Welcome everybody to our board meeting and we're going to jump right to Billy. All right. Well, we have it's been I feel like we just keep having firsts and it blows my mind because it's not like we're a young organization. Uh we're not a spring chicken, but uh it feels like it lately. Uh because we're celebrating another first for Scott County High School and Scott County schools. The first ever KHSAA state tennis champion, Sydney Zachic. Congratulations. Now, I'm going to say a little bit about her before we have her come up. Sydney has been a standout member of the Scott County varsity tennis team since 8th grade, qualifying for the KHSAA state tournament every year and earning multiple all region and all state honors. As a team captain and multi-year MVP, she led by example both on and off the court. Her senior season was especially memorable as she went undefeated, won the region 11 singles title, and captured the KHSAA state championship in singles. Throughout her career, Sydney progressed each year with consistent success. She was a state quarter finalist in doubles as an eighth grader, a regional semi- finalist, in singles as a freshman, sophomore, and junior. and finished her senior with regional and state titles. She also competes in USA tournaments and other competitive events throughout the year. Looking ahead, Sydney will cons continue her tennis career at Northern Kentucky University while pursuing her undergraduate and law degrees through ENKU's accelerated 3 plus3 program. Sydney is coached by Julie Penn, who's here with us this evening as well. And we'd be rem remiss to not express our appreciation to coach Penn as well uh for her ongoing support, leadership, and encouragement of Sydney on her journey to the state championship. So, let's start with Sydney. Why don't you come on up? Let me present you with a challenge point. Let's get Let's get coach up here, too. Let's get coach up here. [Laughter] I can't do it without you. [Laughter] Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations. Thank you for joining us this evening. Number five, public comment, Mr. Dwayne Ellison. Whatever. Let's go. Um, you robed on here. You're required to come and sit and talk. Uh, according we we don't take fakes. Please come on up, Mr. Ellison. Do you want them up here? You want them up? No. No. All right. Okay. Well, thank you for that. I'll work it in. Number six, consent agenda items 6A through 6H. Salute. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number seven, student achievement report. Right. So, before we move into the IR um data, I just wanted to go over quickly um the 2526 professional development plan. Um and the reason I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time because we um we survey all of our teachers every year and we've gotten really good feedback as well as really great suggestions on um how we can maybe shift the system we already have. Um, so not a whole lot has changed, but as always, you know, 24 hours are required by the Kentucky Department of Education. Um, and so for this year, that will look like one day for PD Palooa, which I know you're familiar with. Um, in addition, one day for the district for the, uh, leader and me core 2 training and then, um, so that takes up all of the 12 hours that the district requires. That leaves 12 hours, um, for school discretion. So that's their opening day things. Um some of them uh give PD credit for after school uh PLC meetings, things of that nature. Um and then as you all are familiar, our cohort system um which is built in for our collab days. And so our teachers come together um in a cohort that they choose with their principal to get individualized um individualized professional development. So like our librarians come together, our PE teachers, art teachers, English teachers, etc. Um, and so that is lined out. And then as always, just for yourformational purposes, we have other great programs that we um provide around teacher leader development, our aspiring leaders program, the work we do with our school administration um to to help uh them go through the work, our AP cadre, and then again um how we monitor. So, I just wanted to put that in front of you, look over it, and um let me know if you have any questions, but not a whole whole lot has shifted. So, now the star of the show, Wendy and I Ready data. That's a lot of pressure right there. All right. So, good evening. Tonight we are going to be discussing I Ready Diagnostic Data Endofear review. The very first slide is just a reminder that this is valid data. Uh this is the percentage of students that completed each test, reading and math. And then also minimal amount of rush flags, which is an achievement in itself if you can get students not to rush through the diagnostic. So it just shows we have a valid data set. The first set of data we're going to be looking at is in uh quadrant charts. And so just to review for these charts, the top portion of that, if you are above the blue dotted line, that is high growth. If you have a score that is plotted below that line, that is low growth. Now the blue dotted line is if a grade level or a school met 100% toward their typical growth score. So we want to be at the line or above. If we are to the right that is high performance and then if we are to the left that is low performance. So that'll make more sense as we look at the data but that just kind of breaks down that chart. The first set of data we're looking at would be from math and this is for grade levels. So here we can see that all of our grade levels excluding two are at that the goal line there of meeting their typical growth. So they are in the high growth quadrant um excluding third and fourth grade. However, I had to break it down and see okay well what was third and fourth grade and it was at 96%. So again very close to meeting at that line. When we look at math for school data, we can see that all of our schools are either at the line or above and they fall into the high growth quadrant. And I also want to point out if they are in the top and to my right, that's not just high growth, that's also high performance. So I think that's another thing to really note as you look. Absolutely. So when we break this down a little bit more, there's a couple of celebrations that we want to highlight. One of those being Georgetown Middle School. So they have 123% toward their typical growth goal, which is amazing. And then G Elementary had 122% toward their typical growth goal. You go back really quick. And also I want to point out um so this is mathematics and as you know uh this was year one of implementation of the new HQIR in mathematics as well as the pilot here for the middle schools. We had two schools that piloted um Georgetown Middle School being one of them. This was in year two of them them using the HQIR. So I think it really is telling. I can't wait because you know how trying something new out is you're trying to figure it out and navigate. So I can't wait until we get to year two and year three of implementing that file which I think you're going to see in reading. Excuse me. Just real quick. Eleanor, could you try to switch off this bank of lights? I got a complete glare. Thank you. Thank you. I can't see. We want you to be able to see. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, it was a complete glare from these two lights. So, thank you so much. Is this okay, everybody? young center. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a reason why? Oh, no. Okay. So, the ones on the right is high performing, high growth. The one on the left is low performing but high growth. Yes, ma'am. Okay. And also the um to be high performing, you need to be at 50. So, you can see Ann Mason was at 49. They were almost over there in that high performance high growth. And all of them are at least at a minimum in the 40. Yes. um uh 40% performance. So so definitely seeing that trend towards that high performance hybrid. So to speak to Stephanie's point about being in year two of implementation here we can see year two of magnetic reading um and also common lit 360 which some of our um which all of our middle schools have. So we are looking at reading now and this is grade level um grade levels and so you can see that we are almost all in the high performing high growth area. Um kindergarten is right in the middle and so kindergarten is still considered high growth high performance because it's right at that 50th percentile 100% met toward typical growth. Um, first grade again, I wanted to see what their percentage of typical growth was, and that was 97%. So, they're right on that line. When we look at the school data, It's a median score for this. So if we took all first graders who took the test and lined them up, the middle score, the middle student would have been at 97%. Yes. No. No. Yeah. Absolutely. So, so that means from the middle student and up they all Yes. So, when we look at our schools, all of our schools are well into the high growth area. Um, most of them falling into that high performance quadrant as well. Again, we want to highlight Georgetown Middle School here because their median score here is 66% toward typical growth. And Southern Elementary, we know that they've gotten a lot of attention from us. Um, and super excited. Yes. And and Mason just And then over in the high performance area, Scott County Middle School, when you're already performing at a high level, sometimes it's even harder to meet that typical growth. and they are still meeting that median score 167%. Toward typical growth. So typical growth and stretch growth are two different things. Typical growth is what we want a student to achieve that shows they have made a year's worth of growth. Stretch growth is when they meet a certain goal that is above that that I already says okay if you are two or more grade levels below if you meet your stretch growth in 2 years you can be up to grade level so that is an ambitious goal um we want or I ready says that 70% of most grade levels should be achieving that typical growth goal for stretch growth that falls around 30%. % 30 to 35. So we're back to math here again. This is year one of I ready classroom math and we can see that we have pockets that are getting close to that 70% toward typical growth and then pockets who are already at the 30% for stretch growth. um specifically that K12 area. And then for reading, we can see that second through fifth grade, they're already or almost at that 70% goal. So, we have set some more ambitious goals for for those set of students. Um, and they are already meeting that stretch growth for 2 through 5th, but also sixth, 7th, and eighth are all right at that line for stretch. So, we're going to switch gears a little bit and look at relative placement levels. Um, you guys are familiar with this, but we only talk about it a couple of times a year. So the dark green is mid or above grade level. The light green is early on grade level. Yellow would be one grade level below. Light red would be two grade levels below. And then the dark red would be three or more grade levels below. We're going to look at math first. So from the fall to the spring, we were able to increase our green placement from 20% to 54%. We were able to decrease the red relative placement from 28% down to 13%. From spring to spring, we're looking very similar. So last spring to this spring, I will um say that in cautioning you from looking from last year to this year the norms for I already ch change. So it's not an exact um yeah comparison. So just just be aware of that as as that because those when we compare ourselves to the nation in the state we are um outscoring in the green relative placement. So in the nation they had 47% of students score in the green at the state level 48% and then Scott County was at 53%. The national level for red placement was 20 at the state 18 and then we are down to 13%. So overall we are um scoring better than the nation and the state. Looking at the same data in reading from fall to spring, we were able to move our green placement from 34% to 61%. And then decrease the red relative placement from 28% to 15%. We like that graph with all the green. And then again, spring to spring, it looks very similar. Um, however, we were able to move the green placement from 59% to 61%. And comparing nation, state, and district, at the national level, they had 51% of students scoring in the green placement. at the state level 55 and then we were able to score 61. Um we were able to be lower in the red relative placement. So from 23 at the nation the national level uh 19 at the state level and then down to 16 for Scott County schools. So how do we support students? Stephanie talked to you a little bit about our plan for professional learning. This is just a couple of other little things to keep in mind um for for teachers. Yes. Sorry, did I say students? So, we are going to be um continuing with I Ready Classroom Math. We're going to be in year two for that next year and we know our teachers are going to need that extra support. So, all elementary schools are going to receive three dedicated PLC days with an I Ready professional learning um representative there that can answer their specific questions that can go over data with them and really kind of tailor their professional learning to their needs for that program. We are going in full implementation of illustrative math at the middle school level and algebra 1. And so the teachers that are going to be a part of that will also have support through our cohort system. We also have Kentucky numerousy counts um which this is an opportunity through the state of Kentucky. There is an admin academy and there is a teacher academy. And so luckily we have um 28 teachers that applied and were accepted to be a part of the uh numerousy counts academy that KCM is going to be putting on which is great professional learning and we have two admin and myself that will be um participating in the Pimser admin academy. So, we're very excited about that continued professional learning. And then we will continue with common lit 360 for middle school. And then just continuing best practice professional learning for math and reading through PD Palooa like small groupoup instruction, continued I already support, other best practice strategies like thinking maps um that CKC is doing training on and then cohorts. Any questions? Very excited. Yeah, thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. Okay. Number eight, approve emergency certification for 8A through 8F as submitted. So move second. All in favor? I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Number nine. Approve to create the following positions 9A and 9B as submitted. Move to approve. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 10, first reading for the 2025 2026 KSBA board's policy updates. And while this one requires no action, I did want to make sure um that I expressed to you all the turnaround time on these. Um it's always tight. Um and I think Josh could agree with that that you know, I think it was the Friday right around graduations or I think was the was the day that we got these sent to us by KSBA. um you know and here we are two week not even two weeks later um there are I can go on and tell you I've poured over it uh Josh has seen some I've seen some where there's some just small clerical kind of situations to address but there's also some other things too so I just wanted you all to know that um as far as the way the first readings are I would expect some um some changes to these I know Miss Nelson Miss Nelson had shared that um you know she wanted to she had some questions about some. So I and if you've got questions about any of them or you want to talk about any of them um please feel free to to uh to reach out. It's what 180 some pages. I want to say 189 but I don't it's it's a lot. It's a lot. Um but um but but again what we've also found too is that this when I started being a part of the process um well one it wasn't nearly as many pages and it wasn't nearly as um uh it seemed like everything was more black and white like you get it and it was pretty clear that this is what it what it was going to be and you just had to you know okay this how is this going to impact us these are the things we need to make sure we're doing. Now it's a okay well for instance Senate Bill 181 the traceable communication piece is incredibly complex. Um it's a very um very difficult piece of legislation. Um there are questions we still have about it even seeing the policies that we still don't have answers to. So um and and depending on who you talk to, you'll get a different answer. So, we've got a meeting set up, me and Maria have a meeting set up with Josh next week to talk through um the questions we have to try and get one to see there might be some things I would imagine where he can just very easily this is this this is that this is this there may be some where he needs to take some time to look at it and give us um give us his thoughts after he's reviewed it because it again it's a incredibly complicated piece of legislation. Um, an example that came to the forefront for me today is we have an employee for us who has a private business. His private business employs some people that are students. Well, he can't communicate with them through the illegal methods, but he also can't use the methods that we have for school purposes because it's not school purposes. It's his own private purposes. And there's issues with with that. So, so there's just there's things like that that that just And again, I don't I don't want any I'm not at all trying to put any blame on uh on anyone on this because um I think it's as people have gotten into it. I think there's some little tweaks that can make some big movement on making that better. But that's the kind of stuff we're dealing with with this one. I think it's a lot of unintended speed bumps, if you will. Yeah. Um but we can work through it. And the reality is, you know, your policies aren't due to the state, even though you want to take care of them as soon as possible till August. So, we've got time if there's some serious bumps to to work them out. And hopefully not, but um with Senate Bill 181, there there will be we will have to have action beyond the policy where we will approve some platforms that will be that we'll consider a part of our system. Um, and so, uh, unfortunately because of the timing of all of this, it takes effect June 27th. Um, and you'd think, okay, well, we've got time. Well, we do for school, but we don't for athletics. So, we myself, uh, well, Maria's pulled together a team. She's done a phenomenal job with all of that. But then from that, you know, we've had some other meetings and we are at a point where um we're going to make some recommendations in the next few days towards our staff as simple ways to to get through the coming the coming time period before we're able to get those approvals done. Um you know, we may have a reason for a special call meeting. So, it might be in a week or so we'll come together and we'll have uh had enough time with Josh to talk through that piece in particular to where we can come come with with a little bit more information on that. But, um it just every year it seems like these become just more complicated. We'll work through it. We'll get through it. King, but these suggestions were given to us. We did not have to change them. Uh well so in yeah that what they what they do is they essentially take the law and they say how can we apply this to your existing policy or do you need need a policy that would So when I read the like the red word get whatever color words it was given to us we didn't have to correct so KSBA does this for you all and virtually every other school district every year they take the new laws that went into effect both at state and federal level they look at your existing policies this is their policy service for who and then when you see the red lines come in, that's their recommended updates to the policies. But every time it's not that they're in there trying to meddle, they're saying to bring your policies up to speed with the law. These are changes we're saying we're asking you to adopt. Let me give you an example too that so there's one where it pulls in our graduation requirements and there's some tweaks and changes there but there's something like within it we didn't catch it and it still refers to Phoenix as uh Cardinal Academy I think or so Phoenix Academy or basically it doesn't refer to it as the accurate name that we use today they didn't catch that but that's something we would also want to change while we're in there right your your alternative placement policy is a good example though of every now and then you do something that's just individual to and staff prepares some recommendations and those get put in with the same mix because it's t is the season, right? So, um but by and large this is from KSBA as legal recommended updates. So, anyway, just just just so you aware there there, you know, there's not any changes beyond what was provided to us, but expect that there will be for the next time. And I I again I maybe one where I'll walk through you know page by page. Yeah. To where you all can so we don't have to adopt their wording necessarily we can tweak it or Yeah. But bear in mind when they give suggested wording nine times out of 10 actually higher than nine times out of 10 they're giving you wording directly from the new statute the new regulation. So it's not like there's a lot of wiggle room if any on most of these things they're sending you. what they're sending you is something to match this this new statute or the new regulation that came across. Usually the places where you have wiggle room are if it's something that it's if it's a staff rather than a KSBA recommendation because staff is saying this policy would work better for us if we did XYZ. Again, your alternative placement policy is a great example, right? We need some flexibility on some age parameters for alternative placement. We know in Scott County this works better for us. So they, you know, in the mix this year is is some updates relative to that. That's a good example. But from KSBA, they're not getting into things um typically that are are judgment calls. They're they're sending you things that are legally necessary. Everybody's good. Any questions? Sorry, lot to lot to say on that one. Well, there's a lot to there's a lot to take in on the particular something. Okay. Okay. Number 11, approval of the certified evaluation plan C and the forms and performance standards for the 2025 2026 school year. Some move. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. And this is an example where thank you Frank uh for the work on this um bringing the CP together. This ties specifically to some of the policies that we'll see that we will officially change here in the next few months. Number 12, approve service agreement with Spectrum and Scott County Board of Education for phone services. So move. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 13, approve data use agreement between MPT Impact Solutions LLC and the Scott County Board of Education. So move. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 14, approve transportation agreement between Scott County Board of Education and Bright Horizons Children's Center LLC. So move. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. I just have one question about that. Uh Mr. When did they change the name to Bright Bright Horizon? Excuse me. Well, so actually I have some very um indepth knowledge on this. Um, I actually used to work at the Toyota Child Development Center 20 some years ago and my knowledge it's always been Bright Horizons is kind of the corporate name over it. Kind of like I think LifePoint may be the name for like Georgetown Hospital kind of that kind of thing. It's always been that but it's you know it's l you know officially locally known as Toyota Child Development Center. Yes. From Toyota. Okay. I'm sorry but I just No, great question. Okay. Number 15. Approve rental agreement between Kentucky Horse Park and Scott County Board of Education to rent North the North Exhibit Hall for the Great Crossing High School from 2026. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 16. Review and approve student fees and charges as of June 13, 2025. Move to approve. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Number 17. Approve renewal and rates for school insurance and workers compensation for fiscal year 2026. Some move. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Number 18. Approve renewal of purchased meals to Jersey Mike for fiscal year 2026. Move to approve. Second. All in favor? I I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Number 19. Approve renewal of clothing bid to Surge Promotions Incorporated and Continental Sewing Service for fiscal year 2026. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 20. Approve renewal of fire extinguisher service bid to Landmark Sprinklers Incorporated for fiscal year 2026. Move. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 21, approve renewal of award and trophy bid to Don's and Crown Trophy for fiscal year 2026. So move. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 22, approve renewal of printing bid to the UPS store for fiscal year 2026. So move. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 23, approve renewal of towing service bid to A to B towing for fiscal year 2026. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 24, approve renewal of transportation parts bid to Bluegrass International Void Company, George J. Hurst and American Bus and its accessories for fiscal year 2026. So moved second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 25, approve renewal of flooring supply bid to OSER paint and flooring for fiscal year 2026. So move. Second. All in favor? I those opposed. Motion carries. Number 26, approves section six carryover request for fiscal year 2026. Move to approve. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 27, approve 2025 capital funds. Third request. Move. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 28, approve donation report for January 1st, 2025 through June 12th of 2025. So move. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 29, approve surplus items as submitted. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Gina number 30, financial statements. kind of had a quick turnaround this time, but we got it done. It was a quickie. Um, you have uh before you uh the summary of cash activity for May 2025. Our beginning uh balances were 47.4 million. We had receipts of 40.5 million. That does include the bond sale for Oxford Elementary. You can see that listed under the construction fund of 32.6 million. We had expenses of 10.5 million, leaving our ending cash balance at 77.4 million. Of that, we still have 7.1 million invested with um a separate bank for the Scott County High School project, leaving our ending cash balance in our depository of 70.3 million. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Number 31, approve current bills. Move. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 32, superintendent presentation of capstone. The light. All right, let's make sure I'm driving. I am driving. All right. Awesome. So, um, the thorn I'm just going to jump into it because that's how I roll. Um, the the thorn in my side of ROC is still on there. It was on there as last year's next steps. I I griped about how I struggled with it then and I've still struggled with it. Um, fortunately, we are leveraging the colonel, um, Mr. Brent or Dr. Brent Allen, excuse me, um or whatever you want to call him. He's a man of many titles. Um we're leveraging his leadership here and um we have a plan at least. It's not we're not to the finish line where I can say we can check that box, but we have a plan for this to where we'll have this ready to go um by October at at least one of our high schools. So, I'm really excited about that one. Um but otherwise really when you when you think about the other things that we had as next steps um you know and this goes to conversations I've had with a lot of people conversations I had with with Mike Davis uh recently um and and some of some of my team and and just I'll have people from other districts come up to me and they just they're like, "Man, you all are just killing it." And everybody sees Scott County as as a great place to be. Um, you know, we Renee was with me at uh graduation and we had a student recite basically the the you know, the the vision of best place in the world to live and learn for everyone. Like, and she was just like, "Oh my gosh." I was like, "Well, I say it enough. I'm sure you know, everybody can pick up on that." But but the reality is I don't think you could point to one particular thing and say, "That's it. That's the ticket." It's it's just a combination of us continuing to try and go in the right direction every single day. um and and make sure one one it's making sure we address the things that that um you know find ways that we need to improve. On the other hand too, it's trying to find ways that we're making sure that we address the issues that need to be addressed and we we we demonstrate leadership where we need it and when when there needs to be hard conversations, we have them. Um because that's that's a whole another part of it, too. Um it it you know if I've always used the analogy of lowest hole in the bucket. If you if you don't address the lowest hole in the bucket, the water's still flowing out of that hole. But if you start addressing the lowest hole in the bucket, before you know it, your lowest hole is halfway up the bucket and you got quite a load of water in there. So um again, I think that this has been just a variety of things that we have done. And again, these are all things the evidence items are all things that we've talked about through the course of the year. um you know on this on this first with strategic leadership uh you know the 4T Academy there's some talk on there about 4T Academy that's been an amazing partnership um I I think that's one that that everyone that's been a part of that one has been impressed and pleased with on a later slide you'll see where you know again I've talked about Warren County they their chamber of commerce and their school district met with us because they want to emulate that with a different uh business partner um the refinement and development of the Georgetown Leadership Academy. We got some people in the room here that uh that you all have helped us uh in in that and and appreciate that. And then I always, you know, I continue to to really appreciate the LEC funding that we have. I had a parent reach out to me last night late just out of nowhere and they said, "Hey, uh just wanted you know to know my son, he works for a company, a pharmaceutical sales type company. Um and um they were at I think it was Central Baptist. It was a hospital in Lexington and they were um getting ready to go into and do a surgery and there were nine uh individuals that were going to be a part of that surgery because his son is a Scott County School student. He knew he said, "Dad, nine of the nine students, five of those students went to ECS at the biomed pathway." And just right. I mean, I blew me away because I was like, that's the kind of information, you know, that's the anecdotal kind of information that you you don't it's it's hard to get your hands on and it's hard to grasp. Um, but that I thought is uh the kind of stuff that just just speaks to the importance of of that lay funding because I I know, you know, from talking to the kids and seeing what we're doing, that kind of stuff, that high level stuff costs money and the things we've been able to do over the years with that is super important. So, I continue to make sure that one, we we we leverage what we've got in place with our legislators so they understand the importance. Um, but but two, to make sure that we're being fiscally responsible with those funds that we get. Uh, next instructional. Oh, wait. I got pictures, too. There you go. So, there was a 14. And some of these things it blows my mind because like and you know and thank you to Renee for helping pull these pictures together and and put this all neat and pretty and I'm I'm like gosh that was this year you know these things they yes they it feels like that was four years ago. So instructional leadership you know this is one where I'm going to go on and go straight to the pictures on here because they're fun. Um, so you know, the Gar Gateway projects are that was one that that happened relatively recently. And then the Lemons Mill Amazing Shake. You know, again, I' I've shared with you all before too that second time around um visiting schools this spring, it was centered around what are you doing with profile of a learner and leader and me. You know what was neat about Lemon's Mill is they had other schools visit to see how it how it went. This was year two for them. It was better than year one. I mean, year one was great, but it was better than year one. We've got some people in the room that have knowledge with with how that went as well. Um, but that was uh that was that was great. I talked to a teacher yesterday at Educon who um who was from Creek Side that said, "Hey, we were really impressed with what we saw. We're looking forward to to pulling that off next year." That that's been that's been an amazing uh program that that we've seen in our schools. And we've seen it. It's been something that everybody has gotten behind. Um, PD Palooa, we always make that make that fun. Um but but the good thing about PD Palooa is um you know I meet with Mike Davis and we discuss opportunities for growth across the district um every month and oftent times we'll have situations that come up where um you know it's it's people wanting choice and PD and different things but because he's so connected to seeing what we're doing and we talk about it so often you know oftent times the questions and comments take care of themselves because you know he's like oh I can answer that one because I know what we do and I know we have opportunities and choice and and cohorts that we get to work with. So, um, kudos to Stephanie and her team, too, for for all the work that they put into making sure that we've got a a just a really strong professional development, professional learning plan, Root Cross America Day at Ann Mason as well. Cultural leadership, um, you know, cultural leadership, Billy Hicks, uh, gym dedic dedication was one of many things on that on that list. Again, I mentioned the 4T discussions at with Warren County. Um G at Georgetown, the Georgetown Police Department and G came together and and with Fort Academy and did a bike build giveaway in conjunction with Christmas time. It was awesome. Again, that's just kind of an overlap and connection between u between some other some other categories there. And then for me, um, it wasn't anything super spectacular or fancy, and in some ways it was easier than what we had done in years past, but the retirement celebration that we did this year, again, I think I talked about it recently, just felt really good. Um, I think we've we've we've hit the mark on it. And and I think that's something too that um I continue to feel better about what we're doing because when we don't hit the mark on stuff, everybody on our team understands and sees that they have that freedom, one to try new things, two when it doesn't hit the mark to make those adjustments and and everybody's working together and synergizing to really uh focus in and make things better. This year's retirement celebration, I think, really just it was just it was perfect, I think. Um, so we'll we'll continue down that path next year with a couple of small of small tweaks with it. Um, there's Billy Hicks gym dedication and then all Newsmakers always I love that's one of my favorite that's one of my favorites. He makes it Bill Bryant makes it great. Um, always throws you some curveballs you're not expecting, but um, yeah, good good time and gives us an opportunity to really present about what all we have going on in Scott County. human resource leadership. Um, you know, again, this was one where um I talked to Mr. Picker recently and and he's planning on being a part of uh one of our student achievement reports in the upcoming year because of the pilot program that you all provided with the after school tutoring at Georgetown Middle School. Um, and helping to share like, hey, here here's the numbers. This is what we saw to where you all can see that return on investment that we got there. Um that that was that that was one of those instances of again of one small thing that kind of adds up with everything else to to make a difference with what we're doing. And then the you know staffing discussion with technology director tied to the school technology coordinators and as you'll recall we we took that from being a school allocation and and put it more towards a district allocation so we could better utilize skills across the district. And I think that's been a a really really great thing. Um, we've also hired various leadership positions this year. So, we've got uh we've got some some individuals in some new roles um upcoming. And before I jump into the managerial leadership, man, I was going to do this was going to be so awesome that Dwayne came up to talk about practice practice on his uh so with us two of our friends that are leaving. So would you please come up? Hold [Applause] on. Here [Applause] sounds like this is not [Music] [Applause] when you came up and then after you roasted us I was going to say oh make feel bad well you're over there all right um so back to it managerial uh leadership you know Again, lots of things we could talk about. Um, Battle of the Birds football at the new Sky County High School. Um, you those kinds of things are super stressful and I I still, you know, I think it was Dwayne, were you with me when I said when I was I looked out and traffic wasn't moving anywhere and I was like, I'm going to lose my job. It was uh it it was it was an interesting day, but it ended up working out. Um, and then, you know, FBI training regarding schools threats and hoaxes. You know, again, that doesn't even feel like this school year, but that I recall being in the fall. And again, we've we've made some pivots. We've made some adjustments for the start of next school year to try and address some of those things and at least be able to say we've we've tried to do everything we can to to put our kids in the best position uh to make good choices. And then, you know, federal executive or orders we're monitoring. I got an email from a principal today asking about a particular area that their their concern might be wrapped up in some some funding concerns and that I wasn't even aware of. And then the always fun responding to inclement weather. Um some theorized that that's why I was arrested for the Elizabeth's Village fundraiser yesterday, but I don't know if that is true or not. So there's Battle of the Birds, uh collaborative leadership. So with collaborative leadership, uh you know, you could go a bunch of different directions with a lot of different ways that we um collaborate and work with a lot of different people. uh some of them, you know, for instance, you know, um I think about the um Derby Estates and our friends there and the efforts we've we've made to try and um resolve that situation. And and again, not saying that's perfect, but that has calmed down quite a bit. And uh again, a lot of these things are ongoing things. you know, our conversation with the Georgetown Police Department um and Scott County Sheriff's Department to to make sure that our SRO impact is is really uh hitting the mark uh where it needs to be. And then this year, my involvement with the Center for Quality People and Organizations uh has uh ramped up quite significantly over the past couple of of months. So, we're eager to see um the positive impact we can do there. This was a again a wonderful opportunity at the new field to bring back former Scott County schools and Scott County High School um administrators uh and provide a little recognition there. Uh influential leadership um along these lines and I I don't know I don't know what to attribute it to. Maybe it's just you you've been around for a little bit and they're like, "Well, okay." They look around and you've been there longer than a lot of other people. And I don't know, maybe they tag you for it. But um I they I I'm now more heavily involved in the Kentucky Association of School Superintendent as vice president. I'm a KEDC uh board member and uh or executive board member and and CKC treasurer. So, and I talked to some other folks because I was like, "Is that too much to take on?" And they said, "No, certainly not. You can you can pull it off. the requirements for each one of those are a little bit different. Um, but it does um, you know, it it does help at times because you get to you get to participate in some other meetings that maybe you hadn't been a part of on on the executive board meetings where you get a little bit more information than maybe you previously didn't have. Um, the other area where I think that a lot of time is spent and I believe that it it I believe it's valuable um, is time with legislators. Um, I've got a lot of that just just mentioned on there, past and current. Um, and I still I still believe that um that there are a lot of our facility friends, Dwayne, that owe me and you um a little something for the open release that they've got for athletic facility purchases now because um you know, House Bill 678 was a was it came from a a summer lunch uh meeting with a with the legislature and and then here you are. It's uh it's just amazing the impact that those conversations can have. Um also this year I've stepped up into being u more of a mentor with superintendent. So I have a superintendent that I'm mentoring in and Madison County and I had a superintendent from a another uh a very different community community. Um I don't know if they'll accept it, but anyway, they reached out asking if uh if I'd be able to serve for them next year, and I told them, "Sure. Let's see see if it'll pass the test for them." Um, again, you know, as far as the influential piece, I would say that was the part that, um, and I, well, I think that's the part no matter what your role is. I think that's the part that everybody kind of overlooks. I think everybody second guesses themsel and the impact that they can have. Um, but you know, we tell our kids all the time, you can only control yourself, but you can influence others. And I mean, that's that's reality. So, um I I just try as much as I can to use our platform to make sure that we're that we're doing that. Um next steps. So, I've already talked a little bit about uh Senate Bill 181, and even though it's fresh on our minds and it's very recent, it is I do anticipate it being something that potentially lingers around um for this school year. Um there is talk that the disaster money for the state is gone because of the tornadoes and flooding and all the different things. So, I'm hearing um that legislators believe they'll be brought into a special session. If they are brought into special session, they expect to address the disaster money. I keep politicking for them to address Senate Bill 181. Maybe just give us an extra year or something like that before it takes effect. Um I I don't I don't even know that I'll be able to walk in here um if if ROTC's on here again next year, but So, and but anyway, it's on there. I mean, there it is like just glaring like a I mean, just get out your red pen and circle that one because but but we're working towards it. Um and then continue to further evaluate and refine the Georgetown leadership academy. Really excited about that one. Um and then, you know, we've got the school-based health clinics that um Josh might know more about than anybody in the room at this point. Um that we've been working really hard to get to the finish line on. Continuing work on Oxford, of course. Um, I do have something that Yeah, I might even I might find a board meeting where there's a little bit of time and for my superintendent report, I might discuss some work I'm engaging with for um I've already got I've already got my legislation for next year picked out. I'm already already working on it. Um really I'm really excited about it and I think it's got some really really cool potential. um continuing work with leader and me and profile of learner of course and continuing to advocate for additional school funding because this is a budget year and I am hearing that um things are a little tighter than they were the last time around. So we will see how that all goes. But that's just kind of a uh you know year at a glance. I do feel like the way we've got our superintendent report structured it gives you an opportunity to kind of see everything that's going on. Again, it's not everything, but it does give you some of the higher level things that we're working on and and gives you an overall picture of of the work that we're that we're engaging in. So, there you go. Any questions? Thank you. All right. And back at you, superintendent. Yeah, sure. So, I'll be quick. Um, yeah, this was I think we had about uh 15 20 days between now and the previous one and we had graduation and all the fun things that came there. So you can see uh cultural leadership is humongous. Um strategic leadership again I mentioned the Senate Bill 181s. I I mean it's it is a daily it's a daily thing right now. It's a daily thing that we're having meetings and discussions, conversations, everything. Um so it it it warrants being on there. um attended EDUCON which is hosted by CKC. Jeff Shepard was the keynote. Uh he did a phenomenal job. Um very very very uh I don't know just uh simple things but also it was just pretty good to just uh get refreshed with his with his message there. Um again cultural leadership a lot going on. First graduation on the grounds of Scott County High School in 40 years. So, uh, and I said since 1995 because the class of 1996, we were we were we weren't outdoors. We were indoors. So, I guess technically we were on site, but we weren't we weren't out in the pretty uh of the outdoors that we got to experience. And and thank you um we were fortunate that we were just fortunate with the weather um for their graduation, too, given that we started a little bit late. Um, thanks to DT and Dwayne and and everybody. Renee pulled in. We we're just we've been talking about the future and I think we've got it figured out as far as making sure we don't have a a time issue like we did this year. Um Coach Wood's first scrimmage got an invite to that the other day. So attended Coach Wood's first scrimmage um against Dunar and uh you know they had parents there. They had a bunch of uh of the uh VIP type uh old guard Scott County High School boys basketball people there in attendance really excited and just the the air in the room. It just it just felt really good. Um graduate parade was great. Uh got to attend the Christy Collins meet and greet that we had uh at the uh at the nutrition house and then attended the first ever Battle of the Birds regional championship. And um so congratulations to Scott County High School. They play tomorrow and uh I think that takes them to the final four or no the final if they win if they win tomorrow. So yeah, 10 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. Yep. So congratulations to them. U Yep. Yep. Pretty pretty big pretty pretty cool thing to see both of our schools go to the final for for region. Um, and then, uh, again, I mentioned the Center for Quality People and Organizations involvement remaining strong and then met with Matt Nun, uh, recently about the potential legislation that I talked to you about. Dwayne and I met with Owen County Schools about our athletic fields and we also toured some fields at Georgetown College. Uh, then met with uh, Mike Davis and James Haye about kind of a year in review and upcoming plans. And I I just I did want to make sure I didn't forget. I even wrote it on my sheet. Um just wanted to thank you all for you know the grace that you all showed me and thank my team because um there were things I was not able to do like I wouldn't do in a normal year because I uh was trying to soak some sad stuff in. So thank you all. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. All right. Thank you so much. Number 34 comments. Becky, we'll start with you. Okay. Thank you. I'm rarely speechless, but it seems like we've just so recently had a board meeting. Um, obviously, I'm was very um happy and excited to be at graduation. All three of them. I love graduations personally, but they were all very well done and and just a real We're so proud of all our students and staff um with the graduation ceremonies. And I meant to um jump in and say, Mr. Parker, I think you should applaud yourself for your logistics at the Scott County High School graduation because there was a lot of think on your feet. Let's let's get it done. And it all worked. And I know that was not easy. I was very impressed with the logistics on that. That's all. All right. Thank you, Wendy. Um I too just want to echo the graduations were very beautiful. Being a former Scott County graduate in 1990, we got to walk outside. So it was just beautiful to be a part. um of of seeing that. It was, you know, a beautiful celebration and I felt like um as board members being able to be a part of it was very it was wonderful and and and very proud um to shake a hand of a fellow graduate. And then I was able to attend the chamber lunchon this past Monday. Usually not able to do that. So I really enjoyed that. And um your name was spoken multiple times. So, um, you know, you're well, uh, respected in the community and with our legislators. So, just thank you again for being an amazing superintendent. I want to say thank very very proud and everybody listen positive points with our education so and they'll remember capital, right? So anyway, I was very proud and you know graduation was wonderful ask around and I thank you all that were part of it. Susan. Okay. Well, I would like to say thank you to uh those of you who will be leaving us this month. Dwayne Kim, as you're sitting in our room, thank you for all of your service and and job well done. I I've sat here for eight years. And I just want to say a sincere thank you for everything that you've done for us. So, I applaud you. [Applause] Okay. All right. Number 35. approved to enter into executive session pursuant to this is where Susan usually jumps in KRS KRS61.810 1K and KRS6.76 for purposes of preliminary discussion relating to superintendent evaluation. So move. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Superintendent Parker's annual evaluation and this year superintendent Parker received an overall evaluation score of accomplished Parker is uh areas of strength for Parker are leadership cultural leadership and influential. Thank you. Forget that one. That's my favorite one. Next year, we look forward to focusing on continued growth, success, and communication, and building on our diverse staff. Superintendent. Yes. Put it out there. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve? Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. I'd also like to uh move to approve the addendum to Mr. Park. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you T.