001Aaron, you good to go back there, buddy? Can you hear me? Okay, I'm a minute late. So, I apologize to everybody. We'll forgive you. And if everybody else is ready, we'll go ahead and get started. I'd like to uh go ahead and call to order this meeting of the Henderson County Board of Education for our June 23rd. This is a special meeting uh because we uh changed it from last week to this week due to some needs. I would like to remind anybody that may be here that wants to address this board for any matter that is not on the agenda that we will have time during the board meeting for you to address the board, but we'd like for you to fill out a form and give it to Robin. And uh that way
002we'll have record of you uh addressing the board if it's for some matter that's not on the agenda. Before we uh get into the agenda, I'd like to uh recognize M. Where'd he go? Oh, Mr. Stokes, David Stokes, who is going to join our school district. If you don't mind standing, appreciate [Applause] appreciate you being here. Uh he's going to be taking Cindy's place sometime. He's from from what I've heard uh in from some mutual friends, he's quite a musician. So maybe maybe you'll play some music for us sometime. That'll work. Okay. First item is we need to uh pledge of allegiance. If uh y'all please uh stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I'll lead it if I remember where the flag is. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
003States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Next item would be to approve the agenda. We've all seen the agenda prior to this meeting and this is a special meeting. Uh entertain a motion that we approve the agenda as presented. Have a motion, Mr. Alvis. Second Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. Votes unanimous. Robin, do we have anybody wants to address this board? Thank you very much. Next item would be to approve the minutes from prior meetings. We had a regular and special board meeting on May 19th. We received those minutes of both those meetings. Is there any uh changes or questions about the minutes as received? I move we accept them as motion,
004Mr. Mr. Alvis that we approve the minutes as presented. Second from Mr. Smith. All those in favor signify by saying I. Vote unanimous. Next item would be the uh capital projects that we're working on. We've got three people listed here. Mr. Miller, Blake Graham, and Chad Thompson. Who's going to take the lead? We've got several. Mr. Mr. All righty. jump right on in there, fellas. Appreciate y'all being here, too. Thank you. All right. Hi, everybody. I'm Blake Graham. I'm with RBS Design Group, the uh project coordinator for the East Heights project. Um so, it is has been during uh going on with construction. Um the interior has been the north wing has been primarily gutted um uh with ceilings taken out, new duct work going in. Units are prepping to go in. Um the areas
005on the exterior below the existing windows, the existing HVAC units have been pulled and the walls infilled with CMU on the interior and ephist material on the exterior to coincide with the look of the building. Yes, speak to the geo just to expound upon that. The one problem we were having was about geothermal. You know, we're fighting, fighting, fighting to get everything started and we're there now. Uh we got 16 wells. They're drilling on well number 16 right now as we speak. Those guys are working overtime, weekends, everything they can to get caught back up. Um Blake hit a lot of the high notes on the interior. The main thing that you are concerned with on the interior is we're tracking about three to four days ahead on what's going on inside, which is obviously
006always a good thing for summer. So, absolutely, we'll need it at some point. We'll get snagged somewhere. It's all right. Whenever you do a renovation, there's always unanticipated things when you're hooking on to other things. And I think that's what we're going to hear about here in a few minutes on some of these changes. Any questions of either one of these men that are dealing with the project? Okay, Mr. Thompson. Yes, sir. a change or these types or Mr. I'll go through real quick 5-1. We're adding spray foam to the existing area and they can explain a little bit about that. 5-2 is a reduction in redesign. Then change order is an electrical change order. 14-11 is also electrical change order 14-12 is a change order in the lights and change order 14-2 is a
007reduction in cost for electrical change order changes 14-3 14-3 uh is also a change order in uh some of the ceiling crossing in the media center. Um and the total change order is an ad of 131,000 um yeah 131,340.79 is I think is is what the total change order is. So any questions um if you want to ask Mr. Miller or uh Mr. basically some roof and deck insulation, some electrical changes and lighting changes. That is correct. Anybody have any questions that they'd like to ask either one of these gentlemen? If not, Dr. Lawson. If there are no questions, I'd request the board approve the change orders for the East Heights elementary renovations as presented by Mr. Miller, Mr. Graham, and Mr. Thompson. Third superintendent's recommendation. Have a motion, Mr. Alvis. Second, Mr. McGar. Sorry.
008All those in favor signify by saying I, please. I vote unanimous. We're going to make those changes. Next item would be the South Middle School HBAC renovation project update. Yes. So, not often I get to come up here and say we're ahead on two things, but we'll mark this day down on the calendar because it probably won't happen again for a while. But, hey, don't no, man. Don't don't mess up your luck cuz you move. South though, it is tracking very well. All the ceilings are out. Um they're working on doing some miscellaneous framing stuff around the locker bases that the design team wanted. Probably be done with that sometime this week and then we have a little bit of concrete work under the auditorium stage. We're looking at per our last meeting being done
009at the latest the week after the 7th. So, we'll be wrapping up some things there and that week after the 7th of July, doing some final cleaning, stuff like that to be out plenty of time for people getting back in. Sounds good. Any questions? Chad? Um, next piece. We have a few pieces uh on South Middle School. Have a few contracts. The first contract we ask for your consideration is for special inspections, having to do some concrete work and a few other things in this early demolition package. Uh so this evening we're asking you to um number one approve the special inspections bid packet. Also, uh we are going to be doing duct cleaning instead of replacing some of the current air duct. Uh they're going to go in and they're going to do inspection
010and cleaning. So there are two pieces there. We ask for your consideration uh to approve the special inspections for the early demolition package and also the duct cleaning for the early demolition package. Any questions, Mr. Thompson, with regards to either one of these contracts to be awarded to a BFW and has Dr. Boston, there are no questions. I'd request the board um award the contracts for the special inspections and award the contract for duct cleaning on the south middle school HVAC renovation project as recommended by Mr. Thompson. Superintendent's recommendation have a motion Mr. Alvis. Second. Second from Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I. I vote unanimous. Thank you so much. Next item would be the uh CTE unit. Go ahead, Mr. Thompson. Yes. I'd like Mr. Blake Graham uh to talk
011a little bit about an update on CTE project. Yeah. So, the CTE project is just about wrapped up. I'll be doing a a punch list next uh monthly meeting. Um the restrooms are tiled, finished, and beautiful. Uh grout lines line up very pleasing. Um the roof should have been, if I'm right, completed within the last week. I know they were set up to put on gutters and downspouts on the back side of the roof. So, they should be done all up there. No more leaks. Um, the classroom edition is just about complete. They should have the case work all finished up. Um, doors and hardware are, if they're not in yet, they'll be going in very soon. Let's see. The exterior enhancements like handrails and everything like that have been executed excellently. You all get
012the um benefit of our fabricator using powder coat finishes on it rather than painting which is top tier. the the flooring is the the replacement flooring should be commencing here soon in all the classrooms uh on the older side of the building. Um and then ceiling has been taken out. They should be putting in new ceiling tile and completing that here shortly. So that's the gist of the update. Any questions? see it when it's finished. It's looking good. Looking good, Chad. Yes, sir. Um before you this evening, we do have one change order for CTE BG22-506. Um it's in the amount of $6,446. Uh we're rerouting some air duct uh in the welding shop to make sure that we get the duct work for the new exhaust ventilation system up high enough so we can
013get a uh forklift in there. If not, it was going to make it almost impossible to get a forklift and we need a forklift in the shop. So, ask for your consideration to approve 22-506. Any questions with regards to change over? Dr. lost. Well, we looked at two because we were going to do it in carpentry and welding, but we're not going to do it in carpentry because that ceiling's going to be high enough. And we don't use a forklift in there, maybe once a year, and it's typically right down the middle. And where it's going to be, it's going to be on the side. There's a rectangle window that if you ever go back, there's a rectangular window. We were going to run both duck works through the window. Well, in the welding shop,
014that takes up too much of that side of the shop where the plasma cutter and they store metal and they've got to have a forklift to go in there. And so, it's not it's not a big deal in the carpentry shop, but it is in the metal shop. So, we're just cutting it down to one. There are no more questions. I'd request the board approve the change order of on the CTE construction project as presented by Mr. Thompson. Superintendent, I'm sorry. Have a motion, Mr. Alvis. Second for Mr. Smith. All those in favor signify by saying I, please. I votes unanimous. All right, I'm up again. I promise these are the last two projects for a while. I promise. because we've got enough going. But they're all great things. Um two projects busy anyway. Yeah,
015exactly. Um two things that we we have been looking at um to help the CTE in the high school. If you've been out in the back parking lot of the high school, there's two runs of asphalt and even out front in the bus lane that need to be replaced. And also with the addition of the two classrooms and the remodeling down in CT unit, they want to relocate the um uh industrial uh maintenance down there closer to the welding and and so they're going to shift that down in one of the classrooms. And then we really need a bigger space for culinary. So, we went out and we would like for the board's consideration to approve BG1 um a BG1 for BG25-340, which is a culinary renovation and a parking lot asphalt project and the
016total renovation cost of 2,57,653. BG1 for BG25-430. Any questions of Mr. Thompson with regards to that? Dr. Lawson, just want to take one second and um recognize if you go down this list, East Heights Elementary School, uh that's a renovation we've wanted to do for decades. South Middle School, HBAC, these are all significant. We're talking 40 plus million dollars here of facility changes and facility upgrades for the students of Henderson County. the CTE construction uh project there. All that we have going on there, it's another move in the right direction and already the biggest and best CTE unit in the state. And then here uh culinary the culinary piece, the parking lot piece. Um just it's really hard. Mr. Thompson kind of jokingly said we've got a lot of projects and and so it really
017is. But I hope that's something that this board and community can really be proud of. This board makes a great effort when we say excellence in all we do. You look at all the facilities projects and the different u aspects between elementary, middle school, high school, career and teched and maybe even Mr. Grace that has seen some in the athletic fields or things like that. It's really special and it's really special our community supports it in that way. Just want to take a minute and recognize that. And with that, I'd just ask that the board approve u BG1 and uh for BG24430 for those projects mentioned there, the culinary renovation, the parking lot asphalt as me as u recommended by Mr. Thompson. Heard superintendent's recommendation to entertain a motion from Mr. Alvis and a second
018from Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I vote unanimous. And uh that also would approve the architectural services. Yes, sir. Uh that's that's one license I don't have. I can drive a bus and do a lot of things, but I'm not an architect, so we have to have one of those. So, okay. So, I'll make a motion that we approve the architecture services of Ross Tarant for this project. Second. Have second, Mr. Albus. All those in favor signify by saying I, please. I vote unanimous. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. I appreciate Mr. uh Miller being here also as project manager for a lot taking a lot of the weight off Mr. Thompson but he's still he's still there appreciate you being here Mr. Grace not going to read this whole thing
019are you no sir short and sweet Dr. Lawson, Board of Education. Uh you have the report presented to you in your your uh minutes and your agenda. So I just want to hit on a few things. Um talking about facilities. Uh we really appreciate the support that the board of education gives us in athletics. Um with that a few things that are going in place. Uh if you've not been out to the softball field, that is uh remarkable uh what they've done with the fencing and just Troutman and his whole crew keeps it just top-notch. Our maintenance department this summer is right now doing some painting, some uh cleaning of the facilities. So again, that's going to be one more step. And then we got a couple things we're wanting to work on for the
020future for softball to keep them going with that pursuing excellence that they do on the field. So um today I was out at the field right before I came. Uh we have the new lights going in for football. So, they've already own one pole at the top, already got one mounted. It's amazing that six lights or so are going to replace 25. So, you talk about efficiency, but we're also talking about adding some extra fun things at the football season coming up. So, I think we're going to enjoy the the upcoming season. Um, again, we have John Douglas just doing a tremendous job where u Mr. Thcker has moved a few people around in his department. So, we're getting back to where our fields are in a really great shape right now. Uh they're working
021on the soccer, the practice fields, tennis courts, getting everything up and up and going. Uh then let's see what else. Uh just wanted to thank again Miss Thomas, uh Dr. Lawson, Mr. Rush for their guidance uh and their support throughout my first year. Um without them, it would have been a kind of a very uh challenging undertaking. And I just wanted to personally thank them on the record for everything they do to support us in athletics, but along with my journey of changing roles as a counselor to an athletic administrator. So again, thank you so much for that. And I think we're doing a a great job of pursuing excellence at the high school. Uh our ladies, I want to just hit on that. Our softball team came up just a couple runs short, but
022um what can you say? You know, three years in a row, runner up, champion, runner up. I'll take that trophy any day, especially with that group of young ladies. So, Coach Troutman and his staff, uh just a small thank you for everything they do for us and for those ladies. So, um, any questions for me? Everybody received the, uh, report that Mr. Gray had. Is there any comments or questions about it? One of the things that Dr. Lawson and I talked about this, um, comment from the KHSAA board. Would you read that sentence out loud? I just think people need to hear what they were saying about our girls. Sure. So, uh, while we were at the, um, actually semi-finals, uh, Darren Bilberry, who is, uh, the commissioner of under and he's overcharge of softball,
023uh, came up to us several times, but and wanted to reiterate that, um, the staff says that tournament continued to tell everyone how mentally tough and that the character of these young ladies was the best of any team they've experienced in the last decade. He'd said 18 years that he's been around it, but just in the last decade alone, like to be under the pressure they're in, under the situation being a far from home, having to deal with delays, but just the way they treated the people there on staff and treated the uh you know, the grounds crew and and just anybody they came in contact with, our ladies by far are are way ahead of where they most people are. So again, there was a behind closed doors, they probably said a few things
024to us that they would have I wouldn't put on record about other teams, but it goes to show you that our girls are are first class no matter what they do. So pursuit of excellence. Thank you, Nathan. Appreciate the job you're doing, too. Dr. Lawson, any comments? Yeah, with the the comment about our girls. I'm glad you brought that up, Miss Williams. uh to to have a compliment like that. And they're not our first team to get a compliment like that from KHSA officials or from u people who are in servant um roles at hotels or at restaurants. Just the way our kids conduct themselves and that all comes back to the leadership of their coaches and parents and in our district when we say we're going to cultivate a community where character matters, much
025of that can happen through extra and co-curriculars. So as we kind of finish up, you know, Mr. Grace's job just never stops. So he I think he's going to get a little vacation here and we have dead period and then it it just kind of turns right back around and we're on to next year. But when you look at the sports year as a whole in his first year, um and I'm going to miss somebody here, but our boys soccer team won the region. Our girls basketball team won the region. Our boys basketball team won the region. Our softball team again and all those team make the state tournament. and our softball team, like you said, over a three-year span. We played in the state championship game every year and won it one year. We're
026really close this year. But to have that kind of consistent achievement and and that if you so if you were to run a query and say, "Tell me how many schools across the board have that much excellence and their academic team finished second in the state and their FFA program is top in the state in the country and their FBLE pro FBLA program and their welding team and there are many more." I hate to name specific programs because you always leave somebody out. But if if you were to study school districts that have that type of excellence across the board, I think one school district would stand out among all the others. I'm biased, but I believe we would. So, and I just want to credit your leadership. This is the athletic director job is
027one of the hardest jobs. Uh there are so many uh hours in the day and he works most of them and so many days of the year. I mean there's there's this guy u it's one of the hardest jobs and it can oftenimes be thank be thankless but uh to see that type of consistent leadership and we had it he we had it with with his predecessor as well. We've got really good people uh doing a great job and so really appreciate his leadership this year and excited for next year too. Add one more and tomorrow I wanted to add this. So we're doing a coaching symposium tomorrow. So, we're bringing in all of our head coaches, a lot of our assistant coaches. U it's a full day. So, again, if you're available to stop
028in at any time here, we're going to be here in the PD center from 8 to 3. We're going to hit topics of transportation, all the KHSA stuff. Mark Fleer is going to come in from GRE and do a two-hour, what 90 minutes to two-hour leadership for our coaches. Uh Dan Mer from uh safe schools is going to come in and talk about uh safety after 3:00 because that's one of the things that we worry about with our coaches is how do we keep our doors locked? What's the purpose? We want to get to the wise. I want our coaches to know why we do the things we do. U so again um like Mr. Rush and Mr. and Dr. Lawson have both have been supportive of that and again it's in the summertime. It's
029hard to find a time when everybody comes together and we're going to keep working, you know. So again, we planned this about four months out. I already got the date set for a year out. So now there's the vacations can be planned around our dates and and all that. So again, if you're available, swing by. We're gonna have lunch from 12 to 1. Mr. Tacos Joel beer. Yeah. Hey, no problem. No problem. 12 to1. So, but any other times, please stop by. They'd love to see you if you're available. Appreciate the invitation. Thank you. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you. No old business to discuss. Had some new business, Miss Wolf. Well, I thought that I was finished in April with this calendar business and um but I was not. So, um I just kind of
030want to draw your attention to um May the 16th. This was um near the end of the school year and we ended up having to do an early release one day. So that was actually our last uh calendar amendment of the 2425 school year. Um I think it was a a weather day storm and such. So um I just needed to present that to the board. Um get your approval on everything and then I will be able to submit all state reports for the year tomorrow. um once this amended calendar is approved. Anybody have any questions, Miss M. Wolf, regarding the amendments that made to the calendar, which includes the May 16th. We're well aware of everything that's been on there. Dr. Lawson, just to thank the board again for being flexible on this. This
031is a proactive safety move that we made. We're still in full compliance of all the rules and laws and things like that, but it's just one of those days where we released early, so to get kids home early before storms. Thank you for and I I request the board approve the calendar amendment as presented by Mrs. Wolf. Heard superintendent's recommendation. Have a motion, Mr. Alvis. Second from Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I, please. I vote unanimous. Thank you. You're not going to go through 189 pages of policy updates, are you? I don't think so. We only got a couple I really think that are important for us to talk about. No pressure. Well, it's yours. Okay. Well, uh we you've you've seen um so we pay for KSBA to that's Kentucky
032School Board Association to help guide us especially in the area of policy and just as you said they roll out what is what is nearly 200 page uh paces I'm sorry pages of policy and policy update and um I feel good about their recommendations. There there are a couple policies or one specifically here. I'd like to take just a little bit of time and ask for the board to do uh an emergency reading on approve the first reading of KSB policy update 48. Um and so as a board usually we have two readings. We would read it in June and then we would continue to read through policy and we do the second approval in July. But on this policy, I'm going to ask the board to do an emergency reading and approve it tonight.
033And the reason why is because this is in regard to Senate Bill 181. And Senate Bill 181. I'm just going to read this. Okay. I'm going to share an important update regarding a newly approved board policy uh that I would propose here under Senate Bill 181, which goes into effect on June 27th. And that's why I'm asking you to approve it in the emergency reading tonight. It mandates that all communication between school employees, including volunteers, and students be conducted through a traceable communication system designated by the district. And so, for us to be in compliance with this law by June 27th, it's important for us to approve this in its first reading tonight. And um this will take some working together to kind of work through all of the procedures of this, but essentially what
034it's saying is is any contact between school employees and students should be on a traceable communication app. We have one planned. We already having all the technology set up. Mr. Gordon's been working on that for quite a while. Just as Mr. Grace said, this will be top of the order tomorrow with the coaches uh at their coaches meeting. Um, and so by approving this first reading tonight, this allows us to move forward and do two important things. First, be in compliance with the law, and second, make sure that our people have the protections they need as we move forward. So, okay. So, the motion we're looking for would be to be the first reading of policy update 48 as well as an emergency reading of uh 08.2324. So that would how be how the motion
035would be worded. Correct. So that would be the motion that I would entertain at this point in time. Make that motion. I have a motion, Mr. Alvis that would uh reflect the emergency reading as well as policy update number 48. Have a second. Second from Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I votes unanimous. Okay. Next, I want to turn it over here and move on to where it says re on C, review and accept KSBA procedure update number 28. I just wanted to take a second just to talk about this. This is u it's a really exciting time for our district and something that Miss Tracy Williams has pushed for now for a couple years as and as as many of you have have been a proponent of and excited
036for. Uh, Miss Tracy has led the charge, no doubt, on this one. And maybe it's because she spent so many years teaching in our schools and and then had children along the way. But, uh, beginning next year, Henderson County Schools, we will allow up to 30 paid maternity leave days, um, to employees who give birth. Um, so we're pretty excited about that. And so, it's a pretty big move for our district. We're really, uh, we're a family business. I think this helps move us even closer in that direction. And so just wanted you guys uh that's already been approved and so we're good to go there. Mr. Bird, yeah, that's part of the the new policy that we just treat. Just wanted to highlight that because when we talk about being the number one place
037to work four consecutive years, we talk about recruiting, retaining, and training the best. Um just being a familyoriented unified school district. uh you know this gives us our people the opportunity to be them best their best self at work and have a chance to raise their family too and that's what we want. So really excited about that. The next um we'll move on to D here Mr. Rush we have the student code of conduct handbook changes that were made that reflect some of the legislative changes. Go ahead Ryan. Yes sir. So, just piggybacking on what Dr. Lawson was saying, in layman's terms, teachers and coaches, they can't text or call students anymore. And so, um, we have purchased a, um, an addition to what we already do u, in terms of Dr. Lawson is always
038sending out what I used to call one call. Now it's was parent link and the company's changed but uh we've piggybacked onto that same company so that we can have parents um if you have three let's say you have three kids in your household and every child has a coach who does something different. One is remind one is another one. So, we're trying to funnel everything into one system and we call this rooms and so we just purchased that and so uh Mr. Grace is going to be uh delivering that to our coaches tomorrow and his symposium and and getting us all on on the same page for that. So, um, so as, uh, the KSBA made recommendations for the code of conduct and you, you all saw those, uh, in the yellow, and M.
039Newton gave those to you. And so, the traceable communication was a big one. Uh, limiting cell phone access uh, with students during school was a big one. And uh so the the only one that our committee our code of conduct committee came up with in addition was we added um kindergarten to the bus. Uh let me let me rephrase this. So, uh, in the code of conduct, it just said preschoolers must have a parent there when you, uh, with transportation when you drop when when the bus drops the the child off. Uh, the policy, board policy said kindergarten and preschool. So, we just we were just making sure that the code of conduct matched the board policy. And uh so anytime a bus driver drops a student off preschool or kind kindergarten, they must have
040a an adult there. And so we think that's a uh a safety issue, making sure that uh those young ones have somebody there. So that was our only addition. Uh the other things were KSBA recommendations and we all we like all those. So that included the new driver change for 15 year olds. That's scary. Yes, sir. I I can't believe they I can't believe they did that. What were they thinking? No comment. Okay. Can I just add one thing? Um, sure you can. Good. I was going to um before this little addition of the 30 days um teacher staff used their sick days. Well, for lack of just a better explanation, a lot of my friends that were not teachers and started having kids and they talked about, you know, they got paid for being
041off from maternity leave. And I'm like, "Well, yeah, we do, too." And Stan's mom was sitting there and she goes, "Well, technically you have to use your sick days." And I'm like, "What if I don't have that many sick days?" and she goes, "Well, you can do a shortterm what is that short-term disability thing that can I I was not even aware that went in my purview." Um, so needless to say, I was I did deliver in July, so that was a few days, but I didn't have to, but I had to use my sick days. And I I can't tell you the shock and horror. And I cried and I mean like because I I didn't I didn't have enough days. And so this to me is huge. I mean, it's like a huge
042step for education in Henderson County that um you know, because I mean, you know, you're going to use sick days because your kids are going to be sick. I mean, luckily ours were very healthy, but you know, you just never know. And so if you use all those days and then you use sick days, this was just Whenever I heard that there were districts in Kentucky that were doing it, I I called Bob and because I had had a training and the superintendent was talking, I'm like, "We've got to do this. We We've got We've got to do this. We need to do this now. We need to This is, you know, this is huge." So, um, it I have such a I'm just thrilled that Henderson County has decided to do this because I
043just think for parents out there, it's just a It's just huge. So, thank you for working so diligently and Beth and Ginger and I know a lot of people went into that to make it all work. I just said I wanted to do it and and then everybody else just kind of took over which was wonderful. So, thank you for be great for our folks. It really is be great. It is. So at this point we would uh consider a motion to approve first reading of the 2025 student code of conduct handbook that has several changes with regards to but the major one being the busing for the kindergarten preschool and couple other legislative impacts. Dr. Motion any comments? No, I think Mr. Rush nailed it. I think that we follow up. I think we're
044good there. Thank you, sir. We have a motion, Mr. Alvis. Second, Mr. Smith. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I I votes unanimous. We have a consent agenda that contains 18 19 items. Personnel work calendar, salary schedule changes, uh bond depository and pledge collateral agreement, certificates form for substitute teaching. Some items that are surplus that be sold at public auction. uh adjunct instructor for fire service technician form for emergency certificates for the 25 26 school year. Various donations to be approved for 2425. Student overnight trip requests for boys basketball uh during the summertime. Certified evaluation plan form and a plan document. Special education district procedure amendments. various amendments and changes and uh use of transportation for bus for the warm center going to Holiday World. Some fundraiser requests for various clubs and
045activities, athletics, some athletic supplies that are surplus. uh the form agreement for a holy name to uh deal with busing and uh transportation reimbursement from the uh county judge for so much money and then bid recommendation for health services and courier services and then six various grants various schools and the 2526 indirect cost rates. Is there any item needs to be pulled for discussion? No, but I have a question. Where is where is the public auction for the surplus materials that is online through Heron Heron auction donates all the time and effort and instead of us double and triple handling it now we do it all online through taking pictures and putting that out there. Yes. So it's on her thing might have some good stuff on there Mr. Dallas. Well, okay. I got you.
046You don't have to say anything. We got these 19 items on the consent agenda. Nothing needs to be pulled. So, I'd entertain a motion we approve the consent agenda. As have a motion, Mr. Albus. Second, Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I. Miss Cotier, you're up next, please. All right. I think this is the last month for the boring presentation. Next month, Mr. is going to bring the musical version. So, could be something. Y So, the treasures report for the month of May includes total receipts of 7,665,593 and total expenses of 9,643,216 for net decrease in all funds of 1,977,623. Any questions on the treasures report? Anybody have any questions? M clier of the treasur report that has a balance of 92 million. Dr. Lawson. There are no questions. I'd request the
047board approve the treasures report as presented by Miss Clier. Third superintendent's recommendation. Have motion. Mr. Alice. Second. Second. Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Vote unanimous. Okay. Paid warrant report covers the period of May 20th through June 23rd and includes total paid warrants of 3,550,000 $18365. Any questions on the paid warrants? Anybody have any questions on any of the bills that are listed? Dr. Lawson, before we let Miss Clotier off the hook here, it's a pretty significant moment that this is her last um paid warrant report that she's going to do. She's been fantastic. It's been great to honor her. Yeah. I think we started in this school business about the same year, 1989, somewhere in that neighborhood. 88. 88. So, we've been around for great time. I appreciate it,
048Cindy. Appreciate you being here. Thank you so much. Well, thank you. Good bunch of folks. Appreciate y'all, too. Thank you, Cindy. Hey, can I just one more second? Go ahead. You take all time. I know. I don't Well, I've got her here. You know, it's not often that I It's usually the other way around. She's telling me, she knows what I'm going to do. So, uh, we'll move on a little bit here, but so grateful for Cindy, our and all of she the board. We are in a better financial position than the school district's ever been. It's a journey to get to a place like that. And she'd be the first to tell you it takes a lot of people working together to make that happen. Mr. Alvis, one of the things that I was
049not on the board at the time, but it was when Mrs. Stanley took over and I worked for the federal government and I've seen and been close to being caught up in a reduction in force. And I realize how tough that is. And Cindy went to Mrs. Stanley and said, "We've got too many people and we got to cut down." And I've always respected her for the for having doing that because I'm sure were people that she knew personally that got caught up in that caught up in that thing and it's a tough tough situation. So, thank you and and you're spot on, Mr. Alvis. 37 years of service and she's been nothing but the best and leading us through times of were the the highest point ever, but we weren't then. And so, she's
050led us through that. And I want to say a big thank you to this board. Also, tonight we began the meeting with uh recognizing Mr. David Stokes who brings to us 20 years of of experience and to succeed her and it's important you know our financial leadership of this school district we want to keep that momentum going and the way they'll have a couple months together not every board does it that way but that's when we talk about building to last and sustainability the moves that this board has made to make sure the financial security of this district is put first because the money makes the mission happen is fantastic. Thank you all for doing that. Thank you, Cindy. And I'll let you off the hook here. I'm going to ask the board um Mr.
051Wall, I'm turn it over to you, but I'm going to ask the board for the last time to approve the paid warrant report as presented by Miss Cindy Clotier. Heard the superintendent's recommendation. I have a motion, Mr. Alvis. Second, second from Mr. Smith. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Votes unanimous. If we say no, can she not leave? Look at her. We we all try that when the when the grand baby was born. I think I know. I I was getting ready to say and it's Yeah, it's been a great time for the 30 some odd years I've been here, too. Thank you, Cindy. Next item would be personnel. Robin, would you let the record reflect that we've reviewed and seen the personnel actions since the last board meeting? Last comment I
052want to make is prior to this regular meeting that we had, we had Dr. Lawson's overall evaluation. There were seven areas of leadership that Dr. Lawson was assessed. Uh the overall assessment for those seven areas of leadership were exemplary and his overall assessment was exemplary. We're proud to have him here and uh we appreciate the uh effort and energy that he puts forth in this school district to lead this school district. Any comments with that? Dr. Lawson, any comments? I'm happy to be part of the team. I thank you all for going through the time to evaluate me. Just as Miss Potier said, we have a fantastic board and we have a great team. all these people that that I get to work with. It's it's we're in a really good spot. So Sarah and
053I are both just happy to be part of the team. Feel blessed to be able to do it. Keep you tied to that chair for a long time. Thank you so much. So I'd entertain a motion we adjourn this meeting. Have a motion from Miss Williams. Second from Mr. Alvis. All those in favor, you're going to leave anyway. Thank you all. Appreciate you being here. Have a good rest of the evening. Hallelujah. [Music]