001Well, and it would be so awful to have all that stuff. I mean, Heat. Heat. [Music] being here. We welcome you here. If there's anybody here that wants to address this board for any matter that is not on the agenda, we uh have set aside time in the uh on the agenda for you to address the board if you'll complete a form that >> it's on the back table. Uh and give it to Miss Robin up here. Then we'll we'll give you some time in the meeting to address the board if it's for a matter that's not on the agenda. Okay. Thank you, >> Dr. Lawson. You have some folks that are going to lead us in the pledge of allegiance, please. >> Yes, I do. If I could ask our student ambassadors to come
002up and ask everyone else to stand, please. [Music] I pledge algiance 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. >> Mr. Waller, the board, all those in the audience, we've got some we have some of our student ambassadors here. This is a highly rigorous program. We're always so proud of the efforts they give and the way they represent themselves, their families in our school district. So tonight, I wanted to ask them to take some time to tell you a little bit about themselves and maybe about their high school experience and their future plans. We'll start with you, Miss Wik. >> Hi, I'm Taylor Wik and I'm a senior at Anderson County High School. I'm in
003the business pathway and after high school, I plan to attend the University of Sanford and study in sales and marketing. Hi, my name is Harper Scott. Um, I'm in the health science pathway at the high school. I'm currently undecided on where I want to attend, but I do plan on majoring in biology on a prePA track. >> Hello, my name is Cadence Moore. I am in our agriculture pathway and I plan on attending Murray State University and majoring in preveterary medicine. >> Good evening. My name is Kayen Conrad and I am not in a pathway at the high school. I planned to I am undecided on what college I'm going to, but I plan on studying biochemistry. >> My name is Carson Troxell. I'm interested in engineering. I'm in the engineering pathway and I'm undecided
004on where I'm going to school yet. >> Yes. So, Mr. Waller, you always mention how proud you are of these students. >> Absolutely. I want to tell you all that the the the program that you're in as as representing the Henderson County Schools as well as Henderson County as a community is is a is a tough program. It's not easy to go through and we appreciate what you do and how you represent our school as well as our community and we appreciate you coming here tonight. Thank you so much. [Applause] Next item on the agenda would be to uh approve the agenda that we've been presented tonight. Is there any questions, changes, or concerns about the agenda that we have? >> I move we accept it as presented. >> Have a motion, Mr. Alvis. >>
005Second, Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I votes. Next item would be Miss Mortise. Some recognitions, please. >> The Governor Scholars Program is a summer program for outstanding high school students in Kentucky who are rising seniors. In order to participate in the program, students must be nominated by their high school and then compete on a statewide level. Selection is highly competitive with over 2,000 applications received and only a thousand students selected to attend. We had several students that represented Henderson County High School this year. When we call your name, if you can please come forward to receive a medal of excellence. We will then take a group picture followed by a picture with your family in attendance. Congratulations to Diamond Maguire. [Applause] Oh, I mean, I'll give you a hug,
006Diamond, but go that way. Zoe Mills, Cadence Moore, Liberty Townsen, [Applause] Nathaniel Gold, Brett Haley, [Applause] Cole Lucas, [Applause] >> Carson Troxel, [Applause] Brianna Roy, and Aela or Ael Wolfork. [Applause] you know that I've been around here a long time. I won't tell you how long, okay? But this has got to be one of the biggest groups of students that have been represented to the governor's scholar program from Henderson County in a long time. I mean, I can remember two, three, four, five, and I I may be wrong, but I think I counted 10. >> That's a significant number from any one school. So, pretty proud of that and pretty proud of these folks that because that that is that's an elite business right there. >> Thank Thank you, Mr. Waller. We often say that
007Henderson County High School is the best high school in the state of Kentucky. And these students, and we have other students tonight that we're going to recognize certainly represent that. And so I wanted to take this opportunity uh to just ask them um this is a great honor obviously, but just one question to think about is um what are you most looking forward to in this Governor Scholar program? and I'm just going to hand the mic off to her first and if you don't mind I'm going to ask her to pass it down to each one of you. Um, hello. My name is Diamond Maguire and the thing that I'm most excited about like with being a Governor Scholar is to be able to tell other students and other juniors about the program and to
008encourage them to definitely at least apply to it because it is completely it is just life-changing and I just think that it is so important and it's so amazing and so I'm very excited to let other people know about the program. I'm Cadence Moore. Probably the most exciting thing about being a GSP alumni is definitely the connections that you now have to all these people throughout the state of Kentucky, all these like-minded people and the connections that you can build through them and the opportunities you have. >> Um, I'm Libby Townsen and the thing that I'm most excited about um after doing GSP is just all of the friends that I now have across the entire state. And you know, I get to see some of them visiting each other sometimes anytime they travel somewhere
009and I know that anywhere I go now, I have people that I can connect with. >> I'm Nate Gold and the thing that I'm probably the most excited for is getting to see the friends that I made at the reunion a year later. I'm Brett Haley and the thing I'm most excited about is just having made so many friends at GSP because I probably met more people there than in the past four years of my life and it really just has been such a great impact for me. Uh I'm Cole Lucas and I think the best thing that I got coming out of GSP was uh the perspective change. Um I got to talk about a lot of different things that I don't usually talk about. Uh, and it definitely shifted my perspective and in
010the future. I think it'll definitely affect how I think. >> Uh, I'm most excited for college now that after the GSP experience, I'm really excited to go to college, meet more people, and connect with the people that I've already met still. Hello, I'm Brianna Roy and I'm most excited about um the way this will impact me in the future with um the college experience that was so unique and so amazing. [Applause] Don't be afraid. Hey, before you leave here, just quickly, as M. Williams and Mr. Waller, Mr. always says, it's about a partnership with your families. So, do you all have any family members here? >> Come on up. All right. Find the window. [Music] Hey students, why don't you kind of go like this? Like a little bit like this so you can see
011your parents. Yeah, there you go. >> Yes. [Music] You're all paying the bill and I didn't >> congratulations to all of our students. Uh also this summer we had the Governor's School for the Arts. It's an arts education program uh presented by the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. It has Kucky's most promising high school students in nine different art disciplines. It empowers the next generation of Kucky's creative leaders. We had two students selected. Um Alexis Frankie for creative writing. She was unable to attend, but we have Camille Carter for design here this evening. So if you want to meet Dr. Lawson Camille will give you your medal here. >> Congratulations, young lady. >> So, this is going to be tricky. Let's see what you got there. >> There you go. >> So, congratulations, Camille,
012for being uh in the Governor School for Fine Arts. And just like the other students, can you tell me um what you're most excited about for the Governor School of Fine Arts? >> Um I think I'm excited about being able to take the perspective that I had in the past and be able to change it from what I now know from um GSA. Um it's definitely changed um my outlook on different things and how to um interact with other people. >> Oh, fantastic. Um, so are your folks here? Your mom is. Okay, we're going to get a quick picture. Miss Tracy, do you mind coming up here and jump in this one with us? And um, we'll get a quick picture and then we'll get your mom up here right after this one. I get
013your mother to come on up. Congratulations. [Applause] >> Congratulations. >> GSE Governor's School for Entrepreneurs empowers the dreams of Kentucky students to have the grit, drive, and passion to be bluegrass entrepreneurs and create jobs here in our state. The program identifies, inspires, and empowers Kucky's future innovators. Congratulations to Taylor Walmck [Applause] and Joey Burgerer for being GSC. [Applause] So congratulations um for being included in the Governor's School for Entrepreneurs. And can you tell us tell this group of people here what you like best about the Governor School for Entrepreneurs? >> Okay, so I definitely have to say this is kind of a hard question. There was a lot of things I took away from GSC and the process and everything like that. But I will say learning those skills that you learn there and applying
014them to the classroom like in Colonel's Corner Bank, I'm just got promoted to the CEO. And then also for Colonel C or Colonel Creations, I'm also the store manager there as well. So just being able to apply those leadership skills that I learned at GSC has definitely been life-changing and I'm super proud of that. Uh, my name is Joey Berer and the thing I liked most about GSE was really the intensive education process. Like the first week was extremely hard, but it really taught me that there's way more thinking that you can do that you than you think you can do. So that was really my favorite part about it. [Applause] Did I think I saw your parents in the crowd? I'm going to ask their folks to come on up. The Wamiks and the
015Burgers, if you would, we'll fill in here. Folks, a hand. [Applause] Congratulations, y'all. [Applause] We had two students that were accepted into the Gaten Academy, Brady and Alexis Frankie. They were unable to attend tonight, but we did want to recognize them and hopefully we can reschedule maybe towards the end of the year um to recognize them for this. Good evening. Um, I'm here tonight and have the distinct honor to recognize the Henderson Police Department and the Henderson County Sheriff's uh office as our community partners of the month. Partnership is more than just a word. It's about showing up day after day with a commitment to protect, support, and serve. Henderson Police Department along with Henderson Sheriff's Office have gone above and beyond to ensure the safety and well-being of our students, staff, and family. Whether
016it's providing a reassuring presence in our schools, assisting in community events, or responding in times of need. They model what it means to care deeply about the people they serve. Their dedication doesn't just keep on keep our community safe. It strengthens the bonds between our schools, families, and local law enforcement. It gives our students role models of integrity, courage, and service. On behalf of Henderson County Schools and the entire community, we want to say thank you for your unwavering commitment, your teamwork, and your heart for Henderson County. You truly make a difference, and we are proud to honor you today. Those with us to represent both departments. First, we have Mr. Chief uh Chief Bolan is here for HPD. We have Lieutenant Willlet and Lieutenant Young. If you would please join Dr. Lawson. [Applause] I'm
017going to ask all of our board members to please come up. >> Before we uh take a picture here, I just wanted to get a a quick word from the three of you all only just to affirm what Mr. Thompson said that we have many layers to our safety plan and all of them important, but none of them are more important than these men that protect our schools. We're so grateful to our community for supporting us in a way that we have a school resource officer in every single school. We're thankful to our community for prioritizing that and funding it. We're thankful to our legislators for prioritizing that and helping fund it as well. And we're so fortunate to have men like this um helping protect our schools. And that partnership word, we really mean
018it. It comes from core value number four. That genuine relationships are the foundation of everything we do. We're so grateful for you. And so if you don't mind, I want to hear just a minute from you on your partnership with Henderson County Schools, how it's working for you or what are the best parts and moving forward. So thank you. Uh the leadership team has already heard my opinion before, but to the board and to the citizens and parents, I think the kids know it every day, but I've been overly impressed with how much our school corporation here cares about safety. They're proactive with it. They reach out to us. they come to us with things and it is a true partnership. So, I can't thank you enough. I've been very impressed and hopefully we'll keep
019this team going for quite a while. >> And base, I would just echo the same things that Chief Bowling just said. Uh we can't say enough about how the school corporation works with us and gives us all the things we need to help them and and it's it's a definitely a two-way street. It really works out well. Uh to the young men and women in here, I want to congratulate you guys for what y'all have accomplished. Uh that is a very big achievement. Um as of us working with the schools, we love it. It's something that all of our officers hold dear to their heart. Um I know HPD along with the sheriff's office work with us working out in the county. Uh it's something that we really, really, really love to do and we
020hope to continue what we have. So blessed to have you. >> Thank you. [Applause] Robin, is there anyone okay? >> Dr. Lawson, again, I want to say that the recognitions that we do for our students, our community partners, and uh the folks who work in our in our school district, that's the best part of this meeting. We appreciate what you do to to recognize them and everybody else. We're going to continue through the agenda. Those of you folks that have been recognized and feel like you want to want to go, go ahead and leave. You don't have to stay for the rest of meeting. I'm sure you got plenty to do. But we do appreciate you being here and we appreciate the recognition that you bring to the Henderson County School System and Henderson Community.
021Thank you. Next item would be to approve the minutes from the public hearing and our regular school board meeting on August 18th. We've uh received those minutes prior to this meeting. So I'll make a motion to accept the minutes as presented. >> Second by Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I please. Huh? >> We just voted on the minutes. Do you have any changes to the minutes, Mr. Als? >> I'm sorry. >> Do you have any changes to the minutes that you >> No, sir. I'm I'm sorry. I was >> That's all right. We We weren't going to interrupt you. You were doing you were doing real business. So all we're looking for you to say I >> I thank you sir. >> I had something a little bit more important. >>
022Understandable. Understandable. >> Next item would be our construction manager report. Mr. Miller. >> Yes. So two updates obviously two projects. South Middle delayed that bid date to 9:24. We had a couple things we had to work out with some contractors to gather a couple more bids. We've got that handled now and we'll be able to 9:24 and be here at the next board meeting to hopefully approve everything. That's the only thing I have on that. On East Heights, you heard me say last time we were behind. That's still the case this time, but we met our goals. So, basically last month, our monthly meetings are the same days as what we have here. So, last month we sat down as a team. We said if we can get another week, chip it away week by
023week by week each month we'll be back on track and we met our goal for the first time. So we chunked a week out of it to what we were behind. So now we're caught up a little bit. Same thing next month and next month and next month we stay there. We'll be just fine. Um as far as construction itself, obviously there's really not much more to say other than we're going vertical. CMU walls are going up. >> Understand that construction projects are dynamic and sometimes you have to just be patient and appreciate that too. That's all I have unless anybody has any questions. >> Any questions? Thank you so very much. Appreciate you doing. >> Thank you, >> Dr. Lawson. >> Yes, sir. It is. So, every other month we rotate our athletic report
024with our strategic plan update. And this month, so what we're doing is we're going through our strategic plan bullet by bullet and bringing back to the board every other month evidences in which we're accomplishing those goals. And I just want to begin with saying that around five years ago, we brought in multiple different groups of stakeholders to form our strategic plan. We listen to and synthesize the values of community members, students, parents, staff, uh board members, uh to to create a strategic plan, something that can lead and guide us. And so we're living that out. And Mr. Robbins awfully anxious to show you what we got going on here. Uh but I want to first show uh when we before we get to this, as you watch it, I want you to think about the
025bullets that are up there. When we said five years ago that we wanted to work towards providing our students with the foundation of good character and make sure they're equipped with the tools they need for their next step in their education andor their careers. We wanted to bridge the gap between our students in the community through inclusive partnerships. We wanted to increase proficiency in both core content and career and technical education and then to maintain safe schools. Um, so on 911 we always uh remember that. We believe that's important for our kids to remember times like that and we believe it's important part of their uh development their character. So Mr. Robin show this video at the end of it. I might ask Mr. Thompson to give us some details about it and I'll do
026the same. [Music] Why is it important for us to honor the 9/11 the people that died on 911? Even though that was years and years ago, why is it important for us to honor them? >> People still today, >> huh? >> It's still like affecting people's lives. It's still affecting people's lives today and it could still happen today. We can't ever forget the past because we have to be prepared for the future, right? But we also don't want to forget the lives that were sacrificed on that day because those their families, their loved ones, they're still on this earth. They're still around. Thousands, hundreds of lives were saved that day. We have to remember that. It's very important for us to remember that. [Music] Each one of those red roses represents a firefighter. 343 firefighters,
027about 71 police officers, Port Authority, about eight uh EMS personnel, the blue is a police officers, blue is the white is EMS personnel. the ribbon that goes around it that represents all the lives that are continuously lost due to the aftermath and effects of 911, the carcinogens that were in the air. Um the PTSD and suicide, the lives that were lost from the military cuz 9/11 didn't end that day or end when the cleanup was over. It went on for years and years. 20 years past the the actual event, military were over in the Middle East fighting a war. [Music] The fire service is steeped in tradition. One of those traditions is honoring our own. You'll see our core values at HFD are honor, integrity, excellence. Another tradition that's deep in the fire service is
028the ringing of the bell because at the beginning of every shift and at the beginning of every run, emergency run, it's we're alarmed by a bell. That's how we get out and serve the community by the ringing of the bell. So today, we're going to ring a bell and honor those that served before us and honor those that served on 9/11 and passed away and continue to uh suffer the repercussions of that day. So, we're going to name ring the bell three times for three rings each and honor the people that passed away on 911 and continue to suffer because of that day. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] So, as you can see, that's a tribute to our uh history with honor those folks who gave it all on 911. But there's more to this story.
029That's Mr. Thompson. Do you mind telling us a little bit about these students? uh who their instructor is, what kind of pathway they're in, what's why were they walking up and down those stairs. >> Sure. As as a tribute Oh, that's a little hot. As a tribute to um the fallen service members in the fire department, um they do a stair run every year on 911. If if you do much on social media, you see it all over at universities. Um, but they do a stair run. Because at the time, World Trade Center, we know when you have a fire in a tall building, you don't use elevators, you climb stairs. So, as a tribute to all those that that lost their lives and are still battling, they do a stair run every single year.
030They do it all across the United States. The students that you saw out there were students part of a brand new pathway of fire science at Henderson County High School. It's been in conversation for a little over a year. You saw um you saw Casey Howard, that's their instructor. Um he is an active lieutenant in the Henderson Fire Department and he teaches three sections every single day at no cost to us. So he comes in, he teaches basic fire science, basically fire science 101 uh to three classes of our students. And so what you saw is you saw those classes plus you saw um some PE classes out there with them partic. So um fire science is going real well. Just so you know um you're going to see a fire truck on our campus
031probably next week. Um we will own a fire truck. Believe it or not, Henderson County Schools will own a fire truck. Now we can't bring it to a house and put out a fire, but it's used as a training. It is being donated by EVSC uh to Henderson County Schools and we will take possession of that next week. So, the fire science program is off up and running. You saw the chief um in there, Chief Dixon also um running with our kids. >> So, pretty good. >> Pretty special. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. >> Excellent. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Next item would be new business. Mr. Bird, I don't know if my mic's working or not. Um, is it working? Um, so this item is on the agenda kind of as kind of a getting
032ahead of the ball. Um, I was contacted actually two different by two different people about Habitat Humanity's interest in acquiring a certain piece of property that was conveyed to the school district a number of years ago when we had a construction project going on in the um tech unit that was a partnership with the homebuilders association. So, we had, I don't know, five pieces of property, I believe, that were conveyed by the city to be used um for the construction of low-income housing. That program is no longer in place. Um I confirmed with with Mr. Thompson, but so there's the particular piece of property that um Habitat is in negotiations with the city to acquire. Now, I'm not going to begin to speak for the city. I think I see Don um to know how
033far they've gotten along in that process. But I circulated to each of y'all the deed um that was conveyed to the board and in that in the deed there's a clause that states if the house isn't built within two years that it will revert back to the city. That property will revert back to the city. So by operation of the terms of the deed, no home was constructed. Um, so technically it has reverted back, but we would still need to sign off on the conveyance if it comes to pass. So we brought it before the board just to kind of get our ducks in a row so that if that does in fact come to pass that our part of it is, you know, is taken care of. Um, just to cover our basis, we
034want to put on the record that the board's not using it, you know, that we're declaring it surplus. It's no longer needed. It's no longer used. and then um authorize Dr. Lawson to execute any documents that would be necessary to be completed to affectuate the transfer if that comes about. And since Don is here, I'll ask you if there's anything else that I'm leaving out. We didn't even realize that property. >> So, it's a wonderful way for that property to be able to use for the intended purpose and since we don't have the program that, you know, Habitat can kind of step into those shoes and hopefully build a home on the site. So, Lost. >> I agree with everything Miss Bird just said. Um I'm excited about this partnership. I think it's fantastic way
035to continue to build community. And so I would request the board approve the reversion of the Julia Street property to Henderson Water Utility as presented by Mrs. Bird. >> So moved. >> Have a motion from Mr. Alvis. >> Second. >> Have a second. Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. I vote unanimous. Thank you. >> And your recommendation was to include that you're going to uh how did you have a word >> to authorize him to be able to execute? >> You're authorized to be able to execute anything has to do with that property to go back to the city. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Next item is consent agenda. We have six items on the consent agenda that has it includes approved school activity fundraiser request from
036E sites Bengate and Jefferson, some overnight trip request for the uh future business leaders of America, salary amendment in the finance department and shortened days for five students in special needs. Approve some bid recommendations and review and accept some changes for the uh polic on the procedures for physical restraint. We have one item, item five, I'd like to have pulled. Is there any other item need to be pulled from the consent agenda? >> Not I. No. >> Okay. So, uh, I'll entertain a motion that we, uh, accept the consent agenda excluding item five as presented. >> So, move. >> Have a motion, Mr. Albus. >> Second, Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I, please. >> I votes unanimous. Item five is some bid recommendations with regards to the JRTC obstacle course and
037uh some mental health evaluation. Dr. Lawson. Thank you, Mr. Waller. I want to speak directly to the mental health bid recommendation. Uh some time ago, we distributed a request or proposal for our mental health services. This is an important service to our students. It's something that we want to continue to be able to support them in that way. We received the uh we did receive some proposals and um we received those around September the 10th. And so because it's such an important proposal and uh such an important service, I'd like to just request the board give us more time to study those proposals and come back to it at a later meeting. >> Any questions with regards to that? >> Move that we accept that. Well, the uh item five on that consent is for
038the obstacle course as well as the time to to delay on. Is that your recommendation, Dr. Boston? >> Well, yes, sir. I would like to request the what's in your packet there to stay as is. And in there, it says the bid for the JRTC obstacle course >> approved >> that that we be that one be approved. And then I wrote that there's a memo there to request more time on the mental health proposal. >> Okay. So, that's your recommendation. Is that >> I hear correctly the the the obstacle course will go forward. >> Yes. >> Okay. Have a motion. Mr. Al second superintendent's recommendation. Have a second. >> Second. Miss. Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. I. Thank you. >> Next item would be the uh financial business. Mr. Stokes.
039>> Thank you, Mr. Mr. Chairperson, Dr. Lawson, members of the board, the action on the inventories that is being uh requested is to change the minimum threshold for assets to be capitalized from 5,000 to 10,000. And that basically means put them on the depreciation schedule. Assets were not depreciated until about 2003 or 2004. And at that time, they recommended $1,000. About 10 years later, they moved it from a th00and to 5,000. And here we are again. Now it's from 5,000 to 10,000. So this is in line with the White House Office of Management and Budget, OM. It's a federal guideline. They've changed theirs um from 5 to 10. And we I would like our guidelines to be in line with the federal government, please. >> Dr. Lost. >> I'd request the board approve the first
040reading of 04.7 inventories as presented by Mr. Stokes. >> Heard the superintendent's recommendation. Entertain a motion. Motion, Mr. Als. >> Second, Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. >> I vote unanimous. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> You're still on board? >> Yes, sir. Thank you again, Mr. Chair, members of the board. Thank you, Dr. Awesome. I I'm feel honored and privileged to um present the working budget this year, but I before I do so, I would like to just stop and have a minute to say thank you to uh Miss Cindy for not only all her years of experience that she gave to not only this district, but to its students, but also for the excellent and wonderful job she's done leading the finances here for for several years.
041Uh HCS. I'm sure I'll spend the rest of my career trying to fill her shoes, probably unsuccessfully, but there's no one else in this uh state that I'd rather follow. Thank you, Cindy. Well done. And now with the budget on the attachment, the first page is some highlights. As each of you are aware, I'm sure the board is required to approve and submit a working budget to KDE by September 30 each year. And and of course, the board approved a tenative budget in May. But some notable highlights that are in this budget are that we've revised the receipts based on a full year of historical and projected receipts. We made changes in the expenditures for salaries and benefits to include the 3% um salary salary schedule increase that the board passed. Also in this budget
042includes a $500 supplemental payment for each employee to be paid at Christmas. This budget includes updated cost amounts for our scheduled bus purchases. Also in this budget we have used rising trends to update utilities. This budget also reflects the increased cost for the additional SRO's which is part of our safety init initiative which is on the front of our uh the front burner on our stove and it also this budget includes general fund cost to continue other safety measures including the uh strategics which is um our software and and alert system for student and staff safety. This budget also includes the continued funding for the onetoone initiative uh included and that is around a million dollars. And just to finalize the budget does contain uh contain about a 13% 13.6% contingency. So a couple other
043things that are uh been changed in this budget is that we do know now that the seek last year was the base per ADA and in this year it is 45.86 and that is a uh increase of $260 per average attendance for a student. Also we do know our enrollment has dropped uh about 215 kids from last year. So when your enrollment drops, it's important not only for our kids to learn, but for our budget, which is why I'm here, to have great attendance. And I at this point, I'd like to thank Miss Casey Farmer Wolf for her excellent job in and her team because we have had before COVID numbers on our attendance and that is just remarkable to get these kids back in school. So well done to her because she's not only
044helping the kids receive instruction, she's also helping this guy help, you know, with our budget and try to provide everything that we can for our staff and students. So I'd like to thank Casey at this time. And moving forward, I did provide the board with a summary balance. Our our budget this year is about sideways. Sorry about that. It's about 150 She's good. >> I bet she is. Uh, our total budget for all funds is 152 million and change. And again, if you'll notice the second from the from the bottom line on the right. Uh, the contingency for all operation funds is 13.6%. We do have a contingency based on fund one and fund 51 which is around 15%. The next page shows just kind of a pictorial graph of where our revenues come from.
045And you know, no surprise about half of it does come from SEK, about the other half comes from local um revenues such as property tax, vehicle tax, and utility tax. And then we have little chunks from transportation and investment earnings and and other receipts. And then the next graph shows our uh fun one expenses. And again, it's typical for a school system to have around 80% in salaries and benefits. Ours is around 81.9 and uh I think you know 80 is probably the magic point, but it's also a goal of this board in this district I think to make sure that we are attracting and retaining the best teachers and staff in the state. So, with it being 81.9, that's not an alarming. That's a a wellunded well uh expense that's well done. So, if
046you'll scroll to the next page, Miss Newton, please. Thank you. This is um our year bond schedule and it just I want the board to be aware of and I think Miss Clotier did too of this year's bond payments. And then the next screen is our cumulative bond payments for the next several years. And then after that is the meat and potatoes of our budget when I discuss the issues that were included in this budget. But at this time I would be happy to answer any questions on this budget or anything in finance. Yes, Mr. >> Excuse me. Do I understand that we have a a grand uh total of 75,800 some odd thousand? That's our total debt on this at the moment. >> That's our total in payments. Now, that amount does include some
047interest. So, if a bond was paid off early, then then we wouldn't quite pay the 75 million. Our our bond um proceeds are approximately 65 million and then about about 65 million and then about 10 of its interest. So, >> are there are there any of those bonds that are likely to be callable >> with interest where it is right now? Probably not, sir. So, it' probably be several years if if interest dropped, then we would certainly entertain that to save us some more money and be able to throw more back into facilities. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> Any other questions? >> Dr. Lawson. >> Thank you, Mr. Stokes. You and Miss Clier have been working hard on that. Um, we always say the money makes the mission happen. It's exciting the direction
048of our school. Appreciate the board support. supporting all the priorities. But as Mr. Waller, you always say, you know, it's really pretty simple what we're here to do. Provide the best education we can to students that we have and treat our staff like family. So that said, I think this budget reflects that mentality. I'd request that the board approve the working budget, the 2526 working budget as presented by Mr. Stokes. >> So moved. I have you heard superintendent's recommendation. You have a motion, Mr. Albus. >> Second. Second, Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I, please. >> I vote unanimous. And I think this is a pretty safe budget, especially with a contingency of 13.6%. $19 million is not designated. So, we're healthy. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next item would be the
049treasures report. >> Thank you again. In the month of August 2025, our receipts were 5,643,540. Our total expenditures were 13,596,176 with a net change uh a net decrease this month of $7,952,636. And if as you notice, most of that came out of construction. So we we did last month had uh when we've sold our bonds, we've had quite a bit of net increase. So, we'll see that chipping away a little bit each month as we're starting to pay for these projects. So, it's a big number, but not alarming. >> We got a good bank. >> Just just dropped by about 8 million. >> It's all right. It'll work. >> That's what it was there for though, right, Mr. Waller? >> Yes, sir. >> Dr. If there are no questions, I'd request the board approve the
050treasures report as presented by Mr. Stokes. >> Heard superintendent's recommendation. Have a motion. >> Motion, Mr. Albus. >> Second from Miss Williams. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Vote unanimous. Thank you very much. >> We have the pave war report. Thank you again, Mr. Chairperson, members of the board. Dr. The paid warrant report from 81925 to 91525 totals 8,359,543.38. Anybody have any questions about any of the bills that are on there? Dr. Lawson, there are no questions. I'd request the board approve the paid warrant report as presented by Mr. Stokes. >> Superintendent's recommendation. Have a motion from Miss Williams. >> Second. >> All I need to say is I'll just second. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I votes unanimous. >> Next item would be the
051uh >> bless 2026 motor vehicle tax rate. >> Dr. Lawson. >> So this was an oversight on my part at the last board meeting we had when we established a property tax rate. And I just want to be clear here that we uh I'm not in any way proposing an increase to the motor vehicle tax rate. We haven't increased that rate in a number of years. There's just an oversight on my part. And so our rate is at 54.8 cents uh per $100 of assessed value. And I just request the board that we to we keep that rate and we vote on it tonight as presented. That's 54.8. >> Motion we accept superintendent's recommendation regards to the motor vehicle tax staying the same as it has been for several years. You entertain a second and
052second, Mr. Albus. All those in favor signify by saying I please. >> I vote unanimous. Before we leave, I'd like to echo Mr. Stokes comments. And Miss Robin, if you'll let the record reflect that we've received and reviewed the uh personnel actions since the last board meeting that it's been a pleasure and an honor, Cindy, to work with you. I don't think we can say enough with regards to what you've done for this school district and how how well you uh kept us afloat in this school district and we wish you the best in your retirement years. You know, we know that uh I know it's going to be fun. You're going to enjoy it, but we're going to miss you. I'm going to miss you. We've been here about the same amount of time
053and I'm going to miss you and we really appreciate >> here. We've been around I said about >> Dr. Boston, I don't know if you have any comments or anybody else does, but I want to tell her how much I appreciate her doing what she's done. >> Yeah, we've had an opportunity to honor her a couple different times when first time I met Mr. Stokes was when he was here to present her with her cas officer of the year of the state award. She's been fantastic. You know, uh I don't know that I can get the quote right, but it's some quote from Winnie the Poo. How lucky am I to be a part of something that I'm going to miss so much was what she put in her what she put in her resignation
054letter. Uh Cindy loves the school district. I saw her mother at a retired teacher and principal in this district at our last retired teachers meeting. Uh her parents are Henderson County grads. She's a Henderson County grad. All her children Henderson County grad. She's special. And so u we know Mr. Stokes is going to do a great job too. He's fully committed to our team. It's really hard to replace somebody like Cindy Clotier and uh really uh she would be the first to tell you to because she loved it so much to thank you to this board. For the past few months, we've had a transition time between our chief financial officers and that's because we want to be steady long term. All of us are in this for the long haul. We want to do
055it right. Um and because of Miss Clotier's work among others, we're able to really have a bright future. So, we all love Cindy. We're going to miss her. And uh you know, I've got some really good news for you, though. She's got a grandbaby on the way. >> All right. >> She's having weddings and all these kinds of things. It's going to be a special part of her life. We love you, Cindy. Thank you. [Applause] >> Thank you. I appreciate your opportunity. >> We're going to miss you. >> Next item on the agenda would be adjourned. So I'll make a motion we adjourn this meeting and I'll need a second vote. Sorry, we got it. It's all going to go on. We're done. Thank you so so very much. It's unanimous. >> Mr. [Music]