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The board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, August 23rd, 2021, and the time is 5 PM.
Dr. Grigorski, will you verify that we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to notice for this meeting?
Mr. Schulte, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for this meeting this evening.
Thank you. We will open tonight's meeting with one of our KDISD police officers 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 pledge allegiance to the texas once saved under god one and indivisible
thank you very much do we have any scouts in the audience this evening
that would like to come forward none okay we'll now uh proceed to agenda item 5.0
open meeting. At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public
an opportunity to speak in accordance with the KDISD Board Policy BED Local.
As defined by this Board Policy, the first 20 speakers who signed up by 2 p.m. on Monday,
August 23, 2021, who have provided their first and last name, will be allowed to address the Board.
A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated, with the time divided equally among those who have
have signed up. The maximum amount of time any one speaker is allowed is three minutes.
If you're not finished speaking by the end of your allotted time, your audio will turn off.
If speakers wish to share written material with the board, you must email a copy to the
Secretary for Board Services for board members, the superintendent, the chief communication 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.
Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code Section 551-074 and 551-0821, the Board will
not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student
and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline,
or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or charge against an
officer or employee.
So if the Speaker wishes to address one of these issues, they must do so through the
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.
Our first speaker tonight is John Miller.
John Miller.
Okay.
Move on to the second speaker.
Joseph Marsh Joseph Marsh move on to our third speaker tonight which is Marcella
Burke Marcella Burke the next speaker tonight is Marito Algaria
Okay, the next speaker tonight is Mary Ellen Cuzela.
Nope.
The next speaker is David Cuban.
I'm sure I got the right list here, right?
Okay, the next speaker is Lee Nelson.
There we go, we have a winner.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Good evening.
My name is Lee Nelson.
I'm a parent of two in Katy ISD and I speak on behalf of all the parents, scientific experts
and physicians who spoke on August 10th.
People who have been sending you countless concerned emails with letters from local physicians
and hospitals and thousands of parents who have signed petitions for masking in our schools.
We're insisting that the elected and appointed officials of this district issue a mask requirement
in an effort to prevent the continued spread of COVID and follow the CDC guidance,
putting the health and safety of this community first.
Fort Bend and Harris counties have raised the COVID threat level to red
and issued mask mandates indicating substantial transmission throughout the communities.
The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the court ruling granting a temporary restraining order
to both counties against Governor Abbott's mask ban,
allowing school districts to issue mask requirements in an effort to prevent COVID outbreaks.
Therefore, a mask requirement by KDISD has been deemed lawful.
The TEA announced it will no longer enforce Governor Abbott's mask ban.
The Texas Association of School Boards supports school boards that take steps to implement health and safety measures
that respond to COVID conditions in their communities.
The presidential administration condemned the state's mask ban and noted federal COVID-19 ESSER funds can be used to fill any financial gaps caused by penalties imposed by state leaders.
What this means is all the reasons KDISD has given as to why they are not requiring masks to protect the children are no longer viable excuses.
Personal political perspectives should not play into the safety of children.
children. 38,000 elementary students.
Thank you, your time is up.
The time is up.
It's tonight, it's it's divided equally among everybody who
signed up so everybody gets there's 18 people that signed
up, so it's a minute 45 seconds
tonight. Thank you.
The next speaker tonight is Jenny Alexander.
I'm here to support you in the decision to let me make my own healthcare choices this
year instead of oppose like I was last year.
Thank you for respecting the healthcare choices and genuine personal responsibility this school
year and for adhering to the plain language in the Texas education statute that states
never to place a mask on a child.
on a child. There's a Texas sigil on the wall in this room that points to the
meta question we all must wrestle with in this life. Liberty or death? It's a
famous phrase in our American history. It's fundamental to both Hebrew and
Christian tradition. It shows up in the Buddhist and Hindi traditions. God
says, I set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life so
that you and your children may live. God even tells us which one to choose.
Liberty and life mean maximizing personal responsibility.
People need to do their own research, read the drug inserts, pay attention to what's on the boxes,
and what manufacturers say about their products.
Find treatments that work when your docs stop practicing medicine and start following government protocols.
My desire is for everyone in this room to choose life, but I won't force it on you any more than God will.
We will not consent to our schools once again being turned into psychiatric wards full of people suffering from media-induced and paycheck-stimulated Munchausen syndrome by proxy patients.
Oh, and one not related to this.
Many of your KDISD police officers wear these highly reflective and opaque sunglasses.
I'd like you to stop allowing them to do that because it's very, very reminiscent of the Stanford prison experiments because we can't see them back.
They can see us, but we can't see them, and it dehumanizes us to them.
Thanks.
Thank you.
The next speaker tonight is Bishalakshi Magdam.
Good evening.
Wow.
I had a lot to say, but my three minutes to speak is cut short to one and a half minutes.
it so i just wanted to let you know that i will not provide a negative covid 19 test result for
my children to return back to school after they have recovered from a viral infection if at all
they fall sick in the future because those tests are fraudulent and i can prove it for that i need
a platform and sufficient time to explain the flaws of pcr and rapid antigen tests there's a
lot to be discussed in this matter and i will appreciate if i am given that opportunity
before the end of the discussion you will start seeing the pandemic narrative falling
apart like a house of cards a lot of our problems like mask testing vaccines all will be gone once
for all thank you the next speaker tonight is Lori Whitfield Lori Whitfield
no the next speaker is Claudia Turcotte
as a Katie mom I'd like to thank you for making mass optional please continue to
stand firm on this. Our kids need to go back to normalcy. While the Delta variant does appear to
be more contagious, it continues to pose almost no threat to healthy children. What does pose a
threat to health to our kids is for us to allow the anxieties and fears of adults to hold them
hostage to an unnatural and bizarre way of life. What we have subjected our kids to over the last
20 months may well be the reason the strain is so much more contagious. We canceled sports. We
We forced them to sit in front of screens for eight hours a day.
We isolated them in their homes.
They were devoid of social interaction or outside playtime.
We put masks on their faces for hours on end.
We doused them in sanitizer and everything around them with disinfectant.
As we can all now see, none of that worked against COVID.
It has possibly made us all weaker by lowering the function of our immune systems.
For 20 months, we've been told to do things that work against our ability to fight illness and to live full, healthy lives.
my prayers that we would loosen the death grip we have on the mask as our
false god of health and turn to the one true God and put our trust in him who
can actually save the truth with a capital T is the one thing that has the
power to set us free from fear beyond that I hope we can do things to
strengthen our kids well-being let's encourage social interaction being
outdoors eating more nutrient-dense foods limiting screen time and making
making sure they get good sleep.
All of those efforts offer more protection for our kids
than ineffective masks ever could.
I will not allow my children
to wear masks at school ever again.
Should they once again be mandatory,
I and many others will defy you.
Not in an effort to be obstinate,
but because justice demands it.
The next speaker tonight is Nevin Gerickens.
Nevin rickens, I think I'm saying that close to right
The next speaker tonight Sean Dolan
Have to be fast because we got cut short
This community was surveyed about how the federal ESSER funds should be used in the community response place the safe return to schools and
Addressing learning loss is the top priorities fifth down the list of six items was providing mental health services and support
I'd like to propose today two solutions for discussion and consideration.
One, rolling out a mental health voucher program so that students identified by their counselors and LSSPs with having a mental health crisis could receive financial support to go out into the community and find a licensed mental health professional that specializes in their specific needs.
Finding that therapeutic alliance may require having the same religion or ethnic background or preferred gender or philosophy or position on masks rather than matching them based on the first letter of the student's last name.
Number two, I'd like to propose for discussion and consideration that we open up the schools to allow these chosen licensed mental health professionals to come into the school to conduct their therapy sessions with their clients on campus.
This would alleviate the financial burden that's preventing many parents from seeking mental health services for their children.
This also alleviates the logistical burden on students and families taking their children to and from these appointments.
Lastly, I've had the wonderful opportunity to serve on the board of directors for Katy
Area Recovery Education, a nonprofit that helps teens stay sober and substance free.
If you know of anyone in need of help, we welcome you to reach out.
Also just a reminder to the parents, there are many nonprofits in the community that
are eager to help you and your child.
If your school's not providing what you need, you can always ask the community for help.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker tonight is Brittany Weebling.
Good evening.
America is at a crossroads.
We need to decide how much our long cherished beliefs of freedom and liberty are worth.
Do we continue as a free nation or do we become one with medical restrictions to the point
of walking around muzzled, our faces and our very breathing restricted with no choice about
what we put into our own bodies america unlike china india or other countries was built on a
foundation of individual freedoms freedoms that are not given to us by local or federal governments
employers schools or community these individual freedoms come from god and as such our
constitutional rights of america now there are some people who in the name of safety want to
force us to give up these rights and use our children for medical experiments do we know the
long-term effects of forcing our kids to socially distance and wear a mask? How this lack of healthy
exposure to germs will affect their immune systems which are critical to their very survival?
Do we know the long-term effects of restricting their oxygen intake to substandard levels?
Levels proven unsafe by government regulators but some want to force our children to suffer under?
The answer is these measures are harming our children and will cause long-term damage.
published in the Guardian, New Zealand is finding lack of normal exposure to germs and viruses
are calling what experts have an immunity deficit in our children. And what about the cost of masks,
social distancing, and other drastic measures to our children's mental health? Since these have
been implemented, child depression, anxiety, and suicide are one of the all-time highs.
Forcing other people's children to do things that are bad for their immune system, cognitive
development and mental health is a measure that only provides a false
emotional reassurance at the cost of our children's well-being and our individual
freedoms. Thank you. The next speaker tonight is Jennifer Skelton. I have one
kid in the district. I have two children. I'm here to tell you how COVID impacts a
a family. My 15 year old son's dad believed that wearing a mask was an
infringement on his rights and would protest all across the state. On August
the 2nd he tested positive for covid two days after testing positive. He was
in the er given an experimental drug and sent home with oxygen. Two days
later he was back in the er with double covered pneumonia. He had to wait three
days in the hospital before getting a bed. He was too late for some
treatments. Others aren't available while others didn't work. The first
week we're told he had a 50 50 chance of survival. He is now still in the
the hospital. I had to tell my son that his father was in the hospital of covid
and might not make it. My ex husband was so weak he couldn't even text on a
cell phone the first week. He still can't speak because he is too weak and
he has a lack of oxygen. He can only text maybe once a day because he has
no mental capacity in order to text anything more. The staff doesn't know
how long he will be there or if a full recovery will take place. The freedom
he was processing about is now gone. He wears an oxygen mask. He's confined to
a bed he can't effectively communicate he can't see others and he depends on other people for his
care he had no pre-existing conditions my seven-year-old son has worn a mask for the last 18
months while going to school in person and playing sports he was just at the urgent care last night
for asthma we waited four hours because there are so many people getting tested for covid
the doctor told me if my son gets covered he will be in the hospital so i have to send him possibly
be to sacrifice his health for his education so all i'm asking is that our kids wear masks
if i'm wrong kids have worn a mask if you're wrong people are going to die and get sick thank you
the next speaker tonight is derek smith
DR. DEREK SMITH Thank you. I'm Derek Smith, and I want to thank Dr. Grzegorski for listening
and responding and saying that the CDC recommends that folks wear masks, and you said
we recommend that as well. So thank you for that. But I do want to say that there's more to be done,
and there's more to be made aware of and that's science and you haven't had heard from the folks
that aren't wanting to wear a mask anything about really about science. I'll tell you for rapid antigen
tests those are validated by DNA tests. Abbott labs did a great job of that. The only problem is if
there's a negative go get a DNA test. Real simple but the letter that you're going to get in an email
mail for me tomorrow that hopefully you've seen before is from our local hospitals. And they tell
you each one of us has a role to play in ensuring a safe and healthy return to school for Houston
students. There's federal money out there. If the governor tries to do anything otherwise,
I'm not suggesting at this point that you're going to make everybody mask up. But for those
those that aren't informed. Again, I'll say the same thing I said two weeks ago.
This is an educational body. You have access to social media. You'll be
getting this letter. You can forward and inform folks with actual facts and
science. I urge you to do that. I urge you to be responsible leaders. Thank
you. Thank you. Next speaker tonight is Bonnie Anderson.
Hi. To be honest, I'm not in a place where I can thank you yet. I will acknowledge that
we are no longer violating the Texas Education Code, but I do appreciate that. So it's comical
how many, well, maybe like two, but I heard last meeting how many people showed up and
And they lose their minds if they don't get to tell other people what to do with their bodies.
I mean, the sole reason that they came here is to tell me what to do with my body or my children.
And so for anyone that needs to hear this, my parental rights to make health choices for my children do not end where your fear begins.
Manage your fear, get help, get a therapist, find a safe space, but you don't get to place your fear on my children.
And as a reminder, we are a constitutional republic built on the protection of natural rights.
Constitution, Federalist Papers, I have tons of these and will hand them out for free to anyone who is willing to read them.
When you finish, if you still don't agree, get out. This is how we do things in a free country.
Cuba will welcome you with open arms.
And by the way, if you're really looking for the government to protect you, they protected
the Native Americans.
The Tuskegee experiments, like that's what we're doing here?
Thank you.
Thank you.
The last speaker tonight is Bill Lowry.
In response to some of the unhinged and hysterical demands at the special board meeting a few
weeks ago, I offer this to you.
Up until May of last year, the World Health Organization offered the advice that mask wearing was ineffective and arresting the transmission of viruses.
That advice changed last June, primarily in response to political lobbying.
However, they still state their official advice is that masks should not be worn by people, well people, based on historical data.
There's been the Dan mask study with over 6,000 people, another study with over 8,000.
I've emailed all of you a PDF, an 18-page PDF, with over a hundred different
research that has been done that has proven masks do not work. We're dealing
with a virus and a respiratory virus and those masks are a false sense of hope.
Those those microns and that mask are too big. Unless you're wearing a fully
sealed self-contained breathing apparatus, it's a joke. Kids stuff them in
their pockets, they throw them on the floor, they're laying on their desk and
and then they stuff it back in their face.
Bottom line is it causes a lot of respiratory problems,
a lot of psychological problems,
and it's time that we take a stand
as you're already doing, and I appreciate it.
But KDISD continued to lead the pack and say,
you know what, we're not gonna fall for all this craziness.
We're gonna stand up for what's right.
They say, let's follow the science.
Well, you can follow the science
because I've emailed you the packages,
and there's over 100 different researchers
that have done research and said it doesn't work.
Between low oxygen, high carbon monoxide, and other things, it just doesn't work.
I'm having to cut this way down.
Bottom line is truth welcomes debate.
Truth never fears questions.
It's only propaganda and fear-mongering that demands silence and obsequious compliance.
I thank you for your time.
That was the last speaker of the evening.
This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting.
the board will now convene and close meeting as authorized under section 551001 of the texas
government code for the following purposes texas texas government code 551071 551129 and 551072
thanks everyone the board will now reconvene an open meeting today is monday august 23rd 2021
2021 and the time is 6 47 pm on behalf of my colleagues i welcome everyone to this evening's
regular board meeting each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on
friday august 20th 2021 the board receives information and recommendations from the staff
administration and superintendent on the agenda items that we're going to be discussing tonight
board members will be able to ask questions receive answers and should be prepared to take
action. The board just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with
chapter 551 of the Texas government code. Any action arising from discussions in
closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. Before we get started on the
agenda, Mr. Gorski would like to make a personnel announcement. I appreciate
that Mr. Schulte. So it gives me great pleasure before we jump into the agenda
I do want to introduce our newest latest principal that we've hired at the
the Opportunity Awareness Center and that is Janelle Coleman if you would
please stand to be recognized Janelle
Janelle's been with us since 2009 she's worked at the elementary level the high
school level recent last position was the assistant principal over at the OAC
so we're looking forward to her taking that baton and keeping going with with
what the the good work is going on over there Janelle you've got some folks with
you that you brought if you would please introduce us awesome thank you so much
and welcome to the new principalship
congratulations well now move into agenda item 7.1 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
heritage park management llc an approximate five acre parcel of property for a future elementary
school for a total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed 699 138 dollars second we have a motion
by mr redmond a second by mrs wilson uh any questions if not we'll proceed to vote all those
in favor please say aye raise your right answer aye aye all those opposed motion carries uh we'll
I'll now proceed into action items, agenda 8.1.
Consider board adoption of the local policies included in board policy update 117.
We'll have a presentation by, I'm sorry, no, board president.
Any questions on that?
I think we got an update on that last time.
Any questions from the board?
I'll now entertain a motion for this item.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees adopts the local policies included in Board Policy Update 117.
Second.
I have a motion.
Mr. President, I'm sorry.
I do have a question about it.
I was wondering about this.
You may have explained it, and I apologize.
But on the DEC local, the removing TASB recommended changes that note contract employees must provide written notice at least 90 days
days before the last of employment and retain text that an employee will provide advance
written notice of intent to retire to receive payment for accumulated state and local leave.
I remember that that was brought up to us in the legislative update.
Can you explain what all that means?
Okay, it's green. There we go. The local change at the bottom of page 9 of DEC Local about
the contract employees must provide that written notice of 90 days, is that what you were asking
about? So it appears that these changes were added to increase flexibility for our human
resources department and that was one local change that they requested because it does imply that
employees still have to provide that advanced written notice it's just going to remove that
90-day requirement okay so what is the requirement now if it's not 90 days right now the recommended
changes in the policy don't specify a time they just say that advanced written notice and i think
that'll give additional flexibility to the department or for individuals who need to retire
Okay, thank you. I just I just remember that being kind of a big thing. That's all I had. Thanks. Sorry. Any other questions?
So I have a motion by mr. Redmond a second by miss van will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right
hand and say aye
opposed
motion carries
7-0 considerable agenda item 8.2 consider board approval of the minutes of July board meeting. I'll now entertain a motion
Mr. President? Yes. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board
meeting held in July 2021. Second. I have a motion by Ms. Champagne, a second by I think it was Ms.
Wilson? No. Ms. Vann, I'm sorry. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand
and say aye. Aye. Opposed? The motion carries 7-0. We'll now proceed to Agenda Item 9.1,
presentation of the 2021-2022 proposed budget and tax rate. Mr. Chris Smith, Chief Financial Officer,
Ms. Ann Feitinger, Executive Director of Finance, and Ms. Sherry Butterfield,
Director of Budget and Treasury, will give a brief presentation on the 2021-2022 proposed
budget and tax rate. Afterwards, the Board of Trustees will receive public input regarding this topic.
All right, well, good evening, President Schulte, Superintendent Grogorski, and board.
This is the ‑‑ we've talked about the budget all these months here, and it's August, and I told you all last month we'd be quick.
And so I'm going to ‑‑ you all have heard the details, and I will go into a few, but not as much as we have in the past.
Of course, state law requires that the Board of Trustees adopt a budget prior to August 31st.
With the assumptions, just real quick, we just did under 1% enrollment growth.
That's from what we budgeted last year.
Of course, we came far short of that to what we budgeted this year.
I will say that the last report I saw, I think we were within 400 students of what we've budgeted.
So we're promising that we'll meet that and hopefully we'll hit it and stop right there.
The new campuses, of course we opened last week Haskett Junior High and we've got Elementary
44 on the horizon that we're already starting to look at from a budget standpoint.
And then of course our tax base growth, as I mentioned last month, we were looking at
5.4% and it ended up coming in when we got certified values from our three county appraisal
districts at 6.9%.
This budget that you have, it includes 2% average salary increases for both salary schedule,
the teacher salary schedule staff, and then non-teacher pay grade group.
It includes the 1% lump sum payment that we have historically paid in December,
and it includes the $665 base adjustment for classroom teachers and paraprofessionals.
This is, and I'll talk about this on the next slide,
I built on a 96.17% maintenance and operations tax rate.
That's a reduction in the tax rate, and I'll talk about that on the next slide.
And, of course, it keeps our same INS rate.
The far right of this slide shows that reduction.
And really, you can kind of see it all on the top line there, the compressed rate.
TA helps us calculate that rate, and it's based on growth.
And that's the one that varies district to district based on the amount of growth that you have.
And that's what House Bill 3 is pushing down.
So in 1920, we saw a downward push from $1.08 down to $0.93.
The whole state saw that down to $0.93.
And then in the green year, the middle column, it was all a growth contingent district to district.
So we're down another $0.371.
cents and I expect if you calculate that over the last three years that's a 16.49
cent tax rate reduction over the last three years. The golden pennies those are
what those are that's enrichment pennies those in the copper pennies added
together are 11.02 that'll be consistent as we move forward and that can't change
without an election. Most districts if they've had an election can have 17
17 enrichment pennies, up to 17.
We have 11.02, and that goes back to some laws from in the 60s that we were able to
have a higher enrichment pennies than a lot of districts without having a voter-approved
tax rate election.
So 11.02 is our enrichment pennies for a total of 96.17 cent M&O rate and a 39 cent debt
rate.
There's just another look at it.
You can see the downward steps there on the far right.
General fund, 53% of the money still comes locally, 45% from the state.
Had it not been for that decrease or the compression of the tax rate, that first line, that would have been more blue, if you will.
But that's what the state's trying to do.
They're trying to keep up with their portion, but they're still not quite paying 50% when it comes to a district like Katy.
Very little federal revenue.
revenue, most of that comes from our char's Medicaid reimbursement program and indirect
cost on our grants.
Where we spend our money is from an object level.
Again, we've seen this before at 87, 88% as in salary and benefits.
Software supplies, materials and services and utilities are right at 5% each and there's
some rounding things that are happening to keep it at one decimal point, but other operating
is 2.2%.
And in Capital I, you can't even see the little baby blue plate
piece in there, but it's 0.02%.
The majority, or 79.2% of our budget
is spent in the classroom.
And I think that's, when I go and look at it,
when I'm comparing ourselves, that's a very high number.
And then 90% of the budget that you're going to approve
is spent directly on students.
The general fund balance is budgeted.
and what you'll see tonight in our amended budget
and in Ms. Feitinger's financial statements
as an ending fund balance for those at $274,262,196.
That's the beginning fund balance in this budget moving forward.
I do expect, and Ms. Feitinger will mention it
when she talks about the financials,
and you've heard me mention it from this podium,
that we're having underspending.
We're not going to spend all the expenses in our budget,
and it may show a deficit of $21 million,
but I think that when it's really all said and done,
because of underspending, it'll probably be about $6 million to $10 million deficit.
And, again, that's related to sluggish enrollment and COVID.
Total revenues, $878 million.
Again, you saw the percentage of those revenues on a couple slides ago,
ago, 54% coming from local expenditures.
There's salary and benefits there in the top line seen differently at the dollar amount
and not the percentage.
They're just working on down the line, and then you can see that little bit of the baby
blue part I said you could barely see the sliver, $250,000 only.
Transfers out.
I want to make note on this.
There's a transfer in from one of our unbudgeted funds of $500,000.
dollars there's a three million dollar transfer out we keep this this has been
an annual thing for several years now and you'll see it on mr. Namans
presentation tonight when he talks about the health fund the the general fund is
propped up through that inter fund transfer the health fund several of the
many of the last several years by three million dollars that's the case this
year we've had this in there since we started talking about the budget and
And we're going to continue to do that to help both of those
stay at a healthy level, no pun intended.
So you do see a balanced budget at $203,163.
And I will say at the end, I'm going
to tell you now that this is all developed
and a lot of hard work was done by Ms. Butterfield, her staff,
and a lot of people in the district prior to what
we saw in the last three weeks.
okay but this is real this is when you go from year to year and we look back at
next year assuming we are in a normal year again we want consistency we don't
want to look at a budget that's full of anomalies with ESSER weird stuff
happening or private the online school where we may not get funding and stuff
like that so that's not reflected in here so we can keep an apples to apples
look at what our original budget was from year to year.
And that's important when it comes to doing an annual check
up, if you will.
Food service fund, we've got a fund balance of $8.2 million
that we'll be ending with right now,
as far as the final amended budget,
but beginning with moving forward.
$39.3 million in revenues.
You can see the vast majority of that
is now in federal programs.
That's because all the students have the opportunity to have a free and reduced lunch, and that's
why most of it's coming from the Federals in this case, unlike other budgets in the
past.
Again, we still have a lot of payroll costs, but that's not our largest expense in food
services.
It's supplies and materials, and that makes sense.
That's the cost of goods sold or the cost of the food.
So we have a $38.8 million of expenditures, and we're estimating in this budget to add
about five five hundred thousand dollars in fund balance uh we'll show point out that there's a
capital outlay of a million dollars in there our food service department has talked to the
they're limited to the amount of fund balance that they can carry they've talked to the texas
department of agriculture and and filed uh some paperwork that basically uh if if approved uh we
plan on spending that and on some of our kitchens and type stuff like that as there may be needs
Debt service, starting out with a $62.4 million fund balance.
Our total revenues are $186 million.
Again, 99% of that comes from property taxes at that $0.39.
We have some interest earnings.
We do invest that money when we do sell bonds and interest on it.
I'm sorry, when we do collect the taxes, we collect interest earnings over the year.
and that only 102,000 were not getting much interest rates on those investments at this time,
as you probably have experienced individually.
The $1.1 million or the $1.2 million in additional state aid for homestead exemption there in revenue,
that's when the state back in 2017 increased the homestead exemption from $15,000 per residence to $25,000.
that's the state holding us harmless if you will for that increase in the homestead exemption
and that's why you see a little bit of state funds without it we wouldn't get state funds
expenditures there's your principal and interest payments that does include in principle
40 million dollars in new payments on some of the new transactions that we're doing that we
just did in a couple weeks ago and that we're going to be doing in the future
in the near future to fund our construction projects.
And interest payments of $86.6 million also includes interest on those transactions.
When we sell bonds, we do invest the proceeds.
We don't sell them until we need them, but they do earn some interest,
and we invest those and we put those back into the debt service fund.
and some school districts choose to spend those and use more projects.
In the entire time I've been in the district, we've put those over to debt service,
and that's a tool we use to manage the tax rate.
So we would have an increase or a very slight increase to our fund balance
and end the year with a healthy fund balance on our debt service fund.
That's the summary of all funds.
This will be published this way on a report on our website.
It kind of summarizes our three budgeted funds.
I will point out that the total expenditures there is $1.1 billion.
So the total budgeted funds are now above $1 billion in KDISD.
You can see the transfers netting over to the right at $2,423,000.
Again, $3 million of that is going to the health service fund and ending the year with
the fund balance of $345,911,000. Those would be all healthy, not excessive fund balances.
Actually, food service fund may be, but we're managing that. We're going to try not to get it
too high. As we become bigger, that food service fund becomes more efficient, and we're not able
to control everything there. So we will be having to spend that money on capital.
There's the function level. That's, if you will, if you can see the 565 million, that first big number on the left, that's instruction.
That's what we spend in the classroom and it works its way down and that's the definition of all those various functions that you see there.
And working away again throughout our three budgeted funds. That'll be also published on the website.
site so we're done we've completed our budget i do want to say that a couple of notes uh if
approved tonight the budget does include the kids p it's in the supplies uh that's the uh the katie
instructional teacher supply budget that's the 200 per teacher that comes into well over a million
dollars uh that is included in in the budget that you have before you tonight uh i do expect that as
we move through the year that we under spending to what level i have no idea if i did know i would
i probably would be in maui right now um but i don't know but i do expect my gut feeling is
though they will have under spending because we have additional esser funds uh uh to suspend uh
and then um and you're going to see that like i said earlier we're having under spending
significant underspending in our 2021 budget health fund transfer again I
talked about that mr. Nalman is going to elaborate on that that we that does
include and as it has said the last several years the three million dollars
out to the health service fund moving forward we're gonna monitor the expenses
I would we're gonna believe it or not miss Butterfield's gonna start again
Again, with the 22, 23, we already know that we're going to be opening elementary 44 this fall.
A year from now or 11 and three-quarters months from now.
Enrollment growth, it looks like we may be at our enrollment for this year.
Where will it stop?
Nobody knows.
And it's still very fluid at this point.
But, again, right now the indicators are that our enrollment is going to meet budget.
property value growth that's going to be interesting to see the long-term effects
of COVID and what it would do on the debt service fund again we saw a big
a large almost seven percent increase what will happen in the future we don't know of course we
have economic uncertainty a lot of that centered around COVID and then what can you expect next
you can expect budget amendments like crazy again we could we we know and we could do some amending
are changing tonight but what we again like I said earlier we would be taking a
year from now assuming everything's normal and going this is doesn't even
compare so we're the budget that you're gonna approve tonight will likely be
amended it'll likely show the effects of our online learning it'll show the
effects of ESSER and I expect that as those things change in Austin if they do
or the rules change as we move forward we'll be adjusting as quickly as the
we can. And then there's some timing amendments. There's things that the supply chain is, a lot of
things out there are delayed. And so there may be things that we had planned on in the 2021 budget
that we thought would be in by now, and they're not. We've ordered them months ago, maybe, and
they may come in at some point if we've closed our books. We may have to bring a timing amendment
and they have to move that expense into next year's budget.
It'll be in fund balance when we finish the year,
and that's what also makes under-spending hard
because what is going to come in that's been ordered
and we would like to have already had and what won't, we just don't know.
And then the timing amendments.
So that's really all I have.
Ms. Butterfield, did I leave anything out?
Okay.
Okay.
Again, I appreciate Sherry and Ann and their staff for what they do.
And really, Dr. Gorgorski's leadership and the board and their trust
and all the people that have a part in 100 different organizations throughout
that have put a lot of work into this.
And I think it's a good budget, and it's definitely put together under uncertain times.
Thank you very much.
I'd also like to offer my gratitude to everybody to put that together,
because that is a tremendous amount of work.
So thank you for updating us over the last few months,
and great job to everybody for that.
I appreciate it.
Agenda item 9.2 is, I'm sorry, we're going to vote on,
this is the public hearing part.
I think we can ask questions later for the board.
I think that's how it's supposed to work.
This is 9.2 is public hearing, but nobody signed up for the public hearing.
So we're going to close the public hearing portion of the agenda.
And then we'll be able to ask questions.
At 10.4, will we approve?
Yes.
Yes.
Is that correct?
We approve the budget later on.
You can do it that way.
Yeah.
Is that okay, Ms. Fox?
We'll move on to 10.1, discuss and consider board approval of the proposed 2020-2021 final amended budget.
Oh, President Titter, I'm sorry.
President Titter is Ms. Ann Feitinger.
Apologize.
Okay, good evening.
President Stolzik, Dr. Gorgorski, and Board.
Item 10.1 is to consider approval of the proposed 2021 final amended budget.
Last year, I went back and looked at my notes, and when I presented this item,
I indicated it had been one of the most difficult, challenging analysis of data that we've done
with everything that moves so quickly and is hard to predict with COVID.
Unfortunately, this year really isn't a whole lot easier.
The requirement of the final amended budget is that the district should not exceed the
budget at a functional category.
So we analyze the data to determine what we think the revenues and expenditures will settle
as the year closes.
This year, as with last year, there are a lot of unknowns as 2021 ends and 2122 begins.
We have made adjustments where we feel necessary and we have stated throughout the year as
we discuss the financial statements, we anticipate we will have underspending as Chris mentioned.
Overall in the general fund, we do anticipate that the ending position will be more favorable
than what you see in the final amended budget.
budget. Of note in the final amended is that our state revenue does reflect a decrease.
The majority of that decrease is approximately $17.8 million is a decrease in our state revenues
for whether the state is using our ESSER II funds to supplant our state revenue. So you
will see a reduction if you compare July's amended budget to this final amended budget.
In order to avoid a negative impact to the bottom line, the district will also be reclassifying
expenditure so you'll see that decrease in function 11 because we will be
reclassifying salaries to offset that so that's again it's just to that's the way
the state has given us the money so that's how we will have to react to that
other functional increases and decreases are done as needed based on analysis of
the anticipated cost as mentioned in prior board meetings we do have an
additional day or two of payroll based on start dates for different employee
employee contracts and this may cause some functions to increase while others were not affected.
As I stated before, we anticipate that expenditures will come in better than what you're seeing here,
but we did use caution to make sure we did not exceed a functional category.
The Food Service Fund has been adjusted to reflect the effects of COVID-19 and the Summer Food Service Program,
SFSP program that we've talked about, which was accounted for as a separate fund this year.
The SSP fund will be closed out at year end and the residual will be transferred into the food service fund which you're seeing now and it's the budget that you adopt.
That is why you see a budgeted transfer into this fund on the final amended that you did not see before because as we close that fund, the residual will be transferred into the food service fund.
The debt service fund reflects all debt payments accounted for through the fund, including the final accounting for the series 21A and 21B refunding.
The district was able to take advantage of favorable market conditions to refund the 15C bonds.
And a new accounting guidance requires a budget adjustment to reflect the payment as an other use rather than as expenditure.
So you will see a large shift between function 71 expenditures and other uses on the financial statements.
It's the same exact dollars, it's just a different way of accounting for it.
It's strictly an accounting change.
And with this summary, we are presenting tonight our final amended budget for your approval.
Thank you.
Any questions?
I have a question.
Mrs. Feitinger, did you say that the state is offsetting the ESSER funds?
The ESSER II funds are given to us in, it's one grant, but the ADA hold harmless, that
the state calculated so they were holding all districts harmless for and
the ADA not meeting what was originally projected for the districts that amount
for Katie ISD is about seventeen point seven eight million that's an estimated
amount we won't know that final amount till final settle up with TEA the esser
funds are being the amount we receive an esser to that portion of the funding
they will reduce our state funds and we are going to be given that that's part
of our esser funding that we received so we aren't going to get the state money so we we have to take
some expenditures in the general fund and move them over to match the revenue that we are
receiving which is esser 2 funding so so we don't really have a net gain from esser 2 funds if the
state not for that portion the rest of esser 2 which is about 29.8 or 9 million the rest of that
is a true increase to the district okay yeah the remaining what is it 11 12 million dollars is
is able to be spent on our ESSER plan.
And we knew that this was how we were going
to have to account for it back when we presented that in June
or July.
I don't remember already.
And unfortunately, we were using an estimate at the time
of we can't count this.
So the numbers that Ms. Coy and that we talked about back
in June reflected that we were going to have to do this.
OK.
I think that's just really interesting,
because I wasn't aware of that.
Thank you for the interesting wrinkle.
Esser one was treated that way.
It was a supplant.
Esser three is all new money,
but Esser two is a combination.
Okay.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move the board of trustees approves
the 2020-2021 final amended budget
for the Katy Independent School District.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann,
a second by Mr. Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Opposed?
The motion carries 7-0.
We'll now proceed to Agenda Item 10.2,
discuss and consider board approval of a resolution to commit and assign a fund balance.
The Government Accounting Standards Board adopted GASB Statement 54,
and it became effective for all fiscal years starting after 6-15-2010.
This statement requires the district to adopt a resolution
resolution to commit a portion of its general fund unassigned fund balance and to
delegate the responsibility of assigning fund balance to the superintendent or his
designee. The resolution presented tonight commits $15 million of fund balance to
unanticipated COVID-19 related expenditures and $5 million to the district's health
insurance program and a portion to the local campus special revenue funds for their
intended purposes. Just to give you a little background on why we do this, the
The governmental fund budgets are adopted yearly on a modified accrual basis.
So the funding is recognized when it's measurable and available.
And therefore, it's a very current economic resource focused, the way we look at those funds.
By assigning and committing fund balance, the district is indicating specific items that we have identified
that will or may require funding in future periods
and would not otherwise be anticipated in the current yearly budget process.
So it's just things that are outside of our normal budget process, but we know that we want to make sure there are funds available for those items.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves a resolution to commit and assign fund balance.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Ms. Champagne.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Aye.
The motion carries.
We'll now move to agenda item 10.3,
discuss and consider board approval of the 2021-2022 state compensatory education funding
and other end-of-course assessment funding budget as required by House Bill 5.
The presenter will be Ms. Butterfield.
Good evening.
Thank you.
Thank you, President Schulte, Trustees, Superintendent Kikorski.
This item always precedes the official budget adoption.
option by law we're required to identify a set aside if you will that we code to state comp
compensatory ed funding that's the program intent 24. this is the district identifies
the budget of 120 000 student intervention which is included in the 21-22 proposed budget
And this is distributed by our area assistant superintendent's approval in the second semester to campuses in need of additional tutorial resources.
This agenda item documents the district's compliance with requirement to budget funds for accelerated instruction related to satisfactory performance on end-of-course assessments required for graduation.
Thank you. Any questions?
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2021-2022 State Compensatory Education Funding and Other End-of-Course Assessment Funding Budget as required by House Bill 5.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second by Mrs. Champaign.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, rise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion carries 7-0.
We'll now move to Agenda Item 10.4, Discuss and Consider Board Approval.
of the proposed 2021-2022 official budget for kd isd the presenters miss butterfield thank you
this is has been presented in the budget presentation earlier tonight we have the
culmination of the past months of budget updates into what's a into the attached schedule for the
general operating fund and the food service fund and the debt service fund this format complies
and satisfies both our required disclosures pertaining to lobbying and statutory required public notices
and for articulating the budget by fund function and object.
After the board adopts a budget, this schedule will be posted to the financial transparency page of our website
as required for web publications.
I know you had questions earlier.
President, I do.
A couple.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
At 9.1, there's, I don't have an attachment to my agenda.
Is that correct?
The presentation Mr. Smith presented with those cool graphs and charts that really resonate
with people like me.
Do you have it attached to yours?
Not in here.
Okay, so I'm just so my question is can that be added or archived somewhere?
I refer back to those things from time to time and those pie charts and graphs and the things that that I think what?
Mrs. Butterfield is talking about now is the end of your presentation slide after slide of numbers
But the beginning of your presentation had really great graphs. Can that be attached for our records?
That's what I want to know so I can look back on it later archived in our agenda
That was my question.
Absolutely.
A copy of the presentation will be on our website and in the board docs.
The very first slide you had there.
Yes.
That's what I need.
Number one.
That's all.
Number two, because I try to click back sometimes when you have something showing there and I couldn't find it.
That's how I knew.
I appreciate what you said, Mr. Smith, about the budgets are so difficult when they don't look side by side year after year.
year, right, we are, you, your team has been award winning for 2700 years or something like that.
And it's very difficult with all the changes that have happened because of the pandemic and all the,
right, the same could be true, I would think, with human resources, you know, and how all of those,
where the children are, where the teachers are, all of that's just a very difficult time
in the life of a school district when you look at this year and the next year and next year,
you know numbers enrollment numbers drop and budget numbers are all over the
place so mr. Schulte is exactly right the amount of work you all do is it's
just it's just daunting and incredibly impressive to us so I thought that was
really good to re-emphasize how how those numbers are all over the place and
I would guess the same is true for enrollment and HR the last thing the
The teacher supply, what's that called again?
Kitsby.
Sorry?
Katie Instructional Teacher Supply Budget, Kitsby.
So we get questions like, are we going to get that?
200 for school supplies again this year and yes you are but it doesn't come before school starts
because the budget isn't approved until tonight is that correct that's why they don't get it until
september that's correct now we could um miss fightinger i i'll tell you has worked with with
the vendor on that extremely hard and uh she's uh whipping them into shape if you will
And if they are able to do some of the promises that Ms. Feitinger has asked them to do, then hopefully by this time next year, then we will be able to set something up like that and spend some of it in the outgoing budget and some of it in the new budget.
Like I said, if we had underspending, it would be nice to have had some of that well over a million dollars be expensed in the 2021 year and then the rest in the 2021-22 school year.
It would be great.
but unfortunately they are we're not able to do the things that we need from
an accounting that we're required to have from an accounting standpoint to
record it correctly but we hope that in future years that it won't but our but
since our fiscal year starts on September 1 Kitsby has to start on
September 1 now but hopefully as fighting is going to get it gonna gonna
she's gonna win I know that when she's gonna she's gonna get it to where they
do meet their promises that they've made to her and moving forward we'll be able
across. So I guess my question is, is this something that's going to be a
repeat in the budget as far as you know? Like teachers don't spend it all at the
beginning because they're thinking I'll just wait till September 1 and maybe
that will be coming or I mean it was in this budget year but they don't get to
spend it until now. Can they kind of think about that for next year do you
think? We sure hope so. We sure hope so but again we'll have to it has to fit in
the budget and you guys will have to approve it in the budget either and if we're able to do it
earlier like turn it on and and because of what miss fightingers uh seeing that they fix then
then we'll do it through a budget amendment and then say but they spend whatever they spend uh
but before august 31st is in this year and then whatever is not will be included in the original
adopted budget appreciate that I my confidence is in this fight shaker get
a good big get them girl should be mr. president yes I have a few questions
okay to piggyback on the $200 do the teachers know that they're gonna get
that because you know they kind of need to know that they're gonna be able to
have that so that when they're thinking about you know they're trying to plan
plan everything, you know, like the beginning of August, not, and I don't know when they find out
that they're going to get that for sure. Dr. Grooms' department put out a communication to
all staff that it was coming pending approval by the board of our budget, and that would be part
of that. So they were told it's coming, but they had to wait for board action. So they should know
that. All right. And then I have two more questions. Where, where does the ESSER III
three funds fall into the budget or do they they they they're they're they're not a budgeted fund
they're in its own separate budget that's 67 million dollars it's in its own budget um
along with the the other a portion of esser ii the other level the 12 or i think it's 12 million
dollars of s for two or totaling 80 uh is in is in a special revenue fund a different thing
Okay, and then the last question, I just can't remember, these children that are signed up for the KVA, you know, that's going to be for the first few weeks or whatever, are they getting, are we getting ADA for that?
At this time, no.
Okay.
No, that, you know, the last I heard of the amount of enrolled, we will have a pretty, like a 2% revenue loss for about $6 million, $7 million at the last numbers that I heard.
but there are it is there is what is it House Bill 15 that that has been been
filed up there that would address funding funding that program but it's in
the hands of the legislation but they're still considered enrolled in KDIC yes
they're part of that enrollment number you saw here tonight but for the first
nine weeks they will not generate funding at this point and thank you very much any other questions
i'll retain a motion mr president i move the board of trustees adopt the 2021-2022
official budget for the katie independent school district second a motion by ms van a second by
Mr. Redmond. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Aye. The motion carries 7-0. We'll now proceed to agenda item 10.5,
discuss and consider board approval of the June 2021 financial reports. Ms. Feitinger.
Okay. So it's kind of a letdown after you do the final amendment. We go back to June.
June, but 10.5 is our June 2021 financial reports. These are the four reports that we
present every month. The first is our financial statements that represent our revenues and
expenditures for our budgeted funds, including the general fund, our food service fund, and
the debt service fund. Expenditures are further broken down by function and high level object
for the 10 months of operation so far in 2021. June is just over 83% of the budget, 83% of
the way through the year and as you can see we are seeing that under spending because most of
those percentages are below that the construction report presents project costs through june for
projects funded with the 2020 17 and 14 authorizations the related e-rate funding
and teres funds returned to the district after required bond payments are made by the katie
development authority our tax report summarizes property tax revenues through june and is still
holding at normal what we anticipate our percentages collection percentages to be
the check register indicates vendor payments made in the month of june
these are our financial reports and that we have to present for you for the month of june
any questions
i'll entertain a motion
please approve the district june 2021 financial statements
minutes okay and we have a motion by miss van a second by miss wilson thank you we'll now proceed
to vote all those in favor raise your hands aye aye motion carries 7-0 agenda item 10.6 discuss
to consider board approval of the purchase of major software support services annual renewals
for the 2021-2022 school year. Mr. Joe Christopherson, good evening. Good evening,
President Schulte, Board Members, and Superintendent Dr. Grigorski. It is recommended that the Board
of Trustees approves the renewal of software support services above $250,000 for the 2021-2022
school year. The total budgeted amount is $3,980,441. The funding for these services is part
of the previously approved general operating fund.
The following listed software renewals are needed for the KDISD to maintain operations
of computers, financial systems, student information systems, phone systems, employee time reporting,
as well as instructional tools needed for special education and reading intervention.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Mr. Christopherson, good to see you.
What kind of review process do you go through to make sure that all of these are, let me
ask it this way, are all of these currently and actively used throughout KDICD and they're
not like we're just renewing them because the renewal's up?
Right.
These are all of our bigger systems and most of them are enterprise wide systems that are
actively used, like our student information system and our phone systems, for instance.
Right.
I see some of those.
So there's three software on here that are instructional.
Rethink Ed, iStation, and Instructure, which is our Canvas LMS system, right?
So all of our campuses use those.
Those are our big platforms.
The smaller software isn't part of this list, and those are some that we have to
review more closely because they are smaller, small populations use.
So these are district wide and used by everybody.
These are district wide applications, correct.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees
accrues renewal of software support services above $250,000 for 2021-2022 school year.
The total budgeted amount is $3,980,441.
The funding for these services is part of the previously approved general operating
fund.
Second.
Chair Greg Musil.
motion by mr champaign second by mrs vann and i'll proceed to vote all those in favor rise
your right hand and say aye aye motion carries 7-0 agenda item 10.7 discuss and consider board
approval of the taspe risk management fund interlocal participation agreement for the
administration of workers compensation claims for 2021-2022 presenters mrs mr lance nalman
Good evening, President Schulze, Dr. Grivorski, and Board.
Board policy CRE legal states the district shall extend workers' compensation benefits to its employees by entering into interlocal agreements with other political subdivisions providing self-insurance.
insurance. Administrative services for the Katy Independent School District self-funded
workers' compensation program have been performed by TASB Risk Management Fund through
an interlocal agreement since 2006. The scope of services to this agreement has not changed
for the renewal period starting September 1, 2021 and ending on August 31, 2022. Claim
handling fees are flat from the expiring period, with medical-only claims charged at $150
and $750 for indemnity claims, respectfully.
No other fees are noted from the expiring term.
The claim handling fees represent life of claim pricing
and are not subject to claim status changes.
Expenditures for these services are based on claim frequency
with an estimated cost of $400,000 for 2021-2022.
The cost is budgeted and paid for from an internal service fund
for workers' compensation as authorized through CRE Legal. It is recommended that the Board of
Trustees approves the Interlocal Participation Agreement for the administration of workers'
compensation claims with TASB Risk Management Fund for the period September 1, 2021 through August 31,
2022. Thank you. Any questions? Mr. President, I don't have a question. I just want to tell you
again, Mr. Nauman, that that Dabrowski at TASB, she is such a fan of yours.
Thank you.
You know, TASB is a big organization, and you have really made us, represented us well
there because I talk to her, and KIC is the only one that she talks about all the time,
and she talks about you in particular.
So I really, really appreciate that so much.
Thank you very much.
mr president yes i move the board of trustees approves the interlocal participation agreement
for the administration of workers compensation claims with tasby risk management fund for the
period of september 1st 2021 through august 31st 2022. a motion by mrs van a second by mr redmond
will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye motion carries 7-0
well now we want to agenda item 10.8 discuss and consider board approval of the proposal for the
renewal of the excess workers compensation insurance policy. Board
policy CR legal states that a district may purchase reinsurance for a risk
covered through a self-insurance fund. To protect against very large specific
workers compensation claim occurrences, KDISD currently purchases reinsurance
for its self-funded workers compensation program. The risk management department
The Department seeks the renewal of the Excess Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Policy through Midwest Casualty.
This policy has a renewal date, which is guaranteed for two years.
However, the actual premium increases as payroll increases accordingly.
This policy is audited at the end of the term.
The plan carries a retention of $550,000 per occurrence.
The renewal estimated premium for the policy is $125,863.
The policy term is September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022.
Expenditures for this insurance will be paid from the Workers' Compensation Fund and a budgeted Internal Service Fund approved by the Board of Trustees.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of excess workers' compensation
reinsurance policy offered by Midwest Casualty Company with a $550,000 specific retention
for an estimated deposit premium of $125,863.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT LISERY.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of the excess workers'
workers' compensation reinsurance policy offered by Midwest Casualty Company
with a $550,000 specific retention for an estimated deposit premium of $125,863.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Champagne.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion carries 7-0.
Agenda item 10.9, discuss and consider approval of the voluntary benefit
product plan for year 2022. Board policy CR legal states that a district may
procure contracts with any insurance company authorized to do business in
Texas to insure its employees. Voluntary benefits made available to district
employees through payroll deductions are offered to provide access to services
that promote and enhance the health of employees and their dependents. The
The benefits are presented to the Board of Trustees on an annual basis.
The current offerings for plan year 2022 represent no change in design or structure
with premiums remaining flat from the plan year 2022 except for dental HMO and dental PPO.
All voluntary products are funded by participating employees except for KDISD,
paid life insurance, and the employee assistance program.
Any questions? Mr. President, I have a question. Mr. Nolte, is this dental increase, is that common throughout the, you know, for everybody or is it just...
It's the dental increases a function of loss severity that we've experienced and
then also just the market conditions in which we're in.
You'll see over the coming months as I bring different policies to you,
certain rates will begin to increase because of COVID and
a lot of things going in the marketplace.
So you think this is kind of a standard, not just for us but for everybody?
It's standard across the industry and we will be next year be taking this whole
package our plan next year will be at the end of the cycle we'd be taking all
these benefits out to the market again
any other questions mr. president I'm moving the Board of Trustees approves
the renewal of the excess workers compensation reinsurance policy but
sorry that's why I exit out next well let's try this again I move the Board
trustees approves a voluntary benefit products for plan year 2022. thank you we have a motion by mrs
van a second by mr redmond we'll now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and
say aye aye motion carries seven zero ten ten discuss uh and consider board approval of the
the 2021-2022 health plan. Keep it rolling. Keep it rolling. Okay.
Okay. Good evening again. This evening I bring to you our final health care plan update as we look
to plan year 2022. And I'd like for us to take a look at a few things. I'm going to give you a
historical overview of our plan results. We will study historical premiums. We're going to look
at TRS and what has happened there. We will look at the operating results for
plan year 2020 and plan year 2021. We'll show you what the plan year projection
for 2022 it will be, our proposed premiums for 2022 premiums, and the plan
year 2022 strategies. In this slide I'm here showing you what we've done
historically with the plan. In plan year 2018 we projected we'd have a 2.4
million dollar loss. We actually had a gain operating gain of 3.5 million
dollars with plan members totaling 7148 and that's employees. However we saw no
premium increase at this time or we did not change the plan design. Plan year
year 2019, we projected a $3.8 million loss with an operating gain of $1.138 million.
Plan members on the plan that particular year were $7,538. Again, no premium increase and
no plan design changes. Plan year 2020 came to you and we projected a $2.22 million loss
loss and we actually had an operating loss of 2.689 million with 7961 employees on the plan
we did not increase premiums or change plan design
let's look at our 2021 operating results from January of this year through June of 2021 you
You will see that we total contributions from the district and staff totaled $30 million,
$30.529 million, with expenses against those contributions of $36,070,000.
They're currently standing at a $5.5 million loss.
We had a loss projection to you at $5.7 million.
dollars a question that always comes to me well where are we with TRS where do
we stand against our our fellow districts that are part of TRS what I'm
showing you is our current plan design and premiums that that match up very
close to what's offered at TRS and you will see that you can look at each tier
and you can see a significant difference in the premiums had we been with TRS
that our employees would be paying. It is significant. I will point you to one
area where they're actually just a little bit lower than we are and that's
under the high deductible health plan, employee only, we're at $64 a month and
they're at $44 and that's basically a strategic play on their part to drive as
many people into that high deductible health plan as possible. But you will see
that we're still very much more competitive and offer a very quality plan to these staff
members.
I think it's also important to remember, as we've seen in the previous slides, that if
we were with TRS, our contribution would be close to $104 million.
That's significant.
Very significant.
What does 2022 look like in terms of plan projection?
Actuarially, we are looking at a $3.4 million loss based on our same structure
and same premium contributions by staff and the district.
With a loss projection, let me back up.
The actuarial loss pick is 5.7.
We're budgeting a $3.4 million loss.
That is keeping everything as is.
If I were to move everything forward one year and not do a thing,
with increased costs of health care, inflation,
and maintaining the same level of contributions month over month.
Here are the 2022 premiums that we are proposing for the health plan.
As you will see, we are proposing a dollar increase.
And it's very important that we think about something here.
If you look back in the first slide, I think it was I presented to you,
with plan year 2018, we have not increased premiums year over year over year.
The district in the years where we've had a deficit have come along,
as Mr. Smith was mentioning, a transfer into the health fund
to help bolster the plan expenses.
And, you know, some of us in this room might remember the commercial,
the Fram commercial, you can pay me now or you can pay me later.
Inflation catches up with us over time,
and we have to do some increases to make sure that the plan is healthy.
That's just things are going up all around, milk, gas, and health care.
So what are some strategies that we're looking at?
This year, for the first time, we're going to be doing dependent verification.
In this process, employees seeking to enroll in plan year 2022 will need to provide evidence supporting the dependents in which they have enrolled on the plan.
Qualifying life events when dependents are added will be required to show supporting evidence for any changes.
All new hires will be required to provide dependent status as existing plan members.
members.
This is important.
Once dependency status is verified by the SNAP member, it will no longer be required
in the future.
Our plan sets out rules that outline who can be on the plan.
And by doing this dependent verification, we're making it equitable for everyone that
can be on the plan.
It's not fair for some people to slide in and provide someone, Aunt Gussie's friend,
that can be next door.
it's not fair to me it's not fair to our staff to have to pay that in terms of
deficits and things of that nature so we have to do this now I will give you an
example and I'm gonna use myself as an example recently I went to go apply for
a passport and through floods and moving I couldn't find my original birth
certificate so I had to go down go through the process and get a new birth
certificate so I can take it to the Department of State.
We know that these circumstances will arise with staff.
They've lost papers, they've been damaged through Hurricane Harvey.
We're going to take a really holistic approach.
If a situation approaches that matter, we're going to have an appeal process and we're
going to look at this from a very common sense perspective.
If that person has been on the plan for a number of years, it's highly likely that that
is a legitimate dependent but we are going to require people to go through
this process and this process is being handled through our ADP who runs our
plan enrollment piece so we will we will work with people it won't be it won't be
hard and fast but we are going to hold people to the rules in which they make
dependent status changes and then lastly we're gonna be looking we've looked at
chronic disease management utilizing our digital monitoring in concert with our virtual medicine
to manage major chronic diseases of our planned participants
i would invite any questions that you might have at this time
i have one question on the dependent verification do you have reason to believe that's being abused
or is it just just uh just good obviously seems like a good practice to do that but is there
reason to believe there's been I will be perfectly honest with you usually when
you do a dependent verification you usually see anywhere from five six
percent people not being able to be on the plan and really and really the
process is is to really to get people to think twice it makes them think well
they're doing this process I better not do it and that's where you pick up that
that five or six, maybe upwards, some say 8%.
I'm going to be conservative, maybe five to six.
It's to make people think twice.
And again, it's equitable to everybody on the plan
because the dollars that we spend are not insurance dollars.
They're KDISD dollars, and it needs to be fair to everybody,
to the child, to the dependent, whoever it may be.
Mr. President.
Yes, I have a couple.
I'm sorry.
About the dependent verification, I'm actually kind of surprised that we haven't done that before
because when I had a job umpteen years ago, I had to prove, you know, when my children were born,
when I wanted to add them on to my insurance, you know, I had to show their birth, you know,
even though I was pregnant one day and had a baby the next day,
I still had to give them, you know, the birth certificate and all this.
And so that was, you know, 20 years ago.
So I'm sort of surprised we weren't doing that, but I'm happy that we are.
So that's just a statement I wanted to make about that.
But also I have a question about the comparison chart,
because I know that people are going to say some things about the increase of the premiums.
But no, the comparison chart where you showed.
TRS?
Yeah.
Okay.
Could you put that on the website or something?
or you know so that the you know so our teachers can see that um yes is that something for you or
for dr kubarski i don't know um um yeah we can put anything on the website you choose to put on
the website i i don't know if anyone will navigate to it to go explore that and look at that i don't
know the best way to to show them that comparison um but we can certainly put it on the website if
if you'd like it up there.
There are many nuances to the TRS plans.
They have a lot of different plans that are more regional,
and it really can be confusing,
and maybe the best way to do it is just a link or something,
please refer to.
That might be an appropriate way to do that,
because they have regional, like our Memorial Herman ACO.
Memorial Herman is not in Austin, or it's not in San Antonio.
And those prices, as I understand, are based on those regional price influences.
How was the percent increase determined?
I mean, you didn't pass it all on to the employees.
I guess it was still some split that you guys came up with on what the percent increase was?
Well, if you will look, let me try to get to the slide.
You will look, something that I think that's important to know is a vast majority of our
large claims, two things.
You will find that they're created by our employee spouse tier, tier two.
That bears a heavy burden to the health plan.
So we try to make, based on the product or the claims expense by tier, we try to spread
that as evenly as we can.
and sometimes you have to collect a little more in those tiers because of that claim activity.
And the Choice POS is a very high utilization plan that is a very open plan.
You can pretty much go anywhere you want, and that drives a big dollar expense.
I will say this, that the Memorial Hermann and HDP, the high deductible health plans, are doing very well.
but the choice POS is needs to be bolstered up. It always has been and we
just we kind of have to do that. And I would also add to that in this
conversation we are not changing deductibles.
or changing out-of-pocket maximums.
We did not, we moved, yes, we are increasing premiums,
but we did not move the furniture around, if you will, inside the house
in terms of plan design, pushing more deductibles on people.
And sometimes you can see that as a way to try to garnish more premium on the backside,
but there's no change in which we felt was not appropriate at this time.
And when's the open enrollment?
I guess you can change any, is there like an open enrollment where you can change
if you wanted to go from the Choice POS, which is going up quite a bit,
and move down to the Memorial Hermann, or move down, just on the chart, move down,
not that it's lower quality, but you could switch during a certain period of time?
We have an active enrollment, which begins in October,
and we make everyone enroll in the plan,
except for you automatically qualify for the employer paid life insurance.
Okay, so it's an annual thing.
It's an annual process, and we want people,
We want people to make a conscious business decision on what their level of risk, and
if you'll recall, these three plans are based on the level of risk the individual
wishes to choose.
With that said, that's a time for people to go, okay, I think I'm going to move here
based on my needs and my family, what it may be.
We look at that annually and give them that opportunity.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, thank you so much.
I have a quick question.
How many years has there been no increase in three?
Three, and this would be four if we increased, if we didn't do any increases.
But three full.
For the last three years we haven't had any increase.
Correct.
Okay.
Because they're going to ask me.
And let me, I'm sorry if I interject something that I failed to mention earlier.
One of the things up until last year that the district had never done was buy
stop-loss insurance, okay, individual stop-loss. And because it was it was a
business decision. Our claims didn't justify the premium that we would pay. So
Mr. Smith and myself and Mr. Dr. Gorgorst and we were sitting down and as you can
see over time our demographics have changed substantially in the district.
We're getting larger, becoming more urban.
And when that happens, your costs go up.
So last year was our first year to purchase stop-loss insurance,
and I'm glad we did because of COVID and the increased expense to that.
So things like that on the backside,
really try to keep that inflation to the plan in check as best we can,
those large surprises.
May I continue?
I just have one thing.
What about prescription costs?
Stay in the sink.
Stay in the sink.
Stay in the sink.
We did not change prescription plan.
Not increasing the copay or anything like that.
Copay or anything like that.
That is.
So why are people calling me and saying it goes up?
It's going up.
My copay keeps going up.
That's not true?
No.
Okay.
Or it's not as good as somebody else, ABC, ISD.
Okay.
And we still pay more than the required by state portion.
Can you talk about those numbers again?
Sure.
I think there's two pieces to that.
The state requirement is we pay $225.
We contribute monthly $385 PEPM.
And as I mentioned earlier in this presentation,
the district had been contributing in those deficit years.
You know, Mr. Smith was talking about the budget transfer to kind of bolster up the plan.
So when you really add that in, that $385 is a lot richer than really people see.
They really don't see that because they're not in it day to day.
But that's a very significant.
So you take $3 million divided by, you know, 70 or 8,000 people,
that's another $30 or $40 a month if I do the math right in my head,
adding more to your health premiums or lower your health premiums.
Which when they look at what someone else is paying in another district,
we don't know how much their district is contributing, right?
So, okay.
Okay. And then how will we communicate this to our employees? Because that's a significant
increase compared to the fact that we wish we could give more to the base pay, right? We wish
more of a salary increase. This is going to be for those who are doing this. Of course, we all are.
All of us are having more insurance costs, all of us. But how will you communicate this? Because
because these are incredibly good numbers, all of those things.
We haven't increased prescription cost stays, your deductible stay.
Maybe, Mr. Gorgorski, this is better for you.
A short video for our employees that kind of gives a couple of charts
and talks about it and here's how much we've had, all those things.
It's communication that they don't, because they call me with these questions,
not ridiculous, with these questions, and I'm like, no, that's not what was presented to us.
So the hard part about doing that the easy part is yes certainly create a
video and do some slides maybe some voiceovers to explain how the plan works
that's the easy part. That's great. The super extremely difficult part is trying
to explain a comparison chart for others like like you had brought up if we're
trying to compare this district with that district and what do they put in
and what is there that would be yeah just to be sure us to talk about we've
We've had no increase in three years.
Your deductible cost, your prescription cost, we pay $385 instead of the state requires two.
Right?
It's just good information for them to have, not a comparison, just about what's happening.
And some of the things you talk about, Ms. Fox, like when you say prescriptions,
I understand possibly why people are saying something with prescription because it's not always the same copay.
It's not a standard.
Like if I go get a prescription, it's always $10.
No, it's based upon the item you're getting.
Some are generic, some are cheaper, some are brand names, they're expensive, more.
So it's not one of those kind of systems that we can say, listen, we didn't change your
prescription costs, all your prescriptions are still $10.
You might get a prescription one day that's $2, you might go in and get something that's
a brand name, something high dollar, and it could be $150 for that prescription.
So that's just how the plan works.
I'm not aware of any plans, Mr. Nauman, and you can let me know if there is that you just got a straight cost regardless of the prescription.
No, there is not that I'm aware of.
And I'll just tie a little into what Dr. Gregorcio was saying.
I think our staff has done a really good job of looking at brand versus generic and making those good.
I've talked to you about making good consumer choices.
I think the data is showing that.
I will tell you this, we also, when you have time to sit down and watch TV, we're just, we're engrossed in these commercials about these specialty meds that are just, the $150, the $200 copay share cost that's associated with those can be substantial.
But our group is working well within that.
But to answer your question specifically, each year during open enrollment, we'll give people a summary.
Here are some changes that are coming.
And we work with our campus.
We have benefit liaisons at each of our campuses, and we educate those folks to the changes,
and we try to push that out and just communicate, communicate as best we can.
And when we talk about the one-time requirement of providing documentation,
Again, when we explain that this is an effort to save all of us money and to be as efficient
as we can with the money that we have, they'll understand that instead of when it comes time
and it's like all of a sudden, why are you making me do that?
Right?
I think people, I think all people respect equity.
I think they really will.
I think they will too, but an explanation from you all would be great.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Mr. Nauman, even with the premium increase, is there still that $5.7 million projected loss?
That's an – I mean, you have to look at what has happened.
And you have to, on good faith's sake, it could happen like this again.
You know, I wish I had the magic ball, or as Mr. Smith was saying, I'd be in Maui.
But that's based on underwriting.
And what we're seeing in the medical world is we were isolated for how many months?
So now people are beginning to get those elective surgeries done.
We're beginning to see a lot of, I will say this,
we're seeing a lot of illnesses that have surfaced with people that they didn't know they had,
they were paying attention to.
It's an unpredictable time.
It really is so we have to do our best to say okay. What can we do to manage that?
I guess I ask that question because it in my just normal budget mind
I would think well then we need to raise premiums enough to make up for that loss so it's zero
But I like the fact that we're not
In what we're I'm sorry. I don't know. I apologize
I think you do it gradually over time. This is we haven't done this in a while, but we'll look you're over here
Next year we'll look and go, okay, maybe things have stabilized.
Maybe we can just kind of stay where we are.
But we start this process long in advance, you know, six months,
and we monitor how things are going on a monthly basis to go, hey,
how's the health of the plant, just like our own health?
So we manage that on an ongoing monthly basis so that we don't, in July, go, oh, well, hello.
And I think y'all do a great job.
I'm the one that gets the emails from my company every year that says well do you want us to rebid it?
It's gone up this much
How much do you want to pass on to your employees?
And I I love the fact that we've been able not to pass that on for so long
And even even as I look at it this year, we probably could logically justify more of an increase
but still holding back and in
Carrying that as much of a district as a district as we can so thank you
Mr. President
Mr. Redmond, I love that question about the budget,
because I was actually wondering that too.
But I was wondering, because last time we talked about this,
I think you mentioned something about the virtual appointments and things.
Is that less expensive?
I would think that that would be less expensive to people.
And will that, do you think that that could eventually,
I don't know what I'm saying,
but help offset some of those expenses that they're having?
We continue to see utilization just really through the roof on that, to be perfectly honest.
And as you know, we pay for that.
That's free to our employees, and we encourage them to do that.
It's a cost savings.
The sniffly nose, and let's take COVID kind of out of the play.
We've had a huge because of COVID.
I'm glad that we had it in place and that it was free because we deferred a lot of costs
because if people are going to urgent cares and clogging up the ERs with symptoms that they might think about going to the ER or their urgent care for,
we've been able to handle that through virtual medicine.
And that virtual medicine platform is saving the district lots of money.
So it's free to all the employees who have insurance?
Correct.
Okay, that's awesome.
And their dependents as well.
Wow.
That's the way to go then.
Any other questions on this topic?
I will entertain a motion.
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposed plan design and premiums for the plan year 2022.
Thank you.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Mrs. Wilson.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion carries 7-0.
Agenda item 10.11. Discuss and consider board approval of the 2021-2024 Builders Risk Program for projects related to the 2021 bond.
Oh, he's moved.
I'm popular tonight.
Board Policy CRB Legal states that a district may purchase insurance protection against claims for property damage, personal injury, and death.
Immediately following the bond election of 2021, a formal request for proposal RFP process was implemented to secure quotes for builder's risk coverage for the period August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024.
Proposals were sought based on the expected building and remodeling projects as part of the bond package with a guaranteed rate structure.
The policy covers the following during construction.
Buildings, structures and contents, mobile equipment, boiler and machinery, as well as liability during the construction phase.
Major perils include fire, flood, earthquake, windstorm, named windstorm, and hail.
The total insured value is based on the individual project.
During the term, coverage values will fluctuate based on the beginning and end dates.
This program allows for specific designation of a project to be insured,
allowing for the management of premium during the life of the bond program.
The Risk Management Department determined the need to address market conditions via request for proposal utilizing two insurance brokers with 16 different markets approached.
Following the review of all quotes and coverages presented, Risk Management believes New Hampshire Casualty, AIG, through USI Insurance Services will provide the best program for the needs of the district.
The rate quoted for this program is $0.06 per $100 for insured values, $0.06 per $100 for flood insured values, plus an additional $0.01 per $100 for both windstorm and named windstorms for a total rate of $0.13 per $100 of insured value.
The proposed review highlighted the following benefits.
Fixed pricing for a period of three years and fixed deductibles.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the builder's risk as submitted by USI for projects related to the 2021 bond for the period August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 with AIG as the designated insurance carrier.
Thank you. Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the proposal for Builders Risk as submitted by USI for projects related to the 2021 bond for the period of August 1st, 2021 to July 31st, 2024 with AIG as a designated insurance carrier.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Champaign, a second by Mr. Keller.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion carried.
7-0.
agenda item 1012 disgusting consider board approval but oh now he's moving
again huh he moves when I'm reading discuss and consider board approve the
district performance objective though it's always different miss Natalie
Martinez welcome each year the board is asked to review and approve the district
performance objectives that guide the district improvement planning process
The performance objectives are aligned to the eight strategic goals and are created through three different processes.
Four of the district performance objectives are from legally required statute.
Seven are yearly action steps from the strategic design process.
And 15 are created from the needs assessment, which involves district departments, staff, parents, and community members.
You received a copy of the proposed district performance objectives and at this time I'll answer any questions that you have.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
So when we look, let's just look at goal one.
Several things here, performance objectives, that the number of students or the number of, let me give you one.
number of students completing a dual credit or advanced placement course will increase over the previous year
Is that significant enough considering that we grow in enrollment? I mean, that's a given should we have a percentage assigned to these goals?
Would it be more?
measurable because we certainly do have them when it comes to
Performance objective seven eight right those that are related to achievement
seems a little, I don't know.
If this is a goal of ours, how do we measure
that it's increasing because we grow in enrollment?
That's increasing.
I mean, certainly it would increase.
I wonder if we should have more measurable numbers there.
I can tell you we're moving towards the SMART goal format.
That is our hope and intent, too.
The ones that you see, the numbers,
performance objectives 7, 8, 9,
Those are House Bill 3 ones that come from the accountability department.
It's our norm to do it that way.
So it's more of us working with all the departments to get to that level of a SMART goal.
Yes.
Okay.
I appreciate that.
I have some hesitancy with moving toward, and it's our hope.
Sure.
Right.
That, you know, if we're going to close gaps, I would like to see some more measurability.
I'm totally fine.
I'm fine.
I'm not going to vote against this tonight, but I'll also tell you that for dual credit
and advanced placement, you'll see the board reports that come out at dual credit comes
in July.
Advanced placement comes in October and those also have action steps at the bottom.
We can certainly make that a requirement this year to say, let's make those action steps
more measurable.
That will lead us into the direction, not a hope, not a wish, but an actual piece where
where you will see those measurable outcomes
in the action steps of the board reports.
You can maybe look there.
Thank you very much.
I just chose one that didn't have a measure.
Sure, understood.
It's not the only one, right?
Right.
This was an example.
So I just, if it's a performance objective, I'd like.
Thank you for moving toward those SMART goals.
I appreciate that.
Yes.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district performance
objectives I have a motion by risk for Redmond a second by mrs. van will now
proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye the motion
carries 7-0 and gender item 10.1 3 discussing discussing consider board
approval of the remote homebound instruction waiver the presenters miss
Ms. Gwen Coffey.
Doctor, I'm sorry.
Apologies.
I'm getting tired.
That's okay.
I've gone by one much longer than the other.
Good evening, President Schulte, board members, and Superintendent Grogorski.
I'm here tonight to bring some information related to a waiver that will allow us to provide remote instruction to homebound students.
Texas school districts and open enrollment charter schools are required to seek a waiver when providing remote instruction to homebound students
students in order to allow the affected students to generate attendance or eligible days present.
According to the homebound funding provisions in the Student Attendance and Accounting Handbook,
homebound funding and homebound documentation requirements noted in Section 4.7.2.5, consistent
with BF legal and applicable law, the Board of Trustees must approve the practice for
which the waiver is requested.
Remote homebound waivers are submitted based on the individual needs of the student.
However, more than one student may be submitted on a single waiver request.
And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Me again.
Good evening, Dr. Coffey.
How often is this applied?
Could you give us a circumstance or is this going more toward a virtual consistency rather
than an exceptional waiver?
So that's a great question, especially in light of everything that's been happening.
So I would not say this is common.
Typically, we have some years where we have none,
and some years where we have four or five.
Last year would not be a good example because we didn't even have to submit the waivers
because we were covered through the virtual instruction plan we submitted to TEA.
I know currently we have five students whose ARD committee is considering,
based on the reports from their physician, because we do need to have physician input.
The ARD committee has to meet.
So it's not common, but it is more frequent, I would say, in light of current circumstances.
And a follow-up question, please.
Homebound students, this is a temporary time to be instruction from home because of an illness or a surgery or something like that, correct?
Yes, ma'am.
Okay.
And how many students are in your program at any one time?
That varies pretty significantly because we do general ed and special education.
but somewhere between depending on the year 50 to probably 150 students could
be served any other questions mr. president yes I know the Board of
Trustees approves the waiver for remote instruction second we have a motion by
mrs. van second by mr. Redmond will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise
your right hand say aye motion carries 7-0 agenda item 10.14 discuss and consider board approval of
the plat for the katie independent school district's northwest facility which includes
high school number 10 junior high number 18 elementary school number 45 and new northwest
transportation center miss lisa cassman good evening good evening president schulte trustees
and Dr. Gagorski. The first item is in regards to the plat. The plat reflects all boundaries,
utility easements, road right-of-ways, and associated dedications and is consistent
with the design as presented and indicating both future and current thoroughfares additions and
modifications. The plat has been reviewed by the City of Houston Planning Commission
and was submitted to Harris County to certify and record. Approval of the final plat will ensure
a proper documentation of the property to support construction development and associated permitting
any questions mr president i move that the board of trustees approves the plat for the
kd independent school district's northwest facility which includes high school number
10 junior high school number 18 elementary school number 45 and the new northwest transportation
there okay okay we have a motion by mr. Redmond a second by miss Wilson now
proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye motion
carries 7-0 then the item 10.1 5 discussing consider board approval of a
contract for design services associated with the renovations at the Miller
careers and Technology Center administration of review programs
currently offered at Miller and evaluated the need for renovations to
support increased program enrollment and to meet industry standards within the
existing programs. Additionally, administration identified the need for a
new program of study, construction management and inspection that will
provide students an opportunity to pursue an initial certification in OSHA
30 with a specialized pathway in HVAC. There is a potential for future programs
that may include additional pathways in other areas of trades and manufacturing.
Other modifications for Miller will include veterinary medicine, health science, dental, culinary, and cosmetology.
Any questions?
Mr. President, I have a question.
I'm excited about this, but when will this be available?
When will this start to be available to the students?
We're looking for the fall of 2022.
That is so awesome.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, so this is a contract for design services.
What new services are they going to put there?
Because we already have culinary, we already have veterinary.
What's new?
Just updating the spaces with different equipment.
I can defer to curriculum instructions.
There are no new programs for students.
It's just an update to the ones that are already there.
I'll jump in, Ms. Fox.
The newest program out of this is hopefully the HVAC program.
You might recall years ago we had an auto body program over there that was kind of phased out.
Nobody wanted it.
It was, I guess for lack of a better term, defunct.
So that space has been cleared out, and that would become the new HVAC program.
So we'll need to do that.
The culinary is going to be an expansion.
expansion. It's a widely popular program and we found a way to expand the kitchen into existing space that's next door so we can service more kids in that program. Some of the other things, as Ms. Kassman discussed, would be just modifications to those current programs to get them up to industry standard.
Thank you, Dr. Gorkorski. I appreciate that. I'm really excited about the HVAC. It's no surprise that for many years, several years, I have been talking about vocational trades for our students.
I think this is a program that we definitely need.
HVAC is a good start.
Plumbing, electrical, construction, all of those things are in great demand
and pay a very high salary with a one-year certificate and a high school diploma.
You know, boys and girls can make $45,000 straight out of high school
without incurring any college debt, and the demand is high for those positions.
So I'm glad we have HVAC coming.
I hope that we can find places for, you know, we need a space to add these others because
we have companies who want to work with KDISD.
So when you talk about design services, let's fill that Miller career with every inch of
opportunities for boys and girls to sustain themselves and their families once they leave
high school.
For those who don't choose not to go to college, for those who do, we'll expand an opportunity
for them to get invited and scholarships at college, right?
So I love all of that.
It's one of my passions.
We've talked about it, more vocational programs for our boys and girls,
wherever we can fit that.
So thank you for letting me.
Any other questions?
I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Stantic Architect for design services
associated with the renovations of the Miller Career and Technology Center.
Second.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Champagne, a second by Mrs. Vann.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion carries 7-0.
Agenda item 1016, discuss and consider Board approval of the change in evaluation of the
the criteria for civil works projects.
Okay, this final item is in regard to the weighting criteria for civil projects,
such as roads, vehicle stacking, and the flood mitigation.
House Bill 2581, Evaluation of Criteria for Awarding Construction Projects,
becomes effective September 1, 2021.
This bill provides direction on the selection criteria for price
with 50% recommended unless brought forward for board action.
We are requesting that the waiting for price be approved at 36.9% since the success of a project includes not only a competitive price, but also experience, reputation, quality of work, safety record, proposed personnel, financial capability, and appropriate to the size and scope of the project, and along with the past relationship with the district.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I I move that the Board of Trustees approves a change in the evaluation for
criteria for civil works projects okay we have a motion by mr. champagne the
second by mrs. Wilson will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your
right hand and say aye the motion passes 7-0 mr. I get that wrong I tell you when
I look I can't look you guys sound like you're coming from the side and now that
helps me when you do that so I'll look for that next time I apologize but the
The second was by Ms. Vance.
My apologies.
Mr. President, may I ask Ms. Cassman another question about the one before that?
We approve.
a contract for design services but we haven't approved the design when does that come to us
hopefully the next month or two next month or two thank you okay we'll now proceed to information
items agenda item 11.1 certification of anticipated tax collection rates the board was provided
information regarding the certification of anticipated tax collection rates for 2021-2022
Agenda item 11.2, 2021 appraisal district budgets.
The board was provided a copy of the 2021 appraisal district budget.
Agenda item 11.3, donated items to Katy Independent School District.
The board was provided a copy of the items donated to Katy ISD.
11.4, recap of board members' request for information.
Ms. Champagne.
Okay.
So this is new.
So let me start out with this.
and if i get something wrong please correct me but what i have is that mr smith is going to provide a
pdf of the 21 22 budget and tax to the board members and we'll put that on the website
and then some type of communication that mr nalman presented about the insurance will go out
to the employees some some type i'm not saying what type it is you all will create that and then
And Natalie Martinez said that she was going to work on more measurable goals or whatever for the action items and the performance objectives.
And that's all I have.
Thank you.
Move to agenda item 12, future meetings.
There's a special board meeting, team building workshop scheduled for 13th of December 2021.
Agenda item 12.2.
the next regular board meeting is scheduled for september 27 2021
and with all that item 13 adjournment there being no for the business before
the board this meeting is adjourned the time is 8 26. thanks everyone have a good evening
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees enters into an agreement to purchase from Heritage Park Management, LLC an approximate 5.0 acre parcel of property for a future elementary school for a total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed $699,138.
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 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the local policies included in Board Policy Update 117.
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 8.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meeting held in July.
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 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2020-2021 final amended budget for the Katy Independent School District.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 10.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution to commit and assign fund balance.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 10.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2021-2022 State Compensatory Education funding and other End-of-Course Assessment funding budget, as required by House Bill 5.
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 10.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the 2021-2022 Official Budget for Katy Independent School District.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 10.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's June 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 009 · AGENDA 10.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of software support services above $250,000 for the 2021 - 2022 school year. The total budgeted amount is $3,980,441. The funding for these services is part of the previously approved General Operating Fund (GOF).
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 10.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Interlocal Participation Agreement for the administration of workers' compensation claims with TASB Risk Management Fund for the period September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 10.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of the Excess Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Policy offered by Mid-West Casualty Company with a $550,000 specific retention for and estimated deposit premium of $125,863.
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 10.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Voluntary Benefit products for Plan Year 2022.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 10.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposed plan design and premiums for Plan Year 2022.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 10.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for Builders Risk as submitted by USI for projects related to the 2021 Bond for the period August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 with AIG as the designated insurance carrier.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 10.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District Performance Objectives.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 10.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the waiver for Remote Instruction.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 10.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the plat for the Katy Independent School District's northwest facility which includes High School #10, Junior High School #18, Elementary School #45, and the new Northwest Transportation Center.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 10.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Stantec Architecture for the design services associated with the renovations at the Miller Career and Technology Center.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 019 · AGENDA 10.16
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the change in evaluation of criteria for civil works projects.
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 |