Katie Independent School District to order. Today is Monday, December 14th, 2020 and the time is 5 30 p.m. Dr. Gagorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice of this meeting?
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Madam President, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for this meeting this evening.
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. Our speakers will be called forward in the order they are signed up to speak. And tonight we only have one speaker, Ms. Kathleen Pittman.
Board members, I just wanted to touch base. I'm sorry that I missed the last couple meetings. We've had a lot going on in our PTA world. We have over 20,000 members that have joined our PTAs in Katy, which is great. It's a little bit lower than what we've had in the past, but knowing the year that we've had, our PTAs are continuing to do a great job. They're working really hard on engaging families, and they've gotten super creative with it from drive-through holiday events to we have a PTA that did a family game night boxes and each family could pick up a box and do a bunch of different games at home which is really neat and they've done holiday scavenger hunts that families can complete over the break to look for different things in their communities and lots of different creative things that our PTAs are working on to engage families despite obviously not being able to be in person like we normally would be we've also gotten pretty creative on teacher appreciation from food trucks in the parking lot with social distancing and and ordering on Google Form ahead of time so that the teachers can get their meal quickly and get back to class to box lunches or individually packaged treats. They've really worked hard to be creative. So I appreciate the district's support in meeting with Leslie Hack and Janet every week. That has been great with trying to navigate protocols. And I just definitely want to say that y'all have worked so hard. And the fact that we've only had a few campuses that have gone down for a short period of time, you can tell that the protocols are working and we appreciate it. So thank you. Have a wonderful holiday.
CHAIRPERSON WONG Thank you so much, Ms. Pittman. This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting. The Board will now convene and close 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, December 14, 2020, and the time is 6.27 p.m. On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting. Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, December 11, 2020. The Board will receive information and recommendations from the 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 arriving from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. We'll begin with Item 4.1. Dr. Gagorski. The considerate approval of naming a principal for Miller Career and Technical Center.
Thank you, Ms. Mann. Bring it forward to the board for their consideration. Kelly Carrilla as the principal of Miller Career Technology Center. Madam President.
I move that the board of trustees names Kelly Carrilla as the principal for the Miller Career and Technology Center as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Second.
I received a motion from Mr. Redman and a second from Ms. Gesshoff that the Board of Trustees names Kelly Carrillo as Principal of the Miller Career and Technical Center as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes seven to zero.
And if I may, Madam President, Kelly's with us here tonight. I'd like her to stand and be recognized. Kelly is currently the Instructional Officer at the James Reese Center and Tech Ed Center in Fort Bend ISD. She was a previous assistant principal here in Katy ISD and we're proud to welcome her back. So, Kelly, thank you very much for coming back.
Thanks.
And Kelly, I see you brought a guest with you. Who do you have today?
Yes, Allison is one of the ten.
I'm just going to take your attention and see if I can get you back.
Awesome. Awesome. Well, thank you very much.
Congratulations, Ms. Cruella, and welcome back. Or I should say, welcome home. 4.2, consider board approval of naming of the Executive Director of Fine Arts.
Madam President, I bring forward Damon Archer as the Executive Director of Fine Arts Recommendation.
I'll obtain a motion.
Madam President.
Mrs. Gassoff.
I move the Board of Trustees names Damon Archer as the Executive Director of Fine Arts as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.
I received a motion from Ms. Gesshoff, a second from Mr. Keller, that the Board of Trustees name Damon Archer Executive Director of Fine Arts as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0.
And Madam President, I see Mr. Archer is out there tonight. Many know him. He serves as our Assistant Director of Fine Arts. He's worked in many of our campuses as band director and assistant band director for a number of years, has a long history at Katy ISD, has done an excellent job. And we won't hold anything against him from being from the University of Michigan, but we'll allow that one to pass. But Damon, if you'd please stand and be recognized. Did you bring anyone with you that you'd like to recognize? Awesome. All right. Thank you, Damon.
Congratulations, Mr. Archer. 4.3, consider board approval of naming a principal for Maid Creek Junior High School.
Bring forward for the board's consideration Amanda Weaver, Maid Creek Junior High Principal.
Madam President, I move that the board of trustees names Amanda Weaver as the principal for Maid Creek Junior High School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
I received a motion from Ms. Gassoff, a second from Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees names Amanda Weaver as principal for May Creek Junior High School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0.
And Amanda's here with us tonight. She's currently the principal over at Rhodes Elementary, so many of you know her, but she's been here with the district for a long time as well, 20 years in education. So Amanda, would you please stand and be recognized? Looks like you got a few people with you there, some guests, if you would go ahead and introduce them.
I have my sister, Gary, my brother-in-law, Brian, and my nephew, Broden.
Awesome.
I just want to give a shout-out to another Penn Stater, you know, as long as we're recognizing universities.
Well, once again, we won't hold that against you. We'll continue to employ you and your sister. But anyone who doesn't go to Ohio State, we're going to give you a little bit of business.
Congratulations, Ms. Weaver. 4.4, consider approval of the naming of the principal for Morton Ranch Junior High.
For the board's consideration, I bring forward Dr. Fred Black for principal of Morton Ranch Junior High.
Madam President. Ms. Champaign. I move that the Board of Trustees name Dr. Fred Black as principal for Morton Ranch Junior High School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
I received a motion from Ms. Champaign, a second from Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approves Dr. Frederick Black, principal for Morton Ranch Junior High School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes seven to zero.
Madam President, Fred's here with us tonight. He's been a previous assistant principal. He's currently over at Taylor High School. He's been a principal in another district, but we're excited to have Fred here. So Fred if you'd stand and be recognized as well. And Fred you got a couple of folks with you there. Would you mind introducing Introducing your guests. Yes, sir.
I have Dr. . My three boys Noah .
Awesome. Thank you so much, Fred.
Congratulations, Dr. Black.
And Madam President, I'd like to recognize a couple other folks. They're not on the agenda for consideration as an action item. But we do have with us in the audience a couple of folks that have made some transitions. One is Deputy Chief Meyer, who is out there. Deputy Chief Meyer is retiring after almost 45 years in law enforcement. So that is a lot to congratulate for right there. 32 years in KDISD, served as a patrol officer, corporal sergeant, lieutenant captain, and finally as deputy chief of police for KDISD. He's been responsible for starting KDISD's police department training division, obtaining a training contract with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, allowing the department to train officers from across the state, which we do a fantastic job training many officers here in Katy ISD. Graduate of the Law Enforcement Management Institute at Sam Houston State University, and I believe he's here with some family members and we're going to have him stand and introduce those folks as well. But I hear he's going to spend his retirement fishing with grandkids. So congratulations on that retirement, Deputy Chief Meyer. Would you mind sharing who you bring as your guests tonight?
First off, I have my great grandson here, Bentley, my granddaughter, Shelby, Tyler, my wife, Karen, my other grandson, Cooper, and our administrative assistant from work, Liz Locke, and also my retired chief, Mark Hopkins.
You bet. Thank you so much, and we appreciate your service.
Congratulations.
And when one good one goes, we always try and replace them with another good one. And I'm looking around for Captain Tabor, used to be Captain Tabor, soon to be Deputy Chief Tabor. He's been with us for a long time as well. KDIS-DPD for 24 years, specialist in canine handler, hostage negotiator, and gang investigator. Served on our command staff in our police department for 11 years. He's graduated the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas Leadership Command College. got a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from midwestern state university and he's here i believe with some folks as well that we'll have you introduced but we appreciate you stepping into that new role deputy chief tabor and we're looking forward to many more years of service in our police department you got some folks with you i've got my wife alicia my daughter vanessa and my son jack awesome thank you so much captain tabor
Congratulations, Deputy Chief Tabor. Now we'll move to 4.5, consider Board approval of a recommendation to send notice of proposed termination of a term contract employee, a woman elementary school teacher, Heather Zaruba, for good cause.
Madam President.
Ms. Gassoff.
I move that the Board of Trustees sends notice of proposed termination of a term contract to Heather Zaruba for good cause as discussed in closed meeting and directs the superintendent to give written notice to her of these proposed actions.
A motion was made by Ms. Gessoff, a second by Mr. Keller, that the Board of Trustees sends notice of proposed termination of a term contract to Heather Zaruba for good cause as discussed in closed meeting and directs the superintendent to give written notice to her of these proposed actions. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Mr. Redman is abstaining. Item 4.6, consider Board approval of recommendation to send notice of proposed termination of a probationary contract employee, the Opportunity Awareness Center teacher, Pamela Tolliver, for good cause.
Madam President. Mr. Redman. I move that the Board of Trustees sends notice of proposed termination of a probationary contract to Pamela Tulliver for good cause as discussed in closed meeting and directs the Superintendent to give written notice to her of these proposed actions.
Second. A motion was made by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Gessoff, that the Board of Trustees sends notice of proposed termination of a probationary contract to Pamela Tolliver for good cause as discussed in closed meeting and directs the superintendent to give written notice to her of these proposed actions. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Now I move on to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Thank you, Madam President. We have a special guest who's going to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I'm going to go ahead and invite Samantha Lamb to come up to the podium, if you are ready to do so. Samantha's a fifth grade student over at Katy Elementary. I see her principals here, Beth Grimmett, her parents, Julie and Ryan Lamb. She's got a couple of siblings over there, it looks like, as well. Claire, who's in second grade, Riley in kindergarten. garden special interest samantha has always loved singing and dancing but after her part in a third grade musical pirates her interest was sparked in the theater and acting she also enjoys reading free drawing swimming and outdoor activities favorite subjects science math reading writing and music and mrs kelly getz her math and science teacher samantha is a hard worker always tries her best her love for learning shows through in every assignment she completes samantha takes pride in her learning and is an excellent role model for other students. Ms. Leslyn Jacks, music teacher, says Samantha is a remarkable girl whose joy shines through everything she does. She is kind, thoughtful, and is incredibly talented. It is a privilege to know and teach her. And from Andrea Taylor, the librarian, Samantha is a responsible student with a positive attitude and her PE teacher, Shelly Colvin, Samantha is a great young lady. Samantha works hard and always participates with positive attitude. She's always available to assist where needed. I enjoy having her in a physical education class. And lastly, from Mrs. Veronica Curtis, reading and language arts teacher, student like Samantha is truly a pleasure to have in your class. She is always ready and eager to learn new things, challenging me to be a better teacher and puts her best foot forward in all that you ask to do. After hearing those things, we would like 84,000 students just like her in KDISD. So appreciate what you're doing, Samantha, and we're going to have you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, the 13th of April. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and invisible.
Okay, Samantha, I understand you've got some things you'd like to share with us. The mic is all yours.
Good evening, President Vann, board members, and Superintendent Gorgorski. My name is Samantha Lamb, and I have attended Katy Elementary since first grade. When you think of Katy Elementary do you think of just a normal school? If you do you should know that it is more than that. Every year Katy Elementary picks a motto. This year the motto is there is no place like Katy Elementary. What does that mean to you? This is what it means to me. First Katy Elementary is a friendly kid based school. For example they built the buddy bench so that kids who didn't have anyone to play with on the playground ground could sit there and possibly make a new best friend. The school is fast to take action when it comes to bullies and making kids comfortable. They listen and are encouraging one another trying to brighten someone's day. We treat each other like family and try to be helpful. Next it is the staff. The staff is just so kind and helpful trying to be helpful. The students are so nice and the teachers always plan such fun activities. The PTO is always planning ways ways to have fun and the custodians and lunch people are extremely hardworking and probably don't get as much appreciation as they should. Just wanted to say thank you staff. Third of all, Katy Elementary is a tremendously proud and patriotic school. We are big about the Pledge of Allegiance. We say the pledge every morning to honor our soldiers. We also have a good amount of proud military families. In addition to that, we are proud of our Katy kids for having Katy spirit so we reward them with katie stars and we made the katie kids song about them last but not least we have a rich history we were the first katie school house plus these walls hold many generations of families who have all gone to katie elementary maybe even taught at katie in conclusion kitty elementary is a friendly unique proud and patriotic edict school with good staff and rich history the motto is true when you leave katie elementary it will always feel like home kitty elementary there is
no place like home I just want to thank you on behalf of the board for coming today and standing in front of us and saying the pledge of being our leader today it takes a lot of courage for you to do that and it's much appreciated and here is a great lunch box for you too so thank you so much
yeah yeah Miss Wilson can you guys and Samantha come around for one photo right here and maria will take that for us thank you awesome
thank you samantha
Okay, there's a few guests that are going to go ahead and leave right now before we turn over some more action items. So for those of you who would like to leave, you're welcome to do so. We're about ready to bring in a whole lot of kids and some coaches from our state championship Seven Lakes high school volleyball team and recognize that group. So we'll give a few minutes to clear out and a few to come in. What's that? Oh, yeah, you bet.
Awesome.
All right, at this time, I'm going to go ahead and ask our athletic director and coach, Debbie Decker, to come up to the mic and turn everything over to her for a presentation to our Seven Lakes volleyball team.
all yours mistakeer being madam president Board of Trustees and dr. Gagorski am I allowed to take this off thank you I thought that's gonna sound really really tough okay when the seven lakes high school volleyball program defeated Klein high school in the UIL 6a state championship they became the first volleyball team in KD ISD history to win a state championship and the 2020 Spartans are the 23rd team in KDISD to win a state championship. Along with the state championship this weekend, Allie Batonhorse was named the 6A All-State Tournament's Most Valuable Player. Allie along with sister Casey and I'm gonna get it right Mayo, sorry, were also selected as max I'm sorry were also selected to the 6A All-State Tournament team. And by the way, a few months ago, Allie was also selected as a Max Preps All-American and an Under Armour All-American. Even though the Spartans finished the season with 25 wins and one loss, this year was full of challenges and loads of stress. The season started out with a few injuries, then after finishing the first round of district play undefeated, the program was shut down for 14 days due to COVID-related issues. And then the campus us move to intermittent school to home learning for five days. So imagine not touching a volleyball for over 2.5 weeks, then having three days of practice before playing five district makeup matches in eight days. The Spartans accepted the challenge with class. They persevered through the rest of district play and they won the district championship. The team rolled through the next couple of rounds before issues related to covid struck again. The regional quarterfinal game was postponed for a day. After that round, the team seemed to be back in stride until the injury bug resurfaced in the state semifinal game versus Reagan. The Spartans lost one of their starters during the game, which led to the rest of the team stepping up to get the job done. If you were able to see the Spartans play this season, if you're like me, you would have noticed from the beginning the respect and the admiration that the players have for their coach Amy Catiline and you would have also noticed how much coach Catiline loves and cares for her athletes in a season in a season of uncertainties coach Catiline's outstanding leadership and positive attitude were instrumental in the team's state championship run at this time I would like to introduce the campus principal Carrie Finison to introduce the players and the coaches
Ladies and gentlemen, when I call you, because it's not going to be in order, you can just go up there. Right? Is that what you want, Dr. Gorgorski? Okay. Oh, and I guess I can take this off now. Okay. Good evening. Saturday was so exciting, not stressful at all. It was fine. I told Coach Catiline when she was in my office today that if that's how she feels at all, I don't know how she does it, because I thought I was going to vomit about 100 times. But they did great. They did great. We are so, so excited. As Coach Decker talked, this was a very, very trying semester for Seven Lakes High School. We had lots of obstacles to overcome, and these ladies just never let it get them down. If you ever watch them play, they are team members through and through. They are positive with one another. They never get upset with one another if somebody makes a mistake. They're always smiling. They're always laughing. And if you see shots of this team throughout their entire season, you'll see them all smiling laughing and hugging one another So I believe that is on top of talent and a great coach Why they are our state champions. So without further ado, I would like to announce and present our amazing 6a state champions Allie bait and horse So Allie you just go right up there Yeah, we're going to arc. We're going to arc. You got it. Ellie's like, yeah, I'm glad you called me first. I'm going alphabetical. So now your sister can watch you, right? Casey Batenhorse. You're welcome. She's your big sister. That's what should happen. Kaylee Bickle. Mia Blum. Blaine Burke.
may only ballet did I do it y'all all season they butchered her name so I was not doing it I just want you to know Emma Owen Emma Schroeder Peyton Sykes Katarina Tien. Mandy Thompson. Andrea Erzua. Holland Wally. And our coaches, our very own head coach, Amy Catiline. assistant coach Danielle Flannery Diane price and Eric Menninger and of course our campus athletic coordinator coach Jimmy Hammond Oh, that's right. Do they have them? Oh, they do. Board of Trustees and Dr. Grigorski, our athletes have a present for you so that you can match all of us. They haven't taken them off, so if you don't want to take them off, that's fine. They sleep with them and shower so if you all would present the board with their gold medals oh just just tell them to get picture ready they know what to do okay perfect y'all do your thing
okay so we'll need to step back so this won't come out step back literally you tell them to take a picture. Okay, step back a little bit so this won't come out. All the way, all the way to the step.
Sorry, buddy. Okay, squeeze in just a little bit more.
Okay. Okay. Okay, look this way. for the district. Three, two, one more, one more. Here we go. I can't see your smiles, but big smiles. One, two, and...
Perfect.
One, two, three. Awesome, thank you.
Thank you, ladies Spartans. Congratulations. No, he changed. Just for you. Just for you. Y'all enjoy your break and congratulations again.
Thank you. Thank you.
Bye, Carrie.
Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
items. Item 6.1, consider Board approval of the naming of the Agricultural Sciences project center as recommended by the naming advisory committee dr. Gorg or ski
Thank You madam president last couple of months we've been working on this one brought forward we put the committee together we had an open forum we move forward the committee's recommendation stands and I'm bringing forward for your recommendation tonight Gary a boss project center at the agricultural
Agricultural Sciences Center. Madam President. Mr. Redmond. I move that the Board of Trustees names the Agricultural Sciences Project Center located at 5801 Katie Hockley Cut-Off Road, the Gary A. Voss Project Center as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
I have a motion by Mr. Redmond and second by Mr. Keller that the Board of Trustees name the Agricultural Sciences Project Center located at 5801 Katie Hockley Cut-Off Road the Gary A. Voss Project Center 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. Motion passes 7 to 0. Congratulations Mr. Voss.
And if I may, Madam President, a couple things. I read a complete bio about Mr. Voss last time, so I won't read the entire bio again, but I was super excited when the committee came back and told me their recommendation was for Gary Voss. I've known Gary a long time. As a matter of fact, when I started as assistant principal back in 1998 at Katy High School, Gary was there as an ag teacher, spent a lifetime teaching kids, mentoring kids, and guiding kids and we couldn't have a finer person to name that project center after so I see Gary's here tonight Gary if you'd introduce some of the folks that you've brought out tonight if you have anything you say we'd love to hear it
Thank you.
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Congratulations again, Mr. Voss.
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And thank you for all that you've done to make the FFA program in Katy, I see one of the best in the state, well, the best in the state. Thank you so much and congratulations. We will now move to item 6.2, consider board approval of the nomination of a Katy Independent School District Board Member to the Texas Association of School Boards, otherwise known as TASB, Board of Directors for Region 4, Position E. We have had one name, one board member who self-nominated and that's miss dawn champaign i will entertain a motion madam president
i move that the board of trustees approves the nomination of don champaign to fill region 4 position e on the texas association school boards tasby board of directors the large district seat allocation for katie independent school district
A motion was made by Ms. Gassoff, a second by Mr. Keller, that the Board of Trustees approves the nomination of Ms. John Champagne to fill Region 4, Position E on the Texas Association of School Boards, TASB Board of Directors, a large district seat allocated for Katy Independent School District. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Motion passes. Congratulations, Ms. Champagne. Thank you. We know that you will work hard and serve us well for TASB. Thank you very much. I look forward to it. Next we'll move to item 7 reports 7.1 Katy Independent School District 2020 demographic update. Mr. Vierling and then you have guests.
