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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, November 14, 2022
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- 0:14 to 4:59 1. Call to Order
- 4:59 to 10:15 3. Oaths
- 10:15 to 38:19 4. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
- 38:19 to 38:42 5. Closed Meeting
- 38:42 to 39:23 6. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
- 39:23 to 1:16:52 7.1 Katy Independent School District 2022 Demographic Update.
- 1:16:52 to 1:20:36 8.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the November 2022 budget amendments
- 1:20:36 to 1:22:09 8.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the September 2022 Financial Reports
- 1:22:09 to 1:28:32 8.3 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the 2022-2023 Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate and the 2022-2023 Debt Service Tax Rate.
- 1:28:32 to 1:45:50 8.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the annual course additions.
- 1:45:50 to 1:46:48 8.5 Discuss and consider Board authorization for the superintendent to form a naming advisory committee for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary School #45 per Board Policy CW(LOCAL).
- 1:46:48 to 1:47:19 8.6 Discuss and consider Board authorization for the superintendent to form a naming advisory committee for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary School #46 per Board Policy CW(LOCAL).
- 1:47:19 to 2:07:00 8.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of the design associated with the renovations to Hutsell Elementary School.
- 2:07:00 to 2:19:53 8.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of the design associated with the addition and renovations to McDonald Junior High School.
- 2:19:53 to 2:28:13 9.1 Review and discuss the 2022-2023 Katy ISD Legislative Priorities.
- 2:28:13 to 2:28:37 10. Consent
- 2:28:37 to 2:29:34 11.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 2:29:34 to 2:29:51 12. Future Meetings
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1. Call to Order
Noting that 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, November 14, 2022, and the time is 5 p.m.
Dr. Gahorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?
Mr. President, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for our meeting this evening.
Thank you. And I'll proceed to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Yes, my pleasure. I'm going to go invite our special guest. I see her sitting right up front there, Andrea Nino, to the podium. Come on up.
up. Andrea is a fifth grader at Sundown Elementary. Principal is out there as well. I saw
Cara Torres. Parents Olga Carrillo and Miguel Nino has some siblings Alejandra and Armando.
Andrea enjoys playing with her dogs Gustavo and Jack. She also likes to play with her cousins,
spend time with her family. She loves to hear music and color. When she grows up she wants to
be a police officer to help other people and save lives. Well we're swearing one in tonight. If
you're ready maybe not yet andreas favorite subject is science she also likes reading
from ela social studies teacher miss alvarez andrea is a great student who is always ready
to learn and very motivated and for math and science teacher miss vargas andrea is
a very hard-working student and is always willing to do her best to be successful so
welcome we will all stand and you can lead us in the pledge when you're ready
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Good evening, President Gersholt, Board Member and Superintendent Grygorski.
My name is Andrea Nino.
I'm a student at Sandown Elementary.
I'm in fifth grade.
I have been in Sandown since second grade.
My favorite thing about Sandown is that I have a lot of friends.
I have two siblings, one boy, one girl.
I love to play with my friends and my cousins. I am very happy to be here today.
don't know. Right? So, people are really scared to do it.
And you know, it's so crazy. It's a really great problem.
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Do you love to do more data on the new monster?
Well this is a certificate for you.
You're offering about eight people.
This is a special certificate.
This is a special certificate.
You guys are good.
Do we have any scouts in the audience tonight?
No? Thank you.
3. Oaths
We'll move on to Agenda Item 3.1, Peace Officer Oath of Office.
Chief Gall and Deputy Chief Tabor.
Actually, just be me tonight.
Board members, Superintendent Grigorski, President Schulze, this evening I have the honor of
presenting the order of officers to be sworn in.
Before I do, thank you very much for wanting to be a police officer.
Before we leave, I'll give you my card.
We need to talk.
also do or can you come up here please
tonight I present to you also dealer Charles a dealer was raised in Simonton Texas where he
enjoyed the country life and was taught the values of hard work by his grandparents Charles attended
elementary school in Fort Bend County and graduated from BF Terry High School
in May of 1983. After graduation, Charles attended Prairie View A&M University and
studied electrical engineering technology. After several years in the
electrical field, Charles changed career paths. He began working for the Metro
Police Department as a security officer on the Metro Rail and private security
for Metcal International Security Services. While working for Metro, Charles
Charles attended and graduated from the University of Houston Downtown Police Academy in February 2021, all while raising a family in Missouri City.
He has been married for 23 years to his beautiful and wonderful wife, Joanne Dilworth.
In his spare time, Charles likes to fish, hunt, and spend quality time with his family.
He also enjoys motivating and encouraging people, and as he says, just by saying a simple hello can brighten a person's day.
day. Charles, we're very much glad to have you here with us.
Oh,
please meet. Raise your right hand.
OK, I state your name. I, Charles Dilworth.
Do solemnly swear, do solemnly swear, oh, faithfully execute
the duties to faithfully execute the duties of the office of
peace officer or the office of peace officer.
of the Katy Independent School District
of the State of Texas
and will
to the best of my ability
preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution and laws
of the United States
and of this State
so help me God.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
We'll now proceed to Agenda Item 3.2, which is the introduction of new principals.
Dr. Gorski.
Yeah.
Dr. Gorski, sorry.
You bet.
Happy to do so.
So we've got two new principals that have been recently appointed into their positions.
They're going to take those schools at semester.
We've got some folks moving on in retirement and moving out of the district.
But sitting front and center right up there is Christy Gonzalez, who is going to be the new principal at Schaefer Elementary.
Christy go ahead and remain standing I see you got some folks with you if you'd introduce who
you brought out with you here tonight and where's your husband at awesome you bet all right well
Well, thank you and congratulations.
Also sitting in the row right behind Christy is Shante Smith, and her family is there.
Shante is going to go ahead and take over as principal of Hudson Elementary.
Congratulations.
Shante, who did you bring with you over there?
So today I have my awesome hubby, my son, Rasaan Jr., or RJ.
This is my niece, Simone.
my friend turned family, Chrissy, and her husband in the back, my daughter, Naima, my mother-in-law, and my two cousins, Marty, and my good friend, Andrea, and her husband, Matty.
And then I have two co-workers who did not, oh, three.
I didn't know that they were here for this because, you know, we're going to be voting on, fingers crossed, the new renovation.
So I'm happy to be here.
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
Congratulations.
4. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
Our board will now proceed to agenda item four, which is the public comment and citizen participation.
The public participation section includes two categories.
Category one is for speakers that signed up to speak on posted agenda items.
And category number two is for speakers that 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.
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 amongst all those who have signed
up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes. If the speaker
is not finished speaking at the end of your three minutes, the audio will turn off. If
speakers wish to share written material with the Board, you must provide 10 copies to the
Secretary for Board Services before the meeting begins for Board members, the Superintendent,
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 the appropriate policy.
Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code Section 551074 and 5510821, the board will
not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student
and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline,
or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer
or employee. Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues, they must do so through
the appropriate local grievance policies, FNG local, DGBA local, CKE local, and GF local.
Our speakers will be called forward in the order they signed up to speak. First, we will call up
speakers that have signed up to speak on postage agenda items each speaker will
have three minutes to speak we have one speaker tonight on postage agenda items
and it's Thomas McKaig good evening
my name is Thomas McKaig I'm a resident of the district the I'm here to speak
about the TRE and more specifically the ads that the district sent out I have a
concern that these ads were misleading. They emphasized the tax rates staying the same
and they emphasized that that would go to teacher raises but they conveniently left
out the part that if you vote yes your taxes would actually go up some more, more than
they might otherwise. They were factual. I don't mean to say that they weren't factual.
I just feel like they didn't quite tell the whole story. You have the details out on your
website you can go see the details everything's fully fully available there
but I'm afraid a lot of folks don't actually go do that a couple of things I
key wanted to key in on were our trust and communication there's a lot of folks
you look at online people are chatting about it a lot that there's distrust of
the board and that goes to past some past issues that a lot of you weren't
even on the board when those things happen the concern about these ads
though is current and all of you were actually on the board here currently I
feel like you are all trustworthy don't don't take any of my comments at a but
mr. Schulte dr. Gagorski I can look at you and tell you when I saw these ads
that caused me to not want to trust you and I can look at all the rest of you
and pretty much say the same thing and that's not a good thing a lot of folks
probably voted yes thinking you know they knew what they were signing up for
they researched it they knew the effect on taxes but I'm afraid a lot of folks
voted yes because they weren't informed they read the ads and thought oh what
what's not to like about this tax rate stays the same it's good for the
teachers nothing about taxes going up and they voted yes that's on them for
not being informed but it's on on us or the board for the ads that may have let
them down that path. Now I could be wrong about that but I don't think so.
There are also folks online, some of the chatter, I can just confirm that
because the chatter online there were folks on there trying to convince people
that hey the taxes aren't going up. So I know that that's a feeling out there.
I also want to talk a little bit about communication. You might not think they
were misleading but good communication involves two parts sending the message and receiving the
message if you receive a message like me and interpret is misleading that's not good if you
receive the message and don't understand the whole story that's not good uh you may have thought it
wasn't really misleading but it was for a good cause also not good i don't think the end i think
the end support the means anyway i do applaud you i appreciate your service to the board and
thank you
now we will call 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 to speak the first speaker tonight
is Celesta White and the second speaker tonight is Brian White. Good evening.
Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you this evening.
My name is Celesta White. I currently have three daughters enrolled in Katy ISD
schools. Kaylee is a junior at Jordan, Avery is a freshman at Jordan, and
Ariana is a first grader at Campbell Elementary. At the September board
board meeting you heard comments from my daughter Avery, my husband Brian, as well as Collette
Frans, introducing you to the exciting sport of water polo. Our intent at that meeting
was to raise awareness for the newest UIL sport and to get the board excited about the
future possibilities of water polo at Katy ISD. Last month John Latham was back to share
with you some statistics on the large number of schools that had water polo and participated
participated in the first year of UIL, as well as to point out that KDISD was one of the few and the largest
6a school district to not have a team for the first year.
These statistics as well as the list of schools that did have water polo teams are in the packet of information
provided to you this evening and tonight
we're back to actively seek your support in getting water polo at KDISD in next year.
In October 2019, the UIL announced that water polo would be added in the 2021-22 school year, giving Katie two full years to plan and prepare.
The inaugural season was delayed an additional year to 2022 due to COVID and other reasons, giving us yet another year to prepare.
Katie ISD also hired Coach Scott Slay as Jordan's first swimming coach in 2019.
2019, Coach Slay was serving as a TSCA water polo chairman at the time and was recently
recognized by USA Water Polo with the Distinguished Scholastic Coaching National Award after having
won his seventh Texas state title for TSCA.
Katie ISD was poised to hit the ground running in the fall of 2022, yet here we are three
years later watching our neighbors at Foster win the state championship and we still have
no water polo and no plans for it in the near future after the september board meeting coach
decker reached out to call at france to inform her that there was no possibility of getting water
polo at any kd isd schools for the 2023 24 school year and no guarantee that would be added the year
after due to budget constraints she mentioned that we needed budget to support water polo at
all schools not just the existing nine high schools but the tenth one as well before we could
get it in any school this included four coaches per pool equipment etc which she guessed would
cost between 300 and 400 000 per year tonight we'd like to address these budget concerns especially
in light of the recent vote on prop a and demonstrate that kdisd can maintain athletic
excellence in all uil sports for far less money than coach decker estimated thank you
Thank you.
The next speaker tonight is Brian White and the speaker after that is John Latham.
Good evening.
Good evening.
A couple of weeks ago I was at my Rotary meeting where Dr. Nevins from LCISD was there presenting
about his school district. I enjoyed breakfast with him and his team and just casually asked,
do you have any exciting plans for the weekend? And his eyes lit up and said, in fact, I do.
I'm headed tomorrow with my family to San Antonio to watch my foster falcons play in the state water
championship where they won. This is the same team. Most of those players play on the same
competitive team that my daughter plays and competitively and she's a an athlete
at Jordan High School. The my wife has prepared my wife who's a phenomenal
engineer which will you you will notice when you read the packet all the data
will be there nice and succinctly put in front of you if there are any questions
it will answer all of them at a high level here's what it says with one
one competitive team in one pool, that will add $75,000 to KDISD in one year.
If we double that, then that's $150,000.
That's revenue coming into KDISD with a water polo team using your pool for practice,
but also for weekend tournaments, for spring break tournaments, and for summer tournaments.
This is an opportunity for the district to leverage facilities it already has.
You've already built the facilities. Let's maximize their use and bring in more revenue.
The last thing I wanted to bring up, I grew up in a small town in Arkansas.
We did not swim. We did not have water polo.
If you grew up in a small town like me, you played football, basketball, baseball, and ran track.
Those are the sports that I know.
So when my daughter, who's a junior, swims, all I can coach her with is swim faster, swim faster,
because I don't know anything about dives or flip turns or strokes.
But then I watch a water polo match.
That is the same as basketball, except this time you add a player and you put that person in the post, in the paint.
You're still giving and going.
You're still running fast breaks.
That's the nature of the game.
I don't want you to think that we're adding just another aquatic sport.
The takeaway here is you don't need a swim coach to coach water polo.
The best coaches for water polo are going to be your assistant coaches, your junior high coaches who are coaching other team sports
like basketball, like soccer, like football.
Wanted to leave you with that and make sure at a high level you knew what you understood where you were coming from. Thank you.
you thank you the next speaker is John Latham and the speaker after that is
state representative John Rosenthal good evening good evening thank you for
hearing me again my name is John Latham I really appreciate the opportunity to
speak to you all again last month I shared a little bit how much water polo
has taken off in Texas and actually had a couple of you reach out afterward and
and I really appreciate you checking back.
Since then, a lot has happened.
First, I understand that Proposition A did not pass.
I'm really sorry, actually, about that.
I truly wish it had gone through.
I realize that it probably makes things more difficult
for the district, and I imagine it makes things
more difficult for the district to implement Water Polo
at the scale that was originally planned,
what they mentioned before, at 10 full schools,
at $300,000 a piece.
That's significant when you're talking about budgets.
understand that instead of taking maybe an all-or-nothing approach I want to
encourage the district to implement maybe water polo at one or two schools
to start and then allow it to grow from there the other thing that happened as
they mentioned before is the UIL state championship for water polo took place
and of the 159 schools that participated in sort of get leading up to the state
championships to for both the boys and two for the girls were in the final four
here in the Houston area. So a pretty significant number of great talent here in Houston.
What's interesting is that there are already numerous kids within the KDISD who play water polo at or above the level of the Foster and Brazoswood players that made it to the Final Four, which is pretty significant when you think about it.
These KD student athletes are top ranked at the Junior Olympics, which is an event run by USA Water Polo, which also sponsors the Olympics.
Olympics. They're also members of the regional Olympic development zone team. So just think
if KDISD had participated, there's a chance maybe they might have won a state championship
in the inaugural year. But we're looking ahead and thinking about those things. These are
great players and they have a very promising future. They're also kids hoping for a chance
to achieve excellence as student athletes. Many of them stand a chance at college scholarship
or maybe to get a better edge on life or a better situation or get into a better college
if they're allowed to play at a ui level without the district support they will not be able to play
at all because uil does not allow clubs to participate and that stands to deprive our
students of life are altering opportunities some of the ones that i mentioned last time i was here
uh in addition you have some great fan great coaches nearby we mentioned uh coach slay uh
with great experience and uh actually i think he's uh he was pulled over from foster which as
i mentioned before uh won state championship uh to help develop water polo here in katie so i think we
to potentially leverage some great resources here and i've heard from a few sources that we would
not be able to go until 2025 i find that a little embarrassing for a trailblazing district but i do
believe that you know if we take a different approach than maybe an all or nothing approach
and let it grow from school to school i think we stand to have some real success
again if budget's an issue i encourage kdisd to consider implementing water polo one or two high
schools to start and build it from there thanks for your time i really appreciate it thank you
very much the next speaker tonight the state representative John Rosenthal and
the speaker after that is Celeste goo good evening good evening and thank you
so much for allowing me to speak tonight it's not easy for me to get down here
for this so my name is John Rosenthal and I've just been reelected as the
Texas State Representative for House District 135 and that means I will
formally represent a piece of the Katy Independent School District so I'm super
pleased about having getting to represent two of the best school
districts in the entire state I know you all have a little bit of neighborly
competition with Sci Fair I am it's one of my goals to be the most frequent
visitor here among all of your state legislators and also the same goal for
before SciFair, so I'll be moving back and forth.
But I just want you to know, I got into politics
to support public education.
It's like the primary thing for me.
I'm a lifetime engineer.
I'm a mechanical engineer from the oil and gas industry.
But my daddy was a lifetime educator,
and both of his parents were.
He was extremely passionate about public education
and the good that it does.
and he was also adamant about decoupling the high-stakes testing so like I'm an
engineer I do believe in measurement and evaluation I don't think that should be
tied to school dollars so I will have a goal of separating those things I hope
your teachers will appreciate that I also think the STAAR Test itself is not
an appropriate measurement tool so I would like to see us use an in-state
resource for that. I think there are better resources and besides that the
other ways I will support you is opposing charter school
proliferation and opposing any type of voucher scheme that is designed to
shunt public dollars away from public education. So that's my commitment to you.
I hope you received the packets with my congratulation letters to you from last
time had a card with my personal cell phone number I do encourage you to
contact me I'm here to listen to you to support you in any way that I can and
your constituents in your school district I'm I'm an open book so please
do contact me thank you again for letting me speak it's going to be an
honor to represent the school district thank you so much thank you very much
appreciate it
The next speaker tonight is Celeste Gu.
And the speaker after that is Connor Latham.
Good evening, everyone.
My name is Celeste Gu, a parent, a Mandarin Chinese teacher, a district advisory committee
member from my previous school district, and a Navy wife.
Today I would like to share some of my thoughts about traditional values and assumptions.
Thanksgiving is probably the most important celebration in North America and it's right around the corner.
400 years ago, in September 1620, the Mayflower carried 102 pilgrims, arrived at Massachusetts,
and these settlers then began to establish a village in Plymouth.
After a severe winter, only half of these 天路者, travelers on the road to heaven, had survived.
In March 1621, when these settlers moved ashore, they received much-needed help from Sequanto and his tribe.
With the help of the Native Americans, these Tianlu Germans not only survived, but also had a successful corn harvest that fall.
The governor, William Bradford, organized a celebration with the Alliance tribe, Wampanoag, and the chief Massasoit.
this joyful feast lasted three days and is remembered as the first Thanksgiving in America.
The reason why I reviewed this historical moment is that the Constitution ties back to the May Flower Compact.
Here in the United States, freedom of religion is guaranteed and protected by the Constitution,
but not in some other countries, namely China.
Recently, I learned that a friend of mine, a man of honor, a brilliant, talented artist named Jin Xiong Guo,
also known as Da Xiong, he and his family
are being targeted and harassed by the Chinese Communist
government.
It's all because of his leading role
in the animated documentary film Eternal Spring, which recently
received the 95th Oscar nomination
under the category of Best International Feature Film.
Jason Loftus, award-winning director,
revivicated the incident of a group of Falun Gong
practitioners attempt to hack
the state TV signal in Changchun, China 2002 and how did the police resweep the whole city
in the aftermath. This film narrates through Dashong's angle and it retraces the persecution
that they had experienced during that time. Plaintively some of them had lost their lives.
Even though the Chinese Communist Party has brutally persecuted Falun Gong practitioners
until today, there are still millions of people practicing Zhen Shan Ren, means truthfulness,
compassion and forbearance in China and millions throughout the world. From my
personal perspective they are the travelers on the road to heaven in our
times. Da Xiong is such an acclaimed artist who has illustrated the likes of
Star Wars and Justice League of America. Just to show a few, it's extremely sad to
hear that he's going through such a hard time because he decided to speak up and
that just thank you thank you your time is up thank you thank you the next the
next speaker tonight is Connor Latham the speaker after that is chase Darger
good evening
My name is Connor Latham, and I'm an eighth grader at Seven Lakes Junior High.
I want to talk to you about a sport I love, water polo.
I just started playing a little over a year ago, and it is by far my favorite sport.
Sports isn't everything.
I'm a good student.
I take cap classes and get A's and some B's.
I'm also interested in engineering and I took a Mark Rober design thinking course last summer.
But today I want to talk to you about water polo at Katy ISD.
I have played a lot of sports over the years.
I swim, play baseball, and play basketball, and even played football.
I enjoyed all of them, but I love water polo the most.
Since I started playing, I have learned a lot about myself, about the sport.
I love that it's competitive and gives me a chance to constantly improve.
I love that most of my friends play water polo too.
I love that it's a team sport and we have to communicate and work with each other all the time.
I love the actions and the fact that it combines things from lots of other sports.
I love it so much that it is where I spend a lot of my time throughout the year.
I have some friends who will play water polo at Lamar Foster next year.
I know my friends in KDISD want to play through their high school years.
I also know there are kids just like me who haven't tried it yet but would love it.
I'd love to go on and play in college and beyond, but I don't know if I'll be able to without your support.
I heard KDSD won't support the sport until my junior or maybe even my senior year.
Missing out on most of my high school career would be really disappointing.
I really am really hoping that you can all help us make it a sport in KDSD next year.
Thank you.
Chase Darger, and the last speaker tonight will be Shelly Keating.
Keating?
Good evening.
Hello.
My name is Chase Darger, and I'm 13.
years old. I go to Adams Junior High as an eighth grader and I'll be going to
junior high as a freshman next year. I'm going to go right into it and say why
isn't water polo now? I am 13 and I don't understand the money side of things
but the more we wait the more students miss out the chance to learn to play the
toughest game, the toughest sport around. From my perspective as sports here in
KDSD is that you either play football or baseball and you're awesome at the sport
or you sit on the bench and never play. That's what happened to me but not in
Water Polo. I'm on the D team for Adams Junior High football team and all the
kids on A and B team started playing peewee football when they're like four or five.
Waterpolo I started around last year and now I'm rocking and starting it.
A few reasons why I love waterpolo.
It uses one, it uses many skills at once.
Two, no matter how much you weigh or what you look like,
you could play and there's a position for you.
Three, it works with almost every single body part so it's super helpful all around.
And four, if you ever have been to a water polo game, it is intense.
This year is my last year playing football, so next year I'm a freshman.
I want to do something to show that I belong to the high school.
I'm just a kid, and you're the adults.
Stand up for us and start water polo in fall 2023.
Don't make us wait another year or more.
Thank you.
thank you the last speaker tonight is Shelly Keating good evening good
evening thank you my name is Shelly Keating I have two children both are at
Beck junior high my son Thomas is in eighth grade and my daughter Lily is in
seventh grade I am currently the president of the KDISD Council of PTAs
We have 27,514 members.
While we're not the largest district, there are many districts that have twice as many schools as we do,
we have the most members of any district in the state of Texas.
And we've had this record for quite a while, as long as I've been around for council PTAs and stuff.
So we're very proud of that.
We have 67 PTAs. On November 1st, over 80% of these PTAs received notification that they are in good standing, and we're proud of that.
There are eight that are being granted a little extra time to maintain their good standing, and we are working currently with the five schools to help them get back into good standing.
So everyone is working hard to achieve that goal.
I've had many volunteer jobs within PTA and I have to say that this is my favorite.
I hold a president's meeting every month and this month I decided to do something a little different.
I feel like we were four or five months in to PTA and I was holding them and I wanted them to brag on themselves,
celebrate their successes and all the things that they were accomplishing.
and so I gave them note cards and I said please list your greatest success and list your biggest
challenge and they were all really eager to brag on themselves and was really happy to see that.
So one of the things though that some of the things that they said were growing new leaders
were their success in the communication and getting back to bringing back programs that
that had not been around for the last couple of years.
But the most common theme that I noticed
was that they were excited to have the school and the PTAs
working together as a team.
So for that, I would just like to say thank you
to the district for the support of all of our PTAs.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
5. Closed Meeting
This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting.
The board will now convene in closed meeting
meeting as authorized under section 551-001 of the Texas government code for the following
purposes. Texas government code 551-071 and 551-129. Thank you.
Hear me now? Yeah, there we go. Good evening, everyone. The board will now reconvene in open
6. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
meeting. Today is Monday, November 14, 2022, and the time is 6.03. On behalf of my colleagues,
I welcome everyone to the Seethings Regular Board Meeting.
Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, November 11, 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.
7.1 Katy Independent School District 2022 Demographic Update.
Now move to Agenda Item 7.1, which is the Katy Independent School District 2022 Demographic Update.
The presenters are Ms. Chris Poole, Population and Survey Analyst.
Good evening.
Good evening, Board of Trustees.
Superintendent Gorgorski, we appreciate the chance to be here.
I have with me Angela Fritz, and so she's going to be presenting some of the information here in a little while about the housing.
I was thinking a little bit earlier, I think the first one of these we gave was in 1994, so I think we're rounding to 30 years here.
I wouldn't know what to do if it was the fall and I wasn't in Katy ISD talking to you guys.
So an awful lot of this information is similar in some regards to stuff you've seen in the past.
So we do just sort of want to hit the high points and we always like to sort of start with demographic trends, a little bit of look at the area and what's been going on.
But the best data at this point that we have is the fall of 21 PEMS data, because, of course, PEMS was just turned in for you guys a couple weeks ago.
And so we won't be able to get all of PEMS data until about April.
So this includes, this is a look from the fall of 20, where we had everything was affected by COVID,
the fall of 21, where we had an enormous rebound of COVID.
So we're just going to look at this just a touch.
You know, between the fall of 20 and 21, KDISD had a 5% increase.
But then what we're actually looking at a lot more is the five-year change,
because that blunts, that COVID changed just a little bit.
And so you can see that over that five-year time period,
the Katy ISD had gained almost 13,000 kids. What's interesting to me though is the color
on the map. You know, you can see the red and the orange just outside of Houston ISD and where all
of the growth there is coming on. Lamarcy ISD, they're also clients of ours and they have more
housing starts than any other district in the metro area now. So you'll see that number, they'll
be creeping up towards you guys in the total number of students gained. So nipping at your
heels that was a 14.6 percent increase you know we have cleveland isd at the top they're having a lot
of uh in building in some unincorporated areas and they've really got a lot of challenges there in
the northeast we do not work for them but i looked and i think we worked for all but about four of
these school districts here in the greater houston area i wanted to show this a little bit it's a
little snapshot of enrollment change for you all since 2002 so it's two decades of enrollment and
And of course, the story naturally has been grow, grow, grow.
You can see in 2020, you guys grew still a little bit.
The average district lost 2.2% of its student population in 2020 due to COVID.
You guys are kind of in rarefied air that you actually continue to grow.
And so most people are exactly like you guys, 2020 and 2021, this enormous spike back.
And if you take the two and kind of average them together, it's about right.
You rebounded a bunch of your kids.
What most people don't have is a 2022 that is larger than their 2021.
And so you guys really continue to grow.
I have a suspicion that there was still some continued sort of COVID return bounce back in 2022.
But, of course, the housing and due to the low interest rates and stuff is still continuing to just go crazy into this time period here.
One thing I know we've talked about a lot in the past is how difficult it is to project kindergarten enrollment.
enrollment and so we can get at the birth data and we can use that from the state. It's at the
zip code level so we have to adjust it a little bit so that it kind of lines up a little bit
better with the ISDs. You all have a very small kindergarten class this year. It's only a couple
hundred students larger than it was in 2019. We feel like that's an anomaly because we are looking
at the birth data here but it's something for us to keep looking at. Smaller kindergarten classes
replacing larger high school classes will have a change on your enrollment
but we're gonna want continue to watch that because we are watching the births
here we are showing them level out maybe dip a year or two here or there compared
to the big changes and the big increases that you all have seen in the past but
it's definitely something that we keep on our radar all the time now we work
with the district and they geocode the kids we follow that up and do a lot of
checking on the decoded students most of your kids that we're talking about are
already on the ground in existing homes.
And so we need to understand where those kids are and what's going on in their neighborhoods.
And so when those kids are geocoded, then they pop up like a dot on the map and that's
where they live.
Now that doesn't mean that that's where they go to school.
And we'll talk about geocoded kids later on and some of the data, but that's what we have
to start with is our geocoded student population.
And using that, we can then of course develop a ratio of students per household.
This is the average right now in the district is .72 students per home.
But like we've talked before, especially in the southwest, an awful lot of those really
high ratios are there in the southwestern portion of the district, and it can vary and
be much lower in other parts of the area.
So we have to project not only new homes, but then the number of students that we think
are in those new homes.
And you notice I didn't say kids.
There may be two kids in the house, but those two kids may be 30.
And so what we're talking about is KDISD kids that are enrolled in the district living in
each one of those homes.
It's .72 for single family and .37 for multifamily right now.
The other thing that we like to look at occasionally with the way this district is built out and
with how easy geographically it is to divide is sort of look at using the Parkway and I-10
as sort of dividers at how this is all breaking out.
You can see very, very dense students per square mile in the southwestern portion of
the district, lower on the eastern side of the district, and that does take out all of
the reservoir stuff.
This is only in your actual student residential neighborhoods.
Actually, I counted the kids east of the parkway,
and it's almost the exact same number as are in only the southwestern portion of the district.
And so you can see, but we've talked and talked about at the zoning situations
and how full the schools are that we are expecting them to drop a little bit over time
as that sector begins to build out.
And then, of course, in the northwest portion of the district, it's very low right now,
but I think it's going to change a lot in the next few years.
Now, charter schools are very difficult for all of us to understand, to keep tabs on.
Initially, we thought it wouldn't be a big deal,
and now we have someone who basically does charter schools at our office all of the time,
trying to understand where they're going to be, when they're going to be,
what their grade group configuration is going to be, and where they're going to get students from.
And so what this shows is the existing charter schools in the area that we know from TEA data have some KDISD students in them.
Now, most of the time, we can look and see that most of the kids go to charter schools that are very close by,
but they will also go if there's one next to mom and dad where they work.
They'll go with mom and dad to work and being dropped off.
So that's why you see all of these red dots as having KDISD kids in them.
The blue ones are new schools.
schools. And sometimes it's not new, it's that they're adding a grade or that they are
shuffling some things. We have a school in the south where they built a high school and
they're shuffling some grades and what they're doing is basically expanding capacity in all
of the grades via that new high school. IL Texas is opening a new school down there.
The Harmony side at Ellison, they're going to add a seventh grade and then they're going
to add a middle school and a high school. And we feel like an awful lot of those kids
may come from Katy ISD. The residential area in Sapphire is much further away. And so we're
projecting a lot of kids there. So we have to go in and manually pull those kids out where we know
they're going to be coming from when we know that those new schools are going to be opening.
And the district has gained or has lost several hundred students per year for charter schools,
two charter schools in the last several years. It's about doubled your enrollment in charter
schools themselves since 2014. But yet the number of students that the district loses to charters
is still very, very low. It's like 3.2%. We work for Fort Bend. That's about 5.6%, but yet we've
also just finished reports for Dallas and Houston ISD, and they're in the 18% range of students that
are attending charter schools. And so we have to keep up with this because if a charter school
drops in the middle of Katy ISD, it's going to take a lot of the kids out of there, whereas if
it's much further outside the border, it's going to be a much, much lower percentage of students
that are going to be attending those charters. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Angela
Angela for a little bit and I'll be back to wrap up at the end.
Good evening. I want to start by talking about some of the broader contexts that we look at
when we are projecting housing for the district and that is the economy. So obviously that's a
hot topic right now. Lots of things changing at the global level, at the national level,
and certainly at the state level. We're not going to dig too deep, but let's just talk about some of
of the broad things going on right now. So employment specific to the Greater Houston MSA,
the workforce has recovered to its pre-pandemic job level as of April or this spring. Job growth
in Greater Houston is strengthening. This year is shaping up to be a strong year of job growth
for the Greater Houston area, but it still hasn't recovered in all sectors. So hotels, information,
and energy are three of the main sectors that still haven't come all the way up to pre-pandemic
levels and it's still to be seen whether or not those will at some point or if those industries
have changed just overall. Of course, we know that the greater economy at the national level
is still kind of suppressed by these looming fears of potential recession. We see the Fed
has raised interest rates now six times, yet just this last week we saw markets rally with news that
that the consumer price index and the inflation was not as bad as had been anticipated.
So we're still a little bit on this roller coaster of what's going to happen.
When are we going to enter a recession?
If we are, what's that going to do?
How long is it going to suppress the broader economy?
But from a mortgage rate standpoint, we know that a 30-year fixed rate mortgage is now well over 7%,
which is more than double what it was a year ago.
go. So that puts entry-level homebuyers or first-time homebuyers, a lot of people out of
the market that would have been able to purchase a house maybe a year previous. Just a quick point
of reference, the 2020 American Community Survey had the median home value in KDISD was about $272,000.
So you can adjust that upwards a little bit for the inflation we've seen and approximate about
$300,000. And if you look at the difference for a principal and interest payment, just principal
and interest on a $300,000 30-year mortgage with 20% down, that equates to about $600 a month,
about $7,000 a year. So for someone who's living on a tighter income or looking at trying to
purchase a first home, that does make a big difference in that. So we have to consider that
in our projections and our housing projections for the market as well. So the state overall in
the housing market we've moved from hearing experts talk about it stabilizing to now the
last three to four months talking about it cooling we know that sales are down year over year across
the state including in greater houston and inventories are on the rise and the median
home price for sales is still above what it was a year ago but we're seeing it begin to decrease
month to month since about April or May of this year in the greater Houston area
and inventories are up to about two and a half months which is higher and then
it was a year ago at 1.7 still a ways away from six to six and a half months
which is considered a balanced market so we're starting to see those trends
change a little bit for housing let's hop right in and look at the projected
housing for Katy ISD for this planning period so for your single-family housing
housing, we're projecting almost 27,000 single-family occupancies, or about 60% of your total occupancy
is projected.
And these are predominantly, no surprise, in the northwestern quadrant of the district.
Two main points to point out to you all, we continue to see development and growth in
master plan communities.
So you have three large communities, Sentara, Ellison, and Cane Island, which are all under
development and will continue to contribute the largest number of occupancies in the first
five and really the whole ten years of the production period and then we have
Bridgeland Aniston and some property ownership that's still under private
ownership in the northwest which we are projecting to start coming online in the
latter half of the projection period so in total those six master-planned
communities or large tracts of property are make up about 50% of your projected
single-family housing for the ten years one point of note also because it's a
a little bit different than last year's study. There are two contiguous areas in one of your
land use zones that we are projecting for manufactured housing development. A total
of about 1,100 additional occupancies in those two adjacent parcels. So we'll look at that on
the map here in a minute, but just something to keep an eye on as the market changes there.
It adapts to the need for affordable housing in different types of housing developments as well.
So that is something that you may definitely want to plan on in that land use zone.
So just to look at the trends, these are our estimated past occupancies and our future projected occupancies.
You do see a bit of a dip moving into this next year,
and that's something that's been projected over the last several studies for KDISD.
Really, it's a correction.
It's bringing more lots online.
line you see a compression in 21 and 22 with occupancies and occupancies were actually higher
than projected by nearly 400 in 2022 so because the market was so robust anything that was
available got grabbed up got built on got purchased and now those lots have to kind of
come back up inventory wise but also you're shifting from your areas of the district that
are more built out to newer areas that have to build out and there are more dynamics involved
involved in developing neighborhoods in the northwestern quadrant of the district namely
drainage infrastructure than there are or were in other areas so it's taking a little longer
for those developments maybe to come online so some other for the 2023 we were a little more
conservative in projections for some of the larger developments given the potential slow
down because of mortgage rates as well so you see that kind of correcting and then coming back up
Again, this is just the single-family housing projections for the district.
This is your projected single-family.
This is by land-use zone.
So the colored areas you see are not the specific neighborhoods.
It's the land-use zones that they fall in.
You see a variety of different developments, but obviously the majority of them are there in your northwest.
Some things to highlight here.
Bridgeland, you have Ellison.
Different sections of Ellison are in different land-use zones.
You've got Katy Lakes continuing to build out.
We have some future projected housing in here as well in areas that are likely to develop across the 10-year planning period.
There are still some units in Tamron to develop, some townhomes.
The last section kind of at the entrance to Tamron, we talk about multifamily here in a little bit.
There's another multifamily in Tamron as well.
So that's kind of your remnants in the southwestern quadrant.
And then we move on up to the northwest.
We look at the land that is under kind of investment ownership that's been termed Northwest Katy for quite a while.
There are no known plans for that at this time, but we are projecting that to begin kind of later in the planning period, the latter half.
Windward, you have Anniston and Sunterra.
Anniston last year, I believe, was referenced as West Katy Lakes.
That property has changed ownership, and it has been platted about 50% with the City of Houston.
And so we expect that to pick up in the latter half of the projections.
Sunterra will continue to be a major player.
And then Morton 180 last year was future Cane Island,
and that property has changed ownership as well.
So we expect development to start there towards the middle of the projection period also.
Multifamily housing for the district is a quick overview.
you we're projecting about 17 000 multi-family units through 2032 and that's almost 40 percent
less a little bit less than 40 of your total projected new housing and we're projecting those
to peak about three years out so it's almost the opposite of what happened with your single family
multi-family slowed down during the pandemic and now more units are being brought online which is
why you see a little bit of a delay in the occupancies peaking in uh 24 25 and we'll have
a chart a couple slides from now that'll show you that about 12 percent of your current students
live in multi-family housing now and again almost 37 percent of your future units are projected
you all have 14 complexes currently under construction or under development and with
about 4 800 units and we know those student ratios can vary greatly across those developments
depending on what they are the type of product that's going on the market for the most part the
student ratios projected and the newer what i'm going to call more urban multi-family units are
lower than your average for the district there are a couple in very suburban areas and very
single-family oriented areas that are a little bit higher so geographically this is how those
developments across the 10 years spread out no surprise you see it along the i-10 corridor along
along the Grand Parkway, some along State Highway 6,
and then also kind of the Clay Road corridor up north
as the Northwest starts to build out.
So our total for housing occupancies
for the 10-year projection period, you can see here,
your green is your single family,
your yellow is your multifamily.
The kind of burnt orange-brown color
is your manufactured housing, and then age-restricted.
We do include it in your housing projections.
projections. We do not project students for age-restricted housing, but we do like to show
the proportion of that. And you can see how that plays out over the 10-year planning period.
So I'm going to turn it back over to Chris and talk a little bit about student projections. Thank you.
Okay, and then we'll just wrap up here with district-wide projections and then attendance
and projections, and then let you guys go on to your other things here for the night.
You know that we do at this point a low, a moderate, and a high growth scenario.
And moderate growth there, we're looking at 107,000 students in the 10-year timeframe.
We're looking at 102 for low growth, 113 for high growth.
And so basically there are three things that we're really looking at here.
Kindergarten, what exactly is going to happen with those kindergarten kids?
Are those low enrollments going to maintain themselves?
If they do, then we're going to look more like a low growth scenario.
We're also interested, of course, in the charter schools and how that's all going to play out.
And so mortgage rates, of course, is really kind of the third prong this year on exactly
what's going to go on with that.
And so some combination of those three really are what's at play in the low growth, the
moderate growth, and the high growth scenario.
High growth is higher this year.
It's higher because we've gone out another year, added more kids, more housing there.
We're not expecting the district to be completely built out in 10 years.
Also, the district gained more kids this year than we had expected.
I think actually some of it was a little COVID return,
and we had some developments that just kept going.
And so that's a little bit that's accounted for in some of that.
But it's not wildly different than anything that you all have seen in the past.
On a graph, it looks like this.
You know, we've seen tick, tick, tick, up, up, up,
and we are seeing a little leveling out, a little flattening.
The district itself will be building out one of these days eventually.
And some of the question here about the total number of students
is really whether or not we see regeneration in any of the older subdivisions,
how quickly the ones that are existing there in the southwest do go ahead and dive off,
and then how that joins together with the students from the new housing.
So there are a lot of factors that come into play there to get to that ultimate number,
what's it going to look like, and it's some pushes and pulls
throughout different parts of the district that will give you that number.
If we could hold everybody steady and say we're going to have this number of kids on top of it,
then it would be a lot easier to get at the final number.
but we have to watch what we think is going to go on in all those homes that are already existing
so that we can get more to that final number.
This is what it looks like here.
Of course, the percent increase will slow as the district itself is getting larger.
We're still looking at over 1,000 students per year, but it ends up being 1.02% growth
by the end of the projection period.
Then just to look at this by attendance zone, I've shown you all these maps before and we
work and work at trying to figure out how to get at a snapshot data piece that shows
you all how the district is utilizing the facilities and when and where you need space
and have space.
It's a very difficult thing to answer.
And so I mentioned earlier that we geocode the kids, and so that's the basis of our projections.
We have to understand where those kids live.
Now, the district may choose to send them to school elsewhere for a program or something like that.
So that's a second piece of the puzzle.
So what we're showing you here is projections.
Now, these projections are based on the fall attendance zones, and a few of those just changed a month ago.
But then we're also showing you the enrollment so that you can understand sort of what's at the school today.
day and then we're showing you the capacity right next to the school name and also the number of
portable buildings and then the stars there are for the bilingual programs some of those are
self-contained sundown keeps its own kids but yet there's a swap between wolf and bear creek bear
creek takes the the kids from wolf there so there's a big change that way so really the takeaway point
here is that schmalz is still uh large for its capacity of a thousand thirty it's got a bunch
portables there, but the school is going to get an addition in the next, with the bond,
it's going to get a classroom addition.
We've made some changes there to McRoberts, and so that enrollment, that projected enrollment
is going to come up, and we've taken the top off of Galbo.
We talked about how Galbo's capacity is a little lower than a lot of those, and so we've
pulled that back down for the next several years to be in pretty good shape.
In the southeastern portion of the district, there are only the three elementaries that
that have those bilingual programs.
And you can see by looking at West Memorial
exactly what I was talking about,
the difference between geocoded and enrollment.
West Memorial loses its over 300 students net out
of West Memorial, mainly due to program.
And Memorial Parkway then gains almost 400 kids.
You can see the difference between enrollment
and geocoded students there.
And so that's the thing that we're looking at.
A lot of times when I'm trying to assess what the need is,
because I look at the change in geocoded students.
How many are we talking about gaining over the time period?
So you can see several of these facilities
are expected to gain a little bit.
Paterson's a little higher than normal,
but are expected to gain a little bit,
but it's not very much above what it is right now.
Then in the southwestern portion of the district,
we have a few bilingual programs, of course,
but you can see that we've pulled the enrollment down now
a little bit for Campbell.
We've got some facilities that we're expecting really to age out a little bit.
We've been talking about that for a long time, and I had a count of the geocoded kids just
for my own curiosity.
I looked and right now in this quadrant of the district, there are 3,019 geocoded fifth
graders and 2,147 geocoded kindergartners.
And so this is what we would expect in that life cycle of the developments that are there,
but as those kids may age forward, then that's what we're talking about, watching those enrollments
to come on down and then of course the northwest everybody knows that's going to be the next hot
spot and that we're looking at the facilities for elementary 44 or 45 and 46 that we drew zones for
year one is really pretty similar but it the growth is still coming and coming and coming
and so they will need relief in the next several years and there are no bond funds available right
now for those elementaries those will require new bond funds so just as a summary numerous additional
schools later in the northwest I don't think that's a big surprise you know
we've tweaked a little bit here and there in the northeast and the southwest
just recently I wouldn't be terribly surprised but what that continues on
that happens a lot of times you know everybody would love to say now we're
done all the new homes have been built and we don't have to do anything else
but as the student populations change in those existing facilities in those
existing neighborhoods then you never know there may be some tweaks there but
then all of the elementary schools will need bond funds at the end of the day so
So at the junior high, it's really very much the same sort of story.
We're looking pretty good at the eastern side of the district.
The south side, you know, is going to grow a little bit before it shrinks,
but we are expecting it to ultimately shrink.
And then Haskett and Stockdick, of course, are going to need space.
We could be looking in 27, which is only about five years out,
at about 5,000 kids between those two,
and that's about three and a half junior highs.
And so the district has money for another junior high,
but they don't have money for the half junior high, you know,
So that's going to be the next step there.
So similarly in the southwest, just because I have that data at my fingertips all the time,
we've got about 3,300 eighth graders and about 2,400 first graders.
Now, they're not all going to matriculate exactly and all stay put for those seven years.
That gives you an idea of the breakdown.
We saw something similar in the eastern half of the district as the neighborhoods age out.
That's just how it works.
That's how things go.
And then at the high school level, it's very similar.
Everybody's in really great shape in 2027, except we're looking at Katie and
pay to of course, we're looking about 10,000 students there.
The district has that site.
You can see it in pink there at the top part of the screen that will be the next
high school there.
And we can do some work to relieve those facilities, but they're still going to
need some additional space after that.
And so we've been looking at that and talking about that for, for quite a while
and the kids, they just keep on coming.
So, with that, does anybody have any questions?
Any questions, Board Members?
President, I have some questions.
Thank you for the presentation.
I always think this is so interesting, but I do have a few questions.
One of them is, do we ever ask the parents who transfer their children into the charter
school why they've made that decision to transfer them into charter schools so
that we can know know what the reasonings are for that this act may be
able to give you a better answer on that one I know we've reached out in the past
year to reach out to parents who've taken their kids to charter schools miss
Aggie have a we did a couple years ago we came up with withdrawal codes that
students had indicated when they withdrew that they were withdrawing to either private school
home school or charter school and then especially during um 2021 covet and since then students that
have withdrawn with those codes we have sent out invitations to welcome them back to kdist if they
wish to re-enroll for the next school year so but but we really don't know what their reasonings are
no when they withdraw they'll um indicate where they're going to be enrolling their child most
most of the time. If not, we'll get a request for their records within 10 days, and that
tells us where their children are enrolling.
I think that would be interesting information to know. Also, on the page 16 where it says
50 percent of single family through 2032 in the northwest quadrant of projected new homes,
is that 50 percent of the new homes, or is that going to be 50 percent of all the single
family for all the kids?
It's of the new homes.
okay yeah and then I'm on page 20 that area that's oh it has it's all about the
multifamily yeah I'm sorry mine includes you know stuff from the beginning to the
multifamily right there is our okay is that the area near wolf it's along
highway 6 the big red square that's the shape of the whole entire landing zone
because most of it is the reservoir okay apartment complexes themselves are right along six there
i saw that myself you know it pops up as this big giant oh my gosh but it's mainly empty land
but is that is that that property that we just sold that's near wall oh okay all right
that's all the questions i had thank you for your presentation hear the questions president yes uh
since you have the thanks for the report by the way i appreciate it since you have the data as
as far as enrollment projection by year for the next 10 years,
have we at this point tried to, I mean, we say several junior highs,
numerous elementaries, have we tried to convert that into actual assets
that are needed and spending and so on,
convert it into actual number of junior highs, number of elementary, et cetera?
Yes, and I just didn't get into it in all of this just for time.
What we can do with the data every year,
We've got it broken down by Laney, so we'll sort of puzzle pieces.
And so we have sort of a list sort of up to date that we keep every single time.
We tweak this and tweak that.
Do we think it'll be this year or that year?
And share it back and forth with Lisa Kassman's office.
We, you know, make edits to it all the time.
And then we do roll out a plan.
And every time that the real estate people say, hey, what about this site?
We'll say, well, what if it looked like this?
What if it looked like that?
And we try to make our best guesstimates as about what an attendance zone might be.
It's never exactly the same.
We always make tweaks to it along the way, but we more or less draw circles around it
and roll out a plan for the 10 years, yes.
And is that a plan that we will be looking at?
I'll be giving it to the district.
We haven't created it yet.
It'll be after this in probably January.
Thank you.
Sure.
Any other questions?
Wrong button, Mr. President.
I always love these presentations.
I've loved seeing for lots of years.
I have some random questions.
The students per square mile, when you compare southeast and southwest, 883 per square mile
in southeast, 1194 students in the southwest.
Is that because the lots are smaller and there are more houses?
Is it because there are more students per home?
It's the students per home.
And what I should have included in here, and it's probably, it should be in your report,
is we have the ratios of students per single family home mapped.
And it's in the binder, and it's very interesting for the district.
The most interesting one I've ever seen is Dallas ISD,
where it's so empty and light blue in the middle, and it's red all the way out.
You guys are very similar.
It's very, very heavily oriented to kids right now
because of the age of the homes there in the southwestern portion of the district.
And so that's, you know, talk about it dropping off again.
And so we would expect that to come down a bit.
You know, we just talked about the area, some of the Cross Creek stepping, 2.04 students per house, you know, last month.
Compared to the 0.72 that we're used to seeing.
Right, as an average.
So the two compared, you know, to get there, then you've got some that are 0.3, you know, if they're older and they don't have that.
So when you see the highly populated schools, for example, Campbell, and we've made some minor adjustments now.
but I remember don't you missus van remember when we thought Alexander would
never drop Creech and Exley and all that but Alexander was always just over 1,200
1,300 students and now they're they're just under so it does happen as as that
aged out and we build more so for those Campbell families I promise it's coming
me right when you say thirty six point nine percent of all future housing will
be multifamily almost 37 percent of all the houses built will be multifamily
that's a little that's something to pay attention to right so and for when we
look at some of those can we go back to that one that mrs. champagne was talking
about with the multifamily units and you can see that dark maroon there it is
right and you look at that those top three in that corner up there set by
McElwain is that by Pato there those top three it's gonna be Galbo and the piece
that we just moved to McRoberts there is that where that is okay okay and that
really you know it doesn't surprise me that much that percentage because I
I have a client that is getting closer to build out,
and so you can take 10 acres and put multifamily on it,
but you can't take that and do single family nearly as easily.
So it's every single little piece of land being used like that for multifamily.
Right.
But students from a multifamily housing area, maybe it's only 0.3 students.
It's 0.37 right now.
0.37.
Okay.
A lot of times the new ones might bring more needs or smaller class sizes or some of those things.
When we're talking about educating children, those numbers are different for us.
And, of course, we vary that ratio based on what we know about the apartment complex that's moving in.
A lot of times when it's brand new, it's more expensive.
And so it's not as many kids to start with.
It's on the lower end.
But that changes if you end up with a bunch of three-bedroom units in there.
So it depends on the complex itself.
And as we're talking about those, there was a very interesting thing Dr. Guzman talked about.
There are subdivisions that are developer-owned, might not be the right word, but are rental-only.
Yes.
Full developments, multifamily, single-family houses.
There are three of them?
Yeah, so there's actually four.
I kind of skipped over that for the presentation this evening.
You guys have four active ones right now in KDISD.
One of them is almost completely built out, so the 55 of 56 units are occupied based on our estimates there.
It's a section of Ventana Lakes.
And there's three other ones.
There's one, Peak Road Manors, which is by Highland Homes.
Build to Rent is kind of the term that's being used now for that type of development.
There is an enclave at Mason Creek that's by Wanbridge that is expected to be a much more townhome-style development.
and it's kind of in the middle of some existing office.
So that can help inform the type of market
or the individuals who may be living there as well.
The last one is Katie Legacy by AHB,
and it's very close to Paytel High School.
These are all...
How many units are there?
They're all under 200.
One is 174, 192, and 180.
So the two that are close to the schools,
We tend to project a little bit higher. They they will they're supposed to have three to four bedrooms and because they're close to school
Complexes that's typically an indicator for us that you'll see more students in that housing
So those are projected closer to your single-family ratios
Are you seeing that across the state? Yes. Yes. What do you call it bill to rent bill to rent?
Yes, yes, and you know our master plan community intended for rent only that's very interesting often often
Often it's a section of an existing or a smaller infill type development, so maybe a parcel
that you couldn't necessarily master.
It looks very different, but the student projected, again, is very dependent on the product there.
And the Luce 3A, where is that on that map?
It's up in the top where the manufactured homes will be.
Oh, yes.
let's go back to that maybe that one so um it is between stockton school road just west of katie
hockley between stockton school and clayton okay okay good yeah yes and one of them is already
under development great my last my last comment is for as long as i've been here we've been talking
about build out at 2025 right we were like we're going to get there by 2025 and now we're going to
continue to build and continue to be in the early days that was our that was our target was 2025 and
then it was 2028 and now it's 2032 because people are still coming they're still coming and in the
earliest days when you know so we started this in like 1994 we looked at the northwest and so there
is no way they're going to they're going to develop all of that rice fields no and they're
finding a way and so that's what keeps pushing that on and 2032 now so it's the the rate slows
close to like 1% in the later years. So it's still 1000 kids when you've got 100 and something.
They're still coming to Katie. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. President.
Are there any other questions? Thank you very much. You're welcome. We'll now proceed to
8.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the November 2022 budget amendments
agenda item 8.1, discuss and consider board approval of the November 2022 budget amendments.
The presenter is Mr. Chris Smith, Chief Financial Officer. Good evening.
All right, before you is the November 2022 budget amendments.
The general operating fund expenditures are increased by $40,000 due to a timing amendment.
In ordering up for the pre-K classrooms, we did not receive supplies for one of those classrooms
or supplies and furniture for those classrooms until after August 31st.
And that depletes those campuses' budgets.
And then we have $129,000 increase to the police department for eight more screening devices for large events.
The other amendments are offsets in the general fund and don't affect the bottom line.
Food services has both a revenue and an expenditure amendment the same amount of $1,567,465.
This is for the supply chain grant, which is a grant, a federal grant administered through the Texas Department of Agriculture for food supply chain issues.
The capital projects fund is being amended for the turf replacement at Katie High School.
That was approved by the board in October.
And that's your budget amendments for November.
Do I answer any questions?
Thank you.
Any questions?
Just a quick question on the fund balance.
The $313 million, that was the fund balance that was used in the budget, correct?
Was that the actual fund balance as of August 31 of 22?
Can you tell me where you're seeing that $313 million?
Budgeted fund balance as of September 1, 2022, $313 million.
It's in the package for the budget amendment.
It says budget fund balance as September 1, 2022, $313 million.
Okay, yeah, that's the beginning fund balance.
Yes, sir.
That's what the final amended budget was when you approved the final amended budget in August.
I do think that's going to be higher than that.
We're having our audit now, but I think that's going to increase by $19 million.
million dollars so it's going to be about 13 million dollars more than the
final amended budget so about 326 325 million dollars okay great which is less
operating days of fund balance because our budget has increased because of our
growth but it wasn't increased nonetheless and that's that's a that's a
good thing 313 326 yes sir thank you that's a that's an estimate right now I
I have not seen the financial reports at this point.
I haven't looked at them.
Thanks.
Because they're still being worked on and audited.
Any other questions?
Excuse me.
If not, I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the District's November 2022 budget amendments.
I have a motion by Mrs. Champaign, a second by Mrs. Vann.
I will now proceed to vote.
all those will now proceed to vote board member please record your vote on the
screen yeah I'm used to saying that the motion passes 7-0 thank you 8.2 discuss
8.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the September 2022 Financial Reports
to consider board approval of the September 22 financial reports it's
presented mr. Jamie Hines executive director of finance good evening good
evening president Schulte members of the board superintendent Gorgorzky you have
IN FRONT OF YOU THE FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2022. INCLUDED IS OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE
FIRST THIS FIRST MONTH OF THE FISCAL YEAR AND THOSE INCLUDE AN ANALYSIS OF OUR REVENUES AND
EXPENDITURES BY OBJECT AND BY FUNCTION. ALSO INCLUDED YOU'VE GOT A COPY OF OUR TAX REPORT,
OUR CONSTRUCTION REPORT AND A SUMMARY OF OUR CHECK REGISTERS THROUGH THAT FIRST MONTH.
THESE ARE BEING PRESENTED PRESENTED TO YOU AS THEY ARE EACH MONTH FOR YOUR APPROVAL AND I'LL BE GLAD
to answer any questions board members are there any questions mr president yes um what are the
excess of revenues what is that extra revenues that shows up of uh 8.3 million
it says excess of okay that's just the that's just our interim
the month we had that much uh read the revenue over expenses for that month okay
any other questions thank you mr president yes i move that the board of trustees approves the
district september 2022 financial reports second we have a motion by mr redmond a second by miss
wilson we'll now proceed to vote board members please record your vote on the screen via your
keypad motion passes 7-0 thank you very much 8.3 discuss and consider board approval of the 2022
8.3 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the 2022-2023 Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate and the 2022-2023 Debt Service Tax Rate.
2022-2023 maintenance and operations tax rate and the 2022-2023 debt service tax rate.
Presenters, Mr. Christopher Smith.
All right.
Well, we did this in August, and we're required, based on the events of last week, to do it again.
You have before you an order to levy a maintenance and operations and a debt service tax rate for the KDISD tax year 2022,
which would be the 2022-2023 school year.
In here, it refers to a $1.30.48 total tax rate,
which is comprised of .9148 for maintenance and operations.
That is 4.7 cents less or 4.69 cents less than that was adopted in August
and less than what was on the ballot last week,
and 39 cents for the purpose of payment of principal and interest on taxes.
Again, you have that code in front of you,
It's got the required language on that order about that the state requires that it's effectively raising the rate by 2.91%,
and we'll raise maintenance and for maintenance and raise taxes for maintenance and operations on a 100,000 home by approximately minus $46.90.
That $46.90 equates to $4.69 on the tax rate, $46.90 per $100.
Main adoption of this rate would be a $4.69 less tax rate and total tax rate
and a $21.88 reduction over the last several years.
Thank you.
Are there any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Mr. Smith, you've done this many years, but it's just so incredibly confusing to have language that says things that the tax rate will effectively be raised by 2.91% and will raise taxes for maintenance and operations on $100,000 home by minus $46.90.
And people say that the trust is difficult and the communication is difficult, but it's
difficult because that's what we're given by the state, which is incredibly confusing
and hard for us to understand, hard for our community to understand.
And this is the kind of thing where we're trying really hard to be complete.
We are being very truthful and very transparent.
parent, it's just incredibly difficult to make simple when we're trying to explain things to
other people. So you're right. It's minus $46.90 on an average $100,000 because it's 4.69% decrease
impressed by the state. Is that correct? Yes. And essentially the effective tax rate,
the way that it is defined in truth and taxation means nothing to public school districts,
but that language still prevails and we must follow that.
But the effective tax rate because of student growths or declines,
since state funding is included in the formulas,
are not included, not considered when doing truth in taxation calculations.
It's silly, and in the spirit of 100% transparency,
it confuses the heck out of me too.
Right.
And I spend days and my staff spend days on it and it's confusing because there's a disconnect that just doesn't seem to be recognized through truth and taxation.
Right. And Mr. President, the ballot language, when you got to the voting booth and the ballot language says it's going to increase taxes by 14.7% and generate $65 million of taxes was very confusing because even though the TRE did not pass, it's raising $43, $42, $41 million of increased taxes.
that goes to the state and the district gets zero,
but the state does benefit $40-something million.
Is that correct?
That is absolutely correct.
Even though the $41 million does not help us at all,
it helps the state,
and that's why the state has almost $4 billion
that it set aside to spend on public education
that it's not going to spend
because of value increases across the state
and lower average daily attendance.
Right, and that's generated from our values going up.
Yes.
Even though they're compressing the tax rate.
But those extra dollars and extra value do not benefit KDISD.
They do not.
Correct.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. Schulte, our president, Mr. President, I'm sorry.
First of all, thank you very much for trying to explain this to us the best that you can.
And I just wanted to say that I don't really have a question for you, but I am missing your 50-page
presentation
Yeah, I'll be glad to go up up there and do it if you'd like but really thank you for all of your work
Any of the questions not on entertain a motion mr. President
Yes, I move the Board of Trustees approve the property tax rate be decreased by the adoption of a tax rate of $1 30 cents 30
304.8 cents, which is effectively a 7.9% decrease in the tax rate, and further recommended the
Board approve the order adopting the maintenance and operation tax rate of 0.9148 cents per
$100 valuation and the interest and sinking tax rate of 0.3900 cents per $100 valuation
for the tax year 2022, as reflected in the order for a decrease in the actual total tax rate
of 0.0469 cents.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Ms. Wilson.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote via the keypad.
The motion carries 7-0.
8.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the annual course additions.
We'll now move to agenda item 8.4,
discuss and consider board approval of the annual course additions.
The presenter is Dr. Sine Bell,
Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, Board members, Dr. Gagorski.
I'm here to present our new courses. Each year the Division of Teaching and Learning
facilitates the process of course review, including soliciting input from Central and
Campus staff regarding course additions, deletions for the upcoming school year. As requests
are received, the Division assesses each request considering the following criteria. Content
of the course, availability of the curriculum, highly qualified staff, student interest alignment
to the TEKS, technology and facility needs, impact on other programs, sustainability of the course over time, and relevance to the district's strategic plan.
We also continue to take into account the state's expectations on the development of programs of study for career and technical education.
Teachers and administrators have the opportunity to recommend new courses for review.
In addition to gathering input from campus staff on course additions and deletions,
input from district-level staff who support the implementation of courses was also taken into the account before finalizing this recommendation.
Based on input from multiple stakeholders, the administration is recommending 27 new courses.
Six of those courses are coming from the
Secondary Curriculum and Instruction Department, one Fine Arts course, 20 Career Technical
Education courses, and those courses are, seven of those 20 will be at home campuses,
seven will be at the Miller Career Center, and six will be at Raines Academy.
I also want to note that four of the four new CTE courses are dual credit courses.
The complete list of proposed new courses is included in your board packet.
and just to kind of highlight a few of the new notable courses. We have two new AP courses,
African American Studies and AP Pre-Calculus. Those are just as with all of our other AP courses,
students will have the opportunity to take the corresponding AP exams to earn college credit.
Personal Financial Literacy and Economics is a new course required to be in compliance with
Senate Bill 1063, which requires districts to add a half credit course in
personal financial literacy and economics. It's as an option to meet the
one-half credit graduation requirements. So this is a new required course. The
notable CTE courses that I want to highlight are the Automotive
Technology I dual credit and Automotive Basics dual credit. These courses are a
result of a new partnership with Texas State Technical College. The CTE dual
dual credit course additions are in alignment with our district strategic plan specific
result 1.2, which focuses on expanding CTE and dual credit opportunities for students.
The addition of these courses gives students additional opportunities to be college, career,
military ready before graduating high school.
As you can see, there are a number of new exciting courses.
This is always my favorite time of the year, and I'll be happy to answer any questions
that you have at this time.
Mr. President.
Are there any questions?
Yes.
I have two quick questions. On the medical assistant, medical terminology, that's a dual credit and it's on campuses. It's not. Is that a prerequisite or does it go in line with any of the courses at Miller as far as like the rounds for the, you know, for pre-nursing and pre-med? Or is it simply a standalone dual credit class?
So it is aligned in that pathway.
And one of the things that we're trying to do is not all of our students are able to attend Miller.
So if we can give them some options to complete that pathway or some of those courses at their home campus, that's what we want to do.
Some students prefer to stay at their home campus.
So we want to make sure that we offer multiple opportunities so that if that's something that they're interested in or if they're interested in the medical field but not able to go to Miller, that they have exposure to those courses that will prepare them for future study.
I had a student who was too involved on campus to go to Miller and would have loved to have the opportunity
in that course. My second question is the principles for arts, audio, video, technology, and communications.
It's kind of near to dear me. It's from my degree from college and what I did when I was actually paid to work.
So I think it's really exciting. I know some of our high school campuses, and this might not be a question for you as much as
maybe for you Dr. G or Mr. Veerling,
some of the campuses have better setups with green screens and cameras and
technology and audio video there might not be quite the equity campus to campus
as far as what that classroom looks like at Miller it's we all know it's
phenomenal but I had the privilege of seeing Katy high schools audio video
set up and it was better than what I had in college I mean I was just in college
just a couple years ago.
But it was an amazing setup.
I was very envious, and I thought it was just an awesome opportunity,
and I'm glad to see this as well as the medical,
something that's on campus for kids who can't get away to Miller.
But I don't know, campus to campus,
what the equity of the classroom for this course looks like.
I am familiar with the program,
and I've seen a few of the rooms in some of our high schools,
But I'm not sure all nine high schools if they're exactly the same in that technology or what they do for that
I don't know if miss hack or mr.
Billing you're familiar and if not I can certainly get something for the board at a later date on that
But I don't I don't know about how each one looks I
Would say they're they're not all the same
But we do pick those up during renovations and things like that
Make Creek got a big one Katie high that one you saw is part of their CT Center
So yeah, we do pick those up as part of renovations
But if those projects, if they were to get picked up in a future bond, we could certainly do those as part of that as well.
It just kind of depends on the needs of the course and what we're asked to do.
Okay.
I'm just glad that there's some good campus to campus.
And KDRIC always does a great job with trying to get equitable facilities, you know, across the board.
So just something I wanted to throw out there.
That's all I have.
Mr. President?
Yes.
Can I ask a quick question?
I noticed the science to dual credit what exactly is entailing in that because I love seeing more dual credit options for
Our kiddos not just AP offerings which which one are you?
On here for the career in tech education. It had science to dual credit being offered at our local campuses
Computer science, oh is that it's just a run-on from okay computer science computer science, then I'm good. Thank you sure
Sure.
Dr. Bell?
Or Mr. President.
Dr. Bell, thank you for the presentation.
I have a couple of questions.
First of all, I've looked in the course catalogs
with my kids in high school.
And there's lots and lots of courses that are offered.
But I know that there's some kind of minimum requirement.
A certain minimum number of students
would have to sign up for the class to have the classes.
Isn't that correct?
I don't know what the number is, but there's lots of courses offered, but they're not all given.
They don't all make.
Right.
So do you know what the numbers are to meet those classes?
It really depends, but we're working through, I don't know, Deputy Hack, if you want to speak to that,
we're working through some things to help with that.
One thing that we've really learned, especially since COVID and going online immediately,
We learned a lot of ways of how we could work together as campuses and share courses and
make sure that they are able to be offered at all campuses.
So we've really worked along those lines to make sure that some of these courses that
inherently haven't made at certain campuses, because maybe they only had five, eight, 10
students.
When we go into course selection this spring, we've been in conversations with the principals
and of course the assistant superintendents for secondary education and Dr. Caskey's team
on how we're going to ensure that these courses are accessible to our students across all nine high schools.
And we're excited about it.
I'm excited, too.
I guess there's some amount of advertising that you have to do, promoting, to let people know about the new courses.
I think the big thing is we've gone to an online course catalog, School Links,
where it will list all the courses that KDISD offers and all students will see
all courses that we offered and maybe it's not a specific course selection
that offers just the courses that for this high school it's different from
another it's one course catalog all courses are visible to all students okay
and then also I wanted to specifically talk about the practicum and
transportation systems I was actually talked to mr. beerling I ever heard him
talk about this I think that this might be the one where we're gonna train our
students to be bus drivers we're gonna train our own our trainer own I guess is
what you would call it is that what this is about yes that's correct so students
that participate in this course will receive the coursework and the training
to prepare them to earn their CDL certificate.
So they can graduate from high school and immediately start driving a bus?
Once they obtain their certificate.
Wow, that's awesome.
Okay.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, Dr. Bell, I can barely see you.
I know.
I'm like peeking over the thing here.
This is my favorite night, too.
I love course selections and additions.
permissions. So do you want me to stop and get permission every time or you want me to run
through these? You can just run through your list. Okay. So the ones at the top and you're not seeing
it the way we are like Mrs. No, but I'll pull my list out. Mrs. Wilson didn't, you can't see that
that wrapped around and I said the same thing about the science too. The lead word that, no,
sorry, peer assistance and leadership. Is that PALS for middle school? Yes, it is. To go to
elementary I love that yes for eighth grade students okay and personal
financial literacy and economics I think that you said that's a required course
for everyone it is a required it's a requirement that we add that to our
course catalog it's an option so students could take either the economics
to fulfill the requirement or the personal financial literacy and
economics which is required by the state here recently as a result of Senate Bill 1036
That's so much for our students when they leave to know what it looks like to have a credit card, what it looks like to balance all of those things.
I love that.
And you said that's SB 1063?
Yes.
That's what I wrote down.
Thank you.
Okay.
So hold on.
Let me look right here.
The pharmacy, no, the dental assisting one and two, how is that working at our
Reins? It's at Reins. It's at Miller. It's at Miller. Are our technologies getting out of date?
I know those things change so much every time I go to the dentist. They have some newfangled
something that they're using. Do we have what we need there to stay? Are they able to get
certificates when they finish the dental assisting? Yes. So all of the equipment and things that we
have in our program at Miller, those things are all current. We're updating some of our practicum
courses because the curriculum that we use, the certifications that we're going after,
a little bit more robust than the previous course codes that we were using. So these will be new
course codes that are more in alignment with our curriculum and the technologies and things
that we currently use with our students.
Are these courses full with waiting lists or do they have enough?
I know I've been to that.
We have three or four chairs and are we still doing opportunities for them to work on real
clients?
Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
Is that full?
I asked too many questions.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
That's good.
And I really appreciate these new additions, the general employability skills for the REINS and project-based research, how important that is.
You know, when you go into the work world, these are preparing children, the CCMR, college, career, military ready, right?
I love the career ready things.
Student to industry connection, is that a partnership as well?
Yes, that will be a partnership, and that's for our REINS students as well.
So I really feel good about 1.2 and all of the things that we're adding to ensure that our students have multiple pathways
They can pick what works works best for them. So it's been a great collaboration with a lot of different
People to ensure that we're meeting all the needs of our students and these are for next year beginning next year
Yes, 23 24 so I can't pass this moment by without asking how the trades things coming. Where is that?
Is that ready for this coming year?
Dr. Giannacchio.
If you're talking about construction trades, that's up and running now with the first course.
Already up and running?
Yes.
I don't know.
Ms. Hack, do you know how many kids are in that course?
Okay, and that's in the renovated, where they used to do.
It's an amazing space, it is.
And so they're in year one of that course.
I'd love to visit that one whenever someone's going.
I'd like to invite myself, Dr. G.
Sorry, I would like to invite myself to a tour of that whenever you get.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
These are excellent additions, and I'm excited for our students for more opportunities.
And like Mrs. Champagne said, we have a lot of opportunities,
and when we meet students with the things they really care about,
they're excited to come to school.
So I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Agreed.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. President.
Yes.
I wanted to ask you about the lead worthy character education.
Is that the first time we've had the character education in high schools?
No, we currently have lead worthy in our high schools and in our junior high.
So this course will be for sixth grade students.
The current course that we have right now is seventh and eighth grade students, but
this lead worthy course is an option for sixth grade students.
It's not new to KDISD.
So is it an elective?
It's an elective.
Or they're all gonna get it?
It's an elective.
Okay.
And so it's not required?
It's not?
No.
Okay.
No, it's just elective credit.
Thank you.
Sure.
Any other questions?
One more follow-up.
So the Leadworthy and the PALS, are the only two added here that are junior highs?
Yes.
Okay.
PALS is high school credit.
Is it a high school credit?
No, it's not for junior high students.
It's just an elective local credit. Yes something to put on the resume
It's something not to go to the hours, right like some of the other courses you can take in seventh and eighth grade
Just trying to offer multiple. No, I think it's a little like this. I think it's great and sometimes one of my three
kiddos were in pals and sometimes
The student the older student who's a pal gets just as much or mm-hmm sometimes absolutely more and
And it's a great two-way street of mentoring and sharing.
And so I love that it's in eighth grade.
That was just a question I thought, you know, because there are some eighth grade classes that are available in high school that you can take in seventh and eighth grade that you get a high school credit for.
So that was just my question.
Thank you.
No problem.
Mr. President, so I just had a general question.
When you offer a character education class, a social and emotional type package, what do we do less of?
What does that take the place of?
So students have the opportunity to choose a certain number of electives.
Eighth graders get two electives.
And so they have the option to choose what those two electives are.
And so we just have multiple electives for them to choose from.
So it doesn't take the place of anything, it just is a choice that they make.
That's the elective that they wanna take.
Like if they wanted to be in band, or if they wanted to take art,
they chose that elective.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
I move that the Board of Trustees
approve the annual course additions.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Wilson,
second by Ms. Fox.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote
on the screen via your keypad.
Ms. Champagne?
sorry the motion passes 7-0 thank you dr bell uh we'll now move into agenda item 8.5 which is a
8.5 Discuss and consider Board authorization for the superintendent to form a naming advisory committee for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary School #45 per Board Policy CW(LOCAL).
naming committee for elementary school number 45 per board policy cw local the board can take
action to authorize the superintendent to form a committee for the purpose of proposing a school
or facility name we need to begin the process of naming elementary school 45 and elementary
Elementary School 46, both that will be open in August of 2023.
Board members Ms. Champagne and I are on the Naming Committee for Elementary School number 45.
Board members, are there any questions?
If not, I'll entertain a motion for this item.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the Superintendent to form a Naming Advisory Committee
for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary number 45.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman and a second by Mrs. Vann.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members record your vote via your keypad.
The motion carries 7-0.
8.6, naming committee for school number 46.
8.6 Discuss and consider Board authorization for the superintendent to form a naming advisory committee for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary School #46 per Board Policy CW(LOCAL).
Board members on this naming committee are Mr. Redman and Mrs. Vann.
If there's no questions, I'll entertain a motion for the naming committee for school number 46.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to form a naming advisory committee
for the purpose of proposing a name for elementary school number 46 second we
have a motion by Miss Wilson a second mr. Redmond will now proceed to vote
board members please record your vote motion passes 7-0 agenda item 8.7
8.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of the design associated with the renovations to Hutsell Elementary School.
discuss and consider board approval design associated with the renovations
of Hutzel elementary the presenters are miss Lisa Casman executive director of
facilities planning instruction mr. Paul vs San Tech Inc Inc and dr. Margie blunt
principal Hudson Elementary School welcome exciting stuff good evening
president Schulte trustees and dr. Gagorski I have two design developments
present this evening the first item is gonna be for Hudson Elementary with me
hat is principal Blount Trey Barnett is the project manager in the audience
Tommy Bertram with Stuart builders and peruvius and Matt Davis from Stan tech I
want now ask principal Blount to share some comments and then I'll turn it over
to stantec good evening everyone um on behalf of hudsell elementary we are excited to be working
with the design team hudsell was built in 1978 and of course we still have pieces of 1978 at hudson
and while those things are there there were things that we still love about hudsell and
and things that we wanted to keep and maintain that history,
as well as bring some modernization to our campus.
And I commend Trey and the design team
in helping us to achieve those ideas.
The campus staff, everyone had an opportunity
to give input and share ideas and come up
with some great designs and bring some modernization to our campus while keeping
the things that we love about our retro campus thank you
okay good evening uh superintendent dr grigoski president mr schulte and board members i'm happy
to be here to present our design development progress on hudson elementary school renovation
So again, like Lisa Kessman mentioned, we couldn't have been here without the whole
team effort, Hutsal team and facilities and everybody from the school district cabinet
side.
Our bond scope recommended for this project was interior renovations and bringing up to
code and accessibility standards as per today's code, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and sprinkler
updates as well as making sure that this elementary, when we are done with the renovation, meets
the prototype of the new elementary schools in KDISD like we recently talked about earlier
today about parity between campuses.
So, Hutzell opened in 78, very diverse group of students and programs, especially has a
lot of programs at the campus.
And there have been several additions done to the original campus since over the years.
And when we started investigating, we have what I'm going to present today is the analysis
of existing floor plans and what we came up as a proposed solution to the design to bring
it up to code and the current prototype kt standards in terms of project schedule we are
finishing up design development today after the board presentation we will move into
construction documentation our goal is to bring the gmp construction amount to the board of
trustees in march of 23 currently is the plan start construction over summer and it's a two
to summer renovation project.
When we analyzed the program, we kind of looked at,
discussed with the campus leadership
on what programs they have right now,
what their needs are over the years,
and how many classrooms per grade will they need.
Then we started looking at the existing conditions.
We will start at the site.
The existing entry we reviewed with the campus
was not central.
It is off to the side along a long hallway and the positioning of the entry vestibule
with the admin is also not very effective.
One of the items that we discussed was that it would be good if you have more stacking
space in the front covered canopy for parent-student drop off.
Here is a slide that kind of shows kind of the three additions.
The yellow shows the original 78 campus, and then there have been two additions over the years to the campus.
This plan just kind of shows how everything is laid out as existing.
Administration, as you see, is kind of in the middle, off to the side by the gym and cafe,
and doesn't have direct visibility to the outside or the main entry as visitors come through.
Here, again, this is another image.
There's a picture of the main entry vestibule, the check-in, all of that is kind of a pretty tight area right now.
Long hallways and no visibility of the classroom areas.
Here is that long hallway.
You can see in the picture very low ceilings, and it goes on for miles.
And you don't see anything on either side.
Because of all the way the additions occurred, it just kind of has created that long hallway.
Some of the other areas we analyzed and looked at and discussed with the campus was the flex areas. They're pretty large, but because of storage conditions on the campus, it's filled with books and storage, so there's hardly any space for actual collaboration to happen.
And we were looking at these spaces from other campuses. They have teacher planning spaces in these areas as well, so we started thinking about that as we were analyzing these spaces.
The library, it's central but it's open so there was not, our goal was to, our scope
on this was to enclose it so it's not open and then kind of try to create some higher
ceiling space and some classroom and more organized space in that library to allow for
more collaboration.
Here's a view of the special ed wing.
This was one of the additions that occurred over the years and this was one of the areas
that me and my team looked at it and we said,
oh, we have to rework this because some of these classrooms
were not really working out, very small spaces,
winding corridors.
So we kind of looked at that like,
okay, let's look at this and rework these areas completely.
So we'll go into the proposed renovations.
First, we will look in the overall plan.
One of the biggest things we did
was centrally located the administration
and readjusted, reallocated the pre-K and kinder classrooms.
So the administration now is a central location and has an identity and opens up to the classroom corridors when you go through the doors.
And then the special ed areas.
These two areas were where we had more moving of walls and more renovation.
Here, if you look at the entry vestibule closely again, secure vestibule, entry vestibule, reception, all of that meets the new KDISD prototype standards.
standards, workroom areas.
The current admin lacked workrooms, storage, staff
restrooms, lounge.
And so we kind of recreated the space
to meet the latest KDISD standards.
Special ed, we worked with the campus leadership
again to make sure they had enough space for all
their special ed programs in a more effective way.
And they had their own restrooms, a staff restroom,
and a centrally located motor lab.
And life skills was a new renovated space that we created for them in this area.
This is a typical classroom pod, and this remains the same throughout.
If you remember in the beginning, we showed a slide where there was a flex area with a lot of storage.
So what we did over here is we took some of that space out, created a teacher planning room.
That's kind of in a tan color over here.
Created an enclosed storage room.
and the activity center, even though it's small, it's more effective, the flex area.
And we completely redid the restrooms to meet code,
and they are more centrally located and easy to monitor.
And when the kids go in, the teacher can stand outside and monitor both the doors at the same time,
which was not happening currently at the current layout.
And then we added a staff toilet to each part because they don't have that right now.
and a custodial.
So all of these spaces, all the pods are the same,
and no classroom space has been taken,
but it's kind of taking the existing flex
and kind of reorganizing it to create more usable space.
And this is a view of the library enclosed.
More flexible layout.
There's a classroom and more cafe, soft seating,
and book stacks and a centralized circulation desk
that allows visibility of the library space.
And we also did update the music rooms.
There was two music rooms, but they're very tight.
They did not have a storage, so they kind of moved
into the location where the current existing admin was,
and they get a bigger space, and it meets
the existing new KDISD prototype standards.
And now it's closer to the stage and the platform.
And I'll just quickly show you some interior renderings
of the space interior and exterior.
This is the view of the new entry.
It kind of has a new feel for the project and identity
for the school and kind of drives the visitor straight
into the center of the campus.
campus.
View of the entry vestibule, very clean and colors using the school colors in the lights
and in the paint.
View of the hallway, looking at the library, trying to create a little moments of color
to identify the way finding and location of these spaces.
You have the interior of the library, circulation desk.
Here's a view of the classroom pod entry.
So in terms of wayfinding, we discussed with the campus
which between blue and yellow, each pod has an identity
and this is kind of just a very small flex area
where kids can hang out, but it kind of drives them
into their pod and they can figure that out
in terms of wayfinding.
Here's a view, this is a view of the teacher planning,
the central flex area teacher planning and the flex area
and behind where the girls pointing the finger are the entrance to the restroom doors.
And it's very easy, very easy to monitor the restrooms
and easy to hold a small group lesson in the flex area if they wanted to.
Here's another view where the two flex areas are friending each other.
And that is it.
Any questions?
Are there any questions?
Mr. President.
Yes, Mr. President.
Yes.
Thank you, Varel. It's nice to see you. But I have a question about the library.
So I see that there's a library workroom, but would this also be where the librarian would have her office?
Yes.
And that's also the storage area?
So the library, yes. So they have a small storage off to the side on the workroom,
but the workroom and the office storage is all the same so they have a lot more casework
to store their items and then the circulation desk will have storage underneath as well okay
this is some libraries i see that um there's a room where it's like the office with like the
librarians will be in there and then there's another room next to it where there's the storage
it's almost two different yeah it's two different rooms actually yeah it's a different room the
The other room that's off to the library workroom is an MDF room, but there all the technology
is and in terms of budget and trying to move it, it was not financially viable.
Trying to keep the guts of the building where MDFs and mechanicals are where they are and work around it to maximize space
Okay, thank you
Any other questions
Thank you very much
What how much reflects areas used we've renovated a few campuses now
Maybe in schools that have been renovated like this might be for mrs.
Ms. Kastman, what other schools have been renovated that look similar to this?
We did Galbo and Pattison, Fielder, so we've been trying to incorporate that space.
Is this a good new redesign?
Is it being used as much as they thought it would?
I mean, it looks very pretty on pictures, but-
What we're gathering, it is something important for the campuses to have that space.
It's kind of like the fifth corner that I've talked about in the past.
You can put kids in four different places.
This gives you like the fifth corner to bring a group in.
So it varies campus per campus, program per program.
Do principals have an opportunity
to speak with principals who have renovated, like Galbo
and how to say?
and see if other principals
could look at the different areas.
And ask what was important to them
and what did they like best about those.
And you feel like you got that.
that. And can I see the entryway, the external view of the front of the school? Do you have
the before picture before no i don't have that with the yellow canopy it has a yellow canopy yes
that's right
do you you this feels like it's in keeping with the neighborhoods and things like that it feels
a little simple for me but i just if you're happy with that that's good it's just i want to make
sure that we ask all the questions before we get very far or we go home tonight and people are like
did you see so i just it looks a little plain
And also, like campuses like Galbo and Patterson, we did not do a lot to make them maybe what
you're looking for.
We kind of kept it simple.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm excited for you.
This is a good thing.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Any other questions?
Just to piggyback on what Ms. Fox said, I had the pleasure of touring the campus with Dr. Blount and Ms. Smith at the beginning of the school year.
And seeing the passion, and they talked about all the things they want to keep and the things that are unique and one thing that a takeaway.
And they do amazing using the space they have, and I know they're excited for the changes.
was the importance of the flex space.
That was something they have now,
but it's like she said,
it's hard to utilize based on storage.
But for science labs and small groups and pull-outs,
and they have all their books in there.
And so the flex space to me and my takeaway
from visiting with y'all,
among many other things that y'all pointed out on my visit,
was that it was very important in the redesign for y'all.
So I just wanted to share that.
and it's something else oh staff toilets yeah that deserved a clap I mean we all
know especially when when you've got littles to get away when you know nature
calls and you've got to go to the front of the you know front where the main
office is and and leave your class or not leave your class and you know go
without so I thought a little clap for Miss Smith but I thought the addition of
that was very well thought out and very um thinking of our staff so thank you mr president
one tag on there the the children's restroom where the hand washing is there where it's just a little
bit visible so you can see so our littlest ones don't like love to have a soap party right
sometimes when you can't see what's happening in there i loved that and then the privacy that they
had the design of that like very very useful in places where you all know that
children love to you know sometimes the soap any other questions my I don't have
any comments or questions on the design I would presume to do that but my
question is more in process because you have the contractor in place but we
don't have the cost which is being developed based on the design so how do
you'd settle on the contractor without really getting a good strong idea of what the cost is
going to be so we hired the contractor in the construction management risk process where the
contractor is hired based on fee and then he works with us through all the design we do updated
estimates and he has paid a fee on the final construction cost okay so it but somebody else
is going to do the actual construction work no they will do the construction work they will do
as well yeah so they help us with phasing constructability uh better methods to do things
um all of the above to get the good end product okay they kind of buy in at the end you don't
know i'm sorry go ahead so they everyone's got buying from the beginning as a whole team
okay got it okay thank you okay mr president i'm sorry i have thought one more thing did you had uh
Did you have teacher input?
Did you have community input?
Did you have students?
Let them look at things.
Teachers love being a part of that, right, and building what they know they need because
of need.
I love that.
Okay.
Just a...
Great. Awesome. Thank you.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the design associated with the renovations
to Hudson Elementary School as depicted in the design presentation
prepared by Stancec Incorporated dated November 14th, 2022.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Mrs. Vann.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote.
The motion is passed at 7-0.
Congratulations.
Now the fun begins.
8.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of the design associated with the addition and renovations to McDonald Junior High School.
Agenda item 8.8, discuss and consider board approval of the design associated with additional renovations to McDonald Junior High.
Hi.
All right.
So this is our-
The presenters tonight are Ms. Lisa Kastman, Mr. Derek Bankston with the IBI Group, and
Ms. Carrie Caruso, Principal.
Good evening.
Hi.
Good evening.
So once again, same format as before.
Principal Caruso will say some words.
I also want to introduce Ryan Wojtyla as the project manager.
And then Derek Bankston from IBI will make the presentation after we hear from Ms. Caruso.
Good evening, everyone.
Thank you for allowing me this time to come before you guys and let you know that this renovation means a lot to our community.
Our building is a little over 30 years old.
And about a third of my students are out in portables.
And some of you guys have actually toured the building.
So you kind of know that we do a little bit of a facelift and an up look so that it's fresh and new.
and from a principal standpoint that helps me recruit and retain teachers and
It makes our students really proud when we have events on our campus as well
That they have a nice new building just like some of the newest ones that have been
Some of my members of my leadership team came tonight
Just so they because they are super excited as well and wanted to express their thanks for the consideration
for tonight's
Renovation presentation
EVENING.
WE'RE EXCITED TO BE BACK OUT AT MCDONALD JUNIOR HIGH.
WE'VE DONE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PAST.
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING OUT THERE IN THE FUTURE.
FIRST OFF, I.V.I.
WAS THE GROUP THAT DID THE C.T.
RENOVATIONS AT THE FIVE CAMPUSES FROM THE PREVIOUS BOND.
SO VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE CAMPUS.
FIRST OFF, THANK YOU.
FIRST OFF, WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR ALLOWING US
to continue to improve KDISD's campuses and facilities.
This is a construction management at risk project.
We have Dremala Construction on board.
As previously selected by the district,
they've been integral in the design process.
Moving into the site design,
our main task on this is to replace the portable buildings.
There are five currently on the campus,
And we looked at numerous locations for the addition versus detached versus attached.
And the location in orange was the final selected location to create a detached addition.
And then at a later date, once that addition is completed, the portables will be removed at that point.
And then any impacted athletic facilities will be reallocated.
And looking at a 3D view, you'll see the existing campus more in a gray highlight with the detached
addition and you'll see the sloped roofs causing us to detach that addition.
And then architecture on the outside, we tie in the existing brick pattern and blend in
with the neighborhood and primarily we did not want to detract from the main entry to
the existing building with the addition since it is along the same street front.
Then moving inside the building, the other significant portion of this bond is to replace
all the mechanical, electrical and plumbing in the building.
All the locations in yellow and the red dashed areas are the mechanical rooms and mezzanines.
So we'll be replacing things like air handlers, boilers, electrical transformers and things
like that. Throughout the facility we will be adding a fire sprinkler. We'll be
doing a fire, I was going to say replacement, it actually does not
currently have fire sprinklers except in the CTE edition. And we will also be
improving, replacing all lighting and bringing it up with LED lighting which
will definitely help brighten up the campus on the inside in addition to the
the cost savings.
Architecturally, we are coming back at this point
to replace the remaining VCT flooring and other flooring
in the campus that was not previously replaced.
In addition, we're going to be removing all the plumbing
fixtures from the student restrooms and faculty restrooms
that had not been renovated since it was originally
constructed.
Those are all located in green, and that
That will allow us to bring in some modern, fresh tile patterns and whatnot and really
give new life to the campus.
Also in orange you'll see the campus or the kitchen will be completely, all the interior
walls will be taken down and we'll redo the entire kitchen with new equipment, new serving
and modern finishes and modern serving front.
front.
Diving into the addition, you'll see the detached addition is attached to one of the primary
corridors on the campus.
It is approximately 16,800 square feet.
Those five portable buildings are 10 classrooms currently, and we're taking the opportunity
the opportunity to put in six normal classrooms and then four science
classrooms with associated prep rooms and chemical storage and when looking at
the plan in greater detail you'll see the science and the classrooms on a
double-loaded corridor we added additional student restrooms and then
the footprint of this design allowed us to add some faculty restroom I hear
that's sometimes popular.
Workroom and some storage.
But those areas we're really going
to work with the campus to come to a final design of what
is best use case for the campus.
More visual people in the room can
see what the science room and all its equipment
will look like.
Typical classroom.
Moving into the fun stuff, we have a primary photos
is the corridor of the new addition
with a typical classroom on the lower right.
We're taking that same ceiling design into the science
classroom just to help distinguish the science
classroom a bit more.
And then we're tying that same design back
into the existing campus with a collaborative space.
And you're seeing kind of the color theme throughout
as the school color for the McDonald Panthers.
Schedule, we're wrapping up design.
We're moving into construction documents,
and we will issue that package at the end of January
and following awards shortly after.
And we plan to start construction May 1st
and end summer of 2024.
I'll open it up to questions.
Thank you. Any questions, board members?
President Schulte?
Yes.
I have some questions.
First of all, thank you for the presentation.
I'm so happy for Ms. Caruso and the whole community there.
But I'm just wondering, sorry I didn't pay attention
to the enrollment numbers that were presented earlier,
but is McDonald's, is it over?
I mean, are we needing new classrooms for the students?
Is this replacement of portable buildings?
I see this as really like a science wing,
which I think is great.
Yeah, it's a combination of replacing classrooms that are in the portables,
and there's also not proper science classrooms throughout that building.
So this will give an opportunity to have the correct science classrooms in this edition.
Okay.
So then will this eliminate the portables?
Yes.
Okay, great.
And I just have one question because my father was a scientist,
and he actually was responsible for having the science building built at Dickinson High School back in the 90s.
so i have a great love for science and um and all that you know the students need that and all that
but i did i did notice that there was exterior doors um in the in that building and i'm just
you know i mean there are a lot of exterior doors already in high schools that we all have to be
concerned about but um i'm just wondering who's going to be using those exterior doors and
Will they be monitored and you know and what really I guess really the bottom line is what's the need for those exterior doors?
It's primarily a code issue and there it can go a little bit more
But after so many feet you need to provide the egress and all for the fire. Yes, right
It's a it's a fire code thing. You've got to be able to get out of that building. Otherwise, yeah
Well the alarms go off or whatever. We'll have yes, ma'am
We'll have all the same setup that we do now
We'll have the door alarms and all that kind of stuff that we do on all of our exterior doors
but the children and teachers should not be
Customarily using those doors no those would I mean that's really up to the campus how they how they use them
But if I were the principal there and Carrie probably tell you the same
Those are probably not doors that people are going in and out of all the time those are strictly for egress and fire escape
But that's my only concern about that. I understand that we have fire codes and things
All right, thank you for your presentation very much.
Any other questions?
I have just a couple quick ones.
So this addition is almost like a permanent fixture to the building instead of like those
long plank kind of things that connect portable buildings.
That's what it looks like with that entryway right there.
Is that directly into the school?
Correct, yes.
Okay.
And it's similar, we did the weight rooms and music rooms at those campuses.
We just kind of added on to a corridor.
Great.
Okay, and like Mrs. Vann, I toured the school with Principal Caruso, and it was incredible.
We saw almost all the science rooms, and there were incredible things happening in all those science rooms.
I know they're going to love this.
So I'm going to ask the question the teachers will ask.
Well, first let me ask, how far away is this from the teacher lounge?
Like far, right?
Can there be like a little microwave and a mini fridge in there so they could like just
eat lunch without having to go all the way and use most of their 24 minutes getting to
the microwave and standing in the line?
We can work with the campus on that.
We'll work on that, Ms. Verling, I bet.
Okay.
That's all.
In that workroom right there.
You're welcome.
I do have one other question.
Is there, you know, I know that there's a law about this for women, you know, that are
breastfeeding mothers and all this.
Is there a room like that for women to use in any of these newly renovated buildings?
Because there, you know, I'm just wondering, because I know that like in Jordan High School
there's a room.
We'll work with campus on finding a space for that.
That typically would come down the line, but we can definitely visit on that.
Okay.
Because I know that, you know, I hear from female teachers that they have a hard time
sometimes, not particularly in this school, but just in general, you know, finding a place
to do that.
And we want our teachers to return after having babies, and, you know, I just think it's important
to provide that.
Ms. Champagne, do you mean a private space other than a bathroom?
Yes.
Okay.
And that's written down somewhere, I think I read.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I know this is Denita from McDonald.
My wife, very young, but she was one of the first, fifth grade class actually went there.
some years ago but i moved to the board of trustees approves the design associated with
renovations to mcdonald junior high school as depicted in the design presentation prepared by
ibi group dated november 14 2022. second we have a motion by mr redmond a second by ms fox when i'll
proceed to vote board members record your vote you need a keypad another seven zero congratulations
Thank you very much.
9.1 Review and discuss the 2022-2023 Katy ISD Legislative Priorities.
We're now proceed to add in item 9.1 discuss the 2022-2023 KDISD legislative priorities.
The presenters, Mr. Lance Redmond, Board Vice President.
Well, thank you very much. Tonight I wanted to start out sharing my email because I needed one number for tonight.
tonight. There we go. I wanted to start out tonight just thanking everybody who participated
in our listening circles board. We had over, we had 445 people in the community apply or
indicate interest to be a part of our listening circles. We invited 330 people.
Some of those nights, there were Astros games on some of those nights, so they didn't necessarily
always show up but we did invite a good amount of people to be a part of that we
had students parents grandparents teachers staff business owners
principals longtime residents even new move-ins and residents from all areas of
the district every single one of you up here on the board participated in at
least one and I know would have would have done more if we had the opportunity
most of the administration in this room sitting around the building participate
in that, whether it was with teachers, with students, whether you were a note-taker.
And so for our public's education, every event was around roundtables where our participants
had the opportunity to share what they, the good, the bad of their experience with Katy
Icete and what the state of Texas could do to make that better.
And so I love that our communities seem to be aligned and desired what's to do best for
our almost 93 000 students it gave me hope that we had people from all sides of the aisle in the
middle of the aisle on the left on the right and uh we could come to consensus on what was best for
kids and so um giving you up to speed where we're at this past week our legislative subcommittee met
and processed through everything we heard during the listening circles uh while there were many
topics discussed uh we felt there were four main state level issues uh to bring forward we don't
have all of that finished. We wanted to bring it to you as soon as we could, uh, let you know,
we're still working on this, but these were the four things that were super clear throughout
the seven different listening circles with all kinds of people from around the community.
And so the first one was the school finance surprise. Um, this, so many issues came back to,
well, I want to do this. We should do this. We should provide this. We should do that.
Well, where's the money. Right. Um, and so it was encouraging to know that that's already part of
of our strategic design.
Just kind of gave a little bit of encouragement there.
Number two, state testing and accountability.
One test on one day doesn't define success
for our kids or our district.
And also came along with that was this move to online testing
has been challenging, to say the least,
for a lot of our young kids as well.
Number three was teacher recruitment and retention.
Just over and over again, people in the community
were sharing how important our teachers are to us and the final one was house bill 4545
that unfunded mandate is placing a new burden on our students and teachers and uh the one extra
thing that i learned is it's it's been especially true in our special education populations
and so uh where are we headed from here uh i honestly feel like we're going to need to whittle
those down even further what we want to do is provide a say an agenda that as a
board we can take to our legislature our community can take to our legislature
and we want it to be focused and so we'll continue to whittle that down our
subcommittee will continue to formulate a proposal to bring back to the board we
don't have it today again we just wanted to give you an update because we did
finish those circles last week so we'll continue our participation advocacy training our next one's
in january we'll go to austin and um the upcoming legislative session begins in january and we'll
uh continue to advocate for our priorities so on the subcommittee if you forgot myself
miss wilson miss fox miss fox or miss wilson job anything y'all would like to add to that
I really appreciated the diversity the number of people who really wanted to be there and
resoundingly they said wow thanks for including me thanks for listening it feels great to be
heard because you told us that we have two ears and one mouth and keep the mouth closed and the
ears open and we did and we listened and we listened and we listened and when we knew there
were things that's like oh that's not quite how it works it's okay because that's what they believe
and we can't um learn more and be better and do more for them if we want to correct it every time
but we have to understand um you know communicate and that listening circle event done some of them
in the past that were not very successful because it was um lots of anger and frustrations and
things these were held so well and the opportunities to talk about challenges talk about successes to
talk about your children and to talk about things that have happened uh throughout kdsd and there
were there were retirees there were there were faith-based there were young people with with uh
little ones you know preschoolers it just was really a great blend of people and yet this
You're exactly right.
The same things came out over and over and over.
And you didn't include all the praise that came for KDISD from our community,
but there was plenty of that, of the opportunities we provide for students.
They're here because we're KDISD.
And then what are some things you really want us to work on?
And those were over and over, the top four.
And I look forward to continuing the work to how do we phrase that
that and formulate it to bring to our legislators in their session.
So, and I also look forward to working with the people from the listening circles who
want to champion the cause and champion the message and help us communicate.
So and still, I love it.
We're still open to listening, right?
So I hope people will still keep reaching out and know that we mean it when we say we
want to hear from you.
Shulte says that all the time. We want to hear from you. So I appreciate very much your leadership
on this, Mr. Redmond. Excellent, excellent job. And thank you to the staff who made it all happen
and made people feel comfortable in the room. Didn't you feel that, Mrs. Vann? We went to one
together and people were just so open. Yes, we had a different opportunity on ours because
it must have been an Astros night game or something. I don't know. There was
was very few community members there. So Mr. Hines was there, Mr. Smith, Dr. Gorski, Mr.
Spock, Mr. Rebman and I. And the board of trustees actually got to talk because it would
have been the same, like three or four people talking the whole time. And so it was a little
bit different than the other. I didn't get, wasn't able to attend where it was just listening.
So it was kind of a different platform, but it was interesting to see that the seventh
and the last, which was very different than the six before it, all had the same outcome
and topics and importance and focus and concerns as all the six before so I
appreciate also as miss Fox said mr. Redmond and everybody else who helped
pull it off I think it was a really great thing to do for our community it
doesn't remind me the communication seem department did a great job and dr.
grooms was actually a facilitator and she was a huge part of that and then the
The organization put it on Rays Area in Texas has done a great job challenging us to go out and listen and giving that platform that then we could take and use.
And so I want to give them thanks, too.
I'm done.
Any other comments, questions?
10. Consent
All right, move on to agenda item 10, which is the consent agenda.
I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President.
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves a consent agenda for items 10.1 through 10.2.
Second.
So we have a motion by Mrs. Vann, second by Mr. Redman.
We'll now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, register your vote.
You need to keep at it.
To consent to agenda item passes 7-0.
11.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
We'll now go on to agenda item 11.1.
The board was provided a copy of donated items to KDISD.
Agenda item 11.2, recap of board members' request for information.
Ms. Vann?
I didn't have any.
I didn't either.
The only one on 8.4 where I had the question about the AV technical communication facilities,
campus to campus, I don't think that's something I was asking for right away, but it might
be something going forward, especially as we're talking about a future bond or different
things, just to know that, because the equality campus to campus on where that stands, I don't
think it's an action item, but it's just something that, that's the only thing I have.
Yeah, like just kind of get us a little bit more information maybe someday down the road
road and just to see for future in providing that opportunity for our students equally across the
campuses. Any other board member have anything they needed that wasn't captured? Okay. Agenda
12. Future Meetings
item 12.1, there will be a regular board meeting on December 12, 2022. Agenda item 13, there being
no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned. The time is 7.54 p.m.
Thanks, everyone. Have a good night.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's November 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 002 · AGENDA 8.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's September 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 003 · AGENDA 8.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the property tax rate be decreased by the adoption of a tax rate of $1.3048, which is effectively a 7.91 percent decrease in the tax rate. And, further recommend that the Board approve the Order adopting the Maintenance and Operations tax rate of $0.9148 per $100 valuation and the Interest and Sinking tax rate of $0.3900 per $100 valuation for the tax year 2022, as reflected in the Order for a decrease in the actual total tax rate of $0.0469.
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 8.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the course additions.
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 8.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to form a naming advisory committee for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary #45.
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 006 · AGENDA 8.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the superintendent to form a naming advisory committee for the purpose of proposing a name for Elementary #46.
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 8.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the design associated with the renovations to Hutsell Elementary School as depicted in the design presentation prepared by Stantec, Inc. dated November 14, 2022.
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 008 · AGENDA 8.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the design associated with the renovations to McDonald Junior High School as depicted in the design presentation prepared by IBI Group dated November 14, 2022.
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 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for sports field lighting replacements at Seven Lakes High School and Tompkins High School to LECS, Ltd. utilizing Choice Partners Contract No. 18/036MC-05 in the amount of $2,839,751.89 with a total project cost not to exceed $3,010,000.00.
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 10.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in October.
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 |