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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, June 20, 2022
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- 0:05 to 1:24 1. Call to Order
- 1:24 to 7:18 3. Recognitions
- 7:18 to 12:13 4. Oaths
- 12:13 to 35:48 5. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
- 35:48 to 36:57 6. Closed Meeting
- 36:57 to 43:46 8.1 Presentation on the 2022-2023 Federal Grant Applications
- 43:46 to 54:30 9.1 Progress update to the Board on the uses of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Funds (ESSER II & ESSER III)
- 54:30 to 55:58 10.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the April 2022 Financial Reports.
- 55:58 to 57:51 10.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the June 2022 budget amendments
- 57:51 to 59:14 10.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the comprehensive renovations to Hutsell Elementary School.
- 59:14 to 1:00:19 10.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the comprehensive renovations and addition to McDonald Junior High School.
- 1:00:19 to 1:19:36 10.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Katy Independent School District compensation plan for the 2022 - 2023 school year.
- 1:19:36 to 1:23:16 10.6 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the Local Policy changes necessary to implement the previously approved District of Innovation Plan.
- 1:23:16 to 1:26:32 10.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Katy ISD 2022-2024 Strategic Plan Specific Results.
- 1:26:32 to 1:27:25 10.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of the nomination of a Katy Independent School District Board Member to the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors for Region 4, Position E.
- 1:27:25 to 1:54:01 11.1 Discuss future Board adoption of Board Policy EF Local.
- 1:54:01 to 2:02:34 11.2 Discuss future Board approval of the 2022-2023 Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct.
- 2:02:34 to 2:13:10 11.3 Discuss Resolution on possible future Tax Ratification Election.
- 2:13:10 to 2:16:17 12. Consent
- 2:16:17 to 2:16:26 13.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 2:16:26 to 2:16:31 14. Future Meetings
- 2:16:31 to 2:18:02 15. Closed Meeting
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1. Call to Order
Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Katy Independent School District to order.
Today is Monday, June 20th, 2022, and the time is 5.02 PM.
Dr. Gagorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to notice for this meeting?
Mr. Shelty, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of Texas Open Meeting Act for our meeting this evening.
Thank you.
And I'll proceed into the Pledge of Allegiance led by Dr. – not Dr. – by Chief Gall.
Chief Gall.
Yes.
There he is.
Good evening, Chief.
All right.
Let's all stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag.
I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible.
Do we have any scouts in the audience tonight?
No? Okay.
We'll now proceed into the recognitions part of our meeting.
3. Recognitions
Dr. Gorski?
Yeah, at this time I'd like to introduce Maria DiPetta, Manager of Media Relations, for the recognitions portion of our meeting tonight.
Good evening, President Schulte, Board Members, and Superintendent Gorski.
We begin with the University Interscholastic League, which held the 2022 Track and Field State Meet on May 12-14.
14th. Three Katy ISD student athletes earned four gold medals for achievements
in their respective categories and events. These graduates were unable to be
with us this evening but we would still like to honor them for their outstanding
performances. Coming to us via video for this evening please let me introduce
Mrs. Debbie Decker, Executive Director of Athletics to present these recognitions.
Good evening President Schulte, board members and Superintendent Grigorski. I'm
proud to introduce three senior student athletes who competed at the UIL track and field state
meet in the 6a division last month emerged victorious and brought home the gold from
Seven Lakes High School Matthew Ruff he is a two-time state qualifier who finished third at
the 2021 state meet and was the gold medalist placing first this year at state he also now
holds the Spartan school record with his throw of 68 feet one inch and three quarters in the boys
shot put event. Matthew is coached by Marvin Rathke and he will continue to compete at Auburn
University. Matthew Kumar from Tompkins High School took the top spot at state and earned a
school record with his 16-foot 3-inch vault when he competed in the boys pole vault event. His coach
is Derek Ward. Matthew will attend Rice University where he will continue to participate in track and
field. And Simone Ballard from May Creek High School is a double state champion in both the
100 meter and 300 meter girls hurdles event. Her 100 meter hurdle time of 13.3 and 41.1 in the 300
meter hurdles earned her two gold medals and the school record. Simone is coached by Marion Lewis.
She will participate as a track and field competitor at Baylor University. Congratulations
Congratulations to these dedicated athletes and best of luck on your future endeavors. Thank you.
Give them a round of applause.
Thank You, Ms. Decker. Congratulations again to these students and their coaches for their outstanding accomplishments.
This concludes our recognitions for tonight.
Thank You, Mr. Pettit. I asked Mr. Schulte if I could jump in on a couple of items before we get into the open forum.
them. One is I know Coach Decker is not with us here tonight. I didn't see her out there. She'd
probably get a little vacation time. But I did want to congratulate her on, I don't know if
everybody knows this, I think the board already knows, but a couple of weekends ago, Coach Decker
was inducted into the Texas High School Athletic Director's Hall of Fame, which was a great honor.
And we're super proud of her and her accomplishments. They'll welcome in one,
maybe between one and three new folks each year into that Hall of Honor.
So that was a pretty big thing for us, and we enjoyed our time in Austin,
recognizing her for her good work.
She comes in here all the time, so she gets a little kudos today as well.
The other thing I wanted to do is during the summer,
we don't always bring all of our personnel into the board,
but we hire people throughout the summer,
and we've got some new hires in the audience.
I saw they brought some family with them,
so I wanted to go ahead and introduce a few new folks,
let the board see who they are,
and let them do a little introduction of themselves.
so earlier this this month or towards the end of last month Emily Craig dr.
Craig out there she is the new assistant superintendent for secondary schools so
welcome and congratulations and and Emily if you got some folks with you
over there
Awesome. Have you officially taken her off the payroll?
Okay, not yet. Okay, just checking. She's got that job down there.
Okay, awesome. Got another new hire,
Rahsaan Smith. He's over here to my right. His family's over here. I saw them.
So Rahsaan is our new Assistant Superintendent for Elementary School Leadership and Support.
Who do you got with you there, Rahsaan?
I have my mother, Daisy Smith, we call Sugar Pie.
My wife, Shante Smith, Naima Smith, my son, Junior, my brother and sister, Christine Reggie,
my aunt, who's her sister, and my AP from the Robert Duffman School of Engineering.
Awesome.
And I see over here to my left is Greg Krause, and he's going to be the new principal of Memorial Parkway Junior High.
Greg, congratulations.
and who do you have with you awesome all right well welcome and I'll just
mentioned we did I informed the board that we had hired a new principal for
Cinco Ranch High School James Cross is retired our new principal is Kay Williams
Williams she's not with us tonight but she will be here in July for introductions and you get a
chance to meet her so appreciate that little bit of time you give me there Mr. Schulte to go ahead
and do that thank you thank you congratulations everyone we'll now proceed to agenda item 4.1
4. Oaths
peace officer oath of office chief call
and deputy tabor sorry
Sorry.
President Schulte, Superintendent Gorski, and board,
it's our distinct honor tonight to introduce you
to two newest KDISD officers, Officer Doreen Duclair
and Officer Vin Pham.
Officer Duclair was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York,
by Haitian immigrant parents who moved to the United States
in 1968.
Prior to becoming a police officer, Doreen first obtained a master's degree in human
resources management while teaching in Saudi Arabia.
In 2016, Doreen moved to Houston and was working for Walmart, and while working at Walmart
decided that she wanted to hold a position that was more rewarding.
Therefore in 2017, she began working for the Harris County Sheriff's Office as a detention
officer.
In 2019, Doreen enrolled and graduated from the University of Houston Downtown Police Academy.
In October 2020, Doreen started her career as a police officer with the Harris County Constable Precinct 4,
where she worked the night shift in Humble.
After working for Harris County for a year and a half, she applied with the KDISD Police Department to be closer to home
and to return to interacting with children in an education environment.
It's Officer Doreen Duclair.
Officer Vinh Pham was born in Saigon, Vietnam and immigrated to the United States at the
age of 12 with his parents.
Officer Pham enlisted in the United States Army as an infantryman immediately after graduation
from La Quinta High School in California in 99.
in 1999.
Officer Pham retired after 20 years of service in the United States Army as a Master Sergeant.
Throughout his military career, Officer Pham dedicated his free time to earn a Bachelor's
of Science from Columbia Southern University.
After his military career, Officer Pham wanted to continue to be of service to the community.
One of his childhood goals was to become a police officer, which was realized when he
he applied and was accepted into Houston Police Academy.
He graduated from the Houston Police Academy Class 250
and later joined the KDISD Police Department
to serve in the community and schools where he lives.
Officer Pham is currently married to his wife of 17 years
and has a 10-year-old son who's an outstanding King Elementary student.
Officer Pham's future goals are to continue to live an honorable life,
be a role model for the younger generation, serve the community, and be
the best husband and father that he can. Officer Van Pham.
I, state your name, do solemnly swear, I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of Peace Officer of the KD 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 the state.
So help me God.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
One quick comment to the IT folks.
I'm getting some text saying that the live stream's not working, so I don't know if that's true or not, but I said I would ask.
Thank you.
5. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
We'll now proceed into agenda item 5.0, which is the public comment and citizen participation part of the meeting.
This section has recently been modified to include two categories.
Category 1 is for speakers signed up to speak on posted agenda items.
And Category 2 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 three minutes to speak.
For speakers who signed up to speak on non-posted agenda items,
a maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated with the time divided equally among those who have signed up.
However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes.
If a speaker has not finished speaking at the end of the three minutes,
the audio will turn off the speakers wish to share written material with the board they must do they
must provide 10 copies to the secretary for board services before the meeting begins for board
members the superintendent the chief communications officer and permanent record if the speaker has
not attempted to solve a matter administratively through the proper channels as stated in board
policy the presiding officer's designee shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through
through the appropriate policy.
Finally, pursuant to the Texas Government Code,
Section 551-074-551-0821,
the Board will not permit the presentation
of personally identifiable information regarding a student
and will not discuss the appointment, employment,
evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline,
or dismissal of a public officer or employee
or to hear a complaint or charge
against an officer or employee.
Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues,
they must do so through the appropriate legal grievance policies, FNG local, DGBA local, CKE local, or GF local.
Our speakers will be called forward in the order in which they sign up to speak.
First, we will call the speakers who have signed up to speak on posted agenda items.
Each speaker will have three minutes in this category.
The first speaker tonight is Bruce Crosswaite, and the second speaker tonight is Ronald Radcliffe.
Good evening.
Good evening.
First, I would like to thank you all for your hard work, especially those on the committee
created to find solutions for pay increases and the resulting 5% midpoint increase for
Katy bus drivers.
In updating the 14 regional districts that were presented at the last board meeting,
I emailed the board a bus driver compensation comparison and determined that six districts are
presenting 2022-2023
figures while eight districts are
using 2021-2022 numbers probably being increased in the next 60 days.
KDISD is in the middle of the road, an expression bus drivers do not like.
in both regional analysis and 10 largest districts in Texas. This is not where we
want to be. As you will hear from my cohort, Jim, Katy bus drivers are special
and we are proposing the following compensation plan for the 2022-2023
school year for bus drivers only. Currently 363 drivers. Minimum starting
$19.50. Midpoint $22 and maximum $25. Attendance are not part of the above
plan but should be given a retention stipend. $500 in December, $500 in May,
$1,000 total, there's 133 of them.
This will put us back in a position where Katy ISD belongs.
My final thought is at the end of May,
I emailed an elementary school principal
regarding a wonderful crossing guard
that delightfully greeted each car and student
and bus driver with a wave and a smile.
The principal thanked me and included this in her reply.
Thank you for taking such great care of our koalas while they are in your care.
I know driving a bus is a lot of responsibility. My aunt was a bus driver for many years.
And as much responsibility as I have as a principal, I could never be a bus driver.
I think that says a lot.
The one thing in my presentation that I wanted to make sure everybody understands, the minimum
is for new bus drivers.
And we're asking for a completely separate category for bus drivers.
The midpoint and the maximum are retention dollars.
You have to keep the 10-year veterans like myself and the 15- and 20-year people.
Otherwise, if we don't take care of those people, then the acquisition we're constantly
going to be.
Thank you.
Appreciate your time.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker tonight is Ronald Radcliffe, and the speaker after that is Regina Johnson.
Good evening.
How are you?
Not to be picky, but it's Roland Radcliffe, my friends call me Jim.
That's quite all right.
No, that's quite all right.
The opening remarks of the Texas DPS spokesman to the bus drivers in their initial 24-hour certification course
or 20-hour certification course was 100% focused on the importance of the responsibility for the safety of our students
and the community we serve as we pick up and deliver our students every day.
day. And further, that it is incumbent upon the professional bus driver to remain vigilant
and aware of potential dangerous situations both inside and outside the vehicle as we
perform our duties. Our entire daily focus is on safety. We are trained to operate a
vehicle safely and maintain our vehicles to ensure a safe environment as we perform our
duties. This training is not only focused on the internal environment of our vehicles,
but the external factors affecting our ability to safely care for our students and extends
extends to the community that we serve.
We are charged to be constantly aware of other vehicles, the weather, road conditions, various
neighborhood configurations.
The consequences of mistakes, both internal and external, can be catastrophic and it is
up to us, the driver, to mitigate potential mistakes as much as possible.
No other category of employee in the school district is tasked with a responsibility of
this magnitude.
However, we are compensated as any other hourly paid category of district employee.
Simply put, our responsibilities are far more significant as it relates to the safety of
our children and our community, and we should be compensated to reflect this level of professional
responsibility that we have been given.
It is time for the district to step up and treat drivers fairly and not be counted in
the same ordinary group of employees when evaluating compensation.
compensation. School bus drivers are special and should be treated as such.
Please note that being a CDL holder school bus driver is very demanding.
We are held to a higher standard for physical health.
We are held to a higher standard than legally accepted DOT levels for drug and alcohol testing.
We are responsible for the safety of students during the two most dangerous
procedures of driving students loading and unloading.
We are liable for the behavior of students while they are on the bus.
We are subject to civil and criminal liabilities in the event of an accident, regardless of driver fault.
We are subject to disciplinary action for any vehicle violations or accidents that may occur on personal time in our own private vehicles.
And finally, all CDLKISD school bus drivers are trained on special ed SPED buses, transportation, and all special requirements for ensuring the safety of our SPED communities.
I yield to the board.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Regina Johnson.
The speaker after that is Zane Tolison, if he's here.
Good evening.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak.
First, I'd like to congratulate and welcome Trustee Perez.
The majority of parents and community members look forward to working with you
and appreciate the torturous journey you and your family endured to get here today.
Congratulations, Trustee Redmond, as well.
Second, President Schulte, you and I have something in common.
We come from an industry that takes great accountability for safety and quality.
We do so by using performance and we use multiple layers of protection to ensure success.
The board is accountable for having assurance systems in place, not just on the financials,
but accountability for having quality control systems to give assurance that the leaders of this district
and the systems are working.
Discipline.
First of all, parents should own the problem with discipline, but there is also KDISD ownership
within the four walls of the school.
KDISD has turned into a fight club, and on top of that, one with a drug distribution
problem.
Numerous videos and eyewitness accounts from the school year demonstrate these fights are
commonplace even in this year's summer session.
Not only are there fights, students are disrespectful, students are allowed to cheat with the use
of cell phones while writing tests, sometimes encouraged directly or indirectly by staff.
Many of the staff are fed up, some gave up and left, campus admin appears stuck in managing staff and parent complaints.
Where is the enforcement of discipline code and conduct policies?
Safety. At my student's high school, circle time is occurring in the girls' washroom in the large stall regularly, but they're not reading banned books.
Ceiling tiles are shifted to access or hide drugs.
Fulcher PD, Kitty Ice PD speak up and campus staff know and acknowledge an understanding of this.
The student at Adams is known for having a hit list, and this student has made face-to-face threats to others.
KDISD labeled this a rumor.
Parents panicked, kept kids home.
Child with the hit list gets to return next day and go to ISS.
KDISD has an opportunity to be more transparent, resolve these issues immediately the first time,
instead of allowing repeat offenses with minimal to no consequences.
Materials.
TEA provided a draft EFB local policy statewide in April for a clear reason, and it's finally on the agenda tonight.
Lamar ISD SB ISD started reviews and community engagement last month Katie
sat on it the line in the sand was drawn in November on it such sexually explicit
or pervasively vulgar regardless of the information of the stories characters or
so we thought yet similar if not worse books remain even after level one
grievances parents continue to be cast as homophobic bigots and the repetitive
media hit pieces or seriously misinformed as quoted by dr. Gorg or
ski in an email to the board in march if sexually explicit was removed from the offshore maintenance
shops over 20 years ago it doesn't belong in the libraries we seem to be backtracking and
disregarding texas penal code i encourage the board to consider adopting the tea drop policy
as it's written the systems you have in place either do not exist or they require attention
sir it's time to reassess and retool it's imperative that you partner with the students
You say you partner with us, but I'd rather you focus on the students for their safety
and education.
Otherwise, be the .
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Zane Polissen.
Zane here.
Okay, the next speaker after that is Logan McClain.
And the speaker after that is Angie Waller.
Good evening. My name is Logan McLean and I'm a rising senior at Cinco Ranch High School. I'm
here to discuss the current process of reviewing instructional resources, particularly library
books. Within only the last year, 10 books have been formally removed from KDISD libraries,
many of which featuring characters or topics related to the Black and LGBTQ plus community.
Kitty ISD website states a committee of educators as well as parent
representatives and formal reviews evaluates these books after they have
been reported through partner with parents. I am asking for clearer
transparency and who these review committees are composed of and to pledge
efforts towards greater representation within these review committees. Access to
resources for students who may not look, love, or think the way a small
undisclosed committee does means that we must diversify these committees to
to ensure students like myself can readily find representation
and enrichment.
I am asking that you make an active effort
to inquire the opinions of KDSD members
of marginalized communities in forming these review
committees.
We must have these committees open to input
from not only diverse communities,
but also from qualified individuals,
such as librarians, who can offer valuable, knowledgeable,
and considered judgment.
Student participation in reviewing challenge resources
should also be available to ensure that we,
we as the students are being represented by the resources accessible to us.
I am asking the board to consider four things when updating their book review policy.
Having transparency over who is in the review committees, taking action to ensure review
committees are diversified to include a wider range of perspectives, including knowledgeable,
qualified individuals such as librarians, and opening up the possibility for student
participation in the book review process.
process. No one kind of person can truly decide what is considered pervasively vulgar, and
that is why we must expand our review committees to include diverse perspectives. KDISD's
belief number four states that being open-minded fosters continual improvement. As one of the
students you strive to serve and protect, I ask that you uphold this belief and consider
updating KDISD's book review policy so that all people are represented and the resources
being offered to us thank you the next speaker is Angie Waller and the speaker
after that is Mary Ellen Cozzella good evening board my name is Angie Waller
and I've had three kids I've graduated through Katie at ISD I've been an active
volunteer in these schools since we first moved to Katie ISD 17 years ago I
I truly care about all the kids in our district, not just the ones that are at my kids' school or my own kids.
I'm still actively involved, even though I've had my last child that will graduate through KDISD graduate this year.
And I believe that all kids deserve equal representation in the books that they read in the library.
At the beginning of the school year, we had parents that wanted to remove the book New Kid, simply because it made them uncomfortable.
But how do you think the children that have experienced those same things feel?
Do you not think that they feel uncomfortable, Mr. Perez?
Do they not matter?
Mr. Perez, why do you feel that your feelings matter more than these students' feelings?
You say that you want to keep politics out of KDISD out of the classroom,
yet you felt it appropriate to give the board members a book titled Black Eye for America.
How is that keeping politics out of our schools?
Now that you're on the board, don't you
think it's time for you to think of all of our children,
not just the ones that look and think like you?
Please think of all the children who
are making a decision on the new book review policy.
Remember right now that parents have the option
to opt out of any book that they don't want their children
to read.
They don't have the right to make the choices for my
children or anybody else's children. Make sure that every parent will continue to
have the right to make decisions for their own children. When forming this
committee to review books the committee needs to be a fair representation of all
the students and staff in KDISD. The committee should include multiple
parents, staff, teachers and even the students need to be involved in this
decision and most importantly it should be librarians involved. They're the ones
that know what our students read the most and have the most knowledge to make the right decisions for
all of our students it's time to stop allowing just a handful of angry parents to make these
decisions that affect all of our students thank you board thank you the last speaker
tonight is mary ellen kazella good evening tonight i'd like to address that the district
is out of compliance with its very own EF local policy and Texas Penal Code 4324
regarding library books and needs to adopt a new policy immediately.
On April 11th, the Texas Commissioner of Education and leader of the TEA, Mike Morath,
stated in a letter to Governor Abbott that it's unacceptable for obscene content to be in Texas public school libraries.
In response, the TEA, together with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
and the chair of the State Board of Education developed a model local school board policy to serve as a guide to you school boards.
I ask that you adopt a new policy using their guidance and do it with haste.
Their proposed policy emphasizes transparency and the rights and role of Texas parents in the education of their children and what they read.
It also explicitly references the standards regarding inappropriate and harmful content
for students as defined by Texas Penal Code 4324
and the Federal Children's Internet Protection Act.
In addition, even TASB has published an FAQ document
which states, quote, the power to determine
what is vulgar, lewd, and plainly offensive
lies first with the administrators
and ultimately with the school board.
Perhaps of highest interest for educators
is Texas Penal Code 4324 on the distribution of harmful material
to minors, end quote.
I have referenced this law with you, Dr. Gagorski, administrators and current Board of Trustees,
excluding Mr. Perez, as he was not elected yet, since last September.
I urge you to finally respect this law and use it as part of your library book policy.
Your existing EF local policy states, quote,
Instructional resources are to implement, enrich, and support the district's educational program, end quote.
I'd like to point to one book, Looking for Alaska, that I recently challenged and read from at the board meeting in April.
I gave each of you copies of the pages, excluding Mr. Perez.
He was not elected yet.
There is explicit sexual material throughout the book, including a detailed description of a porn scene,
teens watching porn together, then having sex, and a detailed description of a teen girl giving a teen boy a blowjob.
The book was approved by a reconsideration committee and also approved by the district's very own assistant superintendent for teaching and learning at the end of May.
after a level one grievance meeting. How in the world is a book like this
implementing, enriching, and supporting the district's educational program? For
this reason the district is out of compliance with its very own policy and
Texas Penal Code 4324. It's way past time to update your policy. Get into
compliance using guidance from the state. The majority of taxpayers do not want to
pay for these books and students certainly don't need these books for any
educational reason. Books like these desensitize a young mind to sex, groom
groom them for more sexual behavior are a gateway to porn and exacerbate the sex trafficking epidemic.
Last but not least, say no to the federal government's demand to comply with Title IX updates.
All children deserve to be fed.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
We will now call up speakers who signed up to speak on non-posted agenda items.
By policy, a maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated, with the time divided equally among
those who have signed up.
Each speaker will have three minutes.
The first and only speaker tonight is George Scott.
Good evening.
Thank you.
George Scott, three graduates of Katy ISD.
I'm here tonight to give you a heads up that I have retained an independent team of
academicians, retired academicians, and statisticians, and we're going to issue a report sometime
in the fall that puts KTISD in the context of the state of Texas.
As one who has closely studied TEA test results since its blatantly disreputable TAS era through
the more sophisticated manipulation of academic integrity of the STAR era, let me acknowledge
one consistent reality. From toss to star, the educational professionals at KTISD
and those who have guided the ship here have consistently had higher values for
student academic performance and delivered more on those values than the
malevolently dishonest and deceptive Texas Education Agency requires. Nothing
I say tonight or will be produced in that report will subtract from that
truth. The TEA has eviscerated to intellectual rubble any integrity in the
assertion of statutory and judicial compliance with its burdens of
constitutional equity and closing academic achievement gaps for at-risk
disadvantaged, primarily minority students. While the TEA obviously will
Trump phantom progress for their 2022 STAAR Test results. There is no credible
evidence, statistical psychometric, born of whatever, that validates the TEA's
assertion that this year's star results have a nano ounce of
integrity or credibility. Please don't hop on all is getting better train. I
I didn't come to give numbers tonight, but I will give one set to stand in for thousands of numbers, some of which will be in our report.
2,510,075 students between grades 5 through end of course English 1 and English 2 took the spring administration of the STAR reading test in their respective grades in 2018-19, the last fully relevant year of testing.
53% of those students were at risk.
76% perform below grade level and the TEA has the audacity to say it has met their academic needs.
I reached this point in my career primarily because I have failed in my full career to influence powerful people to give a rat's tail about economically disadvantaged students.
And I'm going to make one final effort to put KDISD in context with the state of Texas.
The good news is KD is better.
The tragic news is...
Thank you.
This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting.
6. Closed 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 551076 and 551129 thank you
good evening everyone the board will now reconvene an open meeting today is monday june 20th
2022 and the time is 6 30. on behalf of my colleagues i welcome everyone to this
this evening's regular board meeting. Each board member received the agenda and documentation for
this meeting on Friday, June 17, 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 discussions in a closed meeting must be taken
in open meeting. Well, now to proceed to agenda item 8.1, presentation of the 2022-2023
8.1 Presentation on the 2022-2023 Federal Grant Applications
federal grant applications. The presenter is Nakia Coy, Director of Federal Programs,
and Dr. Christine Kasky, Chief Academic Officer. Good evening. Good evening. I'm going solo today.
day. She's there. All righty. Good evening, President Schultz, board members, and Dr.
Gorgorski. I'm here to present an overview of our federal grant applications for the 22-23 school
year. In accordance with grant requirements, this is an opportunity for public comment on
the applications prior to submission at the end of this month. I will explain the purpose of each
grant, current allocations, and proposed activities. Title I provides supplemental
funding to 18 identified campuses students who are economically
disadvantaged make up at least 40% of the student population on these campuses
the district title one entitlement is approximately 11 million dollars campuses
receive additional staffing for interventions funding for instructional
resources technology tutorials and professional development these schools
are also required to spend a designated amount on parent and family engagement
engagement activities.
Title II funds of approximately $1.8 million are used to provide high quality professional
development to teachers, principals, and other school leaders.
Activities include salaries for professional development staff, contracted speakers, conference
registration, and supplemental funding for the teacher mentor program.
The Title III Part A planning amount is $1.7 million, and these funds are used to support
to support emergent bilingual students,
also known as English learners,
to help them attain English proficiency
and develop high levels of academic achievement.
Funds are used to supplement the ESL
and bilingual programs in our district.
Professional development is provided to teachers
so that they acquire the strategies needed
to support students who are at varying
English proficiency levels.
Funds are also used to provide parent, family,
and community engagement activities
that foster a parent-school relationship
that results in the academic success
of emergent bilingual students. Oh I'm sorry, there's Title III.
Title IV is one of our more flexible grants. It includes
supplemental funding to improve access to a well-rounded education, maintaining
safe and healthy students, and improving teacher capacity to use
technology in the classroom. Title IV funds are used to purchase STEM
resources and provide summer enrichment courses, as well as professional
development for staff on trauma and mental health topics.
IDEA B and C, along with the State-Based Discretionary
Deaf Grant, are intended to assist districts in providing
special education services to students with disabilities to
ensure they receive a free and appropriate public education.
In Katy ISD, we use these funds to provide services such as
specialized staff, including teachers, paraprofessionals,
evaluation staff, and therapeutic providers.
providers.
Additionally, funds are allotted for providing resources such as professional development,
specialized equipment, and training.
Perkins V is designed to supplement career and technical education programs.
50% of the budget is spent on program staff, 48% on instructional materials and equipment,
and about 2% on professional development.
Performance measures include the monitoring of academic standards, technical standards
such as industry-based credentialing graduation rates transition to post-secondary education
the workforce or military as well as access and success in non-traditional programs
and homeless funding is used to support students who have lost their housing and are in temporary
living situations the state grant is provided annually whereas the arc one and two grants are
special funds allotted over a three-year period primarily funds will be used to provide direct
direct services from two social workers who will work specifically with our homeless population
the student data analyst will monitor attendance grades credit accrual and other relevant data and
the remaining funds will be used to provide instructional support technology and supplies
and lastly the intent of esser of the esser funds is to help safely reopen schools and to address
the impact of the pandemic on students there's three main buckets where funds can be spent
activities to assist a safe return to school, activities to address learning loss, and activities to address the well-being of students.
There will be an in-depth update of this particular grant later in the agenda.
And I'm here to answer any questions you may have.
Are there any questions, board members?
President Schulte?
Yes.
Thank you for the presentation.
I'm just curious.
So we've had to apply for these grants?
We apply annually.
They're formula funding, funded grants.
But the ESSER II and ESSER III, I thought we were just going to have that.
Yes, we do.
I included it just because it was one of our federal programs.
I see.
You are correct.
We submitted our application last year.
We can amend as we go, but it's not a new application.
Okay.
Also, we wanted to give the opportunity for public comment on all of the grants
and then an additional opportunity for public comment on ESSER just because of those requirements.
On how it's going to be used.
Okay, thank you.
Any other questions?
The thrust of the grants and ESSER is really to help the disadvantaged children,
low-income children, et cetera, and English learners primarily.
That's the thrust, particularly the grants.
Well, each grant has a specific purpose.
Some are district-wide, like Title II, Title IV can be used throughout the district
based on our identified needs.
grants like title 1 title 3 are for specific populations of students like
our homeless grants of those kinds of things so it's usually in the grant
guidelines which population like our special ed grants or for that particular
population are there any grants that have any strings attached in terms of
curriculum in terms of requirements like we're hearing about the food lunch
program right now from the federal government anything like that any any
any strings attached nope it's all based on campus needs and district needs they're required to do a
comprehensive needs assessment where they look at all our available data determine what needs they
have on campuses and then implement strategies to address those needs and these so these funds
are used to help support those activities thank you any other questions thank you very much
we uh scheduled to have a public hearing and did not 8.2 but nobody signed up to speak so
So we're going to skip to agenda item 9.0.
9.1 Progress update to the Board on the uses of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Funds (ESSER II & ESSER III)
9.1, progress update of the board on uses of the ESSER funds.
Dr. Kasky, good evening.
My turn for tag teaming tonight.
Good evening, President Schulze, board members, and Dr. Krakorski.
I'm here this evening to present an update on the KDISD Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund.
This slide presents an overview of the ESSER funds received by the district.
ESSER I, which was 100% supplanted by the state, has been fully expended and will close September 30th of 2022.
With a student population of just over 90,000 students, the remaining $96 million equals approximately $1,000 per student,
just to help to give you some perspective about the amount of money that we received compared to the number of students in the district.
As of today, the district has spent 45% of ESSER II, which this grant ends September 30th of 2023, and 20% of ESSER III, which ends September 30th of 2024.
Tonight, we will review the ESSER II and ESSER III allocations and provide an update on those activities.
The intent of these funds, as Ms. Coy just mentioned, is to help safely reopen schools and to address the impact of the pandemic on students.
There are three main buckets where funds can be spent.
Activities to assist in the safe return to school, activities to address learning loss, and activities to address the well-being of students.
We're required to spend a minimum of 20% of the total ESSER III grant on these last two areas.
You can see here that we've exceeded that minimum reservation.
There's 40% reserved in ESSER II and 50% reserved in ESSER III to support these specific activities.
activities. I'll outline the activities planned for each of the categories that I mentioned
previously. Safe return to school includes the purchase of additional cleaning supplies
and the implementation of health protocols. There's approximately $2 million budgeted
to implement health protocols, which included the addition of two floating nurses for the
2021-2022 school year. And in 2022-2023, we're adding an additional two floating nurses for
a total of four other upcoming activities include the additional cleaning of band instruments and
the purchase of additional instruments to reduce the need for students sharing
on this slide you'll see the federally identified strategies to mitigate learning loss that are
included in our use of funds plan i'll review each of the activities over the next few slides
we budgeted approximately 2.9 million dollars to address the needs of our english learners and
students with disabilities current expenditures include software reading materials and
and professional development for staff.
There's a little over $1 million budgeted for summer programs
at individual campuses.
Campuses are implementing summer learning programs
to address House Bill 4545 and address learning
loss due to the pandemic.
Updates on these summer programs will
be given to the board at our semiannual update in December.
There's approximately $1.2 million
designated primarily for before and after school tutorials,
and approximately 3,629 students have
have been impacted by these funds.
There's $27 million allocated to the category
of meeting the comprehensive needs of students.
This includes salary for 149 campus staff, which
consists of instructional coordinators,
instructional coaches, intervention teachers,
and peer professionals to be paid over the three-year grant
period.
Campuses reported that these additional staff members
and supplemental positions were instrumental in meeting
the needs of their students.
The district has allocated a little over $800,000 for ensuring that our parents and our families
have the necessary knowledge and skills to support their students.
Additional parent classes have been offered at our KDISD parent centers and campuses have
offered parents opportunities to attend events such as curriculum nights and lunch and learn
sessions on the campuses.
There's approximately $1.4 million allocated to purchase and administer high quality assessments,
assessments. Online reading and math universal screeners were also purchased to assist classroom
teachers in identifying student deficits. Additionally, substitutes were hired to allow
classroom teachers time to administer these assessments in the classroom for their students.
Approximately $5 million has been allocated to address mental health services and supports.
These funds have been used to hire additional social workers, counselors, behavioral interventionists.
Campuses have created counseling and mentor groups and after school activities as well
as provided professional development for staff members to address mental health concerns.
The next few slides will describe how the remaining funds have been spent.
Approximately $6 million was allocated in the area of campus professional development.
This includes conference registrations and funding for staff to provide just-in-time
professional development and training for campuses.
APPROXIMATELY $800,000 IS ALLOCATED TO SUPPORT CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
THIS INCLUDES THE PURCHASE OF SPECIALIZED HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO ENHANCE
OUR CURRENT CURRICULUM AND BROADEN STUDENT AWARENESS OF THE CAREER CLUSTERS.
APPROXIMATELY $6 MILLION HAS BEEN SET ASIDE TO PURCHASE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.
THIS INCLUDES CHROMEBOOKS, LAPTOPS, iPADS, AND EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE.
APPROXIMATELY $25 MILLION HAS BEEN DESIGNATED TO PROVIDE A CONTINUITY OF SERVICES AND TO
continue to employ staff additional campus and department staff which you will see on the upcoming
slides have been hired to provide needed services in the areas impacted by the pandemic growth units
were also included to address the increased student population this slide outlines 149
campus-based positions hired to support campus and district initiatives such as classroom support to
mitigate learning loss address mental health concerns provide support to absent students
and support the coordination of intervention services.
A total of 45 staff members were employed by the district
to provide professional development to campuses,
provide support to parents, decrease the dropout rate,
and administer and manage the federal grant funding
and compliance requirements associated with ESSER grants.
We will continue to conduct progress monitoring
of our use of funds plan and to gain feedback
from our stakeholders through our ESSER email account
and annual stakeholder survey.
survey. And we're here this evening to, again, these grants are not just in teaching and
learning, they run across the district, and we're all here to respond to any questions
that you may have.
MR. Are there any questions?
MR. Yes.
MR. So we, I notice that what you mentioned is we've hired 149 additional people
for our campus base.
MS. Yes, sir.
MR. And about 45 that are district based.
When the ESSER funds run out, we've used the funds, what happens to those people?
Do we expect that they will continue on because we've grown, or what do we think is going to happen?
Well, actually, when we put together our ESSER grant, those were conversations that we did have.
So all of these individuals are hired under the stipulation that it is grant money, that the position will be gone.
So they're put on notice of that at the beginning.
planning, but we've also talked about the fact that we are a fast growth district and
that we should be able to absorb these positions through growth and through attrition.
And there's some that will go away.
Where are we on the learning loss part of it in terms of like, you know, after the pandemic
and, you know, it's a multi-year deal, where are we on that in terms of how much yet do
we have to go?
Right.
So today, last week we got our final score reports in for end of course.
so we've been analyzing that information last week and today we received our
final data for star grades three through eight and I believe that dr. Gagorski
will be providing you with that information in the near future I have a
question so you can look at all this money what happens if we don't spend it
all because there's a lot of money still to be spent and I'm sure there's only so
much hiring you can do and you can only you know spend it so fast but is this a
use it or lose it or is there a way to preserve it um and use it when we need it more that makes
sense if you're if you're referring to esser specifically yes there's a so that last year
is what we call carryover so it gives you a little bit more time um not spending it all is definitely
not even an option i um i would i would assume that in my unofficial opinion that you know we
We would supplant district resources before we let that happen, if that makes sense.
But we're going to continue.
You guys are confident you're going to be able to spend it all by the time it expires?
Yes.
We don't leave money on the table.
Thank you.
Mr. President, I have a question.
So I believe it was 13 additional social workers that were hired.
Is that what?
I saw a slide.
I don't know if that was additional.
Yeah, 13 that are funded.
They're not all new.
Okay.
Oh, I see.
think that there were a let's see maybe four that were new four yeah four that were new all right um
but they're not all but some of them are here but we're funding them temporarily at least through
the answer but where where are they where do they do are they at high school campuses are they
i think primarily they're housed at high school and junior high campuses um i think there's a
a couple at elementary campuses, but I think they service all students based on referrals
from the counselors. So even though they may be housed in one particular building, they're
mobile, they're itinerant. Does every high school have at least one or two of them? No,
no, I'm sorry. Not yet. Okay. All right. Thank you. Any other questions? Just one last question.
what is the PLC Academy what is that professional learning communities it's where it's okay I'm
looking at today but I'm gonna I'm gonna give my shot at an answer it's pretty much a collaborative
group of campus teachers and leaders where they look at data and make a plan for their campus we
did it's content-specific Alicia Bates is here but in the district yeah it's within the district so
So we facilitate them at the district level.
So we take a look at our data.
We pull teachers together where they do learning together.
We look at our curriculum resources, instructional resources, student scores, and we build plans around that to address learning loss.
Right?
There you go.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
We'll now move on to agenda item 10.1, discuss and consider board approval of the April 2022 financial reports.
10.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the April 2022 Financial Reports.
Mr. Jamie Hines, Executive Director of Finance.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, Superintendent Gorgorski, and trustees.
You should have in front of you your financial reports for April 2022.
2022. Included is our financial statements through April of 2022, which includes an analysis of our
expenses and revenues for the first 67% of our current fiscal year. This also has an analysis
by function and by object. As well, you should have a copy of our construction report, our check
register summaries for the month of april and our tax report through april 2022. these are being
presented to you as they are each month for your approval let me know if i can answer any questions
for you thank you are there any questions mr president yes i move that the board of trustees
approves the april 2022 financial reports we have a motion by mr mr redmond and second by mrs van
We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. Motion carries 7-0.
Agenda item 10.2, discuss and consider board approval of the June 2022 budget amendments.
10.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the June 2022 budget amendments
The presenters, Ms. Sherry Butterfield, Director of Budget and Treasury. Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, Trustees, Superintendent Gregorski.
Tonight, the General Operating Fund expenditure amendments are all direct offsets between different functions.
Therefore, all of these amendments will result in no change to the General Fund fund balance.
The Special Revenue Fund is recognizing revenue increase of $4,014,762 due to increased participation in all meal services and the Summer Food Service Program, SFSP.
These amendments also increase the special revenue fund expenditures by $1,683,328 for increased cost of food and increased food purchases due to increased participation and staffing expenditures related to the running of the SFSP program.
program. Approval of these amendments will result in a net increase $2,331,434 to the
Special Revenue Food Services Fund balance.
Thank you. Are there any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the June 2022 budget amendments.
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 the motion carries 7-0 thank you agenda item
10.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the comprehensive renovations to Hutsell Elementary School.
10.3 discuss and consider board approval of a contract for the comprehensive renovations to
hudson elementary school the presenters miss miss lisa cassman executive director of facilities
planning and construction good evening good evening president schulte trustees and dr gagorski
i have two items for your consideration this evening the first is consideration of the award
of a contract to stewart builders for renovations to hudson elementary for a fee not to exceed two
percent of the cost of work and pre-construction services for thirty thousand six proposals were
received and stewart builders providing the best value they have kisd experience with the ag
sciences facility vehicle stacking and currently are working on windborne and schmaltz our president
in the audience is my project manager trey barnett and we have reps here from stewart builders and
stantec architecture thank you are there any questions
i don't want to entertain a motion mr president yes
i move the board of trustees approves of the contract for the comprehensive
renovations at hudson elementary school for a fee not to exceed
two percent of the cost of the work including pre-construction services
totaling in thirty thousand dollars okay i have a motion by mrs van and 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 10.4 discussing consider board
10.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the comprehensive renovations and addition to McDonald Junior High School.
approval of a contract for the comprehensive renovations for mcdonald junior high okay so
we're recommending the award to dramala construction for the renovations of mcdonald
for a fee not to exceed 2.99 and pre-construction services for 75 000 five proposals were received
ramallah providing the best value they have been with the district working on numerous elementary
in junior high projects for over 20 years.
President in the audience is my project manager,
Ryan Wojtyla, and representative
from Dramala Construction.
Thank you, are there any questions?
Mr. President? Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees
approves the contract for comprehensive renovations
in addition to McDonald Junior High,
but the fee not to exceed 2.99% of the cost of work,
including .
reconstruction services totaling seventy five thousand dollars okay yeah motion
by mr. champagne a second by mrs. Wilson will now proceed to vote all those in
favor raise your hand say aye the motion carries 7-0 mr. president yes I just
want to thank the administration for including the details in the motion
thank you thank you mr. Fox miss Fox ten point five discuss and consider board
10.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Katy Independent School District compensation plan for the 2022 - 2023 school year.
approval of the Katy independent school districts compensation plan for the 2022
2022-2023 school year. The presenter is Ms. Brian Schuss, Chief Human Resources Officer. Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, members of the board, Dr. Gorgorski. Included in your agenda
is the recommended compensation plan for the 2022-2023 school district, school year for the
district. I apologize. Before I move forward, I want to recognize Dr. Anita Hill. She's here with
me this evening. She's Executive Director of Human Resources to assist with any questions.
greatly appreciate her assistance in putting this plan together and the HR team's assistance in
putting this plan together. For an organization this size, a compensation plan is a big undertaking,
so I just wanted to publicly say how much I appreciate my team. A little history. In 2019,
there was a complete restructuring of the compensation plan. This will be the fourth
year of that structure. Knowing that, and it is best practice about every three to five years,
have an outside group come in, look at your compensation plan, look at the structure, see if that's still sound, see how it's been maintained, and then look at market competitiveness.
And as you all know, we had TASB perform that for us, and they performed a comprehensive pay system review.
And they said that in the May meeting, they said structure's there, structure was great, it had been maintained properly, but they did give us some recommendations when it came to market competitiveness.
And if you remember, a large part of that discussion did revolve around the district's classroom teachers.
And so in those recommendations and then following that meeting, the Board of Trustees did approve a raise for the district.
So the raise and the TASB recommendations are all incorporated into this compensation plan.
And as you can imagine, those are major drivers of the plan.
So pay grades have been adjusted.
the classroom teacher hiring scale has been created for the 22-23 school year.
There's been some job classification adjustments. Also there's been
adjustments to some of the stipends. We do our stipends in kind of a rotating
review. Last year was fine arts, this year's athletics, next year will be
academics. So athletic stipends were adjusted this year based on market and
again and that is with the assistance of our athletic department. So we appreciate
their assistance couldn't do an athletic stipend review without without their
assistance and input if you remember also in the 21-22 school year we did
raise substitute pay by $10 per day that has also been incorporated into this
compensation plan moving forward for the 22-23 school year and those are the
major adjustments to the plan there's also some some policy language in the
plan but the items that I pointed out are the major adjustments and we're here
for any questions.
Thank you.
Are there any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I have some questions.
I have looked at the information,
and I know that there's a lot of work,
and there's been a lot of things adjusted here.
But I just would like to see
if you could explain to me, please,
for the public to understand
how have the instructional coaches been adjusted,
if they have been adjusted at all?
Yes, ma'am.
So the instructional coaches, as far as the approved raise,
they were in that 3% category.
I can tell you, and remember in the TASB report,
they did talk about specific market adjustments,
one for the teachers but for some other positions.
The instructional coaches are slated for a market adjustment,
and that's going to be approximately an additional 1%.
so so that will be in addition to to the raise for that group that's as a market
adjustment okay so with that with that understanding I just continue on with
that a little bit okay so they're gonna basically get about 4% raise total with
the 3% and the 1% so their daily rate is going to be lower than the daily rate of
a teacher is you know I know that they're gonna be getting paid a little
bit more because they work five days more but their daily rate will be less than that of a teacher
under the under the current structure yes ma'am that is correct okay um
so what i have always understood about instructional coaches is that they're that when
they're when they're a teacher and they apply to be an instructional coach they they see it as as a
promotion and they what was kind of proof of this is that you can't change
in the in the middle of the years as far as I understand you know to go to another
school unless you can get a promotion but department chairs are allowed to go
to schools from what I understand in the middle of the year as a promotion to an
instructional coach but the department chair gets paid you know like four
thousand dollars more than the instructional coaches but but they're called to do oftentimes
just as much work um or more i don't want to say more but just as much work they're called to help
the department chair and do a lot of their the the jobs that the department chairs are getting doing
so i don't under i'm just trying to understand why why would we pay them on a daily basis
is less than what a teacher would be paid so i understand your concern um let me take you back
to so historically um and even still today instructional coaches are on the same pay grade
as the teachers if you see in the compensation plans that i o scale okay if you if you remember
when we had the attendance incentive for teachers the attendance incentive went away and that 665
$665 was added to classroom teachers.
And there's other positions in that IOO scale, too, other than just teachers and instructional coaches.
So the classroom teachers received that $665.
That's kind of where this started as far as based on the daily rate, excluding stipends.
But as far as a daily rate, that's where the difference began.
and then yes ma'am with with teachers receiving five percent and then
instructional coaches receiving three and it's gonna make that gap a little
wider so I just think that in my opinion I mean I'm just one person but in my
opinion that the instructional coach should be paid is at least the same on a
daily basis as a teacher at least that's just so I just I just wanted to be known
that my vote tonight will not reflect how i feel about all the people all the rest of everyone
that's being compensated but just since this is you know include everything is included together
that's how my vote will be reflected tonight thank you any other questions mr president i'm not sure
mr shush if this question is for you please redirect it as you see fit
is an instructional coach seen as a value add to classrooms for teachers so um you know i could
answer that but i i would prefer that the academic team respond to that if possible thank you
it's just i'll go ahead and take it i can assure you miss fox every position that we have within
our organization is a value add instructional coaches included if not we wouldn't have the
the program, but very valuable to the organization, absolutely. Who defines their role?
The job description outlines the general scope of duties, but I'd say the role and how it works
and operates is defined within that teaching and learning program. It would be Dr. Kasky's group
and her experts in that group. And I would add in addition to the building principal,
principal. They report directly to the building principal.
I feel like I'm always the one saying this because I always am being the longest serving
board member at the dais. But I was here when the instructional coach model was created
in order to be a value add to the classroom. They were our teachers of the year. They were
our best of the best. And we took them and created the instructional coach, which many
Many other districts began using the instructional, how did y'all do that?
How did you go from 98% to 99% success?
The instructional coach was the piece that allowed best practices to be shared with teachers
instead of pulling teachers to professional development out of the classroom with a substitute,
which we know the best is teacher-student face-to-face.
And when instructional coaches would go to the teacher to find how can I support you,
how can I help you, you know, they can desegregate data, they can say these children you have four
students here who are, you know, could use this and I found a lesson for you, let me model it for you,
let me bring you manipulatives, I've printed off some materials for you and it really was a
plurian value add to teachers. How they're being used now, I'm not sure, that may have changed over
Over time, they certainly provide a great service to our teachers, and I'm super grateful for them.
I'm not sure if they're being used as effectively as once they were.
I know a lot of them talk about being used for duty or to support principals and assistant principals, as is in their purview, as you described.
So I would like us to talk maybe at some future point about their role, how we value it, what they do, and are they providing that level of direct classroom support to teachers across every campus.
Thank you.
I would just like to add something else is that I think I was under the impression that
the instructional coaches were, you know, like Mrs. Fox said, were the cream of the
crop teachers that were hired to help support the other teachers and the assistant principals
and the administration.
And so therefore, you know, they had to apply for it and it was kind of, you know, since
they were the cream of the crop they were kind of the esteemed teachers in the position of the
school and like mrs fox said maybe that has changed and maybe it's not applied the same
at every school maybe some schools you know maybe their positions are a little bit different at
different schools but this is just what i have always been sort of led to believe and so that's
That's just what I wanted to say.
I will echo that it will be difficult to find those best of the best wanting to be an instructional coach
if they're going to be paid less than having 22 children and taking care of one classroom.
I would hate to lose that if it's a real value add because of the 1% where we got off with the incentive pay.
Now they're out of balance.
and then every time we add percentages to that base,
we're going to continue to be out of balance.
That's, I'm just throwing out some things that I see.
Are there any other questions?
Yes.
If you wouldn't mind just going through how we dealt with the bus drivers.
In other words, they got the 5% increase,
and then we adjusted them to the market.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for asking that question.
So they did give it the 5% increase of the midpoint, okay, and that comes to roughly about a dollar to okay for bus drivers
a few years ago
We actually adjusted bus driver starting pay to above the minimum of that pay grade the rest of the pay grade stay the same
But we adjusted that so last year that starting pay was 751 this year
We're actually recommending that the starting pay for bus drivers and send the comp plan be $19 per hour
TASB recommended 18. With the 5%, that pushed that starting pay from the $17.51 to $18.53.
We discussed that with our transportation team.
The transportation team said, hey, any way we could push that to 19.
And so, you know, worked the numbers on that, got with Mr. Smith, and we feel we can do that.
So that is the recommendation for bus drivers.
So as far as the midpoint, has the state just simply adjusted that?
Well, the midpoint has been adjusted from last year, but the midpoint for bus drivers won't be any different than other folks in that category.
Just the minimum starting has been adjusted.
One question.
When we met with the special meeting we had with regard to the pay increases and the budget deficit we were looking at of about $12 million, $12.1 million, as I recall,
call, has that been impacted at all by this compensation plan or was it already baked
into that number that we discussed?
So largely, it's baked into what we discussed.
You know, there are pre-budgeted amounts that, and Ms. Butterfield and Mr. Smith and I work
very closely together through this whole process, you know, and there are pre-budgeted amounts
for things like stipend changes or reclassifications.
And so when we talk about the compensation plan as a whole, we're discussing all of that.
And, Mr. Smith, I don't know if you want to add to that.
I don't know if there's anything to add.
Like he said, we do a decent job at estimating and using placeholders, and those have so far been inappropriate.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. Schulte.
I just want an instructional coach. I wanted to ask Ms. Champagne and Ms. Fox, is there any action that you want to have the board secretary capture as something that you're wanting from the administration as far as an action or follow-up? That was question number one.
Question number one.
And question number two, I wasn't at the special meeting,
but I was part of this committee that looked at the increases, right?
And I had a tragedy that I had to leave.
But I know what that committee looked at was,
and I don't think we've done it before, is a differentiation.
Certain people got more than other people.
And when you do that, you have to draw the line.
And when you draw the line,
there's always somebody right on the other side of the line.
And the board drew the line and approved the line,
but I think in talking to Dr. Gagorski,
if the board wants to move the line, there's certainly a cost impact of moving the line.
And, of course, when you move the line, then there's somebody else right on the other side of the line.
And Dr. Gregorski warned us about the impact of having the different raises.
And, again, there's always somebody on the other side of the line.
And by the time you're done with it, everybody ends up on the same side of the line.
Everybody gets less.
So that was something that we did different.
So I just throw that out there that I think it's in the board's purview.
I think we can approve the compensation plan tonight.
And if the board thought there is something that we need to adjust, we can certainly go back and do that if we wanted to.
It's my understanding if that's something that we thought was something that the majority of the board would support.
But I just wanted to make sure, is there an action or something that you want going forward from this?
Well, can I please start?
Last summer, you know, we talked about the instructional coaches.
And at that time, they were talking about a possible stipend.
And they said, well, let's just vote on it, and then we'll go back and look at doing a stipend.
And so we voted yes on it, on the whole package.
And then we came back the next month to talk about the stipend, and they said no stipend.
So, you know, this just seems to be a continuous thing.
And my stance is going to just be I don't know what the action could be,
but I just stand firm that I don't think the instructional coach should get paid
less than the teacher on a daily basis I mean at the minimum you know I think
they should I personally think they should get me paid more than but
definitely not less than that that's gonna have to be my line on that so I
don't know what kind of action that could be maybe missing
If possible, I would like to review the role of the instructional coach and make sure that that's a value add directly to classroom teachers.
And how do we make sure that campus to campus to campus, it's maintained?
I understand during the shortage of teachers that many of these instructional coaches taught
four months when someone was on maternity leave, they were classroom teachers day in
and day out, and they're paid less.
And they work through the summer, even when they aren't on duty, preparing for whatever
their teachers need.
So just like every other person in this district, they work more days than they're paid.
they work more hours than they're paid and i i know the ones i know and i know a whole bunch of
them they are incredibly committed to enriching classroom and enriching students which is why
they were teachers of the year and whatever i just want to make sure they're being utilized
effectively class campus to campus because in some campuses they're like i haven't seen the
instructional coach all year okay so that would be my action item is how is it defined how is it
implemented and how is it governed or what's the word i'm looking for mr minister i think you're
yeah yeah how is it look i just wanted to make sure we i didn't want to leave without making
sure we captured any actions that you guys had so is there any other feedback on this item
not all entertain a motion
Mr. President? Yes. I move the Board of Trustees approves of the Katy Independent School District
Compensation Plan for the 2022-2023 school year. 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.
The motion carries. All those opposed? The motion carries 6-1. Thank you. 10.6. Discuss and consider
10.6 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the Local Policy changes necessary to implement the previously approved District of Innovation Plan.
consider board adoption of the local policy changes necessary to implement the previously approved District of Innovation plan.
The presenter tonight is Ms. Sherry Ashorn, Shars and Discipline Administrator.
Good evening.
Good evening.
So I'm back again.
We had the first reading of the District of Innovation policies last month.
And so this month we're going to be looking for your approval of those policies.
After that, we'll notify TASB.
And then shortly after, you'll see those policies updated online.
I was looking for a presentation, but okay.
Are there any comments, questions?
Yes, I have some questions about it, please.
Where is it?
I don't have it.
I don't know where this is, but it says somewhere in there that we changed from 75 days to 30 days for second offense in the same school year.
Oh, Ms. Champagne, that's coming up soon.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Never mind.
We'll get there.
All right.
Then that's going to be my question.
You're ready.
Any other questions?
Yes.
I noticed that one change, that there's no attendance requirement for credit or for final grade.
That's new, right?
So what we did is under, I believe that is FEC policy, which is attendance for credit.
Normally when students fall below 90% attendance, there needs to be a principal plan.
And then it's 75% attendance if they fall below that,
then there's a committee that reviews them,
the principal plans to determine if a student earns credit.
So that's the law.
You have to be in your seat at least 90% of the time,
otherwise there are these other things
that campuses have to go through.
So the District of Innovation Committee
really just decided that that 90% threshold,
if that student is meeting those standards,
mastering the knowledge and skills,
and those absences are excused absences,
there didn't really seem to be a need
for a principal plan per se.
They're still going to monitor at 75%,
still gonna have those committee reviews.
They're still gonna target students
with unexcused absences
through the attendance intervention plans
and the software that we have for absences.
But as far as that kind of administrative process
of having a principal plan for a student
who might have excused absences
because they're in FFA and golf
while they're still mastering all the knowledge and skills,
making straight As or As and Bs or whatever is necessary,
then that campus will no longer have to do that administrative piece and can focus those efforts on those that have unexcused absences or who are not meeting those necessary grades to receive credit.
I did notice before that at 90% the parents were notified that the attendance dropped below 90%. Is that gone now?
So those administrative regulations are still being worked out, Mr. Perez.
Parents do get notifications when students are absent through the Home Access Center, I believe,
and probably whatever phone call notifications they have set up.
So definitely we want that communication to continue in the ways that we already have available.
But as these policies get approved, the next step will be working on those back-end details
and the administrative regulations to kind of sort out all of those details about how the day-to-day is going to look.
Thank you. Any other questions?
Mr. President? Yes. I move the Board of Trustees approves the local policy changes necessary to implement the previously approved District of Innovation plan.
Second. We have a motion by Mrs. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye.
Motion carries 7-0.
10.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Katy ISD 2022-2024 Strategic Plan Specific Results.
10.7, discuss and consider board approval of the KDIC 2022-2024 strategic plan specific results.
The presenter tonight is Dr. Andrea Grooms, Chief Communications Officer.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, trustees, and Dr. Gagorski.
As you indicated, I'm here this evening to provide a follow-up to the strategic plan report that was provided to the board at the May meeting.
At that May meeting, we discussed the timeline for the strategic planning process, which you see right here.
Between the last meeting in May and now, the board had the opportunity to take a look at the strategic action plans that are associated with the 19 specific results that were developed by the community-driven advisory committee.
committee. Again, this evening we're here to take a look at those results again and to see if you
have any questions pertaining to those action plans that were available to you over the past
month. We do have members of the action planning teams available in the audience this evening
should you have any questions. I'm not going to go through this whole presentation because you've
seen this before, but I do have the goals, the eight goals available to review should you want
to take a look at any of them as well as the 19 specific results again should you have any
questions thank you dr grooms are there any questions board members um yes when would the
um the literacy study that's that's that's being done um be presented to the board when will that
be completed in terms of the possible new curriculum i'm going to defer to the teaching
learning team dr. Caskey right so the plan is to come before the board this
fall with our recommended resources because we're gonna need time to rewrite
curriculum to train teachers and to implement for the 2022-23 school year so
this fall any other questions board members if not I'll entertain a motion
I just wanted I just wanted to add that of course I haven't been involved myself
since I'm new in coming up with this strategic plan and with some of the
the action plans and one of the one of the things I have big reservations about has to do with and
I have big questions about raise your hand Texas and so I have big questions about that and um
so I haven't been involved in putting that in there I haven't been involved in the strategic
plan itself but you know I know a lot of work has gone into it by the board previous to now
and so I just want to make that comment I have some issues about raise your hand Texas
And Mr. President, you have the option to either vote no or abstain from the vote as well when we come to making a motion on that.
Thank you.
Any other comments?
I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the KDIC 2022-2024 Strategic Plan Specific Results.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Champaign, a second by Mr. Redman.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
All those abstaining?
Thank you.
The motion carries 6-0.
One absent.
What do you call it?
Abstention.
Abstention.
Thank you.
10.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of the nomination of a Katy Independent School District Board Member to the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors for Region 4, Position E.
10.8, discuss and consider board approval of the nomination of Katie Independent School District board member to the Texas Association of School Board Director Region 4, Position E.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Are you taking nomination?
Yes.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approve the nomination of Rebecca Fox as the
KDISD Board Member to the Texas Association of School Boards or TASB Board of Directors
for Region 4, Position E.
Second.
So we have a motion by Mrs. Champaign, a second by Mr. Schulte.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
The motion carries 7-0.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
We'll now move to agenda item 11.1,
11.1 Discuss future Board adoption of Board Policy EF Local.
discuss future board adoption of board policy EF local.
To present her tonight is Ms. Sherry Ashworn-Shars,
and discipline administrator.
Welcome back.
That was a quick trip.
So before you tonight,
you have some recommended changes for board policy EF local.
As you know,
these changes can be recommended by administration
or requested through the board.
So I'm here to answer your questions. They were and the policy that you will see includes new language through TASB recommendation
But the inclusion of just our local procedures embedded in
Are there any questions
Yes, I have some comments and questions sure
Mr. President, so I see some things that are I think are missing in this policy one is
It just says that the board shall rely on district professional staff to select and acquire
instructional resources, et cetera. And you know,
I don't want to get into the weeds in terms of this specific language, um,
page by page. Uh, but that seems really broad and vague.
So we don't really know who's responsible,
who's approved the purchase of a resource.
I think it'd be more specific as to make whether somebody in the,
somebody in the district or title,
whatever that has to have a final sign off on the purchase of instructional
materials. It's, it's totally vague.
and I think we need to be more specific.
So I don't see that we address the process of purchasing books and have any accountability
because you know we have we've had issues with
inappropriate material getting into the library isn't there I think that needs to be addressed in terms of what is the process for purchasing
library materials.
I also think that there's always a
discussion or disagreement as to what is pervasively vulgar
But yet here, you know, I notice that we have like 13 items that, you know, where a book or a material can come into the library, et cetera, if it meets these things.
But we only have one criteria for why it doesn't, which would be basically vulgar.
So I'm just looking at it and going, why don't we add some meat to that?
The law has specific definitions on harmful material and what harmful material is.
So why don't we put more meat on the bones and describe as the Texas Penal Code does what harmful material is?
So I just think we need some specifics around what what what is what are we looking at here in terms of what's inappropriate?
The other thing is I think we also
Don't know on the findings of a committee talks about
committee report. We don't know what that report consists of or who's approved it,
what it consists of. And I think the committee findings should include a
statement as to how a challenge resource meets its intended educational purpose
or if it doesn't and and if it is or not pervasively vulgar. I mean, I think the
committee other than just a yay or nay needs to back up their their um their
their findings, if you will, the result with some sort of, you know, either we passed this or didn't pass this because it did or didn't meet the educational purpose,
the intended educational purposes, as well as why it is or isn't pervasively vulgar.
There needs to be some accountability also on the part of the committee to defend their decision.
I think we just need more transparency in the whole process.
who approves the purchase of books, and what is the committee's view with their findings
as to why they did or did not approve the challenge material to stay in.
So those are just kind of some high-level comments.
I mean, I think we could go through it if we could sit down and kind of go through it.
In a smaller group, we could, but obviously those are my initial comments
since we're discussing this about the proposal.
Thank you, Mr. Perez. Any other comments?
yes i have some please um i wanted to say that i agree with uh mr perez about the
the pervasively vulgar you know and and how that's divine defined and i mean i know that that's been
kind of brought up before and it's kind of a broad it could be interpreted different differently by
different people and i i think that that might be good to be able to have it defined i realize
that that's not going to happen tonight. But I also wanted to point out a couple of things.
I just wanted to make sure that people are aware that there's an informal review, which is an app.
And what is the app? Partnering with parents. Okay, partnering with parents. Okay, so there's
that, but that does not remove the book from access. So I think that there has, for whatever
reason has been some confusion that if they do you know then that inform if they do that app that
it's going to be removed but it's not removed i just want it to be said publicly that that does
not remove it but the formal review does remove it and there's different a different process for
that i just wanted to to highlight that and then the only other question i have or the only statement
I'd like to make so that everyone can know this is that that there is a way to
sign up to have to be on some kind of I'm not really sure so maybe you could
tell me about the library and the notification and if your child checks
out a certain book they get the notification I don't really know how
that works and so if you could explain how that works so that at least parents
could have that option um sure so the language that's added on the bottom of page four is
actually language from i believe the registration process what parents see in power school so it
should look very familiar that parents and guardians can opt into library notifications
which email all parent and guardians on file right not just the first one on the list but all of them
if their child checks out a book at a library identified as young adult literature so that's
something that during that registration process parents can look for um if it's middle of the
year i'm sure that's a phone call away something they can change or update um onto their file and
then there it does in that section miss champagne gone to continue that um those classroom libraries
those parents who opt in it will extend to their two and those students will be directed to the
library to check out books so the parents will continue to receive those notifications so there's
that process in place as well so so is that on on every book they will get a notification or just
on those identified as young adults just just those and so so they get an email so that so the
child's allowed to check the book out first right um i'm i believe so so the child already gets the
book and then they get a notification so the parent might be at work or whatever and doesn't
check their email and then anyway so i mean now we know that the child has a book i just i just
want to make sure though that at least people understand that there is that option too but yeah
when that mr president when the ya was put into place it was they would hold the book for 24 hours
while the parent was sent the notification and then they could come back and get the book did
Did that change?
When we created the parent notification system, it works the same way today as it's always worked.
That the parent will be notified, but the kid can take the book home with them, and they can work that out between parent and child.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I have I'm going to agree with the pervasively vulgar needs to be more formally defined our
job I'm gonna quote dr. Gregor ski we teach children not adults the materials provided
for children in our libraries and our schools needs to be appropriate for children. And so
whatever the process needs to be, where committees and reviews and things like that,
I do not understand how books are returned to the library that teach children how to perform
sexual acts and how that has anything to do with what we're teaching children.
That's not a part of the teaks. It's not a part of growing good citizens. It's not a part of helping them define their character. I don't understand how those kinds of descriptions that we have heard at this dais time and again are available to any child in KDISD.
And so I don't know how it gets there.
I understand.
Someone told me that if there are five people, four of them agree.
One person, I don't even know.
It didn't have to be a majority.
I'm not trying to micromanage how many, which one,
But I just want to see that we have some more definitively described process that will protect our children from things that do not make them better students and better citizens.
Thank you.
I just would like to say one more thing about this.
just for on the record, you know, having, you know, opposing points of view or different feelings about, you know, lifestyles and things like that has nothing to do, in my opinion, with being pervasively vulgar. So I do not want to block, you know, children's young adults from having, you know, options in that regard, you know, things to read that have that reflect their points of view in life.
But I just don't think that we should be allowing, you know, things that are pervasively vulgar, I guess, in many parents' points of view.
You know, many parents have an opinion about that, and maybe they're different for different people.
But probably, you know, a lot of people believe in what it is for, like, let's say a 13-year-old, you know.
That's just what I'd like to say.
Any other questions for board members?
Mr. President, I can just make one more comment.
So the law has very specific definitions of what is harmful material.
I don't know why we would propose something that muddies things up, that is vague, compared to the law.
Why we would lower ourselves.
At a minimum, typically, you want to obey the law, not be that word so vague that no one can agree.
right so we have we have laws and they describe specifically what is harmful
material to miners and we should focus on that in putting together our policy
thank you thank you one question I had and I asked you probably way too late to
get it for this meeting but is it possible put together at a very high
level our policy versus the TA policy versus the task be policy not in a word
word every word, but concepts.
What's the big difference?
I know we took ours and we did some bolt-ons to ours,
and I like some of the things that we did,
and I agree with some of the comments here.
It's not perfect, but I think it's certainly good, right?
It's much better than it was.
Is there a way to – I could do that, I guess,
but I'm asking is there some way that you guys could do that just at a high level?
What did we not pick up from the TEA version or the TASP version in a real simple format
just to look and see if there's a value proposition there for what's missing?
Is that possible?
You bet. We can put something together. I could get Sherry working on it this week,
probably have you something you think towards the end of the week.
Yep, I can get towards something like that.
And I guess, you know, Dr. Gorski, you and I have talked about it, but I think the point of today
was to throw this out here, get some initial feedback. Obviously, I think I saw you writing
everything down. I know when you write something down, you do something with it. So I always look
when I say something, he writes it down or not, but he wrote it all down. So I assume the next
step is there was never an intention to approve this tonight we know we needed
to have some feedback on it can you kind of lay out what what you see the plan
forward is to get this approved and the timing I wrote down a few things some of
the things I'm hearing about our procedural and some of them are more
policy okay and I can say this about the the policy this is the part I can
guarantee about this is I'm gonna support whatever policy this board adopts
Okay, and and all the board members up here understand that from a governance perspective that these are the board approved policies that we bring we bring forward a recommendation if there are changes that need to be made based on how the board wants the policy written will write those changes and then everyone within the district will support the policy as is it is extremely difficult to navigate a standard of pervasively vulgar.
okay that's a real challenge my hat goes off to anybody who tries to figure that
one out it's hard okay but if the board can give me some insight into that that
would help me work with the team to write the policy I've heard a few things
tonight but I'm still a bit unclear of exactly I've heard from several
trustees say well can we define it better can we understand it better can
Can we write it better?
But I don't know how to write that better without more direction.
I think the clearest thing I heard was what Ms. Fox shared,
that if there's anything in the book that is of a sexual nature,
a description of a sexual act, that's deemed pervasively vulgar.
Okay, I understand that one.
Okay, that's one.
I can put a checkbox in and define it that way.
Is that the standard?
Is that good enough to define pervasively vulgar?
And if it's not, help me a little bit so the folks who go write this,
which is going to be Sherry and Taz being them,
defining that better that we can do that.
Dr. Gregorski, Mr. President,
what about what Mr. Perez talked about the law and how it has,
I mean, I hear speakers say that we're not even in accordance with that.
Does that help you in any way?
get I think how do you respond to that yeah I think it helps me very minimally
in the law because the law uses terms the same way things that could be
obscene okay or people throw out terms like inappropriate or things that are
vulgar or things that are profanity okay we can put those things in the policy
but where the real challenge is I can give the same book to a hundred people
and ask them to rate that book for those kind of terms.
Is this vulgar? Is it obscene? Is it pornographic? Is it appropriate?
And that's where the subjectivity comes in.
So I really need a little more than just the law.
I need some very specific clarifications if I'm going to try to define the pervasively vulgar standard a little bit differently.
Not opposed to defining it differently, just not sure how the board wants me to define it.
Mr. President, so the law, just to follow up on that, says that it's something that was harmful to minors, harmful material, appeals to the prurient interest of a minor in sex, nudity, or excretion.
It's patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable for minors and is utterly without redeeming social value for minors.
So if if I were to if I if I were to hand out some of this some of these books to minors
I would go to jail
You know and I think that if that happens
I mean if that were the case then we need to pay attention to that and make sure that we're not that our standards aren't
looser than that
And I don't disagree with the board or that definition of what you're saying, but once again
The words that are in there are extremely
subjective to different peoples. For example, harmful. Okay, do we all have a definition of
harmful to minors? If we do, somebody help me. Purient interest. Potentially offensive.
Without social value. That's where we have a real challenge as a group of educators
is applying those words and standards to a policy because within our society, I think we would all
agree in society all of that is very nebulous depending on the person you talk to so if the
board can help me define any of those terms better and like i said i think miss fox helped us with
some clarity in there that if there are things in a book that describe sexual acts okay if that's
the standard for vulgarity that's a an easier one okay that gives us some guidance on that but all
the other things from from the law are going to be a bit subjective still
mr president yes one of the things i do like about um the proposed policy is that we've now defined
who's part of that committee and so right as you go my limited law understanding not a lawyer
when i go back and read pickover sport of education they left pervasively vulgar
purposefully broad so that different communities have the ability to find that, right? What's
pervasively vulgar in a school in New York, I may disagree and think it's pervasively vulgar
everywhere, they leave that open for local school boards to make that decision. And so what I do
like about the policy is that we've increased our parent involvement in the committee and if
maybe the answer is we take that larger and include more parents and then we have a bigger
cross-section of our community to say look this is this is a representation of
our community more so than those those seven people if we're having an argument
or if it is hard to define that maybe we we put it back on people and say look
this is this is how the community handles that yeah I once again I'm not a
lawyer either mr. Redmond but I agree with your assessment of that I think
it's purposeful to have that pervasively vulgar being subjective so we can try to
to define it uh like we said uh societal value and uh interests of the community those kind of
terms that mr perez was talking about i think they play a huge part in this and like i said
i'm here to support the board and write this policy the exact same way our board wants us
to write it how we want to follow it and i'm confident our employees will follow it once we
get it kind of ironed out so um expanding the the the committee certainly something we can look at
and grow that from seven members to nine or eleven or thirteen or fifteen it would
give me a little guidance on that what do you think would be a better number of
folks on a committee so we can kind of narrow that in because I don't I don't
want to come back with a policy of eleven and we think it should have been
thirteen or come with thirteen and we think it should be seventeen is my
my mic on yes okay I maybe have a different view than some of my fellow
board members that here serve and maybe it's because I served in the military
for 20 years and it's because I've served in a variety of countries it's
because I've served as a variety of people in a variety of states but I am
here to say I am the judge of what my child is capable of reading and what my
child should not be reading. I am their parent. It isn't anybody's job to dictate that. It is my job
to decide what I find appropriate, what I don't find appropriate. Those are discussions I have
with my children's teachers. Those are conversations I have with my child. Those are conversations I'm
happy to have with my fellow parents and do have with my fellow parents that are my friends or not.
I'm comfortable with how I feel about that.
I believe that pervasively vulgar, like Mr. Redmond said, was left purposely vague because we all have that difference of opinion.
And that's what makes our society rich and amazing.
If we're going to add anybody for our pieces, then I think we need a critical component here, and that's going to be, like our young speaker from Seco Ranch today stated, and that's to put some students in on this process.
If we are here to serve and decide what our students deserve to be reading,
they deserve to have a place at that table, especially our juniors and seniors.
They are 17 and 18 years old. They are young adults.
I just graduated a child. I have hope that I have done everything right.
And I am sending her off in the world to go do amazing things.
and I have to trust that as a parent I fulfilled my moral obligation because
that was my job it's not my it's not my school district's job to do that so I'm
sorry I like the vagueness and my interpretation of what's pervasively
vulgar is going to be different and it's okay that it's different but I think we
need to have a very clear conscious to understand that from each other I will
concede on one thing I do not want books I really don't that are going to be
teaching our young children how to have sex I can say that okay I don't support
the joy of sex it isn't in our libraries it never was in our libraries but I'm
just saying to use that as an example however there are other books they are
talking about topics that our young adults are going through in their lives
and maybe they don't have a parent at home that's willing to have that
conversation with them my conversation with my daughter and my conversation
with my son are two very different conversations I can assure you because
we raise our our young women and our young men to be different parts at the
the table but let's not take away those rights and let's involve our students in
that and I don't want our committee to get too big because now you're dealing
with a calendaring nightmare and I would hate whoever is trying to coordinate
probably more than nine people if I'm being honest sometimes just getting the
eight of us together can be hard enough I'm done I can see it I'm sorry thank
Thank you.
Mr. President, so that committee that Mr. Redman was referring to is, as I understand, is the review committee.
It's not, you know, how did the book get there in the first place.
I think that I probably assume that most parents don't want books in the library that talk about how to teach your kid or anything about how to have sex with somebody else.
And I would just assume that most parents don't want that.
but you know maybe I'm wrong about that but I don't understand how they
got there in the first place honestly because if they weren't in there in the
first place then you know we don't have to have a review you know so that would
be my thing is just not letting them in there in the first place and then all of
this stuff that we're talking about wouldn't even have to be happening
any president yes I agree we are a school library not a public library the
resources for children if parents want their children to have resources lots of
other ways for them to provide that for them and for them to find it on their
own and I apologize mr. Redmond I'm about to say that we had a conversation
that's just so relevant.
Books are not the only way that our students
have access to this kind of information.
They get it from friends,
they get it electronically,
you know, all their devices.
And so it's something that's plaguing
our young people across the nation,
and it isn't only coming from school libraries.
So if we could just protect our schools
and our school libraries
and our children while they're at school,
from having things that help them learn more, be better, do better.
I agree with Mrs. Champagne.
I don't see any reason why they even need to be in our libraries.
All right, so I think what I would recommend to all the board members,
I mean, obviously we're not going to rewrite this.
I think Victor said it.
We're not going to, Mr. Press, we're not going to rewrite this tonight.
Great first receipt of feedback, which I thought was great discussion.
Everybody's being very honest and transparent,
I appreciate all the board members for that what I would ask every board member to do. I think dr
Gorski knows he's got some some some change to make but but give him as specific as feedback as you can as
Specific as you can he gave us all the draft and I don't know how much specific feedback he got but sent him an email
Mark it up red line it use revision marks or wherever and tell him tell them what you're real
What's really important to you that to be in there and then let him have another whack at it would be another revision at it
That would be my recommended path forward.
I don't know if anybody disagrees with that.
Everybody can support that.
If you have passion around it, send an email to Dr. Gorski and CC me if you'd like, and then we'll take another whack at it.
That makes sense for everybody?
I appreciate everybody's honesty and transparency.
Good discussion.
Any other questions or comments?
Thank you very much.
We'll now proceed into 11.2.
11.2 Discuss future Board approval of the 2022-2023 Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct.
I see why you're still staying.
What is she still there for?
Discuss future board approval of the 2022-2023 discipline management plan and student code of conduct.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So we're doing something a little different this year.
We have it as a discussion item before we're going to ask you to vote on it next month.
So not up for approval tonight, but just for discussion.
There's a lot of big changes.
We're taking out a lot of information that's really more appropriate for the student handbook and moving it there
so parents know where to look for that information.
For example, I think one of them is bicycle riders and walkers, right?
That shouldn't be in the discipline management plan.
That's going to be much more purposeful in the student handbook.
We do have some significant changes to our DEP that we're presenting.
I know, Ms. Champagne, you have a question.
I'm ready for it.
And we're going to just make any additional changes from our district of innovation plan,
such as the ability to suspend for over three days.
I'm ready for your questions.
Any questions, board members?
Mr. Schulte? Okay, so since I've already asked you the question but in the wrong place, and I don't have it marked where it says this, but I noticed that two places at least that we've changed from 75 days to 30 days.
I know that one of them was for a second offense in the same school year, and the other one was for an offense that was committed in the OAC.
So the discipline for those two things have been reduced.
Right, so they're different.
Significantly.
Right, I can provide further explanation for you.
So historically we've provided for the second time a student goes to DEP, we've given a
longer placement for those students, 75 days.
And what happens is sometimes those placements stack up.
And so when we're looking at what our neighbors, how long our neighbors send students to the
OAC, when we were looking at kind of violent versus nonviolent offenses, we made a decision
after feedback from our KD Improvement Council principals,
I did high school visits, our leadership team,
and we're recommending that the first part
is that the 75 days goes away,
so subsequent offenses will return back
to the 30 or 45 day placement.
But what we're encouraging for campus principals
is to utilize our permissive placement system.
You might remember several years ago,
we added that students can be sent to a DAP
for up to one calendar year,
and so the permissive committee has the ability to do that.
So if a student does engage in multiple offenses,
that would place them at a DAP.
That would probably be a good time for that principal
to talk with our permissive, our district level committee,
to consider whether or not 30 or 45 days is appropriate.
Maybe it's the end of the semester.
Maybe there's some additional supports
we need to look at or put in place.
It's usually a very good conversational piece.
So that's the first one.
You do see that reduction,
but there's still that opportunity
to work through our permissive process
for up to one calendar year.
The second part that you were referring to is placements will add an OAC.
So that's being changed to up to 30 days.
That's for students who engage in what we would call level two or level three behaviors
that would maybe need their time extended.
Since we're moving a mandatory placement time up to 30 days, it didn't really seem appropriate
for OAC to automatically extend for 30 days.
So now we're giving them that ability to have up to.
So maybe if you're fighting, I'm just making this up,
you get three week extension,
but maybe if you're using profanity multiple times,
you get a two week extension,
whatever might be appropriate based on those students.
And with this approval,
the OAC would work through that on the back end
as a part of their intake guidelines,
but it gives flexibility,
whereas before every extension was at least 30 days,
which at a secondary level is an entire grading period.
Can I ask a follow up question, please, Ms. Ashmore?
Thank you very much.
that was a good explanation but on the on the one that we changed from 75 days to 30 day for
a second offense um in the same school year which you just addressed and you explain why because
they have another you know they have another avenue to go to if if you know but does that
create so let's say a student has a second offense and this is like a repeat offender
but they can only keep getting 30 days 30 days um does that create additional paperwork for that
principle and and you know um hardship for them to try to get them placed outside of
oac and entity you know you know is that harder for them to do there is an additional kind of
paperwork piece we are transitioning to an online request system and we utilize that time to really
talk with the district level committee as you'll see is defined and the changes is myself the
principal of the oac and our two secondary assistant superintendents and so although it
does take a little bit of extra time we can utilize the three days of out of school suspension
to say you brought drugs for the second time um we don't we know you're going to daep parent but
we don't really know what that looks like yet and i would expect that transparency that they're
going to go to a district level committee to determine the appropriate amount of time
So we use that three days administratively to have those conversations to identify maybe what's appropriate for that student.
Are there certain trends going on we need to look at?
Is there some other solution we need to review?
So it is kind of that one extra step.
I think that's kind of what you're getting at.
But I think it provides some district oversight that is really going to give us some good feedback on what these changes look like in the future.
For example, one of our permissive placements that we're recommending is violation of a stay-away agreement.
That was something that we were consistently approving as a permissive placement because of the safety issue and because there's been a written directive stay away.
And so we gathered that data through those permissive committees to make the recommendation for you tonight.
And so I think.
as we continue to gather data from principals and those conversations are
really a great way to do that we can utilize that for the future
yes just some understanding um when when a placement is extended is it
going to be based on a case-by-case basis or will
there be a precedent that says for this violation this is the extension
because you know you understand right i can't i
I can't speak to that for sure, right, because we're not micromanaging that necessarily in
this document, but we do have a hearing officer's guide, which is kind of the background how-to
book for administrators, and OAC has their own rubrics and their own discipline matrix,
so I'm feeling very confident just knowing the administrative team over there.
There's probably going to be, for these kinds of offenses, we recommend this link, for this
we don't, or recommend something shorter, and then Texas Education Code requires us
to consider six factors before we assign to a DAP intent disciplines and discipline history
self-defense disability if they're homeless or in the conservatorship of the state and so I'm sure
those will also be applied but I would imagine knowing that admin team just knowing our general
campus procedures that district major discipline matrix will be in effect
Any other questions?
Yes.
There's not so much a question as there's a comment in that, to me,
in looking at the discipline and the code that you're talking about,
I'm sure that the way we have it set up is fine, and changes you're making.
I think what's so important, however, is the enforcement and
setting a culture within each campus.
And I know from talking to teachers and campus administrators that that culture varies from
campus to campus.
And the key is enforcement and having a culture on that campus where the kids know that there
are consequences and that the principal and assistant principal and the teacher take discipline
seriously and that they're supporting the teacher.
To me, that's the key.
I mean tweaking this here and there is fine, but I think the key is enforcement and also
establishing a culture of discipline in that campus.
And I know that it varies from campus to campus depending upon the leadership in that campus.
This is a comment.
Great feedback.
Any other questions?
Thank you very much.
now to proceed to agenda 11.3 discuss resolution on possible future tax ratification election or
11.3 Discuss Resolution on possible future Tax Ratification Election.
tre and i'm the presenter for this one and this is something we've been talking about i think
dr gorskin i started talking about this last summer about uh certainly my desire and i think
several board members to make sure that we get our our our employees and teachers in particular
not not only to the midpoint not only above the bid point but as far away from the midpoint as
as we can in a positive direction.
That's something that I really challenge myself.
That's something I would like to do before I'm not
on this board anymore.
So there's only so many levers that we
can pull with regards to budget reductions.
And the general allotment hasn't moved in a while.
We hope that moves.
So one of the things that we talked about,
and we have it in motion.
We haven't committed to it yet, but we had to put it in motion.
Or it would not be an option for us as this TRE.
So I just want everybody to know that we're still
on track for that.
we're doing the mr smith and his team is working with somebody to do the efficiency audit which he
updated me today we think we're going to get some updates on that no later than hopefully august
september it needs to be done i think no later than october so we're on track for that i think
mr smith is also looking at hopefully next month no later than next month at the board meeting to
look at what does this tre look like how many pennies are we going to keep how many pennies
are we going to get back what's the impact what does each penny we save mean to how much and i
think the plan right now is every penny that we would not refund that we would keep would go
strictly 100 to uh pay increases so he's going to lay all that out really the the point of this to
gen i'd let everyone know we're on track with that and if anybody doesn't want to keep on track with
that let us know otherwise we're we're on track we'll talk about it in july the board will have
to make a decision if we want to go with the tre by august and mr smith will hopefully have the
efficiency audit done uh before august if not by september anyway we're on track to do that and
we'll let the voters decide if this is something that they want to do so any questions any feedback
any comments that's really was just kind of an update dr gorgorsky or mr smith if i said
anything terribly incorrect please let me know yeah no i think you summed it up nicely um mr
Mr. Schulte, the only thing I'll say is I think you said trying to get to the midpoint, whereas we're talking the market median.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
I said the wrong term.
I just wanted to clarify that in case somebody said, well, wait, they're not all at the midpoint.
So we look at the market median, and the goal of this board and the discussions we've had in our workshops and some of our other meetings is to try to attract and retain the best employees we can in KDIC.
Hold on to those folks.
And the way to do that possibly could be by exceeding market medians for the Houston area.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, I don't have a question, but I do have comments.
Our teachers, our educators nationwide deserve to be paid so much more than they are.
Like as a nation, we are so far off on how we value educators.
And educators are the reason anyone else is successful.
So, like, we're light years behind where we need to pay educators.
In keeping with that, I know that every 1% increase is $4 million to the budget-ish, right?
Inflation is over 8%, and in order to do 5%, we had to go into savings to do that.
And I don't like a deficit budget, but to do this for now with an intent to ask voters for support for educators, and we all know how much we love educators because our children were home with us for a year and a half, and we're like, please, teachers, how much money for you to come back?
So I really hope that our community will see the importance of this to help our educators just keep up with cost of living increases and because they deserve to be paid for the heroes that they are.
I'm I look forward to the discussion and what that looks like and how we can can do that with minimum impact to our
Community as far as the compression of the tax rate and all the things we'll be talking about
Looking forward to this and I believe our community will share our values in this
Thank You miss Fox. Is there any questions on this item? Yes president
Is this would this be to cover our deficit that we're seeing for 22 23
or is it also on an ongoing basis to continue to fund increases in salaries of the kind that we just had plus more?
I think that's partially going to be a question answered by the board as we develop this together.
Depending on the number of pennies that generates a certain amount of revenue,
and then so let's say the board wanted to do this and we asked for X number of pennies to generate X amount of revenue,
revenue, what do we do with that revenue? How much of that revenue would we use to possibly
close budget deficit that we've created by our last actions or how much of that would
go directly to an additional increase in salary for employees? We haven't defined that, but
this is just the beginning stages of that board discussion.
Chair Greg Musil I think that we should explore whatever other mitigating steps were
were laid out, possible mitigating steps were laid out last month when we discussed the
salary increases.
To make sure to look at those mitigating steps and see that this is not possible, this is
not possible, or yeah, we can do some here and some there so we have all the facts in
terms of this is the way we need to do it because the other mitigating steps are not
going to get us there.
We need to have an analysis that we have to do this.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
May I ask a clarifying point?
I just want to make sure because I heard a couple of different things.
This isn't just for our teachers.
This is for our entire staff.
It's for pay.
Right now it's open.
The board can decide if we want to narrow it in, but right now it would be employees.
Yes.
Is that it?
So one more question.
So why are we seeing this now?
Is it we feel like we have to approve this now this resolution?
It's just it's just for visibility
It's just for visibility that we haven't been talking about it in the open is from the know we're on track
You're gonna see something in July. You're gonna see something in August. It's really to prepare everybody's mind
This is the go-no-go is in August
So if there's anything you need to see before you make that decision start asking the questions now
So we're not surprised in August and not prepared. It's very much in the event
resolution.
It's in the event the board decides.
Yes. We're not voting on it.
This was just a draft to give the board
what we're thinking about, and it gets
really just to crystallize.
Are we heading in the right direction? Does anybody think
we're not going in the right direction? So there's no
surprises in August, right? That's all it is.
Thank you. Mr. President,
the only thing I'd add to what you shared there about
the discussions on that is
the discussion about
a TRE or possibility of a TRE
really came about with the board during the strategic planning workshops when
the board met to talk about the goals and one of the goals we talked about is
increasing salaries attracting retaining and keeping all our employees and we
talked about several things that we could do in this being one of them and
that's so how the the beginning discussions came so most of the board's
familiar with that but since you weren't here you'd missed that one but it's it's
ripe for discussion now gives us time tonight to talk about a few things July
and then August so that gives us two more meetings for discussion but we were
also at the back then we were also had a positive budget or a break-even budget
if you will now we have the 12 million or so negative and that's why we're
dealing with this as well as maybe other mitigating steps this is a whole a bunch
of levers we're looking at all of them and deciding which one that the board
wants to implement yeah it's only up to us decide what we want to do okay
Mr. President, so the board would have a vote in August because that would be a deadline to call for an election in November.
Is that why it's August?
Yes, and I've confirmed that date with Mr. Graham, our elections administrator, that the August 22 board meeting is that last deadline to do it.
And that's the same night we have a board meeting scheduled.
Okay, and I also wanted to say thank you to Mrs. Wilson for clarifying employees when I said educators. Thank you, Mrs. Wilson.
And I have another question. So when we vote on that in August, you know, and if it's a positive vote, does that mean that we have to do that then in November? That's just making it so that we're able to do it if we need to.
If the board takes action on the TRE to call for a vote, that means the board has to do that.
It's going to be on the ballot language.
We're going to start moving that process forward to be part of the November election ballot.
Any other questions?
So by August, we will have received data, proposals, analysis, et cetera.
Correct.
So it's not like here it is in August, but maybe in July, August, et cetera.
We've discussed it, looked at the options, et cetera.
The plan would be to have the detailed discussion in July and then vote in August.
That's correct.
Okay, thank you.
Mr. President, the only thing I'd clarify on that is if there is specific data the board wants,
either ask now or email me later.
Just tell me what it is the board would like me to bring in July to further that discussion.
We can bring anything the board wants.
Mr. Smith can create any financial report you need on any bit of data.
just let us know what that is so we don't come empty-handed okay mr. Smith
could give us his list as well keeps this stuff pretty private mr. Perez mr.
mr. Perez you will get a lot of information they're very thorough they've
we haven't done this in many many years but you will have so much information
yeah we all will and it's it'll be a thorough process you'll see yeah okay
Okay, if there's no other questions, 11.3, we're going to move on to agenda item 12.0, which is we've moved to a consent agenda.
12. Consent
So all the board members have seen all the items in the consent agenda 12.1 to 12.3, and I'll entertain a motion if we're prepared to do a consent agenda on all those items.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves a consent agenda for items 12.1 through 12.3.
I have a motion by Mrs. Vann, a second by Mr. Redman.
We'll now proceed to vote.
all those president before you vote i'm sorry i only have one comment thank you and that is that
uh raines academy flexible school day program is serving so many children i'm just so appreciative
of that my mentor student graduated through that and in a in a seemingly impossible situation and
has a job and is so successful and it's and they're just so i saw it every week as i went
to mentor her and it's incredible so if you know of anyone who's dropping out or considering
dropping out that flexible school day program fits any people who work in all kinds of family
situations it's just incredible i'm really really just wanted to highlight that thank you mrs fox
are there any other i i would like to say something about rains also um i was wondering if
If Dr. Gregorski could tell us, so the new part has opened up.
Is that true yet?
Has it opened yet?
Or is it about to?
It is open, but it's not a new part.
It's in a completely separate building on the same property.
Okay.
So how many students are in there is what I'd like to know about.
about I see mr. Merriman out there if you want them to bring them up here I
can put them on the mic and do that we finished up the school year I remember a
number being in there around about 350 unless I'm off base
and I'm sure that there's information about this somewhere but you know on how
students can get referred to be in the program I'm sure it's a collaborative
effort between the campus and the parents and all that. Yeah a lot of it is
driven from the campus so kids would meet with counselors. Counselors are our
best referral process to get kids ingrained into what we offer so that
really drives the parent conversation at the home campus level for them to fill
out an application for us to review can we meet them from a service standpoint
what program will they fit into as we move forward and that's how we're gonna
to expand our opportunities for kids moving forward.
Okay, well, now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion carries 7-0.
We'll get to the right spot on the agenda here.
13.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
13.1, the board was provided a copy of donated items to KDISD.
14.1 there will be a regular board meeting on july 25th 2022 agenda item 15 the board will
14. Future Meetings
15. Closed Meeting
now reconvene and close meeting convene and close meeting as authorized under section 551001 of the
texas government code for the following purposes texas government code 551071 551129 5510821 and
551-0874 thank you everyone
we have everybody okay the board will now reconvene in open meeting today is monday
june 20 2022 and the time is 902 pm the board heard a level 3 fng grievance 21031 pursuant
to katie independent school district policy fng legal and fng local regarding parent student
student grievances in closed meeting. In accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code,
any action regarding this matter must be taken in open meeting.
Do I have a motion on the level three grievance? Mr. President? Yes. I move that the Board of
Trustees denies the level three FNG grievance and FNG 21031, thereby upholding the decision
of the level one and level two hearing office. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Redmond, a second
by mrs van will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye
the motion carries seven zero six i'm sorry six i'm sorry thank you
mrs fox is not here thank you there being no further business before the board this
meeting is adjourned the time is 903 pm thank you everyone have a good evening
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's April 2022 financial statements.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 10.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's June 2022 budget amendments.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 10.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Stewart Builders, Inc. for the comprehensive renovations to Hutsell Elementary School for a fee not to exceed 2.00% of the cost of the work including pre-construction services totaling $30,000.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 10.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Drymalla Construction Company, LLC for the comprehensive renovations and addition to McDonald Junior High School for a fee not to exceed 2.99% of the cost of the work including pre-construction services totaling $75,000.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 10.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Katy Independent School District compensation plan for the 2022 - 2023 school year.
6 Yes · 1 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | No |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 10.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the Local Policy changes necessary to implement the previously approved District of Innovation Plan.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 10.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2022-2024 Strategic Plan Specific Results.
6 Yes · 0 No · 1 Abstain
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Abstain |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 10.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Rebecca Fox as the Katy Independent School District Board member to the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors for Region 4, Position E.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 12.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC a blanket electrical easement associated with the construction of High School #10 and Junior High School #18 as depicted in the attached easement document.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 12.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the application for the Raines Academy Optional Flexible School Day Program (OFSDP) for the 2022-2023 school year.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 12.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes for the May Board meetings.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |