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Katy ISD · Special Board Meeting
Katy ISD Special Board Meeting, November 21, 2022
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- 0:03 to 0:22 1. Call to Order - Upon announcement by the presiding officer that a quorum is present, the meeting will be called to order.
- 0:22 to 0:41 2. Verification of Compliance with the Provisions of the Open Meetings Act.
- 0:41 to 5:21 4.1 Consider Board approval of the canvass for the Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Katy Independent School District Voter Approved Tax Rate election.
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1. Call to Order - Upon announcement by the presiding officer that a quorum is present, the meeting will be called to order.
Okay.
I hereby call this special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Katy Independent School District to order.
Today is Monday, November 21st, and the time is 5 p.m.
By law, for purposes of canvassing election results, only two board members are required to constitute a quorum.
Noting that at least two board members are present, the board will now convene an open meeting.
2. Verification of Compliance with the Provisions of the Open Meetings Act.
Dr. Gagorski, will you verify that we're in compliance with provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to notice for this meeting?
Ms. Schulte, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for our meeting tonight.
We'll now proceed to the public comments section.
Nobody has signed up to speak tonight, so we'll move on to agenda item 4.1.
4.1 Consider Board approval of the canvass for the Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Katy Independent School District Voter Approved Tax Rate election.
Consider board approval of the canvas for the Tuesday, November 8, 2022,
Katy Ann and Pinnacle School District voter-approved tax rate election.
Presenters, Mr. Justin Graham, election administrator.
President Schulte, Dr. Gorgorski, members of this board,
everybody on this board, I think, is aware now.
We've gone through the process, whether it be a bond meeting
or a school board member meeting or a tax ratification election,
We have to canvas the votes at the end of that process
Again in November elections. We're a little bit behind the eight ball because unlike May elections, which my office runs
November elections we are required to contract with the counties and everybody knows we're in three counties Waller County Fort Bend County and Harris County
And so the question remains why are we doing this on the Monday before Thanksgiving when the district is closed?
Well today is the first day that we got results back from Harris County official
official results from their ballot board. And tomorrow is actually the deadline to
canvas. So it either had to be this afternoon or it had to be tomorrow during this week that
we're technically closed as a district. I did want to tell you we have Ms. Abares here. I think
everybody knows Ms. Abares. She's in the corner. Again, we didn't run this election, but she has
to coordinate. She's basically the primary point of contact for all three counties. And that's like
her herding cats and she does an excellent job on that and we were really lucky to have her here and
have her in that role the documents we put out preliminary numbers on friday in the board docs
that we had we knew that those would change as soon as we got official numbers from harris county
those documents have been updated as of this afternoon miss davies has gone ahead and updated
those we had a 70-page photo report from harris county that we got today that is made publicly
available online so anybody that's interested can go look precinct by precinct there's some
interesting things in there um so that the vote the vote numbers that i'm going to read off to
you are slightly different than the ones that were in the board packet on friday but again that's
been updated and that'll be noted today uh harris county uh votes for proposition a that number's
There's now 25,970 voters against Proposition A.
That's 29,842 voters.
Fort Bend County, for Proposition A, 19,480 votes.
Against Proposition A, 23,984.
And in Waller County, for Proposition A, 1,704 votes.
Against Proposition A, 2,275 votes.
votes. So again, if we calculate all the totals here that we have, the TRE was voted against
by the voting public. A couple of interesting things I saw in the Harris County number that
you see when you calculate the unofficial totals that we had on Election Day to the
official results that we got today, there's about 400 votes. So that would have been 400
either provisional votes or overseas votes or non people that weren't
present votes that we got which in the size of Harris County that's a very very
very small percentage of note there of the you know over fifty four thousand
fifty five thousand people that voted Harris County we were the last thing on
the ballot and if you'll notice in Harris County Harris County of all of
the counties across the entire country had the longest ballot in the country
and Katie ISE's proposition would have been at the end so you thought maybe
we'd have a large under vote the under vote wasn't that big it was only five
point two two percent so you had most people almost 95 percent of people fill
out their ballot all the way down given those numbers that you've got I'm happy
to take any questions that this board may have or go forward with the motion
any questions have not all entertained a motion mr. president yes I made the
The Board of Trustees canvases the results of the November 8, 2020,
Katy Independent School District voter-approved tax rate election.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Vann and a second by Mrs. Champagne.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
One, two, three, four.
The motion passes 4-0.
What's that?
Five, sorry.
Thank you.
There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned.
The time is 5.05.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda file, as published on its video page. 1 page.
Board packet · 3 documents
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Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 4.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees canvasses the results of the November 8, 2022 Katy Independent School District Voter Approved Tax Rate election as reported by Harris, Fort Bend and Waller counties.
5 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |