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Henderson County Schools Board Meeting 07/21/25

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2025-07-21
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Henderson County, KY
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5,010 words · about 28 min
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2026-07-02

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001[Music] is ready. We'll go ahead and >> get started. And we'd like to go ahead and call this meeting to order of the Henderson County Board of Education for July 21st, 2025. appreciate all y'all being here. If there's anybody out there that wants to address this board for some matter that's not on the agenda, we'd like for you to But I know pretty much everybody out there. I believe most of y'all going to be addressing the board anyway. So, we'll just go ahead and uh move along. First item on the agenda would be the pledge of allegiance. If you don't mind, I'll lead the pledge of allegiance. We'll get started. 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,

002with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you so much. >> I forgot to check with you, Stephen. You good to go back there? All right. Sorry. Figured I'd forget something. Yeah, that's >> next item would appre to uh approve the agenda that we've uh received prior to the meeting. Is there any questions or anything on the agenda needs to change? Not entertain the motion we approve the agenda as presented. Have motion Mr. Alvis. >> Second, Mr. Maggar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. >> I vote unanimous. Anybody here that wants to address the board? Nobody's filled out a form. >> Okay. Next item would be to approve the minutes from the uh June 23rd special meeting and of review of Dr. Lawson and the spec special regular meeting that was rescheduled.

003Is there any questions about the minutes that have been presented? >> Will we accept the >> Have a motion Mr. Alvis we accept the minutes as presented. >> Have a second for Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. >> I votes unanimous >> and we're moving along. We might be on record pace. Uh the next one would be uh Colton. You're going to address us on the uh construction end of business. couple items we need to address. Nothing can >> test. How about that? >> That's wonderful. >> Sorry. So, all ceilings are out. We repunched some stuff. There's a couple things we have to address. Nothing major. Get that tidied up this week and that will be good to go. East Heights. Um, we are moving along. It's coming along slowly

004and steadily. We're throwing a lot of stuff in right here at the end. We're going to be good on the summer stuff. The last piece we need is getting picked up at the factory by the contractor on Friday. Some hydronic pumps that'll be back working through the weekend. We'll get that stuff tied in to get the HVAC on and rolling in the existing wings. Outside, we discussed this last time. You know, I try to be truthful with you guys. The outside suffered a little bit. We're a little bit behind, but we get past the summer stuff. We get that stuff done, get you back in school where you can roll on. The outside will come together in time to get everybody moved in next summer for that part. >> Weather's been kind of >> impacting

005the snowwood too, hasn't it? >> Yes, it has. It has. Does anybody have any questions? >> Right. Any questions? Dr. Lawson, any comments? >> Let's Yeah. Only that, you know, summertime is a critical time. As he said, the weather always has an impact. It's a critical time for all of our construction projects which those two large ones at South Middle School and these heights. So we appreciate all that Kodell and that team's doing. Um appreciate our leadership of the folks at East Heights especially right now and Mr. Thompson and we're excited to you know August 7th's going to be here pretty soon. Really appreciate >> I appreciate the urgency though. Like you said, we understand there's a back and forth in that and sometimes you get ahead of day and take one step forward, two

006steps back, but we appreciate everybody working so hard to get us in those buildings. >> Thank you. >> No other questions or comments. Appreciate it. Thank you so very much. >> Thank you. >> Next item would be the uh South Middle School HBAC renovation project. Mr. Thompson. >> Yes, sir. >> Did it hurt? Did it Oh, it's on. They they want to turn it off when I get it. Um I would actually like to buy uh Miss Irwin and Mr. Oliver up to the microphone uh to talk to you just for a few minutes about the um South Middle School HVAC renovation. We have a revised BG1, a BG2, and a BG3. Also, we have construction documents ready for you this evening and approval to advertise for bid. >> Good afternoon. I'm Suzanne Irwin. I'm

007a project architect with Ross Tarn Architects. I'm very glad to be with you today and happy to be working on South Middle School and the HVAC renovation. Uh what we wanted to bring for your consideration is the approval of the construction documents for this project which consists of a project manual and a set of drawings. Uh Mr. Oliver is going to cover the HVAC items as part of this project. >> Good evening. Glad to be here. Uh happy this project is uh reaching completion and we'll be ready to bid the contents of the drawings. We're going to be drilling about 176 geothermal wells. So the new HUC system will be geothermal uh just like Jefferson Elementary School. These will be deep wells just like Jefferson uh elementary school. Those will be located on both the

008football field and the one empty yard that we have there. There's very few spaces as you know and so we unfortunately had to use the football field but we're going to be putting it back with artificial turf and a new sprinkler system so it'll be put back as good as it was before we started. All classrooms will receive new HVAC units that are equal uh in noise and in capacity and comfort. Uh controls will be upgraded for the entire facility. Matter of fact, all HVC will be updated everywhere. That includes kitchen staff to auditorium to gymnasium. Uh sprinklers will be installed throughout the building. That's something you do not have now. That's going to be a uh safety improvement going forward and also uh structural liability uh for your uh improvement for your insurance. Uh

009and then we will be building new mechanical rooms on stage area to get those units into a elevated room to be much more uh safe to access and maintain and be quiet for performances if you so choose to have those. As part of uh upgrading all the HVAC systems, we also have a few architectural items that will be improved and uh will have to be brought back after. So the ceilings have all come out and so therefore all areas will have new ceilings and new lights with the exception of the gymnasium and the cafeteria eating area. Those two areas remain as is. All other areas will have a new ceiling. Uh and then there is patching. The existing units that will come out uh will leave areas that that need patching at the walls and

010at the floor. And that is all part of this project. So, we are really looking forward to bringing that um everything up to a nicer level in comfort and visually. I think the new ceilings and lights will go a very long way uh to upgrading the overall uh comfort illumination of the of the building. Uh the construction documents are uh organized to where we will have at least two alternates. We are considering a third one. Uh the provide HVAC equipment and controls that are manufactured by train that is upon uh request. And the carpet in the auditorium is an alternate to replace the carpet on the aisles and in the front and in the lobby area of the auditorium to replace it in full as an alternate If uh Colton would like to speak to

011how this project is going to be phased. Yes. So the design team has broken it down into some main phases throughout the buildings as far as wings, basement floor, gym, auditorium, but we know you all need to stay in school. You got to have classrooms to teach. So we're doing our best. We came up with a plan with the principal back at the beginning of the summer looking all the way out to when we started this thing. So, it'll be three to four classrooms at a time. We'll go in, grab them, get them done. Say phase one, for example, is a basement floor. We'll go in, get three or four classrooms done, get those handed back over, move to the next three or four, get those handed back over. And what that means basically is

012we can work during school hours which will help your bids, keep everything low, not a lot of overtime work on the weekends. The one thing they will have to do on the weekends though is the corridors. So weekends are after hours. I truly believe we get some decent contractors that can be done after hours later in the day and it can come along with them as they follow through the rooms. But that's basically how we've broken it up there. Then of course the auditorium and the gym. That's stuff that'll come later on down the line. But the name of the game is use four classrooms for an example. We go in, gut what we need, put back all the new HVAC that needs to go in. The old unit stays all the way until next

013summer to keep you up and running. New ceilings, paint onto the next one. And then as we get into October, November, you'll start having teachers who start getting ceilings back and get finished spaces that kind of chases all the way around the school. You think I missed anything? U I think Mr. Oliver spoke to the next slide shows the location of the geothermal well fields. Uh we spoke to that if anyone had any questions at all about those locations. Uh we do have a BG3 uh for your consideration. Uh and that uh cost for the BG3 for a total construction cost of 20 million and the schedule moving forward. We are asking your consideration to approve the construction documents and approval to advertise this evening, July 23rd, this week. The doc documents upon your approval

014will go out to bid. We have a three-w weekek bid period. August 14th is the scheduled bid opening and at the August board meeting will be the possible award of contract. October is the proposed start of construction and as Colton talked about it is a phased construction from October through August of 2026. with the fall of 2026 being uh when substantial completion will be done. Does anyone have any questions? >> Anybody have any questions with regards to the projects been presented? Chad, Dr. Thompson of Dr. Awesome. >> I would ask for your consideration of approval of the construction documents, also of the revised BG1, BG2, and BG3, and also to allow us to advertise bids. >> So, you've heard Mr. Thompson's recommendation on BG25-225 for the BG1, BG2, BG3 construction documents, and advertise for bids.

015So entertain a motion to accept as presented. >> Yes, sir. >> Have a motion from Mr. Alvis. >> Have a second from Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. >> I. Votes unanimous. Good deal. >> Looking forward to this project. >> Thank you very much. >> We appreciate the fact that you're working like you are Colton getting this thing in plans and I'm sure you've worked with the teachers and it's going to be just as smooth as can be. Right. >> Just really appreciate the collaboration. >> I come off Chad. You know what I'm saying? >> We've been through some of these. >> Things happen to me all day. >> Thank you all. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you so very much. >> All right. Next up um is

016approval for a change order number six BG uh for BG22-506 uh for the um CTE renovation project. We were going to keep the existing grid in CTE unit all the classrooms and replace some of the classrooms with new um ceiling tile. Then after we got to looking at it, it was it was not going to be befitting of the excellence that we hold here in Henderson County High School. So then we went in um and asked them to look into some cost. Um and we do have a few um um I don't know, they're they're giving us some money back uh due to a uh painted handrail that was supposed to be painted, but it was already powder coated. There's no sense in painting good powder powder coat. So we got a $5,000 credit. Um

017and so total cost on this change order is $5,148 uh for new ceiling grid and u panels ceiling drop ceiling panels in the CT unit. And so I ask for your consideration to approval of change order number six for BG22-506 for Mr. Thompson's recommendation. Any questions with regard what we're doing there? >> We accept that. >> Have a motion Mr. Alvis, a second Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I votes unanimous. Dr. Lawson, >> we're finishing strong there. Like Mr. Thompson said, I think that's a worthy change order at the end. It's going to put some nice finishing touches on what's going to be really nice for our students come this fall. So, another move in the right direction. Thank you for approving it. U next is our strategic plan

018update. So obviously a lot of the construction projects um are part of our strategic plan and our facilities and operations. Uh but also the development of leadership and quality job embedded professional development. We just returned from our leadership institute from two days in Louisville. With that we take all of our principles, all of our central office leaders, our um all of our assistant principles, all of our special ed team. it ends up being about 55 or 60 people. And what we always say though that 55 or 60 people uh leads the other 1,000 plus people. So pouring into them and continuing to spiral back to what's most important to us. What we see is high effect size, continue to grow our leadership um in the school district is something that we want. It's just like

019the facilities projects are always an investment. Development of leadership is a constant investment too. We paired a lot of those together. when we talk about the pursuit of excellence. That's where we are. So after our leadership retreat, I asked a few of our principles to debrief with you all. So M. Robin, if you wouldn't mind pulling up the video. If I turn your attention to the screen and you'll hear from our principles. >> I am the principal at South Middle School. We just finished up our leadership retreat here in 2025 and it was such a fantastic experience. I just want to first thank our district leadership and our board for investing in this work for our leaders across the district. We spent about four years now talking about professional learning communities and each year we

020take our process and make it stronger and stronger and stronger. We've taken that work and we're fine tuning it so we can help support our teachers. After this these last two days, we now have a much deeper understanding of how we can help coach our teams to improve student achievement across the board. We now look at it as a shared responsibility for all teammates, not just the leadership of the school, but also our teachers, our students, and our families. And we have part of the coaching process now into a much better place where we can go back and help coach our teachers to help impact our students. Our ultimate goal here and all of this process is getting achievement. And we are super excited at South Middle School to take all we've learned here at

