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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, October 28, 2019
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- 0:00 to 0:28 Item 3 Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting. The presiding officer will verify that the meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted for the time and manner required by law.
- 0:28 to 24:31 Item 4 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.
- 24:31 to 25:36 Items 5 & 6 5. 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. 5.1 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.) 5.2 Discuss the superintendent's quarterly evaluation. (Texas Government Code 551.074: For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.) 5.3 Discuss Board duties. (Texas Government Code 551.074: For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.) 6. Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting.
- 25:36 to 29:43 Item 7 Pledges of Allegiance 7.1 Exley Elementary Student to Lead Pledges of Allegiance.
- 29:43 to 39:31 Item 8.1 Public Hearing Presentation of the District's rating on the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST).
- 39:31 to 1:11:28 Item 9.1 Discussion/Action Discuss and consider Board approval of the attendance boundary modification (ABM) for elementary #43 and high school #9 for the 2020-2021 school year.
- 1:11:28 to 1:12:52 Item 9.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the August 2019 check register.
- 1:12:52 to 1:19:16 Item 9.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of the October 2019 budget amendments.
- 1:19:16 to 1:24:05 Item 9.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the English Learner (EL) Enrollment and Bilingual Education Exception/ESL Waiver Application for the 2019 - 2020 school year.
- 1:24:05 to 1:27:47 Item 9.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of updated closed campuses for intradistrict and inter-district transfers for the 2019 - 2020 school year.
- 1:27:47 to 1:31:08 Item 9.6 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for cooling tower work at the Cinco Ranch Complex.
- 1:31:08 to 1:35:19 Item 9.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposals for chiller replacements at six campuses.
- 1:35:19 to 1:37:30 Item 9.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of a cell tower lease agreement with Branch Towers III LLC.
- 1:37:30 to 1:50:12 Item 9.9 Discuss and consider Board approval of the design associated with the renovations to the Outdoor Learning Center.
- 1:50:12 to 1:51:23 Item 9.10 Discuss and consider Board approval of Amendment One to the Anslow Bryant Construction, Ltd. contract for renovations to the Outdoor Learning Center.
- 1:51:23 to 1:52:17 Item 9.11 Discuss and consider Board approval of design services associated with the addition to Raines High School.
- 1:52:17 to 1:54:51 Item 9.12 Discuss and consider Board approval of a proposal for district wide safety and security upgrades - Package #3.
- 1:54:51 to 1:56:22 Item 9.13 Discuss and consider Board approval of design services associated with the infrastructure project to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium.
- 1:56:22 to 1:56:56 Item 9.14 Discuss and consider Board approval of the minutes of the September 2019 Board meeting.
- 1:56:56 to 1:57:02 Item 10.1 Quarterly Investment Report
- 1:57:02 to 1:57:05 Item 10.2 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 1:57:05 to 1:59:20 Item 10.3 Board Member Report – Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Update
- 1:59:20 to 1:59:32 Items 11 & 12 11. Future Meetings 11.1 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, November 18, 2019 12. Adjournment
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Item 3
is 5.37 p.m. Dr. Gugorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the
Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting? Madam President, I do confirm
we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act in regard to this meeting
tonight. 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. At this time, the Board of
Item 4
trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak. A meeting that
is open to the public under the Texas Open Meetings Act is one that the public
is permitted to attend. 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
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 at the time of sign up so that copies may be
given 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 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 is a criminal offense for a person with intent to
provide to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting to substantially obstruct or
interfere with the ordinary conduct of a meeting by physical action or verbal
utterance and that thereby curtail and exercise of others First Amendment rights
Board Policy BED Local provides for removal of any member of the audience
after at least one warning who disrupts the meeting by his or her words or
actions. Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code Sections 551.074 and
551.0821, the Board will not permit the presentation of personally
identifiable information regarding a student and will not discuss
appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or
dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or
charge against an officer or employee. Should a speaker wish to address one of
these issues they must do so through the appropriate local grievance policies, FNG
local, DGBA local, or GF local. As I announce your name please come forward
and state your first and last name for the record. Our first speaker this
evening is Joe Rodriguez.
Good afternoon. My name is Joe Rodriguez. Thank you for your time this evening.
I'm here specifically with questions in reference to the attendance boundary modification.
I have a daughter that is getting ready to graduate from Texas A&M this year.
She graduated from Katy High School in 2014.
And the reason that I wanted to ask a few questions about this boundary modification
modification is because the modification would directly impact where my 14 year old son will end up graduating high school from. We moved here in 2012 and specifically bought our home in Governor's Place, land use zone number 43, so that our son would be routed to Katy High School. And now with the attendance boundary modification, we'll end up at Taylor High School. It's not that I don't have, it's not that I have something against Taylor High School.
It's a great school, has great scores, but we want our son to go to Katy High School.
Our daughter did as well.
And so the questions that I would like to have answered is, if this is approved and voted on,
what is the next recourse of action for someone like myself?
Will Katy High School be a closed or an open campus?
Will there be a transfer program?
Would it be possible for us to transfer our son into Katy High School somehow?
Will there be a way for that to happen?
Basically, what can we do to get our son into Katy High School without having to pack all of the things up that we've moved and purchase another home?
We invested a lot of money in our home and bought it specifically because, like I said, we wanted our son to go to Katy High School.
My wife's a teacher. Would it be possible because she's a teacher for us to choose to have our son graduate from Katy High School?
Would we be able to do that?
Will there be special options for students of West Memorial that would allow them, maybe eighth graders, seventh graders,
to be able to choose what high school they want to go to if their boundary has been modified?
And then the last thing is, will all these options be made public so that everyone in
this room who has that same question can then make a decision based on what they want to
do with their families?
That's all I had for the board.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Rodriguez.
Our next speaker is Christina Page.
My name is Christina Page and like Joe I also have a student at West Memorial
Junior High and I have a son that has graduated from Katy High School. Earlier
or late last night maybe early this morning I emailed each of you in regards
to a proposal for West Memorial students informing of what our parents would like
to possibly ask of you. I as well the other parents of West Memorial Junior
High are concerned about the ABM proposal. We understand the difficulties
that we are faced with the population growth and it's forced us to modify
these boundaries but we also know that this is going to impact our students.
With this in mind, we'd like to offer a solution that could alleviate overcrowding,
but also allow parents time to make a major life decision for their children.
You heard from students and parents last rezoning meeting, and we understand that we will not
always feed into Katy for as long as we had.
What we'd like to do is propose for students of the junior high at West Memorial to currently
afford the option to attend either Katy or the school they're rezoned to.
That said, our current eighth grade class of West Memorial is at 275 students, which
is planned to be split three ways.
Several of these students will not be affected as they will be zoned to Ucady or from the
area that was historically gone to West Memorial Junior High and then to Taylor.
The affected students are estimated to be about approximately 150 students per grade
level between Cinco and Taylor.
We polled students and parents to see who would choose Katie or the new school if given the option.
We found that around 75% of the students wished to stay at Katie if provided their own transportation.
Allowing students in junior high the option of a four-year choice as being offered to students that are freshmen this current year
will greatly help parents with timing to relocate if necessary.
One minute.
We understand that it's not viable for all students at the West Memorial Junior High this year, but each grade level afforded this option if another year for parents to make appropriate plans that they want their kids to attend Katy High.
Basing on the polling of our students and parents, approximately 75% of 8th graders that answered also have relatives that have attended Katy.
There are approximately 310 students in the 7th grade and 300 in the 6th.
It would mean about 115 extra students at Katy next year, only slightly more for the other two grades.
We strongly believe that we can work together for a solution in this.
Many students can safely acclimate to Katy.
Please think and consider our West Memorial family is asking of you, and thank you for your time and consideration.
Thank you, Ms. Page.
Our next speaker is Michael Hall.
How's it going? Michael Hall. I'm also here in reference to the ABM, obviously representing
West Memorial as well. I'm kind of repeating what you guys have already heard, you already
know. We've done some math, we've looked at some different numbers, and really the affected
kids that will be going that will be changing schools to Cinco or Taylor is
in the ballpark that would want to stay at Katy is about 120 kids. The big thing
I'm asking you guys tonight you have a very difficult decision to make we all
get that and saying that it's almost an easy decision it's almost a decision
that you can whichever way you choose you know it's a difficult decision and
and you have to do the best you can. I'm asking you to please be extraordinary.
ordinary. I'm asking you to please think outside the box. I'm asking you to please consider these
kids and take into account their feelings and how it's going to affect them. They'll live.
Whatever you decide, they'll live. But be better than that. I'm asking you to please,
if someone breaks into my house tonight, steals my TV, I'll still live. But it's not great.
Right now, this is a big decision for y'all. This is a big decision for me.
to those those 14 year olds right there at this point it's the biggest decision
in their lives I'm just asking that you guys will please think outside the box
take into consideration and think about some different alternates whether it be
allowing special considerations for kids that are legacy West Memorial we
understand fully that the entire all the students at West Memorial junior high are
not going to feed Katy high school forever I've seen the numbers I've seen
the maps it doesn't make sense the big thing I'm asking for is that you'll make
some special consolations for children and for their parents that have moved into this area
specifically to send them to Katy. Put a hard line on it at a sixth grade, a fifth grade, sixth grade,
seventh grade, but give us a little more time than six or seven months. I'm sick right now so it's
kind of hard for me to talk but that's basically what I had to say. Thank you Mr. Hall.
Our next speaker is Susan Wallace.
Good evening.
So I have a solution to all of you that are being rezoned.
If you want your children to stay or go to Katy High School, you should move them to Firethorne.
Our two newest board members live there and in my opinion they were elected in part to keep Firethorn in Katy High School.
Once the process, the total process is cemented, Firethorn will never be zoned out of Katy High School.
So you have that option. You could always do that.
I came to speak about giving credit where it's due.
Some in the community have been incorrectly credited with giving KISD a black eye.
Actually, it's one man who started this.
He's come out smelling like a rose too.
Sure, Hint shouldn't have bragged about taking only a month to write his dissertation.
Anyone familiar with the process knows that's not ever done, ever.
So yeah, Hint owns that.
But this other man is the one who started it all and is now reaping great benefits.
That would be our current super.
Nice work.
