001[music] Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> It's that for you. We're going to call [music] this meeting um to order. Looks like all the board members are present. And with that, we'll move to agenda item two. If you'd all please stand for the national anthem presented by Conor Middle School. Oh, say you See [music] by the dancer. [music] You saw [music] [music] there and so [music] you >> [music] [applause] >> And if you could uh remain standing for the pledge to The flag led by students from Stevens Elementary School. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for Wow. [applause] >> We got We have some certificates for you all. Um we'll give them to your teachers
002to distribute, but we're going to come down and like high five. Okay. You guys were amazing. Absolutely amazing. [clears throat] And So Good job, guys. Thank you so much. Here's the college students too if you want to say their names. >> What are we What are we doing? >> I say just do it at audience of citizens. They stay that way. Everybody talks at the same time instead of making them come up late. >> Oh, we're gonna wait till after close session, >> right? [laughter] >> Got to get the full experience. >> Yes. >> Oh, yeah. >> Let's do it during the finance meeting, >> right? >> Just like that, they're gone. All right. Uh, that was fantastic. What a great reminder of the, you know, the students we have all across the district. It's
003fantastic to see. We'll move on to agenda item four, which is good news. I'll turn the meeting over to Dr. Housewald for good news. Good evening board. Thank you very much. And again, I was just telling board member Bird, I said, if there's a way to start a meeting and just to see the level of skill and talent um and and just pride we have for our students abilities and and the teachers who who every day foster that, it's it's incredible. Tonight, we have uh one good news item and it's it's our break it's a break the mold. So, uh, we will, uh, call, um, Skylar up after the video. So, I know she's here because she just helped facilitate the pledge. >> How much is my toy horse? >> Being the parent of a
004child with a disability can be a lonely experience. Let those words sink in as they are the words of a father of a special needs child. Mr. Brendan Haynes, father of Jackson Haynes, wrote a letter nominating his son's teacher, Skyler Tamula Humphrey, for Break the Mold. >> Being the parent of a child with special needs, is isolating because most people just don't get it and it's scary. Brendan and Sarah, both teachers themselves, say it takes a special kind of teacher that makes the difference in whether a special needs student succeeds against all the barriers they face. >> To see people who can look at my son and not [music] just go, "Oh my gosh," but instead being like, "Oh, okay. I get it." Makes me so much more confident about his place in the future.
005>> Most of these kids are probably smarter than us. They have to me, I think autism is a superpower. Like Jackson for example, he'll just spew out facts about animals. Or we have cult math problems of his own. >> H I know. Miss T, as she is known to her students, is not only teaching her students with special needs, she is educating the rest of the world on what to expect, how to act, and what to say when we encounter these superpower human beings. She takes her students out on community-based instruction field trips for an exposure exchange. I learn about you. You get to learn about me. >> Every uh year, Miss T bring us to a field trip. >> You like the field trips? >> Mhm. >> What do you >> Some of them
006are Wendy's or Chick-fil-A. >> We get a lot of compliments out when we're out in public. Um and when I explain to like the manager at Chick-fil-A, oh, this is a complex needs classroom. They're like, we would have never known. They were one of the best behaved classes. >> In December, they go to Five Below and they have a budget and they pick out presents for people in their homes and one for themselves because why not? and they get the experience of going in, shopping, looking at prices, interacting with employees, and employees get the chance to also practice those interactions. It's for them to be a functional human um in society to go out on those outings, to behave, to work on those communication skills, to work on those money skills of, you know, we
007have $5 and we spent three. How much do we have left? So those life skills and those foundational skills are the most important thing. >> Miss T has most of her students from kindergarten through fifth grade. She works hard on preparing them for the different transitions they will face throughout life. Some of her students do so well they get to spend some quality time in general education classrooms. >> You want to talk about a success story? Uh Momo's been with us several years and to watch the growth of this child from the time he was uh in first second grade to now is tremendous. Momo has gotten where he is. He's now out in with the general population, general education classes more often than uh than he's in Miss Tamula's classroom. Um we have here
008at Stevens what we call student ambassadors. be students that are in good academic standing, behavioral standing, and then the students elect who they would like to represent their class as the student ambassadors. This year, um, Mrs. Stegman's class, Momo is involved in her class, and her class elected Momo as their student ambassador. Um, sorry, I get a little emotional about that. It's not all schools where you have, sorry, I get emotional about this one, a student body that will take a student that's autistic and embraces them and puts them in charge. >> I do the student best because that's what I am. >> When she's able to get them to a point where they can transition into our classrooms, you know, they are ready. they are able to uh interact with other students. >> I
009learned about silence. >> Tell me some things. >> So, uh I do some volcano experiments. It's very good. >> Teacher Barbara Segman says it's her students that benefit from the integration of special education students into her classroom. >> They develop compassion. They develop empathy. They develop the love of difference and the joy of helping others >> to integrate those students into our whole school and then the impact that she has not only with that child but with that child's family because she is an advocate to help those families. >> Just Jackson on his own, she's visited him in the hospital. She's come to soccer games. She cares for each of these kids and their incredible unique individual needs. >> I just love the small victories. Every [music] kid deserves the same education as any student.
010>> I love you, Miss Ty. >> I love you, Miss T. >> Smile big. >> Congratulations, Miss T. I'm very happy for you. Miss T. Skyler, I can't imagine anyone who deserves this more than you. Congratulations, Mr. Mulla. I am so proud to have you as one of our stingers. The impact you have made on students learning, students lives, on the families of the students and the impact that you have helped the families to be successful and the impact you have had on working on full inclusion of your children into our student body and what you do for every single thing we do here at Stevens is tremendous. I can't think of a better person. Congratulations on your break the mold award. >> We love you. All right, before we do applause, Skylar, come on
011up here and I'm going to read this and then we'll do all the So, uh, let me introduce you to Skylar Tamula Humphrey. And you see why the students call her Mrs. T. Um, I practiced a little bit. I I hope I have the annunciation right, but everyone just knows Mrs. T. She is a special education teacher at Stevens Elementary School. Um and and the story is that uh she almost went down the road of criminal justice, but a high school class at Ry changed the course of her life and she felt that there were others who needed her more. And uh you notice with certain people, you know, Miss the Bradies could have edited out you crying, Mr. Blankenship, but they they chose not to. So uh and uh if you don't know, her
012students want to do the pledge. So let's give her a big round of applause. [applause] >> [applause] >> with the staff and the students and everybody involved. So, we'll do the boring photo first, then we'll do the fun photo second. And uh you know, you guys don't have our vantage points. We're sitting up here watching all the staff cry and all the students get excited when they see themselves and their teachers on TV. So, it's kind of fun to get to that. photo. Family, boys, students. Can you get in front of this? Can you get in front of a few This is You guys have to stay right there for a second. Up to an hour. No, no, no, no, no. [laughter] >> I get in trouble for >> I just want to thank everyone
013for coming. Um, I wouldn't be where I am today without the support of everyone. Um, I'm just really grateful that I get to work with such an amazing community. [applause] Who's taking out dinner? [applause] a second that almost tonight. We got last couple minutes. >> AJ doesn't want to try to compete with that, does he? She's great. We were trying to give him a second. All right. Thanks again. We're going to move on with our meeting and that concludes our good news for the night and I will turn it back over to Chairman Parks. >> Uh thank you Dr. Housewald. That was pretty cool. Uh we're going to move on to agenda item five. Turn the meeting over to AJ Wyoff for the student board member representative report. >> Yes, thank you. Uh I don't
014have a ton to talk about this month uh due to our monthly meeting getting cancelled because of so much missed school. So a lot of our goals were placed on hold. However, we have begun the election process in order to elect the next student representative which is quite exciting. The health and safety committee will be meeting next week finally. I'm going to be able to go there and share the student view from the posters we have made at SSAC. I think they will be thoughtprovoking and really show where the young kids all around the county are learning and getting away from health lessons. My most exciting news to share with everyone is that I'll be speaking on behalf of Boone County at Cosba, which is a national schoolboard association. I hope to highlight the importance
015of listening from the student view as we see many of the everyday changes made here on the board. I'm excited to represent the student the voices of all students in Boone County as their perspectives and ideas at SSAC have really challenged my views and ways of thinking on various subjects. Thank you for your time and I look forward to updating everybody next month. Um, thank you. I could tell you I know a few students on the superintendent advisory council and um they were sort of bummed that they couldn't make the meeting this month. As you stated, this snow kind of put a damper on things. >> Oh, yeah. I was bummed. We had a lot planned. So, >> Right. Right. >> Yeah. >> And are you excited about speaking to Cosba? >> It'll be interesting.
016Yeah, that's for certain. >> It'll be interesting. All right. It's a good opportunity. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> All right. Uh we'll move on to um agenda item six for superintendent's report. Dr. Housewalt. >> Hi. Yes. Thank you again, Chairman Parks. Um for the superintendent report, we uh do try uh uh regularly at least four times a year uh to give updates on our strategic plan. And tonight we're going to update a little bit on strategic uh plan goal number one, particularly objective 1B because it directly relates to the work we're doing within the math curriculum. Um, and and strategic plan reporting is something we try to do regularly. Um, and we're gonna we try to do it pretty strategically, pun intended. So, uh, Kelly is here tonight, uh, Sidum and, uh, Tara Dale, and
017they're going to come up and they're going to do, um, a, um, a presentation on, um, our math curriculum and update the board. It is an item on the agenda. Uh it is a requirement under state law um that we um adopt a high quality instructional resource. There's a parallel law that requires us to adopt uh to comply with um MTSS intervention strategies. So tonight um I know there they've worked very hard. They're going to update you on bringing uh that proposal that meets state requirement. Um it is a interestingly a fraction of 1% of our budget that we spend on this but it's one of the biggest investments we can make and I know the heavy lift it took from all the teacher and school related voices up through all the committees budget committee
018back to you all to bring it here tonight. So they're going to talk a little bit about that and and and really kind of directly uh connect that with the strategic plan. I'll turn it over to Tara. >> I'm so excited to be here tonight. This is the third time we have adopted an HQR. So, we have adopted CK amplify CK CK I can't talk right now y'all. CKLA in um K through five. And then last year we adopted a secondary literacy curriculum 9 through 11. This year we're adopting K through 12, K through algebra 2, K through 11 math. Super excited about that. and we have learned so much about the HQIR process and have really refined our processes to make sure we have so much stakeholder engagement. So, I'm going to turn it
019over to Kelly Stdum and let her really talk about this process. This has been going on since December of 2024 was when we started talking about adopting a math curriculum. And then Kelly's going to share about the stakeholder engagement, the processes we went through because it's a this is a really important and it is 100% aligned to our goal one of our strategic plan because our students have to have high quality instructional resources if we're going to continue to improve student achievement in this district. So, I'm gonna turn it over to Kelly. One moment. [laughter] Sorry about that. Uh, hello. Hello. I'm Kelly Sidum. I'm the math consultant for the district. Can you can hear me? Okay. Right. Okay. Um, and I have It's okay. I think I'm loud enough. Oh, thank you. I'll try
020and keep it short. >> [laughter] >> So, um I am so proud of the work that our district leaders and our teachers have put in to this process of um coming together to select a high-quality instructional resource for math alto together. Um we started this process as Tara shared in December of 2024 when we were given the new legislation and also then uh looked inward at what are our real goals for our math classrooms. We got stakeholder um feedback from students including the uh superintendent student advisory council um around what math class looks like now and what they hoped it would look like. We also gathered similar feedback from teachers and from principles from coaches and and stakeholders all across our um organization around what they were really looking for when we say we want
021uh high quality math instruction for every student in every classroom. Um so we started then with getting uh different rounds of feedback as we went through the process. The first step was to outline what our process was going to be especially because we wanted coherence across our very large district and that meant a lot of teachers um and a lot of schools giving their voice and coming to a collective decision. So first we outlined our process. We took that to teaching and learning um and also to the SPDMs a few of our SPDMs and to the teachers and said would this process make sense and they said great. So we took that feedback. Our next step was to gather um again information on what was most important to people in improving math instruction. We took
022that information um with coaches and also forming a math core team that had representatives of um LSS staff but also principles, coaches, and teachers from across the district. They took that information and synthesized it into a rubric. Then we took that draft rubric and sent it back out and said, "Give us more feedback on the rubric before we could all agree that this is what we want math instruction to look like and this is the tool that we think will help all of our amazing teachers implement that daily in their practice." Once we had the rubric, the math core team took a a medium-sized list of uh high-quality instructional resources, reviewed them on that rubric, got feedback from their own school teams, and that got us to a two, and that brings us to September
023of this year. In September of this year, we sent out those two to all of our teachers. They taught lessons out of the two options. we um had students give us feedback on their experience and those we took that information to teaching and learning. Um I think also at that time Dr. Deweiler and Tara were working with the budget committee um and the quote process. Um and at the end of the day the really exciting thing is the the choice was overwhelming. 25 of our 27 schools selected the same HQIR and the other two said that they were more neutral but would be happy to work with that tool that they felt like it would be hugely helpful to them in their practice. So that's the overview of our process that leads us here today
024>> and it was also the least expensive option. >> Yeah, it was also the least expensive of the two >> which we love because we don't if we don't do this one >> our second option is more expensive. these resources, many dollars per student. Thank you for picking the best one and uniting the staff and being fiscally responsible. >> So, and that concludes our uh comments tonight, unless anyone has questions. Uh I I don't want to >> I know it's my comment time, but if anyone has any questions while they're here. >> Okay. >> Absolutely. >> Kelly loves to talk about math. [laughter] >> Yeah, >> I don't like to talk about math, but I deal with numbers all day long. I I mean I know that I was looking through this underlining stuff and
025this is just a quick question that there's a lot of talk about built built-in differentiation tools for struggling students. Are there also differentiation tools for the gifted students? >> Yes. >> And that we're pushing them. I mean, if you've got somebody that's already mastered algebra 1 and sixth grade, what are we doing for them for the next five years? >> I love I love that you brought that up. Thank you so much. One of the things that um our school teams reported back was the differentiation tools in this particular product that teachers felt were very usable and also very high quality. So, as you say, uh for every lesson there's differentiation for students who need a little bit more, but every lesson also has an extension that replaces part of that lesson for students who
026are achieving at high levels. In addition to that, and I think we'll talk about this probably again later, there is another house bill about advanced work and we that was part of our conversation with this >> good question >> uh tool as well. >> Thank you. And a lot of people ask so one of the big changes um over the last probably decade is more of the really since co more of the fees are moving to per student but they're also moving to more autogenerated that analyze instantly and give students the next step whether that is uh you know building foundational skills to scaffold up to the standard they need to learn or whether it's to advance it and and to keep the students engaged with the resources. is a pretty exciting time um with
027some of the immediate assessment um taking place that then generates um additional activities um that really kind of puts some pulls some of the pressure off the teachers to try to have a more timely response allows them to engage more directly with students and build those relationships. So um some people say ah I don't know about AI blah blah but I I really think it's an exciting time because I think some of that uh instant feedback is being generated automatically to allow our teachers really to engage directly with students and and that's really exciting too. So yeah >> I just want to say thank you for everything. I remember when we did this with the reading curriculum what a nightmare it was with the first time we went through it. So, I'm Yes, I'm just
028grateful that you all were so thorough in the process because there's another piece of legislation out there that makes you be very thorough in the process. Um, so I'm I'm grateful for that. So, I appreciate all of the work that went into it at every level. >> And I might add, Kelly, the uniting of of the schools, this is important for a lot of reasons. A lot of times we talked about we went with the the the most economical the best but also happened to be the most economical option as the district has looked towards creating um um the same series across the system um that also benefits our taxpayers as well as our students. So we have students um that due to forced mobility um circumstances beyond their control they may have to attend
029three or four of our elementary schools in a year. Um and when they move schools and they switch programs the alignment might be somewhat different and you know there's learning loss when a student is forced to move schools that research say about nine nine weeks and so when we have the same resources um there's a great benefit to the students there. So, we're really helping some of our privileged students. And then also, um, if, uh, students don't all move at the same time, of course. And so, when we had nine different language arts resources, for example, for some students, we were purchasing three and four different resources in a year, which had a cost uh to the district as well as our taxpayers. And so now the good thing is when the students in our
030district regardless of when they're moving that resource goes with them which also avoids us buying a duplicative materials for any given student but most importantly it helps our priority population. So go ahead Kelly you itching to respond to that and I'm happy you are. I just wanted to add that um horizontally it's so important the coherence. So no matter which school our students in um are in that they if they move then have any transiency that's limited but it's also what we heard from our teachers so important that now we'll have some vertical coherence. So instead of students moving from grade level to grade level and having to adapt to very different materials or a different math vocabulary than they'd heard for example in fifth grade, that coherence will not only help our students experience
031be more smooth, but also and this is what I'm very excited about, the collaboration between te and among teachers across the district when we have a common language and a common vision of math instruction. And Kelly, if I may translate for everyone at home, what she was saying is horizontal refers to students going from same grade level from school to school. When she talks about vertical, for example, we're talking about vertically going from say fifth to sixth. And so if we had two different resources at two different elementary schools and all of those and most of those students then went to the same middle school. That's where she gets to that vertical alignment. So I'm just providing some translation because the teacher talk, but it also makes us more efficient. We when we do professional
032development, we have some opportunities to do districtwide, pull more teachers together um and and pay people, you know, less consultants because they're all working towards the same resource. So, a lot of benefits. Okay, >> we can go back and forth and just have a convers. Guess who a former math teacher was. Thank you, Kelly. >> Thank you. >> Well, thanks for explaining that, uh, Dr. Housewald. That's uh All right. Um, we're going to move on to, [clears throat] excuse me, agenda item seven. This the audience of citizens. Uh, the board welcomes the opportunity to hear from the community and inform the board of your views on matters that are before the board. Please keep in mind the board of ag the board of education agenda is set and by statute the board can only discuss
033the items that are present on our agenda. The board cannot legally nor would the board discuss an issue specific to an employee or a student in respect of privacy. These meetings are streamed live on YouTube. Please be respectful in your comments. If you have a concern that you'd like a response from the administration, please feel free to leave your information with Mr. Eric Paul. Keep your comments to two minutes so that all wish to speak may speak. And I prefer you not do gift giving of time so that all another person um give giving of time to another person is not permitted. Anyway, with that we'll start with um Mr. Kelly Reid from BCA. >> Good to see you, Mr. Reid. >> I'm sorry. >> Says good to see you. >> Good to see you.
034How are you? >> Well, I'm a little taller than the last. Kelly, I can't do math. I can't. So, uh, Dr. Hoswald, thank you for your letter regarding maternity I'm sorry, Kelly Reed, Boone County Education Association. Uh, thank you for your letter regarding maternity leave and the district's request to reopen the collective bargaining agreement. The Boone County Education Associ Association agrees that providing paid maternity leave is an important and appropriate benefit for our employees, and we appreciate your stated support for expanding this benefit. However, after careful consideration, BCA does not agree to reopen the agreement. We must respectfully disagree with the assertion that reopening the collective bargaining agreement is the only lawful or appropriate means by which the board may provide paid maternity leave. The association does not share the district's interpretation that article 7
035prohibits the board's the board from implementing additional maternity leave benefits through board action policy or other mechanisms that expand rather than diminish employee benefits. School districts across the Commonwealth have implemented paid maternity leave without reopening negotiated agreements particularly particularly where no bargain rights are reduced or altered. The association is also concerned that the district's request request [clears throat] conditions maternity leave on unrelated and long-standing proposals to amend transfer rights and modify or eliminate association leave. These pro provisions were extensively negotiated by parties and are fundamental to employee protections and labor stability. tying maternity leave to to [clears throat] concessions in these areas present maternity leave not as a shared commitment to employee well-being but as a bargaining lever. The association cannot agree to that [clears throat] approach and this should uh as this should be
036a basic human right. Further, while we acknowledge the district's stated concerns regarding instructional continuity and fiscal impact, those consider considerations exist with any form of medical leave and have never been used as justification to restrict restrict employee rights or representation. The association rejects this premise as providing paid maternity leave must be offset by weaken by weakening negotiated protections or association operations. For these reasons, the association declines the district's request to reopen the agreement under article nine. That said, the association remains willing to engage in discussions regarding paid maternity leave through mechanisms that do not require opening the contract and do not place almost finished existing negotiated rights at risk. We believe this appro approach is consistent with good faith labor relations, employee stability, and shared goals of supporting staff and students. We encourage the district
037to exercise the authority it already possesses to act on this matter. Should the district wish to explore policybased or board adopted solutions, the association is prepared to participate in those discussions. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh Khloe Wilson, welcome. Hello, my name is Khloe Wilson and I'm reading this letter on behalf of Kim Frier. During the spring of 2025, the PIOTics FRC team had the opportunity to attend the world's competition. Even though the team had adequate funds to attend the competition, school administration required the team to do additional fundraising in order to prov to prove that we could be a self- sustaining team and to asssure that one competition did not drain all the team funds. Within a very short time frame, team members, mentors, and parents jumped into action and raised a significant
038amount of money for the PIOTics FRC team. The team was permitted to go to Worlds where they won the rising all-star award. My son Aaron spent several evenings calling family and friends and raised $1,500. I used professional contacts and raised another $500 from Altafiber. I also coordinated a trash forc volunteer day with Campell County solid waste department and the team raised another $500 by picking up trash on roadsides in Campbell County on Saturday, May 17th, 2025. The entire team, multiple siblings and parents turned out to pick up trash on a Saturday. It took the group about seven hours to pick up trash on five miles both sides of the road. All of their funds, especially the $500 that the 2025 team members personally worked for, should be returned to the team. It is my understanding
039that Ignite does not have a new first robotics team, and as such, the money that the 2025 team worked for should rightfully go to the kids who earned it. To my knowledge, there should be around $15,000 to $20,000 in the account. The money was also specifically earmarked for Pibotics FRC 3814, so the money should go to them. I would like a response from the board. Thank you. >> If you want an official, please leave your information with Mr. Eric Ball so we can get that response to you, please. >> In the letter, if you have a copy of that, >> uh, Stephanie Wilson, that's all right. Welcome. Thanks for being here. >> Thank you. Um, my name is Stephanie Wilson. I am reading this on behalf of my mother. She couldn't be here. Dear members
040of the school board, I am the grandmother of Emma and Khloe Wilson, two dedicated and long-standing members of the PIOSC FRC robotics team. Last year, these young women alongside their teammates and their community fought tirelessly to keep their team alive. Through relentless fundraising and unwavering commitment, they achieved their goals and earned their place at the World Championship in Houston. All on their own merit and hard work. I along with my employer contributed financially to support their journey and donations specifically earmarked for their team. It's absolutely unacceptable to discover that school, which showed no interest in supporting them as a team, has retained their funds. Neither Ignite nor Boon County Schools provided any financial support to the team. The only contributions were from the from the school were a space and coach. These students took the
041initiative, raised the necessary funds, and now the school is unjustly holding on to their money. The school clearly has no intention of fostering a robotics team, otherwise they would have supported the award-winning team they already had. Instead, they created an environment so challenging that the team was forced to leave and find new areas to meet and practice. Yet, the school has kept their awards and their funds. This is not a school team. This was not a school team. It was a district team. And nowhere on the awards is there any mention of Ignite or Boone County. After consulting with legal experts, it is clear the school has no right to the funds as they were donated specifically for FRC 3814 and no one else. So, why is the school refusing to release the funds? I
042would like a response from the board. respectfully, Susan Kzer. >> Thank you. Uh, Seth Thompson. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. My name is Seth Thompson. I am a parent of a pilot and also a current Ignite student and also a future Ignite student. We start next year. Um rather than read prepared statements as uh my colleagues here did, I just want to kind of explain there is an Potics is not just about building robots. There is an entire arm of this team dedicated to social media outreach, marketing, donation, solicitation. You know, we we say, you know, we build robots, but it's not really about building robots. It's about building the kids. And for those for those students in that marketing arm, yes, it is about the money. The money is important, but it's not really
043about that. It's about them learning how to do presentations to talk to adults like yourself, which, you know, for a high school kid can be quite an experience. And it's also about building relationships with those vendors, you know, and those people who donate. They're not just donating to an education, you know, which they may do on their own, but you know, we talked to technology firms, hardware firms, manufacturers, they're not just donating to kids. They're donating to people they see as their future workers. You know, my son is going off to engineering school next year at University of Louisville. And that's because of the education he received at Ignite and also the work he's done here at the Piotics team. So, yeah, it's the money's important, but it's not just about the money. and you
044know that's expensive. It's about building that relationship with the vendors year in year out to continue the team. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Uh Vanessa Hag Hagedorn, my apologies if I mispronounce that. >> Thank you to those engineers that we're raising. Good evening members of the board. How often how often are parents the very first donors to their child's fundraiser? How often do those children and families then reach out to aunts, uncles, grandparents, neighbors, and co-workers to support something meaningful? When we donate, we're not just giving money. We are giving trust. Trust that hard-earned income will directly support the students and opportunities that we believe in. And rarely do donors have the privilege of witnessing their contributions in action. My name is Vanessa Hagedorn and I am speaking tonight not only as
045a do as a donor to Pybotics FRC team 3814 during its years under district super uh sponsorship but also as a proud aunt who has personally witnessed the time, effort, and growth that these students have achieved. I'm also here to speak on behalf of Drew's grandparents, his family, friends, and other scout leadership that have donated funds specifically by to be used specifically by Pyotics. We know that there is more to work here than playing with robots. Pyotics is not simply a school club. It's a team of academic athletes. These students dedicate countless hours outside of school organizing equipment, designing, fabricating, programming, and preparing to compete. They work alongside mentors and experts learning real world engineering, teamwork, and leadership skills. They are sons and daughters and they are nieces and nephews and grandchildren who are supported
046not just financially but emotionally, intellectually, and personally by families, mentors in their community. I understand that Pibotics has since trans um transitioned to a community-based organization and the district no longer sponsors an F FRC robotics program. Given this change, I am requesting clarification regarding the funds remaining in the school held account that were donated expressly by the uh to the Pybotics F FRC team. To be clear, it is my position as a donor that these funds should be returned to the Pybotics FRC 3814 team so that they can continue to be used for their original intended purpose, supporting the students and program to which they have been donated. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Um, we [clears throat] also have a couple of students uh that are visiting us. Um, if you'd like to
047come up and say your name into the microphone, Savannah Bowling and Serena Lou, maybe. Hello. Would you like to come just say your name for the record? >> No. >> Okay. Go ahead. My name is Savannah Bowling and I go to Ignite, but I'm taking dual credit glass classes at Gateway and um I came here to observe today. Great. >> Thank you for being here. >> That's awesome. >> All right. Uh with that, we'll move on to agenda item eight. Recommended action consent agenda items A through DM. Dr. House. >> Yeah. Thank you again, Chairman Parks. I recommend the board approve the recommended action consent agenda items A through doublem as presented uh with the treasures report which will now be given by Mr. Denim. Mr. Denim, we had an adjusted beginning cash balance of
048$18,78,89 total receipts of 17,242,366. Total expenditures of 13,938,819 for net increase of cash of3,33,547 for an ending balance of $112,11,636. We had 5.7 million of property taxes collected, of which 1.4 million was restricted for the building fund. We collected 4.9 million in occupational taxes. We had a debt service payment of 1.9 million. All right. Um, do I have a motion to approve consent agenda items A through DM as recommended? >> A motion to consent to approve those items. >> Miss, any discussion on the items on the consent agenda or questions about the treasury report? Seeing none, we'll move forward with a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Move on to agenda item nine, recommended action, old business, item A. Dr. Housewalt. >> Uh, yes. Thank you
049again. I recommend the board approve. Recommended action old business item A revision to administrative guidance and library allocations uh at a request of KDE. This just simply uh clarifies what I'm not sure if it was Scrier's error, but it clarifies our existing practice. It doesn't change our practice. It just uh more accurate. It actually accurately reflects our current practice regarding allegations particularly for librarians at our small at Kelly Elementary School. I would recommend approving it as presented. >> [clears throat] >> Do I have a motion to approve the old business item A? Revisions to administrative guidance and librarian allocations as recommended. >> Mr. Wolf have a second, Miss. Okay. Any discussion on item A? Being that there's no further discussion, we'll move forward with a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any
050opposed? >> Seeing none, motion passes 5-0. Move to agenda item 10, recommended action, new business item A. Dr. Housewald. >> Yes. I recommend the board approve a recommended action new business item A, a recommendation regarding HQIR math uh curriculum adoption. And again, special thank you to all the work of the the countless people, hundreds of people have been involved in Kelly. Thank you and for presenting tonight. I recommend approving as presented. Do I have a motion to approve new business item A recommended? Recommendation um high quality instructional resource ma math curriculum adoption as recommended. Any discussion on item A? Seeing none, move forward with a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Move forward. Agenda item 10, recommended action, new business, item B. Dr. household. >> Thank you.
051For those that are watching at home or in the audience, you'll see three of these that are all related to the the presentation earlier. The second one, I would recommend the board approve the recommended action new business item B, the recommendation regarding math, which is our MTSS required intervention program that provides the supplemental meets the MTSS component of our math curriculum. And please approve as presented. Do I have a motion to approve new business item B? Recommend recommendation math multi-tered system of supports. Is that what it is? All right. I like it. See, I'm trying to get these acronyms down. >> Yeah. Right. Um, required intervention program as recommended. Do I have a motion? >> M. Wolf. >> Any discussion on item B? Seeing none. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any
052opposed? >> Seeing none. Motion passes. 5-0. Move to agenda item 10, new business item C. Dr. Household. >> Uh, yes. I recommend the board approve recommended action new business item C, which is the recommendation regarding HQR math professional development. May I request you approve as presented? >> Our request to approve, please. All right. Um, >> do I have a motion to approve new business? I gotta read it first. It's so fun if I don't read it. >> Do I Do I have a motion to approve the new business item C recommendation for high quality instructional resource math professional development as recommended? >> You'll have to say it again. I recom I recommend to approve the math MTS MTSS required inter I'm sorry >> I recommend to approve the HQ math professional development >> I like
053it >> second anybody >> right any discussion what um I do have a question it's a professional development pce to this, right? >> And what's what does that look like? Is it is it in person? Is it uh more software related? Both probably. >> It's it's all the above. It's it also, we didn't mention this, but it's a reset. The first year of the district for onetime monies will be purchasing a lot of materials and resources in addition to the the the curricum fee. But go ahead. this particular training for every teacher in the district uh which is a lot of teachers and then also an in-person training for leaders which includes coaches um principles assistant principles etc. >> Gotcha. >> Hold on. I gota is so is it just a one time or is
054this ongoing? >> This is for this year >> just Okay. >> Yeah. For the roll out. Yeah. Thank Thank you. >> Any further questions on item [clears throat] C? >> Seeing none, we'll move forward with a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Uh we'll move on to agenda item 11, information, proposals, and communications. Any board members have anything they'd like to talk about or report? I just want to make sure that board members, if you all haven't been up to Ignite yet, they are having their 2026 Olympics and it is a sight to behold some of these games these kids are competing in. I'll tell you, human curling, for example. Yes. So, um, so they're having a good time. So, next Thursday is going to be
055their big final competition day. And I know Mr. Parks and Dr. Housewald were there for the opening ceremonies and it's been a lot of excitement. They've done a lot of um building in terms of the engineering um in the fab lab. They did a lot of stuff for decor and getting these games situated. So, it's a lot of fun. So, >> maybe maybe the board and the superintendent will just do human curling after the meeting >> right here. What do you think? >> How about we do a bobsled relay? >> We better [laughter] quit while we're we better quit while we're behind. >> And I had an opportunity to go to a couple of the coffees with Dr. housew. And it was good to see everybody. >> Stevens, it was really good, I have to
056say. >> Wait, Dr. Housewald was there. >> I'm kidding. [laughter] >> Yeah, he was there for sure. >> Well, and the way you know that is it has conversations in the title. >> Anything that involves talking, I'm usually there. >> There's pictures to prove it. that you need to take off >> you know you know uh so let's talk about that no actually I want to thank the the you know Mr. blanket show. All the principles they host, many of them provide they they provide donuts to get the staff there. Many of them do and coffee and we we really all of the schools have a different format, but it is they the teachers come, the staff members come and they ask great questions. They engage with us. Um they maybe they tolerate my stories
057occasionally if I tell them. Um you know, Michelle knows, but it really is a valuable time to get their feedback. And I know that >> Well, I know Aman Elementary definitely well put you out on the fire. >> Yeah, we had about how long was that? It felt like three hours. >> It felt like it. >> It was great. [laughter] >> Um I'll just I'll just mention briefly that um if you haven't uh been by uh the site of our uh early child learning facility recently, there's now signs out front. Um so I'm excited about it. uh was privileged enough, I guess, to see some of the draft plans for the um design by our wonderful architects um who continue to do a fantastic job with with the things that they uh design and work
058on. And I I'm impressed by the plans. I'll tell you, I'm I'm really excited about it and I cannot wait to see uh little people strolling in and out of that building. It's going to be fantastic. Uh so all the people that are involved in that, um I I really can't thank you enough. And I know in our area um over in Union in Florence um I can tell you I've talked to many many families um that are going to utilize that uh program and are looking forward to sending their students there um when it's open. So that's very very exciting. >> And are we should we just tell the large yellow um excavating trucks at the new Publix to go across the street? How close are we? is because this is every day, every
059week. Chairman Park says, "When will I see the construction equipment there?" So, we're we're getting close, right? I know we're finalizing >> by and we appreciate the signs and we're racing towards 2027 August. >> All right. >> That you're on record for that. So, that's great. >> Very cool. Um, anyone else? >> All right. Um, you sure no one wants to go over um energy management report or anything like that? Field trips? >> I do have two things real quick. Um, on on reports calendar, many people, many of our community members have asked about calendar. Special thanks to our uh to Barbara Brady. She's got information about the whole process including weather and inclement and updates on our website. There's like four different ways to access it. It's in the newsletter. As of today, we
060have to make up four student days um and two additional staff days. Um and we'll be updating the calendar, but we're waiting. There is some legislative conversations about what that looks like and what if there's any flexibility. So, we're waiting on all of that. So, thanks for the patience, but we do have up-to-date information on our current uh on the number of days we've currently missed um and and how many of those we have to make up. So, I wanted to point that out. And then we also want to give a special thanks every year uh North Point um the student council um provides a nice note to to everyone up here uh and um you know um no there's no nutrition but caloric cookies [laughter] and they're the best and I try to eat
061them before they get home so that uh I I get the whole box. So special thanks to North Point for bringing those every year. >> I want to tag on to the Barbara Brady thing. She she's got an online following now and it is glorious. So I'm wondering Dr. Housewald when we're going to have a link on our website for the Barbara Brady fan club. [laughter] >> You know what we you can ask that to Barbara after the meeting. I'm not going to put her on the spot, but uh we were I will say real quickly that we were at one of our coffee conversations and uh you know Barbara and Chad are ever they're documenting they're they're informing the public. They do great work. And um they were at the meeting and I said
062something about Barbara and and I forget how it came up but a teacher looked at me kind of quizzically and I said that's Barbara Brady and they they didn't know and they're like [gasps] and so they literally got a couple of them got in line because they wanted their picture with her and meanwhile I'm standing there with with and I'm just like they're like can you take a picture of me with Barbara? So it put me in my place and I'm I'm happy for that. >> So are you saying this might be a new revenue stream for the district? pictures and autographs with Barbara. >> Once again, I'll refer you to talk to Barbara after the meeting. [clears throat] >> Um, all right. So, speaking of the snow, the snow stuff, I'll just say one
063more time that if you're out and about in the snow, um the if you drive by one of our properties, you'll most likely see our staff um or elements of our staff doing maintenance and continuing to um you know, clear the lots and and clean the buildings and um maintain, you know, a safe place for our kids to attend school the next day. and they worked tirelessly to do um a whole bunch of stuff um inside and outside the building. So, again, a big appreciation for all the staff that the um that you know participate and do that work and I know it's I know personally that it's really difficult in the snow as I am the plow truck driver at my place of business. But, uh thank you. And uh with that, if there's
064nothing else, uh we're going to move to agenda item 12, which is close session pursuant to KRS61.810 section 1 in Cindy's favorite time of the meeting. meetings by any selection committee, evaluation committee, or similar group established under KRS chapter 45A or 456 or other state or local law to select a successful bidder for award of a state or local contract. Do I have a motion to adjourn to close session? motion. Second. Anyone? Not all at once, though. >> All seconded. >> Maddox. All right. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. I think 5-0. We're now going to move to adjourn to close session. There you go.