Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this regular board meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order. Today is Monday, October 26, 2020, 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 Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?
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Madam President, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for this evening tonight, meeting tonight.
Thank you. At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak in accordance with KDISD Board Policy BED Local. As defined by this Board Policy, the first 10 speakers who signed up by 2 p.m. on Monday, October 26, 2020, and have provided their first and last name will be allowed to address the Board. A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated with the time divided equally among those who have signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes. If you are not finished speaking at the end of your three minutes, your audio will turn off. If speakers wish to share written material with the board, you must email a copy to the Secretary for Board Services for board members, the superintendent, 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 Sections 551.074 and 551.0821, the Board will not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee, or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee. Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues, they must do so through the appropriate local grievance policies, FNG G local DGB a local CKE local or GF local our speakers will be called forward in the order they signed up to speak our first speaker tonight is Jasmine foo okay we'll move on to the next speaker Bonnie Anderson welcome miss
Anderson. Hi, thank you for your time. I would like to speak to you today about the face covering requirement for KD students. As we head into the flu season and see increases in cases of flu, COVID, and other viruses, the mask game we are playing is becoming more and more dangerous. In a CDC study from July, 85% of people with COVID wore masks always or often. Just 3.9% wore a mask never. So what does this tell us? Face coverings are not protecting us from COVID. They are spreading it. So then why are we wearing them? According to a May article from the New England Journal of Medicine, masks serve symbolic roles. They are talismans that may help increase healthcare workers' perceived sense of safety. Here's the actual science. The size of a viral particle is 70 to 80 nanometers. The size of the weave in your cloth face covering is more than 3,000 nanometers. Trying to catch a COVID particle in a cloth mask is like trying to stop a mosquito with a chain link fence. And my wearing a face covering does not protect others from a virus any more than my diet can help somebody else lose weight. We are forcing our children to wear masks eight hours a day, five days a week, and the deadly effects are emerging. Three weeks ago, an elementary school in Michigan shut down due to a strep throat outbreak. The culprit? Face coverings. More than 80% of the population is walking around with strep in their throats at all times. In most cases, this doesn't lead to a strep infection because the bacteria are unable to replicate with normal breathing activity. But when we restrict the exhale of bacteria, especially in a warm, moist environment like a mask, strep thrives and invades our children's little bodies. Strep actually kills thousands of children every year in this country, in contrast to the 121 who have died from COVID. Per Texas Education Code Section 37, a school district may not employ a technique or intervention that impairs the student's breathing, including any procedure that involves obstructing the students airway by placing a cover or mask over the student's face. KDISD's student mask requirements are in direct violation to this. I'm not suggesting we ban masks. I'm suggesting we go back to the policy of parents and their family doctors dictating personal health choices rather than the TEA or the UIL of the school board. If parents wish for their children to wear masks, they should be allowed. The school does not dictate what food parents choose to send for their children nor what medicines may be prescribed or administered in this same spirit of school districts and education agencies historically recusing themselves from the personal health choices of children so too should they neither be a mandating authority nor a consulting entity when it comes to face coverings we are an independent school district wake up and realize the masks are not about safety they are about compliance you have many choices
thank you so much miss anderson our thank you your time is up thank you miss anderson please have a seat thank you so much our next speaker is jenny alexander
Hi, my name is Jenny Alexander. I've got three children currently enrolled in Katy ISD schools. I know that government officials all up and down the line are pointing their fingers to decision makers above them, claiming that their hands are tied and there's nothing that they can do other than what they've been directed regarding masking our children. In the current case, these decisions are handed down they're all couched in medical precautions and the protection of the elderly vulnerable these decisions are not being made by practicing physicians or medical researchers and they're not medically sound they are ultimately being made by one the head of the world health organization dr tedros gubreyesus who's not a physician and has personally committed ethnic cleansing in his nation of ethiopia and to the top funder of the who bill gates who led a company convicted of antitrust violations in the United States and whose philanthropic organizations have been accused in several nations of injecting the populations with sterilization and parallel paralysis agents offered as vaccines. A few weeks ago I sent each of you an article to read about a German neuroscientist Dr. Marguerite Christensen, one of the tens of thousands of physicians and medical researchers who are against anti-social social distancing and masking guidelines. lines. She's expressed grave concerns over the oxygen deprivation and carbon dioxide poisoning mask wearing is exposing our children and adults to. She states that the brain needs a constant supply of oxygen in the proper amounts to grow properly. That oxygen deprivation will lead to cognitive disabilities and that these disabilities will be permanent and unrevocable stunting of brain development in our young. Women's brains don't develop until they're 19 and men until they're 25. And in about 10 years, she says we'll start seeing early onset dementia affecting the adults who've been masked all days. And when the lawsuits start coming in from the damage done by the masks and antisocial social distancing, not just KDISD has the potential to go bankrupt, but all of you too. Additionally, the risks for which these so-called medical interventions are being utilized are statistically zero for children under the age of 18. One minute. And barely higher than zero for those 18 to 60. Why would we want our children and adults to live in constant fear and paranoia about this? Masks are a more constant and ridiculous fear tactic than hiding under your desks to protect you from an atomic bomb, if you all remember that. What's being done in our school district is fraudulent and harmful psychological and medical experimentation that violates both the Nuremberg codes while using the Nuremberg defense. It's not being done by a physician or research scientist, but by you, our elected board members, ultimately at the direction of the World Health Organization, which is headed by a terrorist. You must assert your rights as an independent school district to decline performing illegal and unlawful medical experimentation on our children and the faculty and staff.
Thank you, Ms. Alexander. Our next speaker is Robert Willoughby.
It's been a while. Y'all look great. My name is Robert Willoughby. I do live in the district. Some of my children even graduated from KDISD. President Doyle. Since early 2013, your journey has been filled with many highs and a few lows. Thank you for all you have endured on behalf of our community, our district, the teachers and staff, and mostly the work you have done for the students you serve. Leadership can be tough, and with tough decisions come great rewards. The district you leave is in the best shape it's ever been. You have met every challenge put before you and the results have exceeded all of our expectations. As my last public comment to you as my trustee, I say your service has been a job well done one with fairness and grace on behalf of those who support you thank you thank you my friend and may god bless you as you continue your journey thank you mr willoughby
for your kind words this concludes the open forum portion of our meeting we will move over to agenda to item 5.1 as our pledge leader is already here and so we want to go ahead and give her the opportunity to speak. Dr. Grigorski. Thank you Ms. Doyle. Yes we have a special guest today and it's
great to have kids back in and doing our pledges. We haven't had that quite a while so I'm going to invite our special guest Valeria Trejo if you will please come up and give me a minute and then I'm going to turn it over to you in one second. But Valeria is from Olga Leonard Elementary. She's in in third grade. Our principal at Leonard Elementary is Stephanie Vaughn, and Valeria's parents are Carlos and Jeanette Trejo. She's got a little brother, JC, who is one years old. Special interest of our student special guest today, Taekwondo level one brown belt. That's exciting. Favorite subjects, art, writing, music, and science, and some quotes about the student from Mrs. Smyers. Valeria is studious, kind, and helpful. She is always willing to help a classmate or teacher in need. She is a proud leopard who loves learning new things. And from Ms. Roseman, Valeria is a model student, and it is evident that she loves learning. She always puts forth her best effort and never hesitates to help a classmate or a teacher. All right, it's all yours.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible. Good evening, President Doyle, board members, and Superintendent Gagorski. My name is Valeria Trejo. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here. I am proud to be a Leonard Leopard because it is a great school. It has taught me how to be a critical thinker and it has introduced me to wonderful teachers. Two years ago, I was nervous to leave Bethke, but it has turned out to be an amazing experience. Ms. Vaughn makes all of us feel welcome and like we're part of the Leonard family. I hope to make her and my school proud. It's an honor to be here. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The Board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under Section 551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes. Texas Government Code 551.071, 551.129, and 551.074. The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, October 26, 2020, and the time is 6.50 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, October 23, 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 a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. We have already had our pledges this evening because our pledge leader was already here, so we're going to move right on over to agenda item 6.1. Consider board approval of naming junior high number 17 as recommended by the
naming advisory committee dr grigorski thank you ms doyle um so last month as you know we brought forward a recommendation in the meantime we had a public hearing and we stand firm on our recommendation of junior high junior high 17 as bill and cindy hasket junior high school
madam president mr lacey i moved at the board of trustees names junior high number 17 bill and and Cindy Haskett Junior High School, as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redman, that the Board of Trustees names Junior High Number 17, Bill and Cindy Haskett Junior High School, as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. All right. We'll move on to discussion 7.1, discuss and consider future board approval of naming the former L.D. Robinson Pavilion as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee. Dr. Grogorski.
