Good evening. Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this regular board meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order.
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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, January 22, 2024
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- 0:03 to 10:46 1. Call to Order
- 10:46 to 17:29 3. Recognitions
- 17:29 to 52:19 4. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
- 52:19 to 52:48 5. Closed Meeting
- 52:48 to 53:36 6. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
- 53:36 to 58:48 7.1 Presentation on the 2022-2023 Annual Report to include the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR)
- 58:48 to 1:19:21 8.1 Presentation on the Board Academic Quarterly Report
- 1:19:21 to 1:34:59 8.2 2024 - 2025 Budget Update
- 1:34:59 to 1:36:37 9.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the January 2024 budget amendments.
- 1:36:37 to 1:39:25 9.2 Discuss and consider Board Approval of the November 2023 Financial Reports.
- 1:39:25 to 1:57:50 9.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of the annual financial audit report.
- 1:57:50 to 2:06:07 9.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the 2025- 2026 Instructional Calendar.
- 2:06:07 to 2:07:29 9.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of a Professional Development Waiver for the 2025-2026 instructional calendar
- 2:07:29 to 2:09:02 9.6 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the land and real estate consulting services.
- 2:09:02 to 2:09:58 9.7 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations to Mayde Creek Elementary School and Sundown Elementary School.
- 2:09:58 to 2:10:50 9.8 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations and additions to Beck Junior High School and Katy Junior High School.
- 2:10:50 to 2:11:51 9.9 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the projects at Katy High School, Pattison Elementary School, Cimarron Elementary School, and Nottingham Country Elementary School.
- 2:11:51 to 2:12:48 9.10 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations to Bear Creek Elementary School, Hayes Elementary School, McRoberts Elementary School, and the Shaw Center expansion.
- 2:12:48 to 2:13:53 9.11 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations and additions to various maintenance facilities, Support Service Complex, and Law Enforcement Center.
- 2:13:53 to 2:27:16 9.12 Discuss and consider Board approval of the design associated with the new Northwest Transportation and Maintenance Facility.
- 2:27:16 to 2:36:59 9.13 Discuss and consider Board Approval of the proposal for the Builders Risk Insurance for the 2023 Bond Projects.
- 2:36:59 to 2:59:27 9.14 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the Order calling for a regular election of the School Board Trustees to be held on May 4, 2024 and authorization of the Administration to provide official notice of the election as required by the Texas Election Code.
- 2:59:27 to 2:59:59 9.15 Discuss and consider Board approval of the minutes for the December meetings.
- 2:59:59 to 3:01:12 10.4 Recap of Board member requests for information.
- 3:01:12 to 3:02:00 11. Future Meetings
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1. Call to Order
Today is Monday, January 22nd, and the time is 5 p.m.
Dr. Gorski, will you verify that we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?
Mr. President, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions Texas Open Meeting Act for our meeting tonight.
I think we're ready to go ahead and just jump right into our Pledge of Allegiance.
I see our special guest out there. I'm going to invite Austin Elizondo to come up to the podium.
Fifth grader from Bethke Elementary, Principal Tommy Daniels is out there sitting next to him.
I also see our namesake, Gigi Bethke, out there. Good to see you. Thank you for coming.
Parents Ray and Alejandra Elizondo, Sister Camilla, student special interest
playing Nintendo switch and spending time with his family. Favorite subjects
math. And from Miss Christine Keller, fifth grade math and science teacher and
Mrs. Casey Reyes, fifth grade ELAR teacher, Austin is a true role model for
our Bethke Bison, embodying qualities that are admirable and inspiring. His
His genuine care and concern for classmates is evident in all of his interactions.
His positive attitude uplifts everyone around him.
But before we go with that pledge in one second, we're also going to introduce over to my left over here,
we've got the Morton Ranch High School Orchestra members who are going to perform the National Anthem following the pledges.
So, coming from Morton Ranch High School, the orchestra, Alina Malikian, Salas Sanchez, Vivian Rodriguez, Brittany Ozzie, Abram Hernandez, Aurora Himo, and Rachel Flores are all going to play the national anthem for us.
and a quote from their music director who's with them tonight, Gabriel Katz.
We have many seniors performing today who are ready to graduate in May.
Many of these students are on the orchestra officer leadership team.
They have dedicated themselves to orchestra and fine arts during their time at Morton Ranch High School.
These students entered ninth grade at the height of the pandemic and have exemplified honor,
a hard work ethic, and respect for themselves and others.
They helped reshape and rebuild the orchestra program and carve new paths for our students at Morton Ranch High School through our orchestra and mariachi.
I could not be prouder of these students and their accomplishments.
So if you will please stand and we will do our pledges.
The National Anthem.
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
and invisible.
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Austin, you have some remarks you're going to make?
Yes, you can come back up to the podium.
Okay.
We're going to come back to the forum in one minute.
Right here?
There it is.
Yep.
Okay.
Good evening President Perez, board members, and Superintendent Gragoski.
My name is Austin Elizondo and I am in fifth grade at Becky Elementary. I love
my school because I have lots of friends. I will miss my favorite teachers, Mrs.
Mrs. Keller, Mrs. Williams, and Mrs. Carr.
My favorite memory of Becky is joining the House of Isabendi, the House of Courage.
Thank you, Austin.
We're going to take one photo if you're ready for a picture.
I am.
Yeah, you probably go down.
Okay.
Slide over this way a little bit.
Thank you.
Thank you.
over a little bit
Do we have any scouts in the audience?
Any scouts?
3. Recognitions
I guess not.
I think we're ready for recognitions, and at this time I'd like to introduce Craig Eichhorn,
Director of Communications, for the recognitions portion of our meeting.
Good evening, President Peredge, Trustee, Superintendent Gorgorski.
GOVERNOR ABBOTT HAS ISSUED A PROCLAMATION CITING JANUARY OF 2024 AS SCHOOL BOARD RECOGNITION MONTH.
SCHOOL BOARDS PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION, GOVERNANCE, AND POLICY.
THEY ARE INSTRUMENTAL AS THEY FACE NEW CHALLENGES FOR TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SERVE THE EVER-EVOLVING NEEDS OF STUDENTS.
I want to note that each trustee has received notes of appreciation from select campuses, as well as a certificate of recognition from Ms. Audrey Young, who represents District 8 of the State Board of Education.
The certificate honors the work our board does on behalf of public school students.
students.
The City of Katy has also presented our trustees with a proclamation in honor of School Board
Recognition Month.
I would like to read that proclamation now.
And it reads like this.
Whereas the mission of public schools is to meet the diverse educational needs of all
children and to empower them to become competent, productive contributors to a democratic society
in an ever-changing world and whereas local school board members are committed
to children and believe that all children can be successful learners and
that the best education is tailored to the individual needs of the child and
whereas local school board members are volunteer elected officials who work
closely with parents educational professionals and other community
members to create the educational vision we want for our students and whereas
local school board members are responsible for ensuring the structure
that provides a solid foundation for our school system and whereas local school
board members are strong advocates for public education and are responsible for
communicating the needs of the school district to the public and the public's
expectation to the district. Now, therefore, I, Dusty Teal, Mayor of the City of Katy, do hereby
declare the City of Katy's appreciation to the members of the Katy Independent School District
School Board and proclaim the month of January 2024 as School Board Recognition Month in the
City of Katy. I urge all citizens to join me in recognizing the dedication and hard work
of local school board members and in working with them to mold an education
system that meets the needs of both today's and tomorrow's children in
witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the city of
Katy Texas to be affixed this 22nd day of January 2024
24.
Thank you. I think we're gonna take a shot photo.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Trustees, it is now my pleasure to introduce Ms. Shelley Keating,
President of the Katy Council of PTAs for a special presentation.
Thank you for allowing the PTA to appreciate January as School Board
Appreciation Month, so cheers. In the words of John Quincy Adams, I also
I believe there's a Dolly Parton version of this quote and probably even a country song.
But if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and become more, you are a leader.
You are all true leaders for our KDISD community and we could not be more blessed to have you at
the helm navigating all the unexpected and difficult situations on our behalf
so this is just a very small token of our appreciation from pta your value is immeasurable
thank you thank you so much thank you
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you all for being here.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Keating, and our wonderful parents who invest in our students by partnering with campuses and the district to support educational excellence.
trustees we are grateful for your time talent and dedication on behalf of Katie
ISD students and staff and this does conclude the recognitions portion of
this evening's meeting thank you very much at this time the border for cheese
4. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
will give members of the public an opportunity to speak in accordance with
with KDISD Board Policy BED Local.
As defined by Board Policy,
speakers who signed up by 2 p.m. on Monday,
January 22nd, 2024, provided their first and last name
and signed in 15 minutes prior to the start of the meeting
will be allowed to address the Board.
Speakers who signed up to speak on posted agenda items
will be allowed three minutes to speak.
Speakers that signed up to speak on non-agenda items
items will be allowed two minutes and 30 seconds to speak.
If a speaker is not finished speaking at the end of their allotted time, the audio will turn off.
If speakers wish to share written material with the board, please provide ten copies to the secretary for
board services before the meeting begins for board members, the superintendent, chief communications officer, and permanent record.
If a speaker has not attempted to solve a 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, sections 551.074 and 551.0821, the Board will
not permit the presentation of personally identifiable information regarding a student
and will not discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline
or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or charge against an
officer or employee. Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues, they must
do so through the appropriate local grievance policies, F&G local, GGBA local, CKE local,
or GF local. Our speakers will be called in the order they were, they signed up to speak,
and we'll first take one speaker that we have for an agenda item the speaker is
Angela Smith welcome thank you good evening my name is Angela Smith I grew
up in Fort Bend County my family has been in Katy for over 20 years and my
children attend Katy schools I come from a long line of public servants from a
Mexican-American World War II veteran grandfather, my Cuban immigrant grandmother who worked in city
administration in Texas, my Coast Guard veteran grandfather, and my grandmother who was a nurse
her whole life. To my parents who have both spent their lives modeling for me dedication
to public service and the community through their own work and volunteerism. I've been a community
advocate for over a decade working with the community to find compromises that benefit
everyone. I believe, like I hope everyone in this room does, in the American right to vote
and to helping ensure that everyone who is eligible can cast their vote even when we may not agree.
Most recently this past fall I ran the KD Civic Center Election Day voting location, so that's where you voted. You saw me there.
I am here tonight to ask for better access to early voting for all KDISD voters.
Currently there is one location for the over 90,000 voters north of I-10 and
three locations for the approximately 120,000 south of I-10, which is the equivalent of one location for every 40,000 people.
people. Some people make the argument that people north of I-10 don't vote, but the recent voter
data is clear that turnout is fairly consistent across the district during general elections.
The data also clearly shows the five KDISD precincts with the highest turnout have easy
access to early voting. The four KDISD precincts with the lowest turnout do not have easy access
to early voting. The people in these precincts do vote, just not in KDISD elections, and the reason
is access to early voting. Voters in the Morton Ranch, Maid Creek, and Paytow feeder patterns,
41% of the registered voters in KDIC objectively have less access to early voting than their neighbors and the other feeder patterns.
There are multiple solutions to this easily solvable problem of access to early voting.
One is to establish early voting locations at Morton Ranch, Maid Creek, and Paytow High Schools.
I understand there may be some concerns regarding costs, and us taxpayers do appreciate the board's dedication to being fiscally responsible.
So another option is to consider moving the trustee elections to November.
In 2020, KDISD Council Justin Graham noted in the K Times that a November election cost $450,000 for over 150,000 people, compared to a May election that cost $120,000 for 8,000 people to cast their ballot.
That is a per cast ballot cost of $3 compared to $15. That is more than 18 times the voters for one-fifth the cost, a bargain at twice the price.
KDISD can pay less per ballot cast and ensure better access to voting for all registered voters.
Fort Bend County since 2016 and Harris County since 2019 both allow for county-wide early voting,
and since those two counties make up the majority of the district, it makes good fiduciary sense to outsource the election to entities that are more efficient.
It will allow for all of our voters to cast their ballot where it is most convenient to them,
and if they happen to work in the same county in which they live, they have even more convenience.
As another other neighboring districts have their elections in November. Thank you for your time
Thank you our next speaker in non agenda items is Tammy Cyrus
And after that is ligand lay
Good evening or president Perez trustees. Dr. Gregor ski. My name is Tammy Cyrus
I come to you tonight as a I'm a former staff member of KDISD, but that's not the reason I'm here
I'm also a mom to two students in KDISD
We've been here for seven years come to you tonight to talk to you about smart tag and the transportation concerns
I have related to
As someone who was literally in the offices when that was being discussed in the purchase thereof
I'm disheartened to hear about the rigidity of that software
Speaking to you because two weeks ago my daughter came and told me that
that someone had propositioned her and at least five to ten of the other students at her bus stop
to come inside their garage while it was raining.
I was disappointed.
Fortunately, a neighbor came by and gave her a ride to school.
I approached the transportation department about my concerns thereafter
in an effort to move her bus stop, which we literally live in between one and the other,
about one house difference between the two.
I was told that there isn't currently a mechanism for that and that even with other concerns about
TR o's and
medical concerns that they have no way to address that and
This software was purchased with the idea of keeping our kids safe as a matter of fact one of my concerns and I raised it
Because I was told that there was a policy for it. However, when I reviewed the transportation policy, there isn't one
There's nothing that addresses a smart tag.
And my concern is, based on KDISD's mission statement, that we will provide a safe and
secure learning environment to our students and staff.
And the learning environment starts when they leave the home to get on the bus.
And when my daughter advocates for her safety and no one listens because there wasn't a
technical crime committed, I'm upset.
I'm hurt.
And the least that I can do is call the transportation department.
I was told, well, there's nothing that was committed.
You're absolutely right.
But if nothing else, we're learning about grooming.
We're learning about trafficking.
She's advocating.
She feels unsafe.
And because someone can't click a box, I was told, well, your alternative is you can find
alternate transportation to and from school.
We live 5.3 miles from her school.
And at 9 a.m. in the morning, my husband and I are both working.
It's not feasible for us to get her to and from school.
I was told that it's my responsibility if I don't like the bus stop that she's at to get her to another school
Thank you
Actually the next speaker is Jarrett Burton. Jarrett Burton is the next speaker. Excuse me
Jarrett Burton you'll be next
Hi, good evening everyone today. I would like to discuss about the AP courses policy in high school
I hope to limit the number of AP courses to three courses per year.
There is too much competition for AP courses in high school, especially like
Seven X High School, Tompkins High School, and Sinclair Ranch High School.
Because the kids want to be outstanding, and the only proof is their GPA ranking.
To get a better GPA, they must take unnecessary AP courses, which is important to most of the kids at school.
In the end, most kids sleep six hours or less on average.
Kids are the future of the parents and we love our kids.
Sometimes we parents, we prevent kids from doing something,
not because we are out of date, we are old,
but because we see the risk of it.
Too much computation affects the relaxation of the kids
and they cannot sleep much.
As a parent, I would work harder to reduce the burden,
thus I would like to limit the number of AP courses
at high school.
Additionally, a looser GPA ranking can help them
easier to get admitted by university.
Here I use Memorial High School in Spring Branch ISD
as example.
Memorial High School allows students to take a maximum
of three AP courses per year.
According to the data online, there are about 602 students
graduating in 2022 and there are more than 60 kids
ranked as number one for the highest GPA
because they all get straight A.
Another 40 students are ranked as number two.
Only one course received B.
In total, there are 144 students admitted
by University of Texas at Austin,
although only 51 students accept the offer.
Additionally, another 136 students receive
an offer from Texas A&M,
although only 52 kids accept the offer.
In total, more than 30% of the kids
or debated about good universities.
Much better than the typical 6% limit.
I did not find any problem data flow on KTISD,
but I do think our percentage is that high.
Mr. Superintendent, please give the kids more time to relax
and limit the number of AP courses.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Jared Burton, and after that, Lisa Lister-Brown.
Hello board and happy new year. I'm Jared Burton, a junior at Tompkins and president of the school
of sexuality and gender alliance. Last Monday was my birthday. I turned 17 years old. I'm still a
kid and I still have so much to learn about the world, but many kids, many queer kids, my age and
younger already feel so much anguish in their lives that they are driven to end them. In 2023,
In 2023, almost half of LGBTQ youth ages 13-17 seriously considered suicide in America, with nearly 20% of them attempting it.
In 2023, there were 587 anti-trans bills proposed in the states and on a federal level, 85 of which passed.
So far, in 2024, there are 322 filed anti-trans bills, 143 of which were newly proposed just within January of this year.
And in 2023 this board voted to pass a policy that would out transgender students to their parents possibly putting them in immense danger
The district is putting policy in place to specifically target as trans students and will soon have to vote on whether or not to implement
Unlicensed Christian chaplains into counselor positions in our schools
It would seem as if the board makes these decisions despite the opinion of the community on this topic
The bill requires the bill that requires some school boards across the state of all on the issue Senate bill
bill 763 had a proposed amendment which would claim to air to clarify some very
important matters regarding the bill amendment 3 which failed to pass would
have required the consent of a student's guardians for them to receive school
chaplain services amendment 3 which failed to pass would have required the
protection of the free exercise of religion of students parents and other
staff would have required that the chaplains refrain from imposing their
religious beliefs on students and parents would require that chaplains
respect the cultural ethnic gender racial and religious diversity of
students and would have required that chaplains must refer a student to another professional
their religious beliefs rendered them unable to support the specific need of a student amendment
3 which failed to pass would require would have protected students from religious
indoctrination from the very people that they are expected to come to when faced with mental anguish
if the board votes to pass this policy it will show that all who voted in favor are for religious
indoctrination with the time i have left i'd like to deliver some closing remarks at every board
meeting you see me and a select other few individuals speaking on these issues in the
board's handling of them while we may seem few and far between this is because you fail to consider
just how many students are unable to take these stances publicly because of the danger of put them
in with family or peers in 2023 we were hurt we were pushed down and we were targeted but in 2024
we will stand proud we will fight back and we will flourish thank you thank you
lisa mr brown after that julian whitley
My name is Lisa Lister-Brown and tonight I'll briefly tell you about how faith-based instruction in high school did not prepare me well for university
and I hope that will help you realise that implementing a chaplain policy for KDISD is inappropriate.
At my evangelical high school I quickly worked out, unbeknownst to my parents,
that the way to get A's, the only way to get A's, was to quote biblical passages in my assignments
attributing anything good in the learning material to the grace of God and anything bad to Satan
and his demons that I incidentally had to fight in the spiritual warfare that affected everyone.
We prayed there a lot. We prayed before classes that we'd use what was learned to do God's will
and we prayed at the end of lessons that God would help us remember what had been taught
so that we could bring him glory.
None of that indoctrination helped me perform well academically at university.
My professors did not care how well I could quote the Bible in my assignments or exams.
In fact, I had marks deducted for justifying or reasoning on what God thinks.
My law professors found my opinion laughable, that judges should base their decisions solely on what certain passages of the Bible says instead of the law.
Eventually, I figured out for myself that to do well at university, I had to compartmentalise the religious ideology of my high school from what was now being taught.
It was a setback and frankly if my religious exposure had been separated from my academic development, none of that would have happened.
My point is this, religious indoctrination at school only helps students academically who are going on to theological college
and it is a significant problem for students going on to study other things.
Please do not put this unfair burden on the future graduates of KDISD by imposing faith-based
instruction into our schools through the chaplain program.
Thank you.
Julian Whitley followed by Emily Wellborn.
board. Hello board, I'm Julian Whiteley, the founder of the Power Club at Single Ranch High
School. In elementary school, there was a system where each student's name would be placed in a
color region, red, yellow, or green. Green was good job, yellow was you're getting on my nerves, and
red was you're being a little bit annoying. My name was usually in the red, meaning I would get sent
home with a little paper slip and my parents would have to sign it recognizing my poor behavior
they would look at it and ask ask what i did but they never reprimand reprimanded me instead they
talked it out with me the system may have worked for some kids but it never worked for me this is
an example of the one size fits all fallacy or showing the importance of differentiated learning
In the context of the one-to-one device policy, the students would have to
standardize their devices. However, only some students would have the most
efficient or comfortable experience with these standardized devices. Several
students, especially in high school, use iPads or computers with unique
capabilities to take notes. Because the objective of this policy is to increase
efficiency, wouldn't it be in most, in best interest to allow each student to
have their unique devices? The facts don't stop here because communication
within the household would effectively fall apart. Communication becomes
increasingly important the older the student gets. The older the student
becomes is directly proportional to the amount of responsibility they have in
the household. Communicating with the place that you reside in is the most
significant steps of becoming an adult and it's mainly introduced at the
the beginning of middle school.
The responsibility to effectively communicate with the household is now paramount for these
young adults.
Considering school is not only a place of education, but if one of socialization, students
may want to do activities after school with their friends and peers.
However, if they're unable to communicate, let's say with a parent who's going to pick
them up, then socialization may be entirely out of the picture.
Similarly, if the parent wants to communicate with the child about a change in transportation
transportation plans, it will be pretty much hard to tell if they don't have their cell phone.
The Power Club appreciates the objective of this policy, which is to provide students with equal opportunity
through device distribution. However, a better solution to this problem would be giving each
student who doesn't have an access to a device like a Chromebook the opportunity to get one.
However, if they do not have the device...
Thank you. Thank you. Emily Wellborn,
Wellborn, followed by Orhan Dogan.
Good evening.
My name is Emily Wellborn, and tonight I'm representing the Power Club.
I'm a senior at Sinker Ranch High School and a student at Miller Career and Technology Center,
where I'm currently enrolled in the Emergency Medical Technician Program.
I'm speaking today to urge the board to make Miller courses more accessible to students.
Every program offered at Miller exposes its students to once-in-a-lifetime experiences,
including internships, research opportunities, hands-on technical skills,
and the ability to acquire a certification at a young age. This being
said, it is wildly inaccessible to many students. A week and a half ago, I
volunteered at the course fair held here at the Merrill Center and I was pleased
to see the turnout and the interest in the Miller programs. It was an amazing
opportunity to reach out to kids about the benefits of the courses at Miller
and how they can help shape their futures.
While many people understand that these programs require prerequisite classes,
it is very rare that people know the true extent of this timeline.
For the health care career programs offered at Miller,
students must take three classes prior to their enrollment.
These courses cannot be taken concurrently or through summer school.
This is simply unreasonable.
I find it absurd that we as a district are looking in the faces of eighth graders
and asking what they would like to pursue career-wise.
At the course fair, I met many enthusiastic students who had a genuine interest in the EMT class.
That joy was short-lived when I informed them that in order to be considered for the program,
they would have to be enrolled in classes starting their freshman year.
Simply put, if students aren't preparing their four-year plan with Miller in mind during their eighth grade year,
they are simply out of luck.
It is a shame that KDISD has its most lucrative opportunities just slightly out of reach.
For the sake of the students that come after me, I implore the board to offer more flexible
pathways to experience the joys of Miller and take advantage of all it has to offer.
This resource has enriched my life and I hope that every student that wishes to participate
in these programs gets the chance to do so.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Orhan Dogan, and after that, Chandra Kanavarapu.
Hello.
I'm Orhan Dogan, a delegate of Power Club, here to also talk about negatives of the one-to-one
device policy, specifically in the high school environment.
I was taught in my psychology class that imposing rigid rules and restrictions along with high
high expectations creates kids who are emotionally insecure
and have a lack of decision making skills
along with other issues.
While ensuring that all students
have the technological resources they need is great,
the high school environment should teach responsibility
to future adults, not take away the opportunities
of making mistakes and growing as people.
In the real world and in college,
kids are not going to have a teacher
to take away their personal devices and keep them on task.
Nowadays, there are so many distractions
and it is important for students to be self-driven
and focused in their academic pursuits,
but some skills are learned the hard way, not by force.
Furthermore, the taking away of personal devices may hinder those students
that want to go into fields such as computer science or engineering.
On your website, a Chromebook is defined as a browser-based laptop,
meaning you can't download any apps you may need on it.
You can basically just use the Chrome web browser.
As a student that has taken computer science classes all of high school,
Some of the smartest people I know are kids who code on their personal computers in their
free time, work on projects during lunch, whenever they can.
You can't do those things on a Chromebook.
How is this policy going to affect those who cannot fulfill their needs on just a browser?
I believe high schoolers as future adults with future responsibilities should have the
option to choose between a Chromebook or a personal device that offers more to their
learning experience.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Chandra Ganavarapu.
And after that is Janet Godfrey.
Good evening, board.
Thank you for the opportunity.
My name is Chandra Ganavarapu.
I represent the Golden Warrior Robotics
from the Jordan High School.
Robotics is an after-school activity at the school.
And we're very thankful to the KTISD board
for providing such a wonderful facility
at the Robertshire Centre.
There are multiple schools out there which are participating.
So we appeal to the board here that Golden Warrior
Robertis, which is a pretty young team,
that we approve locating a full bait at the Robertshire Centre
for our activities.
And here are a couple of reasons.
Is that Golden Warrior Robertis has
been winning a lot of competitions
over the last two years, being an young team there.
But it has increased the size almost three times
since startup in 2020.
For example, started off in 2021 with 40, right now we have 125 kids.
This is the largest team ever in the KTISD team, but we have won a lot of championships and is growing very much.
And there are other teams out there, the Cinco, Seven Lakes, and Tom Kids.
They already have a full bay.
We are coming to a point of where we are reaching the safety limits.
really we are not able to compete and buy equipment and put it in our bay and be able
to address like some other teams like that.
So therefore we request the KTISD to provide us the full bay so that we'll be able to compete
and we'll be trying to the KTISD also, to the other extra team.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Janet Godfrey.
After that, Kayla Hubbell.
Hello, I am Janet Godfrey, President of Katy ATPE.
The Association of Texas Professional Educators is the largest non-profit educator association
in Texas with about 90,000 members.
The Katy local unit has over 1,500 members and is the largest local unit in Region 4.
ATPE provides advocacy at the state and federal levels for public school education.
education. We provide protection for our members and resources such as free professional development and discount programs.
We love to work with our school board and administrators to build up our district.
In 2023, KDATP was recognized as the 2023 Local Unit of the Year among units with over
1,000 members. Our very talented and devoted staff members were also recognized for statewide leadership.
There were three finalists in each category.
KD finalists were Daxus Nasosi from Pato High, who was chosen as the 2023 Secondary Teacher of the Year.
Administrator of the Year, Chris Mitzner from Tice Junior High.
Elementary Teacher of the Year had two finalists, Christy Bailey from Woodcreek Elementary and Lacey Rajanovich from Exley Elementary.
Elementary. Special Services Educator of the Year was Deidre Robertson from Morton Ranch
High School and Campus Representative of the Year, Michelle Jeffery from McMeans Junior
High. These are schools from all over our district. For each award, there were more
than 100 applicants considered. I am proud of the great work our teachers and staff do
do every day. I am also proud that Katie has members in all categories, both professional
and paraprofessional. Thank you. Thank you very much. Kayla Hubble, followed by Padmanabhan
Namasivayam. Welcome. Good evening, Gaities, Deities, ladies, and gentlemen. I come before
you this evening to verify something about a recent policy issued by this institution
it's reasonable to expect that the school district being charged and entrusted with
the responsibility of acting in loco parentis to undertake a thorough risk benefit analysis
when endeavoring to navigate sensitive low frequency and by all accounts on both sides
high risk situations the members of this board being educated in various aspects of administration
surely would have conducted a formal risk-benefit analysis on this policy.
This is evidenced by the votes indicating there are members who
disagree that the current policy of this institution is what is best. We can
further assume after hearing the evidence and arguments for both for and
against this policy the board would have discovered that instituting this policy
carries an associated risk of increased suicidal ideations, attempted and
and completed pediatric suicide, self-harm, and a whole host of other issues that are
generally attributed to policies of this type.
In fact, they would understand these policies run counter to modern child and adolescent
mental health professional guidance for the very reasons listed above.
Further, by your own admission, this policy is prophylactic in nature, intended to protect
children should it arise.
eyes. So informed, we arrive at that which I am seeking a verification this evening.
Given the understanding that in all circumstances, pediatric suicide, whether ideation attempt or
God forbid, completion is unacceptable, and that this policy carries a predictable and well-documented
risk of pediatric self-harm, are we then to understand that the members of this institution
have found child suicide to be an acceptable risk?
risk, it would appear as though a majority of you have.
By voting in favor of this policy,
you've indicated that you are no longer acting
in the best interest of these children.
Were this situation any different,
any parent would be charged with several crimes
from abuse to neglect and would no longer
be entrusted with their child.
Why is this board any different?
To the members of this board who voted in favor of this policy,
would you be willing to sacrifice your own kids?
Why does it have to be mine?
Would you be willing to look at a classroom
full of these precious gifts and tell them you're perfectly okay with one of
their classmates dying? I think not. Let these words of mine motivate you to make
better choices. We have responsibilities. Do better. We are guaranteed the right to
petition the government. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your time is up.
Thank you, but but nava pot man, Avan namah Shiva. Yeah
After that Nancy source
Welcome
Thank You president
Superman kagosi and the board of trustees
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak on behalf of the golden warrior robotics of Jordan high school
Both my kids that have attended KTISD one of them graduated from KTISD in 2020
and my daughter is in the Jordan Warriors robotics team as a junior.
The Golden Warrior robotics team started back in 2021-2022 with 40 kids,
and right now we are growing to a size of 125.
In the very short time that we've been in existence, back in 2022,
we won a regional event at Channel View.
We've also won the Creativity Awards two years in a row, both in 2022 and 2023.
We placed third place in one of the district events in Channelview.
We won the state championship as a division winner, and that allowed us to compete in
the world championship held right here in Houston.
So robotics, for some of you that may not know, involves building industrial-sized robots,
cutting metal, cutting wood, and doing a bit of programming.
programming. And the team also has to collect their own funds to actually build the robot.
The size of the robot is about 24 by 24 and could weigh up to 125 pounds. So this involves
a lot of machinery and training the kids in the right way to use the equipment. And thanks
for KTHD to providing us with an excellent facility in the robot charge center, which
is well-equipped. But because of our size of the team and because it is geared towards
we are unable to turn anybody away from the team.
So we have accepted 125 kids into the team.
And because of the size of the team, we're having
some problems in terms of safety and actually adequately training the kids
in a lot of these activities and effectively competing
at the same level as some of the other top teams.
So I kindly request you to allocate us the full bay
for full use of the thing.
And just a reminder, the actual season is about eight weeks,
so the season started January 8th, and in eight weeks
we have to spend and build a full industrial size robot and get it on the field for a competition
which is a tough thing to ask for but we do have training programs throughout the year in trying to
train the kids on the right techniques to use the machines and actually build
i myself a mentor mentoring the programming team for the last two years
thank you thank you for the opportunity to speak thank you very much
nancy sarsy
Good evening. I am Dr. Nancy Zars. I'm a resident of Katy and a mother of two children.
I'm a forensic psychologist, a professor emeritus, a small business owner, a community member, a person of faith, and a parent,
all of which informs my opposition to the use of chaplains as counselors.
Counselors serve several purposes in schools.
Schools. Studies show that mental health services support learning, build social skills, and
contribute to academic success. Counselors reduce dropout rates, they improve academic
performance, and they increase participation in colleges and trade schools. Counselors
also provide prevention and early intervention services. We know, based on research and our
lived experiences, that mental health concerns are on the rise. We all hear the stories of
increased anxiety depression and emotional distress along with an
escalation of suicide and violence we see it in our children our families our
friends and our neighbors counselors have graduate degrees with training and
licensure requirements they identify concerns they provide behavioral support
and they deliver targeted interventions to ensure academic success and emotional
well-being counselors also identify early warning signs of violence and of
suicide in contrast chaplains lead religious services and provide spiritual guidance typically
in the military in prisons and in hospitals where people lack access to their own denomination
our students have access to religion outside of school hours chaplains serve a valuable role but
it is a religious and a spiritual one chaplains are not the same as counselors and they are not
qualified or licensed to provide the depth of clinical services that counselors provide in
In summary, the five primary reasons I oppose chaplains and counselors are,
one, I strongly prefer counselors as counselors.
They're educated, trained, supervised, and licensed.
Number two, the law does not define chaplains or establish competency standards.
In contrast, counselors need two years of graduate education, training, and supervision.
There simply is no equivalency.
Three, professional chaplains signed a letter opposing the use of chaplains as counselors,
So both professional chaplains and mental health professionals agree, let's listen to the experts.
Number four, rather than spend money on chaplains, let's dedicate our resources to qualified counselors,
violence prevention, suicide prevention, and threat assessment teams.
Thank you. Thank you.
This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting.
5. Closed Meeting
The board will now convene and close meeting as authorized under section five five one point zero zero one of the Texas government code
for the following purposes Texas government code five five one point zero seven one five five one point zero seven four
five five one point zero seven six and five five one point one two nine
The board will now reconvene in open meeting.
6. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
Today is Monday, January 22, 2024, and the time is 7.13 p.m.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting.
Each member board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, January 19, 2024.
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 reconvened for 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.
7.1 Presentation on the 2022-2023 Annual Report to include the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR)
And the first item of business, 7.1, is presentation on the 2022-2023 annual report
to include the tax academic performance report, TAPR.
And the presenter is Natalie Martinez, Executive Director of School Improvement.
Welcome.
Is that better?
Perfect.
We will start over.
Good evening again, President Perez, school board members, and Dr. Gregorski.
Tonight I will present to you the organization of the 2022-2023 Annual Performance Report,
and we will have a public hearing as required by statute.
While much of the information included in the annual report has been available since
August, the official release of the annual performance report in December triggers the
creation of a required full performance report and a public hearing.
All of the pieces can be found on our webpage.
They are already published for our community to see as well.
The information is published on the web each year under the Research Assessment and Accountability
site, and each section is linked for easy access.
Section 1 is the TAPER report, or the Texas Academic Performance Report, which is compiled
by the Texas Education Agency and includes information from PEMS about our student achievement,
information on staff, and programs.
Section 2 is our Financial Standard Report.
Our financial department updates the board throughout the year, and there's an additional
additional report in the APR which is created by the agency as previously shared with the board
Katie ISD received an a an a rating superior achievement for this period
section 3 shows the district accreditation status the Texas Education Agency considers
four primary areas when assigning this status for the 2022-2023 year Katie ISD is accredited
Section 4 houses our campus performance objectives.
Campus improvement plans are housed on each campus website, but the performance objectives
are pulled together for the annual performance report.
These objectives were approved by the board in September of 2022, and each campus reviews
their performance objectives strategies quarterly throughout the year, and then completes a
summative performance objective review each June.
Section 5 relates to the district's special education status.
As of the release of TAPER in December of 2023, the agency has not released this status
for the 2022-2023 school year.
Section 6 on criminal or violent incidences. This one shows level 4 and level 5 offenses by district and campus. The data includes the number and types of incidences and is masked for 10 or fewer.
were. In section 7, relates to post-secondary institutions, the information is provided by the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and reports on students GPA in their two-year or
four-year college or universities. As of this afternoon, the information has not been updated
in the link, but it is live on our web to show the prior year data. We anticipated a mid-January
update but we are still waiting on the coordinating board for that our final
section refers to our House bill three goals which were adopted by the board in
July of 2020 these goals include third grade meets and masters for reading and
math along with the CCM are at the high school level again each of these
sections can be found on our research accountability for research assessment
and accountability website. I'll be happy to answer any questions.
Any questions?
Thank you. Oh, can I just ask one question? Where could we, sorry, where could we find the
the level four and level five incidents
that we briefly, on one of the slides.
So on the webpage in KDIC, if you click on that link,
it'll take you to the actual report.
Okay, great.
Perfect.
You don't have anyone that is signed up to speak
regarding the taper report.
8.1 Presentation on the Board Academic Quarterly Report
So we'll continue with the report 8.1.
Our presenter is Dr. Christine Caskey, Chief Academic Officer,
presentation of the Board Academic Quarterly Report.
All right. Thank you.
Good evening, President Perez, board members, and Dr. Gorgorski.
We are pleased to be here this evening to provide you with an update
on the Board Academic Quarterly Reporting processes
as determined by our meetings that we have had throughout this year
with our Board Academic Performance Committee.
This slide outlines the academic reports
which have historically been provided
to our Board of Trustees.
It also includes two new reports,
an academic focus update and a CTE overview.
While some of these reports are required reports,
I think we've learned through this process
that many of these reports have been developed
by our teams over the years.
They've evolved over time by different requests
from various board members.
And some of the reports are quite lengthy in nature.
So as a result of the Board Academic Performance Committee meetings, we've developed a streamlined and targeted approach to sharing academic performance with our Board of Trustees.
So we are pleased to let you know that we will be transitioning those lengthy quarterly
reports to a condensed one pager, if you will, that is front and back.
I've shared this with many folks.
They're like, well, it's really two, but that's because there's a front and a back, but we
did get it down to one page that highlights the key data points and includes links to
further data mining for those who are interested in digging in deeper to our data through various
data sources that we'll be sharing on these reports as links for you the new
report will continue to be developed and shared again on a quarterly basis this
slide shows a draft of the January 2024 version that I anticipate will be
released to our Board of Trustees this week so I'm now going to provide a few
highlights from that January edition the National Student Clearinghouse produces
produces an annual report on data trends of enrollments of post-secondary institutions.
KDISD has maintained a consistent percentage of students enrolled in post-secondary institutions
the fall after their graduation of about a 70% attendance rate.
You can see here that the most common institutions of our KDISD students, Lone Star, HCC, Texas
Texas A&M, University of Houston, and then University of Texas in Austin.
We did have a question whether Texas A&M reports all branches.
Branches are reported separately.
So this is the Texas A&M and College Station.
The College Board also produces an annual report, which they call the Integrated Summer Report.
This includes, again, a wealth of data on student performance trends on the PSAT, the SAT, and AP assessments.
The 2023 report will be linked in the one-pager for you, and highlights include that our participation in PSAT and SAT remains steady,
with over 12,000 students taking the PSAT and close to 6,000 students taking the SAT,
SAT with KDISC students outranking performance outranking the state and the nation on the
SAT.
In 2023, we did see an increase of 15% in the number of AP tests taken.
Over 20,000 AP tests were taken in the spring of 2023.
And students earned a three or higher on 77% of those exams.
And a three is typically the number that a college or university is looking at to award
that college credit as a district we closely track and monitor student enrollment and programs to
plan for personalized student support as well as a resource allocation professional developer
and professional development for our teachers this slide is a snapshot of historical enrollments over
over the past few years in some of those identified programs that we support.
Another component of assessing and tracking our student academic performance is our local
assessment program, which we refer to as district assessments.
These assessments consist of our district learning assessments, or DLAs, which you may
have heard them referred to, interim assessments, learning modules, and math checkpoints.
points. These assessments consist of test items from release STAAR Test from the TEA,
Texas Education Agency, item banks, publishers, and other teacher developed items. Together
they provide teachers and administrators with the data to help guide our instructional support,
small group instruction, and targeted professional development.
While all areas of academic performance are critically important to the success of our
students and to the success of our district it's sometimes helpful to hone in on specific academic
focus areas presently you're aware that the elementary level literacy has been the main
area of focus at the elementary level that's also followed by third grade math where we have held a
district-wide math institute for third grade teachers where we focus on targeted best practices
in mathematics we drill down to that teeth level we train up our instructional coaches but again
and also our teachers on those best practice strategies for third grade mathematics.
That was an area that we identified.
At the secondary level, we focused in on algebra, English 1, and English 2,
again with targeted professional development around identified TEKS.
So the next quarterly report will be released in April of 2024.
Topics that you will receive information on on that one will be a little thinner than the January,
but our December EOC scores, star performance.
We're going to take a deeper dive into PSAT,
specifically our National Merit Scholars,
our National Merit students who qualify for that,
and then that other new report, which is our CTE overview.
So again, I anticipate we've been working hard behind the scenes
and trying to get this one-pager with all the correct links ready for you,
but we do anticipate hopefully tomorrow, but definitely this week,
you will receive that copy with your links.
I'm here to respond to any questions that you may have.
thank you very much and and uh thank you for the work that you're doing and for spending time with
our academic performance committee really appreciate that a lot any questions mr perez
may i please ask champagne first first i really commend the academic committee and mr perez you
thinking of doing that and it's been i mean i really like it because it's like mr redmond said
to to us that like you like you have said that a lot of this information was just things that
other board members in the past have asked for and we didn't know why we were giving it i remember i
was a new board member trying to read the 100 pages of it and going why what is this so i
really appreciate this streamlined look um but i also just wanted to point out a little a bragging
thing for the district that even though the economically disadvantaged numbers have gone
gone up since 2021. We kind of remain steady with our post-secondary enrollment and our
SAT scores are still high and our AP scores have increased and the number of students
taking those has increased. And, you know, I know there's typically a correlation between
the economically disadvantaged and sometimes the lower test scores. So I think that's really
kudos to this administration and the district and the teachers and everybody
involved and making sure that we didn't fall behind with that. Thank you.
Any other questions? I have a question. Thank you for your presentation. I wanted to see
is there any way that we can see data on statistics about after the initial
enrollment into our colleges what that retention rate looks like graduation
rates of our KTISD students do we have that yes we do okay cool so when you get
the one pager there will be a link to the National Clearinghouse and it tracks
our students to year four year how long they stay in how long it takes them to
graduate so once you take a deep dive into that data if there's anything
additional that you don't find in there just let me know okay thank you you know
And in that vein, I'm sure our average is much higher, but I read that the Wall Street
Journal had a piece actually this weekend, and it said that 40 out of 100 that enter
college will not graduate.
And another 20 will be chronically underemployed.
So it's so important that we look at that statistic, and also it's so important that
career and technical work that we're doing because of those statistics.
Absolutely.
Any other comments or questions?
Mr. Perez?
I, you know, we, this academic committee, there are great leaders there talking to us about what's
possible, what kinds of things would the board want to see, what kinds of things are important
for the community to hear, you know, and I agree with Mrs. Champagne, all those hundreds of pages
stages of things that someone was interested in seeing once came to us quarterly and as we made
the dive into what where's the main thing right and no matter what question we ask as a committee
what about that what about that they had it they're like here's this I'll pull this up and
they pull up and show it to us and it's like you do all that they do that and then more and more
and more and the the disaggregation of every piece of information that you can drill down and say in
in this third grade classroom on this day.
It's just incredible what's happening,
but it isn't incredible,
because the success that our students have
and what we're known for in KDSD
is because of the people who bring support where it's needed
and to the classroom and to when they,
and even the strategies on how they talk
to the campus leaders and the amount of the people,
our support people who we get maybe not negative but the the persona the
perspective that we have too many people at the admin building those people are
the ones who go and help and give that specific support and our experts in
their field that's why we're having such great success but they're never ever
satisfied for the highest performers to those who are struggling I'm just I
continue to be impressed and high-fiving the president going that was such a
great meeting after all these years I learned so much today and I wish all of
you could be there to hear all the in-depth but when they say we'll just
link that and so we can all look at it it's really incredible information and
so it's not miracles but it feels like miracles happening in our classrooms
rooms every day and it is not easy and I'm grateful for it thank you for all of
that time that we spend mr. president a couple questions all right um about
assess this was an awesome presentation I really appreciate it and I'm really
excited about your one double-sided pager how often in the speaking to
teachers and getting some very detailed feedback from them from different levels
A lot of times I hear about the number of assessments that are pushed down to the campus and the types and all that and being a little aggravated perhaps with all of that.
Too many assessments coming down from you all. So I was just curious, I'm sure there's reasons, but how often do you look at that, reassess, and get the campus feedback on those assessments and the number of them that they have to deal with?
Right, every day, every year.
But those are, we do, honestly,
we get the feedback from our campuses.
We look at data internally.
Some of those assessments are required assessments.
Yeah.
They're kindergarten assessments,
which are required assessments.
They're House Bill 3 assessments,
which are required assessments, on top of START, right?
We've got TELPASS, which is required.
But aside from that, thank you that you're speaking
more directly about the district learning assessments,
our interim assessments.
If you go onto our webpage,
page and I believe, is this linked? Is it going to be linked in one page? Yes, to your website.
So even on our KDIC website, there's a link to our assessment calendars. There's an elementary,
a junior high, and a high school. If you click that link, it's going to outline every single
assessment when it's given per grade level. Okay. And we've also, as a part of strategic design,
which we recently have engaged upon, you're going to be hearing about that as well. Now,
one of our goals directly relates to assessments and how we utilize assessments and forming an
assessment council we had one in years past but we're reforming that so that it includes a broader
range of giving input into what those assessments look like so it's it's continuously a conversation
that we do have absolutely okay so the mechanics of a teacher or a campus giving feedback on that
what does that look like today for the dlas that's about do you know you have mike you mic
come up thanks the council sounds like a great idea so district level assessments
campuses can give feedback to their instructional coaches or directly to our
coordinators our curriculum coordinators but we utilize our instructional coaches
is to kind of be a conduit between the campus and the district okay okay i think you have one more
question about ap exams uh just we have a speaker and i've heard a lot about this about the the
number of ap exams that our high schoolers uh the high level uh perhaps or actually there's a lot of
high schoolers taking ap exams and the the rigor so i'm just curious about the um motivation of
of having so many AP courses and what really is driving that?
Is it the college campuses?
Is it the parents?
What drives offering so many AP courses?
Are there incentives?
And your thoughts about the rigor required at the high school
level of carrying that load?
So incentive?
The incentive is more so for the students.
There isn't a district incentive, no kickback per se for getting so many students involved
in our AP courses.
Our goal is to give students multiple pathways.
Before we had really AP and very few dual credit courses.
Now we're trying to equalize that so students can pick their own pathway.
and then of course students who are more interested in just an academic pathway.
So it's really choice that drives that, and some students are heavily motivated by AP courses and exams.
They want that experience and the college credit, and then of course the speaker referred to the GPA weights and things of that nature.
So everyone kind of has a different type of motivation, but in Katy,
we really want to make sure that we're offering multiple pathways for our students and our families so they can choose
the best pathway for their students.
We utilize our counselors to help counsel students and what are some of the best career or some of the best academic pathways
they can take, what are their goals, what are they trying to accomplish post-secondary.
So that's really just being able to provide the multiple pathways is I would say the the motivation behind the district.
Yeah, and I'll just add to that the College Board also it's somebody you mentioned earlier about I think mr
Perez did about students that staying in college, right? So once I get into college
Do they stay right? Do you have that stamina to say the four years five years to get that terminal degree, right?
So there is research by the College Board that shows that students who take AP tests
There is a correlation between the AP test and how long they stay in college
So a student is more likely to have that skill set to stay in college and earn that degree than a student who is not.
So we do provide a lot of support, if you will, for students who are in those AP courses so that they don't drop them and level back to that academic level.
But a lot of it really is the rigor.
It's the persistence.
And again, as Dr. Bell mentioned, it's the way to credit as well.
Yeah, right.
So are we, as a district, would you say equally motivated to increase our dual credit offerings as our AP offerings?
I think over the past, I would say, since our strategic design seven years ago, where that was actually written into our strategic plan, we've been much more deliberate about adding dual credit courses to our array of those pathways for students.
So since it was deliberately put into the strategic plan seven years ago, we kept it in the strategic plan two years ago.
And so we will continue that as well.
and as those partnerships grow with our institutions of higher education.
There's some exciting things coming forward with our Miller students,
with the education program, our teacher education program that's coming up.
So just a lot of, I think, exciting things for our students
as we look forward to giving them those pathways.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Mr. Provost, may I say something?
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Taney.
I just want to piggyback off of that because personally, you know,
I'm a mom of three kids and I have one that didn't take any of the stuff and I had one that take dual credit and another that took the AP.
And personally, I really appreciate the different opportunities and each of my kids were motivated differently.
It wasn't me pushing them to do anything.
But having the AP classes and the dual credit classes actually saves parents money for college.
So, I appreciate that, even though, you know, the dual credit classes are not free.
They're cheaper than at a university.
And AP classes, you have to pay for the test.
But I have one, I knew a kid who was in the AP class and didn't want to take the test,
still got the credit for the class, just didn't get the AP credit.
So, the parent didn't have to pay for the test.
So, you know, the pressure, I think, is put on children either by their parents or themselves, you know, and it's not the district that's doing it, in my opinion.
Okay.
And so the speaker earlier, he said that in Spring Branch, they don't, they do limit the AP courses.
I'm just curious, and I know we do not.
So is there, what is the reasoning behind that?
Do you have any opinions on that?
I'm looking at Leslie because we were just talking about this.
I think that's something that we would really have to investigate with Spring Branch.
That was news to me that they limit to three AP courses per semester, I believe they said.
Yes, per course of the year.
I don't know.
That was something new.
They do things a little bit different too in Spring Branch too.
I think he kind of referenced it a little bit.
They have multiple valedictorians, things like that.
So there would be a couple things that we would need to look at but we could certainly look into it
Okay, do you mind looking into that and then we can get I would like to know the why behind it big?
Yeah, that was something Chris. Yeah, dr. Casting. I looked at each other or like we have no idea
And I yeah, I don't know if dr. Gorski has heard that before either you haven't heard that before either
Okay, so maybe could we get an update on what y'all find?
Okay
Thank you so much
Thank you
Now we move on to 8.2, which is a 2024-2025 budget update by Chris Smith, Chief Financial Officer.
8.2 2024 - 2025 Budget Update
All right, well, good evening, Mr. Perez, school trustees, and Superintendent Grigorski.
I've got a quick update to kick off the budget process.
Of course, our goals, our objectives in this budget process are to have a balanced budget,
And that's going to be really tough without Austin doing anything happening in Austin
over these last 15 months.
It's going to be really tough to have a balanced budget.
We don't have a balanced budget as right now.
Competitive compensation kind of goes hand in hand with that balanced budget.
But it's a goal that we always do as part of our budget to be competitive in compensation.
compensation and to keep our health plan our own versus TRS active care. We're much better off
with our own health plan than with TRS active care. Obviously, we're always putting a high
priority on student staff and safety. Plan on opening new schools. We got two new schools
we're going to open this year on the 24-25 budget. What's going to happen with state funding? Is
there going to be another special session? The rumor is that the governor may call another
another special session once the election, the primary elections are over in March, but that's
to be determined. And then ESSER cliff. ESSER funds go away and we have a cliff. We've taken
care of most of the ESSER positions as far as moving them off and et cetera, but there are
a few more positions that we're going to have that are going to leave our district
because those funds are expiring.
Taxable values, we're going to use the average growth for our property values.
In the general fund, that doesn't mean as much because that's offset by state funds,
but in our debt service fund, it means a whole lot.
Enrollment, we're going to finalize, as I understand it, Mr. Crowder,
the number that we're going to budget to this next year.
We're pretty close, but that number becomes official tomorrow,
and Mr. Schuss and his staff will start building the staffing plan based on
that enrollment those enrollment numbers and Mr. Hines and myself will start
working on our enrollment projection based on that new enrollment number that
we're gonna have for the 24-25 school year. Campus staffing we're gonna staff
for growth in those two new schools. Salary increase we're gonna try like
crazy to deliver a salary increase that's gonna within an environment with
With fixed income, that's going to create a deficit like it did this last year, but we're going to work real hard to create some capacity for that since we're on fixed income.
And then tax rates, I expect the M&O tax rate to go down again this next year.
As a reminder, 88% of our budget, of the 23-24 budget, is in salary and benefits.
Salary and benefits will be the primary thing next year.
It'll be 88% again on the way we'll be approaching this budget.
And then, again, that red slice utilities is our second largest expense.
Tax rates.
Our tax rate has gone down 32 cents over the last five years.
It's actually gone down 42 cents over the last six years.
That's primarily because the House Bill 1 and other legislation has driven down the M&O tax rate.
That's offset by state funds. In other words, the state makes up for those lost tax revenues.
That's why we were able to see an 18.5 cent tax rate reduction.
And the homestead exemption increased from $40,000 to $100,000.
Both of those significantly reduced our local taxes, but significantly raised our state funds.
That was a wash, a seesaw, if you will, and I expect that to continue.
But I want to make this statement.
Even though we dropped that tax rate 18.5 cents and billions, I think it was $16 billion statewide,
went towards dropping those tax rates across the state, there's no new money for the classroom.
None.
Not a penny.
if new money with all that tax relief for the classroom we did get forget the
bill it was that delivered required us to spend $15,000 or sorry that we're
gonna get $15,000 per campus to spend for police officer at that campus it's
gonna cost us way more than 15,000 that is new funding but that is an unfunded
mandate because it's 15,000 it's not near enough to cover that expense state
State and local unknowns, legislative session.
They still have a huge windfall, but they have over $4 billion that's in the state budget,
earmarked for public education that hasn't had a funding mechanism or a bill to pick it up
to be able to deliver that to school districts.
So we're on a fixed income.
You've heard me talk about stagnant pond water, stinky stuff.
We've been on that fixed income since 2019.
and 19. There's $4 billion in the state's budget and it's not gone to districts. So districts
across the state are looking at deficit budgets, reducing expenses, and the possibility of not
being able to give the teachers and the employees across the state a significant or a meaningful
salary increase to help with the inflation. Student enrollment, talked about that. We're
We're going to come up with that enrollment number or our projection for the 24-25, the final number tomorrow.
And the demographics, Mr. Hines and I are working on our student demographics through the fall to come up with our best estimate on our revenue for the 24-25 school year.
Property values, I talked about that already, looking at the average of what we've done.
done. Shars we learned that Friday before Christmas that the state HHS is changing their funding abilities and we're going to lose $6.7 million of our Shars funding. That's our third largest revenue. It's about $14 million in the budget that you approved in August. That's being reduced by $6.7 million. When that becomes official, we're going to unfortunately have to bring that to as a budget amendment to you. We haven't done that
not yet, but we will when that's official prior years. Comptroller audit. Mr
Pro Wonka and Mr Hines and myself have already had some conversations with Mr
Pro Wonka. We feel that we can do the 2020 year audit of our comptroller
value and we can probably generate some money that will help us in the budget
we're in. Um, but annually Mr Pro Wonka is there for us and helps with those
those audits. Fast growth allotment, we're short $12 million still. I want to point out with that
$4 billion that's in the state's budget, I think it was House Bill 100, Dr. G. Yes, sir. House Bill
100, had it made it through with that $4 billion, it would have shored up that $12 million and it
would have provided enough funding that I wouldn't be standing here with a concern about the 24-25
budget, we'd be able to give a nice salary increase, be able to continue doing the great
things that KDISD does for its students without having to worry about funding.
But we don't have access to that $4 million, and it's not going through those formulas,
and so we're on that stagnant income.
We're continuing to monitor the expenses of the budget that we're currently in.
We're going to continue to do that and see when we can find ways that may surface of
of how we could help out for the 24-25 budget.
In our monitoring, Mr. Hines will talk to you
about that tonight when he goes over
the financial statements.
We're not seeing the underspending
that we've seen in the last few years.
That's not happening in your financial statements each month
like we've seen in the past.
We're preparing for growth.
We know we're opening those two new campuses.
One's a high school, that's a hard one to add
because it's inexpensive to add a new high school.
And new campuses, we talked about Nelson and Freeman High School.
Enrollment growth, talked about it.
Property value growth, doesn't matter on the general fund, does on the debt service fund.
And then what's going to happen with the state's budget and the funding formulas.
So we're here today in January.
That's kind of our parameters and kind of the starting gun, if you will, towards that budget race.
And it kicks it off.
and I will behind me is Miss Butterfield and she's not gonna have any part to do
with this budget I would be remiss if I didn't thank her for the 30 budgets that
she put together before this we're in great shape financially you're gonna
hear from our auditors and a couple of agenda items that we are in a good
position financially thanks a lot in large part to Miss Butterfield and the
work that she's done over the years with our budget and I appreciate that I'm
grateful for that and i'm grateful for that because as we go through with this 24 25 budget
we are in a good financial position to uh whether whether what's the storm frankly that's all i have
thank you um thank you so much and thank you uh this is mr butterfield thank you so much for this
is this is small thank you for everything you've done really appreciate your your work um uh you're
You're going to be missed, I know.
Thank you so much.
I wanted to just ask, since you put the timeline there, Mr. Smith.
Yes, sir.
When will we be looking at, what month will we be looking at salary increases?
Will we be considering salary?
Usually in May.
In May?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
That's typically when we've looked at that.
Okay.
Okay.
I think it's critical, especially since you mentioned about the fixed income and
budget deficit, etc, that as we go forward on the budget,
that we very clearly identify growth that is attributable strictly to the two new campuses.
so that we can identify and zoom in on that,
as well as things that are mandated for safety reasons,
and really be able to kind of isolate that from the rest of the budget
so that we can truly get a good idea of what else we're spending money on
beyond what's necessary for the two schools and safety, those kind of things,
just that we are able to hone in as we look at the budget as a board
on what else is necessary that we would need to spend money on.
So I think those are kind of a laser approach.
Just a comment on that.
And then any questions?
I have a question.
Yes.
Thank you for the presentation.
There's another committee that is the finance committee.
So that's another committee that Mr. Perez has formed,
and I'm on that committee along with Mrs. Teamee and Mr. Perez.
So some of this I know a little bit about, and I know that,
but the only thing I feel like that we can kind of control with the budget is the ADA
because obviously we can't get more money from the, you know, legislatures and things,
but we can hopefully encourage children to come to school.
school. So I want to know, can we get any feedback about the improvements with that?
Or, you know, I know that different campuses do different things.
I'll ask Mr. Hines if I fumbled this too bad to come bail me out or maybe mishack, but I will say that through the first two, six weeks, that attendance incentive was doing a great job.
It was doing everything we hoped it would do. It kind of tightened up the last six weeks. Am I right, Mr. Hines?
but overall we think that's going to help again just for anybody that doesn't
know I know you know miss champagne and the board knows because they've heard it
but we in a 22 to 1 elementary classroom we have to staff at 22 students to one
teacher we're paid on how many kids come to that teachers class and if it's 19
we're paid on 19 of them because not every kid student comes to school every
day we're running about a 96 percent 97 almost attendance rate we used to run 98
one percent five million dollars so we can't control since we're paid on average
daily attendance and we can't control our revenue we can't control potentially
the the way the rate in which kids come to school but more is less about the
money it's more about students coming to learn they're much more effective and
and better at learning in the classroom when they're there
and be making up for it and not.
So it's a win-win.
OK, so thank you.
So what I'm wondering is, is there
some kind of comparison between campuses?
Like this campus is better at making kids come,
or this campus?
In other words, so campus elementary A
has some kind of program and all the kids came that day?
That information will be put together
when the year is over and over the summer as we near the summer but that's
too early to tell at this point but could campuses share their great
experiences you know like if someone had great success where they like I heard
about a school where they tied the principal if they had came to school
that day they could try to apply the principal and they had they had like
almost 100% kids were there. So that's a great example of, okay, so that worked at that school.
Maybe all the principals could share that information with each other to try to increase,
you know, hey, elementary B, you should try this because all the kids came to school that day.
I don't know. I don't know if there's some kind of networking thing. I know there's a principals,
you meet with the principals, Dr. Gryforski. I don't know if they network like that and share
share ideas of how to increase ADA, their campus, if one of the campuses haven't got
great success with things like that.
Mr. Champagne, we're going to look at all that when the year is done, when we're determining
who got what. At that point, I think the winners and the ones that didn't do so well, we'll
look at and try to find out and ask questions. How were you successful and why were you not?
We'll ask those questions as we move forward in the summer.
I will say that I was in a meeting in this room with a community group of about, well,
it was about full last Wednesday, Thursday, and I had several people ask me questions.
These were parents.
They asked me questions about the attendance incentive because they were very aware of
it on their child's campus.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Thank you very much.
Mr. Smith.
9.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the January 2024 budget amendments.
Now we're moving into discussion and action.
Part of our meeting and the presenter is Esperanza Rios, Director of Budget and Treasury,
to discuss and consider Board approval of the January 2024 budget amendments.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Good evening, Board President Perez, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Gorski.
Tonight, we bring forth a budget amendment in the amount of $30,673 to cover the cost of the implementation and the first-year maintenance agreement for softdocs,
a comprehensive student records management software, which was presented at the December 4th board meeting and approved at the December 11th board meeting.
All other budget amendments are direct functional offsets.
The approval of this budget amendment will result in a decrease of $30,673 to the general operating fund balance.
Thank you. Are there any questions?
So I will now entertain a motion to approve this item.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve of the January 2024 budget amendment.
Do I have a second?
Second.
It is moved and seconded that the Board of Trustees approve the January 2024 budget amendments.
We will now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
Motion passes 7-0.
9.2 Discuss and consider Board Approval of the November 2023 Financial Reports.
Next is 9.2, which is discussion.
Consider Board approval of the November 2023 financial reports.
reports. Present is Jamie Hines, Executive Director of Finance. Good evening, President
Perez, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Gorgorski. You have before you our financial reports
for January tonight, included our financial statements, our tax report, and our construction
construction report through the month of November as well as our check registry check register summary for the month of November.
Included in our financial statements is an analysis of our expenditures by function and object.
And I'm going to bring to up a few things with you. As Mr. Smith said,
we have seen a decrease in our underspending. It's kind of two negatives there, but
But first off, this financial report is through the first three months of the fiscal year.
So it's essentially one quarter of our fiscal year.
So as you look through these reports, you'll want to use 25% as what you're comparing to.
If you look at the second page of the fiscal report along the right-hand side,
you'll notice that some of our larger functions have gone from 23 last year to 24 this year.
And what that is, is that's just the closing of that underspending that we've been kind of talking about the last two years.
So that's the first thing I wanted to bring to your attention.
Also, on the tax report, you'll notice the budgeted levy is about $642 million, and the certified levy is about $392 million.
So there's a big gap there.
And the reason for that is going back to the November elections.
So that pushed back when the tax offices were able to actually complete their certifications.
As of the end of November, they hadn't certified, but they have now.
So this next month, you'll see that gap close up.
So it looks a little wonky there, but that as we get into next month, we'll close that up.
I'll take any questions about the financial reports now if I can.
Any questions?
Mr. President.
Champaign.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve of the November 2023 financial reports.
Do I have a second?
Second.
It is moved and seconded that the Board of Trustees approve the November 2023 financial reports.
We will now proceed to vote.
Please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion carries 7-0.
9.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of the annual financial audit report.
The next item is 9.3, discuss and consider board approval of the annual financial audit report.
And we have several.
We have our team, our blue chip team presenting.
Chris Smith, Lupe Garcia with Whitley Penn, Laura Lynch.
All right, I'm going to kick it off.
Okay, go ahead.
Mr. Perez, and just say the Texas Education Code 44.008 requires us that we have an annual audit.
One could argue that our audit is ongoing, but it formally started in June when Whitley Penn, Mr. Garcia's team, came in and did our interim for a couple of weeks.
They were here in June, and they've been here with us since October working on this audit.
So this is a long process.
Lupe Garcia is the partner with Whitley Penn who's here tonight to present the work of our audit.
And sitting just to his right is Kayla Smith, no relation to me.
She's just blessed with who she married.
No relation to me, much smarter than me, but she's our director of accounting,
and she does a fantastic job of working with these auditors.
and the report that you have in front of you is 183 pages,
and Ms. Smith and her team put that together themselves.
And I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Garcia to kick it off on this presentation.
Good evening, President Perez, Board of Trustees, and Superintendent Grodgorski.
My presentation tonight will take you through the audit process, the audit results,
financial statement highlights, and I'll end with required communications.
As was mentioned earlier, the audit process does take several months to complete.
We began our procedures back in the spring and early summer with interim field work.
Our focus during that phase of the audit is on internal controls, risk assessment, identifying
the major programs in the single audit, and performing the compliance required on those
major programs.
Once the fiscal year is over, we return for year-end field work.
Our procedures at that point in time are geared towards the financial statements, the account
balances and the transaction classes. We're confirming information directly
with third parties. We're performing a variety of substantive and analytical
audit procedures and over all these months we're obtaining all the audit
evidence to support the opinion on the financial statements. As external
auditors we can express one of a few different types of audit opinions. I'm
happy to report that tonight presenting to you that we've expressed an
unmodified opinion on the district's financial statements for fiscal year
year 2023. That unmodified opinion is at the beginning of the financial section within the
annual comprehensive financial report and what that unmodified opinion indicates is that the
financial statements are fairly presented in all material respects and that the district is
following generally accepted accounting principles. We also issue a report on the district's internal
controls over financial reporting and on compliance. Our report did not include any material weaknesses
or significant deficiencies.
Our procedures did not identify those,
nor did we identify any noncompliance
that was material to the financial statements.
The third and final report we issue
is over the district's administration
of its federal programs.
The district prepares a schedule
of expenditures and federal awards.
For fiscal year 2023,
that schedule totaled $111.5 million.
The programs listed on the schedule are evaluated,
and we select which programs we test as major.
For fiscal year 2023, those two major programs included the child nutrition cluster
and your ESSER expenditures.
Our testing over these two major programs did not identify any question costs or noncompliance,
so it was a clean audit here as well over the federal major programs.
This is very important because within 30 days,
this report has to be submitted to a federal audit clearinghouse.
House. This is one of the ways in which all the federal and state agencies become aware of how
the district performed in the single audit. In addition to the federal single audit, we also
performed a state single audit this year. The state major programs included programs through
the Health and Human Services Commission, the Early Childhood Intervention, and the Bullet
Resistant Shield Grant. Similar to the federal single audit, the state single audit also resulted
that in no question cost or any findings so a clean report here as well jumping to the financial
statements the statement in that position is the district's balance sheet as of the end of the
fiscal year so these are balances at a point in time the total assets and deferred outflows of
the district totaled 3.7 billion dollars of that balance that's primarily comprised of your cash
and investments of 760.3 million and your capital assets your land construction progress buildings
vehicles, furniture, and equipment of $2.5 billion.
Your liabilities and your deferred inflows of resources were $3.4 billion.
Of that balance, that's primarily comprised of your outstanding bonds payable of $2.5
billion.
And then the district reports two liabilities related to its participation in the teacher
retirement system of Texas.
The net pension liability is $299.2 million, and the net other post-employment benefit
benefit liability related to retiree health care is 159.1 million. These two amounts represent the
district's proportionate share of the overall statewide liability. These amounts are calculated
and measured each and every year by TRS and their auditors and actuaries. In order for the district
to receive an unmodified opinion, you have to report these liabilities in your financial statements.
Looking at the net pension liability of 299.2 million, you can see that represents about 75
75.62% of the overall fiduciary responsibility for this benefit as of the end of the fiscal year.
75% in the pension world is considered a very healthy pension plan.
TRS is a great administrator.
Employees and retirees in TRS can rest assured that that benefit will be there for them in their retirement years.
In fiscal year 2022, you can see the net pension liability was $120.6 million, which was really an outlier compared to the last five fiscal years.
TRS reported record investment earnings that year, which drove down the liability, but that was an outlier.
That's not normally the case, and you can see now the liability is in a range where it has been in the past.
The retiree health care liability, the net OPEB liability.
This is a pay-as-you-go type benefit. All the contributions that go into this plan each and
every year immediately go out the door to pay current year benefits. So it's not designed to
have cash and investments earning interest to fund this benefit in the future. So the funded
ratio here is much lower than the pension plan. For fiscal year 2023, it was 11.5%.
You can see that the liability did decrease compared to the previous four fiscal years.
There were some actuarial and assumption changes made during the year.
Trend rates were updated, participation rates were updated, and the discount rate was increased,
which all helped drive down the liability.
The general fund is the district's main operating account.
For fiscal year 2023, the general fund reported $971.7 million.
Of that amount, 90% comes from two sources.
Property taxes is 50%, and state aid is 40%.
The remaining 10% of your general fund revenues comes from other state funding at 5%.
That's primarily TRS on behalf.
You have other local funding of 3%, which did experience an increase.
That's primarily investment income.
And you have other miscellaneous federal funding in the general fund at 2% of your general fund revenues.
Your expenditures in the general fund totaled $949.1 million.
67% of those expenditures are related to instruction and instruction-related services.
If you think about your budget, that's functions 11, 12, and 13.
11% of your general fund expenditures is related to student support services.
That's primarily student transportation, nursing, guidance, and counseling.
Maintenance and operations is 9% of your general fund expenditures, followed by instructional
and school leadership at 7%.
Security monitoring and data processing is 3% of your general fund expenditures.
General administration is 2%.
Intergovernmental expenditures and other expenditures were 1% and 0% of your general fund expenditures.
Within the report, you have three budgetary comparison schedules.
The first one I'm going to cover is the general fund's budget to actual schedule.
Your revenues were greater than budgeted revenues by $3.7 million.
Your expenditures were less than your budgeted expenditures by $12.9 million.
Overall, you had an increase in fund balance during fiscal year 2023 in the general fund.
your general fund increased by 26 million dollars for an ending fund balance of 352.8 million dollars
that breaks down into a few different categories non-submittable committed and assigned but
unassigned fund balance is the category of fund balance that gets the most attention because
that's what's available for spending by the district again this is a balance at a point in time
your property tax collections pick up in december and january so this fund balance is your working
capital to get you through that first quarter of the fiscal year. So September, October, November,
this is what that fund balance is for. So you can operate, pay your employees, and pay your vendors
for goods and services provided. The $257.6 million in unassigned fund balance represents 27.1%
of your general fund expenditures. The school district does have a policy to maintain at least
15%. So you can see your general fund unassigned fund balance on the general fund is meeting
that board policy. The second and third budgetary comparison schedules are for
your child nutrition program and your debt service fund. Revenues in the
nutrition and food service fund were greater than budgeted revenues by
$500,000. Your expenditures were less than budgeted expenditures by 2.6
million. Overall there was an increase in fund balance in this fund of 4.1
million for an ending balance of 30.3 million dollars. The debt service fund is
the fund where you account for the interest and sinking portion of your tax rate for the repayment
of principal and interest on your long-term debt. Revenues were slightly less than budgeted revenues
by $300,000. Your expenditures were less than budgeted expenditures by $100,000. Overall, there
was an increase in fund balance in this fund of $4.8 million for an ending balance of $64.7 million.
As part of the audit, we do review the district's accounting policies. The district is following
all current pronouncements. The district did implement a new pronouncement in fiscal year
2023 related to software subscriptions and software licenses. If they meet the criteria
of GASB statement number 96, those agreements, those contracts have to be capitalized and the
long-term commitments, the payments the district will make on those agreements and contracts will
have to be recorded as a liability. So that was implemented in fiscal year 2023. The financial
Financial statements do include estimates, so those estimates could change in the future.
The most significant estimates you need to be aware of include anything related to state funding and state aid is based on a variety of factors.
Allowances for uncollectible taxes receivable is based on historical collections.
And then what we talked about earlier related to pension and other post-employment benefits is by far the largest estimate in your financial statements.
management has recorded those estimates, disclosed in the notes all the required information for these estimates in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
There's risks in every financial statement audit of any entity.
These risks we have to perform procedures for.
So as members of the Board of Trustees, you have to be aware that there's these risks in the financial statement audit.
One is that management could override internal controls.
You have established policies and procedures and practices, but we have to have the mindset
that management could always decide to do something else.
We perform procedures to address that risk.
And there's also the risk of improper revenue recognition.
While a governmental entity doesn't have a profit motive per se, we want to ensure that
the financial statements for this period of time report the accurate revenues for this
fiscal year.
And so we perform procedures over state aid, over property taxes, over grants and other
revenues to ensure that that revenue recognition is being made properly by management. I'm happy
to report that we didn't encounter any difficulties in performing and completing the audit.
We had the district school cooperation throughout each phase of the audit. Anyone we needed to meet
was made available. Information we requested was provided in a timely manner. Questions we had were
answered in a timely manner. So we, I do appreciate the district's cooperation and patience over all
these months it wouldn't have been possible without that our audit procedures do not identify
any material misstatements no disagreements to report to you regarding the financial statements
or any accounting estimates we do obtain a letter at the end of the audit referred to as a management
representation letter in this letter management represents to us that they've been an open book
they haven't withheld anything that would impact or affect these financial statements as far as
we're aware the district's not consulting with any other auditors or accountants on any financial
reporting matters and then the last bullet on this slide during the year we may answer questions
provide information and guidance to the district but at no time do we feel the way we answer
or the position that we take is a condition to our retention as the district's external auditors
so that completes my presentation if there are any questions i'd be happy to take those questions at
this time thank you thank you so much uh and congratulations to the to the staff for for this
uh completing the audit i know it's a big task every year and uh thank you so much and also we
had a the finance committee had a meeting with the auditors a week and a half ago we appreciate that
opportunity to make them available and also your staff really appreciate that so congratulations on
the completion of the audit i just had one one question and that is uh we talked about the
the unassigned and assigned balances and the general fund balance.
The assigned balance of 76 million, which is a deduction on the general fund,
it looks like that's for contingencies, some unknowns, etc.
Do the auditors review or opine on the adequacy of those contingencies?
Do you review those to see if those numbers make sense, or they could be less, or
they should be more or they're adequate in terms of addressing those contingencies so for unassigned
fund balance i just realized my mic wasn't on i apologize those amounts haven't been expended
they haven't been they're merely earmarked by management so we do review them for assigned
fund balance those are amounts that have been earmarked by management if they're committed we
do agree that to the board meeting minutes because those are amounts that have been earmarked by the
board but as far as the adequacy is to the level of the amount that's not audited information
but we do agree that back to decisions made by management again just because those amounts have
been committed or assigned does not mean they've been expended they could always be uncommitted or
unassigned and they could go back into the unassigned fund balance line item the committed
is more of a harder number in terms of an obligation that we've identified whereas the
The assigned is more of a contingency, and management could decide at some point that that number could change.
Correct.
Because the contingency didn't materialize.
For example, it wasn't necessary.
That's correct.
Okay.
Thank you.
Mr. President.
Any questions?
Ms. Teeming?
I just want to say thank you to the financial audit team for putting this together, but especially kudos to Kayla Smith.
You did a lot of work to get this ready and to get the ball rolling.
And I just want to say thank you.
I want the board to know how much work you put in and the public as well.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Any other questions, comments?
I want to make a comment, Mr. Perez, just so the board's aware and the public's aware that we're not done yet.
We're going to spit shine this thing, this document that you have, this 183-page document.
We're going to spit shine it.
We're going to submit it to GFOA and ASBO because we think it's going to win an award again.
We're going to send this information.
As Lupe mentioned earlier, we're going to send all this information to the clearinghouse, the Municipal Advisory Council, Texas Education Agency.
We're going to upload this thing too.
Who else am I missing?
Several things.
We're going to deliver this audit to them.
And then we're working on PEMS as we speak, which basically is taking this in electronic format and moving it up to TEA so they can analyze the differences between our campuses and one district to another.
They use all that information.
And they'll use that information for our first, when they release those in August.
And I'll be presenting the first report in October, which is going to be based on the information you just heard.
Again, thank you, Kayla, and thank you, Jamie Hines, for y'all's efforts in this, and thank
you, Lupe, for your partnership.
Appreciate you very much.
Thank you.
It's amazing how much information is in that report, incredible amount of information.
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the annual financial audit report.
Do we have a second?
Second.
We will not proceed to vote.
Board members please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion is carried. The motion is adopted. Thank you so much.
The next item, which is 9.4, is to discuss and consider board approval of the 2025-2026
9.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the 2025- 2026 Instructional Calendar.
Instructional Calendar.
Presenter, Dr. Andrea Grooms, Chief Communications Officer, and Sherry Ashwani, Director of Student
Affairs.
Sherry Ashwani, Director of Student Affairs.
Sherry Ashwani, Good evening.
President Perez, Trustees, and Superintendent Grygorski.
For this item, I'm going to provide a very brief presentation on the outcomes of the 2025-2026 Instructional Calendar Survey.
That survey was administered by our research and survey firm, K-12 Insight, so I'm providing those results on behalf of that firm.
It was administered December 8th through January 8th as well, and participants were requested to provide feedback on two survey options.
options. Option A, which is very much like our traditional calendar that's been adopted by the
board the past few years, where seniors are released a week earlier than the rest of the
student body, and the rest of the student body is then released in May, the end of that month.
The second option was option B, in which notably school ended in June, and participants overwhelmingly
overwhelmingly voted for option A. We had about 11,500 participants and 80% of them
voted for that calendar option. And you'll see in this next slide that you all have access to
that the reason that was cited the most for that survey selection or that option selection rather
was because individuals preferred the early start date in August and the early release in May.
Now I'm going to hand over the presentation to Ms. Ashhorn.
The survey results, of course, inform the recommendation that you're going to hear from her now.
Thank you, Dr. Grooms.
As she shared, there were two calendar options.
We have option A.
We call it our District of Innovation calendar that allows us to start school before the fourth Monday in August.
and notably as represented in the feedback from the survey,
that ending...
school before Memorial Day. Option B was that what we call our traditional start date based on Texas
law. Without the District of Innovation, that would require a start date on that fourth Monday
in August. So between those two options, it is the recommendation of the administration to adopt
calendar A, and I'm open for any questions if you have any. Questions? Mr. Perez? Ms. Champagne?
I just have a question of clarification.
Can you restate what you were saying about you have to get the state to approve unless we were the district?
Because I remember hearing about that as a new trustee, that not everybody can just have that earlier start date.
But I know that a lot of parents and teachers appreciate the earlier start date.
But I'll let you take the floor on that one.
sure absolutely so texas education code requires that schools not start before the fourth monday
in august and working through the district of innovation process which we did a couple years ago
and we elected it for five years we did decide to exempt from that rule and so we like many of our
neighboring districts have elected to utilize that as one of the calendar options so that we
can start school earlier. Thank you for that clarification. Yes. Any other questions? Mr.
President? Fox. Ms. Ashorn and Dr. Grims, thank you for this. This calendar includes enough
minutes to, instead of having a bad weather day signified, we have a room in this calendar for two
bad weather days. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. So we have sufficient minutes for two
bad weather days plus a little extra in case it's needed so what how long ago was it or a few years
ago we went to a little bit longer day maybe eight minutes a day or something right or something like
that to to be able to build those minutes in because our bad weather days were in february
and when we had one at the end then it made us miss you're right a couple of years ago we extended
our operational minutes um by a little bit to give us that cushion because remember with calendar
under option A, seniors and earlier. So we need to make sure that those high school minutes have
enough for seniors to have a full year as well. So our minutes do account for those extra bad
weather days. So it was so nice last week when we had that freeze coming up that we just knew we
had those minutes available and that we wouldn't have to worry about making up those days. If we
do end up with three days of bad weather, the state does have a waiver procedure where we can
request that those extra bad weather days outside of the original two um possibly be waived okay
that was my question so the bad weather day we have is built into this year's calendar as well
and one additional one and if we don't have to use that we many times use it as an extra day at the
easter weekend so is that correct dr g that's correct historically for at least the past two
years we've come back to the board after we've met all the what we believe the
freezing temperatures are done in Houston and if we had a day left over in
the minutes we've asked the board to amend the calendar to extend that Easter
weekend through Monday and have a four-day holiday pending any bad weather
and if we don't have to use the second one we've used one but if we don't have
to use the second one I anticipate coming back to the board at that time
once we're through all the bad weather to see if we can extend that again as a courtesy to our families and our
Educators and staff members who appreciate that I have one follow-up comment maybe for dr. Gorg, Orski
Did I hear that there's a district who had?
Such bad effects from the winter weather that they opened school
And then they had so many issues of not maybe not preparing their schools or whatever that they had to shut down for most of
of the week? There was a story on that reported of a school district in Texas that had to reopen
and then close its doors. It's unfortunate when that happens. And we're closed several days. So
I just want to commend Ted Vierling and Nathan Fuchs and that whole team of preparing our schools
for the freeze and then getting them opened back up while the rest of us were home cuddled up,
you know, in our comfies that they were out there still working the whole weekend.
Yeah, the whole bad weather and so there that's you know, they just go unsung and unnoticed
But it's it's critical to having a district our size be functional. So shout out to to that team you bet and I appreciate you saying
That miss Fox because our folks
People don't always know that that when the district closes
We still have a couple hundred people that have to come in
Including police officers, you know, I mean they're they're working as well and maintenance operations
All the things they do to ensure when we reopen our doors that we have heat and that we have water and that our pipes aren't broken.
All those things goes into that.
So, yeah, they did a fantastic job with this freeze.
They really did.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I will now.
Any other comments or questions?
I just want to add on to that.
But I know that a lot of you all went to see the barns,
and I heard that there was a pipe that burst there,
and they did a good job at keeping the animals watered.
So even that was, somebody had to do that.
So that's appreciated very much.
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees
approves the 2025-2026 instructional calendar.
Do I hear a second?
Second.
We will now proceed to vote on the keypad.
The motion is carried 7-0.
9.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of a Professional Development Waiver for the 2025-2026 instructional calendar
The next item is 9.5, which also we have Sherry Ashwin here as our presenter.
And to discuss and consider board approval of a professional development waiver for the 2025-2026 instructional calendar.
Thank you President Perez. So TEA allows us to request a waiver and we've done
this historically for as long as I can remember to allow us to add 2,100
minutes to our total amount of minutes collected from instructional and
instructional day for up to five professional development days within the
calendar. So you'll see kind of that that symbol within the calendar there's five
professional development days those have to be between the first day of school
in the last day of school and by your adoption or your approval of that waiver we'll be able to
collect those minutes which do go into the the bucket that allows us to have those extra minutes
for bad weather days and such questions mr president i i move that the board of trustees
approves a professional development waiver for 2025 2026 instructional calendar do we have a
second second will not proceed to vote board members please record your vote on
the screen via your keypad the motions carried now we have nine point six and
9.6 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the land and real estate consulting services.
nine point seven nine point eight and so on we have Lisa Cassman executive
director of facilities planning and construction she's gonna be here for a
little while maybe get comfortable everybody good evening president president perez trustees and
dr gorski as we continue to kick off the bond season i would like to introduce my team of
project managers who will take care of all this work art campbell trey barnett megan irvin and
casey doubledy they're the workers great to meet you thank you so i have seven items for your
consideration this evening I know the first is to award a contract to
consolidated property advisors for land and real estate consulting services
they've worked with the district over 20 years in the purchasing of properties
their services include not only assessing the value of the sites but
utilities drainage negotiations with Mudd's engineers attorneys and just to
negotiating the purchase of these sites are there any questions mr. president
who's that miss Fox I move that the Board of Trustees approves of a contract
for the land and real estate consulting services so I have a second second will
not proceed to vote
Motion's carried.
9.7 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations to Mayde Creek Elementary School and Sundown Elementary School.
Now we go to 9.7 and that is discuss and consider board approval to award a contract for design
services necessary for the renovations to May Creek Elementary School and Sundown Elementary
School.
Okay, this firm is HKS is being recommended for this work.
They are working on Schmalz, completed Schmalz, Legacy Stadium and currently working on Western
Memorial Elementary. Questions? I will now entertain a motion for this item. Mr.
President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves to award a contract
for design services and renovations to make Creek Elementary School and
Sundown Elementary School. Do we have a second? Second. We will now proceed to
vote. Board members please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion is carried.
9.8 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations and additions to Beck Junior High School and Katy Junior High School.
9.8 is to discuss and consider board approval to award a contract for design services necessary
for the renovations and additions to Beck Junior High School and Katie Junior High School.
So Texas Arcadis is currently working on McDonald Junior High, which is a sister school to Katie
and Beck, so they'll be familiar with the footprint.
They have also worked on the CTEs at these schools, as well as Taylor High School and
and May Creek High School renovations.
Are there any questions or discussion, board members?
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approve
to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations
in addition to Beck Junior High School and Katie Junior High.
Do we have a second?
Second.
We'll proceed to vote if you know what to do.
9.9 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the projects at Katy High School, Pattison Elementary School, Cimarron Elementary School, and Nottingham Country Elementary School.
Now we'll go to 9.9.
Discuss and consider board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the projects at Katy High School, Patterson Elementary School, Cimarron Elementary School, and Nottingham Country Elementary School.
So VOK has been a partner of the district.
They're currently working on the new prototypes.
They have done work at Katy High School, Patterson, and familiar with design on Cimarron, Nottingham, as it's a sister school to Windbourne.
Any questions or discussion?
Mr. President.
Champagne.
9.9, correct.
Yes.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves to award a contract for design services necessary
for the projects at Katy High School, Patterson Elementary School, Cimarron Elementary School,
and Lai Pian Country Elementary School.
Second.
Second.
It is moved and seconded.
We will now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion is carried.
9.10 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations to Bear Creek Elementary School, Hayes Elementary School, McRoberts Elementary School, and the Shaw Center expansion.
9.10, discuss and consider board approval to award a contract for
design services necessary for the innovations to Bear Creek Elementary School,
Hayes Elementary School, McRobertson Elementary School, and Shaw Center expansion.
Yes, Stantic has been another partner with the district.
They have worked on Fielder, Hutzel, which is a sister school to Bear Creek, and did the original Shaw Center and the Outdoor Learning Center.
Mr. President.
Any questions or discussion?
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves to award a contract for design services necessary
for the renovations to Bear Creek Elementary School, Hayes Elementary School, McRoberts
Elementary School, and the Shaw Center expansion.
Second.
It is moved and seconded.
We will now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion is carried.
9.11 Discuss and consider Board approval to award a contract for design services necessary for the renovations and additions to various maintenance facilities, Support Service Complex, and Law Enforcement Center.
Discuss and consider 9-11.
Discuss and consider board approval to award a contract for
design services necessary for the renovations and additions to various maintenance facilities,
support service complex, and law enforcement center.
So PBK once again has worked with the district for a while, not only on our schools, but
but they did the Merrill Center and the renovations of the ESC,
so very familiar with our program.
Are there any questions or discussion?
Mr. President.
Ms. Champagne.
It is moved and seconded.
I'm sorry.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve to award a contract for design services
necessary for the renovations in addition to the various maintenance facilities,
support service complex, and loss enforcement center.
Second.
We have a motion and a second.
We will now proceed to vote.
Please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
Motion's carried.
9.12 Discuss and consider Board approval of the design associated with the new Northwest Transportation and Maintenance Facility.
We're on to 912.
Last one.
Which is discuss and consider board approval of the design associated with the new Northwest Transportation and Maintenance Facility.
Anybody?
All right, so this evening my final presentation is designed for the Northwest Transportation
and Maintenance Facility.
This facility is part of the 2021 bond.
Brad Ewing, the VLK Architects will present the design, but Paul Landis, our Executive
Executive Director of Transportation will say a few words.
Good evening, President Perez, Dr. Gorski, and board members.
Definitely would like to take this opportunity to say we definitely would appreciate the opportunity
to have a facility at the northwest of the district where everything's hot and heavy
and growing in that area, but it's closer there.
And we appreciate the opportunity we've had as transportation to work with the architects
and give some input into designing a facility that's going to be very efficient and very effective.
for the tasks that we have in that area.
Thank you.
Good evening, President Perez,
board members, and Superintendent Grigorski.
It's our pleasure tonight,
on behalf of VLK Architects,
to present the design development
of the Northwest Transportation Center
and maintenance facility.
facility.
I'm joined here with lead project architect Lynn Hrabatsky.
She's been working hard with our team getting this ready for you all.
I'm happy to present that everything's on track and on budget.
Right now we're here for the approval of the design development.
Looking ahead here in April, we'll be out to bid and then looking for CSP board approval
in May and then board project completion in spring of 2025. So to get familiar
where this is, this is over on the northwest side over by junior high 18
and in high school 10 which is the Freeman High School. It's off of Katie
Hockley Road and Logan Ball right next to Youngblood Elementary School. At the
the proposed site, if you go to the next one, it'll house a new transportation center, a fueling center, a maintenance warehouse, and the adjacent parking for drivers and the buses.
Looking in, you know, we met with the facilities team and the dedicated people over at transportation
and maintenance and operations to put together what they needed to make this a successful
project.
If you look here at the next slide, we'll look at some of the floor plan diagrams.
So this is very, very similar to what you guys typically operate with.
There were some very minor tweaks in the operation of these facilities, but we still kept a nice clear access of circulation where you come in, you have a direct access to the dispatch where they have view down the hallway.
They can see all the drivers coming in.
There's an administrative suite that's in orange in that northwest portion that will have views out there towards Logan Ball Road.
road. Behind that in yellow are your support spaces for the drivers and the lead drivers,
where there'll be a multipurpose space for training. They'll also have a kitchen there.
And then you have a lead driver room with conference space. And then in green on the
other side of that building are all your shop spaces with the support areas for that for
for parts storage, a shop foreman, and all your other fluids and seat and glass repair.
Adjacent to that building, there'll be a fueling center that will have fueling bays, a tire repair bay, and then a bus wash bay.
Very similar to what you guys have at your other facilities.
There will be two 12,000 gallon diesel gas tanks and an unleaded gas tank and then also a DEF unloading area.
Over on the other side of the site, fenced off separately, will be a maintenance warehouse area that will house a supervisor, assistant supervisor, and workstation areas.
There will be a portion of that space, which is the blue space, that will be a conditioned
storage space, caged off.
And then the green area is your work area and other dedicated warehouse storage for
maintenance.
A couple views of these buildings.
This is a view of the transportation center from the front entrance area.
Basically working with the team, we discussed the different materials on this project, would
would be pulling the CMU burnished block from the high school and junior high projects in
the same metal panel.
And then as you enter the building through that portal that you see there, go to the
next slide, you can see this is the front entry area where the dispatch will have full
view down that corridor, all your keys across from that, and then you pass through down
that corridor to the multipurpose training area.
This is the multipurpose training area.
It'll have an operable wall in the center to block off so they could do two separate
classes or block off one area just for eating and one for training.
The next view is the shop bays.
That'll accommodate all the different shop bay area and there'll be two oil pits in that
shop adjacent to that.
The next view, this is the fueling center where you'll have four fueling bays and a
bus wash and your tire bay. This is the southeast corner of the Northwest
Maintenance Center which will have a main entry there. There'll be some
overhangs there for materials and for cars to pull up and drop stuff off into
the warehouse area. And so at this time if there's any questions we'd like to
field does. Questions, discussion? Mr. President. Ms. Fox. Where do the current
drivers pick up their buses with before this facility is built and how far away
is it? The closest facility this to Bexar West Transportation Center right by
by Hutsal Elementary.
In the old city?
Old Katy.
I remember when there was just East and West, right?
And my kids went to Seven Lakes High School,
and the coaches would have to go on there one planning period,
drive all the way to get the bus,
and come all the way back.
And they still wouldn't be able to do it in one class period
to be able to take their kids to their games after school and things.
And so when we did south transportation,
they just were elated that they could be more functional.
And now this is another expansion to that,
and I think it's just so functional that less time on our buses,
less miles, and better for our people to access the children
in which they're transporting.
The other piece is we hear a lot about the traffic and the road right there, right there, at these, at Freeman and at Youngblood and all of those.
It's just awful.
Do we have any idea when the county is going to help us with those roads?
They're working on that right now.
We don't have a time frame yet, though.
but can you help explain what it means working on it like what with who what's going on people
are asking i'm asking you to give us so commissioner briones has just started a big
mobility plan for precinct four so they're just now getting geared up with their engineers taking
input where these roads are needed so they're in the process of evaluating all the needs of
the county can you help um people understand why kdisd doesn't just build roads like on top of
schools why we don't build the roads why we don't plan for it and like how that takes so long i mean
we're only responsible to build what is within our property lines our school zones so for example
you'll see the roads are widened in front of freeman high school but then it stops because
that's all we we can do and superintendent gregorski like the county knows when we are
building schools and how long does it take to build a high school two years at least right
so it's not new to them that this is going to be there and that the roads are going to be needed
they just wait until people are screaming the the people their people are screaming to deal
with it because they have plenty of time to make it happen but understand all that and now the
mobility and then they'll go out for a bond and then eventually we'll get there in the meantime
there are no sidewalks and no like shoulders in this area so i know it's a real problem for people
and so i'm just trying to help them understand that it's not just the district but it's a kind
of combination is is that correct am i off on that dr g no that sounds about right i don't know if
if I've ever seen a county too eager to build roads before the people are there.
But they knew the people were coming, yes.
So we'll see.
But I do know both Lisa and Ted Veerling have a really good relationship
with the new commissioner, and I'm confident she knows what our needs are,
and we're expressing that to her.
It's just about getting it done now.
Mr. President?
Champagne?
I'm glad that you brought that up, Mrs. Fox, because we do hear a lot about that from people with the roads.
And I know that we've done what we could, but that's not really what I.
On one of your initial screens, I saw the daycare on there, but you didn't show anything about that.
But I'm happy to see that there was a daycare.
There's a daycare planned.
And could Mr. Landis or somebody explain?
because a lot of people don't know about that daycare and I think that's such a
wonderful feature for the people you might consider being a bus driver.
The main reason we have the daycares is just it's a benefit to recruit drivers
to us. Traditionally a lot of the drivers were mothers who you know wanted to work
at the same times their kids were in school but like many moms they still
have children while they have older children in school so this gave an
opportunity for them to bring their kids to the daycares there at the transportation centers
while they were working on the buses so right now they the daycare centers cost the drivers two
dollars a day to have their kids in the daycare there it's just open during route times so it's
not all day long but it's actual licensed daycares um that are there for that benefit and it's for
little bitties too right so in the morning and the afternoon when the moms or dads are driving
having their little children.
Mr. Redmond told me that he was actually in the bus driver daycare when he was little.
So I mean, he turned out okay.
So anyway, I think that that's a great service that KDIC has and I just wanted to make sure
that was highlighted.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This project is the only one from the 2021 bond that we've looked at today?
Okay. Is this from the 2021 bond?
No, we still have Cinco Ranch High School.
We're going to bring design development next month,
and we'll bring the contractor in April or May to start that work.
So these are the last two projects in the 21 bond.
Right, but the rest of these other projects are 2023.
Okay.
Yes, that's correct.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Yes, this is the only 21 bond.
The other ones are all 20 kids.
I apologize.
When do we expect to do the first sales from 2023 bond?
We're gonna bring to you the contractors for 47 and 48 next month, so we're gonna start turning dirt
Okay, okay, all right
Mr. President, mr. Redmond. I'm moving the board of trustees approves of the design associated with the new Northwest transportation and maintenance facilities
Second.
Second.
It is moved and seconded that the Board of Trustees approves of the design associated
with the new Northwest Transportation and Maintenance Facility.
We will now proceed to vote.
Please record your vote.
Motion the ayes have it and the motion is adopted.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
9.13 Discuss and consider Board Approval of the proposal for the Builders Risk Insurance for the 2023 Bond Projects.
And the next item is 9.13, which is to discuss and consider Board approval of the
proposal for the Builders Risk Insurance.
Discuss and consider the Builders Risk Insurance for 2023 Bond Projects.
Lance Nauman is Director of Risk Management.
Welcome.
Welcome.
President Perez, Dr. Gagorski and Board of Trustees, Board Policy CRB Legal states a
a district may purchase insurance protection against claims for property damage,
personal injury, and death proximity.
Immediately following the bond election of 2023,
a formal request for proposal process was implemented to secure quotes
for builders' risk coverage for the period April 1, 2024 through April 1, 2026.
Proposals were sought based on the expected building and remodeling projects
projects is part of the bond package with a guaranteed rate structure.
This policy covers the following during construction, buildings, structures and contents, mobile
equipment, boiler and machinery, as well as liability during the construction phase.
Major perils include fire, flood, earthquake, windstorm, named windstorm and hail.
The total insured value is based on the individual project and its location.
During the term of coverage, values will fluctuate based on the beginning and ending dates.
This program allows for the specific designation of a project to be insured, allowing for the
management of premium during the life of the bond program.
Risk Management Department determined the need to address the market conditions.
as current Builders Risk Program for 2021 bond projects will expire in May of 2024.
Following the review and results, the Risk Management Department is proposing the program from Zurich for 2023 bond projects.
The change in rates from the expiring program are as follows.
New construction was at $0.13.
The renewal is at $0.20 or $0.15.
cents. Non-structural renovations is going from 13 cents to 21 cents and or 16 cents. Structural
renovations go from 13 cents to 23 cents or 18 cents. Total premium is based on the $100
projected values with time element of completion. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees
approve the proposal for the Builders Risk Insurance coverage.
the 2023 bond projects. I might also add that we're able to work real closely with our construction
department. Our bond program for 2024 is still active, so we will try to implement as many of
those projects for 2023 under the 2021 pricing to save premium, and we'll compress as many as we can
under that program. And just a quick question, all the fees as well
as the deductibles are paid from bond proceeds? That is correct. Why do we only
have pricing from Zurich? Those were the responses of the market.
We canvassed the market and one of the things that you will see is the
The property insurance market is very tight right now.
We've seen reduced capacity, lower limits,
and this is an exhibit of what's going on.
We priced this over two and a half years ago in 2021
when the market was a lot less volatile,
and we did not see the spike in inflation
that we've seen in cost of construction,
the cost of materials and those things.
So that's a reflection of what's going on in the present.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Mr. President.
Go ahead.
Amy?
So when AIG is pending, does that mean they might come to us?
AIG would not float against themselves right now.
Okay.
But this is what the market responded to.
Okay.
So AIG is not an option?
At this point, no, ma'am.
It's not.
And I would close with one little comment, too, is the increase is really reflective
of the catastrophic events that you will see in the exhibit that I provided you.
The AOP premium, which is basically your fire and things like that, previously it was a
composite rate.
It was built in, but carriers now are bilking that out against us.
They're seeing the catastrophic rate coverage is where the risk is.
And I would also add that we work as soon as a project is completed, we get a certificate of occupancy.
We convert this to our normal property program.
So we just don't, and it's based on time and element of those projects.
So we have that flexibility to terminate.
Yes.
And the premium is based, again, it's based, if it's an 18-month project, we'll pay for 18 months, not 24 months or the whole life.
We're not paying premium on the total bond if you will
Any other questions?
Yeah, I still don't understand why we don't have more
Data from AIG other other we just have one number
That was the response of the market we canvass the market and we've seen a reduced capacity in the market
and
This is strictly for projects that are under construction
Okay.
Is this, how long are we committed to this agreement?
This is a two-year price commitment.
And again, as I said, the premium that is determined is the value of each project.
So if we're not paying premium on the total value of the bond, it's based on if it comes in low or under budget,
We will the price will be according to that or if it lasts longer it could last longer based on weather conditions or such
Okay, I'm just the rate is what's important, right?
The rates yes, the right the rate is is very important. We just have one number
It's it's it's it's not fully committed to the whole
Program the rate is committed to the whole program
But the premium again is based on the value of the project and it's time I guess technically we have two
and Zurich.
Correct.
And we're going to...
We don't have AIG.
Currently, we have an existing AIG program
that we will compress as many of these 23 bond projects
into at that lower rate to save money from a bond program.
But we don't have the new AIG number.
No, they do not.
So we literally have one number.
That is correct.
Or one choice.
I don't particularly like that.
What is that just I don't understand why we just have one choice here
We went out for competitive RFP and the market that's how the market why wouldn't AIG want to give us a number?
Why wouldn't we wait for that?
to compare
We could
But they did not respond to the to the RFP and provide a quote
They have the business currently
Correct.
They're not going to .
The program is still ongoing.
I can't speak for them, but they do not supply a quote.
It says pending instead of declined.
Correct.
Is there something different there, your verbiage?
No.
They could still?
Pending is they probably will wait and see a little bit closer to the end of the existing program.
Okay.
And historically, we have as soon as the bond has been approved.
We move toward getting a program in place so that we can.
Begin construction and things of that nature. What disadvantages there to waiting for to be comfortable with.
Giving a proposal to you.
I would probably say, in my opinion, it would be as the property market continues to.
to have volatility, we may run that risk of higher than existing premiums.
That's all, that's purely speculation of what's going on in the marketplace.
Any other questions?
I will now entertain a motion for this item.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the Builders Risk Insurance for 2023 bond projects.
It is moved and seconded.
Is it seconded?
Do I have a second?
Second.
Yes.
It is moved and seconded that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for the Builders Risk Insurance for the 2023 bond projects.
We will now proceed to vote.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
Okay, we have six ayes and one abstain.
Motion's carried.
9.14 Discuss and consider Board adoption of the Order calling for a regular election of the School Board Trustees to be held on May 4, 2024 and authorization of the Administration to provide official notice of the election as required by the Texas Election Code.
Item 914 is discussed to consider board adoption by the order calling for regular election
for the school board of trustees to be held on May 4, 2024, and authorization of the administration
to provide official notice of the election as required by the text selection code.
And our presenter is Justin Graham, General Counsel and Elections Administrator.
Welcome.
Mr. President, Trustees, Superintendent Grigorski.
Seems kind of strange.
We're back here, election season again, right?
Seems like we just went through one.
This is the traditional timing of when we have to order an election.
We have two positions that will be up in May.
Position six, which is currently held by Ms. Fox.
position 7 currently held by Miss Champaign the order of elections fairly
standard similar identical to what it was last year I'm happy to take any
questions that you may have these are the same early voting locations as last
year right yeah yes sir same early voting locations same early voting times
and the precincts as well same precinct election yes sir so we're not changing
Pato or we're gonna leave Pato? That's this board's decision. If they'd like to,
if they'd like us to do something different, I'm happy to listen to what
you guys want. I thought the numbers at Morton Ranch were better, higher than at
Pato. Am I wrong? So Morton Ranch we had in the election before we had about 490
voters turnout and then in Pato and again last year was the first year at
paytoe we had about 300 voters turn out so a delta of about 200. and you don't recommend moving it
back to morton ranch i think that what we've done here is we tried to move it to the reason that
the attempt was to move it from morton ranch to paytoe was because we have a growing if you if
you look at our maps right the maps that our demographer shows us everything is blue up north
And so we don't have anything if Morton Ranch
Is our only it is our early voting location?
We don't have anything north of Franz Road guys think about how much of our district exists north of Franz Road
That being said if you guys want to move it back to a Morton Ranch high school. That's mine, too
I will serve you how you how you want it done
Well, or maybe they just people didn't like maybe it just takes time for people to learn certainly the first time we had a we
Had we had voting there as well
Mr. President.
Ms. Champagne.
I think, in my opinion, that we need not to move it to Morton but to add another voting location since our population is growing.
And there's nothing over there near Maid Creek area.
area. So Morton is a little bit closer to May Creek. I was I've been reading a little bit about it and it's just it's just a bit another barrier to voting and there's already barriers to voting and I think the people that live over in the Bear Creek area who have to drive.
I don't know, 30 minutes to vote, early vote, that's a big barrier.
So I don't know how much extra money it would cost to have an additional place to vote.
So I don't know that.
So I hate to offer something that I don't really know how much it's going to cost us to do.
So I don't know if you know those numbers or not.
Well, so let me address that briefly.
Board, in your Friday info, you provided that data.
It cost us about $10,000 just in election staff to staff an early voting location, which we have five right now.
So in order for us to add another voting location, you're talking about $10,000.
One of the biggest barriers for us, though, is actually staffing them.
We have a really difficult time finding staff to do early voting locations
because if you look at our early voting location hours,
this board has always traditionally done a really good job of getting,
talking about voter disenfranchisement,
this board has always said,
no, we're going to have the longest early voting hours that we can.
But if you look at the average age of our poll workers
and you look at the time, it's seven to seven.
And guys, you got to get there at six and then you leave at eight.
And it's, you know, eight days over two weeks.
It's pretty arduous for us.
So that would be sort of the number one barrier and I would say as far as when we talked about last year about the
Decision to move it to pay to high school and again, I don't have a dog in the hunt
We will we will do it where and when you guys want to do it
That the data shows us though historical data shows us that the Northwest quadrant
I mean Northeast quadrant north of I-10 or east of 99 doesn't vote. They don't vote in
in early voting or the early voting turnout,
even when it was at Morton Ranch High School,
was significantly, like 20%
of all of our early voting locations.
And when you look at the actual election day data,
Bear Creek, Morton Ranch High School,
Maid Creek Junior High, even Wolf,
which is a voting site for some of those folks
that are, again, north of I-10 go to Wolf,
those are our four lowest turnout locations.
I mean, that's just the history of this district.
So I believe that the thought moving it to Paytoe High School was to say, let's put our
best foot forward and look at the growing demographics that are up there.
That being said, we can modify this order as this board sees fit tonight.
And if you feel strongly about adding another early voting location, we will endeavor our
best to get that done.
I just need some direction.
Mr. President, so I would, I agree that Paytoll is in a quadrant where there's great growth.
But Morton Ranch High School has good accessibility for a lot of people.
It's easy to get to.
It's on a major road.
When it was at Maid Creek High School, it was back in the pack, which is down that little road when it floods.
And even if you're inside the school, you have to leave the school and go to get to there. It just but you couldn't keep it like protected the voting machines at the front of the school.
So, main creek high school was not an ideal voting location, but I do think we should add back more ranch high school. I think we are disenfranchising voters whether or not they show up.
I think they they deserve to have the right to have something accessible to them and I'd like to.
Try that and see what let's get more data and see what happens. I would be willing to change some of the times. Maybe we could do.
rotating days maybe some days paid to be open some days Morton ranch maybe we
could do something like that if we need to share workers something more creative
I don't know what it's president I'm thinking about this because it is it
have to be a high school no ma'am it doesn't have to be a high school but
But when you think practically about how disruptive voting can be,
the reason we've done it at our high schools is because we can segregate.
We can lock the doors down.
May Creek Junior High, is it feasible?
Have you looked at that?
May Creek Junior High, I can tell you.
May Creek Junior High is not feasible.
It's hardly feasible on election day.
It's one of our most pain in the butt sites that we have to set up, and you have to walk
through the main administration area to get to the PAC.
That building is really not conducive to have voting going on when the school day is in
session.
Mr. President, but also I think it would maybe not be going for what we're doing, trying
trying to give access to that growing quadrant of the district?
Guys, I tell you what I'm hearing.
I don't like the idea of sharing voters between locations
because then if somebody, oh, if I show up one day and, heaven forbid,
that's not the right day, right?
We understand the complaints that would come from that.
So I think we're stuck here with one of three selections for this board.
Go as is, as this order of election is.
is. The second option would be to change
Pato High School back to Morton Ranch High School. That's the second option.
The third option is, say Mr. Graham is Elections Administrator, we need you to open a
sixth early voting location at Morton Ranch High School.
Those are sort of what I'm listening. I'm going to break it down like to be
concise with you guys. I think those are the three options and we can
do, we'll make it work. There'll be some challenges, but we can
make it work y'all just need to let me know how you feel about it i think what i what i recall
from last year was as you said that look there was low turnout at morton range high school and let's
let's try let's try something else let's try something different to get more voters and
particularly at payto and also uh just because of that growth in that area where all these schools
are going and so i think it was a good move to move to payto as opposed to leaving it where it
was and to make that effort to increase floater turnout and increase turnout for the election
so i think it was a mood a good move and i think we should leave it like it is mr president um
i think it was good to move it to payto also but i do think it should also stay at morton
ranch i would be in favor of adding one because just just from my perspective when we say things
like we have to move it because people didn't show up to vote is some people
take that as a I don't know as a as a criticism to their to where they live or
to where they're from so I think to restore some people's happiness over to
live over in that part of the town it would be good to at least provide a
better access to voting early.
So that would be my thing.
I realized that if we were going to do something like that,
we'd have to make a motion and all that.
And I'm happy to make a motion to,
I move to add a sixth voting location
to Morton Ranch High School.
I just have one question before we do that.
If we add a sixth voting location,
which I don't really have a problem with, but we can't man it.
What happens?
Like we don't have the people who will work?
No, what will happen is we'll have less workers at our other locations,
which may lead to increased wait times for early voting.
You know, a lot of times early voting, you go, it's not an issue.
But for those of you who may vote over here at the LMC when it's busy
or Taylor High School when it's busy and you have to wait a little bit. If I have one less worker at each one of those locations, it's going to be a little bit of a public we need you to.
So we wouldn't run into the issue of like we just shut the voting location down if we don't have adequate workers. We just move a worker from one location to another location.
I mean, I'm not saying I wouldn't. I'm not saying we would never get there.
Right.
In fact, if you look at what Harris County does, they change their voting locations all the time. And I prefer not to be in that situation.
Correct.
I think if you guys give us an expectation now
Our elections teams pretty great. I don't take any credit for that and we'll we will strive towards that goal, okay?
Mr.. President my question is do we need a motion to add that or do we just give it the instruction to you?
Mr.. Graham, I don't know what that at this point time
We have a let me take off my election hat put on my general
we have a we have a motion pending to add a
a sixth early voting site.
I second.
I second.
We have a motion and we have a second.
Not on the order of election, but just to add a site to this.
And we can now open up for further discussion.
Yes, sir.
Mr. President, my further discussion is when we moved to Payto,
I was kind of wondering if Morton Ranch folk would go there to vote
or if maybe they'd go to Taylor, but I kind of think they didn't.
So I'd like to see that Morton Ranch location open, and then we can look at the data next year and see if they come back.
If we get another 450, and certainly our voter count went up last time, so I don't know if they voted somewhere else.
But I agree with others, and I feel like we're saying something to them that their value is not as much as where there's new houses.
So I think we should add it back.
So let me ask you this, Mr. Graham, so can you go back to the cost issue that you gave us in that Friday update?
Yes, sir.
So if you guys were going to order us today to have a sixth early voting location, which I'm hearing would be Fort Range High School, just to staff it, just to have the election staff, it's going to cost us about $10,000.
Those are just the people that you see there for those of you at home when you go vote, people that check you in, help you with your ballots.
That doesn't include any other supplies that we may have, any other security that may be needed, any other HVAC needs.
Now, those are lower cost, right?
As far as elections equipment, we have the elections equipment, so that's not an additional cost because we have 13 election day precincts.
So we already have that built in.
So that's not an additional cost, but $10,000 is the base,
and then we have some other things to think about on top of there.
What's the range?
Excuse me, Mr. President.
What's the range of $10,000 to $15,000?
You said there's some other costs.
Well, I mean, I don't have a breakdown of, like, supplies,
maybe a couple hundred bucks.
So not minimal?
HVAC, yeah, I'd say less than $1,000.
Okay.
less than a thousand dollars. Thank you. Do you think you can staff it? I think it's going to be
tough. I mean, I talked to my team about it. I do think it's going to be a challenge.
We have challenges every year about getting people to come in, and I've had some of our
best folks, some that you know, that have retired recently. But we've seen to manage. We have
student workers. Again, early voting is a little more difficult because we have such long time
time periods. How long before last year, how long did we have the same voting locations like,
for example, at Morton Ranch and everywhere else? How long did we have that set?
Well, so if you'll recall, so Morton Ranch was only an early voting location for two years.
Before that, it was actually at Maid Creek High School, and that would have been 2019.
It was at Maid Creek High School. But if you recall, we had a lot of flooding issues and
and access issues to that building.
It's really not an idea for early voting.
A day like today would have been a mess at that place.
And I know that we've talked about the commissioner working with us on that.
So that was 19.
Then 20 was pandemic, so it got moved to November, which we didn't host.
21 was Morton Ranch.
22 is Morton Ranch.
And then last year was Payto.
Okay.
Mr. President.
Mr. Graham, last year we ran the City of Katy elections.
Does that look like that's probably going to happen this May or they don't have maybe
anybody up for election?
Well, we haven't been formally contacted by the city.
We let them know, hey, we're going to host our elections.
We send them a copy of our notice.
Last year was really beneficial.
It didn't add any stress, well, very little stress to my staff and we were able to get
them to kind of subsidize some of ours, right?
So that $25,000 check that they paid us was money that would have come directly out of
our pocket.
it. Instead, we save the taxpayers on both sides. So I anticipate if the city wants to do it again,
that we'll be getting a call, but I haven't got that call yet.
I was wondering if maybe there might be some election staff that might come from that
partnership too. Well, I think if we got that election staff, we'd have got it last year,
right? Mr. President, I just have one more question for Mr. Graham. In your opinion,
And is consistency part of the issue too when you don't know where your voting location is going to be year after year?
That is also making it difficult.
You're like, I don't even know where to go vote, so just forget it.
I'm not going.
So if we remain at Pato for that year, we continue to stay where we're at.
It provides that consistency and kind of like that stability to the voter who is looking to go vote.
I'd say generally yes. And now remember, KDISD, we have elected in order to give our voters more
access that if you live anywhere in KDISD, you can vote at any one of our early voting locations. So
it doesn't matter if it's Morton Ranch or Pato or Cinco Ranch High School, right?
It doesn't matter where you live, you can vote. And now for election day, those precincts have
remained the same, I think, and since the time that I've been here for eight years. So those
are very that's not true we made the change over to to we moved it from stanley to jordan
that just that little change but i think that our if shaver to jordan that's right but i think our
public loved that change right because they said hey if we have to go there to vote um for the city
election in the event that they have a city election so that being said guys it's your
elections i'm happy to run it how you how you want me to mr perez i'd like to add something else that
onto what Mrs. Calhoun said, because I think she did bring up a good point about the consistency,
but then again, Morton Ranch really didn't get really a fair shake
if they were only there for two years also, you know, so even that
hadn't really become a habit yet. See, that's my point
is I thought Morton Ranch was an early voting site for a long time,
but it isn't, so I'm happy
then that we're trying out Pato to garner in
in that new growing area.
And I'm also happy to do pay-to.
I just think that maybe we should add back Morton Ranch
so that other people that have a harder time to get to somewhere
to early vote would at least have the opportunity to do so.
Mr. President, if we don't add Morton Ranch back in,
I agree with Ms. Calhoun and everyone.
The consistency, maybe we need to build that a little bit,
and then we people would know where to go the um the other thing is sometimes at the gym sometimes
at the pack would be nice if they were always all of them always at the pack i don't know if you
have control that's that's really impossible for us to do every campus is so different in their
needs and the security setup i mean i guess if every high school looked like cinco ranch then
we could probably duplicate it but certainly like you guys understand you've seen taylor high school
and how that is completely different than all of our other schools.
So, but there is no voting location east of 99 and north of 10.
Except, well, sorry, east of 99, south of 10 is Taylor,
but yeah, north, there's nothing.
So all four of our five early locations are west of 99,
and I consider that a problem to look at, too.
Well, think of, oh yeah, just on the other side of 99, you're right.
They're all West just to just to we
Just just to repeat the motion
Quick the motion is the motion as I understand it from Miss Champaign
Correct me if I'm wrong was for her to amend the order of election
To include a six early vote voting location at Morton Ranch High School, and then we had a second by Miss Fox
So I thank you. Thank you very much for clarifying that
Okay, so we have a motion which you just described to add Morton Ranch as the sixth early voting location.
So let's go ahead and we'll now proceed to vote on that motion.
Board members, please record your vote on the screen view of your keypad.
So it's five to two, so the ayes have it.
The motion is carried.
okay so now that we've amended the order can i get somebody to make a motion to order the election
i move that the board of trustees approves adoption of the order calling for a regular
election of the school board trustees to be held on may 4th 2024 and authorization of the
administration to provide official notice of the election as required by the texas election code
We have a second.
Second.
Any discussion before we have a discussion?
We will now proceed to vote.
Please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
Did you vote?
So the motion is carried 7-0.
9.15 Discuss and consider Board approval of the minutes for the December meetings.
And the last item is 9.15, discuss and consider board approval of the minutes for the December meetings.
Any questions or discussion?
I will entertain a motion for this item.
Mr. President, I move that the Board of Trustees approves of the minutes for the December meetings.
I have a second.
We will now proceed to vote.
Vote members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
The motion is carried.
The minutes are approved.
Everybody has information?
10.4 Recap of Board member requests for information.
The information...
Any comments or questions on the information items?
Do we have, Ms. Champagne, any requests for information?
Yes, Mr. Perez.
I have that Mrs. Teeny wants an update about the AP classes that are offered.
What's their program or what's their, how do you want to say it, spring branch ISD?
What's their requirements?
What do they look like?
off mainly their program like it why they limit I think that that was all
did I miss anything I think that's it as far as our future meetings we you wanted
mr. Perez wanted to see on the budget the isolating of the deuce the the
amount spent for the new schools and safety right but that's more of a in the future that's more of
like a direction if you will for mr smith okay as opposed to a request for right now yeah through
the process for the process for the budget process yeah our next uh we will have a special board
11. Future Meetings
board meeting on Thursday, February 8th. Our next work study meeting is on February 19th,
and a regular board meeting is February 26th, 2024. The board will now...
Mr. President, before we go to the next agenda item, we did give notice to the grievance.
We did not confirm. The grievance never got back with us to confirm their attendance.
So is anybody in the room here in attendance for this grievance against the district?
I don't believe we have the grievance here, so it would be my recommendation that we just
adjourn the meeting.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT LISER.
There being no further business, this meeting is adjourned and the time is 922.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT LISER.
All right.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's January 2024 budget amendments.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's November 2023 financial statements.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2022-2023 annual financial audit report.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2025-2026 Instructional Calendar.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 9.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves of a Professional Development Waiver for the 2025-2026 instructional calendar
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 9.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Consolidated Property Advisors, Ltd. for the land and real estate consulting services.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 9.6
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Consolidated Property Advisors, Ltd. for the land and real estate consulting services. Motion Passes
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 9.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to HKS, Inc. for design services necessary for the renovations to Mayde Creek Elementary School and Sundown Elementary School.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 9.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Texas Arcadis, Inc. for design services necessary for the renovations and additions to Beck Junior High School and Katy Junior High School.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 9.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to VLK Architects for the projects at Katy High School, Pattison Elementary School, Cimarron Elementary School, and Nottingham Country Elementary School.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 9.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to Stantec Architecture for design services necessary for the renovations to Bear Creek Elementary School, Hayes Elementary School, McRoberts Elementary School, and the Shaw Center expansion.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 9.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract to PBK Architects, Inc. for design services necessary for the renovations and additions to various maintenance facilities, Support Service Complex, and Law Enforcement Center.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 9.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the design to VLK Architects associated with the new Northwest Transportation and Maintenance Facility.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 9.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the proposal for Builders Risk Insurance coverage for the 2023 Bond Projects.
6 Yes · 0 No · 1 Abstain
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Abstain |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 9.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves adoption of the Order calling for a regular election of the School Board Trustees to be held on May 4, 2024 and authorization of the Administration to provide official notice of the election as required by the Texas Election Code.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 9.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the minutes for the December Board meetings.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Yes |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |