Noting that a quorum is present, I hereby call this work study meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School District to order.
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Katy ISD Work Study Meeting, April 14, 2025
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- 0:05 to 0:37 1. Call to Order
- 0:37 to 0:56 2. Closed Meeting
- 0:56 to 1:03 3. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
- 1:03 to 5:28 4. Pledges of Allegiance
- 5:28 to 19:07 5. Public Comment
- 19:07 to 19:29 6. Closed Meeting
- 19:29 to 20:18 7. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
- 20:18 to 42:54 8.1 Presentation on the Katy ISD Discipline Management Plan related to fighting/physical contact/assault.
- 42:54 to 48:42 9.1 Discuss and consider Board Approval of the February 2025 Financial Reports.
- 48:42 to 51:10 9.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the April 2025 budget amendments.
- 51:10 to 53:26 9.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of a bank depository contract.
- 53:26 to 54:35 9.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the nomination of a Katy Independent School District Board Member to the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors for Region 4, Position E.
- 54:35 to 1:06:58 9.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of new instructional materials and the Certification of Provision of Instructional Materials for the 2025-2026 school year.
- 1:06:58 to 1:10:05 9.6 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the renovation and building addition to Beck Junior High School.
- 1:10:05 to 1:10:29 9.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the renovations to Mayde Creek Elementary School and Sundown Elementary School.
- 1:10:29 to 1:12:41 9.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the expansion to the Mark L. Hopkins Law Enforcement Center.
- 1:12:41 to 1:14:11 9.9 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the renovations to Hayes Elementary School and McRoberts Elementary School.
- 1:14:11 to 1:14:40 9.10 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the expansion to Central Maintenance Facility and renovation to Support Services Complex.
- 1:14:40 to 1:16:37 9.11 Discuss and consider Board approval of a Cost Sharing Agreement for a left turn lane into Cross Elementary School (48) with Harris-Waller County Municipal Utility District (MUD) No. 4.
- 1:16:37 to 1:19:01 9.12 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for the chiller replacement at Miller Career & Technology Center and Taylor High School Field House.
- 1:19:01 to 1:22:00 9.13 Discuss and consider Board approval of the contract for the connections of portable classroom buildings at WoodCreek Junior High School and Haskett Junior High School as well as reconfigure computer lab at Haskett Junior High School to accommodate for student growth.
- 1:22:00 to 1:25:20 9.14 Discuss and consider Board approval of an Interlocal Agreement with Cinco Municipal Utility District No. 7 and Katy Independent School District.
- 1:25:20 to 1:34:32 9.15 Discuss and consider Board approval for the reconfiguration of main campus athletic spaces at Taylor High School to improve student safety and support for student athletes and programs.
- 1:34:32 to 1:35:45 10. Information Items
- 1:35:45 to 1:36:10 11. Future Meetings
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1. Call to Order
Today is Monday, April 14, 2025, and the time is 4.02 p.m.
Dr. Rogorski, will you verify that we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?
Mr. Perez, I do confirm we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act for our meeting today.
2. Closed Meeting
The Board will now convene an enclosed meeting as authorized under Section 551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes.
Texas Government Code 551.074.
3. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
Good afternoon.
The Board will now reconvene in open meeting and the time is 5.01.
4. Pledges of Allegiance
And KDISD Police Officer Sergeant Clarence Howard will lead us in the Pledges of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
Okay, I always ask at this time do we have any scouts in the audience this evening and there's never any scouts in the audience, but I think I see some scouts in the audience.
audience. Do you want to come up? Do you want to come up? Great, come on up. This is a real
treat. All right, well, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourselves. The microphone's
right there speak loudly go ahead your name and and like where you go to school
that kind of thing my name is Wilson I go to pass an elementary Patterson
Elementary my daughter went to school there and my two boys that's exciting so
tell me what would how long you've been scouts um I'm in trail I trip oh five
516.
Okay, and are you working on any particular badges?
No, I think, well, we're doing a fundraiser.
You're doing what?
Fundraiser.
Okay, okay, yes, that's always good to do fundraisers.
We've been learning about, like, how to survive in the wild.
Oh, that's really good.
That's very important.
That's outstanding.
What is the one thing that you've learned about surviving in the wild?
Can you remember anything?
Anything in particular?
I'm sorry to put you on the spot now.
I'm sorry about that.
I'm really good at making fires.
Making fires, that's outstanding.
I think that would be my favorite part.
Yes, yes.
The fires are really, that's right.
And you can use that your whole life, right?
Yeah.
Out in the backyard too.
Okay, well thank you so much for coming.
This is my sister.
That's good to meet you.
Hello, my name is Chelleanne and I go to the school at Patterson Elementary and the troop
that I go to American Heritage Girls Troop 2025.
And where do you have your meetings?
Do you meet at Patterson?
No, we meet at our church.
Okay.
Okay.
Are you working on any badges in particular or any skills you're working on?
I'm working on the cake decorating badge.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Really good.
And is your den leader here?
You have dens, right?
No.
A troop leader?
Yeah, you're the troop leader?
All right, all right.
All right, great.
Well, thank you so much.
Anybody else?
No.
Female Speaker 2nd, you kind of got some stolen dollars.
It's a little brother.
Female Speaker 1st, kindergarten next year.
Okay.
Well, thank you so much for coming.
Thanks so much for sharing.
Female Speaker 2nd, thank you.
Female Speaker 1st, thank you.
Female Speaker 2nd, oh, you're welcome.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I had the, my mother was a den mother, and she was like the greatest.
Anyway, thank you so much.
5. Public Comment
At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity
to speak in accordance with KDISD Board Policy BED Local.
As defined by Board Policy, speakers who signed up by 2 PM on Monday, April 14,
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.
If a speaker is not finished speaking at the end of three minutes,
the audio will turn off.
If speakers wish to share written material with the board,
please provide 10 copies 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 officer's designee shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through 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 hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee.
Should a speaker wish to address one of these issues, they must do so through the appropriate
local grievance policies, FNG Local, DGBA Local, CKE Local, or GF Local.
Our speakers will be called forward in the order they were signed up to speak.
and our first speaker is Tana Weiss
good evening dr. Gregor scan board my name is Tana Weiss and I'm speaking
about agenda item 2.1 I'd like to acknowledge dr. Gregor ski's steady
steady leadership for our district over the last year.
I've sat through so many contentious work study
and regular school board meetings this year
that they've run together because of their similarities.
Board members asking for and then disregarding
meticulous presentations by our administrative staff,
board members creating committees that our admin staff
and Dr. G must attend and answer to.
Dr. Grigorski has continued to stay level-headed
and positive throughout this past school year. He treats all who serve and lead in
this district with respect, patience, and dignity. He's rarely quick to judgment
without all the information needed and he listens with an open mind. He has
continued to be a champion for funding for our public schools and kept our
community informed about legislation that will affect our district. KDISD is
indebted to him and values his leadership more than our quad members and their supporters know
appreciate or are willing to admit it is this community's hope that the evaluation you present
to him tonight for his permanent record reflects his true leadership integrity and district-wide
respect he holds but most of all i hope it reflects the fact that he's done most everything
thing this board has asked of him that he's given each and every one of you the utmost respect
whether it was deserved or not and that he is truly the strongest member of your team thank you
thank you
the next speaker is yarrow sledge followed by rebecca trahan
Good evening, President Perez, members of the board, Dr. Grigorski, and staff.
I'm here to speak on agenda item 2.1.
The definition of a lifelong learner is someone who actively pursues new knowledge throughout their life,
often leading to growth and a shift in perspectives as new information is gained.
Several years ago while I was still employed with the district, a decision regarding virtual learning left me deeply frustrated.
I initially directed that frustration towards Dr. Gregorski. It was at that time that I watched a board meeting for the first time.
To my surprise, I quickly realized that the decision had not been made by Dr. Gregorski, but by the board.
Despite having taught in the district for many years, I recognized how uninformed I had been about how so many decisions were made.
This realization led me to continue watching board meetings.
I was fortunate to meet with Dr. Gregorski and his staff on a monthly basis.
Through these conversations and many questions asked, I began to understand the extent of state influence over education policy.
It became clear that the challenges I was concerned about were rooted not in our superintendent or district leadership,
but in state regulations and local board decisions that affect every campus.
Since then, I've taken initiative to further educate myself about our public education system,
attending not just board meetings, but also listening to state-level hearings.
While I do not claim to be an expert, I can say with confidence that my understandings
and opinions have evolved significantly.
Dr. Gorgorski, I would like to offer a sincere apology for my misdirecting my frustration.
And I want to also express my gratitude.
Thank you for your willingness to engage with educators, for answering difficult questions,
for helping so many, including myself,
better understand the complexities of school funding
and education policy.
Over the last five years, you have led this district
through an extraordinary number of challenges.
The COVID-19 pandemic, budget shortfalls,
inflation, teacher shortages,
increasing political interference in our schools,
and so much more.
I am deeply appreciative of your steady leadership
and unwavering commitment to public education. Thank you very much. Thank you.
The next speaker is Rebecca Trahan followed by Danny Gianfrancesco. Good
evening board. Tonight I'm going to be talking about the discipline management
system section 8.1 but before I do I'm going to give you a little bit of a
backstory. Back when I was in college there was an attacker that was on the
loose and at night he would sneak into the women's dorms and all of us feared for our lives so
consequently most of us women on the campus we enrolled in self-defense classes and something
that we were taught we were forced to learn actually was when you're being attacked you don't
want it you're you're frozen you're scared so many times you don't make rational decisions like
exiting a doorway for example if it seems like an easy path you're frozen
you don't know what to do so the first thing that they tell you is don't run
away they don't tell you to lay down there they tell you to fight and they
tell you to fight back they tell you go for the throat they tell you gouge out
the eyes they tell you give them a knee kick them off whatever you have to do to
get them off and I'll tell you right now that's what happened a few weeks ago at
taylor high school that's why i'm going to talk about section 8.1 and the need to include a
self-defense clause in there to protect victims nobody should be punished for fighting back
especially when that is what is taught in every self-defense course nobody should be punished
for that that needs to be added into the policy in addition we must provide
protection for our teachers we have to protect them so that they can step in so
that they can stop fights I know the state of Texas protects the district
from being sued in these situations we have to extend that to the teachers that
That way they can step in and they can stop this.
I know the state of Texas is adding some protections for teachers
to be able to remove discipline problems in the classroom,
but we have to go further because what we have right now, it's not working.
We saw that a couple weeks ago.
I have hundreds of parents that have come to me now with stories
about the problem with the discipline management
and how their children are bullied and they are attacked.
We need you to change the policy, add a self-defense protection, and please stand
up for teachers. Put something in there that is going to protect our teachers so
that they can protect our children because it's not happening right now. We
have to be able to have faith that our kids can go to school and be safe and I
have hundreds of stories from parents right now ready to step up and speak out
saying that it's not we love this district but you have to do better it
needs to be re thank you thank you thank you
our final speaker is Danny Jim Francisco
Hello. I'm here tonight to speak on 8.1 on the KDISD Discipline Management Plan regarding
fighting physical contact and assault. Within the DNP, under that specific section, it clearly
states anytime one person makes physical contact with another with the implied intent to harm
the act, depending on the severity, may be considered physical contact, assault by contact, or assault with bodily injury.
Additionally, there's a separate section where assault is explicitly defined as follows.
One, intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to another.
Two, intentionally or knowingly threatening another with imminent bodily injury.
And three, intentionally or knowingly causing physical contact with another when the person knows or should reasonably believe that the other will regard the contact as offensive or provocative.
The DMP also states if a student is physically confronted by another student, the individual should avoid striking back and find an adult or administrator who can handle the situation.
situation.
While these definitions are detailed and precise, I can't help but wonder why do we have them
if school administrators can arbitrarily call such incidents something else?
How can anyone feel safe at a school where a clear case of assault takes place, yet the
school decides to relabel it as mutual?
Also in the discipline management plan is the following.
Regardless of who starts a fight, if both students participate, both students will be disciplined accordingly.
But how is participation determined?
Does it require an implied intent to harm?
If there is no attempt to harm, can it truly be considered a fight?
This ambiguity demands attention.
Attention, clear universally applied language must be established to avoid misinterpretations that harm victims instead of protecting them.
We are here tonight because of a video.
If that video didn't exist, I would be just another frustrated father without a platform.
If that video didn't exist, these administrators wouldn't be here facing tough questions from all of us.
Our children deserve better.
Disciplinary procedures are designed to maintain safe campuses for everyone,
but when they are inconsistently applied or ignored altogether it leads to
disorder. Consequences are created for students who fail to follow the rules
but who holds administrators accountable when they fail to
enforce them. It is a time for us to demand answers and ensure that our
school classrooms are safe for everyone. Thank you. I would also like to discuss
the specifics of what happened with my daughter. I refrain from doing so tonight
because I didn't think it was allowed in this type of meeting. Thank you. Thank you
so much. Thank you. Thank you.
This concludes the open forum of our portion of our meeting. The board will
6. Closed Meeting
now convene and close meeting as authorized under section 551.001 of the
Texas Government Code for the following purposes. Texas Government Code 551.071
and 551.129. Good evening. The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is
7. Reconvene from Closed Meeting
Monday, April 14, 2025 and the time is 626 p.m. On behalf of my colleagues, I
welcome everyone to this evening's work-study meeting. Each Board member
received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, April 11,
in 2025 the board will receive information and recommendations from staff administration
and 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 in 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
8.1 Presentation on the Katy ISD Discipline Management Plan related to fighting/physical contact/assault.
Our first item tonight is item 8.1, which is presentation on the KDISD Discipline Management Plan related to fighting physical contact assault.
And our presenter is Justin Graham, General Counsel.
Sherry Ashwin, actually, will be presenting.
Thank you very much.
Yes, thank you.
Good evening, President Perez, members of the board, and Dr. Grigorski.
At the board's request, I have provided the language of the board-approved discipline
management plan and student code of conduct, the section under fighting physical contact
and assault for your review.
However, I don't think you want to hear about instructional material allotment at this time,
so I'm going to get a little bit of tech support for that slide, which has the language that's
posted in that discipline plan on page 10.
Give me just a moment.
I'm gonna get my laptop and we can just connect directly from there. No problem
And just so while we're waiting, thank you for this presentation.
I requested that this would be an opportunity with this report for both the Board and the
community to get a better understanding of the Discipline Management Plan, particularly
particularly as it pertains to fighting physical contact and assault.
Great.
Thank you.
President Perez, you'll notice it's a short report.
I've gone ahead and I've consolidated that language that's in the discipline plan into those two columns there
there so that it can be presented.
I'll make sure that it's uploaded on our public documents
for board docs so that families who want to jump straight
to it can see it.
Mr. President, are we waiting for a presentation or are we able to ask questions?
I think, are we putting that in BoardDocs now?
Yes, we'll make sure that it gets uploaded, but this is the presentation, the language that is in the Discipline Management Plan as far as the report is.
So if you have a question, happy to try to answer.
Do you want to go through that? Do you want to go through any of the salient points for us?
Sure. So under fighting or physical contact, some key points is of course that physical contact is not tolerated on school property. If you're confronted from another student, you should avoid from striking back. It does state that regardless of who starts a fight, both students can be disciplined accordingly. And that claim of self-defense alone is not justification to avoid disciplinary action.
I would like to point out that we do always have those six factors which include self-defense when determining discipline.
Those are required by law and a standard practice in KDISD.
It also talks about that if there's an intent to harm, the act, depending on the severity, could be a variety of things including physical
contact, assault by contact, or assault with bodily injury. And
that whenever the receiver of the physical contact retaliates, there could also be
discipline infraction at that time. And both students can be ticketed for disorderly conduct or fighting in public.
And if a police officer is called and ticketed, then there might be further consequences at that time.
Lastly, you might remember that when we updated our discipline management plan last year,
we added that students who engage in multiple fights or assaults could be recommended as a discretionary placement to the DAP.
Okay, so do we have any questions?
Yeah, let me just ask a couple of things I just wanted to clarify.
five and that is and just I'm just looking at the policy right now okay and
I think part of the part of the exercise here besides informational is also to
for the board to think about if there's any tweaking or adjusting that we need
to make to the policy going forward so basically what I'm looking at is the
the definition of fighting physical contact and assault.
And I'm reading here, just if an individual
is physically confronted by another student,
the individual should avoid striking back
and find an adult or administrator
that can handle the situation.
And also, what we're saying is that a claim of self-defense
is not justification to avoid disciplinary action
and a police intervention unless there's documented evidence
that the student could not flee.
Anytime one person makes physical contact with another with the implied intent to harm
the act depending on the severity, it may be considered physical contact, assault by
contact or bodily injury.
And then as I look at the definition of self-defense or an individual to claim self-defense, we're
we're talking about the student must be without fault
in provoking the encounter, not as the aggressor,
and use the minimum force required to remove himself
or herself from immediate danger.
Actions that escalate or continue the encounter
will not be considered self-defense,
interactions prior to the encounter
will also be considered.
I noticed that when we look at the bullying definition,
we go back to the kind of bullying,
It talks about, defines bullying as a single significant act or a pattern of acts by one or more students directed at another student that exploits the imbalance of power and involves engaging in written or verbal expression, expression through electronic means or physical conduct that has all these other effects.
such conduct is considered bullying if that conduct exploits an imbalance of power between the student perpetrator and the student victim through written or verbal expression or physical conduct and interferes with a student's educational or substantially disrupts the operation of a school.
So I just wanted to kind of review, I don't know, some of the things that jump out at me as far as like on the policy.
Do I have any questions from the board?
Yes, Mr. President, I have questions.
May I?
Go ahead, Ms. Cattell.
Okay.
When was the last, I know you said we updated it last year with that one clause about multiple fights and the DAP, D-A-E-P?
Yes.
But besides that, when was this section last changed on fighting?
I would have to check.
My guess is years and years, over five years.
probably it's been our language that we've utilized. Okay, okay and in this I
look back in policy and I found FO local. Is there any other policy I'm missing
that would go in tandem with this? No, I think FO is probably the overarching
kind of parent policy for student discipline. I think we have some other
ones specific to JJAEPs or other placements but FO I think is going to be
the one that you want to look at okay thank you and then um you know it states here on page 10 of
the discipline management plan where is that a claim of self-defense is not a justification to
avoid disciplinary action or police intervention unless and this is my question unless there is
documented evidence that the student could not flee um where is that defined who who defines
that the student could not flee and what does that mean?
I think that would be part of the nuances
that an administrator would have to investigate
as part of their determination,
whether it's from the own student statement,
maybe witnesses, maybe it happened on the bus or a hallway,
we have video camera footage.
We don't have that defined anywhere?
Not to my knowledge.
Okay, okay.
And so if they could not flee and it's determined,
where does that then lead in the discipline management plan?
So generally speaking,
when we're talking about assigning student discipline,
the first step is usually what are we calling this behavior?
Are we calling it fighting physical contact or assault,
for example?
Where does it fall?
Our next step is to usually.
consider the jurisdiction? Did it happen, you know, on school property during school hours? You know,
make sure we have jurisdiction to discipline in the first place. 99.99% of cases it's during the
school day. That's an easy one. Then we look at what is the standard consequence that we would
consider for a student. So campuses, you know, have internal campus matrix or say here, you know,
this is how we're going to respond. You might remember on those level charts, there's lots of
X's on all the different things you can do. So what does a campus doing to stay consistent
among grade levels.
And so then they would have a starting point,
if you would, on what that discipline would be.
But then we get to that six factors piece, right?
We consider intent, discipline history, self-defense,
whether or not they have a disability
that substantially prevents their capacity
to appreciate the wrongfulness,
if they're a homeless student or in foster care.
Those are required by law for out of school suspension
or DAP placements, but we train and practice
that we use those in every situation,
even for a lunch detention, right?
because they're good reasons to pivot from the discipline we originally considered.
So when you're talking about the self-defense piece,
we kind of ensure we're really consistent on the front end,
and then we use that unique totality of information that we have
and those nuances of the investigation, what we know about the student,
what we know about their discipline history,
to then finalize what that discipline looks like,
which of course includes due process and parent notification.
Okay, so all that you just said,
Yeah, it you would apply when a student could not flee that's your response in
Our DMP in our DMP right okay?
There's documented evidence the student could not flee and self-defense application would apply not only in accordance with our
Definition in our discipline plan, but as part of those six factors
Thank you
Listen is when does a a peace officer get involved at what point?
Is a peace officer get involved?
and whose decision is it in terms of the actions of the police, if you will?
I may not have a perfect answer for you on that
because I think it's just, again, going to be up to the totality of information
and whether or not a campus administrator thinks
that maybe something rose to that penal code definition, right?
Something that would need to be classified by an officer.
As you remember, a lot of our discipline plan, especially with DAP,
references back to penal code.
So Texas Education Code says you shall send to a DAP for elements of terroristic threat under Penal Code 42
Whatever right and our administrators are tasked with having to identify from their end right are there elements of that terroristic threat?
And so our police officers often partner with our campus administrators
When those penal code applications apply?
So it's not a real direct answer.
It's not a straight flow chart.
So above and beyond, let's say, a suspension, who decides whether some sort of citation
is issued?
I think it would be the same even if it's just a suspension because we do have items,
offenses at level three such as maybe possession of, maybe a student has a pocket knife and
it's being evaluated by police.
Maybe they engage in assault by contact.
maybe there's you know we do have a level for an illegal activity that's not
you know mandatory removable offense such as disorderly conduct right so
there's lots of times that maybe there would be an application or review or
consultation with a campus officer that would not necessarily be a DAP placement
but would be part of that partnership I
think it'd be useful to add to your presentation some more definitions
related to, for example, self-defense, you know, just more than just the paragraph related to fighting physical contact on page 10, but maybe more on page 18, where it has some requirements for self-defense, or the definition of self-defense, if you will.
That's good feedback. Thank you.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
So I'm, Ms. Ashorn is always very well prepared and I assume that this is short because you didn't know about it until Friday afternoon and here we are, you know, already presenting.
But if we were to have followed the guideline of having an agenda item on an agenda 10 days in advance, you would have had more time to add to that.
And all of this stuff is available online for people to look at and find.
Right.
so to find the definitions and how they go together so page 10 and page 18 for
people who are wanting to dig deeper so I might add to that that maybe she
didn't find out till Friday but I requested it I know a couple of it like
Thursday thinking that we were gonna get it on Monday and and again for you I
imagine it was very short notice and I appreciate you putting this together it
But it is our guideline to have 10 days.
Not really.
If three people want to request something, you give us a 10-day minimum.
That's for the board operating procedures, correct?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Mr. President?
Yeah, go ahead, Ms. Sheffield.
So thank you for the presentation.
And this, I know that we all sign things.
I remember, you know, when I was a parent and we'd get that long thing.
But all the parents sign it and all the kids sign it too.
and probably it's a long document probably I did gloss over it so but you
just because you gloss over and I mean any kind of real estate agent would tell
you you know you saw it sign a thousand pieces of paper but you still signed it
you know and you didn't know about the little fine print in there I just want
to say that every parent has signed that disciplinary thing and they can all find
it but my concern is about this is although I know it was short notice and
and all that. I found out that this was going to be on the agenda
three nearly four hours before it was. I got the agenda. So my question would be
why? Why would community members know it was going to be on the agenda?
Well, three and a half or four hours before I found out it was on the agenda.
So I think that that's I don't know that anyone know that. Yeah, I have a I
have a screenshot of it. I don't think so. Um, Mr President, Miss Timmy.
Can you, I didn't get my question. I just was trying to find out, did someone from the board leak the information? Because that's a big coincidence. Because I've never seen this. I've been on here for seven years. I've never seen this on the agenda. So it'd be hard to predict, like for a community member just to predict that this was going to be on the agenda. Because that's what I've heard this person says is she just predicted it. But I don't know how you would predict it.
I have no idea.
Mr. President.
Ms. Teeman?
Do you mind if I ask you a quick question?
So this, okay, the self-defense, it's different than when I was in school.
And so has there been an evolution that I'm just not aware of?
Or has it always been that self-defense is not a justification?
Like I get why everyone would just claim self-defense, right?
So there are times where it's used as an excuse, rightfully or wrongfully.
And so I'm just curious, is this new or do you know if this is new?
So I wouldn't say this language on page 10 is new.
That's definitely been a longstanding set of language.
However, our definition of added self-defense, that three-prong approach that Mr. Perez read
that was on page 18, that was added four to six years ago
because I think we did recognize that there was a gap
of what is considered self-defense, right?
Especially when the state said self-defense
is one of those mandatory things
you have to consider prior to discipline.
We felt like we needed to have some guideposts
for our administrators, our parents, our students
to kind of understand how self-defense is defined.
So that, you know, without, let's see, to read those again,
to be without fault in provoking the encounter,
not act as the aggressor and use the minimum force required to remove himself or herself from immediate danger or harm.
So we added that on the back end because we recognized maybe that was a gap that needed to be closed a little more.
So those are two qualifications that, or you said three?
Yeah, three, to be without fault in provoking the encounter, to not act as the aggressor,
and to use the minimum force required to remove himself or herself from immediate danger or harm.
Okay, so that's kind of our starting point in consideration and that can help kind of guide the conversations
To um get to that evidence piece right to kind of find out what was going on and what was happening
And what that intent was?
Thank you
Thank you any other comments or questions
You know, it didn't seem like there was anything controversial about putting this on the agenda, uh,
Just to really give the community more information about
the discipline management plan, hyper-focused on it a little bit this evening,
because parents may have questions and concerns.
So I appreciate you doing that.
Mr. President, I have a question.
Ms. Fox?
I would like to see maybe in the future, when we have more time,
to get some more data, some more statistics,
that talks about what KDISD with its 96,890 students,
however many it is today,
how that looks in a school year across our campuses.
And while we cannot prevent every disagreement
or every confrontation between students,
it would be good for us to have statistics and data
of how it happens, how often it happens,
what levels of discipline are handed out.
And I think knowing that, again, broken record,
I'm about to begin my 20th year sitting in this seat,
and I have confidence, and our community
would have confidence when they had all of that
put in perspective, that our policies, IS,
are being carried out by our campus leaders
and our police who are out on our campuses
build relationships with children and adults and teachers
and that overall our children are safe.
And while sometimes when you hear something,
there's a little bit of like, oh no,
are my children safe at school?
And if we had a big presentation with all of that,
I think it would give us confidence
that our campus leaders are taking really good care of our children. Thank you.
I think that the legitimate request for information, I don't think the
statistics really help if you're concerned about your child. The
statistics that the fact that yeah we maybe have low occurrences across
crossed 96,000, but it still boils down to, you know, individual children and parents.
But anyway, any other questions?
I agree with you, and I'm not making light of any one child.
I just know that, I mean, we've seen news across the state of things happening, and it's frightening, right?
And if you hear a school shooting, it's frightening, and my kids were afraid to go to school some days.
And then when you talk about how many school, how many, right, that kind of thing.
And so as we're talking about the discipline management plan and those things, I think that's an important conversation for us to have with our children.
I had this conversation with my children that defending yourself does not mean that you will be without consequence.
I had that conversation with my children all the time, whatever might happen at school or on the football field or whatever happens or wherever you were.
So this is really good information for our families to have and know where to go to look for it.
I just, you know, I know if you were going to make a presentation about it, it would be more in depth than this.
And I'd be interested in looking at that on a day when it's, you know, maybe not on everyone's...
Yeah.
A different feeling, you know, at a time when it's a different feeling.
Thank you.
we need to obviously it's so important that we provide a safe learning
environment not only for threats from the outside but threats from the inside
as well so safe all around so thank you so much for your for your for your
emphasis on this thanks thank you for your flexibility and my technical
difficulty thank you we'll get Daniel to get a step back up thank you okay now we
9.1 Discuss and consider Board Approval of the February 2025 Financial Reports.
move on to discussion and consider board approval of the February 2025 financial
financial reports, 9.1. Jamie Hines, our presenter, and he is Assistant Superintendent of Finance.
Welcome. Thank you. President Perez, members of the Board, Superintendent Grigorski, you should have before you our financial reports, our tax report, and our construction report through the month of
February as well as our check register summary for the month of February
included with our financial statements is an analysis of our expenditures our
revenue and our fund balance through the month of February a couple of things to
just kind of bring to light this is through February or six months of our
fiscal year so we're through 50% of our fiscal year so this is a good time to
just kind of look at our expenditures and kind of see where we're at on that
first page of the financial statements I'll just bring your attention to our
payroll costs or our biggest expenditure and we're at 48% which is tracking very
well what that really tells us is we're kind of in the same place just a little
bit better place than we were this past year from an underspending perspective
which is good obviously since we're in a deficit if you go down a little further
the only two that are way off from that really are our debt payments and that's
at 80% and that's because in February we make both our principal and interest
payment on our debt and that was made in mid-february the other 20% that will
remain at 80% through the end of the year and then in August we'll make the
other 20% which will be an interest payment on that debt beyond that the 22%
for other operating I'll go into in just a moment on the second page when you
look at the expenditures by function really we don't have a lot that are off
this really kind of tells us where we're at I'm just gonna focus on a couple and
that's on the social work services which is about 57% and that's because of some
adjustments in positions that were in instruction those have been moved and
and were moved this past month in a budget amendment.
So the actual budget followed where the people need to be.
We were expending out of that function, but the budget was still in function 11.
So Mrs. Rios has moved that, and next month you should see that come into alignment.
Further down, you'll see data processing services at 54%.
That usually wouldn't be quite there.
You can see it was at 53% this past year.
That's tracking down because we have all of those early year contracts for software services that we do.
And then we had a large one in February, which is a normal yearly thing.
So right in the same place that we usually are.
Of course, transportation is always a little high because that's really a 10-month budget.
And so the last two months of our fiscal year, in July and August, you'll see that come down a bit.
I also want to just bring your attention those three functions down at the bottom.
And I can barely see them without my glasses on.
But those are our payments to fiscal agents, our payments to JJAEP, or Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs, and our payments to tax increment fund.
The payments to fiscal agents, that's a shared service agreement that KDISD has for deaf-add services for our deaf children.
And we're in a shared service agreement with, I believe it's Royal ISD, Belleville ISD, Hempstead ISD, and Seeley ISD.
And so we all share the payments for those.
and at the end of the year depending on which services KDISD used will shore that up and so
Once same thing with JJAEP once we know how many students we had to send to that program at the end of the year
We'll shore that up so they'll stay at zero through the end of the fiscal year and then the payments to the tax increment fund
That's the TERS which we no longer
Have there's just a little bit in that budget and that's for any ancillary
legal fees that we may encounter this year. And then this next year, that function 97 will
actually fall off of this report. I'll be glad to answer any other questions, if you'll have any.
Any questions, trustees? Mr. President, the question on the construction report.
I apologize if I missed this last time, but I just noticed that the two new elementaries
were over by excuse me under by 8.3 and 8.7 was there something that happened but no am I and I
believe we have brought this up a couple of dice a we I think miss Cassman has brought it up but
no ma'am we came in under budget on those when when they bid those projects out and I don't
know the exact month but it's been several months that's an expected I mean that's permanent we're
going to be over by that 8.3 and 8.4 already for those two new schools.
Based on the initial bid, no.
There could be changes to that, but currently that's the expectation.
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
Very good news.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, now we'll move on to 9.2.
9.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the April 2025 budget amendments.
and that is the April 2025 budget amendments.
Presenter is Esperanza Rios, Director of Budget and Treasury.
Welcome.
Good evening, Board President Perez, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Gregorski.
Tonight we present a budget amendment which is a direct offset of revenue to expenditures
related to an increase in dual credit classes being taught by the district and reimbursed by HCC.
We also present an amendment for $12,000 in the naming of the single-ranch high school track after Gary Dirks, which was approved by the board at the September 23rd board meeting.
The remaining budget amendments are all direct functional offsets.
These functional offsets include hotspots, under-the-air activities, substitute student awards, repairs, staff development, instructional supplies.
The approval of these amendments will result in a decrease of $12,000 to the general operating fund balance.
We're also presenting a budget amendment for the capital projects fund for the campus furniture replacement retrofit at Beckendorf junior high.
These funds will come from the 2021 bond savings, bond project savings, and the approval of this amendment will result in no impact to the capital fund balance.
Thank you. Any questions? Mr. President? Ms. Champagne? Thank you for your
presentation. Okay, I'm not an accountant so you'll just have to educate me a
little bit here. So we got a reimbursement for HCC and then we had an
expenditure for HCC also? Yes, and so they will reimburse us for the extra duty pay
that we provide to the teachers. Oh, for the teachers? So the first payment we made was
$104,000 so we were already received that this would actually be to cover the second payment
So are those HCC teachers? No, they're Katie. I see when my daughter took those
She actually had a teacher at HCC
You know that she did online or whatever so that was something different I guess but it was a dual credit course
I'm just going by with the one or two classes that she took into them and they may be different
I don't know these are these are reimbursing of those teachers at Katie. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Thank you
Thank you.
Chair Greg Musil.
Other questions?
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And you are continuing to present, right?
9.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of a bank depository contract.
Yes.
Which is approval of the bank depository contract.
First, we'd like to thank the banks who submitted a proposal.
Based on the tabulation, it's our recommendation that the 2527 biennium depository contract
be awarded to Prosperity Bank.
This recommendation is strongly supported by the tabulation, the interest income on district, all district deposits, the excellent customer service they have provided and being able to meet all the needs of the district and our end users.
Okay, any questions Mr. president? Thank you. Oh, this Fox just always so grateful for prosperity bank and the relationship they have with Katie SD and how much they come alongside us as community partners and education.
Foundation and every time we reach out and say hey can you they always say yes
and so it's great to see that you know they're continuing to serve our needs
well appreciate that mr. president it's also and they are their location is much
more advantageous to us and our employees correct yes ma'am they're
located off your office single ranches so the vault is there so it's close and
proximity to us and they work with our policies so that's very helpful beneficial to the district
saving a lot of time yes ma'am can i excuse me i just would like to say yes they their main branch
that they're servicing is out of a single ranch but they do have five or six other locations
across the district um but i would like to echo with what ms fox said but more from an
operational standpoint when we've needed them they've been there miss Sheldon is
here tonight and I can't tell you the kind of service that we get from her and
her staff is second to none and I'm so glad we always hold our breath and hope
that when we do the analysis that they come out on top and they did and it's
been a fantastic relationship and there's been things like during
Hurricane Harvey that they really during this freeze I could say several others
that they've really bent over backwards to serve the people of this district,
and I can't thank them enough.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
9.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of the nomination of a Katy Independent School District Board Member to the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors for Region 4, Position E.
Okay, the next item is 9.4, which is to discuss and consider board approval
of a nomination of a Cady Independent School District board member
to the TASB board directors for Region 4, Position E.
And so as I understand this, because of our size, we get a board member.
TASB does.
So I think Ms. Fox, you're right now and your term is up.
So we have to nominate somebody.
Ms. Fox, I assume you're interested in going forward.
Is there anybody else?
I'm sure Mary Ellen would love to go.
I'll decline.
Okay, so we're not voting on it tonight, but we're going to be nominating you, it looks like.
It's multiple times a year that we go to three-day workshops, and it's a board meeting like this, 42 board members around the state.
And so I think the continuity on there would serve well.
Okay, now we move on to 9.5.
9.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of new instructional materials and the Certification of Provision of Instructional Materials for the 2025-2026 school year.
And this is to discuss and consider board approval of new instructional materials and the certification of provision of instructional materials for the 25-26 school year.
And our presenter is Nakia Coy, Executive Director of Federal Programs and External Funding.
Welcome.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Perez, board members, and Dr. Grigorski.
I'm here this evening to provide you with an update on the instructional materials and technology allotment and request your approval of the
certification of provision of instructional materials for the 25-26 school year and that was
previously known as the TEAC certification
As you know the instructional materials and technology allotment provides flexibility to school districts in the selection of instructional materials test
textbooks and software our
Our IMTA is based on a per-pupil amount.
It's funded every two years, and our next biennium starts this September.
This slide depicts our timeline for the selection of materials.
We began the process in November by establishing review teams.
The teams worked to review materials and make recommendations based on need and alignment to the courses.
In March, we collected feedback and prepared final recommendations.
While there were no proclamations issued this year, there were several secondary and CTE
courses needing instructional material.
These courses are listed here along with the instructional materials selected.
So AP Bio, French II, reading electives, and then also our CTE courses, engineering, manufacturing,
manufacturing, cybersecurity, and marketing.
These new materials will cost approximately $930,000.
An estimated $5.6 million will be spent to renew current online textbook licenses.
Additionally, approximately $5.4 million will be used to make the final payment of an eight-year
science adoption that was approved last year.
This totals a little under $12 million with an expected allotment of approximately $16
million this fall. Every school district must certify annually to the State Board
of Education and the Commissioner that students have access to instructional
materials covering all Texas essential knowledge and skills, the TEKS for all
required subjects. In your packet is a copy of that certification including how
the district meets this requirement. This concludes my update and I'm available
for any questions that you may have trustees we have any questions mr.
president I just have a question about textbooks I'm just kind of a little bit
out of the loop since my last one graduated in 2020 so do kids get
textbooks I know there's like a classroom there's there's still a
classroom set generally there's a class set and generally one-to-one digital
access digital access but there's not their own book not automatically but
but they have one for each student in the classroom?
Sometimes.
Okay.
There was a standard of 30 a while back,
and then we've kind of narrowed that down a little bit
to maybe 15 at secondary, 10 at elementary,
kind of depending on the course.
For science, three through five,
we purchased hard copy textbooks,
a set of 10 per classroom,
room, but K-1-2, they have a consumable one-to-one textbook.
So I heard, so I guess this is how it was back five years ago, that if a kid wanted
a textbook, they could have one.
That still is the same?
Okay, good.
They just need to ask their textbook clerk on campus.
And now, this is my last question about that, did it become less expensive for us when we
didn't have to get so many.
I was just kind of hoping there.
Because we used to have to have the classroom set
and then each kid had a book.
So we have had double the amount of books.
But it's not cheaper now.
I'm asking Ms. McKinney.
There is a license and generally the license
cost is the same as the book.
So we have tried to limit
how many hard copies we buy.
but there is a cost annually for all of the licenses and then if we don't have funding
from the state sometimes that's what that's what makes it harder to kind of continue you think
oh we don't need new books this year but we still have those licenses that that we pay annually and
they keep doing like the second edition third edition all that that's what they do in college
college anyway. Sometimes there is a point where the addition that we have is no longer available. And so sometimes if it's a hard copy book, we generally just keep that same version of the book. But if there's an updated online version, then sometimes we'll move to that one. Thank you for your time. It's interesting. I had a question. When we say new instructional materials, is this where a textbook or a series of textbooks?
is out of date or is it because we have a new class with it it's a new it's a new class so
therefore we had to acquire slices or textbooks for that new class or is it just that we decided
uh we want to change and so the old books are no longer any good so we have to
stockpile them someplace and we have to go out and buy a bunch of new books
All of the above. Some are for new courses. Sometimes, as far as the college board, may change the standards and our subscription, our online licenses have expired.
So if there's a change in the standards, we will possibly look at new materials then if there's a teak's change
We would possibly look at new materials
Sometimes they don't make that book anymore and then we would look at new materials
the growth growth and renewals is that
That is renewing exist from existing
classes and growth in the enrollment
enrollment yes so teacher materials for any new new new classes that are coming aboard are coming
you know on board sometimes a campus might go from team teaching you know two teachers to three
teachers and so then that third teacher needs a class set of all of the materials teacher editions
and so on um the majority of the cost for those renewals is six through 12th grade social studies
where the previous kind of block of licenses that we purchased have expired.
And so now we're buying another block of licenses to continue
until we have that next change in about five years.
Okay, so we're not willy-nilly just saying,
we don't like this anymore, let's go with the new model.
Definitely not.
And then we have a room full of old books that we don't know what to do with.
We try not to do that.
sometimes we'll slow down purchasing if we see that something hasn't been used
we won't reorder the next year until we've used what we have we also when
new new classes are dissolved on one campus they pack everything up bring it
to the new campus make sure everything is there so we try our best not to have
to purchase new if we don't have any other questions mr. president this is
Ms. Khoiso, I think it's pretty easy to say that an online book doesn't cost anywhere near what a printed book would cost if they had to ship it and do all those things.
But they call it a license fee so they can still make their money.
I'm sure it probably happens the same with our STAAR Test.
It's all online now and it's all graded online and all that, but it's not – I'm sure they don't charge less to do that.
My question is, what things are in place, this may be the Dr. Alani question, what processes are in place to make sure that once we no longer need that license, that we cancel the payment or stop paying for it?
or you know do we have any of that where you know i had netflix i haven't watched it in a long time
and i'm still paying for it and i forgot i was paying for it you know that kind of thing do we
have a process in place to make sure that once we change materials we stop payment or how does that
work we generally don't change materials until those licenses have ended i do know there's an
annual review of all software that's done throughout the district just to make sure that
that usage is on par with our expectations
and those decisions are made in that regard,
but not so much as far as textbooks are concerned.
We usually have preset years
that we're looking at those materials.
Okay, is it, excuse me, Maya,
is it a monthly charge or is it just,
do we pay the $5 million just when science comes up
and so we know that when that's over, it's over?
both but not necessarily monthly but there there are some annual annual expenses and then there
are some instances where we've paid upfront so with like our HMH reading we paid upfront science
we paid half last year we're paying the other half this year with social studies there were
not doesn't there wasn't enough funding to pay it all upfront so we are doing a say a five-year
contract with annual payments so that we can capitalize on the lowest cost available but then
still make annual payments in line with our allotment from the state thank you my goodness
you've got it all memorized right there i like it and when you said that with our technology we have
the ongoing review that must be what i was thinking of thank you so much um mr president
Ms. Tehme? Okay, so the instructional materials allotment, just for our public that may not know,
that's coming from the state, right? Those dollars are coming from the state. So
by and large, the state is paying our instructional materials cost. Okay,
okay, just a second, just a second. That's okay, that's okay. Okay, so we have a balance that
we're carrying over, right? Is there, what are the rules for that? Are there, like, we have to
spend that between a certain amount of time or is it pretty flexible no it it carries from year to
year since it's a two-year okay it's a two-year allotment okay so that remaining balance will be
go will go to cover our growth for the following year so if we don't use that do we lose it no it
okay just continues on okay great and then we still have a remaining balance a pretty healthy
see one projected yes projected right okay okay thank you that's the one last
thing in when you mentioned that we have public display day through March
feedback from parents and community that's what we tell the community hey
it's just gonna be online go ahead and review it it's not like they go in and
look at the books themselves it's all online correct both we have it online
line, but then we also have tables of the actual books, the actual teacher materials
that they can come for two weeks during business hours to preview those materials.
And then we also have late nights a couple times during those two weeks in case they
want to come after work.
And do we get teacher input for that?
The curriculum and instruction department during their, with their committees, they
do get teacher input at that time.
Okay. Thank you. Anything else? All right. Thank you so much.
9.6 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the renovation and building addition to Beck Junior High School.
Okay. The next item is 9.6, and now we're moving to the fun stuff, which is with the award-winning
Lisa Kastman, Executive Director, Facilities, Planning, and Construction. Welcome.
Welcome. Thank you.
And if we're talking about at first, we're talking about back Junior High contract renovation and building addition, correct? Correct. So I go to context before I go into that item.
First of all, good evening, President Perez, Trustees, Dr. Gagorski.
So the first five are recommendations for the construction manager at risk for three general contractors.
We use the two-step construction manager at risk process for these selections to better vet the contractors
and make the selections better for the eight proposed projects, which will not sum not commenced until 2027.
This process allowed us to look into the contractor and their team in response to the construction market
and other bond projects in the area.
We've used this method twice before in the 2010 bond and the 2014 bond.
Step one, we evaluate the contractors and their personnel experience, reputation, and
quality of work, and that's 50% of the final score.
That kind of gives us a chance to look at the contractors and not be swayed by the price
and sense, make sure we're getting the best team.
And then from their submissions, we solicit their proposals that include their fee, pre-construction
construction services and general conditions, which accounts for another 30%, and the final
20% is for the interviews.
So we actually interviewed all the contractors, asked them to bring their project superintendents
for the projects that they were going to bid on so we could see who the people are, the
boots on the ground, making sure the personalities worked out and the right experience.
So based on the above, the first recommendation is for Ansel O'Brien for the Beck Junior
High renovation and addition.
They are currently working on a similar footprint at Katy Junior High and have completed work
at west memorial elementary katie high school cte and they did the may creek high school renovation
i had a question about so what is step two step two is when they tell us we want to bid on these
three projects so then they give us what their construction fee is their pre-construction
services and then to make it a level playing field we give them the list of general conditions which
is their staffing their trailer and everyone bids on the same list for one month and that's how we
calculate and come with our cost okay so people are still in the running it in
step two correct others besides the one that one step one the first well with
step one we can recommend up to five contractors to interview and in this
case we recommend it up to three in this case okay all right any questions on
9.6 mr. president miss Fox I know we're just talking about minimal things here
but the Beck junior high renovation will look similar to what's happening at Katie
junior high that's correct thank you
the other questions on 9.6 okay we move on to 9.7 which is May Creek Elementary
9.7 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the renovations to Mayde Creek Elementary School and Sundown Elementary School.
elementary and sundown elementary school.
We are also recommending Ansel O'Brien for these projects based on their similar experience and how they're scoring ranked out.
Okay, any questions on 9.7?
9.8 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the expansion to the Mark L. Hopkins Law Enforcement Center.
And we move on to 9.8 and that is the approval of
contract for the expansion of the Markel Hopkins Law Enforcement Center 9.8.
That's correct.
And that will be the final project that will be awarded to Ansel O'Brien.
Mr. President, as we're looking at all of these renovations of our older buildings,
and it's hard to think of Beck Junior High and Katie Junior High as being older,
but May Creek and Sundown, those things,
when we put our bond committees together
and all of our community comes from every corner of the district
and every zip code and they look at it,
the important piece is not just new schools,
but to take care of the facilities that the community has invested in
and given to us to take care of.
And so seeing these things come through,
they get a little bit of rote memory in them
and they just go through.
but I'm always reminded how much they have entrusted us to take care of our facilities and I'm grateful that they have and that
We're able to do that and just keep going because the renovation is way harder than new construction as we know with people in the building
Had a question a general question do we get concerned that it looks like
Through like just two of these
contractors get like are getting a lot of work that they like the capacity or that they're stressed
too thin no we've got ansel bryant's getting a lot of the work they had the capacity for it and
they had the right personnel steward builders because we're looking ahead you know some of
the superintendents will roll over from a current project to the future project so we've got
experience with that staff so we kind of know what we're getting so we've taken a look at the
schedules their schedules their personnel to make sure everything is
aligned okay there's one there that always loses like I don't know if
there's talking horse or what but they they're always too high you know
sometimes that happens yeah okay I won't mention their names okay we're okay nine
9.9 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the renovations to Hayes Elementary School and McRoberts Elementary School.
point nine is discussed to consider board approval of a contract for the
renovations to hayes elementary and mcrobert's that's correct so we're recommending stewart
builders for that project um they're currently working at single ranch high school and katie
high school band hall as as other projects they have done okay uh any questions on 9.9
yeah mr president i have a question so i have to ask you uh anzalo bryant was awarded the contract
on all these other prior and here it's stewart um and they were actually a little more expensive so
It was just the personnel that presented the interview and the references, because it's
not just always at the dollars.
So remember that first part of the score, we reviewed the proposals, we did our internal
references, we had architect references, they provide us with additional references.
So we average all those scores, get that score from step one, and then step two is when we
did the interviews, and particularly the personnel that they proposed for each individual project.
So it must be specific personnel because all the other projects Ansel Bryant won the bid right?
So here all of a sudden they don't win the bed and they were actually a little cheaper
So it's curious why so you're telling me specific personnel they were presenting just personnel and some of the references for those particular projects
Okay seems an anomaly
Yeah, we looked at a number of times before we made our final conclusion checked all our numbers. Thank you
Thank you anything else on 9.9
9.10 Discuss and consider Board approval of a contract for the expansion to Central Maintenance Facility and renovation to Support Services Complex.
Now we move on to 9.10, of course, and that is expansion to central maintenance facility and renovation of sports services complex.
And that we would like to award to Whiting Turner.
They're currently working on Patterson Elementary.
They're one of our newer contractors, but they've had a lot of experience on large commercial projects in the Houston area.
Any questions?
9.11 Discuss and consider Board approval of a Cost Sharing Agreement for a left turn lane into Cross Elementary School (48) with Harris-Waller County Municipal Utility District (MUD) No. 4.
Okay, 9.11.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Mr. Chairman, do you have a motion to approve the cost sharing agreement for a left turn
lane?
Yes, for elementary, 48 across elementary.
So Waller County MUD is going to be making improvements along Clay Road from Schliff
to Pitts.
And they just said, hey, we're going to be working on that road.
Why should you be putting in a turn lane?
We can take care of that while we're doing our road work.
So that's a better coordination issue for the road.
So that's the agreement with the Waller County MUD.
Okay, great.
Mr. President, I have a question about that.
I think this is awesome and so we can share the cost and all that and get the wider road where we need it I
Know this question probably seems
Silly from your point of view, but did did we try this with when you know?
Fowlton was built and the the problems that we have over there if they mr.
Verily, so, you know because I know that that's been an issue with the commissioner what I don't want to make the Commissioner mad at me
but
it whatever that's seems like it was out of our control but this seems like a good partnership
has that been tried before i can lisa you can jump in clay road is a unique situation but yes ma'am
we've done this and the county's done this even at seven lakes high school they put in a right turn
lane so it sort of depends on the timing what the county wants to do at the time what the project is
um so yes ma'am and we actually uh just met with the county um was it last week a week or two ago
about the Clay Road expansion project,
which they're going to be expanding all of Clay Road.
It should make things a whole lot better.
So we always try to do this.
If the timing works out like Mr. Vierling said.
Because on the Fowlton one, I mean,
I know that we knew about it for a couple years.
Anyway.
It was a scheduling thing with Fowlton.
Okay.
Thank you.
I think this is awesome.
I love it when it works out like that.
We do too.
Yeah.
9.12 Discuss and consider Board approval of the proposal for the chiller replacement at Miller Career & Technology Center and Taylor High School Field House.
9-12.
And this is the children replacement at Miller Career and Technology Center
and Taylor High School Fieldhouse.
And the presenter, thank you so much, Ms. Kastman.
Nathan Fuchs, Executive Director of Maintenance and Operations.
Good evening, President Perez, board members, and Dr. Grigorski.
Tonight I have three items for your consideration.
The first item involves children replacements at Miller Career and Technology Center
and Taylor High School Fieldhouse as part of the 2023 bond component replacement.
This project also includes associated pumps and piping.
Both projects are scheduled for completion by early next year.
Happy to answer any questions you may have for this item.
So I'm just curious.
It says it's not operating efficiently.
Did we plan this part of the 2023 or is it all of a sudden it's just not working efficiently?
No, sir.
It is planned to answer your question.
It goes back to our life cycles that we put in bond, whether it's a chiller, whether it's
a generator, all those components, if you will, roofs, have life cycles.
And that's how when we go through our bond planning, we have a running tally of our district
and do our campus assessments.
We look at what life cycles are and it goes back to that proactive approach that we want
to deal with chillers or roofs before it has that catastrophic failure to avoid disruption to
to students and staff okay so it's in the cycle of yes sir to be done yes sir it may vary you know
depending on when the bond elections come out maybe we may do it ahead of time sometime maybe
a year or two later um we we try to stretch them as long as we can but again we don't want to have
that catastrophic failure okay thanks any other questions mr president you know some people don't
realize how exciting life is of a KDISD trustee that we're talking about chiller replacements
and the principals of those schools and the renovations and the athletic coordinators and
the athletic directors all come to listen to how exciting it is to talk about chiller replacements
and they've worked a long hard day and here they are in case we ask a question so we should
probably try to ask a question for them we won't i promise we won't i'm glad you're here thank you
Okay, thank you very much.
9.13 Discuss and consider Board approval of the contract for the connections of portable classroom buildings at WoodCreek Junior High School and Haskett Junior High School as well as reconfigure computer lab at Haskett Junior High School to accommodate for student growth.
9.13, and you're up again to talk about the contract for the connections of portable classroom buildings at Wood Creek Junior High and Haskett Junior High,
as well as to reconfigure the computer lab at Haskett Junior High School to accommodate for student growth.
To support continued student growth across the district, we are relocating five existing portable buildings from Patterson Elementary.
Two will be placed at Wood Creek Junior High and three will go to Haskett Junior High.
Additionally, the existing computer lab at Haskett will be repurposed to further optimize space within the campus.
Mr. President?
Ms. Champagne?
So is this exciting news for Patterson or what?
That they're getting rid of some of their portables finally?
I'm sure it is, Ms. Champagne.
Whenever we can move portables and either demo them or get them off of a campus, it has to be exciting for that campus.
Because I've been hearing about the portables at Patterson since I've been on the board since 2018.
So I'm so happy for them that they're now down to 15.
I mean, I'm just exaggerating.
I'm glad you said that.
There's not 15 anymore.
more but we actually partnered Nathan and Lisa partnered up on this and helped
use some of the project money we were gonna need to move those portables from
Pattison anyway and so we actually used some of the project money that was they
were gonna move the portables anyway so we're able to utilize that and not spend
as much out of the GOF so it all kind of worked out and also I just I just want
to add mr. Verlander mr. Cooke's who whichever one I've constantly you know
when I was new I'd always ask about portables because this is just one of
the complaints I would hear about is portables all the time but y'all would
always say things or you would always say well we repurp you know they're
expensive but we repurpose them and this is a really good example of that and I
think it's good for the public to see that I think one time you told me that
the portable buildings have a life expectancy of like 30 years or something
like that so they're not just like camper trailers they're real buildings
that can last for a while and that's awesome I think that's really good and I
appreciate your diligence and trying to make sure your team I don't want to get
I don't know who to give the credit to exactly but the team we appreciate it
and if you look at some of the 23 bond projects you'll see that we are adding
brick and mortar square footage on some of these buildings like back junior high
or Katie junior high we would all like to be out of the portable business this
this guy most most of all it's not gonna happen unfortunately not sir it's not
but we're doing what we can to but can I add this one little comment I know
teachers that are in the portable buildings and the a lot of teachers
actually like those portable buildings they like the kind of the autonomy that
they feel like that they have so some teachers might be sad when they lose a
affordable building. Okay, we'll move on to 914, and this is the for approval of an interlocal
9.14 Discuss and consider Board approval of an Interlocal Agreement with Cinco Municipal Utility District No. 7 and Katy Independent School District.
agreement with City Municipal Utility District number 7 and KDISD. Go ahead, Mr. Fuchs.
The last item for your consideration is an interlocal agreement proposed between KDISD
and Cinco Mud number 7 for track repairs at Creech Elementary. Cinco Mud number 7 is
contributing $15,000 toward the project with the remaining funding provided by the campus PTA and
Cinco Mudd number eight. Yeah, yeah. Any other questions? Mr. President, I would just like to
make a comment of someone who used to be on an active PTA at Exley Elementary and we always try
to work with the Mudd and I love again the partnership you know like we found with the
the new school with Cross and everything, and that the PTA is, what is the PTA is contributing
to it too? I don't see. PTA is a little over $9,000, almost $10,000 funded from the PTA portion.
So that's just a bunch of parents who gave a bunch of donations or bought stuff at a carnival.
Way to go, Creech people. That's good. Mr. President. Ms. Teamee. Thank you, Mr. Fuchs and
PTA, Creech PTA for donating and working with the MUD to put this together because this is
going to benefit the whole community over there absolutely mr president ms fox so when cinco mud
seven helped us at creech to build this in in the beginning and then they put that have y'all been
there that great big um roof thing with the basketball and they enhanced all kinds of things
over there they gave a lot of money to a lot of schools that year when they did their bond project
to make that park and all things but um and i might be confusing my muds together but they are
very good to come alongside our schools and help and so i'm like wow the track is already damaged
and needs replacement because that was probably 2002 or so when it built so i'm i'm glad to see
that they're still in it and the creature pta did some and the mud did some and people love it and
the kids go on the track every day when they go to recess they go out they do one lap on the track
and then they get to play wherever they want.
So it's just part of that health and well-being of our children.
It's really great, and I appreciate all of them.
Go preach, PTA.
Mr. President, one last thing.
Ms. Champagne.
So when I was working back then,
what I learned about why the MUD will get involved
is because our playgrounds are seen as community places
for families of the neighborhood and all that.
So as long as it's some kind of,
just just so other people can know like if you're any kind of parent out there
who has a four-year-old and you're about to go to some elementary school just so
you can know that the mud districts will you a lot of times will help you if they
if you can kind of sell it but this is for the community this is for the
neighborhood and it is kind of refreshing to see you know kids from the
neighborhood going and playing on our playgrounds and things and you're right
mr. Shabang we do have a lot of community activities you know doing
on weekends, whether it's athletic related or tracks
around elementary, they utilize a lot.
They are.
All right, thank you very much.
We move on to 915, our last item there.
9.15 Discuss and consider Board approval for the reconfiguration of main campus athletic spaces at Taylor High School to improve student safety and support for student athletes and programs.
And that is to discuss and consider board approval
for the reconfiguration of main campus athletic space
at Taylor High School to improve student safety and support
for student athletes and programs.
And we have Lance Carter, executive director
Athletics and Ruben Martinez, Emergency Management Coordinator. Good evening
President Perez, Dr. Gagorski, and members of the board. Director of Emergency Management, Ruben
Martinez, along with Taylor High School Principal Dr. Melinda Stone and campus
athletic coordinator Chris Baffin are here with me tonight to present for your
consideration the renovation of the athletic wing of the Taylor High School
main campus building. As you are aware, Taylor High School is very unique in its field houses
detached from the main campus, requiring students to exit the main campus, walk along an unfenced
area, and across a parking lot to access the field house. Currently, the field house serves
as the main office for Coach Babin and his athletic secretary, and it houses a large
athletic training facility. This is where our students access care. There are a stream
of students that go back and forth and coaches that go back and forth during the instructional
day to access coach babin the athletic secretary and the athletic training facility it is our
recommendation that we reconfigure a space within the main athletic campus wing coach babin and his
athletic secretary can be housed on the main campus for immediate access to the students and
coaches and a space has been identified to build a larger training room that can accommodate
all indoor sports and eliminate student athletes traveling back and forth
between the main campus building in the field house we are happy to answer any
questions mr. president okay okay this is so exciting but so I go to Taylor a
lot still even though my kids have graduated and I'm a little bit familiar
with Taylor and I know dr. stone is here and I know she's familiar and mr.
Mr. Morgan's are there.
But anyway, from what I see in Taylor, it doesn't seem like there is extra room in there.
So y'all somehow found something inside Taylor, the existing building, to move that?
Because that's kind of a large building over there.
No, we're not moving the entire field house inside.
Okay.
We're asking for a renovation that would incur building, creating Coach Babin and his secretary a space.
Creating a new space?
Reconfiguring a space within the actual athletic wing of the building.
Okay.
And reconfiguring an equipment room to make a larger, in the main building, athletic training facility.
And then what's going to happen to the field house?
No, it's still there for football games or your games. We're not discontinued. Just during the day. So you're just talking about the day disconnect. I'm not having the athletic coordinator, his secretary.
So their offices are going to be made. Exactly. Their offices are going to be in the main building. Okay. So, and we're building a new training room.
We're recreating an equipment room that's currently an equipment room and repurposing it to make a larger training facility inside the main building.
Is it a weight room?
Sorry?
Could it include a weight room, for example? Is it a weight room?
No, it's an equipment room right now.
Equipment, no, but what's it going to be?
Training room.
A training room.
I'm sorry, athletic training. It's where our athletes are diagnosed for injuries, treated for injuries, and rehabbed for injuries.
Okay.
So everyone, if you can just picture that every athlete from any sport other than football has to travel to the main field house, which is the detached field house presently, to receive any of that treatment.
Okay.
That's a big deal.
That's a big deal.
Mr. President.
Ms. Teamee.
As a Taylor High School alumni, I am so happy about this.
I cannot tell you how many friends I had to travel through a parking lot of gravel to go get training or, you know, to go see the trainer and to get rehab during the day.
So this is going to help with classroom time and not interfering with instruction.
I see great value.
in this thank you for putting this together i think this is um long overdue so i'm very excited
about it and i appreciate all of your efforts well it's a big vision of their campus principal and
their campus leadership congratulations it's a big leadership from her yes thank you for doing that
mr president ms carzella and i'm a parent with students at taylor high school um is there is
there like a was there a safety concern that now we're a little tighter on students is that why
you're at this desk no ma'am part of the rationale here is uh first and foremost the walking across
long distances and across uh unsafe areas for instance some of these students actually injured
to have to go all the way across parking lots and whatnot exactly and so taking that in consideration
but ultimately bringing the majority of the training requirements for all the students and
as you can envision taylor high school right now you've got the sports coming from the field house
all the way across to the other other side of the street and so bringing all
those students and being given them that ability to stay in it's going to reduce
the number of in and out of the doors so you can understand it from our
perspective of safety security it's keeping it inside and decreasing the
amount of usage of doors going in and out so that'll so it is a benefit in
that I'm getting it absolutely and then indoor sports can still use the
field house all right because there's quite a bit of equipment at the field
house machine weights and I mean we're still gonna have traffic going back and
Right. This is just like what Ruben said. This is to eliminate the in and out all day long.
Where, you know, for five periods a day, you're going to have access to your trainer because you're going to know he's going to be in that indoor training room.
On the main campus.
You bet.
That's the main focus is for the trainer and you to have an office on campus.
And access to both of them.
Okay.
Thanks, Mr. President. I'd like to also add, if you look at the, for the public, can the public see this?
It's on Ford Docks?
Anyway, if you've ever been to Taylor, you can see that you have to walk across also the parking lot,
and even you're dealing with young drivers and all that.
And, you know, especially in that freshman center, just so people can know, you know,
I remember selling pizza over there and that back door, and I've always brought that back door up to Mr. Veerling,
that, you know, it's in and out, in and out, in and out all day long, it seems like.
So this is really going to be a cut down on that.
At any given time during the school year, our trainers in a week can see upwards of 225 to 250 student athletes through the training room.
You're going to drastically reduce that number that aren't going across that facility.
Yeah.
Well, since you all said it, I'm going to say that my kids went to Taylor High School.
What idea, Dr. Smith?
When I was in high school, we weren't allowed to get hurt.
Mr. President.
Any other questions?
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
I'm the only one here.
She's not a Taylor mom.
This school board, not this one, but the school board used to sit here,
made my kids go to two different high schools.
So I have double my heart's sinkhole in Seven Lakes.
So I have a question.
Where is it going to be?
What part of the school are you going to put?
Did you find room?
It's in the board.
There was like a diagram.
Oh, found it.
Found it. There it is. Yes, ma'am. It's an executive content. We, we, because of the floor plan, we don't put it in public, but we're happy to answer any of those questions as well. Oh, I see. That's a very good place for it. Okay, good. Okay. And I, the training room sounded like a weight room. I agree with Mr. Mr. President's. Okay. We're, we're not, I'm not an athlete. I don't know if you could tell.
So, but I do know that the trainer is there, so will there be equipment like the cold plunge and the hot tub and all the tables where you do the leg lifts and the rehab kind of thing, right?
I believe that's also in your documents.
Oh, it is.
Well, and so those are the kinds of things that will happen here, and then a tiny office for the new coach and his secretary will get the big office.
Got it.
Okay, thanks. I agree. I think it's a great idea. It's a long way across that parking lot. I didn't know where the field house was, so this is going to be excellent. Good idea. Thanks.
All right. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
We're at 10.1. The board has received the quarterly investment report, and also the donated items list is provided to the board.
10. Information Items
Madam Secretary, have we captured any requests from the board?
Yes, Mr. President.
Trustee Fox wanted the data on fights, how often they happen, and what levels of discipline were given.
We'll really lack a future presentation that would help our community understand that,
so we'll work that into wherever you and the superintendent thinks it belongs.
I have a question, Mr. President.
of will we have the report next week
on the teacher planning time committee
and what they found,
and will that report come next week?
I think there's going to be
some sort of agenda item for that.
Oh, okay.
So we'll hear who was there,
what was decided,
and the plan, that kind of thing?
Yeah, I think there was a meeting,
Ms. Teamey and Ms. Cuzela
and Ms. Champagne attended that.
Okay, so we'll hear about that presentation.
Okay, thank you.
11. Future Meetings
And, okay, so our regular board meeting
is April 22nd, 2025,
because Monday is Easter Monday,
and so that's a holiday,
and so we'll have our meeting on Tuesday,
and there being no further business with the board,
this meeting is adjourned,
and the time is 743.
Thank you.
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