BOND COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN 2013:

It would be interesting to know how many people were invited to be on this committee. [Since writing this piece, I have discovered that 100+ people were invited to serve on this committee (John Eberlan statement in the Houston Chronicle October 30, 2013.)] Forty-three people are listed below as that is the number I received in an open records request. [I'm guessing 57 of them didn't accept the invitation because they are wise to the District's penchant for using people on committees to rubber stamp their plans!] 

Eleven of them only showed up for one meeting.  No minutes were taken of the meetings! (They didn't want to have to share the agenda.) Some of these people have no listing on the Internet, in a local phone book, on ZabaSearch or People Smart.  Makes me wonder if they really exist! It is my opinion that this committee was convened quite some time AFTER the school district had begun to put out in press releases a great deal of information about what was "needed" in the way of bond projects.  Only after I made pointed remarks about the fact that they had forgotten to convene a committee did they do so!

Citizens should realize that a bond committee is taking over the responsibility that voters gave to elected Board members--i.e., to make decisions themselves for all of us. (Our school board is a "representative" government.  We elect each individual to "represent" each of us in the electorate.  They are not a "Team of Eight" nor are they supposed to delegate their authority to others.  It's mindless what they are doing, and no one, besides me, is out there calling their hand on what they are doing!) The committee then becomes subject to open records and open meetings laws.  The meetings of this committee should have been posted as required.  No way for me to know if that happened. It is also interesting to me that sometimes some of the board members do not even attend the committee meetings!  I guess they think they are too good to do so!

Jinny Breedlove   

Works for Planned Community Management, Inc--a company that manages HOA's.

Active in parent organization at Morton Ranch High School

Keith Carmichael*

Administrative Pastor at Second Baptist Church-Katy

David Carp

Member of the law firm Herzog & Carp

Robert Carpenter*

Editor of a Journal

Helped pass previous KISD bonds

John Curry

BP America, Director of Community Affairs

Phillip Dautrich

Member of the Katy High School Class of 1987

Tim Dietz

Leasing Analyst; defeated in the 2013 school board election by Joe Adams

Scott Doyle*

Local Katy businessman (wife is now on the Katy ISD school board)

John Eberlan

IT "project leader"

Frequent supporter of all things KISD

Diana Robinson Elder

Daughter of L. D. Robinson, former Katy High School vocational teacher

Will Fitzgerald

 
Laura Freeman

President of Morton Ranch Junior High PTA

Pete Gavrel

Katy ISD Educational Foundation President, CPA

Chip Hall

Fundraiser for the Taylor High School FFA

Tommy Harrison*

Dentist in the Katy area

Lana Henderson

Greg Henry*

Website Developer

Ella Howard

Katy ISD Teacher

Gary Johnson

President of the KISD Livestock Show and Rodeo

Matt Kainer

President Tompkins High School FFA Booster Club

Becky Latta

Husband is KISD teacher

Shani Matheson

Activist parent at Beckendorff Junior High, PTA president Alexander Elementary

Joe Miller

Lise Monahan

Mike Outlaw

VP at Kinder Morgan

Susan Patrick

Friend of Chris Crockett
Dave Perkins

Member of the Katy High School Athletic Booster Club

Ryan Prater

Pastor of Cross Community Church and former college football player

Scott Reid

Patti Richardson

Heather Sanders

Katy ISD Employee;   Promise to Read Coordinator

Scott Sheinfeld

Owner of MinuteMan Press in Katy

Steve Shurn

Wanted International Baccalaureate School at Wolfe Elementary

Jan Silliman

Attendance Clerk at Taylor High School;  KISD employee

Jane Smith

Maria Sobarzo

Gynecologist practicing in Katy area

Tom Specht

Environmental Specialist

Gerard Tafallo

Technology specialist at Alief ISD

Robert Van Pelt

Former member of the Harris County Sheriff's Department

Doug White

Craig Wilder

Former Katy High School football team member and father of child on KHS football team

Katrina Williams

Editor at Katy Magazine

Christianna Woods

Helps manage the Woods rice farm in Katy, TX

Asterisk indicates member who has served on at least one previous bond committee.