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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, May 17, 2021
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the Katy Independent School District, to order.
Today is Monday, May 17, 2021, and the time is 5.06 p.m.
Dr. Gagorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act
with regard to this meeting?
Madam President, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act
for this meeting this evening.
Thank you, Dr. Gorsy. We will open tonight's meeting with the Pledges of Allegiance. Dr. Gorsy, will you please introduce our pledge leader?
Yes, thank you, Madam President. We've got a pledge leader today, Caden Quigley. Caden, if you come up to the podium. Caden's a fifth grade student at McRoberts Elementary. Principal there is Rahsaan Smith. Parents are Janitza Hernandez and Kevin Quigley.
student special interests.
Caden likes to play video games, go fishing,
play airsoft, and go mudding on four-wheelers.
And who doesn't like all those things?
Favorite subjects, social studies and science.
And from Mrs. Green, teacher,
Caden's very enthusiastic and motivated to learn.
He's a hard worker and asks for help when necessary.
And from Ms. Bettencourt,
Caden is always willing to help out around the classroom,
stands up for others, is a great soccer player,
tries to include people when playing games outside,
and is a responsible student.
So all yours, Caden.
Go ahead and lead us in the pledge.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
Go ahead.
Good evening, President Vann, board members, and Superintendent Gregorski.
My name is Kayden Quigley, and I would like to tell you a little bit about my experience
as a McRoberts Dolphin.
I started out here in pre-k and I am now a fifth grade leader on my campus.
I like being here, especially during PE, because the activities are so fun.
At lunch, I like the pizza.
I think my teachers are great.
They always have fun activities planned out for us and they care about us.
I also like the fun activities like the glow run and the wing stop family nights.
I like cooking with my principal, Mr. Smith, and the fun fundraisers that we do all together.
I love my experience here at McRoberts, and I look forward to going to Morton Ranch Junior High School.
Go Dolphins!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
These are very special backdrops.
We only give to nine kids a year.
We made you the pledge.
So you can take this with you too.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for being here.
Do we have a picture up here in the front?
Sure.
Right?
Thank you very much, Kayden.
You did an awesome job.
We'll now move on to recognitions.
Next on our agenda, I'd like to introduce Mrs. Maria DiPetta,
Manager, Media Relations and Multimedia,
for the recognition portion of our meeting.
Good evening, Madam President.
board members and superintendent Gorgorski tonight we would like to
present the top two students for each high school ranked highly academically
in their respective graduating classes at this time please welcome principal
James cross to introduce the valedictorian and salutatorian for
Cinco Ranch high school
one it is really nice to be here tonight i mean it feels like forever ago that we got to do this so
good evening madam president our board members and superintendent grigorski i am proud to stand
before you tonight and recognize our salutatorian and valedictorian. We'll
kick off with our salutatorian with a GPA of 4.8 we have Ms. Zara Ship-Chandler
and yes
and I'd like to recognize her parents as well
RF Ship-Chandler and Maria Ship-Chandler.
Let me tell you a little bit about Zara.
She will be attending the University of Texas at Austin this fall, majoring in computer
science.
Zara decided to major in computer science because it combined both of her passions,
problem solving and creativity, while also allowing her the opportunity to make a positive
impact in the world.
She was a member of the Cougar Band, where she both marched and played the flute and
wind ensemble.
She loved participating in band as it gave her a unique community of friends and taught her the power of determination and hard work.
Zara also enjoys volunteering in the community through her participation in the National Charity League, where she served as vice president of philanthropy.
Zara and a couple of friends also co-founded ZEL Tutoring, a free online tutoring platform created to help students transition to online learning during the pandemic.
In her free time, Zara enjoys reading, playing piano, and doing charcoal art.
One more time for Zara Shipp-Chandler.
All right.
All right, and now for our valedictorian with a GPA of 4.8281, Miss Natalie Wong.
I'd like to introduce her parents as well, Mr. Randy and Mrs. Carrie Wong.
Natalie will also attend the University of Texas at Austin to major in biology at UT's College of Natural Sciences and plans to follow the pre-med route.
Ultimately, she hopes to become a doctor as she enjoys caring for others and wants to inspire people to look after their health.
She is a three-year member of the Cinco Ranch Robotics Club, the CR Kryptonite Team 624,
where she was the head programmer, teaching and leading other students in her sub-team.
Her robotics team has attended the World Championships for all of her years on the team,
and was even recognized internationally with an award for innovative autonomous coding.
And if you all know what that is, somebody explain it to me later.
In addition, she also participates in Science National Honor Society, German National Honor Society, Environmental Club.
In her free time, she enjoys drawing. One more time for Natalie Wong.
Let's give Natalie and Zara one more round of applause.
Thank you, Mr. Cross.
At this time, I would like to introduce Dr. Rick Hall,
principal of Katy High School.
Applause
President Vann, members of the board, Dr. Gorgorski,
Katy High School has a tradition of excellence.
Beginning in 1898, our graduates have gone on to become doctors, politicians, educators, leaders in their field.
They have contributed to society in many ways.
The 2021 graduating class will continue this tradition of excellence and further our legacy.
It is my honor and privilege to present the valedictorian and salutatorian for
Katy High School. Our salutatorian this year is Miss Chelsea Crow.
Chelsea will be graduating with a 4.8 GPA. Next year she will be pursuing
philanthropic opportunities abroad while teaching Spanish
literacy. While at Katy High School she has been involved in orchestra, has been
a prolific volunteer, and has served as a teacher's assistant at bilingual summer
school. Chelsea is the daughter of Richard and Tracy Crow.
I'm proud to present Katy High School's salutatorian, Chelsea Crow. Katy High
High School's valedictorian is Mr. Lane Smith.
Lane will be graduating with a 4.8148 GPA
and will be attending the University of Texas at Austin
in the fall, where he plans to major in biology
with an emphasis in epidemiology, which is very
timely.
He has been an active member of the National Honor Society.
Lane is the son of Stuart and Cindy Smith.
It is my privilege to recognize Katy High School's valedictorian, Lane Smith.
Let's have everybody slide over a little bit, just a little bit more.
Let's give Katie Tigers, Lane, and Chelsea a round of applause.
Thank you, Dr. Hall.
Now, please welcome Mr. Ronnie Edwards, principal of Maid Creek High School.
President Vann, members of the board, and Dr. Gorgorski, good evening.
It is an honor and a privilege to stand before you tonight to present the salutatorian and the valedictorian of May Creek High School.
These two young men have worked tirelessly throughout their educational career to prepare themselves academically for the road ahead,
but more specifically, they have set a standard of excellence at May Creek for those who will follow in their footsteps.
I must say tonight is special for me as I've had the pleasure of seeing these two grow up the past four years.
Both of them have set high expectations of themselves and our school.
They laid a foundation for our UL academics team and academic decathlon teams.
Both have tremendous integrity and character and are highly respected by their peers.
Our salutatorian is Muhammad Zaidi.
Mohamed will be graduating with a 4.8 GPA and will be attending Columbia University in the fall,
where he plans to study sociology. When I asked Mohamed how many other universities he applied
to, he told me just one, Columbia. He told me he understood that might not be the best practice,
but he knew where he wanted to go and was determined to get there. Mohamed is involved
in speech and debate, National Honor Society, academic decathlon, UIL academics
where he won second in state and social studies as a sophomore and second in
state in the Barbara Jordan historical essay contest as a junior. Muhammad is a
National Merit Scholar. He also receives a scholarship through academic
decathlon and a prestigious Gates Scholarship. The Gates Scholarship is
highly selective and covers total cost of your undergraduate degree. As you may
know the cost of tuition at columbia is 82 000 per year for a total cost of 328 000 one of the many
hardships muhammad and his family face have faced this year is that prior to the kovitz shutdown
muhammad's mom was out of the country and once the shutdown began she was unable to return home
for four months due to quarantine restrictions muhammad is joined today by his father syed abdi
Muhammad's mother was unable to attend tonight but her name is Syeda Zaidi if
we could I am I'm proud to present May Creek High School salutatorian Muhammad
Zaidi. May Creek High School's valedictorian is Min Coco it's hard to
believe that this young man came to America at age six speaking no English with his father
who is a refugee from Burma. He did not let this language barrier stop him from being
successful in his academics as he will be graduating with a 4.8143 GPA. Shortly after
messaging me about Muhammad getting accepted into Columbia, Min DM'd me on
Twitter to let me know I would have two Ivy Leaguers this year and he had as he
had been accepted to Yale University. Then a few months later he DM'd me to
tell me he had a tough decision ahead and he as he has been accepted into
Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford. He will be attending Harvard University
in the fall where he plans to study government. This decision was and and I
must say that is also on a full ride at Harvard as well. This decision was no
surprise to me as he actually I recall him telling me when he was a freshman
that he was his plan was to go to Harvard. While at May Creek he has been
active in many clubs and organizations including National Honor Society, Spanish
National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, English National Honor
Society, Speech and Debate, UL Academics where he was a state silver medalist in
current events as a freshman and a state finalist in ready riding as a sophomore.
He was instrumental in helping build a strong academic decathlon in May Creek
as well. Min also attended Boys State last year and he is active in several
political campaigns and this summer he will be completing a congressional
internship in the US House of Representatives under Representative
Lizzie Fletcher. Min is the son of Coco Gee and Miss Ken Lala. It is my privilege
to recognize May Creek High School's valedictorian Min Coco.
Congratulations to May Creek High School Rams, Mohammed and Men.
Thank you, Mr. Edwards.
At this time, I would like to welcome Mrs. Julie Henson, principal of Morton Ranch High School.
Good evening, members of the board and Dr. Gregorski. Tonight, I'm honored to present the 2021 Morton Ranch High School valedictorian and salutatorian.
Unfortunately, neither of them could be here this evening for their busy schedules. I told them that it would be my honor to accept their awards.
They do have a small price to pay. I myself never received a Valor Sal medal, so I might take a few selfies with it before I pass it over.
So first, our salutatorian is Walter Pham. Walter's parents are Henry Pham and Nancy Tran.
Walter is graduating with a 4.7 GPA. He will be attending the University of
Texas to pursue a degree in biology. Please join me in congratulating our
salutatorian Walter Phan. Our valedictorian is Jenny Lee. Jenny's
parents are Hung Lee and Lan Phan. Jenny is graduating with a 4.7037 GPA.
During her time at Morton Ranch, Jenny was a member of the varsity orchestra, JV
wrestler a member of the National Honor Society the American Sign Language Honor
Society the National English Honor Society and the viola support society
she will be attending Rice University here in Houston with a major in exercise
science please join me in congratulating our valedictorian Jenny Lee
Thank You miss Henson now I would like to introduce miss Mindy Dickerson
principal of Pato High School.
Good evening, members of the board,
Madam President and Dr. Gregorski.
Tonight, I'm honored to present the 2021
Pato High School Valedictorian and Salutatorian
for our first full four-year students.
Our Salutatorian is Camila Silva.
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Camila's parents are Esteban and Silvina Silva.
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Camila is graduating with a 4.75 GPA and during her time at
Pato she was historian of the National Honor Society,
President of the Spanish Honor Society, she was President of
Mu Alpha Theta, Vice President of the Panther Pack Alliance,
historian for the Chick-fil-A, and the National Honor Society
Leader Academy, a Senior Ambassador, an AP Ambassador, and a College Board Youth Advisory
Council member. Camila is passionate about physics, history, language, music, and art,
and she feels blessed to have been able to have a positive impact on PAYTO through her volunteer
organizations. After many years of hard work and sacrifice, Camila succeeded in securing her place
as a Latina in STEM. She was accepted to the University of Chicago on a full-ride scholarship
for astrophysics. Her dream is to one day work at NASA and make her country proud.
Please join me in congratulating our salutatorian, Camila.
Our valedictorian is John Pershing Abney.
John's parents are John and Maria Abney.
John is graduating with a 4.7778 GPA. During his time at Pato, John was captain of the varsity
wrestling team, an all-state academic first team. He was president of the National Honor Society,
Treasurer of Mu Alpha Theta, an AP Ambassador, a Senior Ambassador, and a
College Board Opportunity Ambassador. As a student athlete, John always looked for
opportunities where he could be challenged and he has certainly thrived
at Pato. John plans to attend Brown University on a full-ride scholarship
where he will work to earn a degree in mechanical engineering. Please join me in
congratulating our valedictorian John Abney.
All right, here we go.
And in three, two, one, let's get one more.
Congratulations to Pato High School Panthers, Camila and John.
Thank you, Ms. Dickerson.
Next, I would like to introduce Ms. Carrie Finneson, principal of Seven Lakes High School.
Good evening. It is my pleasure to announce the valedictorian and salutatorian for Seven Lakes High School.
Sariya Chokhar, class of 2021 salutatorian, finished out his high school career with a 4.9079 GPA.
He is joined by his parents. So, Mr. and Mrs. Chokhar, will you please stand up and be recognized?
Surya is a National Merit finalist. He has held an officer position with our FBLA and
Physics Club. Surya was also voted by his peers as one of our homecoming court representatives.
Surya will attend the University of Texas at Austin with computer science and business
honors. Samir Gupta holds the prestigious title of Seven Lakes High School Valedictorian.
Samir also has a 4.9079 GPA. I'm going to get there on how we decided who was Valensal.
Samir is joined by his parents. If Mr. and Mrs. Gupta, if you would stand up and be recognized.
Samir is a national merit finalist, a member of the Science Olympiad, National Honor Society,
National Spanish Honor Society, and has earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
Samir will attend the University of Texas at Austin with computer science and touring honors.
Fun fact about these two young men, they proved me wrong this school year.
I always tell students who are fighting for percentage points in similar classes that they get they get the same
GPA points for a 94 and 95 or 100 that they're all A's
Well these two young men
Had the exact same GPA
So we had to look at the grades they received in their related courses to determine who our valedictorian and salutatorian would be
So the A's that these young men received because they were all A's
in their respective classes did matter even if it was a percentage points these
two young men will always have the bragging rights that they have proved
their principal wrong and I will take it because you all are going to do amazing
things congratulations Suri and Samir I'm extremely proud of both of you
Congratulations to Seven Lakes High School Spartans Zaria and Samir.
Thank you, Ms. Vinnison.
At this time, please welcome Dr. Melinda Stone, Principal of Taylor High School.
Good evening, Board of Trustees and Dr. Grigorski.
Taylor High School has had over 40 years of academic excellence.
Our graduates have gone on to accomplish great things in their careers
and have made a significant impact on our community.
Tonight is my honor to introduce the valedictorian and salutatorian
for Taylor High School's 2021 graduating class,
both of whom will no doubt be two more Mustangs who will continue to do great things.
Our salutatorian is Luke John Wook Yoon.
His parents are Goon Yoon and Soon Young Kim.
Luke will graduate with a 4.8302 GPA and will be attending the University of Texas at Austin next year where he will study biomedical engineering.
He was a member of the Mustang Boys soccer team all four years, a three-year varsity player, varsity captain, and was first team all district.
He held officer positions in Health Occupation Students of America and Key Club International.
He has also published research about the impact of icebergs on regulating climate change.
Please join me in congratulating Luke for his accomplishments.
Next our valedictorian is Ekaterina Stursu.
Akatarina's parents are John and Anna Stursu.
Akatarina will graduate with a 4.8406 GPA and she will also attend the University of Texas at Austin next year where she will study computer science.
During her time at Taylor, she was a member of the Computer Science Club, Science Club, Mu Alpha Theta, French Club, National Honor Society,
and she also helped to lead our Quiz Bowl team to a second place finish nationally and first place in state.
Please join me in congratulating Ekaterina on her accomplishments.
Let's slide on over this way.
Nice.
Thank you.
All right.
Here we go.
Stand by.
And in three, two, one.
We'll do one more.
One more.
Congratulations to Taylor High School Mustangs, John Wolfe, and Ekaterina.
Thank you, Dr. Stone.
So next I would like to introduce Mr. Mark Grisdale, principal of Tompkins High School.
Good evening, President Vann, members of the board, Dr. Grigorski.
It is my honor and privilege to announce the Oberdee Tompkins High School class of 2021 salutatorian and valedictorian.
The salutatorian is Pranav Narayanan.
Pranav is the son of Krishnan Narayan and Priya Balakrishnan.
Pranav has a 4.85333 GPA. He has been co-president of the Tompkins Science Olympiad team and
a region and state champion in numerous Science Olympiad events. He was a state champion and
national finalist in numerous FBLA contests. As a member of the Tompkins
National Honor Society, he has volunteered numerous hours at community
events. Pranav is an active guitar player and he has been instructing lessons for
the last three years. He has conducted independent research on sleep
deprivation and sleep therapies and in the fall he will be attending Rice
University where he will major in Biosciences. Please join me in
congratulating Tompkins High School salutatorian Pranav Narayanan.
Tompkins High School valedictorian is Sahil Adewade.
Sahil is the son of Ajay and Vanita Adewade.
Sahil has a GPA of 4.9048. He is the Science National Honor Society President and an officer
in the Tompkins National Honor Society. He has conducted bioinformatics research at the
University of Cambridge which will be published in the National High School Journal of Science.
Zahil wrote a patent for an individually researched and designed frugal and modular
ventilator in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. He has participated in a medical abroad internship
in Vietnam and he is the founder of a non-profit group called Feeding Curiosity which is aimed at
providing educational resources to underprivileged students. He finds balance in his life as a
competitive ballroom Latin dancer and he has won multiple national tournaments
including the West Coast AAU Junior Olympics in 2018.
Sahil will be attending Stanford University in Palo Alto, California,
where he will major in computer science with a concentration in biocomputation.
Please join me in congratulating the Tompkins High School valedictorian Sahil Adewade.
Congratulations to Tompkins High School's Pranav and Sahil.
Thank you, Mr. Grisdale, and congratulations to all of these students on their outstanding accomplishments.
Let's give them one more well-deserved round of applause.
This concludes our recognitions portion of this meeting.
Thank you, Mr. Petta, and thank you to all our principals who honored your students here tonight.
Congratulations to our outstanding students and all other family members that are here to see them shine.
We know that you'll continue to do amazing things, mostly at UT, it seems,
but we know that you'll do amazing things and represent this district well, so congratulations.
Congratulations.
We will now move on to the open forum for tonight.
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.
local. As defined by the board policy, the first 20 speakers who signed up by 2 p.m.
on Monday, May 17th and have provided their first and last name will be allowed to address
the board. A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated with the time divided equally among
those who have signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three
minutes. However, this evening we have 12 speakers, so the time allotted is actually
two and a half minutes per speaker not three if you're not finished speaking at
the end of your two and a half minutes your audio will be turned off if
speakers wish to share written material with the board you must email a copy to
the secretary for board services for members for board members the
superintendent the chief communications officers and for permanent record if a
speaker is not attempted to solve a matter administratively through proper
channels as stated in board policy the presiding officers designee shall advise
advise the speaker to seek resolution through the appropriate policy.
Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code sections 551.074 and 551.821, the Board will
not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student
and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation reassignment, duties, discipline,
or dismissal of a public officer or employee, or hear a complaint or charge against an officer
officer or employee. Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues, they must do so through the appropriate local grievances, grievance policies, FNG local, DGBA local, CKE local, or GF local. Our speakers will be called forward in the order they signed up to speak. And our first speaker tonight is Ethan Jang.
We will move on to our second speaker, Foyin Dasunmu.
Moo.
Sorry, I totally probably butchered that.
Not here either?
Okay.
Then our third speaker is Jeffrey Jin.
Okay.
Our fourth speaker to sign up for this evening is Ms. Bonnie Anderson.
Good evening, President, Dr. Gagorski.
I wanted to congratulate Don Champagne on her re-election,
Rebecca Fox on her election,
and just talk a little bit about what happens between the election
and the campaign promises and becoming a trustee.
I don't know if it's the TASB training or what it is,
but the number one campaign promise from Rebecca Fox
was to get rid of Justin Graham.
So we're holding you to that.
Our next speaker is Ms. Nancy McMillan.
Good evening.
Good evening. It's so good to see you, President Vann, Dr. Gagorski, and the board.
There was a good man at Katy Junior High, and I've been told that he has been put on leave without any cause or provocation.
Being the principal isn't a job to this man. It's a way of life.
The 2021 school year has been a very stressful one.
Our teachers and students have felt that stress, just like the community has.
So with just a few weeks left in the school year, to remove that constant stable light for the students and staff was shameful.
What has he done to provoke such action?
The school year has been disrupted and disregarded for the students and the staff.
In 21 years of impeccable service to this district, this man does not deserve to be treated this way.
Every school that this man has been involved with has had its rankings and scores improve.
prove. He promoted the bond. He spoke publicly to support it. He's been
involved with pie and keys and he's been loved and respected by the students,
their families and the communities. Having worked with this man as his
secretary and financial clerk for several years at Wolf Elementary, I can
I can say unequivocally, this is a great, integrity-filled man.
The training and experiences I gained under his leadership and his guidance
helped me to succeed in my professional career at Wolff and then here in the Communications Department.
Those that have worked with him will all say the same thing.
It would be a great tragedy for us to lose this man and his guidance and his experience,
but it would especially...
Thank you, Mr. McMillan.
Our next speaker is Hari Iyer.
Hello.
Members of the board, I'm Dr. Grigorski.
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Hari Iyer.
I am a 23-year resident of the KTISD area.
All three of my kids are alumni of KTISD.
A few weeks ago I was looking for someone besides myself to talk to my oldest child
who has graduated with a degree in biochemistry about one of the possible avenues to do a
master's degree in, this one being linguistics, speech linguistics and special education.
I was thinking about who it was that would advise me on this.
And then I remembered a gentleman I knew nine years, I had last met or last seen nine years
years ago being Dr. Jacob LeBlanc.
The principal.
We can't name employees by name.
Sorry?
You cannot name the employees by their name.
Okay. So I'll just give you a warning if
you please restrain yourself.
No problem.
I have my apologies.
I didn't know that rule of engagement.
I wanted somebody to advise her, right?
And I had not met this man in nine years, because that was the last I had seen when
he was principal of Wolf Elementary.
elementary, but I thought highly enough of him, enough to want him to be the person advising
my daughter as to whether this was a good way to go or not.
And when I looked him up, because I did know that he was at Katy Junior High, I found to
my dismay that he no longer was the principal of Katy Junior High.
I want to posit this to you members of the KDISD board and superintendent Dr. Grzegorski.
We are living in a fast-moving contentious unpredictable times whether occasioned by the COVID epidemic
or the disease pace of disruptive technologies that are rendering many job types redundant
and instituting new ones whose requirements are bewildering to put it mildly.
During such flux-filled times, people like this gentleman who we are talking about are indispensable as mentors and leaders.
I still remember this gentleman acting as a consummate leader at Wolfe Elementary, at which all three of my kids have been students of or alumni of.
Once during lunch break as my son was finishing his lunch, a lady who was
unfortunately misinformed, to put it mildly, said something rather unfortunate
and insensitive to my child and myself.
Mr. Iyer, sorry your time is up.
Thank you so much.
Our next speaker is Ms. Christy Bruins.
Good evening.
My name is Christy Bruins, and I'm the parent of three children in KDISD, a first, fifth, and eighth grader.
I'm here today regarding reading instruction in KDISD.
I would first like to thank the board for putting this topic on the agenda at last month's meeting
and also thank the curriculum and instruction team for the time that they put into their presentation.
CNI continually states that 89% of Katy ISD students meet third-grade level reading expectations.
However, this is misleading, as this is the number of students who are actually approaching grade level,
when in actuality, only 61% of third-grade students in Katy read at grade level, with our lowest campus at only 32%.
Research has shown that 95% of students are capable of learning to read, so why are our
scores so much lower?
We must change the curriculum to meet the needs of all students.
Dr. Caskey stated that the units of study in phonics systematically and sequentially
teaches phonics.
However, as the parent of a first grader, I'm able to see firsthand how this curriculum
is being used in the classroom.
My first grader regularly brings home books that contain sound patterns that have not
yet been taught and are not in the scope and sequence used by Katie until second grade.
Expecting students to read leveled readers that contain sound patterns that they do not yet know
forces them to rely on the three cueing method to read words. My daughter's regularly encouraged
to use strategies such as eagle eye, which means looking at the pictures, or leapfrog,
which means skip the word and figure out using the context to figure out words that she has not yet
orthographically mapped. Adding this phonics patch to the already used balanced literacy curriculum
and calling it the science of reading as Dr. Caskey did,
it's like adding a salad to a big plate of donuts and calling it a healthy dinner.
We cannot continue failing our kids.
They deserve better.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Bruins.
Our next speaker is Ms. Amy Traynor.
Good evening, board members and Dr. Gagorski.
While I appreciate the opportunity to speak tonight,
I feel obligated to inform you that I did not register to speak during tonight's open forum.
However, even without registering, I received an email this afternoon from Public Records
confirming that I was scheduled to speak tonight.
I would like you to know that out of respect and appreciation for other parents
who share in my concern around literacy practices in the district,
I intentionally did not register so others could share their thoughts and experiences.
Given that I was somehow allotted time tonight and knowing I cannot pass the time along to someone else,
I will use my time to continue the much needed dialogue around literacy.
As a parent and a professional, I was concerned with some of the statements made during the April 26th board meeting
and the confusion created over the district's commitment to continue to use balanced literacy and 3Qing.
That evening, several board members asked some insightful questions,
and we appreciate the time that the board members are taking on their own to learn about literacy in and out of the district.
When one board member asked, are we going to hold on to our old ways, the answer given was that our materials are aligned to TEKS, not that our materials are aligned with the science of reading.
It was stated that this is an addition to balanced literacy, not in lieu of it, and it doesn't say don't do balanced literacy.
Interestingly, the Texas Reading Academies never mention running records, leveled reading, both Fountas and Pinnell, or the three-queuing system, Teacher College.
The reading academies start every module with how it relates to the TEKS but also the science of teaching reading competencies that are required by teachers to provide effective literacy instruction.
Module one of the reading academies includes instruction that using curriculum aligned to the science of teaching reading is an important part of ensuring students have access to high quality materials and even provide a document from the Texas Resource Review.
Also included is a resource list of articles, books, and reading experts that the academies suggest for additional learning.
The list is expansive and I am happy to email the resource to you, but want to highlight
names such as David Kilpatrick, Mark Seidenberg, Timothy Shanahan, Louisa Motes, and many,
many others.
Notably, there is no Irene Fountas, Gay Sue Pinnell, or Lucy Calkins.
Module 2 in the Reading Academy is all about reading in the brain and is critical in making
the shift from the 3Qing system.
If students are encouraged to use the 3Qing system from the teachers of college, we are
allowing the students to skip a critical process.
In fact, you can expect next year's academy to do a much better job explaining the four-part
process required for reading, which is evidence that disproves the 3Qing Teachers College
Unit for Study system.
In the academies, they never talk about the leveled reading or the use of running records
to assess how students are using the 3Qing system.
Currently, the only assessment tool used in K-12 is the 3Qing system.
Thank you, Ms. Treanor.
Thank you again, Ms. Treanor.
Our next speaker is Ms. Renee Glasscock.
Good afternoon, President Vann, trustees, and Dr. Gagorski.
My name is Renee Glasscock.
I am a lifelong resident of Katy ISD and proud member of Katy High School's class of 2001.
I would like to take this time to thank Susan Gessoff for her service as a Katy ISD trustee.
With experience in the business professional world as an engineer and experience in the
world of education as a fifth grade science teacher, Ms. Gessoff brought a unique and
diversified skill set to the board and is the only member who truly knows both the ups
and downs and the day of the days and day in and day out goings on in the
elementary classroom she embraced the position with an open mind and void of
any personal agenda and solely focused on actions and questions that supported
the idea of continual improvement in our already recognized district always
keeping the big picture in mind and when making decisions miss guests off thank
you for taking the time to meet with community members parents and educators
for the educators addressing a variety of topics impacting our district, for listening to them with an open heart and a discerning ear, and for doing so quietly and humbly without advertising or needing any recognition.
Thank you for serving our community with character and integrity.
Thank you for knowing your role as a trustee and for being willing to ask the important and necessary instructional accountability questions in order to ensure the district is providing the absolute best education for our students while listening to the feedback from educators and supporting them with implementation.
implementation. Like Clover and Annie on the other side, you've done your part to impact
to impact and leave a lasting and meaningful change in our district.
Encouraging an already high performing district to continually reflect and challenge themselves
to be out in front and leading the way.
Thank you for your service and best wishes to you and your family in the future.
Thank you so much, Ms. Glasscock.
Our next speaker is Ms. Anne Russey.
Hi.
I'm a full-time working mom of two daughters, four and six.
Believe it or not, I am an Enneagram 9, which means conflict makes me sweaty.
I hate conflict.
conflict, but I guess I hate inequity and racism a little bit more. So here we are.
Here's a list of things our school district could be doing to address diversity, equity,
and inclusion that don't require engaging in political theater. Integrate Google Translate
into our websites. Translate our district communication into the most common languages
spoken by our students and parents besides English. Offer and communicate the availability
of a translator at meetings like this. Perform a climate survey that is not
tied to email addresses for our students, staff, teachers, and administrators. Host
town hall style events that can more broadly and fairly engage the community
about topics of concern. Create a race equity and inclusion department.
Publicly acknowledge, honor, and celebrate cultural holidays observed by our
diverse student body identify an action plan to increase diversity on the board proactively
ensure curriculums are culturally competent and inclusive train all staff on culturally relevant
teaching methods and practices recruit hire and retain more teachers of color and administrators
of color highlight and celebrate the contributions of our non-white namesakes administrators staff
staff and students alongside their white peers.
Dr. Gagorski, I never wanted to make you feel
personally attacked.
I hoped giving you feedback about how hurt people
in our community are by what many perceive
as a lack of caring and concern
would open your eyes to their pain.
I felt awful telling the parents that were willing
to share with you that you declined our request
for a meeting, but the part that hurt me the most
was that none of them were surprised. The more I learn and listen to people in our community,
the more open my eyes are not only to the disparities that exist, but the potential we
have to address them if we can all work together. I'm just asking you to try and see that too.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you, Ms. Rossi.
our next speaker is miss georgia strickland
hi guys it's been a while um thank you guys for allowing us to speak tonight uh so
unfortunately covid kind of took away a lot of things but uh i i'm sad that it took away this
opportunity I did do this on the phone when we had the call-ins but I have yet
to be able to present it officially to you Dr. Grzegorski and last year as
Katy Council President one of the things that we did is we awarded you a life
membership from PTA and so I finally am able to bring it to you along with your
pen to signify that you are a life member and I will make sure that your
secretary has more information on that but thank you
so much to your service to the district for serving the pta and making sure that we can
still do all the things that we are doing um especially for allowing ms hack to sit in on
meetings and making sure that we have our voices heard for the ptas so thank you so much
can i bring it to you
Thank you so much, Ms. Strickland.
And our final speaker for the evening is Ms. Kathleen Pittman.
Good evening, Dr. Korski, President Vann, and the board.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to speak this evening.
My name is Kathleen Pittman, and I am the Council of PTA President for this current school year and next.
So this school year has been very challenging, but through everything, our KDIC PTAs have persevered, reimagined, and creatively adapted to meet the needs of their schools and communities.
Events were held outside or socially distanced.
Zoom meetings were held.
Events like International Night turned into drive-by celebrations.
Pre-packaged lunches were delivered to staff.
Overall, we have ended the year currently at 21,588 members in KDISD,
still holding the title of the most members of all the councils in Texas, which is awesome.
We have 64 PTAs currently.
We just organized our 65th PTA at Haskett last week.
We welcomed three new PTAs this year.
In June, we welcomed McElwain and Jordan, and just last week, Haskett.
16 PTAs recruited over 500 plus members, which for this crazy year is pretty darn awesome.
16 PTAs also had the Golden Apple Award, which means 100% of their school faculty joined their PTA.
We had two School of Excellence Awards, Jinx Elementary and Ties Junior High.
We had lots of different programs that we had with our PTAs,
PTAs and we even had a little dinosaur family,
dinosaur George family night with our council this past month.
So we just wanted to say thank you for all of your help this year and
all of your willingness to help us keep our PTAs and
our parents engaged in the classroom.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Ms. Pittman.
And it's always nice to end on great news.
Before we move on to agenda item 5.5 of the OAS,
Ms. Gasoff, you've asked for a minute.
Thank you for this opportunity to speak.
I wrote down my comments so I wouldn't forget anything.
It's going to reiterate everything
that Ms. Glassdog said, because she clearly read everything
I posted during the campaign.
So thank you for that.
It's been an honor to serve on this Board of Trustees for the past three years, to serve
teachers and staff and students and community.
It's been a tremendous learning experience for me, both around education and politics.
I'm humbled to have worked with these dedicated administrators sitting around this room who
work long hours.
They work all day and often they work all evening and they're away from their families
and they are singularly dedicated to the success of students.
These people are literally at the top of their game, and we are very lucky to have these
talented professionals on staff at Katy ISD.
They could make more money in the private sector, but they dedicate their careers to
public education.
And it has been my pleasure and honor to work with all of you.
I'd like to thank my fellow trustees for their commitment to service.
service. Trustees are not paid, as you may or may not know, but they dedicate countless
hours to preparation and research and study as volunteers. And many have full-time challenging
careers, lawyers, business owners, as Ms. Glasscock mentioned, I'm an engineer, so we
don't necessarily have time to respond to every individual email. We do read them, but
we don't have time to respond. So I'd like to just say a little bit because I'm not seeking
PICKING REELECTIONS, SO I CAN TELL YOU SOME THINGS THAT MAYBE THEY CAN'T, BUT THE JOB
OF A TRUSTEE IS GOVERNANCE AND OVERSIGHT, VISION AND SOLVING SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS.
NOT NECESSARILY SOLVING YOUR CHILD'S PROBLEM, BUT SOLVING SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS, LOOKING FOR
NEW POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, LOOKING TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE.
AND SO I THINK OFTENTIMES PEOPLE DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT, ESPECIALLY DURING CAMPAIGNS,
and they are interested in a personal response.
And I just don't think folks understand
that we have 85,000 students and 300,000 citizens,
and it's just physically impossible to do that.
So I just wanted to put that out there.
I want to thank everyone who's ever stepped up
to be a trustee, because it's a difficult job.
Campaigning is exhausting.
It's expensive.
And it can be downright miserable,
because social media allows people to say things that they probably wouldn't
say if they were standing right next to you and it's usually a vocal minority
that says things on social media when in fact many most of the community and
parents are pretty happy with the district and the product that the
district produces but they don't get involved in that discussion so I just
wanted to say it requires great commitment and intestinal fortitude to
a campaign and a tremendous time and tremendous time and effort to serve so
thank you to all of you who have served and it's been a pleasure to work with
you all and finally to the dedicated teachers and staff of KDISD I'd like to
say that while most people don't remember what they ate for lunch
yesterday everyone remembers the best teacher they ever had teachers make a
difference in people's lives and I've said before that teaching is the hardest
job I ever did it is physically emotionally and mentally exhausting and
if you think people don't understand what's required of a 21st century
classroom teacher it's because they don't but I do and I want to thank all
of our teachers and staff from the bottom of my heart especially for this
past year because I know what you give every day and I appreciated it and
And lastly, I'd like to encourage this board and administrators and school leadership to actively seek to build trust and incorporate authentic, continuous feedback from frontline employees.
I was told a long time ago as a professional that feedback is a gift, and I believe that.
I think the frontline employees, they know what's not adding value.
They know what the solutions are, and they've got great ideas.
is we just need to build a culture where we have a mechanism to get that feedback
we've listened we build trust and we all make this great Katie ISD product better
every day every day every day so that's it thank you so much for the time to
speak and I wish you all the very best.
Thank you Ms. Gashoff. Following your words and Ms. Glass-Fox's words, I don't know
that I can match up to that, but we've known each other a long time, raised our
kids together, served on this board together. It's been my privilege and my
honor to serve you and you will be missed. We'll now move on to agenda item
Item number five, oaths.
Administer the oath of office to the newly elected members of the Katy Independent School District Board of Trustees,
Ms. Michelle Ross, Secretary of the Board of Services, and
the Republic will administer the oath of office to our newly elected members, Ms. Rebecca Fox and Ms. Dawn Champagne.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I, Rebecca Fox.
I, Rebecca Fox.
and Don Champagne do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of the School Board of Trustees
for the Katy Independent School District of the State of Texas and will, to the best of my ability,
To the best of my ability.
Preserve, protect, and defend.
Preserve, protect, and defend.
The Constitution.
The Constitution.
And laws.
And laws.
Of the United States.
Of the United States.
And of this state.
And of this state.
So help me God.
So help me God.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Welcome to our new returning board members.
The board will now convene and close meeting as authorized under section 551.001 of the
the Texas government code for the following purposes. Texas government code 551.071, 551.129,
and 551.074. Madam President, I'm sorry. I wanted to say something to Ms. Gassoff,
please, because I thought that this was going to happen after I was, so I prepared a little
something, if you don't mind. I'm going to miss your wit, your point on questions every time.
your input has been so valuable and I just wanted to let you know that all the
things that you've done for the district is going to be everlasting and I will
miss you are there any other board members that yeah I'd like to say
something real quick I think we're in a by the way did a great job of
summarizing I think what a lot of people think so that was just a brilliant
speech but I think the key takeaways I've had that I've always enjoyed
working with you not to reiterate everything she said your honesty you
You always tell people what they want to hear, I mean, what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.
And I've already respected that.
I think that's a – some people don't do that very often.
You're mentoring.
I was a new person.
You always took the time to answer any questions I had.
And you saw me suffering.
You actually reached out to help me out, so I appreciate that.
But it was really – and also I think everybody said it.
You're just continuously looking for we're good, but you can always do better, always do better,
and never rest and never think that you can't do better because it's change or die.
Somebody's going to pass you up.
So you were constantly pushing us to yeah, we're good, but we can do better and I think that's that's how you that's how you move
Mountain so your leadership was great. It's going to be missed and friendship has been great too. So so best of luck
Hate to keep
embarrassing Renee, but that
Yeah, I mean your presentation was great Renee and I agree and I
I didn't know you before I came on the board, and I've really appreciated your friendship and taking the time to listen to my questions.
And you're really an example of what a great board member is.
I mean, everything Greg just said.
I mean, you just selfless service, and you have an insight that some of us don't have, and I've always appreciated your even-handedness.
I mean, you've made good decisions without injecting your personal beliefs in that, and I think that's very important.
So I'm going to miss serving with you, and I thank you for making me a better board member.
Thank you.
Mr. President.
Mr. Revin.
I mean, it started off with a pretty big insult to me that we've become an inside joke, and I don't know what else to say with everybody else.
I agree.
Ditto.
um ultimately i'm just glad that i can now count you as a friend and hope that we stay connected
as we go forward thank you okay all right thank you well now we'll now proceed and closed
on behalf of my colleagues i welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting each board
member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on friday may 14th 2021 the board
The Board will receive information and recommendations from staff, administrations, and superintendent
on these agenda items at tonight's meeting.
Board members are will to ask questions, receive answers, and should be prepared to take action.
The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting.
In accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, any action arising from discussions
in a closed meeting must be taken in open meeting.
We'll move on to item 7.1, consider Board approval of naming a principal for Katie Junior
high school and a president as discussed in closed meeting my recommendation to
the board is to recommend Carrie Lowry for principal Katie junior high and
president I move that the Board of Trustees names Carrie Lowry as the
principal for Katie junior high school as recommended by the superintendent in
closed meeting. Do I have a second? Second. Motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Champagne. We will
now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion
passes seven to zero. Congratulations, Ms. Lauer. Madam President, I see Carrie's in her audience
today. I don't know if she's brought some family members, but we'd love for her to be standing
and recognized and introduce her folks.
Absolutely. Thank you for this opportunity.
I'm lucky that both of my kids come tonight thanks to a military holiday.
I have my son Blake here who is serving active duty Army.
Awesome.
And I have my husband who serves active duty taking care of me.
And my daughter, Brooke, who graduated on Saturday from Texas Tech
and will be a new acting graduate.
Very nice. Thank you, Carrie. Appreciate that.
Congratulations, Carrie, and thank you again, Blake, for your service.
Move to item 7.2, consider board approval of naming a principal for Beck Junior High School.
Madam President, as discussed in closed session, I'm recommending Leah Lowry,
different spelling no relation but Leo Lowry for a principal at Beck junior high
entertain a motion madam president miss Fox I move that we hire Leah Lowry as
the principal at Beck junior high by superintendent second motion by miss Fox
Second by Ms. Keller.
Mr. Keller.
That was a first.
I will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 7-0.
Congratulations.
I'm sorry.
And, Madam President, Leah is here today.
It looks like she might have some family members if she would stand and be recognized.
And I'll also say this.
I heard a rumor today that it looks like you're smiling and happy.
So not only is this a great day to get Leah over at Quebec Junior High as the next principal there,
but I heard she defended her dissertation today so that's a double
doubly exciting day
awesome all right who you got with you there
Awesome. Thank you, Leah.
Congratulations, Dr. Lowry.
Next, 7.3, consider board approval of naming a principal for Wilson Elementary School.
Dr. Gorski.
Madam President, as discussed in closed session, bring forward Shea Harwell,
assistant principal at Hayes Elementary for principal of Wilson.
Motion.
Madam President.
Ms. Champagne.
I move that the Board of Trustees name Shea Harwell as the principal for Wilson Elementary School
as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
Motion by Ms. Champagne and second by Ms. Wilson.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 7-0.
Congratulations, Ms. Harwell.
And go ahead.
Shea's been with us a long time.
Like I said, she's assistant principal over at Hays.
She's been with Katie for a number of years.
She's here with her family.
Shea, if you'd stand and maybe recognize who you brought with you today.
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
I met my daughter a year ago, and my daughter's name is Katie.
She's been with me for a long time.
It's been a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you so much for your time.
Awesome. Well, thank you. And Shay, if I might ask, because I've heard so much about your mother,
I don't know if she knows that, that I've heard a lot about her, but tell us again,
how long has your mom been in education?
My mom's been an administrator at AISD. I've been there for 15 years.
Wow.
Awesome. Awesome. You bet.
Congratulations, Ms. Harwell.
We will now move to agenda item number eight,
organization of the Board of Trustees.
We'll consider and elect officers for the 2021-2022 Board of Trustees.
Nominations are now open for President,
and I would like to take the opportunity to make that first nomination myself.
I nominate Lance Redmond for the position of President.
Do we have any other nominations from the floor?
Madam President.
I would like to nominate Greg Schulte for president.
A nomination was made by myself, Ashley Vann, to elect Lance Redman as president.
And another nomination was made by Ms. Wilson to elect Greg Schulte as president.
Are there any other nominations?
Or do we just have these two?
I will entertain a motion to close the nominations.
Madam President, I move that we close nominations for President.
Do we have a second?
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Miller and a second by Mr. Redmond that we close the nominations for Office of the President.
Okay, so, hold on, I've got my glasses on.
long a motion a motion to close nominations was made by miss wilson a second by um sorry mr keller
second by lance redmond for all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye that
we're closing the nominations motion passes seven to zero a nomination was made by ashley
band the board elect lance redmond for office of president of the board of trustees for the 2021
school year all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye all those opposed
Opposed?
Nay.
The nomination was not approved due to a 3-4 vote.
A nomination was made by Ms. Wilson that the Board elect Greg Schulte for the Office of President of the Board of Trustees for the 2021-2022 school year.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, please raise your right hand and say nay.
a nomination is approved by a 4-3 vote we will now turn over the meeting to our
newly elected president mr. Greg Schulte yeah we're just gonna we're just gonna
gonna stay. That's okay. Oh, that'd be great.
Because we're spaced.
Okay.
I got it. Nominations are now open for Vice President.
Mr. President? Yes.
I nominate Lance Redmond for the position of Vice President.
Second.
A nomination was made by Don Champagne and a second by, who made the second, I'm sorry?
Duke Keller.
Duke Keller for Lance Redmond as Vice President.
Are there any other nominations?
I will entertain a motion to close nominations.
I move that the Board close nominations for the Office of Vice President.
Second.
it motion was made to close nominations by miss champaign the second by mr keller all those in
favor raise your right hand and say aye aye those opposed motion passes the seven to zero vote
nominations are now open for the position of secretary
mr president yes at this point you go back and take the vote for the open position thank you
Because we closed only nominations.
Okay, thank you.
So I can vote for Mr. Redman.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, so let's go back to Vice President.
So we go back to nomination was made for the President of the Board of Trustees.
Go ahead and raise your right hand.
Nomination is not approved.
Nominations are closed.
I'm sorry.
Top of page 11.
Okay.
I got lost here.
I apologize.
NOMINATION WAS MADE TO ALEC, VICE PRESIDENT.
ANY NOMINATIONS?
OKAY.
I GUESS WE WOULD ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF LANCE REDMOND AS VICE PRESIDENT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR
RIGHT HAND AND SAY AYE.
AYE.
ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
THE MOTION CARRIES 7-0.
MY APOLOGIES.
WE'LL NOW ENTERTAIN NOMINATIONS FOR THE POSITION OF SECRETARY.
Mr.. President yes, I nominate Don Champagne as for the position of secretary a
Nomination was made by Leo Wilson to elect Don Champagne as secretary are there any other nominations?
I second that nomination
Okay, I will entertain a motion to close nominations if there's no other nomination for secretary
Mr. President, I move that the board close nominations for the Office of Secretary.
Second.
Motion was made by Lance Redmond.
A second was made by Leah Wilson.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
The nominations are closed by 7-0 vote.
vote.
The nomination was made. Okay.
Officer Secretary and the Board of Trustees for the 2021-2022. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. All those opposed? Don Champagne for President, for
Secretary, I'm sorry, yes. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed?
Opposed?
The nomination is approved by a 7-0 vote.
This concludes the election of the Board of Officers.
Mr. President, Mr. President.
I'm sorry, 6-1.
I'm sorry.
This concludes the election of the Board of Officers.
We'll now move on to action items.
Action item 9.1.
Consider Board approval of the 2021-2022 Honors KD Advanced Program KAP course
as identified as exempt from no pass, no play.
Mr. President, I move the Board of Trustees approves the 2021-2022 Honors KAP courses
identified as exempt from no pass, no play. Second. Motion was made by Ashley Vann, a second
by Mr. Redman. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. Aye. All those opposed? The motion passes with a 7-0 vote.
Consider Board approval of the interlocal agreement agenda item 9.2. Consider Board
approval of the interlocal agreement with harris county department of education for specialized
services at academic behavior school west are there any questions this is action which there's
no discussion okay unless someone i mean well it says here yeah mr president yes i made the board
of trustees approved the interlocal agreement with harris county department of education hcde
for specialized services at the academic behavior school west second
in a motion by Ashley van in a second by mr. Redmond we will now proceed to vote
all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye all those opposed the
motion passes the 7-0 vote agenda item 9.3 consider board approval of the
interlocal agreement with Harris County Department of Education for specialized
therapy services. Mr. President? Yes. I move the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal agreement
with Harris County Department of Education, HCDE, for the provision of occupational, physical,
and music therapy for the period of September 1st, 2021 through August 31st, 2022. Second.
Motion was made by Ms. Vann, second by Mr. Redmond. We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed?
Opposed? The motion carries with a 7-0 vote.
We will now proceed to Agenda Item 9.4,
consider board approval of the 2021-2022 Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System,
second appraisers.
Mr. President?
Yes.
May I ask a question about this?
So the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System, or TTSS,
I looked it up and I see that that's a survey that's given to teachers.
I don't know where Mr. Schles is.
Okay.
Can I know what we do with the evaluations?
The evaluations for teachers?
Well, the survey results, what do we do with that?
We keep that information in-house.
Are you asking?
So, I mean, I haven't seen the questions that they asked, so do you use it to, I don't know
what you use the information for?
Certainly.
If, you know, if information is just like any other survey, if information comes to
us that we can use that information, then we do so.
All right, thanks.
Any other questions?
I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2021-2022 Texas Teacher Evaluation and
Support T-Test Second Appraisers.
Second.
Motion with Mr. Redmond and second by Ms. Vann.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes 7-0 vote.
We will now move on to agenda item 10 reports.
Item 10.1, we will give an update on the 2021-22 budget update by Mr. Christopher Smith.
All right, well, good evening.
And I just want to give you a quick update of where we are in May.
I did get some information about 30 minutes before 5 o'clock, about 4.30, that is interesting to this.
But then I got some about 15 minutes ago that's counter-interesting to this.
So it's relatively rocky in the world of school finance these days, and it will be until May 31st.
But we've done this portion, the first three months of the year.
We took a hiatus last month, and, of course, here we are in May.
and I will be able to give you a closer update in June,
hopefully when the legislative session is behind us.
It began on January the 12th, and it concludes two weeks from today.
It's been very interesting, and I'll speak to that,
but it still got us a lot of unknowns with the legislature.
There's still economic uncertainty, although from back when I reported in January
to where we were in March with the state's economy
to where we were just two weeks ago,
is significantly improved, and the state's going to be able to fully fund House Bill 3
with the monies that are available to them, whereas I know at one point it was a concern
that they would be able to fund House Bill 3. So that's good news. Property value growth,
we received those two weeks ago today, and I'll speak to that here in a little bit.
ESSER, not all the rules are ready, and ESSER 2 is not ready, and I'll speak to these a little
bit more and then the question of supplant and supplement are still out there in some of these
enrollment growth obviously that's how we function with our budget the more students we get the more
relative monies we get through the basic allotment and obviously if you're going to get a thousand
more students you need more teachers for those thousand students so the unfortunately the expense
goes up along with the enrollment growth but that's still a core portion of our budget as we
We do budget for enrollment, both revenue and expense-wise, when it comes to the campus
staffing plan.
And then finally, House Bill 3, again, long-term sustainability.
We're feeling pretty comfortable about that now.
There is still ongoing rulemaking.
And the big topic from our perspective, or from the school finance perspective, is House
Bill 1525, which is the House Bill 3 cleanup bill.
And it does affect KDISD, and I'll speak to that here in a few minutes.
But let's start with ESSER. You're getting a lot about that in the paper or on the media about how much money is going to school districts, etc., etc.
I'm going to start and remind you about ESSER I, that we received word on that back in May of last year.
That did not add any, not one dollar to KDISD.
KDISD, they just took state funds and replaced it with those federal funds and reduced the
state's expenditure for public education through the funding formulas. ESSER II, we're still in
the dark on what ESSER II is going to be about. It's about four times the amount of ESSER I,
but there's been no information on that and we don't expect any until a few months still.
And then ESSER III is what was announced just a couple of weeks ago or less than
than a couple of weeks ago.
It's significantly more than ESSER I and II.
It yields about $67.2 million to KDISD.
That's the total amount that's gonna be given to us
in two thirds.
40, I can't remember the number right now,
something and then the rest of it.
We're gonna speak at length,
I'm gonna speak at more length on this later
in my presentation, but essentially,
we're putting a plan together to spend all of that 67.2 million dollars and
I'll speak to what that plan is going to be used for by and large and and the and
the details on that but it is locally to spend and it's on COVID related issues
predominantly or the learning loss that all students out throughout the country
or throughout the globe have faced.
So here's where we are.
April 27th, the TEA released those amounts,
and the application and all that details were released.
We're in the process of working our plan due to a public hearing in June to this board
and to the public.
We're getting information from the public now and students, et cetera,
and we will present that in June for application that'll be due we'll turn in
shortly thereafter with a July the 27th due date so under current law I've got a
little draft here and I want to talk about that shaded number that just
popped up it's most important number in in this whole presentation and when it
comes down to school finance it's the most important number in school finance
and it's the basic allotment of $6,160.
Again, you've heard me say that before.
Every new student is somewhat tied to that basic allotment.
It changes based on the type of student,
but that is the basis for how all school districts throughout Texas are funded,
and it's the same amount no matter what district you're in,
big or small, east or west, north or south.
It's $6,160.
160 and as a
tied to that as a
Indexed to it is the golden penny yield that's for the additional
Enrichment pennies that this board and most boards take and that's at ninety eight dollars and fifty six cents
Currently it was that it was it's moved down from hundred and twenty four dollar hundred twenty four dollars
at one point before House Bill 3.
And it was not indexed at the time.
It was indexed to Austin ISD.
That's why we called it the Austin yield.
But it's back to the Golden Penny yield.
And it's now indexed to the basic allotment.
So when the basic allotment changes,
that will change, presumably.
Enrollment increase.
That's showing the 662 student increase over the,
or 0.8%.
It's actually from where we are right now, it's it would be a little over 2000 student increase.
If you'll recall, we we had enrollment. Our enrollment is greater than it was in the 1920 school year.
However, it was not as much as we thought. We are one of the very few school districts around that actually had an enrollment increase.
We just didn't increase as much as we thought due to covid reasons.
reasons. The percentage of our taxable values came in at 5.3%. If you'll remember back in March,
we were, and when Mr. Robert was here to talk about our bond plan, we were using 4%. So 5%
is a little better than that. 5.3%, which will help us when we're putting together our debt,
which I'll talk about here in a few slides. But that's good news. That has zero effect
on the maintenance and operations bottom line revenue.
It could affect our tax rate, and I'll talk about that in a minute.
But 5.3% increase.
Of course, our teacher growth that you all approved,
that staffing plan is 249 new teachers to the district to handle the growth
and the new schools that were open and then the non-teacher growth
that includes everything that you will see through tonight of 96-person increase.
So not quite the growth that we had last that we anticipated last year, but still nonetheless
a growing district with growing staffing numbers.
For the intensive of this purposes, I am including just for modeling purposes, a 2% salary increase
to show you what the bottom line would look like with a 2%.
And we're using that average salary of $57,000, which is our average teacher salary.
This is just a view, I kind of like this, of the last 15 years of our property value growth.
And the last five years, we've averaged 5.5%.
So 5.3% is kind of right on our last five-year average.
It is a little below that at 5.3%, but it is right on the last five-year average.
And then just as...
just for a frame of reference, for 10 years,
going back to the 2011, I'm sorry, the 2011-12 school year,
we averaged 8.7%, but you can see that there was those three or four years
that really pulled that number up back in the mid-teens of this year,
of this decade.
Of course, the budget update includes the staffing plan
that you approved in March,
and then the one that you will be seeing tonight
It includes our new campus, Haskett Junior High, and includes the growth at Jordan High
School.
It includes regular district-wide growth.
It includes a special ed growth, which is growing at a faster rate than our regular
enrollment growth.
Again, those are weighted off that basic allotment, but so they don't earn the special ed or some
of these other special populations groups do earn more money, but because they're tied
of the basic allotment but we are growing very fast there it's got the ancillary positions
associated with new campuses and then department growth that's necessary just to handle the intense
increased workload with with more more more students uh just as a reminder uh with this
is last year's percentage uh it's probably what's gonna end up being this year at about 87 88
typically some school districts depending on if they outsource something major maybe
maybe it would change, but essentially somewhere between 80 and 90% is typically the amount
of budgeted for payroll and benefits.
So we're very labor intensive.
I'm not going to go through the revenue details.
I'll save that for a later day.
I just want to show you that the new positions that we're hiring are about a little more
than half of last year's at $13.9 million expenses.
These are new teaching or positions tied to the teacher's salary schedule.
Salary increase at that 2% is $7.9 million, so just under $4 million per 1%.
I do have, currently not modeling the one-time lump sum, but I am modeling the performance
incentive there.
So it would be a $410 million projected teacher pay group, and that's what it looks like.
just without numbers with pretty colors from the non-teachers these are folks that are not tied to
the teacher salary schedule with those new positions again significantly less of them
this year at 3.4 million dollar expense salary increases at two percent would be four million
in expense or about two million dollars for every one percent that we look there again
not modeling the uh the lump sum but i am modeling the performance incentive that 1.4 million dollars
would be for the not not the teachers but the classroom instructional aides
their portion of that performance incentive and that's what that non
teacher pay group looks like graphically so totals salary and benefit budget of
seven hundred seventy eight million dollars when it comes to teachers and
non teachers payroll non payroll cost is just one slide we're up about nine
nine hundred thousand dollars uh we really been working on this and there's some still some things
that are that are given and taken on that but uh but again i want to stress this also and remind
the board and the public that we don't adopt our budget in june we have adopted in august so we're
well ahead we could adopt it probably next month uh there'd be a lot of a lot of stress because
of boston and what's happening there but we probably could we're far enough along miss
Butterfield has this thing whipped and probably could have it adopted if we
needed it to in June but but we we adopted in August and so this is just
strictly so you're aware public's aware where we are with the budget process but
you're gonna start reading in the paper about these districts that are adopting
their budgets well they have to by June 30th or in August 31st so we're two
months behind them.
So just as a reminder.
That's what the non-payroll looks like.
So the bottom line, there's three columns here.
This would be our original budget.
So we budgeted a small surplus.
If we didn't, and again, with that basic allotment not changing, that's again, that's the only
only way with the exception of very small percentage of local revenue like
interest income or ticket sales which is really very very small percentage we
really can't do much to control our bottom line I will say this that mr.
Graham has hired somebody to help us with our Shars Medicaid program it's our
second largest federal it's actually our probably our fourth largest revenue
source in the district and we had a meeting with them late Friday afternoon
after this information was put together and it does appear moving forward that
that they are going to be earning more money for helping us earn more money and
report more earnings probably to the tune of two million dollars so that's a
positive thing and that's something that we can count on year after year so I
appreciate for that that mr. Graham and that department's efforts for for going
out there and cultivating and trying to find opportunities to control what we
we can and since that is our fourth largest single item from a revenue
standpoint that's that's good that we could control it so that'll help the
bottom line I will say that I got I must say that I got an email from the
legislative budget but wouldn't from the legislative friend a friend who sent it
from their legislative budget board that showed that significantly less revenue
and not significantly within 1% but it's 7 million dollars less revenue than than
and what this is modeling.
Not sure why.
I've got about 15, 20 minutes before this,
I got something from the Texas Association of School Business
Officials that it's kind of right on where we are modeling.
So I'm not sure what's going on and which way to work.
But I feel more comfortable with our numbers.
But when it comes from the LBB, you kind of go,
but it's within 1%.
It's just a lot of, it's just a big number.
So there's some things that will affect this bottom line.
But the main the middle column is the main thing I want to look at because that's that's got very little things that are
affected by inflation and it shows a small deficit something that we could work through and
With the two million dollars added to it and assuming that that our model and the the TASBO model is correct
You know you're looking at a surplus budget. Why well, it's because we've added students, but we've added staff
Those offset until the basic allotment increases. It's hard to fund things that are associated with
that are more expensive, like fuel expenses or salary and benefit increases.
So the far right column shows what a 2% looks like,
and so it would generate a deficit at the current information that we have.
So we've talked about the property values.
Again, very little impact on the general fund anymore other than the tax rate.
The higher the percentage increase nowadays with House Bill 3,
the higher the percentage increase of our property values.
it will drive down that tax rate and offset any income,
and the state would pick up the difference.
So I do expect, based on our preliminary estimates for our tax rate,
to have downward pressure again.
I'm not sure how much exactly at this time, but it may have it again.
And I think over the last two years,
this board through House Bill 3 has been able to reduce the taxes significantly,
the tax rate significantly, because of House Bill 3,
and I think that's going to continue.
Enrollment growth and special populations growth,
I talked about earlier and that has state funding implications and obviously what's happening in Austin now could have state funding
implications one of those that I didn't mention earlier is the
And what I think is going to affect us the most is the fast growth allotment if you'll recall two years ago or 23 months
ago I said that I
Think that's going to be one that's going to be a hang-up during the next legislative session because not all school districts get it
And it's expensive and it was worth you know 18 20 million dollars to Katie ISD
They are focusing on that.
They are going to change.
And I do think it's going to be less, not materially less,
but less to us.
And then the next year, it may rebound back to the level
it will be now.
But it has gotten a lot of talk, a lot of focus
during this session.
And again, that was one that I thought
the whole thing could be knocked out
from under districts like Katy.
And that does not appear as though that's going to happen
at this point anyway.
but it is going to cost us some when they tinker with it.
So budget considerations for 21-22, all these are going to be addressed by one thing,
and I'll show it on this slide, but it's pre-K enrollment, what's going to happen with it,
what's going to happen with our kindergarten enrollment.
Remember we talked about the redshirt phenomenon that's happening across our country.
We're up about 2,500.
Sorry, we're projecting an increase of a little over 2,000 students from where we were just a couple of weeks ago,
and then we're going to address the COVID slide and the learning lag,
and, of course, social, emotional, and mental health and safety.
All of that can be addressed through one-time funds in ESSER over the next couple of years.
You can take that $67 million and use it to beef up these kind of things,
to kind of catch everybody back up and recalibrate where we should be had it not been for COVID.
And a two-year window of time, a district like Katy can get that done with those funds.
but that's a word of caution let's go away so we can't put them in there and
have something that's recurring like adopt a new program that everybody likes
so much and say after two years where's the money come from because it goes it's
a cliff it goes away so that we would have to rely on the state to increase
that basic allotment to pay for that when when the ESSER funds are go away
way. Debt service, with the election being just, what, 10 days ago now, I guess, it's kind of hot
on everybody's mind, and so I wanted to give the public and the board an update of where we are.
Again, we got our values at a 5.3% increase. That's above our model of 4% that we used when we
presented to you in February, which is good news. I am going to be bringing a reimbursement
resolution to the June meeting and what that does is will allow us to go ahead and make expenditures
on elementary 44 assuming that's approved tonight and we can go ahead and start spending money
without feeling like we need to sell those bonds to get monies to pay for that construction we have
the funds in our general fund or even in the 2017 authorization that's already in cash so there's no
need to rush that sale so we're going to do a reimbursement resolution as an abundance of
caution in case in case we need to spend more time our first uh bond sale of the 2020 2021
authorization i'm going to be requesting the june meeting also for uh the parameters the authority
for for dr gregorski and myself to to to move forward with the sale at some point when we feel
it's the good time the best timing uh and everything works and the puzzle fits best together
We are going to be asking for those parameters next month.
The final sale, the 2017 authorization, will happen this summer.
It's $40 million.
We have some underspending there, but we do have $40 million left to spend there or to
sell of that authorization.
And then the 2015c refunding or repricing will happen later in the summer as well.
So it's going to be a busy summer, but I wanted mainly just to know that we're not going to go sell $676 million in bonds.
We're thinking that first tranche, based on our updated cash flows, are going to be about $145 million.
The need to sell about $145 million, that'll take us a little over a year.
And at that time, we get new values, we pay down debt, and we'll sell the next tranche.
And that way, we don't have to pay interest on the full $676 million.
million dollars. So that's kind of where we are from a debt standpoint. COVID update, I wanted
to give the board this, and when Ms. Butterfield talks about her budget amendments tonight, I'm
going to ask to butt in at the end and just say a couple of sentences that may summarize this a
little bit. But these are the operational costs or the revenue effects of COVID that we've had
that I can put a pencil to, okay, or that, not me, those smart people over there can put a pencil to.
So we think the expenditures to date are $11,800,000.
That's all through Wednesday of last week, $11,800,000.
Some of that is in the 19-20 school year.
Some of that is in the 20-21 school year.
I didn't break that down for but just so you know that we're about you know 11.8 million dollars in
expense. We had some additional payroll costs while the district was closed down for COVID
right there in March of last year. Again I know those expenses are in the all of that is in the
the 19-20 budget so it wasn't in fund balance when we closed the year. The impact on state funding
this board amended our revenue budget knowing that we were short our enrollment by 15 million dollars
With the whole harmless and all that business working out, it appears as though that's going to be a little closer to $16.5 million.
It wasn't near as tough as I thought.
At one point, I thought it would be upwards of mid-20s, but $16.5 million.
So our estimate at $15 million and the amendment that we did back in October that's caused the deficit that we're in is pretty darn close.
And then the food service transfer we made, it was cash that was made prior to.
It was in the 19-20 school year, and it shows all in our audit and everything was $4 million.
But I wanted to kind of summarize the impact of COVID from an expense standpoint that we can document.
In-kind contributions from TEA provided back in August, well, during the summer, $733,000 worth of protective equipment, masks, hand sanitizer, that kind of stuff.
That has been received.
It's gone to the campuses.
We still have some.
And it's in our inventory to be dispatched as necessary.
TETM, Texas Department of Emergency Management, provided us some testing stuff at $267,000.
That's here and been done.
The Fort Bend County provided us face shields at $5,600.
Been received.
We received a donation, a very generous donation from Phillips 66.
for PP&E costs of $100,000, and of course that's been received.
Grant applications that we've applied for,
Fort Boone County Coronavirus Relief Fund,
we have applied for $2,184,000 on that.
We feel pretty comfortable with it, but we're not sure what the latest is.
We have received $115,000 of it.
We don't know when we'll receive the difference.
We're going to be working on it.
We're working on it.
We're always working on it, but we're just not sure at this point.
Same with Waller County, a much smaller number.
The coronavirus relief funding from TETM we have received.
That cash is there and will be a positive budget amendment that you'll receive next month.
TEA and Fort Bend County Operation Connectivity have been received.
And then just Friday, I got an email.
Well, several members of my staff, they were looking at the cash that came in,
and that $2,421,000 came in from TEA just Friday of last week, just before I sent this in.
So it was really very timely.
ESSER funding, I talked about those on the one slide.
Of course, the $5,151,000 brought no new money to KDISD.
It was a wash with the state.
We're not sure about ESSER II and ESSER III.
The full 100% is $67 million.
We're applying for the entire – we're only going to apply for two-thirds of it
because that's the way they're doing it.
but our plan is being built on 100% of it.
20% of that must address the learning loss,
and I'm sure that we're going to spend a significant more amount to address that
because that's, like I say, the right thing for the right reasons.
Application is due in July, like I mentioned earlier,
and we'll be presenting a plan in June that summarizes our two-year plan for those dollars.
Just some wild cards that I wanted to talk about.
These are things that I wish I could budget for, and they could happen that are good.
They could happen that are bad.
And so, Esther, I think it's important that the administration plans and the board plans,
that we use those as one-time funds.
Those are cash that's coming in that will go away in two years, arguably three,
and there's some Senate stuff that's happening that could make that longer by forcing us to spend it longer.
But right now it's for two years.
And so, again, if we invest in something, let's just get, like, let's say a salary
or something that continues, a long-term contract is something that we really like.
We're going to have to pick up that tab because that funding will go away in two years.
And I think that's really important because it is a lot of money. Prior year property value audits, just Wednesday or Thursday of last week, we received an email with some information from the comptroller's property tax division, PTAD, that we had submitted an audit of our 2016 property values in April of 2020.
that came in, that's going to be worth $4.6 million.
Didn't know about it in time, and don't know when the agency will recognize it,
but by the time we found out about it after this printing,
the agency does have the number, the new number that will give us,
once they work it through their system, will deliver about $4.2 million.
We'll amend the budget up for that, but who knows how long it will take the agency.
You see, I've seen them take six, eight months, and I've seen them take two weeks.
So we're watching that, obviously, very closely.
And we'll probably go ahead and budget for it because it is going to come in
and will probably be recorded for the 2021 school year.
Underspending, I talked to you about the amount we had.
Most of it happened in the $12 million or the $11.8 million.
Most of that expense was done in last year's budget.
But we also had some underspending.
We had some significant underspending in last year's budget.
It's hard to tell which is COVID amount.
I'm not magic, and I don't know that one department didn't buy this because of COVID or because such and such was skipped.
But I'll tell you that there was a significant underspending in last year's budget.
And really, it's happening in this year's budget, some underspending going on with less student travel, less staff travel, less things going on in our schools.
The good stuff isn't happening, and we're having some underspending now.
I can't predict that.
I can see the trend.
I can't predict what will happen between now and August 31st.
Unless I cut off the campuses and departments, then that's not fair because we've got to start next school year.
And they need that, those funds.
SHARs, again, I mentioned that earlier about the additional monies that we think we are going to count on.
as since that came in late Friday afternoon next time when you see it
there will be about a two million dollar increase in our federal revenue that'll
affect that bottom line positively by a couple of million dollars and then the
legislation again what the LBB sent tonight was was not good information but
I think I think there's something wrong with it that's my opinion and I hope
that's true so that's where we are through May and I'm gonna ask miss
Ms. Butterfield, that I cover everything and that I'm supposed to have.
And then we'll give you a better update with what exactly happened in the legislative session in June.
And hopefully it'll be a little quicker because July we'll probably have to get back into the weeds again, unfortunately.
But that's all I have for you tonight.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I have some questions for you, Mr. Smith.
Thank you so much for your presentation.
You looked up the ESSER to see what it is because I know you talk about it a lot.
But I understand it's a one-time thing.
So what I'm curious about is a few things about that.
Do you know when we'll know how you're going to, y'all are going to decide how to spend the money?
Because let me just add to that.
that I see that we can possibly use that for mental health.
And I'd like to know, I just would
like to know if that's in the cards
and when we'll know about it.
Well, we've known that ESSER III was out there since January,
I guess it was.
No, since March.
And there's needs.
And so the district is formally working
on a plan that includes all the divisions from actually
actually all the divisions of the district are included in in that to try to get everybody back
up to to where we were had there not been the code interruption uh that's being worked on it'll
be presented to the public hearing at this june board meeting because i can see some of this as
being maybe ending up being a permanent change you know if we implement something for example
in mental health and and i know that the money is going to run out but it could end up being
something that could end up being permanent and that would be a positive
thing in many ways but I also have a couple other questions on that so on
yours on your page number 12 where you're talking about the payroll and I
just don't want to misunderstand what this says but it says I believe it says
there's a 7.9% for teachers is that just had to do with the increase it that's a
2% that's that's me that's us modeling a 2% what it would cost are just under 2
million dollars per sorry just under 4 million dollars per percent for 1% 4
million dollars so that's that has to do with the increase of teachers not
necessarily teacher salary wages that's how that would be that would be the 13.9
is increasing number of bodies that we have as teachers. The 7.9 would be the number of bodies
plus all the bodies we already have plus 2% of what they're currently, of their current salaries
total. Oh, okay. And then the one-time lump sum, is that what the $500 and the $250 is?
That one-time lump sum, no, that is in this year's budget and that'll be amended tonight
tonight for the tune of just over $5 million is what that's going to cost.
And Ms. Butterfield will be presenting that as an increase to expenditures
tonight because it's going to come out of the 2021 expense budget.
All right.
And I think that's all the questions I had.
Thank you very much.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Mr. Smith, you've gone through this before.
For the percent of fund balance, at what point does that start to affect the way our bond rating looks and things like that?
Is there a number that we don't want to get below?
Well, we talk about three months is what we'd like to have on hand.
You know, three months is 90 days or, you know, 25%.
So we are above that at 35, somewhere between 34 and 35%.
So we do have a healthy fund balance.
But that's a sign of, especially when you're on a fixed income, okay, when you start spending more than you can, than you're taking in, something will have to change.
Our income will have to go up or expenses will have to go down to level that off.
Again, we were in a good, healthy fund balance position to take on COVID.
And so we didn't have to react in a way that would hurt what we're doing in the classroom or hurt our product.
product, we were able to keep going because we did have a healthy fund balance.
If it were under 25%, perhaps a district may work differently.
I don't know.
That wasn't us, so we were able to have that for the rainy day.
The rainy day hit hard, but we didn't have to do the best we could for the kids in the
classroom.
That's the positive thing.
We are over 25% at 34%, but I'll tell you, one of the first questions the bond rating
company always ask is tell me what's gonna happen your fund balance this year
so you almost wait if you had a hundred percent in there and you go well we're
gonna use ten percent of it you know that's the feeling I get maybe I'm wrong
on that but they always want to know what you're what are you doing with your
fund balance and how's it doing and that's one of the things that they note
is we we do conservative budgets and that we do we have kept our fund balance
it's healthy and there's some one-time wild cards that have happened over the last three years that
have all been in our favor with our ability to get the two pennies going back to Hurricane Harvey
and the board's disaster declaration to where they were able to do the two pennies to generate
more revenue two years, three years in a row. That was all good to our bottom on Senate Bill 500. It
was fantastic when we did that property value audit a year ago. That money's in our fund balance,
but it generated 12 million dollars to the bottom line we knew that was going to come back in october
of 2017 we didn't know when but we knew it would come day one day and so those things have have all
been in our favor and there's other things out there like that i don't know when their timing
are they're not they're not that significant though i'll tell you that the big ones are gone
they're gone except with the exception of esser they're gone thank you mr president
Yes. Thank you for your report. Mr. Smith, did I understand you correctly? I know there's been a lot of concerns about budget for next year because how COVID may affect revenues for the state. Did I understand correctly that you feel like we've come out of that and they have the revenue for that? Yes, sir. Does it usually happen around this time of year or is it ahead of the game?
I think with all things considered in our COVID environment, it's unveiling probably about.
I think there's going to be one more update to the ledge, but I think it's about as natural as it could be right now, about as on time as it could be.
Anything else would have been speculation, in my opinion.
But yes, they are going to be able to fund all their commitments from House Bill 3 that they passed two years ago.
House Bill 3, as I understand it, is costing a lot less.
Our property values statewide grew more than they used in the budget two years ago.
So although that didn't save them all, it saved some, but it did save some.
The enrollment statewide is not near as high as they anticipated or budgeted to be.
Again, they're not spending anymore, but if there's 70,000 more students that come from other states to Texas, to Katie, it seems like.
Don't say that.
If they come to Texas, that's going to cost more.
They have to pay that basic allotment times 70,000 to all those districts.
So it didn't cost them as much because enrollment statewide is down over what it was the prior year.
So that was a those those there are several things like that that lined up to where the state from a public education standpoint from everything I've read does appear to be in good shape and moving forward in good shape.
Would really love for them to put some money in that basic allotment again, because, again, without that, school districts are across the state.
Doesn't matter their their their ability to earn additional funds for things that are inflationary affected aren't there.
It's not.
And the only way to do that is through tweaking local revenues, which is a very small amount.
Get 10% gain, you've gained $2 million.
Doing things like Mr. Graham has done with that, which helped, but again, that's 20 basis
points or less than a quarter of a percent.
You can mess with your staffing ratios, which essentially cut services to students.
Or you could have a school districts have had tax elections to be able to increase that tax rate to generate more monies because you could do that.
But outside of that, the basic allotment is king.
Basic allotment.
Well, as always, thank you to you and your team for.
for your magic.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Mr. Smith, thanks as always.
Because I've been gone a little while,
I have a ton of questions.
Mr. President, may I address comments to the superintendent?
Mr. Superintendent, I might need to have a brush up at some point
on some of the terminology and some of the little holes I'm missing,
and I don't want to,
because Mr. Smith brings this presentation regularly to the board,
they already know all the questions that I'm going to ask.
So I'll keep those off.
But for tonight, Mr. Smith, on the slide that's, I don't know,
I think it says number four on here, but the page on there and the page on there
and the number here are all different numbers.
It's the one with the green lines across it, the 2021 budget update assumptions, right?
So just let me get a few of these numbers straight.
So the official budget says we'll have 87,000 children,
but we don't actually have that many at this because then the slide way later said we're not there. We're not there
We're at eighty six thousand five hundred students. I'm sorry eighty five thousand five hundred. Okay, so we never we never hit that
Okay, we never got there. So some of this budget is it's not exactly going to be that much. Okay, and
Let's so let's talk about salary
because I was looking at the
4200 new students this time and
and 662 for next year on that green slide.
And I was like, what's up with that?
But it's because we didn't get everybody this year.
We didn't get the full 244.
That was frozen in time from last summer.
Okay.
And in order to continue things apples to apples, it stays that way.
That was the projection is what this is.
Yes, ma'am, exactly.
So where we are now to what we're budgeting next year is really about a 2,050 student increase,
which is kind of right on one of our slower years,
but but I think it's still it's still a an increase of where we are now that
makes more sense than the 4200 versus 660 that helps me there now when we talk
about salary increases because you know teachers are going to see this and that
start asking tomorrow the one and one was 1% to the base and a 1% lump sum is
what it was for the official budget for 2020 2021 yes and then for projected you
you say 2%, does that mean that, I don't know if it's you who's going to decide or Mr.
Schuch, for the 2% one-time lump, one-time to the base, is that what you're thinking?
That's modeling in there is if I'm a teacher, then I'm going to make 2% more than I made
this year, all throughout next year.
To your base.
To your base.
With that model.
Right.
And so, but it might be instead of the one-in-one.
Yes.
Some teachers really like that one-time lump sum.
You know, it's really great for budget at Christmastime to get a 1% lump sum.
But it's not as beneficial because it doesn't go to your base, which builds on next year and like a compounded interest, right?
So I was just interested in that.
That's one of the problems with that basic allotment.
And if it's not indexed to something, you can't count on it increasing.
That's one of the reasons the 1% was thought of because it doesn't keep coming.
Once you stick it in somebody's base salary, it's there forever.
It's there forever.
The 1% is something that could be judged on every year or managed on every year.
It has been brought a thought over very nicely, but not everybody feels that way.
Right.
And this will take, if we choose to do that, of course, we'll need to communicate that very well to our teachers who are used to seeing a lump sum that we've done for several years now, I guess.
Okay.
Okay, when will we talk about beginning teacher salaries, comparing them to other districts?
What month is that, Mr.?
We'll bring that to the board next month with a compensation plan,
and probably by next month we're going to need to pretty much finalize what we can do about an employee raise by that time.
Awesome.
But we're also waiting for that legislature to finish meetings.
To get finished, right.
It's always tough in that legislative year to find out what's going to happen right at the end.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm going to stop with my questions for this evening,
and I might follow up with a couple later.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
We'll now move on to Agenda Item 10.2.
I'm sorry, Mr. Smith.
I forgot.
There's one, the one with the blue pie chart.
Uh-huh.
That blue pie chart.
Payroll, I'm so sorry, is 87.7%, right?
And that's top end of, we've been a little lower than that with the payroll is almost 88% of our budget.
It's really difficult to do very much there when you see that a salary increase just gobbles up more of that pie every time.
And that's the thing that I know we always focus to try to keep that.
I just wanted to point out that that slide is difficult when you're thinking about it.
What gets squeezed in that is those smaller pieces of the pie with the exception of utilities because we can't help the utilities.
And I think our maintenance and operations team have done a fantastic job of doing what they can to get our rates down and doing our consumption down and doing all that.
And that has made a significant impact.
But the fact is, is those utilities are going to be a large portion of those smaller pieces of pie.
And that's what gets we software licenses and everything.
The administration is really working hard to control that stuff because 88% in salary and benefits is a large portion.
And for me, I don't like 88%.
You know, I mean, I think that's too big.
But the other half of me is like, I want our employees to have more, right?
I want our teachers to be paid more.
I want us all, you know, hardworking people.
So that's just a really hard one.
And when I looked at it, I just wanted to call attention to that.
So as much as I really promote better pay for our people, especially our classroom teachers and that kind of thing, campus people,
it's tough when you look at 87.7 to look at a 2%.
That will probably stay about the same, though.
That's an average over time.
I'm thinking it's going to be somewhere between 87.7 and 88.
88. But what you say for every 1% is $4 million. So $8 million inches that up just a little bit, doesn't it? Just an option. Just wanted to point that out. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Smith. Move on to agenda item 10.2 2020-2021 health plan update. Mr. Lance Nolman.
Good evening, President Schulte, Dr. Gagorski, Board of Trustees.
I'm here this evening for our semiannual update on the health plan.
And this is what we're going to look at this evening.
Here we go.
I'm going to give you a high-level review of plan year 2020.
We're going to look at plan year 2020 projection versus actual results.
We're going to look at the current health plan activities.
activities. We're also going to review plan year 2021 projection, which was presented by Arthur J. Gallagher, our benefit consultant. We're going to look at what COVID has done, the impact there. I'm going to give you a high-level review of what's going on in TRS active care and then what our next steps will be.
In this slide, you'll see in plan year 2019, we had an operating gain of $1.13 million.
As we moved into 2020, we saw an operating loss of $2.7 million.
Now in 2021, based on actuarial projections, we're looking at a $5.7 million operating loss.
2020 we collected through district contributions the premium support program in the district and
employee contributions of sixty point six eight four million against medical pharmacy and
administration expenses of 63 374 giving us a net operating gain a loss rather of two point six eight
nine million dollars. This is an interesting slide because it breaks out
in terms of employee contributions and district contributions. The pie graph
kind of shows you that the district does provide a significant amount of funding
to the health plan and little points of reference I would call your attention to
is the cost per covered employee in 2020 per member was $7,960.
The cost per covered member, which would be including our beneficiaries
and dependents, was $4,526.
Last year, on a per-day basis, we spent $125,402 in medical claims.
For pharmacy, we spent $36,571 a day.
Pretty significant numbers.
2020 health plan projection versus actual.
As I alluded to earlier, we projected a 2.22 operating loss with an actual loss of 2.7.
And there's some factors in there I would point out to you.
Our plan member growth grew by 3.7%.
Our medical trend, and that's a high-level word for inflation, if you will, of 3.7%.
And our pharmacy trend was 13.6%.
Let me circle back around to medical trend.
You will see across the nation, medical trend will go anywhere from 8, almost up to 12%.
So that gives you a really good indication in terms of our medical spend is doing really well.
Okay?
The pharmacy trend.
As you know, when you turn on your TV, all you see is specialty meds.
There's always some type of medicine that's going to solve your problems, right?
Across the nation, that is a horrific trend that's a hard battle, and that's driving that 13.6%.
If you look to your right there, in 2020 we had 81 claims over $75,000, which totaled $18,225,000.
What did we do with the current health plan activities? What are we doing?
I came to you last year. We presented that we went out for an RFP for plan year 2021.
In 2021, Enetna was selected as a provider.
We offered three new options, a high deductible, the Memorial Hermann ACO, and a point of service.
We're presented to staff for selection in 2021.
Under the new plan design, employees now have the ability through a high deductible health plan to have an HSA, which is a health savings account.
We listened to some of our employees being able to have those funds portable.
affordable. And so by law we are able to do that with a high deductible plan. And those
funds that employees contribute to the HSA belong to them. They never lose those year
over year. Also, in the near term, we will be partnering with ReadyMD and Express Scripts
to broaden the management of our chronic diseases, diabetes, hypertension, etc. and the Employee
assistance program to provide better efficiency of care and convenience to staff.
This new approach will be eliminating some third party vendors which allow our employees
to have direct access to network providers and it will save us an administrative piece
of about $250,000 a year.
And then lastly, we have started a dependent verification process.
New plan participants must provide evidence of eligibility to enroll for themselves as well as their dependents.
For plan year 2022, open enrollment employees will provide evidence of eligibility and for subsequent qualified life events on a one-time basis.
This slide is just to give you an idea of what our premiums are on a monthly basis.
And I would like to remind the board this is our third year where we have not increased premiums or changed deductibles year over year.
What did we do from the administrative savings plan for 2020 where we helped lower costs?
We implemented some pharmacy management programs, preauthorization, step therapy, and quantity management,
garnished $5.6 million in net savings to the plan.
pain management program. We limited to fight the opioid crisis. We limited the quantity that
employees could get. And by doing that, by 54 percent, we reduced pain medication expense by
$147,000. Now, we weren't reducing the availability of medicines to employees.
What we were doing was to reduce the waste that takes place. Many times people get prescriptions.
how many of us all don't take all of our prescriptions, right?
So we're still paying for those unused pills.
So we reduced our quantity,
but yet still giving the employees availability to get the needed medications.
We are part of the TEC Collaborative in terms of rebates,
which is the Texas Education Collaborative,
which is a collaborative effort of self-insured districts in the state.
And because of our buying power,
we saw a net increase of 1.8 million dollars in our rebates from pharmacies.
And then as I alluded to earlier about the prescription, especially med issue on
our on our screen, the Save on RX problem, Save on RX program saved us
1.014 million dollars and that is really a backdoor service that we have
that garnishes more savings in terms of rebates and it's a it's a gain share
thing that's really a productive program and then the accretive program this is
as you'll see in those specially made commercials if you need copay assistance
contact whoever this is a program we have where we were able to help plan
members gain copay assistance which an estimated amount of about nine hundred
thousand dollars to help those staff members 2020 plan changes and
enhancements last year we did not change the design or program to and help to to
move the health plan that were implemented we redesigned the plan but
but there was no impact to the employees.
It gave them a few broader options.
Pharmacy changes focused on quantity restrictions,
as I alluded to earlier, to eliminate waste.
We had the premium support program,
which helped put downward pressure on premiums
in the amount of $1,965,000.
And then if you'll recall, too, in 2020,
I came to you and we had broadened our voluntary benefit offerings
offerings to help people that felt they wanted to have a higher deductible, they could hedge
that risk with some different products in terms of accidental death, cancer policy,
things of that nature.
I wanted to bring this up to you and it's always, you know, what are our neighbors doing
and what's going on in the business?
If you'll take a look in prior year 2019, the medical per employee per month we spent
at $475. Last year in 2020, we spent $492. That's at 3.7%. Take a look. The Aetna Book of Business
across all industry types was $698. Our peer group, higher education and education,
was $736. So you compare that against the $492, that's a good number. The same with pharmacy.
UC prior year we're at $73.25.
Current ending year 2020 we're at $83.24.
That's that 13.6% trend I was mentioning.
Peer industry was 89.71.
So we're below peer industry in both medical spend and pharmacy.
Telemedicine.
The prior year with ReadyMD we were at 676.
this last year, we had 10,307 virtual medicine visits.
Phenomenal.
Let's look at 2021 and the projection.
We are projecting a $5.257 million loss.
And I will give you the high-level view on this,
is that this is the assumption that we don't change anything to the plan.
We don't change contributions.
We don't change premiums.
and employees continue to grow to come on to the health plan.
So as we grow more employees, more employees enroll,
obviously we're going to spend more.
But this is just that base projection at this point in time.
This is really an interesting slide.
This time last year, I was asked, we were right beginning in, I guess,
the droves of COVID, and I was asked to put together a slide,
well what what do you think COVID will will do to the plan and there is no
underwriting guidelines at that point in time so we took our best practice and
what rates and what we pay for office visits and etc and I will guide you to
the last scenario scenario number five assuming we tested 50% of our staff we
had an incident infection rate of 10% and a COVID impact of about 10.9
what does that come out to be?
The total dollar impact added to the plan would have been $2.791 million.
If you'll recall in the previous slide, we were at a deficit of about $2.6.
So that kind of gives you an idea of what that did.
And I'll speak a little bit more to testing here in a few moments.
Actions impacting COVID.
When this started, Katie took the lead.
We opened up the first massive testing site in the state.
It was free for staff, both on the plan and off the plan.
We tested on a non-occupational side 6,986 staff members.
And here's the big key that we're able to keep health plan year 2020 in check was we kept people out of emergency rooms, standalone ERs and urgent care.
By handling it virtually, we were able to reduce those costs.
And then also, by doing this, we contain the spread of COVID.
it. The one thing you don't want to do even in the non-pandemic situation is people who have the flu
to go into the urgent care where other sick people are. They bring their child because they don't
have child care and they get sick and it's just it's a it's a vicious cycle. So I'm very proud of
that fact that we took the lead and that the district provided the resources to do that.
We had a healthy plan and it shows. It really does. So what's going on with TR
active care? At this point in time TRS active care is obviously working with
the legislature to determine their contribution rates. Those rates usually
don't come out until July. And the next slide if you hear what's going on in the
marketplace several of the districts have used the district of innovation
uh platform to offer a second self-insured plan alongside with trs as
a they found a a niche in the armor so
they're testing that out uh that's yet to be seen whether that's
going to be effective uh and that's that's a very uh risky
endeavor by some districts we don't know what the legislature is
going to do on this so uh i would i don't want to be a gambling
man so it's it's it's yet to be determined and this is something that's very important i think
you need to look at is had kdisd elected to participate in trs for plan year 2020
the estimated contribution would have been approximately 82 million dollars compared to
our self-insured cost of 63.4 million that's a substantial savings and one of the key reasons
oddly enough right before the pandemic hit I went to Austin I spoke to the
several TRS districts and they asked why aren't we a part of it and my
response was we are richly blessed here in Katy because we have a concentration
of great health care with with Memorial Hermann and we're able to get our
employees to care fast and efficiently and that is one of the key successes to
to our health plan.
Next steps, evaluate plan structure and underwriting
for plan year 2022.
I'll be discussing with district administration our options
sometime in June and hopefully come back to you in July,
maybe August, about plan year 2022 recommendations.
And before I close, I want to share a little brief story
with you.
I was in one afternoon or after lunch,
I went across the street to H-E-B to get a sandwich and I was standing in line and a
lady came up to me and said, sir, you're the man I saw on TV, you're running that testing
center, aren't you?
I said, well, yes ma'am, I am.
And she said, I want to thank you and thank the district because you saved the life of
family members and you saved the life of one of my family members.
And it really brought home to me at that point in time what we were doing was saving lives.
And I think through our EOM team that we've been meeting to mitigate COVID over the last year,
we keep revisiting that message is that because of the things that we did via the health plan,
because it was healthy and the district supports this health plan, is we save lives.
So at the end of the day, it was just a very humbling thing and made me very proud to be a part of KDISD.
So I want to thank the leadership of Ms. Hack for getting us going in the right direction,
and I'll close with that and answer any questions you may have.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
And I want to echo what you just said for you and Dr. Gorski and your team.
I was asked several times over the last year, hey, why isn't Katie doing this?
Because someone would see it on the news, and I'd say we've been doing that for a month.
A lot of people just, for whatever reason, they were busy.
They didn't realize we were doing it, so great job.
Maybe this is an unfair question, but I know the WebMD was taken off a little bit before COVID,
and obviously because it had to be, it really took off during COVID.
it do you see that more people probably come become comfortable with that format and are
willing to do it more even outside of a coveted environment and do they feel like they're losing
anything there um in using i i would assume people become a little bit more comfortable it is it is
uh if you look at it historically we've been gaining traction you know we changed providers
two years ago our participation rate has doubled it really has been and people have become more
accustomed because that is the new way in which we operate and I believe that
as we expand the world of virtual medicine into different areas in terms
of diabetes management just the whole chronic disease spectrum if you will and
tying it into our EAP programs will be very important you know for the longest
time an employee would call EAP and say my name is so-and-so I'm having this
issue can you help me well maybe you need to contact your PCP your primary
care doctor and set up an appointment that could take 30 or 45 days now we'll
be able to have an EAP visit and if a person needs care it can be flipped over
with the same provider and have the continuity of care efficiently and
effectively and cost-effectively as well thank you that answer question yes
that's awesome thank you thank you for your presentation any other questions
Mr. President, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Thank you so much for what you do, and I do believe that the efforts by KDISD and the admin and you have probably saved lots of lives, and so that's awesome.
But I want to piggyback off what Mr. Keller was saying, because the telemedicine went up from 676 to 10,307.
I want to know, first of all, I think that's a positive thing because, like you said, it gives more access to more people.
But does that also save money for the individual patient and or for the district?
That's an excellent question.
Our health plan provides virtual medicine for free.
It's a free.
We waived the copay when we started because there's a return on investment that's quantifiable
because the average, and this could be all over the place, but the average
emergency room or visit is about $4,200 ish. The average primary care visit is
about $280 to $325. So if we're able to get an employee in at virtual care,
that's a win-win. Number one, employees getting treatment
immediately and they're getting great care but it's also saving the plan
dollars and by doing those things that keeps downward pressure on premiums and
by as a group if we if we buy into it and I see staff that have then we're
collectively helping keep the plan healthy and it keeps as I alluded to
earlier where do you get sick get sick in the emergency room and you get sick
in the doctor's office and by doing that we we peel those people out so they get that care fast
and effectively okay and i have one more question so um we've talked about this before but you know
i think last year year before you did a side-by-side comparison with the different districts
and how much all the plans cost and you've kind of done that here too so what i'm wondering is
because as a as a trustee i get asked the question a lot about and i'm sure other people do too you
you know, how does our plan compare to others?
Could this comparison be put, like, in their cloud or something
so that the staff and the teachers could see that for themselves?
One of the things that we can do that, we can look at doing that,
one of the things is, you know, there are so few self-insured districts in Texas of our size,
and a majority of the districts in Texas, almost 1,100 of them, are with TRS.
While our plans are similar, kind of, maybe, depends on how you look at it,
whether it's tomato, tomato, if you will,
it's really hard to draw a dollar-for-dollar cost comparison.
But I will say, you know, the district does provide on a month, PEPM,
per employee per month, $385 toward health care of the employee,
where the state mandates only 225.
And over the last couple years, as I alluded to in the presentation,
was the premium support program.
Those were additional funds that were pumped into the program
by the general fund through an inter-fund transfer
to keep premiums in check.
So our employees see the 385 and they see those premiums,
but on behind the scenes they're really getting a really good deal
compared to some of our neighboring districts.
But it would be good if the people could see it.
Yes, ma'am.
Because I think this is a great presentation, but I just wish others could also see it.
Yes, ma'am.
We can work toward that if possible.
Any other questions?
Mr. President.
Mr. President.
Mr. Nelman, thank you.
I echo, I mean, Mr. Keller and Mrs. Champagne asked the question I was going to ask.
But I agree with Ms. Champagne.
You hear a lot from teachers like, insurance is going up, you know,
and the insurance goes up.
And so I was expecting to see all kinds of different things here.
I think it's communication.
I don't think they remember from year to year,
and we have so many new employees and all that.
that they get more than the $225,000.
And so, you know, we have an amazing communication team.
I'm sure they could come up with something to kind of do a graphic or something
to help them understand all the things that we're doing to help keep costs down.
I really think communication, like Mrs. Champagne said,
is key to helping teachers' employees understand the benefits they're getting.
It's just tough because all medical is going up, right?
Right. So when you said, so my question is, when you said peer comparisons, is that the TRS comparison, right?
It would have to because most districts use that.
That is a peer comparison of Aetna's book of business across, and Aetna operates in the self-insured world here in Texas.
So that's, I mean, that's on their numbers.
So it's apples to apples on that.
Yes.
So I remember when we decided, I was on the board when we decided to do self-funded instead of going to TRS,
because we could see that that was a one-time-in, never-come-out, and so we did self-fund.
But having a deficit every time is concerning to me, right?
So the loss that you showed, I'm pointing to this as if you can see it, but is self-funded still the way to go?
Absolutely.
Okay.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Now that's an underwriting.
How will we recover the loss then?
We have been very fortunate that in the years that we have had operating gains, we were
able to kind of keep those waves of inflation like this.
And I think if you look back year over year, we're well ahead of the curve in terms of
operating gain against loss.
We have been. Had we not taken some steps, if I think you were on the board then, when we were part of the interlocal with Houston and Aldine, that charge was phenomenal that we brought back to the district. And that was another step. We kept these premiums in check.
Okay. And I think it's important for people to understand, just like a gallon of milk, inflation eats away at that price point, right?
It keeps going up and up and up.
And we're merely trying to pay for these things as we go in the most efficient manner.
I appreciated very much some of the things that you pointed out, the less amount of medication, because you're right, a lot of that goes to waste.
So, I mean, I really think that even the small points that save little bits of money here and there are really good.
And congratulations, Mr. Gorgorski, on the whole thing with the brilliance of having our, it was the ag facility, right, where you did the testing center?
Yes.
The testing center.
I mean, that's brilliant.
And then turned it to a vaccination center?
Do we do vaccinations there too?
I mean, just to have a facility that we continue to use, that the community invested in, and then it serves our educators, I mean, brilliant move.
I really have heard only good things about that.
Very, very well done.
Any other questions?
Thank you very much, Mr. Nolte.
We move on to agenda item 10.3, school health advisory council annual report.
Mr. M.H. Grimmett.
Mr. President, members of the board, Superintendent Grigorski,
the purpose of this presentation this evening is to annually report to the school board
as mandated by Senate Bill 283 with a detailed account of activities discussed
at our School Health Advisory Committee known as SHAC. Parents, teachers,
administrators, health care professionals, community members, law enforcement
members, nonprofit health organization members, they are the the heart and soul
that make up our School Health and Health Advisory Council. The topics
The topics covered during our meeting cover health education, physical education, parent and community involvement, staff wellness, counseling and mental health services, health and safe school environment, health services, and nutrition services.
services.
This year our committee met four times in accordance with the state regulations.
Now I will outline the summary of activities discussed during the year and each of the
topics related to one of the eight focus areas for school health advisory councils.
So we reflected on the contributions of former member officer James Grima, received information
on KDISD adoption of character strong program, received information regarding
the COVID dashboard, received information regarding the KDISD Educational
Foundation reason to race, received update on curbside meals provided to
families due to COVID, received information on Harris County initiative
to understand the causes of childhood obesity and ways to reduce it,
received information on the Katie Hart program, received information on FitnessGram,
received information on physical education safety protocols and how they are implemented in classes,
and received update on the progress of the Outdoor Learning Center renovation project,
received information about the Abrindo Caminos Bounce Health Lifestyles Program,
and received and approved the annual report.
So, thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President, I just want to say to Mr. Grimmett, I so enjoyed the Outdoor Learning
Center the other day and I hope that all of you get the chance to go and see the beautiful
work that was there.
Since it was mentioned here in your presentation, I thought I'd just take the time to plug that.
It's beautiful.
Thank you.
It's a fabulous facility, and we are so looking forward to having students start June the 7th for our summer rec program.
So we are super, super excited about that.
Any other questions?
Thank you very much, Mr. Green.
We'll move on to our next agenda item discussion, action items.
Agenda item 11.1, discuss and consider board approval of the 2021-2022 School Health Advisory Council representatives.
So before you is a list of our current SHAC membership.
And as mandated by the law, the school board is required to review and approve the SHAC membership.
And so you have the list of names before you.
Any questions?
I'll entertain a motion. Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposed 2021-2022 School Health Advisory Council SHAC representatives.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Champaign. We have a second by Mr. Redman. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye.
All those opposed? The motion carries with a 7-0 vote. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Well, now we move on to Agenda Item 11.2, Discuss and Consider Board Approval of the 2021-2022 Student Accident Insurance Renewal.
Mr. Lance Nolman, please.
Good evening again.
The University Interscholastically UIL accident policy is paid for by the
district and provides supplemental medical benefits for accidents incurred
by students who participate in UIL activities such as athletics, fine arts,
and career and technology education. This is a secondary to any other insurance
this is secondary to other insurance participants may have that includes
supplemental catastrophic policy. State law allows school districts to purchase
this type of insurance but it is not necessary. This insurance also provides
voluntary accident insurance for students which includes at school or
24-hour coverage with or without dental coverage. Those who elect voluntary
coverage pay the associated premium on an individual basis to the carrier. The
The renewal premium as proposed by the brokerage store Inc. for 2021-22 will be $245,939 of
which $230,000 is for UIL coverage and $15,939 for catastrophic coverage.
As part of the renewal for the coverage, the premiums will remain flat from the recently
expiring period of 2020-21.
A unique feature of this program is the concussion management program for UIL participants.
This program will be conducted virtually with parents and guardians having the ability to consult with a doctor about concussion-related symptoms for up to five visits for free.
The UIL accident policy provides for student growth and success by providing district-paid insurance for student accidents while participating in those related activities.
For students without other insurance, the plan pays its primary.
A voluntary student accident insurance provision is deemed a public service that provides a low-cost accident insurance alternative for students.
Authorization to purchase coverage is granted through FFE Legal,
and I would ask that it is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the
2021-2022 student accident insurance proposal for UIL events as
well as catastrophic coverage for those events.
Any questions? Mr. President? Yes. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2021-2022
student accident insurance proposal for UIL events as well as catastrophic
traffic coverage for those events second motion by miss van is second by miss
Revin when I'll proceed to vote all those in favor please your right hand
say aye aye all those opposed the motion carries 7 to 0 I'm going to agenda item
11.3 discuss and consider board approval the March 2021 financial reports
Good evening, President Schulte, Dr. Graborski and Board. Item 11.3 is to consider approval of the district's March financial statements.
The financial statements report the revenues and expenditures by budgeted funds, which are our general fund, our food service fund and our debt service fund.
This report covers through March, which is about 58% through the year, just over that.
You'll see that most of those categories are running under that percentage.
And that kind of goes back to what Chris was talking about with our underspending.
We do see that in those numbers.
Keep in mind we did approve a large budget amendment in the food service program,
bringing both the revenues and expenditures down last month.
You will see those in next month's financial statements.
And that is to address that footnote that you're seeing at the bottom of those
financial statements about the other funding source for the food service program.
In addition, there's that note on ESSER I also, which Chris mentioned,
that indicates those salaries that are currently being funded by ESSER I, which again was no new money.
Our construction report presents project costs through March for projects funded with the 2017 and 2014 authorization,
our E-RAID funding and our TERS money, which we get back after the debt payment is made by KDA.
Our tax report is summarizing tax revenues received through March,
and those percentages are running very close to where we are historically
running every year at this time and finally our check register has our
vendor payments for the month of March those are our financial reports for
March any questions mr. president I move that the Board of Trustees approves the
The districts March 2021 financial statements.
Second.
Motion by Mr. Redmond.
Second by Ms. Champagne.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed.
The motion carries with a 7-0 vote.
We'll now move on to agenda item 11.4,
discuss and consider board approval of the May 2021 budget amendments.
Presenters, Mrs. Butterfield.
Thank you, President Schulte, Trustees, and Dr. Gorgorski.
Tonight, the General Operating Fund expenditures increase $1,302,576
to cover various maintenance and operation repairs across campuses,
and our amendment for the employee lump sum is presented at $5,199,750.
This was approved last month.
Expenditures were also amended by $35,000 to cover some repair costs to devices that have been checked out through KVA,
and the remainder of the general operating fund expenditures are direct offsets between different functions.
Approval of these amendments will result in a $6,537,326 decrease to the general operating fund fund balance.
For the food service fund, federal revenue is increased by $3,480,316 due to a correction in indirect cost data entry from last month's amendment.
There's an expenditure increase of $15,000 to fund the employee lump sum over in the food service fund,
and $16,800 to purchase lifts for food service vans to help ease the transport of materials.
approval of these amendments will result in a $3,448,560 increase in the food service fund balance.
And I believe Mr. Smith wanted to make a comment about revenues.
Well, going back to my presentation and on the coattails of these expenditure increases
predominantly to the general fund or particularly to the general fund,
I just want you to know that we've got enough information now on those things that were on those COVID slides that I think that we can bring next month, that $2.9 million in revenue amendments.
The freeze, that's settling out right now.
The estimates are probably better than $1.5 million, somewhere in that neighborhood anyway.
And then the comptroller property values that we found out about late last week, also $4.3 million.
million dollars. So there's about $9 million in revenue that that will make this taste a little
bit better because we again, we've since we had that big revenue amendment back in October
because of COVID, it's we've not had a good bottom line, but this will help. And in addition,
we'll have when we find out more, there's another $2.2 million in COVID related things that will
help our bottom line as well. And then again, the underspending that that is happening will help.
any questions mr president i would just like to make a comment thank you to mr smith and the team
for finding a way to do the coveted lump sum payments for the
the teachers and the staff this year i think that was that was awesome
any other questions
i'll retain a motion
Mr. President? Yes. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the District's May 2021
budget amendments. Who made the second? I'm sorry. Okay. Okay, we have a motion by Ms. Wilson,
a second by Ms. Fox. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say
aye. Aye. All those opposed? The motion carries with a 7-0 vote. Thank you, Ms. Butterfield.
The next thing we'll do is agenda item 11.5, discuss and consider board approval for proposed KDISD virtual high school.
Thank you, Mr. President.
And I do want to clarify on that last vote, that would have been 6-0.
Oh, 6-0, I'm sorry.
Ms. Vann has stepped out.
Okay, thank you.
I can't even see from the computer.
Yeah, you're sitting a little lower.
All right, so let's talk a little bit about the virtual high school.
I've sent the board information about virtual high school in the past.
We also talked about it a little bit at length at the last board meeting what's
going on. KDISD has been working towards this and we did the survey, we talked
about the results of the survey and that we do have some interest out there and
we've put together a framework of a draft plan that we're ready to move
forward with that. Now my large concern tonight for discussion and possible
action on that would be when we started this process I believe I mentioned to
the board that there were 16 bills filed in the legislature all talking about virtual instruction
so far none of those bills has made it to the finish line just yet quite frankly most of them
if not all of them have stalled some can't get out of the house one couldn't get out of the
senate and vice versa i don't know where those stand right now i am concerned about it because
without legislative action to form a virtual school i'm worried about the funding and the
the future of the funding and the approval of a virtual high school from year to year.
And if we can't get something through the legislature, I'm concerned about building
something and not having permanent funding for that.
And that's kind of where I stand on that.
So like I said, we think there's interest out there in our teams between Mrs. Hack and
the technology team and Dr. Ilaone and some of the other folks working on that from those
departments.
departments, they put a lot of work into this and we've got a great virtual program.
You know, I mean, we talked in the past about how we've won awards for our virtual programs
and I think we do a pretty fantastic job.
And I know putting something forward would be equally fantastic should we develop something,
but it's all going to boil down to some legislative action here.
So at that time, I'd open it up for any discussion from the board or any questions you might have.
but going forward from here on out I'd be recommended to the board we can
create something if the legislature will fund it without the funding I don't know
how we'd pay for it mr. president or dr. Korkor see whichever and could so I'm
just I'm just throwing this out there could could we use the s or money for
that yeah we can use well that's a good question could we use direct to s or
money for a virtual school? I don't know the answer to that because I don't know ESSER that
well. I see Dr. Caskey back there. She may know that answer. Do you know, Dr. Caskey?
Yes, so we've talked about for the course development to build it out.
We could use ESSER funds as long as it's qualifying it under potential closure in the future. We're
preparing for a potential school closure in the future. So we could frame it under that.
Okay.
But then to keep it going, we'd have to re-find money somewhere else.
Well, that would be for course development, which is once our courses are developed, they're
developed, so for the content of the courses.
So when I'm talking about a permanent source of funding, I'm basically talking about the
ADA.
As you guys all know, we get our funding for the number of students who are enrolled in
our programs.
Currently this year we can operate a Katy Virtual Academy because the Commissioner was allowed to set forward rules that we can count those students into our ADA and collect full funding for the kids that are in our Katy Virtual Academy.
That disappears at the end of the year. There's been no talk of the TEA fully funding virtual academies beyond this school year.
So what would we do if there was no funding for it?
I'm not saying there would be or not.
I don't know at this time.
But let's say I've got 1,000 kids enrolled in a virtual high school,
but I can't collect the ADA for those kids.
So take that basic allotment, which would be a pretty good indicator of that.
And, Mr. Smith, you say $61.40?
Yes, sir.
$61.60?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
So you hit that by 1,000, and that kind of gives you a ballpark
of how much money we'd be losing out on that those kids aren't in our schools collecting the ada and
then we have to build the school and pay for all the teachers and the resources to to staff it so
there is concern there um that it wouldn't be permanent okay so you're you're saying if they
went to the kva we would not get ada for that there's a possibility of that is that what you're
saying it's a possibility i i would feel much more comfortable building a virtual school having
having something permanently in law that says they have to fund it and here's how they fund
it and here are the rules to get that funding than something that's unknown.
That's tricky.
It's a challenge.
So will you develop sort of like a mock plan in case we get the funding?
We have one.
We call it a draft framework of a plan.
We would be ready to start moving forward with that.
We would be ready to put out the information to those families and say if you're ready to go ahead and enroll in this
We're ready to accept you we're starting to build schedules we can do all that
So at this point
I think it goes up to the board that if you feel comfortable with saying this
That if if I can if the state's going to guarantee the funding through legislative action Katie will build it
What's the timing on that?
Yeah, it's bad timing, to tell you the truth.
It's a real challenge.
Legislative session ends at the end of the month,
so we'll know something by the end of May if one of those bills will get through.
There are certain laws that tie when a law becomes in effect.
Some of those are as late as September 1,
So I don't know how that would work if it was a September 1 where it comes into effect in a legislative year, but we're having school in August.
So there's a few unknowns with something like that.
But we'll know by the end of the month.
And then we could launch as early as June 1 our survey, or I shouldn't say survey, our open enrollment to our KDISD students.
Remember, when we pitched this and we talked about it from the beginning, we only plan on enrolling students who live in KDISD boundaries,
not outside the boundaries so you'd have to establish residency within the
district or be a currently enrolled student and then you could sign up to be
part of the virtual high school and we would see what that is I figure within a
week or ten days we should know how many students truly saying you want something
and actually signing up for it or two different things so we'd have to see
where that stands once again looking at the enrollment if there was a
significant interest it would probably be cost effective if it's being funded if the interest
is very small maybe it wouldn't be but we did have 1200 surveys say that they would like something
like this so that leads me to believe uh there may be a thousand kids out there who do want this
should we be able to create it but i think we can create it pretty quickly but there would be some
challenges in that uh not knowing all the rules just yet but but i think we could do it uh i'll
say this between school leadership department our curriculum department
with dr. caskey and dr. Lana's teams we Katie who created a Katie virtual
Academy in seven days so not that I want to put a whole bunch of pressure on
folks that we could create this in seven days but they did a pretty fantastic job
when we had to do it before so any other questions mr. president mr. Gorky dr.
NEW SPEAKERS. DR. GRIGORSKI, I APOLOGIZE.
SUPERINTENDENT GRIGORSKI. I'M LATE TO THE DISCUSSION HERE, SO FORGIVE
ME IF SOME OF THIS IS INCORRECT. SO THE KATIE VIRTUAL ACADEMY, WHATEVER, KV-8,
WHAT IS IT? NEW SPEAKERS.
KATIE VIRTUAL ACADEMY. NEW SPEAKERS.
THAT WOULDN'T BE A BUILDING. IT WOULD BE PEOPLE, IT WOULD BE STUDENTS
from home doing virtual school and then it would have assigned leadership to kind of
oversee teachers and things like that.
Would it need a principal?
Yes.
Right.
Attendance clerk, a few pieces.
But it doesn't need a building.
And when you think of a place like KDISD that's still growing and still building capital,
using capital expenditures, needing bond elections, needing a building for future students, I
I could see that this could be something for the students who desire it, and there are
students who learn well this way and want to do that.
It could possibly be a savings because we don't have to have the capital expenditures.
You don't have to have bathrooms or cafeterias or paper towels or electricity.
There could be some savings in here if there are enough students that would keep us from
building an entire building or less of that.
that. So I'm interested in how that looks. I do hope that the state will fund it fully
because we're still delivering quality instruction to students virtually. We've proven that this
year for sure. But I do think because of COVID, things are different. They'll be forever different.
Many things in COVID will be forever different. And this is something we've proven will work.
So it's intriguing to me for the people, for the students who want to do it, high school
only is it would be my my view i think elementary and junior high need face to face right but
it's it's very um something i'm very interested in and we already have a virtual academy
smaller we had it before covet right we had a virtual a few virtual classes someone help me
dr caskey did we we do have we have katie virtual school that has classes uh they take them in the
summer or they can take them in the evening for courses they're taught by
our teachers separate and apart from the regular school day but that would be a
big piece of what we're currently would create for the future that is that's the
one I referenced before we were the only one I'm trying to remember it here dr.
Lana I hope I don't butchered it butcher it but we were the only public school k
through 12 to win an award for our Katie virtual school in our programming the
the only one recognized for that.
So like I said, should we choose to create something for our high school students?
And we have decided we don't want to create it for elementary or junior high,
but for high school students who have shown success, we could create something.
And this is the part I can guarantee you, if we create it, it's going to be pretty fantastic,
just like everything else we create.
We do such a good job with our teams, and they put it together.
So the big picture is will it get funded, and will there be some rules set on it?
That's the other unknown in that is if a bill passes, what will the rules be?
Right.
And if the bill doesn't pass, is it still advantageous to us because of the capital expenditures we need for students that keep coming?
Is there enough interest that it would pay for itself simply by the lack of use of a building?
Like I said, the electricity, the water, the cafeterias, the gyms, all those things that we need to provide for, you know, kids in seats.
Right.
Right. We've talked over the years about many things, like allowing teachers to bring their students to Katy who didn't reside in Katy was really hard to do for a while because we were building schools so fast that it was putting a burden on taxpayers to build more buildings for that.
We're caught up to a place now where that's a really great benefit.
But we talk about that a lot about, you know, kids in seats in a Capitol building with all
of it that comes with it, if you can just think about cost of paper towels, all of it.
If there are enough students, might be able to save us money enough to provide it, whether
they fund it or not.
I don't know.
Yeah, I've never looked at it from that standpoint to look at a return on investment of trying
to divide it out that way.
But if you think about it this way, you know, I mean, think about every 10 teachers, roughly $600,000.
Okay, how many teachers would I need for a virtual academy?
Probably more than 10.
So you start getting into the big money.
I mean, that starts to add up without any funding.
Now, so if the virtual bill, if something doesn't pass through the legislature, you know what I mean, we'd have to see what TEA is going to say about that.
does have some authority to grant waivers for virtual schools.
I don't know how they would fund the schools.
There has been discussion that they would not be fully funded,
but I don't have that on authority.
It's only what I've heard that they wouldn't be fully funded.
So I don't know what that means.
Is that partial funding?
Is that half funding?
I really don't know without a hard, fast rule on that.
So it's a bit of a gamble to create something
and each year have to ask for a waiver
and each year to not know what the direct funding is there's there's some
challenges in there it it's a it's odd to me that they wouldn't immediately
think we've learned how to do that very well this year why wouldn't we have that
option to boys and girls who need I don't I don't know I haven't followed
any of it what what's your view on the state's the bills and things that are
there? Same thing with any other bill, you know, I mean, there's good and bad to all the bills,
you know what I mean, but you know how disagreement is. It's just boiling down to probably
disagreement at that point. If somebody doesn't like something as part of that bill, I don't
really know. I haven't spoken to anybody about a bill and why they do or don't support it.
It's hard when you think about very small school districts and ones like ours that do it really
really well must be difficult to come to an agreement with 400 people in the house and
that kind of thing.
Yeah, there's definitely differences around the state compared to what resources a district
may have and may be able to put forward to create something.
All the way down to just having internet access that we take for granted that you get out
in the rural areas.
That may not be the case.
So they can't get online like we can and get to the services.
So there's some real challenges out there.
I understand why they're going slow on it, but we'll just have to wait and see what they come up with.
Okay.
Thank you so much, Mr. President.
You bet.
Any other questions?
I'll retain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees authorizes the superintendent and administration to create a KDISD virtual high school campus for the 2021-2022 academic school year
if the funding is approved by the Texas State Legislature.
A motion by Ms. Champagne, a second by Ms. Vann.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
The motion passes 7-0.
We'll now move on to Agenda 9-11.6,
discuss and consider board approval of additional department staffing needs
to address the growth for the 2021-2022 school year.
Mr. Brian Chuston.
Good evening, President Schulte, members of the board, Dr. Gagorski.
Tonight we're bringing forward our 2021-2022 additional department staffing needs.
We have 30 positions that we're requesting.
You have those listed in your agenda.
I want to point out though that seven of those will be grant funded, so only 23 will impact
the general fund and that's going to be right at about a million dollars.
I would like the board to know too that our departments do a great job in really keeping
this to a minimum.
I mean we don't want to have a large budget impact with department staffing, but we are
a growing district and we expect our departments to provide services at a very high level and
so we bring this to you every May with the additional staffing request.
So again, 30 units, seven of those are grant funded, so 23 impacting the general fund.
And I can take any questions.
Any questions?
Mr. President, I have a few questions for you, Mr. Shuster.
Sure.
Okay.
So I'm just trying to, okay, so the adapted physical ed teacher, so how many of those
do we already have?
I believe we have seven.
Are they just at each at different schools?
Yes.
And I can, yes, we currently have seven that serve 176 students with 14 evaluations in progress.
And so the Special Education Department is saying an additional position is needed to meet IEP requirements.
But Dr. Coffey could give more detail if necessary.
Do they travel from school to school?
I'm just curious.
Oh, there you go, Dr. Coffey.
I'm sorry.
We're going to go back and forth.
They do travel.
We do not have them on every campus because it's a select number of students whose IEP
requires adaptive PE services.
So they travel around the district to serve the maximum number of students possible.
Okay.
And then my other question was about the field trip coordinator.
Have we had one of those before?
No ma'am.
Currently, there is an employee that handles that in addition to their other duties,
and Mr. Landis tells us that it's just become too big of a job,
and we need somebody that that is their sole job to help coordinate the field trips.
I think that's great.
That's awesome.
Okay, and also, so I see that there's three additional police officers,
and on that note, I wanted to ask, you may not know the answer to this,
but maybe dr grogrowski does the police officers are now i've learned this through the safety and
security committee are being some of them are being trained in the mental health um do you know
i just can't remember what that's called it's with miss champe specifically on the training
that the officers are receiving well not not necessarily what the training is is called but
but what is that position called now?
It's a special unit now that is in, okay.
I'm going to ask Deputy Superintendent Mrs. Hack to go ahead and give us an information.
Yes, you are correct.
We have two officers that are part of what we call our crisis intervention
and mental health internal team.
Chief Gall was able to review his staff assignments
and dedicate two officers that work directly with our campuses
and mental health professionals.
when crises and student needs arise.
Okay, thank you.
I just couldn't remember what was called, but I know I heard about that.
I think that's a neat plan.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, sorry, me with all my questions.
Mr. Schultz, I watched board meetings when I wasn't here,
and I remember, maybe this is Dr. Coffey,
like a lot of paras were reduced, 22 or 44 or something,
something, and it was something about you were going to add more teachers instead of
the paras.
How, but I don't see very many additions here.
How is that balance?
Were those paras mostly special ed and how, what, how, where's the balance?
Yeah, and so that was campus staffing, right?
And so, and this is department, but Dr. Coffey?
We did.
So in the net allocations from the staffing, or from the board meeting where we talked
about campus staffing we looked at the net ftes and so what we did was we looked to see where we
could add teachers because case loads on teachers are quite large we're asking them to do all of the
paperwork and provide the services oversee the first teach so we were trying to lower the case
numbers for teachers while still maintaining a large number of paras because they're essential
to the work that we do in special education so we it really overall did not make a huge difference
to the total number when you looked at it across the district based on the ads and the changes
but we tried to do what we could to increase the number of teachers and this
is going to be hopefully a kind of a process if you will across time because
we are growing very rapidly in special education so if I might add on here
seems like I heard that with a conversation with an elementary teacher
that it's one teacher to eight special ed students in a room and that's
It's increasing from one to nine.
Is that correct?
No, ma'am, that's not accurate.
Yeah, I think there was some confusion.
I did get a question about that.
I think there was some confusion.
I had a question about that I said I would ask.
Thank you.
Not accurate.
Mr. President, I forgot one other question.
I'm sorry.
I see that I'm just wondering what the total number of social workers is that we have now.
Five, and this will be six.
Well, five, and then there's the coordinator of social work, Ann McHale-Miller, so that would make six.
and so this would make seven oh seven that's awesome thank you any other questions
i'll entertain a motion
mr president i move that the board of trustees approves the additional department staffing
needs to address growth for the 2021-2022 school year as recommended by the superintendent
i have a motion by mr redmond a second by mrs van will not proceed to vote all those in favor
everybody's right hand and say aye aye all those opposed the motion carries 7-0
and I'll move to agenda item number 11.7 discussing consider board approval of
the district's spending allocation for the teacher incentive allotment sir
thank you so if you remember last month we had the presentation on the teacher
incentive allotment and mentioned a couple of times that we'd be bringing
back an approval this month for just the allocation of those funds because if you
If you remember, a national board certified teacher or a teacher that moves into the district
from another district where they had a designation, they can receive those funds even though we
don't yet have a local designation system.
But in order to do that, we have to approve this allotment so we're able to spend these
funds.
And so we are recommending the 90%, 10% split that we talked about last month.
So 90% would go with the teacher that has the designation and 10% would be retained
by the district to support the development of a local designation
system and then management of that system once and if that is in place so
again the only thing we're proven tonight is just the allocation any
questions mr. president I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district
spending allocation for the teacher incentive allotment as recommended by
the superintendent second second second I have a motion by mrs. box and a second
by mr. champagne we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise
your right hand and say aye aye aye all those opposed motion passes 7-0 well
never want to Jen I'm 11.8 discuss consider board approval for the report
of the building management control system replacement at multiple campuses
Good evening, Mr. President, Board members, and Dr. Grzegorski.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the Building Management
Control System replacement at Miller Career and Technology Center and Beckendorf Junior
High to Climatech LLC in the amount of $1,265,000 and to Unify Energy Solutions in the amount
of $544,000 for Williams Elementary and a total not to exceed project cost of
$2,118,120. The current building management control system in these three
facilities is no longer supported by the manufacturer and parts are not being
manufactured. The project cost for Miller Career and Technology Center also
includes some minor mechanical work to correct an airflow issue in the main
main office and the auto shop area.
The total project cost also includes the engineering design and commissioning fee and an owner's
contingency amount to cover any unforeseen cost found during the project.
Work will be coordinated with the campus staff to not interfere with their daily work or
the facility use schedules.
Estimated completion date is November the 3rd, 2021.
A copy of the evaluation tabulation, contracts, and the recommendation letter are included
for your review. Project funding source is a 2017 bond component replacement
fund and again the total project cost not to exceed $2,118,120.
Thank you. Any questions? Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves
the proposal for the building management control system replacement at Miller
Career and Technology Center in Beckendorf Junior High to Climate Tech LLC
LLC in the amount of $1,265,000 and to Unify Energy Solutions in the amount of $544,000
for William Elementary in a total not to exceed project cost of $2,118,000 and $120.
Second.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT L. We have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second by I believe it was
Ms. Wilson.
Yes.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT L. Correct.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT L. We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
The motion carries 7-0.
Mr. President?
Yes.
Can I, Mr. Teet, are you retiring?
Yes, ma'am, I am.
I just want to say thank you for your service.
And I've enjoyed getting to know you.
Thank you very much.
Enjoy yourself.
Well, now we move on to Agenda Item 11.9,
discuss and consider board approval of the construction delivery methods
and contractor selection criteria for the capital construction projects associated with the $676 million bond authorization.
Senators, Ms. Cassman.
Good evening.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, Trustees, and Dr. Gagorski.
Tonight I have five items for your consideration as we kick off the new bond.
The first item is the request for approval of our recommended construction delivery methods for the projects associated with the bond.
Per the attachment, there are three types of delivery methods, competitive seal proposal, construction manager at risk, and job order contracting.
Mr. President?
Any questions?
I move that the Board of Trustees approve their proposed construction delivery methods for capital construction projects associated with the $676 million bond authorization
as well as the selection criteria to be used in evaluating contractors second
the motion by Miss champagne a second by mr. Redmond when I'll proceed to vote
all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye all those opposed motion
carries 7-0 will now proceed to agenda item 11 point 10 discuss and consider
board approval of a contract for the construction of elementary school number
or 44. Yes, so our recommendation is to bring Dramala construction for this project. The project
was estimated at 31 million, but the bid came in at 36.5. The construction market has attributed
to the project overrun for this elementary school. Mr. President, Mrs. Kastman, is this the elementary
in Cane Island? Yes, it is. Okay. Any questions? Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NUMBER 44 IN THE AMOUNT OF $30,818,662 AND APPROVES
THE TOTAL PROJECT COST NOT TO EXCEED $36,532,381.
NEW SPEAKER My apologies.
I HAD A QUICK QUESTION.
ON THE BIDDING, I LOOKED AT THE BIDDING.
IT LOOKED LIKE THIS WAS LIKE A SOLE SOURCE.
IT WAS ONLY ONE BID RECEIVED.
I'm just curious, what's the policy and how you guys decide if it's a go to multiple bidders or not multiple bidders?
Did you understand the question?
Yes, so it's not a sole source.
We did advertise as we're required to by law.
We had three contractors come to the pre-construction, but on bid day, we only had one turn in.
It turns out there was a lot of other projects bidding during that.
I was wondering if that was it with the pre-post-COVID, everybody's getting busy.
They just didn't get the interest.
And I guess you have the metrics to know of the bid that you've got compared to other schools
Similar schools that the numbers a good solid number. I share a number was quite good cost per square foot compared to the other district
Excellent. Thank you very much. So the plan was to get three bids or more or more just didn't get the interest
Yeah, part of is because the bond being so late we usually bid this stuff January in February
So we're kind of late to the game and in competition with other districts. Okay. Thank you very much. Mr
Mr. Schulte, if I may, over here.
Yes.
From a legal perspective, that's a good question.
Why do we only have one bid by law?
Because we did post it appropriately and we went out and followed the process that we have.
Everything is good and above board and legal.
Had we been spending federal funds on this project, which these aren't federal funds,
these are capital funds, we would then have been required another step for them to show us some differences in their cost.
But because federal funds are not used here the process has been that was actually my concern is that you know some some
Policies if you don't have at least two bids you yes
It's kind of an invalid bid cycle and you have to go back and redo it obviously would cost a lot of time
I was just sure if we weren't in any kind of situation like that. No sir. They everything was done perfect
Thank you for that clarification. So we have a motion by Miss Fox. Did we get a second on second second by mr
Redmond will not proceed to vote
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
The motion carries 7-0.
And President Schulte, this is Chris over here, and I just wanted to say that next month,
we're going to bring, now that that's been approved, the $4.279 million from the 2017
authorization in the form of a budget amendment.
I am going to go ahead and help get that purchase requisition on for the full amount, knowing
knowing that the budget amendment hadn't happened, but since you all have approved the contract
now, I am going to go ahead and help get that going so they can start turning dirt out there
since time is of the essence.
Chair Greg Musil.
Thank you.
And then we move on to agenda item 1111, discussing consider board approval toward a contract
for design services necessary for the construction of high school number 10 and junior high number
18.
Ms. So we're bringing forward to you PBK Architects.
They are the current prototype designer for the high school and junior high.
this will be a modified repeat of the Reese in Jordan high school and Adams
junior high any questions mrs. Kassman mr. president will these sit on the same
property the way Jordan and pay toe do yes they will okay thank you any other
questions
hey architects Inc for design service necessary for the construction of high
school number 10 and junior high number 18.
i had a motion by miss van second by miss fox we now proceed to vote all those in favor raise
your right hand and say aye aye all those opposed the motion carries 7-0 and now we
move on to gen item 1112 discuss consider board approval to award a contract for design services
necessary for the renovation in addition of kd elementary school
yes so we're recommending a kirksey architecture for this project they have extensive k-12
of experience including renovations at older facilities we're getting started
with this now in order to be ready for August of 2023 at this campus any
questions mr. president mrs. Kassman have we used Kirksey before no this
would be a first time that's excellent but they came with a good resume of
other projects they've worked on but great that's good to hear any other
questions mr. president I move that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to
Kirksey architecture for design services necessary for the renovation in addition
to Katy elementary school so I get sorry who made the second thanks Leah we have
a motion by Miss champagne a second by Miss Wilson will now proceed to vote all
those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye all those opposed the motion
carries 7-0 and I move on to agenda item 1113 discuss consider board approval to
award a contract for design services necessary for the renovation of DeAnn
Winborn Elementary School. Ms. Cassman, you keep going. I know, my last one, I
swear. So for Winborn, we're recommending VLK Architects. They've
worked on that campus previously and are familiar with that footprint. They've
also done some other renovations and have our current elementary
prototype. Any questions? Mr. President, I have a question about Winborn. Does the
renovation is it going to include um enclosing the library it's one of the things we'll look at
during the whole process okay and also some of their hallway like on the hallway it's kind of
open that pre-k area have you walked through there yes so we're going to be looking at that area as
well okay all right thank you mr president yes i move the board of trustees awards a contract
to vlk architects inc for the design services necessary for the renovation of the diane
WINDBORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SECOND.
A MOTION BY MS. VAN, SECOND BY MR. REDMOND.
WE'LL NOW PROCEED TO VOTE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND SAY AYE.
ALL THOSE OPPOSED, MOTION PASSES 7-0.
NOW MOVING TO AGENDA ITEM 11.14,
DISCUSS AND CONSIDER BOARD APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION
PRETENDING TO LEASE AGREEMENTS.
MR. JUSTIN GRAHAM.
MR. PRESIDENT, DR. GRIGORSKI, BOARD MEMBERS,
So what you have here before you is a resolution.
In accordance with the law in the state of Texas, all property interests are actually
vested within the Board of Trustees.
It's one of the few areas, along with setting the tax rate and hiring the superintendent,
buying and selling property and owning property interest vests solely with the Board of Trustees.
What this resolution suggests that you do is delegate that specific authority to the
superintendent.
and I'm and I pointed you to three examples that we have here everybody for
those of you that went to the outdoor Learning Center this weekend you saw the
renovations that are done there we actually have a residence that's on site
so we have a person that stays out there full time so we have to actually lease
that facility to them so they can live out there and take care of that facility
similar to that we have us we have a residence at the Arcadia ISE Agricultural
center we have a caretaker on site 24 hours a day also we have a kind of a
separate lease a separate agricultural lease on the on the site where high
school 10 is going to be located we actually have an AG lease there right
now we have an individual that's got a hay lease he cuts the hay during the
winter cut cuts the hay during the summer takes care of that property so
that we don't have the added expenditure of doing that maintenance on the
the property and we also get a little bit of money back what this does is
because we had the 94 facilities that we have we're also going to probably be
purchasing some elementary sites in the future so if and when we have these
one-off situations where let's say we have a new tenant move in we need to put
somebody else at the oh else at the outdoor Learning Center or at the AG
Center site what this does is it delegates that authority the
superintendent to enter into that lease agreement hey guys we're not talking
about money here really it's really just the properties that if we feel like we
need to enter into a lease with somebody to take care of that property this is
what we're talking about it's not it's really not a monetary function it is
sort of a caretaker day-to-day thing happy to take any questions you may have
any questions mr. president mr. Graham you said these three examples are there
others or are you speak are we specifically giving up these three
delegating these three to the superintendent or are there others we
don't have any others right now and I do not anticipate that we will have others
on existing sites that we have we have I asked miss Casman earlier this week we
have 94 sites right now but again we will be with our new bond package
purchasing additional sites for additional campuses and so I'm trying to
to think further out if there would be some,
if it would be advantageous for us to do a lease
to save us maybe some maintenance
or if we do put somebody out of sight.
But as of right now, we only have the three leases
that are specifically enumerated in the resolution.
Any questions?
Mr. President.
I move that the Board of Trustees
C's approves resolution authorizing the superintendent to enter into leases of real property owned by Katie ISD.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Champagne, a second by Mr. Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, the motion carries 7-0.
Thank you, Mr. Graham.
Ascent item 11.15, discuss and consider board approval of Texas Association of School Boards
Advocacy Resolution Proposal.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you, Mr. President.
So this is, I'm bringing this forward to the board for consideration and a recommendation.
It goes hand in hand with what Mr. Smith talked about a little bit earlier when he talked
about that basic allotment.
the basic allotment is how school districts generate their revenue for the most part there
are other revenue sources as mr smith explained but to get new revenue that basic allotment would
have to be adjusted each year and currently it has not been adjusted so the basic allotment
that we're currently operating on we've been operating under since house bill 3 was passed
in that last legislative session.
It does not look right now that they're going to take any action on that
in the current legislative session to increase the basic allotment.
There are no indicators that lead Mr. Smith and I to think that they're going to increase
that basic allotment, although we would hope they would.
So moving forward, okay, because our legislature only meets every other year,
so that same basic allotment that Mr. Smith talks about that we've been running under last year,
this year is the same basic allotment that you're going to get next year and the year after that.
So that revenue source is not going to change for four years. So my goal as superintendent of
schools for KDISD is to push back a little bit on the legislature and ask them if they will start
putting a mechanism in there that they would consider raising the basic allotment annually
to keep up with inflationary pressures that all school districts have. One step in that process
is to ask TASB who does different advocacy resolutions.
And they do ask schools if they would like to submit something to TASB for consideration,
and that's what we would be doing tonight.
The resolution that you see in Board Docs talks about we would want TASB to advocate
for a formula-driven mechanism or index to be implemented annually to increase the basic allotment
to keep up with additional inflationary pressures in public schools.
schools. The reason for that, the additional language needs to be added to the TASB public
school finance priority for two reasons. First, there's no mechanism to increase funding to
school districts without legislative action. Second, preparing a district budget takes
a considerable amount of time and planning. School districts should know the amount of
funding in advance for long-term budget planning without waiting for legislative action every
other year. So what I'd like to see them do is put something in there permanently that
that there will be a funding mechanism that we don't have to always wait on legislative action.
Questions?
Mr. President, Mr. Gorkorski, and maybe Mr. Smith, isn't this what has happened over time,
is they make a funding formula and then they keep biting away at the apple,
and pretty soon the taxpayers are paying more and more of the apple instead of the legislature.
So this would put something that would just keep it balanced all the time.
Yes and no. The House Bill 3 should have corrected that.
When you're talking about, if you remember some of Mr. Smith's older presentations of the apples to apples
and how he had sliced the apple in percentages.
House Bill 3 will take care of that.
And I'd have to get to Mr. Smith to talk a little bit more in detail,
but there used to be a part of the Austin yield that would increase,
and that would bring in new monies annually.
But when that was taken out as part of House Bill 3,
there's really not a new funding source in there or a mechanism that raises the basic allotment
any other questions
i'll retain a motion mr president i move that the board of trustees approves the advocacy
resolution proposal to be submitted to the texas association of school boards for adoption
into the 2020-2022 advocacy agenda, which guides TASB's response to issues that arise before the legislature and other governmental entities.
I have a motion by Ms. Champagne, a second by Ms. Vann.
We'll proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
The motion carries 7-0.
Agenda item 11.16, discuss and consider board approval of the minutes of the April 2021 board meeting.
Thank you.
Are there any questions on the minutes?
I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President, I'll be abstaining from this motion because I wasn't seated as a board member for the April 2021 board meeting.
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approve the minutes of the board meeting held on April 2021.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Vann.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, one abstention.
If the motion passes by six to zero.
Discussion 12.1.
Nominations for the TASPE Board of Directors for Region 4 positioning are now open.
Any board members that are interested in being nominated may fill out the forms and return them to the Secretary for Board Services by June 18, 2021.
Ms. Champagne currently occupies the seat as Interim TASPE Board of Director and plans to reapply for the position.
We will vote on the nomination at the June 28, 2021 regular board meeting.
Agenda item 13.1, donated items to Katy Independent School District.
The board has provided a copy of the donated items to Katy ISD.
Agenda item 14.1, regular board meeting, Monday, June 28th.
The next regular board meeting will be held Monday, June 28th, 2021.
Agenda item 15, there being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned.
The time is 921 p.m.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt was recommended that the Board of Trustees names Carrie Lowery as the principal of Katy 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 |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt was recommended that the Board of Trustees names Leah Lowry as the principal of Beck 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 |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.3
PassedIt was recommended that the Board of Trustees names Shae Harwell as the principal of Wilson Elementary 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 |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2021-2022 Honors (KAP) courses identified as exempt from No-Pass, No-Play.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Interlocal Agreement with the Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) for specialized services at the Academic Behavior School West.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Interlocal Agreement with Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) for the provision of occupational, physical, and music therapy for the period of September 1, 2021, through August 31, 2022.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2021 - 2022 Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) Second Appraisers.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 11.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposed 2021 - 2022 School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) representatives.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 11.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2021-2022 Student Accident Insurance proposal for UIL events as well as catastrophic coverage for those events.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 11.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's March 2021 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 |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 11.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's May 2021 budget amendments. Not Present at Vote: Ashley Vann
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 11.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees authorizes the superintendent and administration to create a Katy ISD Virtual High School campus for the 2021-2022 academic school year if the funding is approved by the Texas State Legislature.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 11.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the additional department staffing needed to address growth for the 2021 - 2022 school year as recommended by the superintendent.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 11.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the district's spending allocation for the Teacher Incentive Allotment as recommended by the superintendent.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 11.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the Building Management Control System (BMCS) replacement at Miller Career & Technology Center and Beckendorff Junior High to Climatec, LLC in the amount of $1,265,000 and to Unify Energy Solutions in the amount of $544,000 for Williams Elementary, and a total not to exceed project cost of $2,118,120.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 11.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposed construction delivery methods for capital construction projects associated with the $676 million bond authorization as well as the selection criteria to be used in evaluating contractors.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 11.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Drymalla Construction Company, Inc. for the construction of Elementary School #44 in the amount of $30,818,662 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $$36,532,381.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 11.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to PBK Architects, Inc. for design services necessary for the construction of High School #10 and Junior High School #18.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 019 · AGENDA 11.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Kirksey Architecture for design services necessary for the renovation and addition to Katy Elementary School.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 020 · AGENDA 11.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to VLK Architects, Inc. for design services necessary for the renovation of Diane Winborn Elementary School.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 021 · AGENDA 11.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a Resolution authorizing the Superintendent to enter into leases of real property owned by Katy ISD.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 022 · AGENDA 11.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Advocacy Resolution Proposal to be submitted to the Texas Association of School Boards for adoption into the 2020 - 2022 Advocacy Agenda which guides TASB's response to issues that arise before the Legislature and other governmental entities.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 023 · AGENDA 11.16
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in April 2021.
6 Yes · 0 No · 1 Abstain
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Abstain |