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 Tuesday, May 26th, and the time is 5.31 p.m. Dr. Grigorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act with regard to the notice of this meeting?
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Madam President, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act in regard to this meeting tonight.
At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak in accordance with KDIC Board Policy BED Local. As defined by the Board Policy, the first 10 speakers who signed up by 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 2020, have provided their first and last name, will be called individually on their phone number they provided, and allowed to address the Board through audio only. A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated with time divided equally among those who have signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes. If you are not finished speaking at the end of your three minutes, your audio will turn off. If speakers wish to share written material with the Board, you must email a copy of 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. Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code 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. Our speakers will be called in the order that they signed up to speak. Our first speaker is Ms. Georgia Strickland.
Courtney, can you hear me?
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Daniel, I heard that going through. So you've got sound.
Okay cool. Okay, you can start Georgia.
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Hello everybody. Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to speak. I hope everybody is doing well. I wanted to give my last update as I sign out of the Council President role come June 30. I'm leaving you in the amazing hands of Kathleen Pittman as she comes in on July 1st. My update for you guys this evening is we have 33,182 members in KDIC that are PTA members. 27 out of 62 of our PTAs have a Golden Apple, meaning that they all have full staff PTA members. That's a very big accomplishment. Five of our locals have a voice for every child, meaning that every student on their campus is represented by a PTA member. Those campuses are Kilpatrick, Patterson, Randolph, Wallman, Wood Creek Elementary. So we are very proud of them. We're very proud of all of our PTAs for all the hard work that they've done throughout the school year. And we could not be more happy with the fact that they just keep on trucking, even though we're all digital now and doing zoom meetings but they have been doing a fantastic job and the last thing i wanted to share with you guys is one of the students from griffin elementary received an outstanding interpretation award from texas pta um from our reflections contest and he is going to be recognized at the texas pta conference in october along with his family so we are so proud of him If you go to the Texas PTA Facebook page, you can see a video of him finding out. It was really exciting to see that happen. But other than that, thank you so much for this opportunity. I've enjoyed working with you for the past two years. And don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. I'll still see you all at meetings and the Strickland family will still be around. Thank you, guys.
Thank you, Georgia. And thank you so much for all that you've done the past few years. You have been just phenomenal in your role. And so we really appreciate the work that you've done. Thank you.
Thank you.
This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting. The board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under section 551.001 at the Texas Government Code for the following purposes. Texas Government Code 551.071, 551.129, 551.072, and 551.074. The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Tuesday, May 26, 2020, and the time is 6.52 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, May 22, 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 able to ask questions, receive answers, and should be prepared to take action this evening. The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. Any action arising from discussions in the closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. We'll start with agenda item 4.1, Consider Approval of Non-Renewal of Employee Term Contracts. Of Robert Kerning at the end. Mr. Lacey.
Okay, go ahead. Do you need to finish that or can I make the... Yes, sir. You can make the motion. I move that the Board of Trustees after having considered the recommendation of the superintendent to non-renewal the term contract of an employee as discussed in closed meeting authorizes the superintendent to non-renew the term contract of Robert Turney at the end of 2019-2020 contract term and authorizes the administration to provide him notice of the same.
Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees after having considered the recommendation of the superintendent to non renew the term contract of an employee as discussed in closed meeting authorizes the superintendent to non renew the term contract of Robert tourney at the end of the 2019 2020 contract term and authorized as authorizes administration to provide him notice of the same we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye all those opposed motion passes
4.2 Ms. Vann. I move the Board of Trustees names Stephanie McElroy as principal of Bear Creek Elementary School as recommended by the
superintendent in closed meeting. I have a motion by Ms. Vann a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees names Stephanie McElroy as principal of Bear Creek Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye aye all those opposed motion passes
madam president mr lacey item 4.3 i move the board of trustees names shannon smith as principal of schaefer elementary school as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting
second oh go ahead i have a motion by mr lacey is second by mr redmond that the board of trustees names shannon smith as principal of schaefer elementary school as recommended by the superintendent in close meeting we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye all right all those opposed motion passes next we will move on to the pledges of allegiance I would like to welcome sergeant Howard of the Katy ISD Police Department to lead us in the pledges of allegiance
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to the Republic which stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, under God, one nation.
Thank you so much, Sergeant. We really appreciate you being there for us tonight. Agenda item 6.1. Normally around this time of year, we would have invited our high school principals along with their two highest achieving graduating seniors and their families to an an in-person board meeting where each campus' class of 2020 valedictorian and salutatorian would be introduced. We would learn about the achievements of these exceptional students and celebrate their accomplishments together. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances surrounding the global health crisis that we are facing, we are unable to recognize these young men and women in the format that we would have hoped for. Knowing this could be a possibility, this past week, our high school principals and communications team work together to produce a Val and Sal's recognition video so that our entire community would still have the opportunity to share in celebrating these students' high school careers and successes they have achieved. Now let's take a moment to learn more about our class of 2020 valedictorians and salutatorians as we view this very special video presentation.
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Congratulations to our KDISD valedictorians and salutatorians. The board, administration, staff, and I are so proud of our students and wish all graduating seniors all the best in their future endeavors.
From Cinco Ranch High School, valedictorian Jimmy Zhang will graduate at the top of his class with a 4.8438 GPA. This fall, Jimmy is planning to attend Carnegie Mellon University and major in computer science. Jimmy has always been captivated by STEM in all forms. From chess to calculus to programming, he loves absorbing new concepts and applying them to new situations. As president of Chess Club and vice president of Mu Alpha Theta and Computer Science Club, Jimmy not only loves to pursue his passions, but also enjoys spreading knowledge to others. That's because to him, learning is at the heart of everything. He plans one day to become a software developer or an artificial intelligence and data analyst. Sinker Ranch High School salutatorian Edward Liu will graduate with a 4.8095 GPA.
After high school, it's just a moment Daniel's working on the technology side of things.
Congratulations to our KDISD Valedictorians and Salutatorians. The board, administration, staff, and I are so proud of our students and wish all graduating seniors all the best in their future endeavors.
From Cinco Ranch High School, valedictorian Jimmy Zhang will graduate at the top of his class with a 4.8438 GPA. This fall, Jimmy is planning to attend Carnegie Mellon University and major in computer science. Jimmy has always been captivated by STEM in all forms. From chess to calculus to programming, he loves absorbing new concepts and applying them to new situations. As president of Chess Club and vice president of Mu Alpha Theta and Computer Science Club, Jimmy not only loves to pursue his passions, but also enjoys spreading knowledge to others. That's because, to him, learning is at the heart of everything. He plans one day to become a software developer or an artificial intelligence and data analyst. West. Cinco Ranch High School salutatorian Edward Liu will graduate with a 4.8095 GPA. After high school, Edward plans to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology and double major in math and computer science. Throughout junior high and high school, Edward competed in a variety of mathematics and physics contests and have been invited to both the USA Math Olympiad program and the US physics team. Last summer, he won a silver medal for the United States at the 50th Annual International Physics Olympiad. On campus, Edward is a part of the academic decathlon, Mu Alpha Theta, NHS, and science-full organizations. From Katy High School, valedictorian Maverick Anderson will graduate at the top of his class with a 4.8281 GPA. After high school, Maverick is planning to attend the University of Texas at Austin and major in chemical engineering. During his time at KHS, Maverick was an active member in many clubs and organizations on campus. Destination Imagination, Model UN, the Superintendent Student Leadership Circle, and Katy ISD's Strategic Design District-Wide Planning Committee. Katy High School salutatorian David Wu will graduate with a 4.8125 GPA. After high school, David plans to attend University of Waterloo in Canada and major in computer science. During his time at Katy High School, David was involved in student council, Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society and Model UN campus organizations. From Maid Creek High School, valedictorian Tuan Duan will graduate at the top of her class with a 4.7 857 GPA. After high school, Tuan is planning to attend the University of Texas at Austin and major in biochemistry. During her time at Maid Creek, Tuan was president of the Key Club, treasurer of the National Honor Society, historian of the MCHS chapter of Future Business Leaders of America, and also an active member of the science, Spanish, and English honor societies. A varsity violinist in the school's orchestra, Tuan was secretary to the organization and received numerous recognitions for her performances. She hopes to one day become a physician. Maid Creek High School salutatorian Juliet Mace will graduate with a 4.7857 GPA. After high school, Juliet plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin and major in finance. At Maid Creek High School, Juliet participated in many clubs and organizations including athletics, orchestra, and actively competed in Future Business Leaders of America She is also a member of the Spanish National Honor Society, National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, National Technical Honor Society, Key Club, the Environmental Alliance, and Computer Science Club. She hopes to one day work on Wall Street in New York City. From Morton Ranch High School, valedictorian Abhinav Jayaraman will graduate at the top of his class with a 4.8 GPA. After high school, Abhinav is planning to attend the University of Texas at Austin and major in computer science. During his time at Morton Ranch, Abhinav was a varsity tennis player, a member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, orchestra, Spanish club, and was the leader for the robotics club. A favorite high school memory for him was all the time that he spent on the courts with the tennis team and coaches. Morton Ranch High School Salutatorian Matthew Morin will graduate with a 4.7586 GPA. After high school, Matthew plans to attend Texas A&M University and major in chemical engineering. During high school, Matthew was a member of the National and English Honor Society. He was elected to serve on the homecoming court. And in his spare time, he enjoys playing sports, mainly soccer, video games, and working out. From Tompkins High School, valedictorian Nicholas Kao will graduate at the top of his class with a 4.8545 GPA. After high school, Nicholas is planning to attend the University of Texas at Austin and major in business. During his time at Tompkins High School, he was co-president of the Science Olympiad team as a two-time state medalist, president of the Tompkins Key Club, and co-president of the Science National Honors Society. He is also an active member in the Tompkins Orchestra, where he earned TMEA recognition. His favorite high school memory is playing music with the orchestra in the rotunda in between class periods during the holidays. Tompkins High School Salutatorian, Ramandeep Sethi will graduate with a 4.8472 GPA. After high school, Ramandeep plans to attend University of Texas at Austin and major in finance. hands. During high school, Rahman was co-president of the Science National Honor Society, member of the Future Business Leaders of America, where he was recognized as a state champion, a regional medalist in the Science Olympiad, and a district medalist in the academic decathlon. Rahman earned recognition through The Force, a campus service organization, and he is also a National Honor Society member. From Paetil High School, valedictorian Kenny Kenny Hung will graduate at the top of its class with a 4.7077 GPA. After high school, Kenny is planning to attend the University of Houston and major in engineering. During his time at Pato High School, Kenny was honored for his achievements in AP Capstone Diploma, AP Scholar with Distinction, College Board National Hispanic Recognition, Academic Excellence in English II Pre-AP, Academic Excellence in Pre-Calculus Pre-AP, academic excellence in AP US history, academic excellence in AP seminar, Kenny B. Hung Award in Mu Alpha Theta, and Math Honor Society. His favorite high school memory is having one-on-one AP Calculus BC and pre-AP Calculus with a one and only Mrs. Harris. Pato High School salutatorian Daniela Macias will graduate with a 4.6441 GPA. PA. After high school, Daniela plans to attend the University of Houston and major in strategic communications with a minor in marketing. A few of Daniela's accomplishments in high school are being recognized as an International Honor Thespian and Girls State 2019 citizen. Her favorite high school memory is being the assistant director for Chicago, the musical. From Seven Lakes High School, valedictorian Vinit Paitaseti will graduate at the top of his class with a 4.8594 GPA. After high school, Benit is planning to attend Baylor University and major in biochemistry. During his time at Seven Lakes High School, Benit was an active member of the varsity sim team, national honor society, science national honor society, and national Spanish honor society. He is also a national merit scholar, senior officer of national Spanish honor society, and a treasurer of the Science National Honor Society. Outside of school, he had the prestigious opportunity to conduct research at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Houston. Upon graduation, he will attend Baylor as part of the Baylor II Medical Track Program. Through this program, he is guaranteed admission into the Baylor College of Medicine Medical School following his four years at the university, a program that only grants six high school students across the country provisional acceptance into the program. Seven Lakes High School salutatorian Sria Kakarla will graduate with a 4.8451 GPA. After high school, Sria plans to attend Rice University and major in psychology and neuroscience. During high school, she founded a chapter of UNICEF, served as a treasurer of the National Spanish Honor Society, and has been an active member of the National Honor Society, Spartans Out Serving, and HOSA. She is a two-time winner of the Gold Presidential Service Award and is an active volunteer at Sunrise Senior Living, Memorial Harmon, Texas Children's, and the Indo-American Charity Foundation. From Taylor High School, valedictorian Michelle Lee will graduate at the top of her class with a 4.8676 GPA. After high school, Michelle is planning to attend the University of Pennsylvania and major in finance. During her time in high school, Michelle was president of the Speech and Debate Team, as well as the Future Business Leaders of America organization. After school, she enjoys creative projects involving design and painting and working with local businesses and team members for fundraisers and charities. Taylor High School Salutatorian, Gabriela Cortez, will graduate with a 4.8507 GPA. After high school, Gabriela plans to attend Stanford University and major in aerospace engineering. During high school, she was greatly involved in many clubs and organizations, such as the Future Business Leaders of America and Mu Alpha Theta, where she holds officer positions both at the state and local level. Outside of school, she tutors elementary students to teach them important math skills.
Again, congratulations to our class of 2020 valedictorians and salutatorians. We are so proud of your achievement and look forward to seeing what the future holds for you. Next, we'll move on to agenda item 7.1, our 2020-2021 budget update. Mr. Smith.
All right. Good evening, President Doyle and Superintendent Grigorski. I'm here to present the 2021 budget. And as I pull it up, I want to just remind everybody that a lot of districts in our area, In fact, I think the majority of the districts in the state have moved from a, I don't know why that's doing that, have moved their budgets from a June, from an August 31st fiscal year end date to a June 30th fiscal year end date. And KDISD has an August 31st fiscal year end date. So in the next few weeks, you're going to hear and read about a lot of folks who are districts who are going to be adopting their budgets. And again, we're far from adopting. We're still three months away from adopting. We could probably adopt it pretty easily next month if we were because we're on pace to do so. But we are not under pressure to adopt the budget. We won't be until August. So when you start reading about that, we're not behind. We just have an August 31st fiscal year end day. So I'm going to go ahead and start with this slide. This is where we've been this far and where we're headed now. You've heard me speak since January about the cartographers and what they would put on the outside of maps when they didn't know. The little scare tactics to say, you know, be careful if you go outside of this area that we know. House Bill 3 has a lot of things that we didn't know. We still don't know several things about House Bill 3. I want to talk not not a length about all of these, but I want to talk about the fast growth allotment, because just a couple of weeks ago, the agency released some information about the 2021 fast growth folks. And in the budget you're going to hear tonight, 19 million dollars to KDISD comes from the fast growth allotment. Of the fast growth allotment, the people on the list last week or a couple of weeks ago that the agency did, there was 297 districts. Of those districts on the list, 143 had more growth than KDISD, and 153 of those districts had less growth than KDISD. So from a growth percentage, we were right in the middle. Although we had 5,901 students in growth, we were somewhere from a percentage standpoint in the middle. You got to understand that there are a handful of districts that may grow five kids and they're on the list. okay because they grew at a very high percentage based on their student enrollment so we grew um 901 in fact you could take 169 of the districts on the list add them together and they didn't and they grew as much as kdisd but we're midway on the list and because of that and because of the effects of our potential effects of COVID-19 or future legislation that may not be around forever and not and there are some districts that I know missed it by you know a few tenths of a percentage to get on the list and they missed out on a lot of money so I wanted to go ahead and talk about that since it's kind of fresh off the press the volatility of that fast growth allotment these are the some of the things that the that are evolving as we speak house bill three required new data on this on the right. The agency updated some reports just last week, and the district is working on those reports. They're still not complete, in my opinion, from a funding standpoint, but we're getting there and we're getting really close, and I think we're going to be there soon. As a reminder, the House Bill 3 requires one of the things that made it more expensive than other legislation is it buys down the tax rate. I mentioned a couple of months ago, I guess in March, that I thought we were going to be able to decrease the tax rate. I still do. I know we'll be able to decrease it by at least a penny and a half, and I'm seeing it's going to be more than two cents that we're going to be dropping our tax rate, required to drop our tax rate. In fact, the agency, Texas Education Agency, is going to be involved in adopting, in helping school boards across the state adopt their tax rate in August. They'll be getting data from the school districts and from the appraisal districts, and they're going to set our tier one rate, which will be lower. And then school boards then will have the option to to set the debt rate and the enrichment rate that they have in the past. So the agency is going to get involved. One of the things that buys the rate down faster is more growth. And you're going to see that we grew more than four and a half percent with our value growth. And so because of that, our rate's not going to drop just a penny and a half. It's going to drop more than a penny and a half. So districts that had tremendous value growth may drop their tax tax rate even more. Districts with less tax rate or tax value growth may drop their tax rate only that penny and a half. Ours will be more than that penny and a half. But districts across the state will be dropping their rates at different amounts. So I want to talk about the initial budget draft. And I'm going to start on this slide. And this is our assumptions. And this is if there's two
two numbers and uh just trying to interrupt you i don't mean to interrupt you but uh if you have your presentation up it doesn't appear to be um showing on our screens i don't know if that's just me or if anyone can't see that one can you double check your presentation and make sure you're on uh share screen there it goes much better all right yeah now we're in business i appreciate that sorry for the interruption chris all right
so uh the two numbers that that probably mean the most and when it comes to state funding are the two numbers that i have highlighted on your screen in light green and that's the six thousand one hundred sixty dollar basic allotment and then the golden penny yield or the enrichment yield of 96.85 Those numbers dictate how much state funding any school district gets, regardless of their property values by and large. based on the number of students, the tax effort, and the type of students, and those two numbers there. So that really kind of dictates state funding. The more students you have, the more money you have access to because it's multiplied by those numbers that you see highlighted. So students, we're looking at a 4,244 budget to budget student increase. That's a 5.1% growth. growth. That is 5.1%. So when we grow, it's 4,244 by and large times those numbers above are the 6160. And that's the amount of money that we have access to. If we were losing students, we would have less money. But we're growing and we're still a fast growth school district. Our value increase doesn't matter as much anymore when it comes to the maintenance and operations fund as i've talked about uh in the past uh now that we're on current year values um but uh we are growing at 5.4 4 percent our it looks like our initial estimates from the county appraisal districts go up to just over 44 billion dollars in value that's a 5.44 percent growth because that's more than four and a half percent uh we're going to drop our tax rate by more than that penny and a half that i mentioned earlier of course we're opening dude schools um The staffing plans that you by and large approved in March are reflected here at 382 non-teacher. Those staffing units that are tied to the teacher salary schedule and 292 that are tied to the non-teacher salary schedules. Tonight, I think Mr. Shuss is going to finish that out with some units that he'll be speaking of. Those are included in that number, most of them in the 292 number. I think it's the number that he's bringing to your 29 positions of those 292 so not very many. It's the department staffing again, the vast majority of our new staffing is there to handle the student growth, and the opposite opening of the two new campuses. This salary, this budget does have a salary increase built in it at 1% and a 1% lump sum payment that we've done these last couple of years, the lump sum payment. And it's based on an average teacher salary of $57,000. So you can see an increase in our revenue because of the 5.44% growth in value. Even though our tax rate is, I'm calculating it is down, our tax revenue is still up. And then our state revenue is also still up, even though those sort of counterbalance each other. They're both up because we grow so many students at 4,000 plus students. Our revenue does increase, as you see there at the bottom, of about $45 million because of new students. students. TRS contribution that's in light blue because that's going to be offset and you'll see that light blue later in my presentation. But the staffing plan, this budget includes all the staffing that you've already approved or that you'll be presented tonight. Again, it takes care of our two new facilities, our district-wide growth of that 4,200 plus students, Our special ed growth, we're having another. We're still continuing to grow exponentially in our special ed populations. Our ancillary positions associated with those new schools, those may be cafeteria workers, security or police officers, et cetera. Those were approved in March. And then the department staffing growth, those are the 29 units that Mr. Suss will talk about in detail tonight. This is not a current how our budget is looking like as we are developing it. It's going to look like this in 1920. It looked like this at 88%. I put that up there just to remind the board and the public that 88% of what we do is labor intensive, supervising those children. And it's going to continue that way. So when you really look at our staffing, that's when you're looking at the vast majority of our budget. And again, number two would be utilities. So this is a graphic look of what our salaries would look like at $753 million compared to last year. That includes the 1% and the salary increase in the 1% one-time payment and includes all the new staffing, etc. So new positions, the price of those new teaching positions is $21.2 million are those positions that are tied to the salary, the teacher salary schedule. schedule. You can see the salary increase there, 1% is 3.9. Remember last year on the coattails of passing House Bill 3, we gave the biggest salary increases that we were able to, that we had done in years. House Bill 3 provided us that opportunity and we went all out in doing so. So you can see that the salary increase this year is not followed with another House Bill bill three, unfortunately. And it does include the one-time lump sum payment there at $4.2 million. It also includes the performance incentive at $4.6 million. I'm going to talk a little bit about this on a few slides that we're seeing some payback on it with less substitute, meaning that our substitute needs do appear to be less, which is the effect we were trying to get and keeping being those classroom teachers there in the classroom. This is a visual of what we just saw. The non-teacher pay groups is coming in less. Again, there's a lot less positions, even though we're open in a high school. So there's a lot less money involved in this. This is part of what we're doing. And we always do when it comes to, we're ramping up for some tough times, potentially. and we're not staffing with our departments like we have in the past. I think last year, Mr. Schuss might speak of this, I think there were over 50 department staffing that we had done last year and I think this year it's less than 30. Again, we have the salary increases in there at 2.3 million dollars in the one-time lump sum for those folks. A performance incentive is in here too because that's the performance incentive for classroom instructional paraprofessionals. Again, they're in the classroom. That's where we want them. They're not on the teacher salary schedule. Those paraprofessionals are. And so that's why you see that performance incentive there on the non-teacher pay group. Again, there's a visual of what that would look like or what that slide before looks like. Other compensation stipends. We're, of course, adding growth, growth, organic growth with 4,000 plus new students, but that also includes stipends associated with the new high school and the things that get stipends at the new high school. Substitute teachers, again, I said I would mention that. That's flat. We don't see, of course, it's harder to analyze this year because of the COVID-19 and the fact that from March or spring break on, we really didn't use substitutes. So we didn't get the full analysis that we looked, but we were seeing a slower slower trend and we feel like at this point that we're going to leave that and and and uh we feel that that incentive the classroom teacher incentive and the instructional incentive is paying off because we did see less demand this year until until spring break in our substitute usage um overtime and supplemental that's some things that we're doing administratively to tighten our belt and you can see that even though we're having growth we've uh we've kind of tried to tighten that up and hope that that is able to stay between now and August. This is what that slide would look like that we just looked at visually if you're a visual person. Health and medical insurance. This is just organic growth with the new positions that you've approved in March or are going to be approving tonight or discussing tonight at 36 million million dollars that's about a million four increase again that's organic that's just the district's contribution for more people we are Mr Nauman does have evaluations for our health plan as he mentioned to you last month and I believe it is our plan to be analyzing that or will be analyzing that and is our plan to bring that a recommendation to y'all about our health plan in the month of June I highlighted this. You can see a large increase from 6.4% to 7.5% in our local TRS contribution. That rate has gone up. The last legislative session that met a year ago increased that local rate. So our contribution rate is going from 1.5% to 1.6%. That's the primary reason for the big jump in growth there and the organic growth. And TRS, I mentioned this back when I talked about the budget last year when they adopted House Bill 3 and they did away with the cost of education index. It was our concern that the amount that we contribute for the statutory minimum to TRS would increase substantially. And we increased that budget by over $3 million. We hoped that the subsequent increase of the minimum salary schedule that affects some some parts of the state, not us, would help that calculation. And indeed, by September or March, by September or October, we were pretty sure that we had budgeted that as an abundance of caution, and we were not going to have to have that $3 million more spend there. So this reflects the reduction of that, which is good news. There's a visual of that slide. And then our subtotal of our payroll budget would be about $707 million. There's the revenue. That's the revenue that I showed you earlier that's offset. That's just an accounting maneuver that the state does, that we are required to do for GASB purposes, but it's the revenue equals the expense. It's a wash to the budget. So you're looking at a total payroll budget of about 753 million dollars non-payroll cost uh campus allocations i want to spend just a minute more than i normally would on campus allocations and just say this remind the board and the public that all campuses get the same allocation uh each elementary school gets 70 dollars per student junior high gets 77 dollars per student and a high school gets 89 dollars per student every one no matter where they are or what school they are uh there are there there may be some additional monies that a school gets outside of the general fund budget uh maybe they're a bilingual campus and they may get some additional funds because they're bilingual and they have the expense associated with that or they may be a title campus but every district when it comes to the general every every campus gets the same amount of money from elementary school to elementary school or junior high to junior high etc and i wanted to make that clear i also wanted to make clear that the administration feels that what we give those campuses is adequate and should be enough to provide the basic education necessary that is needed throughout to educate our children. And as evidenced by some of our campuses do not spend all of their budget. And we reset that every year because they don't spend it. We don't take it away and say you didn't spend it last year. We wouldn't do that kind of thing. But they don't spend it in some cases. And we feel it's adequate. But with that said, last year, you may recall there was some, I think it was a countrywide, across the country thing, was some wish lists where teachers may have asked for funds in addition to the campus budgets. And the district, again, feels like we provide that, the basic needs. And in the non-allocations there at the $28.6 million, right now we have built in a draft in this draft. uh some funds that we are we hope if it can survive the budget process uh we hope that we could provide a maybe a supply stipend to teachers uh not a stipend but a supply budget that individual teachers can use uh without going through the campus uh without affecting the campus's budget or their allocation but just to get them something that they can go and spend uh that they feel that they may need that's appropriate for their classroom and again we We don't, right now we have penciled in about a million and a half dollars. I'm not sure exactly how much that works out for a teacher. That's probably more than we would need per teacher at this point. But it's something that we're probably, that we're looking into as we move forward closer to the summer in order to avoid, primarily to avoid our teachers going out and doing two things. Spending their money and asking moms and dads to contribute for things that they want for their classroom. room. The district thinks that it's our responsibility to do so, and this is to make up for and to help prevent that, those things happen. Again, the department allocations, $65.9 million, that's a large number. That includes utilities. It includes big things like district-wide software licensing, books, et cetera, that done on behalf of campuses and then the non-allocation are things like the the print shop things like i just mentioned uh etc uh that's what this would look like graphically that prior slide looks like graphically and i want to talk about um that the unknown part of the maps again the borders if you notice the uh um the uh the serpents and and the the scary looking things because there's still some unknowns out there and they're probably more so now than there have been. But what we've known were ever unknowns was the implementation implementation of House Bill three. That's still ongoing. Rulemaking is still happening. Reports are still being made. And that stuff will continue throughout the summer. The fast growth allotment. That's something that, again, that's worth 19 million dollars. I talked about it earlier. it's worth 19 million dollars to kdisd if we were not recipients of the fast growth allotment we would be i would not be speaking to you about a balanced budget and i am speaking about a balanced budget by the way but i probably would not be speaking to you about a balanced budget right now if it weren't for that fast growth allotment so that's that's important enrollment growth as i talked about earlier with the basic allotment school districts get their money based on enrollment and there's some unknowns out there with our enrollment with the COVID-19 situation that we're in. In fact, there's so much unknown out there because there's always an unknown, but that's exacerbated now with COVID-19. And we've actually got passed a population school and survey analyst on board, and they're kind of relooking and doing some work on half of the district with our developer, real estate developers and the apartment owners, homeowners, et cetera, to kind of help us get a reset on how we feel about that enrollment growth at this point in the summer, which is not the early summer. Property value growth, again, we talked about that. That's driving our tax rates, driving it down, which is good news to our taxpayers. State funding, the long-term viability of House Bill 3, we knew that that was going to be expensive. I'll talk about that on the slide. and then post-COVID-19 economic uncertainty. So post-COVID economic uncertainty could have an effect not only on enrollment, but on average daily attendance, ADA. ADA is the number of enrolled kids that come to school. And we have a pretty good average of around 97%. So kids do get sick and don't come to school. But what will the ongoing effects do to our trends of pretty consistent average daily attendance compared to enrollment? And how will that change over this next school year, in addition to just flat out enrollment? Tax collection rates for 2020. We went back, Anne Feitinger and Sherry Butterfield and myself went back and looked at back in the great recession days of the 2009, 2010, 11, 12 era. And we looked at the tax rates and the collection rates. And we've factored that in and reduced the tax collection rate down slightly to a level that they were back in 2000 in those times. And in preparation for changes to law when the legislature comes in, what would the law do or what would some new bill do to those basic allotment and the tier two tax rate or the golden pennies? what would those do or any new legislation do that could help funding or hurt funding by increasing or decreasing those two? So the fiscal impact, we've heard, of course, Senator, I'm sorry, Comptroller Hager says some things that the Texas economy back in February was as strong as it's been in a long time and then overnight the rug got right uh yanked out from under with cobin 19. uh i've heard it referred to as a him referred to it as a buoyant economy uh that just ran over two sharp nails when it comes to the the coronavirus and the oil and gas prices that that have also concurrently happened um so sales connects collections i don't think i think the numbers are in through from March. I don't know if they're in April yet. If they are, I just haven't seen them or I don't remember seeing them. But we do know that sales tax collections are down with and we know that oil prices, gas prices are down. And then there is a glut of oil. And we know that that affects the state's economy as well. And remember, I want to remind the board, I showed this slide back in March, that House Bill 3 was going to get more expensive over time because it's going to buy down that tax rate and again we can thank house bill 3 for driving that tax rate down but it becomes more expensive so you can see that the 2.1 billion dollars and the 3.6 billion dollars or 5.7 is what they thought it would cost in this biennium the good news is that when values were released by the comptroller's office in march i'm sorry back in uh in late january early february uh the values for 2019 had grown a little bit more than they anticipated so it looks like that cost i think is going to be only about 5 billion versus 5.7 billion so maybe it's getting uh getting less expensive uh and and uh for the state so uh we anticipate the comptroller to adjust the revenue down by several billion dollars later this summer uh so when the effects of covid19 will happen will come in and they he's also foreshadowed that the rainy day fund will be down to $8.5 billion at the end of the biennium or the fiscal year 2021. But I want to note some positives. The last legislative session left about $2.9 billion they could have spent and didn't spend. They didn't spend it. So maybe that'll help soften some things as the economy has gotten tougher. As I just mentioned, It appears as though House Bill 3 may be around $700 million less expensive for the first two years than we expected. Again, for the state, that means the local taxpayers across the state may be paying more. But from the state's budget perspective, they may be paying less because of those higher property values that came out just a couple of months ago. The Ready Day Fund I just mentioned is estimated to be potentially around $8.5 billion. And the state does have some tools in their toolkit to help with, and they've used these before in my career. And, for example, we get paid, school districts get paid at the end of every month. So at the end of August, we would normally get a pretty large check from the state of Texas. If they delay that by just a couple of weeks and deliver that payment in September, it saves the state $2 billion. billion dollars. So that's a good thing because they've reset that tool with a surplus in a session or two ago. And they have that tool in their tool belt to use should they think they need to. There's also federal stimulus dollars, and I'm going to talk about that in a second. We've been holding our breath on these federal stimulus dollars, and maybe Maybe that could be used the way similar this next slide is going to talk about. I'll tell you now that it doesn't appear that they're going to be, but it's good news nonetheless because it is still state savings. Instead of giving us the funds to soften a hole in the state budget, they're going to go ahead and use those federal funds, it appears, to pay for things in the budget year that we're currently in. So not all that money is going to come from the state. It's going to all come from the state, but the state is going to cost the state less dollars because they're going to use the state federal stimulus package. And that means that the total amount for the education budget in this biennium will end up being less than and then we'll spend less, which hopefully gives more money that they can use moving forward during the next session. And then I wanted to put in here the prior year comptroller value audits. These are what Mr. Pawanka does on our behalf. It's a technical thing. I don't see them as being popular under House Bill 3, but we still have a 2017 property value audit that we think will generate some dollars to the district when we file it. I'm just going to wait until the last minute to file it. I think it's going to be in excess, maybe $5 to $7 million that could help us. but again i want to wait because the current law that we're working under and the assumptions that we're under are able to do good things and that would be something nice to have either in fund balance or to have in the 2021 school year in case it does in case we do see a reduction in state funds um years ago back in in 2006 when the state reduced or bought down our property tax rate across the state. They weren't able to pay for it and about the time that the United States released our American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and what the state did was they used those funds and they put it in the 09-10-10-11 fiscal year state funding formulas through what was called state fiscal stabilization grant and those funds flowed to school districts like they normally would have but again it wasn't state funds it was federal funds that were disguised and looked like state funds because it paid for the state's obligations as i just mentioned it doesn't look like they're going to use that tool in that way at least at this time but but they are saving dollars that they're not having to spend currently in which they'll have in their coffers to spend in the future but going back again a little bit of history those sfsf funds funds ran out in 2011 when the legislative session also had was then facing a funding cliff they bought down the tax rate was pretty expensive uh then the SFSF funds ran out and that's when they had to reduce their skate budget I think it was four billion dollars for for the regular permanent uh Foundation School program and a little over a billion dollars for grants And we all know how that happened statewide. Excuse me. Some other good news. This is my last, maybe my second to last slide. So if you'll recall, this is our fund balance and the percentage of our expenditures. And the 25% is our goal. And that's that black line there that runs across horizontally at 25%. So anything above that is above three-month savings that you've heard me speak about. And you've also heard me say if that green line, a dark, bold green line, went straight across for the next 10 years, over the last 10 years of my career, I would be very happy. That means that we're not hoarding money, and that means that we're not using more money than we should, except only in times where you really need it. It did grow quite a bit this last year. I'll remind the board that we knew that in June of last year, the state passed Senate Bill 500, which delivered some significant Hurricane Harvey dollars to KDISD to make up for some things that we had incurred over time because of the result of Hurricane Harvey. Harvey. Also in that year, we were able to get $10 million, the final $10 million insurance settlement from the insurance claim from Hurricane Harvey. So those two anomalies pushed us up in revenues, one-time stuff, but put us in a more comfortable position for maybe a rainy day. Maybe one that could be coming up when the legislature meets again in in January. Maybe not, but it could be. I don't expect, I expect that number to dip a little bit. I do think when we wind up the year that we're currently operating in, I do think we will add to our fund balance. But remember, as our expenses grow, the percentage of fund balance should grow, or the fund balance should grow. And if it doesn't grow by as much as our percentage, is that line is going to go down. I expect it to go down slightly, but I do expect our fund balance to grow. So we're in a good position. This board has done a good job of managing its finances and is in a position to withhold some, to withstand some turmoil should that happen. So when will the COVID-19 window close that we're currently in? That's the big question of the day. The quicker it does, the quicker the state economy is going to start to rebound. The longer that window is open, the tougher it may be for the legislatures when they get back in January. The administration is following it very quickly and making adjustments as they can with as needed. But one thing I'll make clear is it doesn't reflect the unknown. You know, they're unknown. Nobody knows the answers to the questions that are above. And and but it doesn't do is it doesn't set off a panic because of the situation that we're in financially as a district and and also what's right for children of the district. You know they've already gotten from spring break on in the 19 20 year. The effects of Covid 19 has affected them and to plan for the worst in the night in the 2021 school year may not be best for children. And that's why you have things like the rainy day fund. And that's why you administratively continue to work to identify things that you can do that don't affect classroom instruction. Or at this point, I'm proud to say that we haven't. And with that, we're done with May. And then we just July will be shorter unless we find out a whole lot about that window or some of those questions start coming out open, but I doubt it. and I appreciate your time very much. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Mr. Smith. Board members, does anyone have any questions for Mr. Smith's report?
Madam President, I have some questions. Ms. Champagne. Mr. Smith, that is an awesome presentation, and I appreciate the fact that you've done so much research and all, and I'm glad that you mentioned the federal, I guess it's called the federal coronavirus aid relief and economic security act if that's the federal money that you're referring to and what I have found was that it's gonna be about five million dollars probably for us but like like you said it's not gonna come directly to us it's gonna go to the state which will you know cipher down to us hopefully but I wanted to ask you something about the the potential potential savings that we might be having because I was reading an article in Texas Tribune about Dallas ISD and they said that they're saving about six million dollars a month. I think that's a bit high because even for us, when you said 12 percent is other than staff, okay, so you know you can count the gas. as a car the utilities you know field trips the teacher of the year awards all this um but 12 is still for our budget 12 million dollars um so i think i i don't know i'm not a an accountant or anything but just looking at that and the potential savings of that have you tried to factor in that that potential savings or have you seen the savings yet and are you we're starting to
see some savings with the bills the utility bills are coming in for the months for example for the month of march and those were down and i mean i approved them just this afternoon uh and it said they're they're down and i expect those type of things uh to be down fuel down uh and so as the as we as we work in these next couple of months and we start seeing those hit our financial statements you're going to see it in your financial reports um you're already starting to see it in the one that you're i'm going to go over later tonight uh in march you're starting to see some of those non-payroll expenditures go down so i do think that there are going to be some expenses that that we will we will see uh we are we are seeing some additional uh expenses that we are going to have that we weren't expecting uh one of those will be in a budget amendment tonight of a half a million dollars uh for protective equipment uh we've already spent well over over a million dollars when it comes down to protective equipment, cleaning facilities, and things that were not going to be normally spent. So we're seeing an uptick in expenses too, but I do think when it's all said and done, we'll save more money than we're having
to spend, at least in Katy. Okay. And may I ask another question, please? please. So on the supply stipend, the extra million and a half that you mentioned, and that's in addition to the teacher allocation per school. So what I want to know about that is, will that be up to, so that'll be up to their discretion, whereas now is the teacher allocation that's given to each of the schools is that up to the principal's discretion?
Yes, that is completely up to the principal's discretion and they are the boss of that money. And what we're trying to do is again find a mechanism to number again to get those two things to happen. Teachers not have to spend their own money just to buy stuff for their classroom. Some of the things that they that they really just want that maybe it's small enough that it doesn't even go through the principal's budget or would because it could but they just want to go ahead and get it without going through that process. And then again, we don't want to ask mom and dads for additional monies. We really feel that we're doing a good enough job. And what this is, is maybe a tool that we can give them to provide supply that they don't have to ask parents for additional things because the district's responsibility is to take that on. And although we do think we do it, we want to put in another mechanism to ensure that we do that. I think that is so wonderful,
and I just have one last question, if I may. It has to do with the projection of the 5.1 percent increase for this coming school year. Based on the fact that we've been closed and these kids have been doing virtual schooling and all this, well, it's kind of a two-part question. First of all, Do you feel, or the people who are helping you do the research, do you feel that this projection is still a valid projection based on that? and then the next part of that same question is with the virtual schooling I was wondering if we could expand on that and make that a bigger you know something more for high school kids to be able to do more because I know that there is kind of limited right now I mean not right now because of COVID-19 but what we had pre that was kind of limited to how much virtual schooling they could do i was wondering if that could be expanded on and actually maybe if we could even have a presentation about virtual
schooling at some point i'm going to let dr gorgorski hit the second part of that question the first part of that question i'll try to answer and and and say this that like every year in the my previous years in this district, we get our maximum enrollment at the first week in May, either the last week in April or the first week in May. So even throughout this COVID-19, when we would get our enrollment reports, we were continually enrolling kids throughout this. So we reached the maximum enrollment. And I don't know what that is right now that we reached all year with this was that first week in may so we've continued to grow throughout the covet 19 thing now we expect and we're already we've got some online enrollments already coming in in waves uh and it's significant numbers i don't think we've turned that on in the past but enrollment is already happening for next school year with new people to town or new students to our district um and we've also as i mentioned earlier hired uh pasa to give us us another look, a kind of a closer step towards the target, because it is an educated guess. But we want to get their thoughts on it again as we get closer towards the summer and closer into this COVID-19 thing, so we can know that, yes, we're still on target with that 5.1 percent, or no, it's going to be less, or it could be more.
more. Yeah, I'll jump in part of that question tha about. But I'll also add about our enrollment proc at. Um we did switch. I m had to close our schools had students enrolling al moving into Katie. And so in school at the time we for full online enrollmen that kids can continue rolling, and we did. We kept enrolling kids all the way through May on this online enrollment. We currently have that system set up in place now, so parents can already start enrolling their children in KDISD for the 2020-21 school year. And we flipped that switch just a couple of weeks ago, and we've already got over 2,500 students in that queue who are planning on coming to KD schools in August. Now what Chris will also tell you when he talked about pasta in there, kids come and kids go. So some will move out of the district as well. That'll be part of that transition. And we'll know a better number in August on that total enrollment and whether or not if we'll hit that percentage that Chris spoke to earlier. Second part on that is we've learned a lot about online learning. I think we can do more with virtual schools. We're doing our entire KSAT program, program, any summer academic term, and we'll be virtual. When you hear from Mr. Schuss today, talk about new positions. Most or many of those new positions that we are allocating are going to be in the area of technology, and we are going to grow our Canvas, what we do through Canvas, which is our learning management system. I know you guys have heard that before, but we're going to look at some different things we can do in the future with Katy Virtual Schools, schools, probably continuing a lot of the practices we see right now into future case that programs and build more or additional programs that can be offered virtually.
Okay, thank you. I think maybe the positive thing that can come out of the expansion of the virtual schools. Thank you very much.
Board members, are there any other questions? Okay, thank you so much, Mr. Smith. Next, Next we have 7.2 School Health Advisory Council, SHAC Annual Report. Our presenter is Mr. Grimmett.
Good evening, President Doyle, members of the board, Superintendent Grogorski. The purpose of the presentation this evening is to annually report to the school board as mandated by Senate Bill 283 with a detailed account of activities discussed at our School Health Advisory Council known as SHAC. The topics covered during our meetings cover health education, physical education, parent and community involvement, staff wellness, counseling and mental health services, healthy and safe school environment health services and nutrition services parents teachers administrators health care professionals community members law enforcement members and non-profit health organization members make up our health our school health advisory council this year our committee met four times in accordance with state regulations Now I will outline the summary of activities discussed during the year, each of the topics related to one of the eight focus areas for School Health Advisory Council. We reviewed the KDISD wellness policy, received information on the KDISD substance abuse prevention curriculum for grades K-5, reviewed the KDISD high school health curriculum on substance substance abuse, specifically on opioid addiction education as part of the mandate from Senate Bill 435. Received information from the KDISD Education Foundation on the KD Half Marathon 5K, 1K, and how it raises funds to enrich learning opportunities for KDISD students. We received information presented by the Harris County Department of Public Health on a youth vaping prevention program and vaping counseling provided to schools in harris county received an overview of trauma informed practices and training provided to counselors and kdisd designed to assist students in dealing with trauma and stress reviewed the district's character education curriculum character strong and purposeful people in response to house bill 1026. received an overview of food allergy management practices within kdisd received information on the harris county childhood lead poisoning prevention program received information on kdisd safety measures implemented in response to the coronavirus and reviewed and approved the annual shack report that concludes my presentation i thank you very much are there any questions
Board members, do you all have any questions? Okay, hearing none, thank you so much for your report.
Thank you.
Next, we'll move on to agenda item 8.1, discuss and consider board approval of the 2020-2021 School Health Advisory Council. Again, Mr. Grimmick, go ahead.
Before you and your packet is a list of our current SHAC members. members as mandated by regulation the school board is required to review and approve the shack membership and so are there any questions or concerns
hearing none i'll entertain a motion madam president mr lacey i move that the board of
trustees approves the proposed 2020 2021 health school health advisory council shack representatives
second i have a motion by mr lacey a second by ms van that the board of trustees approves the proposed 2020 2021 school health advisory council shack representatives we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye aye aye opposed motion passes Thank you so much, Mr. Grimmett. 8.2, discuss and consider board approval of the March 2020 financial reports. Mr. Smith.
All right, yeah, financial reports you have in front of you are to comply with policy. Attached for your approval are the district's financial statements, the construction report, tax report for the period ending March 30th, March 31st, 2020. A summary of the March 2020 check registers are also included for your approval. And upon your passage tonight, we will publish those detail check registers to our website. And it would be my recommendation that the Board of Trustees approves the district's March 2020 financial reports as presented.
Madam President.
Mr. Redmond.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the District's March 2020 financial report. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees approves the District's March 2020 financial report. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed? Motion passes. Agenda item 8.3, discuss and consider Board approval of the May 2020 budget amendments.
Mr. Smith. All right on the budget amendments the general fund local revenue is up by $19,250. It's also up in that amount in expenses for a STEM online summer camp. Additional expenses are up a million one million two hundred thousand dollars. I mentioned this last month during Mr. Teet's presentation on the portable building move. We are needing we're going to need a million two to make that move. In addition, there's $500,000 to provide PP&E and supplies for staff related to COVID-19. That's the protective gear I mentioned during the presentation of a half a million dollars. That's what we're gearing up for moving forward the rest of this summer and into next fall. fall. And then also $71,494 for new and current ESL students over the summer. Approval of these amendments will result in a $1,771,594 decrease to the general fund operating balance. And in addition, the construction fund expenditures move monies freely from one project to another. other so it has no effect on the the construction funds uh fund balance uh but it does move monies to do some flooring needs at memorial parkway junior high and beckendorf junior high thank you
mr smith madam president can i ask a question yes miss kessel actually i think the question's for ken more so than for you mr smith but um i just wondered you know it's a weird year obviously because of virtual school but I was just wondering since you got to the end of the school year how the teacher incentive turned out didn't do you know yet or will will you know that not until June turned out meaning was it 90% was
it 80% that's a good question miss guess up and I don't have those figures in front of me tonight I can certainly get those to the board this week we did see see, I shared with the bo back in January. It's be like a mid year check on were seeing a significant from our teachers and it were heading on a good pa Of course, then when you we really it's going to n to collect data on that. we're hoping that it will continue to show the trajectory we saw last year. But the other side of that, you know, I mean, it's just a little early to tell on some things as we get into next year, what's going to happen with COVID-19 and how is that going to impact staff absences? Not to mention what Mr. Smith was talking about. One of the concerns we have next year is on student ADA as well. And, you know, that's how we get our funding. And will there be greater absenteeism next year with students? as we transition into this. So a lot of unknowns in there. I wish I had better answers for you, but I'll collect some data on that. Mr. Smith may know off the top of his head, I don't want to put too much pressure on him, but how much we budgeted for in last year's budget and the cost of the incentive for this year. And if we can get that tonight, I can get it.
We can look at it next time. I just wondered if you thought, thought, you know, are we just going to continue that for next year because it went well, gave us the desired result?
Yeah, we'll definitely look at the data and share that with the board and see what it looks like moving forward as well. But it's a good question.
Great.
Thanks.
Madam President.
Any other? Yes, Mr. Lacy.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the District's May 2020 budget amendments.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, second by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approves the district's May 2020 budget amendments. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Opposed? Opposed? Motion passes. Agenda item 7.8.4 discuss and consider board approval of the 2020-2021 student accident insurance proposal. Mr. Nauman.
Good evening President Doyle. Dr. Gorski, Board of Trustees. Here this evening to talk to you about our student accident program. The university interscholastic lead accident policy is paid for by the district and provides supplemental medical benefits for accidents incurred by students who participate in UIL activities such as athletics, fine arts, and career and technology education. The plan is the plan is secondary to any other insurance participants may have and includes a supplemental catastrophic policy state law allows school districts to purchase this type of insurance but it is not necessary the insurance also provides voluntary accident insurance for students which includes at school or 24-hour coverage with or without dental coverage those who elect voluntary voluntary coverage pay the associated premium on an individual basis to the carrier the risk management department recently completed a request for proposal to evaluate best value for the district and those covered by the plan the general operating fund expenditures for this coverage for for 2019-2020 were $204,629, which included premiums of $189,000 for UIL coverage and $15,629 for catastrophic coverage. The premium for 2021 will be $243,283, of which $230,000 is for UIL coverage and $13,283 for catastrophic coverage. As a part of this quote, for coverage, the premiums will remain flat for two years. A unique feature to this program is the concussion management program for UIL participants. This program will be conducted virtually with parents and guardians having the ability to consult with a doctor about concussion-related symptoms for up to five visits for free. the uil accident policy provides for student growth and success by providing district paid insurance for student accidents while participating in those related activities for students without other insurance the plan acts as primary a provision of the voluntary student accident insurance is deemed as a public service that provides low-cost accident insurance alternative for students authorized authorization to purchase coverage is granted through FF illegal it is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2021 student accident insurance proposal for UIL events as well as the catastrophic coverage for those events board members do you have
any questions?
Sorry, sorry, I see a question. That's okay. I'm just curious about the so are the you may have said this and maybe I just didn't hear it but so are all the students covered with this regardless of whether they have their own insurance or not?
Yes, if they are participating in a UIL event event or a CTE program, they are covered.
Okay, thank you.
Ms. Vann? I move that Board of Trustees approve the 2020-2021 Student Accident Insurance proposal for UIL events as well as catastrophic coverage for those events.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020-2021 student accident insurance proposal for UIL events as well as catastrophic coverage for those events. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. 8.5 Discuss consider board approval of the 2020-2021 Honors KD Advanced Program courses identified as exempt from no pass no play. Dr. Steele.
Good evening, Board President Doyle, Board members, and Dr. Grogorski. I'm here this evening to present the 2020-2021 courses that are exempt for No Pass, No Play. Each year, we review honors courses in the core subject areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, as well as languages other than English for the purposes of extracurricular eligibility. eligibility. Honors courses that are automatically included are all College Board AP courses, dual credit courses, and precalculus. After review, the No Pass No Play honors courses for this upcoming school year are as listed in your board packet and are being submitted for your approval. There are no changes from last year. Be happy to respond to any questions that you may have at this time. Board members, are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020-2021 Honors CAP courses identified as exempt from No Pass, No Play.
I'll need a second. Second. Thank you. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees is approved for 2020 2021 honors courses identified as exempt from no pass no play who will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye all those opposed motion passes thank you next 8.6 discuss and consider board approval to adopt a resolution related to adjusting annual physical examination requirements under board policy FFAA local for the 2020-2021 school year. Ms. Decker. Good evening Madam
President, Board of Trustees and Superintendent Grogorski. To support social distancing and assist with the workload of the medical professionals on the front lines of COVID-19 pandemic, the UIL has adjusted requirements with new guidelines related to pre-participation physical physical examinations for the 2020-2021 school year. All students participating in UIL marching band and or UIL athletic activities will be required to complete the UIL medical history form. Any yes answer to any of the questions one through six on the medical history form will require a student to receive further medical evaluation, which may include a physical exam and receive written clearance from a physician, physician assistant, chiropractor, or nurse practitioner practitioner before any participation in UIL, practices, games, performances, or matches. Only those students with yes answers to those questions are required to receive written clearance through further medical evaluation. Any participant in athletics or marching band at any grade level who has not previously completed a pre-participation physical evaluation and been cleared for participation will be required to complete the medical history form as noted above, as well as a physical evaluation prior to participation in any UIL practices, games, performances, or matches. The current QDISD Board Policy requires that all participants in UIL athletics get an annual physical. The athletic department is recommending that the school board adopts a resolution related to adjusting annual physical examination requirements under Board Policy FFAA Local for the 2020-2021 school year. So it is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts a resolution related to adjusting annual fiscal examination requirements under board policy FFAA local for the 2020-2021 school year?
Sorry, I had muted myself. Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
I move that the Board of Trustees adopts a resolution related to adjusting annual physical examination requirements under board policy FFAA local for the 2020-2021 school year.
Second. Second.
Was that Mr. Redmond I heard? Okay, making sure. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond. The Board of Trustees adopts a resolution related to adjusting annual physical examination requirements under board policy FFAA local for the 2020-2021 school year. 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 Ms. Decker. 8.7 discuss and consider board approval of a foreign exchange student waiver. Ms. Hack.
Good evening President Doyle, Dr. Gorgorski, and the Board of Trustees. In accordance with BF Legal and BF Local it is recommended the board approve the foreign exchange student waiver as requested through the expedited in general state waivers form from the Texas Education Agency the waiver was presented to the KD Improvement Council our committee I mean it was in a May 2020 email communication due to the COVID-19 impact and inability to meet in person the foreign exchange student waiver request requested includes the following limiting the number of foreign exchange students did not exceed five for high school campus the waiver is applicable applicable for the 20 21 21 22 and 22 23 school calendar years and i would be happy to answer any questions that the board may have board members does anyone have any questions i apologize i didn't turn on my video i'm so sorry madam president mr lacy i
move that the board of trustees approves the foreign exchange student waiver second i have
a motion by mr lacey a second by ms van that the board of trustees approves a foreign exchange student waiver we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye aye all those opposed motion passes next on our agenda 8.8 discuss and consider board approval of a missed school day waiver application to the state commissioner of education due to circumstances arising from covid19 mrs ashland dr gregorsky president doyle members of the board
As you remember from instructional calendar conversations, campuses must obtain a minimum of 75,600 operational minutes with any applicable waivers. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students were not able to physically return to school after spring break. Therefore, the administration is recommending that you approve a missed instructional day waiver and submit to TEA for those missed days from Monday, March 16th through the last day of school, Thursday, May 21st.
Are there any questions? Yes, I have a question. Ms. Champagne? Ms. Ashhorn, thank you for the report. But I'm wondering what we are going to do and what I'm wondering is, is this going to continue on for the new year? And also, what about the students that haven't been able to uh they haven't engaged for whatever reason and are are they being counted in the ada and and and so forth and how are they being counted thank you miss champaign i can't speak to
calendar changes for next school year as far as that is considered however the missed instructional day will allow us to actually claim those minutes to receive funding I know that there might be some separate ad requirements and possibly Chris Smith can speak to regarding those students who have not
engaged are there any other questions board members madam president Ms. Vann.
Ms. I move the Board of Trustees approves a missed school day waiver application to the State Commissioner of Education due to circumstances arising from COVID-19. Mr. Second.
Ms. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves a missed school day waiver application to the State Commissioner of Education due to circumstances arising from COVID-19. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Mr. Aye.
aye those opposed motion passes seven to zero agenda item 8.9 discuss and consider board approval of a contract for char's building services under rfp number 19180a mr graham
trustees glad to see everybody tonight um one of the many areas that uh the great miss bonnie Holland took over was Sharrs formerly known as Medicaid so KDISD our third largest income producer in KDISD is our ability to collect Medicaid Sharrs reimbursement we actually receive about six to seven million dollars per year in this area and I think this is one of those areas that Ms. Holland took over because it's kind of difficult to understand. It's kind of a one-off area. You know, she was an expertise in so many different things. So it now falls to me. I have tasked my administrator over that CHARS area, along with the entire CHARS group, to look at how our ability to increase that funding in the coming years. Along with the plan and goals to look forward, especially in light of the concerns that Mr. Smith outlined earlier, how can we increase that revenue, if at all? In doing so, we spoke with many of the districts in our area and statewide about, do they use a third-party vendor to help them do this Medicaid charge billing? We actually found out that many of them do, and it actually seemed quite an increase in their money that they received, several million dollars worth. So what we did is we put together an RFP and we went out for RFP trying to figure out if there was a way for us to increase the amount of money coming into KDIC. Now again, this isn't taxpayer money, so we're not increasing taxes. taxes. Rather, this is money that is available through Medicaid, formerly known as Medicaid billing. So it's money that all we have to do is account for and apply for and then it comes to our callers. So in doing so, we reviewed the proposals that were sent to us by five or six different vendors. We actually chose, you can see, you've got the score sheet in front of you. MSB was the number one ranked vendor. So now what I'm asking you to do is we don't have a contract in place right now in fact i'm working on money working on language to that extent is to allow me to go ahead and work on that contract with them and execute a contract what i think that this will mean for our bottom line is our conservative estimates are five to seven million dollars increase annually in the money that we will receive from the medicaid charge billing um now this company we're actually not going to pay them out of pocket what we would do is we would pay them a percentage off the top of the monies that we will be receiving for it so it's not that we have to reach into our pocket to pay this vendor in fact i think it's going to be advantageous for kdisd because they're going to help us with our processes we've got a great group here they do a fantastic job but i think given the bandwidth that this third-party vendor can bring it's going to increase the revenue that we that that we get annually, which is money that can be turned around and spent on students and staff. I'm happy to take any questions that anybody may have.
TODD BANDUCCI- Madam President, I do have a question. What is that percentage going to be, Mr. Graham? Do we know yet? Or are you still working on that in the contract?
MR. No, sir. We know that as part of the RFP that each of the companies had to give a percentage. And MSB was actually 3%.
they were the best frame for the price. Okay. So roughly 150 million off of that $5 million budget, or is that 5 million plus the 6 million that we currently are collecting?
I didn't really understand that. And I'm sorry, I have a little bit of a lag here. So right now we are at $67 million a year that we take in. And so when that number goes up to whatever the percentage is, they will take the percentage off the top of that.
Okay, thanks. Madam President? Madam President, I'm sorry, I have another question. I have a question. Ms. Champagne? Yes, what kind of Medicaid-related expenses
do we incur? I mean, who... That's actually a pretty interesting question, right? So you got to think about all of the special needs students that we have and KDI, I think we have one of the highest percentages in the state of Texas as far as the number of students that we have in special education. We're widely known as doing it as one of the best districts in the state. The current CHAR services include assessment, audiology, counseling, school health services, medical services, it's a student's getting OT, occupational therapy, physical therapy from an outside provider, psychological services, speech therapy special transportation and personal care services so these are these are services if they are provide if they are provided by qualified professionals with a contract with the district and because we are enrolled as a medicare provider we can bill for them it's just an administrative function on our part that we actually have to do so think about all of those different areas that we touch all those different kids it's a really technical and involved process our group does a great job they're going to really work oversight with this um with this third party dinner and i think we're going to see that number increase madam president i have another question about
this so medicaid as far as i understand is a benefit that's for children that are disabled under before the age of 18 and so but it also requires a certain income level of the parents is this something different than just the individual family that has qualified for Medicaid or is this something that KDISD can provide to all
of their disabled children well so I want to I want to make very clear that that this does not affect what happens in the student's home. It does not affect their ability within their own home. It's just an ability for us to collect for services. Does that make sense?
So this is different from their individual family needs. This is something that our district can do for them as a service.
It's something that we provide because we are providing it as a district. Again, we have folks that are qualified professionals. That's a very technical term. Once you're a qualified professional and we're billing for your services, then we can bill and receive reimbursement for the time spent in school. Again, it doesn't affect the home life.
Board members, any other questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for Schar's Billing Service with MSB Consulting as recommended by the administration.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Mann that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for Schar's Billing Services with MSB Consulting as recommended by the administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed? Motion passes. agenda item 8.10 discuss consider board approval of additional department staffing needs to address growth for the 2020-2021 school year mr. Schuss
members of the board dr. Gorski tonight we are requesting approval of our 2020 2021 department staffing additions this year we were very conservative when it came to our department staffing additions and I would like to thank all of these departments helping us keep these additions to a minimum these are additions are due in large part as you all know to our district growth and our department needs based on that district growth and as Dr. Pogorski mentioned earlier and as you can see several of those positions this year are technology based so we are requesting 29 additional staffing members this year that's going to cost the district about one and a half million dollars in contrast last year we requested about 56 additional staffing units to the tune of approximately two and a half million dollars so about a million dollars less in ads this year and 27 uh less positions and from that i can i can take any questions madam president miss guess i have a question actually
it's one of those that i already kind of know the answer to but because i asked um dr grigorski about it but i wondered if dr caskey could talk about it a little bit the curriculum and instruction the reading academy cohort leaders i was asking what those are clearly that's a brand new position and i think it's a result of house bill three just like to understand what
those people are going to be doing sure absolutely will do um so as part of house bill 3 it requires all elementary principals and all teachers in grades k through three to participate in a reading a reading academy and so in the spring kdic applied to become an authorized provider meaning that we could provide our own services to our our principals and to our teachers which we would prefer to do because we could easily align that with our kdic curriculum so we've already put into play the reading specialist teacher so next year will be year one and our focus is going to be on our principals and our instructional coaches and then these two positions will help us with the capacity because we have so many teachers that we have to train in grades k through three so we'll roll the teachers into year two and into year three i hope that does that answer your question yes thank you any other questions
okay i'll entertain a motion madam president mr redmond i move that the board of trustees
approves the additional department staff needed to address growth for the 2020- 2021 school year as recommended by the superintendent second I have a motion by
mr. Redmond a second by miss van that the Board of Trustees approves the additional department staffing needed to address growth for the 2020-2021 school year as recommended we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Schatz. Eight and 11, discuss and consider board approval of a blanket electrical easement to Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric LLC associated with the installation of a storage building at the South Maintenance Center. Mr. T.
Good evening, President Doyle, board member, Dr. Grygorski. It's recommended that the board of trustees awards the Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric LLC a blanket electrical easement associated with the installation of a storage building at the South Maintenance Center as depicted on the attached easement document. Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric LLC has requested an electrical easement to provide the electrical service. After the installation is complete, Centerpoint Energy Electric standard medicine balance easement document which will be used to record the deed for the easement granting the requested easement will ensure that the electrical service is installed in a timely manner are there
any questions and I'm president mr. Lacey I'm with at the Board of Trustees Awards Centerpoint energy Houston electric LLC a blanket electrical easement associated with the installation or a storage building at the south main south maintenance center as depicted on the easement document as recommended
by administration second i have a motion by mr lacey a second by mr redmond that the board of trustees awards center point energy houston electric llc a blanket electrical easement associated with the installation of a storage building at the south maintenance center as depicted on the easement document 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 mr teague you're going to be with us for quite a few i'm going to let you just go ahead and roll through these after we vote you can go ahead into the next presentation if that'll make it easier
yes ma'am thank you all right thank you it's recommended that the board of trustees approves the interlocal agreement with fort bend county municipal utility district number 173 for the recreational facilities at Campbell Elementary. Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District 173 has approved to fund up to $30,000 towards the purchase and installation of additional playground equipment at Campbell Elementary. The campus parent teacher association is funding the balance of the new equipment in the amount of $101,672. The maintenance and operations department will oversee the installation and provide the future upkeep and routine maintenance a copy of the proposal and of the additional equipment and the interlocal agreement are included for your review granting the requested easement will ensure that the electric that they I'm sorry I said that wrong the interlocal agreement has been reviewed for the district legal counsel
and approved as to form are there any questions board members madam president Ms. Vann.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District, MUD, number 173, for the recreational facilities at Campbell Elementary School. Second.
Was that Mr. Keller?
It was Mr. Keller.
Okay. I'm awake. Thank you. I'm awake. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Keller, that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with portman county municipal utility district med number 173 for recreational facilities at campbell elementary we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye aye all those opposed motion passes
go ahead mr t i'm bringing a recommendation that the board of trustees approves the proposal for the minor construction project at cinco ranch high school morton ranch high school and seven lakes high school baseball and softball fields to Nash industries in the amount of three million one hundred ninety six thousand dollars utilizing the choice partners cooperative purchasing contract number sixteen slash oh five four JM dash oh nine and a total project cost not to exceed three million four hundred and five thousand two hundred sixty dollars previously in November of 2019 the board approved a project for renovations to the baseball and softball fields at these three schools the request is a revision to that original approval and will bring up these fields to the current district standards and improve both student and spectator safety utilizing a different contractor than originally approved six contractors were asked to provide pricing and we had to to respond to the request. The total project cost also includes the engineering fees and an owner's contingency for any unforeseen conditions. Estimated completion is September the 15th, 2020, and a copy of the evaluation tabulation, proposal and recommendation letter is included for your review. Again, the project funding sources is 2017 bond savings and approval of this recommendation will provide for the completion of the renovations prior to the start of the 2020-2021 school season.
Are there any questions, board members?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the minor construction project at Cinco Ranch High School, Morton Ranch High School, and Seven Lakes High School baseball and softball fields to Nash Industries as recommended by the administrator.
right second i have a motion by mr lacey is second by ms van that the board of trustees approves the proposal for the minor construction project at cinco ranch high school martin ranch high school and seven lakes high school baseball and softball fields to nash industries as recommended by the 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 continue mr t i'm bringing a
recommendation that the board of trustees approves the proposal for the retrofit of exterior lighting at the educational education support complex and leonard merrill center to e3 integral solutions inc in the amount of 313 559 utilizing the by board cooperative contract number 602-20 the current exterior lighting in is original and is in need of upgrading for safety and energy savings The lighting will be replaced with the district standard LED lighting to provide for reduced operating costs and better security. Work will be coordinated to not interfere with the daily work or facility use schedules. Estimated completion of the project is November 30, 2020. A copy of the proposal is included for your review. The project funding source is TERS. Approval of this recommendation will provide for reduced operational costs and improve staff and public safety.
Are there any questions, board members? Madam President. Ms. Vann.
I move the Board of Trustees approves proposal for the retrofit of exterior lighting at the Education Support Complex and Leonard Merrill Center to E3 Integral Solutions Incorporated as recommended by administration.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves a proposal for the retrofit of exterior lighting at the education support complex and leonard merrill center to e3 integral solutions incorporated as recommended by the administration we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye
all those opposed motion passes 8.15 yes ma'am i'm bringing a recommendation that the board of trustees approves the proposal for the retrofit of interior lighting at alexander elementary and williams elementary schools to e3 integral solutions inc in the amount of three hundred thousand one hundred and nine dollars utilizing the byboard cooperative purchasing agreement number 602-20 and a total project budget of three hundred and seventy five thousand one hundred and nine dollars the interior lighting at these two facilities was identified for replacement as part of the 2017 bond component replacement the lighting will be replaced with our district standard led lighting and provide for reduced operating costs and improved visibility inside the buildings work will be coordinated to not interfere with the daily work or facility use schedules estimated completion of this project is november the 30th 2020 a copy of the contract and and the recommendation letter are included for your review. Again, the project funding sources is 2017 bond components.
Board members, are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Redmond.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the retrofit of interior lighting at Alexander Elementary and Williams Elementary Schools to E3 Integral Solutions Inc. as recommended by administration I have a motion a second by miss guests off
that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the retrofit of interior lighting at Alexander Elementary and Williams elementary schools to e3 integral solutions incorporated as recommended by administration we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye Aye.
Aye. Aye.
All those opposed? Motion passes. Thank you so much, Mr. Teague. Thank you. Next, we have Discuss and Consider Board Approval of a Contract for the Construction of Vehicular Stacking and Driveway Improvements at Galbo and Schmalz Elementary Schools. Ms. Kastman.
Good evening, President Doyle, Trustees, and Dr. Gagorski. This evening I have three items for your consideration. consideration. First item is to consider the approval of a contract to Stuart Builders for the construction of vehicular stacking and driveway improvements at Galbo and Schmaltz Elementary Schools. The $609 million bond authorization provided funding for vehicle stacking at various campuses. Harris County requested vehicle stacking at Galbo and Schmaltz Elementary Schools. Seal proposals were received on May 5th. Two seal proposals were received with Stuart builders Inc ranking first overall the contract for Stuart builders is in the amount of 1 million 157 thousand four hundred seventy five dollars for a total project cost of 1 million 587 thousand this work will be completed for an August 2020 start board members are there any questions madam
president I have a question yes miss Casman this may not be a question for you but it is good to see you but um i'm just wondering when are we going to be kind of done with our expenditures for the from the 2017 bond money maybe dr grubowski you can say that i know that we're still working on several projects but i'm just curious when about how much longer is
this going to be i know from my project point of view we'll be having projects through 2021 But I think there are other departments that will have stuff going on. Okay, thanks.
Are there any other questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees awards the contract to Stuart Builders for the construction of vehicular stacking and driveway improvements at Galbo and Schmalz Elementary as recommended by administration.
Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees awards the contract to Stewart Builders Incorporated for the construction of vehicular stacking and driveway improvements at Galbo and Schmalz Elementary Schools as recommended by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Ms. Caspin, 8.17.
Second item is to consider the approval of a minor contract to engineered air balance for the testing and air balancing services for junior high 17. As the heating, ventilation, air conditioning systems are installed in different areas of facility, a testing and balancing firm is required to test the HVAC systems and balance the air consistent with the project specifications.
Are there any questions?
Ms. Vann? I move that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Engineered Air Balance Company Incorporated for air testing and balancing services associated with the construction of Junior High School Number 17 as recommended by administration.
Second.
Was that Mr. Lacey?
It was both of us at exactly the same time. Okay.
I thought I heard. Go pick your favorite. Oh, okay. Okay, I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Engineered Air Balance Company for air testing and balancing services associated with the construction of Junior High School number 17 as recommended by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Those opposed? Motion passes. Agenda item 8.18, Ms. Cassman, go ahead.
The final item is to consider board approval of the plot for the outdoor learning center. The plans for the outdoor learning center are complete and have been submitted to the City of Katy. However, before the City of Katy will commence review of these plans, they require a recorded plot of the site. Approval of this recommendation at this time will allow us to proceed with obtaining the approval of construction plans to stay on track for facility opening for April 2021.
21. are there any questions board members
madam president mr redmond i move that the board of trustees approves the plat for the outdoor learning center second second i have a motion by mr
redmond a second by ms van that the board of trustees approves the plat for the outdoor learning center 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, Ms. Kastner. Next, board members, we have agenda item 8.19, discuss and consider board approval of the minutes of the April 2020 board meeting.
Madam President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the meeting held in April 2020.
Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Mann, that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the meeting held in April 2020. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next, discuss 2020 high school graduation ceremony options. Dr. Gryburski.
Thank you, President Doyle. So this topic is probably the one that everybody's been hanging on to. I'm pins and needles waiting for a good discussion on this to see what we're going to do. we were waiting as a district to get uh to receive our further guidance from the state and from tea some of you may or may not know tea was tasked with providing districts a variety of parameters that they would give to us for hosting our graduations as everyone on this zoom meeting knows that our goal has always been to provide an in-person graduation for all of our graduates We feel that is what our graduates deserve, that's what our families want, and that continues to be our goal to do. At the same time, we need to operate under the parameters outlined by the state of Texas and by the Texas Education Agency. So with that said, recently Governor Abbott put out some conditions and TEA gave some guidance. And that one of the provisions for an in-person graduation is to allow for outdoor graduations in a larger type venue. i.e a stadium or something to that nature we've we've talked about this as a group uh internally as a district and we've we've boiled this down to probably three different decisions we could make in terms of graduation we continue to have dates on hold for june and july for an in-person graduation uh and we'd always hoped to get back into our uh lmc and have traditional graduations the way we've always had them but those do that does not look like an option that it's going to to be at this time to be able to bring large crowds. We're talking thousands of people, spectators, families, and graduates into the LMC for graduation. So that's going to be a challenge for us to host one indoors. So that gives you another option of hosting an outdoor graduation with social distancing, putting families six feet apart, putting the graduates apart on the field. But we could accomplish an outdoor graduation in our legacy stadium for all of our graduates. And then the last option would be that we've considered and looked into is, and some districts have chosen to do this in Texas and they've created virtual graduations. They include a stage, graduates walk across the stage, photos are taken, videos are made, videos are shot in advance, and it's all put together into a ceremony and a keepsake. sake for all the families we could certainly look at a virtual graduation uh in in informal discussions uh what i would say is there there does not seem to be a whole lot of interest in a virtual graduation from the people i've spoken with or the people that i've heard from i get emails on this all the time and people reach out they ask me the same question all the time so i think it would be good for a discussion between board members i know a couple of board members have seniors and I know many of the board members have family relatives friends who are going to be graduates or in school right now and so it'll be a good opportunity for us to have some discussions and decide what we need to do as a district moving forward and figure out how we're going to graduate these 2020 seniors who are deserving of that honor members does anyone have any
questions or statements for Dr. Grzegorski. Madam President, Dr. Grzegorski, I
appreciate all of your information and I know that this is such a hard decision to make and I really appreciate that you're allowing us to have some input into this. So what I will say is that as a parent of a 2020 graduate and you know of course I know a lot of the kids and the other parents and everything. I agree with you about the virtual graduation maybe not being the best decision, but I do, I just want to say that I want us to come up with something tonight and I'm hoping that that's, that that can be achieved. And what if it has to be virtual then I will be accepting of that. If it, you know, but you know just to have a date would be good. And if we could at least come up with the date of the graduation, whether it be June or July, I think that that would give a lot of people a lot of happiness tonight. That's all I want to say about that.
Madam President. Mr. Keller. I won't prolong this, but I have a senior as well. And I'll just echo what Dawn said. said this is the thing I hear most from her friends and her and I think the district's done a good job of monitoring things but hopefully we can reach some kind of understanding of when this is going to be so people can make plans with their families and and the kids will know what the plan is but again I do understand why we've approached it this way
it. Anyone else, board members? Madam President, I do want to ask this other thing because I don't live over there and I don't drive around a lot over in that part of the town, but is the Legacy Stadium parking lot under construction right now? No, ma'am. Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't know.
Road Stadium. We had approved Road Stadium parking be refinished.
So they're working on roads right now?
Yes.
Okay.
Dr. Grigorski, the COVID testing site at Legacy is going to be removed at the end of May. Do we have an estimated completion of the Road Stadium parking lot?
I'm going to go ahead and ask either Mark or Lisa who might know more of that actual completion date. I do not recall it at the time right now. But we'd be fine with just the Legacy parking lot. As you had mentioned, we did have Harris County sharing that parking lot in Legacy Stadium. They are scheduled to end all their COVID-19 drive-thru testing by the end of May. So that parking lot becomes free once again. I'll also mention, because I've had a couple of questions and while I'm on here, mention that we have a site through Fort Bend County that's over at Seven Lakes High School right now. And that site is going to be relocated at the end of the month over to Seven Lakes Junior High. to anticipate for some of the summer activities that we should soon be able to do at our high schools involving camps and activities and sports. So we're going to make that change as well. I want to let the parents know who might be watching that we're going to free up that parking lot as well in those facilities. But I see Ms. Kastman has jumped back on. I think she can help us out with
the parking lot at Rhodes. July is the anticipated completion date.
Okay. I too have a senior, so we have three of our board members that have seniors, and I do think it's very important for our kids to experience something other than a virtual graduation. If we have the ability to host something outdoors, keeping in mind safety parameters that have been put in place by our governor, keeping our community as safe as possible, our kiddos as safe as possible, I would like to see us execute that. And sooner rather than later, keeping in mind that at any given moment, the governor can overrule any decisions that we make. And so I just hope that the community understands that, that right now we are at the will of what the governor has put the parameters around us and we can only do what we can do. And that could change tomorrow as we've seen this ever changing process the past eight weeks. So I think that we need to get something in place, you know, a plan in place, share that with our community as quickly as possible so that they can make plans and then and then move forward and pray that hopefully there are no changes between now and our June graduation dates that we have held so we can get these kiddos graduated and celebrated as quickly as possible.
Madam President?
Yes, Mr. Lacey.
I have a question for Dr. Vygorsky. You know, I'm assuming that we're going to have these graduations in the evening, all of them in the evening, and knowing that we're getting into a season that could be rainy in the evening, are we going to schedule like eight evenings and then have a couple of rain out dates extended into the next week or how what's your plan or what's your
thought on that that's a good question mr. Lacey and we have we have plans in place for all three options should we choose to exercise one or one of those this evening which we can and we can have that like we're continuing have our discussion um but should we have the outdoor uh option at legacy one i think the parking lot after everything we've looked at is large enough to to hold all of the people that would be driving there so we shouldn't have any problem with what's going on at rhodes right now with parking we did look at different options for uh evening graduations that's what the schedule looks like right now that had been tentatively developed and we would do eight straight nights there and we would do do them in the evening. A be the start after watchi by eight p.m. Both sides side. So one side does no one gets the sunny by doi So they would be done in got lights out there and that. So that's kind of l at. Um our contingency pl and get all of all of the within a period of time w would be is if you get a rain out the night prior or the night of your graduation, we would try to move that pending bad weather and what's going on to 8 a.m. the next morning. So if you don't graduate the night prior, you get ready for 8 or 9 a.m. the next morning while it's still a little bit cool, but then we're not forced to be constantly rescheduling weeks and weeks out. and if people are in town for graduations they don't have to leave town and come back now eight or nine days later so there's a few things we thought of in terms of that to go ahead and expedite and get those handled each
night and each morning really like that idea that's great madam president miss
champagne I was thinking about this I know this may be a crazy question but I I know that some school districts have done, and maybe our school is too big, but kind of like a drive-through, you know, where they could see the screen from their cars or from the parking lot. And the reason why I bring that up, not to have everybody do that, but I can't remember if we can see the screen from the parking lot of Legacy Stadium, but that might help with the social distancing a little bit. if that was a problem, if some people stayed in the parking lot, and I don't know. I'm just
throwing that out there. Well, annually, our graduations are live-streamed, so that's always been an option for people who couldn't come in town before all of this, so I'm sure, it's my understanding, we'll still be live-streaming. You know, it's not, it's kind of, being in the parking lot is kind of closer to being there, but at least you're in the air conditioning, and you you feel if someone's uncomfortable going to a crowd they're where they feel safe and they can still witness the graduation so i just know yeah we've always we've always live streamed it right
and i just thought that you know this would be another another thing for them like like you said you know they'd be a little bit closer they could sit in their car whatever but a running car in a
parking lot for two hours i don't know i don't believe there's ability to see the the monitors from the parking lot am i correct dr gregorski i'm trying to picture legacy i i don't i think
it's blocked by the stands the actual school board yeah i can't say that i've asked anyone to park a car out there and see if there are any locations that can see the the jumbotron from the parking lot but i think we are going to need just about every parking bit we have for the guests and for the students and it might present some real challenges then to invite more guests to sit there and watch it on the lives or on the jumbotron um if it were even possible from some locations We could certainly look at that, but I don't think that's going to be an option. But like Ms. Vann had mentioned, yeah, live streaming, we've already talked about that. We're going to have the ability to live stream it and you can watch it in the comfort of your own AC if you're not able to attend in person. And as always, we videotape them and we take photos and everyone would have those opportunities still the same way we do in a traditional graduation.
Madam President. Ms. Gassoff.
I don't know if I can answer that question. if uh just if mr graham is still on the line or maybe mr nalman but i hate to put my safety hat on but um i'd be interested in mr graham's view of what our risk and liability is from having in-person graduations you know and i'm sure you guys have already given us a whole lot of thought i mean we're not going to make people sign waivers but you know you set guidelines you set the chairs far apart and then people sit beside each other and hug each other and take pictures in the parking lot what is KDISD's risk associated with that?
Trustees can you hear me? Yes. I've had to move to the mobile phone my computer crashed birthday surprise so I will tell you that this is an issue that we have been discussing there's a group of general counsels throughout the state of Texas that represents school districts and this has been a topic of discussion amongst our group. I can tell you that from a risk and liability standpoint, quite honestly, KDISD has sovereign immunity by statute and so I'm less concerned about the fiscal impact to KDISD or the risk of lawsuits at KDISD, but we are cognizant of the fact that if people are going to show up, it has to be completely voluntary, right? Now all graduations are voluntary, but we're really going to focus on the, hey, we're providing you all of these other options and how to do this. So if you're going to show up, it's going to be completely voluntary. And we're going to do our best the best job that we can um i think that i know that we've had groups out there for several weeks trying to work on contingency plans for this board of trustees to consider and so uh really i don't want to provide legal advice um in this particular format miss gassoff but what i can tell you is i think that the that the risk to the district is low so long as we um make it clear to our community that if you show up you have to you are assuming the risk of being present now we're going to do what we can but you're assuming this being present does that
make sense yes absolutely thank you for that dr gregor skis are we considering um will masks be optional or for participants and for the students or will they be mandatory um What are our thoughts on that?
Yeah, we've talked about that. That right now I'm not aware of any mandatory mask wearing in Fort Bend or Harris County that we've seen any directives. We've seen some come out, but the governor has certainly stepped in and overruled some of those mandates that had been there. Certainly any family who would like to wear a mask as a guest. I mean that's certainly welcome and probably a good idea you know but we plan on for the if we were with an outdoor option we plan on social distancing those who do not come together as a family by at least six feet as per the orders that we've been given and you know I mean like a mr. Graham was talking about there we're gonna put all the preventative measures in place and do those things. As for the students, if those students would like to wear a mask, we would certainly provide those for the kids. That way we've all got the same standard mask and everyone has an opportunity to have one and all the graduates down there would be able to use those as they participate in the exercises.
Madam President.
Ms. Champagne.
I have a question about the social distancing and sitting in the stands. hands. So in the, in the past, you know, a family would get eight tickets or something. Let's, let's act like it's eight. I have no idea, but it does, it doesn't really matter how many it is, but let's act like it's eight. So the group of eight people are going to, so, you know, we want six things, six feet between them or whatever. Are we going to rely on the, that group of eight to sit six feet apart? Because what I'm trying to think is if you marked it off, some people might have two, some people might have three, some people might have eight. How would you mark off a distance between people, pre-mark them off when you don't know where the group of eight is going to sit versus the one person that's going to sit?
Yeah, there could definitely be some challenges in that to try to account for. where you have to remember we have as many as our largest class this year is about 920. So to try to account for individual differences for 920 families and then try to mark those spaces off in the stadium would be near impossible in trying to guide those folks to it. So once we map out how many we feel we can hold in there per graduation, we would make that number available. like you said eight we haven't come to that decision yet of how many that will be per family and they would be marked off in in terms of that it would not be possible to mark some locations as one some is two some is three some is four some is seven so they would all be marked off that way for for the family
members I would like to make a suggestion again this is something you guys have to look at i know that my niece graduated in a stadium in another state and one of the things that they did is they had certain you know there was just a certain if everybody got four seat four tickets let's say they put tape down this is where those four people sit because that was the only ticket so there was only going to be four people per family um now if somebody starts sharing tickets and things like that that's just going to be completely out of our control you know if somebody's got two family members coming and they've got two extra tickets um but anyway they put tape down to let people know this is where this is the parameter in which you can sit and then there was distance and then so the tape wasn't showing distance between families the tape was actually showing this is where your four people sit this is where four people sit i i'm i'm quite certain that you guys have thought of everything and um and we'll get this worked out in the most appropriate manner with the number of tickets. I would like to reiterate what Dr. Grigorski said that no specific number of tickets have been decided on yet with regard to graduations outdoors. Board members, does anybody else have any comments, questions for Dr. Grigorski regarding this, our graduation ceremonies for this year? Madam President, so Dr. Grigorski,
When do you think we'll have a decision about this?
I was hoping to hear from board members tonight and get some feedback about this because it is a topic that not only impacts the entire board and their families and their friends and folks that they know, but I know you guys get a lot of questions on that. that. Um we've uh we've that we feel confident in our community wants and w wants an in person gradua been our goal. And unless from the board of us putt ready to move forward wit graduation and we would h ready to go and communica to our families. Probabil in the next couple of days we'll be able to get that information out to them about the decision and then a little bit later um giving them the opportunity or sharing with them what uh information needs to be done logistically thank you
again board members any other questions or suggestions for the superintendent okay it sounds like dr gogorski that that everybody was in agreement that an in-person outdoor graduation, get these kiddos graduated and celebrated is really the direction that we'd like for administration to take. So I look forward to y'all working out all the details. And I know that our seniors and their parents will be really happy to hear that as well.
I think so as well. And for all those families, I'll just speak from personal experience. I know it gets a little hot out there. That's something that we'll hear from families. families. But I've worked districts other than Katie graduations every year. S them for a number of year because everything that h kind of overshadows that the moment, the people be able to do for our kids a their accomplishments that be a great ceremony what we do um and uh we're gonna start uh putting our our final um parts together and communicate that out and we'll just move forward with it we'll do this in june and uh we'll be ready to go and it'll
be exciting awesome thank you so much i'm sorry i have a quick question it's more of a point of order do we need to vote on this or can we just we need to just all in to be in agreement mr graham
nothing to vote on in there it was listed in the agenda as a discussion item to get input but not an action item wanted to make sure you bet
all right next we'll move to information items 10.1 the board was provided with a copy of donated items to kdist future meetings the next regular board meeting will be held on monday June 22nd, 2020. There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned and the time is 9.07 PM. Thank you all so much. Have a good evening.
Happy birthday, Justin.
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Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 4.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees, after having considered the recommendation of the superintendent to non-renew the term contracts of the employees as discussed in Closed Meeting, authorizes the superintendent to non-renew their term contract of Robert Turney at the end of the 2019-2020 contract term and authorizes administration to provide him notice of the same.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 4.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Stephanie McElroy as the principal for Bear Creek Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 4.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Shannon Smith as the principal for Shafer Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposed 2020 - 2021 School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) representatives.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 8.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's March 2020 Financial Reports.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 8.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's May 2020 budget amendments.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 8.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020-2021 Student Accident Insurance proposal for UIL events as well as catastrophic coverage for those events.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 8.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020-2021 Honors (KAP) courses identified as exempt from No-Pass, No-Play.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 8.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts a resolution related to adjusting annual physical examination requirements under Board Policy FFAA(LOCAL) for the 2020-2021 school year.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 8.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a Foreign Exchange Student Waiver.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 8.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a Missed School Day waiver application to the State Commissioner of Education due to circumstances arising from COVID-19.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 8.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board approve the contract for SHARS billing services with MSB Consulting as recommended by the administration.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 8.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the additional department staffing needed to address growth for the 2020 - 2021 school year as recommended by the superintendent.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 8.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC a blanket electrical easement associated with the installation of a storage building at the South Maintenance Center as depicted on the attached easement document.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 8.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Interlocal Agreement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District (MUD) No. 173 for recreational facilities at Campbell Elementary.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 8.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the minor construction project at Cinco Ranch High School, Morton Ranch High School and Seven Lakes High School baseball and softball fields to Nash Industries in the amount of $3,196,000 utilizing the Choice Partners cooperative purchasing contract #16/054JN-09 and a total project cost not to exceed $3,405,260.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 8.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the retrofit of exterior lighting at the Education Support Complex and Leonard Merrell Center to E3 Entegral Solutions, Inc. in the amount of $313,559 utilizing the BuyBoard cooperative contract #602-20.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 8.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the retrofit of interior lighting at Alexander Elementary and Williams Elementary Schools to E3 Entegral Solutions, Inc. in the amount of $300,109.00 utilizing the BuyBoard cooperative purchasing agreement #602-20 and a total project budget of $375,109.00.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 019 · AGENDA 8.16
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Stewart Builders, Inc. for the construction of vehicular stacking and driveway improvements at Golbow and Schmalz Elementary Schools in the amount of $1,157,475 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $1,587,000.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 020 · AGENDA 8.17
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Engineered Air Balance Company, Inc. for air testing and balancing services associated with the construction of Junior High School #17 in an amount not to exceed $262,265.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 021 · AGENDA 8.18
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the plat for the Outdoor Learning Center.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 022 · AGENDA 8.19
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in April 2020.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |