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Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order.
Today is Monday, July 26th and the time is 5.01 p.m.
Dr. Gagorski, will you verify we are in compliance with provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?
Mr. President, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for this meeting this evening.
Thank you, Dr. Grigorski.
We will open tonight's meeting with Sergeant Castillo leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag.
of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one
nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag. I play as your allegiance to the Texas one state under
God, one and indivisible.
Thank you very much.
Do we have any scouts in the audience tonight?
Okay.
For agenda item 3.1, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Gregorski.
Thank you, Mr. President.
So if you'll look to my left, you will see a whole bunch of new administrators here,
which we're going to recognize.
And we don't do this.
We just do it once in the summer in July.
But we've hired quite a few administrators in June and July.
And we see some family members out there.
So when I introduce you, if you would please stand and take a moment to recognize who you brought with you.
We'd like to see who you've brought out tonight and
introduce those folks for us and then we'll give you a warm welcome.
So first up on my list tonight is a promotion not new to the district,
but new to the current position is Ronnie Edwards, Assistant Superintendent for School Leadership and Support.
support.
And you got some folks with you, Ronnie?
Yes, thank you, Dr. McGill.
I would like to introduce my family.
I have my wife, and I also have my oldest daughter, Allison, who is a graduate student
All right.
Great to see you there.
Thank you.
And, Ronnie, I heard your youngest daughter is the best athletic trainer at all Tompkins High School.
Is that true?
Yeah, okay.
All right.
LISA FREASON'S OUT THERE. SHE'S GOING TO BE A NEW PRINCIPAL AT WINBORNE ELEMENTARY.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, I have an empty seat here.
You may be flying in, but my message is that my family and my children,
older children, are going to have a great day.
You bet.
All right, thank you.
Next out there is Kara Morgan, principal of Bethke Elementary.
And replacing Mr. Edwards at May Creek High School is Gina Kopp.
awesome
also another new principal with us norma vigia martinez
principal of memorial parkway elementary school
awesome
Then our last principal to recognize this evening coming out is Todd Kanavi,
principal of West Memorial Junior High School.
Thank you.
awesome thank you all right that gets us to the end of all of our new principal
inductions for tonight and next I'd like to introduce dr. Andrea grooms chief
communications officer for the remainder of the recognitions portion of our
meeting tonight
Good evening, President Schulte, Board members, and Dr. Grigorski.
This evening we are recognizing the Communications Department.
The Texas School Public Relations Association recently recognized the KDIC Communications
Department for outstanding communications and outreach initiatives.
And I'm going to ask the group to come forward, there's only three of them.
The organization, TSPRRA, awarded the department a gold star, the highest school
public relations honor in the state, for the district's Speak Up Safe Schools
This was a multi-level initiative that consisted of marketing and communications designed to build awareness around safety topics, encourage use of the anonymous reporting app Speak Up, emphasize student ownership of safety initiatives, educate parents through legacy parent academy sessions, and reinforce drug and alcohol awareness.
awareness. Print and promotional materials included posters, PSA videos, website and social media content.
A gold star and a best category award were also awarded for the department's scripting, editing and filming of the district's PSA video,
video, vaping it's up to you, which was part of that campaign.
Now another organization, the National School Public Relations Association also presented
the KDIC Communications Department with a Golden Achievement Award for exemplary work
in all aspects of school public relations, communications, marketing and engagement for
the department's Smart Restart Return to School campaign that was executed during the 17-month
COVID pandemic. And in front of you you have Maria DePetta who is our manager
for media relations, Rachel Miguez who is our communications and social media
specialist, and Ray Cortez who is our videographer. It's a small team but they
do some outstanding work in ensuring that our parents and our school
community are informed of our campus and district stories. They stay ahead of
every single crisis working 24-7 often late into the evening early into the
the morning and they're doing just amazing work and this these awards are
well deserving and so we have some awards to get them and I'm going to take
a photo with my team
Thank you very much.
Congratulations to everybody.
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 this board policy, the first 20 speakers who signed up by 2 p.m. on Monday,
July 26, 2021, and have provided their first and last name will be allowed to address the board.
A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated, with time divided equally among those who have signed
up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is limited to three minutes.
If you're not finished speaking at the end of your three minutes, your audio will be turned off.
off. If speakers wish to share written material with the Board, you must email a copy to the
Secretary for Board Services for Board Members, the Superintendent, the Chief Communications
Officer and Permanent Record. If the Speaker has not attempted to solve the matter administratively
through proper channels as stated in Board Policy, the Presiding Officer's designee
shall advise the Speaker to seek resolution through the appropriate policy.
excuse me finally pursuant to texas government code section 551 074 and 551 0821 the board will
not permit presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student and will not
discuss the appointment employment evaluation reassignment duties discipline or dismissal of
a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee
should a speaker wish to address one of these issues they must do so through the appropriate
appropriate local 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.
So the first speaker that we have for tonight is Bob Brumgaard.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Dr. Grigorski, President Schulte, board members.
Thank you for the opportunity to address you this evening. My name is Bob Bromgard. I'm a physics teacher at Morton Ranch High School.
In February 2021, a presentation was given during a Katy Improvement Council meeting that reported that the annual utility cost of Katy ISD is $20 million, with $16 million of that for electricity.
Powering a district the size of Katy is not cheap, and I commend the district's efforts to reduce the costs.
New equipment such as chillers have been installed at several schools with more
schools being targeted for the future. It seems counterintuitive to spend
money on chillers to save money but more efficient systems mean less energy used
reducing overall costs. I recently had the opportunity to visit with
the maintenance and operation department personnel and I have seen the cost
efforts saving efforts firsthand. I was impressed. Up until this point the focus
has been on reducing electricity usage, installing more efficient units and
in upgrading control systems, encouraging energy conservation among KDISD employees.
However, I would like to take the rest of the time to discuss another way
to cut electricity bills, generating electricity.
Solar panels are quickly gaining popularity in residential areas to save on electricity bills
and could be a potential cost saver for the district as well.
I applaud the district's forward thinking efforts in installing solar panels
at Haskett Junior High and my hope that it is successful and the efforts are expanded.
One of the problems with solar panels is that you must play the long game.
There's a huge upfront cost that takes several years to recoup.
In fact, based on the current electricity rate, it will take about 10 years for the
district to recoup the cost of the solar panels at Haskett, not to mention the cost involved
in training maintenance employees on upkeep and repairing the panels.
These might seem like good reasons not to pursue solar.
The district is already making good strides in solar energy and energy
conservation so I bother. But consider this the life expectancy of a solar
panel with proper maintenance is around 25 years leaving 15 years of energy
generation after the cost of the panels is recouped. I have seen our maintenance
operation department work. Proper maintenance is a given. The cost savings
for solar panels are not for now. They are for the future. But if we are going to
to reap future rewards, we must begin now.
I've been told that if the solar panels at Haskins
are successful, solar panels will
be considered for future buildings, not
for existing ones.
My appeal to the board this evening
is to consider installing solar panels on all buildings,
including existing ones.
After the district has recouped the cost on installation
through savings, the energy savings for the district
will eclipse the 20% energy reduction
targeted by the district.
To offset the cost, I ask you to consider
adding the saddle solar panels to future bond packages as Texas leans more into
renewable resources the districts that will lead the way are the ones who begin
today to consider their place at the table may Katie be the head at that
table thank you thank you the next speaker is and I apologize if I don't
say the name correctly Luna Cisan. Hopefully I didn't say it that bad. Okay I guess she's not
here. Move on to the next name we have is Garima Dasgupta. Welcome.
Good evening board members, good evening everyone. My name is Garima and my child is a KTISD student.
Thank you for giving me this opportunity tonight. In the last one year, KTISD and other school
districts across Texas have taken highly commendable actions in overcoming the COVID
challenges. However, rising Delta variant cases and KTISD's decision to open school
fully has raised fears among parents including me. I understand there would be
mitigation plans and he already mentioned that in his email there would
be safety protocols to keep children safe and KTISD is working hard towards
it and I have no doubt about it you you all are doing wonderful jobs and helping
us every day. There are some reports suggesting that the new variants are
highly transmissible and contagious. According to Yale Medicine new variants
are 50% more contagious than the Alpha variant and have a 50% greater
transmissibility rate than the regional COVID-19 strain. With elementary schools
reopening fully without the KVA option, my concern is like many other parents
how KTISD would maintain social distancing with students at full
capacity. There are lots of uncertainties at this moment therefore we should keep
our options open. Not having an optional KVA may not be prudent in this situation.
Arranging nannies at the last minute, it's a tough thing and being a working
woman, I think it's really tough. So if I can take the things, organize things
prior, it would be easier for me as well. In Texas, we have examples like Round
Rock ISD who are keeping virtual learning as an option and that's pretty
close to Austin. There are students who have underlying health issues including
autoimmune disorders. My request to you is to keep KV as an option for elementary students
until under 12 COVID vaccines are approved and available. I am looking forward to a positive
cooperative reply from you all soon and I know I have full trust on all of you and I
I know that I would definitely get a positive reply from you all. Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker for tonight is Lee Nelson.
Good evening.
My name is Lee Nelson.
I'm a parent of two children in Katy ISD.
I'm here today to speak on behalf of a group of 100 Katy ISD parents
within a private social media group alongside physicians and state representatives
all fighting for the safe return to school.
I also speak for 833 Katie parents who signed a petition created to express the interest parents have had in virtual learning for the vaccine ineligible under 12 kids.
It's understood neither a virtual option or mask policy will be offered this year.
However, parents signed this petition because they have a grave concern over the lack of COVID safety Katie ISD plans to provide.
COVID's Delta variant is 90% more contagious, targeting unvaccinated and children.
Hospitalizations are up by 200% in Texas.
Kids make up 22% of all new cases.
0% of the under-12 population is vaccinated.
This hardly suggests the pandemic is at an end.
Parents feel elementary schools are least prepared to protect our children.
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protection for the vaccine ineligible. Sending the under 12 kids into a mass gathering for seven
hours a day, five days a week with zero safeguards is irrational and a moral hazard. 43 elementary
schools hosting 38,000 under 12 students should not be collateral damage for politicizing their
health and safety. We're urging the elected and appointed officials of this district to be a part
of the solution not contribute to the problem to work in the best interests of the children
the tea and state officials have passed the buck to the districts to develop these strategies
following the cdc guidelines and implementing layered protection for unvaccinated students
and staff are necessary precautions to keep the kids in school safely the district prided itself
on its covid crisis success last year and felt this year would prove to be equally as successful
yet if none of the same highly successful protocols will be utilized,
it's unclear how the district expects to find that same success.
Families need reassurance their children will be provided a safe learning environment
until this pandemic is manageable via vaccine for all ages.
The governor may want to ignore the youngest children of this state,
but this district doesn't have to.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Thank you. This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting. The board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under section 551.001 of the Texas government code for the following purposes. Texas government code 551071, 551129, 551072, and 551074. Thank you.
Mr. Schulte, if you would allow me to just have one minute, I'm going to go ahead and jump in and just share a little bit of factual information because I think it is deserving our community.
And both the speakers who talked today, I understand where you're coming from.
And I agree, those are some serious challenges that are going on, still fighting the COVID pandemic.
It's not totally gone away.
And we do have emergency management teams that are working on what our protocols will look like in the fall.
A couple of real challenges come in with what was talked about today that school districts or this board of trustees or myself really don't have a whole lot of control over.
One was talked about the mask and the mandate in there.
So if you go back to last May around that time, you'll find the governor's executive order that was issued that as of June 4th, 2021, schools cannot mandate the mask any longer in schools like we had last year.
We had mask protocols in place and we were allowed to do that per the governor's guideline and per TEA guidance that we were given as well.
And those don't exist anymore.
So there is a fine if you instill the mask mandate in there.
And we've looked at that, but that's a real challenge for us.
So I don't feel we have the authority, nor do I have the authority as superintendent,
or does this board have the authority to go against the governor's executive order on masks.
But as always, optional, any student, any employee can wear a mask at any time they would like to as part of their optional masking.
The other thing is the virtual option, and you may have seen a couple of board meetings that we talked about virtual options.
We're actually talking about building one for high schools at one time.
But a lot of that was contingent upon whether or not the state would allow funding for a virtual school.
It was on the legislative agenda and the legislative session ended before they took action on that.
So no action was taken on a virtual school.
So we don't have any funding.
School districts did ask TEA for a ruling on that.
And they were pretty clear when they responded back to school districts that TEA does not have the authority this year to extend virtual learning.
And be able to collect the dollars for virtually enrolled students.
students that are at home, what we call KD Virtual Academy or KVA.
So that's a real challenge for us.
If the state doesn't fund it and we would want to create something,
let's say we even wanted to create something for our students to have a virtual option,
I can't get any funding for that, and that's going to be a real challenge in this district.
Last year when we finished the school year, we finished it for our elementary students with,
let me get the figure here,
9,768 kids were still on the KD Virtual Instruction when we finished school in May.
If we offered a KD Virtual Instruction option for our elementary students alone, and those 10,000 or so students took us up on that,
we would not receive any funding for those students, and that's how schools are funded.
We're funded on the Average Daily Attendance, or ADA as we call it, for all of our kids that are enrolled in schools.
SCHOOLS.
SO A FUNDING COST OF ABOUT 10,000 KIDS WORKING VIRTUALLY, AND I CAN'T COLLECT ANY FUNDING
ON THAT, IS ABOUT $60 MILLION.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE I'D COME UP WITH ANOTHER $60 MILLION IN THE BUDGET TO CREATE AN ACADEMY,
AND THAT'S IF THERE WERE 10,000.
THAT'S JUST A BALLPARK NUMBER I'M USING, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE WERE ON LAST YEAR.
IT COULD BE LESS, IT COULD BE MORE IF IT WERE CREATED.
BUT I THINK WHEN THE FUNDING BILL DIED AT THE STATE, THAT REALLY TIED ANYONE'S HANDS
FROM DOING ANY VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION IN THE FUTURE.
But like I said when I open that up, I do understand where you guys are coming from on that
These are concerns I have as well
Protecting and having safety measures in place
We will put some safety protocols in place as much as we can
But there are certain things that are outside our control on that one
So I did want an opportunity to explain a little bit that to the board so they could consider those items as they were
Heard from tonight from our patrons. Thank you
Thank you, dr. Gorski. Thank you everybody
Good evening, everyone.
The board will now reconvene in open meeting.
Today is Monday, July 26, 2021, and the time is 7.07 p.m.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting.
Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Thursday, July 22, 2021.
2021 the board will receive information and the recommendations from staff administration and the superintendent on these agenda items at tonight's meeting
board members will be
Able to ask questions receive answers and should be prepared to take action
The board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with chapter 551 of the Texas government code
Any action arising from discussion and closed meeting must be taken in open meeting
So we'll proceed to agenda item 6.1, which is consider board approval of the purchase of property for a future elementary school.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees enters into an agreement to purchase from Nash FM 529 LLC an
Approximate fourteen point two acre parcel of property for a future elementary school for a total acquisition costs estimated not to exceed
one million nine hundred eighty five thousand five hundred fifty two dollars
And a motion by mr. Redmond a second my miss van are there any questions
We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed, the motion carries.
6-0 plus 7-0. Okay, consider board approval, 7.1, action items. Consider board approval of the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program with Harris County.
County. I will entertain a motion for this item.
Mr President, yes.
I'm sorry. I'm here that the Board of Trustees approved the memorandum of
understanding for operation of a juvenile justice alternative education
program or JJ AEP with Harris County.
Okay, I have a motion by Ms. Champagne, second by Mr. Keller.
Any questions?
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion carries 7-0.
We'll now proceed to agenda item 7.2, consider board approval of the Memorandum of Understanding
for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program with Fort Bend County.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the Memorandum of Understanding
for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program with Fort Bend County.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Vann.
Are there any questions?
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.
Agenda Item 7.3.
consider board approval of the minutes of the June 2021 board meeting.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move board trustees approves the minutes of the board meeting held in June 2021.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Vann, 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 carries 7-0.
We'll now proceed to agenda item 8.1, star 3-8 and EOC score updates.
The presenter is Ms. Natalie Martinez.
Executive Director, Research Assessment and Accountability.
Welcome. Good evening.
Good evening, board members, Mr. Dr. Grigorski.
And tonight I will share with you star results from the 2020-21 school year.
now typically our star results lead to an accountability rating but this year
was everything but typical I would however like to refresh your memory on
our accountability system with a high-level overview to help support the
understanding of how these numbers come together especially if the system is new
to you so on screen you'll see that domain one is all about student
achievement and it takes into account performance levels on star at the high
school level it also includes graduation rates and college career military
ready. Domain 2 has two parts. Part A is about student growth. This measure does
not look at whether a student is on grade level, but rather did we meet
them where they are and grow them in one year. Part 2B is about relative
performance and TEA uses the domain one score and levels the playing field by
incorporating our economically disadvantaged percentages. In this
measure campuses are compared to other schools with similar economically
economically disadvantaged percentages.
Domain three is where the federal requirements are met.
This domain breaks down data into 14 different student groups and monitors performance at
the meets and masters level for reading and math.
It also looks at growth, graduation, telpass, domain one, and CCMR.
and all of those except for telpass are disaggregated by the 14 student groups
domain 2a and domain 3 are not calculated this year because we didn't have the prior year data
so because of that we will have ratings of not rated declared state of disaster similar to last
year our purpose however for reviewing this data is to find areas of celebration and to adjust with
with plans to support our areas of need.
As we get into scores, it's important to note
that we have four performance categories.
D and M is did not meet and is considered failing,
where approaches, meets and masters are considered passing.
As we analyze data, many educators will stick
to the approaches because this is where the state
draws the line for passing.
It is equally important, however,
to measure our students at meets and masters.
Today I will show you two different ways to analyze scores.
Approaches will be first because that's how the state looks at it first.
But second, we'll move into the TEA calculation with domain one and look at an approaches
meets and masters average.
Tonight we'll paint both of those pictures for you.
As always, we want to compare to the state to make sure that we maintain our healthy
lead that KDISD is known for.
This year, it is even more important to see the change from our last year of testing, which was in 2019.
With an understanding of all the disruptions last year, we looked at these scores with a new perspective.
Studies showed that we would experience a decline.
When we met with principals, we suggested that they draw a line at negative 4 change.
If an area declined by 4 points or less, we would consider that a celebration.
It was not too much of a decline and we knew that recovery in that area was within reach.
When an area decreased five or more points, we wanted to look closer at those TEKS and
consider systematic adjustments as kids moved to the next grade level.
We had to be proactive and prepared for the gaps that teachers will see for next year.
In high school, you will notice that four of the five EOCs fell above that negative
four suggested guideline and an area of focus and need for adjustments will be in algebra one
you can see that that is true at the state level as well
at the junior high level you can see that we are maintaining our healthy lead over the state
but we did see declines as did the state in all content areas most were minimal for our district
Certainly highlights in 6-8 reading and an area of focus will definitely be in mathematics.
At the elementary level, again, we are maintaining our healthy lead and we saw fewer declines than the state.
Our third and fifth grade reading held their own and remained relatively strong.
our area of focus will again be on math and fourth graders moving into fifth
grade now these charts remember reference the approaches standard which
is set by TAS passing but again it's going to be important that we look at
the meets and masters as well we stress with our campuses that it's not good
enough just to hit approaches we focus on all kids and getting to that masters
level. So let's take a look at the AMM average. This is an accountability measure which incorporates approaches, meets, and masters. That's why we say AMM. In domain one, TEA adds these percentages and divides by three. It literally is the average of the AMM percentages. But this helps us determine if a campus is progressing.
So I want to take you through an example.
In this example, you'll see that in 2019, this campus had an 88.
In 2021, dropped by one point to an 87.
For this year, we would say they maintained pretty solid in a pandemic.
But what we really want to do is expand that chart to look at the differences between approaches,
meets and masters.
So again, on screen you'll see that 88 and 87.
But when we look at the meets numbers, we'll see a bigger increase there of seven points.
And then an increase of nine points in masters.
And when we average those together in 2019, I literally am averaging the percent approaches, percent meets, percent masters to get the 60.
I do the same thing in 2021 to get a 65 to show that when we look at all kids and all performance levels, this campus actually had an increase of five points in their AMM average.
A different picture for what we want to do with this campus.
So let's take a look at those same three charts, but with more information to compare to.
In high school, you'll see the same highlights.
The same highlights in English 1 and English 2, and the focus still is on Algebra 1, but
you'll see the double-digit decrease here.
This double-digit decrease we know is that we're going to have a need for systematic
change, and Central is working on those areas as well.
At the junior high level, you will again see the expanded charts that include the AMM average.
Eighth grade science, sixth grade reading really held strong.
and we see the double digit decline in seventh grade math.
So planning and preparation for adjustments in eighth grade
math will be critical as those students move forward.
Finally, in elementary, we see fifth grade reading still
holding strong, and our double digit decline
is in fifth grade science with a close eye on third grade math.
In the beginning, I explained that these numbers
are being analyzed to make adjustments and support needs.
So this year in KDISD we are planning for focused learning with fourth grade writing and fifth grade math teachers and algebra one teachers.
ICs will also be part of these sessions and will be able to continue to focus at their campus with other grade levels.
Curriculum documents and unit plans have been adjusted for both levels to support teachers along the way and summer PD is
targeted towards preparing teachers with these adjustments.
In assessment and accountability we are also expecting changes as well. This year
we will have star field test in all content grade levels and we will not see a second or third
administration for fifth and eighth grade we are also preparing for online star in 2223 and for
accountability we do expect letter grades to come back for the 21-22 school year we will only see a
b's and c's d's and f's will be not rated again and those will be the first ratings that we see
since 2019. At this time I'm open for questions that you may have.
Any questions? Mr. President, thank you so much. I kind of don't know where to start.
Okay. It's looked at this chart a couple of times today. So when we look at the AMM, maybe for junior high. Okay. The 2021 AMM average for seventh grade math is 35. Is that, tell me what that number represents.
Okay, so confusion here might be component score versus scaled scores.
What we're used to seeing in accountability system is a scaled score, which means it's on a 0 to 100 scale.
It's published as an A through F.
TA is not doing that this year, so we are not either. These are component scores, which you might consider the raw score of accountability.
So it doesn't equate to a letter grade.
What we tell principals is just look at the comparison between 2019 and 2021.
So I can't compare that to an A through F for you.
I wonder if you can compare it to a percentage for number of students, that 35% of students.
It is not because remember you're averaging percentages.
So if you wanted to look at students, I would take you back to the isolated approaches.
That's percent of students.
students, the isolated meets and the isolated masters. Those are percent of students.
So that's 66% of students. 2021 seventh grade math, 66% of students.
You're reading that correctly.
Still quite concerning. So, and it's a 15 point drop. I just, I'm only choosing seventh
grade math because the numbers are so significant what that's okay
Guess what my question is.
What's the plan?
It's up to grade level.
What's the plan?
Right.
So it's more of a curriculum question, so I'll shoot and then they can interrupt me.
But I know that they have worked hard on revising their curriculum documents, looking at the
the teaks that maybe need more time because of COVID loss.
There's lots of planning for these teacher institutes coming back together.
Our CNI department might be able to speak more to that.
Summer PD and teacher institutes for sure is what I've heard.
I see them shaking their heads.
So I'm in the right direction.
I just am not the one to speak specifics to it.
Maybe we could go back to that slide finally.
The 66% is the state.
Katie's at 86% for sixth grade math.
Oh, seventh grade, gotcha.
Seventh grade.
Right.
Right, so any idea why seventh is so significantly different?
I think part of it is the content.
It's difficult.
When you get into the upper levels of mathematics,
the content is more difficult to teach in that online format,
So I think that that had something to do with it, but we're you know delving into the numbers professional learning
Training up our teachers, but you know we're prepared you know when the students come back
There's also new state legislation that students who are not successful are going to be required to attend 30 hours of
Tutoring or intervention if you will and small group instruction
So we're taking a look at what some of those materials are going to look like and what that
What that approach is going to look like at the campus level
level. So, but there are a lot of different things in play. The ESSER monies, again, that
we presented to you are paying for tutoring, paying for additional coaches, paying for
some materials. We've also purchased some mathematics materials and some online resources
and some supports for our students in that area as well as the professional learning.
There's a lot going on and it's a comprehensive plan for sure.
Seventh grade math is also the first year where kids can take an above level assessment.
So some of your seventh graders are taking a seventh grade test, but some of them are
also taking the eighth grade, right?
So that's the first year that they start moving into Algebra 1, particularly.
So in junior high, you start getting kids going into different places, and that's the
first place that you start to see that.
Those Algebra 1 scores would be recorded under Algebra 1, not here.
Okay.
We expected some decline.
I just numbers are sad is it possible to get a disaggregation by campus for some
of this or we do have this by campus yes ma'am with mr. president may we get that
information please a lot of work ahead I know that they'll do really well any
Any other questions?
Mr. President, I have one question.
If you mention it, I missed it, but what dictated that the expected average drop would be minus four?
No one said that.
That was just our common knowledge coming together to figure out where we needed to draw the line.
We knew that had to be somewhere.
We knew that we expected some decrease, so that was just an educated guess in our world.
Okay.
Thank you.
Mr. President, I just want to make a comment.
So although it was negative 15 in that one area, we also had negative 19 for the state.
So, you know, in that respect, you know, we're doing, I mean, I know it's sort of a bleak thing,
but, I mean, we're doing better than the state.
And our kids are being compared.
So, I mean, as they age, they're all being compared to each other, you know,
know, when they're in seventh grade, eighth grade, and then they're going to be 12th grade,
and they're all going to go to college, but they've all been affected the same,
if you follow what I'm saying. So I want them to catch up, but I don't think it's,
you know, I think we're all across the nation are concerned with the same thing. We're all
like this. So it's not just KDISD. That's just what I wanted to say.
Agreed. And we do talk about multi-year recovery. It's not a one-year recovery,
and we all have to understand that too.
So we are going to give it our all this year.
Our teams are ready for it.
Our principals are ready for it.
Met with them today.
Lots of great planning going on,
but we have to realize that our students were hurting,
and it's a multi-year recovery.
We're ready for that challenge this year,
but it will continue over multiple years.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I have a follow-up question for Dr. Kasky.
You mentioned the 30 hours tutoring when students don't meet.
I know that some might just have a week in math,
and they can knock it out in reading and writing.
But what if they don't meet all three?
Then you're looking at 90 hours.
It's actually 60.
It's 30 hours for math and then 30 hours for writing and reading combined.
Oh, one. Okay.
So potentially, yes, 60 hours.
Okay.
What's the plan to administer this tutoring to the students
so it doesn't take time away from the classroom to time their electives um you know what will be
done during school or what's the i've i've just heard some rumbling from some principals that
they're very concerned about and teachers legislation and teachers and honestly um
we're right now in those planning stages so there have been several meetings that we've had
we work very closely the curriculum team with the department of school administration on what that
looks like and so right now we're working through what those details are
and what that's gonna look like on each campus any other questions thank you
very much thank you well now move on to Jen Adam 8.2 which is Katie independent
school district energy conversation conservation program update mr. Ted
beer Ling yes sir president Schulte board members dr. Gorg or ski thanks for
having me tonight. I know that you probably think that Mr. Bumgar was a plant by the operations
division, but he was not, but I do appreciate his support. We're here tonight to talk about
something that's near and dear to our heart, and that is energy conservation. Over the last three
years, it has been a huge push in the operations division, all four groups, to really focus on
energy conservation, saving the district money, and having a greener plan. So we're
excited about that. Why energy conservation? The first thing, and you
guys know as being citizens who pay your electric bill or your gas bill or your
gasoline bill, the price of all that is skyrocketing. And we cannot continue
to do what we always do by running lights all the time or not paying
attention to bus routes and those kinds of things. We've got to do more.
superintendent is very supportive of what we do, has been supportive from the
beginning and is always pushing to encourage our team to do what we can to
to work smarter with our money. Support from the community and bond projects and
redoing chillers and and and all kinds of different equipment and I'll talk
about that here in a little bit. And then support from our students and staff. We
We get letters, believe it or not, all the time from teachers like Mr. Bumgar or kids
who say, what can you do more in your group to conserve energy or complete some green
projects?
So here we are.
So capital projects.
So our good friend Mark Teed used to sit in front of you guys once a month, and he would
talk to you about controls being replaced or boilers or those kinds of equipment replacements.
MOST OF THAT STUFF IS DONE THROUGH BOND PROJECTS, BUT ALL OF THAT STUFF, ALL OF THAT EQUIPMENT, ALL OF THOSE BOILERS AND THINGS, WHEN THEY'RE REPLACED, THEY'RE REPLACED WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY EQUIPMENT, BURNS LESS EXPENSIVE, COSTS LESS IN THE LONG RUN.
SO THERE IS OBVIOUSLY MONEY SPENT UP FRONT ON THOSE CAPITAL PROJECTS, BUT THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS GREAT IN THE LONG RUN.
So energy savings in new facilities, some of the things that we're doing that we don't do anymore, we don't use the outdated lighting anymore, we're using updated LED lighting.
If you've been in some of the new buildings, you'll notice that there's natural light coming in there for a while.
You know, we didn't have any windows in any buildings 20, 30 years ago, thinking that that was the way to go.
But now with energy efficiency, we can use natural light, automatic shutoff switches, little things like that in classrooms, upgraded control systems,
which if you've been on the board for any period of time you've heard us bring in updated controls to you guys and then something that
Mr. Bumgar spoke about tonight the solar panels at Haskett junior high which we're we're super excited about will provide 40% of the of the
Electricity at Haskett junior high so it's going to fire up the building in the morning
And then it'll go up to 40% and when it goes over that then the the rest will kick on so we
Think that that'll be a great savings
as we use that there and we're going to evaluate that for future projects as well.
Our partnership with Synergistics has been around since 2019. Synergistics does a bunch of work
behind the scenes. So a lot of what they do is looking at scheduling, making sure that schedules
are correct and we're not burning lights and air conditioning in places where we don't need it.
They've worked with us on startup schedules for schools. How can you start the school,
the AC and that sort of thing in a smarter way so that it doesn't cost as much in the mornings or
maybe in the evenings when you don't need it. They partner with school districts all over the
country and I believe even further. And school districts that partner with them save between
20 and 30 percent on some of the things that they're able to do. So they provide a small
small group to us. We work with them closely. They've helped us save over four million dollars
since 2019, so we're pretty excited about that, and we're working on an updated contract
with them right now. So schedule adjustments, this is one of those things, if you've ever been
in a school and you walk through the building and there's just lights burning someplace,
you know, we work real closely with the campuses now on making sure that those schedules,
the schools get what they need, but they don't ask for something that they don't need. So coach,
which if basketball ends at 8 o'clock, let's make sure the lights go off at 8.15,
so we're not burning them until 10 o'clock if you don't need them.
Those are little things, but they all make a huge difference.
Some more schedule adjustments, cold and dark Wednesdays,
so we ask our junior highs and elementaries to try not to schedule things on Wednesday nights.
They're great about that.
Every once in a while we get into a pinch, and they'll say,
hey, can we get Wednesday night to do an open house or something like that,
and we'll work with them.
but we actually we do really well on those on those on those Wednesday nights
Monday through Thursday work week in the summer we do seven to fives but it keeps
us from having to to fire up the buildings on Fridays which is huge and
then the energy savings week of July 4th we shut the campuses down we're only
running air where the custodians are working and that's been very successful
for us in the last few years so behavioral changes obviously if any of
of you have children, you've said to them at one point or another, please turn off the light in
your room when you walk out of there. We want to look at the schools the same way that we look at
our homes. Nobody's going to walk out of their house leaving the AC at 68 degrees with nobody
there and all the lights on, right? Why would we do that at the school? So we need to make a
conscious effort on that. And there's a lot of education that has to go behind the scenes
on that piece, and we're still working on that. We've got an energy committee. We used to meet
in person it sort of took a back seat to covid we're going to get that fired up again but we're
excited about getting teachers and kids and communities involved in this process as well
so even the transportation team is getting in on this thing as you know fuel is very expensive
paul landis our executive director and i we work very closely together he's worked with his team
we've maximized some of our routing that we that we were not doing very well before to be quite
honest with you. We are using our special ed routes a little smarter. It's not hard on kids,
it's not any harder on drivers, but it is using the routes a little bit smarter. And the regular
education routes we've used a little smarter as well, saved a bunch of money there.
Nutrition and food service is getting in on the game. All the new equipment that they
replace, old kitchen equipment, is replaced with Energy Star products. Whenever possible,
They shut down the kitchen equipment in the summer.
We talked today about even looking at freezer coolers.
That's a scary one because we still got to store food over the summer, and you got to keep them in check.
But we talked about that a little bit today.
Snack and vending machines shut down.
And we're also looking at ways to use more bio-friendly products, and we're doing that with the trays.
If any of you guys have been in a school, which many of you joined us for lunches back before the COVID days,
you saw those styrofoam trays.
Those styrofoam trays are making their way out, and we're using a bio-friendly tray.
It may not be as firm as those styrofoam trays, but they're a whole lot nicer on the environment.
We've got tons of letters, believe it or not, from kids, elementary, junior high, and high school,
saying, hey, we've got to get rid of the styrofoam.
And Donna and her team, Donna Pittenger and her team, did a great job finding a product that is reasonably priced
but also bio-friendly.
And then something else we're really excited about,
CenterPoint encourages what is called a score program.
I'd have to defer to my guys to tell me what score means.
I can't remember off the top of my head.
But what they do is they will write checks to school districts.
If you participate in this program,
improving your equipment and installing better equipment
over time.
And we've gotten checks from CenterPoint
over the last several years totaling over $1 million.
And that's a fantastic deal for the district there.
And KDISD was named a top performer in energy efficient projects from 2018 to 2020.
And then the Energy Star rating, this is something that we are very excited about,
Synergistic is very excited about as well.
24 campuses were just named Energy Star campuses.
I know that this doesn't get everybody fired up,
but people in our world, we get excited about stuff like this.
and we're going to continue to work to add additional campuses to that list as
equipment is replaced as things change over time and we've got bond projects
that are going to do some of that stuff I think you're going to see more campuses
added we're going to do these presentations at the leadership team in
September and once these principals start hearing that their campus wasn't
an Energy Star campus and somebody else's was I have a feeling they're
going to get kind of competitive so we're excited we're excited about that
And so the bottom line on this, truthfully, is every dollar that is saved in energy or fuel or whatever it is can be put back in the classroom for our teachers and our kids.
Something that Chris Smith and I joke about all the time, we are super cheap.
And we're proud of it.
And we know that in everything we do in the operations world and using energy and using our money smarter will benefit the kids and teachers here in this district.
and I'm happy to take any questions that you have.
And I've got my team here, too,
in case you want to get really deep into some stuff.
Any questions?
Mr. President, may I please ask some questions?
Thank you, Mr. Verling, for the great presentation.
And I do have some questions.
The windows that you have in the new schools will,
and let me just go ahead and put this together
with the solar panels for the older schools,
Well, is that anything that you can see being done at adding windows?
For example, I know Taylor High School doesn't have that many windows.
Yeah, it's tough.
So I taught at May Creek High School, and we've done a lot of work at May Creek High School.
It looks beautiful.
Some of those buildings, I might kick it to Lisa, but some of those buildings are going to be really hard to go back and create a situation where you could have windows.
But if solar panels was your other question, I do think that there's room for growth in adding solar panels to existing buildings.
This little deal at Haskett, it's new for us. It is. And we're stepping out into a world that not everybody is totally comfortable with.
with. And whatever we do, we don't want to spend any money on something that is going
to be a bad investment for KDISD or get us in a bind. So this is sort of our initial
foray into that world. But the first part of it here is we're pretty excited about it.
We really are.
Ms. Mr. President, may I keep asking my question?
Ms. Okay. Now, dark Wednesdays and the other scheduled adjustments that you mentioned,
first of all, do you know what the temperature is to be set at?
I'm just curious.
I bet.
So, well, so if we're talking about a Wednesday night at an elementary,
we've got custodians working.
Manny, do you know that number off the top of your head?
So we usually set back the buildings at the end of the day.
So Wednesdays the staff goes home.
So it's an early release for the custodians.
so that gives us the opportunity to shut back the building.
So we completely shut the buildings down from Wednesdays if we don't have occupancy there.
Oh, so it's just turned off?
Yes.
Okay.
And is that dark Wednesday, is that a mandatory thing?
So we've been doing that for quite a while, actually.
I believe we were doing that even when Mr. Gunnell was here.
And it's mandatory, but it isn't.
And when I say that, I guess what I'm saying is the schools have been great about working their events around those Wednesdays.
Having said that, I got an email from assistant superintendent the other day.
He said, hey, Ted, you know, we were looking at the schedule.
We're kind of locked into this Wednesday.
Can we do it?
Absolutely.
Because our job is to serve the campuses.
But if they don't need it and we can work around it, then those Wednesdays.
So when does the night start for a Wednesday, I guess?
It's because I know of some campuses that do hold things right after school and everything on Wednesdays.
So when does it start?
When does night start?
You mean the timing of it?
Yes.
Manny, do you have that number?
We really try to roll stuff, be done by 5 or so.
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't know that there's a hard number on that.
Okay.
But when I say a night event, we wouldn't have something that would run until 9 o'clock or something like that.
Or try not to.
I have like two or three more questions.
So the outside groups that meet that aren't with KDISD, and I know they have to pay some money.
So that goes, of course, I mean, is that, I don't need to know how much you charge.
But does that, you're taking into account the cost of the electricity or security and all this, and that's all rolled into that.
So hopefully that's offsetting some of that right it helps it goes back into the gof
I'm sure Chris could tell you exactly what happens on that, but yes ma'am. It does it helps offset the cost
We don't obviously we want to partner with the community, but we can't turn on the lights in the AC for free so yeah
Okay, and then
And so are we doing any recycling with KDISD?
Recycling is a tricky one.
So, yes, we are.
Not as much probably as we'd like.
Probably 10, 15 years ago, recycling was a huge thing in KDISD.
They put the dumpsters at the schools, and they would tell you,
fill them up, and we'll pay you for every ounce or pound or whatever it is.
So recycling, again I may defer to one of these guys, but recycling these days is
not lucrative at all. You're really doing recycling out of the
goodness of your heart and in fact in a lot of ways we were we were paying a
premium to do the recycling. So we got to find that sweet spot between what we're
having to pay to have it recycled versus having all those programs.
I don't hope that answers your question.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then that's kind of sad, but I understand.
It is sad.
I agree.
Okay.
And then the last thing is, can we get a list of the Energy Star campuses?
Absolutely.
I could read them off to you now, but I didn't know in the...
I mean, I wouldn't mind hearing it, but whatever y'all think.
I can fire them off.
I've got the list here.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Okay.
Alexander, Bear Creek Elementary, Cimarron, Creech, Davidson, Fielder,
Gullbo, Griffin, Hayes, Jenks, Leonard, McRoberts, Randolph, Schaefer, Sundown, Williams, Wilson, Wolf, and Wollman.
Our junior highs, we had four of those.
There were 19 elementaries.
Four junior highs, McDonald Junior High, McMeans Junior High, Memorial Parkway Junior High, and Ties.
And one high school, Tompkins.
Yeah, so I'm excited about that.
And it's not just brand new buildings.
We're talking about buildings that have been around a good long time.
And so we're excited about it.
And I'm excited about adding more.
Could we get that list too?
Yes, ma'am.
I apologize.
I knew I read them too fast for you to write down, but yes, ma'am.
That's exciting.
I'm glad you got to help them celebrate like that.
How much of the principles, you said there's going to be competition,
which would be great,
but how much can the principles influence whether they get that rating?
Is it more of an infrastructure issue or is it more of a process?
So there's a behavioral piece of that too.
I'll tell you where the principles, the custodians help us a huge amount
because the custodians, as they're working late at night,
you know they if we've got one custodian work in a hallway could he or she leave
all the lights on as they're cleaning all those rooms or could he or she turn
off the light when they're done cleaning that room those kinds of things make a
huge difference I'll tell you where the campuses can help us especially the high
schools are on those schedules you know if don't pad those schedules if you know
the event starts at five o'clock set up set the AC early enough to where it's
gonna be cool and when the folks get there but don't set it up so early that
you know we're burning AC for two hours and that kind of thing that's where
where the that's where the campuses can help us but even as much as turning off
lights when they leave the rooms and things like that again it's it's a whole
lot easier to spend somebody else's money on energy than it is your own so
in your own house like I said you'd never leave the house with all the
lights burnin and they see at 68 but but you know when it's not your money it's
a little bit easier to do that so it's really a training piece that that we
want to get the campuses involved in any other questions mr. president yes I have
I have a quick question about the 4th of July week.
Campuses are closed.
Only campuses or what about the administration building in our?
So support facilities were remaining open.
So we could support the campuses and do what we could to help them.
We actually hosted some folks over here at the ESC if they didn't want to, if they needed
to work that week or had some things to do that week, we had a bunch of folks over here
at the ESC.
We housed them in the new building over there, the old pavilion and the 1200s and it was
good great idea i guess i was going to say what do they do do they work from home or
they can if they want to work from home okay
any other questions great stuff all right thank you very much
okay agenda item 8.3 is the 2021-2022 budget update mr chris smith
all right well good evening and um i'm going to ask uh miss butterfield and mrs feitinger to
join me today to kind of break up the monotony and of these next two hours
I'm playing it won't be that long I promise but we've gone this far it's
we're through June we're talking July it's going to be our first look at all
three funds of our budgeted funds together and sort of the final thing in
next month when we actually have the public hearing it'll be more of an
overview this will be the last real meat and potatoes of what we're talking when
when we talk budget.
But our goal is always to set out
and maintain a balanced budget,
maintain a competitive compensation plan,
maintain our healthcare program
and avoid the TRS active care situation.
We always put a high priority on student and staff safety.
We're gonna open Haskett Junior High
and Jordan High School's 11th grade.
And then of course we're planning on opening elementary 44.
If it'll stop raining, we hope to open that in 13 or 12 and a half months.
The general fund, I'm just going to talk about some assumptions that we used in both the general fund and the debt service fund.
And again, most important numbers that you'll see tonight are highlighted there at the top.
It's the basic allotment.
And it doesn't matter where you are on the state or how much taxes you can generate,
but essentially it all centers around the basic allotment and the tier two yield that's
It's tied to that basic allotment basic allotment goes up the tier two euro yield goes up
But that's how districts access money or earn money
Based on number of students and there are weighted students and some general rate more money than the basic allotment off of formula
so
special ed or
or socioeconomically disadvantaged students,
bilingual students, they generate through the state
funding formulas more than the 6,160.
But the 6,160 is the basis for all state funding,
according to education code.
Our enrollment increase, again, we
grew from October peem snapshot all the way through last year
and ended up with 85,500 students.
And so we're looking at an increase over that number.
Again, not as big as we were looking at last year.
That did not come to fruition, as you well know.
But that's something that's really difficult to look at,
is what kind of students are we going to have in the year coming out of the pandemic.
I mean, statewide, districts lost on average 3% enrollment.
We grew, but we didn't grow as much as we thought.
And the big question for everybody is, what do you do?
And we don't have the crystal ball, but what we're doing is we're planning as if they are going to be back based on our demographer's report.
And we've staffed that way, and that's the right thing to do for the students to help with those test scores to get the learning loss and everything back on track, so to speak.
We hired 299 new staff members.
That's the new junior high, the 11th grade at Jordan High School, and of course organic growth throughout the district.
And then the non-teaching staff, we grew 98.
That would be things that are not in the classroom like custodians, assistant principals, nurses, et cetera.
Salary increases, as you know, we have 2% built in that's been approved,
and then the 1% is still here that would be delivered in December.
The basic allotment, just one quick slide on that. Right now, using what is in the budget that you're looking at tonight, state funding makes up about 46% of our funds and local funding, the green portion of that person is 53%.
If property values go up higher, the state share of that $6,160 is lower.
And if the property values decrease, the state share only increases.
But the big important part to talk about here is it doesn't matter the shade mix of that.
It's still $6,160 per student.
Doesn't matter the shade mix.
That's all you get is $6,160 per student across the state.
And again, those are adjusted based on demographics.
And then real quick, and then I'm going to turn it over to Ms. Butterfield, talk about the tax rate.
You've heard me talk about it.
I do anticipate it going down again.
The numbers that you see here in that blue column on the right do show a 2.39 cent tax reduction, tax rate reduction in the compressed rate.
That is probably going to change.
Certified values were due from the three appraisal districts,
Waller, Harris, and Fort Bend County today.
They were actually due on the 25th, but since that was a Sunday,
some came Friday, the other two came today.
And they're higher.
We are, and I didn't say this on the assumptions page,
was built on 5.3% value increase,
increase total value in KDISD increased 5.3 percent. That was from those estimates that
came in April. Now that those are becoming more realistic, the numbers that we received from those
three look like more of a seven percent increase, and so that will drive that compressed rate down.
I'm not sure how much yet. It takes a long time to calculate, but this week, TEA actually opened
it up mid last week, and they will close it on Sunday night, August the 1st, but we will be using
the information that we got again friday and today from the three appraisal districts and
inputting that into their system and that will generate that top tax rate that that compressed
rate that you see at 0.8647 once that's done that's that sets our tax rate the other uh components of
it that that add up to 11.02 cents those are the enriched tax rate uh that we have that will will
will stay static. The only way to change that is to have a tax rollback election or a voter-approved
rollback election, and that's the only way to get those to change that tax rate. The other way is
to let TEA do their calculations, and that will happen this week, and it will probably tweak that
number downward. Ms. Feitinger is going to talk to you tonight about the advertisement,
and it will probably be either 0.8 647 or something a little lower and we just
won't know unfortunately and we don't know it right now but when you see it
published on August the 4th or is it the 5th when you see it published that first
Thursday in August it'll have it on there and that's what ta will have
calculated it'll be down probably and that's good news so a total tax rate
there's that ins tax rate of 39 cents uh that's going to maintain that and the total tax rate
would is going to drop again by 2.39 cents and that's a 15.17 tax reduction over the last three
years so 15 cents is uh it adds up and i'm going to turn it over to miss butterfield to speak from
on the general fund components.
This pie chart we've seen before,
this is the breakdown between payroll, salary, and benefits
and non-payroll budgets at 88% and 12%.
And here you're seeing it first time likely put together
with a little more detail on the objects.
We're beginning with the budgeted fund balance that we're ending with in June and the July
amendments that you'll see later tonight.
Both have the same impact on general fund.
Revenues have three object codes.
So we talk about the local revenues, state revenues, and the federal revenues, and you
see them there on the slide.
for total revenues of $887,255,521.
Expenditures tonight are broken down a little deeper by object codes, payroll,
and then the non-payroll codes.
And we have transfers in and out, $3 million to the out for the health insurance self-insured fund
and $500,000 in that comes from the TERS payment.
You see a balanced budget here with an add-to-fund balance of $1.1 million at this point
and the ending fund balance there.
These revenues and expenditures are consistent with what Mr. Smith has been presenting
for the last several meetings.
I'll turn it over to Ann.
Well, Ann's coming up.
I just want to reiterate that Ms. Butterfield is the one that really keeps her arms wrapped around this budget process,
and she works with over 100 different organizations throughout the district to keep all this stuff,
and it all looks simple when it comes to you,
but please know that she does a mountain of work to keep it looking this way,
and my hat's off to her and her staff for how they are able to do that.
I just wanted to do that before I forgot.
Okay. So on the food service fund, this budget this evening represents local revenues, which
consists mainly of meal pay from students, interest earnings, and other local payments.
This is much lower this year because we're going to be operating under the seamless summer
option next year, which allows us to provide those free meals with federal reimbursement.
so you're going to have less of local pay coming in, so that's a little lower than normal.
We have a small amount we always receive from the state,
and then the federal program revenues are actually up,
and that is because we are going to have those free meals that we can provide through that SSO program,
and also we have federal commodities in there.
Expenditures reflect additional costs for opening Haskett Junior High,
which primarily affects payroll costs, but it also does affect supplies and materials and food.
Supplies also includes things like disposable trays and containers,
which we talked about a little bit.
Services includes things like equipment repair and other costs,
and other operating will include things like training and mileage.
Capital outlay here is budgeted to assist in funding eligible expenses
for food service areas, including costs which may be incurred
for scheduled renovations or retrofits as they come about.
We normally utilize trend information to develop revenue
and expenditures for this fund.
But with Harvey and COVID, that's been kind of disrupted.
and this has become a real challenge.
We're working on estimating the final effects of 2021,
and as you're aware, every time I talk to you about the financial statements,
it's in two different funds.
It's very disjointed.
Hopefully next year that will be a little easier
if that SSO program brings it back into the 240 fund that you can see the whole picture.
We'll need to continue to monitor this fund
to see what that affects of that SSO program as they become known.
Okay, so moving into debt service, this graph is here to remind us, it's a slope graph that's
reminding us of the corollary between the increase in outstanding bonds and the increase
in property values.
For the debt service here, we're looking at it all put together with fund balance, revenues
and expenditures.
Again, the fund balance are from the July amended budget.
Revenues there are mostly local, a little bit of interest earning,
and a little bit of state there for the hold harmless at $1.1 million.
Expenditures are sufficient to include all of the payments for fees,
interest in principle on the existing and anticipated debt from the last sale
of the 2017 authorization that will be coming up and then the first sale of the
2021 authorization budgeted transfer in from interest earnings on the capital
project interest bearing accounts and a net change of fund balance of positive
of 228 000 and change again for a balanced a balanced fund
okay so bringing it all together the 21 22 summary reflects the totals for all budgeted
funds for 21-22 fiscal year. Revenues of $1,101,055,781 and expenditures of $1,096,717
are virtually balanced budget, with net transfers in of $2.4 million resulting in a total add-up
to fund balance of $1.9 million. And this is primarily attributed to the gain in the general fund.
Thanks, Ann. And those are our three budgeted funds that you'll adopt next month at our public
hearing on the 23rd of August. And I will point out that I think for the first time that is over
a billion dollars for those three funds. So we are, we had spent that before, that amount in a
year before with capital projects, but now that our budgeted funds now surpass that. Just want
I just want to wrap up and talk about future considerations and enrollment.
That's so important.
Again, it goes back to that basic allotment and that little person that you saw there
with the graduation cap on.
It doesn't matter what color mix it is, $6,160 per student, but if they don't show, we don't
earn as much.
And if they show, or more, we get more money, but we have more resources because we probably
need more teachers than we planned for.
So it's a really tough balancing act and we think that throughout this budgetary process,
the people involved in determining that enrollment in technology and in our office and in other
parts of the administration has been fair and as good as we can be.
It's not sandbagged and it's not liberal.
It is fair and that's what we're trying to do is be fair to what needs to happen in the
the classroom because we need it to be right in the classroom and if we miss
and we're short that's what fund balance is for okay I do expect some some
underspending in next year's budget because of all those ESSER dollars that
would that y'all talked about last month and I'll talk about that here just a
second but I do expect some underspending next year but that would
help if we came up short but I think those are good numbers and I stand
Stand firm that those are as good a shot as we could take at them at this point in time.
2021, hold harmless, because this time last year we all thought they were good numbers.
We had our demographer come back in and look at them, and they said,
if you're going to do it, lower it by 100 kids.
That's it.
And we thought real, and then what happened across the nation happened, and we came up short.
That's what fund balance is for, and that's what the ADA 2021 state hold harmless, ADA hold harmless was for.
That helps us some, didn't help us out at all.
By all means, it didn't help us out at all, but it was a help.
It was a help for a lot of districts across the state for that to happen.
And there won't be one next year, but again, we think we've done a good job of determining how many and the type of students that we're going to have.
State funding is the long-term viability of House Bill 3 or now House Bill 1225.
I do want to point out that there's proration in there, meaning that they've said the fast growth allotment can only be $200 million,
and if it gets more than that, it's capped and everybody will be prorated down.
That's been taken into account as is NIFA is prorated is expected to be capped and gifted and talented
those things we think we've
We've taken into account in our revenue projections
But now that about 10 days ago, maybe 12 days ago now the state
Received our teams information across the state and they're crunching those numbers and based on that crunching
We'll find out a little bit more information and whether that'll be program prorated down tighter or
will be more to the districts, but we've taken into account what we think are the proration
amounts are going to be. Ongoing rulemaking happens with these, and they're still working
on that. Tax rates, they're going to be hard to compare. Every year that gets by,
if we end up having a 7% increase in our taxable values, that's going to lower the rate that you
you saw earlier even more but if the district next door or 10 10 counties
over has a 15% increase in value their rates going to go way down but even
further or if they had an increase in values their rates not going to decrease
at all and if that's happening various amounts across the state it's going to
be absolutely impossible to make a comparison from one district to another
when it comes to the maintenance and operations tax rate Esther I added this
today because I think I'd be remiss to not mention ESSER funds. That isn't going
to be a big influx as you know we talked about it at length last month within the
last I think late the week before last and late last week just just not even
four days ago we received our notice of grant award which is a NOGA or acronym
is NOGA notice of grant award for both of those grants so we do have the
The the we do have a successful application and the fact that we are can move forward with our plan that you guys approved last month is now official with T.A.
That's going to start kicking off. And again, I need to say that those are one time funds.
So those are one. Those are luxury for a couple of years in order to get staffing to get in there and get things kind of brought back up to where we were prior to covid and to catch kids up.
but at some point those monies will go away and we need to be reminded that
those are those are temporary influx of dollars because the reality of our world
is based around that six thousand one hundred sixty dollars per student until
that changes those additional federal dollars are are just there temporarily
so this is a kind of a summary of what we're looking at that middle column is
what mr. Butterfield went over with you it shows that small surplus for next
next year. It shows next the following year we're increasing out and all things
considered with our student increase our enrollment increase and staffing
assuming those maintain in proportion we're looking at a four million dollar
surplus next year. How is that? If those are in proportion is because the fast
growth allotment will be a little bit more valuable next year to ISDs that
qualify and we will qualify for that again next year at the level we do now
and so that should be that that's why we're showing us a larger surplus that
following year so we are looking out just not just this year and even the
next year so this is our calendar moving forward now that August the 12th where
we're going to publish that notice miss fighting er and I were talking today and
we're gonna try to move that up to August the 7th I'm sorry the 5th which
which is a week earlier.
It has to be published by the 12th,
but we're going to try,
because of the aggressive timeline by the agency
and these appraisal districts
that are all resulting from recent changes in law,
we think we can get it done a little bit earlier,
and we're going to probably publish that on the 5th.
But if we can't make that date for some reason,
it'll happen on the 12th,
and of course we're going to have our public meeting
to discuss the budget and tax rate on August the 23rd and we'll adopt the tax
rate on the 27th. Five o'clock on August the 23rd we'll have a public hearing at
this at this meeting and again it will be a little quicker then than it was
tonight. So there we are through July and at that point appreciate your time very
much.
Any questions? Mr. President, Mr. Smith, I know this isn't necessarily your area,
but as we're looking at enrollment this year, does it look like that loss of potential incoming
kindergartners last year has bumped back up? Have we? I haven't seen that granular of data. I know
we're enrolling kids like crazy, students like crazy. I have not seen that granular data down
to the kindergarten level. Thank you.
Mr. President, will you help me understand slash explain to others that the
community impact published a report that said we have a deficit budget and looks
like here that we're adding to fund balance so. So this time last year we
adopted a surplus budget in August of 2020 we adopted a surplus budget and
then we had what happened across the state our enrollment didn't make like we
thought we thought we were gonna have a four thousand student increase it ended
up being six hundred at that time so we amended the budget downward we could
have amended it down as much as twenty eight million dollars the revenue
portion because of that students not making we amended it down fifteen turns
Turns out with the state hold harmless for the full year, it's about $15.8 million that we are short in our revenue.
So we are going to – we do – we did take that into account back in October, and we've been running a deficit budget ever since.
Then URI came around with those unexpected expenses associated with URI.
And so we're right now at about a $20 million.
I mean, all insurances, FEMA, insurance claims, et cetera,
taken into account.
I think we're at Ms. Feitinger or Ms. Butterfield.
During her report, you'll see that ending fund balance.
It's about a $21 million hit to fund balance.
Now, I've said before, we're seeing underspending.
Our department, our campus budgets are seeing underspending right now.
And a lot of that is in what's all over in underspending.
So I expect our under spending to be more than normally as we never spend our full budget
So I think when the year said and done we will have a deficit we will use fund balance
But we're not going to use as much as the bottom line shows that 21 million dollars
So the fund balance in the community impact that she was speaking over the deficit was in the current year that we're still in and
We'll be in until August 31st. We have mended it down to to that deficit
We're starting out next year
and if our enrollment and everything works,
then we should have a balanced budget again moving forward.
Thank you.
It's a long explanation, but I wanted to go all the way back to October
to set the stage for you.
It's what we need.
I've been getting questions.
You probably have too.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, Mr. Chris Smith,
I'm not going to call you Ms. Fighting or whatever that was last month.
But I appreciate your presentation, and this may not be where you can answer the question,
but since you are on the subject of the budget, last month it was brought up to us about,
and we had a discussion about the instructional coaches and the additional stipends and all this.
And as I understand, Mr. Shush has sent us something pretty much saying that it wasn't in the cards probably this year.
but since you know is this something that we could think about because when I
look at the the information that you provided it looks like those
instructional coaches are getting paid for the days that they work but they're
not actually getting paid more they're just getting paid more because they're
working more so they're not really earning more I'm just hoping that you
know I see that things are tight this year obviously but maybe for the future
teacher consider. A little more for them because they,
especially during COVID and all this and we need the
instructional coaches and they are like Mr Redmond said last
month the top of the line teacher.
that are in those positions.
And I know that that's an important position to have.
I guess that was just a statement and not really a question.
I'm just hoping that in the future we can do something more for them.
Any other questions?
Thank you.
Great job pulling all that together.
We'll move on to agenda item 9.1, discuss and consider board approval of the publication of the notice of public meeting to discuss the budget and proposed tax rate.
Ms. Ann Feitinger, thank you.
Okay, item 9.1 is to discuss and consider board approval of the publication of the notice of public meeting to discuss the budget and proposed tax rate.
rate. Our certified values, as we mentioned earlier, were due from the appraisal districts
today and we did receive some of the information Friday and the rest of it today. The actual
forms to complete the tax rate calculations were released today as well, so all of this
is coming at once. We will be entering that required data into the forms and publish the
resulting information in the newspaper hopefully next week. The form you have is what will
actually be published the policy indicates that the board will shall provide that the notice be
published and therefore we're asking the board to approve the publication of the form that we're
presenting here tonight any questions mr president yes i move that the board of trustees approves the
publishing of the notice of public meeting to discuss budget and proposed tax rate with a
the maintenance and operations tax rate, and an interest in sinking tax rates will be determined
based on the truth in taxation calculations, which utilize property value information to be provided
by Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second by Ms.
Champagne. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed? The motion carries 6-0.
Agenda item 9.2, discuss board approval of the May 2021 financial reports.
Okay. Item 9.2 is to consider our financial reports. As we've gone over each month, the
financial reports report the revenues and expenditures for our budgeted funds. That's
our general fund. A portion of that food service fund is what you're seeing this year because it's
separated by different funding sources and the debt service fund. This report is through May,
which is about 75 percent of the way through the year, and you'll see that most of those objects
and functions are running below that, as Chris was talking about that underspending that we're seeing,
and it is larger than we've seen in prior years. Like I said, we've discussed the fact that the
The food service program is in multiple things.
That is noted on there, so you can see what that other fund is running in revenues and expenditures
and kind of see how those two add together are still in a positive situation.
There's also footnotes on the financials that talk about the ESSER I funding that we received.
That was a strictly supplant.
We received the money, but they took away our state money.
So those funds are being reclassified over from the general fund, those expenditures, to offset that.
that. The construction report presents costs through May for projects funded with the 2017
and 2014 authorizations and we've also added the 2021 projects in there for your viewing
pleasure. We also have E-rate funds and TERS funds denoted there. The tax report is showing
the property tax revenues we've received through May and those percentages are still running
about what we would expect for this time of the year.
And finally, we have the check register,
which lists the vendor payments by the funding source.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees
approve the District's May 2021 financial statements.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Champagne,
a second by Mr. Redmond.
And I'll proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion carries 7-0.
Agenda item 9.3, discuss and consider board approval of the July 2021 budget amendments.
Ms. Butterfield.
Thank you, President Schulte, trustees, and Dr. Grigorski.
This may have happened before, but I can't remember when.
There are no budget amendments in the general operating fund affecting fund balance.
All are direct offsets between existing budgets and between different functions.
So there's no change to fund balance tonight in the general operating fund.
That's true.
Do we need to make a motion to there's no change?
We have amendments.
Okay.
They just aren't affecting fund balance.
Okay.
You're saying it's a net zero.
They do need a board approval.
Okay.
yeah that's zero okay so any questions mr i'll entertain a motion i move that the board of
trustees approves the district's july 2021 budget amendments second okay so i have a motion by miss
fox a second by miss champaign 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 agenda item 9.4 discuss and consider
board approval of the discipline management plan and student code of conduct for the 2021-2022
school year and we have miss sherry ashworn from chars and discipline administrator
thank you president schulte members of the board dr grigorski i'm happy to switch gears
from financial reports to something a little different um our discipline management plan
and student code of conduct this is a process that is continuous but also routine so as soon
as you adopt this discipline management plan our team starts taking notes on feedback from both
parents campus administration any central office personnel that might have any questions or need
clarification about current text and then in march we start looking at discipline committees
to review potential changes or to ask for feedback on what they would like to see different for next
year normally we have elementary junior high and high school committees this year i personally
visited every high school to gather feedback from their entire administration
team to see what would they like to see different, what doesn't make sense, what
are parents confused about. We continue to talk with both central office
departments like transportation, health services, our bullying coordinator to
make sure our text was up-to-date while continuing to monitor legislation from
April, May, and June. Overall we've spoken and provided feedback or gathered
gathered feedback from approximately 100 administrators in the district.
So it's definitely a process that is time consuming but worthy to make sure that these
changes are appropriate for parents and for campuses.
In June and July, we went ahead and made changes for legislation as it came forward.
And once final changes were identified, we presented that to the Katy Improvement Council
for their advice and feedback in accordance with board policy FO legal.
goal. So the version you have in front of you today is the most current version you've seen,
which includes those minor legislative changes. They didn't have heavy impact to the discipline
plan. They mainly provided clarification for definitions in penal code and health and safety
code. And that was regarding continuous sexual abuse of a disabled individual, definition of a
firearm as it relates to Texas penal code, and a definition of an e-cigarette for Texas health and
and safety code.
So those were the changes for the legislature,
but we do have some significant changes
as it relates to our DAP.
You might have noticed that we modified language
for public intoxication to include elements of,
so no longer students need to be arrested,
ticketed or referred to court.
But if they're simply engaging in elements
of being under the influence,
that will be a placement to our DAP.
We also made changes for marijuana or controlled substance
to include lookalike or synthetic drugs
to reduce the administrative burden
on our administrative campus staff
for having to identify substances
that they believe are drugs.
And lastly, a big change is looking at students
who are vaping and on the second offense,
students will be reporting to OAC
to serve in a DAP placement on a second vaping infraction.
So you'll notice those are the big changes
in the draft provided to you today.
I'm happy to answer any questions.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I am wanting to see about adding something to the hemp portion of it,
and I would, I guess I need to make a motion to do that.
Do I need to move to do that?
I believe Mr. Graham had provided the board and in the board information that they can see there
was a addendum written in there at the board's request about adding consequences for hemp or
hemp-related products in there. If you would like to ask any questions, maybe of Ms. Ashhorn or Mr.
Mr. Graham, in regards to that addendum.
But if you would just like to include the addendum in that language in the DMP,
the board would just take a look at that and say we'd like to include that.
Unless there's anything special the board needs to do, Mr. Graham,
I'd defer to you if you think the board needs to do something additional than that.
No, that's right.
We can take a motion with the amendment or without.
Then I would move to add KDISD administrators will recommend
in at a minimum placing a student in the DAPEP.
If the student sells, gives, delivers to another person, possesses, uses, or is under the influence
of any consumable hemp as defined in Title V, Chapter 121 of the Texas Agriculture Code,
Products, Oils, e.g. CBD oil.
Lotions are similar products that contain hemp, hemp products in any form suitable for
smoking, vaping, or other uses.
A student using such a product with a valid prescription for low THC cannabis as authorized
by Chapter 487 of the Health and Safety Code does not violate this provision.
Just a point of order on how this works.
We're going to move to approve the Discipline Management Plan with the amendment for the
. . .
who's made a motion with the amended language from addendum number one if you
would like to consider that we need a second and then discussion and or a vote
if no second then the motion itself dies okay thank you is there a second for the
motion I have a question so what mrs. champagne read was the addendum provided
provided to us by the attorney.
She read the language from the addendum.
Addendum number one.
Yes, ma'am.
I second.
Second.
Are there any questions?
I have a question, Mr. President.
So the, right, we've had an addendum written to include hemp.
As I read our original language without the amendment, a lookalike, sounds like we're
we're talking about hemp as well, as well as many other.
It could be.
Okay.
So I think what we need to remember is, you know,
put yourself in the shoes of a campus administrator, right?
You have a high school student that shows up,
and there might be a substance that is unknown or undefined
that might look very similar to marijuana.
It might be a pill that looks very similar to Xanax, you know,
and that administrator is going to have to do their investigation,
and a lot of times, or at least sometimes,
times that student is going to say, well, it's not mine. I don't know where it is, where it came from.
It just popped up. And so that administrator is expected to use the tools that they have available
to determine whether or not there's a drug on their campus. And in my personal experience,
working with those administrators, it is, I think, an administrative burden to have to test
what that material is and know what it is as a fact. You know, like I said, you know, there could
could be pills that look very similar together and either way it's very dangerous. I compare it
a little bit to our local rule about BB guns. We say that if you have possession of a BB gun that
you go to the OAC and that's because the perception for some of those you know airsoft guns is that it
could be a possible real firearm. Now thankfully we're able to investigate and clearly identify
it's not a firearm but it is a health and safety issue. If students have substances that you know
possibly look alike or might be reported to be a drug and administrators don't have that opportunity
to test so um i think the current language that we've proposed for you today does give i think a
good umbrella for protecting the safety of students and could possibly address you know
hemp as you suggested in a um in a form that could be considered marijuana so the the amendment
ADDENDMENT IS NOT RESTRICTING US, WE'RE NOT REPLACING THE LOOK-ALIKE LANGUAGE.
WE'RE JUST ADDING THAT IN THERE.
NO, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT ADDENDMENT WOULD BE ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE IN ADDITION TO
THE SYNTHETIC AND LOOK-ALIKE DRUGS.
BUT THE LANGUAGE THAT'S ALREADY IN THERE AS A LOOK-ALIKE WOULD GIVE US THE ABILITY TO
PUNISH IT.
THIS IS JUST KIND OF ALMOST REDUNDANT AT THAT POINT TO PUT IT IN.
IF AN ADMINISTRATOR BELIEVED THAT IT LOOKED LIKE MARIJUANA, LIKE A DRUG.
Mr. President. Yes. My question is look alike. Is that strong enough to hold up in court?
Mr. Grimm, you might want to comment on this, but for DEP placements, the highest form of appeal
is going to be our district level committee. It's not the same as an expulsion, which could go,
I believe, to a trial outside of the district. So it's not the same standard as a court. We have
have to remember that when we discipline students that it's very possible the criminal route and
the school discipline route might not be parallel, right? So for example, when we talk about
marijuana, since that's kind of our subject right now, the police are not going to criminally
classify unless it's a usable amount, but we might know by a student's self-admission
or witness statements or what we found that they were in fact in possession of a marijuana. So
on the future but we can still assess that student discipline at a campus level because
drugs are drugs.
Does that help clarify?
It does.
It just seems lookalike is a bit vague.
I like the specificity of the hemp and the CBD oil and lotions because there's so much
of that now readily available.
I like to have both for me.
I like the specificity of the hemp.
And I might clarify that I would consider those different things, right?
You know, CBD oil and lotions, I would say, is very different than a lookalike drug.
So we're also, you know, the addendum is very broad in those hemp-related products.
So I would just share with you that that's, you know, it's kind of two separate things, right?
As far as the number of students who might be impacted with a DAP placement,
if we're including all of the language such as the CBD oil and the lotions in addition to
the hemp products that I think we're kind of saying might be a lookalike drug.
Mr. President, may I please add? Mrs. Ashmore, I appreciate your input, but what would this,
in your opinion, hurt if you had both the lookalike drug, the lookalike marijuana and
this addendum I mean what you know what's the I don't I don't know why why
that would be worse you know I don't know why having the addendum in your
opinion would be sure I'm happy to provide a limited scope response to that
so I think when we're looking at this language in the addendum right now
things like maybe CBD oil or lotions are a non FDA approved substance we would
treat that maybe a little bit like essential oils something that would be a
level three offense on a campus. So when we're talking about adding this language movement to a
DAP, you're talking about sending students, taking them off of their campus and putting
them over at the Opportunity Awareness Center, which increases traffic flow. And I think also
puts a very broad scope, in my opinion, on the number of things administrators are looking for.
I think the board certainly has the opportunity to select the amendment if you want that kind
of broad scope, but that's kind of the way I see it, that it includes a lot more students
and a lot more offenses because I think we'll find that a lot of different products might
meet this definition and we need to be prepared for those students reporting to the OAC.
Okay.
I understand your point with that, but there's someplace else where it talks about, I don't
I don't have the information in front of me where if it's a prescription, it's allowed.
That's also in the guide.
And also the lookalike drug, the lookalike marijuana to me is in itself very broad.
And so, you know, whereas you say that the addendum and what's listed in there is broad,
I say that the lookalike marijuana is also broad.
So to me, this kind of tightens it a little bit for the administrator.
but that I guess that's just in my opinion no I certainly understand that
perspective and we do have discipline at level 2 for prescription drugs or
non-prescription drugs that are your own I reference the level 3 as homeopathic
like substances which is where we currently have language listed so I
want to be clear to the board so that to clarify any misunderstanding these
provisions the language in the addendum and the look-alike they are not contrary
to one another. You can consider it a belt and suspenders approach if you'd like. So they're not
incongruent with one another. It's not like we have to have one or the other. In fact,
again, it was listed as an addendum because you would be adding it to the language proposed to you.
Any other questions?
Just a quick clarification. I appreciate your last answer to Ms. Champagne. I think adding
adding some of this is stacking on what administrators would need to find. You can buy CBD lotion
at H-E-B and if a seventh grader borrows it, throws it in their gym bag and then they're
caught with it. I found this on my mom's counter. It's really kind of getting into the weeds
a little bit as far as the multitude of things we're looking to penalize when it's not, we're
We are looking for the lookalike marijuana, right?
We're not trying to get some kid because they brought their mom's essential oils that had CBD in it and they didn't know.
That's a pretty swift penalty to send to the OAC for having a lotion in their mouth.
I will also remind this board that we have factors that we must consider when we look at discipline.
We have six mandatory factors that we must consider, intent being one of those.
past disciplinary history, some of those things.
So some of these scenarios, and we could sit here all night
and talk about what if scenarios,
will be the campus administrators, again,
we give them discretion every day
when they give out discipline.
I think probably 80% or 90% of their job
is working out things with students and parents
to try and do what's in the best interest of the kid that's also
congruent with the policies and regulations
that this board administration have.
have. So that is something to be mindful of as we think, as we go down the rabbit trails
and we could, you know, we could sit here all night and do that.
Correct. Nothing's black and white. We have those six factors required by law, like Mr.
Graham stated.
I have one question and I may be a bit confused. Is the administration recommending the inclusion
of Amendment 1 or is that just, is that just the board recommending adding that or is the
administration recommending that as well?
Dr. Gagorski.
Yeah, that's a good question, Mr. Schulte.
We didn't specifically include it in there.
That was a recommendation that came from a board member that asked for some clarification.
I did have Mr. Graham write that.
There is some concern by the administration, or at least by me.
I can only speak for myself.
I don't know what conversations may have happened in those 100 or so administrator.
But when you look at it as if you include the hemp and the CBD in there,
We are getting a little bit more restrictive as a school district on who we would send or what we would send you for
Currently within the law that's not a mandatory offense to have those those items
But we can we can write a code of conduct any way we want to write it and choose to send students
for a variety of things that aren't
Anything in violation of law as miss Ash horn explained so I did want to bring that to the board before we just recommended to
Put it in there that it is
I THINK IT'S MORE OF A VERY SERIOUS TOPIC TO TALK ABOUT
BECAUSE IT COULD HAVE THE IMPACT OR FUTURE IMPACT OF MORE KIDS GOING TO OUR OFF-CAMPUS D.A.P.
FOR OFFENSES THAT ARE MORE OF WHAT I WOULD CALL PERMISSIVE IN NATURE.
IT WOULD BE A MANDATORY PLACEMENT BECAUSE WE PUT IT IN THE CODE OF CONDUCT THAT WAY,
BUT IT'S NOT MANDATORY BY LAW THAT THEY GO TO AN OFF-CAMPUS D.A.P. FOR THAT.
THAT'S WHY THIS IS THAT SLIPPERY SLOPE THAT I THINK IT'S GOOD THE BOARD TALKS ABOUT.
Do we want a more restrictive code of conduct or do we want something that's a little less restrictive?
And that's something I think the board should weigh before they vote on it
And that's why we brought it to the board that way because it does have some
Some consequences in the end if we were to do so, I guess if I were really speaking about hemp
Specifically I would go down this one here and I would ask mr. Graham to correct me if I'm wrong on this one
But if we write a policy that says you'll go to the OAC for hemp related products
THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE HEMP-RELATED PRODUCTS THAT ARE NOT LOOK-ALIKE MARIJUANA-TYPE SUBSTANCES.
SO THAT IS SOMETHING, BUT THEN AGAIN, WE GOT THE FACTORS, AS MR. GRAHAM JUST TALKED ABOUT,
THE OTHER FACTORS IN THERE, IF SOMEONE HAD A PRODUCT THAT WAS HEMP-RELATED.
SO YOU GOT TO BE CAUTIOUS ON IT.
THERE ARE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT HAVE INCLUDED LANGUAGE LIKE THIS,
AND IT'S JUST A BIT OF A LITTLE BIT MORE RESTRICTIVE,
AND THAT'S WHY I THINK IT'S GOOD THE BOARD TALKS ABOUT THAT.
MR. PRESIDENT?
Mr. President, I have a question.
I tried to find this.
What is the penalty right now for having him?
So I believe that would be classified as that non-FDA approved.
We would be looking at that, that level three that I mentioned before,
because it's not marijuana-controlled substance.
It's not FDA approved.
And so it would be a substance that we would say is prohibited.
We don't want that on campus because there's no way for us to, I guess, monitor those non-FDA
approved substances, just like other similar products.
And forgive me, I've been trying to go through this while we're discussing this.
Is it fair to say, though, that if someone was accused of having marijuana because it
looked like marijuana, but they were able to show it was hemp, the offense might be
lesser?
Or is that not accurate?
So what I will tell you is that the Student Code of Conduct which you had in place last
year just traced the law. It did get that's all it did is it did a plain recitation of the law
which cited the Agriculture Code and the Texas Health and Safety Code. What we're talking about
now with the look-alike drugs with respect to something like hemp what we would say is that
That is something that looks alike.
It's purported to be first thing, as Ms. Ashford said, almost every kid asking any high school AP,
the first thing they said is, I don't know what that is or it's not mine.
I don't know where I got it from, things of that nature.
And then so I would tell you that the lookalike language that's been provided to you obviously has been approved by council.
Council, but I've also provided you the language that's in the addendum in case you guys do
want to be more severe with respect to hemp products so that it takes any ambiguity with
respect to, you know, hemp that's in a loose leaf format or hemp cigarettes or, oh, no,
that's hemp oil or whatever it may be, and that it would clarify for administrators,
but it is a little bit more restrictive.
So from a legal perspective, the one you have now is good.
The one that Ms. Ashborn presented without the addendum is good.
And the one with the addendum is good.
It's really the pleasure of the board as far as what you want to do.
Okay. Thank you.
Any other questions?
I would just like to add one other thing.
And the reason why I am the board member that asked for that,
But from my feeling, it takes away the ambiguity of it from the administrator.
You know, I mean, whether it's a hemp, you know, right now, hemp isn't banned.
So this would, like you said, you know, the cigarette or whatever it is, it would be restricted instead of, oh, it's just a cigarette.
I mean, and we don't know what's in it.
So, I mean, that was what my, that's what my goal was.
Any other questions?
I've got one last question.
Sure.
The Acadian Improvement Council, have they seen this addendum?
Yes.
So, once, I'm sorry, they have not seen the addendum, to my knowledge.
The administrators have, I mean, it's just been discussed here tonight.
Yeah, not specifically this language.
just in general feedback.
So did they believe, so I would say they didn't necessarily
believe that this was a huge need that they're running into,
that they were asking for a way to deal with this?
In my personal opinion, based on those conversations,
very specifically with those high school campuses
and junior high district level committees,
I think they were very, I received a lot of positive
feedback for the lookalike drugs.
We expect our administrators to be reasonable
when they investigate, right?
Like I said, nothing's black and white.
I always tell them an investigation is a puzzle. We got to see where the picture gets us and so
You know in utilizing that look-alike or synthetic drug. I think they felt very supported and
You know I feel that it's um you know it's sometimes challenging to identify
You know what substances are and if something looks to be something and they have reasonable belief
It might might be something or be that look-alike drug they can move forward with the discipline you know for the safety of students so
So the positive I received for the reviews I received on that was very positive.
I think they felt supported.
And again, I think it reduces that administrative burden on the administrators so they can swiftly do their jobs and get back to the important stuff like instruction for kids.
Thank you.
Mr. President.
Yes.
We have several former high school principals in this room.
I keep looking to see if I see any head nods.
And of course, they're not saying anything.
I guess it's probably not appropriate to ask them, but I really wish I could ask them what they prefer.
If they'd like the look-alike so that they can handle students, first-time offenders, repeat offenders.
You know, I can see that maybe they would like that instead of a mandatory placement in the DAEP,
which would be our OAC, for something that a kid was like, oh, I want to know, right?
So I don't want to over-punish any student.
But I want to make sure that our rules are strong enough that principals can have the enforcement they need, right, to make sure that it's like, hey, dude, don't do that.
Because when I did that, that was serious, right?
You know, so.
Mrs. Fox, perhaps the argument there could be then is to ensure that hemp and hemp-related products and CBD oils and the things that are being described here today get listed under a level three consequence as a prohibited item.
which there are consequences for those things but the consequences would may
not be a DAP placement that's a possibility if that's the the route that
the board
prefer to do. We could certainly if we had it, I don't know if we've got an actual
PEMS code for hemp or if it could be tracked throughout next school year of
how many instances we have of hemp CBD and CBD related products if we wrote it
specifically in there maybe we could track that a little bit better Sherry I
don't know if that's possible and then bring that data back to the board and see what
kind of problem we're really having with hemp. So your suggestion there is is
is don't accept the addendum now, crack it and revisit it.
Is that what I'm hearing as a potential option, or did I mishear that?
That would be an option for the board, is to not include it in specific DAEP language,
but to include it, hemp and CBD and those types of things that were described,
in level three prohibited items.
You could list them in there, Ms. Ashford?
Yes.
So what we could do to track the data separately is we would utilize those level charts.
Each item on the level chart has a separate code that we track in our internal system.
A lot of them get reported the same way as a general violation to the suit of code of conduct for PEMS.
But we can add an internal tracking tool so that if that was data that the board was interested in and wanted to collect, we could certainly do so.
And Mr. President, I just want to add that initially when I was asking this about the DNP, this is what I was asking for.
was that hemp would be identified as a separate substance that would be mentioned in the discipline management plan,
not necessarily that it would just be thought of through the DAEP.
But anyway, and then Mr. Graham made the addendum, and, you know, I'm not an attorney,
so I thought that that was a great addition.
And so anyway, either way it goes, if we can move somehow in the future to look at that, I think that would be good.
But now I know we have to vote on that.
Mr. Graham, are we able to make a recommendation to amend the discipline plan?
I guess the board would need to do it.
My recommendation would be we would need a definition section that would include some of this language.
and then we would add a line item in level three that would relate to hemp or CBD products.
I'm just not sure how we would move that forward if that's what the board wishes.
Could we amend the amendment?
Right now we have a motion on the floor with denim number one.
It's been motioned and seconded, so we have to call that for a vote.
Can we just call that canceled and we can make a new motion, right?
Yes, we can.
We amend we can amend the amendment you could amend the addendum you could if somebody would like to come in that motion to
move this
As opposed to Katie I see administrators will recommend at a minimum placing a student in DAP
That you could move that to a level 3 offense, but again, I will remind you that that is in direct conflict with
with what your administrators are saying,
is that we, from what I'm hearing from Ms. Ashworn is,
we need the lookalike synthetic
without the hemp designation
so that we don't have to test the THC level
every time we find a green leafy substance on a student.
Yes, ma'am, I understand that.
But if you're moving hemp specifically to a level three violation and not a DAEP violation,
then it undercuts the lookalike substance.
So, Mr. President, if we don't, if we vote down the amendment, then how would you, tell
me again, how would you include the hemp thing in there so that administrators have the power
or to make whatever, it could be lookalike,
it could be coming again.
And I think the challenge would be in identifying
which one it is.
As Mr. Graham was saying, it undercuts that lookalike part
because now we're requiring administrators
to definitively say, is it going to be hemp at level three
or is it a lookalike drug at level four?
So we certainly could add a line in that level three chart
that could reference hemp or CBD.
But again, I think it places the administrator
administrator in a situation to have to know definitively which route they're going.
But you talked about a definition of something. Right. We could add a definition.
So that it's mentioned and we have some definition and they have some options.
Does that give them an option? Well, I think it's hard because we're saying that an administrator
shall recommend a student to a DAP for a look-alike drug, right? So that language is not
optional and that would be for KDISD a mandatory placement. For a look-alike?
Mm-hmm. That would take out something like the oils and lotions and just take
the... It could but also you know you need to think about oils also in vaping
cartridges that could be THC that's another challenge we're seeing that we
haven't really talked about today that's something that would be look-alike that
administrator might not be able to you know definitively test on hand and our
counties are not um i don't think they're accepting testing of those substances but
that would be another look-alike substance a look-alike controlled substance of possibly thc
that an administrator might discipline for it's hard it's hard so i move that we uh we close the
debate and vote is everybody okay with that to move on call the question yeah is that okay so
So we have a motion on the floor.
We have a motion by Ms. Fox, I mean, I'm sorry, Ms. Champagne, second by Ms. Fox to, I'm going
to simplify that, accept addendum number one of the Discipline Management Plan.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
All those opposed?
Okay, so the motion fell seven to zero.
So now we have to make a motion to accept it as is.
It's still on the table.
Still on the table.
Okay, thank you.
You still weren't learning all the province rule stuff, so I apologize.
Well, if you want to continue to discuss it, then you can.
If not, then we need to make a motion.
Another motion, right?
Yes.
So I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President.
Sorry, I was going to ask another question.
Okay.
You still can after the meeting.
Okay.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct for the 2021-2022 school year as recommended by administration.
Second.
Mr. President, may I ask a question?
Yes.
Would it still be possible to, as Mrs. Fox suggested, to find out what the principles, you know, if you just showed them that and just, you know, see what they think and see, and make sure they understand it's not an either or, it's this and that.
Prior to board approval or just as a, you know, as an investigation for next year?
for future change potentially i mean certainly if the board would like us to um continue those
talks with administrators we're happy to do so and and and bring that up as i said it's a continuous
but also routine process so as soon as this one's approved we're going to start making notes on what
we can improve for next year and um that could certainly be a topic of discussion at next year's
discipline committees with all three um levels okay so i have a motion by miss van are you
you complete the champagne I have a motion by miss Van second by mr. Redmond
will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your hand and say aye aye
all those opposed the motion carries 7-0 okay agenda item 9.5 discuss and
consider board approval regarding the teacher and classroom paraprofessional
attendance based performance incentive
Good evening again, President Schulte, trustees, and Dr. Grogorski.
I'm about to report on the results of the teacher and classroom paraprofessional attendance-based performance incentive survey.
As you know, the incentive allows eligible employees to earn up to $1,200 per school year
with $100 deducted for each state or local absence that the individual takes until the incentive is exhausted.
The board requested that we investigate this further for the 21-22 school year
and ask the question, do teachers and classroom paraprofessionals prefer the $1,200 annual incentive
or would they prefer an alternative, which would be equal to a 1% increase to the base salary for the 2021-2022 school year,
and that 1% is about $665.
This survey was designed and administered by K-12 Insight, our research and analysis partner firm,
and it was administered from June 30th until July 16th.
Individuals who have not taken the survey received a reminder every single
day until they did take that survey during that time frame. Again this report
and data was analyzed by K-12 insight and I am reporting on behalf of
that firm. In this slide you will see that the survey was sent out via email
to 7,132 eligible classroom teacher and classroom paraprofessionals,
4,329 of those who received the survey participated in it.
That's about 61%.
That's a significant number in terms of participation rate.
You'll see the breakdown by position classification, teachers, 3,620, and paraprofessionals, 709.
We asked two questions in this survey.
The first question was about the attendance incentive.
And essentially we want to know what their level of satisfaction is.
Here you'll see in this slide 49.43% indicated that they were satisfied or very satisfied.
Satisfied or very satisfied, yes, with the current incentive.
24.7% had a neutral opinion and about 25.7% indicated that they were not satisfied or
very unsatisfied.
slide. However, when it came to sharing their preference, 38.3% indicated that they would like
to continue with the current annual based performance incentive, which allows, again,
eligible employees to earn up to $1,200 per year, while 53.8% indicated that they would prefer the
$665 pay increase to their 2021-2022 base salary in lieu of that annual attendance-based
performance incentive.
And then about 7.8% indicated that they had no preference.
And those are the results of that survey.
Are there any questions about that data?
Any questions, board members?
Mr. President, Dr. Grims, were you surprised by the number of people who completed the
survey while they're on summer vacation?
Certainly.
A lot of them don't even look at emails.
Absolutely.
Usually a survey is considered significant when about 33% participate.
So 61% is abnormal for survey participation rates.
It's a very high percentage.
So my take on that, Mr. President, is I'm really glad that we asked them, that they show a significant interest in what they want for their future.
And so the ownership of that is a good thing.
I'm glad we have the communication from them.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I just wanted to thank Dr. Grooms because I know this put extra work on you, but as
Ms. Fox says, I think this is very helpful information for us to actually get their feedback.
Absolutely.
So we wanted to thank you.
If there's no other questions, I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President.
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves a 665 pay increase to the 2021-2022 base salary for all staff members that qualify for the attendance-based performance incentive.
This amount is equivalent to a 1% raise based on the current teacher pay grade.
With this action, the attendance-based performance incentive is discontinued.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond.
are there any other additional questions 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 seven to zero now uh move to
agenda item 9.6 which is to discuss and consider board endorsement of a nominated individual for
the texas association of school boards director for region four positions a b and c between july
3rd and August 30th 2021 school boards are invited to endorse a candidate for each open
TASB board of director position in their region. If the majority of the active members of the
region endorses a candidate, that individual will be elected to the TASB board. Region 4 currently
has three seats open for the nomination and endorsements, seats A, B, and C. The candidate
biographies were attached in the board docs for the trustee review prior to the meeting.
Are there any questions on the three candidates?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees endorses the candidacy of Georgeann Rietmeier to fill
board position for Region 4, Position A on the TASB Board of Directors, endorses the
candidacy of Darlene Rowe to fill the board position for Region 4, Position B on the TASB
Board of Directors, and endorses the candidacy of Tony Hopkins to fill the board position
for Region 4, Position C on the TASB Board of Directors.
Second.
So I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond.
will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed,
the motion carries 7-0. Agenda item 9.7, consider board approval of a delegate and alternate
delegate to the 2021 Texas Association of School Board Delegate Assembly. TASB's Delegate Assembly
is a once-a-year opportunity for Texas school boards to determine the leadership, advocacy
agenda, and overall direction of organization. Delegate Assembly is held in conjunction with
the tassa task speed convention each active member may appoint one delegate and one alternate to
represent their district's interest during the assembly delegate assembly will be held
on september 21st september 25th 2021 so as as communicated to the board members um miss
champaign is a director so she is not eligible to be a delegate and i sent out an email to who's
going to the uh to the assembly and i had two people volunteer to to be delegate an alternate
delegate and that was uh miss wilson and miss mr keller yeah well you said you would right
be careful what you send me an email mr president yes i move the board of trustees approves miss
leah wilson as official kd independent school district voting delegate to the 2021
TASB Delegate Assembly and approves Mr. Duke Keller as alternate delegate.
Second.
So I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Ms. Fox.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, rise your hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion carries 7-0.
Okay, I think we're getting close here.
Agenda item 10.1, discuss and consider future board adoption of policy update 117.
Back so soon. Update 117 includes some changes from our last 86 legislative session that are now in effect. I just wanted to give you a heads up that mid-October update 118 will come to administration and we'll be sharing that with you later this fall regarding this legislative updates changes.
changes, but there are three local policies, CH, involving purchasing and acquisition,
CV, facilities construction, and DEC, compensation and benefits, leaves and absences.
These TASB recommended changes are presented to you in addition to two minor local changes
in the DEC policy from our administration.
And those are that deleting text that prevents discretionary use of state leave from exceeding
five consecutive days.
the language already talks about getting supervisor approval.
So that limit is no longer there.
And removing TASB recommended changes about contract employees to provide written notice,
but still retain text that they'll provide advanced notice of intent to retire.
So those two minor changes are by your administration.
Otherwise, TASB has recommended the changes for additional flexibility,
especially given this last crazy year.
I'd like to remind you this is the first reading we'll be asking for your vote
for approval at the next board meeting in August.
Any questions tonight board members?
Thank you. Move on to agenda item 11.1 donated items to Katy Independent School District.
The board was provided a copy of the donated items to Katy ISD.
Agenda item 11.2 quarterly investment report. The board was provided a copy of the quarterly investment report
agenda item 12.1 regular board meeting august 23rd 2021
The next regularly scheduled board meeting will be held on monday august 23rd 2021
Agenda item 13 there being no further business before the board. This meeting is adjourned. The time is 901
Thanks everybody
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 6.1
PassedIt was recommended that the Board of Trustees enters into an agreement to purchase from Nash FM 529, LLC an approximate 14.2-acre parcel of property for a future elementary school for a total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed $1,985,552.00.
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 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Harris County.
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 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Fort Bend County.
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 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in June, 2021.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the publishing of the Notice of Public Meeting to discuss Budget and Proposed Tax Rate, with a Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate and an Interest and Sinking Tax Rate. Rates will be determined based on Truth in Taxation calculations which utilize property value information to be provided by Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller Counties. 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 006 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's May 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 007 · AGENDA 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's July 2021 budget amendments.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct for the 2021-2022 school year.
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 9.4
UnknownMoved by Dawn Champagne second by Rebecca Fox that an amendment be added to the 2021-2022 Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct. Motion Fails
0 Yes · 7 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | No |
| dawn-champagne | No |
| duke-keller | No |
| greg-schulte | No |
| lance-redmon | No |
| leah-wilson | No |
| rebecca-fox | No |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 9.5
PassedThe Board of Trustees approves a $665.00 pay increase to the 2021-2022 base salary for all staff members that qualify for the Attendance Based Performance Incentive. This amount is equivalent to a 1% raise based on the current teacher pay grade. With this action, the Attendance Based Performance Incentive is discontinued.
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 9.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees endorses the candidacy of Georgan Reitmeier to fill the Board Position for Region 4, Position A on the TASB Board of Directors; Darlene Breaux to fill the Board Position for Region 4, Position B on the TASB Board of Directors and endorses the candidacy of Tony Hopkins to fill the Board Position for Region 4, Position C on the TASB Board of Directors.
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 012 · AGENDA 9.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Leah Wilson as an official Katy Independent School District voting delegate to the 2021 TASB Delegate Assembly and approves Duke Keller as an alternate delegate.
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 |