But we have a signup sheet. Is there anybody who didn't get to sign up who wishes to speak this evening? I have a signin sheet right here. Okay. Just double check. All right. We ready to get started everybody? Ready? Okay. All right. Good evening. Welcome to the meeting this evening again. Um we are just going to jump right into it and go straight to awards and recognition. Mr. Parker. All right. So, um, bass fishing, not Yes. [Applause] So, this is another example how important it is for us to continue to just offer new and exciting and diverse opportunities for our students. Bass fishing is a club sport for our schools for students from Great Crossing at Sky County High School compete on the same team and sorry for a pretty pretty great combination. Cody Gayart and Lake Noble. That's right. I said Lake. What a name. I mean destined. This we were destined for this moment, I think. And Lake Noble recently won the Kentucky Bass Nation High School state championship at Lake Cumberland and now advanced to the national level competition. Whoa, cool. Cody is a sophomore at Sky County High School and Lake is a freshman at Great Crossing. Together, they are a great team. I'm sure Cody and Lake will agree that bass fishing is more than luck. Uh what they do requires patience, strategy, and flexibility as they work to predict fish behavior and adjust their tactics accordingly. Their record speaks for itself. Five top 10 finishes this year. Of those five, three of those finishes were also top five. All of these tournaments that they've been in have had more than 150 boats. second place in George Rogers Clark N North Trail Tournament. Uh qualified for the Bass Federation World Nationals and Angller of the Year finalists. The team is coached by Adrienne Feldman. And it is not a fisherman's tall tale to say how thrilled we are that an opportunity like this is available for our students and how proud we are that Cody and Lake have reached this level of competition and success. If you would please join me in congratulating state champions Cody Gayart and Le Come on up. Come on up. We got got I like your nice Just like [Applause] All right, that is great. There we go. It matches your outfit. Ready to go. I'm ready. I'm stoping. I'm ready. You are ready. Yeah, matches matches. Those are cool. All right. Awesome. Number four, agenda approval. I so approve. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number five, public comment. Mike Davis. Good evening, Mike. How y'all doing? Good. Thanks for joining us. getting ready for the end of the year. Am I hot, by the way? I know. Well, first of all, I I don't know that I would have the I like to fish, but the patience to do what they do, I don't know that I could do that. That's That's a lot. Um, good evening, board members, Mr. Parker, community members. Tonight, I want to begin with a sincere thank you uh to the members of this board for your efforts to moving us closer to the 5% raise that I asked for this year for our employees. We recognize the discussions, the compromise, and the hard decisions that had to be made and we're generally grateful for the raise that you all are getting ready to approve. Um we thank you for your work. We thank you for listening to us all year long of everything we've asked for you guys. Uh your work reflects a continued commitment to the support of our educators, classified personnel, and transportation staff. The people who are essential to the daily success of all of our students in all of our schools. Your efforts are seen and appreciated. We know that with the raise that we had last year and now the raise we will have this year moving forward is a step closer to being more competitive in the state. At the same time, we also still believe that we have have more to do. Uh, I don't want to call it a missed opportunity, uh, because I know any raise is a plus in today's economy. Uh, but I also want us to make sure that we're still continuing to be the ones that lead the forefront across the region and the state. Uh, and we're very appreciative of everything that you're doing now. Uh we have a chance to continuously set the bar to make powerful statements that this is the district that puts people first, that recognizes the value of every adult who makes the difference in every child's life, whether it's in the classroom, the cafeteria, the front office, or behind the wheel of a bus. We want to be the district that others look at. We want to make sure that we're the ones that they want to know why, what are we doing, and why are we doing it, and how are we doing it. I want him to come in and give Billy all those hard questions all the time. Uh, I want to be the one that dares to lead in the the world, the one that leads in the state, and make sure that everybody knows that Scott County is a place to not only live, but learn and be valued. We understand that budgets are not limitless and that choices are difficult. We do not discount the progress that we've made and we want to make sure that moving forward that we continue to work together to finish the job for our teachers and classified personnel as well. The raise was a step in the right direction, but it cannot be the last step. We will continue to advocate and continue to strive for the system for a system that values every employee at every level that they deserve. Thank you again for your dedication for all that you've done for us. Thank and let's continue to work together. Let's work for a shared vision to make sure that the district is not only strong but truly exceptional. And I appreciate everything you all have done for us this year. Uh, and I thank you for allowing me to speak to you all each and every month. Uh, we've had some great things going on in the district uh, this in the in the springtime here. And I know with all the field days, I hear the the phone parties are apparently pretty awesome. Uh, so maybe y'all get out to see some of them. I don't know. But I thank you again for everything. And as the president of SEA, I really appreciate uh, being able to represent such a great group of uh, employees. Thank you all. Thank you, Mike. Thank you. Thank you. Number six, consent agenda item 6A through I. I'll move. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number seven, construction report. Hi, Tony. Thank you for joining us. I'll start by you know Griggs uh Enterprises is someone that I think had really worked in Scott County at least that I know of. It's been years if they have and they're out of Paris. Um they've hit the ground running literally. Um so just wanted to give a report on that and say that um they've been very responsive so far in the shop drawing phase and I think you all are familiar with the shop drawings. Everything administratively is is moving right along. um just start with a picture of the of the rendering reminding that we're we're looking at brick right now. We're looking at roof colors right now. At some point in the next month or two, we'll bring those things together of course for you all to make decisions on. Um this is a rendering again where we're still going to bring tile, we'll bring paint, we'll develop a color scheme, all those things that we've done at the other projects you all will see before it actually happens. Um, this is a picture actually uh just I think this was the first picture last month just showing you everything was dry and sunny off to a good start. Um, and yeah, that's why I'm using that's why I'm using the old pictures, but they got a lot done and uh there's been some progression. That was the sinkhole I showed you uh last month. But there has been progressively some uh progression as you can see from these pictures and a lot of the that's a lot of the building pad and area established. Um so good work and these pictures just kind of throughout the the last month. Um and more progress there getting some rock on site and of course right now it's a lot of still a lot of still a lot of uh dirt pictures. Um tried to get there this week. That's my tire tracks coming back down the muddy hill that and that's that's right when you get to the other side coming up there. Um and you can just see I could even in my muck boots I couldn't even get to the back 40 to really but it doesn't look much different. Um they've cleared some more trees and things of that nature. Um in fact when I came out of here and backed out of the site um as a testament to how much work they're doing I listened and I could hear equipment on the other side of the hill still working. So even when I couldn't get there in my muck boots, they're still over there doing something. So I'm I'm glad to hear that uh they're finding something to be progressive, you know, even when the weather's been kind of bad. Um so like I said, in general, things have have are going really well. I show you the sinkhole picture again because, you know, we dealt with those at Crate Crossing. Um you know, I do want to mention that that sinkhole was not just a little shallow sinkhole like it looked on the surface. So you can see what they ran into there and there's water running in there. So that's something that's just pictures over the last week that you know something we'll have to deal with. But just kind of letting you know at this point that um we've got that. But outside of that area just progress building pad getting set in place, lots of shop drawings moving quickly along. Um and I'd say things are going good. Tony, is it fair to say one of the things you and I discussed brought up by team of people that you know construction team, our team, your team about well well could we just move the the footprint but you know there's challenges that you're dealing with then to move the footprint right and when I should have mentioned yes that that hole that you saw was directly under a footing yeah I mean right kind of in the middle of it um we did uh Dwayne and I discussed moving the building. Um, but we would have had to move the building a lot. Um, and in that case, some of your other storm structures and things that are already shop drawings are already done, they're already fabricated and ready to go in place where if you if you change the design and move those locations, your height, you it would cost money to make the changes plus the time to make the changes and things like that. uh we'd squeeze a parking lot one way and yeah, we just it wouldn't have helped much. It wouldn't have helped much and taken a lot of time and they would be sitting there waiting for us to redesign the site and not making any progress too. So, yes, that's a good point. That was just that was just something that as we were talking about it seemed like I heard from a variety of people that were like why don't you just well you know there's a lot to think about with just doing that because and two you move it and maybe you encounter that problem somewhere else because we don't have borings you know we want to be cost effective so we only did borings so many places you don't want to do the whole site um so so there's that well and that's very good you should come over here and help me sometimes that's a good point too Um, yeah, we do a grid that's just like 50 foot on center, you know, but for when we ask them to do the borings and as you know, I think 20 and $30,000 just to do that. Um, well, that that's a large area that you could still don't know what's between that 50ft grid. Well, if you say let's do a 25 foot grid, well, you could still miss something. And um, and in this case that we just didn't know that was there. And I mean it's not uncommon to run into things resolve a simple well and there's a well typically what happens and at Great Crossing I don't want to say we were luckier but we were lucky in that most of them were a little bit shallower and you just you dig it out and they you can find what they call the throat where the water just goes down and goes through the throat and you can fill it back up with rock and it keeps draining out. In this case, since we couldn't we don't we they still haven't found the throat. Um they've gone all the way down to rock and um the water's not draining out. So you can't have that under your bu plus the soil is bad because that water's been going down through forever. What they've dug out was not good soil to put the building on. special, you know, if it would have been on the back, you know, over in the playground or way on the edge of the site, that's one thing, but right under, you know, a footing of the the building. In fact, it's under the storm shelter. Um, that yeah, that that all had it just has to come out. Um, so typically you just fill it up with rock and bring it back up and you keep on going, but since they got down to rock and water is there must be a spring somewhere continuously feeding this thing. You can't keep the water. So, we got to drain the water out and get the bad soil out of there. So, yeah, that's why this one's turned into a a big kind of a bigger hole. And there's special inspectors on site watching them do this and making recommendations. Um, so we just got to make sure that you all have a building that's a 50, 70, 100 year old building, not something that the water pipes out, you know, the under underneath in 20 or 30 years and you start having bad cracks and settlement and well, we just, you know, got to make sure that doesn't happen. The storm shelter actually when you mentioned that, um, if I recall when we were building Scott County High School, there's retaining walls and there's extra structure put in place to support the storm shelter. Correct. Yes. Or around it, I should say. Yes. How it separates from right there where the cafeteria in the hallway. Yes. Yes. And this one has the end of a classroom wing and it's a at, you know, a very tightly built um it's it's concrete block here now at um Scott County High was concrete walls. Here we were able to use concrete block, but every cell is filled. It's practically a concrete wall because every every cell is filled with uh rebar and grout and the roof is concrete. And then yes, there's a wall structured all the way around. Y the part. Yep. You know, I remember the very first project that we did with you all was the um the turf field project. Yes. I remember right after it got finished, we had a I mean what back then was, you know, it was a humongous rainfall and everybody was, oh my gosh. And I remember the drainage was phenomenal. So when it comes to drainage, I put you all got to get got to get the water out. It's man's best friend. and man's worst enemy. It really is. Yeah. And I should have mentioned, of course, you have two BG4s coming up and they're on the G. Um, one is a purchase order for just the materials only uh and uh for the windows and the other one was for all the labor to do brick repair and all that the other part of the project as well. That's next on your agenda. Any questions? Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. And I popped over at G just to kind of take a double check this week too. So just because. Um number eight, approve BG4 for Central Kentucky Glass Company for G Elementary Renovations. Move to approve. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number nine, approve BG4 for Buckeye Construction for Gar Elementary renovations. So move. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 10, student achievement. Good evening. Good evening. Um, so tonight I gave you all um this is the proposed instructional um material and software um proposal for the 2526 school year. Um there's not uh a whole lot of changes, but you can see we've broken them down by the assessments we use, the instructional software we use, and our highquality instructional resources that we use. Um so you won't see a lot of changes, but those that are, I'll make sure that I point out. Um so in assessment, um we have our ESGI, which is our kindergarten screening. Again, I Ready, which you all are very familiar with, which is what we uh uh assess our K through 8, um on. um easy CBM which is a um tool for MTSS that is how we assess the progress of our students in tier three intervention and tier 2 um our pair assessment which is for reading, science, social studies and math. It's a bank of assessments for our teachers to utilize for our benchmarks. And then Horizon is what we use for um our um practice acts and it also has some instructional resources for teachers. Um any questions about assessments? Are these reoccurring costs every single year? Yes. So for instance with I Ready, we will always see that cost. Yes. Okay. Correct. Yes. Um so when we go into instructional software, we have the teacher toolbox with which is with I Ready. So those are one of the additions that we ask. And so our teachers have not just the assessment but they have all they have the my path which gives every student their own individual individualized path as well as teacher resources for our um interventions. Um Alex is what we use for two tier tier 2 and tier three math intervention. Um I the math departments have requested that they that we have it for everything, but um we're going to keep it just the uh tier 2 and tier three interventions for now. Mystery science is a science um resource that we have for our elementary schools. Common lit is um for uh literature um and it is for our middle and high school. And then Pathful is what we use to uh provide um all of the supports for our state required individual learning plans from sixth grade through 12th grade. And again, there are other Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. So, is this like the pathful? Is that um what we used to have was this the um it called used to called Oh gosh, we've used so many the dashboard or the the kids had to all the kids had to go in and fill it out. Yeah. And you do like an interest survey. They created like a resume. Yes, that's exactly what this is. This is our second year using this um program. Doesn't pay. No, they do not pay mechanism or provide any mechanism. No require unfunded mandate. Another unfunded mandate. We could give the kids a legal pad and some check box. We could. Yeah. I mean, seriously. Yeah, we could. For what? There's no They're just saying do this. They're saying do this. Um if we ever got audited, we would have to show you know that we're doing it. Um but we want to make it as useful as possible. So a lot of our programs like JAG uses Pathful a lot. um they're using it in their advisory periods. Um the pathful especially gives um really great information. So whenever I take that interest survey, it's not just saying here's what your like here's what would be great for you. It actually goes and gives detailed information based on the state of Kentucky like what what your possible income would be starting and what it could look like and then it does lessons around that. So to make it more intentional and not just another box that we have to check. Yeah. I just want to get on record. Yep. 100%. We're paying a lot of money for Yes. There's several on here that are on record. There are several things on here that we pay for because of mandates. Well, and and given some recent changes with some things that the federal government might have been paying for, there's some other things we weren't planning on paying for that we're probably going to have to pay. Well, we'll have to have a lot of things have to change. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um so, well, that's the instructional software piece. And then the part that I love the most is having the high quality instructional resources in our student and teachers hands. And so um the uh first one is the ready classroom math workbooks. Now we do have a grant that covers almost all of our elementary schools except for two and that grants for around 115,000. So the only schools that we're actually paying for out of pocket are Gar and Eastern because even though they applied they were the only two that didn't get that grant. Uh magnetic reading is um the reading materials that we use for our third through fifth grade. Um and then ready reading student editions that is what we pay for for comprehension materials for our kindergarten through 2 grade. Um they do you all are used to hearing about Orton Killingham which is our phonetics and phmic awareness instruction. Ready math is more like that actual reading that that you see. And again, we're paying for the tools to be in the students hands at that young of an age. Um, one of the new things that you are going to see is the TCM, social studies pilot. We have actually have two programs. If you turn over, the other one that we're going to pilot is Savos. Um, we've had our elementary social studies teachers working in a social studies cohort to determine which two they wanted to pilot. So, some schools are going to try the SEVAS. Um, and then the others are going to try the TCM. And then we're going to throughout the year work and decide which high-quality instructional resource we'd like to go to. Um schools PLP is our online platform. It's how we um provide instruction to all of our performance-based courses. So that's going to include SCOLA PHC, our SCAP, our 4T Academy, and then all the high school credit recovery programs. That one too would be one. Wouldn't you say that the price tag for that looks significant? But considering the other options that are out there, it is by far the best very you know um another vendor um they seem to want to you know you tack on one thing and had an additional cost for that whereas we get a lot more yes as what I would consider maybe the base. Yes. Yes. With with with schools PLP for for the cost. So it's uh it's been one we've been pleased with. Very pleased with and our families of our Skola students have been very pleased. It's a very easy userfriendly format. It has it's great for communication between parents and then the skull of teachers. Um and so we've gotten lots of good feedback on it. And in addition, you see that 4T Academy is on there and you all know the bumps in the road that we had getting a instructor for 4T. we were able to get in the um course catalog of that and they actually had manufacturing courses in schools PLP and so we were able to as long as they do it in schools PLP which only takes a small portion of their time I can give them a credit bearing course um through that and it's because of the vast catalog that schools PLP has and to some degree frustrating that we would have to go through that hoop but at the same token wonderful that we already had schools PLP there and if I recall too tell me if I'm wrong on this, but as I recall, Skola initially was not using schools PL and then they saw the advantage of it through just some a few students and they were like, "Hey, can we check check this out?" And they transferred to it. Gosh, it's been maybe two years ago. Two years ago, the first year of Scola, we piloted Schools PL with about 50 students and schools PLP is a great vendor. They have great customer service. They they did it completely for free and because that's how much they know that they love or that we would love this product. and um and so we were able to get feedback and and gauge and and it's been and then they gave me credit recovery last year for free for all of high school so we could try it with credit recovery and now my credit recovery teachers love it and so we were like okay it's a we'll make that an initial additional investment so um and then for great crossing and Scott County and I also want to put I didn't have ECS on there I do um we do give them each textbook money and so we base that on the enrollment so SC great crossings is a little bit more than Scott County because they have more students. Um, and then ECS gets a little bit as well. And then the other new thing that you're going to see is illustrative mathematics. We piloted that at the middle school level. Um, and you know, you know that I'm very passionate about upping our game with our math instruction because our math scores show that it's needed. Um, and so we've gotten great feedback from uh Georgetown Middle School and now Scott County Middle School wants in. And so I um it comes with workbooks, but I said, "How about before we go into like a really big investment because they said that some of the stuff needs like color, like graphs and things like that." I said, "Instead, let us budget some money to where we can give those teachers the opportunity to print in color before we go the route of special educa or I'm sorry, of of workbooks." But we are going to work with um um our special education director to provide workbooks in our co-e classrooms. So, so are you saying one one middle school currently is using it? You like the success and now you're going to take it. What about the third middle school? Yes. Yes. All three. All three. And then also because now the middle school is um they're all going to be using illustrative mathematics through um sixth, seventh, and eth. We are going to pilot it this year with algebra 1 um and just see if we like it because we've not really gotten into the high school curriculum. Um, and so we're going to have our algebra 1 teachers pilot it, give us feedback, see if it's a a a good investment um, for our our high school mathematics as well. Okay. Could you do a follow-up on that about six months or so once we get into obviously not six, maybe a little bit maybe uh, at the end of the first fall quarter? I'd love to do that when we get um maybe the midyear um I Ready data and we can really see the growth in um in what we're looking at compared to this year in math uh to to to next year. So yeah excited about all the new software. However, I just want to I just still want to see what are our results, where are we going, where we heading, what's our likes, dislikes. Yes. Well, actually, I was going to NYX on the um assessments, the horizon for ACT because I just didn't feel like we were getting enough bang for our buck in regards to the data, but the math or not the math teachers, the high school teachers, which is composed of an assessment team, were like, "No, please give us at least one one more year." And so I said, "Okay." Um but um yeah, we're always looking at the data to to check the effectiveness. I know you love that. So, and I love sharing it with you all. Yes. Um so and then the last one is and this would actually come out of title two but it's the I Ready professional learning. Um they are amazing at professional learning and um working with our teachers um K through eight. Um and so we paid a little bit of extra for additional days for them to come in and work with our teachers during and they do it during their PLC's. It's it's amazing. So do you all have any other questions? Um you can see the total cost there. I put the total. Then I also added that the um grant funding is 114,000 and in total it reaches it it totals out to be about $80 per student. As far as the grant, um how many years do we get that? Well, this is the last year I actually met with Gina and Billy about that so that we can make a plan. And and the grant honestly really it's not paying for access to the curriculum because they have that in tool toolbox. Um, but what we're paying for is workbooks in the hands of our young learners. Um, so with the magnetic reading, the ready reading, and the ready math, that's what we're paying for. Um, and so so that's something that we'll evaluate throughout this upcoming year and and get feedback from teachers and principles if they feel that it is worth the investment to have those workbooks in hand. Right? Because that's what I'm saying. Being a classroom teacher, I know how we go away from the workbook and the amount of money that we're spending on these workbooks. Yep. Are we doing anything to make sure that we're using the work? So, my team monitors those. Um, we're always in um classrooms looking to make sure that we're seeing those high quality instructional materials in hands using them. Um, and also working with our principles, you know, if because I mean, you see how much a workbook costs. It's an expensive um investment. Um but we we also want to make sure, you know, we don't want to get too dependent on our kids in front of screens, right? Especially that early and that young. Um that's why um you know, we've made that initial, of course, we've had grants to help pay for it. We're very fortunate for that. um not other school districts have had these grants. And so we'll be able to evaluate um not only the usage by teachers but also um if this is the most you know positive investment that we're making. And the other question is because again I'm in a low performing school so we always get looked at. Do the high performing schools get looked at to make sure they those workbooks too. They all have rigor checks with their directors. They might not see me as much as the lower performing schools, but yes, we have a system to where they are always in classrooms at all of our schools. Sometimes they feel like we doing this, we don't need to. Right. Right. And I will say, you know, the very first investment when we piloted magnetic, we piloted that with our struggling schools and we saw the results of those schools gain. And so then we're like, okay, now we'll make the investment for the entire school district. And um and so yeah. Yeah, we we go into all of them. I promise, Wendy. Thank you. Absolutely. All right. If you don't have any other questions, then thank you. And I and I think too your, you know, that last part of that conversation to me speaks to, you know, the fact that, you know, we know that compensation is is part of it, but we also know supporting our our staff. Yeah. Through having quality instructional resources and materials is important. And that's something that we've, you know, I'm not I don't love how the last few years has gone with everything. and and trying to to get pay back up for our teachers and everybody feeling uh the support. But it was good for us in terms of the fact that we needed to recognize that, you know, maybe um the way that we're building our staff's different and we've just got to make sure that we provide that support and this is this is part of that opportunity. And as as Stephanie spoke to the fact that, you know, there's there's three big ways for us to impact instruction. you know, it's PD, it's our PLC's, and it's our our walkthroughs. And her team goes in and helps every school make sure that this is this is what we're seeing with walkthroughs. Does it mirror what you're seeing? And we're making sure that they're doing the walkthroughs on their own. So, yep. Anyway, and I appreciate the PD days because that's what's going to really make and it's ongoing. And our teachers appreciate it. They've been very and even like the social studies pilot that came from teachers saying we need something for social studies in elementary school. Definitely. And so and so we respond. So all right. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate it. Number 11. Approve agreement with Protein Food Services Advisors LLC and the Scott County Board of Education. So move. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 12, approve 2025 2026 cooperative membership agreement kec. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 13, approve to abolish one district-wide certified EL teacher position. Move to approve. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 14. approved to create two district-wide classified EL a positions. So move second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 15, approve to create ratify one.5 ELA certified teacher position at Scott County High School. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 16. Approve to create or ratify one classified instructional aid position at Scott County High School. Move to approve. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 17, approve 2025 2026 salary schedule. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Number 18. Approve fiscal year 2025 2026 tenative budget. Move. Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 19, approve fiscal year 2025 committed funds classification. Second. All in favor? I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Number 20. Approve approve surplus items as submitted. So move second. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 21, financial statements. Hello, Gina. You okay? On the edge of it. We're gonna have to talk into the microphone. So, um, yes, big topic tonight. Oh, yeah. I've submitted for you the April 2025 uh summary of cash activity and reports. Our beginning balance was 49.6 million. We had receipts of 8.5 million. Expenditures of approximately 11.1 million leaving us with an ending balance of 47.4 million. Of that 7.1 was still invested for her construction projects. And that leave our ending cash balance at 40.2 million. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Gina. Thanks, Gina. Number 23, superintendence reports. Oh, approve current bills. Excuse me. Number 22. So, move. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Billy. All right. Uh, superintendent's report. So, uh, standard one with So, I charge Maria Bennett with the task of leading a There you are. a a staff workg group around Senate Bill 181. So, as you all know, I spent a lot of time at at Frankfurt as as they're talking about these bills. This was a bill that as it was coming, everybody on all sides thought, "Okay, yeah, no, that makes sense." And and it's really about having traceable communication with students and staff. What we're finding and and every superintendent's dealing with this is they're finding a lot of whatifs that weren't considered. You know, for instance, my daughter is a high school senior, her best friend. If she was to go with her best friend, high school senior, and I try to reach my daughter and can't get a hold of her and was to try and contact her friend, that would in theory be a breach. So there there's there there's a layer of this that's I think there's going to have to be some work. So point being um what we plan to do is through Maria's lead on this work group um and and Rene's been playing a part in it too since it deals with communication. They've been meeting with vendors that um because again you have to have a system in place doesn't have to be necessarily one platform. I think some districts are doing one platform for both athletic and academic. We're looking at the possibility maybe it's two maybe our coaches have a have a platform and our teachers have a different platform. We just have to make sure that we're we're meeting the requirements of it. Um too early to give you too much information about it at this point. But it is one we've got to have an answer on pretty quick. Um I think June 27th is the date, but then for for terms of practicality, coaches will start with kids July 10th. So we've got to make sure we've got something in place. But what's been great is instead of me just sitting here and freaking out about this, I've had an opportunity to share my freak out with my friends. So freak out. So So now everybody's starting to see more and DT called me today while they were having the meeting. He's like, "Hey, did you know that you know just different layers of this?" So um and I've already reached out to Senator Nun to we have a meeting set up about a different uh different reason, but we're going to bring this into it where I can share some of these whatifs with him so he can understand. again, well-intentioned by all sides. Um, but but it's one that we've got some serious concerns about and you might start hearing it. So, if you start hearing chatter about Senate Bill 181, you might want to perk up and pay attention because everybody across the state is trying to struggle with how to how to figure through this. And is this another mandate that's not going to be this this that is correct. This is another, you know, like Parent Square, I think, is maybe one that some districts around us that I'm familiar with might be using and I don't believe that it's uh cheap. So, um I keep saying talking points talking points. So, yeah. Yeah. I contact the talking points and I said, "Y'all better get on Kentucky. keep these unfunded mandates on the record. But but again in in in but again in truth in truth I'm I want to be careful too because really and truly there was no intention for this to kind of turn into I think what it's kind of becoming. So um but I don't know why they didn't expect it. It still happens especially with communication everything good. But we'll we'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. Uh the well again the good news is we've got we've got people that are responsive that we can work with that will listen that will help us get to a resolution that that makes sense for everybody. Um standard two man what these were the best. So preschool did leader and me presentations this year before they ended the school year. It was pretty neat to see um the the students and and everything they share and and um you know the the each each kid you know knew a little bit more maybe or little had a little different spin on it than the other. But um what was very interesting is um we had a situation where a uh microwave maybe should have been set to 3 minutes that was set to 30. Oh. And uh so we had some community helpers in our local law uh our local excuse me our local fire department that showed up that day. So even though that had happened well before this event, it was something that that came up um came up a lot in conversation with our preschoolers for the afternoon group that got to witness that. So I thought that was that was pretty interesting. Um and then Lemons Mill Elementary uh they have uh the amazing shake that they participate in. They did it last year. this was their second year. Uh Becky and Eleanor were able to participate this year as well, so they may they may share some things about it. Um the the the thing for me that I thought was pretty powerful, you know, and you can you could pull a lot of different things out of it, but the the student that won the overall winner for the for the whole thing uh is from Honduras. Um he has been here this might be his third year in America and he he according to him he said maybe in the past he he made some not great choices but this was kind of something that drove him to he he he just he wanted to do well and he was phenomenal. Um you know it it he wasn't the only one. There were several and it was really tough to make a make a choice on who was the overall winner. But it it was a great event. We had a lot of people from across our community that were a part of the event and they made some tweaks from last year to this year um that I guess you know you all might not have seen but a few tweaks to to improve on it and it was really it was just really good. Um and kudos to to Principal Vance over there. It sounds like Lemon's Mill may be taking it up because they had sent some observers from Lemons Mill Elementary not Lemons Mill Creekide. Thank you from Creekide to thinking about emulating it for next year. Yeah. So spread around the district and you know I know Susan one thing that you've in the past talked about the importance of is us getting outside of our borders to see what's going on other places and that is what led to this. So um you know we we try to be again careful and and efficient with that but we also at the same time there's there's good things that can be garnered from from uh going outside the walls of our community. uh cultural leadership, the Scott County High School JAG college and career signing day. That's always a phenomenal event. And uh Angie Morris leads that. And Angie Morris is such they always say she's the best JAG instructor across the state. And that's clear because they have now hired her at JAG to be a leader of JAG instructors across the state. So, uh congratulations to her on that. But, um congratulations to our students that she's had an opportunity to have an impact on. We had our Scott County Schools retiree celebration. That's always been something that we've really we've done different things every year with because, you know, we want it to be special, but sometimes some of the retirees got things going on or maybe they had retired earlier in the year and so they don't always want to come. So, we've ran into the situation where we've used maybe a space that was too big for the number of people and and it just didn't feel right. We ended up just using conference room B upstairs and it I felt like this year it was cozy. Um it felt it it just felt really good. Um we had a constant flow, steady flow of people coming in and out. Um and uh it it was a really really good event. Um you know, kudos to uh to Renee and I know Pam Hall helped her out pretty good too with uh with setting that up. It was great event. I've got a asterric by that next event, uh, the employee awards because, um, I had a conflict where this year being, um, a dad of a senior, there are a few things I'm choosing to be a dad on. And, uh, I I will have to say, you know, hats off to Renee for making sure that they uh, they had a script in front of them that they could work with. Stephanie did great, and Dwayne was uh, he he got an award for for how well he read from his script, I heard. So, uh, u Yep. Yep. So, uh, it it was, uh, by all account, they just they tanned them. They went back and forth and and it seemed like it worked out really well. Heard a lot of great things about it. And, uh, I did want to at least put that on there so that I could tell them how much I really appreciated them covering for me. Um, KHSA Hall of Fame. This, uh, this one is a kudos to DT Wells. Um he uh I won't get into the whole thing, but um we ended up coach Hicks was able to get recognized and become part of the um KHSAA Hall of Fame and I think the all-time winningest basketball coach in the state of Kentucky should be in that group. So um that was able to to happen and we had a a large contingent from from Scott County, past and present, that was a part of uh a part of that uh of that event. um human resource leadership. We had hiring of various directors and assistant superintendent of operations over the course of the uh over the last month. um that you know it's one of those things where I was talking to to Mike Davis and and and he and I have colleagues and people that we work with in other communities and other counties and the the feeling in those other communities and other counties with with regard to, you know, how deep their bench is and and if if people are wanting to be a part of those communities, you know, it feels really good right here where we're at right now and and and being able to uh to to to attract ract and retain folks. And I don't know, I think I I I take that for granted a little bit lately because I don't know that that's that's necessarily how it feels everywhere. Um, and I remember how it felt here a few few years back, just a few years back. So, really thankful uh thankful for how that's played out. Managerial leadership, school nutrition, budgeting, and staffing conversations. And again, I've got to give some some help uh help's been given to me by Stephanie Emmens on that one. She's really jumped in with that. And Gina's jumped in a lot with that. and and the receptiveness of our school nutrition community across the district. They have been they're just they've worked with us handinand to help have a better understanding of some of the things that we needed to tweak and um and and we're we're really ready to go. You all approved that software purchase um um earlier in the agenda and and that's going to be super helpful to to helping us with that as well. EL staffing conversations. Two items on the agenda were tied to that where uh Miss Hullbrook came to me and said, "Hey, I'm trying to find a way to be creative here." And so we took and abolished the one certified position and created two classified. So it was a net neutral in terms of cost, but we're really excited for the potential that that has for our students. Um CQPO, um Dr. Hub used to call this C3PO because I could never remember the acronym, but it's the Center for Quality People and Organizations. Scott County Schools has been a part of it since I believe its inception um when Dr. Blankenship was superintendent here. Um there there's been some tweaks and changes to that um to that board. And so that has um um it's been helpful for us to be able to be a part of that to to help guide that. But it has taken a little bit more time than it than it normally does. And last but not least, um I have had some conversations with KDE and some of their officials, including the commissioner. Um uh I kind of shared this with Mike Davis a little bit without giving him all the information, but um we're we're looking at doing something maybe kind of creative. So I want I don't want to get ahead of myself and I want to make sure that it's possible before I come to you all with with letting you um know what we're looking at. But um KD including the commissioner has been receptive to it and now we we are going to end up having to take it through um legislation. So um got a meeting with Matt Nun about that coming up. Um did want to end with a couple things. Um thank you to everybody who has uh shown um so much kindness to Karinda um this past couple weeks. I know she appreciates it. Um and I know it's been very challenging for her and her family. Um, Mike Davis, I just uh just wanted to say thank you to you all at SCEA because, you know, it's, you know, we've got a board that when the board and superintendent are able to truly work as a team and then we've got a local education cooperative that we're able to work with and and and it's never adversarial. It's always collaborative and we come together to talk about things and how can we how can we solve them and and uh you know it's it's it just to me it just it just feels it feels natural and it feels like the way it should work. So um just wanted to say thank you to that and uh I did want to say this uh Miss Ratliff I saw her today already and she did a phenomenal job presenting at the CarolBar scholarship fund lunchon. Um it was It was it was very moving. Very moving. Yeah. And that concludes my long- winded and I'm sure I lost on the bingo board, so I don't care. Report. Okay. Um number 24, board comments. Um I'll jump right in. And I want to say thank you um to Stephanie and to Kim for meeting with me and also I had a conversation with uh Billy about it as well. Um just getting an update um this past month on what we're doing with our dyslexia coach that we have for the district. We just put that in place. I guess it was just last year. It feels like um yeah, it feels like it's been a little bit longer. So, I appreciate the update and we're moving right along with our Orton Gillingham and as well as Wilson that we've put in place and looking forward to see what we'll be doing um to further all of that and uh at the elementary, middle school into high school, whatever is needed. Um there certainly is a gap that still needs to be discussed between education and insurance and um helping folks out with that with their children and it really just kills my soul a little bit that they can't get covered by insurance to to really help out families and and do what they need to and and I would just like to keep that out there on the forefront that we really need to help our students as well as our staff and recognizing what kids struggle with and and just to have that gap there just that hurts my soul a little bit. So with that being said, thank you for your time. Um, Eleanor, would you like to jump in and and share? I know you've had a few experiences here recently. of ours. Carol Bar and not all job to u encourage the students. One fun thing that I um I went through the process also had help from cross interview went through a peer process with some of the bio medic and they filled out a resume at a time and it it was great how they do what they do and the great that they and work 20 hours a week in her on in school activities. Anyway, I was very impressed and I went to Kroger's the other day and there was one of those little girls just right there. So I got to say hi to her and uh called something but great wonderful the dance just and I was just so impressed and then I did take part in sh and it wonderful. I went home to speak in the eye. So I my granddaughter joined today. I talked to her about look them in the eye and sh. So I'm very proud. Uh couple things. I uh spent a half day at ECS uh with the health science mock interviews. Uh, very impressive. Uh, very impressive. And, uh, I got a nice stack of teacher teacher grant applications. Excited about that. Excited to support the work of our teachers. Excited about next year and excited about celebrating gradu. I can't believe it's that. I still can't believe it. Hope it works. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you. I'd love to see that stack and thank you for all you do. I appreciate that. Wonderful. Wendy, I'm just excited about graduations. I think it's the most important part because that's why we're here. My son graduates this year, so I'm a little teary eyed. He's graduating. Um, so I just want to just say to all educators, uh, thank you because it takes a village and we have a wonderful village here in Scott County. So excited. will enjoy your graduation with your son. I will. When When is he graduates on the 30th at 10 o'clock in the morning so I can be able to be I'll be there. Okay. Yeah. It'll be crazy this week. Yeah. We need to talk about who's going to be able I will be there at everyone. Everybody's going to be okay. All three. Yes. We get to wave our hands. She's going to graduate on my people. I hope I hope nobody's going back to school. I do Becky. Okay. Thank you. Um along with these other wonderful activities we've had the opportunity to participate in that are such bonuses for our students, the opportunity um at ECS to do these mock interviews has to be a huge step forward for these students uh in doing these kinds of things in their future. But another thing going on is we had the uh culmination today of the one-on-one coaching that's taken place at Gar and at Southern. Liz Yandelle led this um grant that we had received for community people to engage with a student once a week on a regular basis um from G and from Southern recommended by their teachers to give the student special attention to help them with reading or anything else they were working on. The focus was really on reading. My student for instance, my third grader Kobe could read miraculously, but comprehension coming up with main point of the story and what was the evidence was where he was struggling. So, each student had different areas, but the culmination was a party today. I was really impressed because some of the parents of the students came and and really appreciated that program and we've made a real connection with those students. I hope more people next year in the community will come out and support this really valuable program. Now, Becky, with that program, they provide a lot of training on the front end to where you don't feel like you're just out there thrown. You have a lot of tools that you're given in and support. It's great. All right. Well, thank you very much. On to number 25. Move to close session pursuant to KRS61.810 810 one F to conduct student discipline proceedings. Stop talking. Hurry up. I'm ready. I'm ready. I have a I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor? Those opposed? Motion carries. Stay here. Yeah, stay here. We'll just stay here, I guess. So, we're we're going to go into close session. So, we'll wait for everybody to to leave. And thank you for joining us this evening, everybody. Thank you.