Board Members, Dr. Gagorski. Each year, population survey analysts, that's code name for PASA, provides the board with a demographic update. The district uses these projections for staffing, future bond planning, land acquisition, and transportation planning. Dr. Pat Gussman and Chris Poole are here tonight to present the demographic update. I think what you'll see tonight is that the Katy area is still growing despite the pandemic and that Katie ISD is most definitely a destination district. So Dr. Gussman and Chris, you are up.
Thank you all.
feel free to provide comment or ask questions. We wanted to emphasize, based on the last official data for enrollment, that this district ranked third in the metro area, and at the same time, in terms of the numeric increase, this district has grown more rapidly than other districts in the metro area out of actually 61 metro area districts. At the same time, it's important to look at the state and know that at least for that point in time, this district grew with a greater number of students through the fall of 2019 more than any other district. We know that this year we don't have an official basis for comparison, but of course we do know that we're down considerably in that percent growth as are all districts in the state in terms of non-enrollment of a small percent of the students this year in every district. But it is interesting to see that Katie has had such a tremendous increase in enrollment. It's due to many factors that are really unique to this district. One thing that is of importance always is looking at the growth in the charter schools that are in the district or nearby. And you can see for Houston and Alief as well as Galveston that that's a fairly sizable percent for those districts. But again, one of the unique characteristics for this district is the low percent in terms of charter schools. And at the same time, you'll see that private schools for this year are about 3% of the overall resident students in the district. Again, a very low percent. We've worked with many districts that have had 16 and 18% enrollment. And some of those districts are very highly ranked, like Highland Park, which has 18% in private schools. And it's just so interesting to see that it's so very low in this district. Now, at the same time, I wanted you to see what has happened this year in terms of looking at added students by grade group. If you'll just look at the blue portion of this bar graph and see this year and the downward trend for these earliest grades. So that was really a big, big impact. Well over 800 students net lost this year. Now, at the same time, again, the annual growth rate this year is much lower. It was about 3% lower than anticipated. While still growing, there was tremendous deceleration in that growth. One factor that's been important, and it's really interesting since Katy is such a large district in terms of enrollment, is the low percent of economically disadvantaged students. students, usually these large enrollment districts, and you don't see another one on this slide that has the enrollment level as Katie, is that right? That is correct. It's got the highest enrollment, but a low percent, relatively speaking, of economically disadvantaged. Usually the larger districts in the state have a high percent of diversity on every measure. They're much more diverse, including the high percent of economically disadvantaged students is normally expected in these large districts. So if we try to compare, Katie, again, you'll note in terms of enrollment, it has the largest enrollment on this slide, but it ranks 10th in terms of a low percent of economically disadvantaged students. Why is that important? It's important because builders are looking at that data. Those developers that are using the parcels that are as yet undeveloped are very interested in the percent of economically disadvantaged students in the district as well as data that deals with passage rates and test scores. So employment trends, we'll just mainly discuss the fact that we understand the job losses remain in regard to COVID, but we're very hopeful that this district, with its upper socioeconomic characteristics, including a very high percent of college-educated residents, residents will leap forward in terms of a low unemployment rate in the near future. One thing to keep in mind is that the Deloitte study that was just finished indicated that there might not be more than 30 percent of those that lost jobs in the oil and gas sector that would get similar jobs back again. And interestingly, Bill Gilmer, the U of H economic czar, who has been so helpful over the years, showed that that is what happened in the 2015-2016 period. Only 30% returned to the jobs that they had in the oil and gas industry. So it is important to keep in mind that that is going to be a challenge moving forward. Now, housing projections are the predominant way that we look at added students. So even in this terrible, dire situation, when we were being able to do field reconnaissance in every subdivision, the new housing was still marching forward, defying all the concerns that we had due to COVID because of low interest rates and the fact that millennials were dying to escape more cramped quarters in apartments in the urban core and other parts of the city. places they wanted to have a breathing space. So we never saw a real downturn. We were driving every subdivision in May and we couldn't find a really troubled area in terms of added housing. It just was continuing. Very fascinating. And these are the land use zones that the district uses as its building blocks for studying where new schools are needed and of course for planning attendance zones. So right now I think it's important to keep in mind of course you see the light green and really know what an odd district you have because you've got 24% in parks and preserves. This is such an oddity to have such a large percent that will not ever develop but you have 58% that is basically built out or in the process of building out and only 18% now that's undeveloped and some of that is is planned what you see that's undeveloped is in the light beige so we do know that in the northwest there's a tremendous increase in arterials planned and of course that opens up the undeveloped parcels that that still remain for future development. So we can see the importance of transportation in providing for future plans for residential buildout in this district. Now, it's important to see that the second quarter of Metro's study showed that annual housing starts were up. That would be, again, through the second quarter. But through the third quarter, they were up even higher. We just got that data, and there were 3,000 housing starts over the last 12 months ending in September. So, again, there's still an acceleration while we're in the midst of high unemployment. And in the second quarter, Katy ranked fifth out of 61 districts as a producer of housing starts. But through September, it was now fourth. So, again, this district has not had any fumbles or stumbles in terms of residential construction. construction. And to emphasize the Northwest, we had not anticipated the rapid build out of so many smaller parcels because we thought they would have to work with their neighbors to coordinate drainage easements. And it would be difficult, if not impossible, but they were very informed and there are so many new subdivisions in the Northwest that are under under 100 acres that are smaller. And we had thought there would be a couple of big master plan communities. And there is one new one, Sunterra, that's in the western part of the district. But in the northwest, these are all smaller developments that have capitalized on their knowledge of drainage to get these developments underway. way and now of course we're Aggies and so we've listed this in the opposite order it should be listed but if you look at the bottom Ellison still has the most number of units to be built out in the next 10 years and that's followed by Bridgeland which barely showed up in our study last year but they've decided that that they have a new plan in Bridgeland for Katy. And so they basically want to build out the portion that's in Katy in five years' time, and that's probably too optimistic. And we've projected it basically in about seven or eight years. And then Sunterra is an assemblage of parcels that I mentioned. And interestingly, I believe that well over half of their new lots are 45 feet wide. So, you know, we expect that because the millennials need entry-level homes, and that's what we're seeing in the northwest and then again Sentara is on the far west. Here in red are where you see the, I guess what you could call the epicenter of residential development. And I'm sure you're probably familiar with most of these locations. It is really exciting to see how rapidly they're building out. and some on the just on the eastern side of the Grand Parkway are building out more rapidly than we had anticipated as well as those in the northwest so there's a big demand for homes in Katy ISD and again it's because of the unique characteristics the test scores that the passage rates and other characteristics that that not only builders and developers but also parents are looking for now this is a little bit complex and so I don't want to ruin your evening but what I'm trying to say in this slide is that those that are 65 plus have been taking over the district so they've been taking away homes that we expected the the millennials to strive for. And it's only been this year that we really see the influence of the millennials. And they're actually a larger cohort than the empty nesters. So they're going to take over. But right now, it's the baby boomers who are still very interested in buying parcels that, of course, have no students and therefore affect the ratios of student per house in some of the subdivisions because we have some subdivisions that only have 13 percent of the homes with a student in them because of the baby boomers. But again, the millennials, while they have financial challenges of all sorts, they're determined and they are moving in. Plus the fact that in the older subdivisions, there are a small portion of those older subdivisions that are attracting Millennials so that regeneration is occurring in those subdivisions. Now for the the new housing 29% of all of the future housing is going to be multifamily and at one time it was always around about 5% so that's a big big change and right now Now 11% of the current students live in multifamily units. And again, for Spring Branch, it's well over half of the students. So, you know, this district, again, remains unique for such a large district in terms of enrollment to have a small proportion in multifamily. And of course, one reason it's rising is because those big parcels to develop with a massive number of homes are disappearing. There's just very few left. And right now, those are planned for industrial use. That might not happen. It may gradually evolve to be residential. But we see that folks want to live in Katy, but they are going to be forced in some sense into multifamily units because they can't find the single family homes that they're seeking. And again, that may really help with the regeneration of older affordable homes in the district. Now, we won't go over these because there's such a large number this year for next October. We project to October of each year, which is the Fiends snapshot date. And highlighted in yellow are those that are adding the most units to be occupied by the end of October. Some of these are still being occupied that have a small number that you see at the top of the list. And then here is another list with the quadrant that the apartment is in broken out. And just to summarize these in another way, a lot of these units are along the Grand Parkway. So really we knew there'd be apartments on the Grand Parkway, but we just didn't know how many. And there's a big, big demand where we thought there'd be more commercial space. There has been a real influx of developers interested in multifamily construction. So here you see the Grand Parkway in the center of the district going from north to south. and it shows you here the number of units that are left to be occupied of those planned and existing complexes so when we look overall at new housing again we've said that explains most of the residential additions that we will see in terms of new students, 30,000 are single family, over 12,000 multi-family, and at the same time, we know that the important thing is which one of these units, which apartments are going to have a high ratio of students, which will have a low in the apartments because because they vary for every complex. So we study each complex based on its comparables. And again, this is a coveted district, so there's a high ratio on the average of students per multifamily unit. And the single family as well as multifamily unit ratios have declined. Do you know why they've declined this year? It's just simply because some students are not enrolled. And so we have a slight decline in the students per home, the ratio, and as well in the multifamily. So one other thing that we need to emphasize is we have geocoded almost all of the students in this district. We know where each student lives and their characteristics. And the important thing to keep in mind is that while we've been talking about new apartments and new subdivisions, you'd be shocked at the percent of your students that are in existing built-out subdivisions. You might want to guess at that percent, but I won't keep you here guessing. It's 80%. So 80% of our students live in what is built out, cannot add another home. But some of those subdivisions are still adding students. As every couple leaves, there will be one or two more children come in per house than was in the last household. old. So they are adding students without adding a new house. Others are losing students, and that's especially true at the elementary level, because the high school students are still matriculating through. But it's so important for every one of the 397 built-out subdivisions to be able to estimate if they're going to add students or if they're going to be virtually without students and so that's a critical part of the projections and makes a world of difference when you're trying to estimate within four students per grade per school how many students will show up in the fall so it's really important to keep up with the less glamorous aspect of looking at the built-out subdivisions and here again you see our atypical year and know that we've had a large number of elementary students and it's really you can virtually follow it grade by grade but the highest grade is at the kindergarten level that did not did not appear in the district is not enrolled relative to to what our firm had projected. So it's really interesting to look at that difference. But relative to last year, the actual difference is 1,550 elementary students who, in these existing subdivisions, we could say have disappeared. It's simply that they're not enrolled in this district. They're either being homeschooled, The small percent are in private or charter schools, and they may have left the country to go to a country of origin, a very small percent, but they're not enrolled in this district. So that's going to be important to keep in mind. What percent of those will return once it's safe to do so, maybe starting this coming semester or especially by next fall? So we've talked about the elementary students and their losses, but we wanted also to emphasize that last year there were 817 elementary students that were added in these built out subdivisions. And so we were hoping that that would continue every year. and then we'd never be closing an elementary because we would be regenerating those older subdivisions and there's a lot of strong evidence that that could occur in this district one reason is that the district is growing out over a 40 year period whereas districts like spring branch basically built out in about 15 years so for a while every student was young then Then every student was old. Then the students were gone at Spring Branch. Then the schools were closed and the schools were reopened. But Katie's not going to face that because you have this process of slowly building out and you've always had about the same percent of students in every grade, whereas some districts we work for have four times the number of elementary students as they do high school students. And you can see how that could get dysfunctional real easily. But this district doesn't face that. So when we look at the projections, we are looking toward next year with an addition not only of around about 2,700 students of this 4,000 to be added next year. $2,700 as... added due to new housing and around 1,300 due to being readmitted due to enrolling and they were not enrolled this year so we're saying about 90% of those that were not enrolled this year that had been enrolled the year before will be enrolled in the fall. And then a very petite amount will enroll in 2022, but very small amount of those that are not enrolled this year and reside in this district. And so then if you look at the following years, 2,400, 2,400 again, and you can see in green the projections by year. with the moderate growth scenario showing 108,000 at the end of the 10-year period. And that also would indicate in a high-growth model that we could even have maybe 4,600 in the fall, and ultimately at the end of the 10 years, almost 112,000. Likewise, we could not have that 90% show up in the fall, and we would have lower enrollment due to ongoing problems that we face with the economy. You know the most important thing that predicts a family moving to the suburbs is having job stability. If they even slightly feel worried about the stability of their job then they will not relocate and we won't see those new students so that would be the low growth scenario and here then this simply shows the quadrants where you can see that basically the the eastern side of the district within zero to one percent is basically built out the southwest is rapidly building out and that leaves the the green and you can can see the trajectory of it, the northwest, as it goes from a lower growth to a high growth situation. So the last slide before Chris tells us about the need for new schools is the build out of the district. And I just wanted to mention a few things about the build out. The build out is based on every individual parcel that remains to be developed and knowing a little bit about who owns the parcel and the plans that exist whether it's going to be commercial industrial or residential in the future those plans can change even an industrial parcel with oil and gas easements running through it can ultimately be residential so we know that that those plans change but basically I wanted to emphasize that that we know that those that are involved in oil and gas work, even though it's not going to change dramatically, we know that there will be some change in the demand for those jobs over time. And, of course, that's been a big part of the workforce. At the same time, though, as mentioned, The district's growth is building out over a 40-year period. That's a good thing, a stable thing. And know that each grade group grows at about the same pace. Again, nothing could be better than that because it helps keep stability in terms of demand for elementaries or demand for high schools. And then we know, too, that this district has always been unique in that for such a large district, it's had a low percent of disadvantaged students, and it's got such a highly educated population. So those are the characteristics that parents look for, and especially when they're looking at older subdivisions. They want these unique characteristics, and they are seeking them. So while there are very few big parcels left in the district, On the other hand, we have estimated the build-out of every parcel that remains, and we anticipate around 115,500 students at build-out. But every year that will change a little bit because of the interest of developers in having more land here, and so they're going to pick up on some commercial and industrial sites and we'll be surprised where we see some residential development in the future so now Chris Poole is going to go over with you the plans for new facilities and and a little bit looking at how the existing facilities can be better utilized
Good evening, everyone. I will try to not take too much more of your time, but I think at the end of the day, the reason we're really here is to look at facilities and what that means for the district. We have to take everything that we've just talked about here. We're looking at economy, projected housing, students per home, geocoded students, et cetera, and we create projections by Laney Zone, by grade group, for each year of the 10-year time period, if you're unfamiliar with the data that we have. And so that allows us to take those puzzle pieces, lane use zones that Dr. Gussman showed you a map of a little earlier. We join them back together. We look at your current attendance zones. We look at how that fits with the facilities. And then because we've got it in these little pieces, we can break them apart and we can look at future needs and when and where you might need additional schools. I did want to touch just briefly on the data assumptions. Pat mentioned this a little bit. With COVID, of course, it's been a real challenge for everybody in the world. and our office has been no different in trying to figure out how to handle the data. We don't have a pandemic from four years ago that we can take a look at and see how that worked. So we are expecting that if we have decent control of the pandemic by the fall and the vaccine is working and all of those sorts of things, that we would expect the majority of the students to come back, 90% of those students to come back in the fall. We think especially that that might be especially true here because people move to Katy for the schools. This is why they're here. We've heard that over and over again for the last two decades. They came for the schools to start with. So why would they not want the kids to be in the schools? So we are expecting 5% to return, or at least the data that we are showing you has the other 5% to return in 21-22. Maybe some students do stay virtual at some sort of a private school or virtual academy or something long term. But the reason we're saying this is we want you guys to understand what we've done with the data. it if things look different in April and we're not getting a hold of the pandemic then maybe we all sit down and we take a little bit of a reassessment here maybe the number ends up lower in the fall we do think in the next couple of years if it's 90 and 5 percent if it's 80 and 15 percent that we did the we would expect those students to return inside of the next couple of years now then another question another thing that we've talked about is whether or not say your kindergartners because it's the kindergartners that have have really been the big issue for everybody across across the state, pre-K and kindergarten. Are those kindergartners, are they going to come in as first graders? Are they going to have taken a victory lap and come in as kindergartners again, or I guess a redshirt lap? So we are assuming they will come in as first graders. That may not be the case. And so it may be that your cohorts, instead of being relatively even, your cohorts are a little off in the next couple of years if those kids do decide to cluster into kindergarten. But do know that the data that we're looking at, the assumptions that we have created, go ahead and enroll those kids on into first grade and everybody on to their next year. So I just want to look here briefly at the northeastern sector of the district. I'm going to take everything just quadrant by quadrant in a little while. It takes a little longer at the elementary school level, of course. For years and years, this area has been very stable. It's been very nice. It's been great. But we are seeing some growth here in the northeastern sector, especially the top part of Galbo, for example, is building out very rapidly, and we've been expecting build out in that area for quite some time. So what we have is we've projected based on geocoded student population like we always do, but that geocoded population doesn't include, of course, your transfers. And one of the biggest reasons that kids transfer around is the bilingual programs, and so we've noted all of those bilingual programs here with a white star. Some of them are relatively well contained. They pretty basically only handle the bilingual students in their own attendance zone. But some of them do have students transferring in from across the district. So we have to start with the geocoded kids and then understand that there are transfers that are laying there on top. But at first glance, several of these schools, Rhodes, McRoberts, Galvo, Morton Ranch, et cetera, look like maybe they have a little bit of space in there. For example, we're showing in each one of these data points, we show the capacity of the school. We're showing the enrollment. We're showing the projected geocoded kids, which those two things are different. and then we also are showing the number of portables and so for the longest time we've looked at say when we would see pressure coming in schmalls or pressure coming in galbo looking at maybe we have the ability to do some rezoning here but what we've sat down and realized though is that you already got you guys already have an awful lot of portable buildings in that sector of the district mainly due to programs and so i think there are over 60 portables in this area being used i mean schmalls has 13 of them right now and you know even sundown has a couple made Creek has a couple. And so you don't exactly have a whole lot of extra space to start moving kids around and placing the kids because they're already in portable buildings. So the district does have a site at 27C if that was something that would be warranted, or we could do some rezoning, maybe take the top part of Galbo and send it to the west or do some things in that area. But there are going to need to be some capacity issues handled here in the northeastern portion of the district. And I think a lot of people that have been here for a long time maybe don't expect that they haven't seen we don't talk about them haven't talked for a long time about the northeastern portion of the district there so then in the southeastern quadrant it's relatively quiet we are exceeding some pressure to be expected in West Memorial and at Pattison we do have to realize though that both of those schools they lose students due to transfers Pattison has net loss of about 60 out of its own and West Memorial loses I think our count this year was 269 students out due to programs so while it does show pressure here and it does it shows an immediate pressure do realize that 269 of those kids are leaving you can sort of take 269 off the top there but we are showing a continued additional need there in west memorial so it may be possible later for an addition or something like that to handle some of that growth the district does not have another facility in the southeastern portion of the district district. The Southwest, I think when I started working for the district, we were opening Cinco Ranch High School. So all of this has come on under my watch here in the last long while. It's been a fast and furious decade, last decade or two, but hopefully we are seeing some relatively stable numbers here in the Southwest. Jenks and Campbell are the only bilingual campuses in the area. Bryant's projected enrollment gets really high, but if you'll look at that it reaches across 10 and so we'll be able to relieve Bryant with the new school that we're hoping to open in the Kane Island area in the next couple of years we are going to have to watch say Wood Creek Campbell some of these we're expecting long term we're expecting some large enrollments we're hoping that those ultimately will go ahead and flatten out you know especially in other areas of the of this sector of the district we've seen you know a big increase as these homes are occupied in student population and then they do start to go ahead and and age out and hopefully at a good solid level there if there is any need for anything additional the district does not own a piece of land in the southwestern quadrant of the district for another school so it would have to be a little bit of rezoning and that is really typical once an area is built out been built out for a little while things ebb and flow you know there might be some little tweaks that have to be made along the way and so then in the northwestern quadrant of the district i don't think it's any surprise to everybody that mackle wayne with its attendance zone being that whole northern portion of the district, that it's going to clearly need relief over the next several years. Bethke and Leonard will also need some relief. And then also thrown into that mix, we may have to look at the top part of the Galbo, some of the Galbo attendance zone, et cetera, as we sort of try to manage some of the growth that's coming on in that sector of the district. We saw rapid growth like this in the southwest in the last 20 years. And, you know, clearly the district is going to need to open several elementary schools in this area rapidly. the one that I mentioned in Cane Island will relieve the top part of Bryant, but then we're looking here at McIlwain in 2025. We'll be pushing 3,000 students, and with each elementary, new elementary anyway, having a capacity of just over 1,000, we could almost utilize three entire schools there in the McIlwain zone in the next couple of years. And then this is just sort of my summary page. I like to do this, especially if there's a district that I haven't worked for before. This is sort of where I start. This is the added number of students by attendance zone over the next it's really nine years is from a 21 to 2030 and you can see where the growth is expected in the red there you know it's just sort of a one-page summary of exactly what we've been talking about already so in some we would be looking at school in Kane Island and in the far north and then numerous additional schools later in the northwest and some zoning or some additional facility space or something something there in the northeastern portion of the district. Then to move on to the junior highs, we see similar trends at the junior high level. We expect some pressure at Adams and Wood Creek. This is sort of similar to what I talked about here just a minute ago with the elementaries there in the southwest. We're hoping those flatten out, but again, the district doesn't have a site down there, so it may take a little tweaking. If they don't, we think we should see them go ahead and flatten and be well utilized. The bulk of the pressure will become in the northwest of the district, and then Haskett and Stockdick will clearly need relief, as we would expect. And then at McDonald, also, McDonald and Galbo's attendance zones are very similar. And I mentioned Galbo a minute ago, but the same sort of thing will occur at McDonald. And both of those schools have capacities slightly lower than what you guys are used to doing and building over the last little while. They're older schools, and their capacities are a couple of hundred students per school lower than what you probably think of as a new school here. here. The district does own one site for junior high in the northwestern portion of the district, but, you know, clearly there's going to be additional need there. Here's the summary map again. It looks very, very similar to the elementary map, you know, dark red in the northwestern portion of the district. That's where everybody will turn their concentration to now after we feel like we've gotten the southwest sort of leveled out, and so in sum, we're hoping those schools there in the southwest ultimately age out a little bit, and we'll need several additional junior highs in the northwestern portion of the district and then at the high school just briefly it's a very similar story it's the same song third verse aside from the rapid growth in payto and katie all the rest of the schools are very nice and even if you look out in 2025 and i think that says a lot about all of the work that the district has done over the last couple of decades to really keep on top of everything from my point of view just look at that and go that's so great that everything else is looking good but payto and katie are clearly going to have to be relieved and you can see that just by 2025 the combination of those two schools would be looking at as many as 9 500 students and each one of the schools holds about 3 000 and so high school 10 by 2025 it can be we're expecting it to be very very well utilized and then of course we are looking at needing to grow or expecting to grow from 25 five to 30 and then 30 to build out. So we will be looking at additional needs there in that sector of the district. And similarly, same sort of thing. You're not surprised where the red is if you've been paying attention here. And so we do show just up near that Pato label. That's not actually labeling Pato. Pato is further south. But there is that in that pink area there in the Pato zone that is the site for High School 10. And then here, just as a summary, High School 10 is in 6B. It will relieve Katie and Pato. The district owns the land, but construction will require bond funds, and then we'll still need to be talking after High School 10 about what we're going to do next with the high schools. So are there any questions?
Board members, do you have any questions?
Madam President?
Ms. Champaign?
Yes, I have a couple of questions, and first of all, I really enjoy the presentation every year. I think it's so important for us. I know the bond election information is going to be coming up in the next part of our agenda, But one of my questions is, it's about the Katy Prairie Conservancy. And I know that they just acquired some 600 and something acres off Patterson Road. And I just want to know if that affected any part of your analysis as to the future. There's a brand new map with that on there.
We always update the data for the conservancy and it's so interesting because there's that whole strip that's been acquired. I have some very poor maps that I prepared for the superintendent. Poor in that they're very petite but I can show you by color. So here's the barter of the Katie School District and here are those Patterson purchases. They go, they're all just above and one small portion within Royal, the rest are in Waller ISD. And also the superintendent had a very good question and a thought provoking one, which he often does, and he wanted to know of the owners that remain and do not have parcels that are developed. would there be any that have a high potential to join the Conservancy? Right. And we think no right now because these are individuals that can see dollar signs and they're very anxious to develop their land, and it's developing rapidly in Katy in the northwest, very, very rapidly. So we don't see that there's an interest in these slower developing areas is in the south part of waller waller's about to maybe be the highest growth district in the houston area in percent increase but right now it's not and then royal is very stationary with the exception of two subdivisions so that would be more plausible in term and that's how the land and Katy was ultimately acquired in a very slow growth situation.
Okay, and I was looking at another map, too. I think it was on Texas government map, and it was talking about the flood plains. And so in Waller County over there, you know, they had the different codes, and it showed, you know, how under, I don't want to say underwater, but prone to flooding they are over there. there, and I had heard through something that I had seen through TxDOT, you know, Department of Transportation, that the Department of Transportation is going to have to build up the roads first before the houses are going to be built. Do you know anything about that, and does that add into your projections of the houses that are going to be built there?
challenges and it's been fascinating to see is that these new developments.
Ms. Gussman, if I could just interrupt for just a second. Can I get you on the mic so we can hear a little bit better? Also I'll take this off because I can't even hear myself.
Thank you so much. One of the big interesting concerns is the fact that a developer has to basically promise that not a drop of water will leave the parcel that they're developing. So they have to put in massive detention and storm water areas. It's a fascinating undertaking so that they're using a big proportion of their land to store water. And when Ellison faced terrible rain in 2017 in August, they could not leave their homes but their homes did not flood and so you're right that many of the arterials that are planned will be built up more but at the same time the main consideration and regulations really are oriented to the characteristics of the development and its ability to drain okay and one last
question and as so it's so interesting that the kindergarteners didn't come to school but how do you I'm just curious how do you find at that out I mean how do you find out how many kindergarteners there should be and and then how do you
predict that they're going to come back so there's you know so many ways that you can go about that but one thing that's of interest is that not only would would we have expected the same number at a minimum as last year, but because the millennials are now attracted to this district, we would have anticipated a greater percent increase. And yet we had the kindergartners not, and of course pre-K was newly full day, and so that was a wonderful situation that kept them from plummeting, plummeting, but kindergarten, yes, those parents kept them at home.
And so one thing that we did, especially for the districts that are regular clients where we create data sets every year, is we could look at where the kids actually showed up and how many we thought were going to show up and compare the difference. And it's universal for every single one of our clients, this has been the case, that the biggest losses or biggest non-showing of students has been at the kindergarten level and almost all of the time it steps down until in a kind of line with the less amount of loss in fifth grade. And then for most part, everybody's really pretty strong at the middle school level and at the high school level. If there are differences at the middle school and high school level, it's at sixth grade and ninth grade. You know, the parents say, well, we can wait just a little while. And so for the districts that we have a long history it's been easier for us to try to take a look where we think because to do this we had to we had to create a finding of where we thought those covid kids were lost um so that we thought we could put them back in the appropriate way and from the appropriate spot and so it's been a little easier for us to feel like we're doing that accurately for the districts that we know and so we've done sort of a comparison and a hybrid sort of situation normally we would use the geocoded student population as our basis of comparison and build on top of that all of the additional things and every year we start over with those geocoded kids but this year we had geocoded kids plus we looked at the last year's geocoded kids and had to sort of make an assessment like that and made a bit of a hybrid that was our base model for this year and when school started
this year we realized that 2200 students at the beginning of the school year were not here that that we had projected. And so we had to know by grade group and by geographic location where those students had been lost. In Sy Fair, it was 2,600. In Klein, 1,200. So in every district, they faced the loss of students relative to what had been anticipated.
Any other questions? Madam President? Mr. Rebens?
As I'm looking through this at the elementary, junior highs and high schools, if we're considering re-approaching the bond committee, what would kind of those minimums, as you look at the numbers saying that the data says on this next bond you're going to need, my math is two or so elementaries, two or so junior highs and a high school?
Well, it depends on how long you want the bond to last. Okay. And so that really ends up being the answer to your question. You know, clearly with it taking two years to construct a high school, you've got to site work ahead of time, design work, all that sort of thing, I think the high school is certainly in play. You have the land for one junior high, but not to build it. And so I think that one is clearly going to need to come on. McIlwain, well, Cane Island should be ready to go. And McIlwain is going to clearly need some relief, followed by Bethke and Leonard and and Galva really kind of in the short term right after that. For the next several years, depending on exactly how we draw the zones, the minute you relieve McIlwain or at least that sector of the district, you're going to need to relieve it again. And so it's just a matter of how long you want that bond to last as to where you stop with the elementary schools and how many you're ready to have on board to go there in the Northwest.
Thank you. Any other board members? I just have a couple quick. Quick, sorry, I'm not quite on time. A couple quick questions. I missed, Dr. Gershwin, when you said the percentage of our school district, the 181 square miles, that is made of parks and reserve. I missed that percentage.
24%.
24?
That's such a large percent.
You said the number, and then you said large, and I heard large, but I missed the number, so I was just wondering that for my information. And just to have it stated again, because it is a very large. It is. I have a percentage of our district. And then is it true that Ellison is going to be as large as Cinco Ranch development, or is it actually going to be bigger when it's all? I'm just trying to get a visual for people.
It won't geographically or in terms of population be as large. It won't be as large. Okay, so I have that backwards.
Okay. And Ms. Poole, you said we have land in 27C already.
