Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this work study meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order.
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Katy ISD Work Study Meeting, September 18, 2023
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- 0:03 to 0:33 1. Call to Order
- 0:33 to 1:59 2. Pledges of Allegiance
- 1:59 to 2:24 4. Closed Meeting
- 2:24 to 3:10 5. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
- 3:10 to 11:52 6. Reports
- 11:52 to 17:41 7.1 Discuss and consider July 2023 Financial Reports.
- 17:41 to 23:21 7.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the September 2023 budget amendments.
- 23:21 to 32:27 7.3 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the 2023-2024 Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate and the 2023-2024 Debt Service Tax Rate.
- 32:27 to 37:11 7.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of nominating candidates for positions on the Board of Directors for the Waller County Appraisal District, Fort Bend Central Appraisal District, and Harris County Appraisal District.
- 37:11 to 40:42 7.5 Discuss and consider Board Approval of the claims administration by Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Risk Management Fund for unemployment compensation claims.
- 40:42 to 44:04 7.6 & 7.7
- 44:04 to 46:23 7.8 Discuss and consider observation of non-business days under the Texas Public Records Act.
- 46:23 to 47:49 7.9 Discuss and consider future Board adoption of Policy Update 121.
- 47:49 to 50:39 7.10 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the additions and renovations to Cinco Ranch High School.
- 50:39 to 51:25 7.11 Discuss and consider Board approval of the plat for Elementary School #47.
- 51:25 to 1:01:33 7.12 Discuss and consider Board approval for the superintendent to prepare, sign, and submit a waiver application to the State Commissioner of Education for elementary school campuses that exceed the allowable class size of 22:1, in addition to campuses that could potentially exceed the ratio due to increased enrollment during the 2023 - 2024 school year.
- 1:01:33 to 1:10:20 7.13 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Remote Homebound Instruction Wavier.
- 1:10:20 to 1:10:33 8. Information Items
- 1:10:33 to 1:11:05 9. Future Meetings
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1. Call to Order
Today is Monday, September 18, 2023, and the time is 5.01.
Dr. Gorgorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?
Mr. President, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for our meeting tonight.
Thank you. KDIC Police Chief Henry Galt will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Pledges of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for
which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God one and
I don't see any scouts in the audience, so I'll move along.
In accordance with BED legal and BED local, the board shall hear from persons who desire
to make comments to the board on posted agenda topics only.
And 3.1, we don't have any, to my knowledge,
it doesn't appear that we have any speakers this evening.
4. Closed Meeting
This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting.
The Board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under Section 551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes, Texas Government Code 551.071 and 551.129.
5. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
Good evening. The Board will now reconvene in open meeting.
Today is Monday, September 18, 2023, and the time is 544.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this meeting's work study meeting.
Each board member receives agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, September 15, 2023.
The board will receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent on these agenda items at tonight's meeting.
Board members will be able to ask questions, receive answers, and should be prepared to take action.
The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code.
Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting.
6. Reports
The first item of business is a report.
The presenter is Dr. Andrea Groom, Chief Communications Officer,
and the report is Planning for Growth Review of Preliminary Results of the Community Feedback Survey
survey on the attendance boundary modifications associated with junior high number 18, high
school number 10, Heskett Junior High, Stockdick Junior High, Katy High School, and Pato High
School. Welcome.
Ms. Thank you. And good evening, President Perez, trustees, and Dr. Gagorski. At the
June board meeting, you'll recall that trustees were presented with a recommended ABM for
junior high 18 and high school number 10. That recommendation would impact students
students currently enrolled at Stockdick Junior High and Haskett Junior High as well as Katy
High School and Pato High School. Following the presentation, the district administered
a feedback survey to those potentially impacted. Tonight's presentation is on the preliminary
results of that survey, which officially closes on October 11th. As you can see here, the
survey was delivered to about 1,800 participants with 426 participating thus far. Those who
who have not responded will continue to receive a reminder survey once per week.
Most of the survey participants identified as parents who currently have students enrolled
in one of the schools that could potentially be impacted, and you can see the other options
that were available to survey participants to select.
As is customary with these surveys, we open the survey with measuring participants' general awareness of the quality of education offered across KDIC campuses.
And as you can see here, most indicated they are aware that KDIC provides a high-quality education regardless of the school in which a child is enrolled.
So now let's take a look at junior high 18 feedback thus far.
80% of participants who could be potentially impacted by this proposed ABM for the junior high indicated that it would have a positive or no impact on their child.
And here you can see about 69% of those participants are in support of the ABM or somewhat support the proposed ABM for junior high 18 that again would impact Haskett junior high as well as Stockdick junior high.
Some of the factors for parents supporting the proposed ABM is enrollment balance, proximity to where they live, as well as academic and extracurricular options.
Now we're going to move on to high school number 10 feedback.
In the high school number 10 feedback, you'll see that about 71% of participants indicated
that the proposal would have a positive or no impact on their student.
54% indicated that they would support the proposed ABM that would impact Katy High School
and Pato High School.
school. And their reasons for supporting are very similar to the junior high reasons, which
is proximity to where they live, as well as balancing enrollment and access to various
academic and extracurricular options. And for those who cited a reason for not supporting
the ABM, you can see those here, about 84 indicated that they might be concerned about
their child adjusting to a new school and then some are concerned about
proximity among other reasons this concludes the outcomes of the
preliminary survey results and again this survey is open until October 11th
though next week I want next month rather in October I want to remind the
board that they will receive more specifics about the ABM from mr.
veerling any questions about the these preliminary results thank you any questions
yes uh mr champagne thank you first of all for the presentation i know you're you always do such a
good job with this dr grahams and this really isn't so much about the specifics of the presentation
you gave but I am curious about the problems with the the traffic over there
near Haskett no Fowlton yes and Haskett so because I was there like probably
some of the other of us on the first day of school and another light wasn't
working and the road needs to be do you know anything about all of that I'm going to ask
Mr. Behrling to speak to that I was wondering if you're going to yes thank you Ms. Champagne I know
that clay road is a challenge uh for sure first day of school second day of school is always the
worst so just everywhere it is because we've got so many folks that are bringing their kids to
school the first day and things aren't set um we were actually at a luncheon uh with Commissioner
of briones last week and had a really good conversation with some of her staff
a staff member here at the esc actually lives out that direction and she asked me how to get in
touch with those people and in fact that light there at katie hockley and clay that signal should
be live next week they said the biggest challenge for us on that road i think now is going to be the
other end uh katie hockley cut off avenue d where that turns into clay road right there where it's
It's a four-way stop.
It is, you know, the county has a lot of work to do out there,
and the homes were built long before the county ever got the work done.
So there's definitely some catch-up to do out there.
But from my experience with Commissioner Briones' office,
they've been extremely helpful and extremely willing to work with us
and moving towards some really good stuff in the future.
So I know that's not a great answer in terms of what's going to look like in the next couple of weeks or whatever, but I think in the future, I think they're really going to make some progress out there.
So may I continue, please?
With the road, so is there a plan to widen the road?
And also, is there any concern about the children who maybe are walkers and bike riders around there with all that traffic?
So I can't speak to specifics on the project and what that does specifically, but as far as walkers are concerned, everybody, I believe, everybody at Haskett and Fowlton are all bus riders at this point.
We don't have any walkers.
Nobody walks across Clay Road.
If they do, that's by their choice.
That's not because they don't have a bus.
That's not an area we want kids walking across.
Now, once that little neighborhood is built next to Fowlton, there will probably be some walkers in there.
Mr. President.
Ms. Box.
So I'll just chime in here.
As our children were rezoned and as our high schools were built, the same thing happened.
Can you imagine in front of Cinco Ranch High School there was no traffic light
and teenage drivers trying to get across that Cinco Ranch Boulevard and all that?
It was just, and a lot of us PTA moms went to the county and talked to, you know, our commissioner
and trying to help get that going and in coherence with them.
Same thing at Seven Lakes High School.
There wasn't really anything but a two-lane road with four-way stops and all of that.
So it's just a painful process for the first few years,
but I just encourage parents to know that there's a lot of attention paid to it.
It takes a little time to get things like roads built and agreements made
and all the zoning things that have to happen there,
But I just encourage parents to give us a little time to work with our county officials
They they care about it, but it does kind of come up really quick
Thank you. What would you expect to be the typical response rate on these surveys?
We usually aim for about 33 percent
That's 23 currently then just 33 just going to 33 33 percent is considered a good response rate
According to the survey firm and so far any I know it's early but any takeaways any
Well, generally what we're finding is that overall the ABM is supported, if we're looking at that 69% in support, as well as that 54% on the high school side.
Okay.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
7.1 Discuss and consider July 2023 Financial Reports.
The next item of business is discuss and consider July 2023 financial reports.
And our presenter is Jamie Hines, Executive Director of Finance.
I might add while he's walking up that typically on a monthly basis our board finance committee
meets with Mr. Hines and Mr. Smith and their staff and appreciate that time and we're able
to spend a little bit more time on the financial as well as any particular areas that are on
the agenda on the financial side.
So I appreciate that very much.
Yes, sir. Thank you. President Perez, Trustees, Superintendent Gorgorski, you have before you our September financial reports. Included in these is our financial statements, our tax report and our construction report, and all of those will go through the end of July. Also included are our check register summary for the month of July.
The financial statements include our revenues, our expenditures, and changes in fund balance for all our budgeted funds.
There's also an analysis of our expenditures by both function and object included.
These reports, again, are through the end of July, which represents 11 months of our fiscal year, or a little over 91%.
As we've discussed in previous meetings, and if you look at that financial statement on the right-hand side,
We have experience under spending and that's continued through this month.
We still have one more month of expenditures that are coming in.
We're currently closing our books out. August 31st was the end of the fiscal year.
We will not be bringing a full set of financial reports to you next month.
The final as as we close out the year and close out the books, we'll bring that final financial statement to you in January.
And that will be a part of our act for our annual comprehensive financial report
As we've stated we do expect to add to fund balance don't look at that fund balance on the bottom left
That's we still have a lot of expenses coming in but we we do expect to add to fund balance somewhere in that
10 to 15 million dollar area that we've discussed and we haven't seen anything that really goes against that up to this point
so we are closing out the year and
I'd be glad to answer any questions you have.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President, I have a question.
A couple of questions.
Great.
Ms. Costello.
Tell me the reason why we don't see the year end until January when we close September 1st.
So right now we're still receiving in lots and lots of bills.
So we'll think of the energy bills.
It'll still be a couple of months, and we'll accrue those all back in.
So it takes a while to do that and so those are going to be running and then we have to close out all the
books and then we'll prepare the annual comprehensive financial report and
Essentially put all of that together for one time and then when we bring that to you in January. That's all part of
The process where you'll look at it approve it and once you do that that becomes our permanent record that will upload to TEA at
the end of January
Thank you. Um and then the
percent of budget expended by function I was just looking at that overall I'm
just curious we you know we're 11 months in and there's quite a few functions I
guess you would say that are like definitely 46 percent 41 percent 46 so
that caught my eye right and so can you explain those supplies and materials but
And that goes, if you were to look at it by function or if you were to look at it by the object code, you're going to see some that are quite low.
And I'll go back to energy bills, for instance.
We're going to be getting energy bills for another couple of months that are going to accrue back, and that's a lot of money.
You also have, you know, we've got one that's at 0%, Function 93.
That's a shared services agreement.
We'll actually settle those up.
Those are other entities that we work with, and we'll settle all that up after the end of the fiscal year.
See these are all those things that we have to get accrued back in so that everything is accurate when we actually close the books
Okay, so it's not reflective of over budgeting
No, ma'am as a matter of fact
I would say the underspending as we've said over and over is is really the the number one component there is is
Staffing which is you know ramping up and getting better, but but you know, this is the second year in a row
We've been understaffed a little bit. Okay. Thank you
Yes, ma'am.
Mr. President.
Go ahead.
Ms. Fox.
Mr. Hines, thank you very much for the detailed report of the capital projects and the construction
report.
Like going through these, every authorization from the $609 million with just a little bit
left, every dollar that has been spent is accounted for by project from roof to chiller
to a floor to a bus.
I appreciate seeing all of that detail and the transparency that we have there.
It's here every month, and I always look at it and think, oh, my.
So it's pages and pages, and I appreciate the detail that you give us.
It does, and just also there's a summary at the beginning,
so that kind of helps you just summarize each of those authorizations
and then, of course, the detail.
So we also, Mr. Smith.
That we spend the money on exactly what the voters told us,
what we asked the voters for and what they approved,
and we see it going through there.
appreciate that i'm sorry i'm what did you any other questions on 7.1
7.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the September 2023 budget amendments.
7.2 esperanza rios is the director of budget and treasury and she's going to present the
discuss and consider board approval of september 2023 budget amendments welcome
Good evening, Board President Perez, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Krakorski.
Tonight we bring forth a few timing amendments in the General Operating Fund.
Timing amendments provide the budget in the current 23-24 fiscal year
for items which were not received by the end of the previous 22-23 fiscal year as of 8-31-2023.
The timing amendments total $448,164 and include the ag truck for high school tent, equipment
replacement and classroom furniture for growth and additional special ed and pre-K classrooms
and are due to chip supply chain issues.
There's an additional amendment to increase expenditures by $100,079 for the compressor
renewal at Wolf Elementary and also to increase expenditures by $200,000 due to the anticipated
increases in rebates for the Centerpoint Energy Conservation Program that will be used for
projects and audits and commissioning on buildings throughout the district.
Finally the general operating expenditure budget is being increased by $1,624,095 due
Due to the House bill 3 requirement to include 50 level 3 armed security officers and the associated
police gear and tactical equipment
Approval of these amendments will result in a two million three hundred and seventy two thousand
338 decrease to the general operating fund balance
In addition we are bringing forth capital projects budget amendment which will establish additional funding
of $3,148,531 for the renovation at West Memorial Elementary,
which was approved by the board in August.
This will result in no change to the capital projects fund balance.
Are there any questions?
Thank you. Any questions?
Mr. President.
Go ahead, Ms. Champagne.
I would just like to make a statement in general about the finance team.
Thank you so much for all of your work in saving money where you can.
it's kind of like what uh mrs fox was i think alluding to saving every little dollar is very
important and i know that y'all work so hard and i really just wanted to say i appreciate
all that you do for the district thank you as i understand the uh just if you confirm this
a million six for the uh security officers that's we had recognized before some of that yes we
recognized a million dollars in expenditure for payroll costs yes a million dollars has already
was in the budget and the adopted budget and this is the additional amount this is the additional
yes the cost of that program is uh 2.6 million dollars okay mr uh mr president i might add uh
our intent is and we think we may be eligible for one of the grants to pay for that um but since
we're ramping up that program now we put it in the amendment because we are going to be spending
money with the assumption that we will get the grant we may come and lower that
expense out and pay for some of those expenses with the grant but unfortunately
we don't know that information at this time okay I'm just wondering is there an
option is there a possibility that we might be getting reimbursement from the
the October special session on the police, House Bill, was it 900?
Or House Bill 3?
House Bill 3.
I mean, I guess there is an opportunity for them to do that.
If the governor calls a special session, I have to call specifically the reason why,
and let's say it's to address school funding,
then they may be able to do something in there from the general fund.
But it looks as though the agency for these safety things has decided to put it in temporary in a grant status that when we everybody gets to where they want to be, the grant goes away.
If they put it in the general fund, the state will be committed to paying for that forever.
And I think there may be some queasiness about that.
That's my opinion.
But regardless, there is there is hope that we can get some funding from that aspect.
Do you know how much you think we might be able to get back from the grant?
I think as long as we meet the requirements, the minimum requirements the state sets and
we think we do, then I think we could pay for the vast majority of this.
But again, the rules, at least I haven't seen them and to my knowledge they're not out yet,
the rules and the timing and then whether it's, it can pay for expenses already.
So so let's say we incur expenses starting today if they release that in December
And there's no pre-award cost from today through December
We wouldn't be able to get those funds if they would let us know there were pre-award costs
And maybe we we'd have a little bit more flexibility. We don't know that yet
Thank you any other questions
Thank you very much. Mr. Yost
we move on to
7.3 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the 2023-2024 Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate and the 2023-2024 Debt Service Tax Rate.
7.3 and
And the presenter is not Jamie Hines, but Mr. Smith, it looks like.
All right, and you're going to like this.
You're going to like this report.
Good evening, President Perez, Superintendent Gorgorski, and trustees.
It is my pleasure to talk to you about the tax rates.
The tax rate must be adopted in a resolution that we have attached,
and in there it has to be done in two separate tax rates because we have two
rates that make up our total rate. The maintenance and operations tax rate of
72 cents, 72.94 cents per $100 in valuation provides the district's daily
operations for the 23-24 fiscal year and the adoption of an interest in sinking
tax rate recommendation of 39 cents which provides the district's debt
service payment for the 23-24 fiscal year. I've got a slide that shows the
recommended tax rate and I'm excited and this is the exciting part. If you look on
the very far right of your screen you see an 18.5 cent reduction in the
the tax rate.
18.5 cents, that is a direct result of the state legislature and then putting money towards
tax compression and tax relief that the taxpayers across the state of Texas deserve because
of the appraisal increases that are happening in KDISD and across the state.
But 18.5 cents is very meaningful tax reduction, and I'm excited that, and I appreciate the
the state and the board for the ability to get up and make that recommendation of an
18.5 cent tax reduction.
And over the last four years, that's a 39.7 cent tax reduction.
Before this year, those rates were decreasing, but they weren't decreasing at a rate that
was faster than the increases in our appraised value.
So we were still paying more in taxes.
taxes. This 18.5 cents, as you'll see in a couple of slides, is meaningful tax relief.
So the next slide I show you is just to show you our anatomy of our tax rate. I like to
call it that. And you can see the compressed rate there on the far right is moving from
80.46 cents down to 61.92 cents. That's the tax relief. That's called the MCR rate, the
the maximum compressed rate that's set by TEA, and that is at the floor.
So that .6192 is the lowest rate,
maintenance and operations MCR rate of any district in the state.
Now, I think there are 500 districts that hit the floor.
In other words, had there been a lower floor,
we would have probably been even lower.
But there has to be a backstop because there has to be a budget.
But we did go to the floor at 61.92%.
The golden pennies is still at $0.08, and the copper pennies is still at $0.03.
For a total of $0.11.02.
And again, that's where those enrichment pennies come in.
That's the other name for them is enrichment pennies.
And a lot of districts are at $0.05.
We have the luxury there being at $0.11.02.
And that creates that meaningful, real additional monies for enrichment.
enrichment. So that 61.92 MCR rate again, that's the lowest around and I think it's
a couple of cents lower than the Houston area average if I remember what I read last week
on kind of a regional summary that was released last week. But again, I want to point out
that that's an 18.54% reduction and a 39% cumulative drop. So this next slide,
again real quick, if you look at it that's $562. That and the increase in the
homestead exemption, assuming it passes, and it will, that is a $562 based on the
average residence that that 18.5 cent reduction will do. So most people's or
the average taxpayers tax bill or check should drop about five hundred and sixty
two dollars when those statements are sent by the by the taxing units probably
in late November or early December they have to wait for the election on
November the seventh to happen because of the homestead exemption but those
will go out in late November or early December and the average taxpayers
taxpayers should be about $562 lower.
And then looking back to 2015-16, I think it's important to point out again, I did this
during the budget presentation, that in 2015-16, the appraised value was $274,000 and the person
that wrote a check on that average residence would pay $3,782.
dollars that market value is increased to 430 000 uh dollars which is a 155 000 increase in equity
on the house and that's a great thing because homes are are most of our largest investments in
our in our lives uh to have that kind of increase in our residents and that's a good thing and
that's something we want to continue uh so so we will have a good investment in our home but in 23
2324, again, based on the average residence, that check will be $3,680 or $102 less than it was in the 15-16 year.
So not only is it a $500 less or $500 or more or less check from last year, but it's less check than somebody wrote in 15-16.
And I appreciate the board and the state of Texas for pushing that along because, again, I pay taxes too, and that will be a relief to us.
And I'm going to wrap up by saying this one more time, because I'll say it every time I'm in a public forum, is that's great tax relief, but that did not include any additional monies that goes into classrooms across Texas.
It's all just tax relief.
So when the headlines read they're giving all that money to schools for tax relief, it's not going to our classrooms.
It's going to our taxpayers, and that's a great thing, but it's not going to our classrooms.
And so with that, you have a, what do we call it, an order to levy the maintenance and operations tax rate and the debt service tax rate, again, respectively, at $72.94 and $0.39.
And that would be the administration's recommendation for when you adopt, presumably next week.
I'd be glad to answer any questions.
Thank you very much.
Any questions?
Mr. President?
Mr. Go ahead, Mr. President.
Mr. Mr. Smith, the compressed rate floor is 61 cents.
Is that each legislative session or each year that's calculated, or is that kind of the
lowest it's going to be as we go forward?
Mr. I expect that to go down next year.
In fact, probably two to three cents, not 18 again.
Again, the state has to manage a budget also, and so there's no way for them to predict the future,
but they are still getting it, and it still should lower again,
but it won't be as substantial until they kind of recalibrate
and see what kind of money they're working with moving forward.
But I do expect another decrease next year in that rate.
Did I answer your question?
You did.
I forgot your question.
Now, as I've rambled, I forgot it.
Thank you.
Okay.
Mr. Priss.
Go ahead, Ms. Fox.
Yes.
Mr. Smith, the reduction in tax rate is a reduction in tax rate.
That has nothing to do with the $100,000 homestead exemption the state is also putting on the ballot in November.
Is that correct?
That is correct.
It's kind of a double good thing.
The tax rate is going down 18.5 cents in the homestead value.
Again, Texas voters have to vote on it on the ballot in November.
and the ballot will increase the homestead exemption from $40,000 to $100,000.
Those two things combined are what's given us that substantial tax relief.
Is that the $562?
Yes, ma'am.
Are we taking that into account?
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
A portion of that relief is from the increase in homestead exemption.
A larger portion is from the $0.185 decrease.
Any other questions?
Thank you.
Thank you.
And now we move on to the board considering and discussing board approval of nominating candidates for positions on the board of directors for the Walter County Appraisal District,
7.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of nominating candidates for positions on the Board of Directors for the Waller County Appraisal District, Fort Bend Central Appraisal District, and Harris County Appraisal District.
Fort Bend Central Appraisal District, and Harris Central Appraisal District.
And the presenter is, again, Mr. Hines.
Thank you.
Good evening, Ian.
President Perez, Trustees, Superintendent Grigorski,
state property tax code allows voting entities to nominate and elect directors for their appraisal districts.
these are unpaid positions they do a lot like this board does for the school district they
hire the chief appraiser they oversee and approve the budgets kdisd is a part as you all know of
three counties so you all can nominate for any all or none of these counties
the directors serve two-year terms which will begin on january 1st 2024 although there is a
constitutional amendment that is on the ballot for November. If that passes, those terms will reduce
down to one year. So if that passes, then we'll be back here doing this again next September.
The actual voting takes place in November. Right now we are just compiling the list of nominees,
and we have the ability, you have the ability as a board to nominate. Voting for Fort Bend
and Waller County is a little different than Harris County.
So we actually get a number of votes based on the size of our levy
compared to the overall size of the levy for each of those counties.
We have significant levies for both of those counties,
so we have more influence over those elections versus Harris County.
Harris County is done differently.
There's a single director who represents all school districts
except for Houston ISD and each of those school districts has a single vote for
the election of that board that director if there is someone you'd like to
nominate you can you can obviously nominate tonight and we'll take that and
and then we'll put this on the resolution next week also throughout the
week if you have someone you can send that over to dr. Gregor ski and we can
get that added two years ago this board nominated two people for the fort ben county appraisal
district and mr paul stomatis jr was one of those people and he was elected and now serves as the
vice chairman for that body he's expressed interest in being nominated again so i will
add his name unless this board would like me not to add his name to the resolution i've also spoken
with Waller County. They have two open positions that people are not going to
run for again. They've expressed that they're not going to run. So one of those
positions was actually the representative that lived in Katy ISD. So
just wanted to make sure you knew that. We'll bring votes for each of the
appraisal districts to you again in November even if you choose not to
nominate tonight. What about for Harris? So for Harris County we did not nominate
the president or pardon me the director who was elected who's over all school
districts except for Houston ISD is Martina Lamond Dixon she's the secretary
of each cat Harris County Central Harris Central Appraisal District and she is
the board president for humble ISD and so she was nominated by humble and I have
I have not been told that she is not going to run, but in prior years, we did not nominate for Harris County.
Or two years ago, we did not nominate for Harris County.
So do you know of any reason why we would nominate Paul Stamatis and Harris and Martina Dixon?
These are the ones we have now, right?
Paul Stamatis is Fort Bend County.
No, not any at all.
and we can nominate both of those because currently they do represent us and they
You know Paul lives
Mr. Stamatis
lives in Katy ISD
and I was I was told that has done a good job on the board by the
chief appraiser
And and then miss Dixon is a part of a school district. That's very similar to ours
So I'd be glad to put her on there as well.
Okay. We'll vote on those next week.
Yes, sir.
Okay. Any other questions or comments on that?
Thanks so much.
7.5 Discuss and consider Board Approval of the claims administration by Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Risk Management Fund for unemployment compensation claims.
We move on to 7.5, and that's,
Does Sus consider Board approval of the claims administration by TASB Risk Management Fund for Unemployment Compensation Claims?
The presenter is Lance Nelman, Director of Risk Management.
Good evening, President Perez, Dr. Grogorski, and Board of Trustees.
The District shall comply with the provisions of the Texas Unemployment Act, Labor Code
201.26.
The District is permitted by law to enter into a joint group account with other political
subdivisions to share the cost of benefits that are attributable to the services provided
in the employ of a group of account members.
members. KDISD has provided these services through an interlocal agreement with TASB
Risk Management Fund. The contribution for Plan Year 2022-23 was $371,019 with the renewal
set at $371,019 for Plan Year 2023-24. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees approves the 2324 claims administration by TASB Risk Management Fund for unemployment compensation.
Let me ask a question here. In that your historical trending, how does that work?
For example, we have gross wages $367,000 and then benefits paid of $61,000 and that's for 612 claim data.
Correct.
But even if you double that, we're still contributing 371, and we only paid 61 benefits.
There are two opportunities here for unemployment compensation.
We participate in a pooling arrangement where we pay.
I would try to put it in terms of like a fully insured program.
We pay a premium, and that's our max exposure.
Or you can go to a self-insured status and pay claims accordingly.
The downside to that is we were very fortunate during COVID.
Had we been in that arrangement, we would have lost several million dollars because of the handling of unemployment claims to the Texas Workforce Commission.
During that period, there was tremendous fraud, tremendous overrun by the TWC.
and we were receiving notice of benefits before notices of claims were even being filed.
In fact, Dr. Gorgorski and Mr. Smith and I attended a conference call inquiring as to why.
We were rather struck back.
They just said they didn't have the staff and their system was completely out of date.
I kind of had to chuckle.
I said, well, when was the last time your system was updated?
and what are you using?" He said, I think it was COBOL.
And I said, well, I studied that in college.
So they're lagging behind in technology
and this is really the best format for us to do
because it's predictable and we really don't have much control
over the decisions at the Texas Workforce Commission other
than what we provide as data.
Okay, so it's a contribution, it's a fixed amount.
Correct.
Okay. Any other questions?
Thank you.
The next item is 7.6, to discuss and consider board authorization for the superintendent
7.6 & 7.7
to form a naming advisory committee for the purpose of proposing a name for high school
number 10 per board policy.
And the presenter is, do we have a presenter?
Dr. Andrea Grooms.
Thank you, Mr. Perez and trustees and Dr. Gorski. Again, this is a proposal for the
board to form a committee for the naming of junior high 18 and then again for high school
number 10. So I'll start out with just a quick question. What's the, how many people are on the
committee and who are they? And I'm sorry? Do you want to say who they are so that people start calling them and
Oh, no, no. I'm interested in the process, the process for the setting up the committee. I know we have two board
two board members that are representative.
How is the rest of the committee set up?
What's the process?
Sure.
So typically we reach out to the principals of the schools that are going to be impacted.
So in this case it would be the two high schools,
Katie High School and Pato High School,
and then Stockdick Junior High and Haskett Junior High.
And we ask them to recommend parents to serve on the committee
who are actively involved in their school currently
and who also have been identified as individuals
who could potentially be impacted by the ABM.
And how large is one of these committees?
We typically aim for a minimum of five parents.
Probably seven has been the largest number of parents we've had on these committees.
And then the board representatives as well on top of that?
Yes, the board president will typically provide at least two board liaisons to serve on the
committee.
Okay.
Any other questions?
Mr. Perez, how long will this committee meet?
They meet one time. The nomination process starts the day after the Board approves the
formation of the committee. The nomination process will be sent to our community via
email as well as posted on our website. We typically allow that process to be open for
at least two weeks. We'll accept the nominations and bring all those nominations to the committee
to consider.
Thank you very much.
Mr. President.
Go ahead, Ms. Walts.
Dr. Grooms, if people's names have been submitted in the past,
do they have to start over and send all that in,
or do they call to see is the application still viable, or how does that work?
We ask individuals to resubmit an application.
We don't assume that any previous applications apply to future schools.
Okay.
Thanks.
Any other questions?
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
That was very exciting.
Yeah, it is.
Let's cover 7.6 and 7.7, the two, junior high and high school.
And now we'll move on to 7.8.
7.8 Discuss and consider observation of non-business days under the Texas Public Records Act.
Presenter, Justin Graham, General Counsel.
Mr. President, Board of Trustees, Superintendent, Dr. Krakowski,
7.8, pretty straightforward, a little bit of housekeeping here.
the legislature this past year approved House Bill 3033 and updated what is considered a business day for the public school district under the Texas Public Information Act.
So traditionally, under the PIR law, if you submit a Public Information Act request, the district has 10 days in which to respond.
respond. Those 10 days are considered business days for the school district in years past,
before this law passed. If the school district or KDISD is closed, so let's take example,
Thanksgiving break or spring break or the two weeks that we have around Christmas time,
those are not considered business days. So if you were to submit a Public Information Act request,
let's say the day before we go out for Christmas break, the time in which you actually get your
response back would have been attenuated, would have been pushed a little bit. So the legislature
decided to say no, we're going to stick to some uniform dates on what is going to be a business
day and a non-business day. They've essentially defined it as a non-business day would be a
federal holiday or a state holiday and there are some unusual state holidays that fall in there.
And then also the district now has the opportunity to select 10 days within our calendar, which we would say, hey, we're closed for business for purposes of the Public Information Act.
So it's going to cause us a little bit more work on our end because our timelines will be compressed a little bit as we hit a spring break, Thanksgiving break, and our winter break.
However, we just picked, we picked, we looked at the calendar for this year and
the next year looking at picking ten non-business days. Again, it's something
that the law requires this Board of Trustees to go ahead and approve those.
I'm happy to take any questions that you may have. Thank you. Any questions? Thank
you very much. We move on to 7.9 and that's to discuss and consider future
7.9 Discuss and consider future Board adoption of Policy Update 121.
Future Board Adoption of Policy Update 121.
Presenter is Sherry Ashmore, Director of Student Affairs.
Welcome.
Thank you, President Perez, members of the board,
Dr. Grogorski.
Update Policy 121 is presented for the first reading.
Next week at the regular board meeting,
we'll be asking for your approval of the local policies.
As you will see within the update,
this covers mainly revisions related to legislative
and regulatory changes.
The policy revisions prompted primarily
related to changes to Texas administrative code and federal regulations.
So as we have this item for discussion today, again, we'll be looking for that approval on the local policies next week.
If there's any questions at this time, I'll try to answer.
Any questions?
It looks pretty straightforward.
Anything that jumps out at you in terms of like that's unusual or new really that we should focus on?
No, this seems like it's just a lot of cleanup.
A lot of, you'll notice that some of the things, some of the policies remove or designate because
we already have a policy that gives the superintendent that ability to delegate certain items.
So to me it just looks like something that's following up with some legislative changes
and just little tweaks here and there to get us all in compliance.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
7.10 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the additions and renovations to Cinco Ranch High School.
Now we move on to 7.10.
And the presenter is Lisa Kastman, Executive Director of Facilities, Planning and Construction.
Welcome.
Good evening, President Perez, Trustees and Dr. Gagorski.
I have two items this evening for your consideration.
The first is the approval of a contract to Stewart Builders for the additions and renovations to Cinco Ranch High School.
school. Stuart Builders ranked number one overall as the best value for the district
based not only on fee, but personnel, references, services, and past relationship with the district.
Stuart Builders has successfully completed the Ag facility, Schmalz Elementary addition,
Windborn addition renovation, and is currently working on Hutzel Elementary renovation.
Thank you. Any questions? Mr. President, I just noticed with the rankings that you provided, it is the second highest in fee. So can you elaborate on why that was chosen out of one, two, seven?
7?
Right.
So, we have a matrix that includes, it's based on the, the state requires us to have base
items on price, offers experience, reputation, their safety record, personnel, and past relationship
with the district.
We developed a matrix that puts in all those factors, and in this case, the references
outranked all the other low bidders.
Was there concern with the other lower cost?
No, we kind of, in this case it was the references that kind of superseded the others.
We've worked with all the others, most of the top three firms before.
So like I said, just working out the matrix that we've used.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Mr. President, may I ask an overview question about renovations?
when we do comprehensive renovations of some of our schools
and we're on a short timeline to get kids back into the school and to the buildings.
Is there a process for, like, finishing up projects
that maybe didn't get finished in time for the first day of school?
And do you have someone who oversees those kinds of things,
like punch lists and some, you know, finalization of some of our renovations?
Does that ever happen?
Yeah, we have a whole team, basically.
So in my office I have a project manager and an associate project manager and actually two associates one over
architectural one strictly over mechanical electrical plumbing
The architect provides a team and the MEP consultant provides a team so we have numerous people keeping track of items
Great. Thank you very much
Any other questions
Thank you. I think you are next presenter, correct?
7.11 Discuss and consider Board approval of the plat for Elementary School #47.
That's correct
The second item is the approval for the plat for the future elementary number 47 in Ellison.
Before Harris County will conduct a review of the plans and issue a building permit,
they require a recorded plat of the site.
Upon board approval, then it goes back to Harris County for final signature and recording.
You have a copy of that map in your folder from this evening.
And just so you know, it takes anywhere from five to seven months for this process once we start the platting.
To do the plat?
Correct.
Looks like you're off a couple of feet here and there.
No, I'm kidding.
Thank you.
Any questions, any comments?
That's good. Thank you.
All right, thank you.
7.12 Discuss and consider Board approval for the superintendent to prepare, sign, and submit a waiver application to the State Commissioner of Education for elementary school campuses that exceed the allowable class size of 22:1, in addition to campuses that could potentially exceed the ratio due to increased enrollment during the 2023 - 2024 school year.
And 712.
And 712, come right up.
Discuss and consider Board approval for the superintendent to prepare, sign, and submit a waiver application to the State Commission of Education for elementary school campuses that exceed the allowable class size of 22 to 1.
Good evening, President.
Brian Schuess.
Sorry, Brian Schuess.
Schuss.
Chief Human Resources Officer.
Thank you.
Good evening, President Perez, members of the Board, Dr. Kigorski.
This is something that we bring to the Board every September.
and again we're bringing this forward tonight for approval of class size
waivers for the 23-24 school year. This is any pre-k through 4 class section in
the district that is over the 22 to 1 ratio. Tonight as you can see we have 56
waivers that we are requesting. A little good news last year we had 93 so we are
significantly less this year than we were last year and anytime we're asking
for for less waivers and we have class sizes that are 22 to 1 or less that's a
a good thing. We have over 1,500 pre-K through 4 sections in the district. So this 56 represents
about three and a half percent of those. So when you look at it that way, over 96 percent
of all of our sections are at 22 to 1 or less. And another thing I'd like to point out, 53 of the 56
are at 23 to 1. So 53 of the 56 waivers are over by one student. One thing I would, especially for
our new board members to understand this isn't something where we send a survey out to the
principals and say, hey, let us know where your class sizes are, and then we put it in
a spreadsheet and send it to the board for approval.
We have an enrollment balancing process.
That process starts immediately after the Labor Day holiday and runs a couple of weeks
right up until the September board meeting.
So we request this information from principals.
We get information on class sizes and class sizes by grade level.
We then work with our assistant superintendents, our school leadership team, Mrs. Hack was a part of the process this year, and then our principals to balance enrollment so we lessen the number of waivers that we have.
If we didn't go through that process, we would have had considerable more waivers this evening.
And whether that's allocating growth or maybe a campus has much lower class sizes than anticipated,
participated, maybe we're able to move a staff member either within that campus or to another
campus to assist.
And so we go through that whole process.
We think it's a good process.
It helps us maintain efficiency, but it also allows us to make best decisions for campuses
and students.
And we're here for any questions.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President, I just have one thing.
Mr. Schuch, I witnessed that in our campus, in my campus visits, as we're all doing.
I got to meet a teacher who started with kindergarten and the balance of enrollment found her in fifth grade and
it's quite different than what she was expecting and a very young teacher and
She was thrilled and they were thrilled and very exciting to learn something new and but yeah
I see that happening across campuses and it's painful to think you have your first grade classroom all set up and then all of a sudden
You're doing something different, but I appreciate their
their willingness to take on where the needs are.
Thank you.
Mr. President, do you know how many teachers were reassigned?
Well, so that hasn't quite happened yet.
I mean, we're still in that process,
but I believe right now we're somewhere around 20 that would be reassigned.
Do you envision more than that or that's the max?
Hopefully we'll stay around 20.
I mean, we've come through the process this far
We know the number of waivers so that shouldn't change that shouldn't change very much
Is the fact that one question is the fact that we're doing better than last year?
Is that a function of just the demographics and makeup of the elementary population or is it we're able to hire more teachers?
What's what's going on there? Well, I I think one thing that plays into it. I think if I remember correctly and mr
Smith could probably correct me if I'm wrong
But I believe at this point last year we had seen a little more growth and we were a little closer to our
projection than we are this year so of course that's going to have a factor i think uh though
with as many of the waivers that you see that are at at 23 to 1 that helps you know if we have a
year where we're seeing more in that 24 to 25 to 1 category then that's going to increase our waivers
but the growth plays a huge part mr president so i i want to understand this because i had a parent
who contacted me their student was in a class and the class was not at capacity it was a smaller
class size the class size was then broken up the class was broken up and then split so is that the
reason why like the class was too small and then the teacher is reassigned because that teacher
needs to meet needs elsewhere in that school or potentially a completely different school
am i understanding that correct yes ma'am that could happen okay yes okay mr president mr president
Go ahead, Ms. Champagne.
Okay.
Steamy, go ahead.
Sorry, just one more question.
And when the teachers, like, that get reassigned this year,
how does that work for their classroom that they're assigned to the following year?
Dr. Healy, you want to?
So normally a teacher has to be on a campus for two years
before they're eligible for a transfer.
However, if during this process they find themselves relocated,
They are eligible to transfer next year if they have an opening on their previous campus and, you know, they're welcomed back normally.
Or there's other campuses that they'd like to go to closer to their home.
You know, they are welcome to transfer freely.
They do not have to meet the two-year rule.
And is it easier for, like, if we have a first-grade teacher that's teaching fifth grade, can that fifth-grade teacher go back to first grade if there's an opening?
Absolutely.
Okay.
Yes.
Mr. Champagne?
I have a few questions for you.
First of all, the number that is in the campus number, is that the actual number that is there, or is that the number that is desired?
The campus number versus.
It's just an identifier.
Okay, just an identifier.
Okay, so what I want to know then is, is the number that you're asking for, is that like a prediction of what's to happen?
You mean the 56?
No, that's where we are currently today.
Okay.
So I wanted to know, is this shortage due to our lack of teachers,
or is there anything else?
Really, we're attributing this to growth.
You know, if we were in a situation where we didn't allow substitutes
or long-term substitutes at campuses to fill any vacancies,
then certainly that would play a role.
But since we are allowing that, really, we believe that the number of waivers is attributed to growth.
And you've got to understand, too, you know, the principals understand their campuses very well, and they have the autonomy to make decisions.
So all of these 56, that's not necessarily, I would say, actually the large majority are not from the fact of us saying, you know, we're not allocating a unit.
unit, the majority of these are going to be, when it's at the end of this process, are
principals saying, hey, I understand that you're willing to allocate growth to my campus,
but we're comfortable. I've got a strong third grade team. I understand two of those sections
are 23 or 24 to 1, but we're very comfortable with that dynamic. And if we were to bring
another teacher on, we'd have to break up those classes. And a lot of times they don't
want to do that.
Okay, so sometimes the ultimate goal once a year has started is not necessarily to get them under the 22.
If they're 23, but I mean, like for example, Robertson, I see that they're not asking for additional, I don't think.
But I know it's growing, and I hear it's growing daily.
So any campuses on this list that we're not requesting a waiver, that means that their sections are 22 to 1 or lower.
But as it continues to grow, so in other words, this could change.
Yes, ma'am.
And so that's an excellent point.
So this is another thing.
It's like a lot of the things.
that we do in human resources. This isn't, okay, this is done, we're going to close the book on it.
You know, we're constantly evaluating this, and we do, even after this process, whether it's
November, December, January, may get a request from a principal that I just received five second
graders, and now I've got three sections that are 24 to 1, and then that's exactly the reason that
we have growth units in the staffing plans. We have access to those, and we can assess that campus.
So it's an ongoing process. This is just required as of TEA. This has to be done 30 days
Within 30 days of the beginning of school and so we can submit these waivers
We won't need to ask for these waivers again as the year goes on even if we need to get more teachers
For example at some school that all of a sudden got 20 new third graders
Correct, so we won't have to this is the one time well
This is the one time but but again this also covers us for growth for the remainder of the year
So as this comes up, this authority is for the superintendent to sign and submit the document to the Texas Education Agency.
If we have issues where we need waivers moving forward, then we will continue to submit those,
but only after we assess those and analyze those and make sure there's not a way to keep those at 22 to 1 or less.
But we do submit waivers throughout the year after this initial approval.
Oh, okay.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you.
We're going on to 7.13.
7.13 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Remote Homebound Instruction Wavier.
And our presenter is Dr. Gwen Coffey, Assistant Superintendent, Special Education.
To discuss and consider Board approval of the remote homebound instruction waiver.
Good evening, President Perez, members of the board, and Dr. Gorgorski.
This is another waiver that we bring on a yearly basis.
Texas Education Code requires us to obtain a waiver from the board at the start of the
school year if we have any students who need to be served in a homebound setting but require
require remote instruction before the ARD committee can
approve that the students or the 504 committee can approve that
the students instruction will happen remotely via homebound
instruction. We have to have the waiver approved by the board. We
do not currently have any students receiving remote
homebound instruction, but there are times through the year. For
example, a student who may have cancer and has a three to six
week period of time where they want to limit the interaction
with others. So in order to continue to be able to provide services for that
student per doctor's recommendation and to collect ADA on that student for his
or her attendance in KDISD, we have to have approval to seek a homebound
remote instruction waiver from TEA. And so we do bring that forward at the
beginning of the year in a similar fashion of what was just explained in
case we need one. Any questions?
Any questions?
I have a question, Mr. President.
Homebound covers a variety of things.
Yes, ma'am.
A long-term surgery or serious illness or lots of things.
Yes, ma'am, all those things.
So if a student is expected to be confined to a hospital or a home setting for four weeks,
it does not have to be consecutive weeks, but for four weeks,
KDISD does provide homebound instruction.
Sometimes that's through general education and or 504.
Sometimes it's through special education, but all of those are managed through our department.
And you said there are zero?
Remote students.
We have approximately 55 to 60 students right now receiving homebound instruction,
but all of those are receiving face-to-face homebound instruction.
So we go into the home or the hospital setting to provide their instructional needs.
So remote would be virtual?
Yes, ma'am.
Is that what you're saying?
Yes, ma'am.
And we only do that if a physician requests it.
I misunderstood.
Understood. Thank you. 55. I thought that's incredible that we're zero right now.
Yes. No, we do have 55 to 60 receiving face-to-face.
Thank you. Mr. President.
Timmy?
How many on average do we have a year and how many students do we have?
So I would say over the last five years we have ranked, and that includes COVID, so there is kind of a high end there, usually between 45 and about 75 to 80.
an average year starts on the lower end typically around 50 and we tend to as
students move through the year they come on and off and so somewhere around 60 is
probably average thank you yes ma'am mr. any other questions mr. president
mr. Fox after coffee how many homebound instructors do we have and what is their
caseload so we have ten full-time homebound teachers and then we have a
lead teacher and i have a coordinator that assists and the caseload it really ranges depending upon
the needs of the student and the number of hours that they get but typically i would say it could
be somewhere between probably 11 if they're getting you know a whole lot of support through
homebound all the way up to maybe 15 per caseload an average amount of homebound support is between
four and six hours a week and of course we go to their hospital setting or to their home setting
And so there's a lot of travel involved.
Follow up, please, Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
And just to have the whole picture painted here, one homebound instructor per student.
And if that student is a high school student, you have to know how to do English history and calculus.
I wouldn't be able to substitute there.
So we are homebound.
Right, they do it all.
Right.
Yes, ma'am, they do.
We, the art committee or the homebound instructional meeting does focus on the core instructional
elements and they liaise, the teacher liaises with the campus and so they're not the teacher
of record.
They're meeting with the campus to understand what core instructional pieces need to be
completed.
They go into the home to do the instruction, work through the work, students work when
the instructor's not in the home of course, and then they bring that work back to the
campus where it's graded by the instructor and put in.
We also do provide related services in the home as well, which is separate from the homebound teachers.
Thank you. Anything else?
Mr. President, thank you, Dr. Coffey.
I have a question for you.
So some of these, because I've known a couple of students who've received these services,
sometimes this is a pre-planned thing.
You know, someone knows they're going to be, you know, they have a surgery that's going to keep them out.
Yes, ma'am.
And sometimes, though, it's more of an emergency situation.
And so I don't know if you're responsible for this or you know about this,
but sometimes it seems like the turnaround time might lag a little bit.
Like, for example, you have some kind of emergency situation happen today
and maybe next week you want to start the homebound.
but what is the turnaround expectation for something happens to a child and then they need the services?
So it really is very individualized.
It's the best thing about what I do and the worst thing about what I do
is that everything is based on the individual student and the individual situation.
So, for example, if you know that a child has been receiving chemotherapy
and you know they're going to need to go in to have a surgery
and you can plan ahead of time, the doctor says they're going to be out for six months,
then we can begin the process to approve them for homebound ahead of time, right?
Because we have that knowledge.
But let's say they're in a car accident and they're going to need some homebound services.
It's based upon the doctor writing the script saying,
I anticipate they will be confined to a hospital or a home setting
and are well enough to receive homebound services.
And so it really, it requires the requirement for homebound.
It's necessary for us to have that medical professional's input.
And so a lot of what we do depends on how quickly that can be turned around. We're waiting on the input from the physician
But we we try not to let you know any moss grow on the stone if you will we get that moving very quickly
We make sure that we put the processes in place
We're liaising with parents with physicians and then getting the meeting scheduled in the services provided the student
But it they're not even eligible unless they're anticipated to be out at least four weeks and sometimes doctors don't know that ahead of time
So just one last follow-up question to that
If, for example, a child is in a car accident and, you know, so the, it seems like the parent
would call or whatever the teacher and say, you know, my child isn't going to be here
for a while.
Does that teacher know, so the parent isn't going to necessarily know about the homebound
services that we provide?
Sure.
were. So the teacher should, are they the ones who are going to take the ball and push it along for
the parent? The way that that generally happens is that when a student is absent, we have rules
in KDISD, of course, as they do in any ISD related to student absences, how often we call and check
in with students. Sometimes parents do contact us, but sometimes we don't know because that can be a
very traumatic time for families. And so they may not, the first thing they may not think of is
calling the school to say, hey, this has happened. So, but generally there's an outreach on the part
the school either the school knows it's happened because we live in a community where people are
connected the parent calls or the teacher calls and admin is looped into that because the student
is absent and and if a teacher is not familiar with homebound and most of our teachers know that
homebound exists but let's say they're a new teacher who's never had a student on homebound
administrators absolutely know our diagnosticians on campuses know it's it's a pretty commonly
utilized especially following covid pretty commonly utilized analysis and so it's not uncommon and
And parents are often saying, can I have some work?
They're going to be out for three to five days.
I don't want them to fall behind, that kind of thing.
And so providing makeup work or the option to do some learning from home during periods of absences like that is pretty common.
And it's only if it goes for an extended period of time that homebound would be a consideration.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
We all have the moving on.
Thank you very much.
We have the donated items list, which was provided to the board.
8. Information Items
Board. Madam Secretary, do we have any captured requests from the Board?
MS. I didn't hear any unless I missed something from somebody. Did you all have
something?
COMMISSIONER MAYES. Okay. Thank you. There will be a regular Board meeting on Monday,
9. Future Meetings
September 25, 2023. There will be a special Board meeting on Thursday, October 5, 2023.
On Monday, October 16, we will have a special Board meeting for team building, and also
so we will have a work study board meeting
on Monday, October 23rd, 2023.
Very busy board.
With there being no further business before the board,
this meeting is adjourned, and the time is 6.53.
Thank you very much.
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