Boone County School Board Meeting For January 2026

001[music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Thank you very much. >> [music] >> Oh my goodness. [music] [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> I don't know. [music] Let's go. [music] [music] I wonder. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hey. [music] >> [music] >> Sorry for the delay. We're call this meeting to order. Looks like all the board members are present. Item two, we'll ask everyone to stand for the national anthem presented by Ral High School. Oh, [singing] say can you see by the dawn early what so [singing] proudly we held at the twilight. My lights last gleaming whose rush stripes and [singing] bright stars through the [music] perilous fight for the ramparts [singing] we were so be streaming and [singing] the rock is red. The bombs bursting gave proof [singing] through the

002night that our flag was still there. Oh, [singing] say does that star spangled man yet [singing] pray for the land [singing] of the free and the home of [singing] the brave. [music] [applause] And then if we could have the uh pledge to the flag led by Thornw. >> I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. [clears throat] [applause] >> Where it is hiding kind of self-directed though. Were you following her? [cough and clears throat] >> So she could have sung with you. [snorts] [laughter] >> What? >> Next time >> really [cough] >> [cough] >> So, student council reps, is that what we got here? Look at your shirts. >> No.

003What? >> You guys get a picture. >> Oh, yeah. Hold your banners. Can I get one with you? How great are you? >> All right. Can we give these guys a hand? [applause] >> Wow, that that was terrific. Um, we'll move on to item four, good news. Turn the meeting over to Dr. Housewald for those good news items. Uh, good evening board. We have a several good news items which is always a highlight of the meeting. Uh the first uh good news item is our school board uh member recognition month. So uh this month the the Boone County School District joins 170 other public school districts across the Commonwealth annually to celebrate January as schoolboard recognition month. Schoolboard members spend of course countless hours of unpaid time working to provide the best education for our

004students. Uh they also serve as the corporate board of directors for one of our community's largest employers. uh celebrating the schoolboard recognition month is one way to thank thank you to each of them and of in 20 years working directly with the board I can tell you that our school board is 100% student focused and I always value and appreciate that they they work hard to support the staff uh they work hard to support our community uh to represent our taxpayers but they always do in a way that uh puts uh uh the service before self and their students first and I'm very grateful for that. So, thank each of the five of you personally and we have a uh a recognition to be uh read by judge. Thank you, Judge Shan. Appreciate it. Thank

005you. Um I'm here uh Kathy Rman called me tonight. Judge Gary Moore has a proclamation from as judge executive of the Boon County Fiscal Court. Uh I will say my dad was on school burden many many years ago. A lot of you remember him. So, it's an honor to be here to read this tonight. um as a Boone County High School graduate, a Boone County citizen, and your circuit judge. So, this proclamation by Gary W. Moore, judge executive of the of the county of Boone, to all to whom these presents shall come. Whereas our local public school system produces our future citizens and contributes to our community's identity, pride, and cohesion. And whereas Carolyn Henkins Wolf, Julie Maddox, Jesse Parks, Cindy Young, Karen Bird, and student representative Andrew J. Wyoff devote time, energy, and training

006in their schoolboard service to maintain and continually improve the continually improve the schools in the Boone County School District and the achievement of their students. And whereas these decision makers are held accountable for student learning in the Boone County schools, for the fiscal health of the system through their budgetary oversight, for sound district policies, for the effectiveness and professionalism of employees, and for safe, well-managed school facilities. And whereas our school board members have made it their overriding mission to ensure that all children of this community become solid citizens and receive an education that will prepare them for post-secary studies, the workforce, and a competitive global economy. And whereas Kentucky officially will observe contributions by these outstanding leaders and their colleagues across the state during the month of January. Now, therefore, I Gary W. or County

007Judge Executive to hereby proclaim the month January 2026 throughout this community as school board recognition month. And in the words of Judge Moore, I urge all citizens to join me in recognizing the dedication and hard work of Carolyn Henkins Wolf, Julie Maddox, Jesse Parks, Cindy Young, Karen Bird, and student representative Andrew Jay Wyoff as school board members for their service. >> [applause] [applause] >> Thanks. Okay, good news item two is our break the mold. January's break the mold winner is Marsha Kelly, a bus driver and fleet secretary at the Boon County Transportation Department. The transportation department isn't just buses and drivers. There's so much more that goes on. And Marsha Kelly is uh said to be the glue that keeps it all together. And you're going to see that for yourself in this video. So,

008>> do you know if we need any special needs buses yet either? She started out as a bus driver, then a dispatcher, a special needs bus aid, and now she's the fleet secretary for the Boone County Schools Transportation Department. Just about everyone in the district knows Marcia Kelly by name and reputation. Tonight, we put a face to the name for those of you who haven't met her in person. Not only is she the fleet secretary, and then, you know, she handles all the district field trips. These kids wouldn't have field trips. Um, I mean, she's last minute Johnny on the spot. Hey, I need a bus. I got you. Um, she takes care of it. Um, heck, we use her in our regular daily routes. >> Marsha knows everything that's going on in this department

009at all times. Um, if somebody is sick that day or something happens, their bus breaks down, Marsha's on top of it, she's listening to the radio and she's making the calls before I can. The fleet secretary's job is constantly evolving, never slowing down. Marsha is responsible for updating insurance, titles, tags, and renewals for all district buses and white fleet, putting no longer used vehicles up for auction. And that's nearly 300 vehicles combined. Plus, she's the invisible wizard behind the curtain, organizing drivers and planning the itinerary for multiple school field trips that happen during the school day, at night, on weekends, including special needs student trips. Without Marsha's special touch, they don't happen. >> A lot of kids may not get to go on a lot of field trips. I will do anything for the schools.

010I will just so the children can go on their field trip. I just start calling people, are you available? Can you help? Can you Can you help the school out? >> She's got that ability to just ask and everybody will go, I'll be right there, Marca. >> Spent a lot of time talking with her on the phone and through email. She's so great with communication and always wants to make sure that our minds are at ease and that she has logistics handled and we can really focus in on the educational side of things. >> For her, it doesn't matter what it is, what time it is, what she's got going on. If she can do it, she will do it. Hands down. No complaints. She's out the door. >> And that was definitely the case

011on this day. Not long after this interview, Marca was asked to take on a double run at Auckerman Middle School due to a bus driver shortage. So, we tagged along with her. >> When those kids get on the bus, I greet them every single morning. How are you? You know, good morning. >> How are you today? >> I'll tell them, you know, have a nice day. You know, do a great job. make good choices today to stay out of trouble. >> Marsha has won numerous awards and given commendations from outside agencies for her experience and expertise in her personal time teaching how to organize and run a bus fleet. >> She has been a constant source of thoughtfulness and compassion and solutionsoriented leadership. It's that commitment that really helps us to ensure that the opportunities

012for our students are maximized. While Marca is appreciative of this recognition, she doesn't quite understand the necessity for all the praise. >> I'm just here doing my job every single day. I just love the people. I love being here. I love being with the kids, the students. Where can I go to do what I do, you know, and I get to go out, drive a bus, and be with kids? We need to celebrate those folks who are working so hard behind the scenes and who may not be recognized. I've never met Marca face to face, but I absolutely see on a regular basis her commitment to ensure ensuring safe and reliable opportunities for our students. >> So, Marca, I just want to thank you so much for being such an amazing friend. You definitely hands

013down deserve this without a doubt. You are amazing, not only as friends, but I consider you family and I don't think anybody deserves this more than you. Marca, you deserve the Break the Mold Award and I am so proud of you and so grateful to work alongside of you and I do not know what I would do without you on a daily basis and we just congratulate you and well done for winning Break the Mold. >> Marca, congratulations from the bottom of my heart. I can't think of anyone who personifies uh dedication to our students and their opportunities more than you. So happy for you. Congratulations, Marca. >> Congratulations, Marcia, on the break the mold award. You deserve this and I'm so glad to have worked with you for the last 10 years. [applause] Come

014on up, Marca. >> [applause] >> Thank you so much. co-workers. So, >> we're going to get one of you and your co-workers and then we're going to give you the microphone. She's back here. [laughter] talking give you an award and then we make you do that. I wanted to thank everybody for the great time that I've had here with you guys. I'm glad to help out anybody at the schools and thank you very much for the recognition. Thank you. [applause] Good news item three, farm to school. Kelly Elementary School recently hosted Farmers Day, an event that helps teachers connect classroom learning to real life experiences through agriculture-based activities. Teachers explored ways to make science more meaningful and engaging to students. Tonight, Principal Kelly, Principal Kathy Gutseller, I haven't seen where is she? Oh, here she

015comes. Okay. Is here to tell us a little more about the success of Farm to School at her school. and we'll let you do introductions and we'll just give you the stage. >> Thank you for having us. Um with me tonight is Alicia Bachmann, our assistant principal, and Christy Codell, a third grade teacher at Kelly and we um are honored to be receiving the award from the Kentucky Farm to School. We were a state winner. We were one of three schools picked for the state and our farm day was developed about nine years ago. It was just fifth grade and [snorts] it kind of trickled down. The younger students saw that fifth grade were doing some hand-on projects. So we kind of started just letting other grade levels in and we decided to let our

016fifth graders be the student leaders. So our fifth graders work with community leaders. They work with um agriculture. They work with the 4. They work with um the UK cooperative center. We also work with the Kentucky Farm Bureau. They all come to Kelly prior to farm day and they train our fifth graders. Our fifth graders run all the stations and we teach they teach our fourth through kindergarten and about three years ago we decided to be a field trip destination. So we started working with other Boom County schools and our second graders pen pal starting in August and this year it was Florence Elementary. So our second graders were pen paling with second graders at Florence and then Florence came to Kelly to experience the farm day. So, some of the pictures you were looking

017at up here are some of the experiences that our students uh got to they got to do touch a truck, but it's not the touch a truck with um emergency vehicles. It is farm equipment. So, all the farm equipment was in front of Kelly. They got to climb and do that. We have a uh farmers, you can see a farmers market where we teach them economics and supply and demand. So, as some of the pumpkins were leaving, they wanted to know why there was an X and the prices went up. We told them why the prices were going up and we talked about um making good just making good choices. We also do a we have hydroponics at Kelly. So our hydroponics tower. Our fifth graders run our hydroponics tower. They they will cultivate the

018fruit and the vegetables throughout the year and then the students get to enjoy and have that farmtotable through hydroponics. And as winners, we are getting a hydro, what do they call it? I can't remember what they called it. It was a it's a hydroponic tank where it is going to be a self-sufficient take where the vegetables will grow on top of the tank and the fish in the tank feed the vegetables and the vegetables will grow. That is part of and we we haven't set it up yet. We're about to get it's it's coming. It's on its way. And as you can see, we in we even have our Boone County Sheriff's Office. Our officer Dean has an 1800 circa apple press and they make apple cider and while they're doing this we of we

019have we do a lot have bees. We had a movement inside this year because of the we do attract a lot of bees and they do learn about pollination. We teach them about you know agriculture as far as how important farmers are. This is a collaborative huge effort. almost every single teacher. We have a huge committee every summer that meets and we work on it from the summertime till October and we it is completely supported through the Kentucky Farm Bureau. So the money that we use is donated and a almost everything is donated. This year Miss Kentucky came and spoke about the importance of um agriculture and it's not just food. They talked about textiles and other raw material and she came and spoke and this is just a snippet. This was our ninth year

020doing this and we'd like to expand and it does get a little bit bigger each year. Everything from a hayride where the students present Belleview Bottoms and get talk about the history of the area in rabbit hash and all that area. So our students present that and they also run as you can see they're planting our tulips will come up in the spring. So what they planted in the fall they will be seeing here pretty soon when the tulips bloom. So and they did some patterns and and you can see in that one picture those these are all our current pictures from this last this last one. So we're really proud that we are not only teaching our students that engagement is not just a project-based learning. It's collaboration. It's communication. It's It is empowering

021our students that ha this is part of their background and now we're reaching out and spreading it across Boone County schools. So, we're excited. We can only usually do a grade level at a time. If you've been to Kelly, it's too small. We can't take like an entire school, but we do take a one grade level from another school. And we found second grade seems to be the best to it's they're young enough to be taught by fifth graders. And our community members were quite surprised they were fifth graders that were presenting. They thought they were middle school and high. They thought they were middle schoolers. And I said, "No, these are our fifth graders. They are not middle school." And then this year, Cooper FFA did come down and they also presented. >> That

022is fantastic. Christy, Alicia, anything uh to quickly add? We at least hear your voices in the microphone, of course, having you at home. >> Oh, come on. >> My students really enjoy participating in it. Um, I think their favorite part is probably the collaboration. They collaborated in groups this year. And for the touch a tractor they have to ask farmer questions. >> So you know you can have students can ask some crazy questions sometimes. So they got together and worked in a group to come up with good questions for the farmers. So that was probably their favorite part which was in turn mine. >> Nice. I won't ask you the best question. So >> Oh this is my first year at Kelly. So it was really really cool to see this to see the fifth

023graders take on such responsibility. Um and trying to talk to the little ones. They're like they're not listening to me. I'm like, "How do you think your teachers feel?" Um, it was [laughter] it was it was really great. They were they took such ownership of it and it was it was really awesome to see. >> That is fantastic. >> And we will be doing it next year. So, we do invite all of you to come down. It's the We do it every year. We do it right before fall break. So, it'll be >> send us the dates and we'll get out to Michelle and we'll get out to the board and appreciate the invitation. >> Definitely come down and enjoy and make sure you wear your cowboy boots Sunday. You know, I grew up on

024a farm, but our tractor's a little far away, so we'll just experience the ones that are there. So, thank you so much. >> We appreciate it. We appreciate all your support, too. >> We couldn't do this without you. >> Thanks, Kathy. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. [applause] And good news item four, the Boone County uh Education Foundation grant presentation. And I think our board members are going to stand by to also um to shake hands, but uh Boon County Education Foundation uh um member and uh guru really Brian Cobb is here and he just does amazing things for the foundation and and we really appre I do personally uh am grateful for all the time you put in and the ways that you help our school district through the education foundation. And

025so Brian is going to read the names and uh I'll turn it over to you and you know the rules. You could turn the mic if you want so you can face the audience. It's usually >> Yeah, I'd like to talk over here. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's perfect. >> So, uh, good evening everybody. My name is Brian Cobb. I'm with the Boone County Education Foundation. I think most of this audience might be here for us, so you've probably heard this spiel before, but, uh, the for those of you who haven't, um, our foundation, um, gosh, we've been operating for for decades now. We've infused over a million dollars into the into the education system here into Boone County Schools classrooms by way of many grants which you're going to hear a little bit about

026tonight. But we're a completely independent 501c3 nonprofit and our main goal is to raise funds to infuse back into Boone County Schools classroom. So we have literally zero overhead. Um we're a group of around 11 or 12 parents in the district who who really value education. Um, so we we raise that money in different ways, working with businesses, um, um, events that I'll tell you about here in a minute. Um, and we do that to, like I said, in get get money back into into your all's hands so that you can use it to, um, operate programs that you wouldn't otherwise be able to operate um, in the in your classroom and in your school. So, um, we do have a a um an event coming up March 13th. It is our night at the

027races event uh at Turfway Park, Turfway uh park racing and gaming. Um it'll be appetizers, drinks, silent auction, um a few few different types of games there. If anybody's been there uh been to our event, it's a lot of fun. We just we like to say it's a night where teachers and administrators can just come out and relax and have a good time. So, uh check out our website. We're going to be releasing information on that this weekend. Uh it's baffky.org. Um so without further ado, I'm going to read the names of our grant recipients for this year. Uh we're giving away we've got a big check over here for over $40,000 that we're going to be um dispersing over the next few months. Uh we're going to do high school and middle school first.

028Take a picture and then we'll get to uh elementary. So here we go. As I read your name, we're going to hold applause until everybody comes up because otherwise it just takes too long. Um, but you're really important each one of you individually. All right, we're going to start Boone County High School. Dustin Herald, Connor High School, Ginger McClung, C. I'm gonna Sorry, I'm going to read the uh the projects, too. Dustin Herald, sound and story multimedia production lab. Connor High School, uh, Ginger McClung ASL Centered Classroom Refresh. C Cooper High School. Casey Kirk through the lens. Uh, expanding student vision and voice. Camp Erns Middle School. Sarah List stitching circuits. Eextiles in engineering design with micro:bits. Jones Middle School. Scott Reed compact digital music lab small practice room. Please applause. [applause] >> Katie Moss

029right now. >> Oh, did I miss Katie Moss? Jennifer Davis from >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yep. Yep. We We'll read a couple more names. Katie Moss for Eyeblock. Jennifer Davis for Makerpace Creative Corner. Now, applause again. [applause] Oh my god. >> [applause] >> One more group. One more. >> Elementary. All right. Elementary school, Collins Elementary. Uh, Dana Wild, Century Curriculum for students with multiple disabilities. Urban Beck, Briana Smith, Chopsaw for 3D forms or Chompsaw for 3D forms and structures. Stacy Weldon for uh, graphic novels or books too. Kelly Woodard, Century Room at Goodrich Elementary, Kelly Elementary, Kelly Halbach for coding, and Kristen Ewing for Cardboard City: Build Your Own Architecture. Man Elementary, Annie for um growing opportunities for purposeful play. Uh creativity through steam kits. Katie Hyatt for soft starts. Steeplechase Elementary. Uh Jera Wood

030for first Lego League um challenge challenge and explore teams. Stevens Elementary. Allison Ch uh Childers for Calm Corners for kindergarten. Melissa Clark for experience science. Katie Dankl for building math thinking classrooms. Caleb Robinson for music instruments. Um Helen Petroki for engagement opportunities and vibrant learning. Um Shest rounds not here for building comprehension through book clubs and MTSS. Skyler uh Taimula for sensory pathway. And last but not least, Yale Elementary. um Barbell Kaiser for inclusion inclusion community and sensory enrichments enrichments and Victoria Shuy for science and social studies embedded hands-on learning. So two lines. Okay, two two lines for me up here. Keep the applause coming. [applause] Who's moving? >> Call you out. >> Hey, thank you. [applause] Right. And that concludes the good news. I'll turn it back over to Chairman Parks. >> Every every

031month I'm I'm just reminded of the absolute stellar things, projects, um, student opportunities that are going around on around our district. And I'm I'm so grateful just to be a small part of it and watch all the magical things that our students have going on because of the the staff and our community um and all the help and service that they provide. Anyway, we'll move on to item five, which is I'm going to turn the meeting over to Wyatt Levi for the stupid. It says Wyatt Levi. This is >> wild. >> That's weird. >> It's just a It's just a typo. >> I know, but mine mine says AJ White call. >> All right. >> We must have different >> to um AJ White. Sorry, I'm I'm like um Oh, another Will Ferrell reference, my

032friend, in like five minutes here. Uh anchor man who just reads what's on the paper clearly. turn it over to AJ Wyoff for the student board member representative report. >> All right. Hello and good evening. Um I want to first thank Mr. Parks for joining us last week at our meeting. He came to see what the student body that he represents is really like and took time out of his workday to answer questions for the kids. I believe that this was an amazing thing to see as I feel he really shows his belief and trust in the student body's opinion to help the board make decisions and provide greater opportunities for them. Over the past month, the health and safety committee met once again and further tried to work towards our goals. Most of the

033time was spent discussing the increase in time that counselors have spent with actual student content. And as a student, I see this as a very good thing. Counselors are put in schools mainly to interact with kids and help prepare them for their next steps in education and guidance in life. And that extra time that they are spending with kids is strictly more instructing and helping them with p with any issu issues whether personal or educational. This month at SSAC, we focused on access and opportunities for all schools. Due to a shortage of high schoolers from MAP testing, we just focused on the elementary and middle schools. We t them with how they use their five senses minus smell to tell us what a daily school day really looks like for them. The high school leaders

034encouraged them to get creative and this helped us reflect on the equality of the opportunities that are being presented to our students at school. This can help me learn what different schools need and how I can work with Dr. for Hoswell to try and address these issues and advocate for greater equality. During our second activity, we tried to teach uh ways to look to really look out for unequal opportunities in our district. We demonstrated this by having a race where kids had to perform unorthodox locomotive movements to convey the those barriers while others could just sprint past. Over the year, I've seen the maturity and deepening of understanding in the students around me, and I'm really happy to see the growing leadership as my time slowly starts to creep to an end on the board.

035Thank you for your time and I look forward to updating everybody next month. >> I I'll just say I I really enjoyed my time u with the superintendent advisory council. One of the things that was remarkable to me is you you mentioned that I took questions. Um, and this was a group of kids from high school, middle school, and elementary school from all around the district. The questions were good and they were tough sometimes. And uh they range from kids at Valley wanting to know how if every school got the same amount of budget um to you know how do we figure out how many fire drills and and safety drills there are during the year. Um and you know the things that are on students minds the other thing I took away from it

036is every school has things that are on their minds but they're all fairly similar. They want to make sure all their students, all their friends or colleagues or whatever are getting a similar opportunity as they are. >> Yeah, absolutely. And then one of my favorite things about the board too is like, you know, I'm only one student's mind out of 22,000. So being at those uh meetings with kids from all different like opportunities in different schools can really help me understand like how I should provide for those kids because like in the end of the day, I've been to two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. And just those like perspectives they bring really like helps me like understand like what I need to do and like what our students need and

037how I can properly represent them. >> Yeah. >> Again, thank you Chairman Parks for showing up. It's interesting. Um I have a chance to speak to the students every and the most intimidating thing is they put everything in a large square of of chairs and and and Chairman Parks was looking at me. I said, "You have to go in the middle. This is the rule." And they're quiet and so you have to set rules. I said, "Okay, uh, we we have to have three questions." And I knew, but once we got to like two, I looked back and AJ goes, "Uhoh." And like 30 minutes later, there was 12 hands in the in the in the air. And and finally, Mr. Park says, "Okay, three more questions." Because they they get going and and you're

038right, the range of questions and their not only inquisiveness, but the the the comprehensive understanding they have of of the various uh, you know, responsibilities, challenges of the district, it's always insightful. So, it was great for you get to see that. I'm really glad you participated. So, thanks Levi. Is that right? >> Yeah, [laughter] >> it I will be clear. It it interestingly it does say AJ in one part and it does say Wyatt somewhere else. So, I think it's I don't know. >> All right. I'm gonna ask you in public, you ever seen the movie Anchor Man? >> I have not. >> Okay. What rock does the rock that he lives under have anyone? >> Mr. Woff, please introduce him. [laughter] I uh I had the opportunity to end my day earlier this week

039at Connor High School. I had been at Connor Middle School and uh AJ was passed in the hallway and I was talking to Mr. Woff the principal and we were standing there and uh I I that jokingly said, "I don't think this is the order of uh uh the supervision. This isn't the org chart that in the order we're standing." So AJ moved on the other side of me and he's now it's right. It's AJ, me, and then my dad. And I thought this is great. So, we appreciate uh the the approach you take. He really AJ does a great job of making all students comfortable, making all students feel included, and making sure all students are participating in that group. He really pulls leadership out of students, and that's a sign of a good

040leader. So, >> I happen to agree uh AJ, Mr. Young Wyoff, students first, my friend. Right. That's right. >> All right. Um, we're going to move to item six, uh, the Boone County Board of Election Education Election of Officers for the 2026 year. I'll turn the meeting over to Dr. Housewalk. >> Just very briefly, as I learned last year, I have one job, and that is simply to open nominations from the board uh, for the office of chairperson for calendar year 2026. Are there any motions? >> I motion for Jesse Parks. Okay, we have a motion for Jesse Parks for chairperson for 2026. Are there any other motions? >> If not, I will uh >> second. >> I'm sorry to interrupt. >> Oh, so I have one job and it's to do it wrong. We

041have a Do we have a second for the motion for Chairman Parks as board chair? Okay. So, we have a motion for what? We have a motion for Chairman Parks to serve for Mr. Parks to serve as chairperson for calendar year 2026 made by Carolyn Wolf. Do we have a second um for that motion? >> Second from Cindy Young. Okay. Do we have any other motions uh for the office of chairperson for 2026? Let me just >> I'm doing this correct, right? Okay. Do we have any other motions? Okay. If not, I will close the floor to nominations. And we have a motion made by Carolyn Wolf and seconded by Cindy Young to nominate Jesse Parks as chairperson for the year 2026. by acclamation and I close nominations. All in favor, please say yes. >>

042Yes. >> And uh any opposed? >> No. >> The motion passes 4 to one and I will turn it over to Chairman Parks for the election of the vice chair. >> Uh thank you and I I I really appreciate the vote of confidence. Nominations for the board are now open for the office of vice chairperson 2026. Do I have any motions? >> I have a motion. Cindy Young. >> We have a motion made by Miss Maddox for Cindy Young. Anyone want to second that? I'll second it. So, there's a motion on the table for by Miss Maddox to nominate Cindy Young as vice chair. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Thank you. >> All right, we're going to move on to item seven. Turn the meeting back

043over to Dr. Housewald for the superintendent report. >> Thank you. Tonight I have two items and um uh the the first one is a recent partnership uh with Northern Kentucky University, an opportunity to engage with our community and provide resources to our families. I will turn that over to um Mrs. Ddale who is uh I was just glancing over there and making sure you're ready. So that was the pause and uh to give a quick update uh to our community on what we're doing for parent university. >> So I am really excited and we are very excited to bring parent university to Boone County schools in partnership with ENKU. Y'all all know Dr. Oswald and ever since he walked in the door, he drop he drops little pieces of happiness but also little pieces of

044truth and he'd say things like parent university. >> They do go together. They go together. And he'd talk about parent university, parent university. And so this summer when we had our cabinet retreat, one of the priorities we identified as a cabinet was parent engagement. And one of the strategies we talked about was parent university. So Dr. Hoswald and I had the privilege to meet with the president at ENKU. I can't remember whether it was August or September, but during that meeting um we talked about parent university and how we really wanted to collaborate with them in a partnership and they agreed to come on board and work with us. So in the fall we did a couple of presentations in conjunction with ENKU. We had one around FASA, we had one around questions to ask

045on a college tour and they were very very wellreceived. We had about 150 families attend both presentations. So from there we decided well let's do a soft launch in the winter with a small programs in the winter and spring and just see how they're received. So we had our first one last night and it was on MTSS and it went really well. We had about um 10 12 families there. But then on this coming Wednesday, we're doing one on SAT because SAT is new to the state of Kentucky so parents can realize and learn about how they can support their student at home. Over the next few weeks, we have a variety of workshops coming up. Um the one I'm really most excited about is in partnership with ENKU. They're bringing in one of their

046AI professors or an AI expert um Shannon EastEP who is going to collaborate with our staff to share information around AI for parents. So, I'm really looking forward to that. We also have a round table, a dual credit roundt planned with our partners, our um dual credit partners in addition to ENKU to get parents questions asked before answered asked and an give them the opportunity to ask and answer questions before um they're registering for dual credit classes. So, we're super excited about that. And then we also have um we're partnering with mental health organizations. So, y'all got a complete list of the programs. also excited because we are going to be able to use clear connect because now Ralph Rush has audio enhancement and we are going to be able to use clear connect for

047our translation to level the playing field for our families who are EL. In addition, on the back page you can see the specific EL and um the immigrant and English learner parent and family university. And that's really tail tailored specifically for family of English learners and immigrants where we offer an ESL class so families can learn how to speak are supported as they're learning to speak English community resources and then also some guidance specifically for EL parents on how to navigate US schools. So our EL department is offering that in conjunction with parent university and we're really excited about that. We're going to be sending out a survey over the next few months to get feedback from parents about what they really want as we build a much more robust and comprehensive program for the

0482627 school year. There's going to be so many opportunities for parents. It's going to be super exciting. We've got some things in the work with ENKU. I know Dr. Hoswald is going to continue to work their magic with them. He's got some great ideas that they now have on the table that hopefully we'll be announcing in the summer as a real incentive for our families to come to ENKU to come to our parent university. Talking a little bit about some microcredentiing and diplomas and things like that to really incentivize that because we all know school does not come with an owner's manual. So, this is a way to really help parents K through 12 learn how to navigate at all stages. So, do y'all have any questions? I think this is really comprehensive. I'm I'm

049impressed. >> You have a lot more. This is just the the beginning. >> This is very very small. >> Well, I mean, I'm I'm impressed. And as a parent of an 11th grader, there's a lot of stuff on here that I'm thankful for. So, >> it's a lot a lot of hard work from a lot of people. >> I mean, this is a complete group effort. you talked about this in teaching and learning and I was really excited and I mean I'm sorry that >> this didn't happen a a few years ago but I mean I'm impressed and very happy for parents that this is >> definitely needed >> all free and the college and career ones are the ones that really seem to be getting the most attendance that people are thirsty for that

050>> and ENKU uh has been willing to replicate and dup or duplicate so if we're at capacity we can add additional nights based on response. We can plan multiple nights on a hot topic um and expand this. We have other questions uh related um you know classes with experts on on mental health. It continues to be an important topic in our conversation and topic in our community. um things on on online health and social navigating social media um student safety um and so we just have just a growing list and you know I envision a future where you know there are classes every week uh all three all a geared at different ages. We are also in the future talking with uh you know for for those uh who even do not have students in

051our school district yet, but you know rising kindergarteners uh you know early u toddlers uh and courses for them to help prepare uh and things they need to know to be ready to learn when they enter kindergarten. We talk a lot about that. Like you said, it doesn't come with an owner's manual. What are things you can do at home? Um and so we just have a lot of of things to do. Um we're going to have a board university. You're going to like this and and you guys can participate because at the February board meeting, we're going to demo our audio enhancement. We want you to see how it works. We'll give you the opportunity to uh put headphones on, choose another language, um and just kind of demonstrate to our community uh how

052um uh people um who who whose first languages uh um are one of about 120 or you know, it varies between 90 and 120. um uh how they have the opportunity to learn and participate. And right now, I can tell you that um with audio enhancement, we'll talk about this more on Tuesday, um just being in classrooms and seeing students um removing that language barrier so students can can learn uh you know, math, social studies, science, uh uh on time, on task, on target, standardsbased um is is just a great thing to see and to see those that engagement level go up. So um >> one more thing, >> of course, >> because this is exciting. So y'all know last year we purchased Apogee as our comprehensive communication. Our forms and everything for Pam University

053is on our website which is controlled by Apogee. But also the form was built in Apogee. The reason it was done in Apogee is because it automatically translates in the home language of our family. So if a family has designated Spanish as their home language, when they go to that form, that's automatically what they see the form in. So it just really reduces that barrier to provide access. And in addition um when we send out something through Apogee versus social media, we are getting so many more responses and so many people seeing it. My response rate went from one person to being sent out an apogee that I have I think 50 people just one time have filled out the form. So just imagine as it continues to go out, we're going to get more

054and more responses. And when when um a family um indicates they would like to receive this in in Arabic >> or um French or whatever um they they don't have to manually enter this and translate. They literally open the document. It looks like this and it's in their native language. So uh it really removes a lot of barriers. So uh yeah, you're right. Our communication tools, the work we do through that such as aptagy along with our our real time in-person learning and the ability to translate there is really uh continuing to remove barriers. So, I appreciate you pointing that out to her. >> Other questions? >> Anybody? >> All right, I have one more thing. Thank you, Mr. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Uh, the second item is just an update on

055um the le the the identified 2026 legislative priorities. Um, as special thanks and and and there can be uh any additional um comments or concerns, of course. Um, thank you to um board members Young and Wolf. I think I'm right. Yeah, who serve on that who have served on that committee. Um but uh tonight um we identified four priorities and then we have broken those priorities into some measurable uh information. And so I've asked uh two of our principles who are really helping lead that process to introduce the priorities and kind of walk through some of the uh quantitative measures we define as necessary to help meet those priorities. This information will be sent out to all of our staff and family members through our communication department, but most importantly also sent to our legislators

056um so that we're very clear on what some of the the legislative priorities have been that have been identified um for the 2026 year. And so you you might as well come up together. So, if you don't know, uh, uh, in order of, uh, who's closest, I guess, Kim Simpson is principal at Urban Back Elementary and Jerry Gells, who's principal at the Ignite Institute. And, uh, they're going to, you have a copy of this to everyone else. It will be available online. Um, and we will be, uh, sending that out as well. So, thank you guys. >> Thank you, Dr. Hoswald. Boone County School's legislative priorities were identified by the 2025 2026 BCS Legislative Committee. The committee consists of board members, district administrators, principles, teachers recommended by the Boone County Education Association, and support staff

057recommended by the Boone County Classified Employee Association. Uh we listed four priorities. We had four priorities with this group. The first priority was to support education excellence in Kentucky by providing adequate seek funding. Kucky's seek KY's current SEAK education funding remains less than the 2008 funding levels when adjusted for inflation. We're asking to restore funding levels by increasing the percent of funding provided by the Commonwealth. Specifically, raise seek funding by 300 each each of the bianial budgets from 4586 in fiscal year 2026 to 4,886 27 to 5,186 in 28. Over the next five years, we are asking to increase the percent of seek funding provided as part of the bianual budget to 60% resulting in an overall reduction in the percentage collected locally. Fully fund pupil pupil transportation by increasing funding from the current level

058of approximately 80 to 85% to 100%. Our second priority is to support education excellence in Kentucky by increasing funding for workforce readiness. Kucky's progress in college and career readiness faces challenges due to doubling cost of dual credit tuition in seven years and increased regulatory requirements. Adopting these measures has limited economic cost but benefits schools, families, and the industry. Specifically, we are first asking to freeze dual credit tuition for five years to protect affordability for high school students. Next, we are asking to provide funding for $25 to school districts for each successful dual credit completed by high school students to increase dual credit opportunities and provide targeted tuition assistance to help increase dual credit enrollment. We are asking to codify work-based learning allowances to extend beyond traditional school hours and days without penalizing school funding. And

059last, we're asking to create solutions to age limitations for 16 and 17 year olds that are currently limits to internship opportunities. Good evening. I'm going to share priorities three and four with you. Priority three, support education excellence in Kentucky by increasing funding for early childhood education ages 3 to five. Approximately 50% of Kucky's kindergarten students are not prepared for kindergarten by being ready to learn. Early childhood education continues to provide substantial benefits to students and the economy of the Commonwealth. The ask is to guarantee one-year preschool for each child in Kentucky, increase funding for preschool education, to improve access for Kentucky students, and to codify funding for full day kindergarten. Priority four, uh, support education excellence in Kentucky by increasing funding for students health and safety. Student health and safety is paramount to attaining educational

060performance goals. One in six US youth ages 6 to 17 experience a mental health disorder each year, highlighting the urgent need for stronger support systems within schools. Investing in school counselors, school resource officers, and funding for safe schools ensure students receive the care, protection, and stability they need to succeed. The ask is to create a new seek add-on to provide funding for counselors at each school, increase funding for school resource officer positions at each school by $10,000, and to increase funding for to the non-competitive grant matrix for safe schools fund by 50%. Thank you. um if you guys will stand by. I know we also have other uh other people here who are uh participated in in in the legislative committee and giving input and collectively it really led to a more robust uh series

061of of of um of priorities legislatively. Thank you all for presenting. I know it's um they just they were just please let me do it. So they just um but they they do speak. Uh we really appreciate the clarity by which you presented this and they met with me several times to to assist with with the language of this. So I'll turn it over to board members who may have questions. Um um and uh again we know that whether it's KSBA, whether it's schoolboard association or superintendent association, whether it's the uh Kentucky Education Association, many have other uh very narrow targeted um um um priorities, legislative priorities. So whether it's related to schoolboard matters or or or teacher uh union rights or um whatever it is, but these are really we believe robust and and

062very uh urgent. Much of this is fiscally uh based uh as a reminder that uh we do need more resources from the state and doing so allows us uh to to uh to really uh solve many of these challenges we've presented and it also of course allows us to um with the full funding uh offload some of the pressures we see on our local uh um tax base. So I'll turn over to the board if anybody has any questions. >> This is very well done. So my congratulations to the committee for putting together some great legislative priorities that the Boone County School Board can district can get behind. Um just curiosity under priority one the second bullet point um to increase the funding to the bianial budget to 60% coming from the state resulting in

063overall reduction in the percentage collected locally. Um, does that include discussion that the committee had that when our property values go up that we would also be held harmless in that regard? >> Correct. I think that that was the general idea was was it used to be a 6040 split. So shifting that responsibility on the state to pay for 60% with the district and and honestly I think some of the conversation was if the state is giving 60% then hopefully our local contribution would be more affordable be less than what it is now >> and and the idea is that if uh it's approximately $1,500 I think that would get the state back to that 60% >> because it used to be 6040 and now it's for us in years. Yeah, we used to when

064they first started seek That's right. And so to move that way, you know, we set a longer goal for that because clearly, you know, we can't go down there in one year and ask for. I mean, ironically, the $300 each year is even more than the governor is asking. So, we don't anticipate this, but you know, the purpose is to close that gap adjusted to inflation so the state can take on a larger percentage of the share, not a smaller every year. And back to your point, um, it gets back to that that goal of a hold harmless. Yeah, it's good question and and I know that we have lots of people uh that are uh communicating with our legislators. We will be sending this to our legislators tomorrow um so they're well aware um

065to our legislators of things that we're asking for and hopefully they'll engage with us in questions um just like many of you are. So >> I I don't want to I know that you all were were there as part of the original on it. >> No, I just want to say I do think that this covers almost everything that we discussed even in the minor minor most minor details. So I appreciate the time that it took to get this together on one sheet of paper. That's pretty substantial. So [clears throat] >> and I appreciate their their help in in some of the the italicies that's kind of gives the overall uh why behind that priority. And then really Kim and Jerry contributed heavily in helping us identify what those quantifiable measures are because our legislators

066say, "Okay, you tell us what you want, tell us what that means. How how do you quantify that?" And so these are very clear when it comes to some of our postsecary work readiness things. These are the first things that we need in terms of our student uh health and safety. These are things we need. Much of that comes with a lot additional funding, but we have to basically explain why we're asking for more funding and making it very clear of how this will benefit our students in our community. So, thank you all. >> The um I just say that's okay. The there's been a there's been a a lot of agreement in our state over the last few years about the the uh importance of workforce readiness. And so I appreciate the bullet points

067that you provided um you know in this document here, but I wondering if you'd get give me a good a little bit more explanation on create solutions to age limitations for 16 and 17 [clears throat] year old students that currently limits internship opportunities. >> Yeah. So um one of limitations is an age limitation. So there's a lot of places that won't take take students on unless they're 18. Um and so this is a problem in a lot of other states. It was a major problem in Ohio, especially for the manufacturing industry. Um and so what they did is they've passed um house bills and other things in 2019 2020 where the state took on the liability for those kinds of risks, right? Because ultimately putting a lot of these kids that everything comes with risk,

068but the risks in a lot of these places and the rules are kind of antiquated for the new environments that they're working in. But the laws are what the laws are. So, um because of that, you have a lot of people um not willing, um to to engage even in the high school level, even for kids that may turn 18 um because they need kind of a larger pool of kids to pull from. So, that is super important. And those age restrictions aren't just with um are not just with the manufacturing industry, but that tends to be one of the biggest places, but you have them in the construction industry. You have it with sometimes they can work in a place, but they can't handle certain pieces of equipment. uh in the healthcare industry, we

069see that as a big as a big piece. I can train a kid to draw blood, but sometimes, you know, when they're placed at under the age of 18, they can't actually then do that with patients and things, although they've been adequately chain trained, you know. Um so these kinds of barriers sometimes are immediate stops stops with the manufacturing groups or the healthcare groups that really want to be more involved. So, um, if we can take on, and it's also the neat thing is there's models out there that other states have done and have passed that Kentucky could really just adopt. And this is also the nice thing about some of these, they're not they don't really require a major financial contribution. It's just some changes and some regs and things like that that would

070make those things possible. you know, um the these these points that you make with supporting workforce readiness um are enormously important to Boone County specifically amongst other counties in the in the state, but specifically Boone County because we have such fantastic multinational corporations like like uh L'Oreal and Amazon and Jabil and all these these types of places that do wonderful work and employ a lot of people in our county and uh we would we would relish the opportunity to involve them in student training and making sure that they have a next generation of workforce available to them right out of high school um in some cases. if you would just uh provide a brief explanation of the $25 for school districts for each successful dual credit completed by high school students. um so on and

071so >> before Jerry does I'm going to say this is a really innovative I think uh solution to the problem because as we were talking about this Jerry said you know there's so many barriers to getting more teacher trained to students that maybe can't that don't meet thresholds but affordability means that instead of taking you know two dual credit classes they take one. He's like there's cost to all this. He's like we've got to find a way to quantify that and get funding for that to remove these barriers. And so, you know, going back to an incentive based program, I'll let you talk about the solution, but that gets it address. There's so many barriers. Some are for students, some and so what he said was instead of just trying to address one of those

072barriers, if you gave us an incentive based program, which he can describe, then we could each district could use those funds to remove barriers for students. And maybe that is that we need to train more teachers and certify more teachers because we don't have enough in in high demand um um career threads. In other cases, it may be barriers to students taking more classes. So, I'll let you go from there, but this is a real innovative idea Jerry came up with. >> Yeah. So, I anybody that's been around me for the last eight years knows my passion for dual credit and it's because it is so solidly based in data. I've never seen anything like it. the data sets that the colleges have been holding out to show that it works has been incredible. And

073what we're seeing actually with our Ignite graduates specifically uh the kids from free from backgrounds that that are from free introduced lunch uh those we 86% of our kids uh from the graduating class from two years ago that qualified for free lunch and we were able to bake dual credit work they are still in college after two years and around 16 of them already have degrees. I've never seen anything like this. I mean it's this is a big deal right so what we start looking at are some of the restricting factors with the dual credit one of the things is the increase in tuition and so one of the pieces and working with Dr. Hoswell and the committee is we have to find a way to have a bank and maybe not pay for everything

074but to pay for some when those hardships come up to give those kids those opportunities. The other thing that we see is I have a I have a we have a lot of teachers. I know there's a lot of teachers at Connor High School at at Ignite that actually teach those dual credit classes. So, there are employees. Those students are paying tuition for those classes and roughly it's about $450,000 if you count just our teachers in my building um that are teaching the classes that that tuition money goes back to those to the colleges. And there's expenses for that. And I don't want to get in the nitty-gritty, but somewhere there has to be some some things that come out of that that allow us to expand these programs. So, one, there's the piece for

075the students. But number two, and we can reach more kids across Northern Kentucky, not just Doom County, but across Northern Kentucky this way, is if we are able to take teachers because the colleges have restrictions. They're they're having a hard time getting professors too for areas in math and science. And we have a lot of them. And if we can train them and get them dual credit certified, right, that opens up a world of possibilities for our students that we know going into dual credit programs that it's going to work. But the problem with that is it comes with comes with expenses, right? There's tuition costs. There's professional development. There's a lot of things that we need to do, especially even in the summer, freeing up our teachers to go and work with these colleges

076um because now they're department members, although they're on our payroll. Those things all come with expenses and that money that we would make from this or that would could be redistributed back to the high schools would allow us to fuel these programs more and ultimately even the colleges benefit because the more that kids that we can get in these dual credit programs the more tuition that's raised. So, it just keeps rolling, but we got to have some sort of startup piece with this >> and it's tough to take any monies out of the district, especially when you're already sending just for our employees alone in one building around $450,000, you know, back to the college where they don't really have a lot of labor in those classes alone. So, >> and we we we strategize

077on this. We're trying to take a small amount, maybe it's the camel's nose under the tent to start a concept. Oftentimes in here, you say start a new fund for this because here is the need. And you know if you think we were kind of going through the number I mean there's a large number of credit we do use credit so you know in a in a three credit course that's $75 to be clear but you know you take the number of students and this would isn't all that we need but it's a start and sort of like the SRO piece Kim presented on that um yeah we get funding and our SR SRO's are are an integral part of of what we do and um um but yet it's still you know it's 10

078it's $20,000 that we get per SRO and it's per campus. So, you know, for the RAW campus, we get one um which of course we have we have three at the Ry campus. And so, um what we're trying to do is advocate for increased funding, not complete funding, but just moving that in a direction that that can make a difference for us. And so, each of these bulleted items may come with 170 to $190,000 in additional funding, but it's movement in the right direction. And it also starts a conversation about why this is needed. I would just like to say that dual credit for so many lower income I used I also taught in Coington school system and I would always tell my students get a scholarship get a scholarship but there's no dual credit

079back then >> and now we got dual credit that's that gives them the confidence to keep going and to to find the funds and get started it's amazing >> um just one more maybe question um in regard to priority three. [laughter] >> I I think um for for me this this board as it sits now has a a a fairly long history of supporting early childhood education. One of the first conversations that um Miss Bird and I had was about preschool in Florence at the uh preschool center that that we used to operate over in Florence. And so this board has has recommitted over and over again for early childhood education um as most people know. But if you would the thing that we don't talk about a lot is when when my daughter was

080in kindergarten and I'm sure most of the other people that had children that are on this board um went through those years that was it was not full day. if you would talk about the importance of what full day kindergarten really actually means uh to families to students to readiness when it comes to um you know entering the higher grade levels. >> Yeah. Um well I came from a district where preschool our kindergarten was just a half a day and then into Boone County where it is a full day. You can definitely see the difference. we can see that the kids are they're in there learning those foundational skills much earlier and then they're more prepared when it comes to getting into the into the reading and the math and all the the basic foundational

081skills that they need. So, as far as building that foundation and getting them school ready for first and up, it just scaffolds that benefit of that exponentially. >> Yeah. Um well like other people have said prior this these um are very well thought thought out and laid out. And I'll just say one more thing about early childhood which really reads through this document. It almost ought to be in reverse this document because without three and four or without >> four and then without three >> you know one and two are harder >> right or I guess it would be in some order like that. In other words, what I'm trying to tell you is without early childhood full day kindergarten without safe schools >> place for families to assemble. >> We did start with them

082the other way. Yes. >> Yeah. we can't get to the dual credit and the workforce readiness and there's a a massive amount of data as as Mr. Gell has pointed out um in in public education and and one of the highest returns on our investments is early childhood education and I I'm convinced myself and I know the other board members are as well. I I think we've had this conversation previously in public meetings that the uh the best investment the state can make is is um early childhood education. And then if you follow that up with workforce readiness, training, dual credit, we have a population of students that leave high school, enter college, or enter the workforce ready to be productive members of of our society and keep Boone County specifically as a very low

083unemployment, a very rich um employment landscape where unfortunately with the with the formulas that were presented to us um through the SIG formula make it even harder to fund schools because our property is worth so much money because we're all doing quite well because of our workforce, our preschools >> and the desiraability of our neighborhoods. I >> I think originally we did have seek funding first and then we had early childhood second, but >> honestly we kind of because we we should have said in no particular order. Although to be clear, if because this community and this school board is finding a way to expand early childhood and if we significantly increase beyond inflationary rates state funding, there are more ways to do early childhood education and the priority. So we do have that and

084we actually did have um we did have early childhood next and then because the order didn't matter and Jerry was going to present on one and four, we just switched it so that it was smooth in the presentation. So the irony there is and people say but we have full day kindergarten but just to be clear it isn't codified in law and I think KSBA has that as priority this year and it's because the worry is until it's codified in law they may be paying for it but the next recession and there's always one ahead we just don't know when um you know there could be a oh well actually we need to cut that funding and and there's to me we know the benefit of full day kindergarten there's no going back we need

085to codify it in law that doesn't come as a cost. We try to have some of these that don't have cost because they're already paying for it. Um but it would cost us if they took it away. And again, this isn't everywhere we need to be in early child education. I mean, if I had my way, every student um that was on free and reduced lunch would have two two years of uh of early childhood education, not one. We've got more to do, but it's a start. And and Kim really provided a really loud and sound voice for priority number three and four. um and and um and really speaks uh well on these importance because of her because you're in the trenches >> in full transparency once we were kind of vol to do

086this uh >> I didn't want to go first I was scared >> so I didn't fight him getting into [laughter] >> totally understandable >> thank you sorry I forgot one thing one one of the things that's very intriguing and I think Miss Bird might have read read into this is that these are all pro business community ideas. These are all the things that the Chamber of Commerce brings up quite often. >> Um and and our our friends that we saw earlier tonight in the business um association and or you know at at different meetings, all these various groups that run businesses, one of the main things they always say is the best thing you can do for employee their employee productivity is full day kindergarten and preschool activity. Um And not to mention it works

087better for the students for student learning, but employee productivity uh remains high and that's that's really really and important to um local business as well. So I again I appreciate uh the bullet points from the legislative committee. Great job. >> Thank you. And with that I conclude my comments, >> but I have another question. >> I'm so sorry. I thought we were done. >> Um >> come back up guys. and is I mean the legislative session is just now really getting rolling, but I mean bills are I think there's like 380 something bills already filed, but they're going to be more and they're going to come fast and furious and a lot of them from what I'm hearing from my KSBA legislative updates is a lot of them are going to impact school districts practices

088and policies and funding. uh one that I just read about a few days ago, you know, it's rolling back around about uh tackling property taxes and reducing those and or re uh abolishing them. And while there's a lot of complaints about property taxes over the years, but the only good thing about those is they stay right here. And this board is held fully accountable to see to it that they are spent in Boone County schools the right way. It's all the sales tax dollars that go down to Frankfurt and then get divvied back out and we always are on the short end of the stick there. And unfortunately for us, because we do take care of our own and always have, the state kind of says, "Oh, well, just let Boone County continue to do

089it." And that's not fair to our community, our students, our staff. But as these bills continue to roll out and if they start to gain traction, is the legislative committee going to remain active that they can throw out a position statement on some of these as they start coming over the next few weeks because that the property tax one could gain traction. >> We can reconvene. Um, we also, um, have the ability to have really quick, uh, um, conversations. And I know, for example, after our last meeting, Kelly sent out their legislative agenda. Um, he's given us a schedule of when he's down there, ways to advocate. So, we're having those conversations uh, as well, RA, not just in formal meetings to make sure that we can respond as quickly as possible. And, and sometimes

090it's questions whether it's better to come collectively or, you know, um, individual advocacy from all of the members. So, it just depends on which we think is more effective based upon on the bill and some cases the relationships individuals have with the with the members. So, but we uh based upon uh the board's request, you know, I now have had regular meetings with all of our area representatives, maybe minus one. Um I had a phone call conversation with that person and um I'm I know that I've reached out and um we have they're texting, we're having conversations. So, we're really trying to stay engaged in this and you're right, in some cases we're trying to advance and improve uh funding in these priorities and in some cases we're trying to uh defeat and avoid bad

091bills. So, there it's both. >> Okay, with that I do conclude my comments. Thanks guys. All right. Uh, we're going to move on to item eight, audience of citizens. I'll read a brief statement. The board welcomes the opportunity to hear from the community and inform the board of your views on matters before the board. Please keep in mind the board of education agenda is set and by statute the board can only discuss the items that are presented on the agenda. The board cannot legally nor would the board discuss an issue specific to an employee or student in respect to privacy. The meetings are streamed live on YouTube. Please be respectful in your comments and if you have a concern that you'd like a response from the administration, feel free to leave your information with Eric

092Ball. Keep comments to two minutes so that all that wish to speak may speak. And I prefer not to have the giftgiving of time so that all that wish to speak may do so. Uh with that, our first person is the esteemed Mr. Kelly Reid of the BCDA. Thank you. Uh, Kelly Reid, Boone County Education Association. And I suppose I'm going to continue the conversation about priorities. Policies are a reflection of priorities. This evening, the board is scheduled to vote to institute a 125% buyout of sick days as a result of the 2025 Senate Bill 9. Apparently, this is a priority to the Boone County Board of Education. Senate Bill 9 also includes a provision for the institution of maternity leave, but this part of the bill appears not to be a priority. Instead, our

093priorities as a district are to those who have more than the typical 10 sick days per year. For the most part, admin and central office. Unfortunately, our priority as a district is to hold maternity leave hostage, to dangle it as a bargaining token, to chip away at the transfer rights of teachers that BCA has secured for our members. Is this who we are as Boone County? Are these the priorities that we should be comfortable with? Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Reid. >> Charlie Bfano, BCCA. Good to see you, Charlie. >> I didn't hear what you're saying when I walked. >> Good to see you. >> No, it's not. >> Yes, it is. You know that. >> Charlie, Boone County Classified Employees Association President. The other night, Tuesday night, we had our BCCA meeting and

094um the buyout program was discussed. So, I'm going to bring forward some concerns that came up in our meeting um for you guys to consider. So, um I always feel it's a good idea to bank sick days and I advise my membership of that. Um because in the event of a major illness or injury, it keeps you drawing a paycheck. If you run out of sick days, an employee runs the risk of having unpaid days on a paycheck. This could mean loss of benefits, including your insurance, and no retirement contribution made during those non I call them nonchecks, causing a shortage and losing credit possibly for that year in your retirement. Um, also excessive unpaid sick days could lead to a possibly possible disciplinary action which in turn could lead to a possible employee termination.

095Ultimately, it is an employees individual decision, but I feel it would be helpful to make the employees aware of these scenarios when advising on their options with this program. Thank you. >> Thank you, Charlie. That's all we had signed up for public comment. I will say a little earlier in the meeting than I have been, we do have a couple of college students and if you'd like to come up and say your name so you know get it on the record that you're here. Um got Carrie Herman maybe you're welcome. Are are you a student or you want to speak? >> Okay. Um, Thomas Moore says, school meetings. >> We're happy you're here. >> Yeah, we don't care why you're here. We're just happy about it. >> Yeah, we're we're happy you're here. >> I

096do have a child. >> Oh, awesome. Thank you for real. Really, thank you for being here. And then, uh, Jonathan Durham. >> I'm in the math program and I'm a current teacher at Middle School and >> Awesome. Uh, thank you both. Yeah. All right. Um, we move on to item nine. Recommended action consent items A through double P. Dr. Housewald. >> Thank you, Chairman Parks. I recommend the board approve the recommended action consent agenda items A to double P is presented with the treasures report by Mr. Daryl Denim. Daryl will now give the treasures report. Treasury report for December 2025 had an adjusted beginning balance of one 109,425,59. Total receipts of 13,676,198. total expenditures of 14,416,10 for a net decrease in cash of $739,812, leaving us with an ending cash balance of $18,685,697. Few highlights.

097The total revenues through December 31st were up 1%. Through December, property taxes have increased by $7 million versus the prior year. We've collected about 90% 95% of the budgeted amount of property tax versus 92% at the same time last year. In 2025, we also received 2.3 million in omitted taxes. Total expenditures through 1231 are up 6% which was expected as a result of the raises that were given this year and the 403b annuity match. We also received a $6 million check for property taxes this week and we expect a similar payment for occupational taxes this week or next. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve consent agenda items A through double P? >> Motion. >> Miss Wolf have a second. >> Second. Miss Bird. Any discussion on items on the consent agenda? >>

098Absolutely. Um, and it's it's just kind of a it's a it should be a very simple question. Um, on item R, the alter fiber five-year agreement, um, it had a cost associated with that agreement at $693,49620. Is that the collective total for all five years or is that $693,000 a year each year of the five years? >> That's the collective cost over the the whole fiveyear agreement. >> Okay, that's a good deal. >> [laughter] >> I >> think an actuarial cost on all of our uh personals at home. be more. >> Any other questions or discussion on items on the consent agenda or um about the financial statements presented or treasures report? Uh seeing none, we'll move forward with a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion passes.

0995. All right. Um, excuse me. Item 10, recommended old business item A. Dr. Housewalt. >> Thank you, Chairman Parks. Uh, I recommend the board approve recommended action old business item A, board policy revision, second reading for 03.1232 um and 03.2232. Special thanks to um, Miss Bird. Um, we were able to do a lot of research and and get a lot more information about this recommendation uh since our last meeting. And of course, Charlie, thanks for that input. We will always make sure that we communicate the pros and cons to the best of our ability. It is an employee uh cost with the ultimate uh as we mentioned last time goal to try to limit board unfunded liabilities. Um, this is an unfunded liability passed by the legislation um that for the past how many ever

100years? uh forever um was not a cost uh borne by boards, but suddenly it is. So, but we will definitely make sure uh kind of like we talked about with the cell phone pos policy we're working on. Uh it's a may uh for our employees as an option. Um but again, ultimately the goal of this is cost avoidance uh for the school district. But I appreciate your input. Again, I would recommend approval as presented. >> I have a motion to approve old business item A. Board policy revision second reading 03.1232 and 03 22 32 as recommended. And just to double check uh if our board attorney would let me know, do I need to read this entire policy? >> Okay. Is that do you think that was sufficient earlier in the meeting or should we

101do it now? Yeah, please do. >> So, uh so this policy is um based [clears throat] upon new uh legislative mandates that basically state that if a an employee transfers more than 13 benefit days, sick days from one calendar year into the future. Um then when that person retires, the cost of that actuarily is build back to the district. um employees and and Charlie mentioned this that work year round um have the ability to transfer 14 days. Uh and so if uh we offer to the employees uh an ability to trade in one of those days, that gets it down to 13, which then avoids the district receiving that actuarial pension cost uh when that employee retires. So um it is um a known cost. Now um we we I believe Mr. all calculated for

102last year. You know, it's$8 to $10,000. Um, but it would save uh significant more than that um in terms of the long-term cost plus um basically it's the the state telling the school district how much they owe for that based on their calculations. Starting this year, we will be reporting to the um to the Commonwealth of Kentucky how many employees transferred more than 13 days and they'll be keeping track of that to bill back to the district. So um you know it is it the goal here is to provide us a a a small benefit to the employee but ultimately a large savings uh to the district and that's where this idea came out and uh and that's the that's the goal and that's the spirit of the policy. >> Good enough. >> So the

103policy actually the revision though says that it allows employees eligible to carry over sick days in excess of 13 days and receive a payout of 125% into a 403b plan. It allows employees that opportunity. >> Appreciate the background. >> Greed versus explain. Sorry about that. >> What she said. All right. Um, do we have a motion for I I don't Do we have a motion for these items? Did anyone make a motion for 03.123232232 as recommended? >> Motion >> need a second. Um, any further discussion on item A? >> Of course. >> Thank you. >> Um, I don't come here just to look pretty, I tell you. Um, and I I I thank Miss Amlong for responding because I was the one that had all the questions that um was about the percentages because this

104this whatever the KRS or KR was about it had a different percentage and we were writing 125% and I just wanted to make sure that we could go above and beyond that statute because of the way we were allowing the contribution to go into the 403b. >> So the statute that you're referencing is actually talking about a different type of compensation and that compensation payout only triggers upon death or retirement of an employee since this does not conflict with that and is not being placed in lie of that payment because this will never be able to supersede that statutory requirement. This is an elective annual year-to-year. If we want to do this, we can. We don't have to. But if an employee tries to do this on the same year that they are retiring, the

105statute would supersede that. So because it doesn't directly conflict with that from a timing standpoint, this is permissible. >> Okay. And that answers that part of it that um of course that was kind of discussed in the budget committee that that had been reviewed, but I didn't have the details and >> the devil's in the details. So, um, and I appreciate Mr. Bfana's comments as well because that's potential downside that I had not considered as we uh reviewed this this policy change that if you are off unpaid for a long time that if there could potentially be negative repercussions against benefits, potential retirement, loss of time towards your retirement. um it being viewed uh that you're just not showing up for work and potentially costing a job. We would want none of those things to

106happen for sure. So, uh I will trust in our um HR department to make sure that that is well communicated to employees that they uh fully understand what they are volunteering to do with their sick leave. The only other thing that I want to ask about is um what I brought up before is the administrative procedures about this which I think is your area there in finance, Mr. Denim. Um and I found the procedures ready to go as you promised they would be. So, thank you for that. um they weren't with the board policy revision, which to me I think should be the board should see the procedures with the policy even though we don't have to approve the procedures. It would have been nice not to have to go dig them out of information

107proposals and communication that they were done. Um that's just kind of a side note just to think about for the future if we go down this path again with a um new policy revision. Um the procedures say that following the end of each fiscal year, which basically is June 30th, um election forms will be delivered, and I'm paraphrasing by my shortorthhand, delivered by email no later than five business days following the end of that fiscal year on June 30th. Employees have 10 business days to return the form and if they if they are eligible, this is only for eligible employees that have been determined by June 30th. Um they will be delivered the form by email within 5 days. They'll then have 10 days to return the form. And I started thinking about this and

108again it kind of goes back to comments I made before on um emailed W2s um that we um the um comments that went out on check stubs a few weeks back saying that we weren't going to deliver paper W2s anymore. Um, and then I started thinking about June 30th. 4 days later is Independence Day, which means we're in July. How many people are checking their district email in July? Especially among the classified staff. I mean, we've had an ongoing discussion for years in our transportation operations committee. We have a hard time getting transportation staff to check emails and and you know stay informed that way. We just assume people are going to deal with things electronically. Um and it's right around a holiday. It's in July when most district staff plan vacations because if you're

109in a building, you can't do it in June. you're finishing up the school year. You can't do it in August. You're starting the new school year. So, most people vac do vacations in July. I just and and the default is if they don't return the form to elect the contribution of their sick extra sick days into the 403b. it defaults to rolling over. Now, selfishly, if this is a cost-saving method for the district down the line to reduce unfunded liabilities, it's in our best interest if people put it into their 403b and they'll they'll get more now unless they need it later. Um, and I I I don't know that there's any other way that you can do it, but do we always have to default that we're going to email everything to everybody? Um,

110how many I mean, you said the cost last year, if we had done this, would have been about $10,000. And I think you quantified how many number of employees that was, but off the top of my head, I don't remember. >> 20. Could the district not also afford to send out 20 pieces of paper to people? Or could we not put some sort of a notification like you did with the W TWS? Hey, we're not doing paper W2s anymore. You're going to be electronically delivered. Can we not start? I mean, will you have an ideal before June 30th how many people might be impacted that some sort of a notice or even just send a general notice out to everyone that's in the 403b? If you have carryover sick days, remember this is a new

111option. I just I just am concerned about always making the assumption that people are going to be able to accept want process electronic communication. It's if it's 22 people, um Karen, what I would say is that we can look um earlier than that, a few weeks out, um and identify 30 and say, "Currently, we have you on track of having the potentiality of carrying forward more days than than 13, and this isn't off." So, we could add a step into that procedure if that helps um to to to and we can reach I mean, it's 22 people. For those who don't respond to email, we could have a proceed. We could either send another notification before or we could it's 22 people. We could say uh we could ask them to respond yes or no

112uh versus no this is an option and for those who don't respond we could call. So we can put another step in to make sure because as you said everyone who's educated that elects into this will save the district money long term. So we can add another step to make sure that um you know if if out of 22 only 10 sign up but eight more are unaware of it. What I hear you saying is we just want to make sure we get everyone to know and take advantage of this that elects to do so. >> Right. >> So we'll either add another step before or after. Is that okay? >> Communication ahead of time is key. >> Okay. >> Because this is a brand new policy. It's a brand new process. the annuity is

113still wet behind the ears. And even when we go above and beyond in communication, I always hear from people, well, I had no idea about this. Well, you know, sometimes you we all have to crawl out from under our rocks, but still um >> I just I've sat through too many transportation now operations committees to know um that a lot of our classified people when they leave their Boone County job, they go on to another job. That's just a fact of life. And um we're trying to help the district But we're also trying to help our staff >> and uh sometimes we are not as considerate as we should be. >> I I happen to um wholeheartedly agree with um it kind of leads into what Charlie was talking about. >> Um so I I

114think your you know your recommendation is a good one if there's only 20 or so employees that it's affected by you know, maybe an actual conversation would be helpful for those. And I I hope there's a whole lot more that, you know, are are qualified to for the program. But with such few, you know, such few employees, you know, I think it's a it's a good ask. Um, obviously, we don't do much with procedure up here, but um it's a it's a great ask and a worthwhile one to make sure. Let's have the conversation with the employee to see if what they elect to do and make sure they understand the comp the pros and cons of each choice. So, I to I totally agree with you. That's something we would do in our company.

115>> And this form, is it like a fillable form, a job form? I mean, is it something that they're going to have to print and fill out and scan and send back or Right. Okay. Great. I appreciate your all's consideration. >> Yeah. I think I I I'm again agreeing with Miss Bird that in a lot of the things that we do, we just want to make sure that as the board members who hear from a lot of people that communication isn't one of the issues that that our employees have have been heard and been told about all the various opportunities they might have um in regard to their employment here. All right. Uh any any further discussion on item A? Being there's no for further discussion, we'll move forward with a vote. All in favor,

116please say I. >> I. >> The opposed. Motion passes 5-0. All right. U move on to agendum item 11. Recommended action new business item A. Dr. Housew. >> Thanks again. Uh I recommend the board approve the recommended action new business item A draft budget draft of course budget fiscal year 2027. This is the first time of many times you'll see this. A special thanks to those on the budget committee who also had a a conversation related to this. Uh and so again I would uh recommend uh approval as presented. >> All right. A motion to approve new business item A draft bud draft budget fiscal year 27 as recommended. >> Motion Miss Bird >> second. >> I second it. >> Second Miss Maddox discussion. Oh, let's please have a lengthy discussion about the draft budget.

117I would so enjoy it. >> Well, first you have to congratulate Mr. Denham for surviving his first draft budget. >> [laughter] >> All right. Um, questions. I don't have my copy of the draft budget with me. A great question was posed in the budget committee. Um, and I felt like it might be necessary in case people are paying attention. There is I don't have it with me. I'm sorry. An amount of money almost every draft budget that doesn't balance in the first drafts of a draft budget. What what what is that money and how do you figure out how to balance it? I'll tell you exactly what it is in this current draft budget like 42 million or something. >> It's 36 273 294. Yep. Pretty sure that's what it is. So because it's an

118estimate of all different types of monies, there's always in a draft budget some variables that go in I'm assuming >> and then over the next period of time. I'll let you explain. I'll explain. >> Yeah. So, you know, we've we've begun this work. We put together the draft budget. We did review it in the budget committee. Uh currently, just so some of the uh assumptions were we made no changes to the tax revenue estimates. Uh we decreased our seek funding from 53 million to 49 million assuming that that's going to go down next year. Uh took out all of our open POS for this year and increased wages by 4%. Um >> why why why are you estimating seek will go down. >> That has historically that has been the case. You know over the

119last eight years our seek funding went down $10 million. We did get a bump this year and we do not expect that to continue. And we also expect that our property value assessments will go up this year and that will decrease our seek funding. >> And to be clear, we didn't take it back to where it was for fiscal year 25. Um but fiscal year 26 is elevated and so we sort of split the difference in that in that calculation. As I recall, instead of 45, we lowered it 4 million to 41. Um because most likely our SE funding will go down. Again, these are this is draft and it's a projection. So >> and the process now is to go through the expense budget. So, we've distributed uh worksheets out to the departments and

120the schools will be reviewing those with each of the department uh leads and the schools on what their spending is uh to get this, you know, kind of into balance. And then as as time goes on, the the revenue picture may be slightly more clear and we'll use that to uh to balance our budget. All right. Uh any other questions about the draft budget? All right. Uh we do have a motion. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Motion passes 5. >> All right. Um item B, recommended action new business item B. Dr. Housewalt. >> Uh yes. Um thank you again. I recommend the board approve the recommended action new business item B allocation formulas for 2627. Uh you may note that it is it is mostly unchanged. However, u based upon uh

121principal feedback um we we are uh recommending a reduction in class size ratios K to 5 by one but we're also increasing uh 9 to 12 by one. um that has a overall has a cost but it reduces the cost each time we reduce um one um student ratio in one grade level. It requires us to add about three teachers. Um an average teacher uh for Boone County schools this year is $72,200. Last year it was about 69,000 and change. Um that's because as you noticed uh we last year uh overall has seen our wages been our salaries, wages and wage related benefits increase by about 6%. That's because we've aggressively uh tried to increase our entry level wages, our across the board raises and so um we've had that increased cost. So we're pleased

122in many ways that our average u um teacher certified teacher cost is 72,200 and it's gone up by about $3,000. But nonetheless, that's how we estimate approximately $210,000 every time we 72,000 times three um every time we reduce them. So there's a slight cost to this. We believe we can adjust it. Um we are also having other conversations about what we're going to do um for our higher poverty schools. Um but anyway, that's the the only change. It's a very incremental change. Um but we we believe it is a movement in the right direction. Um and other than that, I would recommend the allocation formula um as presented. I have a motion to approve new business item B allocation formulas for 2627 school year as recommended. >> I second. >> Uh any discussion on item

123B? >> Yes. >> Awesome. >> Y'all hate it when I go through my agenda with a fine tooth com. >> Um question and and I'm again working from my notes. don't have the uh board memo um information in front of me as it was written. Um the budget discussion and what you just said Dr. Household was we are going to reduce elementary class sizes by one across the board and increase high school by one. The way the board memo, at least that I looked at online, the elementary language was redlined completely out. So my question is I and I don't know if if that means now that the allocations are going to be 24 to one um 28 to1 and 29 to one for K through five. Is that correct? So, I'm I'm not sure

124what the red line version, but I have here the um um what it does is it it reduces K and one from 24 to well, I'm going to they're they're lumped together. K1 2 3, but it reduces K1 2 and three from 24 to 23. >> Okay. >> Um it reduces fourth from 28 to 27 and fifth from 29 to 28 plus all the other allocations. So, it reduces each of those by one. and and you know this is a an observation made you know our high school ratios were lower than our kindergarten and it raises our high school from 22 to 23 but our our high schools also have additional teacher allocations and um and this question came up um by board member Wolf in a committee recently you know also this formula does

125not take out students um we have more and more students participate whether it's Ignite dual credit internships and leaving and we don't take those out so in essence what we've seen over the last few of this formula. So, we've seen our class sizes kind of inch down significantly below the the threshold. So, uh that's why we feel pretty comfortable in really bringing those kindergarten and 9 to 12 levels more even and that's the adjustment. So, >> okay. Well, those were the ratios that were in the red line. Yeah, I got it right here. >> So, I just wanted to make sure that that was what I was approving that K123 is 23 to 1, 27 to 1, and 28 to1. >> I'm not sure why it had the striketh through in it. Um, that must

126have Michelle >> because the high school wasn't done that way. >> Yeah, it it shouldn't have a strike through. So, to be clear, that's that is and and as part of the motion, you are approving a reduction of one and to those numbers I just cited. So, I'm sorry if I'm not sure why the that it should it should have been red, but it shouldn't have had the strike through. I don't know why it did on that form. Thank you. >> Which leads to my second question about the red and the striketh through. It also was removing the one teacher add-on by the board across the elementary level. >> No. >> So, to be perfectly clear, we are not removing the additional one teacher add-on given by the board. That's correct. to the elementary school.

127>> That's correct. >> Okay, good. >> Um, >> there's no changes to the recommendation except the reduction of one K to 5 and the increase of 1 9 to 12. >> Okay. I just wanted to be sure because I'm glad you clarified. >> The way I'm used to reading what red line means, that means it's going away. So, I was thinking, okay, so now our ratio is 22:1, 26 to1, and 28 to1, which I know every elementary building would love. >> The form doesn't have a red line. I'm not saying it didn't online. I'm not sure how it ended up on there, but it's okay. >> Okay. Yeah, it doesn't. Yeah, I just >> how it happened. I I don't really care. I I type mistakes all the time and I don't worry about that.

128I just wanted to make sure that I knew what I was voting on and that it did include the one teacher add-on to the elementary school. >> Yes, it does. No changes except those that I've mentioned tonight. >> Yep. >> Perfect. And again, I thank our we went through a lengthy process of budget prioritization with our principles. They may have all bailed by now though Mr. White Coff's back there with a big smile. I see Stacy and and you know, we ask their input because in many cases what we know is everyone's in favor of everything whether we're talking about how much we spend, you know, increasing expenditure for math textbooks or um um increased raises across the board. all these class size reduction, but they give us insights into their prioritization. It's very helpful

129and it really informed this recommendation. So, I thank them as well. Didn't a to wake you up back there. Any other questions regarding item B? Seeing no further discussion, all in favor, please say I. I. I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Move to agenda item 11, new business item C. Dr. Household. >> Uh, yes. This really comes from LCC. You know, I I have to look over here and give special thanks to to Dr. Deweiler who leads this process. I know there's conversations in the T plus committee. Um, tremendous amount of work from the principles, uh, the few that are out here. Of course you see Julie and Tracy and and Tara their respective grade level spans it's just a huge amount of work from sitebased uh our administrative team and our teachers

130and and and really facilitated by Dr. Deweiler. So I I really make this recommendation uh on behalf of all of them um to approve item C which is the uh comprehensive district improvement plan also often referred to as the CEP as presented. I have a motion to approve new business item C26 comprehensive district improvement plan as recommended. Motion. >> Wolf. >> I have a second. >> A second it is. Maddox. Do I have any discussion on item C? >> Bird. >> All right. Seeing there's no further discussion. All in favor, please say >> I. I >> forat you guys vote I Julie did you vote I >> sorry were we still discussing the >> Did you vote I she voted I >> okay any opposed motion passes 5-0 >> move to agenda item D 11

131item D Dr. Second verse, same as the first. I recommend you approve item D, which is the 2526 C SIP with a spe with the same commendations for all those involved. As present, I have a motion to approve new business item D 2520. Um, you'll love this, Miss Bird. There's a typo. 2526, comprehensive school improvement plan as recommended. Motion >> Miss Wolf, we have a second. >> Second. >> Any discussion? What is the difference between a sip and a dip? >> District and school. >> So the I'm just making sure that other people I mean >> one is district and one is everything else. >> Know this but I'm >> second verse same as the first is my reference to Herman's Hermit. You're welcome Karen >> or Henry VII. Um all in fa uh any

132discussion further discussion? All right. All in favor please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> See that motion passes 5-0. >> All right. For everyone's favorite information, proposals, communications. Item 12. Anyone would like to go over the construction status report or energy management report or review the superintendent principal level list for field trips and fundraisers or would you like to get straight to board member committee reports? >> Yes. >> Anybody have anything to report from their committees? >> We did legislative priorities. >> Yep. Uh I'll just make a a a very fast comment and and that is as I do almost every board meeting say, you know, with uh the people that we have in our district uh that are employees um like Marshia Kelly and uh Charlie Bufffano and Kim Best and um

133all the other people that work in our district. Um you know, people that are here people that are not here, people are going to wake up real early in the morning and open the doors. Everybody here plays a vital role and um whether there's a a typo where I say Wyatt Levi um or not is is insubstantial. And um really I when you when you look at break the mold winners, that's just a a small percentage of the people and what they're doing in our district every day. Um and it's impressive and I encourage everyone in the community whether you have a child in our school system or not to to uh go to one of these um various events that we we hold in the schools across uh the county and um just taking

134the sites of children learning and children um you know growing and uh this the staff staffing and uh and doing various I mean it is a really wonderful thing and I I just I just applaud and commend every person that works for Boone County School District. Um really thank you. And uh if there's nothing else, we'll move to item 13, close executive session. Seeing there's no close session, which I know really bums everyone out. Um we'll move to item 14, which is adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion, Miss Wolf. Do I have a second? Wow. >> My my vice chair seconded that. >> Uh, all in favor, please say I. >> Motion passes 5.