Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order.
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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, December 16, 2019
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- 0:00 to 0:38 Item 1 Call to Order - Upon announcement by the presiding officer that a quorum is present, the meeting will be called to order. The presiding officer will verify that the meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted for the time and manner required by law.
- 0:38 to 1:05 Item 3 Closed Meeting - Closed Meeting will be held for the purposes authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Section 551.001 et seq. concerning any and all purposes permitted by the Act, including but not limited to the sections and purposes listed below. 3.1 Consultation with Board's attorney. (Texas Government Code 551.071: For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law; and Texas Government Code 551.129: For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney by telephone conference call.) 3.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of naming a principal for Elementary #43. (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.) 3.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of naming a principal for Fielder Elementary. (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.)
- 1:05 to 3:14 Item 4.1 Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting. Consider Board approval of naming a principal for Elementary #43.
- 3:14 to 5:19 Item 4.2 Consider Board approval of naming a principal for Fielder Elementary.
- 5:19 to 8:31 Item 5 Pledges of Allegiance 5.1 Golbow Elementary Student to Lead Pledges of Allegiance.
- 8:31 to 53:27 Item 6 Reports 6.1 Katy Independent School District 2019 Demographic Update
- 53:27 to 54:57 Item 7.1 (Part 1 of 2) Discussion/Action Discuss and consider Board approval of the October 2019 Financial Reports.
- 54:57 to 55:23 Item 7.2 (Part 1 of 2) Discuss and consider Board approval of the December 2019 budget amendments.
- 55:23 to 56:05 Item 7.1 (Part 2 of 2) Discussion/Action Discuss and consider Board approval of the October 2019 Financial Reports.
- 56:05 to 57:51 Item 7.2 (Part 2 of 2) Discuss and consider Board approval of the December 2019 budget amendments.
- 57:51 to 1:07:17 Item 7.3 Discuss survey results and consider Board approval of the 2020 - 2021 and 2021 - 2022 Instructional Calendars.
- 1:07:17 to 1:09:01 Item 7.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of a staff development waiver for the 2020 - 2021 and 2021 - 2022 Instructional Calendars.
- 1:09:01 to 1:11:12 Item 7.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of growth units for the 2019 - 2020 school year.
- 1:11:12 to 1:35:07 Item 7.6 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for the upgrade of security camera systems for the entire bus fleet.
- 1:35:07 to 2:00:04 Item 7.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for a contracted bus driver service.
- 2:00:04 to 2:02:04 Item 7.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposals for chiller replacements at five campuses.
- 2:02:04 to 2:03:38 Item 7.9 Discuss and consider Board approval of Amendment One to the Anslow Bryant Construction, Ltd. contract for the replacement of underground fuel tanks at East and West Transportation Centers.
- 2:03:38 to 2:04:39 Item 7.10 Discuss and consider Board approval of the delivery method for the infrastructure project to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium.
- 2:04:39 to 2:05:41 Item 7.11 Discuss and consider Board approval for the installation of synthetic athletic field turf at Jordan High School.
- 2:05:41 to 2:06:31 Item 7.12 Discuss and consider Board approval for the installation of surface track at Jordan High School.
- 2:06:31 to 2:07:54 Item 7.13 Discuss and consider Board authorization for the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary School #43 per Board Policy CW(LOCAL).
- 2:07:54 to 2:08:24 Item 7.14 Discuss and consider Board approval of the minutes of the November 2019 Board meeting.
- 2:08:24 to 2:09:09 Item 8 Action Items 8.1 Consider Board adoption of the local policies included in Board Policy Updates 113 and 114.
- 2:09:09 to 2:09:15 Item 9 Information Items 9.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 2:09:15 to 2:09:35 Items 10 & 11 10. Future Meetings 10.1 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, January 20, 2020 11. Adjournment
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Item 1
Today is Monday, December 16, 2019, and the time is 5.32 p.m.
Dr. Grigorski, 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?
COMMISSIONER MAY.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT.
Madam President, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting
Act in regards to this meeting tonight.
COMMISSIONER MAY.
There are no speakers that have signed up for the open forum session.
And so with that, the Board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under Sections
Item 3
551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes.
Texas Government Code 551.071, 551.129, and 551.074.
The time is 5.33 p.m.
Item 4.1
The board will now reconvene in open meeting.
Today is Monday, December 16, 2019, and the time is 6.34 p.m.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting.
Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, December 13, 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.
The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with Chapter 551 of
the Texas Government Code.
Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting.
Agenda item 4.1, Dr. Hrabowski.
Thank you, Madam President.
Mr. President, in item 4.1, consideration of the principle for elementary 43, and I am excited to bring forward a recommendation for our current principle of Creech Elementary, and that is Huberta Lucas.
Board members?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees names Huberto Lucas as the principal of elementary school number 43 as
recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Okay, I
Have a motion by mr. Lacey a second by miss fan that the Board of Trustees names you birdo Lucas as principal for elementary school
Number 43 as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. We will now proceed to vote all those in favor
Please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye all those opposed
motion passes 7 to 0
And, Huberta, did you bring any guests with you there?
I see a couple people sitting with you, if you'd like to introduce them.
I do.
Thank you so much, Lori.
I have with me my husband, Seth, and then our son, Huberta.
Welcome.
And some friends.
Can I introduce my friends?
Yes.
You bet.
Go ahead.
One of our very good friends, Sharon Skelton, and the person who's been by my side for the
last five years, Sally Giffen, our sister, personally.
Awesome.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Item 4.2
4.2, Dr. Grugorski.
4.2, name a new principal for Fielder Elementary.
And I am once again proud to bring another recommendation to the board for Morton Ranch Elementary Assistant Principal Mark Campworth.
Where's Mark at in here?
There's Mark.
Madam President.
Ms. Pham.
I move that the Board of Trustees names Mark Campworth as the principal for Fielder Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees names Mark Campworth as the principal for Fielder Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion.
passes go ahead mr. Kampworth let's have you stand as well recognize you
mark did you bring anyone out with you tonight
Unfortunately, my wife is a coach, so she is coaching tonight, and I have a child at a football banquet, so I'm playing basketball, so my family is spread.
So unfortunately, I was unable to, but I have some people, fielders, who decided to come.
Oh, very good.
It's awesome.
Thank you.
Great. Congratulations, Mark.
Do we have any scouts? We do in the audience.
Hi buddy, why don't you come forward, state your name and the badge that you're working
on and the troop that you're with.
My name is Jackson Gupton and I'm in troop 106 and I'm working on my citizenship and
the community merit badge and I'm proud to be here right now.
What school do you attend?
Adams Junior High.
Adams Junior High.
Well welcome and thank you so much for coming.
Are there any other scouts?
I wanted to make sure. Okay, great. Thank you so much, buddy.
All right. We're on Pledges of Allegiance.
Item 5
We're ready for the pledge. Okay. Madam President, I'd like to bring our special guest up to the podium,
and that is Clover McMillan, and she is a fifth-grade student at Galba Elementary School,
and she's joined over there. If you see, Dr. Anne Laleem is with us as well,
and her parents Amanda and Jasmine Wynn Thomas. A couple things I'll share with
you about Clover. Special interests are drawing and making bracelets, favorite
subjects, math, reading, and history. And a few quotes from her teachers from Mrs.
Ball, fifth grade teacher, Clover is a fun-loving, outgoing, sweet student who
works very hard. And from Mr. Doucette, fifth grade teacher, Clover gives a
hundred percent every day in every situation and helps her classmates by
setting a good example of a classroom leader and from miss phillips fifth grade teacher clover is
such a sweet young lady her caring nature and bright smile helps to lift the spirits of her
teachers and classmates so welcome clover and we will turn it all over to you for the pledge
please stand for the pledges
i pledge 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.
Honor to Texas flag.
I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, under God, one indivisible.
Okay, it's all yours.
Good evening President Doyle, board members, and Dr. Gregorski.
I am Colbert McMillan and I attend Gubble Elementary. I have been there for three years and I'm currently in fifth grade.
Some of my favorite things about my school are the teacher talent show, Fort Day Field Day, and Safari Day and Reading.
I have been involved in student council where I made games for those who attended Cookies with Santa.
My favorite part of Student Council was doing activities with new people.
My teachers this year are Ms. Phillips, Ms. Ball, and Mr. Doucet.
Ms. Phillips is very helpful in math and has helped me become a better mathematician.
Mr. Doucet is very funny and I like going to the science lab where we do experiments.
Ms. Ball teaches my favorite subject, reading.
She makes it fun letting us read in the dark with flashlights.
I also enjoyed our jungle theme and getting to read about animals.
Thank you for the opportunity to lead the Pledges of Allegiance and represent my school.
So Clover, I have something to present to you.
This is a certificate and a special gift that we only give to a very few handful of fifth graders.
Very special, special children in our district.
And I'm very, very honored to get to meet you and present that to you.
you have a great thank you very much clover did a great job next we'll move
Item 6
to reports 6.1 Katie independent school district 2019 demographic update thank
you good evening president Doyle Board of Trustees and dr. Greg or ski what's
that time of year for our annual demographic update and I would like to
introduce Dr. Pat Gussman and Ms. Chris Poole from PASA.
We very much appreciate being here this evening for this update and hope that
you'll find it interesting. Katie is an extremely unique district in demographic
demographic terms, so it's always interesting to prepare these annual projections for the
district.
We wanted you to see that in terms of numeric increase that this district over the five-year
period that covers the official data that we have available for all of the region's
districts was the highest growth.
And again, from what we're able to tell at this time, again, was a leader perhaps by
about a thousand students this fall so this district has remained high growth
even in times of oil and gas price downturns and other challenges a very
unique situation now in comparing the growth again knowing that we have to use
the official data from last year looking at districts throughout the state it's
It's interesting to see that except for a district that had an addition of two charter
schools, one an online charter, Hallsville, that Katy had the highest numeric increase
in the state.
So it's fascinating to follow the comparisons of this district and also to understand the
geographic location of the growth within the district as we are going to be concentrating
trading on this evening. Now the blue lines here indicate the elementary growth in the years of
that highest growth, which were before we cracked down on easily available mortgages before 2008,
and then there was a high growth again of elementary grades around 2014, but now we see
see the numbers leaping up again this year, and a big portion of that growth was due to the newly
rehabbed homes and apartments still left from Harvey. You know, Harvey never goes away. It's
still having an impact. Now, looking at the annual growth rates, you know that in years that aren't
shown here even further back that the district grew at much faster rates but
now that it's become a giant it lumbers along like an elephant in growth each
year it doesn't leap forward with high growth but it has consistently strong
growth and again especially this year in looking at specific variables that
affect whether or not builders and developers will continue to concentrate
on Katy one of the two big factors that's evaluated by those individuals
even in acquiring undeveloped parcels is the percent of economically disadvantaged
and if we look at the the largest districts in this in the state with the
lowest percent disadvantage, that would encompass those of over 60,000, for example, which is
Frisco and Katy.
So again, this district is very unique.
It's large and diverse, but has a low percent of economically disadvantaged students.
And then here, a second indicator, you know, builders are always interested in test scores,
and in this case we're looking at the star passage rates for third through eighth graders.
And for these districts of 30,000 plus, again, Katie is much larger than that 30,000 rank,
but you see that it ranks second in terms of passage rates.
So, again, very unique district.
district. The charters have been a concern in many public school settings because of
their consistent growth, but Katy has under 3 percent of its total student population
in charter schools. It's about 2.8 percent actually, and it has not been growing to any
more than a negligible amount so that is important to follow because we know that
that is not going to be a major factor affecting the growth of the schools in
this district now employment trends may not sound of interest but actually
unemployment is the most important indicator in looking at the number of
children who will relocate to this district so you can see that the
The unemployment rate is, you know, Katy's buried in all of these geographic entities,
but you can see how in all of them the unemployment rate has continued to decline,
and it's going to be difficult for us to imagine it getting much lower.
Likewise, we know that the Katy area is adding so many new commercial entities
and also e-commerce centers.
And yet, at the same time, we have to keep in mind that unless the oil and gas prices remain at that magic $60 amount,
that we might see a bit of a downturn this coming year in manufacturing jobs instead of an increase in GATI ISD.
Housing trends are so important, and tonight Chris Smith said he thought that we should make a puzzle out of the land use zones for new administrators.
And I'm glad he's so creative.
That's a good idea.
But these are the land use zones, and most parents know that these are our building blocks.
But within that, you should know that we've driven every block of every active subdivision
and know the subdivision trends as well.
We've looked at all 372 of the built-out older subdivisions,
and if we see them decline by as much as eight students, they become of interest.
So we're always looking at the growth and decline of those built-out subdivisions
with the land use zones and then, of course, with apartments as well.
Now, this particular slide is one of the most important
because if you add the 55% developing or developed
and the 24% that are reservoirs and other non-developable mass of land,
you'll see that there's 21% left,
and that would be in the beige and the mustard color that are still left to develop.
And that means the district, by the way, at 79% is getting fairly built out,
And there will be continued more demand for small infill lots throughout the district, wherever they may be.
And land prices will be leaping upward because it's such a coveted school district.
Now, roadway improvements are especially important if they're financially covered by the city, the county, the state,
or any other entity, say, toll authority.
So we wanted you to see that huge number of new road improvements in the northwest
and at the same time to know that the Texas Heritage Parkway is soon to be built
that is in the southwest and then just outside the western boundary of the district
from south to north or north to south is the 36a corridor. It may not occur for 10 more years,
but will probably spawn more commercial growth in the west and be an important
growth accelerator for the district. Now, in as late as 2014, this district had been the leader
in housing starts and so it's interesting that it's consistently the
leader in added students but now since about the third quarter of 2014 has not
been the leader in housing starts our new home closings so it's been fourth or
fifth in all of those quarters since that time and the the last big
potentially master plan community was in the northwest and it is now more or less
held in abeyance and there so there are no new master plan communities that will
likely evolve it would have to be a massive assemblage of smaller parcels
and it's probably past the point of that occurring other than those that are now
still building out like Ellison and Bridgeland. The Harvey impacts are
constantly with us, constantly affecting us still in this district. It's so
important to maintain as much information as we can about what will
happen in regard to improvements and we know that the third reservoir will
probably not be a reality and that was going to take up a big hunk of land in
the northwest so that that's not going to happen now most likely on the other
hand drainage channels and stormwater improvements are still being planned and
it's been interesting to see that the smaller new subdivisions in this
district are leaping forward at a faster rate than our firm had anticipated so we
thought it would take a lot of expertise to get the drainage plans in terms of
coordinated plans for these smaller developers but they've managed to move
forward very effectively and there are about seven new small subdivisions in
the northwest and then two others that are larger than small but still not master plan communities
so so you're you're not seeing any lag in that one large 1600 acre development not occurring
there hasn't been any delay in overall housing starts relative to that northwest sector so if
If you start at the bottom of this list, Ellison, Cane Island, Bridgeland, Kamilo Lakes, these
are very important in terms of number of lots added.
And we can see what they look like basically here in the red areas.
And you can see how concentrated they are and know what that means in terms of demand
for new schools. So we need to step back before we go on to multi-family discussions and think
about who's going to buy these homes and know that the baby boomers have really fallen in love
with Katie and they've purchased homes in which we thought the developer was orienting many of
these homes to families so it's been a surprise to see that that empty nesters want bigger homes
instead of smaller homes than a lot of cases but also keep in mind that although they are the big
growth sector or cohort in the district that by about 2027 we're going to start seeing
sales of those very homes and then it will just accelerate year after year after year
And maybe the millennials can afford those homes and maybe they can't.
And so it's just food for thought if you have a big house.
And the millennials are about 55,000 population strong in the district.
And the fact that they've grown just in that 10-year cohort of the 25- to 34-year-old
from 11 percent in 2008 to 14 percent is significant
because we want them to be the replacements.
And so we want to continue to see that group grow in the district,
but we know that they are going to be more limited in having the ability to purchase homes in this district.
So it's a big challenge.
Now, multifamily housing is becoming more important each year in the district.
35% of all future housing units will be multifamily, and right now it's 20%.
Now, students don't live in all 20% of those units,
but 11% of the current students, based on this year's geocoded student population,
live in multifamily units.
And we project then over the next 10 years 15,000 units, but there's almost certain to be more units than that.
You know, these developments just pop up.
They are listed as unrestricted reserves or commercial reserves, but they continue to evolve as multifamily in a coveted school district.
So we've gone back and looked at every location that's been called a reserve and tried to analyze those and of course talk with commercial brokers to find out who they're selling to and why.
And so that we can isolate out the multifamily developments of the future.
I just wanted you to know that this list is basically showing you what is still left to be occupied in terms of complexes complete.
And many of these are older. In fact, I'd say the majority, the slight majority on this list are older and they have been rehabbed post Harvey.
So they are still becoming occupied again and we've used it varies but we're using about a 90 to 95% occupancy rate not 100% and that's what we anticipate still.
So these students are showing up throughout the district wherever these units are located.
And then multifamily complexes now under construction are record-breaking.
There are 12 complexes and 4,100 units.
And so you can see basically where they're located.
None are in the southeast, but you see that everywhere else.
And we've got some maps that we can show you.
it's difficult to see this perfectly but we also just to give you some idea of
the future these are planned multi-family developments where there's
more than a 50% probability of development and the though again we've
broken it out by my sector and this map didn't allow us to list by name but we
We have that available on a larger map if you would like to have it.
And if you look carefully at this map, you'll see the elementary attendance zones that these are located in.
So, again, I hope you'll – we have some larger maps that we can provide you if you are interested in following this.
because the ratios of students per unit in these pricey new apartments are quite
large so it has a big impact on many built-out attendance zones overall we
anticipate almost 43,000 total projected housing occupancies over the next 10
10 years. And then maybe very importantly, when we think about the ratio of students
per unit, I don't know what you would have guessed as the ratio of students for multifamily,
but that .40 tells you that, you know, four out of every 10 units, whether they're existing
complexes or new ones, even the new ones tend to have a high ratio. We've been fearful in
and our projections are projecting 0.4 for the new facilities,
but we're expecting it.
So it's just amazing to see the demand for housing within KDISD.
Now, current students, this table is basically of interest
because we're looking at the existing built-out subdivisions,
And you can see that 23% of all of the added students were added in subdivisions where not a single new house was added.
And that was 817 students.
And they tended to be at secondary levels.
If you look at the 2019-20 portion of this bar graph, you'll see that this year for the first time in a five-year period, we had an increase in elementary students in existing subdivisions.
And I wish we could say it's because we see a big turnaround now, regeneration in those older subdivisions.
And we are seeing it in some, but that 183 is on the whole due to Harvey.
Those rehabbed homes were just like they were the dream homes for many people to be able to move to this district
and had three and four bedrooms, and they've really been attracting larger families.
So that caused quite an increase in enrollment this school year.
78.5% of all of the students in Katy are living in those existing subdivisions,
again making them very important to follow each year
in terms of every piece of detective work we can bring to bear
to see when they are starting to regenerate in these older subdivisions.
And again, this year, up to 50% of that change or growth in those subdivisions was due to Harvey.
It was both in apartments that were rehabbed and in the older subdivisions
where homes were now newly renovated.
So student projections, very interesting in that the district should have continued stable growth,
but gradually continue to build out each year more demand for land, but less available sites for housing construction.
And by 2029, we're adding, of course, another year relative to last year.
we anticipate the growth will be about 104,500 or 600 students.
And we wanted you also to see a low-growth scenario, 101, 400, and a high-growth scenario.
The low growth is important to consider because there may be another year or two in the near term
in which we'll see some downturns in oil and gas prices that might significantly affect enrollment just for a one to two year period.
So now Chris Poole is going to present the long-range plan for facilities in the district.
Good evening.
So I know we talk a lot, and there's an awful thick report that we bring to you all every year with 350 or so pages in it with all of the background data.
But where the rubber meets the road for you all is what does this mean for your facilities and what does it mean for future growth and building?
And so everything that we talk about gets rolled into the projections of student enrollment.
That's the employment, the new housing, the students per unit, geocoded students, the recent trends,
and they all come together in the model so that we end up with a projected students by land use zone,
by year, and by grade group.
And these are just like Chris's puzzle pieces over here where we can use them to help the district in planning,
but the very first thing that we do is we put them back in together into your current attendance zones,
and so that's what we'll start looking at here.
So these next slides show the attendance zones and the projected geocoded students in each
attendance zone, and it's a very important distinction to understand that it's geocoded
students.
They are good at showing the trajectory of growth for each school, but they don't tell
the entire picture because they don't account for transfers that are occurring in the district,
including those for bilingual programs.
And of course, at the elementary school, there are a lot of students moving because of those
bilingual programs.
Those programs can cause swings of 200 or more students above and beyond the figures
shown here.
and so we always have to account for those transfers. In the past we've been
able to show the enrollment, the current enrollment on this slide also, but right
now you all have attendance zones say for elementary 43 that's not yet open so
don't have an enrollment there so we didn't put the enrollment on on the
screen here but it is of course a very important thing to remember. The schools
that are highlighted with a white star are those that have a bilingual program
and in some cases the bilingual programs are self-contained and they don't change
the enrollment all that much for example in the case of sundown the current enrollment there is
769 students so it doesn't change much from the 744 projected in 2020 but in the in some cases
in like bear creek for example there's a current enrollment of 748 largely due to bilingual
transfers because they get a lot of bilingual students from wolf and so that's just an extra
piece of the puzzle here that we have to look at and to understand so really you can see the the
The school that is the biggest at interest to me is Galbo because with a capacity of
867 students, we're projecting it to top its capacity really by 2020 and certainly to continue
to grow that tip-top portion of Galbo has quite a bit of growth projected in it.
And so there's going to need to be some relief for Galbo.
And so always in the past, we've looked at, well, some of the other enrollments here are
very low compared to their capacities.
But however, when you dig down closer and look at these numbers a little more carefully,
Some of these facilities may have low enrollments of geocoded students and low totals of geocoded students, but they have a lot of portables in place even so.
Some of these can be for special programs or it can be because of the different things that are brought in with some Title I campuses.
And so we've been talking with the district and we're going to continue in the next couple of months to look at what is necessary in the northeastern portion of the district to help out with some of those portable buildings.
This slide shows the southeastern portion of the district and their bilingual programs
at Memorial Parkway, Fielder and Williams.
In recent years, we've seen some declines, but we are starting to see just a little bit
of regeneration here.
We keep watching it.
We keep looking at neighborhoods where there's secondary loss and elementary growth, at neighborhoods
where there are large kindergarten and first grade classes.
So we're seeing a little bit of that turnaround here.
One school of note is West Memorial.
Several hundred students are leaving the school to attend bilingual programs, but even with that, we are seeing some growth in West Memorial.
And so it is a school that would certainly benefit from some additional capacity, and that will need to be addressed here in the next several years.
The southwestern portion of the district has, of course, seen the massive growth in the last two decades.
as normally I'm up here talking about the southwest.
At this point, though, we've got no additional facilities planned in the southwest.
Wood Creek is projected to need relief in the long term,
and that has been the case for quite a while,
but that growth has never really been to the point where we would say
we need another whole facility in the southwestern portion of the district.
So we'll have to look at this, maybe do a little rezoning here and there.
We're expecting that there will be ebbs and flows.
You know, that's always the case as a district is beginning to build out,
and so we'll have to take care of the the needs here in this southwestern
portion of the district through rezoning and for portable buildings and then I've
saved the best for last of course which probably isn't a surprise we've talked
all presentation and really for the last several years about the growth in the
northwest northwestern portion of the district Leonard Bethy and Katie are all
expected to exceed their capacities by a bit at the end of the projection period
but Bryant and Elementary 43, those are the ones that really tell the story for the Northwest.
We're projecting Bryant to have an enrollment of over 2,300 students at the end of the projection period,
but the district owns a site in Kane Island.
Not a problem, right?
The district owns a site in Kane Island, but the district doesn't have bond funds for that site yet.
But if the school is opened in Bryant, then more or less that should be able to probably handle a lot of the growth there.
But it's elementary 43 that is the big winner with a possibility of almost 4,400 students by the end of the projection period.
So that would be elementary 43 plus about three other schools if each one of the schools holds 1,030.
And so the district has a little bit of land, but they're going to obviously need additional land and additional facilities there in the northwestern portion of the district.
And then more briefly, this slide takes a different approach at telling the story here.
I wanted to do it by color.
This shows the change in geocoded students expected between 2019 and 2029.
And we know that 2029, that those are the most, that those are the least reliable projections,
but I think it's useful to understand where the district is likely to need additional
space.
They don't exactly align with the previous slide because these are 2019 geocoded numbers
and the previous slide shows 2020.
The schools shown in the south here in blue, those are projected to have a little bit of
decline over the next several years and for the most part we have done some zoning in the southwest
to allow those to be sort of large and then decline to a good level 37 of the current 42
schools are operating between 80 and 100 percent of capacity and so that shows that the district
has done a good job balancing student stability and also utilizing the facilities at the same time
and so but as a result there aren't a lot of additional schools that can just take on
additional students and so that's where the red and the orange here really comes
into play you can see here the is like I was talking about Bryant having a
expected added number of students at 1400 in elementary 43 its zone having an
additional 3800 expected so in some the additional schools in Kane Island and in
the far north those will be needed by the district and all of these new
schools will require bond funds for construction and it's possible that the
the district might need to do a little rezoning elsewhere.
We'll have to watch the northeast.
We'll have to watch the southwest.
But these are all things that we're not expecting large numbers of new facilities to be needed for.
So we'll move on to the junior highs just briefly.
Again, we're looking at only the G-accoded student population on these maps,
and we're not looking at transfers.
But at the junior high level, the net in and out of those transfers is a lot lower,
and most of them only net in or out up or down about 40 students.
Most schools look to be at or near their capacities in the long run with some pressures at Wood Creek and Adams.
We've seen similar to the elementary schools.
We've seen some of that coming.
And so we think that they'll ultimately level off and decline as those subdivisions begin to age out.
But there's some pressure points there that we'll have to watch.
The areas of largest interest are, again, in the northwest.
Both Katy and the current Stock Vic zones are projected to have between 2,800 and almost 3,000 students by the end of the projection period.
So the district currently has two junior high sites in the northwestern portion of the district.
And so one would more or less, if it has a capacity of around 1,400 students, be able
to relieve Katy and one more or less to relieve Stockdick.
But both of those will be needed and there are only bond funds available for one of those
at this time.
Again, this is a similar map just showing growth with the numbers there.
In the blue, we're expecting a little bit of decline.
That's actually a good thing because Seven Lakes, Cinco, Beck, and Beckendorf are the
four attendance zones that are currently operating over 100 percent of capacity.
So if they drop down a little bit, that will provide some relief for them and I think that
will be a good thing.
But then at the same time, you can see the growth, the big numbers there in the Katy
and Stock Vic attendance zones.
So to some, we're hoping that the Southwest will ultimately age out and we have two junior
highs that should be expected in the northern portion of the district.
district, Laney's in 10B and 6B, but the district owns the land, but then will need bond funds
for at least the second one of those.
And then finally we're showing the high school attendance zones and the geocoded student
population.
Again, I keep stressing that word because it's so important.
I want everybody to understand that doesn't mean enrollment.
This also does not account for any of the grandfathering due to the adoption of the
new high school attendance zones.
So in other words, the 2020 numbers anywhere that we have changed a zone are not what we're
expecting to actually be enrolled because most this is geocoded kids and most of those
students that we have moved have the opportunity to grandfather back if it was between existing
campuses.
So really, I think the more interesting thing to look at would be the 2024 and the 2029
numbers and assessing the map because in the long run, most of the attendance zones appear
to be in really good shape except for Katie and for Pato.
And so the capacity of the schools is around 3,000 for each, and Katie will need relief by as many as 1,500 students,
and Payto by an awful lot.
I'm projecting as many as almost 7,300 students there at the end of the projection period.
So the district does have the additional school site there.
It's in a little pink square all the way at the top of the map.
And so that can provide relief, but if these figures were to hold true out to 2029,
we'll also be looking at what might need to be done in the future after that,
be it some rezoning be at some different sorts of facilities the district owns
the land but then does not have the bond funds yet for that high school and
obviously Pato and Katie are going to be needing that final map tonight is the
future the growth in those high school attendance zones it's similar sort of
pattern as what we've been looking at actually this map it looks extremely
familiar for years now we've been looking at the future in this the swath
right on the edge of the district as it turns north being of real importance
we've allowed for growth in the new Jordan attendance zone but Katie and
Pato will only get relief with a new facility Pato does have about 900 extra
or space for maybe about 900 extra students right now but anything above
and beyond that is going to be in a new facility so for some for the high
schools high school 10 and 6b would relieve Katie and Pato district owns the
land but construction will require the bond funds and then we'll still be watching to see where we
think that ultimately the the number of additional high school students is is going to be at buildout
so are there any questions
madam president i have a few questions and i'll just say the questions all of them and then you
can answer but first of all i really appreciate your presentation because that is just i can't
imagine how much work that took to compound all of the information he had into that short
presentation. It was very interesting. But I was wondering, first of all, where is the
number of homeschooled kids shown? Is it ‑‑ were you able to capture that number anywhere?
We have tried for many years to be able to gain access to that data, but as far as I
I know TEA does not allow that data to be provided, and we have no other means of gaining access to it.
That is so interesting.
And every district asks us for that number.
That's interesting.
We'd love to be able to have it.
Okay, and then my second question is, are there many of the rehabbed homes, are there, how empty are they still?
Are they still, you know, is that still potential for growth?
This is just a stereotype and too simple to be a good answer.
But I think that on the whole in this district, unlike maybe more toward the urban core of Houston,
that we see this district had its biggest impact over the last 12 months in terms of reoccupying those homes.
You know, there were over 7,200 flooded.
and 54% of those considerably various levels of flooding over two feet I
believe and so it's been a long difficult process but on the whole I
think that they are now almost fully rehabbed the district was able to fund
us a study to continue following that change but now there's not much to look
at really we I'd like to go back to the memorial area there five apartments
there five subdivisions they were having a lot of difficulty in that area and it
had almost no students really low proportions of students and all of that
may still change somewhat but I think on the whole and you may know of some areas
is to mention that we need to make sure we study further, but I think it's pretty over
now.
Okay.
Okay.
And then I also wanted to say about the millennials, because I had heard, I think the last time
y'all were here, you made a good point that it was hard to attract the millennial, sorry,
millennials to come here.
Maybe that's, they're going into the rehabbed homes, because I know that there's been...
Yes, because, you know, salary determines where you buy a home or if you rent.
And so the millennials are, according to the real estate center at A&M,
being challenged to get that average of $150,000 income jointly, perhaps, or singly,
that it takes to buy the typical home.
And so they are facing challenges and simply basically have the incomes that individuals did 40 years ago, you know, not controlling for inflation.
So in other words, they're stepping back in time with their salaries.
So I think it's a big challenge for the future because the homes in Katy are oriented to higher salaries.
That's something that I worry about, you know, with keeping us going.
But, okay, and then in the .4 of the places in the multifamily units,
do you know how many children are typically coming out of those 40% of the apartments?
Which apartments did you refer to?
Well, when you said that it was .4 for multifamily.
Oh, okay. That's the average right now, weighted average for the 114 complexes that currently exist.
For all of the new complexes, we tried to use, if there's another new complex nearby, we used that ratio,
or we used a comparable ratio based on the characteristics like number of two- and three-bedroom units and so forth.
So, but they all differ and they're almost all lower than .4.
And the reason for that is we don't know what the ratio is going to be and we hate to say
it's going to be say a .4 or .5 and then those children don't show up in that elementary
school for example.
Okay.
So we've made it about a .18 right now and knowing that's going to be too low on the
whole but we're taking a wait-and-see stance on these new units and I just
have this my last question and it's more of a statement but the elementary
schools in the southeast quadrant that are low in numbers you know like a MPE
you know Memorial Parkway Elementary and I don't you know it's gone down in
number I guess because of the rezoning but I'm just I'm just worried that we're
going to have to do do something to fix that in the future or what do you see as potential there
for in for memorial parkway elementary okay well they have a bilingual program that's pretty
substantial i i believe and please somebody correct me if i'm just misspeaking but they get
for example the west memorial students and i think it's a couple of hundred students in there so when
you look at the geocoded student count there on the map you've got to add several hundred students
on top of that due to the bilingual programs that are coming into that zone.
Okay.
So, you know, we've actually just sat down and worked through some of these numbers and
looked at geocoded students, looked at some with portables, and there are a couple of
campuses here in the southeastern portion of the district that have a lot of special
programs, a lot of the ones that may mean three students in two classrooms, you know,
maybe the programs for students that are medically fragile and that sort of thing.
And so the numbers tell part of the story, but then you've got to dig a whole lot deeper and see how the building has to be utilized right now.
That's something that we've actually been doing with the administration.
Okay.
Thank you very much for answering those.
And, Chris, what I'll add to that, although what you guys had on the screen today was the geocoded students,
in each board member's folder are their current numbers with those transfer students in them.
So if you want to take a look to compare with what PASA has put on the screen compared to what's actually there, those numbers are in your packets.
And the reason that we use GIA-coded students is we're looking out every year for 10 years.
And those transfers change every year.
They're very, even if a district promises us they're going to keep that program there for three years or more, it may not actually occur.
So we have to be very careful and try to look at the residential location of each student if we're looking at over 10 years.
Madam President.
Just looking at the numbers in that northwest quadrant, it's really overwhelming.
A few questions on that.
Matt, looking at 2029 for Katy High School,
Pato High School, do we know what the numbers,
do we have any kind of a guesstimate
of what we're going to be 15 years out?
Is that something that we...
We do.
In other words, because earlier administrations
had asked us to, regardless of what our contract says,
to look out further, we continue to do that.
and and it is difficult because with every year you're less accurate but
because we know basically the characteristics of the land that's left
we project the land use first of every parcel of five plus acres and we suggest
that there are I think 17,000 housing units that will not cover all the
multifamily that are left mainly in the northwest of course and then that is
equivalent to around 8900 plus students and so if you look for example at Pato
and say of the 8900 students if 0.47 of them are elementary that might be about
4300 or so and that would be how many more elementary's you would still need
beyond the 10-year time frame.
So it never stops, does it?
It doesn't, which in real estate it's a good thing sometimes.
So that's the long range.
In the multifamily, I know in the past there has been some discussion
of some of the multifamily to be townhomes or owned type townhomes
or condominiums where they're owned.
Are we seeing any trend in that?
Are y'all getting any information on any of those coming in
or they are going to be rentals?
We should be seeing a lot more.
I wish I knew why there aren't more condos and more townhomes
because, again, if we know that by the next, say, seven years or earlier,
we're going to see a lot of the baby boomers want to be in townhomes or condos,
then it's surprising that there hasn't been more of an increase in this district.
But so far, folks that move to this district want those single-family homes
or if they're in a transition stage they want to live in apartments and that's
that's what's been made available I don't know if there's a latent demand I
doubt there is yeah I think I think the reason that I've noticed in the trends
and in my career is that once they get their kids in and through school in
Katy ISD they tend to try to move out or retire and move elsewhere with the
the employment that we have that's prevalent here in our community, they have the wherewithal
to be able to do that rather than be, I don't want to say the word stuck, but be primarily
retiring here in our community.
One last thing, and it's more just an observation.
In looking at the junior highs and looking at the elementary schools on the south side
of I-10 and looking at the 10-year trends out, it really does solidify my thought and
my belief and i'm glad that this board did what we did in expanding the junior high
and adjusting the uh the attendance zones because we can see even in the 10-year trend where
we are going to be safe that our schools are going to be where they need to be that's south of i-10
as as just a general idea and a little in that northeast quadrant so i'm very pleased with the
way that we've done that and I'm very proud of our board for having the
forethought to be able to look forward and try to make sure that we're not
going to have to make any adjustments of course that doesn't speak that we will
never have to but never say never never say ever say never but it sure is a sure
is a great opportunity for us to to try and project out thank you appreciate
your help are there any other questions board members okay thank you so much for
your presentation. Thank you for having us. Next we'll move to our discussion action items. 7.1
Item 7.1 (Part 1 of 2)
discuss and consider board approval of the October 2019 financial reports. Mr. Smith welcome.
Good evening President Doyle and Superintendent Gorky. Before you is the October 2019 financial
financial reports. The first one, financial statements through October of 2019, that's
two months through the year or 16.6%. On page two of that you can see 16% pretty rampant
through that report, which means we're right on pace. You also have further analysis of
the budget by function, the construction report through the end of October, our tax report
through the end of October, and our check register summary. Upon your approval, tomorrow
Tomorrow we will publish the detailed check register to the transparency website.
And that is the October 2019 financial reports.
And I would recommend for approval.
Madam President.
Ms. Van.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the District's December 2019 budget amendments.
Second.
Bill.
Thank you.
I have a motion by Ms. Van, a second by Mr. Lacey.
I see that the Board of Trustees approves the district's October 2019 financial reports.
Are there any questions?
We'll proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Item 7.2 (Part 1 of 2)
Next, 7.2, discuss and consider board approval of the December 2019 budget amendments.
Ms. Butterfield, welcome.
Thank you, President Doyle, Trustees, Superintendent Gagorski.
tonight we have a few general operating fund budget amendments to discuss there
are there are two that are equal recognizing give me one second miss van
Item 7.1 (Part 2 of 2)
read the wrong motion we're gonna reread the initial motion just hang tight one
One second. Go ahead, Ms. Vann.
I realized that's where I said it, so I apologize.
I need to read 7.1, not 7.2.
You're presenting now.
Madam President, I move that the Board of Trustees
approves the district's October 2019 financial reports.
Not amendments.
And I will second it.
Okay.
There's a first for everything.
Board, for us to...
I'll reread that motion.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey,
that the Board of Trustees approves the district's
October 2019 financial reports.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes.
Thank you, Ms. Mann, for catching that.
Item 7.2 (Part 2 of 2)
Go ahead and continue, Ms. Butterfield.
Thank you.
So we have $131,000 related to the CenterPoint rebates,
and then $100,000 we're recognizing in revenues
and creating the offsetting expenditure budget related to events.
General fund expenditures related to House Bill 3 are increasing $250,000 for the school day administration of the SAT testing.
And also related to House Bill 3 is $37,000 for additional industry-based certification testing that we'll be doing this coming year.
The remainder of the general fund budget amendments are offsets between existing budget and between functions.
Construction fund is amended a little over $3 million to establish budget for the baseball and softball field renovations at Cinco Ranch, Morton Ranch, Seven Lakes that were approved last month.
and then the TERS fund is amended $2,388,000 for the HVAC and lighting renovations at the ESC and LMC that were also discussed last month.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district's December 2019 budget amendments.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redman, that the Board of Trustees approves
the District's December 2019 budget amendments.
Do we have any questions?
Let's proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes.
Thank you, Ms. Butterfield.
Item 7.3
7.3, discuss survey results and consider Board approval of the 2020-21 and 21-22 instructional
calendars.
Dr. Grooms and Ms. Ashwin, welcome.
Welcome.
Good evening, President Doyle, trustees, and Superintendent Grigorski.
This evening, as you noted, Sherry Ashhorn and I are here to discuss the 2021 and
2122 instructional calendar surveys.
This survey was administered by K12 Insight,
which is a third party research and analysis firm.
They also provided the data analysis and report that you're going to hear this evening.
The survey was open from October 23rd to December 3rd, and it was available to individuals whose email accounts are on file with the school district.
Also, a public access link was available on our website for anybody who did not receive the link in their email.
As you can see on this slide, 21,981 individuals responded to the survey.
survey that includes about 488 responses via the public access link.
And here we come to the survey outcomes.
Overall, approximately 75% of the individuals who participated in the survey selected option
A for calendar year 2020-2021.
And in that calendar you'll see that the start date is August 19th with an end date for seniors
on May 20th and the last day of school for all other students being May 26th.
With regard to the 2021-2022 instructional calendar, 73% of the survey participants preferred
that calendar, which was option A, with a start date on August 18th, an end date for
seniors on May 21st, and a last day for all other students on May 27th.
On this slide you can see the preference for calendar option A among the different stakeholder groups including students, parents, staff members, and community members without school age.
children. Calendar A is the green bar, which is overwhelmingly the preference among all those
stakeholder groups. And the same holds true for the 2021-2022 instructional calendar option,
in which all the same stakeholder groups preferred option A.
Then finally, at the end of that survey, we did provide participants the opportunity to provide
general comments about the survey. K-12 Insight looked at all these comments.
There is about 2,600 of them. They analyzed them into six major themes
which you see here on this slide. The first one being that there's a
preference for shorter summer breaks with an additional breaks throughout the
fall, winter, and spring semester. Some also prefer to end in May which would
would allow more time for families during the summer and specifically in June.
There's also a desire for a fall break between August and November.
Others ask that we reevaluate half days.
Some would like to see year-round school with more breaks spread throughout the school year.
And finally, there was a number of comments that K-12 Insight grouped into one sixth final theme.
And those comments have to do with a desire for more parent conference days a later start date and the elimination of payback
payback days for 238 day employees and
Now I'm going to turn it over to Sherry Ash horn who's going to provide some additional information about these two calendars
Thank You dr. Grooms just to share a little bit about the parameters we start off with and we're developing the calendar
The first is that we have to have a minimum of 75,600 operational minutes, and that's our bell-to-bell schedule.
And also included in that 75,600 are any waiver minutes.
So you'll see that's going to be coming up next on our board agenda.
Teachers have to have 187 contract days.
They say that we should establish two bad weather days, or we can have enough banked minutes for bad weather.
And districts may not begin before the fourth Monday in August.
As you know, KDISD has a District of Innovation plan that allows us to start earlier.
Now, in addition to these parameters, we do have preferences here at KDISD.
Some new things that we're doing that we really wanted to have that are reflective in both calendars,
option A and option B, this whole list, is to include a professional development flex day in August.
That's something new.
So teachers who engage in staff development over the summer are going to have an opportunity
opportunity to trade in that summer professional development for that first professional day in
August. We also have a desire to have professional development within the calendar. New for this year
is a Columbus Day holiday, so that's a new break in October that we haven't had previously.
We like our one week at Thanksgiving break. We aim for two weeks for a winter holiday.
New this year, although we've done it before, but bringing it back is the Martin Luther King
junior day holiday we like one week at spring break and we want to have banked minutes for bad
weather so in addition to those parameters in education code these are some of the things that
we tried to fit into both options a and options b as dr groom shared um a little bit about each
calendar both had 174 instructional days option a is very similar to this year it has that wednesday
start date that early we called it the district of innovation calendar because it does allow us
to start early seniors graduate early in may graduations are also held in may and all students
in before memorial day calendar option b we called more of our traditional calendar which is what we
saw before district of innovation it has that traditional fourth monday start date and due to
getting the minute requirements and still meeting all those preferences it pushes the last day of
school into june and there was no way for seniors to get enough extra minutes so seniors end at the
the same time as well as all other students. So this information was also presented to the
Katie Improvement Council on November 13th, and the feedback that we received in the preferred
calendar choice for KIC members was also option A. So after consulting the survey information and
the feedback from KIC, the administration's recommendation is option A for both the 2021
and 2022 school years.
!
Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of Trustees approves
the 2020 and 2021 and the 21
and 22 instructional calendars as presented by the administration.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees
approves the 2020, 2021, and the 2021 and 2022
22 instructional calendars as presented by administration. Do we have any questions?
Madam President, Ms. Champagne. I have a couple of questions. Can you re-explain how that the flex
day works in August, please? That teacher flex day? So right now, it's my understanding that
when teachers engage in that staff development over the summer, because I do think we have a
lot of opportunities not only here, but also at Region 4, that there's going to be a way that
they can document that and provide it to their campus so i believe if you'll look that flex
stays on that friday before so we'll have new teachers on wednesday thursday and then that
friday will be the flex day and so if you've if you've completed that staff development that you
can trade out then as a teacher a returning teacher you won't actually have to show up until
the 10th i think that's awesome and the other question i have is i'm just curious how are
of seniors getting their minutes i think you you talked about that for a moment but can you explain
that how they're getting all their minutes in they are so tea defines a day as 420 minutes
and so you might remember that historically we've had to have 180 um instructional days and we could
get waivers for days well when we switched to minutes what we realized is kdic was already
sending students for much longer a much longer school day so those few minutes
past the 420 allow us the opportunity to have that longer Thanksgiving break to
bank minutes for bad weather and then in this case allows senior students to
graduate early so I think it's going to be a great positive for funding as well
because they'll have their own separate calendar and I think when we did the
research there was poor attendance on those the last couple of weeks and with
finals and just the way we looked at it it was it was multi beneficial to have
the seniors graduate early yes I do think that was a good call so yes thank
you very much are there any other questions okay hearing none I'll reread
the motion I have a motion from mr. Lacey a second by miss van that the
Board of Trustees approves the 2020 21 and 21 22 instructional calendars as
presented 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. Thank you so much
Item 7.4
next 7.4 discuss and consider board approval for a staff development waiver for the
2021 and 2122 instructional calendars miss Ashburn. Go ahead
As I mentioned before waiver minutes are a critical part of us getting to that
75,600 minute minimum and allows us to bank those extra minutes as well
So TEA allows us to apply for a staff development waiver that is
Can be utilized for up to 2,100 minutes. So in the calendars we just approved you'll see there are four staff development days
Within the calendar so from the first day of school until the last day of school
So this waiver will give us the opportunity to claim 420 instructional minutes towards that minimum that we need and
Was also presented to kick on November 13th
therefore the administration requests your approval of this waiver for both
and 2021 and 21 22 I mean go ahead
I'm at the board trustees approved the submission of staff development waiver
for the 2020 to 21 and the 2021 to 22 instructional calendars as presented by
administration second Dale got it Dale got it I have a motion by miss fan a
second by mr. Keller that the Board of Trustees approves the submission of a
staff development waiver for the 2020 2021 and 21 22 instructional calendars
by presented as presented by administration do we have any questions
hearing none we'll proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right
hand and say aye all those opposed motion passes thank you so much
7.5 discuss and consider board approval of growth units for the 2019-2020 school year. Mr. Shush.
Item 7.5
Good evening, President DeWolf, members of the board, Dr. Grgorski. Tonight we are requesting approval of 10 additional growth units for the current school year.
As you know, we've seen tremendous growth in the district and are well above our projection for
for 19-20, I think to the tune of just over 850 students.
So that said, our available growth units from our currently approved staffing plan, those
have all been allocated.
And if approved tonight, these 10, we will have to use about three or four of these right
off the bat, but it will give us six or seven in reserve.
And looking at things, we think that'll be sufficient to get us through the spring semester.
So one thing I would like to point out, this is a much smaller request than we had last
year.
last year there about 39 units requested so I think the primarily that's a
function of the way the district handled the enrollment estimation process for
1920 such a great thing the budget impact for this will be about three
hundred thousand dollars for 1920. Madam President. Mr. Redmond. I move that the
Board of Trustees approves ten growth units for the 2019-2020 school year as
recommended by the superintendent. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second
by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves 10 growth units for the 2019-20
school year as recommended by the superintendent. Are there any questions?
Madam President, Ms. Gassoff, I'm sorry, that's okay, Dale. Mr. Schuss, do you have an idea of what the
breakdown is for those 10 units? Are they special ed? So the three or four that
we're gonna have to use right off the bat are probably more than likely gonna
to be dyslexia teachers. The six or seven will just be unallocated just in
reserve for for campus support. So they so teachers or paraprofessional positions.
Secondary or elementary. Thank you. Any other questions? Hearing none we'll
proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. All those opposed motion passes. Thank you so much. 7.6 discuss and
Item 7.6
consider board approval of the proposal for the upgrade of security camera systems for the entire
bus fleet welcome mr beerling thank you president doyle board members uh dr grigorski i'm with you
here for two uh items this evening and um i want to first say that uh both of these items are going
to be fantastic for our kids our drivers our staff our schools parents we're really excited about
about all of it. So we'll start with the camera systems. I'm going to take you through a little
bit of a history. Cameras have been on buses since the mid-1980s. Unfortunately, our systems have not
really progressed in the way we would have liked, and so we're sort of doing the same things that
we've been doing for quite a while. Again, I'll take you through the history of this. So
So currently this is the camera coverage on our buses.
It's mounted to the front bulkhead.
It shoots down the middle of the bus.
And as you can see, there's very, it's minimal coverage.
It does have audio, but it's minimal coverage.
You're unable to see all the kids in all the seats.
You're unable to see the drivers.
You're unable to see the stop arm.
You're unable to see the bus stop.
and as a result you miss quite a few things that can happen on buses. And you've all been on buses,
you all had kids that have ridden on buses, so you know that obviously we want to know what's
going on to keep our kids and our drivers safe. So again this gives you a shot with the kiddos
in the seats. We blurred out their faces but I did want you to be able to see when you've got
elementary kiddos in those seats it's very difficult to be able to let alone
make out faces but to see what's going on in those areas especially especially
at the rear of the bus and again you you can sort of see that one side with with
respect to traffic but you can't see the other you can't see the folks that run
the stop arms and you can't see anything out the back or the front of the bus so
So in our current system, in order to pull video, we have to have a human being go out to the bus itself.
The bus obviously has to be in the bus barn, but the human being has to pull the SD card.
That's a little chip card.
You guys have those in your cameras.
And they've got to pull that out.
They've got to go into the transportation center.
They've got to download the video.
Then we've got to put it on a jump drive then to take to the campus.
That's kind of a cumbersome process.
obviously if there's something timely the police department needs to get a
hold of or a campus wants to handle immediately again it's it's a little
difficult it's a little cumbersome I've been a part of that myself and I can
tell you that there's better ways of doing it so our new camera system will
be brought to you by a company called brought to us by a company called safety
vision they're located in Houston so they're a local company and they are an
an absolute leader in safety camera technology. They were out of the bus business for a while.
They've been back in for several years and have a great product that we're looking forward to using.
So some of the new features, I don't like to read to you guys and I don't want to belabor this,
but I want to make sure I hit all those points. Each bus will have eight cameras on it. So the
improved from one camera at the bulkhead will now have eight cameras in and around the bus.
It allows visibility in all those seats so we don't have the the missing kiddos
towards the back of the bus. You'll be able to see oncoming traffic as well as
traffic at the stop arm and in the rear. We have a lot of buses that are hit, not
our fault, but buses that are hit from behind and now we'll be able to work
with our police department, our insurance team to guarantee that our drivers were
not at fault and make sure that we we recoup the money for that. Wireless
wireless connectivity is great. We won't have to go pull the SD card anymore. We can download all that video wirelessly at the transportation facilities. Our technology department has been great. They're going to set the whole Wi-Fi system up and we'll be able to download those at the transportation facilities.
If you're a driver on the bus, you'll be able to mark events that happen.
If there's a concern with a kiddo or somebody at a stop, the driver will be able to hit a little button and that'll automatically mark the video.
All video is recorded, but they'll be able to mark it so that when they get back into the bus barn, the campus will be able to see it a little bit easier.
And our transportation folks will be able to find it easier as well.
And again, I can't say it enough, safety, safety, safety, right?
Safety of the kids, that's paramount, but safety of our drivers, safety of the folks in and around the bus stops, we're really excited about this.
So this gives you an idea of the new camera layout on the school buses.
This is a regular ed bus.
So at each point where you see a little orange dot and number, that's where a camera is going to be.
And you can kind of see how it fans out and what kind of coverage you get.
Obviously with any security camera system you're not going to get 100%
coverage 100% of the time but in this system we felt like this gets us the
most coverage most bang for our buck. Okay so that's a regular ed bus that's
eight cameras. Special ed buses will have eight cameras as well you can see how
they're spaced out. I know those views are small I'm going to take you to the
next few screens are going to have the views where you can see those. So this is
what the video dashboard is going to look like so campus principals assistant
assistant principals, our folks in transportation, they'll have access to this kind of like we do
our security camera systems at our schools. This will be the dashboard that they'll see.
Obviously, they can drill down to the individual cameras, pull those up larger, and I'll take you
again to some of those views. And then the great thing about this one too is it's got the event
location with it. So if you want to pinpoint something that happened, you can see where it is
on the map at the same time that it happens on the camera. So this is a new
view here. This will be the driver in the door view. So this allows us to
see kids getting on the bus as well as getting off the bus. So if we're worried
that a kiddo is getting off the bus with the wrong parent, the wrong whoever it is,
we can now see that. We couldn't see that before. If there's a disruption at
the stop, if somebody tries to get on the bus that's not supposed to be on the
the bus, we can now see that. Okay, obviously that gets the front part of the bus as well.
Here's our mid-camera, mid-bus view. And there's our rear seat view. So where you couldn't see
anything in our old system in the back seats, you get most of the back seats on the bus now. Again,
no security camera system is 100%, but this is head and shoulders better than what it was.
Here's another view, one of the other eight cameras.
This is the front dash view, so we'll be able to see what the driver is seeing.
And this obviously is great with traffic.
You see parents there standing at the stop waiting.
This is actually one of our buses.
We ran the pilot on several buses.
This is the stop arm view.
So this will allow our police department to see cars that are running our stop arms,
which is extremely dangerous to our kids.
We had no proof of that before.
And this is the rear view.
I apologize we didn't have a rear view camera on our pilot bus so this is a stock shot that they sent me.
That's why you don't recognize any of those surroundings, but it it'll be a better shot of that and
that's what that'll be. So the upgrade cost we're going to use money that
was allotted in the 2017 bond for transportation.
We have a man named Steven Loveless who is a wizard with our
with our fleet and he's worked out a way to get the buses we need with the bond
money in addition to paying for the cameras so we're going to outfit all of
our buses 471 buses and then an extra hundred that we'll buy later on we got
safety vision to guarantee the pricing for those extra hundred buses that will
come later there's a terabyte of hard drive recorder on each bus so obviously
we'll be able to keep that keep that video data for multiple weeks. Equipment, parts, labor,
and installation all said and done with technology and everything $2.4 million. Here's the technology
cost breakdown at each center. Again we have to go back to each center and then set it up for Wi-Fi
in the parking lots right. Right now they're not. We have obviously have Wi-Fi in the center itself
but the parking lot is not set up for Wi-Fi. So Joe Kristofferson and his team were good.
They've been awesome to help us and we're gonna set up Wi-Fi at each center.
I know you're probably wondering well gosh, why is it so much at East and so much less at West?
It really has to do with the distance,
the size of the parking lot, the distance from the building, how much cabling we're gonna have to run underground,
how much trenching we're gonna have to do and so that has a huge impact on the cost there to set up the Wi-Fi.
Installation and timeline. Our goal is to get this done after by the time we get back from spring break. That is probably an aggressive schedule, although we have encouraged safety vision that we want to get this thing done and we want to get it rolling as quickly as possible.
So again, our goal is right after spring break to have it up and running on all of our current buses.
Obviously, if we're not, we'll keep you updated on any changes that happen.
There's always something that comes up, whether it's being able to get their folks out and get it done or getting parts.
But our goal, again, is to have it ready to go after spring break.
Any questions on our camera systems?
Ms. Van?
I have a few questions.
First, thank you.
This is super exciting.
Yes, ma'am.
We're excited, too.
As you said, safety, safety, safety.
Absolutely.
This is definitely going to go leaps and bounds.
What was put on the bus is when I was in here, when I was here in high school.
So I just have three easy questions.
I like easy.
The cameras be utilized going forward?
I guess it goes, is it campus to campus for field trips and extracurricular, like sports,
transporting bands?
Yes, ma'am.
So every bus in the fleet will have eight cameras.
Right, but I mean it'll be up to that principal of that campus will then also have another bus.
Yes, ma'am. It's a little bit easier to, I know that question came up with the GPS and it was a little more difficult with GPS to be able to track all that stuff.
But with the cameras, we know what bus was assigned to what group, whether it be the band or the drill team or the football team or whatever.
So right, so we can go back and do whatever we need to do to pull that video.
Okay.
Correct. And campuses will have access to all that stuff.
Right. So they'll know when their team's out, their team or their whatever, field trips or auto buses.
Okay. And what about, this is, I love that by spring break we're going to hopefully have all of our fleet outfitted with this.
But where does the training of drivers come in?
I mean, I have a parent who hasn't upgraded her phone since Apple, you know, 6, Generation 6, because she's so scared of learning new technology.
So I'm just thinking of how much is on the driver to be driving and now working in news, you know software
The main priority is to safely transport the students. Absolutely
So so we don't want to put anything else on our drivers than they need to be right
They've got 40 50 kids behind them. We don't need to put anything on them. The good news is for drivers
They don't really have to do anything
The only thing that our driver would do is if there was an emergency if there was something that they felt like needed to
be recorded they could hit the button just to mark it outside of that there is
nothing that a driver needs to do they're gonna roll down down the road
and they're gonna do what they do the camera system will record the entire
time it actually stays on I believe 30 minutes 30 minutes after the bus has
been shut down so god forbid if there's a kiddo on the bus we can check that
video immediately and find out what's going on so it is a great system did I
I hope I answered your question.
No, you absolutely did.
So just the stop capture is the one thing that they will-
That's the only thing, and it really isn't even necessary because-
You can find it.
If you're driving a bus and something happens in the backseat, you may not know what happens.
Right.
So even if they don't hit the button, we're still going to have the video.
We'll still pull the video.
It'll be a little slower to find it because we'll have to run through that whole route
or maybe even that whole day, but we'll be able to find it.
They know something's happening, they can.
Okay.
Yes, ma'am.
And the recording starts the minute the engine is turned on.
That's correct.
Even if though there might go sit in a parking lot at a school for that's correct
It's gonna be on when the engines on it's on and it stays on again 30 minutes after okay, and then my final
My final question and it's like it's not so not so intricate
but I think this is amazing and this is the kind of thing our community deserves to
Know about so I'm just wondering what the rollout is in communication and maybe
Because parents would want to know this is coming there, you know
It's just another feather in our cap of how we do things right here.
So we're starting with our drivers and our transportation centers tomorrow.
Ms. Hack and I are going to go out and visit all three transportation centers starting tomorrow.
We're going to be out there tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday.
So we want to talk to our transportation team first because we want them to know that it's about their safety.
That's as big a piece of this as any, right?
Our employees are equally important, so we want to let them know what's going on.
for the parents we're going to be working on a set of FAQs that we're
going to send out. Dr. Grooms has prepped some stuff to send out
preliminarily, is that right, the correct word, and we'll get that sent out and
then we'll get more detailed information later on to parents. Okay, great. Thank you
so much. Madam President. Mr. Lacey. Two real quick questions. One I did, well
one observation, one question. I did notice on one of the slides that we do, we are
are able to monitor the speed of the buses. So that's, I really like that. Yeah, we've been able
to do that. That's one thing that GPS does for us, is that it does, it allows us to monitor the speed
of the buses. And, you know, we've had conversations, right, about making sure that you
stay within the speed limit and that sort of thing. All that stuff, whether it's sitting at a
stop too long or whether it's missing a stop, going too fast, GPS allows us to do that. Really like
like that. You may know the answer to this, but we may need to defer to Chief
Meyer. I noticed one of the one of the slides had us monitoring when the stop
arms are out. Is that something that we can use as a ticketable offense?
what's going on. If we can't do it by the driver, we can't call the church.
So much like the red light cameras that have come under a lot of litigation and
fire lately, but it is an opportunity to go and sit and have a chat.
Excellent. I love that. I will tell you, though, that you can zoom in on these
and you can get pretty good resolution. This is not a zoomed in shot, but
when we demoed this, you can get a pretty good zoom.
And if it's kids that are doing it or something like that, I really like that. It gives the parent
an opportunity to have a discussion.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
But obviously if a child was hurt by that violation, then that's, you can go off a license
plate alone, right?
I mean, yeah.
I didn't hear you.
If the child was hurt in a situation where they ran a stoplight.
So it's there for that, I mean, heaven forbid.
Absolutely.
But it's there for that too.
It'd be something for us to use to try to get to the .
Excellent.
Thank you all so much.
Madam President.
Ms. Gassoff.
I'm sorry.
Just a couple more.
You mentioned that there's a terabyte of data storage, and you said weeks.
Is it two weeks, three weeks, five weeks?
I know you probably don't know yet.
So it depends.
I won't defer to the gentleman in the front row, Joe Christofferson, just yet.
But I will say that, you know, obviously when you're dealing with eight cameras and high-definition video,
depending on, you know, the circumstances, those can fill up fairly fast.
Right.
We think two to three weeks though on turnaround before it before it
pushes everything out. You may get a little more you may get a little less just kind of depends.
And what what do we have now? We have the little SD card and that gets us about
two weeks again low-definition camera it's a it's a completely different system.
It's bigger than I thought.
It is, probably.
And Wi-Fi in all the transportation centers, but it's still just a pull.
It's not a push, right?
They're not downloading that data every day.
You would only use the Wi-Fi if you're going to pull a specific.
I'm going to let Joe jump in on that one.
I don't want to tell you the wrong thing.
No, you're right.
It stays on those hard drives on the buses.
And there's two ways that it gets pulled down.
Either through that button, if they mark the video, it automatically gets uploaded and goes into the transportation center.
Also, if an incident is reported to the principal, for instance, they can go in the software
and say, hey, I need at 2 o'clock on this bus, I need the footage.
And it will automatically, next time the bus is in the bar, will upload that footage as well.
Okay.
And then that dashboard that you showed, that's how the video is going to come through?
And then you can switch to the different cameras?
That's correct.
And get more resolution?
So that's like the opening screen, the dashboard.
Right.
So transportation will have access to that.
The difference now is that campuses will have access to that too so that we're not running
Jump drives back and forth with with video on it
That potentially can get lost
One other question just because we talked a little bit about the GPS and the vehicle data reporters
I'm assuming that the safety department gets regular downloads dashboard data analytics on that
You were talking about the speeding or you know, maybe hard braking that kind of thing. So there are
there are hundreds of data metrics right on the GPS stuff so they do periodic spot checks we use
it a lot when we get reports obviously when we hear things that don't sound right but but we do
spot checks I saw an email the other day to to a driver that said hey you need to you know we had
you going such-and-such in a in a such-and-such and so so they do catch that stuff okay all right
All right, thank you very much.
President? First of all, I'm really excited about this. I think it's
going to be great and I'm so happy for whoever decided to spearhead this and do
it because there's nothing more important of course than the safety of
our children. I also see this as a great opportunity to be a very strong
deterrent to future problems, you know, potential problems. So what I'm hoping is
that with the information that Dr. Grooms is going to give and however
that's going to be communicated that that's also communicated to the students
and I'm also I'm actually thinking it would be kind of neat I don't know but
if the bus driver could say on the first day that they had it hey just to let you
know we have cameras now yeah well we we work really closely with our campuses
when they have their little meetings at the beginning of the year we'll make
make sure that they mention that there's been an upgrade.
We've got, Safety Vision actually provides a little sticker that goes on the bulkhead
of every bus that says a little something about, hey, you know, video surveillance,
that sort of thing.
So we do want the kids to know, we don't want to get anybody in trouble.
That's not our purpose in life.
Our purpose is to keep people safe.
But if kids knowing that the camera's on, if that keeps them from doing something silly,
then by all means, we want to make sure that they know.
Mr. Vierling.
Yes, ma'am.
I'm sorry, Ms. Champagne, were you finished?
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to interrupt if I did.
A couple of questions.
Is there, will the campus have access or the transportation center have access of live
video as it's happening or is it only going to be recorded once it stops?
No, ma'am.
We did not choose to do the live action piece.
The expense is tremendous.
us. It requires the it requires basically like a for lack of better term a cell
phone on every bus basically to be shooting information back and forth. It's
not terribly accurate in that the amount of data that's coming out of that that's
coming out of that bus to get a live feed it just really wasn't realistic. I'm
sure ten years from now I'll well I don't know if I'll be standing here but
But somebody will be standing here saying, you know, we're upgrading to live video,
and obviously live video would be fantastic.
But at this point, that's probably not feasible.
Okay.
It'll be Ted?
Yeah, it'll be Ted.
Okay, Dr. Gorgarski says it'll be Ted.
Who else would want to present about the bus stop?
My next question, and so for clarification, when the bus stops and is turned off,
the cameras are turned off.
Or not.
Or they keep recording for 30 minutes.
Yes, ma'am.
So this is kind of a unique, and I'm sure you're aware because you were a high school principal.
I know what you're going to say.
Oftentimes, our dance team, our cheerleaders, our band, they change on the bus when they're going to a further, maybe out of district game.
Yes, ma'am.
You know, the director may stay on, the bus driver gets off.
How are we going to handle that where that privacy isn't being?
Well, my initial thought, and again, as an old principal, my initial thought was you get a coat hanger and you hang your uniform up, you know, over the camera.
You know, I think we're going to have to be very cognizant that those kinds of things happen.
I do know they happen.
I do know my daughter's in the band at Seven Lakes, and they all change on the buses.
I do know that.
I can also tell you, though, that not just everybody is going to have access to this.
It's only the folks again the type of folks that would have access to our security camera
systems in the school and and you know the the the
Professionalism and the respect for for kids if we're not going looking for something. There's no reason to look for it
So we're gonna work through those things though. I don't I don't want people. I don't want kids feeling uncomfortable
About about having to do that
Having to change on buses and that sort of thing. That's that's not a that we don't want to put them in a bad spot
Okay. Is there the ability, I know it continues to record 30 minutes after it turned off,
is there ability to stop the recording and not continue for those 30 minutes?
I don't know that for sure. I don't want to tell you something that's not true, but we can look at
that with safety vision. That very topic was brought up with them when we met with them.
Okay. Any other questions, board members? Yeah, I think it's wonderful. I'm very excited about it.
I think that it will also help parents that maybe have been leery in the past of putting their child on a bus.
It will give them some peace of mind as well.
So great job, guys.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for an upgrade to the security camera systems on the entire bus fleet to safety vision as recommended by the administration.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves
the proposal for an upgrade of the security camera systems on the entire bus fleet to
safety vision 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.
Okay, Mr. Vierling, go ahead with 7.7.
Item 7.7
Okay.
So, I'm up here.
You get to see my shining face again.
I'm up here talking about transportation again.
And I wanted to I want to stress to you before I get started here that you know anything
We're doing tonight with respect to transportation. We're taking care of our kids. We're taking care of our drivers in this case
We're taking care of our mechanics and our office staff
So I want to make sure that everybody understands that and I'll talk more about that as we go through
But we're going to talk a little bit here about contract drivers
So you all know as does everybody here in the audience and everybody in Katie ISD that?
there there are not there's not an abundance of school bus drivers we have
been in a pinch for the last several years with with routes that are
uncovered their stories on it if you google it you can find bus driver
shortages across the state across the nation and even across the world and
know that I have googled it and it it's the truth we're currently about 30
30 drivers short of being fully staffed. We do run the buses every day. Those buses do run,
and I'll get to that, how we do it here in a minute, but we're about 30 drivers short.
As we continue to grow, you heard PASA up here tonight talking about growth in the future
and just growth in the present. We know that this is not going to be a problem that's going to go
away tomorrow. It's going to be something we're going to have to work with here in
the future. Obviously some of our goals provide a safe and consistent and
reliable means of transportation for our kids. We want to provide buses and routes
that are not overcrowded. We want to get kids home and to school on time so
they're not missing class and they don't we don't want them on buses for hours
and hours. We want to make sure that the folks in transportation, our mechanics,
our routers, our office staff are able to do their job and that they're not out on buses covering the 30 drivers
that we're short and we want to eliminate that stress that parents and kids have
when they're waiting around for a bus or a bus has to switch or we've got to switch a route or we've got to
pull a stop off a route. We want to we want to try to eliminate some of that stuff.
So this is just kind of a list of things, the next few slides, some things that we've done to either increase or maintain our driver pool.
A big one for us, obviously last year we raised the salary to $17.17 an hour from $16.83.
That is extremely competitive with districts around us.
We raised the perfect attendance bonus last year from $200 to $400.
dollars. We have a recruitment bonus. So if a driver recruits a new driver and they're successful
for 120 days at least, we doubled that bonus from $200 to $400. I want you to know that we provide
child care, that's licensed child care, for drivers at $2 a day, which is a fantastic thing.
I don't know anybody in here that can say they get child care for $2 a day, quality licensed
child care for $2 a day and we implemented also the $5 I know anybody
want to drive a bus that may change some minds and we implemented a five-hour
minimum work schedule for drivers so that if they weren't working a minimum
of five hours a day we would provide them work for five hours a day we raised
the extra duty pay to to match the minimum salary there for transportation
we raised the Katie the bus pay Katie the bus pays pay when they go to the
the elementaries and they train the kiddos on bus safety. Field trip pay, we improved that as well.
We worked with the finance department. They went out with us to all the transportation centers.
A big concern of our drivers was year-round pay. The pay structure that we have currently,
they get paid for the time of year that they work. But our finance department was great. They went
out to the centers. They talked to the drivers about how to create a little account so they
if they could manage their pay over time.
That was extremely helpful and well received.
And then, of course, we've done the hiring blitzes and all that kind of stuff
because we want to get folks on our buses.
So this brings us to contract drivers.
So, again, I want to say this, and I want to say it.
I want to make sure that all of our transportation folks,
and they're going to hear it over the next three days,
we are not replacing anybody.
We don't want to replace one driver, not one driver.
We don't want to replace any mechanics. I don't want to replace office staff.
These are fantastic people that we have working in transportation. They do an
outstanding job every day. If I could clone them, I would. Unfortunately, we're
in a tight spot. We continue to be in a tight spot and the idea of a contract
driver company is they're going to help fill those voids that we're struggling
to fill over time despite all the things that we've done and get us to a
to a norm, okay? We value our KDISD employees. We know that anybody that is employed by KDISD
is fully vested, is bought in, and they always make the best employees. So I want you to know
that we're not going to try to replace or remove anybody that's sitting in a seat right now. We
need more of them, okay? Gold Star is also a local, well actually I say local, they're in Austin.
We'll forgive them for that, but they are in Texas and they do an outstanding job for
districts around the state.
And so again, we're going to try to eliminate that driver shortage and make sure that every
route has an assigned driver.
And I'll walk you through this.
So obviously the first couple of the first things that come into your mind, what does
this look like?
Is this bus looking like some rundown thing?
Is it a charter bus?
Is it?
So Gold Star is great. We've been working with them, talking to them for quite a
while now. They provide the same style model specifications on all their buses.
So when a bus pulls up to a stop you really won't be able to tell the
difference between a Gold Star bus and a district bus. That's all in the contract,
right? They've got to buy buses that are like for like, that are
within the same age range, all that kind of stuff, right? Same driver training, so
obviously a lot of that stuff is mandated by the state and the federal
government, so all the training is going to be the same. Same GPS systems, they're
going to run edulog for us. Camera systems are going to be the same, so we
don't have, you know, three cameras on a Gold Star bus and eight cameras on a KDISD
bus. That's all the same. That's all in the contract. Safety standards, again,
adhered to, maintenance schedule the same as KDISD bus buses, background checks, all
that kind of stuff. They've all got to have those same things that our KDISD
bus drivers will. And then our their buses will be housed at a KDISD
transportation site along with our buses. They'll have their own staff. They'll
have a small staff that they work with in terms of their their leadership group
but their drivers will be housed at the same location. So cost per route, the
Gold Star annual cost per route is approximately $74,000. Okay, when you
start running numbers, that was the first question the superintendent says, hey
what does it cost us to run a route? We're saying about $45,000. That's a
difficult number to pull because of, well because of a lot of things, but because
of the cost of the bus, the cost of the driver, insurance, and there's all the
other things that we do, TRS, there's a lot of things that go into our routes.
But a good number statewide and then for us is about $45,000 a route per year.
Projected number of Gold Star routes needed, we're looking at
probably no less than 40 routes that they'll run for us. Again, not replacing
any drivers just adding to what we already have okay and they would start
in the fall of 2020 so there's a lot of work that needs to be done in the
meantime approximate cost for 40 routes 2.96 million dollars and there's the
math that works out four hundred thirteen dollars a day times 178 days
that's a seventy four thousand dollars per school year per route so our
implementation plan assuming if this is approved we would start work very soon
with gold star in in prepping to get them ready I know that we are talking
about West transportation up there to house the gold star fleet initially we
we discussed West we we might be looking at a different transportation site we
want to make sure that what we where we house gold star is is the best for
for everybody involved, including our transportation team.
Spring and summer 2020, obviously,
we're going to work very collaboratively with them,
working on how many routes we assign, the routes that they
run, and then, of course, working
with our schools and our transportation department
according to our protocols.
And they'll be up and running on the first day of school,
August 19, 2020.
I know you have lots of questions, so I'm ready.
Ms. Van.
I just have one, just one question.
You said like for like, which KDIC were pretty good at being equitable across the district.
So that was our understanding going into this, the buses would be similar, same standards.
Yes, ma'am.
But they will not say KDIC on the side.
They actually will.
Gold Star will provide signage for the buses.
So it basically, it's a magnet that sticks on the side of the bus and it'll cover it up.
So it'll be KDISD.
We went out to a neighboring district and we rode around their transportation site, met with their people.
And when you go over there, you can't tell the difference.
You really can't.
Okay.
It was my understanding that you couldn't tell the difference.
But that was that last little cherry on top.
Right.
The last thing we want to do is put a kiddo on a bus that's unsafe or that's not up to the quality of KDISD.
ADISD and we're not going to do that. Okay. Thank you for your presentation. You better present mr. Lacey. I have a few mr.
Verlin, okay
Let me preface by saying I was at a I was in a meeting in Austin with several other districts and to the person
Everybody is looking for bus drivers. I mean it was like oh my gosh
This is the bane of our existence is trying to get our kids transported safely
so
What magic pill does this company have?
that allows them to go find bus drivers that we don't?
Well, they don't share all their magic pills, you know.
I wouldn't say it's proprietary or anything like that.
But I will tell you that their pay structure is a little different
in terms of what they offer drivers and what they don't offer drivers,
insurance and things like that.
It's not always in the mix when you start talking about contract companies,
whether it's contract mowers or contract bus drivers and that sort of thing.
They also are nationwide.
wide so they can reach out to their people that maybe it's slow in Oklahoma and say,
hey, you want to come down to Katy and drive buses down here. They also, they will do charter runs
on off time. So as long as it doesn't interfere with Katy ISD transportation, they may run their
buses on a charter for another organization, for somebody else, for a company, for a team
or something like that that isn't involved with Katy ISD at all. So they have a little bit
more flexibility in terms of making a little extra money on the side.
And then my last question is going to, will we have the right to veto someone that they hire?
Yes, sir. We've got it written in the contract. Mr. Graham has been great along the way,
and we're looking at all that. We spoke to that. Again, we spoke to that neighboring district. If
they had any concerns, they never do. They never did. They work very closely with Gold Star.
are and Justin you can probably speak to this better than I can but I'll let you
go ahead yeah thanks for your question bill I think that's an important
distinguishment in the contract that we need to retain the final authority to
have say over the employees who have direct access with children as with any
as with any contract with any third party we're gonna we're gonna be able to
to go in there and tell them, hey, we're going to have a problem
or we have a problem with one of your independent contractors,
one of the people that you hire.
But we specifically modified and wrote in this contract the ability for us,
because these individuals will have direct access with children,
the ability to have final say on that.
Okay.
Yeah, and I do have one other thing that just I didn't catch my notes,
and I apologize, guys.
guys. When comparing the benefits that they have, what would the cost difference be if
we offered the same or similar benefits to our employees?
So they, when you say benefits, you mean?
You mentioned they have a little bit different package, may have a little bit different perk,
so to speak.
So I guess what I would tell you is that their perks are minimum. They do not offer, you
insurance package. They do not offer $2 daycare. They, you know, there's some
things that we do obviously for our drivers that are a big perk. Their
system's a little more streamlined, I guess it would be, in terms of they don't
get paid if they don't come to work. There's no paid sick days, those kinds of
things. So again, very similar to our to our contract mowing company, they run it
very similarly. So if you want to drive for KDISD, there's all kind of benefits that you
can take advantage of. They won't have access to those benefits. Bringing that up leads to another
question, and Mr. Graham, you may be able to answer this. Are we writing in our contract where we're
not allowed to go and capture their employees after a certain period of time? I'm trying to
think. We thought about that too. It's a million dollars. It's a million too in additional costs
compared to what we would have if we had those 40 employees if they were ours
yeah so that's something that Ted and I actually when we when we first got the
contract we sat down and worked through we wanted to make very clear that if
you're a current employee with us that the contract doesn't allow you to then
just quit one day and then go work for gold star the next day for those current
employees that we have. Now if somebody is retirement eligible and chooses to retire,
we don't have control over our employees who have made the decision to retire.
But when you talk about some of the reasons that they may be able to do this, some of the reasons
that they may be able to find drivers is because they're not under the same constraints that we
have when it comes to that almost 8% payment to TRS, right? But if you have a driver who's been
driving for you for 20 for 15 20 years they're not going to want to give that up right because
every year is that that extra 2.3 percent towards their uh retirement pension um we also as ted is
saying as also mr reeling saying um we have a a better uh structure as far as a benefits package
for our employees to include two dollar a day daycare which i don't know that you can get that
anywhere in America and I and I will tell you that they're also if you're
gonna work for gold star at Katy ISD one of the things that we did as we're as
we're working on driver retention you'll remember is we we guaranteed at least
five hours which is important for bus drivers because it doesn't matter
whether because you could be on a shorter route and then so you might be
faced with okay well I'm only getting three and a half or four hours a day and
I really need to get more hours a day and so irrespective of the length of
your route at KTISD we guarantee you at least a five-hour workday now now
Goldstar's not going to be able to guarantee that to their employees but
they also probably have other contracts to where if you if you are a driver that
works for them that you may be able to go drive a truck for another company
during the period of time that you're not working for us that's not something
them we can ever offer right I mean we know we all understand that's one of the areas where we
enjoy liability is in the motor vehicle area so I think as Ted says they're not going to tell us
all of their tricks but if this is an opportunity for us to fill a need that we have and as this is
an increasing need it's an ongoing need I know that there are certain school districts in the
state of Texas that actually offer their bus drivers housing because they're facing so let's
Let's say you're in Midland, Texas, and the price of oil goes to $120 a barrel.
Well, then you can go drive a truck and make way more money than you could driving a bus.
But then when that price goes back down, then everybody wants to go where?
So it's a crisis that we see across the state of Texas.
And this is an opportunity, along with all of the other creative things that we're doing,
to try and bring it to you to say, hey, we are looking at all avenues in order to fill those positions,
in order to get our kids and I think one of the things Ted hit upon that I think
deserves to be hit upon again is because we have if you're a mechanic or a
maintenance person in our shop you're driving a bus right now right there's
not a single one of those people that's not driving a bus route and so if we can
fill these routes then these mechanics can get back to their job right the
thing that they do best which is working on the fleet and as a clarification and just i was
thinking the other way around rather than our people going to gold star is do we have something
legally where we cannot have someone with gold star come to work for we have a non-compete we
have a non-competed clause this is six six months six months and then what's the term what's the
length of term on the agreement uh three years i believe please okay madame president um i'm
go miss guest off then mr pain okay they answered all of mine except one which is what kind of
consistency do you think we're going to get with the drivers on those routes just based on previous
history with other yeah so so in talking to the other districts they they um you know anytime you
if you have a food service worker a maintenance worker um they may not stay maybe as long as a
teacher would but then we have others that have driven for 30 plus years right
so but but in talking to the other districts that that have used gold star and other companies they
don't see really any difference in in consistency in terms of drivers i will tell you that
if you really want consistency though we got to get some routes filled because what's inconsistent
is what we do currently because we take our drivers who have been driving routes for 30 years
and we split up their routes and we add stops here and there and wherever because we want to
make sure that we get them all covered. And so that to me is extremely inconsistent. At the
beginning of the year when our routers are trying to fix all these routes, they're pulling routes
apart to make things work. So we get stops where they need to be and then we get the kids to school
on time. That to me is extremely inconsistent. And from a safety standpoint, if we can get our
routes covered so that we're not pulling them apart all the time then we get drivers who know
those kindergartners who know those parents are that are picking those kindergartners up off the
bus that's the kind of that's where we're trying to get to so again we're not trying to lose
anybody we don't want to replace anybody we just want to add to uh the the the the group that the
fantastic group that we already have to help them do their jobs sometimes these two ladies sitting
right here our assistant directors they're the only two people left in the transportation center
in the afternoon because everybody else is driving buses remember that people get sick
you know people have to take care of elderly parents people have to take care of their kids
sometimes you got to miss work and if you're already 30 drivers down guess who's driving
everybody so it it's a challenge so so i want to make sure that everybody that that's in our group
and transportation understands that this is this is a huge help to them as well
as as to the kids and in our community great thank you
miss champagne I'm sorry miss guest office at all okay miss champagne okay I
have two questions for you yes first of all and what if I know this would be
strange but all of a sudden a whole bunch of people wanted to be a bus
bus driver for KDIC. So what happens to our people that we have a three-year contract for?
So there's some wiggle room. Justin, I see him hitting the button.
So let me, that contract actually talks about a guaranteed number of routes with the company.
And if at some point we don't need that many routes with them, then it would be their option
to say, okay, it's no longer profitable for them. And we will work on some sort of phasing out of
Okay.
I think what you're seeing though, and it was great that PASA was here tonight because
I think what you're seeing is that there's no slowdown in growth anytime soon, at least
not in our time here.
So-
I know.
I said it would be a weird day.
It would be a big what if.
But yeah, so we'll keep adding routes.
I'm pretty confident.
And we would love to fill all those spots with KDISD folks.
The other question I have has to do with our current pay structure for the current bus
bus drivers when I went to the breakfasts at the beginning of the year and people the bus drivers
a lot of them will tell me that they do a survey and you've addressed this but I just wanted to
talk about it for a minute they do the survey and they want to get paid all year round yes
and then I found out that that they're kind of linked to the food service people they're in the
same category and so they they get the same survey and I guess a lot of the food service people don't
don't want it like that. So why can't we separate the bus drivers from the food service and let
them have more of what they want? So that is really more tied to the way we do payroll and
Mr. Smith could give you a dissertation on that. We've spent a lot of time talking about that.
The issue is if we, in theory...
Mr. Varon, let me jump in there.
I will let you jump in because I was...
I'll get real concise on that one.
There's federal employment laws on that, and I'll have Mr. Schuss jump in if he wants to comment any more than I do.
But the federal employment laws talk about we have to treat all employee groups the same.
And since the transportation workers are very similar as the employee type as a food service worker, we do have to treat them all the same.
So we've done these surveys before transportation wants to do annualized pay year-round food service generally doesn't want to do it that way
So we have to treat them all the same. So we've opted to not do the annualized pay, but with that said
just recently
Mr. Smith's group has found a way it's kind of a workaround to get annualized pay and he's shown that how that would work
Through budgeting their money and taking money out of their check at the bank and they will do that for them now
And the bus drivers have been very pleased with that option that we presented and mr
Kitt Smith can talk more to that if you'd like to know some more information
No, I'm I'm happy with that. Thank you very much for working that out. Thank you so much. Thank you
Any other questions
Better president. Mr. Lacey. Okay. I moved at the Board of Trustees approved proposal for a contracted bus service
To Gold Star Transit Incorporated as recommended by the administration
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Keller, that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for a contracted bus driver service to Gold Star Transit Incorporated as recommended by administration.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
those opposed motion passes thank you so much mr beerling 7.8 discuss and consider board approval
Item 7.8
of the proposals for chiller replacements at five campuses welcome mr t
good evening president doyle board members and dr gorgorski it's recommended that the board of
trustees approves the proposals for children replacements at griffin elementary nottingham
Country Elementary, Rhodes Elementary, West Memorial Elementary, and Windbourne Elementary
to Hunt and Services in the amount of $2,913,966, utilizing the Choice Partners Contract Number
19-036MR-03, and the total project cost not to exceed $2,963,966.
Project funding source is the 2017 bond component replacements.
These contracts have been reviewed by District Legal Council and approved as to form.
Approval of this recommendation will allow for these projects to meet a May 2020 substantial completion date.
Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the proposals for chiller replacements at Griffin Elementary, Nottingham Country Elementary,
Rhodes Elementary, West Memorial Elementary, and Windbourne Elementary to Hudson Services as recommended by administration.
Second.
Second. I love to second a chiller request.
It could be better.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Gesloff,
that the Board of Trustees approve the proposals for chiller replacements at Griffin Elementary,
Nottingham Country Elementary, Rhodes Elementary, West Memorial Elementary,
and Winborn Elementary to Hunton Services 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.
7.9. Thank you so much, Mr. T. Discuss and consider Board approval of Amendment 1 to the Anzal O'Brien Construction Limited Contract for the replacement of underground fuel tanks at East and West Transportation Centers. Welcome, Ms. Kastman.
Item 7.9
Good evening, President Doyle, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Gagorski.
I have four items to present to you this evening.
The first is to recommend approval of Amendment 1 to Ansel Bryant Construction Contract
for the replacement of the underground fuel tanks at East and West Transportation Centers.
In August, the Board awarded a Construction Manager at Risk Contract to Ansel Bryant for this work.
The design work has been complete,
and the proposals received for the guaranteed maximum price on November 19th, 2019.
Funding is available from the 2017 bond with a total project cost of $4,527,025,026
with a scheduled completion date of September 2020.
Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves Amendment 1 to the Ansel O'Brien Construction Limited contract
contract for the replacement of underground fuel tanks at East and West Transportation
Centers as recommended by the administration.
CHAIRPERSON WONG I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Keller, that the Board of
Trustees approves Amendment 1 to the Anzalou-Bryant Construction Limited contract for the replacement
of underground fuel tanks at East and West Transportation Centers as recommended by administration.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
CHAIRPERSON WONG Aye.
CHAIRPERSON WONG All those opposed, motion passes.
Continue, Ms. Cassman.
Item 7.10
The second item is in regards to the work at Rhodes Stadium.
The board is required to approve construction project delivery methods for projects over $50,000.
In October 2019, the Board of Trustees approved the design services for the infrastructure project
to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium.
The competitive seal proposal delivery method is being recommended for this project.
Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Redman.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the competitive sealed proposal delivery method for the infrastructure project to install parking
lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium.
I have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees approves the competitive sealed proposal delivery method for 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.
Aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes.
Ms. Kastner, go ahead.
Item 7.11
The third and fourth items are in regards to the contracts for Jordan High School with completion dates for the spring of 2020.
The first item is the recommendation that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the synthetic athletic free turf installation at Jordan High School
school and the amount not to exceed $740,153 utilizing the job order contract method with
a total project cost of $775,153.
Funding is within the 2017 bond for this project.
Are there any questions?
Madam President?
Ms. Vann.
I move the Board of Trustees approves a proposal for the synthetic athletic field turf installation
at Jordan High School as recommended by the administration.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the synthetic athletic field turf installation at Jordan High School as recommended by administration.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand.
All those opposed, motion passes.
Item 7.12
And one more, Ms. Kastner.
All right, the last item is the recommendation for the Board of Trustees to approve the proposal
for the surface track installation at Jordan High School in the amount not to exceed $344,700,
also using the job order contract method, for a total project cost of $378,700.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the surface track installation at Jordan High School
as recommended by administration.
Second.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approves
the proposal for the surface track installation at Jordan High School as recommended by administration.
Are there any questions?
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand.
Aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes.
Thank you so much, Ms. Kasten.
Thank you.
Item 7.13
Agenda item 7.13, discuss and consider board authorization for the superintendent to form
committee for the purpose of proposing a name for elementary number 43 per board
policy CW local and dr. Gorg or ski will let you start that process well I'm just
glad we have a principal name first but yeah we're excited about that and then
we'll get right on the naming we're excited about it very good madam
Madam President, I would like to ask to be considered to be on that committee.
Okay.
Thank you, Ms. Champagne.
I need a motion.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of a proposed a name.
Oh, my gosh.
Can I just start over?
Yes, please.
Thank you very much.
I know.
I know. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for elementary school number 43 per board policy CW local.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for elementary school number 43 per board policy CW local.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes.
Item 7.14
Next, discuss and consider board approval of the minutes of the November 2019 board meeting.
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
I move the board of trustees approves the minutes of the board meeting held in November 2019.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redman,
that the board of trustees approves the minutes of the board meeting held in November 2019.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, motion passes.
Next, we have Action Item 8.1, Consider Board Adoption of the Local Policies Included in Board Policy Updates 113 and 114.
Item 8
Mr. Graham.
Trustees, this item was presented to you in full last week.
It's simply here for a second reading.
I suggest a motion on the item.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I'd like to go ahead and read that proposal.
I move that the Board of Trustees adopts the local policies included in the board policy.
Policy Updates 113 and 114.
Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of
Trustees adopts the local policies included in the Board Policy Updates 113
and 114. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right
hand. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Agenda item 9.1 donated items to Katy
Item 9
Independent School District. Board you were provided a copy of the donated
items. Next our regular board meeting will be in January 20th of 2020. There
Items 10 & 11
There being no further business before the board, I hope that everyone has a very happy holiday, and we'll see you in the new year.
This meeting is adjourned.
The time is 8.43 p.m.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda file, as published on its video page. 3 pages.
Board packet · 46 documents
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- CW(LOCAL) 129 KB
- 5CheckRegisterOct2019 7 KB
- 1FinancialStatementsOct2019 15 KB
- 2AnalysisFunctionObjectOct2019 17 KB
- 4TaxReportOct2019 8 KB
- 3Construction_Oct_2019 159 KB
- Proposal QUO-33978-N9H6R9 - Katy ISD - Michael Griffin Elementary - Full Packet - Revised 4.0 595 KB
- Proposal QUO-33979-M4K0X7 - Katy ISD - Nottingham Country Elementary - Full Packet - Revised 4.0 597 KB
- Proposal QUO-33983-M3L6G9 - Katy ISD - Jack and Sharon Rhoads Elementary - Full Packet - Revised 4.0 597 KB
- Proposal QUO-33977-M3J9Y8 - Katy ISD West Memorial Elem - Full Packet - Revised 4.0 597 KB
- Proposal QUO-33982-Y7Z5T9 - Katy ISD - Diane Winborn Elementary - Full Packet - Revised 5.0 599 KB
- AAAQ83416 - East Trans. 638 KB
- AAAQ83419 - West Trans. 507 KB
- AAAQ83426 - South Trans. 667 KB
- KatyISD_571buses_OPT#4_Buyboard_QUOTE_11-14-19 227 KB
- 2020-21 Instructional Calendar - Option A for Board 175 KB
- 2020-21 Instructional Calendar - Option B for Board 175 KB
- aia document a133-2009 Exh a 3399 KB
- Update 113 - Instruction Sheet 80 KB
- Update 113 - Explanatory Notes 161 KB
- Update 113 - LOCAL for Adoption 924 KB
- Update 113 - LEGAL for Reference 1618 KB
- East Transportation WIFI Upgrade Contract, Proposal 3334 KB
- West Transportation WIFI Upgrade Contract, Proposal 5541 KB
- South Transportation WIFI Upgrade Contract, Proposal 5811 KB
- Letter to KISD (Anslow Bryant) 12.05.19 182 KB
- 2021-22 Instructional Calendar - Option B for Board 142 KB
- Goldstar and Katy ISD Agreement 181 KB
- Board Presentation Contract Drivers 12-16-19 241 KB
- December 2019 617 KB
- Board Presentation- Bus Camera Systems 12-2019 1979 KB
- 2021-22 Instructional Calendar - Option A for Board 141 KB
- District Recommended - Explanatory Notes 75 KB
- District Recommended - LOCAL for Adoption 206 KB
- Update 114 - Explanatory Notes 284 KB
- Update 114 - Instruction Sheet 32 KB
- Update 114 - LEGAL for Reference 5776 KB
- Update 114 - LOCAL for Adoption 1220 KB
- Hellas agreement for Jordan HS turf 4260 KB
- Beynon agreement for Jordan HS track 3803 KB
- DECEMBER REPORT-Finalized 126 KB
- 121619_ Board Presentation-Katy ISD_Instructional Calendar Community Feedback Survey_Report 224 KB
- Fall 2019 Katy ISD Demographic Update 12053 KB
- Goldstar and Katy ISD Agreement SIGNED 6128 KB
- MIN 11 18 19 Regular Meeting SIGNED 2368 KB
- aia document a133-2009 Exh a SIGNED 3419 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 4.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Euberta Lucas as the principal of Elementary School #43 as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
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 4.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Marc Kampwerth as the principal of Fielder Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's October 2019 Financial Reports.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's December 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 005 · AGENDA 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020 - 2021 and 2021 - 2022 Instructional Calendars presented by the administration.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 7.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the submission of a staff development waiver for the 2020 - 2021 and 2021 - 2022 Instructional Calendars as presented by the administration.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 7.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves 10 growth units for the 2019 - 2020 school year, as recommended by the superintendent.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 7.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the award of the proposal for an upgrade of the security camera systems on the entire bus fleet to Safety Vision, utilizing the BuyBoard purchasing cooperative, Contract #523-17, in the amount not to exceed $2,546,012.31.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 7.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the award of the proposal for a contracted bus driver service to GoldStar Transit Inc, in the amount not to exceed $74,000 per bus route per 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 010 · AGENDA 7.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposals for chiller replacements at Griffin Elementary, Nottingham Country Elementary, Rhoads Elementary, West Memorial Elementary, and Winborn Elementary to Hunton Services in the amount of $2,913,966, utilizing the Choice Partners Contract #19/036MR-03, and the total project cost not to exceed $2,963,966. Not Present at Vote: Ashley Vann
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 7.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Amendment One to the Anslow Bryant Construction, Ltd. contract for the replacement of underground fuel tanks at East and West Transportation Centers for a Guaranteed Maximum Price of $3,529,256.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 7.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Competitive Sealed Proposal (CSP) delivery method for 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 013 · AGENDA 7.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the synthetic athletic field turf installation at Jordan High School in the amount not to exceed $740,153, utilizing the Job Order Contract through Cooperative Purchasing as the method of procurement.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 7.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the surface track installation at Jordan High School in the amount not to exceed $344,700, utilizing the Job Order Contract through Cooperative Purchasing as the method of procurement.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 7.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary School #43 per Board Policy CW(LOCAL).
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 016 · AGENDA 7.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in November 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 017 · AGENDA 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the local policies included in Board Policy Updates 113 and 114.
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 |