That would be for an elementary school? It's for an elementary. I don't know what the detention situation is and that sort of thing. I think, gosh, I think the district purchased that land, and you know, quote me, a long time ago. If I say a year, I'm going to be wrong. So it was quite a while ago when there was a lot of growth in the area, and it was one of those things, do you tip over? We've got the opportunity to buy the land today. Do you go ahead and tip over and sort of hedge your bets? And so there is land there. The initial thing, as I remember, the initial understanding was for it to be an elementary school in the future. but it may be a situation where we do some rezoning. Can you move some programs? Can you do some rezoning? Can you do a couple of additions in some places? But I think that whole area needs a little bit of study. If we think the capacity is 937 kids and yet you aren't there and you've got six portables, there are clearly reasons for that. There are programs that don't allow you to have 20 kids in every classroom. And so can any of that be adjusted and how's the best way to do that?
Okay.
Thank you so much. So there being no other questions from the board, Thank you all very much for your presentation. Next we have item 7.2, update on the Community Bond Advisory Committee, Bond 2021. Dr. Grooms and Mr. Smith.
Good evening, President Vann, Dr. Grigorski and trustees. You know, I had come up here to make a case for moving forward with bond planning and the bond committee. I think Dr. Guzman and Chris Poole demonstrated just how urgent the need is. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time on some numbers that you just saw, but as you recall, last January, or around this time, last school year, the administration came before you to propose moving forward with a community bond advisory committee committee that would be charged with assessing growth and also making some determinations about future capital needs, including new schools and renovations and component replacements and technology upgrades. And I think we heard from the PASA presentation this evening that the need, again, is even greater. These first couple slides you're going to see demonstrates that growth that you just heard about in the Northwest Quadrant. This high school slide is focusing on Katy High School and Pato High School, both which have capacities of 3,000 students for those buildings. Katy High is well over that capacity already, and both of those schools reach capacity by 2022, and you see Pato already at 6,000 students by 2026. I think we also just heard from Chris Poole, keep in mind that it takes three years to construct a high school. So that committee that was delayed in the spring, had they recommended a November bond, we would be on our way towards putting out bid. and moving forward with that process. If a committee were to come together this winter and recommend a May election, already what could have been started a year ago is now pushed back a year. Here you see the junior high enrollment. Capacity, 1,400 for most of our junior highs right now. Haiti Junior High, a little older, still a little bit smaller. All of them reaching capacity in 2022 2022 for the most part, you still have Haskett growing, but definitely by 2026, over capacity, all three of them. And the 2000 range for Katy Junior High and Stockdick Junior High. And that's with the addition of Haskett Junior High, which will be opening this fall. And this third slide is the enrollment scenarios for elementary schools in our Northwest quadrant again. again, Bethke, Bryant, Leonard, and McIlwain Elementary. Each of those schools have a capacity of 1,030 students. And again, you see all of them above capacity just over a year from now and well over capacity by 2026, which is about five years at this point. And I didn't mention it on the slide before, but you heard it in the presentation before for me that a junior high takes two years to build while elementary school takes one year so that brings us back to the bond committee this school district has a history of approving bonds developing and approving bonds every three to four years and our last bond was in 2027 2017 rather six new schools comprehensive renovation at filter elementary school expansions updates to safety and security as you will recall I keep on saying last year but it was last school year it was recommended that we move forward with the 2020 bond and so we are bringing that to you again with the hopes that we can consider going forward with a bond committee this January we have reached out to committee members and have received a positive response from most of them thus far there's about 150 individuals who were invited to be on that 2020 committee because of safety protocols the committee would be short in terms of its schedule we're used to about 12 meetings the meetings would go down to three to honor everybody's time and also again safety measures they would be held in the Leonard Merrill Center which is our large basketball arena that's connected to this facility and much more than basketball is held there as well it'd be held on the floor of that arena with socially distanced tables like the one you see in front of you that's about six foot long and narrow each bond member would have their own table and of course we would not share materials so we'd be following all safety protocols that the district has in place. This slide shows you what that meeting schedule would look like beginning in January. January 13th, the 20th, and 27th should the committee request that third meeting. We will honor any requests to add meetings that the committee may wish to move forward with. The last day to call for a May bond election should the committee decide they want to recommend a bond package would be February 12th. So it's our recommendation that the board conduct a special board meeting on February 8th if the committee is prepared and ready to present a recommended package. And here's just additional information about the timeline that I just went over. Now I'm going to ask our CFO Chris Smith to join me up here. He's going to talk about our financial capacity in terms of moving forward with a bond.
Thank you Dr. Grooms. What you have before you just to just to let you know the interest rate environment we're in for the 20-year bond index you can see that since 1981 it's really gone down significantly in these last several years actually and especially in 2020 the rates are very low and you can see that that X insert there and the blue outline is is kind of what we've looked like over the last couple of years and you can see that that we are extremely actually last year we are extremely low interest rate environment right now so like many of us have refinanced their their homes and like the population survey analyst folks just said a lot of people are moving because the interest rate environment and so very similar to that it's at a good time it's a good interest rate environment if you had to issue bonds and you saw this as a board or very something very similar to this when we talked about our interest in sinking or a debt service budget back in February. We used that at the time to give you all some information about us. And at the time, we used an $800 million authorization as a potential since we were just about to start a 2020 bond committee. We used an $800 million potential. This shows the blue and the green show where we are now. And it's a diminishing tax rate, meaning that based on the way our bonds are structured at some point in time our tax rate is going to go down. That purple line which shows actually now a 700 million dollar authorization and it shows that it could be issued in sometime in this summer and actually go three or four years before it would start diminishing or start going down. But we could do a 700 million dollar authorization with no upward pressure on the the tax rate it appears and then we don't just look out at the next stop sign we're looking out or let next red light we're looking at a couple of them and so that orange line that you see shows the potential to do another 800 million dollars in the fall of 2024 should our growth continue the way that they were looking at it so just wanted to show that as a reminder to the the trustees. And then just as a reminder, we were able to go many years at a 40 cent tax rate and then we were able to drop it shortly after the 2014 authorization down to 39 cents and we've relatively stayed there. We did some some things in the wake of Hurricane Harvey that moved that 39 cents to 37 but we we still gave it 39 cents worth of income based on on some things that we did from a state funding perspective but we're at 39 cents and we still uh think that we can like i said do this again at 39 cents moving forward uh we have you have seen a 15 cent drop there in the in the maintenance and operations tax rate or in total tax rate for the district and that's largely in part or mostly in part due to house bill three and the state buying down the tax rate but but the 39 cents or that yellow section from interest in sinking is going to stay the same at 39 cents we feel comfortable moving forward with this
authorization or not board members do we have any questions madam president champagne
trying to wear my badge but anyway um i do have a question do you i've been on a bond committee before and so i under i understand how it works but do we have a projection to how many schools schools we want? Is it one high school, one junior high, one elementary? Is that what the goal is?
Yeah, we're still in development of that. You heard a little bit what Dr. Poole was talking about there and Dr. Gussman. Probably need five or six schools on the next one, but that is not official yet of what we think. But for sure, a high school, probably a junior high, and then a couple of elementaries for sure, maybe as many as three, but we think maybe we can push one a little bit later. If we did a bond in 2024, would we be okay? So yet to be determined, but there's a need for the schools up there, as you guys have seen with that presentation. I'm very concerned about the growth in the Bryant zone. As you saw, that was going to hit about 1,700 kids soon. If we don't have something in Cane Island, we're going to be in some real trouble in another year or two. And then you saw what's going to happen with Katie and Pato without that high school number 10. I can't remember a time. Maybe Mr. Veerling would correct me because he used to be over there at Seven Lakes High School. I don't know if Seven Lakes was over 4,000 ever. I know Tompkins was just a little bit over 4,000 within the last year, and that gets pretty darn crowded with a school that's designed for 3,000. So I'm concerned when I see Pato's numbers at about 4,200. I think we're pretty much breaking the bank at that one, and we need to have a school open before that one hits 4,200. So it's a tough one. I know there's a shortened format on this bond. If I thought we could push it again till November 2021 to give us more time, I would do that. But after seeing the presentation now a couple of times from PASA, very concerned about if we don't get something to our voters in May and get building a couple of these things right away, that if we don't have schools, we're going to be a real challenge. And there are other things on there as well, some renovations and safety-related things. Technology is another big driver of that. So we've got to get something before those voters, I think, in May, or we'll regret that if we don't.
Board members, do you have any other questions?
Okay.
That's all, and thank you so much, Dr. Grooms and Mr. Smith. That concludes our report section of our agenda. Now we move on to Section 8, Discussion and Action. starting with 8.1, discuss and consider board approval of the October 2020 financial reports. Ms. Feitinger.
Good evening, President Vann, Dr. Gagorski, and board. Item 8.1 is to consider approval of our district's October 2020 financial reports. The four reports as we go over each time. The first is our financial statements, which represent revenues and expenditures for our budgeted funds, including the general fund, the food service fund, and the debt service fund. Expenditures are then further broken down by function and high-level object for the first two months of the year of operations for 2021. This is October. It represents just under 17% for the year, and you'll see most of those costs are indicating they're running a little below that. You'll also notice that you'll see a small negative revenue showing in our debt service fund. I mentioned this to you last month. We usually see a larger number of tax refunds hitting into the summer, but due to COVID and a lot of those things going virtual, they were a little bit slower. So we're seeing some of those refunds actually hit September and October. This will definitely not be the case in November as we have our current tax collections. We're seeing that coming in now. Let's see. The construction report is our next report. It represents project costs through October for projects funded with the 2017-2014 authorizations. In addition, construction-related E-rate funding and TERS funds. The tax report summarizes our property tax revenues received through October. And again, you'll see those small negatives here that are representing those refunds that are going out with tax revenues. The last is the check register, which indicates vendor payments made in the month of October. And these are our financial reports we have to present for you for the month of October.
Board members, are there any questions? Madam President, I have one question for you. Go ahead. Is the social work expenditure, is that new this year?
Yes, we actually added, and I don't know the number of positions, but several positions for social work services to work with our students. That's great. Thank you. All right.
Any other questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Redmond.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the District's October 2020 financial statements.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Gassoff, that the Board of Trustees approves the District's October 2020 financial statements. We will now proceed to vote. All in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. And you're up again.
Okay. Item 8.2 is to consider approval of an interlocal agreement with Waller County for the distribution of CARES Act funds. Waller County has been allotted funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Securities Act CARES Act funding and has made a portion of that funding available to the district to reimburse for expenses incurred for COVID-19 related needs. Approval of the interlocal agreement will allow the district to submit invoices for COVID-related related costs, in this case, personal protective equipment and cleaning and safeguarding costs to Waller County for reimbursement. The maximum amount of funding available at this time is $51,720. And if approved tonight, we are ready to submit those costs and documentation and identify to the county this week. Do we have any questions?
Madam President. Ms. Gassoff. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with Waller County for the distribution of CARES Act funds.
Second.
A motion was made by Ms. Gassoff, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal. Oh, I'm reading the wrong one. I was on the wrong line. A motion was made by Ms. Gassoff, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement with Waller County for the distribution of the CARES Act funds. We will now proceed to vote. All in favor, please raise your right. hand and say aye aye motion passes seven to zero thank you so much miss buckinger next up we have
a president yeah would you mind if i just i just wanted to jump in for a second on that because i was working on this a little bit with mr smith um we appreciate waller county stepping up and giving us some of these cares act funds and and looking out for kdisd county judge there has been helpful the emergency management coordinator and and county commissioner justin beckendorf is always looking out for kdisd and we appreciate them helping us out and being partners in education on that. So I did want to recognize those folks a bit. Very true. Thank you for making that
recognition. Now we move to 8.3, discuss and consider board approval for cyber insurance coverage. Mr. Nauman. Good evening, President Vann, Dr. Grigorski, and Board of Trustees.
The district is currently provided limited cyber insurance coverage through TASB's Risk Management Fund via the existing General Liability Insurance Program. After a review of current tactics and breaches by cyber criminals on school districts and other governmental entities across the state and the nation, a joint project was undertaken by the Risk Management Department and Technology. From this review, it was decided to approach the insurance marketplace to evaluate what additional coverage and limits would be available to protect against a catastrophic breach by a third party wishing to do harm to the district. A A request for proposal 1938LN was submitted to prospective agencies and insurance carriers in November 2020 to secure terms and conditions needed to meet the objectives of the district. As a result, 11 markets were approached with two providing firm proposals. The coverages and limits have been reviewed by Risk Management and Technology with both parties in agreement that the proposal as presented by USI Insurance Services best suits the needs of the district. Upon approval by the Board of Trustees, risk management will seek limits of $5 million with a corresponding deductible of $50,000. The policy will be effective January 1, 2021 for a one-year period. Risk management also seeks approval to renew this policy for three annual renewals. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for cyber insurance risk coverage as presented by USI Insurance Services.
Do we have any questions? Madam President, Mr. Nauman, do you think that are we kind of blazing a trail in this space? Do you think we'll have influence over TASB and the general funding going forward so this might be bundled in what we're getting from TASB eventually?
I believe we have seen examples with other districts that have been held captive, very large districts. I believe I know one for certain that had to run manual payroll checks and it very crippled the district. Cyber criminals are really getting creative now and I believe it we we came to that conclusion here recently that we need to really protect the infrastructure or technology infrastructure if you will and protect those down times from a catastrophic
profit you've done. So you do think it'll probably be something that we see more broadly for more districts, but we're taking the action because we see the risk? Yes, I would agree with that
statement, yes. Thank you very much. Do we have any other questions, board members? Yeah, Madam
President. Yeah, how has the five million dollar number arrived on? I mean, obviously, cybersecurity seems like it's an open, who knows what it could be, but how did you guys figure, determine that
that was the sweet spot to start off at? It is a first entry into the marketplace. There are various studies that show anywhere from $3 million to $15 million based on your systems and your spread of risk, if you will, and what you're doing. And I will say this, I think $5 million is a good starting point. It's a good medium place to begin. And we will annually look at those limits based on what's going on with cyber criminals and as our systems grow. And I might add that as you go through these RFP proposals, these carriers will actually test your systems. And we had got some very favorable responses back that we are in a good spot. So that was a kudos to our technology department, which helped in the pricing.
Any other questions?
Okay.
I'll entertain a motion.
Madam President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for cyber insurance coverage as presented by USI Insurance Services, Inc.
Second. Is that you, Dawn? Thank you. The motion was made by Mr. Redman and seconded by Ms. Champaign. the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for cyber insurance coverage as presented by USI Insurance Services, Inc. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. You're up again.
In 2004, KDISD began providing health benefits to plan participants as a qualified self-insured employer. As a self-insured employer providing health benefits to staff, is the financial responsibility rests solely upon the district. To date, the health benefit options have given employees quality care while allowing the district to manage inflationary cost trends. Every year, an independent actuarial study is prepared to model expected costs to the plan with premiums and deductibles deriving from this study. As a part of this study, an annual analysis of how large individual losses impact the financial performance of the plan is performed. It has been the consensus decision to date that the district has not purchased individual stop-loss insurance coverage to cover large individual claims incurred by the plan. Factors considered in determining the need for stop-loss insurance insurance coverage are as follows. One, protection of the plan against large losses. Two, long-term plan stabilization. And three, increased inflationary cost of care on large individual cases. After reviewing the large individual losses over the past three years, risk management felt it prudent to explore the cost-benefit of purchasing individual stop-loss insurance to to protect and provide stability to the 2021 health plan. Utilizing Arthur J. Gallagher, Katy ISD's benefit consultant, RFP 1939 LN was created and placed in the marketplace for a response. As a result of the RFP, four insurance carriers submitted proposals. After review, it is the recommendation of risk management that the district purchase individual stop loss through Aetna with an estimated annual premium of $1,721,798 or $18.69 per employee per month with a $750,000 self-insured retention. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for individual stop-loss insurance provided by Aetna for Health plan 2021. And if I may add also too, I think it's important to differentiate between individual stop loss and aggregate stop loss. This program will address an individual claim. Aggregate will look at your total plan expense. The attachment point for a aggregate plan does not make sense for us, but as we we have seen in our plan, we have seen a growth in the average age of our plan participants. And then just more recently, I will call it the CBF, the COVID baby factor, that we are anticipating some increased births on the plan with complications statistically that can happen. And to that end, we are seeing tremendous increases in the amount of genetic enhanced drugs and therapies, and those dollars are running into the seven figures per one incident. It can be extremely expensive. And I also want to make a comment if I will. The data that we look at is individually aggregated and separated individually so we come to the $750,000 SIR level. That is the sweet spot in which we found. You try to calculate your premium against what those individual losses will be and And historically, that is the attachment point we would like to recommend. I would entertain any questions that you may have.
Any questions, board members? Madam President, I would like to just say, Mr. Norman, I really appreciate your looking into this because I see this as a really valuable way for the district to save money in the future because I know that you're the professional person in this, but you've you realize that this year you know like you said with the covet and the aging population i can see this as being a huge benefit to the district and i really appreciate personally you looking into that thank you madam president miss gossop mr naman how does it work so let's say
i have a catastrophic heart attack and so when i get to when i've spent 750 000 against insurance claims then we can invoke this insurance for that one person? Exactly. Let me, in
this proposal two important things are very key here. One, Aetna is our ASO provider, our third party administrator. Is, is a provided you the information the reimbursement for those claims is direct from Aetna. We don't have to wait for a full 1512 to all those claims get all our claims together and then submit them that is the beauty of the partnership with that we're paying as we go so we really don't get penalized from a cash flow perspective and then also to this this proposal is a non laser proposal and what a laser proposal is is a carrier can target individuals that have a history of large claims and carve them out this does not include that so if we have an individual that has ongoing and has serious medical conditions that historically has cost the district significant funds they would not be excluded so that helps us hedge that that that long-term stability in the plan if you will exactly exactly and not singling out one person because I may have a significant health issue
Okay, thank you. I had to move over because I can't ever see over my computer terminal. I always feel like I'm Where's Waldo trying to talk to everyone. Thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you. Any other questions?
Yeah, Madam President. Mr. Schulte? Yeah, what is the, I see that you said the premiums are like, I think, $1.7 million per year. Is that in the budget already, or is that going to be a budget amendment? I'm not sure this is something we've done before, and they were just renewing them. This is something completely new, and I didn't see it in the budget amendment, which is coming up next. I saw the cybersecurity in there, but I didn't see this one in there.
Sure, I'll defer to Chris at this time on how we're planning on paying.
Right now it would be our intention to expense this to the health fund. The health fund is an unbudgeted fund. What we'll do is over the next several months, based on the activity of the health fund and the healthiness of it, we may end up having to pay for a portion of this out of a general fund amendment if the health fund is not covering itself. For example, a year ago the health fund could have handled this. But this year we're not sure at this point. but at this point we're going to expense it to the health fund thank you
any other questions okay i'll entertain a motion
i'm president thank you i move that the board of trustees approves the proposal for individual stop-loss insurance provided by edna for health plan year 2021 second a motion for mr redmond a
second from miss guest office of board of trustees approves a proposal for individual stop-loss insurance provided by Aetna for a health plan year 2021 we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye motion passes 7 to 0 thank you for both of your presentations thank you next up we have mrs. Butterfield just discuss and consider board approval of the december 2020 budget amendments item 8.5
thank you president van trustees superintendent gregorski tonight in our general operating fund expenditures are amended by 55 000 for to fund that cyber insurance for the district and 175 990 dollars to cover um timing amendment related to COVID delays in shipping that are for athletic supplies and some of our Chromebook purchases. The remainder of our general fund expenditure amendments are related to offsets between different functions of existing budgets, so approval of these amendments will result in a $230,990 decrease to the general operating fund funds balance. There's one construction fund amendment tonight for $3,440,000 to increase the funding for additional portable buildings needed at various campuses. This amendment will be funded from 2017 project savings. Members, do we have any questions?
I just want to make a comment that that $3.4 million increase for portable buildings as a direct result from our meetings with PASA population survey analysts for the growth that we're expecting. And in order to get that procurement done, we need to start in January. That's why this, so it could be ready for the start of school. That's why we're bringing that to you tonight.
Any questions?
I'll entertain a motion. Madam President. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district's December 2020 budget amendments.
Second. I have a motion by Miss Gesshoff, a second by Miss Champagne, that the Board of Trustees approves the District's December 2020 budget amendments. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Ms. Butterfield, 8.6. Oh, no, that was your second one. Now we have Dr. Grooms and Ms. Hatch. to discuss the survey results and consider board approval of the 2022-2023 instructional calendar, item 8.6.
This evening, we will present the results of the instructional calendar survey for the 2022-2023 school year. As you know, we presented two options for the 2022-2023 instructional calendar. Both options include 172 instructional days, while option A starts early in August, August 17th, with seniors also graduating or being able to end instruction on May 19th and graduating May 25th. And option B is much more like the traditional calendar with the traditional start date, which is later in August, about August 22nd, with a release date for all students on May 31st. The survey we administered went out to all KDISD parents, community, and staff members, and it was open from October 15th to December 3rd. And approximately 23,000 individuals responded to the survey. Now, that's about a 21% response rate. We usually aim for 30%, but even amongst that 21%, we found, I'm going to skip forward a bit here. I think I lost a slide. Well, we found that individuals overwhelmingly selected option A, which is the earlier start date and the earlier release for seniors with graduation by May 25th. Here it is. I went right past it. 77% for option A. I do want to say I'm presenting these results on behalf of K-12 Insight, which is our third-party vendor that conducts survey analysis for us. and prepares this presentation as well. And if you're interested on seeing the individuals by category that respond to the survey, here is that data. As you can see across all categories, individuals selected option A as their preference. The same when you look at the data by quadrants. Overwhelmingly, option A was selected by all four quadrants. And then finally, we had some open-ended comments at the end of the survey, and these comments were organized into themes, and here you see the top five themes. Participants indicated that they would like us to consider a year-round schedule, a shorter summer break, less professional development days, and perhaps condensing half days or or changing half days into full days. And about 1,800 comments were provided out of those 23,000 individuals who responded to the survey.
Each year, instructional calendar options are submitted for Board review and approval, resulting in KDISD maintaining a two-year calendar. Two options were created for the 2022-2023 school year, and option A was the preferred calendar per the KD Improvement Committee and the K-12 Employee Community and Student Staff Survey. Option A, as Dr. Grooms explained, provides two flexible professional development days in August. An early August start to school allows for seniors to graduate early and for school to end before Memorial Day. administration is recommending option a be approved for the 2022-2023 school year
board members do we have any questions or comments
okay i'll entertain a motion madam president mr redmond i move that the board of trustees approves the 2022-2023 instructional calendar as presented by the administration second
Second. A motion was made by Mr. Redman and a second by Ms. Gassoff that the Board of Trustees approves the 2022-2023 instructional calendar as presented by the administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Ms. Hack, you're up again. Item 8.7.
Okay. Upon Board approval of the 2022-2023 instructional calendar, the district may request calendar-related waivers from TEA. TEA does offer a staff development waiver that will waive a maximum of 2,100 minutes, or five days, to use for professional development between the first and last day of school. The instructional calendar for 2022-2023 includes five days of staff development requiring board approval of the waiver.
Board members, do we have any questions? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion.
Madam President. Ms. Champagne. I move that the Board of Trustees approve the submission of a staff development waiver for the 2022-2023 instructional calendar as presented by the administration.
Second.
The motion was made by Ms. Champaign and seconded by Mr. Redmond that the Board of Trustees approve the submission of a staff development waiver for the 2022-2023 instructional calendar as presented by the administration. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Ms. Hack. Item 8.8, Discuss and Consider Board Approval to Designate the Superintendent the Authority to Execute a Natural Gas Supply Contract. Mr. Teague.
Good evening Madam President, Board Members, Dr. Grzegorski. It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Superintendent Orr's designee the authority to execute a national gas supply contract for the Katy Independent School District for up to 60 months with competitive gas service to be provided to all district meters pursuant to the new Centerpoint CenterPoint T92 Tariff Program. In June 2019, the Board was notified that the district was shopping for a new natural gas supply contract. The district's contract for competitive gas with the Texas General Land Office ended on July 31, 2019, and has been proceeding on a month-to-month basis following the expiration of its initial term. To avoid being switched back onto CenterPoint's more costly standard offer, we recommend that the Board approve the district's extension of its present contract to cover the district's gas needs for up to the next 60 months. Moreover, only a portion of the district's meters were eligible for competitive gas under the older Centerpoint tariffs. However, a new tariff in Texas, T92, in the Centerpoint territory allows the independent school districts, including Katy ISD, to switch all of their gas meters onto competitive gas. It is forecast to generate an additional savings of approximately a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year. Approval of this recommendation will allow the district to move into a cost savings program as soon as it is available providing reduced operational costs. Do we have any questions board members? Madam President.
Mr. Schulte. I see that we're saving a hundred fifty thousand just curious what's the total value of the the contract per year much gas we buy our budget approximately is
eight hundred and twenty two thousand dollars per year and I'm president mr. Redmond I move that the
Board of Trustees approves the superintendent or is designee the authority to execute a natural gas supply contract for Katy Independent School District for up to 60 months with competitive gas gas service to be provided to all district meters pursuant to the new CenterPoint T92 tariff program.
A motion was made by Mr. Redmond, second by Mr. Keller, that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent or his designee the authority to execute a natural gas supply contract for Katy Independent School District for up to 60 months with competitive gas service to be provided to all district meters pursuant to the new Centerpoint T92 tariff program. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7 to 0. Thank you so much Mr. Teague. Thank you. Item 8.9 discuss and consider board approval of a contract for the construction of a new facility for Rains High School. Ms. Lisa Kastman. Good evening President Vann,
Trustees, and Dr. Gagorski. I have one item this evening for your consideration. The Board of Trustees approved the design associated with the construction of a new building for Rains High School at the July 2020 board meeting. The new standalone facility will increase the maximum number of available seats from from between 500 to 525 students. It will also allow for the opportunity to offer flexible scheduling to meet the needs of Raines High School students who choose to apply to attend Raines due to extenuating circumstances that place them at risk of not graduating. The 52,000 square foot facility has been programmed for 23 instructional spaces, including a health fitness space and other flexible spaces. Seal proposals were received on November 17th for the construction of this new facility. Eight proposals were received and Satterfield and Ponticus Construction ranked first overall and the ranking tabulation is attached to the board item. Satterfield and Ponticus recently completed the Jordan High School and they also did the rebuild of Creech Elementary. The project will include costs of $2.2 million for architectural engineering fees, utilities, material testing and another $2.1 million for furniture, equipment and technology. Approval of this recommendation at this time will assist in meeting the projected completion date of December 2021.
MEMBER WRIGHT. Are there any questions?
Madam President, I move that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Satterfield Ponticus Construction Incorporated for the construction of a new facility for Raines High School in the amount of $11,566,171 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $15,997,985.
Second.
A motion was made by Ms. Gassoff, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Satterfield-Pontekus Construction Incorporated for the construction of a new facility for Rains High School in the amount of $1,566,171 and approves a total project cost not to exceed $15,997,985. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you so much, Ms. Kastner. Thank you. Item 8.10, discuss and consider board approval of the minutes of the November 2020 board meeting. Madam President? Ms. Champaign.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the minutes of the board meetings that held in November 2020.
Second.
A motion was made by Ms. Champaign, a second by Mr. Redmond, that the Board of Trustees approve the minutes of the board meetings held in November 2020. You will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. That concludes our discussion and action portion of our agenda. Agenda item 9, information, is the donated items that were presented to Katy Independent School District. The board was provided a copy of the donated items to Katy ISD. And then next are future board meetings. Our next regular board meeting will be Tuesday, January 19, 2021. There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned and the time is 8.37 p.m. Thank you everybody for coming.
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Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 4.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Kelley Kirila as the principal for the Miller Career and Technology Center as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 4.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Damon Archer as the Executive Director of Fine Arts as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 4.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Amanda Weaver as the principal for Mayde Creek Junior High School as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 4.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Dr. Frederick Black as the principal for Morton Ranch Junior High School as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 4.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees sends notice of proposed termination of a term contract to Heather Zaruba, for good cause as discussed in Closed Meeting and directs the superintendent to give written notice to her of these proposed actions.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 4.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees sends notice of proposed termination of a probationary contract to Pamela Tolliver, for good cause as discussed in Closed Meeting and directs the superintendent to give written notice to her of these proposed actions.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 6.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names the Agricultural Sciences Project Center, located at 5801 Katy Hockley Cut Off Road, Gary A. Vos Project Center as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 6.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the nomination of Dawn Champagne to fill Region 4, Position E on the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors, the large district seat allocation for Katy Independent School District.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's October 2020 financial statements.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 8.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Interlocal Agreement with Waller County for the distribution of CARES Act Funds.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 8.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for Cyber Insurance coverage as presented by USI Insurance Services, Inc.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 8.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for Individual Stop Loss Insurance provided by AETNA for Health Plan Year 2021.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 8.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's December 2020 budget amendments.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 8.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2022 - 2023 Instructional Calendar as presented by the administration.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 8.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the submission of a staff development waiver for the 2022 - 2023 Instructional Calendar as presented by the administration.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 8.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Superintendent or his designee the authority to execute a natural gas supply contract for Katy Independent School District for up to sixty (60) months with competitive gas service to be provided to all district meters pursuant to the new CenterPoint "T-92" Tariff program.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 8.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc. for the construction of a new facility for Raines High School in the amount of $11,566,171 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $15,997,985.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 8.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in November 2020.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| susan-gesoff | Yes |