Thank you, Ms. Doyle. So as you know from last month that we said we were going to put together a committee, which we did, and that committee has brought forward a recommendation AND THAT NAME RECOMMENDATION TO PUT ON THAT BUILDING IS MARTHA KEY, ECI PROJECT TYKE. AND I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MARTHA. MARTHA IS CURRENTLY THE DIRECTOR OF KDISD'S EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION PROJECT TYKE PROGRAM AND HAS BEEN WITH THE PROGRAM FOR 28 YEARS. FOR HER 40 YEARS AS AN EDUCATOR, INCLUDES PROJECT TYKE EARLY INTERVENTION SPECIALIST, TEACHER OF STUDENTS WITH AUDITORY IMPAIRMENTS, EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER, AND A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER. And in addition to the work with KDISD, Martha also is the chair of the Texas Council of ECI Program Directors Consortia, serves on the KDISD Special Education Leadership Team, coordinates the transition of the district's Part C students to Part B programming, works with Texas legislatures, and Texans care for children to assist in the development of initiatives and legislation benefiting ECI children, and was recently honored with a position on the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Special Education and Education of Hearing Impaired Students from Trinity University. Her postgraduate degree is from University of Houston with an emphasis in elementary education. Martha has two sons who graduated from Katy High School, and she plans to retire from Katy ISD this December 2020. 20. very good thank you so much next seven if i make yeah mr just one second i know martha and her family is here i think she'd like to introduce him and then she'd ask to say a few words yeah that would be great if she could thank you great sorry i didn't want to miss that no welcome
Dr. Grzegorski, all the board members, Dr. Caskey, Leslie Haack, Christopher Smith. ECI Project Type began over 30 years ago with just 25 children. ECI was a dream of Bonnie Holland and Helen Gilbert, the director of special education at the time, and together they applied for the first ECI grant and provided opportunities to children and families of the district KDI SD is the only ECI program to serve one district in the state of Texas our program and staff have always provided quality and excellent year-round services to the infants and toddlers of KDI SD we are excited and proud to we are excited and proud that we will have have a place to call our home. Many of our children have graduated and have gone on to lead successful lives because of you, the KDISD School Board. At this point, ECI Project Tyke has had almost 17,000 children referred to our program for services, and we have gladly served each and every child in their family. So I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and the nominating committee and the recommendation of the new ECI building to be named Martha Aki ECI project type building first and foremost I would like to thank Fred Schaefer in believing in me and providing me the opportunity of a lifetime he will always hold a special place in my heart the possible naming of this building represents the diligence of my parents and ensuring that their children all four of us be provided the opportunity to be educated at the University of our our choice and to choose the professions that we loved. They both instilled in us a work ethic of pride, dedication, responsibility, with an emphasis on excellence, just like Katie ISD. My family came to the United States via the Canary Islands in Mexico. Members of my family are actually in the junior high school Texas history books, and one in particular, my great aunt Jovita Idar, recently was selected to represent represent Hispanics as the choice of the Google landing page for the National Hispanic Month. The naming of this building will represent a long line of educators as well as community service professionals in our family, two of which are my children. My oldest son, Randy, arrived today from Okinawa after a three-year assignment to become the new head systems analyst for Army Special Forces at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. I will be meeting my newest grandson of 19 months over the Thanksgiving holidays my youngest son rusty is a teacher and head golf coach at Reagan High School in Northeast Independent School District he is one of many educators in our family others are represented represented at cipher ISD and Texas A&M University an interesting tidbit of information is that dr. Gagorski was the assistant principal at Katy High School when rusty and my My daughter-in-law, Emily Vivio Aki, were at Katy. They even named their first child Katy. And as you know, it's a Katy thing if you understand the allegiance to Katy High School. My husband of 43 years, Ron, who many of you knew, volunteered as a sports photographer for Katy High School for 25 years and would be so very proud as the name Aki will represent his Hawaiian Chinese heritage. heritage. I know he is looking down as he knew and understood the dedication of our ECI program and our staff. Last but not least, I would also like to thank Julie and Derek Spear. These two special people have supported me the last 10 years as I balanced being an administrator and a caregiver. I could not have done life without them. Again, the roots of our friendships begin at Katy High School. So thank you Katy ISD School Board for your support throughout the years and your continued support as a new legacy begins. So it is with great honor that I accept this nomination on behalf of myself and my family. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, thank you, Martha. So just so everybody knows, the process remains the same. We bring a recommendation forward that the committee gives me. We will have a public hearing sometime between now and the next board meeting, and then we will bring back a name for formal and final action next month.
Wonderful. full agenda item 7.2 discuss 2021 high school graduation ceremony options dr gregorski
okay so as everybody knows but i'll give a recap uh well of course we're still in covid but the covid 19 got us pretty good last spring and we ended up shifting our entire graduation schedule the way it had been done for many years from the leonard merrill center and school districts were not allowed to have indoor graduations last year so we had to go to an outdoor graduation so it was great thing to have legacy stadium in this district as that opportunity to do that and in doing so a lot of people really liked the way we had done things at legacy stadium and came back this year with some recommendations principals have discussed this and they wanted to move forward with a change that we had moved from leonard merrill center to doing them in legacy stadium in the future and And that was something that I wanted to support as a change, but I also want to give the board an opportunity to talk about those changes. It's a pretty big change, what we're going to do. There are several pros to that that we've discussed in the past. When we are at Legacy Stadium, in a non-COVID environment, where we don't have to do 50% capacity with seating and this, but we feel we can meet all of our patrons' needs, we would be able to have graduations there without tickets. Everybody could come, and there would be no problem with parking and some of the other issues we have at the Leonard Merrill Center with the small size buses getting in and out. So we do look forward to that as those changes. Of course, on the con side, definitely weather is always a factor. But we would have the Leonard Merrill Center as a backup should we need to go into that facility if we make this change. But I did want to bring that forward for discussion. I've sent the board proposed dates. And you guys have seen that in the board notes that you guys can take a look at that of what that would look like. But it would look a whole lot like we did last year, just a whole lot more crowded probably with everybody coming out for those graduations. So I'll turn it back to you, President Doyle. If the board wants to discuss that or anything, I'd like to hear their thoughts on making that change.
Are there any comments or questions?
Madam President. Ms. Champagne. I would like to just say that I personally had a child that graduated during that time, and I know a few of us did here on the board. And I personally really loved it, and I know that all her friends and the parents and everything. and I know that we have the backup plan and everything to go to the Merrill Center but I do have a question about that so at legacy you could have more guests and then you know that rained or something we had to switch over to Merrill is there gonna be like a priority you know like here's your top six people and the next four people are your people who can't come if it rains
or you know yeah miss champagne we'd envision being very similar to the way we've done it before at the LMC with a ticketed system so graduates could still have tickets that they would give out to their family members a limited number as you know if we do let me pick on a big one like Tompkins that was one of our largest graduations there'd be fewer tickets because the graduation is so large compared to maybe one of our smaller graduations like pay toe where where those families would get more tickets, you know how that goes. So it would be ticketed in that way that if we had to move into the Merrill Center, there would be a limited number of seats that would be available. Now we could certainly look at other options outside of that. You might recall last year we had a contingency plan that if we got rained out the night before, we were planning on doing the graduation the very next morning to stay on schedule, and that would have been done at 8 a.m. the next morning. We can continue with a plan like that, but if you get multiple days of rain, it starts to back up. There are some challenges with that, but if any of the board would like us to look at some of those things, we'd certainly do so before we make a final decision on the graduations.
I think I would personally like that as a contingency plan because I know this may seem minor to some people, but if you have a family and a lot of people are traveling in and everything because they think they can bring 12 people and also that rains you know maybe there is one more chance of tomorrow morning it won't rain and those same 12 people can still go I don't know yeah it
certainly makes sense our goal in all of this would be to try to accommodate every family member who wants to be there everyone wants to be part of it and we think we could do that in legacy Stadium and like I said what a great stadium to have to be able to do this for our kids
it's guess I'll really quick I thought it was fabulous I thought the whole experience was fabulous last year the bubbles and the drone and the energy was so high i loved the idea love that we're considering it would you you know when it's at the merrill center we always bus the kids in you know the parents drive in and the kids are bus but this year because of covet
everyone drove how do you anticipate that working yeah um i'd have to ask uh miss hack over there if that had been discussed on the student transportation piece but i agree with what you're saying miss gassoff i like the idea because it's almost like unlimited parking there plenty of parking plenty of space um that you don't have those kind of problems and plenty of entrance and exits out of legacy as compared with the the problems you have logistically here with that but uh ms hack you want to add anything to that uh yes what we did with legacy last year because we were
under reduced capacity um with covid the kids were issued so many uh certain amount of tickets we We went with four tickets and two parking passes, and it worked really well. With four guests, they rode with their graduate or they took a separate car. We had no issues. What we anticipate with Merrill Center as a backup, each graduate well in advance of the graduation ceremony would be issued however many number of tickets, inclement weather tickets, and two parking passes, and they would follow the same thing at Merrill Center that they did at Legacy. We would not use transportation because it worked very well.
I think that's great.
