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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, March 27, 2023
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- 0:06 to 6:04 1. Call to Order
- 6:04 to 8:58 3. Recognitions
- 8:58 to 13:28 4. Oaths
- 13:28 to 33:09 5. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
- 33:09 to 33:42 6. Closed Meeting
- 33:42 to 35:20 7. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
- 35:20 to 46:50 8.1 Strategic Design 1.3 Elementary Literacy Update
- 46:50 to 1:36:53 8.2 Presentation on the District's Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) Local Designation System
- 1:36:53 to 2:03:28 8.3 2023-2024 Budget Update
- 2:03:28 to 2:08:07 9.1 Discuss and consider Board adoption of a resolution extending the bank depository contract.
- 2:08:07 to 2:28:36 9.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the purchase of a student bus monitoring system for the bus fleet.
- 2:28:36 to 2:30:11 9.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for Lit / Dark Fiber services to meet the immediate and long-term fiber infrastructure for Junior High 18 and High School 10.
- 2:30:11 to 2:32:02 9.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for the Building Management Control System replacement at multiple campuses.
- 2:32:02 to 2:34:03 9.5 Discuss and consider the Board approval of a proposal for the cafeteria kitchen component replacements at various campuses.
- 2:34:03 to 2:38:42 9.6 Discuss and consider approval of the renewal proposal for Property Insurance.
- 2:38:42 to 2:47:04 9.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of a one-time retention lump sum payment of 1% of the mid-point for all returning employees and a one-time lump sum payment of 1% of the mid-point for those employees that provide the district early notification of their intent to retire.
- 2:47:04 to 2:49:50 9.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of equalizing the I00 paygrade of the 2022-2023 Board approved compensation plan.
- 2:49:50 to 2:51:00 9.9 Discuss and consider Board approval of a resolution to nominate superintendent Dr. Ken Gregorski for the Texas Association of School Boards Superintendent of the Year.
- 2:51:00 to 2:51:36 10. Consent
- 2:51:36 to 2:51:51 11.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 2:51:51 to 2:52:11 12. Future Meetings
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1. Call to Order
Noting that quorum is present, I hereby call this regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Katy Independent School District to order.
Today is Monday, March 27th, 2023 and the time is 5 PM.
Dr. Gorski, will you verify that we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regards to notice for this meeting?
Mr. President, I do confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act for our meeting tonight.
We'll now proceed on to the Pledge of Allegiance. Dr. Gorski?
Yes, thank you, Mr. President.
We've got a special guest who's going to join us at the podium, Hannah Hilbert, fifth grader from Winborn.
I see her principal out there, Lisa Friesen.
Parents David and Holly Hilbert, and has a sibling over at Morton Ranch High School, Haley.
elite special interests.
Hannah is a member of the Girl Scout troop,
and she loves camping.
She's also on the neighborhood swim team
and loves swimming at school.
She is a valued member of the safety patrol,
loves to help others.
When she grows up, she would like to be a school counselor.
You can start today.
Hannah's favorite subject is English language arts
and reading because she loves to do research and write essays
from teacher Barry Lynn Mitchell.
At the beginning of her fifth grade year,
Hannah expressed to me that she had set a personal goal
for herself to be an exceptional eagle in order to achieve this goal she planned to work hard
academically be and be a leader for her peers help others the way that she was able hannah has
officially been awarded an exceptional eagle in both fourth and fifth grade and i'm so proud to
say she is now representing windborne as a pledge leader as well she has far exceeded our expectations
in every way and from fifth grade teacher rob tehan here's a quote read at our most recent
exceptional Eagle ceremony that summarizes how proud I am to have Hannah
in my class my exceptional Eagle truly exemplifies the traits of kindness and
empathy on a daily basis they care about their classmates and will go out of
their way to help them they have a truly kind heart and they're always quick with
a smile they make the class in our school a better place they work hard and
show determination and all that they do modeling the kind of grit and hard work
that will make them successful going forward my exceptional Eagle is a true
true joy to be around and I'm excited to announce that my winner is the one and only Hannah Hilbert.
So welcome and thank you for coming and we will stand for the pledge.
I pleasantly dance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which
it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag, two feet against the Texas, one state under God, one invisible.
Hi, my name is Hannah Hilbert and I'm a fifth grade student at Wimborne Elementary.
I have been attending Wimbledon since kindergarten and I'm proud to be here representing my school as your pledge leader.
To me, being a Wimbledon Eagle means making good choices and soaring high to success.
As I prepare for fifth grade graduation and sixth grade at Morton Ranch Junior High,
I look back on all the memories that I have made at Wimbledon and in KDISD.
And I know that everything my teachers have taught me will help me reach my future goals.
Thank you for this opportunity to represent my school as your pledge leader.
I will always remember this honor. Thank you.
Hannah, turn around and please, I want them to see you because they're looking at you thinking,
how brave for a 10 year old to be up here and to have such grace and poise and you're already an exceptional leader.
we've heard from all of your teachers and look at all these people who love you right there
when we're in elementary don't we love this yes i heard a rumor did your dad go to winborn
elementary school how about that love it okay let's go around so this is this is your gift
this is your certificate that will always remind you that you were here in our in this room we have
board meetings we have them 12 months a year we only have pledge leaders during when it's not
summer so out of eight or nine people every year you're one of them this year that's special so we
have this bag for you to commemorate this event too okay so congratulations there's that and then
we're going to go around here and take a picture under that katie's up okay your mom people
Thank you.
Okay, looks like we have some scouts in the audience.
You want to come up to the podium tonight?
Tell us what your name is and what troop you're in and what rank you are and what badges you're
working on.
Hello.
My name is Nicholas Valadez.
I am currently in troop 230.
I'm working on the communications merit badge.
Currently a life scout working on my Charlie Eagle.
Thank you.
Excellent. Congratulations.
3. Recognitions
We'll now proceed on into the recognition portion of the meeting.
Dr. Gorski?
Yeah, at this time I'd like to introduce Maria DiPetta,
General Manager of Media Relations, for the recognitions portion of the meeting.
Good evening, President Schulte, Trustees, and Superintendent Gorski.
We begin tonight with the University Interscholastic League,
which has an exciting history of athletic excellence.
Katy High School student Jeremy Manivogue
earned the 6A UIL State Wrestling Champion title
in the 165-pound weight class.
This victory is a culmination of his hard work and perseverance.
At this time, will Jeremy and his coach Vinny Lowe
please come forward in honor of this accomplishment?
Thank you, Mr. President.
congratulations to both of them we do ask that coach lowe stay for our next recognition
let's give him one more round of applause
Next in his 19 years at Katy High School as head wrestling coach, math teacher, and credit recovery teacher, Vinnie Lowe has proved to be one of the most accomplished coaches in the state with more than 500 career wins.
Three times he has been named Texas Coach of the Year. First for girls 2009, boys in 2016, and boys again in 2018.
He was named Regional Coach of the Year 10 times.
In addition, Coach Lowe is an 11th time District Coach of the Year.
He has coached 18 state championships individually.
These accomplishments have led to one of the highest honors a wrestling coach can receive.
Coach Lowe was named the 2021 National Coach of the Year by the National Federation of High School Coaches
at the UIL Wrestling Championships this past month.
Please join us in congratulating Coach Lowe.
Thank you.
Congratulations to Coach Lowe.
And this concludes the recognitions portion of this evening's meeting
4. Oaths
Congratulations, we're now going to proceed into the oath of office
Deputy chief Tabor will present the biological information and chief call with minister oath of office
Thank you, Justice.
President Schulte, Superintendent Gorski, and School Board,
it's our distinct honor to introduce the newest officer to the department tonight.
Officer Ricky Field was born in Burnett, Texas in 1971 to Jack and Vivian Field.
Ricky moved to Katy with his parents and two older siblings,
Barbara Field Smith and Jack Field Jr.
When he was just six weeks old, he attended Katy Elementary School,
Katy Junior High, and Katy High School.
He's a local boy.
While in high school, he was an active member of the Katy FFA
and worked in the local rice fields of Katy.
In 1994, Ricky began his law enforcement career
by attending Gus George Law Enforcement Academy Class 9. He was first sworn in as
a police officer with the City of Neville in 1994. While at the City of
Neville, Rickey implemented the department's first canine program. In
1997 Rickey then joined the rank of the and file of the Harris County Precinct
5 constable's office where he was sworn in as a deputy constable. During his tenure
At Precinct 5, Ricky worked in the Patrol Division patrolling contracts, traffic enforcement,
and accident investigation.
Later in his career, Ricky moved to the Parks Division to patrol the parks of Harris County.
While in the Parks Division, he was assigned to the Bicycle Patrol Unit and later the Mounted
Patrol Unit where he patrolled by horseback.
In 2014, Ricky retired from his law enforcement career.
Since then, Ricky has worked in outside sales for Tifco Industries, Inc., where he received several awards for his accomplishments in the industry.
After being away from law enforcement for eight years, Ricky felt the calling to return to law enforcement at KDISD to serve the students and citizens of KDISD.
While not working, Ricky enjoys cooking, hunting, welding, and spending time with his wife, Michelle, and his kids and grandkids.
At this time, I'd like to ask Mr. Jack Fields, Ricky, and his wife, Michelle, to come up here.
Raise your right hand.
All right.
And repeat after me.
I.
State your name.
I.
Ricky Field.
Do solemnly swear.
Do solemnly swear.
That I will faithfully execute.
That I will faithfully execute.
The duties of the Office of Peace Officer.
The duties of the Office of Peace Officer.
Of the Katy Independent School District.
Of the Katy Independent School District.
Of the State of Texas.
Of the State of Texas.
And will.
And will.
To the best of my ability.
To the best of my ability.
preserve protect and defend preserve protect and defend Constitution and laws
Constitution and laws of the United States of the United States and now this
And of this day, so have we got.
So have we got.
Congratulations.
Thank you, sir.
All right.
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I'm going to throw another little tidbit of information in here for y'all.
Ricky's brother, Jack, just retired from the city of Katy.
33 years.
All right.
Very good.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
5. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
We're now going to proceed into the public participation portion of the meeting.
The public participation section includes two categories.
Category 1 is for speakers who signed up to speak on posted agenda items,
and Category 2 is for speakers who 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 any time for one speaker is three minutes.
If a speaker has not finished speaking at the end of the three minutes, the microphone will turn off.
If speakers wish to share written materials with the board,
there must be provided 10 copies to the Secretary for Board Services before the meeting begins
for the board members, the superintendent, the chief communications officer, and permanent record.
If a speaker has not attempted to solve the matter administratively through proper channels,
as stated in board policy, the presiding officer's designee shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through the appropriate policy.
Finally, pursuant to Texas Government Code Section 551074 and 5510821,
the board will not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student
and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline,
or dismissal of a public officer or an employee or to hear a complaint or charged 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 the order they sign up to speak.
First, we will call up speakers that have signed up to speak on posted agenda items.
Each speaker in this category will have three minutes to speak.
We have two speakers tonight.
The first speaker is Philip Haddad, and the second speaker is Regina Johnson.
Good evening.
Thank you for allowing me to speak this evening.
I wanted to discuss, I wanted to talk to you about, I understand tonight you're going to
consider one-time retention lump sum payment for returning employees.
I just want to state my position.
You talk about all employees, so when I consider all employees, I think about the bus drivers
who got my son to and from marching band competitions for the last four years.
I think about the security guard I see every single football game.
I do not know her name, but she was always engaging and was amazing because
she had a connection with the students that I don't necessarily always see.
Clearly they had a high respect for her. I think about the Morton Ranch Junior
High School principal. This is going back some years when my son was in that school.
I remember one night 730 p.m. a phone rang and it was her. She told me she was
calling us back because she likes to return every phone call on the same day.
730 at night she's calling parents back. I think about the robotics team. For four
years my son's been a robotics team i think about all the weeknights that those teachers give up
the weekends they give up and the conferences they have when time change you lose an hour
of sleep and they're back next morning at the conference very impressive i think about custodial
staff many nights i know there'd be activities at schools whether it be a concert or some sort
of event for students yet the next morning those students return back to perfectly clean school
i know that didn't happen by accident i think about those teachers that pushed my son to do
more and do more and do more and do more often causing very late nights very
little sleep but now I did I do I think they pushed his knowledge base but I
also believe they taught him a valuable lesson in time management although my
doc my concerns are well documented with the Morton Ranch High School band
program I've never been secretive about that I also do think there are many
great teachers who gave a lot of time and a lot of weekends a lot of hours I
I think about the principal at Morton Ranch High School who responded to my emails over the last four years almost same day.
Sometimes I get emails from very crazy hours.
She was working apparently.
Never once in four years did my emails go unanswered.
For that reason, many more.
I think 1% is the least you can do.
I wish you could do more.
But anything you can do for the teachers and all the staff in the school district, I think it's a great thing.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Regina Johnson. Good evening.
Hey, I'm just going to, I put it under 9.9 because I know you all got to talk about recognition for Dr. Grigorski, Superintendent of the Year.
And I would put this under leadership. I got this letter today from the school district allowing me as a parent to opt in.
So I'm only going to speak on my behalf, on my kids and my campus.
So I can opt in on sex ed. I can, and I was part of the review committee that did the health review over the curriculum.
So I'm aware of the Goodheart Wilcox materials that y'all approved, but the personal health and safety guidance lesson that's supposed to be administered by the counselors, I don't know if y'all approved.
So I click on the overview, go to slide 11, and there's a video there, and it talks about communication.
And I get that we want our kids to be able to be good communicators.
But on that, once you get towards the tail end of that video, which is YouTube, I don't understand why we're using YouTube to teach kids,
there's an ability for the student to click and go into YouTube on that page.
On that page, they can see all kinds of videos.
videos, sexual orientation, are you ready to have sex, condom negotiation, does breast
size really matter.
So you think you're pregnant.
I clicked on that one and that tells my kid to go have an abortion.
So again guys, you're doing great.
You really are.
This is an opportunity for you as a leader.
Tap into your chief comms officer.
Instead of going to YouTube, extrapolate from that.
use your resources use your counselors I'd rather them have a face-to-face with
a skilled professional than go on YouTube that's telling my kids that
their breast size matters it just don't understand why are we using YouTube this
is sex ed I understand I can opt in I can opt out I'm choosing to not opt in
because I don't want the conversation to go sideways and I need to be able to
protect my kid now with that said kudos to trustee Perez and to you Dr. Gavarci because you heard my
concern last week at Adams junior high that in character strong lesson that's social emotional
learning my kid was given a link to a third party website to go on and do personality traits and to
identify their sexual orientation she's a girl and I tell you that because I tell you that beginning
of the school year when I registered my child. She's a girl or she's a boy. She
doesn't need to tell you what else she is because that's not necessary for
character strong. And y'all did good. Apia Adams, kudos to him. He went on, he saw my
concern, they immediately removed it. Kudos to Trustee Perez for listening to
me, for engaging with me, and for communicating with you. And I don't know
what you did but whatever you did thank you so thank you to that we just there's opportunities
to do better you know work with us you say you want to partner with us honest to god please work
with us we're not going to call speakers who sign up to speak on non-posted identity items by policy
there's been a maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated with the time divided equally among
those who have signed up each speaker will have three minutes to speak tonight the first speaker
tonight is Philip Haddad the second speaker tonight is Rose Asnar good
evening again good evening you're so lucky to have me twice I'd like to I've
you all have the handouts of this topic I've been speaking about since December
nothing's happened same old same old but I'll keep returning until something does
happen I don't give up first of all there's some people in this room I know
I can't name names who told me that you have no jurisdiction over the booster
club that was a complete factual that was a lie there's no doubt about it was
a lie mr. Mussel to UIL sent me all the links you have jurisdiction one of the
handouts I gave you this is the cut and paste of the booster club and talks
about no one from outside the school district should have jurisdiction over
KBS or over any school from a booster club standpoint you'll notice that the
band director at Morton Ranch High School well will not name but his name
on this page, forwards me a message, an email to my wife and I. Clearly, he that's the booster club
makes the decisions. It's clear as day. He doesn't make comment. He doesn't say anything. He says,
please read the message from the booster club. I thought the booster club, according to UIL,
is not to direct staff. Clearly, this letter that he forwarded to me, by the way, the principal of
Morton Ranch High School handled it beautifully. She said she talked to the band director about
this and how inappropriate this email was however the next night I had an
audio recording of it he goes on to tell me at the band booster meeting that he
sent his email because he agrees with it apparently he doesn't care what the
principal says it's all about him second of all the band booster club
meeting the band booster president who wants to hold people back because of
fees which Mr. Mucella the UIL tells me is illegal and your finance director
told me some other stuff it's funny because he wants to hold the kids
accountable but yet when I asked him for financial information that according to
the booster club it's supposed to be on site of school for review it's not on
site and he tells me we are not experts are you kidding me he's been there for
five years he's an expert he can't tell me what money he spent on props the
broken-down tent from my Academy that I presented a picture to you about three
months ago it's funny how you can't present that to this day I've never seen
it yet he tells me in this email we are not experts but you'll read the UIL
right here it talks about how they're supposed to be available on school
property this is my been here since December I'll be back next month until
the board does something about it thank you thank you the next speaker
Our speaker tonight is Rose Aznar.
And the speaker after that is Abidur Rahman.
Good evening.
Se le ha prohibido que no pueda exentar o eximirse de sus exámenes a razón de que él debe un balance.
Desde cuando aquí allá los estudiantes son económicamente responsables y por qué los tienen y los aguantan culpables de esa deuda.
Eso no está correcto.
I understand that this is illegal, and I want parents to understand and report that if their son or daughter has a balance on their sports, on their bands, whatever it is, and has good grades, and that child or child is exempt from the exams, they have the right to do so.
They cannot stand it and stop them from taking these exams.
then i want the people in this meeting to know about this case
i have the number and the phone number of the person you can call for help with this problem
if you need this number please call me after the meeting
this person's name is gay musela and he is the assistant music director of this program
and here i have his phone number
también me informaron erroneamente que la persona de de pires superintended y
el director de artes no tenía ninguna manera de manejar este asunto la cual no
está correcto una vez más quiero recordar de que todos los niños que
tengan un balance no pueden ser aguantados de este problema muchas
gracias y buenas noches
THANK YOU.
THE NEXT SPEAKER IS ABIDUR RAMAN AND THE SPEAKER AFTER THAT IS JASON ASNAR.
GOOD EVENING.
HELLO. GOOD EVENING.
I'M ABIDUR RAMAN AND I'M FROM MORTON RANCH HIGH SCHOOL.
I'M HERE REPRESENTING MY SCHOOL'S ROBOTICS TEAM AND THE KD ROBOTICS TEAM ALLIANCE.
First of all, before I continue, I'd like to thank KDISD for the support and for the
robotics programs in KDISD through the construction of the Robert R. Shaw Center.
And while the building has been a great resource for the teams, unfortunately the teams have
been left to fund themselves, which in turn has led to a great inequality in the team's
budgets.
As teams from higher income schools have significantly greater resources, such as high-end plasma cutters and being able to afford cutting-edge materials,
all the while the Title I schools rely on reusing eight-year-old scraps of metal and low-quality hand tools,
this disparity shows as no Title I school has yet to make it to international championships, nor even win a local competition.
So for example, I can tell you that our team's budget, our team from Morden Ranch High School, we had a budget of $15,000.
Now that's a lot of money, right?
But almost half of it, $6,000, gets spent on just registering for the tournaments.
After building everything, we are left with only $438.
And this money is going to go to our next year, well, for the team for next year.
So what I ask you is this, as a student, please set a budget, a baseline budget for our robotics teams in KDISD in order to attempt to level the economic playing field.
And if the high-income teams can make it to the championships, imagine what our Title I schools could do, too.
Thank you for listening, and we hope for the district's support on the matter.
Thank you, and have a good day.
Thank you.
The next speaker is Jason Esnar.
And the last speaker tonight is Fatima Shakika.
I think I said that wrong.
Sorry.
I apologize for that.
Good evening.
Good evening.
Before I start, I'd like to thank some of the staff here
from the board.
They were very receptive to me last time that I spoke.
Very friendly faces.
Also, once again, referring back to what my friend said,
thank you for building the Robot RSC, the Robot R
Shaw Center.
It's been a great resource.
But once again, it is very good.
good. We obviously, our team is a Title I team because we're from Warren Ranch. I'm from Warren
Ranch. And as you said before, we get about $15,000. That is all from sponsors, from parents.
I've personally spent as a student over $1,500 just like in the last year and a half. So a lot
of money does not come from the area or from companies. But unfortunately, no money comes
from KDISD. So it means that teams from Cinco Ranch High School or from Tompkins High School
have an innate advantage because their parents can throw large sums of money at the team budget.
We don't have that access.
So because of that, we're left using old tools, left using old materials,
while other teams in the district like Sink or Tompkins, and it's not their fault.
They just have access to greater resources.
They're left by carbon fiber.
They have the newest tools.
And because of that, it's really unfair.
And the honest reality is that if you're a Title I school, you're screwed.
You're not making it to districts, you're not making it to state, you're not making
it to world championship.
And it's really hard for the robotics programs and for a district that prides itself on being
equal, it's not very equal when you have the Title I schools left with nothing.
So I ask this, please instill a program budget that covers tournament fees, transportation
fees and other robot fees.
Even a starting budget as low as $3,000, it's a start and that can be provided for all robotics
teams.
It's a start that could help out level the economic playing field and it could move our district towards actually
Representing what we say being equal
and having equal access for all.
Because at the end of the day, that is the point of education,
is to uplift everyone in our district.
And when we're not doing that for our Title I schools,
leaving them in the dust, how can we
say we're a true district of true educators who care
about our children's education?
Thank you for listening.
Have a good day.
Thank you very much.
And the last speaker tonight is Fatima Shakah.
I'm sorry.
I know I'm saying that wrong.
makes it to see how bad how bad i said it
good evening my name is fatima sheikh and i'm the current salutatorian of the
class of 2023 at pedo high school today i will speak on the topic of gpa
exemption the arts an expression of skill and
imagination is sometimes forgotten and unrecognized in comparison to the
other fine arts of music and theater specifically kdisd offers gpa exemption
to all fine arts which includes band choir orchestra and theater except for
ceramics drawing painting and sculpture art is a competitive field full of
talented individuals who have the astonishing ability to express and use
their imagination art requires the same amount of effort and dedication as any
other fine art art also has UIL competitions throughout the year in
which students prepare for anxiously waiting to see how they'll do in
in comparison to the world of talent that surrounds them.
GPA exemptions for this would allow students from all areas
to undertake their passions they aspire
to seek without the fear of tarnishing their weighted GPAs.
These courses are weighted as a 4 on the 5.0 scale
and lower students' weighted GPA.
Without such a change in our current system,
students would be left in an unfair race
against their fellow peers in class rank and college
admissions.
Whilst others can pursue what they love,
which perhaps may be sports or playing an instrument, without lowering their GPAs,
other students who pursue the arts are put at a disadvantage. What is
surprising is that the KDISD GPA exempt courses information PDF states, students
are encouraged to pursue their areas of special talents and interests to enrich
their academic experience. Do the arts not apply in this situation? We should
allow all fine arts to be GPA exempt in order to create a fair and just
environment for students to pursue what they love to do and should be taken
under the same criteria of eligibility as any other course that is permitted to
be GPA exempt please if you will I ask you to look into this you may not
understand but because of this many have been left behind in a race an academic
race that they never stood a chance in and with the time that I have left I
would like to speak about a different topic the topic of graduation my
At graduation, the valedictorian, the salutatorian,
and the class president are expected
to give a speech that's a few minutes long,
and it's actually prerecorded.
I think it'd be wonderful for students
to have the opportunity to give that speech live.
I think it's an amazing experience, something
that you can't replace.
And it can teach you so much about speaking
in front of a large crowd and audience.
That'd be all.
Have a great day.
Thank you very much. This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting. The board will
6. Closed Meeting
now convene and close meeting as authorized under section 551001 of the Texas Government Code
for the following purposes. Texas Government Code 551071, 551072, 551074, 551076, and 551129. Thank you.
Good evening, everyone.
7. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
The board will now reconvene in open meeting.
Today is Monday, March 27, 2023, and the time is 7.15 p.m.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting.
Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, March 24, 2023.
2023 the board will receive information recommendations from staff administration and the superintendent on these agenda items at tonight's meeting
Board members will be able to ask questions receive answers and should be prepared to take action
The board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with chapter
551 to the Texas government code any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken an open meeting
Well now move to yet item 7.1 consider board approval of probation of one-year contracts
Yes. I move that the Board of Trustees approves for employees who are being recommended to receive one-year employee probationary contracts, one-year employee dual assignment probationary contracts, one-year employee term contracts, one-year employee dual assignment term contracts, and two-year employee dual assignment term contracts for the 2023-2024 school year,
with the exception of those employees who have resigned or a decision has not been made at this time
concerning being recommended for a contract for termination or for proposed non-renewal,
which will occur at a future meeting.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Wilson.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen pad.
Oh, the motion passes 6-0.
8.1 Strategic Design 1.3 Elementary Literacy Update
We'll now proceed into reports.
I did have 8.1, Strategic Design, 1.3, Elementary Literacy Update.
The presenter tonight is Dr. Sine Bell, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning.
Good evening, Dr. Bell.
Good evening, President Schulte, board members, and Dr. Gagorski.
I'm here to provide the March update on our literacy work.
During the February board meeting, I gave an overview of the departments that came together
TO DEVELOP THE IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE
FOR OUR LITERACY ACTIVITIES FOR THE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER
TO GET US PREPARED FOR AN AUGUST LAUNCH.
TONIGHT, I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE TASKS
THAT ARE IN PROGRESS FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH.
ONE OF THE MAJOR LOGISTICAL PIECES OF THIS CHANGE
INCLUDES THE COLLECTION OF OUT-OF-ADOPTION MATERIALS.
CAMPUSES HAVE RECEIVED THAT INFORMATION,
AND THE ELEMENTARY CNI AND PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
WILL BE WORKING TOGETHER TO ENSURE
A SMOOTH COLLECTION PROCESS.
Those materials that are currently being used that will go out of adoption will be collected in May at the conclusion of the school year.
Another key activity that has been a focus area is finding local partners, local districts that have led this literacy work.
We were able to visit a neighboring district to discuss their structured literacy journey,
specifically focusing on the systems they put in place to support the implementation of high-quality instructional materials.
It was a worthwhile visit and really helped to validate the plans that we have put in place thus far, but it also gave us the opportunity to think about some additional ideas that we haven't considered.
Learning from some pitfalls and things that the district was able to share to help us ensure that we have a smooth implementation process.
Most of the time has been spent this month devoted to developing our comprehensive training plan, which will be district-wide, developing campus supports and creating a change management plan to support the shift from balanced literacy to structured literacy.
We spent a lot of time developing the training across departments to ensure that all teachers, support staff receive the training this summer.
We'll be sharing our training plan with principals tomorrow during our regularly admin scheduled meeting.
Two activities that are still in progress include becoming familiar with the MIRA, which is the assessment system, and developing foundational skills support activities for parents.
We can house those things on our website so that parents can access that over the summer.
I'm working with Dr. Woodruff to develop that outline and that plan, and we'll be updating our website.
Similar to when we launched summer supplemental support activities, this will be a resource to support our parents.
One of the key decisions we've been awaiting is the release of the approved phonics program from TEA.
Just to provide the board an overview, this is a slide directly from TEA.
Just to kind of take us through how we got to this point, in June of 2019, House Bill 3 passed,
which required districts to use phonics curriculum that uses systematic direct instruction in kindergarten through third grade.
In April of 2022, so around this time last year, the rule on the phonics curriculum became effective,
which outlined the required components of a phonics program.
This brings us to present day where we await the approved phonics list to be published by TEA.
And it's just important to note for the board and then for the community that may be wondering like where are we with this process and why are we waiting?
The list is being published by TEA to assist districts with the selection of phonics programs that follow the House Bill 3 phonics curriculum rule.
And so some of the key features that the phonics curriculum must address include alignment to the developing and sustaining foundational skills language portion to the TEKS, direct, explicit, and systematic phonics instruction, and include assessments to measure and monitor student progress.
The program can function as a standalone phonics program or be a part of a core language arts program.
The program cannot teach word recognition through visual memory or guessing or solely be used for intervention purposes.
And this is important because we want to make sure that we select a material that has been vetted and approved by the commissioner and it meets all of the requirements of the law.
So this is again while we're still waiting on that piece.
This slide gives a brief overview of the Texas Resource Review process.
I presented on this in January and our materials that we selected for our core went through this process.
And so all of the list of resources that TEA is currently vetting is going through this TRR process as well.
And so they're vetting this list to ensure that it complies and they have communicated
that the list will be published by the end of March, which according to my calendar is Friday.
And so it's like Christmas, hoping that we do get that information.
But I just wanted to share the rationale for why we're still waiting,
and I'm not able to make a recommendation on that today because we're still waiting for TEA.
And with that, I'll take any questions that you have at this time.
Yeah, Dr. Bob, the question, if the risk is, you know, again, I think we're all laughing about,
about are they going to actually do it this Friday?
Because it keeps getting pushed back.
I think it was November, then it was December, then it was January,
then it was February, then it's March, right?
At what point has it put us in a bind on our target of starting next year?
Would we be able to start without this,
or do we still have a little bit more runway if they delay this another month,
or do we still have enough runway to get everything done
and we need to get it done and get it bought and integrated
before the start of the next school year?
The main thing with the, obviously the longer it takes to get it,
it does kind of push us back.
but with the program you must use it as is so there's no adjustment or creating
a scope of a sequence or any of that nature so we will just it's the training
piece that will kind of push us back a little bit but in terms of any work or
any lift that the curriculum and instruction team has to do there's no
lift there because you must use the program as it is intended to be used so
So I'm hopeful that we'll get that soon,
but I would anticipate that we're not the only school district that's waiting for this.
So at some point, you know, TEA is going to have to release that
so that we can begin working on the procurement process.
And have you guys thought about, like, when you did it the last time,
they came up with the TRR approved,
and you guys went through a screening process and a high grading and a scoring.
Are you going to do the same thing with this one,
or are you just going to, what's the process to decide?
I'm assuming the list is going to be more than one.
Do you have a process already mapped out and a timeline for when you do get it?
Similar, but because it's supplemental, we typically don't have a full review process of our supplemental materials,
especially since the commissioner is vetting this to ensure that if it's on the list, then it meets the compliance of House Bill 3.
So it should go a little faster then.
This one will go faster, yes.
And then the last question, I've asked you this every time.
Anything else you need or any risk or any roadblocks or anything you need from this board to help you make sure we're ready to go in August?
Anything you need?
I think right now we are just rocking and rolling.
I'm very proud of the work that we've done collectively as a district, working across departments to make sure that we're moving in the right direction.
But right now we have what we need.
We're good to go.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Board members, any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
Okay, Dr. Bell.
So I know I just heard you say, of course, with President Schulte, we don't know.
Time's a ticking.
Maybe not too huge.
I know Dr. Woodruff, you had stated, had kind of set you a list of, I guess, more or less her things of what she has found to be true over her many, many years of this.
Is there a point in time where we make a choice and go forward with that choice if TEA fails or just doesn't issue an update?
I caution that only because I would hate to select something that, and everything that we have from Dr. Woodruff's list is currently being vetted by TEA.
But I caution that because if we select something that did not meet the criteria, then we're not in compliance with the House Bill 3 rule.
So I am thinking through some contingency plans.
We just spoke last week, and we're just kind of still in that holding pattern.
But at some point, you know, hopefully that we can get that from TEA, but we may have to think what's next.
At the end of the day, our core resource comes with a phonics component.
worst case scenario we will work with Dr. Woodruff to help us if we have to make that work until we're able to review the list to see what is on there.
That would be my first contingency plan.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Yes.
Just curious what school district have you been working with or collaborating with?
and did they also adopt the same instructional material that we did and when did they do it?
So I've worked with, when we went to go visit, we visited Aldine,
and they are using a different resource,
but I've also had communication with Highland Park,
and they're using a different resource as well.
Thank you.
Mr. President, Mr. Perez asked my question about the school district
and had they been approved for the things that we're waiting on,
but they are doing science of reading,
but not the programs that we're thinking of.
They're using a different instructional resource, yes.
Amplify or something like that.
Amplify CKLA, yes.
Okay.
So theirs are approved through TEA or not really?
Are you referencing the phonics?
Mm-hmm.
So none of the phonics programs have been approved yet through TEA.
So then my follow-up would be once the 30th happens and it doesn't roll out,
could we use our resources to encourage the TEA to get it going?
Like maybe our SBOE people, maybe our senators,
maybe somebody who could call and say, what's a holdup?
Could we try that?
I don't know.
Let me know if you want me to help.
I mean, certainly, anything that we can do to maybe get us to a sooner, a quicker decision, I think would be.
Right, because our teachers need to be trained.
Correct.
In the summer, and the longer we go, the harder it's going to be, and they can't train them on part of it without all of it.
And they're very focused on our teachers, too, and retaining them and giving them all that great training.
And this is on a clock, right?
Right. So, okay. If Mr. Superintendent, if I can help at all, or if you have an idea or something, I'd be happy to help if I can, or all of us would.
Any other questions? Thank you, Dr. Bell. Appreciate it.
8.2 Presentation on the District's Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) Local Designation System
We'll now proceed to agenda item 8.2, presentation of the district's teacher incentive allotment, otherwise known as TIA, local designation system.
Presenter tonight is Mr. Brian Schuss, Chief Human Resources Officer.
Good evening.
Good evening.
President Schulte, Dr. Gagorski, members of the board, excited to present this information
to you tonight.
It's been a while since we've discussed teacher incentive allotment with the board.
If you remember, initially when we did this, I believe there were about 80 school districts
or so that were involved with teacher incentive allotment.
And we were going to keep our eye on that landscape and also look at the possibility
of maybe KDISD having our own local designation system as well.
The landscape has changed greatly.
There are many more school districts involved,
and Dr. Gorgorski and I had several conversations
and decided to pursue what it would look like for KDISD
to have a local designation system.
We have a third-party consultant.
Her name is Dr. Tammy Cruz,
and she is with us this evening with Cruz Consulting.
Most recently, she's helped SciFair through this process.
She is helping us through this process,
has been working with school districts for many years with incentive plans.
So she's going to give you a presentation this evening.
The first of it is just going to be a high-level overview, again,
of teacher incentive allotment, just to refresh our memories,
and then move on to the latter part of the presentation
that we'll talk about what a potential local designation system in KDISD would look like.
Dr. Cruz?
Good evening.
Thank you so much for having me.
I've had the pleasure of working with your teachers and your staff on the development of a teacher incentive allotment plan over the last
couple of months. I'm excited to share that plan with y'all this evening.
I would like to give you a little bit of background.
I've worked with teacher incentive pay programs in Texas for about 18 years.
This is by far the most complicated teacher incentive pay program I've ever been a part of.
It was passed by the Texas legislature in the 2019 legislative session.
And the focus for this initiative was to recognize and reward high-performing teachers across the state of Texas.
And when I say high-performing teachers, this initiative actually has a stated goal of trying to recognize and reward about the top 33% of teachers across the state.
And so this is one way that this initiative is different from what we traditionally think of with teacher incentive pay programs
Traditionally with incentive pay programs teachers will be eligible for a couple thousand dollars
Maybe five hundred dollars something like that and it's pretty much open to all teachers and if a teacher hits a certain mark
With performance then they get the incentive paid
Most of these incentive pay programs traditionally have been structured where everyone typically gets something
thing. That is not the case with teacher incentive allotment. So again, this initiative is focusing
on the top 33% of teachers across the state of Texas. So just want to kind of set the tone for
what this initiative is about. The legislature chose to focus on this in 2019. So this was prior
to COVID, right? When we were already facing a teacher shortage in the state. Obviously,
Obviously it's much worse now than it was then, but the focus for this initiative is
to try to recruit more teachers to the profession and then be able to keep them there.
Colleges of education were really struggling trying to get young people to enter the profession,
knowing that we had a lot of parents out there pushing their students to not go into the
field of education when they'd enter college, in large part due to salaries.
So the legislature was trying to figure out a way to provide an opportunity for the highest performing teachers in our state to make salaries that are comparable to other professions like business and engineering and computer science.
Ideally, if you look at the early press about this, to have teachers in the state making over a six-figure salary.
We have seen that happen across the state since this initiative was launched in 2019.
We do have teachers that are making well over $100,000 now because of this initiative.
But that was kind of the premise behind why this initiative was funded.
With teacher incentive allotment, the legislature was fairly prescriptive in the law,
and they said we would have three different types of designated teachers.
We would have recognized, exemplary, and master teachers in our state.
recognized teachers earning anywhere between three to nine thousand dollars
and additional compensation per year exemplary teachers anywhere between six
to eighteen thousand and master teachers anywhere between twelve and thirty two
thousand so this is not a small incentive pay initiative once a teacher
is designated at one of these three levels that designation gets added to
their aspect certificate and it stays there for five years so if you have a
a teacher that qualifies as an exemplary teacher, and maybe the district runs the designation system
in year three, the teacher doesn't qualify as an exemplary teacher. Maybe only they qualify as a
recognized teacher, maybe not even a designation at all. They're still going to maintain that
designation of exemplary for the entire five-year period. So it can't be revoked, can't be reduced.
Once they hit it, they keep it for five years.
This is also a key difference of how teacher incentive allotment works compared to other incentive pay programs,
where a lot of times teachers will be eligible for the money every single year,
and it's created an opportunity for teachers some years to get funds and some years to not.
So the nice thing about the way the legislature created teacher incentive allotment is once the teacher is designated,
they keep that designation for the entire five-year period.
When we talk about the KDISD teacher incentive allotment plan
that I'm going to show you here in a few minutes,
what we're talking about, according to the law,
is what's being referred to as a local optional teacher designation system.
That is one pathway for teachers to be designated through this initiative.
You'll see there under the recognized category,
it says national board certification.
certification, any teacher in Texas that has national board certification will automatically
be given the designation of recognized. And they'll keep their recognized designation as
long as they keep their national board certification active. So theoretically, if we had every teacher
in the state of Texas become nationally board certified, we'd have every teacher in the state
be designated, right? Because they could all be at least recognized. But the only way to hit the
exemplary or master teacher level is to earn it through a district's local designation system
so that's what i've been working with your teachers and your staff on over the last couple
months is putting together the local plan you'll see there's a range of funding there right at three
to nine thousand dollars for recognized um six to eight the eighteen for exemplary and then twelve
$12,000 to $32,000 for master teachers.
TEA will calculate these allotments annually based on the Winter PEIMS snapshot data.
They're going to look at two factors.
They're going to look at the campus to see if they're classified as a rural or a non-rural school.
And then they're also going to look at the tier of economically disadvantaged students.
So they're not looking just at the percent of students that are classified as economically disadvantaged.
disadvantaged, they're also looking at the extent to which students are classified as
economically disadvantaged.
So as with most initiatives, the higher allotments are going to the most high-need campuses in
the state.
And the initiative was designed that way to try to incentivize our best teachers to go
work at our most high-need schools.
schools. If teachers are interested in national board certification, there are 25 different
certificate areas in 16 different disciplines in which teachers can become nationally board
certified. The website in the top right hand corner is for the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards. That's the organization that manages the national board certification process.
We are seeing a lot of teachers across the state of Texas now go and try to become nationally board certified in large part because of teacher incentive allotment, which is pretty exciting because as a state, we have one of the lowest rates of nationally board certified teachers in the country.
So this is something that's been talked about more and more across the state.
The last couple of years we're starting to see cohorts of teachers work together to try to go through this process to become nationally board certified.
There have been a lot of lessons learned with teacher incentive allotment.
Initially, TEA opened this up to four cohorts of districts, cohorts A, B, C and D.
combined, those districts make up about 250 districts in the state of Texas. So a lot of
the lessons learned that I'm going to talk about briefly here in a moment come from these first
four cohorts. TEA has now opened this up to cohorts E, F, and G. We had about 200 districts
that applied under cohort E. So we have about 450 school districts across the state now that have
approved teacher incentive allotment plans we've kind of reached the point
where if districts want to stay competitive in the local marketplace
you've got to put together a TIA plan because neighboring school districts all
over the state have approved plans you want to be able to stay competitive in
the marketplace in designing a local designation system the legislature said
that a district has to include teacher observation scores
and student growth data to determine designations.
Beyond that, you can add additional factors if you want to,
but those would be considered optional.
And so what that really means for most districts in the state
is using t-test data and then student growth data.
The student growth data is a classroom-level student growth measure,
not a school-level student growth measure.
So I think as a state we've gotten pretty accustomed to the idea of looking at district level growth and campus level growth
But this initiative requires for a teaching assignment to be eligible in a district's application
You have to have a way to measure student growth
in that specific teachers classroom and so a
Reality that we have seen across the state since this initiative was rolled out
is that the vast majority of districts in the state do not currently have a way
to measure growth in every classroom in the district so we're seeing a lot of
districts across the state start their TIA plan with a small subset of teachers
you'll see the second bullet point there says the district application must show
evidence of validity and reliability that would be of the t-test data and
and also of the student growth data.
So I would say the general trend across the state
with the districts that are being successful
is the larger the school district,
the smaller the subset of teachers
that's being included in the plan.
Most of the large districts in the state
that are being successful
are starting with the teaching assignments
that the state measures grow through the state STAAR Test.
The smaller the school district,
the more teachers that are usually included in the local system.
So this is something that we discussed heavily within the stakeholder process around, you know,
what assessments and what measures does the district currently have in place
that's going to give validity and reliability to classroom-level student growth.
The way the compensation works, at least 90% of these funds have to go towards teacher compensation
on the campus where the designated teacher works,
the rest of the 10% can be held at the district level
to help with the implementation of the plan.
That might include things like purchasing additional assessments
to measure student growth,
to pay for teacher professional development,
to help teachers improve their practice
and help them to reach a designation and so forth.
This is also, this district approval process is also something that makes teacher incentive allotment unique from what you traditionally think about with incentive pay programs.
A lot of times with...
the state has done in previous years is just given every district a pot of money and said
here you've got x amount of dollars to create an incentive pay plan and then distribute it however
you see fit with your local system well the legislature changed that process with teacher
incentive allotment and there is now a two-step approval process that every district has to go
through in order for any teacher in their district to become designated or any of these funds to flow
The first step is what TEA refers to as the system review.
This is where the district submits an application, explains which teaching assignments will be eligible,
and what the district is using as the teacher observation system and the student growth measures
and a ton of questions around process and procedure.
So once the district gets the application approved, then you go about what we call a data capture year.
That's where you're capturing your T-Test data, your student growth data to calculate
designations according to the plan.
Once you calculate those designations and you figure out who qualifies, every district
in this state has to go through step two, which is what is referred to as data review
or data validation.
This is going to go through Texas Tech University.
As part of that data submission process, the district will submit a list of teachers that
are being recommended for designations it'll say we're recommending tammy cruz as a recognized
teacher we're recommending kyle cruz as an exemplary teacher and we're recommending
preston cruz as a master teacher and so forth the district also has to submit all of the t-test data
and all the student growth data that was used to calculate designations texas tech is going to run
a very extensive statistical analysis on that data set they're going to provide a report back to te
Then TEA is going to look at your district's initial application, and they're going to
look at your data validation report, and then they'll make a final decision about whether
or not your recommended designations are approved or not.
The district either passes or fails data validation.
So when I talked about the districts that are being successful, those are the districts
that pass data validation.
When you pass, all of the teachers that you're recommending for designations get designated.
If you fail data validation, nobody gets designated.
Okay, so they're not going to look at individual teachers and data from campuses.
The district passes or the district fails.
So it's a pretty big step in the process.
You can get your application approved and then fail data validation,
and nobody gets designated, and none of these funds flow to your district.
district. So, you know, kind of, you know, being in, you know, cohort F, which would be the soonest
that your district could apply, is actually a good thing because we have learned a lot of lessons
through the earlier cohorts about districts that have passed data validation and those that have
not. And I was able to share a lot of that information with your teachers and your staff
when we were putting together the plan. In cohort F, just to kind of give you an idea of the timeline,
line the application is actually due april 17th not april 13th your data capture year will be next
year 23 24. so all of the t-test data that's captured next year and the student growth data
is what would be used to calculate designations in your first year the um data submission you'll
find out if your application was approved by august so right about the time school's getting
started or maybe a little bit before but in summer of 24 is when you'd calculate your designations
submit the data to texas tech and then you'd find out from tea by the end of february of 25 if your
district passed or failed data validation if you passed you'll find out the final allotment
amounts in April and then checks to teachers get cut in summer of 25. So those are for,
that's the timeline for your local designation system. If you have teachers that are already
national board certified or get nationally board certified between now and then, then they're going
to receive their designation and their payout sooner. But with your local designation system,
as far as KDISD being able to actually designate teachers, this would be the timeline.
I'm going to talk through this fairly quickly.
So, again, with the goal of this being focusing on the top 33% of teachers across the state,
when this was announced with the legislature, districts started asking TEA, well, what does that look like?
I mean, the top 33% of teachers across the state, what does performance look like?
So TEA did some analysis.
They gathered t-test data from across the state of Texas.
They did some analysis, and they came up with what we call the performance standards for teacher incentive allotment.
So generally speaking, recognized teachers should have on a five-point scale a T-test score of at least a 3.7 when you average domains two and three together, which are those observable components, at least a 3.9 with exemplary, and then at least a 4.5 for master.
And then any teacher that you're recommending for a designation should score at least proficient on all eight dimensions in domains two and three of T-Test.
On the student growth side, they pulled star progress data because that's what we had back in 2019 when they were working on this.
and they said for recognized teachers and they should have at least 55% of
students meeting or exceeding expected growth exemplary teachers at least 60%
and then master teachers at least 70% of students meeting or exceeding expected
growth so this is kind of how you know TEA formulated what performance looks
like for the top 33% of teachers across the state so the committee took all of
this into consideration when designing the system you know we talked through you know these three
key decisions pretty heavily you know will the plan for kdisd and year one include all teachers
or will you need to start with a subset of teachers again in large part due to the teaching
assignments where the district is measuring student growth in a valid and reliable way
Number two, the spending plan. Will you give all the money to the teacher who earns the designation, or will you utilize some of the funds to boost compensation amongst other teachers as well?
And then number three, just what is your overall system going to look like for determining designations? I mean, what are y'all going to use as the cut points to determine recognized exemplary and master?
So that's what led us to this system here.
For eligibility, the committee chose to focus on fourth through eighth grade reading and math teachers,
algebra one and English one and two teachers, life skills teachers, SPED resource and in-class support.
These are all of the grades and subjects where the state is measuring growth with the STAAR Test.
And the committee wanted to focus just on the two required measures, weighting them equally, 50% based on T-Test, 50% based on classroom growth.
growth. And to determine designations, they also chose to focus on the statewide performance
standards with the knowledge that, you know, TEA has set, you know, these and that would
be most closely aligned with what the state's going to be looking at through data validation.
So recognize teachers having at least a 3.7 on an average of domains 2 and 3 and at least
55 percent of students meeting or exceeding expected growth and so forth to come up with
the t-test score teachers are observed formally once during the school year there are also
typically a number of walkthroughs that happen at the end of the school year the campus administrator
would assign a summative score to each teacher on each of the eight dimensions and domains two and
three and each of those eight dimensions would be given a numerical score which
would be averaged together that's what would give you the numerical score on
the five-point scale for t-test and then with the classroom growth scores again
using the the state STAAR Test in the state's measure of calculating growth as
As you guys are probably aware, the Star Progress measure has gone away,
and the state is now using something called the TEA transition table.
So that's what the committee proposed to use as part of the plan in year one.
Happy to answer any questions that anyone has.
Mr. President?
I have so many questions.
Let me start out by this.
So what did we vote? Did we vote on something about this last year?
It was part of the district and innovation or something like that.
We talked about this before.
We voted on creating a system that allowed us to receive the funds from the state.
If a teacher were to move in from outside the district and had a master designation,
we created a system so that we could receive those funds, distribute them, but not put the designation.
All this.
Is that correct?
Yeah, we discussed teachers coming from other districts that have designations that are
still under that five-year window, and then also if they're nationally board certified,
that they would get that recognized designation, and currently we're paying that out at 90%,
10%.
Okay.
So do you mind me just throwing out the questions?
Go ahead.
All right.
So you said that we have about 30 people in KDISD, about 30 teachers that have it, and
And so I guess they're from out of, they came from somewhere else.
Most of the teachers, I don't believe we're quite up to 30,
but most of the teachers that we have, well, they all either have national board cert.
I believe we have about six or seven that have national board cert.
And then maybe an additional two or three.
So I think we're only around 10 or 12 teachers that are getting the designation.
So they could be getting a national certification
and getting this money right now even before we get approved?
Yes, ma'am.
So we have some of those people?
Yes, you do not have to have a local designation system in place in order for nationally board-certified teachers to receive the incentive at the recognized level.
Okay.
So I don't know.
These may not be in order, but I wrote them down as you went.
How are we letting teachers, I guess, since we're just now voting on it, we haven't gone to this point yet,
but how will we let teachers know about this and along with that same question
are we going to have to keep all the records for you know this is very complex it's a lot
of record keeping are we going to keep all the records for teachers who don't apply for it i
mean they may be doing some of these things but they they didn't apply to receive the tia so um
if the district files an application it will include all of the teachers that you see on this
the screen there there's no application for an individual teacher to be a part
of TIA they're automatically included in the district's plan all teachers are
going to be eligible for this as we see on the screen the fourth through eighth
grade reading math teachers algebra one English one each English to live skills
spit resource and in class support that will be the first phase in the
application because that is where we have the the state growth measures
associated where we can measure student growth okay and so they don't need if
If they're in this category, they don't need to apply.
They're just automatically going to be.
So can you tell me who came up with the eligibility requirements for KDISC?
So we had a stakeholder committee that included teachers representing, you know, elementary, middle, high school, core, non-core.
And that was the committee that really worked on the development of the system.
Okay.
Okay, and I guess one of my last questions is going to be, well, I have two questions.
So this money is, let's say it's $3,000.
So they get $3,000 a year for five years.
Each year for five years, correct.
Okay, even if they're not meeting the thing anymore, like they're in year three, like you said,
they're still going to keep it and they're still going to get $3,000 a year.
Okay, the last question I have is, I realize Texas Tech is going to,
compile the information but who at our local level records all of this up for me that just
seems like such a lot of information to record well typically districts have a data system for
all the t-test data to be input sorry yeah so um i think the district uses eduforia
So it's just a matter of exporting that data out of the eduphoria system.
Then the state will send the STAR data, the transition tables, to the district that will show for each teacher what percent of students met or exceeded expected growth.
We'll combine those and then we'll calculate the designations from there.
So we already have a system that we're recording it in anyway.
Correct.
So we don't have to create something else.
Correct.
Okay.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I have a couple questions.
Is the funding source, so this is a whole new funding source,
so if you get the $3,000, it doesn't come from any of our basic allotment funds.
It's a completely different funding source.
Right, exactly.
Yeah, this is the money that comes from FSP,
and so kind of the bottomless pit of funding from the state is how this is being funded.
And I will share with you, there's a lot of discussion about this initiative right now.
in this legislative session and there's talks about expanding this maybe
increasing the allotment amounts increasing this to maybe focus not just
on the top 33% of teachers but maybe the top 50% of teachers across the state
anything can happen right we're in the middle of a legislative session but
there's a concerted effort to continue to see this initiative not only stay but
also be expanded come on that question so if you said if you fail you the
pass or fail if you've and it's a long process four years or three or four years right so if you
fail do you you get to try again you got a way do you you start the whole is it another three
year can you go back to next year or and do they tell you why you failed so you can fix it and get
back on back in the saddle pretty quick yes so and that's the challenge with um with failing because
if you find out you failed you don't find out till the following year the end of february so you're
You're already through another data capture year with the same processes, right?
And you can technically submit a modification or expansion application every year in April.
But if you find out you fail at the end of February, then you've got about six weeks to bring your committee back together, redesign the whole system, try to submit a new application.
Probably not very likely that's going to happen, which is going to push you to the following April.
Yeah, so if you if you miss out in your three-year thing you got by another two years before you're potentially exactly right exactly
So I think it's better what we've seen
Is districts that kind of start with this smaller group of teachers where you know for sure your data is valid and reliable around?
Student growth the state's gonna feel really great about the data
They calculated with star right so all your districts really having to work on in the first year is the validity and reliability
around t-test making sure that those t-test scores are consistent across the
district and the t-test scores are correlated with the student growth data
and so that in itself is a pretty big task and we've been talking about plans
for how the district can prepare for that for next year okay two more
questions one is so anybody can get with the board certification anybody can get
it whether why is everybody not doing that is the board certification super
hard or takes a lot of you know the teachers already overworked but it's a
huge incentive to do this additional minimum three thousand why is everybody
not doing this there's no and they could do that today they don't need to wait
for anything so what is this something to be communicated or is there like
something that I'm not understanding about is it really difficult to get
board certified well it is a lot of work and I'm not a national board
certification expert but I'm told it's taking teachers an average of about 18
months to finish the process and it's supposed to be about as much paperwork as it is to go get a master's degree.
Oh wow.
So it's, yeah, it's a pretty significant process.
It's also about two thousand dollars in fees.
How much?
Two thousand in fees for a teacher to go become nationally board certified.
But once they receive the certification, not only will the state give them the designation of recognized,
they will also reimburse them the two thousand dollars in fees.
So I think part of it honestly has been a slow trickle of communication out to teachers across the state in just helping teachers understand what the options are.
I definitely think that every year we're seeing more and more teachers go down the path of national board certification, whether or not their districts have a local plan in place or not, just because that's kind of a sure thing, right?
If you get nationally board certified, you're automatically in with a designation.
And it's not just for five years.
As long as you keep your national board certification active, you're going to stay a recognized teacher.
Okay, and the last question I have, and I echo what Ms. Champagne was saying, this seems like, and then I guess if you get it, it's an annual thing because the next year you've got to, there's more people, right?
It's not like you just do it one time.
You're doing this every year.
Just the amount of data, managing the plan, updating the plan.
It just seems like you're getting a small army of folks to do this.
I know you say we have a system, but to me, this seems like there's going to be a cost to implement this,
and I'm assuming that's not funded by this additional source, right?
Well, the 10% could be used to pay for an outside third party to do calculations if needed.
I know it seems like a lot.
It's really not.
One of the things that I've done for districts is calculate designations.
With the plan, at least in year one, the way you guys have the plan structured right now, it's going to be basically exporting the T-TES and the STAR data from the state together and then looking at these cut points to determine designations.
So it's a cycle, if you will.
There's a month or so that there will be a lot of eyes on looking at the data to make sure that it's correct and so forth.
When you start expanding, so every single year, the district can expand the system to include additional groups of teachers.
As you all start thinking about adding additional growth measures, then that's where I think you see the majority of the work come.
But you start looking at putting student portfolios in place and other assessments and things like that,
which is also a reason why a lot of districts are starting with just star-tested teachers in the first year in, you know, then expanding upon that in future years.
So is anybody at the 30% level, is anybody getting to where they've got this, they've got it, and I mean, if it's something that sounds great but it's unattainable, it's like, hey, it's not really anybody even getting up in those numbers?
Yes, and I think, you know, when you're thinking about the top 33% of teachers across the state, so you can have a district that has, you know, that's really high performing, it may be more than 33%.
When you look at the top performing teachers.
It's not by school districts, it's by.
Exactly.
Okay.
Exactly.
So low performing districts may only designate 5, 10%, then you may have really high performing districts that are designating 50, 60%, right?
So that's why the statewide performance standards are there is to kind of help guide that
Excellent. Are there any other questions board members?
so when you say that the
90% has to be used for teacher compensation. It's to the teachers that you submitted or
To be used for teacher compensation in general
More specific to those teachers. Well
So the the money has to be spent so it's gonna be kind of a campus based allotment is how it's gonna come
right so all teachers at you know texas elementary school um the the texas elementary school received
this allotment of tia funds based on the teachers that were designated the spending plan comes with
90 of it has to go towards teacher compensation on that campus now i will share with you one of
the lessons learned um the first couple of cohorts what a lot of districts said is you know let's
take this money and let's spread it evenly amongst all teachers on the campus everybody was really
in favor of that initially because everybody wanted a piece of the pie until teachers got
designated and then they're like wait a minute you know this campus is getting an extra 22 000
that for me as a master teacher but that money is being distributed and now i'm only getting
700 of that well let me look let me look at the spending plan for the district 20 minutes down
the road oh they have a 90 10 spending plan where 90 goes to the designated teacher you know what
it's okay if i'm only getting 20 000 as the master teacher there i'm going to get 90 of that so i can
go there and get an extra 18 000 a year over the next five years or i can stay here and get an
extra 700 i mean that was a no-brainer so what we saw happen was those districts that didn't give
90 to the teacher that earned the designation not only you know the money follows the teacher so you
know not only did they lose all of their tia funds they also lost all of their best teachers yeah so
now i would say i don't know what percent but 99 percent of or so of the districts in the state um
their spending plan is giving 90 to the teacher that earns the designation and then holding that
that 10% back to kind of help with the administration.
Paying for somebody to do calculations,
paying for a third party vendor that has a way
to assess students and measure growth,
professional development, things like that.
So we call it the 90-10 spending plan.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I'm sorry, you finished?
Are you done, Mr. President?
Yes, thank you.
I thought of a couple other questions.
Okay, so you mentioned something that I think
is so important, and it's something that I kind of alluded
to a minute ago about communicating this to teachers and you know you said that
this kind of being like a triple down you know but how can it be better
communicated because even without us being the local designated whatever that
is that you're calling you know there is still a benefit because when I looked at
that chart it said it was three thousand actually is forty five hundred for the
urban so I think it's more like forty five hundred that our teachers would get
so if they're going to get reimbursed with the $2,000
you know they're going to quickly
earn well they're not going to
lose any money they're going to start getting $4,500
a year more
in 18 months or 2 years
so I would think that a lot of teachers
because like I hate to say this but we only
give our teachers $1,200
more for a master's degree
and that's not per you know
so what I mean is this is bigger than
that you know
and so like if I was a teacher
I'd rather do this and get a master's degree now. But how can we how can we better advertise that?
one of the things that I've done for the district is to create a
Recorded webinar that explains what teacher incentive allotment is
Explains your local plan and also explains the national board certification process who's eligible the timeline for that and so forth and so
I think the plan is to be able to share that video with staff
After this meeting?
After the application.
But right now we don't need to be approved in that cohort thing
if they just want to be nationally, what is it called?
National board certification.
Yeah, they could just do that right now.
Right, right.
So we don't need to have the whole thing approved first.
For that, you're exactly right.
And we have put information out to teachers when it comes to national board certification.
And last year, Region 4 did a cohort,
and we had, I believe, 15 to 20 of our teachers take Region 4 up on that cohort.
They're going to be starting another cohort in July, I believe.
And so as we get closer to that,
we're going to keep pushing out information about National Board certification
so teachers are aware of that.
But, again, that's just for that recognized designation.
All right.
And the last question I have is, sorry.
Sorry.
So the TICA, you know, our allotment per child is $61.60, right?
But all of a sudden they have all this money.
You know, so I was just kind of curious.
I mean, you probably don't know this answer.
Maybe Mr. Smith does.
But, you know, like we've been trying to get, you know, a higher allotment since 2019,
but they have all this money, you know, to give to people who don't have, you know,
I guess they're saving the money somewhere, so they must have it somewhere.
you know if they have it then why can't we be getting it now you know i'm sorry yeah i all i
know is um in the in the session i mean lots of these conversations are happening right now
and you know there's there's been discussion in the legislature about another across the board
pay raise for all teachers and then adding more money to tia as well there's all kinds of things
things on the table right now being discussed with the legislature. I think we'll have to wait until session ends to see what actually passes, but there seems, the good news is there seems to be a concerted effort to send a lot more money to high-performing teachers in our state, which is amazing.
Okay, thanks.
Mr. President, thank you very much.
I have a, many of my questions have been answered already.
Is this Title I schools?
This is schools with?
This is all campuses.
All campuses.
So the allotment amount.
But the tier, what are the tier things?
What is that?
Yeah, so the allotment amounts will be different based on student enrollment.
And it's not as cut and dry as this slide right here.
So every student is assigned a point value,
similarly to state comp ed funding.
But if you go look up the allotments for your district,
there's a website for this initiative.
It's large enough that it has its own website that TEA created.
It's tiatexas.org.
You can go pull up the allotment amounts for any campus in the state of Texas.
And, you know, it'll be based on two factors, rural or non-rural.
And I think the clip is if the district has more than 5,000 students and everyone's classified is not rule if I'm not mistaken
so the tier of
Economically disadvantaged students is what's really driving, but it's not just looking at the percent of students on the campus that are economically disadvantaged
They're also looking at the extent to which they're economically disadvantaged
Which is where the point value comes in and I'll just just to clarify since we're kind of getting a little bit in
in the the details here the allotment amounts will change every year so if
So tea will pull the peens data in
February of every year and then they will post new allotment amounts on that TIA website every year at the end of April
So if you look right now at the allotment amounts you look again the first week of May they're gonna they're gonna be different because they
will have recalculated
But if a teacher is designated as an exemplary teacher, and let's say this year, you know, they're getting $7,721, then next year, based on the, and they stay at the same campus, then next year, if the enrollment changes, it could go up a bit.
They could get, you know, $7,926, or it could go down.
They could get $7,548, right?
So it'll be the allotment amounts will change slightly based on student enrollment every year, but the designation
stays for five years
Okay, so these tiers are
There's non economically disadvantaged and then each one is depending on the
economic
Yes, economic right right and it's by student so that the tier is by students so students that qualify
Yeah, it's tier one, they get .5.
Tier two students, 1.0.
And beyond that, honestly, I really don't know exactly the funding formulas.
I've been hearing about TI.
for a while, a bit now, and I thought that it was to drive some of our highest performing
teachers to our schools with the most need.
Yes.
That's why I thought it was Title I schools.
But you're saying any teacher at any campus could do this if they go do all the work?
Absolutely.
Okay.
And the idea is that once they've been designated and once they've been identified as the really
high performing teacher that if they're working at a campus that maybe is not as high need
that they would consider going and working at a more high need school because their allotment
amount will be higher so you know you could have an exemplary teacher um you know making seven
thousand one hundred twenty nine dollars but if they move to a different campus their allotment
might go up to seventeen thousand so there's a ten thousand dollar incentive to get them to go
go work at the most high-need school. And by the way, we are seeing that happen across the state
and just districts that I'm working with that once the teachers are being designated, they're
shopping around, they're looking at the most high-need schools to go work. Okay, great. I can
see why there is discussion that people like instructional coaches and assistant principals
are now going back to the classroom with this TIA allotment because that's, you know, the incentives
can be significant.
I did not understand how difficult it was
to achieve that designation.
So if teachers don't have $2,000 laying around,
because, you know, how would they,
wonder if maybe, have you heard of any school districts
making it available to them where, you know,
we could, like, give us, have a fund,
and you could pay it back as you go,
and is it $2,000 right at the beginning,
or is it pay a little bit per class,
or what does that look like?
I don't know exactly what the process is.
I'm not a national board certification expert.
That would be a great question to maybe ask the national board for professional teaching
standards.
Like if it's all up front or I know there's four tests and each one of them is $495.
I don't know if you pay for each test as you go or if you pay the whole amount up front.
Did you want to?
Just wanted to jump in and make sure we're not confusing that.
We're kind of talking about two different things when we're talking about national board cert or the local designation system, because if we have a local designation system in place, a teacher can become recognized exemplary master without being nationally board certified.
Yeah, the national board certification piece was put in place for districts that don't yet have a local designation system.
If you have nationally board certified teachers, they can still be placed at that recognized level.
But once a district has a local designation system in place, you don't have to be nationally board certified.
No.
Master's program in the 2000.
Oh, that's so good.
Okay.
Thank you.
It's two separate pathways.
ways. So, you know, with your local plan, teachers could qualify as recognized exemplary or master.
And then they could also qualify as recognized just through national board. Completely separate.
And you cannot double dip. So if you have a nationally board certified teacher, but they
qualify as a master teacher under your local plan, the state's going to give them the designation of
master because that's the highest designation. Okay. That helps a lot because we did just ask
them to do those stinking reading academies and I can't imagine asking
them to go and do another master's program but okay so that's good to know
so I'm glad you explained that the eligibility was to begin with the star
tested you know because easier to capture the data is there talk about
expanding that as we kind of figure out what this looks like and going forward
Yes, that was some of those other science and history. Exactly. Yeah, we did talk about that a lot with the committee and what you know, what we call like phase two, phase three, and decided to just kind of focus on your one right now, get an application in kind of get through, you know, the year one process and then start thinking about solidifying phase two, phase three and so forth.
There may be some changes to this initiative at the end of this session, which would be beneficial to districts and teachers.
And so kind of knowing that that maybe was a possibility kind of slow down a little bit on the expansion.
The initial application is the big one.
It's very involved.
Once you start looking to expand your system in future years, it's a much more abbreviated application.
So it seems like a big deal, oh gosh, we have to apply every year, but it's really not...
Once you're in there, kind of consider you to be in.
Exactly, exactly.
Well, that answered the question I was just about to ask is why wouldn't they approve it?
So my thought, Mrs. Champagne, about the money being given by the state from an account with the bottomless pit,
like you said, they can control that the money goes to the teacher,
whereas if they increase the student allotment,
it's district-wide for district use.
But I'm glad that the state is focusing
on our teacher shortage and making sure
that we are attractive to teachers
and giving more money so that teachers want to be teachers
and they're really great and be the best
and stay in the classroom.
So I do appreciate that, and thank you,
Superintendent Gorgorski, for bringing this to us.
I know a lot of other districts are doing it,
And I think providing any avenue we can to reward teachers, classroom teachers, to be face-to-face with those students is a great thing.
Thank you.
Mr. President?
Yes.
Question.
So we have the list of, if I'm a teacher right now and I'm not on that list of the eligible teacher groups, but I wanted to participate, that's where that national board cert would come in.
So if I'm if I'm not fourth through eighth grade math
English, but I'm a second grade reading teacher
It it might be worth it for me to go dig into this national board cert
because then I can start participating as soon as I'm done with that regardless of
Approval or new plans where we figure out other ways to measure student growth or any of those things
that's the way to say like I
Would get I went through about ten of our schools where you're talking to apologize
I apologize.
But almost every school you're going to get at least $3,000 more if you're certified,
I mean you're recognized.
Oh, good.
So if anybody's listening and you're not in those grades, the National Board Cert was
probably worth you digging into a little bit.
Oh, good.
Thank you.
Good point.
A master's.
Any other questions?
Very informative.
Thank you very much.
Yes.
Great presentation.
Thanks for having me.
Super excited for that.
8.3 2023-2024 Budget Update
We'll now proceed to agenda item 8.3, 2023-2024, budget update.
Mr. Chris Smith, good evening.
Good evening.
I'm going to kick off by making a public announcement that I'm going to write a book.
And it's going to be a book, an exciting book,
and about how exciting it is to be the bearer of good news and Mr. Jovial all the time.
It's going to be a short book.
I can't wait until one day I can come up here and have a great story.
But I do have a great story that we're not there.
That building is a beautiful building, but there's a lot going on there.
And I'm here to talk a little bit about it and how it dovetails with our budget.
We know the state is working at a surplus of $32.7 billion with a B dollar surplus,
plus, $8.2 billion of that came from the current biennium.
That was money that was not spent on public education.
Again, it was not spent on public education
because of lower average daily attendance statewide
and high property value growth statewide.
And so districts receive less state aid
because of their property value growth, or districts, not Katie,
but districts that participate in Robin Hood and sending money
back to state, they sent more money to the state.
and it's not going to stay in public education.
It's $8.2 billion of savings that's in the big pot.
$27.1 billion rainy day fund and $3 billion is left of the states
that has their hands on American Rescue Plan fund or SR funds.
There's a lot of talk about property tax cuts.
They're looking at $15 billion in property tax cuts.
You've already seen some headlines out there that the school districts are going to get
X money in property tax cuts, and that is a very key statement to our taxpayers, because
they're going to get a break.
But as a break, a tax cut break does not really affect any school district's bottom line.
It's just a tax cut to the taxpayers, and I think that's great.
And it's a big headline, but it's not really going to education.
It's going to taxpayers.
Enrollment-based funding and some of the funding allotments is a big discussion up there that I've mentioned before.
Of course, school safety is definitely on the forefront, as well as discipline and mental health.
and then teacher pay raises and then COLA,
cost of living adjustment for retirees,
are a lot of the big subjects up there.
Now, I'm not going to go over all these.
These are bills that are kind of hot that are being followed,
and so I'm not going to go over them,
but there's a brief summary there.
I'll just say that when you look at this
and you see two bills that are out there
that seem to be getting traction
and you see a $50 increase to the basic allotment,
that's a $12.50 increase to the basic allotment going back four years each year.
And we're trying to build a budget that needs some inflationary help,
and $50 does not provide or deliver not even a 1% salary increase in this district.
Probably in any district does not deliver that.
And so that's somewhat concerning right now that some of the things that are being talked about really don't have a lot of money associated with it in this time of record inflation.
Tax relief, the Senate is looking at giving a big homestead exemption going from $40,000 to $70,000.
The House, they're more leaning towards just reducing the rate.
that people pay on their tax rate. The Senate also includes some rate reduction, but they're kind of
a part on how they're going to deliver tax savings, but they're going to deliver tax savings in both
the House and the Senate right now are looking at that. There's some formula-based changes. There's
certain things and certain things not. So for example, special education or
bilingual, they may look at enrollment based funding on that versus average
daily attendance. Average daily attendance, I mentioned last month, is
something that may be looking at average enrollment, but right now it's some in
this one particular bill where they look at enrollments, it's not specific to
average daily attendance. It's more to those special populations. School safety,
There are several bills out there with school safety.
One of them increases our allotment from $9.71 per average daily attendance to $10, which
is about a $25,000 impact to KDISD, just $25,000.
But it increases it to 10.
But the second part of that is it does provide or it would provide $15,000 per campus, which
is about $4 or $5 million.
million dollars but we spend significantly more significantly more
than that on security throughout KDIS to even have for years so that still
doesn't cover the cost that we are currently spending in security there's
several items out there on vouchers educational service accounts I'm sorry
education savings account anywhere within eight and ten thousand dollars
I'll remind you that our current basic allotment is six thousand one hundred
$660. Even a $50 increase to that is $7,120. I'm sorry, $7,110. So that's, but those are being
talked about at $8,000 to $10,000 each. There's several bills about bonds and having a uniform
election date in November of each year. And then there's talking about minimum payments on bonds,
which would be kind of like I compared it to minimum payment on a credit card
you'll never pay them off if you pay the minimum amount and then there's bonds
talk about having bonds require a supermajority to pass but that's all all
of that there's only going to be a hint there's several hundreds of other
education related bills maybe thousands these are the ones that from a financial
perspective that is being followed most closely right now initial draft of our
budget. I just wanted to talk to you real quickly about there's the basic allotment.
The budget is being built on the current basic allotment of $6,160. I will say
that if you look just below that current law states that the Austin yield is time
to increase. I'm sorry the golden penny yield. We're currently getting paid $98.56
per weighted student per penny of tax effort and that is going to
increase to 126 dollars give or take a couple of dollars either side um i was talking to uh
our the template that school districts are provided to use to estimate their funding uh
reflects that already and i kind of cringed when i saw it but i made a few phone calls and unless
they change the law of a house the meat of the law of house bill one uh that's gonna that's likely
gonna happen and so the numbers that you're gonna see tonight will include that uh because the tools
that we use include that. Enrollment shows a 3.8% increase. Again, that's budget to budget.
It's not quite that high. If you look at where we really are in the 22-23 school year,
we passed 93,700 students today on the enrollment report that I saw. So we're quite a bit above
from an enrollment standpoint of where we were last year, but it is slowing.
Taxable values we're looking at just at a 2.5% increase when it comes to the
general fund. That really doesn't matter in the general fund any longer because
as that grows state funding goes down or vice versa because of $6,160 is a static
number. The staffing plan that you saw last month are reflected there with
those asterisks those are for campus and special ed and ancillary positions associated with those
new campuses it's 404 teacher staff and 240 non-teacher staff the model that i'm currently
using does not show a salary increase for teachers or non-teachers again without an increase to the
basic allotment across the state of texas districts are the only way they'll be able to
to afford to pass on a salary increase is to do a VATRE or to use their fund balances to try to do that.
And that will get out of control real quick if they're not careful.
So we're really counting on something to be done with the basic allotment.
That revenues adds up to, we're looking at over a billion dollars in revenues in the general fund.
Both tax and state are the two ones that have changed a lot.
Other local revenues up because of interest income on our deposits are significantly increasing.
And of course that blue portion there, that TRS, state TRS contributions is an offset.
That's money that we contribute to TRS and the state matches that up for our behalf.
But that's a wash and you'll see that same number later in the budget.
Meaningful impact to revenue, we're 100% not just Katy, every district in the states is
100% dependent on the state of Texas and the laws that they're going to be doing now to
have meaningful impact to our revenue.
The only other option they would have is a VATRE, assuming they haven't not had one already.
and that's it period the thing that districts can't control is we can fold
could control fees and gate sales which is a very small impact and not a
recommendation of mine by any means and local tax revenue through a voter
approved tax rate election is really the only two things that can happen other
local revenues but again that's not going to do enough to affect to make a
a meaningful impact to our revenue.
With this campus staffing plan that you have seen by HR last week and tonight, it includes
the new campuses, both elementary schools, district-wide, includes district-wide growth,
special ed, bilingual growth, et cetera.
And then I mentioned earlier the ancillary positions associated with those new campuses,
i.e. custodians, police officers, etc.
88% this is our actual budget now is in salary and benefits.
Just as a reminder, the staffing plans and staff is where we spend the most money.
And then it's utilities.
Campus budgets have been out and been back from the campuses.
And that's a lot of moving parts.
But that's a very small portion.
You'll see that amount later.
And then department budgets are out.
and they're due i think at the end of this week and then any special project is due uh in the
next couple of weeks as well so we're still developing this we're six months away from
the the adoption of a budget uh we're not uh august 31st fiscal year end date and so we'll
adopt our budget in august so we're six months ahead um six months till we adopt the budget but
but we're working ahead and getting some numbers.
Again, our goal is to staff and to do our budget to where we're spending the most that we can in the classroom.
And right now 95 percent or 90.5 percent is spent directly on students.
And so I'm real proud of that.
And we're going to try our best as an administration to continue to keep that money where it belongs is in the classroom.
With that said, I'll throw this up there.
And if you can see at the very bottom of that list of administrative cost ratios, that's the most recent ones through the from the fiscal year ending August 31st, 2021.
And that was what we saw in schools first.
And I went ahead and put that together.
And we are the lowest administrative cost ratio of those districts.
But I'm almost certain, if not, I am certain that we are the lowest in the state.
New positions, from a monetary standpoint, it adds up to about 22.9 million in new teacher salary positions.
Again, at this time, we're not modeling a raise.
That's just it visually under construction there.
Non-teacher pay group, right now we're at $7.5 million of non-teacher pay.
Again, nothing in there for salary increases at this point in time.
and it's still very much under construction.
There's a visual look of what that looks like.
Other compensation, is it going to be up?
A couple of things that are happening on that is our substitute teachers.
Like our average daily attendance is down, our need for substitutes is up,
and so that's a significant increase there in substitute teachers at this point in time.
We'll continue to evaluate that as we go through the end of the school year
and try to extrapolate that out for next year.
But we're on pace now of seeing a pretty good need for an increase.
There's other compensation just graphically there.
Benefits, biggest increases or changes in benefits continue to be TRS.
Again, the state continues to increase the bar from what we contribute to TRS care insurance,
which is retirees insurance and then the TRS 1.8% local we're looking at a rate
increase there and so that continues
that's what that looks like from a total payroll standpoint we're looking at eight
hundred thirty eight million dollars in just salaries and benefits and then the
The TRS portion that I mentioned to you that was offset in the revenue is $58.1 million.
Again, that's a wash.
So for a total payroll budget of just under $900 million or $896 million.
That's what it looks like graphically.
From a non-payroll standpoint, you're looking at $120 million right now.
Again, this is under construction, and those budgets are out to the departments, not the campuses.
Those are back.
and at 9.1 million dollars you can see that's a very small percentage the
department allocations that's your where your big software costs are going to be
your fuel for our fleet and our buses and the big one is the utilities in
there so again what that looks like from just non money non number standpoint
just a graphic look so right now again I think this is optimistic we're looking
at a 7.5 million dollar deficit for next year. We, as you heard from me last month,
or last week, I'm confident that this year is going to end up being better and we probably
won't have a deficit. If we end up with a deficit it shouldn't be much unless there's some surprises
out there. But next year we're looking at a 7.5 million dollar deficit and again I want to
stress that that includes that that Austin that tier two yield going up from
ninety eight dollars to 126 which is the estimate right now and that that Jill
yields about twenty eight million dollars so if you take that out you're
looking at a pretty good pretty hefty deficit but I didn't want to shock
everybody because I'm pretty confident that that's going to happen trying a
pretty optimistic that it's going to happen other thing that that's our fast
Fast growth allotment is going to increase substantially, should increase substantially,
but I don't know what the proration is going to be, if any, on that.
And right now the template that we're using shows an increase and it shows it based on
a lot of what I've done in order to show that we have instead of 10,000 student gain, I'm
I'm sorry, a 12,000 student gain over the last five years.
When you add another year to it, a very fruitful year, it goes to 14,000.
Last year, 12,000 was by far the highest in the state.
I'm sure 14 will be too.
And when you load 14 into the formulas, it generates a pretty large number.
Will that number stay or will it go?
I don't know.
But what's property values going to do?
Mostly property values, when you talk those nowadays,
are really on our debt service side of our budget.
but are they going to be slow or robust?
If some of the things that we hear them talking about,
the Senate wants to increase the homestead exemption from $40,000 to $70,000,
a great thing for taxpayers, but that would affect our –
it would be a wash in the general fund, in the debt service fund.
It would hit us if they didn't put a hold harmless in there.
That's one of the reasons we're selling bonds now for the permanent school fund guarantee
and to make sure that we get that in the stage where it will be held harmless from an increase in the homestead exemption.
Homestead exemption would have to go to the voters of Texas.
And so they would have to approve that.
They would if it goes to them.
They would.
And then there's also 5% appraisal caps that the House is considering.
It's 10% now.
So most people around the state, most residences took 10% increase in their property values.
They were capped at 10%.
Some of them went up higher than that.
I know mine did, but the taxes only went up 10% because of that 10% cap.
They're talking about decreasing that to 5%.
That would slow value growth of our average over the last five years of 8% or 9%.
Those two things combined would slow that down substantially.
So what's that going to do to our debt service fund?
Who knows at this point?
point. Enrollment growth and special populations growth. Again, you saw the enrollment number.
We're looking at, my office is looking at the special population trends and what we think
they're going to end up being this year and just moving those on with regular growth for next year.
State funding. Again, what are they going to do with the state funding formulas?
ESSER is going to run out. We know that. We're currently trying to make a transition using
those that are getting off those ESSER funds but those are those are going to
be sunset during this next year at the end of this next year that we're
budgeting for and then what are the changes that are going to happen because
of that so that's a we're done with January February and now March and then
we'll have a closer look next month or in June probably probably June because
I'm not expecting sorry not in April but probably in May or June we'll have a
a little bit more clarity of what the state's going to do.
And hopefully that'll be one of those meetings where I can not just put a one-page optimistic page of my book.
Maybe I can make a chapter.
I'm hoping that that's the case.
I'm being positive that that's the case.
And that's all I have for you guys tonight.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President.
First of all, Mr. Smith, thank you for your presentation.
I thought it was quite riveting and I'm probably going to print it and read it again at home tonight.
Oh good.
But that could be chapter one.
But did I, I'm sorry, did I hear you correctly?
And I don't know, I know that they're meeting right now, but are you, did you say that they're recommending a $50 increase in allotment?
That's written in two bills, two bills, 50 bucks.
And that's it?
No, there's other bills.
Okay.
There's other bills out there.
The ones that are getting traction or being talked about are the ones that are on the
radars that folks in Austin are bringing to our attention as potential what ifs.
Again, it's early.
Okay.
It's early.
You know, but they're penciled in at 50 bucks on the increase in the basic allowance.
that does not provide a 1% salary increase, period.
Oh, my goodness.
Okay, so we should all be calling them and talking to them.
Right.
Okay, thanks.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
So, Mr. Smith, the $50 ones,
they have a Senate and House bill kind of coordinating.
Is that why they're being talked about?
Have you looked at House Bill 1672 by our?
representative i see that it doesn't have a senate bill attached to it but it's been referred to the
house education committee that has the it's a 450 increase to the basic alarm i believe that's what
that is 700 and something yeah yeah that's i've seen that and i like it 600. uh it does not keep
up with inflation uh going back to 2019 it needs to be more than that from an inflationary standpoint
point, but it's a whole, I mean, that's more than $50. I really like that bill and wish that it
would get some traction and be on the radar more. That's what the kids of this, the entire state
and the teachers of this entire state need in the times that we're in with inflation that way. And
that surplus that way. I'd feel better about it if it had a Senate bill attached to it, but it just
just a week or so ago, or a couple weeks ago, got referred.
So we'll see how that goes.
When you talk about the population, special populations,
is that inclusive of the fact that our low SES numbers have gone from 32% to 40%?
And that translates to more expensive education programs, right?
And we have increased, like you said,
from the low 30s to the mid 40s and from a socioeconomically disadvantaged but we've done
some things administratively to make sure that we're collecting all the children that apply
that qualify and those gains over the last couple of years cannot happen again what we get in gains
on those now will be just the standard two and a half three percent it should not i would be
shocked if it's the kind of gains, 5 and 6 percent gains that we've had over these last
couple of years.
It just can't happen.
That will be an increased challenge to our budget, our current budget.
It would be, it would draw more revenue, but it also, it's a challenge to the budget and
to the faculty at the campuses because, you know, it's tougher to educate socioeconomically
disadvantaged children.
Do those funds come federally or some of them from the state as well?
Those would be generated through the Comp Ed allotment locally,
and then, yes, it generates funds from a Title I perspective,
probably McKinney-Vento as well from a federal perspective.
Also creates a challenge to draw teachers sometimes on that.
And the last question I have is the state is having discussions
about a teacher funding formula of some kind, like a teacher raise,
that would not be the basic allotment,
but it would be a separate something
that they're going to give to teachers.
I've heard about that, yes.
And there's also a teacher, what do they call it?
It's called a teacher retention
or a teacher shortage bill out there
that has several things in there for teachers.
It would include increasing the minimum salary schedule,
significantly increasing the minimum salary schedule.
Now, there's no money to pay for it, as I understand it.
Is that funded or no?
To my knowledge and recollection, no, it's not.
But it would increase it, which we're way above the minimum salary schedule.
We would generate some savings when it comes to TRS stat minimum.
We would generate some savings there, but it wouldn't be material if that were to happen.
In the past, it's been considerable past.
they have said every school district will increase their student their
teachers by I don't know $3,000 or something that's what they required of
us in fact there was a time when we set teacher salary schedules before the
legislature ended and then they added another three or thirty five hundred
dollars to that and it almost cost us to to be in a bind it did cause us to be in
a bond which is why we determine that so late now because they don't fund it they
will put it in place but they won't fund it and the current law states now that
that any increase to the basic allotment a certain percentage of it it's 30% must
go to staff I know this board and dr. G well enough to know that it's all gonna
go to staff because they deserve it and they need it but they're talking about
increasing it from 30% to 50% take it to 90 it's that's what it's what we that's
what our faculty needs I get it okay thank you so much any other questions
Thank You mr. Smith will now proceed to agenda item 9.1 discuss and consider
9.1 Discuss and consider Board adoption of a resolution extending the bank depository contract.
board adoption of a resolution extending the bank depository contract presenter
Tonight is Miss Sherry Butterfield, Executive Director of Budget and Treasury.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Schulte, Trustees, Dr. Krakorski.
Tonight we're bringing you an extension on our current depository contract.
Prosperity Bank was selected.
through an RFP during the 2017 bid process.
We continue to experience successful relationship
with Prosperity and they have agreed
to a depository contract extension,
which are requirements of the extension provision
for school district depositories.
With regard to the recent turmoil in the banking industry,
I have provided you some information about the strengths of Prosperity Bank and our relationship with the bank.
So here tonight for your approval is the depository contract renewal resolution.
This will be the last available extension on this particular RFP.
Can I answer any questions for you?
Board members, any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
The question I had is what does Prosperity Bank do for us?
Do we have our main operating account there?
Yes, we have our operating accounts there.
That's what our check runs process off of.
So we have check runs for our payroll account.
We have check runs for our vendor accounts.
So all of those checks process through there.
We do all of our wire transfers out of Prosperity Bank.
So it's a commercial banking relationship with Prosperity Bank.
And I know that we have our investments elsewhere in terms of outside the bank, if you will.
But on any given day, how much will we have at Prosperity Bank?
I beg your pardon?
At any given day, how much in funds will we likely have at the bank?
We likely have around $100 million at any given point in the month.
And we're comfortable with that as far as sitting at the bank?
Yes, we are. It's such a fluctuation if you think about cash flow.
At the bank, we have check runs in payroll of about $25 million on semi-monthly payroll,
another $2-3 million on a biweekly payroll.
So all this money is funding into the account and going right back out of the account
to the staff through the direct deposits or payroll pay cards.
There's a lot of in and out.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Yep.
Thank you.
Mr. President?
Yes.
Mrs. Butterfield, how long have we had a relationship with Prosperity Bank?
Do you remember?
Okay, so this is the second R.A.
with Prosperity Bank, so we did have a previous RFP,
and two extensions off of that contract.
This is Ms. Sheldon from Prosperity Bank,
who is our local relationship manager.
Any other questions?
If not, I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees adopt a resolution
authorizing the last extension of the bank depository contract
Contract with Prosperity Bank for the last two-year term beginning September 1, 2023.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Champagne and a second by Mrs. Fox.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen.
The motion passes 6-0.
9.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the purchase of a student bus monitoring system for the bus fleet.
Thank you, Ms. Butterfield.
9.2, discuss and consider board approval of a contract for the purchase of a student bus monitoring system for the bus fleet.
The presenter tonight is Mr. Ted Veerle, Chief Operations Officer.
Good evening.
Good evening, Mr. President, board members.
Dr. Grgorski. We are Paul Landis, our Executive Director of Transportation. I am here tonight
to speak to you about the next best thing that our Transportation Department is working on.
Just a little bit of history in case you were not here for those meetings. In 2019, we introduced
the GPS on all of our buses, which allowed us to know where our buses were at all times when
they were on the route and it also allowed parents to track their students buses as the buses went
around on the route so gave them a better idea of when they were getting to the house when they were
getting to school that sort of thing and then in 2020 mrs hack and i worked very closely together
on a project to bring an eight security camera uh set up to every single route bus in the district
which we could go into hours and hours of detail on how that's helped us.
It's been a fantastic resource for us in keeping kids safe,
both on the bus and around the bus.
And so this tonight is the next best thing.
So we do still have some challenges, though.
Are kids getting on the correct bus when they're at school?
I know in junior high and high school,
It's always kind of funny because we just kind of let the kids go they know where they're going
That's always the running joke with elementary folks
But our elementary people are very specific about where their kiddos are going in the afternoon and things like that
There are issues though
There are still little issues here and there about does a kiddo get on the correct bus does a kiddo get on the bus the?
Correct bus in the morning does he get off at the correct stop?
Does he stay on you've heard those stories in the news about kiddos staying on the bus and?
being left on the bus and going back to transportation centers.
All of those things are still real concerns to us, okay?
And so how do we solve this problem?
So there are several programs out there that will do this for you.
The one we're bringing to you tonight, it's called RFID, Radio Frequency Identification, okay?
And you guys are probably familiar with RFID.
Our badges that we get in and out of our buildings work on RFID.
When you go to a hotel, you've got a key card.
No longer do you have a key or anything like that.
It's all done by key card.
You touch the card to the door, it magically opens up.
And that's how this system is based for our kids.
So Paul is going to speak to more of the detail around how all this is going to work.
But I do want to say on that last bullet there, there is no student data on these cards.
Just like there is no student data on my ID badge that gets me in the building.
Just like there is no data on me when I go to Disney World, which I do frequent.
There is no information on me on that card that gets me in the hotel room.
It's strictly just a little piece of wire in there that is connected to a number that then is connected to me as a person.
And as soon as that expires, as soon as they kill it, as soon as I throw it away, it's gone.
So I'll let Paul go into detail about how the system works.
President Schulte, Dr. Gorski, and board members, I'm excited to come and talk to you about this because all of us at transportation are super excited about this.
A lot of campuses we've talked to are super excited about this because it's going to be a big help.
But who is Smart Tag?
The first thing is they're a Texas company.
I believe they're based out of Georgetown.
And the biggest thing to me about this whole thing, if you look down at the next to last item there, this was originally designed by a bus driver.
So this is somebody who's sat in the seat, who's dealt with students, who's had these issues that this resolves.
And that's a big difference from just a software developer sitting in an office somewhere that says, hey, we're going to do something similar, just never been on a bus, who just thinks they know what happens on a bus.
This comes from people who have been there and actually know what happens on a bus, and it makes a difference in this product when compared to other products.
So each writer has a tag, has the RFID card, and once again, there's only a number on the card.
No other information besides a number.
And that number only means something when it's attached to the appropriate database, which is what we'll have on our end
Each bus is equipped with a high-end Samsung tablet and card reader that the student uses to scan the IR RFID card
So basically the tag informs the driver
Whether they're on the right bus or the incorrect bus if they get on and it's the right bus
The screen will turn green and there'll be a nice cheerful being there sound that it happens and the sounds important to a bus driver
Because they're not always looking at the screen
They're looking at the students who are doing other things, so the sound is key, and it's very loud and nice.
There's a very annoying sound if the kid gets on and it's not the right bus. The screen turns red,
and it's a sound that you will not mistake. So those things are both very critical to what we want with this program to happen.
So if a student forgets their ID, we're never going to leave as the same as it is what we do right now.
We're never going to leave a student at the bus stop in the morning.
They're going to get on it. That bus is going to their school. They're getting on that bus. We're taking them to school.
school, we'll worry about the right bus or whatever the situation needs to happen for
the afternoon.
But we're always going to get them to school.
So we prefer them to have their card because it makes things faster.
But if they don't, there are ways where the system knows who's at that stop and they'll
be able to hit, there's a list of students that are on there, they'll be able to touch
load and that student's loaded just like they had their card there.
Even if the student doesn't belong at that stop, there's still a way to load a student
without necessarily having the name, but that keeps track of them still.
So those things are taken care of in that situation.
Other things that this does besides just this, one of the things, there's many things actually,
but one of the things right now, drivers do paper seating charts, and we have to do those by paper.
We get them to schools.
We keep those on hand.
They change often.
This lets you do it by basically drag and drop or pick on a list.
You touch a seat number, it gives you the roster of students.
You pick one.
There it is.
They can do this on the tablet, on the layover, while they're at school waiting on their kids to come out.
it can be done there it's much easier than paper automatically saved
automatically record yeah that gets kept track of and the schools have access to
this information just the same as the Transportation Department has another
thing it does for us that isn't on here but it lets the driver notate the things
that are we know they do a pre-trip inspection their bus it lets them
notate that they've done that and things are proper or if there's many minor
things that need to be addressed that don't keep the bus from rolling but
still need addressed they can be notated on there and that report will be emailed
to our shop foreman every day nice things like that this program will do it
always tells you the number of students that are on the bus so if you get to
school you know you have say this is a sped bus you have seven kids on the bus
you know you're gonna drop seven off that school if you're going home you get
to a certain stop there may be 30 kids on the bus but it's gonna tell you
there's four kids for that stop and so you're always gonna know so if kids
unloading you still have it says one kids on there and you know that kid fell
fell asleep or something like that so that's what helps us when we get to the
end of the run it should say zero then we know no one's on the bus as long as
we're doing this this is a big benefit to us safe driving while this is this is
set up to where you can't interact with it when the bus is in motion you can't
do anything on the screen while the bus is in motion there's an option that they
can go blank when the bus is in motion but an option that we want to use is it
will give us turn-by-turn directions voice it'll read out the directions to
us which right now if you're a sub on a bus we give you a piece of paper with turn by turns
so this is a lot better than when the system's going to be able to tell you where the turn is
because that piece of paper says you're supposed to turn on you know green street well you don't
know green street's next street or four streets down so that's a big benefit to have this really
huge benefit um right now we have the current system with the gps and the parent portal
this mimics everything that does plus more when when things are running when we've got things
going with we going well there'll be a notification of parents 15 minutes
before the bus gets to their route they'll get a text if that's there
delegate a text when their student is scans on the bus and scans off the bus
so the parents can have that notification for each of their students
and the parents just also with this they register for the application by using
their students name instead of just register for a bus which we kind of do
now this actually uses the students information to register for it and then
the system knows which bus that they need to give the parent information about um our timeline is
short um we want to have this in place when school starts in in august so we're kind of already
behind the gun but we think we can make this happen um every single bell and whistle may not
be there when we roll out but we're going to have the important pieces there in place when we roll
out and start school in august are there any questions any questions board members yes miss
Wilson I have one I guess I have a question we probably might all have the same question
I know that some of our routes are contracted out I
Can only assume as we continue to grow that number may also grow
Probably depends on how many bus drivers?
Were able to keep as well is this feature going to be on those bus systems as well?
Or is this only for our KD ISD buses it will also be on those buses
We haven't worked out all the details yet
but it shouldn't be a problem for that to be on there.
It's a pretty simple install.
It's connecting one bracket and connecting one power cord to the bus,
so it's not a really in-depth install.
So, yes, we've already been talking to them.
They know this is coming.
Like they've had to have cameras on their buses,
because we have cameras on their buses,
I think they're contractually required to basically have the similar
or same systems that we have on our buses, so it will be there.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, I just had a question on the funding.
Is this considered a safety and security type item?
Yes, sir, it is.
And the initial startup is going to be bond funding.
And then after that initial startup, the recurring cost will be GOF.
It's really pretty cost neutral in terms of the software itself.
We're paying about the same for the software that we use currently with Edgelog.
But we get a whole lot more features with this one.
The ID cards are going to be a little bit more expensive because they are the RFID cards rather than just a quote-unquote dumb card that we use currently.
So there's a little bit of an increase there, but the functionality of this is far better than what we've got right now.
The 2019 GPS was a baby step.
This is a nice step in the right direction.
Thanks.
Any other questions?
Yes, Mr. President, I have a few questions.
On the ID badge, so that's going to be an additional badge other than the one that they already have?
Are they going to go ahead and put the?
It's going to be, they're just going to have generally the one badge.
It's going to be just printed the same look that our badges currently have or whatever they'll have next year will just be printed onto this badge.
Okay, so like if they're best writers, then they'll have that badge.
Yeah.
And then they have to scan when they go out also?
Yes.
Okay, and then the other question, and I know I sent this question in today, and I got an answer on it, but I just wanted to, so, you know, I'm trying to explain like this.
When my kids were little, we were walkers, but we had a bus.
So sometimes I'd want to use the bus, you know, and so 80% of the time, 90% of the time they were walkers.
But I had the option of if I wanted to, they could ride the bus.
So this isn't going to be able to happen anymore like that.
Or like here's an example.
My daughter was a bus rider, but then I wanted her to ride the bus home with another person
because maybe she's going to go spend the night with that person that night.
So she didn't really belong.
She had a note, and they did a change of transportation for her,
but she wouldn't have the right badge.
Yes, ma'am.
So there's a couple things going on there.
So there's a there's a change of transportation form that you do at the elementary level right that we've all done
Because again, you can't just let a kiddo just leave the elementary, right? You got to do the form
So that's the kind of a paperwork piece that's behind the scenes for elementary schools
And then with it with the kiddos riding other buses home
Is that still possible?
Yes, we've sort of tried to discourage that in the last few years the more kiddos
we have moving around and doing different things the more complex things get and the more chances you have to to
Well, we don't want to lose a kiddo right so we've really kind of discouraged that and and ms
Hack and I we're gonna be working together on the on the the the student
You know school guidance piece of that on where we you know
How we want to allow kids to ride home on buses that aren't theirs
I would say more of an in terms of a child care emergency type need rather than a spend the night type need.
And then the last piece of that was your first part of your question was my daughter was a walker, but she had access to a bus.
So those kiddos are all in e-school and Edgelog, which is our routing system, talks to e-school.
So the system is going to know that your daughter is a bus rider, even though she rarely rides the bus, because she's in e-school as a bus rider eligible.
when she gets on the bus, she'll badge on.
It won't be any different.
Now, she'll still need to let the school know that she's doing a change of transportation that day,
but she'll be fine in terms of getting on the bus.
And again, if they don't bring their ID, we're really going to push bringing their IDs.
And the schools have been doing a great job from a security standpoint of having their IDs with them.
That makes that this much easier to do than it was even three or four years ago.
So I just want to reiterate one thing. So on an emergency situation, because God forbid something happened in the family that day and my little seven-year-old can't come home, but she could ride home with Sally or something.
Yes, ma'am.
On an emergency situation, we could still allow her to ride home with Sally or whatever.
Yes, ma'am. And you can manually input kiddos. We've even had the discussions about a reunification situation.
If we had to, like at Williams Elementary a couple years ago, we had the power go down and we sent all the kiddos over to Cinco.
When all these kids have these badges, even the kiddos that aren't bus riders, they can badge into the bus.
We can manually get them in there. And so we'll have a roster of kids that rode each bus.
So there's a big benefit there.
Okay, and one last thing as you just made me think of this so a bus is out
You know this is their best and so it's been set up for these kids
But now the best
Something happened. I got a flat tire
The information stays on the tablet so the tablet can go between another bus or you just log in with the appropriate bus on the
Tablet and it'll give you that information whether it's the route for the driver to be able to get the directions
the students at their stops and all those things,
it's just based on what you log into the tablet.
And at the same time, the tablet does constantly
connect via cellular with the system.
So at any moment, you know what students are on the bus,
how many students are on the bus, and who they are.
So like if there's an accident or something,
instead of guessing, OK, these many students are eligible.
We don't know who's on the bus for sure.
You're going to know at that point.
You'll know that a kid of them already got off.
And you'll know which ones are still on even.
Any other questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President, I have a couple of questions. I was just jotting something down.
So we've had that edulog, whatever it's called, system for four or five years.
And so, which makes sense because technology gets better, you know, just replicates itself overnight almost.
Is it a membership, an annual membership thing, or did we buy it outright?
Right.
So, Edge Log, just like this one, we did an RFP.
We put it out on the street for GPS services, and it was a contract.
So, we did not, in terms of equipment, the GPS equipment, the, oh, gosh, what am I looking for, Paul?
We have GPS units that came on the bus from that.
We did purchase those.
Truthfully, they're about close to end of life anyway.
We've had a lot of them go out.
The company was already suggesting that we upgrade those.
so we're right at a good spot our contracts ending there the ongoing costs
are virtually equivalent between the two just a lot more we get from this it's
kind of just a trip an improved system but a but a net cost except for the
badges she said okay the you can only see your student you only see the
students that you register for and there again I can only see my student I can't
see anybody else right there's there's specific information you need to be able
to register it should be pretty hard to try to register for a student that
doesn't belong to you there's some safeguards there I don't know what we've
looked fully into that yet to know all the specifics but yes for safety yes I
can only see my student how many students ride buses average daily
neighborhood of 30,000 that's a lot of students I had the same question about
the friend coming home hold on i think it sounds like a great idea and having a badge with them at
all times is just a really good habit to get into and so yeah love it thank you i have one question
how many district how many other people are you we're not the first one to do this right yeah
this kind of technology kind of started around 2010 2012 sometime in that time frame so there's
a good number of companies that do this we've kind of waited till it's been kind of solid yeah
They work all the bugs out, right?
This particular company has over 60, I believe, districts in the state that use this program.
A lot of them.
They're very well, I mean, this is the Cadillac program, in my opinion, largely because it was designed by a bus driver.
Yeah.
So it really understands the process more than most of the others do.
And, yes, the drivers are very excited about this when they talk to them.
They're all super excited about having this process in place because they know the neighbors have it.
Like Lamar has this actual program.
ALEAF has the same combination that we would have with EduLog for routing and this for that program.
And, you know, there's a lot of school districts in the Houston area that have this specific program,
and some of them have other programs.
Excellent.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, I thought of one more thing, too.
So I love the GPS version of that, right, like to have that for bus drivers to substitute bus drivers.
but also because we grow so quickly and the roads change.
This thing is satellite driven, so it's not like the one on my car,
which is so old that it doesn't even know my neighborhood, right?
It should come from the routes that we build in the routing system.
They get uploaded.
So as long as that's accurate in our routing system,
which sometimes we have to kind of build some of that ourselves
on some of the new things.
So we'll have to see how that works exactly.
exactly, but it doesn't really come from GPS data like Google Maps or something.
It comes based on the routes that you've already built because we may not build routes the
way that Google thinks is efficient because we have other needs, so it's going to focus
on how we've designed the route.
Oh, that's brilliant.
That's good.
You know, I rarely go anywhere without my GPS on.
It's like I don't know how to, I don't know directions anymore and I don't know anybody's
phone number now that I've become dependent on that, you know, technology.
So it's a really good idea.
Yeah, thanks for doing it.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the award of the proposal
for the purchase of a student bus monitoring system for the bus fleet.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Wilson, a second by Mr. Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the keypad.
The motion passes 6-0.
9.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for Lit / Dark Fiber services to meet the immediate and long-term fiber infrastructure for Junior High 18 and High School 10.
We'll now proceed to Agenda Item 9.3,
Discuss and consider Board approval to award competitive sealed proposal for dark fiber services.
Good evening.
Presenters, Joe Christopherson, Director of Technology Operations.
My apologies, getting late.
Good evening, President Solte, Board members, and Dr. Grigorski.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees award CSB 2210SP for lit or dark fiber
for the infrastructure growth of the district to PS Lightwave Incorporated.
The services will provide connectivity to junior high 18 and high school 10.
The funding source for the dark fiber installation will be paid from the 2021 bond,
new construction technology allotment,
and the recurring cost will be paid out of general operating fund.
The total cost for one year is $186,837.59.
The annual recurring cost after that is $4,800.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees award CSP 2210SP for lit dark fiber services to PS Lightwave Inc.
CSP 2210SP to meet the immediate and long-term fiber infrastructure for junior high.
18 and high school 10.
OK.
We have a motion by Ms. Wilson, a second by Mrs. Champagne.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the keypad.
The motion passes 6-0.
9.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for the Building Management Control System replacement at multiple campuses.
Agenda item 9.4, thank you.
9.4, discuss and consider board approval
of the proposal for the building management control system
replacement at multiple campuses.
Presented tonight is Mr. Nathan Fox, executive director
for maintenance and operations.
Good evening, President Schulte, board members,
members and Dr. Gorgorski. Tonight I have one item for your consideration. On February 28th of this
year, we received bids from three contractors to upgrade our building management control systems
at multiple campuses. The upgraded systems will allow for increased energy savings
and allow for optimum management of our building operations. The five identified campuses are part
of the 2021 bond component replacement program. The total project cost of $1,983,216 is a not to
exceed amount and will be completed by the end of November of this year with no campus
or facility interruptions.
Any questions, Board Members?
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the award for the contracts for the replacement
of the Building Management Control Systems, BMCS, at Ties Junior High School to Climatic
LLC in the amount of $737,800 in the replacement of the Building Management Control Systems,
BMCS, at Law Enforcement Center Central Maintenance and Operations East Transportation Center
and Support Services Complex to Unify Energy Solutions, LLC, in the amount of $946,000
and approves the total project cost not to exceed $1,983,216.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Champagne.
We have a second by Mr. Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the keypad.
The motion passes 6-0.
9.5 Discuss and consider the Board approval of a proposal for the cafeteria kitchen component replacements at various campuses.
Thank you.
Agenda item 9.5, discuss and consider board approval of a proposal for the cafeteria kitchen component replacements at various campuses.
Presenting tonight is Ms. Lisa Kastman, Executive Director of Facilities Planning and Construction.
Good evening.
Excuse me.
Good evening, President Schulte, Board of Trustees.
and Dr. Gagorski, I have only one item this evening for your consideration.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Division I
Construction for the construction of the cafeteria kitchen
component replacements at Alexander Hayes McRoberts,
May Creek Junior High, and West Memorial Junior High. The selection process was a
joint effort between our department, the engineer, and purchasing
since we are utilizing TDA, Texas Department of Agriculture funding.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Division I Construction, LLC,
for the construction of cafeteria kitchen component replacements at Alexander Elementary,
Hayes Elementary, McRoberts Elementary, Maid Creek Junior High, and West Memorial Junior
High School in the amount of $5,295,321.42 and approves the total project cost not to
to exceed $5,777,993.92.
I have a question.
Yes.
I just was wondering, are we doing this
based on a rotation or is it a need?
It's based on rotation.
Donna Pittenger isn't here, but she kind of keeps us posted
on what items are due at each of the campuses.
After so many years, these things just give out
and we need to get a new one.
Correct. Okay, thank you.
Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Second. We have a motion by, yeah, Mrs. Fox. That's what I
thought. The question was with Ms. Champagne. And we have a second by Ms. Wilson. We'll now
proceed to vote. Board members, please record the vote on your keypad.
Motion passes 6-0. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll now proceed to 9.6, discuss and consider
9.6 Discuss and consider approval of the renewal proposal for Property Insurance.
approval of the renewal proposal for property insurance. Mr. Smith, you're back. I'm back.
And I'm presenting the property renewal.
It ensures our property values at $3.43 billion.
Expiring value on that was $2.53 billion.
Of course, we've added a couple of campus or a campus since then.
And this does reflect changes in inflation, et cetera.
So $3.43 billion.
Just to point out a couple of things,
Our administration's recommendation is obviously still Berkshire Hathaway.
The coverage limits that we are obtaining do exceed the maximum expected losses.
And although reduced, there is standalone flood insurance coverage still for Creech Elementary.
We do have impacted in this renewal higher flood, named storm, and wind storm and hail deductibles.
However, we do have an option for 2024.
It's my understanding that throughout the industry obtaining property insurance at rates that aren't 10, 20% increases, it's happening everywhere.
This is the same rate.
We have a higher value, but we are getting less coverage through those deductibles that I mentioned a few minutes ago.
Again, this impacts our property insurance, property casualty and flood.
It has included in this is terror and sabotage, excess flood for Creech Elementary, our boiler
and machinery coverage and inland marine.
And the premium is $5,956,000, which is about $657,000 higher than we originally presented
to you in January.
I wanted to make that addition and then recommend that you approve the revised property proposal
as presented by me tonight.
Thank you.
Are there any questions?
Mr. President, I have a couple questions.
Okay, so I always notice this about the CREACH,
and you mentioned it, but it's $10 million,
and then next year it's $5 million.
So it's gone down because nothing's happened in the last couple years?
The amount of coverage we're getting has gone down
because the underwriters don't want to do flood insurance.
They don't want to do it.
And so we're paying $89,000 for that flood insurance for $5 million in coverage.
If we have an event like we had before, the general fund will have to cover it.
That's the best we could do.
And just out of curiosity, the named storm at $50 million, so are we covered at a higher
rate for a named storm?
We have a higher deductible to pay in a named storm event.
named and again that's indicative of what's going on you know in the country
with the big storms that it caused billions of dollars of damages the
insurance companies are doing their thing to for they so they can stay
profitable and they're passing that along to the consumers so in addition to
inflation high claims across this country or across the globe are up and
and therefore the cost of providing that's up I think I think anybody that's
gotten their house renewed is seeing that in their homestead as well all right thank you any other
questions if i don't entertain mr president yes um when you say we have a renewal option for 2024
does that mean an additional year beyond this one yes sir okay and that is that they're willing to
insure us or it's the same rate for another year if we choose that option if we choose that option
i believe it will be for the same rate i'm not certain on that yet uh if we don't think we'll
get the same rate or we think we could do better going to the market again we'll we'll go back to
and put a bid out on the street again sometime latter part of the fall or early January.
Do they require us to make that decision now?
No, it does not.
It does not require to make that decision now.
Any other questions?
Mr. President.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the revised renewal proposal for the property insurance
as presented by USI for 2023-2024.
Second.
We have a motion by Mrs. Champaign, a second by Mr. Redmond.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record the vote on your QPAD.
The motion passes 6-0.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
9.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of a one-time retention lump sum payment of 1% of the mid-point for all returning employees and a one-time lump sum payment of 1% of the mid-point for those employees that provide the district early notification of their intent to retire.
Item 9.7, discuss and consider board approval of a one-time retention lump sum payment of
1% of the midpoint for all returning employees and a one-time lump sum payment of 1% of the
midpoint for those employees that provide the district early notification of their intent
to retire.
I'm very pleased to present this item to the board.
As stated, a one-time 1% retention lump sum and also a one-time 1% lump sum for employees
that notify us of their intent to retire.
When you do something like this, especially when you focus on retention, that's good for
the employees.
It's great for the district.
It also is good to get that information of folks that are going to retire because we know, you know, we have vacancies.
We're going to have growth, but we also know we're going to have folks that retire.
So it's good to know that landscape as well.
When you do something like this, you've got to have some guidelines in place.
So I'm going to go over these for the board.
So for the retention part, we'll start there.
So contract employees that sign their contract by April 5th will receive this payment on April 15th.
We wanted to get this into the hands of the folks as quickly as we could.
So again, sign their contract by April 5th.
They'll receive this payment on April 15th.
Also, I have employees in the district that don't have contracts.
So non-contract semi-monthly employees, all non-contract semi-monthly employees will receive this payment on April 15th.
And non-contract bi-weekly employees will receive this payment on April 21st just because that's their next payroll.
Contract employees that sign their contract after April 5th and by April 14th will receive this payment on May 15th.
And you may ask why the date of April the 14th.
Well, when contracts go out tomorrow, on any contract, at the bottom of the contract, there is a date which you should sign your contract by.
And this year, that is April 14th.
So after the 5th, by the 14th, receive that payment on May 15th.
That's the retention side of it.
Employees who notify the district they're intent to retire by April 14th, again, the last day to sign the contract, will receive the lump sum payment on May 15th.
A couple of other guidelines we put in place.
since this is for retention. Employees that resign after receiving the retention lump sum
and prior to the start of their 23-24 contract year will refund the district payment as part
of their last check. And then employees that notify the district their intent to retire
after April 14th and receive the retention lump sum would then refund the district that payment
as part of their last check. And that's because this is for, you know, for retention purposes,
as these employees that are going to come back to the district in in 23 24 and i'll take any
questions any questions board members mr president yes um first of all i'm i'm so excited that you
know we found a way to do this um but i hope that teachers and all employees read this one line one
one-time lump sum payment because I do think that sometimes the employees get in, you know,
like almost an expectation type thing because I think this is a great idea, and if we could do it,
it's great, but next year, maybe we can't do it, but this year, we can do it, and I'm happy about
that. I'm just hoping that people realize it's a one-time. Thank you very much for your presentation.
Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Champaign. Any other questions? Mr. President. Yes.
Mr. Shush, what happens if people have already notified us of their intent to resign at the end of the year?
They will qualify.
They will qualify.
Yes, ma'am.
Okay.
Even if they told us last month, we already knew.
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
Let me clarify that for one second because, Ms. Fox, I thought I heard you said resign versus retire.
I meant retire.
And I heard retire, so I apologize, Dr. Gorski.
I meant retire.
Okay.
So you mind reading.
My husband would want to know how you did that.
I apologize.
Any other questions?
Mr. President?
Yes.
So as I understand it, the cost of this is $6.7 million, and it's coming out of ESSER funds?
Yes, sir.
The majority of it will come out of ESSER funds.
The general fund portion will come out of ESSER funds.
Some of the other federally funded programs will be taking that on those respective funds,
but the vast majority of it is the intent to come out of ESSER funds.
Okay.
Okay. And could you talk for a moment and explain just the difference between what would be better for teachers, for example,
whether they're paid 1% off the midpoint or 1% of their actual salary?
Yeah, that's a great question.
And so most of our teachers are below the midpoint.
When you look at the midpoint of the range, that falls, I believe, around year 24, 25 of the teacher hiring scale.
And I believe our average years of service for teachers is 11.
So in large part, many, many of our teachers fall below that midpoint.
So if we were to give the 1% lump sum based on actual salary, then that would be a lower lump sum for those teachers that are below the midpoint.
So actually giving that 1% lump sum based on the midpoint is beneficial for most of our teachers.
So the vast majority of our teachers are below the midpoint?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, you have another question.
No, I wish we could give the teachers more in terms of as part of the $6.7 billion,
where they're not getting the $700 or $600 or whatever it is,
and some people getting $2,000 or $1,500,
that we could equalize that and skew it more towards teachers.
That's something I think would be great because that's who we're trying to retain.
rain any anybody have any thoughts on that
well part of this president yeah so I mean traditionally we've had two and a
half percent of our budget spent on administration right so if the this to
move it towards teachers right six point seven million dollars I could do the
math was it 200 around two hundred thousand something like that this
Right? No, $200,000 is all that would be going to administration, right?
.02, yeah.
And so that would come out to about $5, $10 a paycheck, maybe, from police?
I don't know. Is that right?
I mean, I'm just saying, instead of a teacher getting $600 or $700, they might get $1,000.
And then you give everybody $1,000, or you cap it or something, or you give everybody the same thing.
Yes, I mean the recommendation is 1% lump sum of the midpoint for all employees.
I believe Mr. Redman is correct.
Depending on where you draw the line for administration, it's probably around $200,000
and anywhere from probably around $15, $20 or so would be in addition for all employees
if you were to spread that out for employees.
So it doesn't amount to a whole lot if that's what you're trying to spread out.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, what's the average 1%?
What can teachers expect or most employees?
Teachers, $715.
$715.
Any other questions?
Thanks.
I apologize, Mr. President, one more.
This is every employee.
Yes, ma'am.
This is all of our cafeteria workers and our groundskeepers and everybody.
It's 1% of their midpoint of their pay grade.
For retention purposes, yes, ma'am. All employees, yes.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves of a one-time retention lump sum payment of 1% of the midpoint for all returning employees
and a one-time lump sum payment of 1% of the midpoint for those employees that provide the district early notification of their intent to retire.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman and a second by Ms. Wilson.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record the vote on the screen.
The motion passes 6-0.
9.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of equalizing the I00 paygrade of the 2022-2023 Board approved compensation plan.
Thank you very much.
The 9.8, discuss and consider board approval of equalizing the I-100 pay grade of the 2022-2023 board approved compensation plan.
Yes, sir.
Thank you again.
Again, very pleased to bring this to the board.
There's been a lot of discussion about the IOO pay grade equalization.
And so as stated in this slide
This means that all employees that are in the IOO pay grade that are currently being paid at a daily rate that is below the teacher
Hiring scale based on their years of service will be adjusted to the appropriate daily rate according to the 22-23 teacher hiring scale
Any questions board members?
So that's that's also about $700, right
Well, you know, depending, it'll be, actually, it's going to be more than that.
It'll be anywhere between $1,300 to $2,100.
Well, on an annual basis, it would be $1,300 to $2,100.
Yes, but this is for the remainder of the year, but on an annual basis, that's what it would be.
So for the rest of the, so whatever, $1,300 divided by however many months we have left.
Yes, ma'am.
Mr. President.
Yes.
So when we think about this, this is really the ones who were left out of the ones who provide classroom support, support teachers, instructional coaches, instructional coordinators, those classifications that were not given the 5% raise when we made that.
So now they are essentially, technically, absolutely making less than classroom teachers.
And yet they were chosen, many of them were chosen as excellent to go and help provide classroom support and enrich our classrooms and our student learning.
And so this makes them paid the same as teachers.
Yes, ma'am.
On a daily rate, and of course they have more days than that.
But as a function of a daily rate, yes, they will all be on the same scale for the entire pay grade, everybody in that pay grade.
And I failed to mention that this would be effective on the April 15th paycheck as well.
Great.
Thank you for that.
Mr. President.
Yes.
Let me find it.
9.8.
Thank you.
I move the Board of Trustees approves of equalizing the IOO pay grade of the 2022-2023 Board-approved compensation plan.
Second.
We have a motion by Ms. Fox, a second by Mrs. Champagne.
Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Champagne will now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record the vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion passes 6-0.
9.9 Discuss and consider Board approval of a resolution to nominate superintendent Dr. Ken Gregorski for the Texas Association of School Boards Superintendent of the Year.
We'll now proceed to agenda item 9.9, discuss and consider board approval of a resolution to nominate Superintendent Ken Gregorski to the Texas Association of School Board Superintendent of the Year.
Are there any questions on this?
I think we've done this the last several years at least, and obviously we got a lot to be grateful for for the school district.
A lot of things going well, so I certainly support the nomination again this year.
Are there any questions?
If not, I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution nominating Dr. Ken Grigorski
as a candidate for the Texas Association of School Boards Superintendent of the Year.
Second.
We have a motion by Mr. Redman, a second by Ms. Wilson.
We'll now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record the vote on your keypad.
Whoops.
Sorry, Ken.
I'm sorry.
It was a mistake.
So we have five yeses, one, two, three, four yeses, and two abstain.
So that's a pass.
Four to abstain.
Okay.
10. Consent
We'll now proceed to the full consent agenda.
I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. President?
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda for items 10.1 through 10.4
second
We have a motion by mrs. Wilson a second by mr. Redmond. Well now are there any questions that will proceed to vote?
Or members please record your vote
The motion passes 6-0
11.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
information items the board was provided the donated items list i didn't have any
board members request for information miss miss van's not here tonight but
did anybody have anything that they they wanted i didn't capture anything
12. Future Meetings
okay uh agenda item 12.1 the next meeting will be april 6 2023 a special board meeting
the next regular board meeting will be April 24, 2023.
There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned.
The time is 9.33 p.m.
Thank you.
Have a good night, everybody.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves for employees who are being recommended to receive one-year employee probationary contracts, one-year employee dual assignment probationary contracts, one-year employee term contracts, one-year employee dual assignment term contracts, and two-year employee dual assignment term contracts for the 2023-2024 school year with the exception of those employees who have resigned or a decision has not been made at this time concerning being recommended for a contract, for termination or for proposed non-renewal, which will occur at a future meeting.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the resolution authorizing the last extension of the bank depository contract with Prosperity Bank for the last two-year term beginning September 1, 2023.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the award of the proposal for the purchase of a student bus monitoring system for the bus fleet.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards CSP 2210SP for Lit/Dark Fiber services to PS Lightwave, Inc., CSP 2210SP, to meet the immediate and long term fiber infrastructure for Junior High 18 and High School 10.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the award for the contracts for replacement of the Building Management Control Systems (BMCS) at Tays Junior High School to Climatec, LLC in the amount of $737,800 and the replacement of the Building Management Control Systems (BMCS) at Law Enforcement Center, Central Maintenance and Operations, East Transportation Center and Support Services Complex to Unify Energy Solutions, LLC in the amount of $946,000 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $1,983,216.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 9.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to DivisionOne Construction, LLC for the construction of the cafeteria kitchen component replacements at Alexander Elementary, Hayes Elementary, McRoberts Elementary, Mayde Creek Junior High, and West Memorial Junior High School in the amount of $5,295,321.42 and approves the total project cost not to exceed $5,777,993.92.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 9.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the revised renewal proposal for Property Insurance as presented by USI for 2023 – 2024.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 9.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a one-time retention lump sum payment of 1% of the mid-point for all returning employees and a one-time lump sum payment of 1% of the mid-point for those employees that provide the district early notification of their intent to retire.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 9.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves of equalizing the I00 paygrade of the 2022-2023 Board approved compensation plan.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 9.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution nominating Dr. Ken Gregorski as a candidate for the Texas Association of School Boards Superintendent of the Year.
4 Yes · 0 No · 2 Abstain
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Abstain |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Abstain |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's March 2023 budget amendments.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 10.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's January 2023 financial statements.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 10.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve of the campus staffing plan for the 2023-2024 school year.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 10.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the minutes for the February Board meetings.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| greg-schulte | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| leah-wilson | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |