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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, December 12, 2022
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- 0:02 to 6:08 1. Call to Order
- 6:08 to 9:55 3. Recognitions
- 9:55 to 14:35 4. Oaths
- 14:35 to 24:45 5. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
- 24:45 to 25:10 6. Closed Meeting
- 25:10 to 25:54 7. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
- 25:54 to 28:38 8.1 Presentation on covering designated Harris and Fort Bend County traffic light boxes with Katy Independent School District student artwork.
- 28:38 to 35:37 8.3 Presentation on the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund ESSER II & III Board Update.
- 35:37 to 41:23 9.1 Discuss and consider future Board approval of naming Elementary School #45 as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
- 41:23 to 46:42 9.2 Discuss and consider future Board approval of naming Elementary School #46 as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
- 46:42 to 57:23 10.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the annual review of investment policies and strategies.
- 57:23 to 1:05:56 10.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of closed campuses for intra-district and inter-district transfers for the 2023-2024 school year.
- 1:05:56 to 1:10:20 10.3 Discuss and consider Board Approval of Stop Loss Insurance for Health Plan Year 2023.
- 1:10:20 to 1:13:36 10.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Innovative New Course Application submission for Elements of Data Science.
- 1:13:36 to 1:33:16 10.5 Discuss and consider holding a joint election with the City of Katy for the May 6, 2023 Election.
- 1:33:16 to 1:43:16 10.6 Discuss and consider the Board Operating Procedures.
- 1:43:16 to 2:03:57 10.7 Discuss and consider approval of the 2022-2023 Katy ISD Legislative Priorities.
- 2:03:57 to 2:04:23 11. Consent
- 2:04:23 to 2:04:30 12.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 2:04:30 to 2:04:37 13.1 Special Board Meeting – January 17, 2023
- 2:04:37 to 2:04:52 13.2 Regular Board Meeting – January 23, 2023
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1. Call to Order
Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Katy Independent School District to order.
Today is Monday, December 12, 2022 and the time is 5.01 p.m.
Dr. Gagorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to notice for this meeting?
Mr. Schulte, I do confirm we're in compliance with the Texas Open Meeting Act in regards to our meeting this evening.
Well, I'll proceed to the Pledge of Allegiance.
student special interests, sports and video games, you and me both.
Favorite subjects, math, not you and me both.
No, I'm just messing with you.
All right.
And a few notes from his teachers.
From Ms. D'Artillette, Carlos is a hardworking, passionate, and respectful student.
He excels in everything he sets his mind to,
brings so much joy, laughter, and positive energy into our classroom,
and I love being his fifth grade teacher.
From Ms. Nelson, Carlos is such a kind, well-mannered student, always acknowledges adults and asks how they are.
When I was in a boot after fracturing my foot, every time he saw me, he would ask,
How are you doing, Ms. Nelson? Is your foot getting better?
Even now, when he sees me and I'm limping a bit, he'll ask how I am, and I can tell it's genuine.
He's a student who others look up to. He's well-known and liked.
He's an amazing personality and reflects such good character.
I'm so happy to know he was chosen to represent West Memorial Elementary.
Not only does Carlos, from Mrs. Norris, not only does Carlos excel academically,
he is also very kind and a talented athlete.
He is fiercely loyal and wonderfully supportive of everyone he meets.
Carlos is literally friends with everyone.
It's been a joy to watch him learn and grow the past two years.
And finally, from Coach Harley, Carlos always shows excellent sportsmanship in PE
and is always the first one to say good game win or lose he includes people to
be on his team and plays fairly he listens and is respectful to his peers
and adults Carlos demonstrates what being a wildcat looks like in PE and
around the school he loves to play and is quick to help set up games as well as
helping other students stay on task and do their best so Carlos I'm going to
turn it over to you and as soon as we stand you can lead us in the Pledge of
allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and
to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all honor I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state
under God one indivisible good evening president Schultz board members and
superintendent Gorgorzky my name is Carlos Arjona I'm a fifth grade student
at West Memorial Elementary something I love about my school is that there are
many wonderful staff and students for me helping others is the main priority I
think that if I help others others will get influence and they will start
helping. In my free time I like to play sports, listen to music, and play video
games. When I grow up I want to play in the MOB. I work hard every day so I can
make that happen. A college I would like to go to to support my baseball career
is Tennessee or Vanderbilt. I would like to thank the leadership team at my
school for giving me this opportunity. I would also like to thank my parents,
teachers for helping me and supporting me. And last but not least, go Wildcats!
Thank you, Carlos, so much.
You did such an amazing job.
I love when I asked if he was nervous.
He told me, no, he was excited.
I have to shake my hand like a true gentleman.
So you've done a very good job, Mom and Dad,
raising this awesome young man.
And I'm sure others who will follow him soon will see you.
Thank you very much.
Okay, here's a certificate.
It says you are a pledge leader.
You're the last one of 2022.
I know.
So this is your certificate.
And then this backpack you only get out to the pledge leaders so wear it with pride and say yeah
One picture
Thank you.
Can you see it, everybody?
You have a ledge you're going to need.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Great job.
Do we have any scouts in the audience tonight?
No? Okay, we'll proceed to agenda item 3.0, which is recognitions. Dr. Gorski?
3. Recognitions
You bet. I will now introduce Maria DiPetta, Manager of Media Relations, for the recognitions portion of our meeting tonight.
Okay, good evening, President Schulte, board members, and Superintendent Gorski.
Tonight, we have two special recognitions to present.
We begin with Taylor High School student Madeline Fitch, who earned the grand champion title for her Agri-Science Fair project in the Food Products and Processing Systems category at the State Fair last month.
Madeline received a $1,000 scholarship and went on to compete at the FFA National Convention.
Please join me in congratulating her, along with her FFA advisor, Brianna Arriola.
Thank you.
Congratulations to Madeline.
Next, the Katy High School FFA team that includes Megan Barnett, Jamie Hahn, Amber Hall, and
Kaylee Kulhaneck were named the national champions in the Poultry Evaluation Career Development
Event at the FFA National Convention and Expo held last month.
This is the third time a Katy High School team has earned this title since 2018.
Will this team and their FFA advisor, Mr. Jacob Price, please come forward?
Now, unfortunately, Reagan Barnett and Kaylee Kulhaneck were unable to join us this evening
as they are now attending college.
Congratulations to this amazing group of students and their advisor.
This concludes the recognitions portion for this evening.
That only almost concluded it.
I've got the last one of the evening, and I want to introduce to our Board of Trustees
a recent hire that we have, which is Coach David Hicks out there, who has taken over
as the head football coach at Pato High School.
Please stand and be recognized, Coach.
I see you brought out Mindy Dickerson, principal there, and a couple of folks from athletics supporting you.
We appreciate that.
And I also heard something about you were recently singing in some kind of high school musical.
Is that accurate?
You're up there singing.
Is that true?
Not quite singing.
It's about the Christmas day.
Okay.
All right.
Well, we're going to bring you back next month, and you can sing on the mic up here.
What do you think?
We'll get you a solo going.
All right.
No, we're just messing with you a little bit.
But I appreciate you stepping up and taking that role.
It's a big job.
And thank you for being part of KDIC.
You bet.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
And I'll proceed to Agenda Item 4.1, Peace Officer Oath of Office.
4. Oaths
Chief Call will administer the oaths.
And Deputy Chief Tabor will read the biography.
President Schulte, Dr. Grigorski, school boards,
our distinct honor to introduce you to the two newest officers for KDISD this evening.
First up, we have Officer Andre Singleton.
Andre was born and raised in a small town in Faraday, Louisiana.
During his teenage years, Andre moved to Phoenix, Arizona with his mother, Tanya Walker, and
insisted to pursue better opportunities.
Shortly after graduating high school, Officer Singleton served in the United States Army
for four years as a combat engineer stationed in Fort Drum, New York, as a member of the
10th Mountain Division.
While transitioning from the military to civilian life, Andre became a train conductor for the
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway in Denver where he was able to travel back
and forth across the Rocky Mountains continuously. Officer Singleton is the
oldest of five with two younger sisters and two younger brothers. They all reside
here in Texas which is a big part of why Andre decided to move here. He wanted to
be closer to family and to be a role model to his younger siblings. He
graduated from the Houston Community College Police Academy to pursue a
career in law enforcement upon graduation he joined the college station police department
in 2021 he then then pursued another opportunity with the kdisd police department where he now
continues to live his dream in law enforcement and serve his community
community.
Officer Alvin McCarthy was born in October 1992 in Dallas, Texas.
Growing up he attended Trinity Christian High School where he graduated in 2010.
He furthered his education at Sam Houston State University where he was a full-time
student athlete.
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice.
and shortly after graduating he began working for the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice where he was employed for the next seven years. Alvin has
always had a passion for law enforcement and wanted to further his career to be
on the same path as his father who is currently employed for the past 33 years
with the Dallas Police Department, Mr. Officer Michael, Sergeant Michael
McCarthy Alvin enrolled at the University of Houston Downtown Police
Academy and earned his basic peace officer certification in July of 22 in
August Alvin was hired by the Katy ISD Police Department where he looks forward
to serving the school district and its surrounding communities his mom was
supposed to be here but she got stuck in traffic.
I, take your name, I solemnly swear, I will faithfully execute the duty of the Office of
of Peace officer, Canadian Pencil School District,
of the state of Texas, I will to the best of my ability
preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws
of the United States and of this state.
So help me God. Congratulations.
Congratulations.
5. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
We'll now proceed into the public comment and citizen participation portion of the meeting.
The public participation section includes two categories.
Category 1 is for speakers signed up to speak on posted agenda items,
and Category 2 is for speakers signed up to speak on non-posted agenda items.
Speakers who signed up to speak on posted agenda items will be allowed three minutes to speak.
For speakers who signed up to speak on non-posted agenda items,
a maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated, with the time divided equally among those who have signed up.
However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes.
If the speaker has not finished speaking at the end of your three minutes, the audio will turn off.
If speakers want to share written material with the board, you must provide ten copies to the Secretary for Board Services before the meeting begins for board members, the superintendent, the chief communications officers, and permanent record.
If a 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 551074-5510821, the Board will not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student.
It 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, or GF local.
Our speakers will be called forward in order they sign up to speak.
I think these are all non-agenda items, so we're going to go straight to non-agenda items.
By policy, a maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated with the time divided equally.
There's only four speakers tonight, so each speaker will get three minutes.
the first speaker is John Basta was no the second speaker tonight is Philip
Haddad and the speaker after that is lagoon Lee yeah you can come forward
good evening first of all thank you for allowing me to speak and I know I can't
mention names so I won't but there's been a lot of people within the district
week who have heard my concerns and are very professional and I appreciate all those people.
There are many of them that I know are not allowed to name names so I won't but some are probably
here and some are not. I sent a you probably have a copy of the props of the Morton Ranch High School.
This is a 2022 Morton Ranch program that myself like many parents pay a nice band fee and more
importantly the kids work extremely hard in marching band it's a very i wouldn't do it
they're out in the heat all day practicing and they're after school practicing i don't know what
they like about it but they love it so they give a lot of themselves they give a lot and i feel that
this program here lacks some accountability i don't know how a director i don't know how
a booster program can allow this to be the props in the back here you'll see i know it's hard to
see here that's a bare wood stage splinters and all and parents supposed to help carry this and
kids supposed to help carry this onto the field this is what represents morton ranch high school
in the four years my son has been at this in this marching band program not once have they ever gone
beyond the initial round they always lose at the initial round they never advance this i feel is
ridiculous there's better ways to conduct it and these kids more important to me these kids not
just my kid these kids work extremely hard give it their all and i feel that the school has let
them down and i feel there should be more accountability for the booster club to allow this
thank you very much thank you the next speaker tonight is legang lay and the final speaker
tonight is donna mcelroy good evening good evening thank you for giving me this opportunity today i
I would like to continue to recommend this binary book
to our school library.
It will be helpful for students to learn more knowledge
at the same time.
We always look for efficiency to improve our time and cost.
When we order food at the restaurant,
we often consider the in the food,
as well as the flavor.
Although we like sweet food in general,
we would like to add more protein, fiber,
fiber and vitamins into one dish.
Because our time is very limited,
we try to have healthy food
with proper nutrition efficiently.
For example, I often order sandwich with cheese
as this dish can provide both energy and nutrition
and it is very healthy as well.
Similarly, as I was a high school student,
I knew the importance of efficiency.
I always try to learn different subjects at the same time.
Let's now focus on kids in high school, they also need efficiency.
That's why I continually recommend this binary book.
A few months ago I talked about the story in this book can help the student learn Chinese characters.
For example, the story can help the students distinguish the Chinese character between zhou and chuang, a small boat or big boat.
Today I would like to provide more and many other benefits from this book.
For example, this book not only talks about human history, but also talks about other
traditions in reading, writing, arts, and many other areas.
For example, in Genesis chapter 11 of this book gives a reason why we have a different
language in our humans.
It is a very interesting story.
story. Additionally, in the Christmas holiday is coming in two weeks, but why
there is a Christmas holiday it is giving in this book.
So if you read this book, it can give you a lot of information. In writing, we
typically have five paragraphs when we write an argument, including the
introduction, three key points to support the argument, and the conclusion
paragraph. In Bible there's another typical organization for the articles and
paragraphs. The salvage style, the key points is always placed in the middle,
the front and the back sections match each other and support the key point.
This organization style can help us inspire our writing. Sometimes there are
cases in our meeting, on the monthly meeting, today I would like to mention
the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in chapter 19 of Genesis in this book. It happened about
4,000 years ago. Only two small cities were destroyed by fire from the sky. Although at
that time there was no missiles or nuclear weapons. How can the fire come?
Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Good evening.
The last speaker tonight is Donna McElroy.
Good evening.
Good afternoon.
My name is Donna McElmurray.
I will be reading excerpts from an article entitled
Wyoming Library Board Cuts Ties with American Library Association
by Alice Gordomo.
A Wyoming County Library Board has cut ties with the
the American Library Association over its support of books in the local library's children's section
that promotes pedophilia and transgendering children and includes detailed illustrations
of sexual acts. The board voted that its local library will not accept any money from the
organization and will not use any taxpayer dollars to fund any events, material, or training linked
to the ALA. One book that drew outrage in the county is Transmission. It's a how-to book on
how the author Alex Berti went from transitioning from female to male and includes discussions
about breast removal surgery expediting the process by taking large doses of male hormones.
Arthur Schlaeper, an advocate for the biological sexes, told the Epoch Times that exposing children
to sex books is the ultimate and double standards. We don't allow materials on things like how to
to build a bomb, how to cook meth, how to teach people how to commit suicide.
That should and must be extended to prevent children from looking at damaging material,
he said.
Stacey Langton, who founded Mama Grizzly to launch a national campaign against sexually
graphic books in school libraries and the children's section of public libraries, also
agreed with Wyoming's MOOC.
In August, the Epoch Times ran a story about a website run by the ALA designed to teach
librarians how to secretly promote sexual messaging.
After the story ran, the ALA deleted the website.
The ALA has heavy ties to Ohio businessman Steve Potash, founder of OverDrive, the world's
largest supplier of books and digital material to schools and public libraries.
Potash, along with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, provided the funding to ALA to
start up a fundraising and advocacy arm of the ALA against book banning.
In September, the ALA also used the website to launch, quote, Banned Books Week and organized
related events across the country.
Board members, I strongly encourage you to sever ties with this activist organization.
organization. Also, I encourage the board to use its authority to conduct an audit of the books in
our libraries. Thank you. Thank you. The board will now reconvene in, whoops, wrong one. This
6. Closed Meeting
concludes the open portion of our meeting. The board will now convene in closed meeting as
authorized under section 551001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes.
Texas government code 551071, 551076, and 551129. Thank you.
Is this working? It's not working. There we go. Good evening, everyone.
We're going to go ahead and get started.
7. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
The board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, December 12, 2022, and the time is 635 p.m.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting.
Each board member received this agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, December 9, 2022.
The board will receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent on these agenda items at tonight's meeting.
The 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.
We're now proceed to agenda item 8.1, presentation on covering designated Harris County and Fort Bend traffic light boxes with Katy Independent School District artwork.
8.1 Presentation on covering designated Harris and Fort Bend County traffic light boxes with Katy Independent School District student artwork.
The presenter is Mr. Ted Veerling, Chief Operations Officer. Good evening.
We're excited to present a joint project between Cinco Ranch High School graduate, Manita Takre, just graduated from Cinco Ranch High School in June.
Manita, please stand.
The brainchild of, there you go, give her a round of applause.
Don't even know what she did yet, but clap for her.
The brainchild of Monita with support from her former mentors, Duke Keller and Jennifer Stockdick.
This project provides the district an opportunity to wrap traffic light boxes in the greater Katy area with Katy ISD student artwork.
The attachment in BoardDocs displays the proposed artwork and associated campuses.
Currently, we're in the process of wrapping boxes at seven campuses, and we hope to get
the last two very soon.
In order for the district to move forward with the project in Harris County, we're required
to provide an opportunity for public comment.
We have no speakers tonight, so everybody thinks it's a great idea, which we're excited
about.
So 8.2 will not be necessary.
We'd like to thank Monita for her efforts and to bringing beauty to our community.
So we appreciate you, Monita.
And we thank Duke and Jennifer for supporting her as well.
And Duke and Jennifer, are you...
I didn't see you, but well, can't compete with that now, can we?
All right.
So, Monita, come forward.
We'd like to recognize you for your accomplishments.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Mr. President and Mr. Beierling, where will those pictures be available for the community to see?
Because they're incredible.
They are incredible.
The kids did a great job.
Incredible, young lady.
Way to go.
Yeah, I think once we get them, for sure, once they get approved, then we'll put those out.
I'm sure on social media, Dr. Grooms can help us with that.
And then once they're posted, we'll get pictures of many.
We'll call you back from college every single time.
You're going to have to come in.
And we'll get pictures at the site with the whole thing.
It'll be great.
Love it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
As Mr. Verling said, we don't need Agenda Item 8.2 because no one signed up to speak.
AGENDA ITEM 8.3 IS PROGRESS UPDATE ON THE BOARD ON THE USES OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
8.3 Presentation on the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund ESSER II & III Board Update.
SCHOOL EMERGENCY RELIEF FUNDS, ALSO KNOWN AS ESSER II AND III.
THE PRESENTERS TONIGHT ARE DR.
CHRISTINE KASKEY, CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER, AND NIKIA COY, DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS.
GOOD EVENING.
NEW SPEAKERS.
NEW SPEAKERS.
NEW SPEAKERS.
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DISTRICT EFFORT ACROSS MANY DEPARTMENTS AND CAMPUSES, AND I'LL BE PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW
OF THE ACTIVITIES WITH AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC FEEDBACK THROUGH, SORRY, WITH AN OPPORTUNITY
FOR STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK THROUGH OUR PUBLIC HEARING.
SO HERE'S AN OVERVIEW OF THE ESSER FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE DISTRICT.
ESSER 1 HAS BEEN FULLY EXPENDED.
ESSER 2 WILL END SEPTEMBER 30TH OF 2023, AND ESSER 3 WILL END SEPTEMBER 30TH OF 2024.
24. AND AS YOU KNOW, THE ATTENT OF THESE FUNDS IS TO HELP SAFELY REOPEN SCHOOLS TO ENDRESS
THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON STUDENTS. THERE ARE THREE MAIN BUCKETS WHERE FUNDS CAN BE SPENT,
ACTIVITIES TO ASSIST IN THE SAFE RETURN TO SCHOOL, ACTIVITIES TO ADDRESS LEARNING LOSS,
AND ACTIVITIES TO ADDRESS THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS. AND WE'RE REQUIRED TO SPEND
A MINIMUM OF 20% OF THE TOTAL ESSER III GRANT ON THESE LAST TWO AREAS.
There are several assurances required by these grant funds.
We assure that we consulted with district stakeholder groups such as parents, students,
community members, campus staff, and district leadership that represent various subgroups
of students.
This public hearing allows stakeholders to provide feedback on the use of funds plan
and the return to in-person instruction and continuity of services plan, which is strictly
tied to the $67 million we received for ESSER III.
Additionally, we must assure you, our Board of Trustees, that you've been informed that
these are one-time funds and there's no assumption that these funds will be replaced after the grants
have ended the next couple of slides outlines the grant activities implemented to date as a result
of stakeholder input these include additional campus and program staff extra duty pay for
tutorials additional instructional materials and technology and as you can see here the majority
of our esser funded initiatives are geared toward improving academic achievement and
and addressing learning loss as a result of the pandemic.
So here's an overview of ESSER II,
showing how much has been spent across each
of the allowable grant activities that
were selected by the district.
So activities include professional development
for teachers and campus leaders, activities
to enhance our CTE programs, devices and software
to improve online learning.
Several campuses hosted summer programs
to preempt summer regression and fulfill House Bill 4545
requirements.
And as of early December, there was approximately
approximately $9 million remaining.
So I mentioned that ESSER II will end in September of 2023, and this is the plan to ensure that
all funds are expended by this deadline.
We've moved most of the salaries that were coded to ESSER III and to II, and I anticipate
the grant will be fully expended by July of 2023.
And here's an overview of ESSER III, and you will see that this grant mirrors the activities
in ESSER II.
This is where many of the campus staff and initiatives are budgeted, while the department
initiatives were budgeted in ESSER II.
With the move of salary into ESSER II, this allows the extension of these initiatives
for another year, and there's approximately $39 million remaining in this budget.
There are two plans required by these grant programs, which are also included in your
board packet.
The use of funds plan describes the activities that have and will continue to be implemented
across the district and the safe return to in-person instruction and continuity
of services plan which describes the actions taken to ensure the safety of
students there is a mechanism for continuous feedback from our stakeholder
groups and these plans will continue to be reviewed and or revised in the light
of any stakeholder feedback heard this evening okay we will continue to conduct
progress monitoring and gain feedback on these plans from our stakeholders
through the ESSER at kdisd.org email and annual stakeholder survey.
Thank you very much.
Are there any questions, board members?
Yes.
What would be an example of, for example,
the biggest item is comprehensive needs of students?
Where does that encompass?
That's where, so we have a list of grant activities,
so we kind of have to make a judgment call of what goes where.
So a lot of our academic support teachers that provide intervention that we have budgeted there,
any of the instructional materials that campuses buy are coded there.
It's kind of like the bulk of the learning loss that's not already described in another activity.
Those activities go there.
Like if it's not specifically tutorials or technology related, we kind of lump it into
that comprehensive needs of students.
Just one other follow up.
What are some of the, I saw something about the implementation of some of the high quality
assessments, software, screeners, et cetera, so that intervention could be planned.
What are some of those examples that we're using?
I don't remember.
Interventions bought a software program.
It was a junior high screener just so that they could get a reading level.
That was pretty quick, but I don't remember the exact name of it
because it was a purchase over the summer, but I can get you the name of that.
But the other one is as far as assessments,
what they'll do is provide time for teachers to collaborate, to go over data,
and then also sometimes like a lot of times it will have subs that will that
will allow teachers to be able to do that but I don't remember that
intervention program that's fine any other questions I noticed one one other
comment was or goal was reduced class sizes in targeted content areas have we
reduced class sizes have we done that so the campuses were allowed to choose the
the type of position that they felt best meet the needs of that particular campus.
So a lot of campuses will have academic support teachers.
Some will have added a counselor.
Some have added an instructional coordinator.
And then some chose to add additional teachers.
So it's more of a campus-by-campus basis,
but we do have some campuses that chose to kind of reduce class sizes
and have a regular teacher added to their staff that's paid through ESSER funds.
Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you very much. Now move on to the fun stuff now.
9.1 discuss future board approval of naming of elementary school number 45 as recommended by the
9.1 Discuss and consider future Board approval of naming Elementary School #45 as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
naming advisory committee. The presenter tonight is Dr. Andrea Grooms, Chief Communications Officer.
I'm right here.
Oh, there you are.
I was like, where'd she go?
I know.
Usually I'm over there.
I'm actually going to invite Marita to go up to the podium.
She's going to read for us in a bit.
So good evening, President Schulte, trustees, and Superintendent Gregorski.
I'd like to present item 9.1, the naming of elementary school number 45.
On December 5th, the naming advisory committee, which is comprised of future elementary 45
parents, the principal, and two board liaisons came together to review nominations for the
school's name. The name selected by the committee for the board's consideration is David and Terry
Youngblood. Before we introduce Mr. and Mrs. Youngblood, I would like to ask Mrs. Maria
DiPetta, General Manager for Media Relations, to read their biography to provide some background
on why the committee is recommending this name for consideration.
We'll begin with David and Terry Youngblood have dedicated 77 combined years of service to KDISD.
David began his 36-year education career with KDISD in 1977 when he was first hired as a teacher and the head swimming coach at Katy High School.
He ran the swimming program until 1979 when he transitioned to the newly opened Taylor High School.
At that school, David was named the first ever diving coach in the district.
In 1994, he became the assistant principal at Taylor High School and served in that role for 10 years before being named the campus associate principal.
During his time at Katy and Taylor High School, David guided his teams toward earning numerous athletic accomplishments at the district, regional, and state levels.
He also founded the Katy ISD Summer Swimming Recreational Program, which has taught thousands of children in our area how to swim.
Since his retirement from Katy ISD in 2013, David has remained a presence in the district and community by volunteering his time and talents.
He serves on the Katy ISD Athletic Hall of Honor Committee and has served on the Taylor High School Hall of Honor Committee as well.
He was inducted into the KDISD Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019.
David is the voice of Bubba Phi Relays and announces at district and area track meets.
He has worked as a volleyball official in the district for the last 14 years.
David volunteers for Meals on Wheels, is a committee member for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo,
and serves as a substitute administrator and teacher for the district.
district. Terry Youngblood was hired at KDISD in 1977 and she met David during her first
few days of new teacher training. The two were married the following year. She was instrumental
in the development in KDISD's vocational career and technical curriculum during her
40 years with the program. Terry began her vocational classes teaching shorthand to future
administrative assistants her courses transformed from type consisted rather
from typewriting to advanced digital graphics she served as Katie high
school's business department chair and set on many committees that adapted the
career and technical education curriculum as a sponsor of future
business leaders of America her club president was elected as the president
of the state FBLA organization in 1999. Terry also coached UIL shorthand typing and accounting
teams to great success. Her passion for education extended beyond the walls of Katy High School.
Terry also taught ESL classes through Katy ISD's community education program, as well as through
summer school. In 2018, she retired from education after 41 years of teaching. However, Terry still
serves as a substitute teacher in Katie and is a member and technology chairperson of the Katie
area retired educators. She also volunteers with Meals on Wheels. David and Terry are longtime
members of the Katie First Methodist Church. They have three children, Brent, Kelly, and Julie,
who are graduates of KDISD and all three of them currently work at KDISD.
David enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin on a diving scholarship and graduated in 1975.
He earned his master's degree in physical education and sport psychology from Colorado State in 1977.
Terry received her associate's degree from Wharton County Junior College,
graduated from Baylor University in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts in Education and
earned her master's degree in vocational education from the University of Houston
in 1981. Okay thank you Mrs. DiPetta. Now I would like to ask Mr. and Mrs.
Youngblood to please stand to be recognized.
Congratulations.
9.2 Discuss and consider future Board approval of naming Elementary School #46 as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee.
Congratulations.
Now I would like to move on to item 9.2.
And I'm sorry, President Schulte, were you supposed to?
Okay.
The naming of elementary school number 46.
On December 2nd, a naming advisory committee comprised of elementary 46 parents, the principal, and two board liaisons met to review nominations for the school's name.
The name selected by the committee for the board's consideration is Russell and Cindy Fowden.
Before we introduce Mr. and Mrs. Fowden, Mrs. Maria DiPetta will once again read a biography to provide background information on why the committee is recommending this name for consideration.
Russell and Cindy Fowden have dedicated 66 combined years of service to public education.
Russell is a KDISD lifelong learner.
He attended kindergarten through fifth grade at Addix Elementary, now known as Wolf Elementary.
His middle school years were spent at Katy and West Memorial Junior Highs, and he attended both Katy High School and James E. Taylor High Schools.
During high school, Russell was involved in football and Future Farmers of America.
Russell and Cindy began their education careers in Linden-Kildare ISD.
Russell served as an agricultural science teacher and Cindy taught third grade math, science, and social studies.
In 1992, they moved to Spring, Texas, where they continued teaching in their respective fields.
Around that time, Cindy also took the opportunity to raise her two small children at home
and followed that experience with a transition to a Christian preschool
where she was able to connect her love for teaching and her love for Christ.
Russell's passion for Katy pulled the Foudens back to hometown in 1999 when he was appointed
as an assistant principal at Katy High School.
After six years, he transitioned to Taylor High School where he served as a grade-level
assistant principal, curriculum principal, and associate principal for 10 years.
In 2015, Russell transitioned to the district office where he served as Katy ISD's hearing
officer, elections administrator, and director of community education programs.
In 2017, he accepted the principalship at Miller Career and Technology, also known as MCTC.
Through that adventure, he supported students in growing their passion and skills for various
careers within our community.
One way that Russell did this was by creating a farm-to-market program with the STEAM Center
and MCTC.
He retired in 2020 with 35 years in public education.
In 1999, Cindy assumed a fourth grade math and science teaching position at Nottingham Country Elementary
before following her principal, Elizabeth Kulin, to open up Axley Elementary in 2004.
She has said that some of the best years of her career were at Axley.
Lastly, Cindy's dedication to supporting learning on the campus was recognized when she was selected as the school's 2006-2007 Teacher of the Year and was also named the first Katy ISD Math Lead Teacher.
term in 2011 she was also named sorry in 2011 she had the distinct honor of sharing her joy
of teaching math and science by being appointed as the math and science instructional coach at
exley cindy retired in 2021 with 32 years of service the feldens have also demonstrated
their commitment to the katie community cindy was a member of the national charity league asalea
chapter held the social chair position on the board of the Taylor high school
pace setters and supported her daughter's grade level classes through
various rules Russell worked tirelessly with other dads to build props for those
Pacers and was very active in Taylor high school band with the couple's son
but also he volunteered both of them volunteer at their church mentoring
mentoring couples that plan on getting married Russell and Cindy met while
while attending college and married in 1988.
You have one son, Matthew, and two daughters, Courtney
and Michaela.
Russell earned his Bachelor of Science and Master
of Education from Sam Houston State University in 1986
and 1987, respectively, and received his mid-management
certificate from Sam Houston State University in 1998.
1998 Cindy earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education in 1988
Thank You mr. Peta now, I would like to ask mr. And mrs. Fowden to please stand to be recognized
Congratulations.
I'm done.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
10.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the annual review of investment policies and strategies.
We'll now proceed to agenda item 10.1, discuss to consider board approval of the annual revenue of investment policies and strategies.
The presenter tonight is Ms. Sherry Butterfield, Executive Director of Budget and Treasury.
Good evening.
Mr. President, may I ask a procedural question?
Yes.
So the introductions were made tonight for the name's sakes of the new schools, but no action was taken.
Do you want to explain that?
Yeah, so there's going to be a public forum on the 14th between 5 and 7 to get public comment.
And I'm sure everybody's going to come and give raving reviews of the candidates here.
and the next board meeting we will approve the action to name the schools.
The formal action happens in our January meeting.
The formal action in January, yeah.
You know, it's quite interesting.
Let me know if this is not appropriate here,
but it's very interesting to see a room full of Katie grades
and to see so many teachers here.
And I'm thinking, Mr. Fowlton,
surely some of the teachers in this audience probably taught you.
Right?
So some of the Youngblood family mentored you.
And I see Mr. Haskett and Mrs. Holland here, other namesakes, you know, sitting alongside you all because it's a family of Katie greats.
And we have leaders who have taught other leaders.
And you all are, Mr. Stocks is here.
It's just great to see you all.
I know that probably Mrs. Vann has a lot of experience with some of these people as well.
And Mrs. Champagne was sitting here going, she was my son's teacher, Mrs. Fountain.
I mean, you have a place in our hearts.
And there's a reason why committees looked through numerous people deserving and found you to be worthy.
And, you know, it's just an honor to be here.
And it's a tough decision, I know, for those of you on the committee and for the committees.
spent appreciative of all that i just think with an opportunity with all family and things here to
to say how how grateful we are for you and mr president can i say something i can we can we
ask the families to stand because a lot of times we do acknowledge the families and i i'm just so
i'm sure 90 of the people in the room will stand up but curious just curious i mean you you call it
yeah so I guess to what you want to introduce your family that's with you
tonight yeah you want to go first mr. Felden
our personal children can't be here tonight because our youngest daughter is on a plane while she's in the middle of Novesa
her son is taking finals at Texas A&M Round Rock and our older daughter has a holiday program in Capelle ISD
They're working.
And joining me in my course is my wife, and family.
My sister, and my older sister, Sharon.
She's a Katy High graduate, 1980.
And my younger sister Rhonda, she's a 1988 graduate from Lake Creek High School.
I AM THE GRANDFATHER OF MY GRANDFATHER.
EXCELLENT.
THANK YOU.
DO YOU GUYS LIKE TO DO THE SAME?
THIS IS MY WIFE, JERRY.
WE DID MAKE THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW CHIEF.
Yeah.
I have two kids and they're newborn.
Colin is in the middle of the building.
Richard, who I've got.
David, good blood, who's kind of following my name.
And then we have, back here, Daniel.
And then my youngest daughter is Julie, and her husband is Frank.
Julie is a teacher at Taylor High School, and she's been all of her teaching.
We're at Taylor High School, very similar to what I do.
And their children is .
Hi, guys.
And then we've got Olivia, who's my only granddaughter.
And then we have Vincent right here is their three children.
And they all go to Highlander Elementary, so all of them.
Wow.
So that's my family.
And then I've got my sister-in-law, Marsha, and she got to work with me.
She's Terry's sister.
And then also part of my family, I can do, is Ty and Susan Jackson, who took care of
us at Dana High School for many years.
Eric Arnold, who is a resident of our Dana High School.
Lisa O'Neil, who is the math, not math, English department chair, but she and I could make
a good idea.
And Terry also taught Russell's sister in high school.
So we all kind of intertwined. Russell and I have worked together for many years together and so it's a great honor to be honored with Russell.
We built that one.
Thank you.
I want that one.
David remembers me when I played football at Taylor and our means of schooling off and cleaning up was the overhead doors and go jump in the pool for two a day.
Thank you guys very much.
Thank you.
Mr. President?
Yes.
Since they made a couple of speeches, I want to go ahead and make one.
It'll save me from making one on Wednesday.
I tell you what, I just wanted to say,
our three kids went to Taylor in 97, graduate in 97, 2000, 2003.
three and David was just so awesome for our kids and so supportive and so
helpful Marsha was there as well and but anyway I'm just so happy for you and
because you were really special to our family and really helped us a lot and
we're very supportive and a great experience and just just wanted to
mention that it was fantastic thank you thank you very much again congratulations
Ms. Butterfield, are you ready?
Yes.
Okay.
Agenda item 10.1.
You have the floor.
Thank you, President Schulte, Trustees, Superintendent Gagorski.
Tonight I'm bringing you the annual review of investment policies and strategies.
This item is a compliance requirement with district policy CDA to annually review strategies by fund type
and approve the broker-dealers, investment pools, and training resources.
The attachment lists our broker-dealers, investment pools, and training resources.
And the Public Funds Investment Act, which you'll hear us refer to as PFIA,
governs investment activities by school districts.
Its requirements are incorporated in our CADI CDA legal and local policies.
PFIA authorized investments are described in our CDA local policy, and our quarterly reports meet all CDA disclosure requirements.
requirements. Your approval of item 10.1 meets the requirements set forth in the Public Funds
Investment Act to annually review CDA. Thank you, Ms. Butterfield. Any questions, board members?
Mr. President, just a quick question. So I looked at the slide that had all the
Treasury bills, the Treasury investments that you have, and so is that saying that
basically we're invested we invest 100% in Treasury securities at the moment we
may be it depends on where we are in the market so as as securities mature and we
pick up the next best investment to replace our ladder and ladder out into
that two and three year horizon to get the best interest rate of course our our
Our overarching requirement is safety before liquidity and yield, but safety first.
And treasuries at the time when those investments were purchased were the best yield in the market with risk-free market risk.
But the lion's share is going to be in government securities.
Yeah, for direct investments.
Of course, your local government and pools is where the lion's share of the cash is on a day-to-day basis.
What we float for are in check runs and, you know, our monthly bills from payroll and accounts payable comes from the investment pools through our depository to our check runs.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
If not, I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the annual review of investment policies and strategies.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Vann and a second by Mr. Redman.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion passes 7-0.
Thank you.
10.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of closed campuses for intra-district and inter-district transfers for the 2023-2024 school year.
Agenda item 10.2, discuss and consider board approval of closed campuses for inter-district
and inter-district transfers for the 2023-2024 school year.
To present her tonight is Mr. Ronnie Edwards, Assistant Superintendent for School Leadership and Support.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, board members, and Dr. Gagorski.
I'm bringing for your consideration a list of campuses that are recommended to be closed to voluntary student transfers for the 2023-2024 school year.
Board policy FBD Legal and FBD Local address intra-district transfers and closed campuses.
campuses. Board policy, FDA legal and FDA local address inter-district student transfers
for students coming from the outside in. A closed campus is defined as a campus exceeding
or nearly exceeding its building design capacity compared to the enrollment projections over
90% of design capacity. Parents may request voluntary transfers for their students to
to attend other Katy ISD campuses.
Such requests must meet the criteria
established in board policy.
The list of proposed campuses was formulated
by using the building design capacity and the projected
enrollment of each campus for the 2023-2024 school year.
We'll continue to monitor campus enrollment
to determine if any additional campuses need to be
closed throughout the year.
I'll be happy to entertain any questions that you might have.
Thank you.
Are there any questions?
Mr. President, I have some questions. Thank you Mr. Edwards. Can you please, just for
explanatory reasons, explain what is a, you know, what is a, you have explained it through
the legal policy, but in layman's terms, what is a closed campus? That's the first question.
But secondly, where would a high school student go since it looks like they're all...
I thought you might have that question.
Okay.
So first of all, as far as a closed campus, if we close a campus,
we are saying that they are not open to receive transfers.
Now, we use the formula if a campus is at 90% of its design capacity.
And there are some other formulas that are functional capacity,
which means it's less than design capacity.
But we're looking at 90% when we have 90%.
In looking at high schools this year, our high schools are above 90%.
95% design capacity. So we knew that we, in the past, we've had one or two high schools open. I
think last year we had three, and we had one May Creek on the watch list. And when you get in that
situation, you have one, or you have one campus or two campuses that are accepting all the transfers.
We are working to design an internal process to make certain that we can accommodate all of those
students that are transferred, that will be, that a transfer request is approved for.
So we feel like that we can develop a process that may even make it better for a student
who has been approved on transfer so they're not having to go from one all the way across
the district to, for their approved campus.
Okay, then a secondary question to that is if a parent is looking to see, you know, I don't know if this will be posted on the website, but they're going to look to see where can I transfer my child to because they're having some issue or whatever, but they see the list is closed, how will they know that there may be another option for them?
We will, we will, we'll, once we develop that process, we will have that posted as well.
And there is a transfer process as you, as you know, there's a page on the, uh, um, district
website, which accommodates that. And it will show that, um, that there are, the campuses are closed,
but that they will be considered for transfers at the high school level. We know we're going to
have transfers and they're going, there's going to be some that are accepted. And we have even
had situations where we've had to work with a family because they maybe they
couldn't get to that all the way across campus or all the way across the
districts of that closed campus so we do work with families there and the last
house is I know that that's a very well appreciated thing that we have in our
district because I've known kids personally who have highly benefited
from being able to transfer to another school so thank you for your
presentation are there any questions any other questions that I'll entertain a
motion oh yes I just have one question mr. Edwards so for since make re-couses
are our ROTC unit and if there are students who are wanting to go to
made Creek to be and participate with ROTC does this does not make them an
eligible no I can tell you that we would accept those students we do have as
someone who was the former principal of May Creek high school I know how
important the numbers are in that program and we want to make certain that
we continue to meet the standards of that program. So there are several of
those that regardless of the closure, the campus closure, they're going to be
approved like intended residency, change of residence, change of residence
to remain at a campus because they're already in the numbers or child of a
of a KDSD employee or a sibling transfer and that NJROTC transfer.
Follow-up on Ms. Wilson.
Mr. Perez?
Sorry.
You had questions?
I think you just mentioned it.
This does not include if somebody moves to another location or zone to that other high school.
That's not a transfer.
That is correct.
It does not.
If you move into that attendance zone, you can go there.
Okay.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
I'm sorry.
On the NJROTC program, you can stay at your home campus and still be part of that program.
You don't have to.
It's maybe easier if you are on the May Creek campus and be part of that program, but it's
my understanding in 2023 and 2024, we're going to be providing buses to help encourage that
program.
That's off the topic, but I'm just saying you don't have to be at May Creek to be part
of that program, so the transfer doesn't necessarily preclude you from being-
That is correct. We do have students that come from other campuses and they go by themselves.
And then we also, I think currently we may have about nine students that are on a transfer into May Creek High School specifically to attend the program.
But a closed campus at May Creek does not hinder in any way someone being able to be part of that program.
No, ma'am.
Any other questions?
Mr. President.
Yes.
I don't know if this needs to be clarified, but closed campus does not mean full to new people moving here.
If you move to an attendant zone, you have a place at our school.
We'll add buildings.
We'll add chairs.
Is that correct?
That is correct.
It is only for transfers.
Within the district.
That is correct.
So we, KDSD is full.
it's nine high schools and we're balanced and we're full and people are moving here because
of the incredible things that are happening inside every one of those campuses because
the elementary list is long and the junior high list is also long not 100 but
kdsv people inside those buildings are doing an incredible job with their students and we're
happy for them to be here and the next high school number 10 opens when mr gregorski 24 august of 2024
24. it's coming is that right
any other questions if not i'll entertain a motion mr president
yes i move that the board of trustees approves the closed campuses for
inter-district intra-district and inter-district transfers for the 2023-2024
school year okay we have a motion by mr redmond a
second by miss wilson is that okay that's kind of close
we'll now proceed to vote board members please record your vote on the screen
screen via your keypad. The motion passes 7-0. Thank you very much. 10.3, discuss and consider
10.3 Discuss and consider Board Approval of Stop Loss Insurance for Health Plan Year 2023.
board approval of stop-loss insurance for health insurance plan 2023. The presenter is Mr. Lance
Nauman, director of risk management. Good evening. Good evening, President Schulte, Dr. Krakorski,
and board of trustees. In 2004, KDISD began providing health benefits to plan participants
as a qualified self-insured employer. As a self-insured employer providing health benefits
to staff, the financial responsibility rests solely upon the district. To date, health benefit
options have given employees quality care while allowing the district to manage inflationary cost
trends. Every year, an independent actuarial study is prepared to model expected costs to the plan
with premiums and deductibles deriving from this study. As part of this study, an annual analysis
of how large losses impact the financial performance of the plan is performed. It was
a conscious decision until plan year 2020 not to carry stop-loss insurance. For plan year 2021,
the district engaged with Aetna to begin providing stop-loss coverage. This program provides
individual stop-loss coverage to cover large individual claims incurred by the
plan. Factors to consider in determining the need for stop-loss coverage are as
follows. One, protection against large individual losses. Two, long-term plan
stabilization. Three, medical inflation and now four, future pandemic episodes. It is
recommended by the Board of Risk Management to continue the purchase of
stop-loss insurance coverage with Aetna for plan year 2023 at $13.39 per employee per member
with a $750,000 self-insured retention. The estimated annual premium for this program is
$1.282 million and again it is recommended the Board of Trustees approves the renewal proposal
for individual stop loss provided by Aetna for health plan 2023. Mr. Norman, I have a question.
You know how much we've saved by the value? I mean, obviously recommending, so I'm assuming it's
the numbers pan out where we're coming out ahead. Do you have any idea how to qualify that? Yes,
and I will just give you a little, a brief analysis. In 2020, when we weren't carrying
stop loss. If we had applied the individual losses, we lost $994,000. In plan year 2021,
we saw a gain of claims paid against premiums paid of a positive $852,000 to the plan.
And then recently in plan year 2022, $684,000. We're not quite finished with plan year 22,
but that's a very close estimate where we might land on as of November.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, the $750,000 self-insured retention, that's for the whole plan in the aggregate?
No.
Or per single claim?
This is per single claim.
This is individual stop loss.
So if we have a claim, the claim would go to $750,000.
At that point, EDDA begins paying for those losses beyond that.
The plan is we do not purchase in the aggregate, which is total plan cost.
Okay, so it could be several of-
It could be several, yes.
Hopefully not, but-
Hopefully not.
And we're actually, as I referred to in item number four, now we must consider pandemic
issues that we had not previously considered.
So we're starting to see a slowing trend of those type losses.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Now I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves a stop loss in short-term care for the
for health plan year 2023 second we have a motion by mrs. van a second by mr.
champagne will now proceed to vote board members please record your vote on this
on your screen via your keypad the motion passes 7-0 thank you
agenda item 10.5 discuss and consider holding a joint election with the city
of Katy for the May 6 2023 election hope that I missed one I'm sorry 10.4
10.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Innovative New Course Application submission for Elements of Data Science.
Discuss and consider board approval of innovative new course application submission for elements of data science.
The presenter tonight is Ms. Alicia Bates, Director of Secondary Curriculum and Instruction.
Good evening.
I'm sorry I skipped over you.
No problem.
Good evening, Board President Schulte, Trustees, and Superintendent Grigorski.
The purpose of the course, Elements of Data Science, is to introduce students to the skills needed for the much sought out and growing career field of data science.
Currently, there is not a TEKS-based course offered to fulfill student interests in this field.
In response to the growing interest, during the 21-22 school year, a teacher at Tompkins High School developed and successfully piloted the course, Elements of Data Science, which is a requirement in order for us to apply for an innovative course status.
Currently both Tompkins High School and Seven Lakes High School offer this course and have been have seen student interest and enrollment grow.
Secondary curriculum and instruction is proud to present the application for the cutting edge course to the KDISD Board of Trustees for approval to be submitted to TEA for the innovative course status.
I'm happy to answer any questions you may have right now.
Are there any questions?
Any other questions?
I would just like to make a comment.
I'm so excited to see this because I know that, you know, I have a daughter that's at
A&M and a lot of her friends, she's in the Mays Business School, but a lot of her friends
are taking, I don't know what the degree plan is called, but anyway, this is popular, I
know, at A&M.
So it's good for those kids who are interested in that to get kind of a jump start on that.
So I appreciate seeing this.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, I see that this course is at two high schools.
Currently.
Is that where you intend to kind of still at two high schools?
And I like the numbers I saw of enrollment.
I expect those to grow.
If we approve this, do you expect it to spread to other high schools?
Is that the goal?
Yes, ma'am.
Hopefully it will go to all high schools.
So that would require make sure you have the right teacher,
and then we'll just talk about it and talk about it
and get those boys and girls.
I love these opportunities, and you're exactly right, of course,
that this is a great need, and I'm glad to see it.
I probably, for one, would probably not enroll in it.
It's way too much data for me.
But Mr. Schulte would be real.
You can take my place.
Yeah, I'll do that.
I'm really glad we're having it for students.
Thanks for the presentation.
Mr. President, would this be a follow-up to AP Statistics?
Yes, it's a follow-up.
It's the course after AP Statistics or Academic Statistics.
I'll entertain a motion if there's no more questions.
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the innovative new course application submission for elements of data science.
We have a motion by Ms. Wilson, second by Mrs. Vann.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion passes 7-0. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Exciting.
10.5 Discuss and consider holding a joint election with the City of Katy for the May 6, 2023 Election.
10.5, discuss and consider holding a joint election with the City of Katy for the May 6, 2023 election.
The presenter tonight is Mr. Justin Graham, General Counsel and Election Administrator.
Good evening.
Trustees, President Schulte, Dr. Krakorski, what we have in front of you tonight is sort of a unique agenda item,
and I want to give just a little bit of background about why we're here talking about it.
attached to that agenda item in board docs which is members of the public can go see in october of
this year we were approached by the city of katie with an inquiry about would it be possible for the
district to hold joint elections with the city of katie nobody at the district prompted that or or
we had had no conversations actually with the city of katie prior to getting that letter from the
mayor since that time i have had a few discussions with the city to say hey what is that going to
look like um and so let me let me just uh kind of walk you through what i think some of the high
points are and then i'll answer any questions that you're that you're certain to have um historically
kdisd has run its own elections in may right you guys know ever since i've been here i've been the
elections administrator for the district which means we are responsible for the voting equipment
which we just updated our voting equipment before last May's election and
Actually hiring the staff
That independent contractors to come in and run our elections for us
And oversee everything from the ballot counting and tabulation to the early ballot board
Mr. Haskett was here earlier. He has long served in that position for us and many things that he's done for us
Historically Katie I see he's done that alone
We've done it on our own.
There was a long-standing history where we tried to ask the counties to work with us
so we wouldn't have to be in the elections business.
But again, we're in Waller, Harris, and Fort Bend counties.
Well, Fort Bend County has always been really eager to work with us.
Harris County has not.
And that continues to sort of be a trend.
So traditionally, if you are, and this request is just for the city of Cady.
So those watching online, hey, if I've got a KD address, right, I've got a 77494 or 77493, that doesn't necessarily apply to you if you don't actually live in the city limits and pay city taxes.
Historically, if you do live in the city of Katy, when May elections happen to vote for city council or mayor and or the school board, you've had to go to two different places on election day.
You've had to go to two different early voting locations.
You've had to go to two different places on election day.
so we got this we got this uh approach from the city so we started looking at it and we looked
at our budget what we've been spending uh we think we've got a really we've got a really good figure
of course coveted numbers sort of influenced that but i think we've got a really good figure
and a really good staffing ratio now um and then uh we looked at i had the city katie pull some
numbers and i think y'all have been given those numbers about what their cost expenditure has been
been in the past. Then we started looking at, I said, okay, if this is the question,
does it make sense for us as a district to do this? And why would it make sense for us? Well,
I can tell you, other than providing a service to our folks, it has a couple of things. Number one,
there would be no change in equipment, no change in our voting locations, right? We, you as a board,
have set the voting locations. We're not changing those, not even at city request. No change in our
our hours there's no change in the number of workers that we would have to
have and there's no change in our ballot board and the proven processes that we
have here in Katy ISD and I thought about you know we've got a sunk cost so
what we're good about it we've got a sunk cost that's there that would allow
us to cost share with the city of Katy so we there we could do a cost-sharing
agreement you know if we thought it wasn't going to impact us very much
which i really don't think it's going to impact our election that it would allow the city of kd
to pay us which would actually decrease the amount of expenditures out of kdisd's budget
which would be good again as we're pinching for every penny right in the teacher shortage
budget shortage everything uh it would allow us to share workers election workers at a premium
especially with covet and having the additional staff so katie we wouldn't be competing with the
city of katie during the may election for the same really because you're competing for the
the same workers. And then the fourth thing is greater access, less hassle for folks that live
both in the city, that live in the city of Katy. They go to one kind of a one-stop shop. What are
the bads? Well, in the city of Katy, if there is a runoff election, if somebody doesn't get the
majority of the vote, then they have to have a runoff. Katy ISD does not do that. That's not part
of what we do. You just have to have simply the most number of votes here in the city of Katy.
And then there is a small portion actually in the Young Ranch area, which is just a couple, it's not that many homes, but they actually live in the Lamar School District.
So those folks are going to have to, would have to vote in two different locations.
So all that being said, we got a charge.
I got a charge from this board, I think 24, 22 months ago.
go, I think Ms. Wilson kind of asked the first question, hey, could we in the city of Fulcher
have a same day voting location so that we don't have to, you know, somebody doesn't have to,
at the time it was Schaefer Elementary, but now it's been Jordan High School, that we don't have
to go to two different voting locations to vote in the city of Fulcher election and KDIC election.
election. We thought we had an agreement worked out last May. I actually was on the phone today or
communicated today again with Fort Bend County's elections administrator. He's promised me that
if the city of Fulcher has an election, that their election day voting site is going to be
at Jordan High School, which is where our election day polling location is going to be. So again,
we're trying to partner with those two big cities that are in our jurisdiction, again,
again, to make it a little easier on our folks.
So having said all that, I know you guys may have some questions on this.
I'm happy to take them.
I don't have them.
There is no administrative recommendation.
I don't have a recommendation for you.
This isn't asked from the city.
This is going to be a purely board decision as to whether or not you think it's going to be beneficial for us.
So any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Thank you, Mr. Graham.
So you said we'd see cost. I don't see cost in the thing that we have here, but you don't think it really is.
What does cost look like for us that much different to do this?
So this will not increase the cost for us.
What this will do is it has an opportunity because the city of Katy is they budget $50,000 a year, but they spend about $30,000 a year traditionally on their election.
what would allow them to pay us $30,000 and piggyback off of our election.
The thought being, if we're doing the same amount of work here for KDISD,
if it really is just you're coming to the ballot and checking another box,
it doesn't create additional work for us here.
And so we could put that $30,000 from the city.
And I don't know a number.
We would have to negotiate that.
And we could put that towards KDISD's cost as an offset, right?
So if you're a taxpayer in both jurisdictions, it's helpful.
But if you're just a Katie ISE resident it brings the cost of our election down annually for the same amount of work
So early voting all of their people would vote here at that at the admin building at the LMC
Yes, they would not vote at their Katie locations. They would vote here there. There will be no or
Katie sites of their own it traditionally their early voting location is at City Hall or the City Civic Center
that will go away and they will have to those folks will have to come to the LMC I
really
Appreciate making things easy for voters because it's been
For as many years as I know they have to go to two places all the time and they do you know they?
They do do that so I I really like this idea that
When you talk about full sure it was on my list same as mrs. Wilson
and is there a benefit to doing a joint election with Fulcher so they don't have to,
even if you're at the same high school or the same location,
you have to have two voting areas and two check-ins as they used to do for the KD and the KDISD one.
Right.
Would it be beneficial to have one ballot, and when you go in and give your driver's license,
It gives you the ballot that has KDSD and City of Katy or KDSD and City of Fulshire
Okay, so I think what how we're how we will structure
Let me try and answer that question with what I think the answer to this and then some explanation
What we will have is you will have to still go to two different voting machines
But we'll try and have it set up in the same hallway
You know if it whether it's at the pack
you'll walk in one door vote in the Katie ISD election then also you can
vote in the Fort Bend election in the same hallway so literally two different
machines and the reason we do two would be two different machines as opposed to
what we're what the city Katie's proposing is because a large portion of
the city of Fulcher is not in Katie ISD right in fact I think most of their
folks are actually in Lamar consolidated in the city of Fulcher they actually
contract because the entire city of Fulcher is in Fort Bend County so Fort
Fort Bend County runs their votes.
This would be much easier for the city of Katy if they weren't like us in Waller, Fort Bend, and Harris counties.
That's why we share the same headaches, right, because we're both in all three counties.
Mr. President?
Yes.
So, other than the city proper of Katy and Fulcher, this does not affect anything else in the Katy ISD at large?
It would not affect anything else. So if you live in the Taylor zone
You're not all of a sudden going to get a ballot to vote for the mayor of the city of Katy
It's a process will look the same. I just want to make sure that's clear and then also there wouldn't on
Election day other than full sure the city of Katy
Election day would really be the same
Because we already go to the municipal building in there and there's
Yeah, and we go to two different locations, correct?
Yes.
And then they have to go to two different things within the building.
Right.
And so that part wouldn't change either.
No, so again, yeah, so you're correct.
So think about it, city of Katy voters now, okay, you would vote at either, it used to be the library right there, or you vote at City Hall, which moved to the Civic Center last year.
Instead of that, we're going to have Katy ISD again.
Our voting locations aren't going to change.
So we'll have one over there at that municipal building by the police station and then at the Civic Center
So those will again will not change for us
So the only thing for the city of Katy that is proposed to be changed is for the early voting
Locations to all be combined into one area. Yeah, so that again if you want to early vote for the city of Katy
Right again, that's because they want to piggyback off our election. So we're not gonna change anything
anything we're doing but if they want if they want to do it I just want to make
this clear that that's the only thing for the city of Katy that would change
is that everybody could vote at the same place early voting and I agree with
mrs. Fox that that would be make it easier for them obviously just family
they would only have to go to the one thing thank you any other questions I
have a question yes so when I was running for election and I would visit
the sites in the city of Katy, there were lots of tents. Are we going to set up and allow lots of
tents at the LMC? Well, there's always, as a voting site, there's always the opportunity for
you to stand outside of that 100-foot barrier. The good part about early voting, being at the LMC
and being in late April and early May.
We don't have anything going on at the LMC at that time period,
and we've got that whole parking lot out there.
So if somebody from the city, let's say there's a mayor's race,
there's no mayor's election this year,
but somebody wants to come out there every day
and set up a tent for early voting,
we're going to have ample space for them to do so in the LMC parking lot.
It's not going to affect our voters' access.
Of course, Election Day, I know what you're thinking about Election Day,
but those tents are already there anyway right any other questions mr. president
mr. Perez so the ballast however would be would be different we separate so it
would be it would be it's if you're a yes the answer I think to that is yes so
if you're a Katie isd voter that doesn't live in the city you're just going to
have trustee a b and c right those are the races you're going to vote in if you're a kdisd voter
that lives in the city you're going to have trustee a b and c and then city councilman a b and c
on one ballot only for the city of katie that's right combined that's right so if you don't live
if you don't have a city of katie address you're never going to know the difference because
that nothing's going to show up on your ballot.
It's almost like, think about the general election, think about the last November election
that you voted in, right?
If you're in a certain precinct, right, you have JP for precinct five, example for Harris
County.
If you don't live in that precinct, you're not going to get that ballot.
So if you don't live in the city of Katy, you're not going to get any ballot for council
persons in the city of Katy.
And our locations would be the same?
Absolutely.
Absolutely. We're not changing what we're doing for that.
So I'm just thinking, why would we do it or not do it?
Why would we not do it, or what would be the argument for not doing it?
Again, as I went through what are the possible bad things,
the thing that comes to mind is runoff elections, right?
So let's say they have a three-person race for mayor.
The mayor's not on the ballot this year.
but three-person race for a city council person at large and somebody doesn't get 50 percent then
the city of katie's going to have to do a runoff election my uh our our goal here would be if you
if you do decide to let us move forward with this then what we would probably say is city katie
will run your general election but if it's a runoff we'll let you use our equipment but we're
not we're going to step out of the runoff business because we don't have we would not have any
business being there would be no reason for us to expend time and district money
on that so from a cost standpoint it's a bet it's a benefit because the city of
Katy will be paying us some amount that they normally would that they normally
would have paid running their own election yes sir correct mr. president
so a great benefit to this is sharing services sharing people that are hard to
come by there will be no lmc voting on election day there never is it'll be those two and can any
katie resident vote at any kdisd location like they can for a kdsd election would those
would that ballot spit out if you vote at taylor high school but you live inside katie
it will for early voting now remember on election day that early voting they could vote at taylor
They can vote at Seven Lakes if they're over there because the ballot spits out based on your driver's license.
That's right.
So let's say you live in the city of Katy, but you work at Taylor High School.
You could walk down the hall and then vote in both elections.
It's just such a great benefit for people, I think.
I think that's a great benefit.
So let me just get this straight, Mr. Graham.
So to follow up with what Mrs. Fox is saying, so as it is now,
if you live in Katy proper and you work at Taylor High School, you cannot vote.
I mean you could vote for the KDISD, but you couldn't vote for your council people and all that at Taylor High School.
Correct.
So right now they would still have to drive over.
They would still have to drive to the city.
Yes, ma'am.
But this new, if we did this, that teacher that works at Taylor High School that lives in Katy proper could just go down and vote for all the things.
Check both boxes.
Yes, ma'am.
And the same thing for Jordan High School if they lived in Fulcher.
or it's not an early voting site but seven lakes morton ranch okay all right i got it
mr president yes mr graham if so if we if we were to move forward with this
city of katie would still have to we we would go back to city of katie and say we're open to this
the board has approved it or it's a done deal if we move forward with it today uh the board
They have not taken action on this, but I do not feel like they would have approached us unless they were resolute in this.
You have to think, I will note, we invested in new voting equipment last year, which I hope everybody really enjoyed,
and we have the paper back up now, which adds a level of confidence.
They're going to have to purchase new voting equipment in the distant future,
and they're looking for a workaround on that safe taxpayer money and they said hey we've got this sunk cost perhaps we could partner with the
KDSD
Mr. President I'm prepared to make a motion if everyone's finished with questions, but I have a question for mr. Graham first this motion
Do we need a motion that says
that defines the
Only a general election, but not a runoff or will you make that conversation?
to take this to them and say that's the decision.
No, I mean, you have my word as council.
I'm not going to allow us to negotiate an agreement
that we're on the hook for the runoff.
I agree with what you said.
We won't do the runoff because none of our business anyway.
It's just their people and it's added cost.
Right.
Again, I've had a conversation with the city administrator
and mayor that says if our board decides to do this,
we're not in the runoff business.
Okay.
Are you ready for the motion, Mr. Chairman?
I am.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves
of holding a joint election this May
and authorize the district's administration to negotiate and finalize a joint election and cost-sharing agreement with the City of Katy.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Spox and a second by Mrs. Champagne.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen pad.
Screen.
No screen.
The motion passes 7-0.
10.6 Discuss and consider the Board Operating Procedures.
Agenda item 10.6, discuss and consider approval of the board operating procedures.
The presenter is me.
And you guys know we did a major update of those last year.
And my commitment, as long as I'm president, was we're going to do what it says.
We're going to update them once a year.
So there's, you know, we just did a wholesale update last year.
There's very few changes that we're making this year just based on feedback I received over the year.
If we continue to do this every year, it's a pretty easy process.
So that's it.
So everybody got a copy of them in the board operating procedures, I mean in the board docs.
Was there any questions?
If not, I'll entertain a motion.
Can I add a couple things?
I had one or two things I wanted to bring up.
And this is on page 10, I guess it's 12.0.
And F.
The point is where it says if three board members want something on the agenda,
and I'm assuming that it's within the 10 days or prior to the 10 days, it says, or scheduled
for deliberation at an approximate time in the near future.
Shouldn't it be at that next meeting?
In other words, you submitted the three Board members 10 days before.
I assume it would be on the agenda that next meeting.
Yeah, that's not something that we're changing.
That's something that's always been in there.
But, yeah, it seems to make sense.
We could – it should be on that agenda.
And you're saying scratch the war schedule for deliberation at appropriate time in the near future?
Mr. President, part of the reason would be to give the administration time to prepare a presentation for us
or to actually have something of substance.
and so I think leaving the ability to say deliberation at appropriate time in
the near future if it was something that was just a conversation we need to have
or a small amount of information presented I think that would work but
leaving the ability to keep it open to say say we requested a full presentation
on our math curriculum for secondary education to be able to put put a full
full treatment of that subject together might take more than the amount.
Okay.
I thought that was what the 10 days was for, but okay.
Not always enough.
All right.
I had one other clarification.
Thank you, Mr. Redman.
One other clarification?
Yeah.
On page 16, number 19, H, you know, about the tracking and reporting any requests
under this provision, the cost of any individual board member for 200 paintings or more in
a 90-day period.
It says this provision, and this provision includes, I think, for example, when we just
email Dr. Gorski and yourself asking for some information, just asking for maybe a question,
response.
That doesn't come under this, does it?
I don't think so.
Yeah, you want Mr. Graham?
There's a legal statute.
Yes.
He's on page 16, item 19H.
So 19H is specifically in there in response to a legislative mandate.
There is a law which talks about trustee request.
It is not intended to be indicative of something you might get in a Friday info.
It would be a trustee that says, hey, I'm going to request all of this data over all of these periods of time,
something that would be outside of the normal course of scope of an agenda item
that you're working on something that's different and the legislature wants us
to track the cost on that today as of this year we don't have any of those
such requests that we've tracked to you know at least since May of this year
okay no I it's it's it's not clear which of ten nineteen point nine nineteen
19.0 refers to it's kind of like everything
Again, there's a legislative mandate behind it. I can get you that information
On campus visits
I know we have 14 items here regulating campus visits
If a more for example V
fee, a special event, you know, like we're getting invited to concerts all the time,
and presumably we don't have to get approval of the other board member to go to a special
event.
I just, you know, in practice, it doesn't really work this way.
So that's just a comment.
I know there's nothing new that you've added in here, but again, it's...
V, number five.
I think it's at 20A, room number five.
So if we're invited to a special event, we have to notify the board president
and inform the assigned board member for that school prior to attending the special event?
It's my understanding this is put in here, and it's just kind of grown.
Excuse me if I'm speaking out of turn.
it's more of a respect thing that you respect the adopted school board member
just let them know and a lot of times adopted school members can't go to
something and are glad that another board member can be there to represent
the school district it's not a it's not a possessive type of thing it's just a
border respect thing if you're also invited just to let them know I'm
invited I'm going hey are you going to just it's just a it's a mutual risk I
think to me for the most part every board member that I know is following
this that I know of well right I wouldn't go to anyone's I wouldn't go to
make a visit to the school without discussing it you know calling the other
board member that's a sign I'm just saying as far as special events concerts
etc we have to do that as well no it's a special event it would be like if the
principal calls you it's mrs. van school and the principal would call you and say
you know hey we're doing a I don't know teachers carols Christmas carols or
something like that during the day yeah and then that would be something and I
think it goes to the board secretary and she's been inviting us all that happened
so I I think this is working in my opinion I think it's work I mean like
this past week seven like senior high invited all of us yes orchestra thing
yes where that's one person's school we were all invited but it's an individual
thing here and there it's just it's just a mutual respect it's just I don't think
this has been I don't see this as being a problem okay just one more thing on
legal issues and in B 25 B what what are we defining as a formal I know you
appreciate you putting the word word or moving here what are we defining as a
grievance of formal grievance because it's not a legal action it's a grievance
are we talking about grievance the grievance process one grievance one of
grievance to grievance so I sent you a response to that and it's and I put all
all the local policies, FNG local, CKE local, GL local,
all define what a grievance is.
Okay.
It's very explicit in there.
Okay.
If there's no other questions, I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President, I have some questions about the visiting campuses.
What can you tell us?
I want to say something about the seven-day notice.
I can't remember what page it's on.
But I just want to say that not always can we have a seven-day notice.
I mean, sometimes that's a lot to ask of admin to try to remember to give us a seven-day notice,
even especially if it's our adopted school.
And, you know, they send me an email and they say,
we forgot to tell you, but tomorrow is Christmas carols at such-and-such school.
So this one's not being changed.
This was approved by this board last year.
Right.
And it's not changing.
And what it says is you can do less than seven days.
You just got to notify the president.
And I think that's happened before.
I've never denied it.
It's just from it's giving the trustees, you should try to do that.
You should try to give the principals in the schools seven days.
If something comes up, you know, out of that's less than seven days,
I can't imagine that not being approved.
But it's having the discipline.
discipline, you just can't pop in at these schools without putting some thought into it.
It's not us popping into schools, it's actually reverse. It's actually not us
asking to go to there, it's them asking us to go to here. But it does state that
if a board member is invited to attend a school event during the instructional
day, by school leadership, no advance notice or approval
is required. That's the final statement.
That's the one above that. The beginning is a board member initiated
Yes, day school visits, okay, and that's all I have. Thank you
I'll entertain a motion
It's it as we're flipping through there I was looking for 25 we got 25 on there twice, okay, that's it
Cool fix that. Thank you
Mr. President yes, I move the Board of Trustees approves of the 2022 2023 board operating procedures
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Vann, a second by Mr. Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen pad.
The motion passes 7-0.
Thank you all very much.
10.7 Discuss and consider approval of the 2022-2023 Katy ISD Legislative Priorities.
10.7, discuss and consider approval of the 2022-2023 KDISD legislative priorities.
The presenter is Mr. Lance Redmond.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Board, if you remember, we've covered this over the past couple months.
coming out of this most recent trustee advocacy training program one of those action items was
to perform listening circles with our community and we gave an update last month letting you know
what that what happened how that worked what those items we were focused on and so here before you
you have our four legislative priorities that were identified by our community over those multiple
listening circles what we had for you last it's very similar to what we had
last month what we try to do is make the language a little more simpler a little
more simple I guess it would be the right way to say that and be able to
present that not just to our community but at the same time when we're talking
with lawmakers that it's quick easy for them to understand and then be able to
maybe take that what we had before and be able to share that with their
staffers to say hey here's some more detailed issues that we're looking at
And so if you look at that, it's those same four school finance state testing and accountability teacher recruitment and retention and then House Bill
4545 and so that this is a
This is what we would present this share with our community to take to our legislators for you to use
It gives you some of that information as far as stating what the problem is as well as how what we would support to address
that issue so
Any question board members
Mr. President, so exactly, Mr. Redmond, what would we do with this?
Where will it go?
Is it to present as a board or individually to legislators or to send to TASB or Raise Your Hand Texas, or what do we do with it?
No, so TASB has their own legislative advocacy program that they're running.
in fact at TASB in October, September, we voted that entire resolution as far as what
their group is going for.
Then the rest of your answer would be yes.
This would be for us as individuals as well as maybe as board members when we approve
it to be able to send it out to all of our legislators so they're able to see, hey, this
is what the voters in KDISD have supported.
This is what the board has voted on to approve.
And then as an individual, if you have that opportunity to sit down with one of your legislators
to be able to say, hey, here's the items that our district, that the seven, nine different
listing circles that we performed, our voters brought up as issues that they wanted addressed.
I have a couple questions on a couple of the items, if that's all right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The basic allotment, great.
All four of that, increasing that.
I'm glad you put in about the elementary school kids not being proficient and using a keyboard.
I think it's beyond that.
It's really asking a third grader to be computer literate and a lot of them are not and they're
having difficulty with that.
But I appreciate you getting that in there on the keyboard.
board on one question I had on teacher recruitment and retention personally I
mean I'm all in favor of getting more money for the teachers reducing their
workload helping them with discipline independence in the classroom was
another thing I think and so definitely getting the teachers more money is it's
really important I'm I guess I'm questioning the first one which is
is taxpayers subsidizing college tuition for teachers.
So I don't think I'm on board with that personally.
Yes, I want to give the teachers,
raise the pay scale for the profession in general
and help them out with workloads, et cetera.
But as far as asking taxpayers subsidize college tuition,
I don't agree with that.
And then I wanted to ask about the last bullet on House Bill 4545.
Is that something, where is that coming from?
Is that something that came from the listening circles to increase that ratio of three to
one to eight to ten?
Because I'm just kind of wondering how does that help the student when you increase the
ratio like that?
Why are we proposing that?
I don't mind jumping in a little bit on that.
I would say this, especially for KDISD, that long before House Bill 4545,
our campuses and our teachers have done small group instruction for what we would call remediation.
We've been very successful at it, and we've been successful at it at doing larger than just three per teacher.
and we believe we can educate kids in larger groups than that,
and we could have up to eight to ten kids
and still meet the goal of meeting the needs of kids
without it just being three to one.
What we're finding out in ADISD on this House Bill 45,
this three to one is really hard to accomplish.
To do 30 hours or up to 30 hours instruction
instruction in all the core areas at a three to one ratio, we don't have the staff to do it. It's almost an impossible standard to meet, and it's extremely difficult, but I would also venture to say we've had great success in small group instruction with kids, remediation, with groups larger than three to one.
Is that, because I read that you can have three to one as long as it's,
it could be a classroom of 10 or 12, but you can have a three to one,
the hours count if you have a teacher that's doing three to one over here
and then you have another teacher that's working with a larger group.
Do we do that?
Is that something that we do?
I would have to ask one of our experts here in the room of the executive cabinet
that knows it better than I do that does not sound like what was approved to have
like let's say we're gonna put 30 kids in a room but I'm only gonna put three
at each table and the teacher is gonna rotate to this table three to this table
of three saying you have to get 12 in a room yeah and you count the hours where
there's a teacher tutoring three kids and so that counts that hour with the
three to one counts? It doesn't work that way because the hours have to be outside
the instructional day so I can't count those while I'm in class working with
small groups so I've got these three and I'm working with them so I'm gonna count
those minutes doesn't work that way they have to be outside the instructional day
and that's where we're coming into some real challenges with that.
Thanks.
You bet.
Any other questions, Board members?
If not, I'll entertain a motion.
I have one more question.
I'm sorry.
You know, when you look at TASB's advocacy and Raise Your Hand Texas, it's all about
being anti-vouchers and anti-school choice and so on, but we're not dealing with any
of that here so we're not advocating as a board as a school district anti school
choice or anti vouchers that's not part of this at all it's not on the list that
I see thank you mr. president I agree with what mr. Perez said about the
keyboard if we could substitute the word computer there I think it would be more
comprehensive than it's just a keyboard is that is that your understanding mr.
I WANT TO SAY THAT I REALLY LIKE THE WAY THIS WAS, THAT THIS WORDING IS MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD
AND UNDERSTANDING THAN SOMETIMES WHEN YOU GET IN A LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND TALKING
lots of things in educationese. We understand it, but I love that this is straightforward.
The other thing I wanted to address that Mr. Perez talked about is the state subsidizing
college tuition for students to study K-12 education. They're not choosing it, Mr. Perez,
and we're trying to make sure that our brightest minds are really still considering education
education because it's becoming so difficult and my understanding that this
Proposal so to speak this this idea because it's we're not telling them what to do. We're giving them this idea is that it would be
guarantee that if you
Take this route that you will work in
Education for at least a minimum number of years five years or so to make sure that they have given back
to the children and really give them education
a really strong start
so that they don't just get an education degree
and then go do something else.
They would absolutely come into the education world.
So because I'm, we have very similar values
and I challenge that too,
but we have to get more teachers
and if we can get them in a classroom,
I think we can keep them
because of the life change that they see
and the impact they see from their life's work of making a difference.
But they're just not choosing it now.
We have to do something to get them to choose it.
Mr. President, and I will also say that these things aren't actually bills, right?
So until there's actually legislation that's written that we can get behind and support,
I think it changes as the legislative session moves along,
Is that when those actual action items are there that we can voice our support for?
Where this starts off is as as those priorities or those bills are being written it kind of lays that out for them. So
Yes president. Yeah, I just want this one thing to add is that
Teachers
want to teach and I think if we if we increase over all the industries
compensation, and I think a key thing here is decreasing the burdensome mandates that
increase teachers' daily workload.
If we do things like that, that's going to help bringing in teachers.
I think those things are critical.
Pay, workload, job enrichment, the stress level, things like that.
If we can work on that, especially the workload, the excessive workloads driving teachers out
the workforce which is what it says here as opposed to again taxpayer funded
whether it be a loan or like we're forgiving loans now
whether it be a loan or a tuition assistance subsidies
i think that's more difficult as far as the taxpayer paying for that
thank you
any other questions mr president so i was working on this with uh with mr redmond so i just have
something else in that we stated the problems the things we're very concerned about to take
this to our legislators and we wanted to provide this to our community to also have talking points
with legislators and we didn't want just the problem we wanted to also offer you know this
This is what we could support.
This is what we'll help you with.
We'll be on board.
How can we work together with this?
And that's what the we supports are for, ideas for them.
It's not like Mr. Redman said.
These are not bills.
We're not asking for a bill to be written, but we're just saying that this is a problem.
And they're like, well, you have to come with a solution.
And so that's what we're doing here.
So I don't know about the one that, how you feel about the one that Mr. Perez is challenging here.
here, it's an idea, the state subsidizing college tuition,
do you think that would?
If we were to drop that to the bottom
so it wouldn't be as primary, like number four,
that would be a- Or take it off.
Or just remove it?
For our community?
I don't know.
I have a question about that, please, Mr. Redmond.
I'm just curious.
So this piece of paper is something that you would like for people who, you know, people like us, school board members or people who are in your listening circles or whoever in the community would help propose this to our legislators, right?
Right. But if there's something, you know, even if it's just one thing on there that you are strongly against,
then, you know, maybe that particular person doesn't want to give the piece of paper to them
because, you know, they're not going to help you advocate it now
because they like all the things but this one thing, you know what I mean?
So that's, I'm not saying I'm personally struggling with that,
but I can see how that would be a struggle not just for Mr. Perez but maybe other people too.
So I know it's impossible to get a list that 100 percent of the people are going to say I like
everything on the list. So in my mind you know if you like and this is in my mind not maybe
everyone's mind but if you like 90 percent of it or 95 percent of it then you maybe should
should help promote it because you're never going to get, you know, you might like all
of it because you helped put it together, but, you know, you could go across the room
and I bet you there's something in here that somebody doesn't like, you know?
I probably would have removed one or two of these points off if it was just me personally.
And I think the thing that encourages me as a board member is we did sit down and listen
to people, right?
I mean, if there was anything we could say the time I've been on the board that we sought
out input from people. This has probably been one of the most involved outside of
like a bond committee and so personally I might have left some of these things
off some of the sub points but who am I to tell our voters and our community
members that this what they wanted shouldn't be included on it so
personally I'd pull out a sharpie and I'd probably cross out that part I don't
like and then give it to them. But you're right you you make a really good
point and we're here as representatives of the community to represent the
community so you're right you that you did your nine listening circles you you
listen to people and this is the list that they want a lot of times we're up
here advocating for things that we may not agree with all the time but we're
trying to be the voice of the people so I think that this is what your list is
right and I like I would say not my list but I mean this is what this list
this represents is what the people want not necessarily what we want you know
the question is would this keep this one thing keep you from supporting this
I'm thinking we're gonna take this to our representatives mostly that we know
around here and they're gonna hate that one too let me well I guess with with
With Mr. Champagne's subject to or proviso or whatever,
it's kind of like it kind of makes it easier to vote for it
because it's kind of like not everybody has to be 100% in favor of every single thing.
I wanted to just ask one more thing about the ratio,
the 3 to 1 or the 8 to 10, just for clarification.
Aren't we already asking people to, parents,
parents, because parents can agree to a higher ratio currently as I understand it.
Aren't we only asking, already asking parents now, will they agree to like a six to one
or eight to one or whatever, aren't we doing that already?
Because they, per the 45-45 you can, you can increase the ratio as long as you, the parents
agree in yes so the parent can agree to sit in a group that is larger correct
but does that solve the issue we're trying to tackle I'm saying are you
getting a lot of yeses from parents saying yeah my child can be in a bigger
group I don't have that data in front of me and in that I don't know if dr.
Dr. Caskey or Mrs. Hack, you have any data related to the group sizes?
We do have the data.
We did offer House Bill 4545 accelerated learning this past summer as an example.
We had grade 6th, 7th, and 8th, and, of course, the high school EOC tutorials.
And there was a request during KSAT to waive the limit of three so that we could raise it
so we could have enough teaching staff to seat the kids.
We would have to pull the data to see exactly what that was class by class.
And content, I'm just curious if you're already kind of getting to the same place
via parents
approving the higher ratio
With maybe some people still having the ability to depending on their child have the lower ratio
But if you have a lot of parents already approving a higher ratio because they're 45 45 you can
If you get the parents approval go to a bigger class
Any other questions?
I'll entertain a motion.
Somebody's going to make one.
Mr. Schulte.
President Schulte, I'm sorry.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves of the 2022-2023 KDISD legislative priorities.
We have a motion by Mrs. Wilson, a second by Mrs. Vann.
We'll now proceed to vote. Board members, please record your vote on the screen pad.
Motion passes 7-0. Thank you. Yes. I just want to make sure I tried to capture any bit of edits
because Dr. Groom's team over there is responsible for creating the document based upon all the
feedback that the board and the subcommittee and the folks. The only thing I captured on there
that I was confident that every board member had thought was to change the word keyboard to computer.
Yes.
Was there anything else the board wanted me to edit on there differently for the document that I didn't capture?
I think if the order shows how important it is to us,
when Mr. Perez was mentioning about the subsidizing college tuition,
I don't think it would still change much if you were to at least drop that to the bottom.
is based on the conversations we had,
the mandates, the funding teacher compensation,
and the penalties for being able to go back to retired teachers.
I think those were a higher thing I heard in the listening circles.
The subsidizing college tuition,
while, yes, that was very much supported,
I do think that could drop down to the bottom
if that would be a reasonable compromise for it.
We can make the edit, but I can tell you,
when we put this together, and I'll have to clarify
I make sure with Dr. Grimm's, we didn't write it in an order of priority.
It was just the items that came out of all the internal discussions and the community discussions and our stakeholder discussions,
and that's how this was created.
But we could certainly put it at the bottom.
Yeah, I think so.
I mean, I know it's not written in that way, but most of the time when people read something,
the first thing they read and then they zone out.
It could be number four.
Like emails, right?
Yep.
Thank you.
Thank you. We'll now proceed on to the consent agenda.
Yeah, we voted. Yes.
11. Consent
Mr. President? Yes.
I move the Board of Trustees approves of the consent agenda for items 11.1 through 11.7.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Vann, second by Mr. Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote. Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
Request for action, or just note you made.
The consent agenda passes 7-0.
12.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
agenda item 12.1 the board has provided a copy of the notated items to kdisd agenda item 13.1
13.1 Special Board Meeting – January 17, 2023
there will be a special board meeting on tuesday january 17 2023 agenda item 13.2 the next regular
13.2 Regular Board Meeting – January 23, 2023
board meeting will be on monday january 23 2023 agenda item 14 there being no further business
just before the board. This meeting is adjourned. The time is 8.15.
Very crisp.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's investment policies and strategies.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 10.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the list of campuses presented to be closed to voluntary school intra-district and inter-district transfers for the 2023-2024 school year based on enrollment projections.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 10.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal proposal for Individual Stop Loss Insurance provided by AETNA for Health Plan Year 2023
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 10.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves of the Innovative New Course Application submission for Elements of Data Science.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 10.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves of holding a joint election this May and authorize the District's administration to negotiate and finalize a joint election and costs sharing agreement with the City of Katy.
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 10.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2022-2023 Board Operating Procedures.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 10.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves of the 2022-2023 Katy ISD Legislative Priorities.
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 11.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's October 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 009 · AGENDA 11.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's December 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 010 · AGENDA 11.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Interlocal Agreement between Sourcewell and Katy Independent School District to purchase supplies and services.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 11.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the inter-local agreement with the City of Fort Worth for the purchase of supplies and services.
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 012 · AGENDA 11.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the contract for the domestic boiler replacements at Katy Junior High School, Holland Elementary and Kilpatrick Elementary School to Nash Industries, Inc. utilizing Choice Partners Contract No. 20/017MR-15 in the amount of $429,875.24 with a total project cost not to exceed $499,000.00.
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 013 · AGENDA 11.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a Foreign Exchange Waiver.
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 014 · AGENDA 11.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November.
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 |