Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order. Today is Monday, February 24, 2020, and the time is 5.30 p.m. Dr. Grigorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act with regard to notice for this meeting?
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Madam President, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of Texas Open Meeting Act in regards to this meeting this evening.
At this time the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak. A meeting that is open to the public under the Texas Open Meetings Act is one that the public is permitted to attend. A governmental body may give members of the public an opportunity to speak at a public meeting which KDIC board policy BED local does allow. As defined by this board policy the first 20 speakers who signed up at least 15 minutes before this meeting began and and have provided their first and last name will be allowed to speak. A maximum of 30 minutes have been allocated, with the time divided equally among those who have signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any speaker is three minutes. If you are not finished speaking at the end of your three minutes, your microphone will turn off. If speakers wish to share written material with the board, 10 copies must be provided to the Secretary for Board Services for board members, the Superintendent, the Chief Communications Officer, and Permanent Record. If a speaker has not attempted to solve a matter administratively through proper channels as stated in board policy the presiding officer's designee shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through the appropriate policy board policy BED legal states that it is a criminal offense for a person with intent to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting to substantially obstruct or interfere with the ordinary conduct of a meeting by physical action or verbal utterance and thereby curtail the exercise of others First Amendment rights board policy BED local provides for the removal of any member of the audience after at least one warning who disrupts the meeting by his or her words or actions. Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code Sections 551.074 and 551.0821, the Board will not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee. Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues, they must do so through the appropriate local grievance policies, FNG local, DGBA local, or GF local. As I announce your name, please come forward and state your first and last name for the record. Our first speaker this evening is Sean Dolan. Okay, you're passing? Okay. Our next speaker is Judy Bukair.
Are you ready? Okay. All right. Good evening, Board of Trustees, Dr. Grigorski. I'm a recently retired teacher from the district, and I've had the opportunity to serve under some fine principles while teaching here. I'd like to mention a few of those. O.D. Tompkins, Bonnie Brasick, Linda Minas, James Cross, David Truitt, Christy Whitbeck, Rhonda Ward, and Steve Robertson. I also had the privilege and distinction of being named the 2006 Seco Ranch Junior High Teacher of the Year and received the PTA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. But the best thing about this job was the kids. Almost two years ago, I heard of an allegation of plagiarism directed at our former superintendent. Being the educator that I am, I didn't want anyone telling me whether there was truth to the allegation or that it was verifiably false. false. Instead, I downloaded two dissertations from the internet and I began reading. I quickly became anxious, realizing that my district didn't support my findings. In fact, there seemed to be an attack by the district against anyone who found the former superintendent's work to be suspect. In all the years of my teaching in this district, I have to admit that our lack of concern for this matter, and note that I say our, because I was a part of this district as an educator for the children entrusted to me our lack of concern for this matter was quite disheartening i'm not talking about personalities here i'm talking about an educational institution that purports to be the leader in educational excellence how could this district not take an allegation of plagiarism seriously no matter who made it and who it was directed towards great teachers work in this district every day they pour into students not not just curriculum, but lessons that foster collaboration, communication, and the importance of doing one's own work. They instill the values of leadership, integrity, respect, and character, values that will one day will make those students contributing members of the society. We hire great teachers, and because we have them, we must support them. One minute. When our district handles a matter this grave without the proper research into the allegation, you undermine the very core of the statement, the leader of educational excellence. excellence. You also undermine the great teachers who value academic honesty and the ethical standards that they uphold every day in their classrooms. It's not too late to do the right thing and to be honest I'm not quite sure what that might be, but silence on the matter is not what I would suggest. If you truly want to be the leader of educational excellence, let your teachers know that you erred in judgment and vow to do better in the future. Keep your minds open to criticism no matter what the source. We value collaboration as one of the educational cornerstones in this district. To do what I've just suggested would be the true meaning of collaboration with your taxpayers, your teachers, and yes your students. Embrace collaboration no matter what the message you receive. Thank you. Thank you very much. Our next speaker is
one Luna next Tevin English okay our next speaker is John French hello mr. Mr. French.
As you requested, my name is John French. I'm a resident of Bear Creek subdivision. And I'm here to ask that a bus stop be moved some 200 feet. This, in certain ways, is a classic you kids get off my grass plea. But it is not an accusation that the kids are misbehaving. It's just that I had to replace a good bit of my landscaping post Harvey. and that investment is being destroyed by kids just being there, just walking on places that I'm trying to preserve for the three years it'll probably take for the plants to take root and stand being walked on. I was told that it's here that I need to make that request. Beyond that, I don't know what else I'm supposed to do, though. It's a little difficult to draw pictures in the air of the situation to describe why I think it could be done. This place I'm suggesting the new bus stop be is on the bus's route anyway. way, more than half the kids who get on the bus at my corner come from the direction of the corner that I'm suggesting the bus stop at. So with that before you, I'm asking, can someone then tell me how I only brought five copies. I didn't know what the rule was about that. Can someone then instruct me as to how I can proceed with this request?
request.
Mr. French, certainly you can bring those concerns to the district as you have done tonight. It's not the most efficient way to do that, but in this room is Mr. Ted Bierling, Assistant Superintendent of Operations. He oversees the Transportation Department and I'm sure he can get with you as soon as practical to hear what the concerns are and try to address those concerns for you.
Okay. Transportation directed me here. I call them first so I'll get with him and hope it works out then thank you so
much he'll take care of you thank you appreciate your time thank you mr.
French our next is mr. Odie Tompkins
okay mr. Gagoski the doctor to the Gagoski sorry mr. Dahl all members of the the Board of Trustees, good evening. Also to our constituents and fellow administrators of the district and the community. Good evening once again. I stand before you this evening as a concerned retired KDISD employee. I am not here complaining, I'm just here voicing concern for I know the works that each of you trustees have to do and also that of the superintendent. I ask you tonight to protect the rainbow. The rainbow I'm referring to is our multicultural and diverse students of Katy ISD. I'm not a fan of social media but when family members and friends have contacted me about the racial harassment of Mr. Simmons, it got my attention. Why? I have gone through the struggle along with others who are willing to make a difference because they were presumed different. I am not here to endorse Mr. Simmons nor any candidate running for a position. I am here to ask you, the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Gagorski to not let racism divide our district. These cowardly acts that Mr. Hauk, Mr. Simmons, and his daughter have endured are old and outdated dated but dangerous. I have made restroom I have made restroom walls outside of the walls of the school buildings with the N word. At the time I smile and one of my APs asked me why you smiling. At that time my response was I got someone's attention. attention. Well, Mr. Simmons has gotten the entire district's attention. There are many definitions of racism, but I want to share one with you. You live in the experience of racism of members of low status of race, including acts of physical violence, daily insults, frequent acts of verbal expressions of content and disrespect, all of which have profound effects on self-esteem and social relationships. I know that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. I know my response tonight may take on some negativity, but I'm here to speak on this topic. I'm only here because of my love for this district and let you know that the struggle is real and is still here in this district. Do not let racism move KDISD backwards. Once again, I ask you to protect the rainbow. I was sharing some information with one of, well, Ms. Hagg. I have an opportunity to be at Tide Junior High.
Your time is up Mr. Tompkins. Thank you so much.
Mr. Doyle, if I may have a moment.
Yes, Dr. Guborski.
OD, I've known you for quite a while and I appreciate you coming in and speaking to that, and I'll say a few things about it as well tonight because I think we're on the same side on this one some things came up that we have addressed that have really really plagued how we feel about some things here in the district and those things that came forward with mr. Simmons that he brought those concerns to us and please know that our community knows that we're working very closely with mr. Simmons and we have put all of our resources and reached out to both both internal and external organizations. Those would be different law enforcement agencies to get to the bottom of that. We don't tolerate it, and we won't stand for it in this district, and we're trying to get to the bottom of it and just want the community to know we're behind you and what you have spoken to tonight because we feel the same way that those things going on in our community won't be tolerated.
