, 2019, and have had four days to study its contents and receive clarification from the superintendent.
This evening, the items posted on the agenda will be presented to the board by staff, administration, and the superintendent.
The board will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss agenda items before voting during tonight's meeting.
The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code.
Any action arising from the discussion in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting.
First, I'd like to introduce our scouts. Boys, if you would like, if you would come up to the podium,
Item 4
state your name and the badge that you're working for, we would really appreciate it.
Go ahead.
I think it's turned on.
It's on.
Hello? Okay.
I can't tell.
Hi, I'm Frank O'Connor from Troop 1288 and I'm working on the communications merit badge.
Thank you.
Hi, my name is Noah Estes. I'm from Troop 1288 and I'm currently working on the citizenship
in the community merit badge hi I'm Ryan hi I'm also from true 1280 animals and
I'm working on the communications and the citizenship the community merit
badge hi I'm Nathan Giannis I'm from troop 1103 and I'm working on
citizenship in the community merit badge hi I'm Zach Chen and I'm working on the
citizenship in community merit badge I'm from troop 1103 hi I'm Nikhil Kohli I'm
from troop 1103 and I'm working on the citizenship of the community merit badge
hi I'm Ryan Yanez and I'm from troop 1103 and I'm working on the citizenship
in the community merit badge I'm Jackson Acker and I'm working for citizenship in
the community and I'm in troop 1225 I'm Jason Acker and I'm in troop 1225 and I'm doing
citizenship and community and communications. I'm Jeffrey Neist and I'm
working on the citizenship in the community merit badge and I'm in troop
780. I'm David Swingle I'm working on the citizenship in the community merit badge
I'm from in troop 1225. Thank you boys very much for being here.
Next, we're actually going to have Mr. Frank O'Conn come up and lead us in our pledges.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
which stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag.
I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one indivisible.
Thank you very much, Frank.
Next, we'll go to Agenda Item 5.1, New KDIC Administrators.
Item 5.1
Mr. Grigorski.
Thank you, President Doyle.
So we've had some hiring over the summer. So first board meeting since June and July when we've had a few new administrative hires
And we've welcomed them out here tonight
I'd like to introduce those folks for our Board of Trustees and for our community and I would like to start with
Joan Otten director of gifted and talented in advanced academic studies and Joan
Do you have anybody with you you'd like to introduce?
All right, well, thank you and welcome
We also hired another director, a director of secondary curriculum and instruction, and
that is Annie Wolfe.
Where is Annie at?
And Annie, did you bring anyone with you?
I did.
I brought a group.
This is my husband Chad, and I also have my youngest daughter, Megan Wolfe, and my nephew,
the same friend, Lansing Caleb Wolfe, and my oldest, Lisa L. Wolfe.
All right.
Well, congratulations.
Thank you.
And then leaving West Memorial Elementary but joining as the principal of Beckendorf
for junior high Paul Massavi Paul did you bring anybody with you today okay
and a person who's been in the job for about one week now and that is our
principal for West Memorial Elementary got some big shoes to fill with with
Paul vacating that and that's Becky Marone and Becky did you bring anybody
Anybody out with you?
I'm true also.
My daughter Reed, my son Regan, and my mom Kay.
Awesome.
Well, thank you all for coming out.
We are excited to have a couple of new faces with us, folks that are just joining KDISD.
And those folks who have been with KDISD, they know what we're all about, and we're happy to see them get a few promotions over the summer, and they're going to do a great job for us.
So thank you all for coming out tonight.
Thank you all, and welcome.
5.2 National Public School Public Relations Association Golden Achievement Award.
Item 5.2
So next on our agenda, I'd like to introduce Mrs. Maria DiPetta,
Manager Media Relations and Multimedia,
for the remainder of the recognition portion of our meeting.
Good evening, Madam President, Board Members, and Superintendent Ken Graborski.
KDISD was recently awarded the Golden Achievement Award
by the National School Public Relations Association
Association for our 2018-19 Bullying Prevention and Awareness Campaign.
This award recognizes exemplary work in public and student engagement initiatives and programs.
KDISD's campaign was inclusive of students and parent roundtables and councils, Legacy
Parent Academy sessions, informational videos, social media engagements around the issue,
campus print materials and other activities designed to inform and educate parents and
students as well as community members about bullying prevention and intervention practices
throughout the district the team that developed and implemented this campaign included superintendent
Ken Gorgorzki dr. Andrea grooms chief communications officer dr. Steve Robertson assistant superintendent
for secondary school leadership and support Jeff stocks assistant
superintendent for secondary school leadership and support Christy maker
director of counseling Edie white coordinator for bullying prevention and
student support Sarah Klein coordinator for events and special projects Ray
Cortez our videographer as well as myself this campaign will continue under
the speak up initiative that you will learn more about this evening at this
At this time, I'd like to ask the individuals that I've just named to please come forward for a photo and congratulations to everyone.
Can.
Can.
This way.
This way.
Everybody take a step this way.
Thank you.
And this concludes the recognitions portion of the meeting.
Thank you very much and congratulations again.
again. Next we'll move to reports 2019-2020 budget update. Mr. Smith. Good evening, President Doyle, Superintendent Gorgorski and trustees. Much of what I'm going to go over tonight you've seen last month. Not a lot has changed since that meeting. So I am going to go through here some of this. Again, if it hasn't changed, I'm going to go through relatively quickly.
Item 6.1
just so I don't get too redundant a time. Of course we're through here in July and we're looking at the preliminary of all funds of what we've talked about again in detail in June.
And then in August we'll meet one more time to have our official final meeting and that'll be even shorter than this one.
Of course our main objective is to have a balanced budget, maintain competitive compensation, which all did very much so last month.
React to the 86 legislature will still be doing that for awhile.
Maintain our health care program.
Mr. Nauman is going to give you a good report on that tonight after me.
We're going to always have a high priority on student staff safety.
This budget does that.
It opens at Leonard Elementary, Adams Junior High, and
the final grade level at Pato High School.
And of course, we'll be opening high school number nine in elementary 43 next
summer, and those expenses will start during this budgetary year.
even though those campuses won't be open, the expenses will start next summer.
The general fund, just a reminder, TEA sent out the message that it'll be months before they can
give us what I would consider like our pay stub, how much we're earning in the eyes of the agency.
They're not even going to attempt it for several months because of the complexities of House Bill
House Bill 3. And as a reminder, House Bill 3 increases the basic allotment to $6,160.
That's how much we all get across the state. Again, where's the beef is the question you ask in that,
because in order to, that big increase in the basic allotment, we had to make up for a 7.3% lower tax rate
in our maintenance and operations and the loss of the CEI. There are a lot of changes in the weights.
some are good, but most of the weights focused on lower socioeconomic
disadvantage, socially socially economic disadvantaged students throughout the
state of Texas. Those would be the big winners in House Bill 3. Reduce
recapture. Recapture doesn't affect us, but it was a big word of a big part of
House Bill 3, reduces recapture. Property tax compression, again I mentioned a
7.3 cent lowering of our tax rate. It moved to current year values which
generated 1.9 billion dollars for the state of Texas. It was detrimental to
gross districts like Katy. Districts that were growing had an advantage with it
when it came to a temporary when you had value growth you were able to use that
and if managed correctly it was a good tool in the toolkit when it came to
budgets. But they moved to current year values. That also is the third leg of
kind of the assumptions that we use in the budget process. You have number of
students, of course we're funded off number of students, property values, and
the current year values. That was the only leg that we really knew. Now all
three legs are really just educated guesses since the move to current year
values. There's a hold harmless so districts don't lose money the first
year. There's also a hold harmless that keeps districts to at least a 3%
gain. That is KDISD. We are just above or just below the 3% gain, so
So we're going to make about 3% when it's all said and done as a result of House Bill 3.
The state share is going to increase from around 31% in KDISD to about 42%.
That's a good thing.
That means more of our tax dollars are staying here, and the state is participating more in our budget process.
I'm going to merely focus on this.
Y'all seen these assumptions before, but you need to know that we are growing.
4.2% of students were opening in high school and you can see that we did have
a large amount of teacher growth from the prior year at 373 teachers,
counselors, librarians, and nurses. Those are folks tied to the teacher salary
schedule and the non teacher salary schedule would be things like
custodians, assistant principals at the new schools, food service workers, etc.
and 345 of those that also at 345 would include the paraprofessionals that are
for the potential ad for pre-date free full-day pre-k and then the teacher
growth also includes the potential to add staff for full-day pre-k that all
came about as a House Bill 3 in addition to that it includes the special ed
numbers that staff that we that we did back in March again this is built on a
four percent this really actually over a four about a four over a four percent
recurring salary increase for teachers and non teachers and a one percent
payment in December to the staff there's also another payment that you approved
last month in August but that won't be part of this budget that's actually
since it's delivered before August 31st part of the budget that we're currently
operating in but as a 4-2 or a total of 6% in compensation that you approved
last month initial budget projections this is just really kind of a look at
our trends from our property values have grown in the blue bars have grown over
the last 20 years substantially as it is and steadily as has our student
enrollment they're represented in orange folks we have doubled in student
enrollments since this graph was started back in 2003 at 40,000 students now
Now we're about 83,000.
I want to talk to you a little bit about the reallocation of the maintenance and operation tax rate.
It does get lowered to $1.05 total tax rate drop of about 7.3 cents.
That's a direct result of House Bill 3.
That continues the interpretation that we have on 26.08A of the tax code,
which we started back very clearly down that path as a group speaking to you back in January about that.
but in short I think it's an 8 cent reduction average across the state and
we're looking at about a 7.3 cent and that's directly as a result of House
point House Bill 3 of the passing of House Bill 3 now again so you can see we
are we're anticipated to have an increase in values of about 5% but our
taxes go down well that's because their tax rate goes down by 7 our maintenance
and operation tax rate goes down so you can see that the actual tax revenue goes
goes down. That's made up by an increase in state funds. Again, the state funds are
increased for more students and because of the compression of the tax rate. So the state had to give us more and they did through that basic allotment. So you can see quite a bit more revenue associated with those additional 3,000 plus students. TRS contributions, I only highlight that because it's highlighted as an expense. It's a wash. That's just a graphical look at the same numbers. Again, based on the wording of House Bill 3, we
required to give at least a 16 million dollar pay raise to our staff and of
that 75 percent or 12 million dollars approximately had to go to teachers
counselors librarians and nurses folks significantly more went than that when
you include the 1% almost double that went to and the the comp almost double
that went to teachers counselors librarians and nurses so again kudos to
to this board the expectations were high and y'all stepped up to that those
expectations and far exceeded when it came to delivering salary increases to
the teachers counselors librarians and nurses and so this is salary increase
there that's directly result of that four percent and one percent or a little
over four percent and one percent and then well that's the four percent and
here's the one percent at four point one million dollars that's going to be
delivered in December and then the percent performance incentive that you
approved is right now budgeted at 3.8 million dollars for teachers for
classroom teachers again that's a graphical look at that same slide for
non teachers I just want to focus on the salary increases at nine million dollars
and the one-time salary increase and then just to show you that there is the
performance incentive in there for not teachers counselors are not teachers
this is for instructional parents they're not considered part of the
teacher pay group they're a non-teacher pay group and so we have some money in
there for their intends to be in the classroom where we need them new
facilities that's just in there because we're gonna open those next year and
want to make sure that we're accounting for it there's the graphical look at
that same slide so there's what our salaries look with with House Bill 3 and
the salary increases that you approved last month along with that a new staff
that was for quite a bit enrollment growth and opening two new schools it's
about a $50 million or right at $50 million in additional payroll.
Nine are other compensations.
Again, the big ones are stipends and substitute teachers.
Those substitute teachers and non-substitute teachers are at trend.
Hopefully, if the performance incentive does what we hope it does, that these will go down,
but we're budgeting at trend as if those didn't exist,
and hopefully that will be some savings that we'll take out of the budget
as we're able to better analyze that as we move forward.