Madam President. Madam President. Mr. Graham. Madam President. This board
allows Madam President. Ms. Wallace. Ms. Wallace you cannot continue. Madam
President let's warn her one more time and then she's done speaking. Ms. Wallace
you cannot continue on the path that you're on. You've been warned. Madam
President. Mr. Graham. As discussed multiple times in front of this board I
I know it's been a few months since we've had I know it's been a few months since we had this conversation
Madam president you have warned of the person at the microphone as Wallace. That's your second warning please next outburst
I'm gonna ask that she be removed the board allows public comment on board business
It resolves no disputes at this opening session and decides no questions if you have a quarrel or a problem
with any district employee there is a there is a process if you have a
complaint or criticism Madam President I'm gonna ask that she be removed from
the meeting I'm gonna ask that she be removed from the meeting thank you miss
Wallace you need to leave thank you not at all miss Wallace thank you so much
Officers please escort Ms. Wallace out of the building. Ms. Wallace you need to leave the
building. Miss Wallace, I've asked you to leave repeatedly.
Sorry, kiddos.
It doesn't normally go like that.
Mr. Dolan, you're next.
That was exciting.
I apologize in advance if I seem a little bit off.
I ran 62 miles on Saturday from recovery.
I was contacted by a family whose daughter suffered an attack on one of your buses.
There was clear video evidence taken from fellow classmates.
There were pictures of bruising.
Her chest was beet red from the pounding, arms bruised and head bleeding.
I accompanied them to the meeting.
they were invited to the following Monday to speak with the principal about the incident.
The principal heard the story in that meeting.
The victim showed him the video and the pictures and they also presented the medical paperwork
that the mother was asked to bring.
I received a conference call later that day between the principal, the mother and the
daughter and he said that the witnesses all corroborated her story that she never even
swung back to defend herself. She was the second person to be hit by the attacker that day and the
bus driver was the fourth person to be struck by this attacker on that bus ride. The victim
requested to press charges. The DA of Harris County rejected the charges despite going all
the way to their substation to request in person. Despite clear evidence, video evidence, pictures
pictures of bodily damage, multiple witnesses, and emergency room discharge papers.
No charges were filed, no charges were accepted by the DA.
Speaking with KDISD police, they told me that the emergency room discharge papers were not included in the file sent to the DA.
Today, this family asked the principal to investigate this attacker for bullying.
And the principal refused to do so.
He offered to allow the victim to change schools.
This victim is a refugee from Venezuela here seeking asylum.
They were also informed today that the attacker would be back on the bus and back in the classroom in six weeks.
You have one minute.
KDIC police told them to request the case files after 10 days.
As some people know, all PIR requests take 10 more days to receive.
That's 20 days.
days. Five days after the 15 days required for someone to file a grievance. The system
is broken. I suggest you guys read the book Why Meadow Died. I don't have time to get
into why, but all of you are in that book in one form or another. And finally, would
anybody be willing to watch the video of this young girl being attacked on your bus? Just
look at the evidence. I raise a hand. Anybody willing to take 30 seconds of their time to
watch the video of someone being brutally beat on your bus? Would you? Okay. So Don Champagne
is willing to watch and that's funny. I know people sitting in that seat laugh a lot. Yeah,
at really horrible things. Georgia Strickland, you're our next speaker.
speaker. Good evening. Thank you for allowing us to speak. I feel like I need some confetti cannons just to bring some fun, positive stuff to share with you guys. Currently, our PTAs, we have 62 PTAs in the KDSD area. That is 29,524 members strong. So about this time last year, we were at 22,450. So I don't know what's going on.
going on in Katy but we are smoking everybody out of the water. Our August
award for Head Start meaning that the PTAs had to achieve 75% of what they had
last year at the same time. 37 of our PTAs got that. The September award is
Early Bird meaning that at the end of September they had to achieve a hundred
percent of what they had last year in September. 26 of our PTAs received that.
Many of them are putting on vaping programs, carnivals, all sorts of, they're just very busy right now and they're doing some amazing things.
We ourselves are going to put on a safety demonstration in November for our leaders so they can kind of see this program that one of our vendors is offering to teach children about safety, especially high school aged girls about how to defend themselves if someone grabs them.
Exley last year won two grants from National PTA. This year they just
received, it was announced today, that they just received from Nestle Healthy
Lifestyles Prize. They're getting ten cases of water from Texas PTA. So out of
all the PTAs that applied in Texas, Exley won. So they're kind of like, oh my gosh,
where we're gonna put all this water? But they'll find a spot. We also have
scholarships that are closing in November from Texas PTA. We have
scholarships for teachers and high school seniors. I really, really hope some of our high school
seniors and teachers apply because it's just free money. And then last but not least, Texas PTA
really wants to see people get out and vote for Proposition 7 to increase distribution to school
funds. So hopefully we can get some more funds into the school districts. I believe that is all
I have. Thank you so much. See you next month. Thank you so much. Our next speaker is Patricia
Patricia McCartney, I'm sorry.
Welcome.
Good evening.
I'm here to say that I approve of the rezoning to Cinco Ranch High School in my area, which
is 56A.
And I taught at Cinco Ranch High School, but I live in the Katy district, Katy High School
school district. And I taught pre-calculus and I also taught in eight schools in three
states. I taught at gifted and talented schools at Duke University in the summer and at University
of Texas in the summer. And I was a supervisor in math also in one of the states. So I loved
teaching at Cinco Ranch. It was a pleasure to teach there. You like being a
teacher when you are at Cinco Ranch High School. The students are polite,
they're friendly, they're respectful. They sit there just watching you while
you're teaching and they are studious. I had a student who made a hundred on a
pre-calculus test and the next day showed up for tutoring because he wanted
wanted to keep his grade up. I had students that would work their tests twice. They were
able to because they wanted an A. So usually they made a 98, a 99, or a 100. And they came
to tutoring. The kids were friendly to each other. Of course, at that school, it was with
Lowell-Strike, we were family. It was family at that school. And we did feel that way,
and we still did you know after he left I don't see you know what the holdup is
I think it's time for us to move our area over to Cinco Ranch High School
because it's been talked about before and I want the students in my area where
I live and my granddaughter when to go to that school we can't afford to move
I'm a single retired school teacher and my daughter and granddaughter live with
with me, although I told my daughter I would move and she started crying because she said
you would do that and I go yes, I would do that. I would move to be in that area. So
you know, I only see positive things from going to Cinco Ranch High School. Thank you
very much.
Thank you so much. Our next speaker is Cameron Wagner.
Hello, my name is Cameron Wagner. I am a varsity cheer captain at Cinco Ranch High School.
I'm also a four-year cheer member as well as an APGT student. In a conversation I had with
my counselor during my sophomore year, I learned that a student that cheers all four years of high
school will only receive one credit towards the state mandated 26 graduation
requirement credits. According to our district's course selection program
cheerleaders can earn four local credits but it is my understanding that it does
not count towards the 4.5 required graduation credits, elective credits and
I was told that cheerleading is the only extracurricular group that does not get
four years worth of graduation elective credit in our district. Cheerleading is
basically being counted as a study hall right now which means an entire group of
students across our district are being penalized for choosing cheer as their
elective to participate in on the handout it's a chart and it shows how a
student who comes into high school from junior high without any high school
credits and then cheers four years in KDISD will not be able to graduate on
time they will only be able to earn 25 credits and that means they'll be short
one which means that they'll be forced to take classes like summer school
outside of the regular school day and why should cheerleading earn a state
credit each year well we compete in local and state competitions our cheer
period is not a study hall we exercise condition we practice we have had UIL
practices after school and on weekends and preparation for UIL state
state competition this January, and we are a year-round program.
We have after-school cheer practices in addition to our football, volleyball, basketball games
and pep rallies and any other event that we're asked to participate in.
In my research, I found that there are at least two Texas school districts with very
well-known cheerleading programs whose cheerleaders receive credit each year towards graduation.
It has been done elsewhere in our state, so I know that we can find a way to do something
similar here.
I am seeking a resolution to correct this oversight in our district.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Great job.
This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting.
The board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under section 551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes.
Items 5 & 6
Texas Government Code 551.071, 551.129, and 551.074.
Thank you all.
The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, October 28th, and the time is 718 p.m.
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.
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, October 25th, 2019.
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 able to ask questions receive answers and should be prepared to take
Action this evening. Do we have any scouts in the audience tonight?
Okay
You ready yes
Item 7
All right, good evening everybody. I'm going to go ahead and invite one of our special guests up to the microphone.
And this is Kyla Lipscomb, and she's a fourth grader at Exley Elementary School.
So you can come on up to the mic, but don't do anything just yet.
Kyla is the daughter of Kelly and Vincent Lipscomb, and her principal is there in the front row as well, Ms. Julie Knoldner.
And Kala's student interests, special interests are soccer, jiu-jitsu, music, arts and crafts, and favorite subjects are math, science and reading.
And I want to read a couple of quotes from some of her teachers over there at Exley.
Kala is such a ray of sunshine. Her smile and positive energy light up the room when she enters it.
She is a hard worker and always willing to lend a helping hand to her classmates.
Determination, energetic, wit, and charm are all characteristics that describe this amazing young lady and make her a positive role model for her peers.
I look forward to watching her fulfill her dreams and feel blessed to be her teacher.
That is from Ms. Sylvia Persley, GT teacher.
And from Ms. Deanna Arnold, fourth grade ELA teacher, I so enjoy having Kyla in my class.
She's energetic, encouraging, and has an infectious smile.
She is kind to her classmates and she's very respectful young lady. She's going
to do great things in life. So welcome to our KDIC Board of Trustees meeting and
we will turn it over to you to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all
now for the texas flag honor the texas flag i pledge allegiance to the texas one state under god
one and indivisible
good evening president doyle board members and superintendent gregorski
My name is Kyla Lipscomb. I'm a fourth grader at Exley Elementary. I have been at Exley since kindergarten. I am lucky to have such a great school as I do.
My school, Exley Elementary, is amazing and makes me happy when I head to school every morning.
We have wonderful teachers who encourage and inspire students. I cherish my school because of my teachers, friends, and administrators.
It's nice to see Ms. Nulner, Mr. Dold, and Mrs. Parks always walking in the halls, checking on students, and being so involved.
All of these things lead me to my favorite part of Exley. We call it Ohana.
Ohana is the Hawaiian word for family, which includes friends and community.
At Exley, family, friends, and community all work together as one to be the best we can possibly be.
Thank you so much for allowing us to have such a wonderful environment.
This is Kyla with the X-ray Express signing off.
Choo-choo.
Awesome.
Thank you very much for coming and leading our pledge today.
We have this certificate of recognition in this pretty nifty KDISD backpack.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Who's taking a photo?
You got one?
From the book.
Dawn is taking over. I like that.
Perfect.
Thank you so much. Great job, sweetie.
Next, we're going to go to Agenda Item 8.1,
Item 8.1
Presentation of the District's Rating on the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas.
Mr. Smith.
That's exciting.
Good evening.
I want to first say that last week we got...
today, I turned, my mom would say 600 months old. And for those of you that can do the math, I'm 50.
And I turned 50 and got the best first time I've ever gotten socks. There you go.
I'm as excited about the Astros as I am about this report I'm going to give you tonight on
our financial integrity rating system of Texas. This is a little history. 20 years ago,
go the legislative session PASCALS FIRST. Again that's an acronym for
Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas and it's a statewide ranking that
started with the fiscal year data of 2001 and 2002 that was presented in the
fall of 2003. So tonight I'm going to be presenting on information from the 17-18
audit here in 19. What happens is when we get the audit and we all approve the
audit in January of 19. It takes the agency a while to do this in analytics,
etc. for their thousand plus school districts and so they generally give
that rating in the August or September time frame and it's that time of year to
talk about the 18-19 rating. So over the years there's been many changes that the
agency's made. In fact I got an email Friday for what I'm going to be
presenting this time next year. They're already making some changes to some new
indicators that were new and already changing but it basically is to expand
the accountability system to finances of the school district and hopes that it
will improve the way that school districts across the state use their
financial resources and that those resources are maximized for instructional
purposes failure to meet any critical indicator and mrs. fighting er is going
to talk about the critical indicators right after me is going to talk the
requires you an automatic failure. And there are several indicators that are supposed to be
more easily accepted and known to the public from a financial industry perspective. And there are
some several indicators that I'll be speaking about tonight that have a sliding scale from zero
to 10, 10 being the most points that you can get. So in a score standpoint, as we get through this,
we'll talk about the score. But if you score between 70 and 100 points, you get a superior
rating of an A and you can see the scale on down and so I'm going to turn it over
to Miss Feitinger to speak about the first five or those critical indicators
okay just to preface this by some of these indicators are worried worded a
little strangely like double negatives but that's because they want the answer
to be yes so they sound a little strange because the answer is always supposed to
Yes. So, indicator number one was, was the annual financial report filed within one month after the January 28th deadline?
And we did. We filed our financial report on January 25th.
Indicator 2A is, was there an unmodified opinion in the annual financial report?
In other words, did we have a clean opinion? The auditors didn't add anything to the opinion.
And yes, we did have a clean, unmodified opinion on our financial report.
forth. Indicator 2B is was the annual financial report free of instances of material weaknesses
and internal controls? And yes, we did have control sufficient in place to prevent any
potential errors. Indicator number three is was the school district in compliance with payment
terms of all debt agreements at fiscal year end? In other words, we made all of our bond payments
as required and yes we did. Indicator number four is did we make timely payments to TRS,
teacher retirement system, Texas Workforce Commission, Internal Revenue Service and all
governmental agencies and the answer is yes we did make timely payments. Indicator five is actually
not scored by TEA this year. For two years we've been adding increasing required recording of
pension and different liabilities and there were so many things that they had
to make exceptions for another in order for districts to pass this indicator
that they just decided not to score it at all
had they scored it we have would have passed yes with their just yeah all
right indicator six was the number of days of cash on hand and current
investments in the general fund for school districts sufficient to cover
operating expenditures yes and again that's where we talk about having that
cash on hand or fund balance was indicator seven was the measure of
current assets to current liabilities ratio for the school district sufficient
to cover short-term debt yes it was sufficient was the ratio of long-term
liabilities to total assets for the school district sufficient to cover
long-term support long-term solvency yes it was sufficient did the school
district's general fund revenues equal or exceed expenditures yes our general
fund revenues exceeded our expenditures so the answer to that is yes if not if
you were going to use fund balance did you have enough cash on hand to make
that to last through that and the answer to that would have been yes obviously as
well was the debt service coverage ratio sufficient to meet the required debt
service in our case yes and if you'll recall this time last year we had done
some pretty big refundings and based on the way they scored this we weren't
going to get all 10 points and I said sent the letter and three days after
this meeting we got back word from the agency that indeed they agreed and they
gave us those two points back tonight you're gonna hear a budget amendment
that's going to affect this and I will proactively this time send a letter to
the agency sometime when the dust settles on some refundings that we're
doing and and we'll we it should help us where we won't run into that snack so
So I'll be proactive this time.
But yes, we passed that and got all 10 points.
Indicator 11, was the school district's administrative cost
ratio equal to or less than the threshold ratio?
And that answer is yes.
In fact, I think you could double
our administrative costs and still pass this indicator
or get all the points.
Indicator 12, did the school district
It's her turn. I'm sorry, it's her turn. I'm trying to break this up so y'all don't...
She was doing a good job. So did the district, school district not have a 15% decline in the students to staff ratio over three years?
And they're just trying to ensure that we're efficiently using our resources and our staff and that ratio isn't dropping quickly.
And yes, we did not have that, did not have any problem with that.
Indicator 13, did the comparison of PEMS data to like information in our financial report agree?
They're trying to make sure you accurately report your PEMS data.
At about 700 million, our rounding difference was $300.
So we were fine.
Indicator 14 was the annual financial report free of any material noncompliance for grants,
contracts and laws.
And yes, we were free of any material noncompliance.
And the last indicator is indicator 15.
Did the school district not receive an adjusted repayment schedule?
Again, this is one of those oddly worded, the answer is yes.
we did not need an adjusted repayment schedule because of any financial hardship.
All right, and with that said, what was our ranking?
Well, we passed all the critical indicators, those first five.
We passed all those.
So we passed, and we actually did receive 100 over 100 points again this year.
That's a superior rating.
I track about 25 school districts, mostly around here,
but also large school districts throughout the state,
high-profile districts etc and of those 25 all of them were superior but only
five of those 25 received 100 out of 100 points which I thought was pretty pretty
nice but we that's the highest grade and the highest amount of points that you
could get in this rating so again much to as we do with our academics here
lately with the niche ratings and our accountability scores we were a plus
us when it comes to our finances. And with that I'll say that you have a
report and this is a report that has the presentation that I just went through. It
has last year, it has the calculations that the agency makes on our behalf.
That can be found on their website. It has last year's calculations that
can be found on their website. It has the required disclosures which are the
reimbursements received by the board members or superintendent when it comes
comes to mostly staff development or the training that you all are required to have.
Any outside compensation received by the superintendent, which there was none.
Any outside gifts that were received by a board member or a superintendent, which there
were none.
And any business transactions, like if somebody had a business that had done business with
this ISD between the board members and the superintendent, and again, there were none.
So with that, that's the conclusion of my report to you, or Ms. Feitinger and my report to you.
And I'm pleased to say that, again, I hope you can see why I'm a little excited about it.
It's A-plus, and I appreciate the board and Dr. Gagorski for their leadership in helping that.
Thank you very much, Mr. Smith and Ms. Feitinger.
We're going to move past 8.2.
No speakers signed up.
We're going to move straight into Agenda Item 9.1,
Item 9.1
discuss and consider board approval of the attendance boundary modification, ABM, for elementary number 43
and high school number 9 for the 2020-2021 school year.
Our presenters are Mr. Ted Veerling and Ms. Leslie Hack.
Welcome. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, President Dole, board members, Dr. Gagorski.
We are here, Ms. Hack and I are here to present the attendance boundary modification, the final plan this evening.
I can tell you I've been through these as a parent, as an educator, and in this position,
and I know these can be challenging.
Moving kiddos away from their school that they're comfortable with
and the parents away from them as well can be difficult, and we do not take that responsibility lightly.
We work, just to kind of review the process, we work with PASA.
That's Population and Survey Analyst.
It's a group we work with that helps provide accurate student data and mapping information.
We meet with principals and central office administration to make sure we get the numbers
right and get the information we need about the campuses.
In addition to that, we allow opportunities for our community parents to provide feedback
on the ABM through online surveys and patron calls and emails.
At the June 17th board meeting, we established several goals for this ABM, and I want to
go through those really quickly. We will review campus capacities and enrollment
numbers throughout the district and we have done that. Develop an ABM for
elementary 43 to provide relief to Bethke elementary and we've done that.
Develop an attendance boundary modification for high school 9 that's
Jordan High School to provide relief for Tompkins and Seven Lakes High School and
we've done that. And develop an attendance boundary modification that
will provide long-term balance to high school enrollment for campuses with
with boundaries south of Interstate 10, and we believe we've done that as well.
So as we walk you through the presentation tonight, you have maps in front of you if
you'd like to look at those, and then at the end if you have any questions for us.
So the first thing we're going to do is review the K-12 Insight Survey.
This, I won't read the slides to you, but this slide talks about the fact that
the K-12 Insight Survey went out right after the June 17th board meeting.
It stayed live all the way through October the 7th, so we got some pretty
good data from that from our patrons. This shows you the total number of
responses. The elementary school we delivered invitations via email to 794
community members and the high school 11,000. If you go all the way over to the
the other side there 410 total responses back on the elementary ABM and the high
school had 4,293 so this slide is about the elementary data again I won't read
this to you but between the data that we got from the initial survey and then the
survey that we ran the rest of the survey that we ran from the end of
September through I'm sorry the first of September through early October the
the numbers really did not change much.
2% here, 3% there.
The numbers pretty much stayed the same,
even with an increase of 152 people.
And this is the graph that demonstrates that.
You see the preliminary results are on top.
40% fully support the recommendation.
And you go down to the next one.
Those are the final results with those extra 152 people in there.
40% still support.
You'll see a little bit difference there
at the back end when the folks that are unsure versus the do not support but
basically the numbers run the same for the high school we had an increase of
832 people since the preliminary reports of that last month we got 832 more
responses and hard to believe but the only item that changed the percent of
participants who fully support the ABM increased by 1% obviously statistically
even with 832 more respondents, the survey results came out basically the same.
So you'll see the top graph there, 41% supported, and the final results were 42.
So even with 800-plus extra respondents, the survey results basically stayed the same.
So we'll go through the elementary ABM recommendation first.
This should look very familiar.
This is the same ABM recommendation that we had that we gave you guys at the June 17th board meeting.
Lots of talk about land use zones.
Lots of talk about movement throughout the district and distances to elementary 43.
But we felt like this provided the best balance to the area up there, which you guys know is growing exponentially.
And this is where we landed on the high school ABM.
so we'll come back to that map and we'll show it again this is very similar to
the map that we presented at the June 17th board meeting with just a couple of
changes and we'll walk you through those changes so at the June 17th board
meeting we proposed the ABM for high school 9 as well as 43 we took the
survey we allowed the for public comments we got lots of phone calls we
got lots of emails had lots of good discussion in the end we recommend two
changes to the original ABM proposed change number one is that LUZ 52F
Wood Creek Reserve remains zoned to Katy High School with LUZ 52A and Wood
Creek Reserve and I'll explain that further here shortly and the second
proposed change is that 74K and 74L remain zoned to Seven Lakes High School
So the first proposed change, there is a, there are two subdivisions that reside in what used to be all of 52F.
Part of that is the Katy Reserve, and the other part of that is the Wood Creek Reserve,
and you can see the big yellow arrows pointing to those areas.
AREAS. OUR PROPOSED CHANGE IS TO CARVE OUT THAT PIECE OF WOOD CREEK RESERVE AND KEEP THAT WITH 52A,
THE REST OF WOOD CREEK RESERVE. I'LL KIND OF EXPLAIN THE PROCESS HERE A LITTLE BIT MORE IN A MINUTE.
BUT BASICALLY WHAT WE DID IS WE TOOK THAT LITTLE SECTION THAT THE YELLOW AREA WOOD CREEK RESERVE
is pointing to and we brought that back into 52a so 52f is now katie reserve by itself
so we did confirm that that piece that very small piece of wood creek reserve
was in 52f we as you know we try not to separate subdivisions in an attendance boundary modification
and in this case we would have separated a very small portion of Wood Creek
Reserve from the rest of Wood Creek Reserve and move those kiddos to Tompkins
High School so we made that change. K-12 survey feedback supports the ABM
recommendation to make that change as well as keep 52G at move 52G to
Tompkins High School. Proposed change number two, 74 K&L remaining zone to
Seven Lakes High School. There's the map you can see the survey data on the right
side of the map is the original survey data. The data over there on top of the
second map on the right side is the updated data. Again it didn't change much
much at all in terms of there were no big moves in percentage points there.
So the K-12 survey did confirm that 74K and
74L were in favor of staying at Seven Lakes High School.
We looked at the enrollment, it's about 110 kids.
110 kids next year for high school,
not a huge enrollment impact on Seven Lakes High School.
and if you look at the map and I can go back to it there although it seems
rather small when you drive all the way down Fry Road it's about a half a mile
between the western side of 74 C and the western side of 74 D so you'd have buses
going crossways and I know that in certain instances that will happen
throughout the district but in this case it was like I said about a half mile
And then again that's the final proposed ABM for the high school. So Mrs. Hack is
going to talk a little bit about transfer options to each of these
campuses. Good evening Dr. Grogorski, Mrs. Doyle and board members. As Mr.
Vierling said the rezoning is always difficult. It's very tough and so but we
try to do what's in the best interest of for the campuses and balance so we're
going to talk through a little bit of the transfer options and also some
information that will be provided after the ABM is approved our transfer options
when rezoned from Katy high school to Taylor Cinco or Tompkins and this is
unusual it's an existing four-year to a four-year campus versus to new
construction so our current enrolled students this school year 9th 10th and
11th grade were proposing that they be rezoned from Katy High School to another four-year high school,
but they are all eligible for a transfer to remain at Katy High School through graduation.
So any student sitting in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade at Katy High School would need to complete a transfer application
to remain at Katy High School for the upcoming school year and renew each year through graduation.
And then of course the sibling transfer rule would apply if you had a
current ninth grader that applies for a transfer to remain at Katy High School
next year as a tenth grader and they had an incoming ninth grade student a
sibling that sibling would be approved as well but we have some more details
about that in just a moment for the existing four year to four year approved
transfers to remain at Katy High School transportation will not be provided
added. Transfer options when rezoned from Seven Lakes and Tompkins High School to Jordan High
School. This is existing four-year to a new high school, new construction. The sibling transfer
rule will apply, and this would apply if an 11th or 12th grade sibling was enrolled at Seven Lakes
or Tompkins High School next school year. The siblings can stay because 11th and 12th grade
will not be offered at Jordan High School.
Transportation will be provided for two years.
Eleventh and twelfth graders will be provided transportation.
So it's important to note that any sibling that is at Seven Lakes or Tompkins High School,
effective August of 2022, transportation will no longer be provided.
So we kind of went over some next steps following the ABM approval.
approval. So following tonight's board meeting, the 2021 ABM well
web page will be updated. Doctor grooms and her staff were ready
to release that information and that will reflect the approved
boundary changes. The families impacted by the approved ABM
will be notified by email and the US Postal letter. The email
will have active links to the FAQ's and multiple departments
have come together to provide FAQ information. Because we want
We want to make sure all our families and students have accessible information on what
things to help them transition to their new campus, to help them transition or remain
at their former campus if they're eligible, and just all the activities and events.
We want to make sure you have that information.
The district communication will include frequently asked questions.
The FAQs, of course, provide information on rezoning, curricular and extracurricular activities,
and transportation.
The FAQs will also have specific contact people for parents and community to contact.
We don't want anyone to have to chase information.
We're prepared, effective, immediately when we have inquiries regarding the ABM, specific
people within departments to contact the families.
We will follow up and make sure that we make contact with all involved.
Our electronic transfer link, the ABM transfer link will be available for all impacted students.
It will open at 9 a.m. On Friday, November 1st, and it will remain open through 1159 on Monday, January 13th
This will be a ABM transfer request only we have a lot of other type of transfer requests that happen through the school year
That it will be a separate window that opens during course selection in the spring 2020 semester
One thing I would like to note about the transfer link when it opens although the
of options to remain at Tompkins and Seven Lakes and even at Katy High School are somewhat
limited. We did put a comment text box in there that will allow our families and our
students to put in extenuating circumstances, requests for information, and that we will
be following up on all that with the families, any type of information that they put into
the transfer link. It may not be clear cut or they may have questions and we want to
to make sure we have the opportunity to address that.
So this is a little bit what the FAQs will look like.
Sorry about that.
So there will be all types of information via the FAQs.
If you are a student rezoned from Seven Lakes to Tompkins High School to Jordan High School,
it opens with a message from Jordan High School Principal Mr. Ethan Kroll,
contact information, how to look up your LUZ, who to contact,
and then we have information over the transfer opportunities to remain at Seven Lakes or Tompkins,
transportation with contacts, athletics, and fine arts.
And then we have the same document available.
And we have opens with the message from principals at Taylor, Cinco Ranch and Tompkins welcoming
their rezone students with contact information.
LUZ's impacted transfer information with the link transportation, athletics and fine
on arts. We'll make sure they have all the information that they need for the transition.
Thank you very much for your presentation. Is that, are y'all complete?
We'd be happy to answer any questions. Yes. Okay, board members, do we have any questions?
Madam President?
Ms. Champagne?
Sorry, I'm working with the funky microphone.
First of all, I really appreciate the months and months of work that Mrs. Haack and Mr.
Beierling have put into this.
I know that any decision that we make, just like someone said earlier, is going to be
a difficult decision either way, to approve it or to not approve it.
It's hard on both sides.
but I would like to add I know you've heard this before but I'm going to say
it again my kids two of them graduate from Taylor and I have one there and
Taylor's awesome school so I know I I know it's going to be a great school of
you if you get rezoned there but I am curious I am very appreciative of the
four-year transfer for the 9th 10th and 11th and I 10th and 11th um but and
Since it was brought up that there's about 120 kids that would maybe prefer to go to Katy High School,
if they were given a choice.
I'm not saying that they have been.
But how would that affect, like if it was just one year, not even thinking about the sixth and seventh grade,
but how would that affect Katy High School to allow those 120 or so kids to go to Katy High School
that are the ones that are currently in eighth grade?
Sure, the kiddos that are currently sitting in eighth grade.
If we're talking about 120 kids and 75% of those,
I think the difficulty is that we would offer that to any of the land use zones
that are being moved from Katy High,
and combine that with the four-year kiddos that we're allowing to stay
because they're already sitting in those seats.
If you run those numbers, and I know one of our speakers tonight said 75%, and I could see 75% wanting to stay.
If you include all the 8th grade kiddos that are sitting in their seats now, plus the kids that are 9th through 11th this year, it's almost 700 kids if 75% of those kids stay.
Now, we don't know if 75% of those kids would stay, but that's kids from LUZ 43, 55, 56A, and B,
for all those kids that would want to stay at KD High.
So the impact is tremendous on the size and the capacity at KD High if all those kiddos ended up staying.
Does that answer your question?
Mr. Vierling, let me jump in there because I've got numbers in my head, but I don't have them memorized.
But I think this will clear that up.
So if you look at who would be on this new ABM zone to Katy High School next school year,
and you factor in the kids who will be allowed to stay in grades 9, 10, and 11,
and then you talk about the 8th graders on top of that,
quick math in my head of what we've been looking at over a time period is,
if every student agreed to save, 100% wanted to stay,
with the 9, 10, and 11s, that's going to put Katy High School's enrollment next year at about 3,600 students.
If the eighth graders joined in and all went, it's going to be about 3,800 students and change over there.
So let's take 75% of that number, and Ted threw some numbers out on top of that.
So 3,600 students in Katy High School is going to be a significant challenge for that school.
I don't know how we'd do it.
We'd have to really work through some portable buildings.
The highest Katy High School in its history has ever been is at 3,500 students, and that was a real challenge to have that.
currently at Katy High School we got about 3,300 and change over there so not
that we don't want to examine those eighth graders going there and that was
something that came up on the last board meeting and we looked at that and we
looked at all the numbers in there and I heard tonight also can we look at the
seventh graders and sixth graders as well I think there's some real
challenges and to be able to do that and extend that to sixth seventh and eighth
grade only because if everyone take us up takes us up on that at a hundred
100% of that population you're at about 3,800 kids in Katy high school next year and that's not going to work
You know and it's not just about adding portables people think okay
Let's go drop another 15 20 portables on there. You got to remember all the shared spaces over there libraries all
Cafeterias the hallways and
It just would not be in the best interest of all students to have 3,800 kids in Katy high school as it continues to grow
Madam President, may I say one other thing?
Okay, so I hear you and I also hear everybody else, and I'm sure you do too.
But let me just say, this is not something that I need to tell you,
but it's not good to be at an overcrowded school.
And it's much more pleasant for everyone, the teachers and the students, to be at an
un-overcrowded school.
So I'm just going to say that, and I hope that however it goes, you all know that we
are trying our best to do the best for the whole district, the whole community.
That's all.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
Just as a follow-up to Dr. Gorski, I just ran some real quick numbers based on what
Mr. Vierling had said.
If my calculations are correct, when we're looking at 2024, instead of 36 and almost
3650, we're looking at almost 4,000 kids in 2024 at Katy High School.
and walking those halls on numerous occasions the newer part would be fine
you know with the widths of the of the hallways it's the older part of the
building where most of the classrooms are that those call ways are very very
tight and it's a safety concern when I consider and I look at things because
that is what it comes down to we have to do what's best for the district but we
have to do what's safest as well so there's a big safety factor there just
Just out of curiosity, off the top of your head to both Mrs. Hack and Mr. Vierling,
and I almost got it backwards, so be thankful.
I'll respond either way.
I ran through about 10 or 12 different scenarios with all the numbers that we were provided,
and the public was provided as well.
Just for fun, how many different illustrations did you all run off the top of your head
to try and figure out how to keep as many kids together as possible?
Oh, you mean iterations of the map? There you go. Yeah, those fancy words. At least 20 plus. Thank you. At least.
Any other questions? Mr. Keller. And then next we'll miss guess. This is my inaugural question, by the way.
I don't I don't know if you know this yet, so maybe it's an unfair question, but a lot of the questioning I'm getting from the parents is a student who's allowed to select the school.
they can stay at for whatever reason but they select to go to another school that
they they can go to it are they going to be able to switch back is there some
time period where you say you've made this selection this is where you're
going to be going to school if I was this let me see if I got your question
right if I was a student that was rezoned out of Katy high school and I
elected to go to tell go to Taylor high school but you could have stayed at
Katie could have stayed at Katie that was be because now you've declared to
attend your zone campus you're there so this would be a one-time option to
declare to stay at Katie high school now say I was rezoned to Taylor but I opted
to apply for that transfer to remain at Katie high school through graduation at
some point I wish to revoke my transfer to Katie high school and go to my zone
campus Taylor you can because anybody can revoke their transfer if it was it
if you're any type of involved in any type of UIL activity that would be where
the FAQs it's recommended that you contact the athletic director's office
and we have that information because then you get into a little bit different
thing there okay so it's probably fair to say that if you have an option to
stay at a school and you forego that you've waived the right to go you've
declared that's your home your zone home campus an established residency miss
Ms. Gasson.
Mrs. Hack.
So I think Mr. Lacey had brought this up at a previous meeting,
but do we feel like with this rezoning that south of the freeway we're going to be good for a while,
for a long while, maybe forever, until we're all retired?
Ten years.
I think with all the iterations we've looked at,
and we've been looking at this from so many different ways,
and fine-tuning LUZs and trying to do what's best in the best interest of the neighborhoods and the kids,
that we really look when we project the numbers out and work with PASA,
we are going to be balanced for the next 10 years through 2028, which that is quite significant,
especially when visiting with some of the parents that have lived on the south side,
especially in the elementaries that we've opened so many,
and they've experienced this rezoning to not be rezoned for 10 years.
that is a really settling good thing for the kids.
And what about north of the freeway?
We'll have to come back and look at some point with Pato and Katie High School
when we start to see their numbers as close as three, four, and five years out.
We're going to have to be making some decisions there.
Okay.
Well, I just want to add to thank you so much for your diligence,
and I know the people who came up with these plans and ran them over and over again
and are not only educators and administrators,
but parents as well.
Many of us that live here have been through rezoning,
so I know that you have absolutely given it your best effort.
And I feel like what you've laid out is as equitable as it can be.
It's going to create a lot of extra work and a lot of extra churn,
but you're doing what you can to keep the kids where they want to stay
as long as it's reasonable in the scope of balancing the facilities,
honoring the taxpayers,
making best use of our facilities and keeping everybody safe. Thank you.
And we are ready for any questions or inquiries or concerns. We welcome your contact.
Madam President, Ms. Vann. Thank you all for providing the distance to school
information I'm sure this has been said but seeing it on paper is very impactful
seeing the the distance some of these the you know the 43 55 56 the distance
of travel that's basically cut in half so it seems more like it is that their
neighborhood school based on the distance here so thank you for this
information and also to sound off of what my fellow board members have said
thank you so much for all your hard work I know Ted thank you for the
maps Ted I know that y'all have worked very very hard and we really appreciate
the thoughtfulness that you put into it as as Susan said you're not just
educators and administrators you're also parents and to sound off something that
that Dr. Gagorski said about when a school becomes overcrowded,
it not only affects the body slamming to just get to class,
but the programs.
Kids don't have the opportunity to maybe have
a spot on a team or in the fine arts or things like that
because it's crowded.
My son graduated with over 1,100 kids in his class
from Seven Lakes.
and there's a lot of there's a lot of opportunities that some of those
students where they might as well qualified that just wasn't the spots and
I know that here in Katie I see we pride ourselves not just on the education that
we feel it could give but the opportunities that we give to all the
students to to make them not just college ready but life ready that just
wanted to add on to your comments about the downside necessarily of
overcrowding. Are there any other questions? I would like to ask a question
and forgive me Mr. Vierling or Ms. Hack if we may need to call Ms. Creech up here.
Dr. Creech. Transfer requirements. Could you, so that you are not bombarded with
well I want to stay so I'm gonna request a transfer. What are the requirements to
to be eligible for a transfer.
Could we speak to that?
I think they're deferring to you.
And I'm sorry, I know I'm putting you
a little bit on the spot here.
I just want that to be understood.
Okay, there are several components of a transfer.
If you've moved, if you currently live in a zone
and you've moved, you've changed a residence,
you can request to stay.
If you are moving to a new zone and you have an intended residence, like I've put a down payment on a house, that is a request to stay.
If there are, if there's a campus occurrence, if they're serious medical or psychological, if there's bullying, just I don't like it or my boyfriend broke up with me, those aren't good reasons.
but there are several components of I think total there's seven that are in
ours but that's one of the reasons we're leaving that box open for people to fill
in is explain to us what your circumstances are so that we can go in
and look at what's best for students what's best for the campuses what the
crowding or overcrowding is going to look like what the numbers are going to
look like that's why the window is open from this Friday till January 13th so we
can get a good feel for the numbers who want to stay at whichever campus it is, the numbers
that want to transfer, and sibling is one that's on there.
So as long as you have a current sibling in the line order, like a 9, 10, 11, or 12, when
all of those move up, so now it's 10, 11, and 12, if you have an incoming eighth grader,
you could have a sixth grader at some point, that ninth grader is now an 11th grader, that
that incoming eighth grader who was a sixth grader will qualify until there's a break.
When there's a break in that family line, then that sibling transfer is no longer.
Okay.
I hope that expands.
No, that was fine.
I just wanted to get a little touch on that tonight since transfers were mentioned.
Ms. Dole, I'll go ahead and add in there.
Dr. Creech, I didn't hear you mention it.
If you did, forgive me, but there's always the employee transfer rule.
There is.
And if you're a current employee at Katy High School or that's your closest workplace, I believe.
Yes.
You can qualify for a transfer by being an employee.
Also, on our website under the transfers, all the rules you're talking about, do those exist on the website currently or is that something else?
They do.
Okay.
They do and they will be on this website that opens up for this group of ABM transfers.
We've got question and answers and there's always a link to now the, it's the land use zone.
So if you type in your address, it will tell you where you currently should be going based on ABM,
and then you can make a decision on where you want.
Okay.
Wonderful.
Thank you so much.
I'm sorry to put you on the spot like that.
Never.
Never, sorry.
She's got it.
Okay.
No, no, she's got it.
You ask her anything you want.
All right.
Any other questions in reference to Action Item 9.1?
Are we ready to proceed, Board?
Okay. Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the attendance
boundary modification ABM for the 2020 to 2021 school year as recommended by the administration.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the
attendance boundary modification ABM for the 2020-2021 school year as recommended by administration.
We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Agenda item 9.2, discuss and consider board approval of the August 2019 check register. Mr. Smith.
Item 9.2
All right, well the August check register is presented before you and normally we would
present to the financial reports but since our fiscal year ended August 31st that's being
audited or being prepared to be audited so we normally skip the financial reports for the month
of August and we'll pick up this time next month we'll show as it was through
September so all you see before you is the district's check register which
shows all expenditures by fund and of course once this meeting is over we will
post the check actual details of the check register as we do monthly to our
website are there any questions
Any other questions?
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
I move that Board of Trustees approve the District's August 2019 check register as recommended by
the administration.
Second.
Thank you.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approve
the District's August 2019 check register as recommended by administration.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Opposed? Motion passes. Agenda item 9.3. Mr. Smith or is Ms. Butterfield?
Item 9.3
Ms. Butterfield is going to come do it.
Okay. Discuss and consider board approval of the October 2019 budget amendments.
Good evening, President Doyle, Trustees, and Superintendent Kragorski.
Tonight, the general operating fund revenues are amended to recognize an additional $3.5 million in tax collections,
and federal revenues are amended to reduce revenues a little over $3 million,
which is equal to the subsidy on the Build America bonds.
As Mr. Smith talked about in the first presentation earlier,
we have bond transactions to refund the BABS, which priced last week,
and we are amending the budget now to accommodate related accounting entries.
We will bring an amendment later to true up all entries related to both bond refundings.
We have one timing amendment tonight.
Operating fund expenditures are amended to increase $83,000 for timing issues
with the receipt of supplies and instructional materials related to our new special ed classrooms.
rooms the transfer out from the general operating fund is the build america bond subsidy this is
removed resulting in a 3 million 37 227 dollar decrease to transfers out so debt service is also
impacted by all of these bond transactions transfers in are reduced by the same bab
Babs subsidy amount of $3,037,227, and other sources are increased by $155 million for the anticipated refunding bond sale.
Additionally, expenditures are increased by the same $155 million to reflect the retirement of the refunded debt.
Again, these amendments are related to that same Babs refunding transaction.
action construction funds are amended 14 million 378 184 to establish budget for the projects
approved by the board in september and are funded by project savings from the 2017 authorization
and i wanted to add a little something to that debt service transaction that that
that Ms. Butterfield keeps speaking to about the BABs.
If you'll recall, one of the refundings
that we spoke to you about last month
that we were looking at doing a transaction for
was the 2010 D transaction, Build America Bonds.
We sold those bonds in December of 2010.
And it was part of the federal program
to stimulate the economy at the time.
And it were taxable bonds.
and we received a subsidy from the Internal Revenue Service to make those
actually better than tax-exempt bonds. So every year since that time we've
gotten a subsidy to make those taxable bonds cheaper than selling tax-exempt
bonds at the time. Now it was time to refund those. Those were callable and we
did do the refunding transaction last week and Ms. Gashoff you asked how much
interest we were going to save on that transaction and I said well probably ten
million dollars. That transaction is complete as of Wednesday of last week.
The parameters that we had were to refund that and net of the subsidy have
a three and a half percent net present value savings. I'm pleased to report that
the savings ended up being about fourteen and a half percent net present
value which from a gross standpoint if you compare debt service schedule to
debt service schedule. Again, we're not increasing the length of the loan, but if
you look at the payment schedules that we had and the payment schedule with the
lower interest rate net of the subsidy or net of that federal revenue, it's 40,
I'm sorry, 34, just under thirty four point five million dollars over that
life. So it's about a million seven a year for the next 20 years that we'll be
saving because of that lower interest rate environment. And so that's just one
of those transactions the other one we priced later this week and i hope to be able to have
a positive report on that as well and again we're just taking advantage of the interest rate
environments the bonds we're doing tomorrow are not they are tax exempt they're not callable at
this time we're going to advance refund them we can't do that with other tax exempt bonds
so we're going to have a taxable sale and we think that the interest rates on that will make that
that worth that transaction as well. Again, it's strange talking about
refunding taxable bonds with non-taxable bonds and then refunding tax-exempt
bonds with taxable, but the interest rate environment is such that it is fruitful
to do so and I expect to have good savings to report on that transaction
later this week as well. And these amendments kind of work toward
getting that staged up and we'll clean them up in the next couple of months
once those transactions settle. All right board members do you have any questions?
I have one madam president. When you talk about refunding the bonds basically what
what should we be watching to see where the rates would be on these taxable
bonds? They're something that would closely mimic I know in the
mortgage industry I look at the 10-year Treasury bills. MMD is probably what you
want to look at and and that's a good factor for how we we look at things to
kind of see where it is excellent job by the way mr smith any other questions all right we'll
proceed to vote and uh we haven't had the motion yet i'm well i'm sorry i need a motion sorry i was
about to do that i moved that the board of trustees approves the district's october 2019 budget
amendments as recommended by the administration i have a motion by mr lacey a second by miss vanda
that the Board of Trustees approves the district's October 2019 budget amendments as recommended by administration.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes.
9.4, discuss and consider Board approval of the English Learner EL Enrollment and Bilingual Education Exception ESL Raver application for the 2019-2020 school year.
Item 9.4
Ms. Shepard.
Good evening, Madam President, Board of Trustees, and Superintendent Gorgorski.
As required by the Texas Education Code, district personnel shall report to the Board of Trustees the number of English learners.
As of October 1, 2019, the district has 15,283 English learners district-wide.
Additionally, each district with an enrollment of 20 or more English learners in any language
classification in the same grade district-wide shall offer a bilingual education or special
language program.
The district has identified 16 languages for which a bilingual exception is being requested.
These languages are Mandarin, Arabic, Urdu, Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, Portuguese, Telugu,
Russian, Tamil, Japanese, Cantonese, Yoruba, French, Farsi, and Bengali.
The bilingual exception application will be filed with the Texas Education Agency on or
before November 1st.
The application will include a description of how the district will provide instructional
support to the elementary campuses for students who have been identified as speakers of the
aforementioned 16 languages.
KDISD has applied for the exception for 18 years.
Additionally, KDISD is requesting an ESL waiver for 32 teachers who are providing services
to ESL students.
These teachers have been informed of the training opportunities to become ESL certified.
A primary part of the application requires a description of professional development
and Jennifer Perpelik is here to give a few details on that.
As part of the comprehensive professional development plan for teachers of English learners,
the Office of Other Languages conducts an annual evaluation of the ESL bilingual programs.
I would like to share a few of the key points.
The Office of Other Languages has developed a systematic, long-term approach
for providing professional development to educators of English learners.
The KDISD English Learner Professional Development Plan consists of three phases.
Phase one involves ESL certification, provides teachers of English learners not yet certified
the opportunity to participate in a one-day training where resources are
shared to assist in preparation for the exam phase two is the KTISD sheltered
instruction canvas course it's an online opportunity for teachers to earn 25
hours of professional development credit it consists of seven modules relating to
English learners acquisition phase three is the sheltered instruction advanced
course it's a two-day opportunity where participants implement the theory based
PRACTICES LEARNED IN PHASE ONE AND TWO.
THE OFFICE OF OTHER LANGUAGES OFFERS MULTIPLE PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH LEARNERS.
WE PROVIDE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA OF SHELTERED INSTRUCTION TO ENHANCE
THE INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY TO ELS.
WE COLLABORATE WITH DISTRICT CURRICULUM COORDINATORS TO
PROVIDE TRAINING TO CONTENT TEACHERS THAT EMBEDS LANGUAGE
INSTRUCTION WITHIN THE CONTENT AREAS.
IN ADDITION TO THE MANY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
opportunities provided to ensure teachers are equipped to provide differentiated instruction,
KDISD employs paraprofessionals who speak the top five languages after Spanish, Vietnamese,
Mandarin, Korean, Arabic, and Urdu. These paraprofessionals are placed on elementary
campuses with the highest numbers of the target language. There are a few components included.
These are a few of the components included in the application. It is recommended that the Board of
trustees grants approval for the superintendent to sign and submit the 2019-2020 bilingual education
exception and esl waiver application at this time we welcome any questions
board members do you have any questions
okay i would like a motion please madam president i move that the board of trustees grants approval
for the superintendent to sign and submit the 2019-2020 bilingual education exception esl
waiver application as recommended by the administration. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second
by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees grants approval for the superintendent to
sign and submit the 2019-2020 bilingual education exception ESL waiver application as recommended
by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your
right hand and say aye aye all those opposed motion passes next on the agenda agenda item 9.5
Item 9.5
discuss and consider board approval of updated closed campus for intra-district and inter-district
transfers for the 2019-2020 school year dr frieda creech
Good evening, President DeWall, Board Members and Dr. Gorgorski. I come to you tonight with
a Board Policy FDB Legal and FDB Local to address the voluntary intra-district transfers
to closed campuses and FDA Legal and Local, which address inter-district transfers under
the same guidelines. I'm bringing for your consideration an updated list. I came to you
in February with the list that was based on the projection, student enrollment projection,
and that list was approved. I'm coming tonight to bring you an updated list based on actual
enrollment. Transfers, and I know we just went through some of the questions on that,
but they are allowed because at times parents may voluntarily request to transfer a student
to attend a different KDISD campus and such transfers must meet the criteria established
by the board policy. We have closed campuses because that enrollment is sitting at a critical
point of either capacity for functional or building capacity. Some of the times the functional
capacity and the building capacity is weighed by the programs that are inside the building.
So I bring you tonight a list that has been formulated based on current enrollment and
and it includes three additional campuses from the February list.
I'm open to questions.
Board members, do you have any questions?
Sorry, my computer fell.
Madam President.
Daniel, could you come secure my computer, please?
I'm sorry, who said Madam President?
I did.
Ms. Champagne.
Okay, Dr. Creech, thank you very much.
I know I asked this last year, so I apologize for asking again,
but I can't remember what those numbers by the schools mean.
I mean, I know the public campus.
That is the actual school PEMS code number.
Okay.
I have two different lists, one that shows Bear Creek with the number 106 and one without.
I'm not sure which list you have, but Bear Creek's would be 106.
Campbell is 143 and Taylor is 002.
Okay.
Those are the additions.
So that's just an identification?
It's just an identification number for PEMS.
All right.
And what so in here down at the bottom you have bold and red means added to the closed campus list for 2019
2020 but what is just the bold without the red?
It's I just bolded them and put them in red so you could see that they were
Additional the bolded campuses were the ones added in February the bold red are the ones I'm bringing to you tonight
Oh anything that's just regular print was closed already. All right. Yes. Thank you for the clarification. Thank you. Dr. Preach. Yes
Are there any other questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the updated list of campuses presented to be closed to voluntary student intradistrict and interdistrict transfers for the 2019-2020 school year based on the enrollment projections.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, second by Mr. Keller, that the Board of Trustees approves the updated list of campuses presented to be closed to voluntary student intradistrict.
district and inter-district transfers for the 2019-2020 school year based on enrollment
projections. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right
hand and say aye. Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes. 9.6, discuss and consider. Thank you so much, Dr. Creech.
Item 9.6
Thank you. Discuss and consider board approval of the
proposal for cooling tower work at the Cinco Ranch Complex. Mr. T.
Good evening, President Doyle, board members, and Dr. Grigorski.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the cooling tower rebuild project
at the Cinco Ranch Complex Central Plant to Hunt and Services in the amount of $220,157.67
cents and the total not to exceed amount of two hundred and thirty thousand one
hundred and fifty seven dollars and sixty seven cents utilizing the choice
partners contract 19-0 3 6 mr-03 the cooling towers at the Cinco Ranch plant
complex are original to the construction of the campuses served 1998 and 2000 and
they have met their expected life cycle and require major overhaul to remain in
operation. The work will be coordinated around campus schedules so air
conditioning levels can be maintained. Estimated completion is January the 7th
2020 and owner's contingency is included to cover any unforeseen issues found
during the project. Utilization of the 2017 bond savings as well as
the method of procurement for the cooling tower work at the Cinco Ranch
Ranch Plant Complex was approved at the September 2019 board meeting.
A copy of the proposal is included for your review.
Again, the project funding source is the 2017 bond savings.
The Cinco Ranch Cooling Tower rebuild cost is $220,157.67, owner's contingency amount
of $10,000.
for a total cooling tower rebuild project cost not to exceed $230,157.67.
This contract has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and approved as to form.
Board, do we have any questions?
Madam President.
Oh, no, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Madam President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the cooling tower rebuild project of the Cinco Ranch Complex central plant to Hunt and Services in the amount of $220,157.67,
with the total amount not to exceed $230,157.67,
utilizing the Choice Partners Contract 19-036-MR-03, as recommended by administration.
I have a motion by Mr. Redman and a second by Ms. Vann
that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the cooling tower rebuild project
at the Cinco Ranch Complex Central Plant to Hunt and Services
in the amount of $220,157.67.
with the total amount not to exceed $230,157.67,
utilizing the Choice Partners Contract 19-036MR03.
As recommended by administration, we will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes.
You're with us again, 9.7.
Item 9.7
Go ahead.
Yes, ma'am.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the proposals for chiller replacements
at Maid Creek High School, Beckendorf Junior High, Exley Elementary,
Franz Elementary, Rylander Elementary, and Wood Creek Elementary
to Hunt and Services in the amount of $4,479,350,
utilizing the Choice Partners Contract 19-036-MR-0315-023JN-02.
The air-cooled chillers at these six campuses have exceeded their expected life cycle and
have become increasingly unreliable and expensive to maintain in daily operation.
The breakdown frequency for these chillers is now two to three times, I'm sorry, two
to four times per week requiring a service technician to get the machine back online.
The machines will be replaced like for like, however, the new machines will have a higher
efficiency rating.
Replacement will be coordinated with each campus and the work performed outside of the normal school hours.
Estimated completion is January 27, 2020, and an owner contingency is included to cover any unforeseen issues found during the replacement.
Utilization of 2017 bond savings as well as method of purchase for the replacement of the chiller replacements at the six campuses was approved at the September 2019 board meeting.
A copy of each of the individual campus proposals are included for your review.
Again, the replacement project funding source is 2017 bond savings.
The Maid Creek High chiller replacement cost is $697,079.
The Beckendorf Junior chiller replacement cost, $1,087,261.
Exley Elementary chiller replacement cost, $684,970.
Franz Elementary chiller replacement cost, $684,075.
$75.00. Rydlander Elementary chiller replacement cost $683,084.00. Wood Creek Elementary chiller
replacement cost $592,881.00. The owner contingency amount of $50,000.00. For a total replacement
project cost not to exceed $4,479,350.00. These contracts have been reviewed by District
legal counsel and approved as to form are there any questions madam president
miss Kessa mr. T why is back in door if somewhat expensive there's actually
three chillers on that that plant neither had to be some good reason yes
ma'am thank you are there any other questions board members madam president
miss van I move the board of trustees approves of proposals for the chiller
replacements at May Creek High School Beckendorf junior high Exley Elementary
Franz Elementary, Rylander Elementary, and Wood Creek Elementary to Hunting
Services in the amount of $4,479,350
utilizing the Choice Partners contract number 19036MR-0315023JN-02
as recommended by administration. Second. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by
Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves the proposals for chiller replacements at Maid Creek High School,
Beckendorf Junior High, Exley Elementary, Franz Elementary, Rylander Elementary, and Wood Creek Elementary to Hunt and Services in the amount of
$4,479,350
utilizing the Choice Partners Contract number
19-036-MR-0315-023-JN-02 as recommended by administration. We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passed.
Item 9.8
9.8, go ahead, Mr. T.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a cell tower lease agreement with Branch Towers 3, LLC,
for a cell tower site located at the site of Gobbo Elementary.
The cell tower will be a 120-foot monopole design located on the south side of the Gobbo Elementary campus
along the drainage easement in an area of 1,950 square feet.
The location has been coordinated with our facilities department to allow for the future driveway expansion project at the campus.
The company Branch Towers 3 LLC has received approvals from both Harris County and the Bridgewater Homeowners Association for the construction of the cell tower.
Once approved, work would begin within six months and construction would take approximately 45 days to complete.
The work would be coordinated around the campus schedule.
The initial lease term is 120 months with an option to renew for up to four additional 60-month periods.
A copy of the lease agreement, site survey, and legal description are attached for your review.
This lease agreement has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and approved as to form.
Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Redman.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the cell tower lease agreement with Branch Towers 3 LLC
for a cell tower site located on the side of Galbo Elementary as recommended by administration.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Redman and a second by Ms. Lacey
that the Board of Trustees approves I'm sorry Mr. Lacey did I call you miss? You did.
Let me start over. I have a motion by Mr. Redmond and a second by Mr. Lacey that
the Board of Trustees approves the cell tower lease agreement with Branch Towers
3 LLC for a cell tower site located on the site of Galbo Elementary as
recommended by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor
please raise your hand and say aye aye all those opposed motion passes thank you so much thank you
next on our agenda 9.9 discuss and consider board approval of the design associated with the
Item 9.9
renovations to the outdoor learning center miss cassman and you're going to be with us for several
so we'll just roll through them as we as we get the vote all right thank you okay good evening i
had a pleasure this evening of showing you guys the design development for the outdoor learning
Center. I first want to thank our architect and our committee, especially
Mr. Welch and Mr. Wollman for helping us with this vision that you're all about
to see this evening. As you can read here, I've noted the design team and we're
starting off by what was the scope identified in the 2017 bond, basically to
bring things up to current program and code, a little about the history of
facilities started in 1981 and serves a variety of students, first graders, fourth
fourth graders and the popular Folklife Festival as well as the summer recreation program.
We chose the construction manager at risk delivery method.
Ansel Bryant is our construction manager.
They're helping us with the phasing and the estimating as we proceed.
We're showing you the DD as a result of our schematic design.
After this, we'll continue into construction documents and looking to bring a GMP back
to the board in the spring.
So going back to the beginning, we met with all the stakeholders and we had a visioning session of what everyone wanted the center to be like.
So the three core values that were identified were the unparalleled learning for KDISD, a historical perspective, and an outdoor instructional experience.
So for the unparalleled learning, I wanted to bring science, social studies, and physical
education alive for the students, an authentic collaborative experience, and fostering respect
and curiosity of nature.
For the historical perspective, step back in time to Texas history, experience what
it is like to be a pioneer, the one-room schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, and engaging the artifact
displays.
displays, and finally the outdoor instructional experience, hands-on engaging experience encouraging
discovery, escape into nature with real world experience, and facilitate outdoor learning
for students, staff, and community.
So for the science, needed a facility, a place for collaboration and engagement, excellent
for biology activities, and floor-to-ceiling windows to give a sense of openness.
For social studies, interactive hands-on learning displays brought down to the scale of a fourth grader.
Larger space to allow students to move around in groups and flexible, functional and multi-purpose space.
For outdoor activity, outdoor area to play and experience nature.
Multi-purpose gathering space that maintains the natural environment and
large covered area to house students in unfavorable weather conditions.
So we're going to start now with our existing facilities as everybody knows what is there
today.
Our social studies building, we noticed that it needed more square footage.
It was very cluttered for those of you that have been in there.
Recommendation is to demolish it because renovation of more than 50% would require codes to update
to all building codes.
And the one-room classroom should have a feel back in time, need storage and be flexible.
The existing barns, storage space to remain, possibly increase, and it's an iconic building,
historically sets the tone for the OLC.
And for the science, it needs more square footage.
It is well as crowded.
We had to do some geotech and structural study updates, modify the use for some storage and canopies,
better showcase the displays, and make displays more hands-on.
So here you have the existing, those you remember, the caretaker cottage, followed by social
studies, the barn, and then finally the science which houses the offices as well as the restroom
and kitchen.
And highlighted in yellow is what the additional square footage would take to bring it up to
code which is why we're recommending the changes we're about to see.
So since we met with the committee the second time, we did a site survey and located the
majority of the trees.
We did a site geotech, completed most of the bores, and a geotechnical investigation for the existing science structure.
And we discovered there were buoys under that existing science building lab, which would make it unfeasible to build on top,
which is why we're recommending a new building be built.
So here's kind of a recap.
Demolish the existing buildings, replace with new construction, renovate the barn,
and we're going to renovate that existing science facility and repurpose it.
All right, so the existing science is in the back, so we're going to keep that slab in
the chimney and use it for an outdoor pavilion area, which you'll see shortly, renovate the
barn and demolish the existing social studies building, and the existing pond, we're going
to dredge and clean that out and bring it back to its original capacity.
New caretaker college would be located in the back, near the barn, new social studies
building in the same location.
science would now be across from social studies, so it would be more synergy with all the buildings in the center,
make the back a pavilion area, and create a second pond which could be used for more activities.
And here's just an overview with a large site plan showing the spaces and how people would move around the space.
Here's some images. So this would be now walking into the new facility.
social studies to the right the science would be over to the left once again the
science you can see the barn in the background and social studies I'm sorry
on the right and social science on the left once again here'd be the science
building if you notice the windows for all the light to come in and gathering
spaces for the students here is the existing pond that we would dredge and
and bring back to its original capacity.
And here would be a new pond where it would be large enough where the canoes could go
up and down instead of just taking one or two paddles and coming back.
And a covered pavilion where you could do fishing and other outdoor activities and be
protected from the elements.
The renovation would also include some planting to create a pollinator garden, outdoor lighting,
wayfinding and signage.
And now the design overview.
So once again, here would be the social studies building.
And the floor plan shows the small lines or the seating, the display on the lower half,
and there'd be a workroom and restrooms.
And here's an image.
So to the right is an operable wall, which would have the image of an old-room schoolhouse.
you could close off this area and give the feel of the one-room schoolhouse that we currently have in the social studies area
But then you'd be able to open that so now you'd have this whole wide open space to do many activities and move more students around
The existing barn just renovate that recladded a new roof
still retain the blacksmith shop and the storage caretaker cottage to the back
and here'd be the plaza view so be plenty area for students to still gather and work on things
and do activities the new science building once again tables displays workroom and here's where
we would have the kitchen and the offices as the current science building has and here'd be a view
of what the science building would look like from the inside we have space for the aquariums on the
left so easier to maintain with that work room oh yeah and the proposed location of an outdoor
pavilion once again retaining that chimney keeping some restrooms and some
storage and be a view of the pros would look like so once again an inclement
weather days students would have a place to gather and then finally our ponds so
this is the existing pond once again dredging it out and it's also going to
to be used for retention and detention and that'd be the inside of it and
you'll see the canoes on the left and that would be the newer pond we build
and that kind of sums up the pictures are there any questions madam president
one real quick I know where the new science building is going to be located
that's where the that's where the pigeon coop is for the homing pigeons that we
We have.
East of that.
There's kind of an open area.
Kind of behind that.
Okay.
All right.
I didn't know if that would have affected the birds or not.
I think the birds are still planning to stay.
Okay.
There we go.
I love what we're doing for this, by the way.
Thank you.
This is beautiful.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Ms. Champagne.
Madam President.
Okay.
Thank you so much for the presentation.
I love it so much.
I know that the Outdoor Learning Center is something that makes KDISD a unique, you know,
it's unique to KDISD to have the opportunity for children to go and learn things outside and
Everything is awesome. I wanted to
highlight some things that I really liked was the floor
the
Windows that are floor to ceiling windows the pier the aquarium the extra pond
I know that those things are not cheap and I wanted to ask you
Are the sidewalks paved or is that wood or is it pavement?
You know, the sidewalks.
I'm going to call Jennifer Henrickson with Stantec Architects.
It's not going to be concrete.
It'll be solid material that'll feel like a pedestrian plaza,
so there'll be different colors for it.
But it needs to be thick enough to handle the traffic of emergency fire vehicle
to get back to take care of all the buildings.
So it won't be just gray, boring concrete.
It'll feel like you're walking through nature, but it will be a hard surface that a car can drive on.
Okay.
And also the caretaker house.
Yes.
Do we have a caretaker at this time?
Not at this time.
Once a new facility is built, the district will be looking to fill that vacancy.
Okay.
And let's see what else.
And I think that's it.
I think it's beautiful and I'm really looking forward to being able to visit the new outdoor learning center. Thank you
Thank you board members. Are there any other question that a president discuss really quick? I love the Florida ceiling are there shades I
Just don't want the children to melt
If we need to put that in there for sure just saying it, you know, that's awesome
Except depending what time of year and the angle of the Sun, you know
I've been in that facility with a bunch of little kids and I mean, they'll just go to sleep or melt
thank you so much looks wonderful what's the projected time of completion
next fall next fall is what we're looking at field trip we're going on a field trip any other
questions board members just want to note on the on the schedule um harris county has changed their
permitting time frames now uh so that's the one caveat um city of katie will go by harris county
so we're still looking at the fall but uh just want to make everyone aware of that okay thank
Thank you.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the design associated with the renovations to the outdoor learning center
as depicted in the design prepared by Stantec Architecture dated October 2019 as recommended by the administration.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann,
that the Board of Trustees approves the design associated with the renovations to the outdoor learning center
as depicted in the design prepared by Stantec Architecture dated October 2019
as recommended by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor
please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed, great job guys. This is
going to be amazing for our students and thank you to everyone on the committee.
Exciting stuff. All right Ms. Cassman, 9.10 discuss and consider board
Item 9.10
approval of the amendment 1 to Ansel O'Brien construction LTD contract for
renovations to the outdoor learning center okay the second item is also
rated the outdoor learning center in order to continue with design there
needs to be exploratory work performed to facilitate geotechnical testing and
site access and so Brian is the construction manager and this will get a
start in that direction any questions board members miss van I move the board
trustees approves the amendment 1 to Ansel Bryant construction limited contract for
renovations to the outdoor learning center for a guaranteed maximum price of $258,629
as recommended by the administration.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves
Amendment 1 to the Ansel O'Brien Construction Limited Contract for renovations to the outdoor
learning center for a guaranteed maximum price of $258,629 as recommended by administration.
We will now proceed to vote.
all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye all those opposed motion passes 9.11
Item 9.11
miss caspin go ahead the third item is approval of design services associated with the expansion
at raines high school this project was identified in the 609 million dollar bond authorization
for scheduled completion date of august 2021 stantec architecture is being recommended for
this project. Are there any questions board members? Madam President. Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the retention of Stantec
Architects for the design services associated with the addition to Rains
High School as recommended by the administration. I have a motion by Mr.
Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the retention of
Stantec Architects for design services associated with the addition to Rains
High School as recommended by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor,
please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed, motion passes. 9.12, go ahead.
Item 9.12
All right, the fourth item is to recommend approval to award a contract to Acme Architectural
for the construction of district-wide safety and security upgrades, package number three,
in the amount of $2,990,000 and approves the total project costs not to exceed $3,438,500.
Sealed proposals were received on October 1st for 19 campuses.
Four proposals were received with 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.
Chair Stephanie Sharp Are there any questions, Board Members?
Mr. Redman?
Chair Stephanie Sharp I move that the Board of Trustees awards a
contract to Acme Architectural Hardware for the construction of district-wide safety and
security upgrades package number three in the amount of $2,990,000 with the total project
cost not to exceed $3,438,500 as recommended by administration.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees awards
a contract to Acme Architectural Hardware for the construction of district-wide safety
and security upgrades package number three in the amount of $2,990,000
with the total project cost not to exceed $3,438,500.
As recommended by administration, we will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
All those opposed, Mr. Smith.
I just wanted to report on top of that good news that y'all just did.
We received word Friday from the Texas Education Agency that we're candidates,
all school districts are candidates for Senate Bill 500 funds for hardening and safety of schools.
And it appears as though they also sent a list that says that we're eligible to receive an amount,
in the amount of $1,293,071.
Now that can be used to supplant these funds, can be used to enhance what we're already doing.
and that's very exciting that that Senate bill 500 has already done a lot
for this district and many districts that were ravished by Harvey and helping
us out and getting back on our feet financially but it also it had this that
go statewide I think the smallest amount awarded is going to be 25,000 and the
largest is to the largest district in the state but we are recipients and it
will go to enhance the program that you guys started in May thank you mr. Smith
Ms. Kastman, 9.13.
Item 9.13
My final item is approval of design services associated with the infrastructure project to install parking lot lighting and resurface the parking lot at Rhodes Stadium.
Rhodes Stadium opened in 1981 and in the past 38 years, less than a million dollars has been invested into this parking infrastructure.
The majority of the parking lot is constructed of asphalt, which typically has a lifespan of 15 to 30 years.
In addition, there is no lighting in the parking lot, which poses a safety risk.
The $609 million bond authorization provides funding for infrastructure in unforeseen conditions.
VLK Architects is being recommended to provide design services for this project.
Their experience with Legacy Stadium parking lot will ensure equity in design between the two facilities.
Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the retention of VLK Architects for design services associated with the infrastructure project to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium.
Second.
Was that you, Mr. Lacey?
Yes, ma'am. That was me, Mr. Lacey.
I have a motion by Ms. Vanna, second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees approves
the retention of VLK Architects for design services associated with the infrastructure
project to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes
Stadium.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
All those opposed, motion passes.
Item 9.14
9.14, discuss and consider Board approval of the minutes from the September 2019 Board
meeting.
I need a motion, please
Mr. Lacey
2019 second I have a motion by mr. Lacey a second my mr. Red Mr. Redmond. I'm so sorry
So sorry that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meeting held in September 2019
We will now proceed to vote all those in favor. Please raise your right hand and say aye
All those opposed motion passes
Next, quarterly investment report. The board was provided a copy of the quarterly investment report.
Item 10.1
10.2, the board was provided a copy of the donated items.
Item 10.2
10.3, we have a presentation by Mr. Lacey, who is our Board of Trustees Vice President.
Item 10.3
Texas Association of School Boards updates. Mr. Lacey, the floor is yours.
Thank you, Madam President. Just as a reminder to those that may or may not know,
I filled the spot in June that was vacated by Mr. George Scott when he was
We left the office. I was elected officially in September to the board of directors of TASB
I was placed this year just about a month and a half ago on the budget and Finance Committee. Believe it or not
I'm excited about it
Mr. Smith you and I are gonna we're gonna rock it. I promise you
Several meetings there will be several meetings for the board of directors throughout the year
There is one additional committee meeting for the budget and finance committee. The purpose that TASB has is basically to give
districts across the state guidance. There are a lot of questions. There's a lot of things that we as a large district
we're able to take care of ourselves, but with a lot of the smaller districts those things are handled
or the advice that they're given as often as by TASB. Be it through purchasing, be it through a legal
advice, but mostly and especially
especially in updating us on our legislative times when the legislation meets.
So we were updated with that, both all of us at different TASB conferences
and then me specifically at our TASB Board of Directors meetings.
So what I would like to do officially is thank those here in KDISD,
Mr. Smith, our CFO, Justin Graham, our attorney, and, of course, Dr. Gagorski
for the continual update with the legislative session.
Y'all kept us ahead of what anyone else has.
We knew about things in the laws changing prior to the finalization of it.
We knew what to expect.
Y'all were able to move very quickly, and we are on the cutting edge,
and we are looked at by those around the state as being the ones that would lead the way with things.
So I want to thank y'all for nominating me, and this position is not going to be held lightly.
Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you, Mr. Lacey, and thank you for filling that role.
I know that you will serve us well.
Items 11 & 12
Next regular Board meeting, Monday, November 18th, here in the Boardroom.
There being no further business before the Board, this meeting is adjourned.
The time is 8.53 p.m. Thank you all.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda file, as published on its video page. 3 pages.
Board packet · 35 documents
The district's own backup material for this agenda, retrieved from BoardDocs. Each file was checked against the size BoardDocs states for it.
- 2018-19 4th Quarter Report 280 KB
- FIRST_sign 105 KB
- FIRST_sign_in_17-18 188 KB
- Check_Register_August_2019 7 KB
- CRHS Cooling Tower Agreement 5772 KB
- Proposal FES 603 KB
- Proposal BDJH 556 KB
- Proposal MCHS 584 KB
- aia b101-2017 rhodes stadium parking lot 12602 KB
- Memo of Ground Lease - Golbow Elementary Site 2928 KB
- Golbow Elem Katy ISD Cell Tower Lease Agreement 13723 KB
- aia document b101-2017 raines hs expansion 12640 KB
- Package 3 Evaluation Tab Sheet - Final Proposal Sheet 80 KB
- aia document a101-2017 safety and security pkg 3 6517 KB
- aia document a133-2009 exh a olc 2273 KB
- 2019-10-11 OLC Early Partial GMP Recommendation Letter 170 KB
- OCTOBER REPORT-final 146 KB
- October 2019. 177 KB
- Proposed Closed Campus Listing 2019-2020 269 KB
- Proposal JEE 5489 KB
- Proposal RRE 5504 KB
- Proposal WCE 5517 KB
- rec ltr safety and security pkg 3 400 KB
- Annual Evaluation - Final 1374 KB
- District Language Report 10.1.19 163 KB
- English Learner (EL) District Report 10.1.19 116 KB
- 2019.10.28_OLC - Katy Board Presentation-revised2 (1) 14061 KB
- 10-21-19 FINAL FINAL Revised ABM Power Point 1046 KB
- aia b101-2017 rhodes stadium parking lot SIGNED 12604 KB
- aia document a101-2017 safety and security pkg 3 SIGNED 6874 KB
- aia document b101-2017 raines hs expansion SIGNED 12657 KB
- aia document a 133-2009 exh a olc SIGNED 2300 KB
- Golbow Elem Katy ISD Cell Tower Lease Agreement SIGNED 13902 KB
- Memo of Ground Lease - Golbow Elementary School SIGNED 3092 KB
- MIN 9 23 19 Regular Meeting SIGNED 2195 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the attendance boundary modification (ABM) for the 2020 -2021 school year.
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 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's August 2019 check register.
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 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's October 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 004 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees grants approval for the Superintendent to sign and submit the 2019 - 2020 Bilingual Education Exception/ESL Waiver Application.
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 9.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the updated list of campuses presented to be closed to voluntary student intra-district and inter-district transfers for the 2019 - 2020 school year based on enrollment projections.
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 9.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the cooling tower rebuild project at the Cinco Ranch Complex Central Plant to Hunton Services in the amount of $220,157.67, and the total not to exceed amount of $230,157.67, utilizing the Choice Partners Contract 19/036MR-03.
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 9.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposals for chiller replacements at Mayde Creek High School, Beckendorff Junior High, Exley Elementary, Franz Elementary, Rylander Elementary, and WoodCreek Elementary to Hunton Services in the amount of $4,479,350 utilizing the Choice Partners Contract #19/036/MR-0315/023JN-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 008 · AGENDA 9.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the cell tower lease agreement with Branch Towers III LLC for a cell tower site located on the site of Golbow Elementary.
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 9.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the design associated with the renovations to the Outdoor Learning Center as depicted in the design prepared by Stantec Architecture dated October 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 010 · AGENDA 9.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Amendment One to the Anslow Bryant Construction, Ltd. contract for renovations to the Outdoor Learning Center for a Guaranteed Maximum Price of $258,629.
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 9.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the retention of Stantec Architects for design services associated with the addition to Raines High School.
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 9.12
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 #3 in the amount of $2,990,000 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $3,438,500.
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 9.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the retention of VLK Architects for design services associated with the infrastructure project to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium.
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 9.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in September 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 |