Okay.
just makes the whole thing was just so much less stressful i think for everyone the parents the
police officers everybody yep it was pretty fantastic event i gotta admit we really enjoyed
that for our kids anybody else madam president mr keller i just wanted to add uh i also had a child graduate last year and it was much more festive being outside and and i i appreciate you Dr. Grzegorski listening to the community because I got a lot of feedback from parents. who really enjoyed having it outside. So I like this, and I hope we'll continue to have bubbles because the bubbles were really cool. Thanks. Not that I'm distracted by bubbles.
Anyone else? I'm sorry.
I just can't.
Anybody else?
else? Y'all can take a vote on bubbles when I'm not here. I just, that tickled me. Maybe we could play High School Musical, the song as well. I think that a lot of, I had a graduate as well, and it was cute because a lot of her friends, when they were talking about being outside,
they were like, we kind of feel like we're in a scene from High School Musical because they, you know, that was, they grew up with that movie and they graduated outside and played this song. but yeah I agree with my fellow board members that it was it was a great event I like the idea of not having limited seats if it's outside for for more family and friends to attend and because a lot of the kids have friends at other schools and so they want to go to the other graduations as well and and it's difficult when tickets are limited so do what sorry all good stuff especially the bubbles all right we will move on anybody else anybody else all right we're going to move on. Agenda item 8.1, completing the annual required continuing education is a basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member under state board of education rule. On March 30th, 2020, Commissioner Mike Morath waived board training requirements in Texas Education Code section 11.159 and 19 Texas Administrative Code section 61.1 until September 1st, 2020. On August 10th, 2020, the commissioner updated and extended the board training waiver until January 31st, 2021. The Katy ISD Board of Trustees did complete all required training for the 2019-2020 reporting year. Tier 1 training for the two new board members, Duke Keller and Lance Redmond, consisted of three and a half hours of local orientation, three hours of orientation to the Texas Education Code to include the legislative update, and one hour of open meetings training. Duke Keller and Lance Redmond have completed the local orientation and orientation to the Texas Education Code and the Open Meetings Act training. Tier 1 training for experienced board members consists of the post-legislative update seminar. At least one hour of Tier 1 training is required every other year. All board members have completed the required Tier 1 training for the year May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2020. Tier 2 training consists of board self-assessment and superintendent and board team building. At least three hours of Tier 2 training are required each year. All board members have completed the required Tier 2 training for the year May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2020. Tier 3 training consists of continuing education for board members in areas of assessed needs. Two new training requirements were added for the year of May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2020. The new trainings consisted of House Bill 403, Child Abuse Prevention, one hour every two years, and HB 3834, Cybersecurity, one hour annually. All board members have completed the new required training, and those hours are included in their Tier 3 training totals. At least 10 hours of Tier 3 training are required for new board members, Duke Keller and Lance Redmond. New board members have exceeded the required continuing education for the year. Duke Keller has completed 14 hours of Tier 3 training, and Lance Redmond has completed 19 hours of Tier 3 training. At least five hours of Tier 3 training are required each year for experienced board members. All experienced board members have completed the required Tier 3 training for the year. Ashley Vann, position 3, has exceeded the required continuing education with 9.5 hours. Courtney Doyle, position 4, has exceeded the required continuing education with 17.25 hours. Bill Lacey, position 5, has exceeded the required continuing education of 35 hours. Susan Gessoff, position 6, has exceeded the required continuing education with 16 hours. Dawn Champagne, position 7, has exceeded the required continuing education with 32.75 hours. hours. Tier 4 training consists of evaluating and improving student outcome training. At least three hours of Tier 4 training are required every two years. All Board members have completed the required Tier 4 training for the year May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2020. Completing the annual required continuing education is a basic obligation and expectation of any sitting Board member under State Board of Education rule. No Board members are deficient in any area of continuing education training for the year May 1st, 2019 to April 30th, 2020. Also, under the Texas Administrative Code, Title 19, Chapter 61, Subchapter A, Section 61.1a, the framework for governance leadership adopted by the State Board of Education used in structuring education for school board members shall be distributed annually by the president of each board of trustees to all current board members and the superintendent. The framework is attached in board docs for each member and the superintendent to review next we'll move to agenda item 8.2 budget and enrollment update mr. Smith
all right well good evening president Doyle and superintendent Gorgorzki and trustees I'm gonna talk to you a little bit says budget mostly talk about our enrollment update. You may have seen it in the news lately. I think the last headline I read before today was Houston area school districts down some 40,000 almost 40,000 students. We're not down in Katy ISD. Our enrollment is not down. It's not what we budgeted and I'm going to talk a little bit about that. This is obviously we're in unprecedented circumstances with COVID-19. It's a statewide problem in fact I was at attended a webinar today from the Center for public school finance and of 91 school districts that responded to a survey that they had 3.7 percent was the short amount of enrollment statewide so all districts are about 3.7 percent that responded to that survey we are 3.2 percent under what we budgeted but we are have as many students as we ended the year with last year so we're not down we're just not up as much as we thought and again this is a not just a statewide problem it's a nationwide issue but before I get into that I want to start out with some historical information and take you back to a meeting that was held not in this room we were over at the Miller Career Center to having a board meeting because we We were in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. If you'll recall, there was 18 inches of water in this building that we couldn't meet here. And at the time, this board decided to do unprecedented reappraisal for the victims from Hurricane Harvey. And at the time, when this board made the decision to do the reappraisal, I think we were the first one in the Houston area or really in the state, to my knowledge, that made the decision to do the reappraisal which saved taxes to those who had damaged properties but you did it and you did it with a tax swap that didn't really hurt us in in revenue at the time uh and mr lacey will know this because we earned more money on those tier two pennies uh that kind of made it a wash well in july the audit that we that we we filed and you knew we were going to file and you knew would recoup the reappraisal amount did come in from the comptroller's office we actually even got the cash it's just under 14 million dollars in cash that we received so we received that that we earned in the 1819 school year based on that and again it was the board this board's plan to to take that leap of faith if you will and and it paid off so what I'm going to to talk to you about is not just this year it's also last year and COVID was last year and COVID is this year so I'm looking at this from a financial CFO perspective of as a two-year deal so before I get to the negatives I want to say that that this board's decision makes this a lot easier what we're going to talk about tonight but I'm going to talk about the assumptions that we put in the budget some current enrollment information the whole harmlessness that you may may be hearing from the Texas Education Agency, and then some student councilors that are not subject to the whole harmless. So as you know, we budgeted 5.7% enrollment growth. You may recognize that slide from my numerous presentations on the budget. 5.1% enrollment growth. Not sure how that happened. But we had 82,789 students that we budgeted for the 19-20 school year. going down that dark green column. We actually, by October, we were at 83,423. So we were significantly over what we budgeted at our PEMS snapshot this time last year. At the end of the year, going down that green, we had 84,287 students. So we grew some 800 students between PEMS snapshot, which is always the last Friday in October, till the end of year, till May. throughout the year. This year we budgeted 87,033 students. We're currently at 84,041 or when this was put together. Actually today we're at over 84,200 so we're growing as we have been. We're actually growing significantly faster every day than we had grown this time last year. So what will we at the end of the year? Who knows? But from what we budgeted you can see there on the left we've got by grade all the elementary schools there are in the red so that we did not have the enrollment that we budgeted for the junior had on the top right and the high school on the top the bottom right you can see the big numbers there are eepk and kindergarten on the top left those were the the biggest amount is and what they're calling this statewide at the state level is the redshirt year there are parents that are apparently deciding and to just keep their kids at home for this year and they'll sit out and people have been doing that for years but for various reasons but this year they're actually coined the term the redshirt year real quick on this I just want to show that of the amount that we enrollment the 3,000 student increase that we projected there was a thousand seventy five that just didn't show up there were 1389 less students that were new to the district that didn't show up and the rest I'll talk about on the next slide but this time last year again we were when we opened the year we were short what we ended up hitting our teams enrollment with and right now we're we're actually less than we're 2,900 students away from what we budgeted so that's 3,107 but again we're growing significantly every day. The no-shows, just want to point out that it appears as though when we've tracked down the students that we've got a big increase or 533 student increase or 523 percent in those that are being homeschooled. Again that's a nationwide trend. Private school is up significantly at 290 students or 169 percent in the private school. Return to home country, I find this interesting that 80 students more than before that have left the district have gone to their home country and then school districts or schools outside of the Katy ISD or outside of the state of Texas we're actually seeing less students move to those either to another school district in Texas or to out of the state those numbers have actually gone down which I find very interesting and when we did this there were a thousand and four students that we just didn't know where they were and that's been whittled down to just over 400 hundred students that we don't know where they were but so we've made significant progress in that so again what makes up the difference in what we projected in our enrollment what our enrollment was as of a couple of weeks ago we've got more no-shows we've got fewer enrollees that were new to the district and then we've got fewer pre-k and kindergarten students these I'm going to go through real quickly let me just set the stage and say that that red is always going to be the same that's our total amount of enrollment and you can see it looks like it goes from 84,000 188 to 84,000 and 32 that made that may change on the date that I pulled the data for this slide unfortunately I didn't do it all in one in one sitting and I should have because that changes every day but if you were to do it today it would be higher than 84 188 just again we're above where we were in enrollment as we ended the year last year but special ed normally we identify new students that are special needs students in the springtime with covet happening that didn't happen like it normally would so you see a dip of about 400 students or a little over 400 students in special aids uh language limited language proficient limited English proficient this is our bilingual and English as a second language kids we're down a couple hundred students their career in technology there's a data issue TAS updating their data and how we recognize that to what we send to them and that's being corrected at the state level and then we have to to do that same thing but my latest information I have is we're up just over 20,000 students in career and technology so our students have grown from one year to the next in this in this category our pre-k students we've always had pre-k I say we always have we've had pre-k for some years you can see there last year with that big huge jump because we went to full-day pre-k as part of House Bill 3 and you can see again we're down about 200 well right at 200 students from where we ended the last year at ended the last year. Early education, that's a new funding factor from House Bill 3. This is all students in grades K through 3. We're down about 400 students. Again, those are those redshirt year students that are that are young that I mentioned earlier. Gifted and talented, this is interesting that just like career and technology, we're up when it comes to our gifted children. Dyslexia, these two things that I'm going to speak about, these three items that I'm going to speak about now, are not subject to growing throughout the year. So everything that we just talked about as we grow throughout the year will earn more money through the state funding formulas. These, as of Friday, this last Friday in October, October the 30th, this is what they be. This is it. So dyslexia students, even though we may grow them throughout the year, or compensatory education students, they will grow throughout the year, Friday's the day and all that growth won't matter when it comes to funding. So I want to specifically point out compensatory education. The state gives us revenue for that. These are students that qualify for free and reduced lunch. As you know, every year it carries over from one year to the next that they can continue with their free and reduced lunch. There's a grace period. That grace period ran out in September, at the end of September. What happened this year, again, across state and for sure across the state, is every school district is offering free and reduced lunch to every student. So there's no real incentive for a student to reapply because in the years past when the grace period ended, they were no longer able to get free and reduced lunch. So they applied and this year it's a statewide issue. We're really afraid statewide that people aren't going to have an incentive to apply because they don't need to. and it's going to really create a funding shortage for school districts. This is not quite as much of an issue here because we don't have very high free and reduced lunch numbers compared to the statewide, but it is a problem nonetheless. Now, the agency did come out just a couple of weeks ago and say that they would give school districts until January the 14th to identify those students. So if a student is here today and he or she hasn't redone that application, we have until January the 14th to try to get that information from them but if they're new and they start next week even if we even if they fill out a form they won't be included in any funding and that's again the state this across the state and then the fast growth allotment as we've talked about before we are a big beneficiary of the fast growth allotment that's worth over 20 million dollars a year to Katie ISD that is going to be based on our enrollment or based on our average daily attendance is throughout this year. And depending on what's happening, if everybody indeed is in the same boat, probably not going to affect us. We're still going to probably be a recipient of the fast growth allotment. But if some small school districts are not affected, it could kick us out. I've done some looking at it. And I think that even if we lost a couple hundred students from one year to the next, and we know we haven't, we would still be eligible to receive that because of our very fast growth in previous years. So again, there's what our dyslexia students look like. So we're down 230 students from how we ended the year last year. And again, we won't be funded for those. Anybody new to us are newly identified after October the 30th. And then there's our free and reduced lunch numbers where you see we're down about 4,000 students. This is one that really is concerning, but this is really more concerning at other districts across the state. So what impact does this have? The revenue budget that we recommended and was passed back in August was a $296.9 million revenue budget. This is from the foundation school program or state funding. the amendment if we just use the 1920 student numbers and didn't like we didn't grow and they we would be down thirty six point one million dollars approximately could be more depending on what dyslexia and free and reduced lunch counts do but it'd be about thirty six million dollars we can draw a line through that because the state has the Texas Education Agency has come up with a whole harmless and if that whole harmless were to kick in and were to be funded all year it would only be a reduction in revenue of 29.2 million dollars this is the whole harmless works really well for some school districts for districts like katie it didn't work so well because we budgeted based on a very high percentage increase and the hold harmless is not using as high increase when it came comes to it but it is some hold harmless nonetheless the less. We've written the education agency to talk about some uniquenesses with the way they calculated the hold harmless and we feel strongly that if they broke it apart and gave us things that we can stand on our own regardless of no home hardness or not. Currently the hold harmless is an all-or-nothing. If it weren't an all-or-nothing we think we it would be about three million dollars better to us but we have seen and gone on record with the agency and hopefully that as time moves on that they'll consider that. And then tonight, Ms. Butterfield, when she talks about the budget amendment, she's going to recommend as part of the budget amendment we reduce our revenue 15.3 million dollars. Where does that number come from? Well that's the hold harmless in effect for the first semester and then an optimistic approach on the second semester of the year and an optimistic approach on what happens with our free and reduced lunch numbers. Do I think that it could Could be worse than that? Could we reduce our revenue more than that tonight? Yeah. Could we probably even do better than that and not reduce it as much? Maybe. I don't know. Everything statewide when it comes to these predictions is out the window. But the reality is we're probably not going to earn as much money as we thought we would. And so we are going to be recommending tonight that we reduce our revenue budget by the $15.3 million. After the peem snapshot on Friday and with what happens between now and the end of the semester, we will recalibrate that and bring that to the board and give you an update at some
point in the near future. That's all I have. Board members, do you have any questions for
Mr. Smith? Madam President. Mr. Keller. Thank you, Mr. Smith. This October 30th deadline for the student count that's not related. Yes, sir. Is that an annual will cut off or is that just for this year it's annual it's always the last
Friday in October it's the beam snapshot what is the reasoning for that and it
lasts for the cam sorry to maneuver it lasts for that remainder of the school year yes sir what's the logic behind them cutting off the count I'm not sure
is House bill 3 both of those items were new the way they were calculated both of them dyslexia had never been funded before and that's how the the committee and the agency chose to do that. It's just a snapshot date, whatever that is, it is. The free and reduced lunch numbers have always come into play, but those were based on the nine highest months, I'm sorry, the six highest months average, and so when you had instances like we're in now, you would get out of that through time, and since it's done based on how all that looks on now at the PEM snapshot snapshot day. Obviously, we sent in correspondence that said we grow throughout the year. We would like for that to be included as an annual thing because all our numbers grow throughout the year. Those two revenue factors do not. They are what they are on the last Friday in October.
I didn't mean to imply that logic would come into anything the government does. Thanks.
You're full of it tonight, Mr. King.
Madam President. Mr. Lacey. Mr. Smith. Along the same lines, what mr. Keller asked so other budget items are not necessarily is I'm ringing is that just me a little bit of feedback is that me Daniel okay well along the lines of the of the peen deadline that's on October 30th do we have other revenue streams that go along with and coincide with other key dates during the year or Or is this the only one that basically sets our budget in the amount that we will be getting from the state?
It sets it on those two items. One of the big unknowns with all those other items that I've talked about is the average daily attendance and the amount of times that even a special needs student, whether they come to school or not, when they don't come to school, we don't get funded. So we only get funded based on attendance rates. So we can talk about enrollment and all of that, and that's where it gets. but when you dig into you go from a 98% in attendance rate to a 95% then that's when the crystal ball just goes really really dark and really hard to do but every six weeks we gather that information we are gathering it every day in our teams department and every six weeks that's packaged up and at the end of the year in May or in June they'll send all that data the Texas education agency and that's how we're funded and so all those other factors that I mentioned they'll grow throughout the year along with because of enrollment more more students come into Katy ISD but those two other two will be
solidified at the end of this week madam president miss champagne I have a few questions Thank You mr. Smith for your presentation I don't know if you know the answer to this or not but the first question I have is a follow-up to the the one that Mr. Keller was talking about. And I know that kids get tested throughout the year for different things, you know, to qualify to get into, I don't know, speech or special ed or whatever. And so is there a push at the beginning of the year because of this cutoff on October 30th to get the kids who may qualify for dyslexia to get a push to, you know, get them tested before October 30th? I mean, is there some kind of push for that? Because otherwise I know other kids will get tested for, you know, let's say GT or whatever. I was a GT test doctor at one point, and that's an ongoing thing all year long.
That's a very good question. and and the the long and short of it is is there's always a push unfortunately the the the people that do the testing and the the arts didn't do much after spring break because they couldn't and so we're behind where we would normally be in those assessments district-wide all school districts are and so unfortunately there's just a limited amount of staff and time to be able to get that stuff done so there is probably a backlog but they but but we can't get get funding until that happens. So you can't say, OK, well, now they've identified Chris as XYZ, and it can't go back to day one when Chris got here. It has to start at that point in time.
OK, I was just wondering if there was a push for that to get it done. And I have another question. It's about ADA. So I know that there are kids, I've heard from parents, whatever, and their kids didn't log in or whatever. they may have a seventh grader and they didn't log in for a certain class but they actually were in the class is there leniency right now being given to those kids who did take the class in other words I know this could affect our funding is I guess what I'm getting at you know they took they were at the class but they are 12 years old and they didn't log into the class I don't know
the answer to that from from the students perspective I don't know that that the hold harmless that the agency has put in will help with that if our average daily attendance goes down. I've heard some instances in some school districts where that may help the average daily attendance, and then some where it's going to hurt it. I don't know, and we won't know until we get some of those six weeks data packaged up and ready like we would normally have gone through to send to the agency. I won't know the effect from a funding perspective.
All right. And then another question is about the no-show. So what I'm wondering is, are those no-shows from the 2019-2020 school year? So in other words, they were there, and then, you know, we had the long spring break, and then we did the online schooling. Are these no-shows? I mean, what I mean is, were these no-shows the whole year, or they became no-shows when we were supposed to come back?
So a rudimentary example that, because I have to go with this way because this is probably a lot more complicated, but I don't know. But I know that if my family were to move, we have a daughter who's a sophomore or freshman in high school. If we were to have moved to Lubbock and we didn't check her out, she would still be enrolled in KDISD, but she would have not showed. Okay? Now, it would be until Lubbock were to get the paperwork back here to us to let us know that now she is in Lubbock, and then that would be she would now be a show, right? She showed up in Lubbock, and we would take her off the no-show list. But, yes, that happens and happens every year. It would be perfect if all parents knew to unenroll their child so we would know it's a district, but that's probably the furthest thing from some of their minds when they're moving.
So are these numbers higher? I mean, particularly the 2019-2020, are they higher? Is that a higher number than other years?
Yes, they were.
Okay. And so they may have become a no-show after everyone was supposed to come back, and for whatever reason, they didn't come back. Okay. I have one last question, and it has to do with pre-K and kindergarten. I know the enrollment is lower. And this may not be a question for you to answer, but I'm just concerned because I've always been thinking about this. this. Are there going to be? Do you think that this is going to be a future problem with our kindergartners who didn't come to school and now we're going to play catch up with them and.
It's not a question. Yeah, it's a good question. Miss Champagne. I don't think it's going to be a future problem. I think it's related directly to covid that some families from what I've read. It's not just unique to Katie ISD. It's in the Houston area and frankly all over the country that some families have chosen just to keep their kindergarteners home so they could start as you might recall we started online for the first three weeks for virtual instruction then transitioned to in person instruction some districts are still doing virtual instruction not just in in texas but all over the u.s so families have chosen to keep those kids home But I think those kids are going to appear next year and just see what's going on there. But I think they're coming back. But we may have lost them for the year. We've talked about it as a group that we're going to try and do some surveying to different families. As you saw in the slides Mr. Smith put up there, we've had a significant number of families that have gone to homeschool or to maybe private school. Now, private doesn't always mean private in-person school. It could be a private online school as well. We'd like to know a little bit more about those families. and we're going to start surveying them ask them if they intend to come back to kdisd we're going to try and track down some of these families it's hard to track down your kindergartners because you just don't know you know unless we just put out a blanket surveyed everybody in the district hey do you have a kindergartner at home because it might be your first child and you're not affiliated with kdisd yet and you just haven't enrolled your first child in school yet and they'll just hold those children for the next school year the other question you had asked about i know mr smith talked about it from a financial standpoint and it was about students who are learning from home we did submit as you might recall a asynchronous learning plan to tea and while those kids are at home there's certain rules tied to that but our teachers have all been trained on that that if a kid is at home learning asynchronously we can still collect the funding for them the teacher just needs to mark them as present through the asynchronous learning and they know how to do that
Madam President, just a quick one. Mr. Smith. Thank you for your content. It's always on point. All the data is easy to understand. So if I earned $15 million less this year, I would be pretty freaked out. So I'm just would be interested in your opinion. How are you feeling about that? You know, we're going to change the budget. We're going to take a reduction. Are we comfortable that that we can still meet our budgetary commitments?
Yes, we have a healthy fund balance. And with COVID happening by March, and we've talked about this, our expenditures are down. In fact, we normally have underspending. We don't spend our entire budget. We had significant underspending this year when you add it all up without having the tutorials we'd like to have had. And summer school costs were way down. That all added up to significant, like 3 and 1 half percent under spending when you look at that and then the revenue that I mentioned earlier from the decision that came to fruition that this board made three years ago that was worth 14 just under 14 million dollars was it 14 or 13 in I'm sorry it was like 12.9 that's what it was it's 12.9 sorry when you add those up then we're gonna have a nice add to our fund balance and again if you look at this over a two-year period of time then i'm i'm pretty comfortable with it because one of the good things is is um it's uh it's good for kids i mean we're doing the best we can uh even though and we're able to afford a hiccup like this if you want to call it a hiccup because we're still doing the right thing for kids because we have a we are in a good healthy financial position
Okay, thank you so much. Any other questions? Okay, thank you Mr. Smith. You're actually with us for 9.1. And Ms. Feitinger as well, Executive Director of Finance. They're going to give a brief presentation on the district's rating on the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas. Afterwards, the Board of Trustees will receive public input regarding this topic. There are actually no speakers that have signed up, so I'm going to go ahead and let you give your briefing. We'll move past 9.2 and jump right into 9.3.
All right, we've, this was done back in 1999. We are on our almost 20th year of reporting this information. TAA implemented, implements numerous changes to it over the years. This is our, the district's reporting report card for a financial report card. Its primary goal is to make sure districts are using their resources well, staying in good financial condition and putting their resources where they need to go which is in the classroom the scoring you'll see in red up there it's a critical indicator and miss fighting er is going to go over those critical indicators with you they're the first of you that we will get to and then the other indicators are ranked 0 to 10 so you can get 0 points if you don't do very well up to 10 points if you do as good as you you can the numeral numerical scores are from 70 to 100 and that's a superior range and I'm just going to leave it at that was the end and I'm going to turn it over to miss fighting er to go over critical indicator number one okay
indicator number one was is all of these questions are worded so that the answer should be yes some of them are worded very strangely but that's so that you the answer should be yes. So the first one is, was the annual financial report filed within one month after the January 28th deadline? We actually filed our report on January 27th, so the answer to that is yes. Indicator number 2A was, was there an unmodified opinion in the annual financial report? As a reminder, unmodified means a clean report, and that's what we want, and yes, it was an unmodified opinion in our financial report. 2B was, was the annual financial report free of any instances of material weaknesses in internal controls like I said a little strange wording sometimes and the answer is yes our report had no disclosures disclosures of material weaknesses indicator number three was was the district in compliance with payment terms of all debt agreements at fiscal year-end and yes the district made all of our scheduled debt payments on time indicator four was did the district make our time make timely payments to all the the agencies such as TRS, Texas Workforce Commission, Internal Revenue Service, and other governmental agencies. And yes, we made all of our payments on time. The last critical indicator is not being scored by TEA this year. But if we were to go ahead and factor those numbers in using the adjustments that had been used in the past with that, we would have had unrestricted net assets of over $45 million. So our net assets would have been greater than zero. So yes, we met that indicator.
All right, indicator six. Were the number of days of cash on hand in current investments in the general fund for the school district sufficient to cover operating expenditures? Yes, they were. We had well over 90 days of cash on hand. Was the measure of current assets to current liabilities ratio for the school district sufficient to cover short-term debt? Yes, it was. was. Was the ratio of long-term liabilities to total assets for school districts sufficient to support long-term solvency? Yes, it was sufficient to support long-term solvency. Did the school district's general fund revenues equal or exceed expenditures? If not, did you have enough cash on hand? Well, yes, our revenues exceeded our expenditures. Was the debt service coverage ratio sufficient to meet the required debt service yes it was sufficient to meet our required debt service and I'm gonna turn it back over
to Anne for the last few okay number 11 was was the district's administrative cost ratio equal to or less than the threshold ratio for district our size we should be under eight point five percent we were at three point nine two percent I know Chris keeps a lot of metrics on that and we are one of the lowest in the the area. Indicator 12 was did the school district not have a 15% decline in students to staff ratio over three years. We had a very slight decline less than 2% well below the threshold. Indicator 13 did the comparison of PEMS data to like information the annual financial report result in an aggregate variance of less than 3% of expenditures per function. This is my favorite one our variance of our 711 million dollar expenditure budget was 516 dollars which which is rounding. Indicator 14 was the annual financial report free of any material noncompliance for grants, contracts, and laws related to local, state, and federal funds. And yes, we were free of any material noncompliance. And the last indicator, indicator 15, is did the school district not receive an adjusted repayment schedule for more than one fiscal year for an over-allocation of foundation school program funds, and we did not require any payment adjustments.
All right, Katie Astey's rating. We passed all the critical indicators, thank goodness. We received 100 out of 100 points, so our rating was superior. That's the highest rating possible by the Texas Education Agency. As Mayann mentioned, the list I keep up with about 20 school districts across the state. We are one of less than 10 that received the 100% score. So also, you should have had on your workstation a report, a book that looks like this. This has a copy of the presentation that I went into. It's also got the scores from TA, from the Texas Education Agency, from what we just went over, and for the prior year. It also contains reimbursements made by the superintendent and the trustees and outside compensation and fees, which there were none received by the superintendent or gifts received by the superintendent and or trustees. There were none reported and business transactions between the district and any of the trustees. There were none reported and you'll find that information in your report. I think also Michelle is going to have some information that we are going to need to get that kind of information now as for the year we just ended on August 31st of 2020. So we'll talk about that this time next year. And with that, that's our report.
Board members, are there any questions? Okay. Hearing none, we'll proceed to Agenda Item 9.3. presentation of the district's TEA required targeted improvement plan. Ms. Natalie Martinez, Executive Director of Research Assessment and Accountability, will give a brief presentation on the TEA required targeted improvement plan. Afterwards, the Board of Trustees will receive public input regarding this topic. Again, no individuals have signed up for the public forum portion of this section, so we will hear the presentation and then move over to Agenda Item 10.1. Ms. Martinez.
Good evening, Board President, members of the board, and Mr. Grigorski. Tonight I will present the targeted improvement plan for Bear Creek Elementary in the public hearing format required by the Texas Education Agency. I also have the new principal of Bear Creek Elementary, Ms. Stephanie McElroy. We also have Dr. Vonda Washington, who's assistant super over this, also behind me. Jen Munoz is our district coordinator for school improvement and Sherita Wilson-Rogers is also a coordinator of accountability and school improvement all here to support Bear Creek Elementary. I'm looking for a clicker. Thank you. During the presentation tonight, we will cover the public hearing requirements, the accountability interventions, TEA's effective school framework, our own KDISD process to fulfill the requirements, and the Bear Creek Elementary Plan. plan. The Texas Education Code 39A.057 gives us guidance on the public hearing requirements. We are to notify the public of insufficient performance, improvements in expected performance, and interventions and sanctions if improvements don't occur. We are also here tonight to solicit public comment on the targeted improvement plan, plan, which is posted on the KDISD web page under the accountability department. Accountability interventions are laid out by TEA and based on the A through F system. Bear Creek earned an overall C but had a D in domain, specifically domain one. Campuses with a D in domain are assigned a district coordinator of school improvement and their plan is open on the public web. and tonight we will also be asking for board approval the targeted improvement plan is centered around TAS effective school framework this framework provides a structure for common language connecting effective practices in the continuous improvement cycle along with the five levers that you see on screen the framework goes deeper by describing essential actions in key practices that schools can initiate and monitor throughout the year the focus of the ESF is on adult behavior with the idea that student performance doesn't change until adult behaviors change this year has been quite the journey because we did not actually complete last year's tip due to school closure the TEA implemented a reflective prioritization activity which guided schools to reflect on past action steps and key practices it also provided a focus on building capacity and communication and asked leaders to identify barriers and action steps for the summer in preparation for the school year this step actually fit really well into the continuous improvement process that supports campuses and identifying needs creating a plan of action and implementation and monitoring of their plan the actual plan the actual plan includes a needs assessment annual outcomes, 90-day outcomes, and action steps to complete in order to accomplish the expected performance. This plan was created with a campus intervention team and leaders on the campus. We presented the plan to the Bear Creek parents through Zoom during a campus meeting and solicited feedback through a campus survey as well. The full plan includes the listed items on the screen and And throughout the year, we focus on the evidence of progress and adjustments along the way. We have checked off quite a few things on our to-do list. We've given our effective school framework training. We have held a public meeting at the campus and developed the TIP, which has been reviewed at multiple levels. Tonight, we will be asking the board for approval. And then we'll continue our implementation and monitoring through cycles one through four. Cycle one ends at the end of November. Bear Creek scores presented are from 2019 due to school closure last year. The last row in the blue boxes shows 69D for Domain 1. The campus' overall rating was a 76C. The expected performance in Domain 1 for accountability purposes is a 70C, which would release Bear Creek from state sanctions. If the performance is not met, the campus would continue with a TIP and the ESC team team would continue to monitor. The Bear Creek tip is centered around these two foundational essential actions, objective driven lesson plans and data driven instruction. This includes a focus on first line instruction and implementation, as well as small group instruction and interventions. A few of the action steps for cycle one include training of staff, developing a rubric to monitor effective implementation and developing a walkthrough schedule to ensure feedback on instructional delivery and using data to determine their next steps and adjustments in real time at this time we are ready for any questions that you may have
board members are there any questions with this presentation
okay madam president i'm sorry can i ask one question yeah absolutely mr keller Thank you for that report. What was the score that Bear Creek had last year? I just wondered was there an improvement up to that 69 score? Oh that would be
from 2018. Okay. I don't have that with me but I can email it to you. We can talk later. I just was curious as to
whether there was improvement there. Thank you. Got it. We'll get that to you.
Madam President, yes Ms. Gassoff's one. Sure. So if you go back to the slide just before that the targeted essential actions so what we're targeting are things that are already happening right i mean these are things we're doing in all of our classrooms in kdisd so can you talk just a little bit more about you know what does the tip do in this space where you know all of our curriculum is already focused this way i'm probably going to ask stephanie to join me in
that but i will tell you that the tip is um it is different because especially in this year like school happens their focus is on everything and we we really try to bring them back to what is first-line instruction look like are the teaks being taught and it's the continuous monitoring with our teams together that really hold them focused to that because as you can imagine when school happens everybody's going in a ton of different directions and we have to bring people back to what is the basis of what we're doing do you want to speak to what
you're doing in there um sure we have a very streamlined targeted planning process we've implemented a campus-wide planning protocol and we meet and we plan as a team with administrators and coaches present twice a week and it's very streamlined and it's very simple to the point and then we are monitoring in the classroom to make sure that they are delivering instruction
the way we planned it how are the teachers feeling about that are they excited or are they like oh my gosh if one more person no they really are very excited and we've actually started running some
data and it's looking really good they're very excited it's wonderful that's wonderful that
they're getting that extra help and input and and are receiving it in a good way thank you for that
what's your percentage of uh kba students versus face-to-face students at your school
okay we're coming back with this new round coming in we were at 50 out and so we definitely saw a difference that our kva students were not performing as well as our face-to-face but we brought back about 25% so we're sitting right around 75% yeah I would
expect that you there were some extra challenges there with kva absolutely we're very happy to have them back I'm sure okay thank you any other board
members with madam president I do have one I'm sorry mr. Lacey what is your percentage of economically disadvantaged students last year's numbers were I
I believe 82%.
Are you seeing a correlation?
Correlation.
I'm getting it out.
Speak for Mr. Lacy.
A correlation between the economic disadvantaged and those that are not in other schools. Is there a direct correlation between those students and their performances?
I mean, typically, your economically disadvantaged students do underperform. That's just across the board. and so because of that we have very specific strategies to meet their needs. Last year, or I'm sorry two years ago, economically disadvantaged students did
underperform at Bear Creek. What is, what do you think is the most important thing thing for a child to do to help them learn, I'll just say help them learn better, especially those that are economically disadvantaged? That is a
a loaded question. No, it's just a high profile. I feel like high expectations have to be there. Many times working in high poverty schools for many years, you see that teachers tend to love the kids to death and make excuses for their situation. So when you raise the standards and you raise the rigor and those expectations, the kids will rise to it. And that's what we're seeing
happening right now you'd answer that perfect thank you so much I was mr.
Keller looking up information as they were going in 2018 the domain one score was a 73 you're welcome that's okay I was trying to find it as soon as I could
any other questions board members one more I'm so sorry
Ms. Gessoff, Madam President, what about, this is wonderful, very excited about this and excited that you're seeing good results, but I wonder what else could we be doing with wraparound services, with more support services for our economically disadvantaged kids, especially during COVID?
good we've got excellent support i've worked in a lot of school districts and i've never had this much support for our students so honestly i we just need to teach the curriculum and teach it well and we need to assess our kids and make sure that they're succeeding and when they're not give them the supports that they need we have those things embedded at bear creek and we're using it 100 of the time good great thank you thank you both so much next we'll move to agenda item
10.1. Ms. Martinez, you're with us for that one as well. Discuss and consider board approval of the TEA required targeted improvement plan. Which you have done. I'll entertain a motion.
Madam President. Mr. Redman. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the TEA required targeted improvement plan as recommended by
administration. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the TEA required targeted improvement plan as as recommended by administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Thank you so much. Thank you. Agenda item 10.2, discuss and consider board approval of the English Learner EL Enrollment and Bilingual Education Exception ESL Waiver Application for 2020-2021. Ms. Shepard and Ms. Purpula, welcome.
Thank you. Good evening, Madam President. Board of Trustees, and Superintendent Grogorski. As required by the Texas Education Code, district personnel shall report to the Board of Trustees the number of English learners. As of October 1, 2020, the English Learner District Report indicates 15,637 English learners district-wide. Additionally, each district with an enrollment of 20 or more English learners in any language classification in the same grade district-wide shall offer a bilingual education or special language program. The district has identified 14 languages this year for which a bilingual exception is being requested. These languages are Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, French, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Yoruba. The bilingual exception application will be filed with the Texas Education Agency on or before November 1, 2020. The application will include a description how the district will provide instructional support to the LMN2 campuses for students who have been identified as speakers of the aforementioned 14 languages. KDISD has applied for a bilingual exception for various languages over the past 19 years. Additionally, KDISD is requesting an ESL waiver for 51 teachers who are providing services to ESL students. These teachers have been informed of the training opportunities to become ESL certified. A part of the application requires a description of the professional development and Jennifer Perplek will share a few highlights of the application.
As part of the Comprehensive Professional Development Plan, KDISD offers systematic, long-term approach to professional development for improving the academic and linguistic progress of English learners. The EL Professional Development Plan is a three-phase plan which encompasses EL certification opportunities, ESL sheltered instruction, and then advanced sheltered instruction. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees grant approval for the superintendent to sign and submit the 2021 bilingual exception ESL waiver application. And I'm open for any questions.
Board members, are there any questions? Madam President. Ms. Champaign. I have a question. I just want to know, what is the difference between bilingual and ESL?
Take it or you want to take it?
I can take it. In bilingual, your teacher provides native language support. So they would be speaking in KD. We offer a Spanish bilingual program. But in other districts, they offer Mandarin or Vietnamese or it's whatever that second language is. In ESL, all the instruction is in English. And then we provide accommodations and scaffolding to build that language so the student can be successful in English.
Madam President. Ms. Champagne. Okay. Follow up to that. So, is the, so I understand that the goal in the ESL program is to get them to, you know, speak English. Speak English. But what about in the bilingual program?
Well, in Texas, the goal is always, of course, English, but in bilingual, they have a two-pronged goal in that the students also become competent in their native language as well. Okay. Thank you.
Well, is there a way to, do people have to qualify for that? I mean, do the kids have to be tested to be able to be?
We do. We test the students language and then we make a recommendation on their strongest language. So if they are stronger in Spanish than we would recommend bilingual, they don't always accept and but we have a great bilingual program. So we're renowned. And then if they decide no, thank you for the bilingual that we offer ESL. Okay, thank you. And some of them say no, thank you to both, but not very many.
We have the push for the peen snapshot that Mr. Smith was talking about. So you had asked, are we pushing toward that? Yes, we are. We have several students. We're in the process of testing.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
Just one general question, just off the top of your head, big number. How many different languages are spoken in the KDISD boundaries?
So I have recently done research on that because I find it fascinating. Right now we have 88 identified languages, but we have 32 that are something other than English. I mean something other than the identified ones. So these are going to be languages like your ethnic languages from other countries that are specific to one population perhaps. Or sometimes we find out that it's a misspelling. So right now we have 33 of those languages and I'm looking at the home language surveys to see just because I want to know what are the other languages. languages. So a lot of them come out to be things like pigeon, creole, languages like
that. Interesting information. Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of Trustees grants approval for the superintendent to sign and submit the 2020 and 2021 bilingual education exception and ESL waiver application. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second
by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees grants approval for the superintendent to to sign and submit the 2020-2021 Bilingual Education Exception ESL Waiver Application. 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, ladies. Thank you.
Thank you.
10.3, discuss and consider board approval of the campus performance objectives. Dr. Friedrich.
for each. Good evening, President Doyle, Superintendent Krakorski, Dr. Krakorski, and board members. I'm coming to you tonight with the same repetition that we come with each year, and it's the campus performance objectives. I've actually had a challenge this year to be exciting and I can promise you that unless I'm tap dancing or singing of which you want neither. This is not going to be exciting. It is just a report so here we go. Texas Education Code 1152 is a district improvement plan. 1153 is the campus performance objectives. objectives. The campus performance objectives are supposed to be, they are required by TEA to be approved by the board. We also have BQ local and BQB local board policies which are also in line with this. And the school board members, each of you received an electronic electronic scan disc with the electronic versions of all of the campus CIPs, CPOs, I'm sorry. You had the goals, the CPOs. There was a file in there that showed the demographic piece, which also shows some of the programs and then the actual what the demographics look like. The third thing that's normally in there is a summary report from TEA. That's not in there this year. Instead, there was a letter. Because of COVID-19, there was no summary report, unaccountability report for each of the campuses. So instead, you got that letter from the state stating that because of the pandemic, they're reverting back to last year's scores. So that made it a little more challenging for the principals because they don't have a score to write their performance objectives on. So they have to look at last the previous year scores, which would have been 19 along with any changes or DLAs or just campus assessments and make some Bold decisions about what those CPOs are going to look like this year. A lot of them are an extenuating Extension, I'm sorry of the 2019-2020 2020 school year and a lot of them looked at what they had worked on what they've seen improvement on and made some changes to that So the campus has developed their CPOs in collaboration with the campus in the district. They have a cat team they have they they have District people on their team and they have community people on their team and they all work together to make a decision about what those Are going to look like what the campus goals will look like This year, those are all a little bit different, but the campus goals and CIPs are part of the whole planning process, which includes a lot of stuff that y'all probably are not as infatuated with right now. The campus improvement plans will be on the district's website, I'm sorry, on the campus website once they're approved tonight. So then we'll push them out and they'll all be posted at the end of October. They should be up there by November 1st. So I'll take any questions if you have them.
Are there any questions, Board Members?
Ms. Gassoff? Yes. Thank you for that. And so it's the performance objectives are aligned with the strategic plan, right? Yes. And so and I know a lot of the strategic plan isn't necessarily measurable or kind of what we would call SMART goals and how we develop some of our objectives. But it, in just looking at some of the campus plans, there were a lot of things that weren't really measurable.
There are. And it's not by a number measurable, but some of it is by a feel. The district has their strategic goals. The campus lines up with those strategic goals, uses the ones that are identical that they can rename in a campus. They also use the campus improvement plan, I mean the district improvement plan, to support some of their own, like the safety and security, social-emotional learning. Some of the things that are in the big plan, they take, they don't necessarily, I have them in here, don't necessarily have them set as a goal, but when you see their full CIP, they're listed out as strategies or pieces of, on this date, these trainings will occur. So inside the true CIP has the established timelines, lines who's responsible what funding is playing for it the dates that they should be finished and then we do a monitor like in November the end of the November we will look to see if this October posting has been updated there's another one in January there's one in April and there's one at the end of the year so it's almost like a quarterly but we don't do the first one until almost Christmas because it takes them a little while to get up and established and
going so so there's there's a lot more that underpins those goals yes for example i was looking at some of the some of the elementary schools like the title one elementary schools and one of the goals under social and emotional well-being had to do with um 25 less discipline referrals and so i was kind of curious like okay so how how how does that support the goals of of social and emotional well-being, and that's defined somewhere?
It is, and on their own campus, they have charts and spreadsheets and reports that would show how many maybe social and emotional issues that they had last year, how many kids went to see the campus counselor, and was there a reduction in that? Did they see more so there was less emotional problem? Doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be a number, but it's a gauge of how the campus is doing.
All right, thank you.
I mean, I can show you in the full CIP, but it's not necessarily outlined in the CPO because it's just their goals and objectives that come here, not necessarily all the strategies are behind it.
Are there any other questions, board members? Madam President, Ms. Vann. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the campus performance objectives.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves the campus performance objectives. 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, Dr. B. Thank you. So exciting. Agenda item 10.4, discuss and consider board approval of the August 2020 check register. Ms. Feitinger, welcome back.
Good evening, President Doyle and Dr. Begorski and board. Item 10.4 is to consider approval of the District's August 2020 check register. If you remember last month I mentioned that we only bring the check register for the month of August. The other financial statements will be wrapped into the comprehensive annual financial report, which we'll bring in January. We're working on that now. The check register you have for approval today indicates vendor payments made in the month of August. It's one of the larger months as it includes our semiannual debt payment. and next month we'll bring forward the standard monthly reports for September.
Are there any questions? Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of
Trustees approves the district's August 2020 check register. I have a motion by
Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the district's August 2020 check register. 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 Thank you, Ms. Feitinger. 10.5, discuss and consider board approval of the October 2020 budget amendments. Ms. Butterfield, welcome.
Thank you, President Doyle, trustees, Dr. Grigorski. Like Chris said in the presentation, we are taking a step tonight towards recognizing the impact of our enrollment situation before Friday's snapshot for PEMS Submission 1. So for general operating fund amendments tonight, we have a state revenue decrease of $15.3 million to recognize lower than projected student enrollment, and the other amendments are direct offsets. Approval of this amendment will result in a $15,318,140 decrease to the general fund fund balance. Also, we have one amendment tonight for TURS fund. This is to create an expenditure budget for $220,000 to replace the broken generator at the Merrill Center. An approval of this amendment will reduce the TURS fund by the like amount.
Thank you so much. Are there any questions? Madam President. Ms. Vann. I move the Board of Trustees approves the district's October 2020 budget amendments.
Who was that?
Bill.
Okay. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees approves the district's October 2020 budget amendments. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed, motion passes. Thank you so much. 10.6, discuss and consider board approval of the attendance boundary modification, ABM, for junior high number 17 for the 2021-2022 school year. Mr. Vierling and Ms. Poole, welcome.
We're here tonight to bring the final version of the attendance boundary modification for, I would say, junior high 17, but is now officially Bill and Cindy Haskett junior high. So that's very exciting. Mr. Haskett was my principal at Katy High, so that's a great thing. So Chris Poole with Population Survey Analysts, I don't know why I blanked there for a second, is with us tonight. She's always a great help to us on attendance boundary modifications. I'll take the first part and she'll take the last half and then if you have any questions at the end We'd be happy to answer them for you. I'll breeze through these. These are very similar slides to what you've seen before Kind of talking about the process obviously we work with campuses we work with the Pasa we look at a whole lot of numbers and growth in these areas and And our plan was to take a recommendation to the board in October, and we're here tonight to do that. So our proposed objectives, our goal is to relieve Katy Junior High and Stockdick Junior High. And as we've discussed many a time, the northwest quadrant of the district is growing rapidly. And so we want to make sure that Haskett Junior High will provide relief for those two junior highs. our goal again was to prepare the ABM for that make sure that we're using our facilities appropriately and keep the numbers where we want to have them in our existing campuses and then the goal long term of course is to balance junior high growth in the northwest quadrant of the district over the next five to seven years so our timeline we brought this initially to you at the the July board meeting. We've had a survey open to the public from July the 28th all the way to October 13th. Dr. Grooms and her group and K-12 presented survey results to you guys at the September board meeting and then of course tonight we are here to present the final ABM and take any questions that you have so our communication process obviously we started out in July with the presentation itself we've asked our stakeholders our community members for feedback throughout October through the middle of October and November through January 2021 when and if this is finalized we'll be informing the community of the kiddos and families who are affected by the abm we'll be communicating with them throughout november and january and our communication tools parent emails media releases websites social media and obviously we've had phone conversations and things like that with folks so i'll hand it over to chris and she'll go through the abm
good evening everyone president doyle superintendent gregorski and board members These slides are going to look really familiar, so I don't think that we really probably have to belabor any of the points here. But the process is still the same. We always start with the current attendance zones, and then we do the planning forward. So I'll start with this slide here. It's a discussion of the current attendance zones. The figures here, they show the data as of May. We did a little bit of a mini-update, and we're still working on the new data that you guys will see here in a couple of months. So this map has not been adjusted for the current enrollment, but it shows a set of projections that is the most current that we have right now. And as you can see, Stockdick and Katy are both expected to need relief by the fall of 21. Katy could have 1,469 students. They have a capacity of 1,235. So that makes Katy at about 120 percent of capacity and Stockdick at 1,542 with a capacity of 1,400, but massive, massive opportunity for growth here in the future. So this slide shows the recommended ABM for Haskin. Is it an N or a T? T. Haskit. Okay. I have a note to myself to get the spelling of that tomorrow. I'll send it to Ted here. So this carves the attendance zone for Haskit completely from Stockdick and from Katy. It relieves Stockdick from the southern end of its attendance zone there, and it relieves the northern end of Katy Junior High. This should allow for growth at both Haskett and at Stockdick for the next several years. And then you can see here from this slide that this is showing us the black lines here are the current junior high attendance zones for Katy Junior High and for Stockdick. And so you can see how that break was made and which sections are coming out of Stockdick and which sections are coming out of Katy. And then this next slide shows the boundaries for the high schools, the current high schools, that is. And so when zoning we always like to check and be sure that we're not creating a little sliver of students that we're sending from one junior high sort of by themselves off to a new high school. And so you can see that that's not really the case here. The sizable portion of students from both Haskett and from Katie will – and both Katie and Stockdick. So the chunks here that we have are nice and sizable. It's also important to note that we'll have another high school here in the northwest far up there kind of where that 1A label is there. So that will occur sometime in the future and so these feeder pattern splits that we've got here, they're not going to be the splits that we maintain in perpetuity, but it's something that we try to be aware of and watch as we're going through the zoning process. And then this slide is just a reminder so that everybody knows that the Haskett APM does not affect the high school attendance boundaries. That's always a question that we get. So the high schools are the same. That's why we're watching to see if we're making any splinters here and looking at how those junior highs go ahead and feed to the high schools.
So the conclusion is that obviously our goal is to open junior high 17, relieve Stockdick and Katy junior high, and provide some relief for the next five to seven years. And know too that our goal in any time you have an attendance boundary modification, and I've been a part of this as a parent, as a school principal, and now in this position, it's a very difficult thing to do. We know it's not easy, but we do try to balance things so that kids are, as Chris said, going together, moving together, and try to make it as easy as possible at their next location. So if you have any questions, we're happy to answer them.
Board members, are there any questions? Madam President. Ms. Champagne. Yes, thank you for the presentation. So the high school boundary, the high schools have not changed, correct? correct. But I'm just wondering, number 33, that is a Katie Junior High that goes to Morton, that's just a little only, I mean, you say it's not a sliver, but do you know how many kids that
is? Has it always been like that? I can look it up for you. It has been there, and if I remember correctly from that zoning, it was a proximity issue. Which of these does it make the most sense to send them to? And it's a sizable check. It's a very, very dense group of kids in that planning. Okay, great.
It's always been like that, so I was just curious.
I know, it always looks odd, but it looked odd to move it also. Uh-huh. Both directions.
Thank you. Any other questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
Just as a general reminder, how many students are our new design designed to hold in each one of our new design junior highs? 1,400. Okay, that's it.
Anyone else? Okay. I'll entertain a motion.
Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the attendance boundary modification, ABM, for the 21-22 school year. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the attendance boundary modification, ABM, for the 2021-2022 school year. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Thank you both. 10.7 discuss and consider board approval of a war to award a water line easement and storm sewer easement to harris county municipal utility district number 432 miss castman go right ahead
president doyle trustees and dr gagorski i have one item this evening for your consideration harris county mud number 432 has requested a waterline easement and a storm sewer easement as depicted in the attachment documents associated with Olga Leonard Elementary. There's a waterline easement located on the northern side of Winchester Trail Ranch, which is south of the elementary school, and a storm sewer easement, which is located on the eastern boundary of Leonard for a future Bella Tree Lane.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey.
I move that the Board of Trustees awards the Harris County Municipal Utility District, number 432, a water line easement and a storm sewer easement, both of which are associated with the Olga Leonard Elementary School. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacey, a second by Mr. Redman, that the Board of Trustees awards Harris County Municipal Utility District, number 432, a water line easement and a storm sewer easement, both of which are associated with Olga Leonard Elementary School. 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. Kasper.
Thank you.
Agenda item 10.8, discuss and consider board authorization for the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for the Agricultural Sciences Project Center.
Thank you, Ms. Doyle. So let me talk a little bit about this one. This actually came up about last year around February, March, April, sometime in there. It was soon after the rodeo and livestock show that we had up there. and someone had brought forward a recommendation and said that they would like to see us put a name on the project center out there. And after looking at it, we've got three buildings out there. Two of the buildings are named and one is not. It's just called the project center. So we looked at that and we thought that would be a good idea to maybe get a name on that. Then we had COVID and we did not bring that forward. And now that we're back in business, we're having committees, we're putting stuff together. We thought this was the opportune time to do that. make a selection get that wrapped up hopefully by December and then have that name on there for hopefully a livestock show and rodeo in the spring yes madam
president miss van I'm new the board trustees approves the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for the agricultural sciences project center per per board policy CW local second I have a motion
by miss van a second by mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves the the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for the Agricultural Sciences Project Center per board policy. CW local. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. 10.9, discuss and consider board approval of the minutes of the September 2020 board meeting. Madam President. Ms. Vann.
I move the board of trustees approves the minutes of the board meeting held in September 2020. Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meeting held in September 2020. Was it Mr. Redman?
It was. Okay.
We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. 11.1, quarterly investment report. The board was provided a copy of the quarterly investment report. 11.2, the board was provided a copy of the donated items to KDISD. 11.3 the board was provided a copy of the cooperative purchasing contract management fees report the next regular board meeting will be held on Monday November 16 2020 there being no further business before this board this meeting is adjourned the time is 825 p.m.
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Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 6.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Junior High #17, located at 25737 Clay Road, Bill and Cindy Haskett Junior High as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
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 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the TEA required Targeted Improvement Plan.
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 10.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees grants approval for the Superintendent to sign and submit the 2020-2021 Bilingual Education Exception/ESL Waiver Application.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 10.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Campus Performance Objectives.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 10.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's August 2020 check register.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 10.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's October 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 10.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the attendance boundary modification (ABM) for the 2021-2022 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 008 · AGENDA 10.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 432 a water line easement and a storm sewer easement, both of which are associated with Olga Leonard Elementary School.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 10.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for the Agricultural Sciences Project Center per Board Policy CW(LOCAL).
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 10.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in September 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 |