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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, June 24, 2024
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- 0:06 to 1:21 1. Call to Order
- 1:21 to 4:22 3. Recognitions
- 4:22 to 21:04 4. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
- 21:04 to 21:33 5. Closed Meeting
- 21:33 to 22:21 6. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
- 22:21 to 23:15 6.1 Consider Board approval of the purchase of property for a district facility.
- 23:15 to 24:02 6.2 Consider Board action to terminate the term contract of Tompkins High School teacher, James Stone.
- 24:02 to 26:51 7. Consent items
- 26:51 to 1:00:10 7.9 Consider Board approval of the 2024-2025 Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct.
- 1:00:10 to 1:35:32 8.1 Discuss and consider action related to the addition of the Benchmark Years of Service One-Time Lump Sum payment for classroom teachers.
- 1:35:32 to 1:39:03 9.1 Board Committee Updates
- 1:39:03 to 1:40:06 9.2 Recap of Board member requests for information.
- 1:40:06 to 1:40:21 10. Future Meetings
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1. Call to Order
Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order.
Today is Monday, June 24th, and the time is 5.01 p.m.
Dr. Gorgorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas
Open Meeting Act with regard to the notice of this meeting?
Mr. President, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for our meeting tonight.
Thank you.
Officer Ed Castillo will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with
liberty justice for all honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas
one state under God one and indivisible
First order of business we have for tonight are some recognitions of our new principals that we've hired over the last couple of weeks.
3. Recognitions
I want to go to introduce those folks, starting with our Adams Junior High Principal, Mark Campworth. Welcome.
You guys, those of you who have been around know Mark was over at Fielder Elementary for
a number of years, been with the district a long time.
Glad to see you going over to Adams.
And did you bring some folks with you?
Awesome.
Yeah, thank you so much, Mark.
Appreciate it.
Next up on the list, new principal at McDonald Junior High, Kelly McWashington. Welcome, Kelly.
Kelly comes to us from last stop in DeSoto ISD, so welcome. Glad to have you here. I know you
just started, I think, last week, so yeah, it's awesome. And you've brought somebody with you.
I did.
I'm so grateful.
Awesome.
Great.
Thank you all.
Appreciate it.
And last for this evening of new principal introductions, a replacement principal for
Fielder now that Mark has moved over to Adams Junior High, Christina Borgstad.
Where's Christina there?
Thank you.
And everyone knows Christina.
She's been a long time educator with us here in KDISD, and you've got some folks with you
Awesome, thank you. Appreciate it
Thank you
And since we're on the subject of recognitions. I am pleased to share that mr. Lance Redmond has earned the distinction of
Master Trustee from the Texas Association of School Boards
This distinction is earned through the completion of a year-long program known as Leadership
TASB.
Lance, congratulations on this accomplishment.
Thank you, Mr. Redmond.
Lance Redmond, President, University of Minnesota, Thank you, Mr. President.
I appreciate all support and the district support.
One of the things we did is we toured schools from El Paso area down to Corpus here in the
Houston area.
and my life's been relatively sheltered growing up in this district and serving
in this district and to be able to see what it looks like a school with 200
kids to the school with a lot more kids and one of the the coolest things about
the program was we were able to bring in those there were 33 trustees here to
Katie and show off our schools and our administrators and our teachers and our
our kids and so again just thanks board and our district for the support
appreciate it congrats congrats
we have any scouts in the audience doesn't look like we do at this time the
4. Public Comment/Citizen Participation
board trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak in
accordance with Katie is the board policy BED local as defined by board
policy speakers who signed up by 2 p.m. on Monday June 20 24 2024 provided their
first and last name and signed in 15 minutes prior to 5 p.m. will be allowed
to address the board speakers who signed up to speak on posted agenda items will
be allowed three minutes to speak and also speakers that signed up to speak on
non agenda items today will be allowed three minutes to speak if a speaker is
not finished speaking at the end of there a lot of time the audio will turn
off. If speakers wish to share written material with the board please provide
ten copies of to the secretary for board services before the meeting begins for
board members, the superintendent, the 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
officers 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
or charged against an officer or employee.
Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues,
they must do so through the appropriate local grievance
policies, FNG local, DTBA local, CKE local, or GF local.
Our speakers will be called forward in the order
that they signed up to speak.
Our first speaker, and he is an agenda item speaker,
speaker is Kush Vijapur. Welcome Kush.
Hello board. My name is Kush Vijapur and I'm a rising senior at Jordan High School.
I'm here to talk about agenda item 7.9 considering approval of the 2024 to 2025
discipline management plan and student code of conduct. Before I begin the content of my speech
I'd like to mention that the last time I was here I was interrupted by Mr. Perez.
With that being said, I'm not here to have a conversation. I'm simply here to
critique and propose solutions to issues within the Student Code of Conduct and
would thus not like to be interrupted again. Let's begin. Page 8 of the Student
Code of Conduct deals with complaints of bullying. It reads, a student who would
prefer to remain anonymous when filing a bullying complaint should submit a
detailed report to the KDISD speak-up application. Let's pose a hypothetical
hypothetical scenario. A student witnesses someone getting bullied in the hallway of
a school. What they now have to do to report it is download an app, create an account,
fill out a form, write a report, and then their complaint will be processed and I quote,
within 10 business days from the date of the report being made unless extenuating circumstances
make it necessary to continue the investigation beyond 10 business days. There are two major
problems with that process. First is that it is a large amount of work for high school
students preoccupied with grades, sports, and other extracurricular activities. So much so,
that it discourages students from even bothering. I mean, why take the time to fill out a form,
write an application, create an application, and all of those other steps, when they do not need
to report something that has nothing to do with them? There's simply no incentive for someone to
take the time out of their day to report a case of bullying through a multi-step process. This leads
to kids to adopt a not-my-problem attitude, which means that bullying stays within schools and goes
unreported. The second major issue is that this is simply an extremely
ineffective solution. Ten business days later the student might have already
failed the test due to distraction and emotional pressure on their life as a
result of bullying. Ten business days later the student being bullied could
be suffering with extreme anxiety and emotional distress causing their
performance throughout life to decline. Ten business days later the same student
could be on the verge of depression and suicide. Instead of having measures that
are extremely reactive and cannot save lives at risk due to bullying, we need
proactive measures that can save students lives. Speak up is not enough.
Change the student code of conduct. It needs more revision. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Our next speaker is Ann Russi. This is in the non-agenda items category.
And after that is John Liner. Good evening. My name is Ann Russi. I'm a mom
to two KDISD students. Tonight I'm here in my role as a board member for Katie
Pride. Katie Pride's vision is to create a community where all LGBTQ plus
individuals can live authentically and safely without persecution, judgment, hate,
or fear. We invite you to adopt a resolution to recognize LGBT Pride Month
that will help us towards those goals. The proposed resolution reads, whereas
Whereas KDISD believes that all learners are unique and thrive through personalized learning,
that when ideas and individuals are respected, a culture of mutual respect is built that benefits all stakeholders,
that collaboration which honors all voices creates ownership that drives personal accountability,
and that being open-minded fosters continual improvement.
and whereas LGBT Pride Month is celebrated every June to mark the
anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising which was a riot sparked by
community resistance to targeted police harassment and brutality led by
transgender women of color Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and whereas
LGBT students are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide compared to
to their straight and cisgender peers,
and whereas LGBT students, educators, and their families
continue to flee the state of Texas and KDISD
as a result of harmful and discriminatory
legislative attacks and local policies,
and whereas those passing policies
that target and marginalize LGBT people
insist that they are doing so
in the name of protecting children
when they are in fact harming them,
and whereas protective factors for LGBT students
students include safe, inclusive classrooms, symbols of allyship, and safe spaces are welcome,
where perpetrators of sexual orientation and gender identity-focused bullying and harassment are held accountable,
and where conversations about LGBT people center their input rather than ignoring their identities, perspectives, and experiences.
Therefore, be it resolved that KDISD proclaims the month of June 2024 to be LGBTQ Plus Pride Month
and will honor and highlight the profound contributions and accomplishments of the district's queer
students staff and community members by recognizing Pride Month
The board acknowledges that despite our best efforts to diminish and dull their sparkle
LGBTQ plus students and staff continue to shine
Katie pride welcomes the opportunity to work with this board and our district to make this resolution a reality. Thank you. Thank you
John Liner, followed by Marcy Sable.
My name is John Liner, graduate of Cinco Ranch High School, class of 2013, four-year class president, varsity football captain,
superintendents roundtable member, Eagle Scout, 2021 Morton Ranch Junior High Teacher of the Year,
and presently I serve as the inaugural associate director of bands of high school number 10, Freeman High School.
On behalf of the family, players, friends, parents, and the Cinco Ranch community, I'm here to solicit your full support and endorsement to rename the athletic complex at Cinco Ranch High School the Don Clayton Athletic Complex.
Coach Don Clayton is a man of integrity, high character, and he is a tremendous family man.
From the first day that I interacted with him, he showed that he cared about me as a player.
But more importantly, he constantly invested in myself and my teammates as we developed into young men.
In his tenure at Cinco, Coach developed one of the strongest and well-respected football programs in the state of Texas.
Over many years, Coach's teams were known for their heart, their relentless effort, their will to win, and their high character.
This is no coincidence because it's often said that teams are direct
reflection of their leader and the Cinco Ranch team we were a reflection of our
leader coach Clayton. What does that look like? 140 wins, 13 playoff visits, two
state semifinal appearances, campus teacher of the year, district coach of
the year, Houston touchdown club coach of the year, Marine Semper Fidelis coach of
the year, Texas high school coach Association Hall of Honor. We could keep
keep going. He's the real deal. As campus athletic coordinator, Coach Clayton
oversaw numerous state champion individuals and teams including seven
top ten finishes in the Governor's Cup which encompasses all sports across the
entire state of Texas. The lessons that Coach Clayton instilled in me, I instill
in my students each and every day or at least I try to. I still remember the
goal-setting sessions that Coach conducted. These goal-setting sessions
were not about football, they're about what I wanted to do in life, what I
wanted to accomplish, what I was going to do in five or ten years. There was no
other organization on the campus that was doing that for me and believe me I
was involved in the school. So this man, Don Clayton, has left a legacy of
excellence, high character, and integrity in the halls, the weight rooms, the
training rooms, the fields, the courts of Cinco Ranch High School. President Perez,
Dr. Gorgorski, Board, the parents and the community of Cinco Ranch has recognized
coaches accolades. There's educators and colleagues across our district who have
recognized coach accolades. The state of Texas and their coaching associations
have honored coaches accolades. It's time for KDISD to honor coach Don Clayton by
renaming the Cinco Ranch Athletic Complex the Don Clayton Athletic Complex.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Marskew Sable, followed by Regina Johnson.
Good evening, President Perez, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Kogorski.
I'm here this evening to speak to you about retention and longevity pay.
Despite a request being made, there continues to be no employee representation on the Retention Committee.
As I understand it, the Retention Committee is comprised of three of the new Board members.
Despite a request that all employee classifications be reviewed when considering retention,
the Retention Committee continues to solely focus on teachers.
I am familiar with longevity pay having been a beneficiary of such being a state employee
for 17 years prior to coming to KDISD.
In refreshing my memory about longevity pay, a Google search highlighted one single word
in the three definitions which I read, that word being loyalty.
As was stated in the recent work-study meeting, KDISD has raised the starting salary for teachers such that it is markedly above the median salary.
Additionally, the Human Resources Department, for at least the last three years, has employed a dedicated HR coordinator whose primary scope, I believe, is teacher recruitment and retention.
I believe the recruitment issue is covered. Consideration should be given to
a longevity payment plan that would not only reward a teacher who has been in
the profession for say seven years but also provide a second equal payment if
that teacher was employed by KDISD for five of those seven years. For those who
may have forgotten, together KDISD staff and teachers helped KDISD be one of the
first two school districts in the area to resume instruction during covid kdisd remained standing
after the other districts succumbed when the going gets tough the tough our teachers and staff get
going next a word about surveys the district is adept at creating and distributing surveys
we've had surveys for workplace culture the strategic plan bond programs and the instructional
calendar under the guidance of dr. grooms the communication staff could
easily create a survey for a longevity pay plan by which teachers could weigh
in on two things highly important to them recognition and compensation thank
you for your time thank you Virginia Johnson is our last speaker good
Good evening.
It's been a hot minute since I've been here.
So first of all, I'd like to say thanks.
You guys got to know that you got amazing teachers right now
delivering curriculum, AP curriculum to kids
through Zooms and Canvas.
So amazing.
I mean, our teacher, she called from Ohio
to do a review with the kids to make sure
that they're ready for an exam.
So thank you very much for that.
I really appreciate whatever you guys do to make that happen.
And with that, I want to thank the four of you, because without you here,
we would still be fighting the battles that we fought before you all got here.
You take arrows, your family takes arrows, so much so that you've got to call the cops and file police reports,
and that's unacceptable in my opinion.
Without the four of them here, the three of you probably wouldn't have been able to get through some of the stuff
that is now on your desk including making sure that females have safety and
the rights and that you follow HB 900 so it takes leadership to drive
accountability and that is 100% sure certain and holding folks accountable is
part of the tough job and I appreciate that y'all hold this administration
administration accountable. My daughter, my one daughter, twice, I opted her out of the
bully survey, I opted her out of the sex ed stuff, and the school district still tried
to force my kid into that, and I really appreciate Ms. Hack calling me and sorting that out and
getting the admin and admins to sort that out and what happened. So I would implore
the three of you, instead of going after these four and getting your folks to write PIRs
about how much your board attorney costs,
maybe figure out what it costs to rewrite the SAT twice
because of the failure of Chromebooks.
My daughter was one of the 5% students of juniors at Jordan High School
who had to rewrite the SAT because the Chromebook failed on her
after the math module.
I'd also implore you guys that are on the academic committee,
maybe look into why the SAT versus star performance.
I can tell you that the SAT math is no joke.
module two is super duper no joke and they're finding that the kids are coming
out of the school systems here especially the state and the district
not being able to write that exam on a digital platform the way they used to
write it on a paper platform I can get you in contact with a tutor that has
tutored many KTIC students and he's that's the thing that he's pulling
across finally I want to say thank you to the you guys for posting Ken Paxton's
a rebuttal against Biden's Title IX issue and protecting the girls.
The three of you, I wish you would have done that.
There's no place for hates, no place for the girls.
Put them in a compromising position.
They all...
Thank you.
5. Closed Meeting
This concludes the open forum portion of our meeting.
The Board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under section 551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes.
Texas Government Code 551.071, 551.072, 551.074, and 551.129.
Good evening.
The Board will now reconvene in open meeting.
6. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
Today is Monday, June 24, 2024, and the time is 6.08 p.m.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to today's regular board meeting.
Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Thursday, June 20, 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 just reconvened from closed meeting. In accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code,
any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting.
6.1 Consider Board approval of the purchase of property for a district facility.
We will now consider Board approval of the purchase of property for a district facility.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the purchase of properties for
district facilities as discussed in closed meeting. Second. We have a, it is
moved and seconded that the Board of Trustees approve the purchase of a
property for a district facility as discussed in closed meeting. We will now
proceed to vote. These are two properties, two properties. So it's a purchase of two
properties for a district facility as discussed in closed meeting we will now
proceed to vote board members please record your vote on the screen via your
keypad the eyes have it and the motion is adopted
6.2 Consider Board action to terminate the term contract of Tompkins High School teacher, James Stone.
the night of 6.2 is to consider board action to terminate the term contract of
Tompkins high school teacher James stone I will now entertain a motion for this
item mr. president I move that the Board of Trustees authorized administration to
approve action to terminate the term contract of Tompkins high school teacher
James stone do I have a second I second it is moved and seconded that the board
of trustees authorized administration to approve action to terminate the term
contract of Tompkins high school teacher James stone we will not proceed to vote
vote. Board members please record your vote on the screen via your keypad. The
ayes have it and the motion is adopted. We will now move on to the full consent
7. Consent items
agenda option. A consent agenda which shall include the items that were
discussed and considered at the previous work-study meeting as well as items of
recurring nature. The board shall be furnished with background material for
where each item, consent agenda item, shall be grouped together under one action item.
All items shall be acted upon by one vote without separate discussion
unless a board member requests that an item be withdrawn for individual consideration.
This is for BE legal and BE local.
Are there any questions or any items that board members would like to remove from the consent agenda?
Mr. President?
Ms. Champagne?
I would like to remove 7.9 from the consent agenda, please, for further discussion.
7.9 is the discipline management plan.
It shall be removed from the consent agenda.
So at this time, anything else?
At this time, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of 7.9.
Mr. President, point of order.
And this is a question.
Because something has been removed from consent agenda, should we discuss it first and then put it back and vote everything in if it's just a question?
Or do we need to move that out, vote consent agenda, and then vote another, make up a whole motion for that?
Do you just have a question?
Is it a question?
It's a few questions.
Okay, well let's vote on everything except for 7.9.
I would say get those out of the way.
Then we will do 7.9 in its own action item.
Correct.
Thank you.
Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda except for 7.9?
Mr. President.
Mr. Redmond.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda for
item 7.1 through 7.12 except for item 7.9,
which has been removed from the consent agenda.
Second.
It is moot and seconded that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda for 7.1
through 7.12 except for 7.9, which has been removed from the consent agenda.
We will now vote on the consent items via keypad.
The vote is 7-0 and the consent agenda with the exception of 7.9 is approved.
7.9 was pulled out of the consent agenda and it's being considered separately.
7.9 Consider Board approval of the 2024-2025 Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct.
This time I'll open a discussion on the consent agenda,
which is to consider board approval of the 2024-2025 Discipline Management Plan
and the Student Code of Conduct.
Our presenter, which is, as always, is here to answer questions,
is Sherry Ashwin, Director of Student Affairs.
Are there any questions?
Yes, Mr. President.
Ms. Champagne?
Okay.
So I was reading afterwards,
and I did send in some information to the superintendent and to our president,
and I just would like to share what I have thought about since that time.
I understand the rules the differentiation between the elementary and the junior high and the high school and the need for that
What my concern is is about the Apple watches and the smart phones. I mean the smart watches
And I did some research and it seems that 39% of our teenagers own Apple watches
And this does not include the smart watches
so what I'm concerned about is how are we going to monitor
these Apple watches and smart watches especially the smart watches
are kind of disguised or not as easily identifiable
as you know I have an Apple watch but the smart watches sometimes you don't know
who is going to be responsible for
making sure you know we have to look at everybody's watch
so you know are they going to have to remove the watch
Where are we going to put these expensive watches which cost $400 each?
How are they going to be handled so that they're not broken?
Who's going to be responsible for them?
How are we going to make sure they're, you know, we're going to ask them to turn them
off?
How are we going to make sure, you know, that's a big burden to me for a teacher.
The teacher may have 30 plus kids in her classroom or his classroom and they have a finite amount
amount of time to teach a lesson, but I could imagine having to make sure that everyone's
smart watches or Apple watches are either turned off or off of their wrist is going
to be a difficult chore for them.
So I'm just trying to find out what is the plan for making sure of that if we're going
going to limit or restrict, not just limit, restrict the use of Apple Watches and smart
watches. Every kid has a watch, just about. And we don't know if it's a smart watch or
an Apple Watch. But I bet you most people, most teens have watches on.
So I probably won't have a perfect answer to fit, you know, the unique needs of all
of our campuses but i would imagine that with our school leadership and support
team our assistant superintendents working with those campus principals
and assistant principals to communicate clear guidelines to teachers and really
focusing on using devices as those telecommunication devices, using them to emit and receive messages
is going to be the concern, right? We don't want that communication piece to be a part
during that instructional time. So utilizing something as a watch to check the time, right,
would be one thing. And so we would be focusing on making sure that they aren't using those devices
to send or receive messages in that telecommunication function during that instructional
instructional time as far as who's going to pick them up. How are we going to ensure these expensive items aren't broken?
Um, that's going to be part of kind of that disclaimer on that that poster that we worked through which is you know
It's going to be handled. Um, I think it says something about
um
Confiscation to centralized location followed by you know, additional communication and pickup, right?
Those are the pieces campuses are going to have to work out
in consultation and support from their assistant superintendent so i don't have a direct answer
to all of those for you but that's something we're going to have to navigate um as we're moving
forward and just focusing again on that restriction of using those devices as a telecommunication
device so um my follow-up question to that is who who's gonna are the teachers gonna get in trouble
because they couldn't identify one of the kids with either the glasses on or
the smartwatches or the fun you know you know who's going to be to blame for this
because you know I understand a discipline management plan is there for
people to follow the policies both the teachers and administrators and the
students but ultimately the the adults in the room are going to have a lot of
pressure on them to make sure everyone's following the rule and are they going to be in trouble for
you know missing somebody with a apple watch that they didn't turn off or they didn't take off their
wrist i'm also not going to be able to give you a direct answer on that i don't think anyone's going
to be in trouble for missing something you know that was you know something that was accidental
or because areas were focused elsewhere.
But again, I think that's something
we're gonna have to work out with the principals
and teachers and administrators,
maybe during those PD days at the beginning of the year,
through ongoing conversations
on what this looks like in rollout
and how really to help our students
and our parents understand what that looks like
if they bring and use those devices
during that instructional time
or areas that they're not designated in.
So really, the next step after this is approved
would be communicating out as much as possible
so that everyone can kind of know what those next steps look like
and what those consequences could be.
So hopefully we can get students and parents to understand what that looks like
to help alleviate the need for some of that discernment
during the instructional day once school starts.
All right.
I don't really feel like my questions were answered,
and I'm sorry for putting you...
Mrs. Ashmore, I'm happy to assist on the school leadership side.
So I think if we go back to the original intent of the student one-to-one class device was to issue a device to all students so that would remove the cell phones as a bring your own device within the classroom because those tend to be where the distractions were occurring.
So the goal was that every student have a Chromebook, the ease with which the teacher could implement that into the classroom with instruction because everybody's using the same device.
It's kind of segued off into the other items that students sometimes bring to school, which does include wearing the Apple Watches.
It has been historically our information that we have and those of us that are on the campuses, the watches were never the distraction in the classroom.
It was the phones and using them as their device.
That's what the Chromebooks will take care of.
When it comes to the watches, there are certain times, especially at the high school campuses when they're doing certain types of testing, the teachers will say we need to put any type of smart watch or Apple Watch away for that type of testing.
And the students have proven historically to follow those directions.
So, the classroom poster is just kind of a reinforcement that these items will be put
up, but at times they're not going to be policing the watches other than if there's a certain
testing requirement on that.
They haven't been a distraction.
It was the cell phones using those as a device within the classroom.
Okay, but can I go on?
Because in the discipline management guide, it lists the watches in the same sentence
with the cell phones.
So, it's, to me, it has the same equal meaning that all telecommunications, including Apple
watches and smartphones and, you know, everything, you know, will have to be turned off or put
away or however.
So, I mean, I understand what you're saying because as far as I'm concerned, Apple, that's
why I'm bringing this up because I don't really think it should be in the same sentence.
I don't think it should be in the same category because as the owner of an Apple watch
It's very hard to text on here. You can just do like little one word. Yes. No, okay
You can't listen to it without the earbuds and those are prohibited
and
What else I mean you could you know, like I said you could get a message
But you can basically only just say a one word things back to it
If you sat there and tried to text me is very very obvious what you're doing because it you have to write it out
So that's why I brought this up. It's because I just don't think it, the Apple Watch needs to be put in the same sentence as the cell phone.
Because a lot of people have given their kids Apple Watches as their watch. They don't have another watch, or they may have another watch, but this is their watch, and they've gotten it for their Christmas present or their birthday present.
And now to be told, you know, we can't use the Apple Watch.
I'm trying to find the sentence that it's in.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
Mrs. Champagne, if I could add to this while you're looking that up.
I agree with what Mrs. Hack is saying, and I think essentially what Mrs. Champagne is saying,
that an Apple Watch is not really the distraction that the phone is.
Because, you know, you had the phone underneath, you can very quickly,
And this is, if they're doing something with the watch, you can't hide it.
A teacher would be easily see it and say, put that down or take it off, right?
Or put it on whatever the silent mode is that I put mine on all the time and I don't know I have, right?
So, but I'm not a teenager.
I can't use it the way they do, right?
That's what I think is that I agree with what Mrs. Champagne is saying, that maybe the strike through, yes, you don't use that to communicate.
Kate and I don't think taking it up or putting it away is wise because of what
mrs. champagne was saying the damage that would happen and that's not what we
were talking about so when we talked about it last week sounded like a really
good idea oh yeah Apple Watchers those are out too but as as I'm getting
feedback I think maybe that's not quite the same level as a cell phone okay
maybe it's wording I have found I have found a sentence I mean let me just add
if you don't mind I don't have an Apple watch but I see my wife has one I see
her reading messages a lot on her Apple watch isn't that the issue is to be
receiving messages or receiving information potentially on an Apple
watch like doing testing I think that's and it can be distracting receiving data
or information or what have you so it's not so much like a long conversation but
just receiving information on the Apple watch in the classroom I think that's
I think that continues to be an issue.
I'm sorry, but for me, I thought, you know, basically, you know,
even Mrs. Calhoun was talking about last week, and I agree with her,
you know, looking at social media and all that, and that is almost,
I don't know, maybe there is a way to see it,
but I haven't seen social media on my Apple Watch.
I've seen text, yes, but not social media.
And so I always just assumed that that was the issue,
and it's hard to communicate.
Yes, you can read messages, but it's very hard to write back.
And anyway, in this sentence, and I agree with you, Ms. Hackett,
except it's all in the same sentence.
It says telecommunication devices are defined as items such as, but not limited to,
cell phones, smartphones, smart watches, electronic readers, and laptops
with the capability of sending and receiving messages or information
and any related accessories, including, but not limited to, wires, headphones, and ear clips.
So when they're talking about, so that's the definition of telecommunication devices,
devices and then they go on to say that they're not that they're not allowed so
all of it's not allowed it's a to me it's all you know everything in that
sentence is not allowed so that includes smart watches and Apple watches of
course those other things are easy to identify you know earbuds or are you
know laptops and cell phones those are all easily identifiable things it's not
necessarily easily too easy to identify someone show me their smart watch of
the day and it just looked like a regular watch so it's you know we're
gonna make the kids with the knowing you know Apple watch but there's a way but
then how do you know the other ones aren't being put away so I understand
what you're saying I just wish that that wasn't I wish there was a little bit
more discretion given especially in high school for the Apple watches because
they are expensive and I think that it is a parent choice to give a child an
Apple watch and you wouldn't give a watch to you know a younger child
probably because you're thinking that that older child has responsibility to
take care of an expensive item so I just I just wish that there was that was a
different differentiation in that and I think that there's going to be some
some issues with that.
Mr. President?
Ms. Grizella?
Can I add to the conversation?
I support the way this is written,
and I just want to offer a few comments.
There are clocks in the hallways and in every classroom,
correct?
On our campuses, generally.
So if a kid needs to know what time it is,
just like I'm looking up at this clock,
they're able to do that.
And the goal of this is to remove any distraction
from learning in the classroom and as an adult if I'm gonna get an Apple watch or
give a kid one it's because I want to email and communicate that's the goal I
mean as far as I know correct me if I'm wrong you can check the time on it but
for sure if you're gonna pay your steps and all that sure but you don't have to
have it communicating on an Apple watch for that you can buy something else that
is doesn't have email and communication ability right so the purpose of an
apple watch the the big why you're paying the big bucks is you can get your emails and that is i
agree with trustee uh president perez that would be distracting having to i mean that's why you're
looking at it to see what came through so it's a distraction and i think it will become more of a
distraction uh without phones we've removed the phones and so now those watches are going to be
watched continually because that's their email stream from their friends so um
yeah can i ask can i add please but when you turn your phone off you can't get your text messages
so we're going to have the phones turned off like they should be right that i agree with then they
shouldn't be getting their text messages i think the way it's written the phone will be i'm going
to go ahead and recognize i'm going to go ahead and recognize miss team in the classroom mr amy
Mr. Perez, I move that the Board of Trustees approve the 2024-2025 Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct.
Do we have a second?
I second.
Second.
Do we have any other discussion?
Mr. President.
Mr. Redden.
Specifically in the conversation we're having, I do think the initial intent when everything started was to remove phones.
I know teachers that buy Apple watches for their kids so that they're able to contact them because
while they're in a meeting at the end of school they're not able to do that they're not able to
get a hold of their kid and that I think there are some things they've got the gizmo watches
and stuff that they're not actively making phone calls that they are actually used for their
intended purpose when I've talked to principals I've specifically asked you're limiting phone
phone use Apple watches are a problem now and they kind of laughed at me they're like they're not
and so I don't know if it's a a good compromise to just say and we roll with that and then trustee
Colin mentioned last week hey you know she'd like to see if we could maybe make it more strict next
year uh from junior high to high school uh maybe this is one of those things that we pay attention
to this year and then move forward with so it's about two cents thank you any other questions or
comments mr president my con this box can go either way but my concern with
removing the Apple watch or sorry the smart watch of any kind removing it at
having children remove it is the damage that can happen to this is way different
than a than a cell phone with protective covers and things and now we're gonna
have people thing we you mean broke my kids watch and because you made it take
take it off. I agree, Mr. Redmond. Maybe we could watch and see how it does and then make it
stricter later. We could say that you don't communicate on it. So if a teacher sees them
communicating on it, remove it. Any other comments? Yes, I would just like to add,
since you don't have an Apple Watch, I would just like to add they are very breakable.
and I just see you know even if you ask the kid to put it in there in their
backpack and kids forget things that are in their backpack they throw other
things in there that or you can have a place in the front you know but when you
walk in to put them to the side and they're all gonna get thrown around
together and I just see this as being possibly a costly thing so especially
Especially in high school, we're allowing them to have their devices in passing periods,
and at lunch, more than likely, they're going to continue to wear their smart watches
because sometimes they can use them, and a lot of kids have after-school things
and things like that.
They'll be in band or choir or football or whatever they're in,
so they're not going to not bring their Apple watches and their smart watches to school.
And I'm just a little bit fearful of our liability of those watches breaking.
Mr. President, is it possible that we could say don't use them, but you don't have to remove it?
Is that possible?
Because does the language currently say, Ms. Ashhorn, that they'll all be put away and out of sight?
If that is it, that's the objection I would have.
but if they could have them on but if you're seen using it it will be you'll
be asked to remove it how about something that says they will it says I
think the language says they will not use telecommunications devices and use
in classrooms devices must be turned off and put away during instructional time
between school start and end time so put away is the problem could we do
something about the watch that says not use because mr. president that to turn
it off so they can turn they can turn it off okay anybody can turn it off but
then the teacher would have to walk around and look at each each person's
hey you know risk to make sure is off so the only other way to ensure that
they're not using it is to is to put it away so there that's all you know if if
I know that 39% of teens have Apple watches and another percentage have smart
smartwatches, I don't even, you know, even if it's just 50%, so one out of two teens
have some kind of smartwatch, at least.
So they're going to have to go and check everyone's wrist to make sure that it's off.
Well, first of all, they're going to have to check and make sure what kind of watch is it.
And then if it is one, they're going to have to turn it off or put it away.
I don't know.
I tend to think the teacher can handle it a lot more easily than what you're describing.
at their discretion but the burden becomes on teachers to police it and
that's just time away from instruction if kids aren't really using it and they
have said that it isn't a problem could we could we have language just a small
language change in there that says they has to be turned off and not used on the
smart or just don't use the smart watch and see how it goes because if you're
asking teachers to walk around and see is yours a smart because yours not are
you using it that you know I don't he's very good about saying don't put
burdens on yeah but I don't think that's what it's saying I'm sorry mr. it's put
away I don't think that's what it's saying I think I think what mrs.
Ashmore said was that one second was that you each campus was going to decide
how they were going to implement it it says put away she just read the language
said put away and that's the those are the two words that we're talking about
here is to be removed and to put away and not used is that what that says if
the device is a telecommunication device with the demand would be put away so if
we could change that the smartwatch doesn't have to be removed but still not
used somehow I mean your language so isn't it more difficult for the teacher
to monitor at monitor it if the kids all have watches on and she doesn't know
which ones are being used in a certain way which ones have certain capabilities in which it causes
her to have to like or him to figure out which ones are an issue versus everybody having watches
right because only smart people have if they're all worrying them all the smart ones have to be
as opposed to if they're not wearing them at all but if if she sees she or he sees a child using it
It's like put that away and a second whatever the consequences are right. It would be easy for them to see them using a watch
Not like a phone
Can I make a comment
Since we're gonna continue to have the discussion
The easiest
idea I would assume for our junior high and
in elementary school, which I can't imagine somebody giving an elementary school child an Apple Watch,
but, you know, stranger things, don't bring it to school.
If you don't want the watch to get broken, if you don't want the watch to get taken up,
don't bring it to school.
It's a telecommunications device.
It emits or receives messages, which could be used to have communications with someone in another classroom,
someone who went to the bathroom, who turned their watch on, who's now communicating through the watch to send a message.
There's a lot of things that you could use the watch to communicate through.
So the easiest thing to do is to abide by the policy, abide by the discipline management plan, and don't bring the watch to school.
Just like we're saying, don't bring your phone to school or don't have it on you, don't have it on, then don't bring the watch to school.
school. Get an analog, regular, old school watch if you need to have something on your wrist.
I don't know. Then do that. If you want to count your steps, get a Garmin. I mean, like,
this, okay, then get a pedometer. Like, get something if you're watching your steps and
you're 11. Then attach it to you and do it. Just don't bring the watch to school.
It's that simple. It's not hard. I think we're over
Complicating this issue and I'm not sure why because there's a very easy answer
abide by the rules
Don't bring the watch to school and you're good. You don't have to worry about the watch getting broken or stolen or anything
Don't bring it
Mr. President
But mrs. Calhoun you mentioned elementary and junior high and I agree with you with that, but I'm talking about high school
So I don't think I agree with you that with that. So with high school, do they are given a little bit more leeway during passing periods and for right now and lunch and before and after school is what I'm talking about.
I feel like that you're kind of making my point that where I was coming from, from the get-go of why we needed a stricter policy, not just for junior high, not just for elementary school, but for our schools across the board, to not have any telecommunications devices even in high school.
Because it's too difficult to have all of these different levels.
If anything, I think the policy should be stricter.
I don't think you should have cell phones at a high school level.
I don't think you should have smart watches at a high school level. I think it's distracting
I think it's used for other instances in the classroom that I've listed in the prior meeting that you can go online you can
Research the science yourself to see what kids do what it does to their brain development, which I've already gone through
I think that you could do that. So I think what you're saying only
Bolsters the argument you shouldn't have the telecommunication device period dot K through 12 bell to bell
shouldn't be on it sounds like you're agreeing with me and I have the right to
defend myself because I you can watch the tape I said I agree with you for
elementary and junior high and that's what you had mentioned when you very
first started talking about this I'm saying for high school so no I'm not
agreeing with you for K through 12 I'm agreeing with you for K through 8 but
but not through 9 through 12.
So I think it's the kids are getting older.
Their parents have, you know, you say you're for parental rights.
The parents have decided that their child is old enough to handle an Apple Watch,
and I feel like we should respect the decisions of the parents.
Okay, so.
Do we have any, can we.
I will make one more comment, and then I'm done.
Ms. Keltner.
So towards that end, so you're talking about high school students
who you feel like have the autonomy and the responsibility capabilities to make these decisions for themselves
and to abide by the rules with everything else that we set forth with them being able to have access to their cell phones
whenever they want, and that's fine.
Okay.
So we're okay with that, but when we're asking them to abide by a simple rule that a teacher says,
hey, at the beginning of the year, turn your Apple Watch off.
Don't use it during class.
turn it off that now that's not what the policy says the policy says to remove it
so we're asking that's too much for them to just not bring it so that's that can
have their cell phone and they can have their Apple watch but like I don't
understand I'm I would like I would like the policy to say to turn it off so I
would like that okay so right now the policy says don't bring the watch to
school or remove it remove it and put it away we put it away and remove it or put it away okay so
my argument still stands don't bring it to school it's that simple but i already have it every child
already has a cell phone let's do this do we have any other comments anything new that we're saying
that's a quick comment most teenagers please correct me if i'm wrong i think you agree with me
have a cell phone already they've got the cell phone they're going to have in their backpack
back at school and they have a watch you're saying 39 of them so i think we're good they can whip out
their phone during passing periods and at lunch if that's the campus administration's decision to
check their messages if they need to so they will be able to do that and i would leave the watch at
home the watch is meant to check and discreetly check your emails it's for just discretion very
discreetly that's what that's one of the main purposes of why they they market them i like
the policy the way it's written mr president i have a quick comment mine was not about allowing
children to do it it's about not putting the burden on teachers to have to police
which watch who has it out that was it i just think it's a burden on teachers if children
choose to wear a watch they're not going to leave it at home and then teachers have to say if that's
a smart watch if to put it away it's just a waste of instructional time mr president my last thing
to add was mr redmond in five years on the board i haven't had families approach me saying there was
a specific policy we're going they're just not going to pay attention to the cell phone policy
they they were good with every the way it was written the only the only part that i started
to receive feedback that said my kids weren't it anyway so figure it out had
to do with the watches and so reason I was bringing that up was to say we've
got a policy talking about devices phones that is there achieves 90% of
what we want and then there's this one little argument that on a watch that we
don't really have consensus on the board it seems to make sense to watch it and
And then make a decision after that.
Prior to now, we had, since kids were bringing in their cell phone for sometimes instructional use,
how were we dealing with the watches?
Because we never allowed cell phones unless it was under supervision of the teacher for instructional purposes, correct?
correct? And what about the watches? The violation would be the same. So if they were using a
telecommunication device during that instructional time, not at the direction of a teacher, then they
could be referred for disciplinary consequence on the third or subsequent action. The watch thing
is not new. No, no. But I would say just based on the feedback that I've received, just kind of,
you know through conversations here and there um the focus is on cell phones it's not really on the
watches um that you know the cell using the cell phones was the more apparent problem that i would
say were in classrooms not necessarily the problems with the watches could you repeat that
again that last just based on my the feedback i've received just from you know various phone
calls throughout the school year i would say that the concern was mainly with um from administrators
the concern was over the cell phones um i did not receive a lot of phone calls about the watches
that wasn't necessarily the focus of those concerns.
So my guesstimate would be that those telecommunication device infractions
that were occurring and being referred to administration were probably primarily cell phones.
But our school leadership team could probably confirm if they've heard anything different.
But I do think cell phones was the main focus.
But it would have been included together.
And the earbuds, sorry, the earbuds and the watches have always been in the definition of telecommunication devices.
If they're being used to emit or transmit a communication.
Right.
So this is not new.
No.
Yeah.
You couldn't, yeah.
You would not be allowed to send a message from your Apple Watch during class.
Right.
So would that, as far as that part of the policy, it's the same.
Right.
You would not, we would not allow you to use it during instructional time.
We haven't changed that? No. The language is the same. Okay.
Okay. No, but, no, it is not, it's not, I'm sorry, it's not the same because it's in
the same sentence where the telecommunication is all of the things
that's in the same sentence. You're gonna have the same consequence. They have to
be put away. They can't be used. And so now the teacher is going to have to make
sure that everybody has their cell phone, their smartwatch is turned off or put
put away. They're going to have to make sure of that because of the way the policy is written.
Right. So previously at elementary and still currently at elementary, right, they're not
allowed to possess a telecommunication device, which would be including the smartwatches.
But I'm only talking about high school. Right. And so for high school, you could be in possession
of those, but they couldn't be used as a telecommunication device during that instructional
time. But now they have to be put away. Right. That's the new recommended language. Right.
So now they have to be put away. They used to not just be able to be used, but now they have
to be put away right they cannot be used as that telecommunic that sending receiving emitting
signals and communications okay okay any other comments okay we have a uh a motion
it's been moved and seconded that the board trustees approves the 2024-2025
discipline management plan and student code of conduct we will now proceed to vote board
Board members, please record your vote on the screen via your keypad.
Motion passes six with one abstention.
Thank you.
8.1 Discuss and consider action related to the addition of the Benchmark Years of Service One-Time Lump Sum payment for classroom teachers.
We will now move to 8.1,
which we agreed last time would be separated from the compensation plan,
which has already been approved.
So 8.1 is to discuss and consider action related to the addition of the benchmark years of service one-time lump sum payment for classroom teachers.
So I'd like to kind of make some remarks, introductory remarks on this topic, 8.1.
Last week, Mr. Schuss presented a proposal, just to bring everybody up to speed, for a
new plan to pay classroom teachers a one-time lump sum payment for benchmark years of service.
For example, like every five years beginning in year five and every five years thereafter
with the amounts increasing every five years, like years five, 10, 15, and so on.
The idea is to provide some extra reward for teachers to come to and stay with KDISD and
for recognition of those teachers for loyalty, etc.
In other words, some sort of acknowledgement and incentive.
Mr. Schaaf attributed the genesis of this based on the discussions that we've had, the
initiative discussions between the administration and the teacher retention committee.
The Board did not reach agreement on this last week and this Board did discuss various options and various amounts such as, for example, one example of the options was to begin that program after year 10 and then pay it.
For example, if you're in the year 11, year 12, you would receive the year 10 payment, etc. That kind of thing.
not just in benchmark years.
But that structure is expensive.
One of the challenges in doing this is that we are in a budget deficit for 2024 and 2025,
and we just approved a 3% raise across the board.
Therefore, due to financial constraints,
initially the benchmark payments may have to be relatively small,
but we could put the program in place and increase the amounts as financial conditions improve.
Hopefully and perhaps when we get increased funding for public education from the state
So we have three options in my view on this matter that I'd like to throw out
One is to continue kind of the
The back and forth what about this? What about that? What about this amount? What about paying it this way that way?
Ad nauseum throwing out different ideas as far as specific structure and amounts
Two would be to kind of throw up our hands and say, hey, we tried, let's shelve it for
now.
This would be a shame because this program I think is a good thing for features and for
the district and we should be able to get it done.
It shouldn't be divisive.
The third option which I'm recommending is to have a focused special luncheon workshop
workshop meeting sometime soon to discuss this and sit together as a board and hammer
it out similar to when we have like a strategic design meeting like we've done in the past.
I'd like to do this.
It's important that we get it right.
The focus would be on teacher retention and recognition within the financial constraints
we have.
have. In my view, the budget situation limits us to a cost of less than $1 million in total
in year one. I would hope this is a program we could continue to the future with greater
amounts in the future depending upon the financial situation at the time and with the state's
done and our budget situation. So that's what I'd like to propose is that we agree
agree that to handle this via a special luncheon workshop meeting sometime soon
to kind of sit together as a board and exchange ideas and kind of hammer it out
miss Fox
I appreciate hearing.
There it is.
Mr. President, thank you very much.
I appreciate your recommendation.
I like it.
I'm not sure.
Here's my recommendation, what I had thought about recommending tonight.
And that is to, I believe each of us feels like this would be really good.
This is what teachers talk to me about.
This is what they really want.
And we're all hearing from different people.
And you're exactly right.
We've already gone 3% raise instead of 2%.
So that really could be considered their 1% more, and it goes to their base.
I know teachers, our staff is very appreciative of the 3%.
It really did make our budget very tight, and so to do another almost million dollars,
we should consider very carefully as we look at that.
My thought is this, if you'll hear me out.
What if we did another sampling of teachers?
Let's have my recommendation.
Let's have the teacher retention committee work with Dr. Grooms and K-12 and design a
survey that everyone gets because everyone, they're incredible and the teacher retention
committee could work with Dr. Grooms, what the questions are going to be, how we get
quality information, not quality, but a quantity and quality of information from our teachers
and just say, we have, you know, you had a million dollars, what makes your life better?
Is it money? Is it $250 going to keep you here? Or is it more time in your day? Maybe it's less pulling you for duty or all the things that we hear through your survey and through anecdotal conversations.
if we were to do a survey and include them,
because what I know from years of sitting here
is when we ask them, they appreciate the input,
and then if they don't get their way,
they understand that collectively,
that the teachers have told us, we work for them,
we're their representatives, same with the community,
so that we would have their input,
and then we could make decisions that they said
They really care more about the quality of their day or the time in their day or whatever that looks like.
And I think you can find those questions you want to ask from them.
The survey you sent, we got finally, after many requests, all the board now has that information from your survey.
And there were some good questions in there.
There was some good feedback in there, but it was very limited from the number of people
when we have 7,000 teachers, right?
So what if we did that?
And one more recommendation from that is because as the president, you will see that.
You will see what the questions are.
You will see the feedback, those kinds of things.
What if you would consider adding Mr. Redmond to the committee because his wife was a teacher,
He runs a business.
He's a master trustee.
He understands the education and the role of trustee,
and he has lots of teacher connections.
What if he helps develop the questions
and works with your teacher retention committee,
and then you as president would be the recipient of the work that they do?
Because I know you cannot put four people on a committee.
That's my recommendation.
This isn't about being in terms of hearing stuff,
stuff, but we just, we know, we know that there's lots of other factors besides compensation.
We know that.
I mean, everybody knows that.
Whether that be discipline, whether that be in terms of demands on their time, a lot of
paperwork, etc., not getting respected, all those kind of things.
We know that.
We know that.
This is, this is really very focused.
This is just one little element which has to do with just recognition of loyalty, acknowledging,
trying to provide a little more incentive to stay with KDISD, maybe to come to KDISD.
It's not a lot of money right now, but hopefully as our finances improve, maybe we get relief
from the state in terms of increasing the basic allotment, which we all want, we can
do more.
So this is just focused on this one program, this one plan that has been submitted as a result of, you know, we all know that this is not everything.
It's not going to solve everything.
Right, but what if that $1 million could provide something that would really give them equality to their job, which would also retain them and attract them?
them what if what if the 1 million dollars instead of 50 dollars per year
of service would be we'd much rather have this support or this piece you I
think you'll it may I think it will probably turn out to be the bonus
whatever this looks like it's not called a bonus in education but you know one
time lump sum they they love it we've done it many times in the past and then
WE ROLLED IT INTO THE BASE BECAUSE THE SURVEY WAS VERY CLOSE, LIKE ALMOST 50-50.
SOME PEOPLE WANTED TO KEEP IT AS A ONE-TIME LUMP, SOME BECAUSE IT COMES IN VERY, IT'S
VERY NICE TO HAVE A BIG LUMP AT ONE TIME WHERE YOU CAN DO SOMETHING BIG WITH IT.
BUT THE MAJORITY SAID, NO, WE WANT IT TO OUR BASE BECAUSE THAT BUILDS ON OUR, RIGHT?
SURE, AND THE 3% AND THE ADDITIONAL 1% GOES TO THE BASE AND IT'S WORTH A LOT MORE.
RIGHT.
AND SO WE'VE ALREADY DONE THAT, RIGHT?
What if the million dollars that we have to spend could go toward their quality of life and only we will know if we don't hear from them, Mr. President, we're making a decision for them, not that we think they want, but they haven't really given us input.
Mr. President, I do feel like we've heard from quite a few.
So I do like your idea of doing a workshop and maybe setting some parameters, and we just need to hammer something out.
I would like for this to not be divisive.
I would like for it to be unifying.
And so in hopes of being a unifying policy that could maybe go through long term,
I would say I'm willing to give up extra time to work in a workshop to get this done
But I
Think we need some parameters. Yeah. Well the parameters are that we number one
it's focused on teachers on teacher retention loyalty acknowledgement, whatever you want to call it and
Also, we have to stay within certain budgetary constraints
And I come up with the million dollars just basically because that's close to an amount
that we have now in the budget already for this, kind of a placeholder for this program,
so that the million dollars is not, wouldn't take our budget out of line, you know, wouldn't
hurt our budget.
So that's where I'm coming up with that, that we have to recognize that right now there
are limits in terms of the budget but that we try to put together a structure that we
think makes sense and hopefully we can increase it down the line.
And this is one piece of teacher satisfaction.
We know there's a lot of other important ones and we're not trying to address everything
with this one thing.
This is just a compensation element, a small one, but a compensation element.
That's it. It's not trying to address everything that teachers may want in terms of their job satisfaction, work quality, etc., that kind of thing.
So I just want us to get together and work on, say, different models, different amounts, whatever you want to call it, and get this piece of it done.
I think it's a positive, and we don't need to hold that up in order to ask teachers a survey on everything under the sun.
It's just focused on compensation. Mr. President. I think we address the other issues
when I did a presentation
summing up our
Committee doing that committee report. I think that's where we address some of the other issues like time and
in our
You know work professional in our relationships with supervisors and other teachers that kind of thing conference periods
planning period. So we address those other issues then. So this is just, I'm just reiterating, Mr. Perez, that that is, this is just one of those details that we have been addressing as a committee.
Mr. President, Mrs. Teamey, may I just request, Mrs. Teamey, how many people did you talk to in your survey?
I don't.
I think you said 50 in the past.
No, more than 50.
How many more?
I don't know.
Well, where's your data?
Okay, so.
You have the data.
Okay, right. So 50 or 60 people to represent 7,000. And how many asked for a longevity reward of those? You said they did. I'm just...
Mr. I'm sorry.
I'm almost finished. No, ma'am. Hold on one second. I'm coming. I just don't think you have quality information. I've seen the survey.
the questions are good but they're k12 would do any survey for us and they
would be completely I just didn't protect with yours with your you did not
do the survey in a way that protected the information gathered okay well with
each valve the questions a lot of for free that we came that we came up with
or from the TEA website so I I did we did a lot of research coming up with
those questions so I don't know what answers did you find for arts what
answers do you have for teachers about the concerns they had you've already
addressed them you said so what did you do to protect them from going to ours
protected their planning it was you can I refer you to our board meeting these
are recommendations that were made to the administration that these are some
of the things that we came up with and and she made a presentation that the
The idea here is not to revisit the whole teacher retention
committee.
We know that this is, again, as I've said many times,
that we are here to address one thing.
And I said, let's get together again and hammer out a plan
here in order to reward some loyalty,
acknowledge teachers that have been with us, et cetera.
That's all we're doing here in this particular agenda item.
It's not about the entire teacher retention committee.
It's not about addressing all the issues that teachers have.
We know there's a lot of other issues that teachers have in terms of job satisfaction.
We know that.
Everybody knows that.
This is not a survey, by the way.
This is more like sitting down with 50, 60, however many teachers and gaining insight
insight from them in terms of what's what's what's uh what helped them in their job satisfaction it
wasn't like a mathematical survey if you were like you're thinking about it was more like
conversations to gain some insight into what teachers are thinking that's and you know and
mr perez may i go ahead and miss you they also did speak on behalf of their colleagues too so
So it wasn't just like we spoke with 60 or so odd teachers.
We spoke with 60 personnel that are in the classroom,
in addition to their teammates, their other teachers that they coordinate with.
This is a broad, it's much broader,
and I really resent that you're making it sound like we only talked to 60 people.
No, we did not.
And we spent hours upon hours upon hours in the conversation with these people.
And so this was not just 60 insignificant people.
They're very significant.
I never said that.
Well, sorry.
The tone just seems insignificant.
But this is 60 people and their colleagues.
And so this is not, it's just not okay for anyone to diminish the work that we did.
The number of people you didn't ask?
Let me jump in for one second.
Let me jump in for one second.
What about them?
Are we rejecting my recommendation to get together?
And do you not want to do that, get together and hammer out?
It won't get us anywhere, Mr. President.
We don't agree with where the money should go.
I think it's longevity.
I think it's 20 years and up.
You want to do every five years, and that's leaving out people in the middle.
I don't agree, I'm not going to agree with a one time at five years, one time at ten,
one time at, I'm not going to agree with that, and I don't think you're going to agree with
what I think is best.
But I will agree with what teachers want.
If they tell us, I will do what they say, but I'm not going to make a decision for them
because I've talked, three people this weekend ran into me in a parking lot, at church.
I'm your 36.
I JUST FINISHED YEAR 35 AND I'M STAYING ONE MORE BECAUSE MY PRINCIPAL NEEDS ME TO HELP
WITH SOMETHING AND I TOLD HER I'D DO ONE MORE.
SO I'M OUT.
I DON'T GET $1 AND I'VE GIVEN 36 YEARS OF MY LIFE TO THIS DISTRICT.
RIGHT?
SO THESE ARE THE PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE WE'RE BOTH TEACHERS AND NEITHER ONE OF
US IS AT A 20 OR A 25 OR A 30.
SO WE'RE JUST OUT?
WHY DON'T WE MATTER?
So you don't want to spend the time to explore alternatives or to see if we can get this done, if we can approve this.
You don't want to commit the time to do that?
If you're open to something like every year after 20 years of giving that, we could explore it.
Well, it depends on the money.
It depends on how much money we have.
I mean, I'm not committing to anything.
You're not either.
But I'm willing to put in the time to try to get this done.
It should be a good thing, not a divisive thing.
i don't want it to be divisive but i don't want to speak for someone that i haven't heard from
mr president i mean you
go ahead and miss miss gizelle that's actually trustee kill him but i would like to say
something after her if you don't mind go ahead and miss you i mean thank you uh first of all i
i agree with um mrs fox that we should do a survey and i i agree with you also about the lunch
thing but why can we do the survey first and then come back with the data and
then we would have more information to go off of and I agree with you too mr.
Perez I'm not trying to say we should delve into everything like like that
just about the compensation it doesn't have to be a lot of questions it could
be I don't know five questions or less it could just be concentrated on the
compensation something like would you rather get something every year after 20
or would you rather get you know something every after 10 or would you
rather get once every five years with and knowing that there's no guarantee of
getting it the next year but that's for one thing but about the survey the
teacher retention survey I think what I have an issue with is that we we have
developed this whole thing based on the teacher retention survey and less than
1% has been surveyed and you're saying that they talked to a team of teachers
that you know you know what I think I'm gonna stop I'm gonna stop one second the
item on the agenda is discuss and consider action related to the adoption
addition of the benchmark years of service one-time lump sum payment for
classroom teachers but that can I think I think we have yes but I think it's
That's the only thing that's on the agenda.
Right.
And so I'm going to halt discussion on non-agenda items.
What's on the agenda is only this issue right here, lump sum payment.
Well, then why?
Do we want to have a meeting to discuss?
Point of order, please.
No, no.
Because why was it mentioned in the agenda last time that this is based on?
I could probably find the agenda and read it to you that it was based on the teacher retention recruitment committee.
That's where it came from.
I disagree with your point of order.
Well, then I would like to have a reason why, and I'd like to amend your...
I disagree with your point of order.
You disagree with every point of order.
What I am doing is addressing that the agenda is on the lump sum payment.
Now, we haven't reached agreement, obviously.
That's why I'm asking for a separate meeting that we can get together
and talk about what we're willing to do as far as the lump sum payment.
Based on what information?
We need to have a basis of how we're making this decision.
So now we can't even use the information that y'all got from the survey that y'all did.
So we cannot use that.
So now what are we going to use it based on?
So we can never talk about the conversations that y'all have for hours and hours anymore when we're talking about this decision
because you've taken it off the table and there it is.
So from now on, this is just going to be out in the air, open.
And you know we're all gonna take a guess at because now we can't even take that you know what what we think people want
Mr.. President, that's that's yes. Go ahead miss gazelle um when we decided on a 3% raise
We did not survey every teacher we decided with our brains and the budget what we could afford
Yes, that is everyone
But in in for what I would suggest
For you if you want some sort of basis to make a decision upon is a financial decision of what we can afford
And President Perez has suggested, and we should all know what the place marker is for this right now in the budget, and it's a million or less.
That's what our deficit right now spells.
So I would suggest considering that in your decision for this.
I agree with that.
And that's just the fact.
I agree with you, but raises come from cost of living across the board.
Most industries do it, and they don't ask everybody.
Lump sums are different.
And if you have a choice of how to receive a lump sum, do you want it every five years
or do you want it every year after you turn 20, seems to be something that we could ask
the community about because that's not a standard raise, whereas the cost of living increases.
So that's two completely different things.
And the only thing I'm saying is that I agree with having the lunch, but I don't want to
hear any kind of discussion about the teacher recruitment committee anymore if this is not
what we're basing our decision on and if that's not what's on the agenda it's
pretty simple to to me it's pretty simple to understand that a lump sum
payment of some sort for seniority for time in the district for loyalty for
acknowledging service etc will be well received by teachers you would think
that would be well received by teachers now there's a lot of ways to skin the
the cat, okay, and we want to get it right, that's why I'm suggesting we have this additional
meeting to do exactly that.
Now if you're saying you don't believe that we need to do any lump sum payments whatsoever
because we didn't do like a big survey, that's a different story, but I think that teachers
teachers would welcome the addition of some benchmark years of service in some format
to reward them, to acknowledge their loyalty, et cetera.
That would be welcome.
I would think that's not really a controversial topic, that they would welcome that.
The ones who receive it will welcome it.
The ones you leave out will not.
They will be angry, Mr. President.
Well, we might not be able to make everybody happy.
I've been doing this a long time.
We might not be able to make everybody happy.
That's why we ask them.
And then when they tell us, we do what they say, and then it's on them.
This is what you told us, and here's what we've done for you.
When we make decisions in isolation of their input,
it does not garner the favor that you think we're going to do.
Of course they want money, but they all do.
That's why the 3%, very good.
Everyone got it.
No one complained.
Everyone was grateful.
So, and the surveys are free and unlimited.
K-12 will do them.
They could do them quickly, and we could do what Mrs. Champagne recommended.
We're only talking one-time payments.
Is it in benchmark years, or is it for longevity?
Mr. Perez, I just want to have one more question, but this is an important question.
Why are you against the K-12 survey?
Because we're focused right here on the lump sum payment that's on the agenda.
So we need to do something with this.
Either we have another meeting to hammer it out, or we just, again, throw up our hands and say,
if you're against it, then we're going to try maybe another time to do it.
Mr. Perez, please answer my question.
This is not about the survey.
This is not about the survey.
I just want to ask you the question.
Why are you against doing the K-12 survey for just the lump sum payment,
for just the lump sum payment, not for anything else,
just about the lump sum payment, why would we not do it?
Can I please understand why would we not do it?
What is the survey trying to get at?
What is the survey trying to get at?
Is it trying to get at that, yes, teachers would like more time to plan?
No.
Teachers would like more discipline, et cetera?
Just about the lump sum.
Just about the lump sum.
Just about the lump sum.
So we're going to ask, we're going to go out and do a survey of thousands of teachers to ask them what should we do with a million dollars.
No.
The board can't decide what we're going to do with a million dollars.
So, Mr. Perez, you said that there was a few options, right?
To me, you would present those options as their choices.
You know, which one is your favorite option?
That's it.
It would be one question.
You know, here's an option, here's an option, here's an option.
you know and then you just hear what they have to say and then by the way
that lump sum when we did the teachers that survey that time it was actually
sixty-five percent responded said yes that they wanted added so to me the
teachers had buy-in to it so when they complained that they didn't get it well
we could say you know sixty-five percent of you said you wanted it into your
base pay so I don't want a lengthy survey and I don't want to hear about
all the other problems that they're having I'm just talking about the lump
sum and just offering them the choices whichever choices we feel are good and
then they just choose which one that's it and I just want to know if you're
opposed to that why are you opposed to that that's all I want to know I just
said that I don't think we need to send out a survey to figure out what how to
to spend a million dollars.
If that's all we're doing, we're establishing a program that we hope will grow, that will
be well received by everyone.
Maybe we're not able to make everybody happy day one, but it's a program that I think we
can establish to reward people for loyalty and acknowledge their service.
That's all that we're addressing here.
And we can't seem to agree on even meeting to hammer that out, come up with the structure, come up with the amounts, who gets it, et cetera.
Mr. President?
Yeah, go ahead, Mr. Redmond.
I think I would absolutely show up at the meeting.
I think where the value of the survey is is we can walk away saying, all right, we were thinking we needed to start at year five.
We were thinking that it needs to go, as a board, it needs to go for your years.
of service, but then we're calling it longevity,
is that reward those who have stayed in Katy?
Because that's really ultimately what we wanted to do is to reward
those who have stayed in Katy with us.
And so where I would see the value in the survey
is asking those questions.
Because I heard back from administrators and teachers
that were like, no, there are some people that
are very adamant that it needed to only be your years in Katy.
That's a much different, we have the ability
to reward a lot more people based on those.
If you go back through the data, right, where we currently jump off, the biggest feedback where we jump off on our salary schedule is about year 20.
Right?
So up until year 20, people are receiving more than the actual 3% because it's based on the midpoint.
And so, you know, so it makes sense.
So will I reward the people after year 20?
Because there are many reasons you base it on midpoint and why you have a flat structure of salaries.
There's compensation theory that governs all those things.
But I believe that the survey would help us in those instances again so that we not not do you want more money?
I
Agree with you. We know the answer
Everybody would say yes put as much money as you can and give it to us
But again, I was very surprised when we had teachers have the ability to make a thousand twelve hundred extra dollars
If they just showed up at school and taught and it addressed our substitute shortage, but when given the option
option, they said no, even though we have the chance at $1,200, I'd rather my team also receive
some of that money. And so I learned then that I don't always know what they think, but I do know
that survey, if it's written correctly, we could answer those questions about the year it starts,
who's rewarded, what do we skip? I think that's where the value is not, do you want to receive
more money? Okay, we know the answer to that. We can cross that question off. And so I believe
where we would get the most value out of this meeting is if we did have that data then we could
sit down and go through that but i will show up to whether we have the data or not i would like
to have the data okay yeah thank you um so i think i think what we need to do here is basically 8.1
is we're going to defer action on 8.1 and and that's it we're going to defer
action on 8.1 we're not going to at this meeting approve a addition to the
benchmark years of service one-time lump sum payment for classroom teachers so I
guess this is number two which is throw up our hands and say we tried we're going to push this
back and um and again as i said we it's something we should be able to get done and it shouldn't be
divisive but unfortunately it appears that it is so we're going to basically not take action on 8.1
COMMISSIONER WRIGHT- Mr. President, would you consider having a meeting with Dr.
Gorgorski and Dr. Grooms and talk through like how we've done surveys in the past and just get
some data from them that's not, doesn't sound like it's coming from me or us so that you get
an idea of that? MR. Of course. Of course.
COMMISSIONER WRIGHT- Maybe if you- MR. Just like I'm willing to have a meeting
with everybody here and Mr. Schuss and Dr. Gorgorski to discuss variations of the compensation plan,
variations to the lump sum payment. That's what I'm saying. Absolutely.
MS.
CHAIRPERSON WONG.
Okay.
So it's not throw up your hands.
It's let's keep working on, you'll talk to them about survey.
Maybe we can come together and have a compromise on both.
I too would attend a meeting about the compensation plan and I wish we have, I prefer to have
the data before we do that.
And I hope that you will have a conversation about doing the survey and then it's a compromise,
right?
We've done both.
MR.
Yeah, I'm just, I'm just.
CHAIRPERSON WONG.
That's not divisive.
No, but I'm just disappointed that...
That's leadership.
I'm just disappointed.
This is something that is extra, that we didn't have to propose.
You know, we approved the 3% raise.
This is kind of an extra recommendation that was made, again, to acknowledge loyalty,
to acknowledge, provide some sort of incentive, to provide recognition.
It's something extra that we're trying to do, and it seems, I don't know,
it seems to have been met with a lot of resistance that surprised me so i'm um but let's obviously
we're open to meet as a board in a workshop uh hopefully to get together and hammer out the
details to hear from dr grooms dr gorgorski etc all that is on the table anything else
mr president um i would love to meet as well i'd actually love to to take care of things right now
But I will be patient and wait and discuss but I request that whatever we do we understand our financial
limits
Because there's no sense in talking about the pie in the sky when we can't afford it or any kind of options
Likewise, so we must understand what we're operating within
So I just read I'm sure you understand that and I just yeah, very clear. Yeah, that's what I said earlier
Which is it's you know, we're going through this trouble sending out a survey to spend
spend very little money.
You know, in terms of, again, it's very little money that we're talking about spending
because of the budgetary constraints, and I'm respecting the budgetary constraints,
which basically says that we shouldn't spend more than $800,000 to $1 million on this
because we just did commit to a 3% raise, which I think was excellent, very important,
and hopefully it was well received so we're limited in terms of what we can do
with this program okay we'll move on to information items 9.1 and that's the
9.1 Board Committee Updates
board committee updates and the one that committee meeting we had on the Finance
committee was right before the work-study committee meeting where we
reviewed the budget amendments as well as the April financial reports as well
as looked at the the lump sum payment as well in that board committee and that
was the week before the work-study I believe and then I think we have a
a report from ms Cuzela on the policy committee yes um thank you president perez uh the policy
committee uh trustee calhoun president perez and i met briefly with assistant superintendents and
mrs hack and dr gregorski to discuss how cell phones were managed this year we also had heard
a summary of feedback given to Mrs. Sherry Ashworn by campus administrators and like principals and
assistant principals about discipline and what things were going up which things were going well
and which needed improvement was very informative it was very appreciative of their time and we had
a check-in meeting on the continued implementation of efb which is library books how the library book
book purchases are going and how the maintenance of the existing collection is progressing.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Mr. Redman, did you have anything?
I think there's an academic meeting coming up.
July 17th.
We'll need to go over that and hopefully now with all the STAAR scores released and whatnot,
we'll have a chance to go over those and see what that looks like for performance this year.
Mr. Perez?
Ms. Champagne?
So in your committee that you had your policy committee and you got the reports,
is there any way for the rest of the board members to please see those reports of the discipline management
and the library reports that were received, that you all received?
I don't know what reports.
You said that you got a lot of information.
Discussion, conversation, mostly.
Honestly, but not documents or anything.
Not a formal report.
Correct, Mrs. Ashburn.
Okay.
Perhaps if you want to ask for that in our Freddie update for Mrs. Ashburn, she could supply that to you.
Well, I think there is a policy that every board member should receive the same information as every other board member.
So if y'all are getting some kind of report.
So our financial reports are always given here at the board meetings.
meetings. So if you're receiving other information, I would like to also hear about that. You
can always ask for that. But I don't know, I appreciate you telling me that and thank
goodness we're having these committee reports because otherwise I wouldn't have known what
you had gotten and I wouldn't have known what to ask for. So, because I don't know what
they'll do. So these meetings are face-to-face, people with a notebook taking notes and asking
questions and talking okay no formal room okay thank you we have a 9.2 recap
9.2 Recap of Board member requests for information.
of board member request for information and madam secretary that we captured any
requests from the board I did not I have a request please would it be possible
for all board members to get a copy of the letter sent to the Attorney General
about the public information request on the teacher retention committee and
And what the letter said to the Attorney General, and do we know when to get a reply from that?
Yeah, I haven't seen it.
I mean, I don't know.
Could we maybe talk about that?
I suppose, yeah.
Sure.
Thank you.
Because it's an outside attorney, we don't have it in-house.
Dr. Gorgorski, have you been provided that by our outside attorney?
No, ma'am.
I don't have it, nor have I ever seen it.
Okay.
I've never seen it either, but we can get it.
Can you see if it?
Sure.
if that's something that we could be provided sure i'll i'll find out thank you okay um that's it
10. Future Meetings
we will have a work study meeting on monday july 22nd 2024 and there will be a regular board
meeting on monday july 29 2024 there being no further business for the board this meeting
Thank you.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 6.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve of the purchase of two properties for a district facility, as discussed in Closed Meeting.
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 6.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve of termination of contract employee, Tompkins High School teacher, James Stone, for good cause.
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 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the application for the Raines Academy Optional Flexible School Day Program (OFSDP) for the 2024-2025 school year.
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 7.2
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's April 2024 financial statements.
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District's June 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 006 · AGENDA 7.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves low attendance waivers as recommended by administration.
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 7.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves a missed instructional day waiver as recommended by the administration.
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 7.7
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves of the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Harris County.
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 7.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Fort Bend County.
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 7.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct for the 2024-2025 school year.
6 Yes · 0 No · 1 Abstain
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| amy-thieme | Yes |
| dawn-champagne | Abstain |
| lance-redmon | Yes |
| mary-ellen-cuzela | Yes |
| morgan-calhoun | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
| victor-perez | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 7.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2024-2025 Professional Development Plan.
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 7.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Katy Independent School District compensation plan for the 2024 - 2025 school year.
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 7.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes for the May 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 |