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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, February 28, 2022
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Today is Monday, February 28, 2022, and the time is 5.07 p.m.
Dr. Kigorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regards to notice of this meeting?
Mr. Schulte, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for our meeting this evening.
We will open up tonight's meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. Dr. Gagorski, will you please introduce the pledge leader?
It's my pleasure, Mr. Schulte. Pleased to invite up to our podium. She can go ahead and step up there right now, and I'm going to speak a little bit about her.
Hannah Borders is here tonight from Rhodes Elementary. Tim Wolfe is the principal over there, fifth grader.
Parents are here, Amy and John Borders, and she's got some siblings, Samuel Borders, eighth grade, and Joshua Borders, twelfth grade.
and I hear she likes music and is an avid reader and loves animals. Favorite
subjects reading and math. And from Miss Cage, fifth grade reading teacher, Hannah
is a very enthusiastic learner who always has a positive attitude in the
classroom. She is an avid reader with brilliant ideas and thumbs up thinking, a
shining star. And from Liz Harden, gifted and talented teacher, I cannot be prouder
of Hannah for this honor to represent our Rhodes Rockets. She is always
kind-hearted respectful and cooperative with the entire school community when
faced with challenges she consistently gives her best and never gives up and
always strives for excellence and I can't wait to follow her future
endeavors in school and beyond all yours Hannah go ahead and lead us in the play
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
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 thee. Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible.
Good evening, President Schultz, Superintendent Grigorski, and board members.
For the past six years, I have enjoyed being a Rhodes Rocket.
My family has been a Rocket family since 2009 when my brother Joshua was in kindergarten.
He is now a senior at May Creek High School.
I've had many great teachers at Rhodes, but my favorite is Miss Ringer, my fourth grade math and science teacher.
My favorite memory is when we played games with all the lights off during a glow party.
It was fun because it was new, interesting, and different from a normal day.
I am in both Rocket Singers and Rockets called Ritmo.
Being in these groups helped me decide to join the band at Cardiff Junior High next year.
I've also enjoyed being in safety patrol and will miss it very much
I will dearly miss all the fun times I've had at my school when I go to junior high
I will never forget Rhodes Elementary
Great job, Hannah. Thank you very much.
Are there any scouts in the audience this evening?
Okay, we'll now move on to agenda item...
Oh, there is one.
Okay, yeah, you want to, this is the first time this has happened, so you want to introduce
them.
So you bring them up to the podium and let us know what badges you're working on.
Sorry about being bumpy there.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Welcome.
School.
All right.
Good evening.
My name is Sean Creighton.
I am in Troop 424, and I am currently working on my citizenship with the Community Merit
Badge.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Agenda item three, recognitions. Mr. Gregorski. Thank you, Mr. Schulte. I'll now introduce
Maria DiPetta, Manager of Media Relations, for the recognitions portion of our meeting tonight.
Good evening, President Schulte, Trustees, and Superintendent Grogorski.
We begin tonight with the University Interscholastic League, which has a history of educational
and athletic excellence through competition.
Five Katy ISD high school cheer squads competed at the UIL Texas High School State Spirit
Championship in Fort Worth this past January and our district has for the
third consecutive year brought home a 6a division one state title at this time
I'd like to introduce miss Carrie finison principal of Seven Lakes High
School good evening president Schulte trustees and superintendent Gorg or ski
through hard work and perseverance the Seven Lakes High School cheerleading
team has earned back-to-back state titles this hard-working group is
committed to each other and their sport that dedication and grit paid off at
this year's state championship competition for the second year in a row
our cheerleaders compete in 6a division one as a large varsity group not only
did they receive the top score in our division but they also received the
highest score of any 6a high school in the state which means they outscored a
total of a hundred and fifteen squads throughout Texas this is an unprecedented
accomplishment the squad is led by a talented and cohesive group of cheer
coaches who are focused on the success and growth of these student athletes our
Spartan community is so very proud of this team and all they have been able to
achieve please help me welcome to the front our sponsors our head coach Amy Weston assistant
coach Haley hand and assistant coach Mary Jo Hall I'd also like to call to the front our Spartan
cheer co-captains Samantha Weston yes her name is familiar and Alexandra
Malik I would like to recognize all of our senior members in addition to Alex
and Sam Elena Beelen Reagan Garvin Rory Jones Mary wolf and Brayden Yates seniors
Seniors, please present our Board of Trustees with their UIL Gold Medal.
We have one for you too, Dr. Gorski.
If you want to wear yours like theirs from the one last year and you clink around, you
can do that.
It's okay.
Okay.
And all squad members in attendance tonight, please come forward as well.
Thank you so much for recognizing these ladies.
Ms. Finneson, why don't you have them come around and do one quick picture here.
Congratulations to the entire
higher Spartan cheerleading team
next each year the Texas Association of school administrators and the Texas
Association of school boards facilitates the exhibit of school architecture
ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION.
KDISD IS PROUD TO HAVE RECEIVED THE 2021-2022 CALDAO AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PLANNING AND
DESIGN OF THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR THE YOUNG AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE CENTER.
AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE MRS. IRENE NGALAONI, PRESIDENT OF N2 ARCHITECTURE,
TO PRESENT THIS AWARD ON BEHALF OF TASSA AND TASBE.
We also ask that the members from the KDIC facilities planning and construction department,
VOK architects, and steward builders please come forward.
Good evening.
My name is Irene Gaglioni, and I am honored to be here today to represent the Association of Learning Environments Southern Region Foundation.
The Association for Learning Environments is dedicated to enhancing the places where students learn.
the southern region foundation was formed as a region's philanthropic arm
to support the scope in 2020 we forged the partnership with TASA to be a
partner for the exhibit of school architecture this partnership helps
promote the work of our school district and architect members highlighting the
excellent planning and design work that these teams are doing across the state
Each year, a jury made up of TASA, TASB, and A4LE members convenes to review the submissions and determine winners.
Projects are judged on six major stars of distinction, which are design, innovation, planning, community, transformation, and value.
This year we had a total of 46 entries, 22 of which received at least one star of distinction.
Every year, projects that earn more than four stars of distinction out of the six possible
are included as finalists for the highest level of recognition, the Caudell Award.
This prestigious award was created to honor Bill Caudell's long-lasting contributions
to the field of educational architecture.
architecture. Once finalists are determined, the jury convenes again to discuss those projects
that should earn the Cadell class, reviewing each star of distinction in detail and confirming their
merit. I'm excited to share that the Gerald Young Agricultural Sciences Center has earned the Cadell
class distinction, having earned five of the possible six stars. The jury was astounded by
the multi-purpose nature of this facility its impact on all district students and the incredible
value it represents i'd like to share with you some of the jury comments this is an out of the
ordinary project that took years of thought and planning to make it happen impressive with the
overall design and carry through of the project for the students staff and community of this
district another juror commented the accessibility for all students in the
community is greatly enhanced with this project all our students should have the
agricultural experiences this facility has to offer it is my pleasure and
honor to present the condo class of work to Katie ISD and VLK architects for the
the Gerald E. Young Agricultural Sciences Center.
There we go.
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give them a round of applause congratulations to the KDI steam facilities planning and
construction department as well as VLK architects and store builders who work together on this
facility which will be utilized by many future generations of KDI SD students and families this
This concludes the recognitions portion of this evening's meeting.
Thank you.
We'll now move on to Agenda Item 4.1, Peace Officer Oath of Office.
The presenter tonight is Chief Gall and Deputy Chief Tabor.
School Board and Dr. Gagorski, it's our distinct pleasure to introduce you tonight to the three newest officers for the KDISD Police Department.
I'm going to start over here on the right side first.
Gregory Erdeneta was born in Marcaibo, Venezuela, where he was born and raised.
Upon graduation, he was a contract trainer for the Venezuelan military and a translator for U.S. military special forces assigned in Venezuela.
Greg moved to the United States in 2007 with his wife, Goretti Mejia, and their sons, who all graduated from Seven Lakes High School.
In 2019, Greg attended the University of Houston Downtown Law Enforcement Academy,
Academy and upon graduating began his law enforcement career with the Fort
Bend County precinct three constables office officer and edda began his career
with the KTISD police department in 2021 officer as son Juan Pablo is also a
Texas peace officer son Jaime is currently studying political science in
the US Air Force ROTC and son Juan is studying business administration officer
officer. Officer Marcus Payne was born in Topeka, Kansas and raised in Kansas City,
Missouri. Officer Payne graduated from Grandview High School in Grandview, Missouri in 2013.
Upon graduation, Officer Payne attended the University of Missouri, Kansas City and earned
a bachelor's degree in criminal justice criminology in 2018. After college, Officer Payne moved
down to Richmond, Texas with his family and began working as a correctional officer at
the fort ben county sheriff's office officer payne attended the nine-month wharton county junior
college police academy while working full-time as a correctional officer in the jail after working
three years at fort ben county sheriff's office officer payne was hired by the kdisd police
department in october 21 and currently is having a great experience in his off time
Officer Payne likes to train in martial arts, specifically Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Jeet
Kune Do.
Officer Payne also loves to eat and spend time with his family.
Officer Jalissa Moore was born in Odessa, Texas, where she was raised by her parents,
Nichelle Graham and Joan All Moore.
In 2007, she graduated from the Distinguished Achievement Program from Odessa High School.
Upon graduation, she attended Texas A&M Corpus Christi on a track scholarship.
Jalissa moved to Katy, Texas in 2013, where in 2018, she began her law enforcement career as a correctional officer at the Fort Bend County Jail.
She attended and graduated from the Gus George Law Enforcement Academy in 2019, becoming a deputy sheriff.
Sheriff. Officer Moore was hired with the Katy ISD Police Department in 2021.
Jalissa is the proud mother of two beautiful girls, Laken who attends Cimarron Elementary
and Rowan who is one. In her spare time she enjoys reading, another one enjoys eating,
and spending time with her girls. Proud to present these three new officers to y'all.
Hey, so before we start doing the swearing in, Marcus, your mom is here to pin your batch tonight.
Julissa, boyfriend Jacoby is here to pin your batch tonight.
And Gregory, your mom and your three sons, Juan Pablo, Jaime, and Juan Andres, are here to pin your badges.
So if you guys would just stand nearby us.
while we get ready to swear them in
you ready okay raise your right hand and repeat after me I state your name do
solemnly swear that will faithfully execute the duties the office of peace
Peace officer of Katy Independent School District of the State of Texas and will, to the best
of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States
and of this state.
So help me God.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Okay, badge peelers.
Thank you.
Thank you.
At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak
in accordance with KDISD Board Policy BED Local.
As defined by Board Policy, speakers who signed up by 2 p.m. Monday, February 28, 2022, provided
their first and last name, and signed up at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the
meeting will be allowed to address the board the public participation section has been recently
modified to include two categories category one is for speakers signed up to speak on posted agenda
items and category two is for speakers signed up to speak on non-posted agenda items speakers who
signed up to speak on posted agenda items will be allowed to speak three minutes for speakers who
who signed up to speak on non-agenda items,
a maximum of 30 minutes has been allowed,
with the time divided equally among those who have signed up.
However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker
is three minutes.
If the speaker is not finished speaking at the end
of your three minutes or allotted time,
your audio will turn off.
If speakers wish to share written material with the board,
you must provide 10 copies to the Secretary of Board Services
before the meeting begins for both board members,
the superintendent, and the chief communications officer, and permanent record.
If a speaker has not attempted to solve a matter administratively through proper channels as stated in board policy,
the presiding officer's designee shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through the appropriate policy.
Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code Section 551074 and 5510821,
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.
employee. Should a speaker wish 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 order they sign up to speak.
The first speaker tonight is Shannon Flores. The second speaker tonight is Cameron Samuels.
Shannon Flores. Thank you.
Thank you. My full three-minute remarks have been shared in advance with Debbie Davies. I
am strongly opposed to removing books from Katy ISD shelves for any reason. My focus today,
however is to highlight how this board's removal actions impact queer students
and allies in Katy ISD my wife and I have three kids in Katy IC elementary
they have already at the young ages of nine and six had questions about our
family luckily as of now none of these interactions have been traumatic in the
February 2nd email superintendent Gregor C stated and I quote 0.002 percent of
of books, end quote, have been removed.
Of those nine books, five of them, or 56%,
contain queer and or non-binary characters.
What sort of message is this sending
if we are bowing to pressure to remove books with queer themes?
When the vampire-themed fantasy romance Twilight series
was popular, were those books removed for their sex scenes?
Queer students are more likely to experience
bullying, feelings of isolation, end up homeless, and or attempt suicide than
their straight peers. From the Texas Health and Human Services 2020 report, I
quote, the highest rates of attempted suicide we're seeing among students who
identify as sexual minorities. A student can go their entire experience without
knowingly meeting another queer person. Being able to engage in the queer
experience in a book can become a lifeline and the next best substitute
for an in-person community we are a diverse community although one would not
guess that based on the makeup of this school board I urge you to think
carefully when choosing to remove books we should never want to restrict access
to certain books as it leads to intolerance and hatred to the queer
We are soon.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Mr. President, I have a clarifying question to ask of the superintendent, if I might please.
This is allowed by the law.
Dr. Gorgorski, were the books she referenced removed because of their ideologies?
I think the communications that we've put out, Mrs. Fox, have been pretty clear to our community that we are following our board policy EF.
The removal of books or any books that we have had to take off our shelves have gone through a committee process and have been deemed as pervasively vulgar.
That's the only standard by which we remove books.
No books are ever removed from any of our schools for content for which somebody may or may not disagree with.
Thank you. The next speaker is Cameron Samuels. The speaker after that is Dallas Bergstrom.
Good evening.
Board members and district officials, I relied on having access to LGBTQ Internet content,
films and literature when I was younger and learning who I was and becoming who I needed
to be not what others expected me to be over the past week student organizers
from high schools across the district came together for Katie is the fr e ad
freedom week we we distributed books to more than 150 students this past week
and the impact that it has made on students is nothing but positive these
These books were written by authors and included storylines of LGBTQ and BIPOC identities because
this representation in literature is not as readily accessible in libraries.
We need to be represented in the literature we read in class and have access to in school
libraries and we must take ownership of our own education without letting other people
decide what we can and cannot learn about.
The books being targeted across the state and in our school district challenge the notions of white supremacy in a heteronormative society, not because it contains, quote, pervasively vulgar content.
It is no coincidence that this is the very reason that these books are being banned.
This concerning wave of censorship has malicious intent to uphold the status quo that keeps queer students and BIPOC students struggling each and every day.
As an educational institution dedicated to supporting students and becoming successful community leaders, censorship is not the legacy to create.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next speaker is Dallas Bergstrom and the speaker after that is Torin Santana.
Good evening.
Hello, my name is Dallas Bergstrom. I teach manufacturing engineering at Miller Career
and Technology Center. I came today to kind of share some successes of my students. I
feel like a redheaded stepchild and we never get the kudos that I feel that we're always
needing but we run a skills USA organization and there are four programs
this year that are doing it and collaboratively we earned just this last
Saturday 44 golds 17 silver 9 bronze medals 5 students are advancing with a
blue ribbon with projects to the state contest two students earned district
officer positions and we are planning to go to state at the end of March early
April and hopefully be able to be honored up here again at a national
level. That being said, we are constantly striving to partner with businesses and
sometimes we get overshadowed. We, just as a reminder, Miller does not have a PTA.
We have zero booster club, so it's very hard to raise funds to do some of these
things.
I'm being told that hopefully they can, the district has worked very hard and my CTE department has worked tirelessly to try to find this funds to pay for registrations, registration fees and hotels. They're hoping they can find hotel rooms or pay for some hotel rooms for us teachers, which is actually more than the stipend that I'm going to earn.
So if I have to pay that out of my pocket, that's going to be a little frustrating.
That being said, if anybody has a business or a local business, I'm constantly like,
I brought t-shirts, I got a whole suitcase of shirts I'm selling for $20 a piece trying
to raise funds for my organization.
No joke, I brought a whole suitcase.
If anybody wants to purchase a shirt, I'd be happy to.
I'm actually as a bus driver volunteering some of my times too.
I could have earned triple the amount as just a bus driver instead of an advisor, so I'm
next year I think I'll decline the stipend and earn up just drive the bus
instead thank you for your time and I do sir mr. Berkshire what is the name of
the class you teach again manufacturing engineering but culinary and criminal
justice is new and IT is also new this year so they they came in with a wave of
success
Thank you. The next speaker is Torin Santana, and the speaker after that is Armagon Sadeghi.
How are you guys doing? My name is Torin Santana.
I've come to talk about the school pickup line for Bryan Elementary.
I live in the neighborhood just behind Bryan Elementary where the school pickup line comes through.
It's been very dangerous to have the school pickup line go through our neighborhood.
hood. I live on 4630 1618 Dominion Heights Lane. It goes right there behind it. Just two years ago
there was an incident where my son was choking and almost was getting ready to go out. He almost died.
We're trying to get out of our home. We cannot get out of our home because the school line was
blocking our driveway. It's only a two-lane road so one lane has been blocked off by other cars.
if you're trying to get through another car is blocking you so you get blocked
off either way so we almost didn't make it a time luckily by the grace of God he
survived but it could have went terribly wrong and there's another incident where
once again mercy vehicles trying to get through can't get through because the
school line is blocking stuff so it's becoming very very very dangerous to
have that school line go through our neighborhood I don't understand why it
goes through there because it's not part of the school district it's a whole
different district that it goes through so if there's any other solution that
could happen if you give the line and go a different way it'd be greatly
appreciated I hear my time
thank you the next speakers on the guns a deggy and the speaker at that is grace
denner armagon nope grace denner and apologize if I'm saying that wrong and
the speaker after that is Allison Franks good evening everyone my name is grace
denner I'm a senior at Clemens High School in Sugar Land Texas and the
director of communications for voters of tomorrow Texas though I may not be
a resident of KDISD, the recent push to ban books detailing the Holocaust, our country's history of
slavery, and LGBTQ themes right in my own backyard is something I and the other students here today
will not stand for. It is honestly astonishing that here in the 21st century in the United
States of America, a country built on free expression and secularism, elected government
officials are so corrupted by their personal values that they would be willing to ban books
containing perversive, containing perfectly appropriate themes of diversity, inclusivity,
and communal healing from past atrocities.
The main defense of this seems to be that the books contain pervasively vulgar content
that makes children uncomfortable.
I counter that with this instead.
Why shouldn't these topics make children uncomfortable?
In many instances, these banned or challenged titles discuss things that should make people uncomfortable.
They bring to light institutions of racism and anti-Semitism,
discriminatory legacies that have a continued effect in American society today.
In other instances, they challenge children's monoperceptive point of view, showing them
that people different than themselves face different challenges than they do, and all
are deserving of respect and understanding.
The uncomfortableness that many banned books thrust upon their readers is often necessary
and a crucial part of growing one's understanding of themselves and their place in society.
The fact that this school board has decided to make these titles inaccessible to their
students, thus stunting the growth of their own multi-perceptivity, reeks of personal
bias and fascist sympathies that have no place in modern society much less in a school thus i ask
the current members of the kdisd school board you've seen how history remembers those who ban
books dismiss diversity and stand in the way of inclusivity are you really willing to cement your
place alongside them thank you i yield my time thank you the next speaker is allison franks
and the speaker after that is george scott
My name is Allison Franks and I'm a student at Jordan High School and a believer in intellectual
freedom.
Students are taught from a young age.
If you pick up a book that offends you or makes you uncomfortable, close it and return
it.
In less than a year, juniors like myself around Texas will be applying to college, planning
at 17, for the rest of our future.
We are forming our own opinions and diving into the waters of the world.
Yet censoring books instills the idea that we are expected to do so without being given
given access to the crucial resources to learn about other experiences, mindsets, and relationships
as is offered by a diverse high school library.
We are expected to choose our future, yet we are being denied the freedom to choose
our reading material.
Personally, I have read novels I disagree with, novels that make me uncomfortable.
However, each of these novels has helped me grow as a person and prepare for the uncomfortable
truths that are actively occurring in our country and societies.
Knowledge and empathy are developed through experience, and for students, books allow
allow access to a multitude of countless important experiences that would be otherwise directly
unattainable.
Diversity in literature is a benefit, not a detriment.
Last week, students around KDISD came together to proudly make our voices heard.
With complete adherence to school regulations and commitment from over 150 students, 173
books were distributed at Taylor, Seven Lakes, and Jordan to promote freedom of intellect.
We call to be given access to books regarding racism, LGBTQ relationships, reproductive
productive rights and all the controversial topics that directly affect our lives every day.
Opinions may differ and diverse mindsets are valid and entitled. However, students must be given
access to form their own opinions in a safe environment. The exact environment high school
libraries throughout Texas are striving to remain. We call for access to the knowledge education has
promised us and the constitutional freedom to decide what to do with that knowledge for ourselves.
And we are here to tell you we will continue fighting for what we deserve. Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker is George Scott, and the speaker after that is Mary Ellen Cuzela.
Full prepared remarks provided.
President Schulte, don't ever apologize for your commitment to rigorous due diligence,
no matter the cost, an unprecedented, institutionally jeopardizing situation your board confronted.
Your leadership was historically heroic.
Having observed every president of this board since 1983, including Dr. James Williams earlier,
through the more recent extraordinary leadership of Presidents Courtney Doyle and Ashley Vann in tumultuous times,
you are a truly worthy successor of the best of the best who sat where you sit.
Superintendent Grigorski, your statement Thursday was an historically eloquent
expression of the better angels of principles to which all should aspire
regarding governance. I'm a cynic. I was deeply impressed. With that perspective
let me express my deepest admiration to Mrs. Doyle, Mrs. Vann, and Bill Lacey who
who did not blink under maniacal pressure,
understanding that you were the right person at the right time from the beginning.
To Board Members Duke Keller and Lance Ridman,
it can be hard to understand in advance that sometimes events beyond your control
take over forcing bottom line decisions under pressure
as some draw road maps with the wrong path.
By now you have internalized, as I once did, that the table at which you sit is not pristine in motivation.
You and your leader colleagues have rejected the ethically intellectual gibberish as expressed in the Chronicle's quote
that this process could be motivated by silence to silence an elected public official.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Mary Ellen Cozzella. The speaker after that is Sam Smith.
Hi, I'd like to speak tonight about the freedom meetings that happened last week
and address the hijacking of the book removal story by the media and other political entities.
I do not understand why school administration was unaware of the books freely given out
to students during Freedom meetings last week on campus at Seven Lakes, Taylor, and Jordan
High Schools.
Ahead of the event, I asked for a list of books, but the school didn't have it.
I know of a few parents who tried to attend the meetings, but the doors were locked.
An assistant principal told one mother parents were not allowed.
Why?
I also really don't understand why the high schools were okay for the book Flamer by Mike
Curato to be handed out to students. This is a book currently under review by the
district for vulgarity. It contains a locker room shower scene where guys
compare their sexual anatomy and talk about not getting it from behind and a
scene where everyone is supposed to jerk off into a bottle and whomever doesn't
produce has to drink it. Allowing this book to be handed out at a freedom event
on school campuses behind locked doors is beyond unacceptable and complicit
with sharing harmful material to minors. These books are not a solution for an
lbgtq plus teen seeking guidance nor for a teen seeking a sexual education. I want
to reiterate removing vulgar books is not about canceling someone's walk in
life, about hating LGBTQ people, about denying sex exists, racial divides,
political ideology, nor about religion. This is also not about banning
books. If for some reason you feel your kids should have these books they are
They're all available at public libraries and at bookstores.
This is about protecting all children from this kind of sexual detail.
It's porn in print.
If thrown on a movie screen, it'd be rated R in C-17.
It's degrading to people of all ideologies.
There are filters on a student's internet access,
guarding them from accessing porn.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Sam Smith, and the speaker after that is Liz Markowitz.
Sam Smith?
No, Liz Markowitz?
Good evening. The speaker after that is Kathy Carpenter.
Good evening.
Standing here in Fort Bend County, one of the most diverse counties in the nation,
I'm dismayed by the recent wave of book banning across this nation and state.
In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools can ban books that are pervasively vulgar,
but they cannot remove books simply because they dislike the ideas contained within.
it i call upon kdisd as i did before a district that has made national news over the years for
the removal of literature from school libraries to operationally define pervasively vulgar and
provide the public with concrete reasons for every work that has been removed
it is imperative that our students be exposed to a breadth of diverse views
and perspectives in order to successfully navigate the global society in which we live.
Only through exposure to a diverse set of views can our children gain the empathy necessary
to understand situations outside of their own.
We must ensure that children, our future leaders, are able to successfully navigate and solve
the problems that we face as a society.
We learn from the past, and someone much wiser than myself coined the phrase, history repeats
itself.
While I am no historian, I cannot recall a single time when the censorship of ideas and materials was deemed positive or beneficial in retrospect.
Not once have I heard historians credit those who actively censored the written word as transformational leaders.
Rather, such censorship has been found to be both suppressive and oppressive in nature, seeking to marginalize or demean certain populations.
and history has never favored oppression or the oppressor.
We are privileged to live in a country that values freedom,
and as Americans, we have a responsibility...
Thank you.
The next speaker is Kathy Carpenter,
and the speaker after that is Brian Gaither.
Good evening.
Thank you.
It's normal for a child or a young teen to look for their belonging and their identity
through their youth.
What is not normal is allowing children to undergo irreversible puberty blocking therapy,
which is akin to chemical castration.
I need to preface this again by saying I am not here to incite or encourage anger towards
the gay community, since I am of the same orientation.
I am here to expose the hidden dangers of the homosexual agenda that continues to be protected,
defended, and supported. I am here to sound the alarm of the complacency of education
government system.
Over the years our government has created and legalized a multitude of acronyms
that sound like a wonderful project, but always turn out against humanity.
While I cannot name every acronym or abbreviation, we all know that CPS was given the right to
remove any child they want, no matter what.
Every school in America has been given the right to program our children into confusion,
hatred, fear, and filth.
We're tired of hearing excuses for CRT, ESSER, STEM, STAR, SEL, and the library books.
While I refuse to accommodate their new pronouns, the alphabet soup has been given the right
to slam their agenda down the throats of every human on earth.
How long will it be before you start introducing our kids to the North American Man-Boy Love
association better known as an amla the gay agenda leads to a very dark world of
pedophilia and you're helping them thank you thank you the next speaker is Brian
Gaither the speaker after that is Angie McClellan hi my time is brief so I'm
gonna go fast I'm Brian Gaither I'm a Texas public school graduate from El
Paso my mother's a retired public school teacher from San Antonio I have a
Cornell degree and two business related master's degrees and I've just been
called a pedophile to school board meeting which doesn't surprise me
because I'm one of the authors you have blocked on the advocate. At best you
call me a smut monger and at worst you call me a pedophile because you've
justified SIPA as your reason for blocking things that I've written about
Liz Cheney's acceptance of trans rights and gay marriage, Pete Buttigieg and his
husband and cyberbullying on YouTube and I came out tonight as a taxpayer because
I believe in a public education as a public good even though I have no
children in the schools myself, I'm subsidizing the education of everybody who does.
And I do so because I believe in an educated electorate and I believe that you have the
responsibility to make them educated.
One of the things that is important to that education, as people have noted, is allowing
them to see and sense alternative points of view and the worldview of people who are not
necessarily like them.
The things I've written in The Advocate have nothing to do with anything more than politics
as it relates to gay people and how gay people are trying to navigate the world in which
we are called pedophiles on a regular basis, despite the fact that some of us went to the
Ivy League school and had professional degrees and are trying to get a great education in Texas.
So I applaud the students in your district who have come and stood up and advocated for
themselves. I'm advocating for myself and telling you I'm not a pedophile, I'm just a political
writer. And I would hope that you would allow your students to have opportunities to read the things
that I've written in The Advocate and other things that are nowhere near as prurient or as smut ridden
as what you can find in the average magazine of Cosmo on a monthly basis in the grocery store.
So, you know, sorry, I'm a little rushed for time here, but I would like to be, I think that these debates lose the fact that they're real human beings involved in them.
And I'm no more a pedophile than the people on the Trevor Project trying to keep your students from killing themselves.
And I know you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Angie McClellan.
The speaker after that is Colborne McClellan.
KDISD staff, families, and community need to hear the truth about a situation no mother, child, or family should have to endure.
I have courage, transparency, and integrity to report the truth because KDISD has failed to do so.
I am not some nut job.
I am a strong, well-respected leader.
leader. KDISD needs to tell the taxpayers just how much money they have spent on the
litigation against my family and I guarantee you it is well above $500,000. KDISD has a
bully policy to protect kids from kids. However, we do not have a good system in place to discipline
and hold accountable the very adults in education that do the same thing, bully, which makes
them very powerful and very controlling protect it with our tax dollars and no
money of their own KDISD is in the education business that business is
about kids and what is best for kids we are to help advance them from one
lilypad to the next not shoot bullet holes in their lilypads and watch them
drown why why have you refused to correct the false KDISD statement that
you released to parents in the media about my son you lied to the public and you told them a thorough
investigation had been conducted by the city of Katy and Katy ISD police departments yet as
already admitted to by both agencies neither have any record of any investigation regarding Bronson
for his off-campus speech and certainly no report was ever made by anyone anywhere at any time
nor was Bronson ever told or disciplined for making a threat.
You choose to keep a false narrative about a 17-year-old child
that you knew you had no business getting involved in.
That was my role.
I am...
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Colborne McClellan,
and the last speaker tonight is Peniel Otto.
The school board has only heard from one side, and that side was tainted.
I asked the board of trustees to hear our side before automatically accepting as truth
what they have been told from those administrators who caused harm to a student and led to these lawsuits.
My family has tried desperately for over two years to have KDISD retract a public written statement about my son that was false.
KDISD refused to maintain the statement was true.
However, it was recently uncovered by the Fort Bend County DA's office that a certain KDI school principal admitted that he and KDISD knew the statement was false four days after it was released, and KDISD knew that Bronson did not send the video to a black student athlete from Tompkins.
KDISD made my son out to be a racist because he used the slang N-word off campus and having nothing to do with the school.
KDISD knew this slang word was used throughout the campus in the presence of teachers and coaches by students of all races.
Own school property, uses school equipment, KDISD allows music to be played that uses vulgar language, encourages violence, degrades women, and constantly uses the N-word, yet was determined to make an example of Bronson for what he said off campus at Whataburger.
Through this tragedy, Dawn Champagne is the only board member who displayed real courage, has the moral compass pointed in the right direction, and stood up for Bronson when she knew had been wronged.
Ms. Champagne took a stand against an injustice and was unwilling to be part of the cover-up.
And what did she get for it? Retaliated against by her colleagues.
Donna's no puppet for the KISD administration.
Lastly, in an attempt to sway public opinion and distract from the truth,
KISD told the world last Thursday that I tried to have a certain head football coach put in jail.
That is a lie from the pit of hell and is documented in my original criminal complaint.
Further in my interview, I told the DA's office that if they went after this coach, I was on his side and I'd testify for him.
This coach is no longer a defendant in any civil action.
On September 29, 2020, a certain general counsel said to my lawyers,
I don't give a fuck about that kid.
You know what? That's my kid.
And I'm going to hold to account those who have abused their power.
I will release the depositions videos to the public when completed and approved by my lawyer.
Stop hiding behind your gun.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Peniel Otto.
Good afternoon.
My name is Peniel Otto, and I've resided in KIC
since the third grade.
I'm currently a senior attending Cinco Ranch High School,
and I also attended Miller, which
I obtained an internship with the Farbman Attorney's
Office.
I came here to discuss matters regarding bans.
In special recognition, I would like to mention the book banned titled Jack of Hearts.
This is a book that contains language regarding sexual matters and ties to the LGBTQ community.
In regards to the book, there are articles written stating how kids were able to feel
a sense of comfortability from reading these books and were finally able to express themselves.
Now the claims in which KIC is banning these books for is on the grounds of books and sexual
nature and how it doesn't represent KIC values and their qualities and is pervasively vulgar.
So I have a question. What truly deems books inappropriate for school libraries?
If me as a black student in K-ISD has to be forced to read books such as Kill a Mockingbird in class that contain the N-word on multiple occasions,
why does a kid who chooses to read a book deserve to have that stripped away from him?
As a student in K-ISD who can see certain categories of books being stripped from libraries, it's sad.
Instead of those of you who represent the upper ranks of Kid ISD to stand up for all kids regarding race, sexuality, and or status,
you're banning books on those who asked.
At the end of the day, kids should have the choice to read the books they want to read.
No one is forcing kids to read books.
Let them choose.
Don't take the right away from those kids who only feel that their platform is to read
those books in school.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This concludes the open forum portion of tonight's meeting.
The board will now convene and close meeting as authorized under section 551001 of the
Texas Government Code for the following purposes.
Texas Government Code 551071, 551129, and 551074.
Good evening, everyone.
The Board will now reconvene in open meeting.
Today is Monday, February 28, 2022, and time is 635 p.m.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular Board meeting.
Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, February 25, 2022.
The board will receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent on these agenda items at tonight's meeting.
Board members will be able to ask questions, receive answers, and should be prepared to take action.
The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting.
In accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, any action arising from discussion
in a closed meeting must be taken in open meeting.
We'll now move on to Agenda Item 7.1, consider Board approval for employees who are being
recommended to receive administrative one-year probationary administrative one-year term,
administrative two-year term, staff member one-year probationary, staff member one-year
term and staff member two-year terms.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the administrative one-year probationary, administrative
one-year term, administrative two-year term, staff member one-year probationary, staff
member one-year term, and staff member two-year term contracts as recommended by the superintendent
in closed meeting.
Second.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Vann, a second by Ms. Wilson.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Thank you.
The motion carries 7-0.
Thank you very much.
That was great.
Consider 7.2, Gen. Adam 7.2.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees name Jamie Hines as the Executive Director of Finance,
as recommended by the Superintendent, in closed meeting.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman, 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. Thank you.
Yes?
I'm looking for Jamie out there. Is he out there somewhere?
He didn't make it tonight? Oh, yeah, he's at a conference.
Yeah, and I called him out, so now he looks double bad, right?
But I should have remembered that.
But I hate to not recognize somebody when they get a promotion,
and we're super excited to see Jamie get that opportunity
and looking forward to him doing some great work for us.
Thank you.
Well, now move on to Agenda 8, Reports.
Agenda item 8.1, 2022-2023 budget update.
The presenters are Mr. Chris Smith and Mr. Jeff Robert.
Good evening.
Good evening, Superintendent Schulte and Superintendent Gagorski and board.
Tonight is our second budget update of the year.
Last month we talked a little bit about our introduction to the budget process
in the budget parameters and a little history.
This month we're gonna talk about long term,
our long term debt plan and projections
and get set up for another year
of being a very fast growing district.
Speaking of growth, this is a 15 year history
of our value growth, the taxable values
and with come students, comes houses
and the businesses that support houses
and you can see the value growth that we've had based on,
mostly because of the new students coming into the district.
This is that same look at, just a little bit graphically, with the percentages.
And I think out to the far right is the closest to where we are now these last five years there in orange.
And that five-year average is a 5.7%.
I think the numbers you're going to see from Mr. Robert show that our planning for these next several years is more conservative than our five-year average.
And we want to be conservative when we're looking at these assumptions that you'll see tonight.
15-year average is 8.7%. You can see we're taking advantage of those two or three very high years back in the 13-14 era, but we've had 8.7% over the last 15-year value growth.
growth. Just to recap on what we've done this last summer, or actually going into the fall,
we had our fourth bond sale of our 2017 authorization. We called it the 2021C, and it delivered $40
million in proceeds. We won't sell any more bonds associated with the 2017 authorization.
There's no more to sell. And those are finishing up projects that are associated with that
that authorization.
and we're finishing up the spend on that.
With that, we had an all-in true interest cost of 1.3557%,
with an average life of 26.96 years.
Now, that's unique in that it was a variable rate issue with a bullet term bond,
and those will reset in a couple of years.
That's one of the reasons why we're getting such a good interest rate on that.
The first new money sale of the 2021 authorization,
We are spending money already on the Robertson Elementary, I was going to say Elementary 44,
and some other projects that have already gotten off to a fast start.
It's our first of four that we had.
We had it in November of 2021.
It delivered $145 million in proceeds.
We called it the 2021D.
It had an all-in-true interest cost of 2.388% and an average life of only 13 years.
years. Just as a reminder, our debt management tools that this all kind of works around is
our refundings. We refund bonds to save interest when available. We defeeze bonds or just flat
pay them off when we have the opportunity to do so. We earn interest on our bond proceeds.
That's unique in that not all districts, when they invest those proceeds, they sometimes
don't put it back into their debt service. We do in Katy and we have a fund balance of
$61.4 million in our debt service fund fund balance, which is a healthy fund balance.
We've rocked along for many years with that 39 cent tax rate and I think the numbers,
I know the numbers that Mr. Robert's going to show you will show that we can continue
to do so and continue to manage our debt plan in a very prudent way.
I'm going to turn it over to our municipal advisor, Mr. Jeff Robert, to talk a little
little bit about the details of our debt plan. Thank you, Mr. Smith, President Schulte,
Superintendent Gorski, members of the board, Jeff Robert with Hilltop Securities. And as Mr. Smith
said, I'm going to give a kind of a high level overview of where we are on the bond program
itself from a financing perspective. I wanted to show you first, we look at two sets of tax base
assumptions to kind of stress test our model a little bit. I don't think either
one, either set of these assumptions would be considered aggressive. They're
both purposefully hopefully very very conservative. One change that we did make
is we did lower the projected growth in the next year and the reason for that is
is I don't want to say we got the rug pulled out from under us but we did get
a surprise from the legislature when they decided to increase the or have an
election that would increase the homestead exemption from 25,000 to 40,000.
That's going to happen in May. I'm not a betting man, but I'll tell you that will
pass. So that's going to pass. So that will impact our values that are used
on our new debt. So any debt that we have had outstanding prior to September 1 of
21, it will not impact. But for all of the new bonds that are issued, it will impact.
And so what we did was we just went ahead and decreased the tax base by 1% that first year.
Kind of our plan as of now in column two, again, Mr. Smith had mentioned $145 million.
For this upcoming year, the plan is to issue up to $215 million in principal.
We've got a little bit of cushion on interest rates, knowing that there is some inflation out there.
But if you look at the graph, we're in an extremely good position not only for the issuance of this remaining authorization,
but you can see with our projections that we feel like there's going to be a lot of capacity in future years, whether that's for you have really three options for a new election to pay off debt or drop the tax rate.
But you have a lot of flexibility in a few years.
You can see that tax rate.
I don't want to say it drops off a cliff, but you can see it goes down quite substantially.
That's going to be after the issuance of the entire $676 million from the 2021 authorization.
And those two different lines are based upon those two tax-based assumptions that you saw on the prior page.
Interest rates are admittedly very, very volatile right now.
But if you look at it from a long-term perspective, what I've got here is the 20-year bond buyer index,
just to give you an idea of where long-term tax exempt interest rates have been.
Since way back in 1981, in the white graph in the background, you can see they were up over 13%.
If you go all the way over to the right, you can see where we are right now.
In red, you see this index, I think that was a few Thursdays ago, was at 241.
This last Thursday, it was at 251, so it's up about 10 basis points.
But the blue graph just shows you what this index has done over the last year.
There's a lot of talk about inflation. Yes, rates have come up as a result of that.
However, rates are also bouncing around downward somewhat because of what's going on with the Ukraine situation as well.
So with the geopolitical things going on, that usually causes rates to go down.
The inflation causes it to go up. So we're seeing a lot of bouncing around right now.
And if you look at Treasury's, I believe yesterday were down 10 to 12 basis points across the board.
excuse me today 10 to 12 basis points across the board with regard to redemptions and defeasances
at the bottom you can see there over the last what is that roughly five years again we've paid off
70.8 million dollars in principal early saving 17.7 million interest for a total of 88.6
we are going to have the board consider a redemption resolution that will allow us to
redeem bonds in the coming year and then also the refundings will only execute if we get at
least three percent present value savings um if you recall from last year we talked about the uh
the uncertainty associated with the district's swap as it related to libor going away in 2023
so the board approved a parameter that would allow us to do financings to
to terminate the swap, and we did so at no cost to the district.
We did that back in June.
So June of last year, I wanted to give you a recap on that.
What we did was we issued refunding bonds,
and then we issued a bond taxable issue to pay off the termination payment,
but the savings from the refunding more than accounted for the debt service
on the taxable issuance, and you can see that there in the blue.
So this is I think gonna be the last report that we give on the on the swap is it no longer
Exists for the district and we just have that fixed rate debt outstanding now
And if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them any questions
Thank you very much, thank you good stuff
And now proceed to agenda item 8.2 leadership development for effective schools
the presenters are back to dr. Natalie Martinez dr. Sine bell and dr. Christine
Caskey welcome good evening
good evening presidential T board members and dr. Gorski tonight we would
like to share with you our system for leadership development and how we are
strengthening our leadership teams to support our students here in kdisd a focus on quality
professional development is supported by our strategic plan and allows for ongoing embedded
professional learning for campus principles the collaboration with district leaders is important
to ensure that the right support is given to our leaders throughout the school year
all principals participate in leadership team meetings that are held monthly after each board
board meeting. They participate in principal meetings that are led by our assistant superintendents
and include regular updates from all departments here at the district through the ESC. Principals
also participate in professional learning communities on a monthly basis that are led
by and facilitated by the Division of Teaching and Learning. We also have differentiated
support for schools who focus their work through the Effective Schools Framework, which has
has been developed by the Texas Education Agency.
We'll go deeper into this process in a minute,
but in general, we use this framework
to help prioritize the work at a campus,
and we come together as district and campus leaders
with a common focus.
Schools who participate in this work
have a specific plan of action.
They have checkpoint meetings and campus walkthroughs
with district leaders.
This summer, we have the opportunity
to apply for a program at the Harvard Graduate School
School of Education, which directly supports the work that is being done through the Effective
Schools Framework.
This week-long session will allow for our principals and our district leaders to network
with leaders from other states and to study best practices while strengthening our own
plans of action.
Natalie is here with us this evening to give more information on the Effective Schools
Framework and how we are supporting leadership development in KDISD.
Thank you, Dr. Caskey. Good evening. All schools go through the continuous improvement process,
and they develop campus improvement plans, which includes data analysis, needs assessment,
creating an action plan, and monitoring checkpoints throughout the year. We also have schools that
receive additional support through this process and create a targeted plan of action to address
an area of need. The campus leadership team works side-by-side with the district team,
which includes our assistant superintendents and representatives from curriculum instruction,
special education, offices of other language, and research accountability and assessment.
Together we support the implementation and monitoring throughout the year.
For the past two years, campuses with additional support have studied and implemented work through
the effective school framework. This is a TEA process that is research-based and used with
campuses across the state.
The framework provides a clear vision for what schools do to ensure excellence for our
students.
As you can see in the picture, the outside circle that holds all the pieces together
is strong school leadership.
Our focus with campus leadership teams has shown to strengthen systems and processes
that affect the instruction and daily routines of our students.
Through the continuous improvement process, campus leaders identify a focus area, set
set short and long-term measurable goals and action steps to support progress through the year.
We have also created integrated district teams to support each campus for consistent collaboration through the process.
At the core of effective schools is effective instruction.
Our schools have chosen to focus on this area within their buildings to ensure that all students have access to learning and growing.
While this is an area of focus, we also know that strategic staffing, high quality instructional
materials and assessments, along with a positive school culture are essential for effective
schools.
Again, the one thing that holds these pieces together is strong school leadership and planning,
which is the outside blue circle.
We know that ongoing support for our principals is essential, especially in the ever-changing
world we are in right now.
Although the graphic seems simple, there are multiple layers under each puzzle piece that
that focus our work and guide us with research-based practices,
and our principals are not alone.
The district team that is assigned to each campus
is expected to conduct walkthroughs,
and we come together during each three-month cycle
to review data, discuss action steps, needed adjustments,
and supports.
To continue the support, Dr. Bell
is here to give you information on the summer opportunity
at Harvard Institute.
Good evening.
The Principal Center at the Harvard Graduate School
School of Education is committed to the support and development of school leaders around the
world. Through professional development programs and an extensive learning community, the Principal
Center assists principals in leading change to ensure all students have access to a high
quality education. Harvard offers many professional learning opportunities for principals throughout
the year. Many of our KDISD principals have participated in various institutes through
the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation. The Center offers a variety of professional development
development programs designed to empower and inspire school leaders.
Participants in the institute receive instruction from the faculty at
the Harvard School of Graduate, Graduate of Education.
I got you.
Thank you.
Through this learning experience, leaders have the opportunity to develop skills
necessary for successful implementation of the plan they develop.
Collaborate with district and district team to clarify the vision and
and develop a leadership plan specific to district
and campus needs, develop a theory of action
to achieve rapid, meaningful improvement,
use data to set strategy, assess progress,
and drive decision making at the classroom and school levels,
and learn how to transform school culture
and foster high-quality instruction.
The Harvard Institute will be funded through ESSER,
and it is aligned to the goals of providing
high-quality professional development
and addressing the learning loss of students through evidence-based activities.
Funds supplanted by the state were less than expected, which allows us to fund this opportunity.
And we'll be happy to answer any questions that you have.
Any questions?
Yes.
Thank you for the presentation.
I have a few questions.
Do the people who participate in this, do they get anything for this?
I mean, do they, a certificate or, you know, what do they, besides the knowledge that they gain, is there anything else that they?
So all of the programs that Harvard offers, you do get a certificate of completion that indicates that you've participated in the various institutes that they have.
So some of the programs are different in length.
but depending on which program you participate in you do get acknowledgement
from Harvard which is pretty cool that you've gone through this level of
extensive professional learning. Okay and can I come on? Okay also is it I know that I
think I read that 11 schools are gonna be participating is it a voluntary thing
per school so like if you're offering it at a school is it a voluntary thing at
the school or are they required to go to it no it's it's voluntary and so it's
the campus principals and they are permitted to bring a plus one to kind of
help them think through some of the things they want to focus on on their
campus so it's strictly voluntary okay and then how are we going to measure the
success of this so like is there any measurable type things that we could do
in the future see how successful it is that's a great question okay
to take that Natalie? Okay, so we have committed as a district team and the
campuses that are going that we're learning on this we're going on this
learning journey together and so the learning part is just the first layer
the the implementation piece is where the real work comes in so when we come
back from the Institute we'll have time to learn there together we'll spend time
prior to going to kind of flesh out what our support plan will be like I'm kind
of similar to what we already have in place with the campuses that we support throughout the year
currently but with the focus of the learning that we gathered when we went to harvard in mind so
we have to continue to support that learning make those plans implement those plans monitor
and adjust and that's a big part of this component once we return all right and dr bell thank you for
letting me ask these questions do you mind if I okay do you know how much I
know that we have ESSER funds and we have a lot of ESSER funds so what do you
know specifically how much this this will cost and also it will it be
continued to be offered you know the next summer the next summer you know so
we have allocated ESSER funds for this particular activity is aligned to the
the goals of ESSER. So we're looking at approximately $225,000 out of that ESSER money to cover
registration, to cover hotel, to cover flight, and then GOF will pick up the rest of it.
Right now, we've just planned for this year of implementation.
And will it continue to be offered?
Right now, we just planned for this year.
I'm sorry, you did say that.
Okay. Thank you so much.
Any other questions, board members?
Mr. President?
Yes.
How many people are attending? 11 plus 11 helpers, like 22, and then how many of you all?
It's a total of 35.
35. So that'll be the 22 principal.
And then central office support staff.
10 support staff from this building.
Yes.
Okay. The, let me make that down.
It's a week long and you'll be at Harvard?
Yes.
Very cool.
So cool.
I look forward to hearing the results when you get back.
I have questions about that, but you haven't been there yet.
So when you get back, you'll make a presentation
and you'll show us what you learned about strengths
and where people wanted to go.
And is it geared toward each principal from each campus is like,
this will work at my school, this is where we need to work,
and everybody's kind of independent in that?
Yes.
Absolutely. You're going with your own problem of practice. So there'll be some pre-work on our end.
And so you're going with that focus in mind and the learning that you get from, I mean, the top-notch leaders in education is where you're bringing that together, the learning and your problem of practice to really solidify that.
So it's a great experience.
Great. Thank you. I look forward to hearing what you all learn.
All right.
Mrs. Champaign asked the rest of my questions.
Okay. Thank you.
Any other questions for members?
members. Thank you very much. We'll now proceed to agenda item 8.3, present district bell schedule
adjustments. The presenters are Mr. Paul Landis, Executive Director of Transportation, and Mr. Ted
Veerling, Chief Operations Officer. Good evening. All right, well, good evening, President Schulte,
board members, Dr. Grigorski. We are, Mr. Landis and I, here tonight to talk about some minor
adjustments to the to the bell schedule I know that the bell schedule and the
bus routes and all that has been a topic of conversation for many years and we've
tweaked it a little bit along the way just a little history lesson so in 2011
is when we started the current walk standards to and from elementary junior
high and high school so we pulled back on busing every student in Katy ISD and
then in 2018 we implemented the multi bell schedule and if anybody was around
for that which I was and Mr. Cruz and I and we we we fought those battles and we
did I think we did a really good job but we needed a little more tweaking at the
goal at the time was to really get those junior high kids out before four o'clock
and because we would because that was the ultimate goal in addition to making
some some room for some some more routes and things it's a really tight timeline
line and Mr. Landis is going to talk through some of that stuff with you. But so we're still
struggling with shortages. The operations group, just to give you an idea, we're about 115 short
in the maintenance operations group. We're about 120 short in food service and we're about 40
drivers short. Now you guys will remember that we started working with Gold Star right before the
pandemic and Gold Star has helped out tremendously between 30 and 35 routes right now. Gold Star is
running for us. So if we didn't have Gold Star in place, we'd probably be more like 70 routes short,
and it would be really tough to be running all these routes today. So Gold Star has helped out
a lot, so I don't want you to think that the things that we've done in the past haven't helped,
but we do want to tweak it just a little bit. So it really boils down to the time in between drops.
If you remember, I think I gave you a ton of information back in 2018. We were running really
really tight on time. We were over on junior high all the time. We made a few little adjustments.
We made some adjustments during COVID, and they've helped a lot. So right now, we're between 30 and
35 minutes, but that doesn't leave you much time for error. It doesn't leave you time for traffic.
It doesn't leave you time in case there's something going on at the school where the bus can't unload
on time. So what we're really trying to do with this plan, and Paul explained to you, is get 40
to 45 minutes between each route and each drop, and we think that will help out tremendously. So
So this is just a little simple graphic.
Please don't be upset with my artwork there.
I try to follow Chris's lead sometimes, but I just can't do it.
But I wanted to simplify it so it kind of helped you understand.
So the goal would be to have at least a driver running, making three runs,
a high school, an elementary in the middle, and then a junior high.
And originally the idea with the multi-bell schedule is that you'd run actually four runs.
You do a high school, two elementaries, and a junior high.
The time, it just doesn't work.
We'd have to keep junior high kids there until 5.
Nobody wants to do that.
And so this is something that Mr. Landis, our in-house bus guy, came up with,
and I think it's good.
Just to let you know, we're not suggesting to change the high school
or the junior high time to any later or any earlier.
We're just playing with a little elementary time in the middle.
So I'll let Paul explain.
All yours, my friend, sorry.
Good evening.
As Ted said, kind of our gold standard for getting things done on time between different
runs is if we can get 45 minutes, we feel that that gives us the time to get the buses
loaded to get them to the stops that they need to take and to get to the next campus,
even if there's a little bit of hitch here or there with different things that come in
between.
Currently, we're at 30 to 35 minutes, and that just doesn't cut it really and truly.
we've got a lot of routes that are just instead of having three runs on each one
it may just be a high school in a junior high and not even have an elementary in
the middle so we kind of are not very efficient with what we have right now we
want to focus on high school and junior high bells do not change we weren't
going to touch those we knew from four different talks that's just not
something we were going to go and take a look at so we have looked at the
elementary and right now this proposal has 22 elementary times will adjust 15
minutes either earlier or later from their current bell the new time would be
810 to 320 and 21 elementaries would adjust just five minutes from their current time frame the
early schools that would adjust would adjust five minutes earlier and the later schools would adjust
five minutes later that are part of these 21 schools so the new times will be 750 to 3 or 830
to 340 and hopefully we see those as minor adjustments um so how do we come about this
thinking these are roughly the numbers we have we have roughly 150 high school runs 300 elementary
RUNS AND 150 JUNIOR HIGH RUNS.
SO YOU CAN SEE THOSE DON'T REALLY PAIR EVENLY IF WE'RE
TRYING TO GET THREE RUNS PER BUS.
SO WHAT WE'VE LOOKED AT, WE'VE MOVED OVER THE HIGH SCHOOL AND
JUNIOR HIGH RUNS.
WE HAVEN'T TOUCHED THOSE.
THEN WE'VE TAKEN 150 OUT OF THE ELEMENTARY RUNS TO PAIR THOSE
SO THAT WE'D HAVE 150 ROUTES OF THREE RUNS EACH.
THAT'S ABOUT AS EFFICIENT AS WE CAN GET.
SO WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE REMAINING 150?
SO THE IDEA IS WE SPLIT THOSE IN THE TWO OTHER TIERS OF 75,
five and basically we've got a set of buses that run in three tier routes and
another set of buses that run two tier routes it's kind of what we're looking
at I think we're probably the only ones that would do this kind of thing kind of
some new thinking maybe to try to to get a few things out of it so what do we get
from this this is a representation in the three tier routes we'd have the high
school the middle elementary tier and a junior high then the alternate tier
would be a two tier route system with the two elementaries the early in the
the late tiers. Most of our drivers would get the three-tier runs and that would be good for them
because lots of times they're still, you know, doing the high school, still doing the junior
high, so they're getting the time lots of times, but this will be more efficient with the time.
They'll get to do more out of it and some others will get more time out of the day, so that'll be
good for our drivers. The two-tier ones will be a little less time for drivers, but that's we can
focus with their gold star routes. They would cover getting close to half of those and we contract
those guys for five hours a day roughly right now they're usually getting a
little more than five hours a day which cost extra this may pull that back to
we're getting in what we've contracted them for just that time frame that may
help there some so the other benefits you know ability to decrease the number
of mid-tier routes for using better utilizing drivers we talked about that
create less downtime for drivers between routes allow go start to focus on
elementary runs and this would give us the ability to eliminate very
Very conservatively, 40 routes.
If we put those numbers together with the number of routes,
if we put this plan together with the number of routes we had this fall
and all the math worked out perfectly, which it won't,
it won't ever work out perfectly, but we could have saved maybe up to 80 runs.
So conservatively, I say 50 that we could save on this, 50 bus drivers.
That would allow us to make our service better, I think.
Right now, sometimes if a bus is getting crowded,
we may hold back adding a route or splitting it
because if you don't have anybody to drive it already, what's the point of creating another route?
This would give us that ability to do those things that we want to do to make better service
and also take some of the people that we have, some of our mechanics, some of our office staff who are driving every day,
take them off the bus and let them do what we really want them to do to help out the system from their other jobs.
Any questions?
Any questions?
Mr. President, first, I really like this, and I know that this has been a struggle,
and I really appreciate the amount of work that you've done.
And I love it that you were this genius to figure it out
because, you know, trying to figure out how can we keep, you know,
the problem is hiring the bus drivers,
but how can we use the ones that we already have
and just have them get more kids.
So that's, I think this is, I don't want to say,
but I think it could work.
You know, I think this could be good.
But I just have a question, too,
and this has nothing to do with your report, really,
But I'm just curious, because I live near two car rider pickup lines, and I've noticed that since the return of COVID, you know, I don't know how to call that, but the kids came back.
The lines are longer.
Do you think less kids are riding the bus, and do you think that could be because of parents' fears of COVID and being enclosed in the bus?
I mean, I would say it's hard to know for sure, but my guess would be yes.
I mean I would think it's kind of a fear in lots of ways too that we do get more
more and more people back that in our current situation I worry about us being
able to handle that because we're pretty much getting it done by our fingernails
right now so to add a lot more would be problematic in your right it's increased
over the year I mean from starting last year to where we started last school
year to the end of the year increased a good bit this year probably not as much
as it did last year but it definitely has increased from the start of the year
to this point so I would say you're probably accurate that more and more
more people will go back the more normal it gets.
And so that would change your, let's say,
a whole bunch of more kids started to ride the bus,
that would change some of this again, right?
Yes, and hopefully it would allow us to be able to be flexible with that,
whereas if we stayed as we are now,
I think our flexibility would be more restricted.
All right, well, I just really appreciate that.
I know it's very stressful, and I think it's a good job.
When do you guys plan to initiate this, and do you expect any pushback?
It seems like it's pretty minor, 10 minutes, but I know some people, 10 minutes when you got all the...
Yes, sir.
Boy, we've talked a lot about that.
Dr. Gorski and I have gone back and forth, and he likes to grill me when I bring him this crazy stuff.
And so I brought Paul in, and he grilled us too.
And, you know, we've kicked around a lot.
We talked to assistant superintendents.
We're presenting to principals tomorrow.
Nothing's a done deal right now.
I guess the way I've kind of framed it, though, is that, you know, there are going to be families with situations, right?
You're always going to have that.
The daycare won't let you drop off until a certain time or whatever.
The first thing I would tell you is that we felt like this is not the drastic kind of changes that we did in 2018,
where we're talking about moving to junior high from 7.30 in the morning to 9 o'clock.
That's the first thing.
And the second thing is with 15 minutes, if you had to get to work by 8 o'clock, it didn't make it any worse.
It didn't make it any better.
better. You know, we kind of looked at all those things. There are going to be some challenges,
and we'll obviously, we're going to work through that. Dr. Washington asked us to look at one
particular school that's struggling right now because of the time close to the junior high,
and so we're going to, you know, try to make that work for that school. So there's a lot of
little adjustments that we're going to make to try to make things a little bit better,
but in reality, when you're talking about bus routes and transporting 40,000 kids,
the greater good, you know, is really what you got to focus on.
So that's kind of where we're going.
Thank you.
I commend you guys, too.
Very clever to map all that out.
Mr. Landis is a smart guy.
Very good.
He's got a lot of tips and tricks in there.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Are there any other school districts that are operating this way, their buses?
Not that I'm aware of.
I mean, I know that Dr. G asked that question when we talked about the
talked earlier. I know nobody's doing four tiers. It just doesn't work, which is kind of what we
tried before. And so this is most, most everything does three tier without mixing it up. Like say
something like Cypher did, this is allows us to keep a high school tier, elementary tier and
junior high tier, just trying to find a way to be flexible and do something different. So back to
your question, I'm not aware of anybody that's doing it, but I think the 45 minutes is what's
key. I'm not, I don't, I'm not real concerned about it working or not because the 45 minutes
It's just as my experience has said over the years and everywhere,
that's kind of everybody's gold standard for the number,
the amount of time between different bills.
I guess if it doesn't work, we can always call in the National Guard.
Yeah.
We haven't made that phone call yet, but you never know.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, Mr. Landis, again, brilliant.
I looked at this preparing for tonight, and I was like, this is great.
This is a really clever idea.
I really like it. I think you're right. Mr.
Veerling moving things 10 minutes, you know
For heaven's sakes, I'm always been 10 minutes late everywhere I go. So right that'll be you know, 10 minutes
I think families will be able to adjust to that. So
our
my question
Is crystal ball. Why are we short drivers again? Is it growth? Is it driver shortages? Is it?
Yes, yes, yes, yes. All of those.
Because if it's growth, we're going to keep being short because we've got a lot more kids.
Which makes it even more important that we do these kinds of things, right?
So like I told you, the operations group has been hit hard by the pandemic and people staying home.
The schools, teachers, the whole thing.
I mean, everybody's short, right?
But it's really hit us hard.
And so we've got to get more creative.
Would we love to turn around and hire 50 more drivers tomorrow?
Absolutely.
And these guys are interviewing them as soon as they put in their applications.
There is no way I'm harassing them all the time.
Hey, have you looked at the dashboard yet or whatever?
So they're hiring as fast as we can.
But that's why we got to be really creative, because they're not going to show up on our
door 50 at a time to do this.
And so there are going to be some challenges.
But yeah, the pandemic has been difficult for operations overall.
And a follow-up to that is, have you talked to drivers about it?
Are they going to be okay with that?
I'm guessing they'll like the extra time.
It's not really much of a stretch.
They're already there.
I don't really think this changes much for drivers.
It may give a little more flexibility.
I'm hoping it gives a little more flexibility with this two-tier part.
It's a little later start.
Maybe we can get some of the college students to come on board and do that.
They get out a little, starts a little later, gets done a little earlier.
Maybe it's more flexible with their classes.
I don't see that's one thing we want to look at,
is trying to hit some of those campuses that's something we haven't done at all is is really
trying to recruit college kids and paul originally comes from the a m bus system where they've got
all college kids driving so we we we think there's there's a market out there for those kids as well
too uh this also will this save buses like we don't need to hire 40 more drivers so we don't
need 40 more buses so this yes yes it should I mean in general idea yes it
would be fewer buses on the road fewer buses kind of needed to do that but also
it's not just getting to the number of getting 40 that we can say where are
hopefully we can give better service which does mean increasing or some in
that area that's part of the goal of it to you should be doing of course of
course the really great idea uh and did did you say when you're starting when did this we wouldn't
start mid-year we'd start in august okay and then communicate with our parents fully in time to let
them do child care absolutely we wanted to present to you you guys first just to to get everybody's
take on it make sure that everybody was comfortable uh and then we'll go with the
principles tomorrow and then we'll move on from there thank you one more thing maybe we could
suggest this as another class at Miller.
You know, we could have a Miller.
We've kicked some things around. We absolutely have. Leslie and I have spent a lot of time talking about
a lot of creative stuff with kids at Miller. So I guess we're going to need some more kids
over there if we're going to hire all these kids. So yeah, we've talked about it actually.
I mean, it could be a thing where they, you know, because what you
just said, it makes a lot of sense that they could do it while they're going to college.
but they'd have to kind of be explained the logistics.
I mean, I went to junior college for two years myself,
and you can kind of rearrange your classes there
so that you can go to college, live at home,
drive the bus and all that,
but somebody might have to kind of explain
how that could work for them.
Yes, ma'am.
Mr. President, sorry, what about community education?
Do you think our community, you know,
we mail that thing out, if they would be like,
come get your CDL, it requires a CDL, right?
Yes.
Certainly an idea.
My husband would be great at this job.
He loves kids and he loves to drive.
We could hire him tomorrow.
We've got 40 spots today.
Any other questions?
Okay.
Thank you, guys.
Great job.
We'll proceed on to agenda item 8.4, Katie Independent School District Teach Alternative Certification Program.
to present her as Miss Katie Shields, Recruiting Coordinator.
Good evening.
Good evening.
We're very excited to give this presentation this evening
and introduce Katie Shields to give the presentation.
Good evening, President Schulte, members of the board, and Dr. Grigorski.
I'm here this evening to share with you an exciting and innovative
new talent acquisition strategy for KDISD and we are calling this the KDISD
teach alternative certification program
as we all know our country is experiencing a tremendous teacher
shortage at this time and as a way to drive additional college graduates into
the field of education we are developing our own alternative education program for kdisd this will
allow individuals with a bachelor's degree to complete our approved training coursework
observations and internship to become fully certified to teach in the state of texas
and this will greatly assist us in hiring teachers and filling our vacancies
This will also offer the opportunity to grow our own paraprofessionals and other employees to become teachers.
We have a great number of paraprofessionals right now who hold a bachelor's degree and some even hold master's degrees.
And so this will provide those employees with the opportunity to become teachers with KDISD.
Our initial program will include five teaching certificates that we feel are the most crucial
in filling our vacancies.
They'll be the core subjects EC through 6, core subjects 4 through 8, math 7 through
12, science 7 through 12, and special education EC through 12.
And our program will offer an affordable pricing with the potential for a portion of those
fees to be refunded once they have completed a determined number of years
teaching with KDISD and we're once we get the program up and running we're
anticipating about you know 100 plus candidates per school year that would
participate in our program and these candidates would receive KDISD training
access to our curriculum and our technology and be just ready when they
enter the classroom on day one. They would then be hired as an intern teacher at one of our KDISD
campuses, still receiving support through the ACP program through evaluations and feedback from the
field supervisors. So we are submitting an application to the Texas Education Agency
agency for approval for our ACP and this application is due on December 1st of 2022
and the entire ACP program must be fully developed at the time we submit the application
and so it includes these bulleted items up here governance admissions criteria educator
preparation curriculum delivery and ongoing support program evaluation educator professional
conduct complaints process issuance of certificates data reporting all of these
things it's a 90 page application before I even put anything in it so it is quite
intensive but we are very excited to move forward with this project so a
significant part of the application will be the fully developed curriculum for
each of the five certificates that we will be offering so for each
certification area we will be required to submit curriculum alignment charts
teak space coursework authentic assessments a syllabus for each module
scientifically based research used for the development of the curriculum
planning and delivery methods for the coursework and evaluation rubrics this
is a big undertaking and we are planning to hire a couple of people fairly
fairly quickly to help us with the development of the curriculum.
And in conclusion, we are very excited to pioneer this new project and program and we
feel that this will immensely help the district in filling our vacancies and hiring more teachers.
Of course, we are in the very beginning stages of working on this application and we will
gain more information as we get into the application and work on it further, but I am happy to
entertain any questions that you have for me right now i have one question on the timeline it said
you're the uh the submittal is due december 2022 what's the timeline to get approval and then have
this thing up and running and the first teacher coming out the other side was that is that going
to be sometime in early and by the end of 2023 or by the end of school year or tea tells me that the
The approval process will take six to 12 months.
So we're looking at a 2024 start.
Okay.
Thank you.
Any other questions, board members?
Mr. President.
Thank you.
I think this is great.
I have one additional question, especially concerning our early curriculum to sixth grade with the reading academies.
Is that going to become a part of this so that those teachers have successfully gone through the reading academy before we're putting them in place?
as I know all of that's new and I don't have all of that on the tip of my tongue.
I'm sorry.
That would be something that happens once they get to the campus and begin.
This is really solely about certification.
And so we'll be giving them all of the tools that they'll need to take and pass the certification tests.
Mr. President?
Yes.
Okay.
I think this is awesome.
I remember there was something like this back in the 90s.
The state of Texas had something, I don't know, I can't remember what it was called,
but I actually had looked into it at one time.
It was an alternative type program that they were offering so that you could get your certification,
but their program was something like if you had your bachelor's degree, you could be teaching
at the same time you were earning the certification.
education, that way you didn't have to, you know, wait until they finished it.
They could just already be teaching it.
Do you think there's any possibility of something like that happening?
I don't know the answer to that at this time.
There are some different ways that we could structure this, and we don't have that all
lined out just yet.
I know that while they're completing their internship year, they'll be being paid for that.
Okay.
So that is a paid internship for the year.
But the coursework and, you know, the field experiences, field observation experiences,
those would take place prior to that internship, and those at this point would probably not be paid.
Okay, because I know that they did have something like that back then, but maybe it didn't work out.
But how long will it take for a teacher or a person to earn the certification?
Maybe not including the internship. I just need the coursework.
We're looking at probably one semester, so January through May.
Okay, awesome.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, I have a few questions.
So we have several ACP programs in the area where a lot of our people go.
Why would KDIC do their own?
I love it, by the way.
Let me just say, I love it.
I love being on Cutting Edge.
I love having our own, right, for the product that will turn out.
But why?
Well, I think one of the challenges that folks face once they've completed their ACP program
is that then they have to go out and interview and find a job for that intern teaching experience.
And so part of our program would be placing them in a KDISD school so that they have that
employment opportunity built into their program.
So I think that will make this program very appealing.
Ms. I do too.
And we don't have to compete with other school districts for the people, right?
So I love anything KDISD does and we create our own, you know, the quality is built in.
So I trust that and I think it's a brilliant idea.
Some of the questions I wrote down when I saw December 2022, you don't have the answers.
I'm going to skip those.
My concern is that with our staff shortages here at KDISD, who has time to do this?
I mean, you're going to do that?
Are you going to bring in a consultant to help?
Or I just don't, I know we don't have a lot of people with nothing to do.
How do we add in one more big project like this?
developing the entire curriculum, answering all those questions, there's no
way that the state's gonna say no to us anyway. Well I sure hope not. I am planning on
writing the application and as I think I mentioned we're planning to hire a
couple of folks here pretty quickly to help with the curriculum writing. So
those people then once we get into offering the coursework will then teach
the coursework to our candidates and then we'll serve as field supervisors
going out to the campuses evaluating and coaching and giving feedback to those
folks on the campus so it's kind of that they would be doing multiple roles as
the program evolves all right I too soon to ask but have you considered like some
of our retired educators who are field supervisors already and stuff I mean
they might be you'll figure all that out is their last question any other
district have their own program or are we cutting edge on this? Houston ISD has had one for many years.
It's not really marketed a lot but they do have one and they've been very helpful in
sharing some ideas with me as we've gotten started. Congratulations, it's a great idea. I have one last
question. Is it cost neutral? Is it the cost that you charge equal? Obviously the benefit
is tremendous right of staff. I'm just wondering is it how does the cost rack up to the expenses?
Well, we've kind of looked at this so far as an investment rather than a money-making opportunity.
We do have to submit a $9,000 application fee to TEA for the time that they will spend approving this.
And, you know, they'll come out and do site visits with us and spend a lot of time making sure that our program is of the utmost quality.
So it is a cost there as well as the personnel, but we're looking at it as an investment.
the benefits is tremendous thank you any other questions thank you very much thank you we'll
now proceed into the section nine of the agenda discussion action items the first agenda item is
9.1 discuss and consider board approval of the february 2022 budget amendments the presenter
is miss sherry butterfield director of budget and treasury good evening good evening president
President Schulte, Trustees, and Superintendent Gagorski.
Many amendments tonight for the General Operating Fund.
The first is $16,000 for campus textbook equipment repairs and supplies.
An amendment for $136,000 for mismanagement to replace the Pato High School trailer,
trailer, Katy High School orchestra uniforms, and transportation maintenance and repairs
due to some high volume of incidents there.
$220,000 for premium increases on the district property insurance approved last month, $216,000
for furniture, and $371,765 for technology on the project to renovate and convert the
collaborative spaces in class and computer labs into classrooms that was discussed last month
521 866 dollars to replace the generator the ats switch at cinco ranch high school and to rent a
generator in the interim while that equipment is on order we have a min amendment for a million
$1,671,976 to replenish the maintenance and operations budget.
And finally, a $3 million amendment to the district expense for employee health insurance district contribution.
The general operating fund transfer out decreases by $3 million to offset that expenditure increase.
Every year we budget that transfer out.
We're going to go ahead and execute that now so that we can move the cash into the bank accounts at this time
the remainder of the general operating fund expenditure amendments are direct offsets between the different functions and
approval of these amendments will result in a three million one hundred fifty three thousand six hundred seventy seven dollar
Decrease to the general operating funds fund balance
Thank you any questions
If not, I'll entertain a motion.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the February 2022 budget amendments.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Champagne, a second by Mr. Redman.
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 9.2, discuss and consider Board approval of the December 2021 financial reports.
The presenter is Mr. Chris Smith.
Good evening.
Hello again.
And our financial report through the month of December 2021, that's four months into the year, about 33% is presented before you.
As part of those amendments, we have the standard package, which includes the financial statements, the construction report, the tax report, again, through December 31st.
and the summary of our 2021 check registers.
Those are there.
Present for your approval, please.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the December 2021 financial reports.
I have a motion by Mr. Redman.
And since Ms. Wilson put her hand up, she gets credit for the second.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion carries 7-0. Thank you.
We'll now proceed to agenda item 9.3.
All right. On these next three agenda items, I have, of course, Mr. Jeff Robert,
which you heard from during our budget presentation from Hilltop Securities.
And also behind me is Rick Witte and Tanya Fisher that represent OREC, our bond council,
in case you have any questions on these next three items.
The first of the three items, item 9.3 references a bond order establishing parameters of the second bond sale of our 2021 authorization.
This would be part of our step one in the process that will take us through the next several months.
And in that order, it sets certain parameters for bonds, a bond sale that authorizes Mr. Gorgorski or myself as the pricing officer to approve an amount,
interest rate, price, and the terms of certain procedures of issuing that $215 million bond sale that we mentioned in the presentation.
And when these orders are in place, we plan to select a syndicate who can help us obtain the best pricing for those bonds,
and our intent would be to proceed with a negotiated transaction sometime probably in August or September,
based on our cash flows, maybe October, sometime in there is when we anticipate needing the money.
Again, Mr. Robert and our bond counsel is here in case you have any questions on this item.
Thank you.
Any questions, trustees?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves an order authorizing the issuance of KDI Independent School District
unlimited tax, school building, and or refunding bonds as fixed rate bonds in one or more series,
setting certain parameters for the bonds, authorizing a pricing officer to approve the amount,
the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof, and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto.
Second.
Second.
Thank you.
We have a motion by Mr. Champagne, a second by Mrs. Fox.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion carries 7-0.
Thank you.
9.4.
Okay.
9.4 is a resolution expressing our intent to defease certain bonds.
When the values come in as we go through the budget process and we see that some bonds
are available to defease or just basically pay off, we would like to do so.
Mr. Robert mentioned in one of his slides the success we've had over the last several years on defeasing or paying off bonds.
We've identified some bonds up to $30 million that we think we could disfease.
Assuming the plan works its way that way, we would like to pay those so we could stop paying interest on those.
And it would be recommended that you approve the resolution expressing our intent to defease certain of the district's outstanding bonds.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Go ahead.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the resolution expressing intent to defuse, redeem certain of the district's outstanding bonds.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Vann, a second by Ms. Wilson.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion carries 7-0.
You still up?
9.5?
I'm still up.
Okay, keep going.
You're on a roll.
I mentioned that we think that we'll have that next bond transaction or the bond sale to generate cash in September, October-ish.
But in case that doesn't happen and we sell bonds, I mean, we spend cash a little quicker,
this resolution is presented before you as an abundance of caution to allow us to pay for those construction projects out of the general fund
until the bond sale closes and the cash is generated again reimbursing the
general fund for the any of those expenses that we might incur in in that
transition time mr. president yes I move that the Board of Trustees approves the
resolution declaring intention to reimburse project expenditures second if
a motion by mrs. Fox a second by mr. Redmond will now proceed to vote all
those in favor raise your right hand say aye the motion carries 7-0 thank you
Agenda item 9.6, discuss and consider board approval of a contract for the construction
of high school number 10.
Chris has created the money and you're spending the money, right?
Better than my husband's money, right?
Good evening, President Schulte, trustees, and Dr. Gagorski.
I have five items this evening.
The first is a recommendation for approval for the contract for high school number 10.
three proposals were received with Satterfield and Ponticus ranking first overall.
They have recently completed Jordan High School and Raines High School. The
project is over the original allocation but we were able to lessen the overage
by value engineering components of the design. I want to point out that the
changes made will not impact student learning. I have representatives here
with our KDISD project manager Art Campbell, PBK architects and Satterfield
Thank you. Any questions? Mr. President? Yes. I move that the Board of Trustees approves a contract for the construction of high school number 10.
We have a motion by Mrs. Fox and a second by Mrs. Champaign. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. The motion carries 7-0.
9.7. Junior high number 18. Number 18.
Okay, five proposals were received with Dramala ranking first overall.
They have successfully completed three previous prototypes, Stockdick, Adams, and Haskett
Junior Highs, as well as numerous elementary schools.
Once again, this project was also over allocation, but we're able to lessen the overage.
I want to point out that our representatives here are project manager, Ron Wojtyla, PBK
Architects, and Dramala Construction.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves a contract for the construction of Junior High School number 18.
We have a motion by Ms. Wilson, 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.
And, Mr. President, just to make sure that I say that we're going to bring to you next month a budget amendment for those overages that Ms. Gassman mentions,
and that'll be coming next month as a formality.
Thank you.
Mr. President?
Yes.
So, Mr. Kastman, with the inflation doing what it is,
it's very unpredictable what this is going to end up being, right?
I mean, this is not like the concrete costs and, like, delivered all the way constructed.
It's going to be final because there's no way to know.
Actually, this is our final price.
That's what the contracts are being signed for this amount.
And how long does it take to construct a high school and a junior high?
for two years so august of 2024 when both these facilities will open
so we do have contingencies set aside in both the projects fingers crossed for you
9.8 easements i believe right that's correct so in order to build the roadways and utilities for
the high school junior high and transportation and the elementary school we have to purchase
just easements for the encroachment to build these lines and Logan Bar Road.
So approval of these easements will ensure that we can get the water and sewer and the
road done for the August 2024 openings.
Thank you.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves various easements and costs to allow for the
construction of utilities and roadways associated with the KDISD Northwest facility, which includes
high school number 10 junior high number 18 elementary school number 45 and the new northwest
transportation center we have a motion by mr redmond a second by mrs champaign we'll now
proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye you guys are doing
great with the hands up today thank you very much um 9.9 okay this is the approval of the lease
for friendswood development they have the windward development which is just west of where we're
going to be building on Logan Bond, Katie Hockley. This is just a lease they can put a sign on the
corner of our property that won't interfere with construction or with any other items out there.
Any questions? Mr. President? Yes. I move that the Board of Trustees approves a lease to
Friendswood Development Company associated with the Katie ISD Northwest facility, which includes
high school number 10, junior high school number 18, and elementary school number 45, and the new
Northwest Transportation Center. We have a motion by Mr. Champagne, second by Mr.
Redmond. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor raise your right hand say
aye. Aye. The motion carries 7-0. 9-10. The last item is for the guaranteed
maximum price for the Miller Career Center renovations. We took a previous
amendment to get the kitchen equipment ordered and now this is the final
amendment that will allow for the remainder of the construction. This will
be done in august of 2022 with approval we will start over spring break representatives here
include my project manager trey barnett stantec architecture and brookstone is the contractor
Thank you. Any questions? Yes. I move that the Board of Trustees approves Amendment 2 to the Brookstone LP contract related to the renovations of Miller Career and Technology Center.
We have a motion by Ms. Wilson. The second by Mrs. Vann will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your hand and say aye. Aye. The motion carries 7-0.
And Mr. President, just for my sake, we are going to be bringing this using a budget amendment next month.
We're going to go ahead and do an override to get this started on the system, but we will be bringing a budget amendment to you next month.
And we've been showing it as a placeholder on the financial reports, and now that it's real, we'll formalize it.
Again, another formality for next month.
Thank you for the clarification.
Thank you.
9-11, network upgrades.
The speaker tonight is Mr. Joe Christopherson,
Director of Technology and Operations.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte,
members of the Board, and Superintendent Dr. Gagorski.
The Technology Department recommends that the Board of Trustees
awards the contract for RFP 2110-TC to NetSync Network Solutions
for replacement of end-of-life network switches and access points.
This will replace 255 network switches and 3,379 access points at multiple locations throughout the district.
The funding source is a 2021 bond.
Total contract value is $6,831,313.50.
Mr. President?
Yes.
Mr. Christofferson, what do these replacements actually do?
So all the connectivity in the campuses run through network switches and access points.
It's our Wi-Fi.
And so those have a life expectancy and they're anywhere from seven to ten years
On the switches five years on the on the Wi-Fi
And so the end of life they're no longer supported by the company that we buy them from or do they get new code updates?
Or security updates at that point
Thank you
Mr. President I'm moving board of trustees approves the contract for network upgrades RFP
2110 TC for the replacement of end-of-life network switches and access points at multiple locations throughout the district to net sync
network solutions
Box will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand say aye. All right the motion carries 7 0
9.12
Okay, it is recommended the Board of Trustees awards a contract for security camera upgrades at the district high schools
CSP
2111 to AccuTech. This solution will provide needed coverage of the campus parking lots as
well as the athletic facilities at the high schools. The funding source is 2021 bond funds
and the total contract value is $1,352,040. Any questions? Mr. President, go right ahead.
Thank you. You said all the high schools, I'm guessing? Well, no, not all. The newest high
schools have i think jordan obviously is yeah so then there's some additions um
tompkins has some additions as well as um pay to uh yeah pay to high schools some additional
coverage as well the majority will be yes the majority of is the older campuses okay thank you
mr president mr christopherson are these like all of the cameras throughout the high schools or it's
just certain places it's parking lot areas and athletic complexes that did not have the coverage
before so we're adding cameras addition to including the infrastructure to
support those so pulling fiber and power to those facilities thank you any other
questions all are in a motion mr. president yes I move that the Board of
Trustees approves the contract for security camera upgrades at the
district's high schools CSP dash 2 1 1 1 2 AccuTek in the amount of 1 million
$1,352,042.
Okay.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman and a second by Ms. Wilson.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion carries 7-0.
9-13.
You still got the floor, I believe.
Yes.
Okay.
It is recommended the Board of Trustees awards the contract for the fiber upgrades at District
High Schools CSB 2110 to AccuTech in the amount of $352,024 and NCS in the amount of $253,507.
This solution will provide an upgrade of the fiber optic cabling within the high school campuses to support bandwidth needs from the increased use of technology throughout the campuses.
The funding sources are 2021 bond funds, and the total value of the contract is $605,531.82.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President, I have a question about this.
The upgrades to the fiber upgrades, how often does that have to happen?
Not very often.
We're getting to the speeds where now the older fiber doesn't support it.
It's a change in kind of standards.
We're going to a faster network connectivity to use 10 gig throughput to the different closets throughout the campus.
us. Currently there's one gig throughput to those closets and this will increase that capacity.
So when is the last time that we had to do an upgrade like this? I'm just trying to figure it
out. We have never replaced the fiber within the schools other than when the schools were
re-cabled in 2008-9. So this is not a yearly thing? No. All right. Thank you. Any other questions?
Mr. President.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for fiber upgrades at district
high schools CSP-2110 to Accutech in the amount of $352,024 and NCS in the amount of $253,507.
We have a motion by Ms. Wilson, a second by Mrs. Vann.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Motion carries 7-0.
Thank you very much.
Agenda item 914, discuss and consider board approval of the contract for kitchen equipment installations and connections at Beck Junior High and McMeans Junior High School.
The presenter is Mr. Nathan Fuchs, Executive Director of Maintenance and Operations.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, board members, and Dr. Gorgorski.
Tonight I have six items for your consideration.
consideration the first item for your consideration tonight is the contract for kitchen equipment
installations and connections at Beck Junior High and McMeans Junior High which are part of the 2021
bond component replacement the kitchen equipment is original to the schools Briony Rood Industrial
Services has completed similar contract type work in our district in the past the project
will be completed by August of 2022. any questions I I have a question or a statement that's that's
amazing you're saying that the equipment is original to the school is that that's
correct mr. Bing so I'm just make means yeah make me it's just pretty old right
it means is 22 years old so that was a good use of that equipment that's
awesome so well we don't need anything for 22 more years all right that's
that's very very good use of equipment so awesome I'll entertain a motion if
there's no other questions mr. president yes I move that the Board of Trustees
approves the contract for the kitchen equipment installations and connections
at Beck junior high and what means junior high thank you we have a motion
by mr. Redmond a second by miss Wilson will now proceed to vote all those in
favor raise your right hand say aye aye the motions carry seven zero agenda out of 915 bleachers
the second item for your consideration tonight is the contract for the gym bleachers replacements
at beckendorf junior high morton ranch high school and seven lakes high school these bleachers have
reached the end of their life cycle and require regular maintenance to keep them operational
the work will take place over the summer break and will be completed by august of 2022.
22. Any questions? Mr. President, Mr. Fuchs, I appreciate all the work you do. It's not nearly
as interesting as the leadership development and the teachers we're going to teach, but I know
you're working really hard. I'm happy that we're having bleachers and kitchen equipment, all that
fiber optic stuff that we need to keep school going. Thank you, Mrs. Fox. Mr. President? Yes.
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the contract for the gym bleacher replacements at Beckendorf Junior High, Morton Ranch High, and Seven Lakes High School.
Second.
Thank you.
We have a motion by Mrs. Champaign, a second by Mrs. Fox.
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 916, HVAC equipment.
The third item for your consideration tonight is for the contract for HVAC equipment replacements at eight different campuses.
The scope of this work consists of chill water pumps, valves, and cooling tire rebuilds.
Hudson Services has done similar work throughout our district in the past.
Work will be coordinated with each campus to avoid any disruptions and will be completed by September of 2022.
Thank you. Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for HVAC equipment replacements
at Alexandria Elementary, Hayes Elementary, McRoberts Elementary, Beck Junior High,
Cardiff junior high woodcreek junior high Morton Ranch high and Taylor high
school we have a motion by mr. Redmond a second by this Wilson will now proceed
to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye the motion
carries seven zeros again I'm 917 flooring the fourth item for your
consideration tonight is for the floor replacements at four different campuses
work will be performed by Tarkat USA incorporated a company that has
completed numerous projects in our district in the past each school will receive our district
standard for new flooring this work is scheduled for over the summer and will be complete by the
end of the summer break questions motion mr president yes i move that the board of trustees
approve oh approves the contract for the flooring replacements at alexander elementary griffin
elementary williams elementary wood creek elementary west memorial junior high and morton
ranch high school we have a motion by miss wilson a second by mrs van we'll now proceed to vote all
those in favor raise your right hand say aye aye the motion carries 7-0 918 lighting the fifth item
for your consideration tonight is for the field lighting replacements at may creek high morton
ranch high and taylor high school this is part of the 2021 bond component replacement program
The campuses that are included in this package will receive our district standard LED lighting.
Work will be completed by July of 2022.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Yes.
Continuing the exciting work of school boards, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for the field lighting replacements at Main Creek High, Morton Ranch High, and Taylor High School.
We have a motion by Mrs. Fox and a second by Mr. Redman.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion carries 7-0.
Mr. President, I had a question about that.
It's okay.
The LED lighting, so is that in all the schools now?
I mean, it says the –
These are for exterior sports lighting.
Oh, okay.
So do we have – I guess what I'm trying to say is the environmentally, you know,
Are we doing that with the with the lighting or is that is this the standard what we've always had in the this is our district
Center for sports lighting is an LED if you're referring to interior lights most of our campuses do have interior
Okay, then. Thank you very much
Thank you very much
Jenna item nine nine point nineteen
authority to give the superintendent natural gas supply contracts
The final item for your consideration tonight is for the approval to designate the superintendent
the authority to execute a natural gas supply contract to serve the district's natural gas
need.
Our current contract will expire on May 31st, 2022.
Between now and the end of our contract date, we will work with affiliated group, energy
group, and Rob Protowski, our energy consultant, is present with us tonight, and our district
purchasing department to develop an RFP which will allow the district to get the best market
value for natural gas.
Thank you. Any questions? Mr. President? Yes. I really think that the school board should retain the authority to look at the RFP and to make the approval for things like this.
Yes, we did that for the electricity contract before, and maybe it's my history of being here and watching all those things come through.
I think that because we're so diverse as a group that we bring a lot of background into decisions like this.
I'd like to see the school board retain it and go through the process one time, see what we think of the – I think there's a lot of value in the school board to look at this kind of thing.
Just my opinion.
Any other questions?
The only question I would have is how quickly do these documents need to be signed when they're presented?
And I don't know the answer to that.
Mr. Keller, you're correct.
The documents, the reason we're asking for the authorization tonight from the superintendent is because it really changes on a, it's like a commodity.
It changes on a daily basis.
So we wouldn't have the I guess the flexibility to come back to the board and do that
It changes we need to be able to sound on down the line the day of or literally within an hour or two once we
you know see and and our
Utility consultant tells us this is the where we need to sign when we need to sign so time is of essence
Thank you, so mrs. Fox would you like to make a motion different than what's proposed I just want to make a comment I
I served on the TASB board for the energy co-op for the entire state,
and there are pools that you can work with that will lock in a rate for you,
and it does fluctuate some, but it's not considerable.
But I'd like to see us retain the authority we have here,
but it's not a hill I'm going to fall on.
Thank you, Mrs. Fox.
I'll entertain a motion.
motion. There's no questions, no other questions. Mr. President, yes, I move that the Board of Trustees approves to designate the superintendent the authority to execute a natural gas supply contract to serve the district's natural gas needs. We have a motion by Mr. Redmond and a second by Mr. Champagne. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. The motion passes seven zero. Thank you. Thank you. Jen, I
Item 920?
20.
920.
Wow.
Discuss and consider Board approval of an amendment to the 2021-2022 instructional calendar to add a student and staff holiday on April 18, 2022.
You get all the good agenda items, huh?
Yeah, this is a – correcting that one, I believe this is a good one for our Board of Trustees to consider.
It's an amendment to our current calendar that went right now.
We've talked about this as an internal group on our Executive Cabinet.
it. You might recall that each year we build in enough minutes to have a couple of bad weather
days. We had to use one recently here when we had to close schools for some freezing.
We have enough minutes to go ahead and take another day off and not make those minutes up
because there's enough built into the calendar. So that would be my recommendation to the board.
I think we're past the bad weather for now, and I think we can afford to go ahead and build this in.
this would be the day after easter to extend that to a four-day holiday and i think everyone would
be in agreement how hard our staff our campus staff our district staff and everyone and our
students have been working real hard this year and we would want to reward them with that extra day
off excellent any questions mr president i just want to say to the superintendent that i appreciate
you giving our staff enough notice to for those who don't have the day off they can find you know
shared child care or any of that. So I move that the Board of Trustees approves an amendment to
the 2021-2022 instructional calendar to add a student and staff holiday on April 18, 2022.
We have a motion by Mrs. Fox and a second by Mrs. Champagne. We'll now proceed to vote. All those
in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. The motion carries 7-0. The next item is agenda
item 9.21 discuss and consider board adoption of KDI's the independent
school district board operating procedures I'd intended to put this to
the board for a for approval today I sent those out on Monday I did receive
some some feedback from trustees today wanting some additional time since I did
just send us out on Monday and I had stated initially when I updated the
procedures that we would have a discussion period if requested and it
was requested by trustee today so my recommendation is we defer making a motion on accepting the board
operating procedures until the next meeting at the end of march and i will schedule time
in one of the meetings upcoming in march to allot the time for discussion on the
operating procedures everybody okay with that okay thank you uh now we'll move into
agenda item 10 which is action 10.1 the skitter consider board approval of amendment 2 on the
Ms. Gatterfield and Ponticus Construction Contract.
Mr. President.
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approve the Amendment 2 to the Satterfield-Ponticus Construction Incorporated Contract
related to the comprehensive renovations in addition to Katy Elementary School.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Vann and a second by Mr. Redmond.
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 10.2 consider a board approval of materials testing services
associated with high school number 10 mr. president yes I move the board
trustees approves materials testing services associated with high school
number 10 second we have a motion by mrs. Vannis second by mr. Redmond will
now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your hand and say aye aye the
motion carries 7-0 agenda item 10.3 discuss and consider board approval air
air testing and balancing services associated with the construction of new high school 10
and junior high number 18. Mr. President? Yes. I move board trustees approves the air testing
and balancing services associated with the construction of a new high school number 10
and junior high number high school number 18. Second. We have a motion by Mrs. Vann, a second
by Ms. Wilson. We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor raise your hand and say aye.
The motion carries 7-0. 10.4 consider board approval of commissioning services associated
with new high school number 10 and junior high number 18 mr. president yes
I move the board trustees approves the commissioning services associated with
the new high school number 10 and junior high school number 18 okay we have a
motion by mrs. van and a second by mr. Redmond will now proceed to vote all
those in favor raise your right hand and say aye the motion carries 7 0 10.5
consider board approval of the proposed summer work schedule mr. president yes I
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposed summer work schedule.
We have a motion by Mrs.
Sampain and a second by Mr.
Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
The motion carries 7-0.
10.6, consider board approval of the minutes of the January 2022 board meeting.
Mr.
President.
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the January 2022 board meetings.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs.
Vann and a second by Mr.
Redmond.
will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye
aye the motion carries 7-0 agenda item 11.1 the board was provided a copy of
the notated items to KDISD agenda item 12.1 there will be a special board
meeting workshop with an outside facilitator held on December Tuesday
March 8 2022 for strategic design agenda item 12.2 a special budget and
staffing workshop will be held on monday march 21st 2022. agenda item 12.3 the next regular
board meeting will be held on march turn the page 28 2022. there being no further business before
this board this meeting is adjourned the time is 8 p.m exactly thank you 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 approve employees who are being recommended to receive administrative one-year probationary, administrative one-year term, administrative two-year term, staff member one-year probationary, staff member two-year term contracts.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Jamey Hynds as the Executive Director of Finance.
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 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's February 2022 budget amendments.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's December 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 005 · AGENDA 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Katy Independent School District Unlimited Tax School Building and/or Refunding Bonds as Fixed Rate Bonds in one or more series; setting certain parameters for the Bonds; authorizing a Pricing Officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Katy Independent School District Unlimited Tax School Building and/or Refunding Bonds as Fixed Rate Bonds in one or more series; setting certain parameters for the Bonds; authorizing a Pricing Officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 9.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Katy Independent School District Unlimited Tax School Building and/or Refunding Bonds as Fixed Rate Bonds in one or more series; setting certain parameters for the Bonds; authorizing a Pricing Officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 9.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc. for the construction of High School #10 in the amount of $177,530,315 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $203,920,499.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 9.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Drymalla Construction Company, Inc. for the construction of Junior High School #18 in the amount of $53,301,098 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $62,401,071.
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 9.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves various easements and costs to allow for the construction of utilities and roadway associated with the Katy ISD Northwest Facility which includes High School #10, Junior High School #18, and 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 011 · AGENDA 9.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a lease to Friendswood Development Company associated with the Katy ISD Northwest Facility which includes High School #10, Junior High School #18, and 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 012 · AGENDA 9.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Amendment Two to the Brookstone, LP contract related to the renovations at Miller Career and Technology Center for the Guaranteed Maximum Price of $4,243,569 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $5,924,628.
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 9.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves of the contract for Network Upgrades RFP 2110TC for the replacement of end-of-life network switches and access points at multiple locations throughout the District to Netsync Network Solutions.
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 9.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for Security Camera Upgrades at the District’s High Schools CSP-2111 to Accutek in the amount of $1,352, 042.00.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 9.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for Fiber Upgrades at District High Schools CSP-2110 to Acutek in the amount of $352,024.00 and NCS in the amount of $253,507.00.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 9.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for the kitchen equipment installations and connections at Beck Junior High and McMeans Junior High to Brown and Root Industrial Services, LLC utilizing Omnia JOC Contract No. R200102 in the amount of $366,369 and a total not to exceed project cost of $586,065.
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 9.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for the gym bleacher replacements at Beckendorff Junior High, Morton Ranch High and Seven Lakes High School to Nash Industries, Inc. utilizing Choice Partners Contract No 20/017MR-15 in the amount of $1,112,162.57 and a total not to exceed project cost of $1,313,526.57.
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 9.16
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for the HVAC equipment replacements at Alexander Elementary, Hayes Elementary, McRoberts Elementary, Beck Junior High, Cardiff Junior High, WoodCreek Junior High, Morton Ranch High and Taylor High School to Hunton Services utilizing Choice Partners Contract No. 19/036MR-03 in the amount of $802,125 and a total not to exceed project cost of $989,388.
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 9.17
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for the flooring replacements at Alexander Elementary, Griffin Elementary, Williams Elementary, WoodCreek Elementary, West Memorial Junior High and Morton Ranch High School to Tarkett USA Inc. utilizing Choice Partners Contract No. 21/021MJ-36 in the amount of $2,183,140.21 and a total not to exceed project cost of $2,358,140.21.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 020 · AGENDA 9.18
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for field lighting replacements at Mayde Creek High, Morton Ranch High and Taylor High School to LECS, Ltd. utilizing Choice Partners Contract No. 18/036MC-05 in the amount of $2,214,847.54 and a total not to exceed project cost of $2,622,545.54.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| duke-keller | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 021 · AGENDA 9.19
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Superintendent or his designee the authority to properly procure a natural gas supply contract for Katy Independent School District for up to sixty (60) months with competitive gas service. Procurement may be done utilizing multiple short-term contracts in order to procure natural gas at the best value for the 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 022 · AGENDA 9.20
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve an amendment to the 2021-2022 Instructional Calendar to add a student and staff holiday on April 18, 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 023 · AGENDA 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Amendment Two to the Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc. contract related to the comprehensive renovations and addition to Katy Elementary School for the Guaranteed Maximum Price of $6,170,698.
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 024 · AGENDA 10.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Raba Kistner, Inc. for materials testing services associated with the new High School #10 in an amount not to exceed $486,807.
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 025 · AGENDA 10.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Engineered Air Balance Co., Inc. for air testing and balancing services for the construction of the new High School #10 and Junior High School #18 in an amount not to exceed $688,445 and $288,690 respectively.
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 026 · AGENDA 10.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Engineered Air Balance Co., Inc. for commissioning services associated with the new High School #10 and Junior High School #18 in an amount not to exceed $485,930 and $225,295 respectively.
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 027 · AGENDA 10.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Katy Independent School District Unlimited Tax School Building and/or Refunding Bonds as Fixed Rate Bonds in one or more series; setting certain parameters for the Bonds; authorizing a Pricing Officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto.
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 028 · AGENDA 10.6
PassedConsider Board approval of the minutes of the January 2022 Board meetings.
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 |