Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this regular Board Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order.
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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, September 23, 2019
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- 0:00 to 0:28 Item 1 Call to Order - Upon announcement by the presiding officer that a quorum is present, the meeting will be called to order. 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.
- 0:28 to 20:42 Item 2 Open Forum - In accordance with BED(LEGAL) and BED(LOCAL), the Board shall allot up to 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.
- 20:42 to 21:39 Items 3 & 4 3. Closed Meeting - Closed Meeting will be held for the purposes 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. 3.1 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.) 4. Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting.
- 21:39 to 25:49 Item 5 Pledges of Allegiance 5.1 Creech Elementary Student to Lead Pledges of Allegiance.
- 25:49 to 55:18 Item 6.1 Planning for Growth: Review of preliminary results of the community feedback survey on the attendance boundary modifications associated with elementary school #43, Jordan High School and other existing high school campuses.
- 55:18 to 1:07:07 Item 6.2 Katy Independent School District Education Foundation Annual Report.
- 1:07:07 to 1:09:26 Item 7.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of nominating candidates for positions on the Boards of Directors for the Waller County Appraisal District, Fort Bend Central Appraisal District, and Harris County Appraisal District.
- 1:09:26 to 1:11:08 Item 7.2 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the 2019-2020 Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate.
- 1:11:08 to 1:12:33 Item 7.3 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the 2019-2020 Interest and Sinking (Debt Service) Tax Rate.
- 1:12:33 to 1:16:48 Item 7.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of an amendment to the February 2019 Bond Refunding Parameter Order.
- 1:16:48 to 1:18:22 Item 7.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of the July 2019 Financial Reports.
- 1:18:22 to 1:19:39 Item 7.6 Discuss and consider Board approval of the September 2019 budget amendments.
- 1:19:39 to 1:21:35 Item 7.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of the claims administration by Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Risk Management Fund for Unemployment Compensation.
- 1:21:35 to 1:26:07 Item 7.8 Discuss and consider Board approval for the superintendent to prepare, sign, and submit a waiver application to the State Commissioner of Education for elementary school campuses that exceed the allowable class size of 22:1, in addition to campuses that could potentially exceed the ratio due to increased enrollment during the 2019 - 2020 school year.
- 1:26:07 to 1:29:15 Item 7.9 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Campus Performance Objectives.
- 1:29:15 to 1:31:20 Item 7.10 Discuss and consider Board approval of a proposal for district wide safety and security upgrades - Package #2.
- 1:31:20 to 1:37:23 Item 7.11 Discuss and consider Board approval to utilize 2017 Bond Savings funds for projects at various District facilities.
- 1:37:23 to 1:41:45 Item 7.12 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for landscape maintenance services at multiple campuses.
- 1:41:45 to 1:44:58 Item 7.13 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for the replacement of flooring at the Education Support Complex and the Leonard Merrell Center.
- 1:44:58 to 1:48:14 Item 7.14 Discuss and consider Board approval of a Memorandum of Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Katy Independent School District for NASA Continuity of Operations Program.
- 1:48:14 to 1:48:43 Item 7.15 Discuss and consider Board approval of the minutes of the August 2019 Board meetings.
- 1:48:43 to 1:48:49 Item 8 Information Items 8.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 1:48:49 to 1:49:01 Items 9 & 10 9. Future Meetings 9.1 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, October 28, 2019 10. Adjournment
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Item 1
Today is Monday, September 23, 2019, and the time is 5.31 p.m.
Dr. Grigorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act with regard to this notice for this meeting?
Madam President, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of Texas Open Meeting Act in regard to this meeting tonight.
At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak.
Item 2
A meeting that is open to the public under the Texas Open Meetings Act is one that the public is permitted to attend.
A governmental body may 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 have 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, ten copies must be provided to the Secretary for Board Services, for board members, the
Superintendent, the Chief Communications Officer, and Permanent Record. If a speaker has not attempted to solve a matter
administratively through the proper channels as stated in board policy the
presiding officers designee shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through
the appropriate policy board policy BED legal states that it's a criminal offense
for a person with intent to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting to substantially
obstruct or interfere with the ordinary conduct of a meeting by physical action
or verb or verbal utterance and thereby curtail the exercise of others First
First Amendment rights. Board policy BED local provides for removal of any member of the audience
after at least one warning who disrupts the meeting by his or her words or actions. Finally,
pursuant to Texas Government Code Sections 551.074 and 551.0821, the Board will not permit
the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student and will not
discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal
of a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee.
Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues, they must do so through the appropriate
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 Amber
Hall.
Hello, my name is Amber Hall.
I am the National Junior Honor Society President and Student Council President at West Memorial
Junior High.
What I would like to talk about is how our friend groups would all be split up.
I went to Sumon Elementary from third grade to fifth grade.
Whenever I went to sixth grade, I still kept some of the same bonds, but I then expanded
on by making bonds with people from West Memorial.
Most of my friend group, excluding a couple of people, have gone to West Memorial Elementary
for a year or longer.
As we found out about the Katy rezoning, I was sad because I knew that my dad would go
above and beyond and try to move me to where I would be able to go to Katy High School.
With that happening, I would go to Katy along with a few others who live in the Grand Harbor
area.
The people in the Grand Harbor area are people who I have known for three years now.
Others who I have known for six and seven years will be going to Cinco or Taylor.
So not only will I not see my friends who are going to Cinco, I wouldn't get to see my friends who are going to Taylor who I've known.
I don't think it would be fair to split up my whole friend group because it is overcrowded.
I think the second best thing other than all of us going to Katy is rezoning our whole junior high school to one high school.
Another thing is I have multiple friends who have older siblings that will be going to
Katy while they will be going to Cinco or Taylor.
Their parents will have to take the time out of their day to take both of them to school.
I believe that you should think about all schools who are going to Katy instead of just a few.
Thank you for your consideration.
Thank you so much, Amber.
Our next speaker is Heidi Rice.
Hello, my name is Heidi Rice. I don't know how to follow that because she's amazing, right?
But I know that we're all parents, well most of us here, and I just wanted to make my voice and
and support the group that I'm with.
My son went to West Memorial,
who's now at Katy High School,
and my daughter's in eighth grade,
hoping to go to Katy High School.
I have a daughter at West Memorial.
And I know that y'all have heard this
and you're doing your best to figure this out.
But we wanted to come here as a family and as neighbors.
And yes, the fact is it can be emotional for a lot of us because we've grown up in a neighborhood that's, we've been there some of us for 40 years.
And when we go to football games, we bring grandparents and it's a whole thing.
So when they told me about tonight, I was like, yes, because a lot of them go above and beyond what I do as a parent.
and they're setting up things and just really trying to see that you that you
guys are missing a heart some of us have in a yes it's an emotional thing but to
take us and split us up is is kind of wrenching with our heart and ripping our
heart out so we do ask that you consider our voice what we have to say and not
just the facts as I know the facts are all that we have left at times but we do
know that if we put our kids in single ranch or if we put our kids in Taylor
they're gonna do their best because they're fighters and they're heroes as
you heard Amber and they're amazing I hope that they are welcomed if that's
the way that it goes I hope that they are given the opportunity to be the
stars that we know that they are that they would shine at Katy High School
with. One minute. Thank you. And as I listen to these kids and as I listen to the parents of the
neighbors and I just want you all to hear them as they come forward and really consider a way.
I know that we can pray and we can hope but I grew up in well I didn't grow up but my kids
grew up in Victoria Lakes and old Katy so of course I really believed that my kids were going
going to go to Katie High School. Unfortunately, I'm divorced and my budget puts me in West Memorial
and I've grown to love these people. I've grown to see their hearts and their football players and
that they go to all football games, not just the ones that their kids are in.
So thank you for your consideration and thank you for hearing the heart that we have for this.
Heidi, clarifying question. Are you part of the Grand Arbor area as well?
No, ma'am. I live in West Memorial subdivision. I'm sorry, Cimarron. Cimarron. I'm sorry,
I'm a little nervous. I live in Cimarron subdivision on Mason, off of Mason and Cimarron.
Okay. I'm sorry. You may have said that not totally.
No, I didn't.
I apologize. Okay. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Our next speaker is .
You're passing? Okay. Thank you, Ms. Finks. Our next speaker is Michael Hall.
My name is Michael Hall. Can you all hear me here? Yes, sir. So you guys all know the issues. I know
that you guys have a very difficult decision that you're about to make right now. I know that it's a
decision that's probably been kicked down the road for 20 years and should have happened a long time
time ago. You know the difficulties with these families. You know the difficulties with splitting
up groups of kids. You know the difficulties with brothers and sisters that have gone to
Katie High School that will now be going to a different high school. I'm speaking in behalf
of West Memorial, by the way. You know the issues with brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers who
went to Katie High School. But the biggest problem that I have with this rezoning right now
is that it seems like there's there's very little options for us with a very
short amount of time to make a decision. As a parent you you buy a home which is
the largest decision, largest purchase you'll ever make in your house in your
lifetime and as a parent you make that decision based on where your kids will
go to school. That's the probably the leading factor that you look at. Cinco
Ranch, Taylor High School, all good schools nothing against that but the
majority of us made a decision to go to Katy High School based on but less
Legacy based on the fact that they could be second or third generation kids.
A lot of stuff has really hit me in the last few months when I look at, you know,
I post a picture on Facebook and then I'm looking at these kids and I'm like, holy crud.
Two older brothers that played at Katy High School.
Mom was in the Bengal Brigade.
You know, father played basketball at Katy High School.
Uncle and an aunt were, you know, cheerleader and basketball and baseball players at Katy High School.
That's legacy.
and what I'm proposing right now, I know you guys have a difficult decision. I
know that it's not a decision that y'all sat around and came up with, that y'all
were basically presented with something that you need to say yes or no to. What I
would like for you to do, what I would like for y'all to propose, is at least
give some of these kids, especially the sixth, seventh, eighth graders, an option.
A couple years, give us an option. We're not talking about a huge amount of
children. You're talking about a hundred to, I don't know, 150, 200 kids per year
year tops from West Memorial that would be rezoned to Taylor or to Cinco Ranch. You guys know the
numbers better than I do. If you give us that option, if I'm the parent of a fifth grader or
sixth grader and you told me right now your kids will not go to Katy, I've got two or three years
to make a decision for the largest purchase of my life. I can put some money aside. I can buy a home.
If you guys make this decision next month that my kids aren't going to Katy where they've thought
their whole lives and you know we bought a safe in a safe area, safe in that it's been zoned to
Katie for 45 years I get it things change but give us a little bit of an
option give us a little time if they're in fifth grade and and you tell me
they're not gonna go to Katie high school I've got three or four years to
plan accordingly and make a move six months seven months isn't time for a lot
of families to make a change to keep that legacy going yeah five seconds I
guess I know y'all have a hard decision to make I'm just hoping you will thank
Thank you so much, Mr. Hall.
Our next speaker is Mindy Pitcock.
Good evening.
Same topic, the attendance boundary modification.
My name is Mindy Pitcock.
I am a KDISD parent, and I am a resident of Wood Creek Reserve, so that is different.
I'm here tonight with some of my neighbors to address some of our concerns with the ABM.
Some of you do know that the proposed ABM has us being split off a very small portion of Wood Creek Reserve.
Only 18% of our neighborhood is projected to be split off from Katy to Tompkins.
We are located in Lane Use Zone 52F.
We have a very low student enrollment and would not affect the population dramatically at either high school.
We ask that you reconsider this move and weigh the small impact it would have at balancing the load between the two schools.
It's approximately 15 students in high school.
My neighborhood section is located only 1.6 miles from Katy High School,
and the majority of land use zone 52F is also less than two miles from Katy High School
and should help with the transportation system as well if you keep us zone to the closer high school.
Our entire land use zone is also located within the city limits of Katy.
Wood Creek Reserve is a very close community.
So together with my neighbors, we ask that you reconsider the current exclusions of our two small sections
and allow the entire neighborhood to stay zoned to the same high school.
Thank you for your consideration.
We know that you have a responsibility to all the students within the district, and these decisions are difficult.
call we appreciate your time thank you very much thank you so much our next speaker is chris hoyle
dr g and the fellow board members thank you all for your time this evening um coming on
behalf west moral junior high i last spoke at a school board meeting when westmore elementary
Elementary was going through their ABM.
And at the time, it was supposed to go all the way
to Kingsland and Provincial.
And then we kind of got blindsided,
and they split that crossing up.
And so coming together the night before the vote happens next,
I'm guessing, no export meeting, if I'm correct,
is the vote for the redrawing of the junior high one.
Or for the high school one, excuse me.
A couple of things.
I know I've sent a couple emails to different people. Boundary zone 43 currently is
boundary exists between the along the bayou that separates
West Memorial slash
Governor's Place with Cimarron and the current ABM has that boundary being moved to Kingsland Boulevard
which would separate literally one block of both West Memorial and Governor's Place from the rest of their friends they've grown up with all through elementary and junior high.
So hopefully it's just an oversight that's gonna get changed on the official ABM or building modification if it does happen
But it's just a bayou there. So it's a landmark versus the street. So if you look closely at that
Like our kids eloquently said they really don't want to be split up and
Three high schools is very rare that kids get split up between three high schools from the junior highs
You know, district units terminology last year about be the legacy, right? And as Michael shared,
plenty of families have a legacy at KU high school and they want to see their kids continue that
legacy and live on. And this year the theme is rooted and there's so many people that are rooted
in their communities and to be forced to sell houses and move outside of where you're rooted
really kind of stinks. It really kind of does. Myself, I've been a PTA member, watchdog dad,
one minute, baseball coach, swim board member, everything under the sun, and PTA treasurer,
whatever, and I'm actually serving on the district leadership thing here and loving it so far.
We just want to see our kids happy, do anything we can for our children.
And so there could be options.
Hey, bus your kids yourself if you want to waver to be able to continue on.
Like Michael said, maybe the kids that were at least in junior high as of last year, as
of this year, whatever that number is, or if you've lived in a community that's been
rooted, established in that boundary zone for so many years.
What's that number?
I don't know.
Is it five years?
Is it 10 years?
I don't know. That's not I'll leave that up to y'all but just ask you truly think outside the box and
Not just a blanket statement every single person. We appreciate your time. Thank you
Thank you. Our next speaker is Rose Hoyle
I'm a student athlete at West Memorial junior high. I
I don't think that it's fair that our junior high gets split up into three different high schools.
Many of us have dreamed of going to Katy High School our whole life.
Having West Memorial and Governor's Place go to Taylor, then Cimarron going to Cinco,
and people on the other side of 99 going to Katy is not fair.
None of us want to be split up.
Athletically, we have developed a strong team and great chemistry.
With us not going to Katy, it creates the conflicts with all of our athletes.
Thank you for your consideration.
Thank you so much, Rose.
Our next speaker is Shreya Agrawala.
I may have mispronounced that.
I'm sorry.
Would you give us your correct pronunciation?
Okay, thank you.
Good afternoon, KDISD board.
My name is Shreya Agrawala, and I'm a senior at Cinco Ranch High School.
I believe that we are living through an environmental crisis.
I'm not doing enough, and nor is KDISD.
Every six weeks, 3,200 students receive a progress report in Cinco Ranch.
That is 3,200 pieces of paper.
Multiply that by nine high schools in the district, and that is 29,000 pieces of paper in six weeks.
Multiply that by six weeks, and KDISD is using 174,000 pieces of paper a year only for high school progress reports.
While the intent of progress reports is pure, the reality is that a majority of students
are throwing them away within minutes after having received them.
By the time we get our progress reports, they are already inaccurate as new grades have
been put into the update grade book which everybody looks at.
I believe it is time to make progress reports digital in order to decrease our ecological
footprint without decreasing functionality.
functionality. Students and parents can access their progress reports through email. The
district has access to emails of all parents, so I don't believe that this should be a large
issue. Additionally, sending progress reports to students' emails would promote the use
of KDISD emails, which are currently not used by many.
Upon special request, progress reports can be printed for those who may have technological
issues a hard copy of a progress report can be mailed to a student's home if
they're failing and require a parent signature and this prevents any
awkwardness that the student might feel while it may seem far-fetched to connect
our actions to the very real situation of deforestation occurring even our
small actions have big impact. KDISD has the opportunity to contribute to a green
revolution and lead other school districts with it. One minute.
Our environment is changing and I believe it is time that we change with
it. I thank you for your time and do hope that the board will consider my appeal.
Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate what you just said on that. I'm gonna go
ahead and comment on that one there because I think you and I are on the
the same page on that. It's something we've been looking at in KDISD for quite a while.
As a matter of fact, when you receive your newest report card, the printed ones, we're going to have
a message on there, and I don't remember what it says exactly, but something to the effect that says
this is the last school year. We're going to be printing those. We're moving to everything with
an electronic format, and you'll start seeing that you can access everything in real time through
HACC. You're also going to be able to see your transcripts through there and all sorts of other
digitally type thing so not only is it good for the environment we will save
probably a couple hundred thousand dollars a year in printing and mailing
costs and we're looking forward to making that transition so we're
announcing that this year and then so next year we're gonna be a hundred
percent digital all right I appreciate that thank you you bet
this concludes the open forum portion of our meeting the board will now convene
Items 3 & 4
in closed meeting as authorized under section 551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the
following purposes. Texas Government Code 551.071 and 551.129. The Board will now reconvene in open
meeting. Today is Monday, September 23, 2019, and the time is 646 p.m. 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 on Friday, September 20, 2019. The Board will receive
information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the
superintendent on these agenda items at tonight's meeting. Board members will be
asked, will be able to ask questions, receive answers, and should be prepared
to take action this evening. The board has just reconvened from closed meeting
in accordance with chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. Any action arising
from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. Do we
have any scouts in the audience? Okay, let's move on to agenda item 5.1,
Item 5
Creech Elementary student, you're going to come lead our pledges. Dr. Gorgorski.
You bet. So I'm going to go ahead. We have a special invited guest, Livia Whitfield.
I'm going to go ahead invite you up to the podium. So come on up. And Livia is
fifth grader at Creech Elementary and her principal is in here somewhere. I'm
looking around right behind them. Huberta Lucas and her parents there, Dana and
William Whitfield and a sibling sister, Kendall Whitfield as well. And Livia's
special interests. Some things that interest me are drawing and crafts and
physical activities, especially basketball. And guess what the favorite
subject would be? Physical education and science though. So that's awesome. I've
got a quote here from Mrs. Box, fifth grade teacher. Livia is a sweet young
lady. She is eager to help her teachers in the classroom and she always sets a
good example for others in her class. She is kind and respectful to both her
teachers and her classmates. And Mrs. Odie, second grade teacher, Livia is an extraordinary girl who
is brave enough to be her true truest self each and every day. My classroom was a better place
because she was a part of it. She consistently brought out the best in everyone she came in
contact with and is truly a gift to everyone she meets. So welcome Livia and I will go ahead and
turn it over to you.
Do you want me to say the speech or my pledge?
We're going to do the pledge first.
How about that?
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag.
I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible.
Good evening, President Doyle, board members, and Superintendent Gregorski.
My name is Livia Whitfield and I'm in the fifth grade at Creech Elementary.
This is my last year at Creech and I'm going to miss this school.
Creech is the only school I've ever been to considering I've been there since kindergarten.
During my time at Creech, I have learned many important lessons.
However, my third grade year was one I will probably never forget.
Hurricane Harvey destroyed many people's homes, including mine and my school.
Harvey did show me how generous and caring people could be.
People that we didn't know made sure that we got all the supplies and things we need to get good education.
Although Harvey was a very hard year, there are still many exciting and memorable things from my years in elementary school.
I love the fun events that Creech offers like Gingerbread Day, Father Daughter Dance, and Family Game Night.
I have really enjoyed my fun experiences at Creech with my family, friends, and staff.
Great job. Thank you so much.
We have a certificate of recognition for you for leading the pledge and we also have this nifty bag with KJSC on it. Thank you very much.
Let's get a picture.
Let's take a picture.
Let's take a picture.
Livia, could we have you back up here just one more time for a picture?
I don't know where.
I'm not sure Mr. Redman doesn't step on the stair, okay?
I'm going to go back to your seat.
Next, we'll move to agenda item 6.1, planning for growth, review of preliminary results
Item 6.1
of the community feedback survey on attendance boundary modifications associated with elementary
school number 43, Jordan High School, and other existing high school campuses.
Mr. Veerling.
Sorry, I was looking for...
Okay, Ms. Corson?
Welcome.
Good evening. I'm Jennifer Koytson. I'm here with K-12 Insight to go over the preliminary results with y'all for the elementary school 43 and the high school number 9 ABM.
So just to kind of let you know where we currently are with the survey, we opened it on June 18th, and this report shows the preliminary results up until September 8th.
You can see here we've been sending out various reminders throughout the survey window and we're continuing to do so weekly between now and the close of the survey at the end of this month.
When we look at current participation, the way we've reached out so far is we've had email addresses for both the elementary ABM as well as the high school ABM and there's also a public access link on y'all's website.
site. So you can see we have just over 200 total responses as of September 8th for the elementary
ABM and we have 3,460 responses for the high school ABM thus far. So the way that we have
broken down this report is just to show you the high level overall results thus far for the
elementary ABM and then the high school ABM. So when we look at the elementary ABM, the participant
profile here you can see 86% of the participants are current parents of a
child enrolled in KDISD and then almost half of them have been here that window
of one to seven years when we look at any experience that they've had from a
previous ABM you can see 27% of parents said that they've had a child who was
previously impacted by an ABM. Of those 27%, you've got 31% that would describe that experience
as positive, 36% described it as neutral, and 34% described it as negative. Then when we asked
those parents how they would describe their child's experience in his or her new school,
you had over half at 51% who said that that experience was positive, 29% at neutral,
and 20% in negative. The next big thing that we target that we look at is commuting. So you can
see the majority of parents say that their primary method of commuting between home and school for
their child is by taking the bus. And then the second one is either them being driven by someone.
We then asked those current parents as well as future parents who might possibly be impacted
how they feel the proposed elementary number 43 ABM would impact their child's commute to school.
And you can see it's pretty evenly split here with 31 percent saying that it would be positive and 44 percent saying no impact.
So that's roughly three quarters who are saying that there'd be a positive or no impact.
And then 25 percent saying that it would be a negative impact.
So then when we get into asking them at what level they would support the proposal,
they could either fully support, somewhat support, somewhat do not support, or do not support, or they could select that they're not sure.
So you can see 62% either fully support or somewhat support the elementary ABM 43, 7% somewhat do not support, and 19% do not support, with that 12% who are unsure.
We then asked people who said that they would either support or somewhat support.
what support, why they felt they would support that.
The number one reason being that they feel like
the proposal better balances enrollment across schools,
as well as that second one being that they like
how close they would be to the new school.
Stabilizing the enrollment at schools for a long time
also came in tied back to that number one at 58%
of feeling a better balance.
And just so when you look at this slide
and some of the other factor slides,
they could select more than one.
So you'll see these percentages don't add up to 100.
We then asked participants who said that they do not support or somewhat do not support
why they feel they do not support the ABM.
The number one reason here for elementary was that they like how close they are to their
current school, followed by transportation becoming an issue, and then concern that they
would be shifted again at a later ABM.
And then that moves us to the high school ABM for high school number nine.
Again, the majority, 96% of your participants are parents.
And this window, you've got 67% who have been within the district for four to 15 years.
When we look at previous experience with an ABM, 39% said that they've had a child who's been previously impacted.
28% said that it was a positive experience, 47% said neutral, and a quarter said that it was negative.
And then when you look at asking them to describe their child's new experience,
almost half at 45% felt it was positive, 42% felt it was neutral, and 13% actually said that it was negative.
Again, we asked the commuting question, and you can see here it's pretty consistent.
School bus was the number one way that kids commute to and from school.
followed by being driven by someone.
Here we see, again, almost three-quarters said that if their child was affected by this ABM,
it would have a positive to no impact on their commute to school,
and just above one-quarter said that it would be a negative impact.
We then asked the question to rate their level of support,
and you can see 41% fully support, 19 somewhat support,
7 somewhat do not support and 24 do not support with that 9 being unsure when we further explore
factors for whether or not they support or do not support one of the again number one reason
that they do support is because we feel that the proposal better balances the enrollment across the
different schools and again followed closely by that distance to them liking how close they are
to the new school. And then lastly for factors impacting why they do not
support the ABM, the number one reason here that was different from the
elementary school is that they're concerned about those academic and
extracurricular options that would be offered at the new school, followed by
being concerned with adjustment issues for children would be being sent to a
different high school, and then again a concern about transportation and future
boundary adjustments. This other one here you see we have a larger percentage for
this one of other and that typically those responses when we went through the
open-ended most of them were just kind of reiterating what they had selected in
the multi-choice or expanding on the reason why they were concerned about the
adjustment issues just in terms of socioeconomic status and being separated
from friends or having siblings who were separated.
And that's kind of the summary of the preliminary results for right now.
Do you have any questions?
Madam President, I would just like to say thank you so much for this.
I know that this was a lot of work, and it seems to me that most of it is very positive.
The majority of people, in my opinion, when I read this,
seems that they're the number one concern is the transportation if you've
just added it all up and seeing that a large percentage of our kids take the
bus and I was wondering if you thought that maybe we all thought that the
concern was that if they live too close to the school then you know it seems
ironic that we think we've all want to live closer to the school but actually
that can impact the ability for the children to ride the bus if they live
too close to the school. So have you looked at any information like that to
see how that would impact the children who are currently taking the bus whether
they're not going to be able to take the bus anymore? So people say the word
transportation and then I just pop up like Beetlejuice. So actually on
On the LUZs that have been talked about the most, most of those LUZs will be getting transportation one way or the other for the high school kids because they're outside of that boundary or the walk zone or they're across a hazardous route or something like that.
So we've spent a lot of time on that.
In some instances it may not be as far if you're talking about the difference
between driving a kiddo from from Cimarron to Cinco versus Cimarron to
Katy or something like that. So it may change the distance that the bus travels
but it doesn't change in most cases whether or not the the student has
services. Okay I'm just wondering if we are communicating that with the people
that are being possibly affected with the ABM? We've had a lot of folks
reach out to us actually and ask us a lot of questions about transportation
and we've had a system in place where we've collected all the information, it's
come through one office and then we fed that out to our different folks and
we've been able to get back and answer those questions for people. We've had
actually quite a lot of inquiries, we kept a Google Docs, we've got a record of
all those folks and all those phone calls and some of them have been
transportation. Yes ma'am. Thank you. Mr. Vierling, may I ask, do you have the maps?
I do. On a slide? I know you have them with you. We did not prepare slides tonight because we were,
they were just presenting the data from the survey, but I can assist however you'd like. Okay.
Ms. Gasloff, go ahead. Mr. Vierling, it's just a general question. Why do we do these surveys?
Well, that is a good question.
I don't know if I'm the one that would absolutely answer it.
Maybe Mr. Graborski.
Yeah, I'll go ahead and tackle that one.
So why do we do surveys?
We like to put out the proposed maps of what we're thinking and we've changed that process
as you've noticed from before.
We used to put out several maps and take feedback on that and that was not proving to be as
fruitful as it has been.
So we spent a lot of time on this next ABM that we're working on to go ahead and put
forth our best proposal that we have for these two schools of what we think is
the best and then we ask for survey feedback tied to that because we do want
to know how the community feels we want to know how they feel by L U Z you've
heard that term thrown out there that's land use zone so when you see the map
they're all coded with numbers and letters to let us know when we match
them up how people are responding to the survey by L U Z to get that feedback it
helps us make some decisions in there but it also some people would argue that
that if we don't make changes to the map based on the feedback, that we didn't listen to the feedback.
But the feedback is always important.
There are times, and it's happened throughout the history of an ABM,
that somebody does notice something on a map that we didn't catch.
That was specifically something on this one here.
You heard a patron speak about it today about Wood Creek,
and you heard a patron speak about it at the last board meeting where they came up and said,
have we looked at a piece of Wood Creek Reserve.
Okay, so when we drew that map, and I think that one, Ted, you can correct me if I'm wrong,
52F, is that the one that was mentioned?
So 52F has actually two subdivisions in it,
and we were able to go in there and even break down that survey data within 52F by those two subdivisions
because we want to know how people feel within that subdivision and versus the other one
because we get different results within that.
So we could have easily just said, okay, let's just move 52F back over to Wood Creek in there.
But when you dive into the data and you have that data, you'll notice within that subdivision,
those who live in Wood Creek Reserve were unhappy with the map as drawn,
but those who lived in Katy Reserve, same L-U-Z, were satisfied with the map as drawn.
So you get that balance, and the only way to do that is get the survey data in there.
So there is, on the proposed map we have, there is one boundary change.
And Ted, do you have that on the slide to put that up tonight?
No, sir, I did not prepare slides for tonight.
Okay.
My understanding was you were going over the survey.
Just the survey on that.
So we will be bringing forward to the Board, and they've seen, you've seen an early copy of that, of that slide,
because we did divide that line and we didn't notice at first that that part of Wood Creek Reserve.
And one of the things we don't do is try to split a subdivision when we can.
Some subdivisions are huge.
Like if you said don't split Cinco Ranch, well, Cinco Ranch stretches from one side of the district to the other.
So you do have to carve up a subdivision at some times.
So we will be rezoning that piece of 52F of Wood Creek Reserve on a next recommendation
recommendation to go back with all of Wood Creek Reserve to keep that together.
And so we'll draw a line within inside of LUZ. So I know that's a little bit long of an answer
of that, but we do like the feedback. We like to see what's going on. There are certain things,
for example, the slide that's up there right now, and I can see it on my screen,
it gives us information that we can get back out to the folks, maybe to ease some tension about
that so I see 47% are concerned that academic extracurricular options at the
new they're concerned about that at the new school well we can certainly answer
that question I can answer it right now all of our high schools have the same
curricular options and it doesn't change we have one standard curriculum catalog
and now that doesn't mean at one school some kids might choose one class in
another school nobody chooses a class so it doesn't make but everybody gets
offered the same classes at all of our high schools same thing goes for
extracurricular activities same sports activities fine arts band music orchestra
theater you name it it's offered at all of our schools so that really shouldn't
be a concern but it gives us an opportunity to address some of these
type questions when that comes up same thing comes up about transportation that
we can address those concerns questions should come in and Ted spoke to it a
little bit ago about transportation some people are worried about transportation
over 1463 very busy road yeah that's what we'd consider a hazardous route we
We don't want kids walking across 1463 or biking across it.
And we would, once the boundary is drawn and officially adopted,
we would make the transportation routes to do that.
So, like I said, it's hard sometimes when you do this.
It's one of the toughest things we do as an ABM.
We heard from some folks tonight, very valid concerns, very understandable.
And my heart goes out to those folks because it is hard to do.
And balancing schools is hard to do.
So but we do like to listen to the feedback and do what we can when we can do it
Sometimes there are certain things that are just outside of our control, but that doesn't mean we didn't listen. I
Appreciate that it was long-winded if I had a mic I would drop it
But I do have a mic but I can't drop it but but I do appreciate that answer
Because and for my own understanding and for everyone else's understanding that we do it so that you get feedback
You do find out some things that maybe didn't know and you can take action
and I think it's a really important point that you made about learning things that maybe we didn't understand were a concern
and then being able to take proactive action to address it.
So thank you very much for that answer.
I was not trying to be flip.
I really did want to hear all of the juice that we squeeze out of this effort every time.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, you bet.
And I'll just add to that because, you know, sometimes I just got to add to it, of course, that we do.
We take all that survey data and we crunch it.
I can't tell you how many meetings I've had with different staff members and committees looking at every ounce of data that comes in there, the open-ended comments as well as survey data.
We also collected data.
This was the first time to do it this way, but with our call center, as calls came in, talking about and asking questions about our ABM, we had someone to log all those calls, who called in and what was their concern, and how did we address that concern, because it is important to us that we listen and we try to do some things.
What we can do in the future is, because we don't have that map available tonight to show you, is get that out online and show that one slight change in there.
But there is only one change to that ABM that we're recommending right now, and it's that section that we had divided Wood Creek Reserve into two sections.
And that was not our intent when we drew it, but that was what happened on that map.
Madam President, Ms. Van.
Thank you, Sam. Speaking a little bit, you made me think of a question and seen the concern of 47% about academic and extracurricular options.
And I totally agree that the options across the board throughout the district are equal.
There are some things with extracurricular though that say a child, a child is a sophomore, a freshman at Katy decides to go be a sophomore at Cinco or Taylor.
But the extracurricular tryouts are saved for November for the event for the team for next year or April for the cheer squad for next year.
How are we going to bring the kids over?
How are we going to identify the kids who will be changing schools now or choose to change schools now?
Because I know existing to existing schools, if you start as a freshman or you're a sophomore, junior, or senior,
or sophomore, junior this year, you can stay in the school that you're in because it's existing to existing
feeder or boundary modifications.
But say you have a child as a freshman and decides, hey, I think I really want to go to Taylor instead.
They have that option as well.
But then that's where the extracurricular options might become a little challenging because tryouts already happened
When they were in the other school does that make it does make sense?
Yeah, we want to give every kid an opportunity for a trout in our new schools in our existing
I've seen mrs. Hack deputy superintendent get up because she's you know field that question
She's been heavily into this ABM this year. So I'm gonna go ahead and let her
Yeah, we thought about that because that this is very different especially that four year to four year and having that opportunity
So we are prepared as soon as the ABM is approved in October, that first Monday in November,
the transfer link will open for all the kids.
And what we would like is for the students at Katy High School that have been rezoned
to Cinco or Taylor, they're going to have that four year to four year option to declare
which campus they will go to.
And we've been working with technology.
That is going to be the easiest for them so that in preparation for course selection in
in the spring, we have them slotted to the correct campus for course selection.
We can also see which campus they've elected to attend.
So if they're gonna attend a different four year high school, let's say,
Katie High School student does want to try out for cheerleader at Taylor High School.
Cuz that's one that we have the election, the tryouts the year before that school,
which the year in which they represent.
We will know where they have declared their KDISD student and
they will be able to participate in those tryouts.
And then as they finish out their school year, whatever, athletic program, fine art program,
they would go through that current high school that they're enrolled, off-season, whatever program,
to get ready for the next year.
But if it's tryout-specific and they're impacted by going to a different campus,
we will work with them to get them to their tryout and have that opportunity.
Will it be incumbent on the parent and the student to reach out and get that information?
As they declare where they're going to go, we will have that information,
and then we'll be communicating with them. We kind of have a transfer team and we'll have FAQs ready to go so they have all the information.
I figured there was a plan. I just thought people might want to hear it.
Yeah, we're going to take care of them.
Ms. Hack, before you sit down, could you explain that process just so that everyone understands what you mean by four-year to four-year transfer?
Yes.
I know it's been explained before, but I'd like to hear it again just to make sure everybody
understands the difference between transferring from, let's say, Tompkins to Jordan and why
– I know we're getting some questions – why those kids have to transfer but the
Katie Cinco kids or the Katie Taylor kids don't.
Could you explain that for us once again?
Yes.
Thank you.
The four-year to four-year, that is very unusual, and there's no history of it occurring
prior.
So what we looked at was from the four year to four year because the kids currently sitting in their seats in ninth grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, they've already attended Katie High School.
They've established residency.
They will have the option to continue at Katie High School through graduation or elect to declare and go to Taylor High School or Cinco Ranch High School.
And that's the four year to four year option.
And once they say they do declare to go to Taylor or Cinco, we would have a record of their transfer so that immediately that is their school of residence and they'll be eligible for anything that they want to participate in.
From Seven Lakes to Tompkins to Jordan, the incoming sophomores, those are the ones that have limited options to remain at Seven Lakes or Tompkins High School.
It's generally an employee's child or if they have a sibling that's in the 11th or 12th grade because they are now zoned to a new high school.
They are the student body that's going to make up that high school and move through those grades till graduation.
Okay.
Thank you.
Madam President.
I was trying to think if I had any questions for you.
Madam President.
Go ahead, Bill.
Well, everybody else is taking all the fun questions out.
So I have three things to address.
the first so I just want to reiterate for those that are participating in any
of the UIL be it athletics fine arts band things band is under fine arts
athletic and fine arts they are immediately eligible should they choose
to go from Katie to either Cinco or Taylor correct yes because they would
they have been rezoned so they're now attending their school of residence and
And I believe Coach Decker would be the 15-day waiver.
Once they're enrolled in 15 days, then they become eligible.
Okay.
And my source for my notes and things are actually page 17.
So on the bottom left, there's something that I'm concerned about.
Future schools and future boundary changes will cause us to move again.
I know when this was all brought to the board several months ago,
one of my biggest concerns was, and one of the things that I expressed here from the dais was,
was my goal, and I know that we can't make it a concrete thing,
but my goal is to have this high school attendance boundary modification
be something that kind of sort of,
and I'm going to use the word lockdown,
but I know we can't guarantee that,
but based on what we're seeing for our future,
it looks like this is going to be,
this should be something that we won't have to adjust for the next 10 years.
Are you comfortable with that?
Very.
We've looked at all the various demographics and the scenarios and where the LUZs are going.
And we are very sure that the high schools will be balanced for the next 10 years.
And that includes Morton Ranch High School and May Creek High School.
Where we're really going to have to look to the future is Katy High School and Pato because that's that new area of growth.
But the south side in May Creek and Morton Ranch, we feel quite sure that they will be balanced for the long term.
clarification we're talking about balance on the south side correct South
side okay I just want to make sure that we're not saying this is gonna balance
us for the next ten years South Side South Side okay I just wanted to make
sure that we're clarifying that thank you my last thing is more there's 43% of
the people on that page 17 almost the bottom is just above other I'm concerned
about my child adjusting to a new school I'm gonna I'm gonna speak from personal
experience I changed from a high school that I absolutely fell in love with my
first year and I you cut me I was green and green and gold Baton Rouge High and
fought and kicked as a student wanting to get moved to the new school which was
the school that I ended up graduating from it didn't take me long it
absolutely didn't take me long now let me look the Baton Rouge High that I went
to was the KD equivalent. It was the deeply rooted. Now we didn't have the
athletics, we didn't have the academics that our schools have here, but I
adjusted very quickly. And as a student you go in and you kind of get,
you embrace that school and those traditions and to those parents that are
concerned about this, wherever your children go, they're going to be fine. Or
at least you can look at me and I'll knock on wood and say I'm fine. Some
Some people might disagree with that, but guys, I can assure you we will do what is best for the district.
And please do not think that we're overlooking any stone that needs to be overturned.
And our hearts are with each and every child, but I can promise you they will adjust just fine.
Thank you, Madam.
Are there any other questions?
Madam President, just one last thing since I listened to everyone else.
I thought of something else.
Have we ever considered or would it be a possibility to offer eighth graders the waiver?
Eighth graders the waiver for the four-year to four-year?
So they would be incoming ninth graders to offer them the opportunity to declare which high school they would?
That is not something that we have considered or discussed.
Ms. Hack, would it be fair to say that if we did something like that, that we run into
the high probability that most of them would not, if we offered it to incoming ninth graders,
we'd have to offer it for our ninth going to tenth, correct?
I mean, we couldn't offer it just for our ninth going to tenth.
It would be offered for the four year to four year.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, for four year.
Are you talking about four year to four year or were you talking about?
The new school. I'm sorry. I'm talking about four year to four year. Okay, okay
So they're sitting in eighth grade right my apologies then I thought you're doing with the new
But no we haven't discussed that option. I
Think something that needs to be considered in there when you think about that extension of it
When you look at the maps and I know we don't have them in front of us
But but I'm gonna do this from memory that it
It takes several years before we can balance a school.
So when we already make these rules for 9 through 12,
or we make them for 9th and 10th graders going to a new school,
it could take us up to year 2022, 2024,
sometimes as late as 2028 before we see the true balance that we're looking for.
And like Mr. Lacey had said, our goal here on this map was to come in
and redraw a few boundaries, finish off that last high school that we have on the books,
which is Jordan High School, and then try to the best of our ability in a long-term effort
to get all of our high schools somewhat balanced around 3,000 kids.
By 2024, we're real close to that goal.
By 2028, we're even closer to that goal.
So if we start extending it out down to 8th grade, 7th grade, 6th grade,
it just continues those overcrowding of schools.
And you need to think about that sometimes.
times for example right now our high schools are built to hold about 3,000
this year right now as we speak Tompkins has over 4,000 children in it Seven
Lakes High School has over 3,700 kids in it almost 3,800 this year and we need to
get some relief on that side of the district and that's why we've drawn that
boundary over there to start shifting some kids around so like I said it's
real hard to do if we extend it we could that's something we could always look at
with numbers. Our technology team is outstanding. I see Jamie Hines back there. Any number I've
asked him to run, he runs it for us and he does a fantastic job at it. And then I can get those
numbers to the board if you want to see what that would look like, but it would certainly delay our
opportunity to balance those schools for a significant number of years.
Are there any other questions? Okay, thank you all so much.
Thank you so much.
Next month, Mr. Vierling, we will have maps?
Yes, ma'am.
Absolutely.
Okay.
Just making sure so we know.
Thank you so much.
6.2, Katy Independent School District Education Foundation Annual Report.
Item 6.2
Ms. Janet Theis and Mr. Mike Van Hooser, welcome.
Madam President, Board Members, Dr. Gorgorski, it's my pleasure on behalf of the Katy ISD
Education Foundation to direct this report to you in compliance with the
July 12th 2012 Memorandum of Understanding between our two
organizations. Leading our report is Mike Van Hooser, our board president. Thanks
Janet. It's a pleasure to serve as the president of KDISD Education Foundation
Board and also be a voice for our board members to report out on the impact that
we're having across the district. In 2013, as our first full year of operations, we
were able to award $88,000 in teacher grants. After seven years of being in
operation, we funded 437 grants to 1,573 classroom teachers, impacting over
227,136 students, which equates to about 1.6 million in grants. And it's just been
an incredible honor to watch this and to serve on this board to watch the growth
of the grants and growth of the community to impact students as you know
we're a 501 3c independent 501 3c that's run by independent board of directors
and we're governed by the memorandum of memorandum of understanding we have with
KD ISD but also our independent bylaws and policies and procedures and we have
about four or five goals that we are focused on one is to enhance teaching
and learning in our KDISD classrooms. We also want to generate a strong
community support and unite the community. We support the educational
mission and functions of the district and again providing those unparalleled
learning experiences. Realizing gains in excess of what the district provides us
and then allowing our records and books to be audited independently and we've
done that for the past several years and provide that back to the board. In your
board packet you have an audit of our financial position, the related statements of activities,
and the cash flow and all related financial statements that's in your board packets.
We also have the audited financials and IRS form 990 on our website as well. In reviewing our
financials you'll see the foundation's financial return to the district consistently and
significantly exceeds any district support with that return increasing each year. I feel like we've
built a highly engaged board of directors and we have a dynamic
committee structure that's going every year a lot of those board members are
here supporting and passionately supporting our mission one of the key
things is being fiscally responsible to the district and our investors in our
community and we're most most importantly proud of the the impact that
we've had on teachers in fact we just had a reception with them now to hear
about all the great grants and the impact they're making for our students
across the district. Two of our funding sources are two events that we have. One
is Fireflies and Food Trucks. It's on October 17th, 2019. You're welcome to be
there. And then we also have Groove in the Spring in March 27th, 2019 as well.
And we have an Emerging Star event as well called Reason to Race where
people can run and usually people can run a half marathon but they also have
other races and can support our our foundation as well and that will be in
February so if you want to join a team I'm sure we've got people who would
allow you to join a team and doing that and it's not too late to start training
for that central to our fundraising efforts and a grace fulfillment is our
groundbreaking and keystone and cornerstone and legacy investors we've
set up this program for investors for people to give back to the district
through our foundation over the seven years that we've been a part of this
It's a group of individuals and businesses who pledge annual support and the investors
pledge for a three-year commitment.
BP America has been our cornerstone investor from the very beginning and they've given
$40,000 annually over the past six years.
In fact, we just had a meeting with them recently and they just were asking about robotic programs
and other things that we're doing within the district and how can they continue to help.
And they've been a great partner with us.
Marta Vassil is BP's Vice President of Global Account Management and she also serves on our board and is on the Finance Committee as well.
At this point in time, I'd like to ask our groundbreaking Keystone, Cornerstone, and Legacy investors as well as the board members and committee members that are here to stand up.
Please thank them for their service and I'd like to give them a round of applause.
I'll take a picture as well. Madam President, are you done? Just I'll wrap it up Bill, just one second.
So yeah and I just want to offer my personal thanks to you. It's been an honor to serve with you and
also be your voice today as well. We're grateful the Board of Trustees as well in closing and just
appreciate your vision for having an education foundation, the support that we've had for this
in supporting unparalleled learning experiences,
and we take that as an honor and a privilege to do that,
but also to be fiscally responsible in that.
Also, a special thanks to Lance Redman,
who I've been able to serve with on our Board Development Committee
and now is on this Board of Trustees.
Thank you for serving our board for this year as well.
Thank you, Mr. Van Hooser.
Mr. Lacey.
I just want to, we came back from our TASB,
the Texas Association of School Board meeting this weekend.
several of us went and I just wanted to share with you all that the reputation
for our education foundation is the tops in the state I had many many
conversations with people and the KDISD education foundation was the topic of
several conversations and it is the reputation is wonderful and they look at
us as the standard for what we do here in the state and what we do for
education so to y'all I applaud y'all for what y'all do it is cutting-edge and
absolutely wonderful and and I'm glad that I got to sit as a non non voting
board member last year it was it was really a kick to see how everyone does
everything thank y'all very much Thank You mr. Lacey appreciate that
welcome back Janet Tice I want to share a little bit with you guys about our
grant program aspiring imagination grants are our main focus and the
the primary reason that we work so hard to raise all that money.
Every year, all K to SD educators directly involved in student instruction are invited
to apply as teens or individuals.
Grants amounts range from $1,000 to $5,000 depending on the number of teachers involved.
This year we're super excited to announce that we have a new grant category, a campus
collaborative that will allow teachers to work together at different campuses to bring
a grant project to students at two or more KDIC campuses. Can't wait to see
what our teachers do with that. In the past seven years grant funds have
purchased everything from thermal cameras, concussion goggles, lifelike
canines for vet tech students, and all kinds of musical instrument. And this
year at Morton Ranch High School a two-year subscription to Time Looper, a
program that allows students to step back in time to experience history. That
That grant's titled Step Into History, and we have a video tonight.
I'm going to let teachers Sarah Gonzalez and Sarah Palmer tell you about it, if technology will work.
We want to thank the KDRSD Education Foundation for awarding us this grant.
We want to thank the board.
We want to thank the investors.
They really brought history to life for our kids.
They've made our classroom more exciting, and we're very thankful.
The grant that we won was for a time-keeper, and it's for the Gilded Age Unit in U.S. History.
and so we wanted to increase that in scores and we chose this unit.
We are doing virtual reality with our students today so they're able to travel back in time and history.
Kids always look back at history and it's something that's just a photograph or it's something that's just a document that they read.
It's not something that they necessarily experience for themselves.
So we wanted to take kids back in time, give them a historical experience and have them learn from it.
The students download the app. KDISD, specifically Morton Ranch High School, has the license for two years, and they use a membership that's valid for our entire school at Morton Ranch High School.
They put their phone in, they press the chapter, and it plays that story, and there are five chapters that they work through as they fill out a graphic organizer.
The kids really love it. The kids are really excited. They like putting their phones in and using the headset.
but their favorite part has been where they could experience being on the boat coming over to Ellis Island as an immigrant.
They got to walk around. They got to hear the stories of the immigrants.
So they think it's really neat.
You can teach that all day long and read it in a textbook,
but until you actually see it and go through the steps of their work life and family life,
it's really hard to put yourself in their shoes and understand all of the living conditions and difficult times they went through.
The kids have done really well applying this information to the current unit that we're in.
that piggyback on the building.
So they're coming into this current unit
called the Progressive Era with way more working knowledge
thanks to this lesson than they would have had
just doing their regular classwork on it.
Receiving this grant impacts me as a teacher
because it shows us that it's safe to take risks
and that we can take risks and are rewarded
to be able to do things and think outside of the box
to engage our children.
As you all joined us in meeting the teachers in the reception tonight, they are not only
excellent educators, they are incredible people, and it's a blessing to get to support their
work and to not just offer funds for their ideas, but to the encouragement that their
profession is valued and that our district and their community values them as people.
I want to add my thanks to our excellent board of directors.
You see them all leaning in when that video was playing?
You can tell where their hearts are.
And thanks to all of you for your support.
We appreciate it.
Thank you.
Any questions for Ms. Theis or Mr. Van Hooser?
I just would like to make a comment.
And I agree with Mr. Lacey.
And I can't say anything better than what he said.
But I will say this, that before I was on the board, I didn't realize the close relations
as close as it was with the KD Education Foundation and KDISD.
and after reading the memorandum of understanding, I'm just so impressed with how we are so able to work together
and that you all have granted $333,000 over that in grants for all the schools,
and I hope that more schools will apply because I was talking to some of the board of directors,
and they said that actually some schools have never applied.
So I'm hoping that they will see this as an opportunity for them to also write a grant.
If I can correct that, though, actually every school in KDIC has applied at some point.
Oh, really?
During these years.
Last year, Pato High School had not applied yet.
This year we took a grant to Pato High School, and that completed the circle.
Thank you for the correction.
I'm sorry, I was just misinformed.
Thank you, Ms. Tice.
We appreciate you and all of the board for the work that you do.
this is an exciting program I didn't love history as a kid but I think I
would have liked that in your man yeah to visualize yourself yeah yeah very
good all right guys thank you so much thank you all for being here discussion
Item 7.1
action item 7.1 discuss and consider board approval of nominating candidates
for positions on the board of directors for the Waller County Appraisal District
Fort Bend central appraisal district and Harris County Appraisal District mr.
Smith welcome you're gonna be with us for a few agenda items so we'll just
we'll roll through them as we vote okay all righty well good evening excuse me
president Doyle superintendent Gorgorski and trustees it's my pleasure tonight to
talk to you about this item 7.1 which is the nominating candidates for positions
on the three appraisal districts the state property tax code directs voting
entities appraisal districts to submit nominations for appraisal district
district directors to the applicable chief appraiser for each appraisal district.
Because KDISD is in three districts, Waller, Fort Bend, and Harris County, we would have three nominees.
Attached you have a resolution that basically names nominees from Waller, Fort Bend, and Harris County.
and I've got some information on the appraisal district directors if necessary
the current directors as necessary and it could make a recommendation if requested.
Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution
nominating and I'm gonna have to read it from up here Roosevelt Alexander for
for Waller County, Paul Stamatis for Fort Bend County, and Ben, and I'm going to mispronounce
it, Pape for Harris County, for positions on the Board of Directors for Waller County,
Fort Bend County, and Harris County appraised districts, respectively.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves
the resolution nominating Roosevelt Alexander, Paul Stamatis, and Ben Pape for the positions
on the Board of Directors for the Waller County Appraisal District, Fort Bend Central Appraisal
District, and Harris County Appraisal District. Board will now proceed to vote. All those in favor
please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes seven to zero.
Thank you Mr. Smith. We can move to 7.2. Okay item 7.2 is the discussion and consideration of the
Item 7.2
board adoption of the 19-20 maintenance and operations tax rate. This is the
first of two parts of the tax rate. Maintenance and operations tax rate does
the tax rate that supports the mostly salaries and electricities and operating
expenses of the district. The rate that's being recommended to you tonight is a
dollar five three one. That is from the compressed rate of a dollar fourteen six
Our prior rate was 1.1466.
That compressed under the new rules of House Bill 3 leads to 1.0531.
It would be my recommendation that the Board of Trustees approve the order attached with
that rate.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Board?
Madam President.
Ms. Vann?
I move the Board of Trustees adopts a property tax rate of $1.0531 under the Tax Code Section
26.08 and the order adopting the maintenance and operation tax rate of $1.0531 per $100
valuation for the tax year of 2019.
Do I have a second?
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees adopts the
The property tax rate of $1.0531 under tax code section 26.08.
And the order adopting the maintenance and operations tax rate of $1.0531 per $100 valuation for the tax year 2019.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes 7-0.
Mr. Smith, 7.3.
Item 7.3
Okay, moving on to the other side of our tax rate is the debt service tax rate that's placed for our bonds,
which bonds are issued to support our growth. It is recommended that the board
approve a tax rate of 39 cents which complies with our debt service, the debt
management plan that we update annually. 39 cents is sufficient to do so and I
would recommend the attached order as well. And with that said, just want to
to reiterate the appreciation for House Bill 3. It does reduce the tax burden by
7.35 cents when you add our total tax rate together 7.35 cent reduction. So
thank you. Madam President. Mr. Redmond. I move that the Board of Trustees approves
the order adopting an interest in Seeking Fund tax rate of 0.39 cents per
per $100 valuation for the tax year 2019.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Vann,
that the Board of Trustees approves the order adopting an interest
and sinking fund rate of 0.39 cents per $100 valuation for the tax year of 2019.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes 7-0.
Item 7.4
7.4, Mr. Smith, go ahead.
Okay.
Okay. Back in February, the Board of Trustees, in addition to providing the administration the ability to move forward with our second trance, our second bond sale, the 2017 authorization, you also provided us the ability, the administration the ability to refund bonds.
bonds. We had bonds add about $155 million at that time. You gave us $177 million authorization
to go out and refund if there was at least 3% savings. There is significantly more than
3% savings on that. And what I'm specifically speaking to is our 2010D bonds. That's right,
that's our Babs bonds, our Build America bonds, which are taxable bonds that were
sold back in December of 2010. In the current tax-exempt market we think we
can generate in excess of 10% savings. So the what we approved in February based
on the market and what it's done since then, we think that that savings can not
be the minimum of three but but can exceed 10%. And then also we're asking
for the amendment because in addition to that we have some more other bonds that
have become refundable and that's the 2012 a in 2013 bonds which total 183
million three hundred twenty five thousand dollars those appear to be
refundable using not tax-exempt bonds but taxable bonds the tax rate on those
are so low that it would also generate an additional or savings of an excess of
10%. So what you have before you is an amendment to the order approval that you gave us in
February to refund more bonds essentially so we can take advantage of an excess of 10%
savings on both of those transactions. Again, that's up to market conditions. So the market
could change, but I feel comfortable saying that regardless of what, well not regardless
of what the market does, but if the market doesn't make anything too draconian in the
next few weeks, then I think that we could save some substantial savings to the district.
Madam President.
That's okay.
I'm sorry.
And by the way, I have our bond counsel and Tonya Fisher from Oreck and then also Nick
Nick Bulash from our municipal advisor for, I'm stuttering for some reason, our municipal advisor for Southwest.
Madam President, Mr. Smith, first of all, I want you to be my financial advisor, but we'll talk about that later.
Do you have any, and maybe you're not prepared to answer this, and I understand there are a lot of variables,
but do you have any idea what that equates to, what that 10% could potentially equate to in dollars?
Yes, I do.
You just don't want to say it?
I don't want to say it because I don't want to have to live up to it.
But I think it could be a substantial amount of money and we'll follow up with it.
Again, I don't want to go jinx the deal because when I say the amount that we generated,
a dollar amount, but I think I'll be comfortable in saying
that each one would generate over $10 million in savings.
Okay, that's great.
I understand that.
You know, once you say the number, then you're held to it.
but thank you for the idea.
And I think the 10%, at least right now, is better than 10%.
But again, don't want to...
Right. Anything can happen. I understand. Thank you.
It's very good.
Madam President, Ms. Vann, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the amendment
to increase the size of the existing bond refunding parameter order.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey,
that the Board of Trustees approves the amendment to increase the size of the existing bond
refunding parameter order board will now proceed to vote all those in favor
please raise your right hand and say aye all those opposed motion passes 7 to 0
7.5 mr. Smith okay go ahead miss fighting here we thought we give Chris a
Item 7.5
little bit of a break good evening president Doyle dr. Borg or
Seaman Board. Item 7.5 is to consider approval of the July 2019 financial reports. Each month
we present financial statements including a statement of revenues, expenditures and
change in fund balance for all budgeted funds, an analysis of expenditures by function and
object, a construction report which summarizes our ongoing capital projects and a report
of our tax collection revenues. Historically these have been on the consent agenda but
but with moving to one board meeting per month,
we are now presenting these on a monthly basis.
Just as a note, next month's financial statements would be for August 31st,
which is our fiscal year end.
We do not historically bring the August financials.
We will bring those as a final audited number in January
when the auditors come and make that full presentation.
And with that being said, that's our financial statements for July.
Thank you so much.
Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the District's July 2019 financial reports. Seconded. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves the District's July 2019 financial reports. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. All those opposed, motion passes.
7.6. Ms. Butterfield, welcome. Discuss and consider board approval of the September 2019 budget amendments.
Item 7.6
Thank you, President Doyle, Trustees, Superintendent Grigorski. Tonight we have just a couple of amendments and this will be recurring for the next few months of timing amendments.
Timing amendments happen primarily when products are not received by August 31st, which is our fiscal year end.
And sometimes these budgets need to be carried forward into the new year.
So tonight we have a total of $53,348 related to three different timing amendments.
and approval of these three amendments will result in a $53,348 decrease to the general fund fund balance.
Board members?
Ms. Vann?
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the District's September 2019 budget amendments.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey,
that the Board of Trustees approves the District's September 2019 budget amendments.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed, motion passes 7-0.
Thank you so much.
Item 7.7
7.7, discuss and consider board approval of the claims administration by Texas Association of School Boards Risk Management Fund for Unemployed Compensation.
Mr. Nauman.
Good evening, President Doyle, Superintendent Gorgorski, and Board of Trustees.
The district shall comply with provisions of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act, Labor Code 201.26.
The district is permitted by law to enter into a joint group account with other political subdivisions
to share the cost of benefits that are attributable to the services provided in the employee of a group of account members.
Labor Code 205.21.
Katy Independent School District has provided these services through an interlocal agreement through the TASB Risk Management Fund.
The contribution for plan year 2019 was $252,944, with a renewal contribution of $244,091 for plan year 2020.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020 claims administration by the TASB Risk Management Fund for unemployment compensation claims.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I do have just one clarifying question, Mr. Nauman.
Did it go down because of our not losing as many people or not having as many claims, or what was the reason for the loss?
Exactly.
It was a function of good loss experience and good claims handling.
All right.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020 Claims Administration by TASB Risk Management Fund for unemployment compensation claims.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey.
I see a second by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020 claims administration by TASB, Risk Management Fund for Unemployment Compensation Claims.
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 so much.
7.8, discuss and consider board approval for the superintendent to prepare, sign, and submit a waiver application to the State Commissioner of Education for elementary school campuses that exceed the allowable class size of 22 to 1,
Item 7.8
in addition to campuses that could potentially exceed the ratio due to increased enrollment during the 2019-2020 school year.
Mr. Shush, welcome.
Good evening.
President Dool, members of the board, Dr. Gagorski.
So tonight we're here asking for approval for class size waivers for the 19-20 school year.
Each school year after school starts, we are required to do class size surveys and determine our ratios
and if board approved, any kindergarten through fourth grade class section that is over the 22 to 1 ratio,
a waiver must be submitted to TEA for that.
As you know, in the spring, we did staff at 22 to 1.
So we do move forward with that staffing plan, wait for school to start, let the dust settle a little bit,
and then we start to ask the principals for their class sizes.
And we started doing that a couple of weeks ago.
We get that information.
We look at all that data and then we start the balancing process.
This year we did balance at grade level balance at 23 to 1.
It's a good process because we don't just have the data.
It does allow for input from our two assistant superintendents over elementary, Dr. Carlson
Scruggs and Dr. Washington, as well as our principals.
And that's a really good thing because you've got the data, but you also need the information
from them so you can make the best decision moving forward for our for our
students and teachers so all that said we have completed that process and as
you can see tonight currently we do have 71 class sections that we will be
requesting waivers for if board approved there were 76 last year so we are a
little less than where we were last year thank you so much madam president miss
Ms. Agasoff. Mr. Schuss, so does that mean we can anticipate that we'll have 71 sections that'll be above that 23 all year?
It could be. And actually, now the 71 are over 22. They're 23 or 24.
But I would assume that those classes, unless we have some kiddos moving out, would be at those ratios for the rest of the year.
And understand, you know, when we do go through this and we do talk to the principals, there are occasions, it's not uncommon, that, you know, the principal will say, you know, hey, you know, guys, we appreciate it.
I know I'm at 23.4, but I've got a rock-solid team of fourth-grade teachers, and I just prefer not to add a teacher because I don't want to disrupt that group.
And so that does happen.
Okay.
Thank you.
Yeah, you bet.
Madam President, Mr. Champagne.
Mr. Sush, first of all, I really am so happy that we're down to 71 from 76, even though we have more kids.
That's awesome.
But what is the final number?
I mean, we're going to get the waivers at 71, but what would be our final number?
I mean, is it 25, 26?
I mean, is there a maximum that you won't go?
That's a great question.
So what we'll do, and we continue to monitor this, obviously, throughout the school year,
And as we work with the principals, if a grade level does hit a ratio of 24, that's when we'll have the opportunity to add a teacher.
Now, again, we're going to have the conversation with that principal, you know, as opposed to just saying, hey, you know, here's a teacher and throw a teacher at them.
And we want to make sure that they're comfortable with that because, you know, there is some disruption that it can potentially cause.
But that's the number at the grade level.
Thank you very much.
I just want to say I have a child that was actually moved from a class one time.
And so I think that not, you know, trying to prevent that is actually good, even if you have to go up to 23-24.
I know that some people don't see the benefit of that, but I actually do.
So I appreciate your work with that.
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to prepare, sign, and submit an application to the State Commissioner of Education for a class-size waiver exception.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann.
second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves the Superintendent to
prepare, sign, and submit an application to the State Commissioner of Education
for a class size waiver exception. We will now proceed to vote. All those in
favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes
seven to zero. Thank you so much. 7.9 discuss and consider board approval of
Item 7.9
the campus performance objectives. Welcome.
welcome. Dr. Creech, that binder is almost as big as you. I was going to bring you on
one, but I didn't know if you'd want the weight going home. They're pretty heavy. Good evening,
President DeWall, board members, and Dr. Grigorski. I'm here tonight to present the campus performance
objectives. Feel free to order one of these if you would like. I'll have one ready for
for you by Friday.
As established by the Texas Education Code,
section 11-251, which is overall planning and decision-making
process, section 11-52, which is the district-level planning
decision-making process.
I think you've all seen that, the dip that we know it by.
And then section 253, which is this,
the campus and site-based planning decision-making,
along with policy BQ and BQB local campus performance objectives are
required to be approved by the board of the year each of you received a jump
drive not a binder that had the electronic files in it you have the
campus performance objectives the goals so you've got that as a set you have a
campus profile page which gives you the demographics and the programs on the
the campus and then you have the 2019 accountability summary from TEA
principals have spent a lot of time working on CIPs and within that they
start with the campus performance objectives well they start with a goal
and then they write the performance objectives and beyond that they write
their CIPs all of that is based on the comprehensive needs assessment and this
is all dovetailed into the district strategic planning and the district
improvement plan so everything is is I shouldn't say commingled but it's all
supportive so we can all accomplish the same goals the campus goals and the
performance objectives which is what you have here tonight to approve is just
part of the planning process so they have the the needs assessment the goals
of CPOs the identified strategies evaluation timelines resources funding
All of that goes into the whole CIP.
Once this is approved, we will then put the CIPs on their websites.
But we start with the approval of the performance objectives.
So do you have any questions?
Madam President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the campus performance objectives as presented by the administration.
Thank you, Mr. Lacey.
Thank you, Ms. Mann.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, second by Mr. Lacey.
Ms. Phan that the Board of Trustees approves the campus performance objectives as presented
by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your
right hand. All those opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Thank you so much, Dr. Creech.
Thank you. 7.10, discuss and consider Board approval
Item 7.10
of a proposal for district-wide safety and security upgrades package number two. Ms.
Kastman.
Good evening, President Doyle, Trustees, Dr. Gagorski, Ryan Motypka, the project manager
for this project is joining me this evening. I have one item for your consideration. This
item is to recommend approval to award a contract to Acme Architectural for the construction
of district-wide safety and security upgrades, package two, in the amount of $2,150,000 and
and approves a total project cost not to exceed $2,580,000.
This is package 204 and follows the plan of my previous
items for project approval and hiring of the engineer.
Seal proposals for package two were received on August 27
for 18 campuses.
Seven seal proposals were received,
and ACME architectural ranking first overall.
The scope of work ranges for these projects
from minor hardening at recent campuses
to more extensive scopes of work, including hardening,
intrusion alarm, and access control at older campuses.
Board members?
Ms. Vann.
Ms. I move the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Acme Architectural Hardware for
the construction of district-wide safety and security upgrades, package number two, in
the amount of $2,150,000 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $2,580,000.
Mr. Seconded.
Ms. Is that you, Mr. Redmond?
Ms. Yes.
Ms. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees
awards a contract to Acme Architectural Hardware for the construction of district-wide safety and security upgrades package number two in the amount of
two million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and approves the total project cost not to exceed two million five hundred and eighty thousand
dollars. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
All those opposed, motion passes. Thank you so much both of you. Thank you.
Item 7.11
7.11 Discuss and consider board approval to utilize
2017 bond saving funds for projects at various district facilities. Mr. T.
Good evening, Madam President, Board members, Dr. Gagorski.
I'm bringing a recommendation that the Board of Trustees approves the use of 2017 bond savings for five identified projects at various district facilities
in the amount not to exceed $14,378,184,
utilizing the job order contract through cooperative purchasing as the method of procurement.
The air-cooled chillers at Maid Creek High School, Beckendorf Junior High School,
Exley Elementary, Franz Elementary, and Ryler Elementary, and Wood Creek Elementary
have exceeded their expected lifespan and have become increasingly unreliable and expensive to keep in operation.
The cooling towers located at Cinco Ranch site are original to the campus construction years 1998 and 2000 and are in need of a major rebuild to replace leaking valves, seals, and deteriorated fill material.
material. The building management control systems BMCS at Miller Career and Technology Center,
Beckendorf Junior High, Cardiff Junior High, Memorial Parkway Junior High, Franz Elementary,
Wood Creek Elementary, Rylander Elementary, Exley Elementary, Williams Elementary,
Stanley Elementary, Stevens Elementary, Rhodes Elementary, Griffin Elementary, Kilpatrick
elementary and Holland elementary are no longer supported by the manufacturer and
are difficult to maintain and operate. The walk-in freezer coolers at 21
campuses are not connected to emergency power. This project will excuse me will
allow the freezers and coolers to remain in operation during the power outages.
The campuses that will be part of this project are Bear Creek elementary, Exley
elementary, Rylander elementary, Morton Ranch elementary, Holland elementary, Wood
Creek elementary, Franz elementary, Griffin elementary, Hutzel elementary,
Rhodes elementary, Kilpatrick elementary, Schmaltz elementary, Stanley elementary,
Stevens elementary, Morton Ranch high school, Beckendorf junior high, Taylor
high, Taylor ninth grade building, Morton Ranch junior high, Seven Lakes high, and
and Seven Lakes 9th grade building.
Finally, there are 10 campuses that
have play equipment for ages 5 through 12 that
have exceeded their life cycle and parts are no longer
available to make repairs.
The elementary campuses receiving replacement equipment
are Alexander, Cimarron, Exley, Franz, Hayes, Pattison, Rhodes,
Stevens, Sundown, and Wood Creek.
Creek. The project funding source is 2017 bond savings. The
chiller replacement project cost estimate is $4,482,261.
Cinco Ranch High School Cooling Tower Rebuild Project estimated
cost $254,613. The building automation control system
project cost estimate $8,110,000. Freezer cooler
emergency power project cost estimate $1,002,000.
Play equipment for ages 5 through 12 replacement cost estimate $529,310.
For a total project not to exceed cost of $14,378,184.
Board members?
Madam President, Ms. Gessler?
Mr. T, the largest expenditure there is the $8 million for the automation control systems.
Yes, ma'am.
That's a lot of facilities.
Did we look, I mean, was there, is there any other option that was considered?
Can you just talk a little bit more about that?
Well, these controls that are in these buildings, they're no longer supported by the manufacturer.
So we are forced to basically replace them.
We cannot upgrade them.
So this would be there the oldest of our district facilities of this vintage control system.
So that's why they made the list first.
OK, thank you, Mr. T. Maybe you can explain a little bit.
Also, what do those control systems do allow you to do?
The control system allows basically to turn the air conditioning on and off as well as control the humidity in the classroom.
or we hope to. It also controls the lighting systems and also our scheduling when people rent our facilities.
It hopefully will work into where when they do make a reservation that we can automatically program those facilities to be on
and then again turn them off.
Any other questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the use of the 2017 bond savings for five identified projects at various district facilities in the amount of not to exceed $14,378,184, utilizing the job order contract through the cooperative purchasing as the method of procurement.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the use of the 2017 bond savings for five identified projects at various district facilities in the area.
the amount not to exceed $14,378,184, utilizing the job order contract through cooperative
purchasing as the method of procurement.
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 so much.
Item 7.12
Oh, you're with us for 7.12.
Go ahead.
I bring in recommendation that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for landscape
maintenance services at 20 district campuses in the amount of $574,613
utilizing the Choice Partners contract number 15-023-JN-02. A three-month pilot
was conducted from June 1 of 2019 through August 2019 for a contracted
service to provide grounds care at 14 of the district's 81 sites. The three-month
pilot was successful in maintaining a 7 to 10 day rotation schedule and received favorable reviews
from the sites serviced. District grounds crews were able to improve their rotation schedule
at the remaining 67 sites. Maintenance and operations request is to renew the contracted
service for the one year and increase the number of sites serviced to 20. Utilizing a contracted
service along with district grounds crews a seven to ten day rotation
schedule can be maintained and reduce overtime and equipment expenses. A copy
of the proposal is included for your review. The campuses identified to
receive the contracted landscape maintenance services are Nottingham
Country Elementary, Taylor High School, Wolf Elementary, Wolf Elementary Field
property, Patterson Elementary, Memorial Parkway Junior High, Memorial Parkway Elementary, Hayes Elementary, Exley Elementary, Beck Junior High, Creech Elementary, Coleman Student Services Center, Williams Elementary, Griffin Elementary, Holland Elementary, Beckendorf Junior High, Seven Lakes Junior, Seven Lakes High School, McMeans Junior High, and Alexander Elementary.
The landscape maintenance services funding source is the 2019-2020 General Operating Fund.
Total landscape maintenance service costs not to exceed $574,613.
And this contract has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and approved as to form.
Board members?
Madam President, Ms. Champagne.
Thank you, Mr. Teak.
Can you please explain so that everyone knows that we actually save money, the district saves money by outsourcing this?
Yes, ma'am.
We actually looked at our costs for hiring more staff and outfitting additional crews to get to a seven- to ten-day round schedule.
And once we analyzed those costs, last Christmas we started looking at this.
We determined that it is a savings to try to outsource, so that's why we moved into the trial program.
A number of our surrounding districts are utilizing outsourcing services or contracted services,
but we wanted to try it here in Katy and make sure it was a fit for us, so that's what led us to it.
Actually, to bring this proposal, if we were to use our own staff and outfit them,
it's a cost savings about four hundred and fifty six thousand dollars versus
the contracted cost thank you very much yes ma'am
and president this fan I'm move the Board of Trustees approves a proposal
for landscape maintenance services at 20 of the district campuses in the amount
of five hundred and seventy four thousand six hundred and thirteen
dollars utilizing the choice partners contract number one five zero two three
J and dash 0 to second I have a motion by miss van a second by mr. Redmond that
the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for landscape maintenance
services at 20 of the district campuses in the amount of five hundred and seventy
four thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars utilizing the choice for
Partners contract number 15-023JN-02. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed motion passes 7-0.
Mr. T one more. Yes ma'am. It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a proposal for the replacement of flooring at the education support complex and the
Item 7.13
the Leonard Merrill Center to Bryan Root Services in the amount of $510,305 and a total not
to exceed cost of $635,305 utilizing the National IPA Contract Number R160402.
The ceramic tile flooring located in the hallways and entryways is original to the Education
education support complex and the Leonard Merrill Center and
replacement tile is no longer available. Areas damaged by the
flooding during Tropical Storm Harvey have been replaced and
this project will finish the replacement of the remaining
areas. Work will be scheduled around events scheduled in the
buildings and is expected to be completed by February the 3rd,
2020. An owner's contingency has been included to cover any
unforeseen conditions found during the project a copy of the proposal is
included for your review the project funding source is ter's fund ESC and LMC
flooring replacement cost again is five hundred and ten thousand three hundred
and five dollars owners contingency of a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
for a total project cost not to exceed six hundred and thirty five thousand
three oh five the contract has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and
approved as to form. Madam President, clarifying question. You mentioned that
this is items that were not damaged by Harvey. If they are found to be anything
that may have been related to the Harvey flooding, is there any way that we can
ask for recruitment from our insurance on those costs? We actually met with the
insurance adjuster when we incurred the damage and they specifically excluded
these areas. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the
Board of Trustees approves this proposed this proposal for the replacement of
flooring at the education support complex and the Leonard Merrill Center
for the two brown and root services in the amount of five hundred and ten
thousand three hundred and five dollars and a total not to exceed cost of six
hundred and thirty five thousand three hundred and five dollars utilizing the
the National IPA Contract Number R160402.
Second.
Good job, dude.
I'm going to wait down here.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Keller,
that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the replacement of flooring
at the Education Support Complex and the Leonard Merrill Center to Brown and Root Services
in the amount of $510,305 and the total not to exceed cost of $635,305 utilizing the national IPA contract number RI60402.
Board, 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 so much, Mr. Steele.
Thank you.
7.14 discuss and consider board approval of a memorandum of agreement between the
Item 7.14
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B Johnson Space
Center and Katy Independent School District for NASA continuity of
operations program you do not look like Miss Leslie Hack no I actually this is
something that has come to my office and I wanted to speak to this board about it
because you know I was here in 2017 and Ms. Hack wasn't and this contract was something that Ruben
Martinez presented and worked with NASA our emergency operations person Mr. Martinez couldn't
make it here today but I felt it appropriate for me to address this board because if you'll recall
in 2017 and as this board met as a board during the disaster, we actually had a
meeting during the disaster and the time periods after the disaster, it became
very apparent that you have the sole authority to designate and to enter into
MOUs with other agencies and it's best to have those in place before the event
happens, right? And so what we have in front of you is a memorandum of
understanding that NASA could come in during a disaster and use portions of
our Leonard Merrill Center. We would set that up as an operation space for us.
Again, one of the reasons I wanted to talk to you because we we slightly
modified the contract from how it was originally presented to provide this to
provide the board will actually authorize a superintendent in case of
that emergency to make all those final decisions. And so if if it becomes
untenable or we need to use the LMC for our purposes certainly KDISD will come
first but absent that this is a really good partnership with them in the case
of an emergency and like I said my office has reviewed it and I'm happy to
take any questions you may have on it board members madam president I think
this is awesome I think that it's it's a flattery really for the district to be
be able to provide the service for NASA.
And when we were at the TASA training, we actually saw a presentation by Clear Creek ISD,
and it involved some of the NASA things that went on.
So I think this is so apropos for right now.
And I feel very honored to be a part of this decision.
Madam President.
Ms. Phan.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the memorandum of agreement
between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
and the Katy Independent School District for the NASA Continuity of Operations Program as presented.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann and a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees
approves the Memorandum of Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Katy Independent School District
for the NASA Continuity of Operations Program as presented.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes 7-0.
Item 7.15
7.15, discuss and consider board approval of the minutes of the August 2019 board meetings.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes from the board meetings held in August 2019.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redmond,
that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in August of 2019.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
All those opposed, motion passes 7-0.
Agenda item 8.1, the board was provided a copy of donated items to KDISD.
Item 8
Agenda item 9.1, future board meeting.
Items 9 & 10
The next regular board meeting will be held on October 28, 2019.
There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned.
The time is 8.14 p.m.
Thank you all.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda file, as published on its video page. 3 pages.
Board packet · 19 documents
The district's own backup material for this agenda, retrieved from BoardDocs. Each file was checked against the size BoardDocs states for it.
- 1FinancialStatementsJuly2019 15 KB
- 2AnalysisFunctionObjectJuly2019 17 KB
- 3CheckRegistersJuly2019 7 KB
- 5TaxReportJuly2019 11 KB
- Yellowstone 262 KB
- Brown & Root ESC LMC Flooring 2301 KB
- September 2019 654 KB
- ranking sheet pkg 2 340 KB
- rec letter pkg 2 385 KB
- 4ConstructionJuly2019 137 KB
- SEPT_Donations 132 KB
- 092319 KatyISD_ABMBoardReport 231 KB
- AN ORDER M&O RATE SIGNED 223 KB
- AN ORDER I&S RATE SIGNED 223 KB
- Katy ISD 2019 Amendment to NM Ref Order 4144-65605407 SIGNED 2429 KB
- Revised-Renewal MOA-19-JA-30388 NASA KISD SIGNED 2485 KB
- MIN 08 26 19 Regular Meeting SIGNED 2307 KB
- MIN 08 19 19 Work Study SIGNED 2268 KB
- MOA SIGNED 171 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution nominating Roosevelt Alexander for a positions on the Boards of Directors of the Waller County Appraisal District, Paul Stamatis for a positions on the Boards of Directors of the Fort Bend Central Appraisal District, and Ben Pape for a positions on the Boards of Directors of the Harris County Appraisal District.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the property tax rate of $1.0531 under Tax Code Section 26.08. It is further recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the attached order adopting the Maintenance and Operations tax rate of $1.0531 per $100 valuation for the tax year 2019.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the Order adopting an Interest and Sinking Fund Tax Rate of $0.3900 per $100 valuation for the tax year 2019.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 7.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board approve this amendment to increase the size of the existing Bond Refunding Parameter Order.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 7.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's July 2019 financial reports.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 7.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's September 2019 budget amendments.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 7.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020 claims administration by TASB Risk Management Fund for Unemployment Compensation claims.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 7.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees grants approval for the superintendent to prepare, sign, and submit an application to the State Commissioner of Education for a class size waiver exception.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 7.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Campus Performance Objectives.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 7.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Acme Architectural Hardware for the construction of district wide safety and security upgrades - Package #2 in the amount of $2,150,000 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $2,580,000.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 7.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the use of 2017 Bond Savings for five identified projects at various District facilities in the amount not to exceed $14,378,184, utilizing the Job Order Contract through Cooperative Purchasing as the method of procurement.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 7.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for landscape maintenance services at twenty of the District campuses in the amount of $574,613 utilizing the Choice Partners Contract #15/023JN-02.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 7.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the replacement of flooring at the Education Support Complex and the Leonard Merrell Center to Brown & Root Services in the amount of $510,305 and a total not to exceed cost of $635,305 utilizing the National IPA Contract No R160402.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 7.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board approve the Memorandum of Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Katy Independent School District for NASA Continuity of Operations Program as presented.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 7.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in August 2019.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |