Photo by Nick CenegyTrue to form, the district began its series of 14 scheduled citizen bond committee meetings by sending the 200-person committee to bond school April 3 and April 16 at the district's Education Support Complex. The meetings are an effort to enlist input from the citizen committee, meant to represent the diverse interests in the district, on a potential bond election in November 2014.
"It was a great turnout," Katy ISD spokeswoman Denisse Cantu said. "There were over 200 people in attendance, including some observers."
The "core committee" consists of 100 residents. An additional 100 alternates were selected and have been attending the meetings, filling in for absent members of the core group and periodically participating in discussions. Both groups were selected in March from more than 600 applicants. The citizen committee members were chosen by a group of board members and district administrators.
District organizers tried to select a group that represented a wide swath of the community, including people who live in Katy but have no children, retirees, a variety of parents with students in the district, business owners, and a diverse group of other stakeholders, Cantu said.