Absolutely. Thank you, Dr. Luborski. And again, Mr. Tompkins. Our next speaker is Dr. Lisa Babin.
Good evening parents, taxpayers, scouts, visitors and guests, community members, members, employees, school board trustees, and last but not least, Dr. Grogorski. Ms. Doyle, I first want to thank you publicly for serving as a trustee. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors and will pray for you and yours as you pursue your dreams. Thank you for serving. Thank you for taking phone calls and messages and for always listening. That's important. And I wish every board member would follow that example. I think maybe there's something we can do to set up some sort of procedure, whether it be a voicemail system at the district that can be left, or do people know that messages can be left with the school board secretary. But I think that's an area that we can improve on with our school board. So ADA concerns. Thank you for the accommodations, always. I would like to ask that we think about looking at a sign language interpreter at school board meetings, mostly because our school board meetings are live streamed. And I think that's important for us to continue the diversity in our district and to be more inclusive. We have the ability to have that. We have children in our school district who take sign language as an official language. It is recognized in college. and they could use that as a practicum. It could be worked into their curriculum where they could come and sign the meetings. I would also like to ask for closed captioning across the screen, both as live streamed and during the rebroadcast. That's just kind of important for me because it's really hard sometimes to hear when you're partially deaf. The rodeo, ADA signage, there is none where the handicapable seating is. there is no signage indicating that ad is there for people with disabilities it's obvious because there's space for wheelchairs but there is no signage there i want to shout out to the cinco ranch students i got to sit with them i even been on a rabbit most expensive rabbit i've ever bought in my life but i was thrilled to death to do it they picked up their trash every night that i sat with them and maybe we can come up with a contest because a lot of people didn't pick up their trash Maybe we can come up with a contest between students, you know, who picks up their area the best or the fastest or whatever, but just to encourage kids to recycle and to pick up. We'd also like to, we were joking about and asking maybe there be an adult stick horse race. I personally would love to see the school board challenge. Mr. Gorgorski, I can't imagine you and Ms. Hock on a stick horse challenging it out, but my money is on you, Ms. Hock. and maybe there could be some other contests between schools like that maybe the administration of the schools could put together a team or something like that I didn't see many KISD administrators in the box and I would
like to see that box Thank You dr. Babin this concludes the open forum portion of our meeting the board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under section five five one point zero zero one of the Texas government code for the following purposes texas government code 551.071 551.129 and 551.074 the board will now reconvene an open meeting today is monday february 24th 2020 and the time is 6 46 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 February 21st 2020 the board will receive information and recommendations from staff administration and the superintendent on these agenda items at tonight's meeting board members will be asked will be able to ask questions receive answers and should be prepared to take action this evening the board has just reconvened reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with chapter 551 of the Texas government code any action arising from discussions and a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting board members I'll turn Turn your attention to Agenda Item 4.1.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the Administrative One-Year Probationary, Administrative One-Year Term, Administrative Two-Year Term, Staff Member One-Year Probationary, Staff Member One-Year Term, and Staff Member Two-Year Term contracts as recommended by the Superintendent and closed. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approve the Administrative One-Year Probationary, Administrative One-Year Term, Administrative Two-Year Term, staff member one-year probationary staff member one-year term and staff member two-year term contracts as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand say aye all those opposed motion passes miss
guess off is not with us tonight madam president miss van I move the board of trustees names Natalie Martinez as the executive director for research assessment and accountability as recommended by the superintendent in
closed meeting was that you mr. Lacey thank you I have a motion by miss van a second by mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees names Natalie Martinez as the executive director for research assessment and accountability 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 all those
opposed motion passes and madam president if I may miss Martinez with us here this evening I'd like to go ahead and introduce her wherever she's hiding in this audience there she is all right and miss Martinez did you bring anyone out with you
Thank you. Thank you. I do have my husband and daughter. And I'm so proud of them. I have a grandmother, two friends, and a colleague. They're all very successful. And I'm so grateful for them.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Super excited. Thank you so much for joining our team.
Congratulations.
And Madam President, if I may, I want to discuss one more personnel issue, which is not part agenda because he's already been hired but I do want to introduce someone to our Board of Trustees and that is our new Maid Creek High School football coach and campus athletic coordinator Mr. Brian Randall is here with us tonight. Super excited to have Brian join our team he's over there I see principal Edwards with him and a few guests that you've brought out if you'd like to
introduce those please Brian. Now the real question coach is did you have the green blazer prying to be being a Maid Creek? It's fabulous, it's great. Thank you so much and congratulations to both of you.
Pledge of Allegiance, we ready? Okay. Okay, next we are going to do our Pledge of Allegiance and I'd like to go ahead and invite up a special guest, Emery Booth, if you will please come up to the podium. Emery is a fifth grade student over at Hayes Elementary. Her principal is there sitting beside her, Heather Mulcahy, and her parents, Catalina and Wayne Booth, and she has a sister, Catherine. And special interests of Emery, she loves competitive dance. and Girl Scouts. Favorite subject, social studies. A couple things about Emory. One from Mrs. Davies, fifth grade math teacher. Emory is a kind-hearted young lady who gives her full effort into all she does. She works very hard and is always willing to lend a helping hand. And from Mrs. Reese, fifth grade reading and writing teacher, Emory is an enthusiastic and outgoing young lady with a keen sense of humor. So welcome Emory. We're gonna turn it over to you to go ahead lead us in the pledge.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, in the visible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and in the visible.
It's all yours.
Good evening, school board. My name is Emery Booth. I attend Janet Hayes Elementary. I'm a dancer and a Girl Scout. I've been at Hayes since I was a kindergartner. I am now 11 and a fifth grader. I have a sister named Catherine who is a kindergartner at Hayes. We both have the best kindergarten teacher, Ms. Claudia Zubia. My mom is a volunteer at Hayes and on the PTA board, and my dad does watchdogs. One thing I love about Hayes is the different things they teach. They make it fun and easy to learn. I also love how they make it so if I have a problem, I feel very comfortable going to one of the staff members for help, and they will almost always fix it very quickly. Another thing I enjoy about Hayes is the activities our school and the PTA puts together, like the class parties. My favorite is the Valentine's Day party where you get to decorate a box and make or buy a little cart. I love that everyone gets them, and you get to open them and eat the little treats inside. The last reason I love being at Hays is because the way they encourage kindness. I like this because they let student council make posters to put on the wall. RDR also makes stuff like cards and bookmarks too. My favorite of all is the stickers they put everywhere. It always makes me stop and think about being kind. As you can see, Hays is an amazing school, and I am very lucky to be able to attend Hays. I look forward to being a Beck Bulldog next year, but I always miss my fellow Hawks. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much. Next we have agenda items. Oh, I'm sorry. Are there any scouts in the audience? I see one. Are there any others that I'm missing? Would you please come to the podium, state your name, the school that you attend, and the badge that you're working on tonight?
Hello, my name is Sebastian Millevaca. I attend Beckenhorst Junior High. I'm in 11103 and I'm working on my communications merit badge.
You're welcome. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Next, we'll move on to 6.1, Peace Officer, Oath of Office. Chief Jenks.
Thanks.
President Doyle, board members, and Dr. Gagorski, newly commissioned peace officers are required to publicly swear or affirm an oath of office. Tonight, we have three newly commissioned officers. I call upon Eric Chimney, Jane Mitchell, and Ryan Pickett to come forward to take the oath and be recognized as members of the KDISD Police Department.
If you'll raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Eric Chimney, Jamie Mitchell, and Ryan Pickett, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of Peace Officer of Katy Independent School District of the State of Texas and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations.
You're going to have to bear with me. I've done four. Officer Eric Chimney began his law enforcement career in 1981 with the Houston Independent School District slash Houston Community College Police Department. In 1984, Officer Chimney enrolled in the Houston Police Department Academy class of number 125 where he graduated in the top ten of his class. Officer Chimney served in various departments and roles throughout his career at the Houston Police Department to include Central, Downtown, Westside, Southwest Patrol and the Accident Division. In 2008, Officer Chimney was selected for the newly formed Crisis Intervention Response Team where he received numerous awards and then, well I lost my place. In 2008, he received the Houston or the National Crisis Intervention officer of the year in Houston Police Department crisis intervention officer of the year in 2010 officer chimney retired from the Houston Police Department in December 2017 to spend time with his family after taking a brief break officer chimney began working for the a leaf independent school district police department in in 2018 officer chimney was hired by the the Katy ISD Police Department in November 2019. Officer Chimney is married to his wife of 21 years, Renee Chimney, who is a cancer survivor and his inspiration. They are blessed with a beautiful daughter, Jordan, who attends University of Texas San Antonio. Officer Chimney's oldest daughter, Allison, is preparing to attend nursing school. Officer Jay Mitchell. Officer Mitchell was born and raised in Vietnam. Vietnam. Officer Mitchell came to the United States in 1975 after the Vietnam War. Officer Mitchell served in the United States Army and Army Reserve. Upon leaving the Army, Officer Mitchell chose a career in law enforcement. Most of his law enforcement career was in the state of Colorado. His most notorious case was when he was assigned to a SWAT unit and apprehended one of America's most wanted Texas 7 fugitives. Officer Mitchell adopted his daughter in 1993. He moved to Houston, Texas in 2008 to offer assistance to his handicapped sister. Officer Mitchell worked for the Alief Independent School District Police Department for 10 years before coming to work for KDISD Police Department. Department. Officer Mitchell is thankful to be a new member of the Katy Independent School District Police Department and hopes to be of great service based on his numerous years of experience. Officer Ryan Pickett was born May 9, 1989, in San Antonio, Texas. From an early age, he moved all over the United States, living in every time zone in the United States. States, Officer Pickett moved to Dallas, Texas in 1996 after living in Maryland, Nevada, and Colorado. In 2001, Officer Pickett relocated to Sugar Land, Texas. where he graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School. In 2012, he graduated from the Houston Community College Police Academy. Officer Pickett's first job in law enforcement was at A. Leaf Independent School District Police Department, where he served for five years. During this time at A. Leaf ISD, he worked as a gang officer for the department. Seeking a change in his career and wanted to be closer to home, Officer Pickett applied with the Katy Independent School District Police Department Where he has always wanted to work officer picket is happily married his beautiful wife Ashley picket of six years as You can see from football coaches to police officers We're robbing a leaf blind And I'm okay with that when these officers please help me welcome to the kitty Thank you, Terri.
Welcome to KDIS, gentlemen, and thank you for your service. Thank you. Next, we'll move to 7.1. Consider board approval of naming elementary school number 43 as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
Madam President.
Ms. Phan.
I move that the board of trustees names elementary school 43 Peter H McIlwain elementary school as recommended by the naming advisory committee so I have a motion by miss van a second by
mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees names elementary school number 43 Peter H McIlwain elementary school as recommended by the naming advisory committee we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye all those opposed motion passes Congratulations.
Stand up.
Thank you for being here and all that you've done for our district. Well deserved honor. We'll move to agenda item 8.1, 2020-21 budget update. Mr. Smith.
All right, well, good evening, Superintendent Gorski, President Doyle, and members of the board. It's an honor to follow that because I've worked many years with Mr. McElwain, and I'm Well deserved, so that's awesome. And now I'm nervous because I look out and I see my predecessor, Bill Moore, here, and it makes me nervous because I still have big shoes to fill. But I want to give you the budget update for the month of February, and we talked about this last month when we went over the budget parameters that we started out here with, and that tonight was going to be primarily associated or focused on our debt service fund. And, of course, we'll move through the year as time goes on. What you see here is a look back to 2006 of the property value, the percentage of our property value increases, and those have averaged about 9.5% over those years. Just to set the stage, and I think our municipal advisor Jeff Roberts is going to mention this, but in his numbers he's using 4%. That's what you can see on the very far right. I think with as indicative of our growth at being at record pace currently that that's probably a very conservative number I know that the state comptroller is using just over 4% for statewide growth so we feel that that 4% is fair but but conservative as we move move through in planning our debt service for the year our first new bunnies money sale for the 2017 authorization we had in May of 2018 those were called series 2018 those were for $200 million in proceeds that were delivered in the summer of 2018 at a true all-in interest cost of 3.79% for 19.4 years on average life. Our second was last summer, 2019A, we closed on it, which delivered $209.2 million in proceeds in June also. We are still spending that, and I'll mention this at one of the items that I'll be discussing here in a few minutes, but we're down to about $61 million in that, and we're spending it very fast on Jordan High School and the other schools that we have under construction at this point in time. It had an all-in interest cost of 3.32% in average life, just shorter than the year before at 19.15 years. So we're gearing up and teeing up for the third money sale that'll happen in the summer of 2020, maybe sooner based on some of the things that Mr. Robert will mention tonight. That'll be called series 2020a. It will deliver the final of the $609 million in proceeds or $200 million. We don't know what the all interest cost is at this time or the average life, but we are hoping it will continue to be low. Yeah, just as a reminder, and I mentioned this annually about our tools that we have in our our tool belt for debt management tools, but we do refundings. We had some successful refundings this within the last six months that Mr. Roberts is going to mention. We have had some defeasances where we just flat pay down our debt. Build America bonds, or BABS, proceeds that we get from the Internal Revenue Service. This time next year, this won't be there. We are going to get our last BABS payment in the next couple of weeks because we refunded those, if you'll recall, back in October. And so that source of revenue will go away. And then fund balance. As you know, we've been able to maintain a 39 cent tax rate since 2015-2016. Prior to that, we were at a 40 cent tax rate, and in the fall of 2015, we got word that our property values increased about 16%, and we were able to lower it. And with the interest rate environment that we've had since then, we've been able to maintain that 39 cent tax rate. And that's our goal, to continue at the 39 cents with what we're going to mention. So I'm going to turn it over to Jeff Robert, our municipal advisor from Hilltop Securities. With him is Nick Boulash. They've been obviously working with us closely all the time. They've been in the district for a couple of days going over these numbers in detail. And then for a couple of items that we have later in the agenda, we also have Rick Witte and Tanya Fisher of our bond council here from Oreck. And so they're here as well. and I think between the four of them, we will have it covered for any questions that you may have. So I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Robert.
Thank you, Mr. Smith. President Doyle, members of the board, Dr. Gorski, Jeff Robert with Hilltop Securities. Go over some of the bond-related items that Mr. Smith touched on. You have a booklet in front of you that's going to be the exact same thing that you see on the screen except for I think I updated one slide, and then also within the booklet itself, I do have some detailed spreadsheets and an appendix that would be very difficult to see up on the screen. So those of you that like the detail can look at the detailed pro formas for the issuance of the entire 2017 authorization as well as a prospective future authorization as well. This graph on the screen that you see right now, as Mr. Smith had mentioned, in columns two and three, the issues that we did in 2018 and 2019 and in the shaded blue area in column four, is the remaining 200 million from the 2017 authorization. We're using 3.5%. With where rates are currently, it'll be hopefully dramatically lower than that, probably closer to 3% than even 3.25%. But as Mr. Smith had mentioned, we try to be very conservative in all the numbers that we use for planning purposes. The INS tax rate in column 5, once again, will not exceed that $0.39 level that he mentioned. The colored lines that you see on the graph there, We look at two different tax-based growth assumptions that are detailed behind that appendix page that show 4% for a few years being the growth scenario one, and then we actually drop that down to 3% for growth scenario two. And under both scenarios, you can see the green line is growth two, the blue, the higher 4% growth figure. We've got a projected declining INS tax rate going forward, which would allow for the issuance of new authorization. And in this case, we just hypothetically thought about $800 million. How much could we do using growth scenario one and keep it at the same $0.39 tax rate? and we could comfortably do 39 excuse me excuse me 800 million at that 39 cent ins tax rate the next slide as mr smith mentioned you know we initially we talked about this a few weeks ago about the possibility of looking at a may sale for this with interest rates as low as they are and i'll go over that in just a second there's a likelihood that this might be accelerated a little bit with interest rates at historically low levels but this just gives you an idea of some of the steps that we have to take in order to to bring a bond issuance to market. This page here it's not meant to be an apples to apples comparison just to give you an idea of where long-term interest rates have been and where they are currently. This is the bond buyer 20-year index in the white graph in the background it goes all the way back almost 40 years to 1981. It comes out every Thursday and on the screen you see February the 6th which was a few Thursdays ago It was at 253. This last Thursday it was at 246, which is the lowest level that it's been in its over 40 years. So we are at the historically low level. And if you were paying attention to the financial markets today, those rates came down even lower. The 30-year taxable Treasury rate was at 183 today. So interest rates are at incredibly low levels right now, which is the reason why we're going to look at the potential for accelerating the issuance on this potential rate stay at these levels. Mr. Smith had mentioned, you know, one of the tools that the district has successfully used as of late are both refundings and redemptions or defeasances. Within the item today, the order will include a refunding parameter that if we're able to achieve savings via refunding, we'll do that over the next year. The redemption or defeasance candidates are shown there in the middle. And at the bottom I might point out that since August of 2017, the district has redeemed $74.6 million in outstanding debt service. So that has helped immensely with accommodating this current authorization and any future authorizations as well. So $74 million, $74.6 million in debt service reduction. reduction. Another thing I think you probably had seen based upon the refundings we had done late last year, we did two different refundings and if you look over on the far, or excuse me, the right there, you can see that we actually reduced debt service by about $120 million. Now a portion of that was receiving the BAB subsidy that Mr. Smith mentioned to where the net savings was over $72 million. Once again, that's very important and critical in helping us accommodate the remaining authorization as well as new authorization going forward. And then also, like I mentioned, you have the detailed pro formas that are behind the appendix and the booklet that you've got. It also shows the tax base assumptions we're using. And once again, we're trying to be very conservative, and even with these very conservative assumptions, feel very comfortable that you'll be able to keep all the promises that have been made, not only on the current authorization, but probably potential, you know, any new authorization that's considered as well. If there's any questions, do you want to take any questions now?
Board members, do you have any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I do have one quick one. When we have these bond savings, when we have the, I'm in residential mortgage, so I'm going to use my language. So when we refinance our loans and we buy down the interest rate and we have all these savings, where do we account for those savings and what do we do with them? Do we pay off other debt faster, or do we put that savings towards buildings and things like that?
That's a very good question. I mean, I think historically that's what you've done is it's allowed you to continue to do more of these redemptions or defeasances that we've talked about, which has been really almost a semi-annual thing. We've been doing it every February and August. So anytime we achieve savings within the current budget, the dollars that are created as a result of those savings have been used to pay off existing debt. And like I said, that's for a district that I would deem a frequent issuer like KDISD that's in the market every year. That really, really helps accommodate the current authorization that we have yet to issue, this $200 million that we're talking about, as well as future authorization as well. So it just creates capacity for the future. So a combination of, one, creating capacity, but, two, allowing us to continue to redeem or to fees debt each year is what that savings has allowed us to do. Yes, sir.
Any other questions? Okay, thank you so much. Thank you. All right, well with that said,
we are done with the February portion of this calendar, and I won't go through all of it.
Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Next, 8.2, Ms. Janet Dyes.
Madam President, Board Members, Dr. Grigorski, it's a pleasure to report to you about our Strategic Design Goal 7.2. This is our first time to report to you about it, and so if you don't mind, I will quickly outline the steps we've taken so far and then the path that we will follow through the rest of the school year. Strategic Design 7.2 requires us to completely redesign our 20-plus-year-old School Business Partnership Program, which is a project that was welcomed by our department and long overdue. Our first step was to form an action team of 38 members, parents, business and community and campus representatives, who beautifully delivered their deliverables for their gathering. They gave us the gift of four full days of solid work. And together we brought in best practices in school and business partnerships from all over the state and the nation. We surveyed our local stakeholders, those who were already involved in Partners in Education programs via online survey. And then each of the Accent Team members went out and interviewed three to four local business leaders to get their impression of the program and their expectations of the school district when it came to engaging them in our campuses and with all that they assimilated the results and we created a creation created standards and a vision for the new program and they passed the baton to my department to partners in education and we took their results to district campus leaders specifically campus principals in one of their collaborative meetings and listened to them and their feedback and their expectations of school business partnerships and KDISD and with that we defined specific action steps for 2019-20 completion and here they are. Steps one through three are connected and happening now concurrently. A common theme with all the groups that we talked to was the need for an online portal to match campus needs with business business interests, we needed refined and more clearly defined protocols and guidelines for our partner and campus interaction. And then our logos are older than the program. The three-hand pie logo is older than I am, which is pretty darn old. So just completely rebrand all of our partners and education programs with a new look and and feel that is much more appealing to the next generation of business owners and educators. As I said, those three are happening concurrently. Once we finish with that, we'll visit with our friends in communications and KDIC technology to try to find, to create a one-stop shop place on KDIC.org. Businesses that call our office frequently are looking for one of three things. They need to learn how to become a district vendor, or they're looking for advertising sales and need to go to the marketing department, or they're legitimately interested in a partnership opportunity working with schools, and it would make their interaction with KDIC much easier if they could find all of that in one place on KDIC.org, so we will work on that. Step five really is our life. It's a forever challenge for us and our privilege to get to recognize partners who support our schools, and we will be doing that in an ongoing basis and really forever. It's part of privilege being in Partners in Education. So introducing KDIC Business and Community Partnerships. Slight change in the name, but a significant change in the scope of the program. It recognizes the value that community organizations bring to our campuses. For example, a nonprofit organization that partners with the school to bring keys mentors to that that campus are of the same value as a business that partners with the school to provide all of its Junior Achievement Volunteers. Coming soon is our partner portal. When we tried to find an online option, we looked all over the state and there was none. There was nothing in existence. No other school districts were using a tool like that. But we did find a vendor called Volley Volunteer Now, who provides and runs a robust online online volunteer matching portal. We liked the look and feel of it, we liked the functionality of it, and we liked the people that we met from Bali, and so with them we are co-creators of an online partner portal. We are building the plane in the air. We know that this is version 1.0 that we will soon launch. We already have our running list for version 2.0. Our friends with KDIC Technology are meeting with us weekly in designing that portal. We've already trained all the campus partnership liaisons and in that training have taken notes that feed into tweaks within the system and the design functionality of the portal. We brought in 30 plus business partners to train them as well and collected their feedback on how the portal will work and how it will operate. I'm going to give you in the interest of time just some screen grabs of what the portal looks like. This is the home page. If you will notice, there's some branding opportunity there for us. The KDISD logo brought to you by KDISD Partners in Education. Those are our images, our pictures, our people. The portal is, in my mind, in three sections. Up in the top left-hand corner, the Find Resources. I call that the Marketplace. That's where campuses and businesses can go to find needs and offers, needs from campuses and offers from businesses, and make that match. On the right, the partner dashboard. That would be my personal profile. And we set up a fake company, Partners Energy Inc., just for purposes of testing the system. So tonight, the look that I'm showing you is the look that a business partner gets when they go into this portal. The home page is kind of the community gathering space, generic information for everyone. On the bottom half of it, it keeps track. You see we've already got 34 partners that are registered in the system and and have loaded in activities. We've already made three matches, and those numbers will keep running and keep counting as those matches are made. We've divided interaction between businesses and schools in three broad, really, really broad categories, goods and services, and incentives and volunteers. This is my partner profile as Partners Energy Inc. You'll see there's some information about the company itself, how many employees the company has, if known how many employees reside in KDISD. There's the email address of the primary contact, the phone number of the primary contact, and then you'll see if you can scroll, we could scroll down the screen, those are the offers that I currently have out in the system. For example, my company is offering to host a campus team for Reason to Race. And a campus can look at that and take me up on that offer, and then the transaction will proceed through the portal where we work out the details. Campus profile is very similar. This is Cinco Ranch High School. There's some customization there also. As on the business side, the Cinco Ranch High School description was written by their campus PI liaison. The tagline on the bottom, propelled by purpose, passion, and pride, was added by that campus. So it gives us the opportunity to bring the personality out of each school. They can deliver the messaging that they want to. we automatically load in the number of staff and students, the mascot, and the school logos. If I'm a partner and I want to go in the marketplace and look for campus requests, I can scroll down through here for a listing of everything that campuses are interested in receiving from the business or community organization. And if I am interested in working with the campus for that specific request, let's say the first one, I would hit that red line that says I can provide the needed resource, and then I get this level of detail about that request. You'll notice there's a map that that resource would be delivered directly to the campus, so there's a map of the campus location. There's a description of the school itself, and then you'll see the details across the top, the date, the dollar value, the number needed, and if I hit provide this resource, it takes me into a private communication with that campus PI liaison. I can say of the hundred needed, I can do 20, and then my offer will go out and the PI liaison will get a notification in their inbox that there's been an offer that's out there waiting for them, and they can either accept or reject. So if they get an offer, somebody to fulfill 100 and somebody to fill 20, they can take the hundred and then reject the 20 offer nicely and send that message across. But in theory, you could get, a liaison could get a number of notifications that a number of businesses were interested in interacting with them in that level. By the same token as a business, I can put an offer out there. You'll see my Reason to Race offer. We just tagged along with what the Ed Foundation does, that we can offer teacher grants. And a business can place those offers out there for campus perusal. And in the same way, a campus that is interested can click, I am in need of these resources. and there is more detail. You'll notice in the offer of let's say if I my business were offering to host or to provide volunteers to support that campuses participation in reason to race at Katie Mills Mall you'll see that the map location is of Katie Mills Mall so it's where actually that interaction will happen for all the profiles there's opportunity to add multiple contacts multiple locations that will support the offers and the needs. When I want to as a business interact with the school I can go here on the campus listing and we intentionally modeled that after what the campus listing looks like on Katie ISD org and I hope you'll notice there's a lot of consistency we've pulled that thread all the way through this system because we want it to look like a high-quality Katie system and have some synergy between this portal and the the school district website. If I'm interested in working with a school, I would click on its logo and then the page would open up and I would become a fan of that school. And then when I go to list my campuses, these are all the campuses that I have fanned, i.e. partnered with. I will get automatic notification whenever they place a need request out on the portal. In addition to all, everyone getting weekly notifications from Partners in Education about partnership activity that's going on between our community and schools. You'll see there's a communicate button within there. We can launch private communication between myself as a business and that campus liaison and all of those email messages will stay within the portal to track the history of that transaction and to make it certainly easier to find than my inbox is. What has has not changed at all about how we run KDIC school business partnerships are our standards. We're still talking about mutually beneficial long-term relationships between an organization and a school that provides value to both. We still choose what's best for kids always, always. We emphasize human resources first, respect one another's organizational purpose purpose and guidelines. And in our standards and practices that we're writing along with developing the portal, it says the aim of the partner portal is to fulfill authentic needs of the KDSD community. Request and offer should reflect a genuine need for both school and partner and align with KDSD and the selected campuses vision and purpose. The portal includes what also doesn't change is our department's role in supporting campus and school partnerships. partnerships. The portal includes a vetting mechanism. So all businesses that want to be part of the portal, they apply to be part of the portal. And my department will vet those businesses, have those conversations, and ensure that really what they're looking for is a quality, long-term, mutually beneficial relationship with the school. By the same token, the offers that businesses put out there will wait for us to vet to make sure they fall within district guidelines. guidelines, not advertising, but a genuine partnership and interaction with the school. We also will review campus needs that are posted on that portal for the same purpose. My folks are here, Heather Sanders and Tammy Stringer, and Kelly Clark is new to our team. She joined us in December and got the job of the portal launch and the logo redesign. We're grateful for the opportunity. It's going to make a tremendous difference. It's been incredibly well received by our campus liaisons and the partners that we have brought in. Every step along the way, we have had affirmed for us that this is a positive move forward for this program. It's going to make a tremendous difference for the program, for campuses, and at the end of the day, it's going to make a tremendous difference for kids. Any questions?
Are there any questions, Board Members? Madam President, Ms. Champagne, I have a few comments and questions. First of all, I love the portal. Being someone that was on the PTA board, I know in the past we would get the list of the businesses and have to figure out who could provide what. So I think that this is a huge improvement, you know, for us to be able to find people to match up to the schools and their needs. But I am wondering if you could just say for the public, explain what the businesses get out of being a partner with us and how will we, you mentioned somewhere about recognizing the businesses, how can we, how are we going to do that, how are you going to do that, and also how How does the campus administrator or whoever it is at the campus level let you know what their needs are? So that, I mean, are they the ones inputting the information? Yes. Okay. And who is that at the campus level?
Every campus has designated, every principal designates a person, a staff member to serve as the campus partnership liaison. Some are assistant principals, some instructional coaches. coaches, some are counselors. We ask principals to look primarily at the person's personality, their interest in working with the community at this level, and their availability to do the work. Those are the folks that we trained on the portal, but when I say campus PI liaisons, that's who I'm talking about. So they've all gotten hands-on training, keyboard training, in what the portal looks like. They've all looked at their profiles, and most of them have already started loading and loading offers and needs into the system. The recognition for business partners, there are automatic links that a campus, they've asked, our liaisons ask for the ability to directly share to a partner's Facebook profile, or tweet thank you to the partner for what they're doing with their campuses. It also gives us the opportunity that we've not had in years to be able to pull those stories and those interactions out, and then from a partners and education level, to hit those on social media to send out press releases, much like we're doing on the Education Foundation side with teacher grant stories. This will allow us to do it with business partnership stories as well. and run them through our partners at KDIC Communications. They work with us beautifully in posting those stories and those interests and those images that we gather from those. In terms of what a business gets out of it, we find that the businesses that migrate and stay over in the School Business Partnership Program are really understanding the value of relationship marketing, I call it. It's not about advertising dollars, it's about being known in the community and building those relationships with customers who walk through your door. I could name names of many, many businesses that you would all recognize and you all know their owners. And in part, they're as well known by our district as they are because they get that. And they have worked directly with our campuses. And there's an altruistic component to it as well. Businesses who live in this partnership program and work with us really want to make a difference for the community. For some reason, they've got a connection and passion for education and the work that's going on in our classrooms, and we just provide the conduit that allows them to walk in there and to use their resources and make a difference. A lot of businesses require their employees to volunteer as well and are looking for community service time, and this gives them the opportunity to find that more quickly and more easily than they can currently. High-quality, high-value opportunity for employees to walk into a school, teach junior achievement, work at a field day, help support a carnival, talk career day, and interact with teachers and kids. Does
that answer your question? It really does. Thank you very much. You're welcome.
Any other questions? This is amazing. This is fantastic. Very exciting. Thank you for the hard work that you guys are putting into this. I think it's gonna be great for both ends. Thanks for letting us do it. We appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. All right, board members, we're gonna move to Discussion Action 9.1, Discuss and Consider Board Approval of the Resolution Declaring Intention to Reimburse Project Expenditures. Mr. Smith, you're going to be with us for a few here.
A couple of items. Yeah, so we'll just move through them as we vote.
Just go ahead and proceed. Okay, thanks.
And as a reminder, I have Rick Witte and Tonya Fisher as well as Nick Boulash and Jeff Robert from Bond Council and Hilltop Securities, respectively. so. Item 9.1 is a resolution declaring our intent to reimburse our bond expenditures. As of the end of January, we had about 61 million dollars that were left of the 209 million dollar authorization that we sold last summer. We're spending that money between now and the time we close on a bond deal. We may run out of that money. This allows the general fund to step in, use the cash in the general fund, or borrow from ourselves, and then informally it gives us the ability to reimburse ourselves. I don't think within 60 days we're required to do this, but as an abundance of caution and knowing that we are going to run out with that of those funds prior to a new transaction unless we really accelerate it, as Mr. Robert had mentioned earlier, we will need this resolution as an abundance of caution. So it is attached and with that it'd be are my recommendation that we that the board approved the resolution declaring the intention to reimburse project expenditures I move that the Board of
Trustees approves the resolution declaring the intention to reimburse the
project expenditures mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution declaring intention to inverse reimburse project expenditures do we have any questions hearing none we'll proceed to vote all those in favor please please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Continue, Mr. Smith.
Okay, one of the tools that we mentioned earlier, Mr. Robert and myself mentioned earlier, is the tools in our debt plan, and that's the identification of bonds that can be redeemed or defeased. We've identified many, much bonds that could be redeemed or refused during this year, but we think that we would like to, from a budget perspective, look at it at about $90 million. We don't think we'll be able to exceed that, but we have identified candidates in excess of $30 million. So if we are able to build in the budget the ability to defuse those, we will with this approval. Mr. Robert mentioned in his presentation this practice has saved us just short of $16 million, and it's just simply identifying it during the budget process and paying those debt and just paying them off. And it would be recommended to the Board of Trustees the approval of the resolution to expressing the intent to defeeze or redeem certain amount of the district's bonds.
Do I have a motion?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution expressing the intent to defeeze certain of the district's outstanding bonds.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Mann, that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution expressing intent to defeeze certain of the district's outstanding bonds. Are there any questions? Hearing none we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. All opposed? Motion passes.
All right, and my final item tonight that I'll be presenting is item 9.3 is the bond order establishing the parameters of the third bond sale or transaction of the 17 authorization third and final. So what it is is this the first step that we will take towards that bond sale of $200 million. It's also the approval in this, it built in the approval that if refunding opportunities exist as we work through this process, that we're able to refund, assuming we can get a 3% savings. Mr. Robert mentioned that significant savings that we were able to do based on your approval to do this this last year, and this would also provide the opportunity in addition to the $200 million sale, but a refunding is identified to do that refunding. It also sets the parameters for Dr. Gorgorski and myself to be the pricing officer for interest rate and the terms associated with the sale. And with this in place, we'll select a syndicate to obtain the best pricing and proceed with a negotiated sale. Again, Jeff Robert and Nick Boulos are here from Hilltop Securities, and Rick Witte and and Tanya Fisher are here from OREC, our bond council, if you have any questions.
Madam President. Yes, ma'am. I move that the Board of Trustees approves an order authorizing the issuance of Katy Independent School District unlimited tax school building and or refunding bonds in one or more series, setting certain parameters for the bonds, authorizing a pricing officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof, and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees approves an order authorizing the issuance of Katy Independent School District unlimited tax school building and or refunding bonds in one or more series, setting certain parameters for the bonds, authorizing a pricing officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof, and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto. Any questions? We'll now proceed to vote. all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye all those opposed motion passes next we have agenda item 9.4 discuss and consider board approval of the december 2019 financial reports it's fighting welcome
good evening president doyle dr peplersky and board um item 9.4 is to consider approval of districts December 2019 financial reports. The four reports that we include include our financial statement, the construction report, our tax report, and our check register. The financial statement, as you'll see, presents revenues and expenditures of our budgeted funds including the general fund, food service fund, and debt service fund. The expenditures are further broken down by function and object. The December report, of course, represents the first four months of the year, which is one-third of the of the year and you'll see that most of those expenditures are running at about 33% Which you would expect going being that far into the year construction report obviously shows our information regarding our 2017 authorization 2014 construction related e-rate funds and terse funds the tax report you'll see now You'll see that the current year taxes are beginning to come in so you'll see that those revenues news on that report and finally you have our check register which represents our vendor payments for the month and these are financial reports for your approval
this month. Madam President. Mr. Redmond. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district's December 2019 financial reports. Second. I have a motion by Mr.
Redmond a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves the district's December 2019 financial reports. Board members do you 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. 9.5, discuss and consider board approval of the February 2020 budget amendments. Ms. Butterfield.
Good evening President Doyle, Trustees, and Dr. Grigorski. Tonight we have several general operating fund amendments to bring to your attention. Local revenues are increasing 8.9 million related to the M&O tax rate of a dollar 0531 on updated taxable values as reported through the State Comptroller's Office. Additionally, state revenues are increasing 2.9 million in to recognize revised student growth as reported through PEMS first submission. Center point rebates are recognized to increase both revenue and expenditure budgets, and revised property values impact the TERS resulting in a $208,775 decrease in payment expenditures anticipated in that function. Expenditures increase $289,000 for 10 staffing units approved for growth in December and $163,000 for insurance due to increased claims frequency. The remainder of general fund expenditure amendments are offsets between different functions. Approval of all of these General Operating Fund amendments will result in an $8.6 million increase to the General Operating Fund balance. Debt Service Fund also has amendments tonight. Local revenue increases $892,000 to reflect the updated taxable values as reported through the State Comptroller's Office. In approval of this, one amendment will result in an $892,000 increase to the debt service fund balance. Construction fund expenditures are amended. 2.9 for safety and security package. 2.7 for renovations to the ag barns. 2.2 for furniture replacement at McMeans. And $625,000 for additional needs at Maid Creek High School. I believe that's like lighting and signage. Those amendments will be funded from the 2017 bond project savings.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district's February 2020 budget amendments.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the district's February 2020 budget amendments. Were 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 so much. 9.6, discuss and consider board approval of the 2020-2021 Property Insurance Renewal. How are you, Mr. Nauman?
I'm fine. Thank you, President Doyle, Dr. Kogorski, Board of Trustees. The renewal of the Property Insurance Program does not anticipate changes from the expiring term. Coverage is extended for the following buildings, structures and contents, electronic data processing equipment, mobile equipment, musical instruments and boilers and machinery. Major perils include fire, flood, earthquake, windstorm, named windstorm, and wind-driven rain. Currently the total insured value, TIV, for the district is 2.27 billion from an expiring value of 1.94 billion. During the recent policy term, the district completed bond projects which added to the total insured values of the district. Additionally, building values have been adjusted to reflect the increased cost of construction along with the replacement of newly acquired contents and technology upgrades. grades. From the expiring policy, the following limits are applicable. Flood limit of 50 million, high hazard flood 5 million, named windstorm 50 million, and wind-driven rain based on the total insured value of the building. The renewal presented by Berkshire Hathaway was evaluated by risk management considering adequacy of coverage, assessment of risk, and availability of services and costs. The evaluation of the proposal took into account the rapid growth of the district and the most recent status of the post Harvey impact. Additionally, market conditions have seen reduced capital in the property market, further reducing underwriting capacity by 20%, placing upward trends on premium calculations. We are of the opinion the Berkshire Hathaway proposal represents the best value and offers coverage limits that exceed the maximum expected loss, renewal data outside hurricane season, and contemplated coverage for increased flood risk both named storm and non named storm events. This action impacts the 2019-20 general operating fund expenditure for property insurance premiums by an estimated annual premium of 3.25 million. This action is compliance with CH legal, CH local, and CRB legal. It is recommended that the the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of the Property Insurance Program for the 2021 policy year. Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of the Property Insurance Program for the 2020-2021 policy year.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of the Property Insurance Program for the 2020-2021 policy year. Are there any questions? 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. 9.7, discuss and consider board approval of the proposed summer work schedule. Mr. Shush. What is it? Did I say it wrong? Shush? Have I been saying it wrong all year?
I don't know. Don't worry about it.
Okay, well, I apologize if I have. Shush?
Don't worry about it at all.
Shush. Welcome, Mr. Shush. It's nice to meet you.
Thank you.
So glad you can be here tonight. How about Brian?
That's perfect. We'll be on a first-name basis. Yes, ma'am.
All right.
You may proceed. Good evening, President, to all members of the board, Dr. Gagorski. It's hard to believe that summer is fast approaching, but it is. So we're here tonight requesting approval of our summer work schedule. This is something that we bring to the board annually. This year, the four-day work week schedule, we're recommending that it begin on Monday, June 1st, and end the week of July 27th. So we'll return to our regular work week on Monday, August 3rd. The four-day workweek hours are Monday through Thursday, seven to five, of course being off on Friday. The week of June 29th through July 3rd, those will be regular work hours because July 3rd is a scheduled holiday. As always, ample notice will be given to everyone, community, patrons, staff, that we're on a four-day workweek, and the communications department will help us out with some signage at the campuses noting those hours. That's it.
it. Brian gets an extra day off since the board president can't say his name. Board members, do you have any questions? Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the board of trustees
approves the proposed summer work schedule as recommended by the administration for everyone
but Mrs. Doyle. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the board of trustees approves the proposed summer work schedule 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 thank you so much thank you mr shuss is that right did i do it right okay 9.8 discuss and consider board approval of closed campuses for inter-district and inter-district transfers for the 2020-2021 school year dr creech
Good evening, President DeWall, Dr. Krakorski, and board members. I'm here tonight for the upcoming school year's closed campus list. This is in compliance with board policy, FDB legal, FDB local, that address the involuntary transfer of students and FDA legal and FDA local, which follow the same guidelines for students outside of the district. I'm bringing for your consideration a list of campuses that are recommended to be closed for new voluntary transfers for the 2020-2021 school year. Students in Katy typically attend their home zone school based on where their home address is, but there are several times where a parent will request that a student can transfer to a different campus, we follow the guidelines of these. On closed campuses, we're looking at campuses that meet or nearly exceed its design capacity. So the campuses that you have in front of you that are designated to be closed, the proposed list, are based on the design capacity and functional capacity. So So we're looking at, I'm sorry, not functional, proposed projected enrollment. Functional has nothing to do with it. That word just stuck in my head. So you're looking at design capacity and proposed enrollment for 2021. Are there any questions?
Madam President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the list of campuses presented to be closed in voluntary school intradistrict and interdistrict transfers transfers the 2020 to 2021 school year based on the enrollment projections.
My microphone wasn't on. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the list of campuses presented to be closed to voluntary school intra-district and inter-district transfers for the 2020-2021 school year based on enrollment projections. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. All those opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you so much. Discuss and consider Board approval for the renewal of the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. Mr. Christopherson.
Good evening, President Doyle, members of the Board, Superintendent Dr. Grogorski. The Technology Department recommends the Board of Trustees approve the Microsoft Volume License Agreement agreement and the purchase of our annual licensing for all district servers, desktops, laptops, and Microsoft Office for all staff and students from CDWG under OMNIA contract R160201 for the amount of $642,859.76. Microsoft license agreement is a three-year agreement and the licensing is purchased annually. The funding source is the General Operating Fund and again the cost for this fiscal year of $642,859.76.
Madam President. Ms. Vann. I move the Board of Trustees approves a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement for the purchase of our annual licensing for all district servers, desktops, laptops, and Microsoft Office 365 for staff and students from CDWG. Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redman, that the Board of Trustees approves the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement for the purchase of our annual licensing for all district servers, desktop, laptops, and Microsoft Office 365 for staff and students from CDWG. Are there any questions? 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. 9.10 discuss and consider board approval of the proposal for the building management control system replacement at multiple
full campuses. Mr. T. Good evening President Doyle, board members, and Dr. Gagorski. It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposals for the building management control system replacement at Walman Elementary to Unify Energy Solutions LLC in the amount of five hundred and twenty thousand $2,000 in Cardiff Junior High and Wood Creek Junior High to Climate Tech LLC in the amount of $1,344,000 and the total project cost not to exceed $2,074,540. The total project cost includes the design fee and commissions fee totaling $210,540. 40. Replacement work will be coordinated with campus staff to minimize interference with facility use schedules. Substantial completion date is June 30, 2020. A copy of the contract for Unify Energy Solutions and the contract for Climate Tech and the evaluation ranking and recommendation letter from Salas O'Brien are included for your review. The total BMS MS project cost again is not to exceed $2,074,540. An approval of this recommendation will provide reduced operational cost, improved safety, and improved staff and public comfort.
Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the building management control system, BMCS, replacement at Wollman Elementary to Unified Energy Solutions, LLC, and Cardiff Junior High and Woodcreek Junior High to Climatec, LLC, as presented by administration.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approve the proposals for the Building Management Control System, BMCS, replacement at Walman Elementary to Unified Energy Solutions, LLC, and Cardiff Junior High and Woodcreek Junior High to Climatec, LLC, as presented by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. You may proceed.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the job order contract delivery method utilization of the general operating fund as a funding source and an estimated project cost of $3,475,000 for the purchase, relocation, and connections of portables at multiple campuses for the 2020-2021 school year. The Board of Trustees is required to approve construction delivery method and funding source for construction projects over $50,000. This project entails placement of portable buildings at campuses as needed for new and relocated programs and for increased student growth. The job order contract method will provide the best value to the district for this project. In March 2020, contracts identifying campus specific portable needs for 2020-2021 will be presented for approval. Again, the project funding sources is the 19-20 general operating fund and an estimated project cost of $3,475,000. Approval of this recommendation will help ensure substantial completion by August the 11th, 2020.
Madam President, Ms. Van. I move the Board of Trustees approves the purchase, relocation, and connections of portable buildings and multiple campuses for the 2021-2022. 2021 school year as presented by administration. Second. I'm going to give it to Mr. Redman.
President Doyle. Yes. If I may, I do want to note that although there is money in the general fund budget to move portable buildings, we are going to have to follow this up with a budget amendment next month for additional funds. I am going to go ahead and do an override so we can get this stuff in the works for timing, but we will be bringing it in in March for a budget amendment.
Okay. Thank you so much, Mr. Smith. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves the purchase, relocation, and connections of portable buildings at multiple campuses for the 2020-2021 school year as presented by administration. Ms. Champagne, did you have a question? Yes, I do. I'm so sorry. Oh, no, you're fine. Go ahead.
I'm just curious, how does this cost compare to other years? For instance, last year.
Last year it's a little higher. We're looking at moving more buildings this year than we did last year.
And where are these buildings going to, I mean I'm sure you have a list, but so in other words there's more portable buildings that we need and more to be moved than last year?
Yes, ma'am.
And we'll have a look, we'll...
I'll be bringing that list next month. We're still finalizing the list.
Okay, thank you.
Any other questions, board members? Okay, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed? Motion passes.
Go ahead, Mr. T. It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a proposal for the building management control system replacement at the education support complex and the Leonard Merrill Center to Unify Energy Solutions, LLC, in the amount of $1,758,000 and the total project costs not to exceed $2,385,000. An owner's contingency amount of $150 has been designated to cover any unforeseen issues found during the project and total project costs also include HVAC test and balance fees, design fees, and commissioning fees. Unify Energy Solutions LLC ranked the highest and offered the best value to the district. Work will be coordinated with staff to minimize interference with daily work and facility use schedules. Substantial completion date is October 1, 2020. A copy of the contract, the contractor evaluation ranking, and of the recommendation letter from CMTA Engineering are included for your review. This project funding sources TERS funds. An approval of this recommendation will provide reduced operational costs and improve staff and public comfort.
Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the building management control system replacement at the Education Support Complex and Leonard Merrill Center to Unify Energy Solutions LLC as presented by the administration.
administration. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the building management control system replacement at the Education Support Complex and the Leonard Merrill Center to unify Energy Solutions LLC as presented by administration. Are there any questions? Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I do have a question,
Mr. Smith. This is probably going to be down your line. We have savings on energy costs and things like this because we're updating some of our systems where those funds go back into the energy budget or do they go into the general funds they they go in
they in theory as we grow it'll it'll reduce the need to increase the budget to add all that new square footage okay perfect thank you thank you madam
savings do we have a projection of what the savings yes they anticipate the
The savings on this will be approximately $35,000 to $40,000 a month in operational costs.
That's awesome.
Thank you. All right, board members, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed, motion passes. Go ahead, Mr. T.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District number 156 and Katy Independent School District for play equipment at Amy Campbell Elementary in the amount of $40,000. A copy of the interlocal agreement and equipment proposal for the playground equipment are attached for your review. Estimated completion of this project is July 2020. The interlocal agreement has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and approved as to form. Approval of this interlocal agreement will enable the campus to proceed with the play equipment project and fulfill the legal requirements to the utility district.
Chair Greg Musil. Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utilities District number 156 and Katy Independent School District for playground equipment at Amy Campbell Elementary as recommended by the administration. I have
a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District number 156 and Katy Independent School District for playground equipment at Amy Campbell Elementary as recommended by administration. Are there any questions? 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 for your time with us. 9.14, discuss and consider board approval to award a water meter easement to Harris County Municipal Utility District, number 457. Ms. Kastman, you are with us for several items, so I'm just going to let you do the same thing. We'll just roll through them as we vote.
Thank you very much. Good evening, President Doyle, trustees, and Dr. Gagorski. I have five items this evening for your consideration. The first item is for a water meter easement to the Harris County Mud 457 for Elementary Number 43. The easement, 0.103 acres, is located on the northern side of Greenwood Orchard Drive and east of Ellison Falls Drive.
Ms. Mann. I move the Board of Trustees awards a water meter easement to Harris County Municipal Utility District Number 457 as depicted in the easement document associated with Elementary 43.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Fann, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees awards in water meter easement to Harris County Municipal Utility District number 457 as depicted in the easement document associated with Elementary number 43. Board members, do you have any 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.
The second item is recommending approval of a contract to M. Scott Construction for the parking lot lighting and resurfacing of the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium. Five proposals were received and M. Scott ranked first overall. BLK was the architect and Megan Connell from our office will be the project manager.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees awards the contract to M. Scott Construction Incorporated to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium as presented by administration. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to M. Scott Construction Incorporated to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium as presented by administration. Are there any questions, Board members? We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed, motion passes.
The third item is recommending the approval of a contract to Musco Sports Lighting for the tennis court lighting replacement at Maid Creek High School. Funding for this work was approved at the January board meeting.
Mr. Redmond. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the tennis court lighting installation at Maid Creek High School as presented by
administration. I have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second by Ms. Vann, that the the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the tennis court lighting installation at Maid Creek High School as presented by administration. 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.
The fourth item is recommending approval of a contract to VLK Architects for design services required to repurpose the former L.D. Robinson Pavilion. Todd Lean is here this evening representing VLK Architects.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees awards the contract to VLK Architects, Inc. for the design services required to repurpose the former L.D. Robinson Pavilion.
Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to VLK Architects, Inc. for the design services required to repurpose the former L.D. Robinson Pavilion. Are there any questions? We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed?
The motion passes. Final item is recommending the approval of a contract consolidated property advisors for real estate consulting services. Consolidated property advisors has been working with the district since 1998.
Madam President. Ms. Vann. I move the Board of Trustees awards a contract to consolidated property advisors limited for real estate consulting services.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Consolidated Property Advisors Limited for Real Estate Consulting Services. Do you have any questions? We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed, the motion passes. Thank you so much, Ms. Casper.
Thank you.
Board members, I'll direct you to 9.19, discuss and consider Board approval of the minutes of the January 2020 board meeting.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meeting from January of 2020.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meeting held in January 2020. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Next, 10.1, donated items to Katy Independent School District. The board was provided a copy of those donated items. Agenda item 10.2 is an update on the Community Bond Advisory Committee and the Community Bond Advisory Committee Chair. As many of you know, recently the Board of Trustees approved the formation of a Community Bond Advisory Committee, also known as the CBAC. This committee will be responsible for assessing current and future school needs, including everything from building renovations, component replacements on on older campuses to building new campuses for our highest growth areas in our district, which is currently our Northwest Quadrant. It is expected that we could see over 25,000 new students residing there by 2029. We had nearly 400 parents apply. We wanna thank everyone for taking the time out to submit their application. There was room for 160 committee members and they will be receiving their invitations via email this week. All CBAC meetings are open to the public to observe presentations as well as there are going to be opportunities to participate in community and parent engagement forums that will be planned throughout the summer and the fall. I would like to take this moment to introduce our committee chair Mr. Heath Rushing. Are you still over there? Welcome and thank you and go ahead yeah absolutely. A little bit about Heath. He is a Katy community member. He has three school-aged children here in Katy ISD. He is the Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer for Memorial Hermann and Katy and Memorial Hermann Cypress. His role as committee chair will be to help guide the process, assist committee members in getting answers to questions that they may have about projects or cost, and presenting the final recommendation should the committee determine a need for a bond. Heath, we appreciate you taking the time out of your very busy schedule to facilitate this. I think you're gonna do a wonderful job so we appreciate you. With that, our future board meetings. We have a special board meeting workshop which is going to be held on Monday, March 23rd, 2020. Our regular board meeting will be held on Monday, March 30th, 2020. There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned and the time is 8 0 8 p.m. Thank you all for being here.
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Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 4.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the administrative one-year probationary, administrative one-year term, administrative two-year term, staff member one-year probationary, staff member one-year term and staff member two-year term contracts as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 4.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Natalie Martinez as the Executive Director for Research, Assessment and Accountability as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Elementary School #43 located at 6631 Greenwood Orchard Drive Peter H. McElwain Elementary School as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Resolution Declaring Intention to Reimburse Project Expenditures.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Resolution Expressing Intent to Defease Certain of the District's Outstanding Bonds.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Katy Independent School District Unlimited Tax School Building and/or Refunding Bonds in one or more series; setting certain parameters for the Bonds; authorizing a Pricing Officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's December 2019 financial reports.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 9.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's February 2020 budget amendments.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 9.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of the Property Insurance Program for the 2020-2021 policy year.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 9.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposed summer work schedule as recommended by administration.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 9.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the list of campuses presented to be closed to voluntary school intra-district and inter-district transfers for the 2020 – 2021 school year based on enrollment projections.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 9.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement for the purchase of our annual licensing for all District servers, desktops, laptops, and Microsoft Office 365 for staff and students from CDWG under OMNIA contract #R160201 for the amount of $642,859.76.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 9.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposals for the Building Management Control System (BMCS) replacement at Wolman Elementary to Unify Energy Solutions, LLC in the amount of $520,000, and Cardiff Junior High and WoodCreek Junior High to Climatec, LLC in the amount of $1,344,000, and a total project cost not to exceed $2,074,540.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 9.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Job Order Contract (JOC) delivery method, utilization of the General Operating Fund (GOF) as the funding source, and an estimated project cost of $3,475,000 for the purchase, relocation and connections of portables at multiple campuses for the 2020 – 2021 school year.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 9.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the Building Management Control System Replacement at the Education Support Complex and the Leonard Merrell Center to Unify Energy Solutions, LLC in the amount of $1,758,000, and a total project cost not to exceed $2,385,000.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 9.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Interlocal Agreement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 156 and Katy Independent School District for playground equipment at Amy Campbell Elementary in the amount of $40,000.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 9.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a water meter easement to Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 457 as depicted in the attached easement document associated with Elementary #43.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 9.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to M Scott Construction, Inc. to install parking lot lighting and resurface the asphalt parking lot at Rhodes Stadium in the amount of $4,757,000 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $5,915,255.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 019 · AGENDA 9.16
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the tennis court lighting installation at Mayde Creek High School in the amount not to exceed $530,000, utilizing the Job Order Contract through Cooperative Purchasing as the method of procurement.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 020 · AGENDA 9.17
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to VLK Architects, Inc. for the design services required to repurpose the former L.D. Robinson Pavilion.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 021 · AGENDA 9.18
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Consolidated Property Advisors, Ltd. for real estate consulting services.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
MOTION 022 · AGENDA 9.19
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in January 2020.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |