001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] call the uh meeting to order. Uh we are missing uh one board member. Uh four are here. And uh with that we will welcome Valley Shannon Middle School for the national anthem. Are they here somewhere? Come on. I see Mr. Burr. Are they here? Right. >> Yes, they're practicing. >> Oh, they're in the hallway. Okay, they're coming. Okay. We just kept looking at you and you just I was thinking, well, >> I told >> I I thought that I saw a couple coming in. Awesome. The suspense if not we can have the principal sing. >> Mr. Bur [Music] stand for the national anthem. Valley Shannon Middle. Go play. dance. [Music] [Applause] You guys will stay right there. We have certificates for you, but we're going to do the pledge first and
002then we'll do it both at once. So, just just stay right where you are. It's incredible. >> If you'll remain standing for the pledge of the allegiance led by worldrenown New Haven Elementary. do again. >> I 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. >> God, stay right there. We have certificates for you all. Are you Good. I'm doing well. Enjoy the area. record somewhere. >> Oh, really? I don't know. I felt like it. >> I was gonna ask him to play Guantanamera since >> All right. Um, we'll go ahead and move on to item four and turn the meeting over to Dr. Housewald for good news. Well, good evening again board. Thank you
003very much. Good news item number one. Break the mold. Tony Horton. Tony, we saw him earlier. We got New Haven. It's New Haven night. [Applause] Cong. They just started stare. I knew you were done clapping because you started staring at me. So, congratulations to head custodian Tony Horton of New Haven Elementary School. He is the jack of all trades and according to student staff, the master of the New Haven universe. Is this true? Is this This is true. So, if if the principal says this true is true, we're going to watch a video and then we're going to uh do uh some verbal commendations. Okay, >> hold on. Let me go get the mop. Don't move your feet. >> You know how hard it is to keep your own home clean on a weekly basis.
004Now, imagine doing that work daily for hundreds of students in a school. When you think of it that way, it gives you a new appreciation for custodial workers. >> I feel like in most schools or maybe some schools, you don't ever see the custodian. They're just kind of behind the scenes. >> Should I get Miss Goble in it? >> And that's not a bad thing because custodians are extremely busy. Tony Horton is head custodian at New Haven Elementary is ever present. [Applause] He's been there 18 years doing what some would consider a thankless job. While he does have a couple of custodians helping him, it is still hard work cleaning up after 800 students and staff every day. Being a head custodian is not his only job. He also does landscaping. He mows lawns. He's
005got a farm. He helps take care of his grandkids horses. He is literally the hardest working person that I know. >> For him to work as many jobs that he has and then to come back and put forth extra effort in the school, you know, just speaks volumes. Tony works 13 to 15 hour days. He's a humble man who doesn't allow his title to define him or his work. He loves what he does and who he does it for. The students >> makes him feel better to be in school and have a happy place. Makes him feel good. >> We always like really want to go to lunch because he's going to be there and play games with us and always like make it fun. >> I think he's a very nice person and he
006just makes everybody happy because he's never mean. He's fun and and happy always and he's the best. >> Happy hard worker. Happy never complains. Happy never angry. It's the common theme from anyone you talk to about Mr. Horton. He credits his parents and upbringing for his attitude about work and life. >> I've always been hard worker. My parents was hard workers. And my dad always told me, if you not going to do the job right, don't do it at all. >> Tony is an amazing individual. He is so kind and caring. Will do anything for anybody. >> From my previous school, I had had my own tool kit. Cuz we kind of just took care of things in our classrooms ourselves. And um when they were moving me in, Tony and the guys said, "What
007is that?" And I said, "Well, that's my my tool kit. It's got all my things in it." And he said, "You can take that home. You're not going to need that here." And that was the truth. But there was one time I was on the radio and I had just radioed down and I said, "Hey Tony, um, do we have a sawzaw that I can use and it was pretty quiet for a while and then he gets on there and just says, "Where are you?" I feel like Tony prioritizes us all the time. We are at the top of his list. He is everybody's best friend and he develops that personal connection where he has a story with each student. One of our students dressed up as him for Halloween one time and they nailed
008it. >> Working at New Haven Elementary does have its perks for Tony. He has three grandchildren here that he gets to see every day. >> Addison just started kindergarten and she loves school. Haron's in the first grade. He loves playing football and I love to go watch him. And Abigail, the fifth grader, she's into 4 drill team where they ride horses. Hi, Papa. I take out the garbage with Papa. >> Really? Why do you do that? >> Because it's fun. >> Really? Why is it fun? What's fun about it? >> I get to help. >> What Tony enjoys most about his job is imparting his joy to others through acts of kindness and service. Children are his favorite people. Oh, they kind of look up to grown-ups and you form a relationship with them and
009it just makes you feel good. >> Tony, I could not imagine uh a greater award going to a better person. Congratulations on breaking the mold. You truly have done it. >> Congratulations, Tony. Nobody deserves this award better than you. Congratulations on your break the mold award. >> Tony, I am so excited for you, my friend. This is so you are so deserving of this and I'm very proud of you. Congratulations to winning Break the Mold, >> Mr. Tony. You did awesome. And congratulations for winning Break the Mold. >> Tony, you're so awesome. You're so great for winning this award and you totally deserve it. Congratulations. >> Congratulations, Mr. Tony. >> Congratulations, Papa. I love you. >> Let's give him a round of applause. Come on up here, Tony. >> Um [Applause] Family. Your Would you
010like to see a few words before or after? You guys don't need [Applause] speak into the mic. Everybody can hear at home. So, all right. You can thank anyone you want. >> It won't be long because I'm a simple person. I just want to thank everyone and uh it's never about me. It's always about the kids and the teachers to take care of what they need so make my grandkids have a better school. All right. [Applause] Principal's buying dinner for all the New Haven staff tonight after the meeting. Thank you, Tony. And congratulations. Good news item two. The Boone County Business Association is providing a I see Bill and everyone back there. We'd like to ask the representatives of the Boone County Business Association to come forward. The BCBA hosted their 25th annual golf outing
011to raise money to support Boone County Schools alternative education programs in conjunction with Potter's Ranch. They also sponsor a holiday event to provide cold weather gear uh coats, hats, and gloves for our ch uh for district children in need. We appreciate the collaborative partnership. And now we'll turn it over to the BCBA for a check presentation to the board. $35 students partnerships. to all of our artists. This is probably my 25th everybody that dayd I can't thank you guys enough. I really appreciate everything. somebody next year we won't say who it is but I mean this year we had 3000 Cadillac. So I do want [Applause] And that concludes the good news uh for the night. I will turn it back over to Chairman Parks for uh the uh student uh board member representative report
012with the note that last year's student representative the 2425. It's nice to have uh Wyatt Lea back in the uh in the room a fall break I guess from Vanderbilt but it's uh it's it's good to see your face and we're we're happy to have you back. It's kind of like we have two for the price of one tonight. So it's kind of nice. Of course the price is $0. So you know just I know what the multiplicative property of zero is. I used to be a math teacher, but it's good to have you back, Wyatt. >> Uh, item five, I'll turn the meeting over to AJ Whiteoff for the student board representative report. >> All right. Hello and good evening. This month at SSAC, we had our elementary schoolers come in and they were
013quite wonderful leaders and quite social. One of our main activities was a large icebreaker involving a series of questions and multiple partners. So, each person would meet multiple people. The activity was really fun and I feel like it helped us all become more comfortable cor cooperating with each other. Our other activity was done because of a recently reactivated committee I have joined focusing on health and safety with the help of our elementary schoolers in brainstorming during the high school meeting. We brought together some ideas that will be discussed at our first meeting approaching soon. These ideas range from many different aspects of health including hydration, sleep, therapy, daily exercise, and eating disorders. Other things we discussed were how as a district we can approach the education and many programs that were brought up included new
014kids on the block, a puppet show that taught kids to look out for child abuse, the DARE program which is a program that brought police officers into schools to teach kids to resist drug abuse, alcohol and other things of that nature and also taught kids good mental health habits through tough situations and also therapy opportunity for kids who do not have access to them outside of schools. I'm really excited about this committee and I can't wait to see the work and change we can bring to our schools in the future. Thank you all and I hope everyone has a great fall break. All right. Appreciate it, Mr. Woff. Uh item six, we'll turn the meeting over to Dr. Housewald for superintendent report. >> I I don't have any listed items tonight. I just uh do
015want to wish of course wish everyone a fall break. uh we sent some communication out to staff today highlighting many of the successes and and progress we're making as a district. So I do wish everybody a happy fall break and uh with that I have no further uh comments to reports to make. >> All right. So we'll move on to item seven which is the audience of citizens. Uh 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 present on the agenda. The board cannot legally nor would the board discuss any issues specific to an employee or a student respect
016to privacy. These meetings are streamed live on YouTube. Please be respectful in your comments. If you have a concern that you'd like a response from the administration, feel free to leave your information with Eric Ball. Please keep comments to two minutes so that all wish to speak may speak and prefer not to give giving a time to another person. Uh with that we'll start with Mr. Charlie Buffano. >> Good to see you Charlie. Charlie Buffano, president of the Boone County Classified Employees Association. Last month I stood up here and gave what I thought was a pretty heartfelt spiel on what I felt was going on. And I just want to let it be known that nobody reached out to me to discuss what I had said and it's actually not getting any better. That's it.
017>> Thank you, Charlie. Uh Nathan Taylor. >> Hi. >> Hello. >> I'm Nathan Taylor. I appreciate you guys inviting me and having me. I'm here today to address the Boone County Board of Education with an issue. Um, last year I had a stepson of mine, 15 years old, here with me. He started asking me questions about the military and Navy. I served myself for over 11 years. I did not understand that Boone County did not offer any opportunities or options for the students until I started making some phone calls and making some inquiries. So, I have some solutions. if you guys are ready to hear them. However, we don't have to get into that right now since I have a two-minute time slot. But, um, outside of that, I have spoken with some other members
018of the community, staff, Boone County personnel, and some military recruiters and other people who are able to help with this matter. So, with your all's permission and blessing, I have some paperwork and stuff I can present. I'm sure our staff would love to hear about that. Absolutely. >> Gotcha. Thanks. >> When the meeting concludes Dr. Dewweller who oversees as well as uh you see Miss Schaefer back here, they're happy to meet with you, get the information, get the contacts and and hear some of this the concerns as well as some of the ideas you have. >> And as usually the only veteran in the room, I want to thank you for your service and I want to be part of that conversation. Please, >> thanks. Thanks for being here. All right. Uh, we're gonna That's
019all ass signed up. So, we're going to move on to item eight. You want to Okay, you got it. Is uh Great Boomer Grant Boomershine here. You want to come up and say your name and where you go to school and all that stuff in the record? >> Our college students when they come as an FYI, uh they we always enter into record when they speak and introduce themselves. So, thanks for being here. >> Yeah. Hi, my name's Grant Boomershine. I go to ENKU and I'm currently studying uh elementary education. So, I'm here to observe and watch a school board meeting >> hopefully come work for us. >> That's right. Thanks, Grant. >> Uh any other college students that might have missed the signup sheet, come on up. Say your name. >> Hi. Hi. My
020name is Sarah Neighbor. I'm at University of the Cumberlands and I'm in the program for teaching masters. >> Awesome, Sarah. >> Thank you for being here. You might see one more. >> Hi, I'm Paige Berkkey. I'm also with the University of Cumberland for my masters in education. >> Thank you. Thank you. Any others? All right. Uh with that, we'll move on to item eight. And we'll move um to recommended action consent items A through W. Dr. Housewald. Yes. Thank you, Chairman Parks. I recommend the board approve the recommended action consent agenda items A through W as presented with the treasures report by Miss Katie Non. Miss Nan will now give the treasures report. >> Now substituting Darl D. We had an adjusted beginning cash balance of 51,680,222. Total receipts 5,698,887. Total expenditures $16,15,248 for a
021net decrease in cash of 10,416,362 for an ending cash balance of $41,263,861. There were no notable items for the month. We expect to see a significant revenue increase as this year's property taxes are collected. >> All right. Uh, do we have a motion to approve consent agenda items A through W as recommended? >> Wolf, do I have a second? >> Second, Miss Bird. Do we have any discussion on the consent agenda? Seeing none, we'll move forward with a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes 40. Uh seeing as though there's no old business uh for item nine, we'll move on to item 10. Recommended action, new business item A, board policy 08.135, first read. Since this is a first read, we will need no approval this evening. So just
022uh reading into record uh for those who are uh interested uh board policy 0.08135 uh is a first reading and it is um just a second sorry it's regarding moral instruction um and uh it is a completely new policy so I know we've shared it um I know that we have had some advice from our legal council I don't know Olivia if you have anything to add regarding moral instruction >> go ahead Well, >> if we have questions. >> Okay, perfect. >> So, as >> do we need to read the policy into the record? >> Okay. >> Just it's sufficient that it's regarding moral instruction and it just ensures compliance with KRS 158200. >> Okay. All right. Uh we'll move on. With that being said, we'll move on to item 11, information, proposals, communications. Are
023there any things you fellow board members would like to communicate? >> No. >> I would just like to request if it's possible and I spoke to Jim briefly about this before the meeting in regard to when this policy comes back around for a second reading. Um, I want to kind of know what's being discussed at between LSS and the buildings on how they're going to handle the hour of enrichment for the students that do not leave uh to make sure that that is not movie time. It is quality catchup or whatever. And what do we do when students don't get back in an hour? because and I know what the policy says about that. Has anyone driven around Boone County lately? It's not going to happen. And what are we going to do about that?
024And how do we keep this, not against it, just how do we keep this from disrupting the daily routine of the buildings? That's my concern. >> Agreed. Um, so yeah, if we could have that information available for the second read. >> And it I mean it doesn't have to be a a 200page document of A generates B which generates one, two, and three. just kind of what are the buildings putting together as part of their because they co control the curricular day and um how are they going to make sure that this is valuable instruction that continues to occur in our buildings while the other valuable instruction is occurring outside. >> Well, there is we do from uh we do have a framework of said things so we will get make sure Olivia gets that
025over to you or Jim, whoever has that. >> Yeah. And we've been working with the principles um to prepare and you may notice in the policy, one of the things based on um Olivia's advice is that we we are working with each principal to specify the hour um that best accommodates it without uh interruption um for each school. Um and and right now I I believe only one organization has contacted us. So right now they're looking at working with one school. So we working with the principles to prepare for the potentiality. Um it may not be an eventuality this year but but if they do then we're working on those guidelines that basically the concerns you've expressed saying which hour is best and then we've also narrowed it down because as part of this the
026policy you know the names have to be provided in advance so we that that we know which classrooms are impacted because remember it for example it's different at secondary but the first approach I believe is an interest in elementary school so with the elementary school it's you know this is the hour they prefer which classrooms are impacted and what does that look like so the teachers have plenty of time to adjust the instruction so that it does have to be enrichment. It can't be core instruction. So we're we're working on all those things without getting so far ahead. What we don't want is teachers and principles to have to kind of do all of this until we have been approached that their school's impacted because if the school isn't impacted it's a lot it's asking
027the teachers do a whole lot of conditional planning that may not be needed. So what we're doing is making sure we're ready for that should it come to that school and impact those individual classrooms because that's the most significant thing is we want to make sure we comply with the law and it is some as you mentioned it is additional work um for some teachers and schools uh if if they're going to have it but we don't want them to get so far ahead that they're doing that if this year for example if we don't have a request for a given elementary school or a given school. So, but but we'll give you some more detail. Well, we can share. I know Olivia has been working with Dr. Deweiler on on some of those process
028pieces. >> Because it doesn't have to be board approved. It's not on there for the first read. There is um there are multiple corresponding procedures that the district will be putting into place that go with this that you'll get copies of at the next read as well that explain a lot of this pretty thoroughly. >> Yeah. >> No, no, no. >> But also, you know, Sure. >> Yeah, >> I I do have a one thing I do want to bring up, but um at our next meeting, can we get an update from transportation? I'm curious as to how many kids we have showing up late for school on the school buses and how many instructional minutes they're missing every week. >> Yeah, >> I've been getting a lot of concern from various parents throughout the
029district on that, but it'd be nice to know what it looks like districtwide. we can disseminate that to you sooner than that as soon as we have it available so that if you have questions you can work through them. >> Okay. But it might be good to put something into the meeting next month because a lot of parents are asking about >> Yeah, that's fine. >> Anyone else? >> In reference to transportation, we did meet um and met with basically the same group of members that we've been meeting with to kind of talk through with them the restructuring of transportation more into an operations committee and how we would include the other areas of you know food service whatever and to make sure that each one had a representative and uh putting into place getting
030those members in place and the directors within operations because we didn't want to get too big or have too much admin in in you know in participation and influence. Um to have them rotate in to so everyone would get to know them that's on the committee as well as if there is let's say a specific food service issue then the food service director can come in be a part of that meeting listen to the input you know take it back and develop a plan for it and same for facilities maintenance and everything. So >> yeah, and I would I would say that the reworking of that committee is um has posed quite a bit of thought and I appreciate your input in um co-chairing that committee. >> Yeah, Kim, Kim and Eric and all of
031them, Eric McCarter because Mr. ball wasn't there but um as part of but his his his his department HR finance they're all included in this so it's not like that we're trying to create any um we're not excluding anyone every department has the opportunity to have a representative we just didn't want it to be all directors and administrators we needed to be the people in the trenches that are living it every day because we're not and we need to hear from him and we are um I had had a couple conversations with Miss Best about how do we handle transportation since it has been the focus all of these years but it's also the largest department within operations and I felt like that that should give them maybe an extra seat or two at the
032table but not just all drivers to kind of split it across the many functions of transportations between drivers, dispatchers, routers, you know, trainer, you know, things like that. There's a lot of entities within transportation. So, transportation will have uh, you know, at least one, maybe two more representatives to kind of cover all aspects of transportation as well. Um we did we did delay our budget committee meeting that'll happen next week uh next month, right? Okay. All right. Anyone else? All right. I'll just say um as we enter the fall break um as of recently I'm I'm reminded as I move through the county um just how really strong our community is. We have uh a lot of you know a lot of very positive things going on in Boone County with uh you know new
033buildings, new uh you know new community moving into Boone County all the time. Um our We have a variety of really good jobs available and our schools and our staffs continue to do fantastic work with our students and when you go to a restaurant it's really hard to get a seat um sometimes and um anyway it points to the fact that you know we should as Boone countians really be proud of the work that our county is doing both in the school system but also in the um the the other government entities Florence and and our county commissioners have done a wonderful job um all around this this county. And with that being said, please take the time to continue that community and uh check on your neighbors and your friends to make sure you
034know that they are doing okay. And more importantly for fall break, it's important for me to mention this because I'm going to take the time to talk to your students and see how they are, how their school year is doing, how their friendships are progressing or not, and just to do a check-in, you know, spend the the the three, four days or whatever it is um together hopefully if you can and um off the devices and all that stuff and just take a to to see how everything is, no matter how young or old they are. Um, and you know, we can all remind ourselves that we do have a great community and that means we need to talk to each other sometimes. Anyway, with that, uh, we'll move to item 12, which is close
035session. We don't have a close session, so we can move to adjournment. Item 13, do I have a motion to adjurnn? Miss Wolf, do I have a second? Second, Miss Bird. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes 4 Z. Meeting adjourned. All right, we're going to call the meeting to