021this leadership retreat to help our students grow and become the future of Henderson County. As always, this conference that we have this time of year has helped me grow individually, but more importantly, it's helped my team grow from the high school. And it gives me an opportunity to work with other people across the district. Um, we've always learned a lot. And what I love most about what's happened over the last five years is that every year we build on the prior year. So, we're not just coming and doing a one and done workshop. We truly have been investing in a very specific type of learning to grow our professional learning communities for student learning. And I feel like every time I leave, I I come away better and energized and ready to go back and

022share with our teachers what we've learned in the interest of our students and their learning. >> I'm Katie Kirkwood from Biggate Elementary. We just finished two days of our leadership retreat here in Louisville and we've had a great time. It's always good reconnecting with everybody. district and um we started out with revisiting our core values which is always special to me. I think that it's so important that we uh refocus on those at the beginning of every year and kind of remind us of our why we're here. Um, our ship theme I'm really excited about adding to our ship theme this year and it's friendships and over the last two days and in the evenings we've had lots of opportunities to build those relationships and friendships with each other. Um, from not only across schools,

023other elementary schools, but being able to partner up with secondary, middle school, and high school has been very good for day this year. I want to thank the board and um the central office leadership team for investing in this um every year. It's so helpful to be able to get together with our colleagues and share ideas. Um, revisiting the PLC work that we started when I first got into this position has been great because we've kind of gotten to see how how much growth we've had as a school at Dgate and as a district. So, that has been great and I'm really excited about um heading back and seeing what the school year brings. [Music] Dr. Lawson, is this about the fifth or fourth year? >> This is the fifth year we've done this. Um,

024and just as uh Miss Miss Keelin said, I'll I'll you got me going here, so it's sometimes hard for me to stop, but we we this oversight team has done a really good job over these past five years. um making it sequential and one building off the next and making sure we are spiraling back to those things like the the the first day of this when you saw everyone wearing the maroon shirts. It's totally based and rooted in our core values so that generationally everyone knows what the core values are. It's the way we behave. It guides the way we lead. It's the fabric of everything we do. And when Miss Kirkwood mentioned the ship theme, I have to be really careful when I say ship. Sometimes it sounds like something else. Uh so um

025but everything comes on the our theme is from core value number four which are which is genuine relationships are the foundation of everything we do. So, we've been camped out there for a few years now, working on always having relationships at the foundation, having great partnerships with parents, schools, families, community, having our leadership grounded and rooted in relationships, having ownership uh that everyone is totally bought into what we're doing. And this year, we said, you know, and I appreciate this board and as I look around the room, there are so many of us who are friends. We have great friendships among this team. And I I give a lot of credit to Mike to your leadership, Miss Tracy and Mr. Alvis, Joe and Wes who couldn't be here, of course, Mr. Robin and Miss Beth.

026But having a friendship is really like it just feels good and it helps people work together. And so that's going to be our theme this year is friendship is helping one another be successful. So that's part of it. The second day when she said PLC in education, we love an acronym, but that means professional learning community and that really is our teacher teams. And we're we're helping our principles learn how to systematically how to handle that along with their RTI systems, learn how to h work on the coaching piece of that. And again, the the generational development of leadership in this district is vital for our generational success. So yes, five years, Mike, and so happy and really appreciate everybody on the oversight team. It is a lot of work to put together. And so

027thanks to all those folks sitting out here for putting it together. I appreciate the comments and I appreciate the video. I've seen several different folks over this last five years and the comments that they made with regards to what you've just highlighted in your comments is exactly what they're saying too and how it's going to help with the activities going on in the school system. And I know that uh this might seem like a lot of people, but it's it's a genuine effort to do what's needed to be done in this in this school district and anywhere to develop the kind of leadership and team activities. And you can see it's it's making an impact significant. Any other comments or questions by anybody? Thank you, sir. >> Where are we? >> Now we're down to

028Senate Bill. >> Go ahead. >> Senate Bill 18. It is. It's a mouthful and there's a lot of tentacles to it. Um, so Senate Bill 181 is probably the most talked about um, legal action that we're going to see going into the school year and it's many folks associate that with being the traceable communication bill. And so, um, like I said, there's a lot that goes along with it. And our team has been working, u diligently to kind of do all the background work for, I don't know, a good amount of time here when it comes to like the planning of it, the research of it, the technology side of this, kind of all the ins and outs of it. And so, and and so tonight, I was going to ask Miss Mortise, who's our

029communications leader, to to speak about kind of in generalities where we are in the district in terms of SB81. and then uh just some basic specifics on our implementation plan for Senate Bill 181. >> Well, just to start with, Henderson County Schools, um we'll be using Apigy Rooms. Um it is a secure communication tool that's integrated into our district app. Um this is in compliance meets all the compliance requirements of Senate Bill 181. Um we have already started meeting with our coaches, principles, administrators um to do the launch of rooms. Um Mr. Chris Gordon has made some videos that we have put out on our website um to explain how to um work rooms and how we're going to use that tool. Um we have um started communicating with our families through our website um

030with our staff u multiple emails and that is something that we're going to continue to do is do just layers diff different layers of communication to make sure that everybody is comfortable with rooms when we start our school year. Um we have another training session this week um with principles and administrators to make sure that everybody um is familiar with how that we can use this new room's communication tool. And then we're just going to continue, like I said, to promote this and um communicate it several several times so everybody can get familiar with rooms and know how to use it um when we start our school year. >> Yeah. So just a um when she mentions rooms uh that goes through our our apag which is which is over our website and like so

031right now for for the last couple years parents that received either like a one call or a text from me that was kind of a blast message. Um there's a part of that that was it was more financially feasible to do it through that company. That's where I was talking about the research part of this. And so as part of the appet we can we we purchased rooms which is what our staff, our teachers, our club sponsors, they can use that to then communicate with students through that traceable communication. So I know there's a whole lot to this. I just wanted to check with the board and see if there was any questions that you had about it and maybe Miss Mortise and I could answer or if you'd like for me to expound on

032anything else there. Does it include um being like friends with teachers and students on like Facebook or other social media? >> Um we have already sent information out to our staff um to make sure that they are not friends with us current students on social media. We asked them to remove that. Um we can still have all of our school pages, our club pages, but everybody everything all the communication there has to be posted to a public page. Nothing can be private within our social media. So, we have started communicating that with our staff. >> Great question, Joe. Did that answer that? >> Anything else on in that arena where the with the social media or anything like that? That's a it's a great question. >> And the consent form um that students can and

033parents can complete um is available on our website as well. So, as part of the law, if a parent would want to allow their student to be directly contacted outside of their traceable communication app, they can fill out the consent form uh for every any person they would like to see not have to go through that traceable communication. And that's also part of the law. That's the legal requirement. And all communication within rooms is timestamped, archived, and reportable as well. >> Um, what about our students? What are we going to do as far as when school starts and making sure that they know and understand how to do this? Um, are we doing anything? >> Yes, we have a communication plan in place to talk to our students about using rooms as well, more specifically

034with the high school students and some middle school. Um, some of our teams have already started to use that. I know the cheerleading team has already started to use that with some of the students there. Um, so we had training specifically for them. >> Okay, >> that's a great question, Miss Williams. Um, so we've had a uh one of the pluses for this is that we had the dead period where we had some time to kind of get some plans in place and I think there was even some meetings with some coaches and club sponsors and things like that to kind of get the ball rolling so to speak so we could kind of uh have some momentum going into the school year and I think that's helped as the as this year goes along

035there will be more questions and we may have to kind of tweak our plan as we go. We have a very good plan. Um, but it's just a plan right now and as we begin to implement and execute the plan, we may have to make a few tweaks here and there. And Miss Bird's been a key part of the the process here too. Miss Bird, do you need to speak to any part of this? >> Well, I just actually sprung a request on Dr. Lawson um to add into the implementation portion of it. Um, this is kind of a an ever evolving kind of beast is a good word for it because there's there's no it's there's not clear guidance and it seems like every week the guidance you got two weeks before has a

036tweak, a revision, you know, stuff that's being sent out from one district is being pulled back and revised because Frankfurt says, "Oh, wait, now or KSBA says something a little bit different." There is a link um on the KSB website for frequently asked questions that they are continuing to update. Um I downloaded it today and it's different than last week's. Um but um what I wanted asked Dr. Lawson to let me speak to is we got an email from Dr. War Dr. Warren at the community college and making a a specific request. We have students that take dual credit classes. And so we have some teachers at the high school that are teaching those classes. And so HCC uses, I wrote it down, Blackboard, Outlook, and Starfish as a way of communicating. So his request

037was that the board approve use of those. they're they're compliant but approved use of those programs just to cover all bases so that the teachers I mean if you're just an HCC employee you're not covered by Senate Bill 181 but if you're one of our instructors that are teaching a dual credit class then you are covered but if if the board would approve the use of those platforms that are compliant with um the the law by teachers that way we are covering the basis that we don't have a teacher that's teaching an HCC class that's doing what they're supposed to do, but it's not the designated active G rooms or Google classrooms um or the school email. So, if we could just if the board could just acknowledge that those are accept that those three

038platforms can be used by you know teachers that are teaching the dual credit classes, it would cover them. didn't we have to have on record and then the the approval of the the system that we were going to use and >> we they we approved it last meeting and so if we could just add that you know take make a motion and add those three platforms so that it's it's documented >> and this and I can I can appreciate and understand uh what their request is. Is that something Dr. Lawson that is not going to add confusion to what's going to be within the current system or Chris >> I mean maybe >> well it well again like Mike it's a great question kind of how this is ongoing what what's likely occurring here is

039so we added on rooms to what we have already purchased through a gene I would think that probably HCC was able to what they want to use there they don't want to have to have to buy another another app, another >> HCC is not covered by >> I understand that >> but what they use to our teachers teach for them and so they don't they probably don't want to have to add anything and so if we could approve that it will muddy the water so to speak but only for these groups of students the students that are taking dual credit classes >> and my my thought is if we just approve it for limited use so only for >> only for the teachers that are only for use by students and teachers in those dual

040credit classes. So, it's not going to open the door for all teachers. It's just kind of covering because that's the way HCC posts assignments. That's the way they submit assignments. That's the way they do grades. And so, technically, if a teacher is posting grades or or returning an assignment, they're communicating with that student online. Um, and so it just Just if we just had the motion that acknowledged that for teachers in the dual credit classes that those platforms will be acceptable or approved acknowledged as acceptable traceable forms of communication but just limited to that makes any sense. limited. >> We're just trying to cover. We're just trying to cover so they don't get >> trying to cover. I just want to make sure that that this doesn't muddy the water with regards to what we're

041trying to do with throughout the system. And I I don't want to belabor this point, but it may be mut. That's why Chris, I looked at you. Is this not this is not something that's going to complicate our overall system, is it? >> Right. just to make sure. >> Okay. And that they'll have access. >> Yes. Because when they are doing that, that access is all through HCC. It's logging in through their system. It's not us. >> It's just we don't want them to get in trouble because they're outside our system. Great. >> So, that's a recommendation we're making to add those, whichever ones you call those. >> So, the three the the three ones we would like to ask be added for our students. uh in in the dual credit program through HCC and

042those teachers is Blackboard, Starfish, and what's this? >> Outlook. I guess that's what it says. I'm trying to >> That's correct. >> Is that correct? >> That's correct. That's their their communication tools that they use. >> So that's your recommendation to add those to our current system of communication with the students. That is uh what we have on other >> taking dual credit classes. >> Dual credit classes at community college. >> Yes, sir. So you heard superintendent's recommendation >> to accept >> have a motion Mr. Alvis second Mr. McGar all those in favor signify by saying I please. >> I vote unanimous. >> Thank you. >> That all we're dealing with on that one >> for now. >> Okay. >> We're just going to add that as a recurring item of discussion as time goes

043along. No old business. New business. uh understanding that Mr. Stokes is here to take Cindy's place that we need to reelect or change the board treasure. So, is that something that we need make a motion on and so forth, >> which I will. >> Yeah, I think >> yes. >> Okay. So, I'll make a motion that we elect Mr. Stokes as the current treasure and Tracy second. And so all those in favor signify by saying I. Hi. Already done it. I thought that was over. But neither there. That's how far behind I am. U Oh yeah. Here we go. Okay. We're going to have a recess and then we're gonna call to order the Henderson County Finance District Finance Corporation. So, I've called that to order. How am I doing so far? >> Good. Next

044item would be to I called that to order already. We're going to confirm the officers that are on that that include myself as the president, vice president, Miss Williams, secretary Dr. Lawson, Mr. Stokes as treasurer. So entertain a motion that we have a motion Mr. Alvis, second Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. I. So we've elected confirmed the officers. Now we're going to adjourn. We're out of the district finance corporation meeting. We're going to start back in the board education meeting, which I know it's funny. I can't I'm getting confused every minute up here. That's okay. It doesn't take much to confuse me. Pretty simple from Pal Street. Next item would be the consent agenda. We have eight items on the consent agenda. That includes uh approval of a student

045overnight trip request for the soccer team, transportation request for some Riverview students going to the fair, uh KSB policy update, 189 pages of policy updates due to some changes in recent legislation, and uh the outside traceable communication changes of policy 8.2324 AP.2 and the student code of conduct handbook. various changes throughout that uh district funding asurances that the form's been filled out and some amendments to the salary schedule for some mental health counselors and bid recommendation for some buses and vans. Anything under these eight items need to be pulled for discussion. If not, I'd entertain a motion that we approve the consent agenda as presented. >> So move motion, Mr. Alvis. Have a second for Mr. Maggar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I >> I vote unanimous. Consent agenda is approved.

046And we're down to the real money business now, aren't we? Mr. Stokes, you're up. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairperson, Mr. Superintendent. Um, first off, I'd just like to say that I am I'm honored and it's a privilege to to be able to give this report to you and to be working for the best school district in the state of Kentucky. I'm very happy to be here. I'm proud of it, too, and we appreciate you being here. Thank you. >> So, thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Um, our total receipts for the month of June >> were 10,726,634. Our outgoing expenditures were $15,63,454 and we had um a net decrease of $4,876,000. $4,876,820 for the month. I'll be happy to answer any questions. I think >> significant cash balance. So I can look at that

047cash balance. Any questions, Mr. Stokes, with regards to the uh treasures report that we've reviewed? We accepted. Dr. Lawson, you have a recommendation. >> Recommend you approve the treasures report as presented by Mr. Stokes. >> Like to get him in there, Mr. Alvis. Now you got a motion to approve it as presented. Right. Have a second. Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. I vote unanimous. Paid warrant. Thank you again, Mr. Chairperson. The paid warrant report that uh includes payments made between June 24th and July 21st of 2025 totals 5,154,330.98 for all funds. >> Anybody have any questions of any of the bills that were listed? Dr. Lawson. >> There are no questions. I'd request the board approve the paid warrant report as presented by Mr. Stokes. >> Dr. Lawson's recommendations.

048Have a motion. Mr. Albus. Second from Wes isn't here. So you got to do it, Joe. Second, Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Vote unanimous. >> Thank you. >> Robin, would you let the record reflect that we've reviewed the personnel action since the last meeting? And then we have a change in Dr. Lawson's contract based on our review that we want to change that from 240 241 days. Is that correct? We reviewed that and discussed that last week, last meeting. Is there any questions with regards to this change? >> Hello. >> One year as well >> and extending it one year. >> Two amendments. We want to make sure we >> got it. So, you go ahead. >> Oh, no. I just want to make sure that >> I

049want to make sure it's in the record as it say >> that the the amendments are limited to extending the term one year and then the number of work days by one day. >> Got it. >> So you've heard Mr. Bird's recommendation have motion Mr. Alvis second from Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. >> I vote unanimous. >> Is this where we go? We adjourn. I'll entertain a motion. You have a motion, M. Williams. We're adjourn. Have a second for Mr. Alvis. We're going to adjourn. All those in favor, we're going to journ anyway. So, we're done. Man, this was a good one. Quite a record, though.

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