Again, a graphic look at what that would look like. Health insurance, that's a big
increase. Again, a lot more staff with the adding of full-day pre-k. The special
ed staff and the staff does outfit two new schools and 3,000 students. There's
more health insurance that the district needs to contribute. TRS care and
the TRS local contribution, those are monies that's ten million dollars. It
that's imposed on us by the legislator that goes to the retirees of the state of Texas is a great
thing. I hope to be one of those one day, but that does not go to, that's an expense that we have
or that this board had to incur, but does not go to the students of the district. And statutory
minimum, when you eliminate the CEI, that affects the statutory minimum calculation. This is the
amount that most suburban school districts pay above the minimum teacher salary. We pay
above the minimum teacher salary than the state requires. Because we pay above the minimum, we have to pay the amount of TRS, contribute the amount of TRS on that amount. Because the CEI goes away, we're going to see a big hit to that, we think, and so we budgeted that big hit. So it would have had an organic growth as well, but we're looking at about $3.5 million increase because of the elimination of the CEI.
Again, graphical look at that same information. We rounded up to 88% and down to 12% even last year.
Now we're rounding down to 88% and up to 12% this year. So we're still at an 88-12% split. Again,
classrooms need supervision. More students, more supervision, more things to make this system work,
more people so we are labor-intensive and the largest portion of that that
non-payroll amount again is that blue paint piece the largest portion of that
by far as utilities so non-payroll cost excuse me on campus allocations all
elementary schools all junior highs and all high schools get the same amount of
money per student there are some uniquenesses in some of those
demographics like if they're a bilingual campus there may be an adjustment made
for that but by and large all campuses are treated the same when it comes to
their staffing ratios and the amount of money that we give them that's an amount
per student it's get more the high school requires more than an elementary
school per student but those are the amounts that the campuses get that they
have discretion to spend as they choose for the instructional needs of their
campus supplies copy paper etc etc department allocations that's so big
because a lot of our departments budget on behalf of the schools the big one
I'll say is utilities. Mark Tiet and his staff budget the utilities for the campuses. The campuses
aren't burdened with that. So that goes as part of the department allocations. This is what the
general fund is going to end up looking like and I'll just cut to the chase and go to the bottom.
It looks like we are going to be able to do the things that we talked about in our objectives,
deliver the salary increases that is far above what House Bill 3 requires and still have a
balanced budget at this point. Again, the disclaimer is there's still a lot of
moving targets. TA doesn't want to tell us exactly what those numbers are until
sometime late fall or around Christmas is what I've been told and the
definitions of what makes up student counts that go into the funding formulas
are still moving around and they're not stuff that we've historically
tracked throughout Texas. So we may have that information. It's kind of how
how you put all that together without any trends.
And when in doubt, I've got to be honest with you,
I've been a little bit more conservative than I would.
There's some things that I'd like to be able to say,
yeah, I'm going to pull the trigger on that and stick it at the end,
but I'm not 100% confident.
And so I had a friend tell me, he's a retired superintendent,
that if he were a CFO, he'd have it on the agenda every month
to talk about House Bill 3 and where they are.
And I know you all don't want to hear about that,
But it is something we'll probably not do every month, but throughout a couple of times during the year to say hey
We're recalibrating with the information. We're getting in and here's where things look like
But I would I really hope that this would be the worst case scenario
Food service that's still a moving target, too
We have an egg fund balance that that sometimes we have to spend it down, and it will build back up
We've spent it down
This is another part of the spin down and you can see a deficit budget here in
food service but this is something that as we add campuses we get a little bit
more efficient in our food service program and this does not concern me and
when it's really said and done I don't think that there'll be there'll be a
deficit at the end of the year but it won't be a substantial deficit that you
see now. This is a conservative number and again we're working through this
one as we speak. It's a lot smaller fund than the general fund. Poor Miss
Butterfield with that general fund there's well over a hundred thousand
lines of details that she's keeping up with and juggling does a fantastic job
for you guys on that but the the food service is not quite as many moving
targets on that and so we're that does kind of wait and and doesn't get the
full attention that we that we give the general fund debt service fund talked
about last month just just this is a deal that the orange shows the property
value again it's the same numbers you saw in the graph earlier as their values
have steadily increased since 2002 and our debt has as well again we've doubled
in size from a value standpoint and therefore our we've had to double the
amount of campuses that we've done since 2002 that we had at that time so we
building and are constantly building and opening schools and that's that's just a
graphical look at that so our debit service again that tax rate is looking
at 39 cents again when we did in the wake of Hurricane Harvey when we dropped
the debt service tax rate and raised the maintenance and operation tax rate to
take advantage of the state funding formulas I had said we need to rebound
that when we when that goes away and that kind of goes away for the most part
after House Bill 3 and so this is this is how our debt plan is built if you'll
remember we took that difference and we moved those those additional monies that
that two cents generated from fund balance and we transferred it back to this fund because
our debt plan is built on 39 cents and has been for years.
It's built on debt 39 cents and as we continue to have to grow and add new schools, the plan
that we see out in the future is built on 39 cents.
So this is putting that back, not again unwinding the swap, if you will.
Just a summary there of the debt service fund. It's 162 million dollars in
revenues. We do no longer get instructional facilities allotment or
existing debt allotment from the state. They do give us some monies when
they increase the homestead exemption from 15,000 to 25,000 dollars. So they do
make up for some of that. 166 million dollars in principal and interest
payments. I call this our mortgage payment. There's a three million dollar
BABs transfer in, three million fourteen thousand BABs transfer in, that's from
the general fund. And then the interest when we sell bonds, we invest those
dollars until it's spent on the contractors building the schools. We
take that interest and put it back here as a tool to manage our debt. And that's
that's one of the tools that we've done and been able to maintain that smooth
smooth tax rate. So a summary of all funds, this is the three that you've just seen,
looks like in total we've got a good healthy fund balance and the only fund that we're using
that has a deficit is food services and I think that's going to be improved as we move forward
throughout the budget process between now and next month. District level considerations,
we got to closely monitor all our expenditures, we always do, going to continue that. We're going to
prepare for growth with new campuses. We know we have two coming on after this
year. We know we've got a staff to what's now even a bit larger estimate when it
comes to the number of students and the types of students that we get that are
coming. We don't know for sure. We know they're coming and they are coming but
how many will come and what types of students are going to come is still left
to be known and we won't know until a year from now. So this is all built on an
educated guest of trends and now do definitions of what makes students and
then their funding ways changes because of House Bill 3. And talked about the new
campuses there that we're we're not forgetting about. Local considerations,
economic uncertainty, what's going to happen with our local economy. We've been
building houses and and the businesses that support those houses over the last
20 years like like crazy. Is that going to continue? Right now we think so but
but we're monitoring it always, what's happening in the wake of Hurricane Harvey,
sales houses, the average price of homes that are being sold, et cetera, et cetera.
That's all being looked at daily.
Enrollment growth, again, our estimate on enrollment was low last year,
meaning that more students came than we budgeted.
This year it's the same thing.
We think more students are going to come.
Will that be the same deal?
if it is that'll be a good year if it's not then Chris I'm probably gonna lose
more hair and all that good stuff because they're not because we staffed
up to support the students that we think that are going to come that our
demographer and we've been darn good about it in the past thinks they're
going to come property value growth again that doesn't mean as much in the
general fund but it does mean a whole lot in the debt service fund when it
comes to value growth again statewide consideration we have to implement House
House Bill 3. We got to pay attention and adjust to the ongoing rulemaking that we expect
through over a year from now, probably years from now. And then the long-term ability of the state
to fund House Bill 3. I talked about my concerns when you move monies from property taxes over to
the state and the state's more reliant on things that people can control a little bit more than
than that when it comes to sales tax, buying cars, paying for gas and cars,
those kind of things that the state relies on for revenue. They've given up,
they've lowered districts across the state's maintenance and operations tax,
which is steady for that, which is maybe a little bit more volatile. So we're
more at the state's economy, not just the Katy economy, the state's economy as we
move forward under House Bill 3. And speaking of moving forward under House
House Bill 3, you can see that that middle column represents where I think
where it's the high level summary that shows that surplus or really I just call
it a break-even budget. But as we look out
the next year and again when we look in the future we get a little bit more
conservative I get a little more conservative but we've got some work to
do is when it comes to next year and that's one of the things I mentioned
last month we're right back as in Katy especially or most suburban districts
across the state or right back to we're at the mercy of the state to fund things
that are that are subject to inflation ie health insurance teacher cost of
living increases cost of living or cost of fuel supplies etc those inflationary
factors. If it weren't for those, we would walk along fine adding staff when we add
students and the funding formulas would work. It's those that are on top of
adding students that make it really tough and we're at the mercy of the
legislature. So that's where we are. We've got this meeting next month where I'll
be just going over the summary or about five slides, not the detail that I went
over tonight even, and then we'll have the meeting to adopt the tax rate in
September. I'm going to talk about this. This is the public meeting again on
August the 19th in this room at 6 30 p.m. We'll be having a public meeting to
discuss the final portion of the adoption of the actual 19-20 tax rate
budget that will be effective September 1, 2019. And with that I would
Yeah.
Welcome.
Any questions?
Are there any questions, board members?
Madam President, Ms. Champaign.
First of all, Mr. Smith, thank you very much
for your presentation, as always.
I know that's a lot of information to get in.
I have four questions.
I can either ask you each one individually,
or I can ask you all four at a time
and see if you can remember them.
First question.
You may not, I don't know if this is the place
to talk about that.
But you mentioned the incentives for the teachers.
Do you know when, how those will be distributed to the teachers yet?
I'm going to go ahead and take that one, Ms. Champagne,
since that's something I've been working on real close with Brian Shuss from HR.
So, yeah, we did move forward and we came up with a teacher incentive.
It's a performance incentive for attendance related for our classroom teachers
teachers and our instructional paras. And that information went out to principals just last week. We have information posted on our HR website under the FAQ area. It'll be up there talking about that. In short, it's an opportunity for our classroom teachers to earn up to $1,200 as an incentive per year. Those would be those teachers and instructional paras with perfect attendance. And you would get that. And if you have less than perfect attendance, you'll fall somewhere within that range if you have taken any of your local or personal
days of less than 12 days you'll get a portion of that and so let me let me
just do a little follow-up so this is something that we're going to permanently
do while we yeah while we can our goal is to have this as a permanent fixture
within the budget but I can only comment and Chris can correct me if I'm wrong
because I ask them things like this all the time as well we're only as good as
with the state funds and what those values are and what those dollars are
and what those taxable rates are so it's hard to speculate from one year to the next but if nothing
changed relative to what we anticipate nothing changing and the state still continued to fund
schools like we expect them to fund schools we would have that money in the budget to continue
the incentive okay thank you number two can i continue with my question okay number two
um i noticed on there that there's a budget for uh cell cell phone allowances who who gets cell
cell phone allowances? It's mostly managers or administrators that are on call 24-7. So, for example, I get one and if Mr. Grigorski needs to speak to me because I get it, I return his call immediately because that's what it's for. And obviously, I'm the chief financial officer and I may not get calls in the middle of the night, but there are people that do and they need to respond. And that's the instead
Instead of issuing them all cell phones, because we expect them to be available,
they're giving to them to say, hey, you're to be available.
All right.
And then number three, I noticed that there's a category for detention teachers.
I guess I'm just curious, do they get paid overtime to work detention?
There is a rate that teachers and or parents receive for work that they do after school,
and it varies from campus to campus depending on the needs on the campus but they do get paid
to stick around after school to help children when it comes to things that they may be struggling
with okay and then the last question i have is um i don't i can't remember which page it's on but
there was a a place for non-payroll cost um that is campus allocations um can you um tell me what
what that is? Campus allocations is the amount that we give. Every elementary
school gets X number of dollars per student. I'm sorry I can't remember what
that is right now, but I want to say it's like $55 per student. So if you have a
thousand students you're gonna get $55,000 and that buys the instructional
needs for supplies, toner, etc, etc that's not budgeted centrally. Now again a lot
of it, some of the big-ticket stuff, testing materials, etc, is budgeted from a
central department. The utilities are budgeted to a central department, but
But those are the things that the campus principal has the autonomy to buy what they need for their campus.
And then that amounts the same amount per elementary school, same amount per junior high school, and the same amount per high school.
Okay.
All right.
And then I just wanted to, so that's my last question, but I wanted to also say thank you very much for remembering our paras.
And that's it.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Gorski.
Any questions?
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Next, 6.2, 2019-2020 health care plan update.
Item 6.2
Mr. Nauman.
Sorry.
Good evening, President Doyle, Superintendent Grigorski and board.
Here this evening to talk to you about our 2019-20 health plan update.
We're going to look at four different sections this evening. First, we're going to look at current
plan year 2019 operating results against projection. We're going to look at
strategies for 2020. We're going to continue with number three with plan
year 2020 projection with strategies and then lastly we'll look at plan year 2020
2020 projected monthly premiums.
You will see in this slide our projection that came to you this time last year for plan year 2019.
We estimated based on current enrollment that we would have
$67,936,000 in total plan expenses
against contributions received at $64,358,000,
leaving a deficit of $3.577 million.
If you budget that number through the five months as I represented in May 2019,
that would put us right now on a projected budget of a deficit of $1.49.
Actual dollars spent puts us at an operating gain of $757,000.
So we're operating to the good.
We're trending to the good.
What are our strategies for plan year 2020?
First, if you'll recall, we rolled out telemedicine with a new provider, ReadyMD, and we waived
the copay.
And we were able to do that because we eliminated the administrative expenses for telemedicine.
So by paying for that, we're investing in our staff to utilize that tool.
tool. Number three, we had a continuation of the premium support program to impact consumerism
among health plan participants. Four, we increased the voluntary product offerings to cover expenses
related to deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums. And also, we're going to look at impacting chronic
disease claims with a mobile clinic offering to our staff. That's going to be something that will
I'll be coming to you hopefully in the next few months in this plan year.
And number six, we increased our pharmacy rebates with express scripts.
To inform you, we are part of a collaborative effort with several other large school districts in the state,
and that has been growing over time.
So we're seeing our rebates to our pharmacy grow because more districts are being entered into that agreement with express scripts.
We still have the independence to set our own plan design.
co-pays and whatever may be and set our formulary but we're gaining a lot of
traction as we move to the future that's going to get even greater also and
lastly I want to remind you in 2020 we will not be implementing any program
changes which would be deductibles out-of-pocket maximum expenses will be
considered. What does 2020 look like for us in terms of projection? We are
estimating a plan participation of 7,717. That is historically the number that we
will see a 68 to 69 percent of our eligible employees participate. Currently
with that with that participation we were looking at 65,933,000
thousand with expenses to the plan against contributions of 63 million
seven hundred thirteen thousand leaving this a projected deficit of two point
two zero million and this is projected
so what a monthly premiums look like this may be considered a busy chart but
each one of these cells represents the four different plan offerings we have
The takeaway from this, and I think the board is to be commended for this, we will not see
any premium increases this year associated with plan year 2020.
And I might add around us that are on the self-insured side and also participating with
TRS, we're seeing increases of 7 to 9 percent and also seeing the increase in plan deductibles
and out-of-pocket maximums and one of the thing we always have to consider is
when you increase those deductibles you're putting more rocks and that
employees cart so that that cost of that insurance goes up so we're we've been
very blessed in Katie the last three years we have not increased program
expenses or premiums voluntary benefits we are currently remarketing all of our
voluntary products at the moment. We're out to the marketplace and we've had a
tremendous response. We'll be looking at expanding some of the product offerings
to our staff to cover things such as hospital indemnity, critical illness, and
then also possibly an air ambulance service for those staff members. Next
steps, we'll evaluate further where we can reduce administrative expenses.
negotiating with some of our providers to leverage our buying power and really hone in on those
expenses to help keep those cost factors down and then lastly I'll be coming to you in August with
the final evaluation of our expected plan designs which I don't anticipate there being any and then
lastly I'll bring the voluntary product offerings that we found in the marketplace which will help
not only provide security for our employees during unfortunate events such
as stays in the hospital or disability or life insurance for their families so
with that I would welcome any questions that you may have and first I want to
say that no no premium increases is amazing so that's I heard the applause
so I thank you for that you touched on a little bit here towards the end but
but could you go in depth and explain a little bit more what voluntary product offerings mean?
Sure.
Voluntary products are your dental plan, your vision plan, long-term, short-term disability.
In the past, we've had a critical illness plan, which would be your cancer-type plans.
We're looking at that offering to our staff, and if you'll recall, we reduced premiums last year,
and part of that we want to give some increase in the ability of employees to cover their own risk.
And these products are paid for by the plan member who likes to participate in those.
Ms. Gessle.
I had that same question.
Thank you for explaining that.
And I also think it's amazing that we are not increasing the premiums
because I think that sometimes when you give a salary increase,
people expect that they're going to pay somewhere on the back end,
and it's wonderful that we can offer a salary increase without the benefit increase.
Do we have any, and I'm also appreciative of everything that you're doing to work in the background to keep the costs down,
do we have any future plans for wellness programs, you know, incentive programs,
education programs that allow people to earn even lower premiums?
We have wellness programs already in our Aetna model that are available to staff,
counselors that could provide some guidance in that regard we are looking
as I mentioned wellness is a slippery slope I might add everybody can grow
wellness out we are looking at that we are looking at from a wellness
perspective kind of reinventing the wheel you'll say this coming year we're
exploring a lot of different options and we want to really address as we look in
in terms of wellness those chronic diseases your diabetes diabetes you're
overweight employees have they struggle with that and give them the tools we do
have wellness tools they're already extended out to our staff members so
that is an ongoing exercise that we look at annually I was just wondering if
there's you know if in that in future considerations you're looking at
incentive programs the company I work for you earn a certain amount of points
you get lower lower premiums if you you know have your biometrics done every
year and you're within certain parameters and just kind of drives that
culture of wellness you know preventative just a thought and we are
considering those options thank you
and I'll just add in there if I could because I work real close with mr.
Mr. Smith and then Mr. Nauman when they bring these in.
I tell you, these guys have done a great job over the past three years.
And when they talked about a zero increase in the premiums this year,
what they didn't mention, or maybe they did and I didn't hear it, we haven't had a premium increase or
a change in those deductibles in three years, so this coming year will be the third year straight
that we're able to maintain those without raising any cost to our consumers, our folks.
And at the same time been able to give some pretty good raises over the last three years including this year's
Raise to employees and a couple of other things in compensation that have been some of the highest rates
We've done in our recent history
So I do appreciate what they do and I just wanted to get a second to put that in there because they work real hard
And I know Lance is out there beating the bushes all the time and he's been tasked with some pretty big challenges
Get out there find us some good programs
That meet the needs of all of our folks and get them what they need at a good cost
because if anyone's been looking at health care costs across the nation
they're up everywhere I've never seen anyone who isn't read a TASB study the
other day that said something like 90% of districts who reported to TASB about
their health insurance premium school districts they all had an increase in
premiums last school year in which we didn't so not have an increase to our
folks for three years is something that we got to acknowledge these folks for
for doing a good job. Thank you. Are there any other questions?
Okay, thank you so much. Next 6.3 Katie ISD speak up campaign.
Item 6.3
Miss Edie White and Mr Ted Verling.
All right. Good evening, more President Doyle board member
Supernino Gorgoski. I'm very excited to bring this to you
tonight. It's called Speak Up and we're talking about
anonymous reporting. So Edie White's here to help out.
Kristy Makers also in the front row if you have any questions at the end of
this. So as you know school safety has become a huge part of what we do as
school teachers, administrators, and it's a it's the job of everyone. It's no
longer just chief of police and our police officers. Everybody's got a piece
of this. As part of that we've been to quite a few conferences, lectures, we've
heard all kinds of folks talk and research tells us that to help keep your
your school's safe, you need front end information.
You need information before it happens rather than after it happens.
We all know how to deal with situations when they do happen, but
we want it before it happens to prevent a tragedy.
So currently what we do in KDISD for reporting,
obviously we have the face to face option.
Face to face is not anonymous.
Clearly a student could go talk to a counselor, administrator, teacher,
teacher, staff member in person, in an office, in a classroom.
But a face to face is not truly anonymous.
We also offer a safety net.
And a safety net is a piece of paper that a student would pick up in a place like
the library or maybe the counselor's office.
They'd fill out that piece of paper anonymously, drop that in a box,
in a spot in the school.
And then that would be picked up by a staff member, read, and
then routed to the right person.
We've had campuses that have used QR codes and Google Docs and all kinds of things,
but a little cumbersome and doesn't do everything that we want it to do.
We've also got the bullying report on the Katie on the go app as well as the good old anonymous email that
that folks can send.
So in a better effort to make sure that kids, staff members,
community members, parents can report issues, concerns anonymously.
We, with leadership of Mr. Gworski and a whole lot of folks throughout the school
district are putting together the Speak Up program.
And that's our new anonymous reporting tool for this year and the future.
So Speak Up is an app as well as a web form that allows students, parents,
community members, they can download off the Google Play and the Apple Store.
Don't try to download it yet, it's not live yet.
when it's live you'll be able to download it. It's going to be available
online and linked to every KDISD web page. It'll also be on every the the
home page of every district desktop computer as well as an app on
all the iPads that you'll see. Speak Up's powered by a company called Anderson
Software and Anderson Software you'll hear me say P3 or Anderson Software
they're interchangeable. They provide anonymous reporting software to
to Crime Stoppers, entire states, as well as districts around us, Bryan ISD, Cyfair,
as well as Humble, and a whole bunch of other ones.
Very successful company.
So Speak Up features, the features of this, again, will allow students, parents, community
members to report on any number of anonymous items right now.
bullying, threats of violence, drug use, dating, violence, weapons. Those are all
choices plus more and I'll show you a few screenshots here in a little bit.
Allows staff members, administrators, counselors, and LSSPs to monitor, track
these events, and respond to those reports when they get them. And it also
allows staff members to communicate in real time through push notifications
through the app. So if a student sends in information on the app, the staff member
that's working that tip can actually push out notifications anonymously to
that student to get more information. More features of that will allow
reporters to attach screenshots, videos, photos, and audio to their report. You
know that we get a lot of information from social media and if kids are able
to screenshot that social media and get that to us, we may not have a name of a
student but we will have a picture that we can will help determine what's going
going on. The system searches for aliases and names that are common and different
tips. It allows staff members to reach out to the reporter and say, hey we got
it, we're working on it. And it also allows us to collect data for training
purposes in the future. So how does it work on the on the student end? An
anonymous reporter logs into the app. They create their own unique password. It
It has nothing to do with their KDISD credentials or anything like that, even if they're logged
into a KDISD computer as we use in their student login, it's not connected to that in any way.
Reporter is going to choose from a directory of district locations.
So if the student is at Paytoe High School and their concern is at Paytoe High School,
they would choose Paytoe High School.
Reporter chooses a concern from a list of possible issues, kind of going back to that
list that I gave you before, plus a bunch more.
And then the reporter provides as much information as he or she can.
You're going to see some screenshots here in a minute.
They don't have to fill out every box.
They fill out as much information as they possibly
can and send that in.
So here are some screenshots.
So this is when you pull up the app for the first time, this
is what you're going to see.
It's going to ask you to create a, actually, the first
time you log in, it's going to ask you to create your own
individual password.
Again, has nothing to do with your KDISD password, not linked
to KDISD at all.
Doesn't require you to put an email in there or any
identifying information.
Second screen, number two there, you're going to, the student, a reporter is going to click submit a tip.
The next screen over is actually going to be our list of campuses.
And then that third screen is going to be where they pick the issue that they're concerned with.
So in this case, I have the big red arrow going to bullying and cyber bullying teasing.
Next one over, four and five, just gives you an idea of some of the boxes that the kids can fill in information.
Again, they don't have to fill out every piece of information just as much as they can possibly
give us.
And anything that asks about a Snapchat username or Facebook ID, that's asking about the, not
the reporter, but the one they're concerned about.
They can put an attachment in there and they click submit.
Okay?
So how does it work on the campus end?
Campus administration, and that's the administrators, LSSPs and counselors, that's who's going to
be getting these.
They're going to receive these notifications via email and they'll log into the system.
Safety and Security Analysis Center is going to monitor after hours.
It's always a concern to campus staff, are they going to get these overnight and what
do I do?
If it's a suicide or a self-harm situation, they want to know about those.
If I'm sleeping at 2 a.m., Chief has been great working with us.
SAC and KDISD Police are going to help us with that.
I'll talk more about that here in a minute.
Campus administration is going to respond to that issue according to KDISD policy and again they do
have the ability to push notifications out through the app to the reporter to get more information.
Questions? Will this replace the current bullying tip line? Yes it will. This is an all-encompassing
app and web form that will replace all anonymous reporting as we know it. Okay and as soon as this
this comes online the bullying tip line will will go away this will replace all
that where can I find it the apps going to be available in the App Store for
Android and Apple they'll also be again a web link that will be available for
kiddos that don't have cell phones it'll be available on all district computers
and again no connection to their district login whatsoever even if they
are logged in under their Katie credentials will the be a way to report
without using speak up yes they'll still be able to do a face-to-face report and
And we know that our elementary school kiddos are probably going to do a lot of that.
Junior high and high school will be more of the app.
But face-to-face is still an option.
However, we will not use Safety Net moving forward.
We don't want any confusion about where these things are going to.
We want to make sure we get as much information as quickly as we can.
Will we continue to use Katie Connect?
Yes, we will.
Katie Connect is an agreement that we'll have again through this school year.
And as you guys know, Katie Connect helps kids and with immediate concerns on mental health issues.
OK, and again, how we monitor after hours.
Big concern.
SAC is going to help us monitor those after hours events.
Those are life safety events.
OK, so if a tip about a bus issue comes in, as long as it doesn't appear to be a life safety issue, SAC is not going to act on that.
But they will monitor life safety.
Police department.
We're working with the police department.
I'm talking to them on Wednesday about responding when there's a life safety event.
And then they'll communicate with campus staff in the morning when those come
through.
Just wanted to put this in there for you.
This is the back of secondary student and high school staff IDs.
KD Connect you'll see is listed.
It's been listed for years.
We've added mental health concerns to that so kids will know what that means.
Had a lot of kids when I was a high school principal say, what is KD Connect?
Well, now we've got that on their forum.
them. We've got the information about how to download the app as well as the phone
number for Katy ISD Police Department if they want to report directly to Katy ISD
Police that'll get them to dispatch and then that QR code will take them to the
Katy ISD Police website which they could fill out the online form there if they
chose to if they didn't want to download the app. The communication campaign we
got stuff coming out very soon wanted to present to you guys and let you know
what's going on but we've got we've got all kinds of things coming including
including the app going live at the start of school.
We'll build awareness through e-news.
Communications department is gonna help us with that.
They've been a great help to us already.
We'll have posters in the school.
This is just an example of a poster.
We wanna keep this in front of kids, right?
We wanna make sure that we don't present this once in August
and then forget about it.
We've asked the principals to include it
in the student class meetings
at the beginning of the school year.
And again, keep this in front of them
as the year goes along.
social media posts, e-news, all that kind of stuff. We're going to continue to do
that August through November. And then we've got the, we really want to build a
culture of safety with our students. We want the students to take the lead in
the safety in their school and so Superintendent's Leadership Circle is
going to be, take an active role in this. We want to get them involved and be
student ambassadors and go back to the campus and really talk this up and
encourage their their friends to use it. One thing that every time you talk to
kids about student the school safety they will tell you that they want to be
involved, they want to give us information, they want to help and I
think that we all think that this will be a great tool for them to use. And
again if this prevents one life from being lost then it is well worth the
money it is that it costs. We think it will do far more than that. We think it
will give us plenty information on the front end so we can solve some of these
things before something terrible happens to our kids so questions thank you for
your awesome presentation and as a parent of two former KDIC students in a
current high school student I think this is this is going in perfectly in the
right direction I just have one really easy question I like easy questions
Softball. On the screenshots we showed the steps and the areas of filling.
Do you want me to go back to that? If you want to. You had Snapchat chat username and Facebook user ID.
And I can tell you, I don't know very many kids in high school that have a Facebook.
They all are on Instagram. Yep. Is Instagram not an option to add?
I don't know that answer but I can I can find that out remember to that I was
only able to screenshot certain portions Instagram may be on there I apologize
for not knowing that answer yeah I find that out for you my daughter's laughs at
Facebook and until she gets to college if I won't understand it but they're all
on Instagram all day long and they you know they follow everyone from their
best friend from kindergarten to you know right that's the beauty of the
screenshot feature because a lot of those a lot of those whether it's
Snapchat or Instagram or whatever, you can't see it because it's private.
The kids only allow each other to see it.
So the beauty of the screenshot is even if we got, let's say we got an Instagram ID from
somebody, we wouldn't be able to get on it because we don't have access to that kid's
page.
But if a kiddo wants to send us a screenshot through this, then they could and so we would
have an access to that picture.
But I agree with you about adding Instagram in there.
I'll check on that.
And with Snapchat, when you...
And I know this because I'm always screenshotting my kids' Snapchats.
And it shows you that the screenshot was taken.
It does.
And so some kids don't want that.
They're hesitant to do that, absolutely.
Right.
With Instagram, you can just screenshot the image, and there's no reporting to the user.
And sometimes kids are great at locking up their Instagram, and sometimes there aren't.
So I just, I don't know.
I only know two children in all of high school that have a Facebook account.
Facebook's Facebook's for mom and dads now in college because I promise but our post newly post college
But okay, that was just my that was my two cents. Okay, I just feel like that's where a lot
I think there's times where they look at something. I'm like, what are you looking at? They're like, oh, no you
Yeah, you're not so it's there
Thank you. Any other questions? Yes matter president. Okay. First of all, mr. Verling. I just want to commend you and
and Mrs. White for all the work that you've done.
I actually went to the Parent Academy with the bullying prevention,
and I really enjoyed that.
Also, I just took it upon myself today to look at other school districts in the area
to see what they were doing, and we have by far the best that I've seen.
I looked at, I don't know, six or seven other school districts.
I could only find one that even had a page.
So I just wanted to go on the record, first of all,
and let parents that are listening to this presentation to know to take advantage of the bullying page that we have.
There's lots of information there, and I know we're talking about Speak Up,
but I know that's going to be part of that page also.
Even if you think your child isn't being bullied, I mean, it's good to know that it's there
because probably your child, you know, you'll at least feel like your child's been bullied at some point.
And I know that we can't do everything that we want to do to, we'll never completely get away, do away with bullying.
But at first, I just wanted to commend you on that.
Also, I was wondering about the Speak Up program.
If you, I know you see all the kids that you're going to have working on it.
But maybe they could take, because I was looking at all the different schools and all the different clubs that they already have.
and maybe you know maybe not insisting but trying to precisely you know
recommend that they use speak up in there already that's what they are
established you bet and also I'm looking forward to in the future doing more to
to help the bullies also.
And I feel like this will come with the mental health help.
And I found out, I was at a TASB training, and there's actually,
Austin ISD has something about that.
And anyway, I have some information about that.
Fantastic.
So I'm hoping, you know, I know there's some grant money for that.
That's great.
So I can talk to you about that later.
But I really commit come into you and I just I just really want to make sure we get both sides of the issue
Too and that's all I have to say yes, ma'am. Thank you
Miss Kessler I
Just wanted to say I spent most of my career in in the safety world
And we have this thing called the safety triangle and the really bad incidents are at the top and the near misses are at the bottom
And I think this is a great step. We actually call our program speak up. It's about
about finding the problems when they're little,
identifying those near misses when something almost happened
but could have happened.
I also want to say that there'll be all kinds of metrics
that'll come out of this.
You have to be so careful about metrics, right?
Because if you want a culture of speak up,
you want a lot of reports.
You want the report like, she said my dress was ugly.
That's the kind of stuff, the marshmallows
that you're getting pelted with.
Because every once in a while, you
get something that's really important.
and we'll never know what we prevented because we have this. Nobody's ever going
to come pat you on the back and say holy cow look at what you prevented. Maybe, but
maybe not, but I think it's a great step in the right direction and I love that
you're putting the information on the back of the badge. You know it's not
something you have to go dig for or log on to a website or whatever. Yeah. My only
concern is what if the response is like overwhelming. You know okay I'm a
I'm a campus principal and I'm getting like 100 of these a day.
Yeah.
You know, what is the expectation that I'm going to be able to handle all this?
Do we have any kind of contingency in place to help if a particular campus becomes overwhelmed?
Well, so there's a district staff that's going to be available.
Leslie Hack and the assistant superintendents, they're going to help us out.
Christy Moore and her group in the psychological services group.
Christy Maker and her counseling group.
I think the whole idea of, and again, having that campus team effort was the idea.
We didn't want these routed to one individual person.
We didn't want to say that the principal is responsible for routing all of these concerns.
We didn't say, you know, I want one counselor routing all these concerns.
It's a team effort on the campus.
So is there a concern about getting a bunch of these?
A little.
But we've done some research.
We've talked to some school districts that have used it.
And you know early on you get some false reporting and things like that but again
I think there's going to be events where it's going to trigger a bunch of these if somebody posts something on
Snapchat or Instagram or something like that that's a real concern. I think you're going to see a spike
I think a school may only get one or two a week or something and then they may get you know one or two
every 15 minutes
But I think as far as a manageable number. I think the team approach
I think we'll be able to manage it. Okay, and how much does it cost?
I knew you guys would ask that so I so I wrote that down. It's $12,000 annually.
It is there was a $200 one-time setup fee
and then there's a $1,500
first time fee for branding. You can you can do just a generic P3 and it's kind of a generic thing
but we really wanted to brand that KDISD. So $13,700 for the first year,
12-5 each remaining year. And for a cost, I mean, is just it I know it seems like a
lot to a lot of folks, but when you're talking about a program like this that
can do as much good as it does 12-5, even $13,000 is a good buy.
Thank you very much. I'll follow up to Mrs. Gassoff. Last question, is it an annual one
time? Is it every year we renew? So we can look at the program and decide the benefits?
it's okay thank you any other questions madam president i have one one other question i meant
to ask you this um are are our teachers being trained on this also so we have trained i have
trained i've given this presentation now 10 times i think i've trained assistant principals
principals um secondary counselors elementary counselors were trained today i'm training
in police department Wednesday, right, and LSSPs I think tomorrow or Wednesday.
So I won't be able to filter down to the teacher level, but I do expect the campus principals
and counselors to be able to train the teachers.
And that's part of putting things on the badges and all that kind of stuff.
We want to keep this in front of everybody because, again, we don't want it to be something
we do in August and then we don't do in May.
may. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next agenda item 6.4, academic
Item 6.4
achievement and class ranking. Ms. Leslie Hack. Well, good evening, Madam President, Board of
Trustees, and Superintendent Grigorski. First, on behalf of many in the room tonight, we appreciate
the opportunity to present and have this discussion about specifically class rank and Ds and the
impact it has on our students. So we'll go ahead and get started. To kind of kick
it off we wanted to really hone in on what is class rank and why do districts
rank students. And class rank is truly is a measure of how one student's GPA
compares to that of the other students within a particular class. And student
GPAs are generally sorted in the order from the highest, the number one, to the
the one that ranks last in the class. And why do districts rank? The main reason was to meet state
law, which House Bill 588 requires that we do class rank through the top 10 percent, and I'll
explain that law in just a moment with the next slide. Also, we apply class rank to determine
valedictorian and salutatorian honors and to determine honors to be conferred during graduation
activities and in KDISD we do recognize the top 10 at each graduation ceremony.
The release of official class rank, KDISD generally releases or we do a release
official class rank following the close of the first semester of a student's
junior year and that's generally right around towards the end of the fifth six
weeks that's the first time an official class rank is released to students. The
The unofficial GPA, students see that, and it's unofficial, and that's released on their six-weeks report card beginning in ninth grade.
In 1997, Texas House Bill 588 was passed, and this was a Texas law that guaranteed students who graduated in the top 10% of their high school class were granted automatic admissions to all state-funded universities.
And then a lot of districts, Katy included, passed local board policy that they calculated
class rank for the top 10 percent, but then that they went ahead and ranked all students
within that class.
There's a lot of research out there on the pros and cons of applying class rank.
A couple of them was that research has indicated that up to 50 percent of schools across the
nation no longer report class rank. Sometimes we lose sight of that class
rate generally only shows how a student compares with others at a particular
school and also that we have realized that lots of colleges and outside
entities whether it's scholarship committees, it varies, they will take
whatever that GPA is that the district issues and they'll refer to it as an
inflated GPA because that GPA will include everything the student's taken,
core classes and non-core. So these outside entities will just pull the core
classes and then do a recalculation of the core GPA and then that core GPA is
what they will utilize to determine if the student is eligible for scholarship,
to enter Honors College, and it runs the gamut. So it's impossible to know how all
all the outside entities do their recalculation, but we
want to make sure what we're doing, we're doing the best
for our students.
And that's kind of where the Ds come into play right there.
Well, it is where the Ds come into play with
the grading scale.
I have a couple people here not that are great at
answering specific questions when it comes to college
admissions, college applications.
Vice-rank, Chrissy Maker and Stacey Zimmerman are here in
case there's some specific questions that they could
assist with.
but I thought it was important to note that Apply Texas, that many of our students do their college admissions applications through,
does not require class rank.
It doesn't even ask for it.
Common App, it does require the student to put in the class rank if the district officially ranks all students.
If the district does not officially rank all students, it doesn't require it.
The students can put what quartile they're in.
so this is kind of an example of a district that revised their uh eic local board policy in regards
to class rank and this is um a neighboring district so they kind of changed it to reporting
class rank beginning with the graduating class of 2021 which would be the incoming juniors who have
not received an official class rank yet and after each calculation period students in the top 10
10% shall be told their exact class rank.
And then after that, students would know what quartile they were in,
first, second, or third.
And the quartile is what would be placed on their transcript past the top 10%.
We have one feature in our e-schools which I thought was important to note,
and we have an example of it to show at the end if you're interested.
But we have a module, and I appreciate Carrie Rampelli and her team
and technology working with us on this.
And I think parents and students would really appreciate being able to see
their child's transcript and as they complete credits each semester it lists
the courses and the credits earned in the semester average and then we can add
information to it which is what we're working on we can show and it's in our
home access center this particular feature it can state unofficial class
rank if parents and students would like to know that but understood that past
the top 10% if Katie ISD were to move forward with this we would not be
be verifying that class rank.
But sometimes you do like to know what your unofficial is.
It could list your quartile and some other features
that we are working on.
So going back to Ds and the KDISD current grading scale.
Our current grading scale does include Ds,
and this is grades 2 through 12, correct?
But most importantly, how it impacts
our high school students.
I did want to note that beginning
beginning with the graduating class of 2022, this is where the dual credit weight changes.
And so if you note in parentheses where you have that half percentage bump, that's for 2022 and thereafter.
But you see where we get into the CD range, 75-79 semester average, a C.
C and you can see the difference between the 70 to 74 with the D that they are earning
one less credit point for that particular grade range.
So if a district includes Ds in the grading scale, outside entities will recognize, because
we have to give them our grading scale, they will recognize that D when they recalculate
the core GPA.
PA. And our students could be negatively impacted by an outside entity's recalculation. And we have
confirmed that neighboring districts are no longer recognizing Ds in their grading scale.
So moving forward and after additional discussion, we would recommend that the KDISD
grading scale no longer recognize Ds. That a 75 to 79 would be a C. A 70 to 74 would be a C minus.
and the weights that we're applying in that 75 to 79 range would be applied to the 70 to 74 range.
And we did include, this is an example of a recent class of 2019 graduate.
This particular student applied for a scholarship to an outside entity.
They did recalculate the core GPA.
They did recognize the Ds because that is in the KDISD grading scale.
So the core GPA was recalculated to a 1.875 and had the D's not been included in our grading scale and they would have received the same weight as at 75 to 79, it would have been recalculated to a 2.25 and the student would have been a qualifier for that particular thing that they were applying for scholarship.
scholarship. So that's the presentation. I know it was really short and fast, but I know
these are some topics that we've been wanting to discuss for a while now. We have a lot
of interested people that have, we've discussed since graduation, there's former principals
and current principals in here, and then many of Dr. Caskey's team have been involved as
well. So we are happy to answer any questions you may have.
Madam President. Mr. Lacey.
So real quick question. I just want to make sure that we don't you know affect a lot of kids
I know that UIL is not just athletics. It does affect the arts, be it band theater things like that as well.
As I understand it, I just want to make sure that I'm clear.
It's if we do not report as a D then
we're okay. So these students that would have been in the numbers
that would have had a 71, so to speak, that would have had a D,
they're getting the same credits as a C, correct?
Correct.
Okay.
And UIL is all cool with that?
Yes.
In regards to the – and Coach Dowling is here on behalf of athletics
for any specific questions.
But if the eligibility center that all student athletes must input all their
information and go through, KDISD must upload their current grading scale
to the eligibility center, NCAA, and that's what they will use to recalculate that student's core GPA.
So if they're recalculating that student athlete's core GPA with the KD scale with Ds,
they could be a non-qualifier, but that same student in a neighboring district that does not recognize Ds,
they would recalculate it.
It would be a higher GPA, even though the semester averages were the same.
And then just as a follow-up question, just real simply, you may know this.
it may go to someone else are we reporting the number or the letter or both we're reporting
the number on their transcript yes and then they look at our grading scale and calculate from that
any other questions madam president okay i have a couple of things one of them probably doesn't
matter but i'm just wondering um when i when i was a young girl which was a long time ago
And we had the C, you know, like we're doing now, the 71 to 79.
But what happened to, because there's such a big difference from zero to 69.
Whatever happened to the D being in the 60s?
I don't know if you have that answer.
But I actually do have a really valid question, which is, is this for all the students that are even, even the ones that are going to be seniors this year?
So will all of their GPAs be recalculated?
That's, no, we discussed that as well, and if you want to help me when we talk about calculating GPA.
It would be very hard to change and remove Ds for our incoming seniors, juniors, and sophomores
because they have already had GPAs that have already been calculated in with that D.
We would recommend that it would be in effect for the incoming ninth graders and thereafter.
Okay.
But so do you know what historically has happened to the 60 to the 69 range?
What happened to that?
Not public school, high school.
I do know in some secondary institutions, or I'm sorry, college post-secondary,
the 60 to 69 is a D post-secondary.
You still don't receive credit, and then the F is below that.
But historically, I'm just familiar with that once it's a 69 or below,
it's a F and no credit. Is there a, is it, is this common among the state? Has this
been happening or nationally or was KDISD kind of on the forefront of making this
change? Class rank or? Yeah, change it with the D. The D? Yeah. I will say more and more
districts in Texas are moving towards this once they're figuring out how their
students are being impacted and I there's some high school principals in
attendance tonight that will have some specific examples of where it's impacted
their students that have graduated so I think once districts become aware of
that and that all these outside entities and all the rubrics that they use we
couldn't possibly know them all we just want to make sure that we're doing the
absolute best to make that plane feel very equitable for our students thank
you is there a downside is there any downside to be away from the D's and
then that I've and then with respect to the class rank you talked about the
quartiles but it just said for second and third therefore right so is there
some like we're not going to tell them that they're in the bottom quartile or
no you can districts and go either way and when doing the research you'll see
that they'll rank all the way through the fourth quartile and then some districts have opted just
to do the first second and third quartile so it's whatever you know we were to discuss what we
thought was best and wanted to put the fourth quartile what was interesting was um in our
discussions third quartile you could be third quartile and a certain gpa and then score something
on act or sat and there's a sliding scale and even third quartile there's automatic admission to
to universities in Texas.
So we want to make sure we include the third part.
And if they can still get their unofficial class rank,
I guess I don't understand why we're not, why not do,
like what is the negative behavior that we're trying
to get away from by not putting class rank?
What are we gaining by not doing that?
I guess the question I would say,
what is the real purpose of the class rank?
is there any advantage to applying class rank 1 through 750?
What are the advantages?
And as a group, we couldn't really come up with the advantages, number one,
if Apply Texas isn't asking for it.
A common app doesn't require it if you're not officially ranking,
especially the principals in the room and the former principals that are here.
We look at how sometimes class rank drives unhealthy competition,
drives decisions and courses that students take that maybe not be the
reasons had we're not doing class rank they wouldn't take those courses like
the builder GPA versus classes that they're truly interested in CTE classes
yeah yeah especially with all the endorsements that we have now we want
students to pursue the courses that they're interested in and their passion
that builds towards that post high school and so we'll make sure that we're
giving them every opportunity to select those classes.
Okay, thank you.
Are there any other questions?
I have a question.
So just for clarification purposes, I have two questions.
Number one, the ranking system, us becoming a non-ranking district with the exception
of the top 10 percent, do you see any way that this would hurt our students?
I do not.
Okay.
And I think there would be a lot in agreement with me tonight with all the discussions we've
So only positive repercussions.
Secondly, just for clarification, the D will not be dropped for current sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
It will start with the incoming freshmen this year.
We would show for KDISD, our district profile, and our grading scale,
scale, a grading scale for the class of 2020, 2021 and 2022, our seniors, juniors and sophomores,
a grading scale that recognizes A through F with Ds.
And then we would show a grading scale for the class of 2023 and thereafter, A through
F grading scale without Ds.
But at least it would show that we are recognizing that KDISD is letting go of Ds in the grading
scale. Forgive me for my next comment. Is it that difficult? Would it be that
difficult to change it for all students at this point? I worry that it's, I don't
want us to look like we're penalizing our sophomore juniors and seniors. The
The senior class, I kind of am like, you know what, you've been ranked.
It is what it is.
But those sophomores and juniors, I'm struggling a little bit that we can't implement for them as well.
So please don't shoot the messenger.
I'm going to go ahead.
Go ahead.
Ms. Hack, I'm going to jump in on that one a little bit and just a quick comment on it.
So when Ms. Doyle asked, can we do that, that technology team back there, they can do anything.
thing. They're outstanding and they can make anything work, no pressure. So that
will be a conversation we have in the next 24 hours to find out how difficult
that is to do that. The only caution is when we do that and it came up during
part of the discussion on a lot of this, was that when we generally change
anything that affects somebody's GPA, we generally don't change things midstream
for a child who's currently in the system or calculating a GPA.
Now, generally when we change things,
we're not looking at things that will always help you like that.
And this is one of those things that is only going to help children.
So you raise a good point of why wouldn't we start it immediately
for every child that's in KDISD in high school
and just drop that D off there and start recalculating those GPAs.
Certainly something, like I said, we can look at and how hard that would be,
how difficult it be for for the kids who are already in school and see if that's
something we can do because the other thing I'll add with that is this is a
presentation tonight to show you things we've been discussing I think it does
help our kids I think it does and mr. Redmond comment a couple things down
there I know for sure there are a handful of our neighboring districts in
the Houston area that have already done this so I feel sometimes our kids are at
a disadvantage compared to those other districts when you're comparing two
two children side by side with the exact same state courses and one district has
already moved forward with this and we haven't yet puts our kids at a
disadvantage for certain things moving on after high school so we did want to
look at this with the class rank and the DS and look at doing things a little bit
differently moving forward but what we'd want to do is examine some of those
things after tonight take those questions into consideration and then
possibly come back at the work-study meeting in August with a change in
policy that the board would take another look at, have another opportunity to ask questions
about before we take that giant leap in and then possibly adopt
that new policy for the start of school in August.
Any other questions? I have a follow-up question
to what you were saying. So I'm
a mom of a senior in high school and
to play devil's advocate, at least for the senior,
She's gone through three years of me, now you're just going to have to hear something personal about my child,
threatening her, you know, not to get the D and all this.
And she never did.
But then all of a sudden all of her peers are just going to have those Ds wiped off,
and now she does know who her class ranking is.
And I'm just saying that this could be a hornet's nest also, too, with the older child,
child that all of a sudden they're aware of where they are and now they're going to be all changed
because her peers who did have D's don't have D's now. I just want to throw that out as something
the other side of it to maybe think about, at least for the older child who's aware of their
ranking already. Again, I want to reiterate, I don't think that this is a situation that it's
going to hurt any child. This can only help our children and I think that we
are in a very we have some extremely high-performing students and there has
been conversation consistently that I have had with people that they have felt
like we're doing a great job at these super high-performing students and we're
doing a great job with maybe our children that have some disabilities and
things like that but it's those middle children that are getting a little bit lost in the system
and so um i've had that cd student and i've had that a b student and so i just if it's possible
i will advocate that we change it equally across the board for all students thank you so much any
other questions awesome thank you so much for your presentation very exciting for everyone
Next board, we're going to move to agenda item 7.1, consider board approval of the minutes of the June 2019 board meetings.
Item 7.1
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings as held on June of 2019.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in June of 2019.
Is there any discussion?
Hearing none, we'll move forward.
All those in favor, please raise your hand.
All those opposed?
Motion passes.
Sorry, I would like to note Mr. Keller is not here tonight, as you all can see.
Seven point two, discuss and consider board approval of the
Item 7.2
voting for a candidate for a position on the board of directors for the Harris County Appraisal District.
Mr. Smith.
Hello again.
This won't be but about three times longer than my earlier presentation.
Bear with me.
We are members of, obviously, the Harris County Appraisal District.
More than half our properties are located in the Harris County Appraisal District.
And, of course, we're members of the Fort Bend County Appraisal District and the Waller County Appraisal District.
Well, the Harris County Appraisal District, we've been represented by a gentleman by the name of Pete Poppe.
Pete is a colleague of mine, is the CFO of Deer Park ISD, and he's represented us for several years as the school districts and junior colleges representative on the Harris County Appraisal District.
There are five directors.
One of those directors represents school districts with the exception of Houston.
Houston has their own director.
So Mr. Poppy is resigning his post and what this is, is to, there have been nominations and there are four nominations that you have in front of you.
Jennifer Key, Ben Poppy, Robert Sitton, and Deanne Thompson are all on the board or the ballot to replace Mr. Poppy.
He will only be replaced from his expiration until the end of December.
and then in August next month we will have the opportunity to appoint another
person and vote on another vote on this again and do the same thing in in
September but this is done early because mr. poppies resigning off that position
for to do other interests and you have a summary of those candidates and we of
of who those candidates are and request that you move forward with our vote to be the nomination
to fill Pete Poppy's position for the next, until the end of December.
Thank you Mr. Smith.
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the resolution to vote for Robert Sitton for the
position on the board of directors of the Harris County Appraisal District as
recommended by administration. Second. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr.
Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution to vote for
Robert Sitton for the position of the board of directors of the Harris County
Appraisal District as recommended by the administration. Is there any discussion?
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right
hand. All those opposed? Motion passes. 7.3 discuss and consider board
Item 7.3
approval of the notice of public meeting to discuss the budget and proposed tax
rate Mr. Smith. Well as I mentioned in my presentation the next step in adopting
the budget is to have the meeting to discuss the budget and the proposed tax
rate. This is a notice that we're required under law to to post both on
our website and in a local newspaper. You have attached for you the blank notice.
We will be receiving the information from the reappraisal districts.
We received them from two and we'll work towards the third one in the next couple of weeks.
And we'll have a publication both on our website and in the newspaper that's required that will show a comparison of our three budgets or actually our two budgets,
our maintenance and operations budget and our interest in sinking budget comparison from one year to the next.
It compares the state and local funding from one year to the next.
The average residents of our three counties and
the impact of the tax rates that's proposed on their taxes.
It also has the information about the voter approved tax rate, our fund balances,
both maintenance and operations, and interest and sinking.
And again, I expect that as we complete this,
to get it ready for publish that the average taxes on our average residents
will decline or go down because of the 7.3 percent or I'm sorry percent
decrease in our maintenance and operations tax rate or our tax rate
expected to go down and what we've what I would recommend is that we publish the
notice at the maintenance operation tax rate of 1.0532 and interest in sinking tax rate
of 0.3900 for a total tax rate of $1.3432, which represents a 7.3 cent reduction.
reduction. We are still looking at a couple of things that associated with House Bill 3 that
could affect this. Once published, if you'll recall back in the wake of Hurricane Harvey,
when we did the tax swap to generate more state funds, we republished it because the maintenance
and operations tax rate was raised as part of that swap. So we did republish it as an abundance
of caution. We could lower a rate and not have to repost. So you can change it, but you cannot
increase it without going through the process of having another public meeting to discuss the
tax rate and the budget, et cetera. So that's my recommendation of the 1.0532 and 39 cent INS.
Madam President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the publishing of the Notice
of public meeting to discuss budget and proposed tax rate maintenance and
operation tax rate and interest in sinking tax rate as recommended by Mr.
Smith in the administration seconded I have a motion by mr. Lacey a second by
mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approves the publishing of the notice of
public meeting to discuss budget and proposed tax rate maintenance and
operations tax rate and interest and sinking tax rate 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 all those
opposed motion passes 7.4 mr. Smith again go ahead okay this is what you
Item 7.4
have before you in 7.4 15 pages that include that are part of our May
financial reports we do this monthly to the board in that includes a breakdown
down of our three budgeted funds, the three funds that I went over tonight in my presentation.
It's kind of where we are, a snapshot of where we were through the first nine months or 75%
of the fiscal year that we're currently in.
It also has a summary of our district outstanding bond projects, as well as the tax report through
month of May, and a summary of our check register.
Not the actual details of the check register, but upon your approval tonight, assuming your
approval, our accounting staff will publish the detailed check register as it does monthly
upon approval of these reports.
And that detailed check register is in a searchable format for those who may be interested in
looking at the details.
But what you have in front of you is a summary.
And I would recommend the approval of these or acceptance of these financial reports.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Madam President.
Ms. Phan.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the District's May 2019 financial reports as recommended by administration.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees approves the District's May 2019 financial reports as recommended by administration.
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.
says 7.5 discuss and consider board approval of the july 2019 budget amendments
Item 7.5
this and i'm going to ask miss butterfield to come up she does a better job than me
thank you president doyle trustees superintendent gorgorski
Tonight we have amendments in all three funds.
General operating fund tax revenues are reduced $5,244,093 to reflect changes in values and collections.
And state revenue is increased by the same amount, recognizing anticipated Senate Bill 500 proceeds.
This is an equal offset.
State revenues are also amended $5,010,427 to recognize additional Senate Bill 500 budget to fund the August 2019 1% lump sum payments to district staff.
Additionally, local revenues are increased $960 to recognize another Harris County Sheriff's Office asset forfeiture.
And again, we increase the police department's expenditure budget by the same $960.
General operating fund expenditures are increased by $5,010,427 for the 1% lump sum.
and expenditures are increased by $1,174,000 for expenditures related to the pre-K startup, full-day pre-K startup.
The remainder of the general fund amendments are direct offsets between different functions,
and approval of these amendments will result in a $1,174,000 decrease to the general operating fund balance.
Food service expenditures are amended to increase $111,045 for the same August 2019 1% lump sum to district food service staff.
An approval of this amendment will result in a $111,045 decrease to the food service fund balance.
Debt service local tax revenues are reduced $1,680,566 to again reflect changes in the property values and collections.
And other local revenues are increased by $785,000 for additional interest earnings.
Debt service expenditures are decreased $800,000 to account not only for the principal and interest payment on the new money bond sale Series 19, but also the rate reset on the Series 15 bonds and to reallocate expenditure budgets reflecting the February bond defeasances.
Debt service transfers in are increased $500,000 to recognize anticipated interest earnings
on construction funds.
That was one of those tools that Mr. Smith talked about earlier.
And approval of these debt service amendments will result in a $404,434 increase to the
debt service fund balance.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey. I'm assuming you're done. Okay. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the District's July 2019 budget amendment as recommended by Mrs. Butterfield and the administration. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the District's July 2019 budget amendment as recommended by administration. 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.
Thank you both so much.
Item 7.6
7.6, discuss and consider board approval of revisions to the 2019-2020 instructional calendar.
Ms. Leslie Hack.
Good evening.
Good evening. The revisions for the 2019-2020 instructional calendar include adding a 12th grade end date on Friday, May 15th. We have confirmed that the seniors will have earned the required minutes, the 75,600 minutes.
minutes. So with the end date on May 15th, we will begin graduation ceremonies on Saturday,
May 16th, and continue through that Friday, May 22nd. And with that, with the graduation
ceremonies and being able to spread them out, and it does accommodate, of course, a board
work study or board meeting on that Monday night, we would not have a graduation ceremony.
But by utilizing that Saturday, Sunday, and then the weeknights, and then possibly that
that Friday, May 22nd, Simon Youth and our Reigns graduations,
we would be done before the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend,
which I know Mr. Gorgorski stated high school staffs would be very excited about that.
But that would be eight next year with Pato coming online next year,
and then for 2023, high school nine would be joining us in the lineup,
and then who knows down the road.
Also with this and what I discussed with Mr. Krakorski is that if we were to spread out the ceremonies, we would be able to release a graduation schedule for the next three years until high school nine comes online so that families could plan accordingly in the future.
So that was some of the changes for the 19-20 calendar.
And the other one, if you'll refer to the week of June 29th through Friday, July 3rd,
we have determined that this is a very reduced staff throughout the district during this week.
It is a big holiday vacation.
It's very difficult for some of the campuses to remain staffed and open to accommodate the public.
so we want to be very transparent and upfront and request that that week that this office
and the campuses are closed to the public.
However, the district would still be operating and all the operations departments would still
be working.
If personnel at the campuses that are on contract would like to work, we would make available
a location for them to work, but it would also result in great energy savings for that
week throughout the district as well.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Madam President, may I?
Thank you.
And I have a senior, so I'm excited about the May 15th day.
But I'm just curious, when are they going to take their exams,
and especially if they're in classes, you know, maybe not just with seniors.
You know, they may be in classes with juniors and seniors.
How is that going to work?
I will run kind of two separate schedules that week.
I will say it's not unusual for districts to graduate their seniors early.
Lots of them do it for various reasons.
So it is very common to run two separate type schedules for that week.
Seniors will report to a separate location in the building for their final exams, for graduation rehearsal,
for all the things that we need to take care of leading up to that end date.
And so we've had these discussions, initial discussions with the principals and the associate principals,
and they feel very comfortable in creating those schedules.
Madam President, Ms. Vann.
I move the Board of Trustees approves of revisions to the 2019-2020 instructional calendar as
recommended by the administration.
Second.
No answer.
I don't know who I heard.
It's me.
Okay.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approves
the revisions to the 2019-2020 instructional calendar as recommended by administration.
Is there any discussion?
I have no.
Madam President.
I just I'd like to recognize Mrs. Hack and Mr. Gagorski for working on this.
I know that there's been a lot of discussion, a lot of work.
Greatly appreciate it to be able to spread it out and give families time to plan a little bit more,
especially with us setting the dates now.
So thank you all very much for your hard work.
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
I'm sorry.
Good, Ms. Vann.
Ms. Gassel.
Absolutely.
To echo what he said, this calendar is great,
and I think our community is really going to be excited about the changes that we've made.
And I know the staff will really love having the week of July 4th. I think so
My question is because I know that there's a lot of senior parents who are trying to plan different things for the year
When will we know which high schools are on which graduation day and time? I don't know if that's a question for you or for mr.
Krakowski
The assigned graduation
We do have a schedule that we've had some input from our high school principals on.
That schedule is ready to go upon approval of the calendar and those changes.
We'll be able to put that schedule out to our families almost immediately.
Yes, off.
Two questions.
And then will that, Mr. Gregorski, I'm sorry, will that, because in the past we always kind of rotated the graduations,
like who got the early morning on Saturday or whatever,
will it be the same kind of rotation?
There'll still be a rotational schedule that you'll switch them up each year,
or each year, yeah, that they'll rotate around.
Okay, and then a question for Ms. Hack.
Do we lose anything in federal funding for the week less of attendance
for the students not being there?
No, that's one of the things we were confirming
while we were working on the schedule.
schedule, because the seniors accrue the required minutes per the state, we do receive funding
for them that week.
And then Mr. Hines was able to confirm for the following week while the district is still
in session for those three and a half days.
So we will not be losing anything.
Excellent.
And we've got to get them to school that week, but we will.
We'll give them great incentives to show up.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Okay, I'll repeat the motion.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, seconded by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves
the revisions to the 2019-2020 instructional calendar as recommended by administration.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand.
All those opposed?
Motion passes.
You've just brought all kind of good news tonight for our students.
Next, 7.7, discuss and consider board approval of the interlocal agreement with the City
Item 7.7
of Houston and Katy Independent School District for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task
Force Program.
Chief Jenks.
President Dole, Board members, Superintendent Grigorski,
we're bringing forth, before you deny it for your consideration,
an interlocal agreement between the City of Houston and Katy ISD.
The Katy Independent School District Police Department is an active member
of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
The Houston Police Department has offered a position to be funded
by the ICAC, there's an error there, state grant.
Accepting this offer through the interlocal agreement would allow KDISD to assign the
detective currently working on ICAC cases to the grant-funded position.
KDISD police can in turn replace the open position with another officer.
The interlocal agreement, I mean, over the years, KDISD police have arrested numerous suspects attempting to exploit children within our district.
KDISD police have also rescued children from abusive situations due to this task force.
The interlocal agreement has been reviewed by district legal counsel and approved as to form.
Board approval of this recommendation is consistent with board policy CKE legal and CKE local.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with the City of Houston and Katy Independent School District
for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program as recommended by Chief and the Administration.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann,
that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with the City of
Houston and Katy Infinite School District for the Internet Crimes Against
Children's Task Force program as recommended by administration is there
any discussion any questions I would like to say something and I'm so happy
that we're we're doing this I actually looked that up and I see that they
they've been around a while and I just wanted to say I don't know how it came
came about with us, but I'm really happy that we have this.
So thank you, Officer Jenks.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes.
Thank you, Chief Jenks.
7.8, discuss and consider board approval of the memorandum of understanding
Item 7.8
for operation of a juvenile justice alternative education program, JJAEP,
with Fort Bend County.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Good evening, Madam President.
members of the board and superintendent Gregor ski the administration is presenting to you the first of two juvenile justice alternative education
program memorandums of understanding that are brought to you on a yearly basis usually this time of year
These mo use allow the district to reserve seats at respective County locations
For students that the district might want to permissively expel
the first mo you that's up for discussion and for your approval is
is with Fort Bend County.
And I'd like to share with you that there's no change
in the requested number of seats from last year.
We're still requesting two seats.
And there's also no change in the cost.
It remains at $14,000 total for the two seats.
OK.
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
I move that the Board of Trustees
approves the Memorandum of Understanding
for the Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education
Program, JJAEP, with Fort Bend County
as recommended by administration.
administration
Motion by miss van a second by mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves the memorandum of understanding for operation of a juvenile justice
alternative education program JJAEP with Fort Bend County as recommended by administration. Is there any discussion?
Hearing none will proceed to vote all those in favor. Please raise your right hand say aye
All those opposed motion passes go on with seven point nine
The next is the MOU with Harris County.
Item 7.9
The district is also recommending maintaining the same number of seats as last year, three permissive seats,
and also there's no increase in the cost per day, which is $110 per day per seat for these three seats that we're recommending.
Thank you.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the memorandum of understanding
for operational operation of a juvenile justice alter- alternative I can't read
tonight guys I'm sorry education program JJ AEP with Harris County as recommended
by the administration second I have a motion by mr. Lacey a second by miss van
that the Board of Trustees approves the memorandum of understanding for
operation of a juvenile justice alternative education program JJ AEP
with Harris County as recommended by the administration 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. Thank you so much.
7.10, discuss and consider board approval to utilize the general operating fund for the replacement of the live action media broadcast system, LAMS, at Rhodes Stadium. Mr. Teed.
Item 7.10
Good evening, President Doyle, Board members, Superintendent Gagorski.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the use of general operating fund
for the replacement of the live action media broadcast system at Rhodes Stadium
in the amount of $1,400,000.
The method of procurement for this project will be the job order contract
through cooperative purchasing.
The live action media broadcast system currently in use at Rhodes was installed in 2010.
It has met its life expectancy and has become increasingly unreliable in its operation.
The system will be replaced with a new Dektronics system similar in design to the system at Legacy Stadium,
but scaled to the size needed for Rhodes Stadium Field.
field. Installation will be scheduled with the athletics department and is expected to
be completed prior to August 1, 2020. Total project funding source again is General Operating
Fund. Total project cost not to exceed $1.4 million.
Madam President. Ms. Phan.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the use of the General Operating Fund, GOF,
for the replacement of the live action media broadcast system, otherwise known as LAMS,
at Rhodes Stadium in the amount of $1,400,000 as recommended by the administration.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Phan, a second by Mr. Lacey,
that the Board of Trustees approves the use of the general operating fund, GOF,
for the replacement of the live action media broadcast system, LAMS, at Rhodes Stadium
in the amount of $1,400,000 as recommended by administration.
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. Thank you so much.
7.11, discuss and consider board approval of the qualified vendors to provide remediation services following major property loss.
Item 7.11
Mr. Naumann.
Good evening, President Doyle, Superintendent Grzyworski, and Board of Trustees again.
Working in collaboration, the departments of risk management, maintenance and operations submitted to the marketplace a request for proposal for remediation services to be provided to the district in the event of a major property loss.
The district received 12 responses to the request with three vendors selected.
Consideration was given to experience, depth of resources, flexibility and local accessibility in the event of a loss.
Additionally, the selected vendors have past and recent experience providing services during a widespread event such as Hurricane Harvey.
Both departments feel the selected partners have the ability to work in concert with the district's property insurance carrier.
Additionally, these vendors meet procurement requirements set forth by FEMA.
It is the recommendation of both departments that by having multiple vendors in the event of a widespread loss, the district will be better able to impact the timely reopening of schools.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves qualified vendors of Cotton Services, Blackman Mooring, and Servpro to provide remediation services to the district following a major property loss.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees.
Come on, guys.
That the Board of Trustees approves qualified vendors of cotton services, Blackmon Mooring, and Servpro to provide remediation services to the district following major property loss as recommended by the administration.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves the qualified vendors of cotton services, Blackmon Mooring, and Servpro to provide remediation services to the district following major property loss as recommended by administration.
Is there any discussion?
Madam President.
Ms. Gessle.
Really quickly.
So you said there were 12 bids?
And was it matrix like we would normally see a weighted average and there was a total score
and that's how you made the decision?
It was.
We went through the normal procurement process and based on our weighting scale,
these top vendors rose to the top.
Okay. Thank you.
Any other questions?
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.
7.12, discuss and consider board approval of growth units for pre-kindergarten staffing for the 2019-2020 school year.
Item 7.12
Mr. Shush and Ms. Hack, thank you.
I've got a partner this time.
There you go.
One of the provisions of House Bill 3 per the 86th legislature was that for the upcoming school year 2019-20 for districts to provide full day pre-K for eligible students.
And this past school year and before, KDIC has offered half-day pre-K to eligible students.
It was roughly held at 29 campuses, and we served approximately 1,600 students, a few more than that.
So in preparation for this change with the House Bill 3 to offer full-day pre-K,
the district has been analyzing our current locations, identifying additional locations
and additional classrooms at current locations in anticipation of increased
enrollment due to the full day pre-k. So with that being said, Mr. Schuch here is
here to talk about the FTEs, additional FTEs that we will need to possibly staff
this increased enrollment. Yes ma'am, so based on the information we are
requesting 45 additional pre-kindergarten teachers and 60 pre-k
paraprofessionals and that is based on all the information that Ms. Hack spoke
spoke about current locations, additional locations, and number of students.
Madam President. Ms. Vann. I move the Board of Trustees approves growth units for pre-kindergarten
staffing for the 2019-2020 school year as recommended by administration. Second. I have a
motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves growth units for
pre-kindergarten staffing for the 2019-2020 school year as recommended by administration. Is there
any discussion? Madam President. Mr. Redman. Sorry. Do we happen to have any projections on
the number of students we're expecting in the pre-k program the tentative
number that we've kind of planned for is 1,800 well over that and right now our
additional classrooms that we're looking at and this is and let me say pre-k and
PPCD we're planning for both we're anticipating increased enrollment both
is approximately 37 classrooms right now and that's what the FTE additional FTEs
are based on thank you madam president champagne um a couple of questions first of all when we're
doing the projection for the our increased enrollment are we considering those 1800 other
children in the projection for 2019 okay yes that was one question and also um i was wondering
because i know that a lot of the um k through i don't know what it is k through six or k through
eight teachers are not certified to do pre-k i'm wondering about the specials the pe the art
um those kind of teachers who are not certified to teach pre-k and now that it's going to a full
day have have we thought about that or what are we going to do for the for the pre-k kids you know
how the the regular elementary kids will break out and go to their specials but what i've heard from
From some teachers is that they're not certified to teach the pre-k so like the PE teachers the music teachers the art teachers
Are not certified to teach pre-k
Ms. Champagne, I think what you're asking for there and I'll try and explain that one see if I hadn't you're on the right track
With what I'm thinking
In in elementary, it'll be the K through five students that go to the specials
Mm-hmm
Because our classrooms we staff with two adults one teacher and one para educator
Instructional Paraeducator that they will do the specials within the classroom
and that's how the curriculum is designed so they'll do those things with
with those two teachers in tandem.
Is that all? Okay. Any other questions? 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. Thank you.
7.13, discuss and consider board approval of a delegate and alternate delegate to the 2019 Texas Association of School Boards Delegate Assembly.
Item 7.13
Each year, the board approves a delegate and alternate delegate to the TASB Delegate Assembly.
Last year, our delegate was Mr. Bill Lacey and Susan Gesloff was our alternate delegate.
Bill Lacey has vacated the delegate position to fill the TASB Board of Directors Region 4 Position E position.
We will consider board approval of a delegate and alternate delegate for item 7.13. Madam president. Mr
Lacey I move to nominate Ashley van as an official Katy ISD
voting delegate for the
2019 TASB delegate assembly and nominate mr. Lance Redmond as an alternate delegate a
nomination was made by mr
Lacey to same to name is Ashley van as an official Katy Independent School District voting delegate of the
the 2019 TASB delegate assembly and nominate Mr. Lance Redman as an alternate delegate.
Are there any other nominations?
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes 6-0.
Next on our agenda is donated items by Katy Independent School District.
Item 8.1
The board has been provided a copy of those donated items.
items, and 8.2, the quarterly investment report.
Item 8.2
The Board was also provided a quarterly investment report.
Next, we will move on to our open forum section of the meeting.
Item 9
At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak.
A meeting that is open to the public under the Texas Open Meetings Act is one that the
public is permitted to attend.
The Act does not entitle the public to choose the items to be discussed or to speak about
items on the agenda.
agenda. A governmental body may, however, give members of the public an opportunity
to speak at a public meeting, which KDISD Board Policy BED Local does allow. As defined
by this Board Policy, the first 20 speakers who signed up at least 15 minutes before this
meeting began and have provided their first and last name will be allowed to speak. A
maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated, with the time divided equally among those
who have signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes.
If you are not finished speaking at the end of your three minutes, your microphone will
turn off.
If speakers wish to share written material with the Board, 10 copies must be provided
to the Secretary for Board Services, for Board members, the Superintendent, the Chief Communications
Officer and permanent record.
Due to posting requirements of the Open Meetings Act, the Board is able to respond only to
a statement related to a posted agenda item with a statement of specific factual information
given or a recitation of existing policy in response to the inquiry.
If a speaker has not attempted to solve a matter administratively through the proper channels as stated in Board Policy, the presiding officer shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through the appropriate policy.
Board Policy BED legal states that it is a criminal offense for a person with intent to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting to substantially obstruct or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the meeting by physical action or verbal utterance and thereby curtail the exercise of others' First Amendment rights.
Board Policy BED Local provides for the removal of any member of the audience after at least one warning who disrupts the meeting by his or her words or actions.
Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code Sections 551.074 and 551.0821,
the Board will not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student
and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee
or hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee.
Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues,
they must do so through the appropriate grievance policies,
FNG local, DGBA local, or GF local.
As I announce your name, please come forward and state your first and last name for the record.
Our first speaker this evening is Frances Hester.
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon. My name is Frances Hester, President Dole. Members of the board, Superintendent Gagorski, thank you for the opportunity to be here this evening.
Again, my name is Dr. Frances Hester and I'm the Senior Director of the Teaching and Learning Center for the Harris County Department of Education.
I am here tonight on behalf of HCDE to honor the special partnerships we have with Katy Independent School District.
HCD exists to support public education in Harris County by offering services and initiatives within the 25 school districts within Harris County.
Nine out of the 15 HCDE divisions are currently partnering with Katy ISD.
Last year, HCDE provided professional development to over 2,200 of your professional staff, and we also served over 2,900 of your students.
HCDE's investment in supporting Katy ISD is over $5 million.
So tonight I have a few small gifts for you to commemorate our continued collaborations
and partnerships.
So first I have two certificates and one is from 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 and it reads
Harris County Department of Education Center for Safe and Secure Schools Certificate of
Appreciation awarded to Katy Independent School District for being a member of the Center
for safe and secure schools and for participation in the Center Operations
Board and for advancing safe and secure learning environments through
partnerships and finally I also have
this award in its states presented to Katie ISD in recognition of support in
student achievement and staff excellence for the 2018-2019 school year so again
Again, thank you for this opportunity to serve Katy Independent School District.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Next Mr. Dolan, Mr. Sean Dolan.
First off, I wanted to congratulate Duke Keller, who's obviously not here, and Lance Redman,
on your victory in the last election. It was a lot of work and I truly admire your willingness
to serve the community. As I said during the campaign, my greatest concern was that you both
would be led by the nose told where to sit where to stand when to speak and whom to speak to
so far my invitations to meet privately to share my side of the story over the last year with
either of you have been denied as you know outright refused by yourself and perpetually
unscheduled by mr keller i hope one day you will have the courage to admit that the board was
incorrect when they claimed the allegations of plagiarism were
verifiably false. I hope one day you will have the courage to admit that the
responses to the issues I shared about my son were mishandled. I hope one day
you'll have the courage to admit that the decisions to hire at least two
private investigators to harass my family and social network were misguided.
I hope one day you will have the courage to admit that the KDISD school board
threatening private citizens with defamation lawsuits to cover for their
their own lack of basic vetting is immoral.
And finally, I hope that one day you'll have the courage
to finally have that meeting over a cup of coffee with me
so that we can get together
and get to know each other unfiltered.
Is something funny, Mrs. Lacy?
Okay.
Okay.
If you guys don't appreciate it.
Please remember that the power bestowed upon you is wasted
if it's not exercised.
I do not expect everyone to think like me,
but I do expect everyone to think for themselves.
Never be afraid to ask a question. This community needs a voice in this district and I wish you the courage to become that voice.
Bill Lacey, it appears that you finally did pay off one of those tax liens. On behalf of the rest of us...
Mr. Dolan?
I'm sorry, yes?
You cannot address Mr. Lacey like that.
I can't address him? I just addressed...
No, you can't bring that up. Mr. Graham, is this something that is...
It's on a public personal... It's on the county website.
Just use the link.
One minute.
I can't tell if you're wasting my time or...
Excuse me.
Yes, sir.
Do you mind?
You're bringing up personal private information that was incorrect.
And, Mr. Graham, is this things that are, again,
I'm going to go back to the comments made by the board president at the outset of this.
This is not an opportunity.
The public comment is not intended to discuss the evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline,
dismissal of a public officer employee or to hear a complaint or charge against
such an officer. Which employee was I discussing? Public officer. Public officer,
okay. So I'm not suggesting anyone does anything to Mr. Lacey. I'm not
suggesting he be evaluated or... Okay, let's move on. All right.
Courtney Doyle, I see that you're putting in a pool in an outdoor kitchen at your house. No, we are not gonna address public officers with
with information that's irrelevant to this school district.
Okay, I'll just skip that.
So I've been spending some time over the past year at the University of Houston
as one of the complainants in our former superintendent's plagiarism investigation.
Unless the defendant is granted another extension,
I should receive the results of the plagiarism investigation
before our next school board meeting.
Not sure how the district plans to respond to this news.
Thank you, Mr. Dolan. Your time is up.
Our next speaker is Dr. Babin.
Good evening.
I'd like to say thank you for the reasonable accommodation for my disability tonight.
I appreciate that.
Tonight I want to talk about, I'd like to ask you all to consider three initiatives
that would serve to enhance this portion of your board meetings.
meetings. Over the years the open forum for patrons of the district has gone from being
at the beginning of the regular board meeting and allowing all comers to voice their opinions
with no unreasonable time limit to being a well controlled restricted session at the
end of the work study meeting after most of the public has gone home for the night. Twenty-five
years ago there were no regulations regarding this session while now there is legal board
policy and local board policy that addresses all the rules that have been developed. In
In some people's opinions, I want to qualify that statement, they were devised to keep the public from knowing and hearing the words of those in public who pay for and support our KDISD public schools and who have legitimate concerns that you as board members need to hear if you are to govern in a responsible manner.
Perhaps it's time to consider moving the open forum back to the regular board meeting like we did tonight and to stop trying to hide the important part of the meeting.
I would even be open to could we have it at two sessions?
You know one at the beginning one at the end because not everybody can make the meetings
Maybe you can make one meeting or not another if nobody signs up to speak. We don't have to have it
We have moved from an open
Democratic platform to a highly regulated three minute or less session
Which is often interrupted by an attorney who would appear to question we represent the board members as well as their one employee the superintendent
superintendent. The board has allowed an obvious conflict of interest situation to develop.
I would like to suggest that the board hire their own legal representative and that they
not allow their employees legal counsel to interrupt the declarations of public speakers
during the open forum. It is clear that his obvious intent is not to protect the board
members or the public speakers, but instead the interest of the superintendent.
One minute.
The conflict of interest that exists when an attorney represents both an employee
as well as employer needs to be addressed immediately. The third
suggestion has to do with the decorum of board members during public board
meetings. Patrons who have signed up to speak in the open forum should be
allowed to do just that. The board by their own rules are not supposed to
engage with the legitimate speaker. It would behoove them to abide by their own
rules. Let the public members speak. The board president should control his or
own board members and employees who do not appear to have the right response
during open forum speakers time and listen to what is said. That is your duty.
If there are things that need to be said in response do so on your own time
It is wrong for board members to take up the time
For such an activity during the open forum which clearly belongs to the public
You as board members should not assume that you're more important to the school district than the parents students and taxpayers who support your mission
Thank you all for serving
Appreciate this. I hope we have a good year. Peace be your journey home safe be your travels. Thank you. God bless. Thank you, dr. Babin
Madam president, mr. Graham may I offer a factual?
response to this. I think it's I think that's a timely I think that's a timely
topic because as you know the state legislature just wrapped up at the end
of May and one of the pieces of legislation that they passed actually
speaks to the Texas Open Meetings Act and public comment in board meetings so
I do anticipate that we will be making some changes based upon the change in
law. I'm very comfortable in the way that we have been doing things but there
there would be changes based upon that change of law that I think that we'll see again that
that legislation is effective September 1 and so as we see those as members of the public see that
I want to know I want everybody to know what the genesis of that is. Thank you Mr. Graham.
Item 10
Our future board meetings Monday August 19th 2019 is our work study regular meeting is Monday August
26th 2019. The board will now convene and close meeting as authorized under section 551.001 of
Items 11 - 13
the Texas Government Code for the following purposes. Texas Government Code 551.071, 551.129,
551.0821, and 551.074. It is now necessary for everyone to please clear the room as the Board
will now convene and close meeting in this room. Thank you all. The Board will now reconvene in
open meeting. Today is Monday, July 29, 2019, and the time is 9.17 p.m. There being no further
other business before the board. This meeting is adjourned. The time is 917 p.m.
Official documents
Agenda
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Board packet · 28 documents
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- 2018-19 3rd Quarter Report 263 KB
- Delegate Form 2019 496 KB
- 2019-2020 LCISD JJAEP MOU for Board 2398 KB
- 2019-2020 Harris County JJAEP MOU for Board 302 KB
- 2018-19 Bullying Prevention and Awareness Campaign- overview report 1262 KB
- 1FinancialStatementsMay2019 15 KB
- 2AnalysisFunctionObjectMay2019 17 KB
- 3ConstrRptMay2019 151 KB
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Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in June 2019.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the attached resolution voting for candidate Robert Sitton for a position on the Board of Directors of the Harris County Appraisal District.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the publishing of the Notice of Public Meeting to Discuss Budget and Proposed Tax Rate, a Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate of $1.0532 per $100 valuation and an Interest and Sinking Tax Rate of $0.3900 per $100 valuation.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 7.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's May 2019 financial reports.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 7.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District’s July 2019 budget amendments.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 7.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the revisions to the 2019-2020 instructional calendar.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 7.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Interlocal Agreement with the City of Houston, through the Houston Police Department, and Katy Independent School District for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 7.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Fort Bend County.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 7.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Harris County.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 7.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the use of the General Operating Fund (GOF) for the replacement of the Live Action Media Broadcast System (LAMBS) at Rhodes Stadium in the amount of $1,400,000. The method of procurement for this project will be the Job Order Contract through Cooperative Purchasing.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 7.11
PassedIt is recommended the Board of Trustees approves the qualified vendors of Cotton Services, Blackmon Mooring, and Servpro to provide remediation services to the District following major property loss.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 7.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves 45 teacher and 60 para-professional Pre-Kindergarten staffing growth units for the 2019 - 2020 school year, as requested by the superintendent.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 7.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Ashley Vann as an official Katy Independent School District voting delegate to the 2019 TASB Delegate Assembly and approves Lance Redmon as an alternate delegate.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |