001you go. Everybody's ready. Uh it's 6 o'clock and we're going to go ahead and call to order this uh April regularly sketch. I'm sorry. Oh, thought you had some words of wisdom because I could use some right now. You're going to be really disappointed. go ahead and call to order this regularly scheduled meeting of the Henderson County Board of Education for April 21st, 2025. Uh before we move along, I would just like to remind anybody that's here that wants to address this board for any matter that is not on the agenda, if you would fill out a form, give it to Miss Robin, we'll give you time on the agenda uh to uh address this board for any matter. Have anything else? First item is to uh call for a moment of silence. We all
002know a lot of people around our area as well as from here to western eastern Kentucky, from northern Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois that have been affected by these floods and uh severe weather. If you'll uh join me in a moment of silence for those folks uh that have been affected and impacted, I'd appreciate it. Thank you. Next item would be the uh pledge of allegiance. Dr. Lawson, you got some good looking folks out there going to going to lead us in that pledge of allegiance. Ask everyone to stand, please. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for Thank you. So, Mr. Waller and the board, I've got a few of our esteemed student ambassadors here. We all know and are
003so proud of this program. I'm going to ask them to introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about themselves. Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Trajan Davis. I'm currently a senior at the high school. I um I took part in the business program up at the high school and I had a great time doing so. Um after I graduate next year, I plan on attending Lindsay Wilson College and majoring in business and um yep, those are my plans. Thank you guys. [Applause] Hey guys, my name is Anna Tishner. I am currently a senior at the high school and I've been involved in the agricultural and nursing pathway. Um, I plan to go to WKU and major in nursing. [Applause] Hello everyone. My name is Anthony Burrus and I took the construction pathway in high
004school and I plan to go to Lindsay Wilson and major in business administration. [Applause] Hi, I'm Allison Ride Out. I'm in the video studio production pathway. We make all the Colonel Media videos that you see. Um, I plan to go to Oakland City and I'm not sure what I'm going to major in yet. [Applause] Good evening. My name is Maya Bamford. I'm a senior at the high school. I'm part of the health science pathway and after high school, I plan on attending the University of Evansville majoring in psychology. [Applause] Thank you all very much. Thank you. We thank you all and we appreciate what you do to uh bring the recognition to our community as well as our high school. We know that that's a rigorous uh endeavor being an ambassador and we appreciate the
005time and energy and effort that you folks put into it. Thank you so very much and we appreciate you coming out here tonight, too. Thanks. Next item would be to approve the agenda. We've all seen the agenda. If uh everything's good with this agenda, I'd entertain a motion. We accept the agenda as presented. Have a motion Mr. Alvis. Have a second for Mr. Magcgar. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. I vote unanimous. We'll go by this agenda then. Next item. Miss Mortis. We've got student and staff recognition, please. We'd like to recognize the Henderson County High School academic team tonight for being regional champions. Additionally, they placed second in quick recall at state competition. Ramsey Watson also placed ninth in language arts testing at the state competition. If the team and coaches
006would come forward at this time and Mr. Sullivan, if you'd like to introduce your students um once they are all here with Dr. Lawson. Hey, before we get a picture, I wanted to um just commend this team. When we say we pursue excellence, this group exemplifies that. In fact, it's excellence in all we do. To watch them compete in all of the content areas is really something special. And I've known Mr. Sullivan for a good long time. And the bar being held high by him for all these years. I don't even know how many, but a long, long time. And long time. And the it's always been a relentless pursuit of excellence. And so, coach, congratulations on uh athlet I'm sorry, academic excellence here. We know we do it in athletics, we do it in
007academics, and I love the competitive edge this team has. You mind talking to us a little bit about this team and the program? Sure. Um, just want to say that I I love what I get to do with this team. It's so exciting. Um, I'll introduce everybody first. Down on the end, we have uh Mr. Chandler, who was part of our 2019 state champion team. and so he is now teaching at the high school and is one of the assistant coaches on the team and is a wonderful asset for us. Uh next we have Brett Haley who is a junior this year qualified for state in uh in math testing. He's a little underdressed but that's but that's because he came straight here from his tennis match that he won eight to zero. So great
008job. That's [Applause] right. Uh next we have Andrew Harrison who is a senior on the team this year and does social studies. Uh, next we have Kian Jung who does math and uh, science and a little bit of everything for the team. Uh, next we have Kaden Moore who tests in arts and humanities. U, here we have Ramsay Watson who's another one of our seniors and the quick recall captain and she uh, does language arts. And right here beside me we have our freshman Deacon Kitchens who tested in social studies. It's a big deal anytime a freshman qualifies for state. So he did a great job for us this year. [Applause] Um both Kian and Ramsay were part of the quick recall team that placed fourth in the state last year and came back for
009their their senior year to to do some more damage. And uh they did an outstanding job. We uh you if you if you continue to win, you get to play nine rounds at state. And uh the first night we went in and played five rounds. We won the first four and lost the uh lost the fifth one. And that's to set up the sweet 16 bracket. So because we won the first four, we lost the last one. We went as the number two team and Blazer, which is way out east, went as the number one seed. So we were on the opposite ends of the Sweet 16 bracket. Uh we had to play Davis County the first time in uh on Monday morning. And even though we were a much much better team, it's always
010tough when you play these uh you know regional local rivals and it came down to the last couple questions, but when the pressure was on, they they answered the questions and won the match. Um, we had an easier round in our Elite 8 match and then we get into the final four and we played Covington Catholic that kind of has a grudge against us because we knocked him out in the state championship in 2022 to beat to win the state and then we knocked him out last year in the sweet 16 and on the last question we knocked him out this year to make it into the finals. So, um, poor poor Coington Catholic. I don't know what not not gonna not gonna throw him a loss though. Keep knocking him out. Yeah, that's uh
011and so then we got into the finals and we played Russell had which had a dynamic team this year and uh we we got down a little bit in the first half. We we managed to pull within three questions with about 30 questions to go out of a 100 question match and they they wound up beating us in the end but they had a great team and so um just outstanding uh courage uh just to keep on keeping on in the midst of very close matches. It is super, you know, it's just as intense as any athletic event when it comes down to the last shot and it comes down to the last question and it's extremely difficult to be the one who's like, "This is my question and hit that buzzer and be able
012to spit out that answer when all the pressure of the whole season is on you. There's no different than taking a last second shot in a game." And so, um, you know, they played with a lot of fortitude and a lot of courage. And I couldn't be more proud of of how well they did this year. Thanks, coach. Who's going to Mr. Richmond? You you want us to move over this way a little bit for our picture? Everybody take a step left. Can we do that? That center some more. Thank you guys. [Applause] Dr. Lawson did recognize the parents. Oh, that's a good idea. Do we have parents here? Coach, let's bring the team back. I apologize. Let's bring our kids students back and bring your parents up here with you. Good idea, Mr. Waller.
013All the academic team parents, come on up here next to your student and we'll get a picture together. One more hand. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations to our district spelling bee winners. First up, we have Haley Brown from Bengate Elementary School who won the K through third grade division. [Applause] That's precious right there. That's right. That's precious. congratulations, young lady. Do you remember what word it was that you won the competition on? Incredible. She won the word. She won on the word incredible. I can think of a young lady who's pretty incredible. Mr. McGar, you want to give her her medal? Um, can we get a picture of us? Then we'll get our folks up here. She didn't want to let go of that. I don't blame her. She's lost. Congratulations again. Next up, we
014have Brier Martin from AB Chandler Elementary School who won the fourth to fifth grade division. Can we bring Briar's folks up here, too? Look, we've got a big family here. Come on, guys. Bring them all up here. We'll get a picture up here with him. While they're doing that, uh, do you remember the word the final word in which you won the championship? You think it was interrupt? Okay, very good. Let's kind of get him right here in the center and y'all fill in around him. Folks on that side maybe. Miss Park, where are you? Got one more. Oh, yeah. Come on, Miss Park. Congratulations, [Applause] Brier. And our middle school winner from North Middle School is Kaden Elator Neri. [Applause] Invite Mr. Roberts up. Kaden, you have some family here. Come on up. We'll
015bring his folks up here, too. Do you remember the final word? You don't remember? All right, I put you on the spot there. Sorry about that. Nice job. You want to stand right there on the HC? We'll we'll fill in here around it. Congratulations, [Applause] Kate. This week, we proudly join the nationwide celebration of National Volunteer Appreciation Week, which falls within the National Volunteer Month. Throughout the week, our schools will celebrate their volunteers, but tonight we want to publicly thank our volunteers. each and every one of you. Whether you served as a coach, read to our students, chaperon a field trip, helped in the classroom, or supported school events, you've made an impact. During the first half of this year, we processed over 345 volunteer applications. This number does not include all the community partners
016that have brought in donations, companies that celebrated birthday parties. By the end of the school year, we expect this number to be over 500 volunteers. So tonight, we want to publicly extend our deepest gratitude to all of our school volunteers during our community partner spotlight. Thank you. [Applause] That's all of our recognitions, Dr. Lawson and Megan. Thank you. That's again, I'm going to tell that's most favorite part of the meeting, seeing the success that everybody brings in the recognition. Everybody's welcome to stay or you can go ahead and leave. We've got a whole lot of exciting things to deal with the next few minutes. Next item on the agenda would be to approve the minutes from our April 7. Am I right? Oh, okay. Yes. Was there anybody here that want to address this board
017for any matter that is not on the agenda? Nobody signed up. Thank you so much. Now, we need to approve the minutes from the April 7th special call meeting. We received those minutes prior to this meeting. Is there any question about them? So we entertain a motion to approve the minutes as have motion Mr. Alvis. Second from Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I votes unanimous. Uh the next would be reports. The first one would be uh Mr. Blake Graham from RBS with regards to the uh career technical education unit. Come on in. Good evening everyone. So, just an update on where the CTE construction project is going. If you're aware, we've added two additional classrooms onto the CTE building. And during that, we have currently the exterior brick and
018stone has been finished. The entry steps have been poured as have the classroom exit ramps. HVAC and electrical ruffins are complete. Also within the project, we have worked on renovating the interior gang restrooms. Currently, the chase walls are being put up in and constructed. HVAC and plumbing roughins are complete. Electrical roughins are in progress. Also part of the scope of the project included a new roof over a portion of the existing CTE portion of in that the re- roof is nearly complete. We expect to have that done within the next month and the new gas line that has been hooked up is complete up on the top that I'm sorry. That's all I have. Thank you, Blake. If you guys had time to go by there, um it's really coming along nicely. Uh we did
019some tours there with Henderson Economic Development earlier. No, I guess it was late last week and they were so impressed with the work that's going on there to to further even our already great CT. So, appreciate RBS and all the work they're doing there. It's looking good out there. It is looking really nice. Anybody have any questions with regards to the update? Okay, thank you. Next item would be a change order with regards to this project. Mr. Thompson. Uh yes sir. Um thank you everyone on the board. Uh tonight we bring to you is uh asking for your consideration is change order number three for BG2506 which is for the renovation CTE renovation project. Um this is a piece of the roofing that was originally not put in the scope of work. Uh but after
020we got the roof put on, we realized we need to revisit and maybe revise and get another bid um for the roofing underneath of our HVAC unit. So when we pull the roof off and put the new roof on, then what we learned is some of our leaking wasn't coming necessary from that. It's underneath the HVAC units that was not put in the scope of work. So we're looking to go back to remedy any of that information, any of that issue with the leakage. Um, and that change order comes to a total of $9,031. So, asking for your consideration of approval um of the change order number three on BG22506. That also includes a credit for about $900, too, doesn't it? Uh, so it's $8,000. Yes. I'm trying to look through here. Um, looking through
021this. Let me go back to where that would be. I don't mean to put you on. Yeah. $8,131. Yes, that is correct. Total for the change over with the credit for the portions of the sinks we didn't need. Dr. Lawson, any comments? Um, no. I think this is reasonable. I appreciate Mr. Thompson and his team working on this. I request the board approve the change order number three for BG22506 as presented by Mr. Thompson. Heard the superintendent's recommendation. Have motion Mr. Alvis, second Mr. McGar. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I I votes unanimous. Next item from Mr. Ross. Appreciate you. Is that right? Good evening. I appreciate uh you all having me here. Uh on the agenda tonight, we have four items, action items uh for the South Middle School HVAC
022renovation project. Uh the first one is to approve uh the schematic design, design, development documents. Uh we've taken it through SDDD combined and are ready to get approval of those so that we can move on to construction documents. All 57 pages, right? Yes, sir. Keep going. Can we uh we can address this all in one motion, can't we? If you go through it. Is that all right with you, Dr. Lawson? That sounds great. Thank you. Uh the second item then is the approval of the BG2 and the BG3. The BG2 is the outline specification and energy design criteria. Uh I think you all probably have a copy of that and have had a chance to look at it. Uh basically, it just outlines the energy uh you know, we're designing to meet Energy Star. We're
023exceeding ashray 90. uh designing to be net zero ready and then the use of ground source heat pumps, LED lighting and occupancy control light sensors. Um so that is the BG2. The BG3 is the statement of probable cost. Uh and it is just a breakdown of all the the individual numbers as you go down through there from site development, general construction, HBAC, plumbing, electrical, etc. and then all the soft costs. Uh the third item is for the early demolition package. So we have completed the construction documents for the early demo package to occur over summer break. Uh so we'll need to get approval on those and then once those are approved or if they're all in one motion, we would need approval to advertise to bid that project. So, want to make sure I get
024all of these. Um, I request the board approve BG25-225 for the South Middle School HBAC renovation project and 1 A, the schematic design documents, 1B, the approval of BG2 and three, and 1 C, the South Middle School HBAC renovation early demolition package. Makes sense. Yes. includes everything. Yes, sir. Have a motion. Superintendent's recommendation. I move we accept that. Have a second. Second, Mr. Begar. Any questions or comments with regards to what we're in getting into? Well, well, who reviews all of this that is much more expert than we are about this sort of thing? You know, I've got an engineering background, but I'll tell you right now, I waited through as I could and I'm not sure I understood all of it. Bakus, do you want to pipe up on that? I mean, HBC reviews
025it, but with the backis uh doing the MEP design work on that. So, we're the consultant to Ross Tarant. And so, we are consulting engineering firm in Beduka, Kentucky and Lexington, Kentucky. And we have a team of engineers working on this. So, you have two electrical engineers and three mechanical engineers. Uh the building is large enough that takes a team but uh we have uh assessed the building both what drawings you did have but mostly by walk through investigation. We've been there on several visits. The scope has evolved to where it's now complete and steady and we've been able to complete what is called design development. And so now we know what our costs are expected to be. So we have gotten that far along. Now we're entering into construction document preparation where we'll prepare
026the documents to use construction manager method for delivery. Uh we will be submitting documents to HBC for review. Uh but that'll be when the CDs or construction documents are complete. And then there will be inspectors on the job once we start construction that will inspect HAC electrical and plumbing. And we'll have also the just the state inspector that will be there to inspect ceilings and sprinkler system. So there will be many sets of eyes. Uh one other set of eyes that's valuable to you all as a district is there will be a commissioning authority. This project's large enough it requires a commissioning authority. So all systems will be commissioned to be sure they operate as intended so that we're getting our full energy savings. Does that answer your question? This this building's been around since
0271954. And I'm sure there's been several uh changes and additions and renovations and those kind of put you folks uh squarely in the middle of what in the heck is going on sometimes. I can appreciate your questions, Mr. Alvis. Uh and we appreciate the time, energy, and effort that you folks have put in to walk through there and uh to get us a sense of direction on what needs to be done because we plan on having this building for another uh 100 years probably. It's been around for for 75 or so. So, uh there's a lot going on and we appreciate the time, energy, and effort. We appreciate the comments, Mr. Albert. Thank you very much. Yeah, you make a great point, Mr. Waller. That building has a lot of history in Henderson, Kentucky. We're
028so uh we honor that. We're so proud of it and it's so exciting to be able to at this time go back and do such a substantive project. But as you say, we know it's going to take a lot of collaborative work among the architects, engineers, our facility people to make that building long lasting. We're on our way. Thank you so much. So, we've got a second. I mean, we've got a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I I vote unanimous. Thank you all sir. Thank you sir. Next item would be a report from Mr. Miller with regards to the East Heights renovation project that we did our groundbreaking on earlier this week. Yes. Good evening. First of all, it's good to meet all you all. This is
029my first time here from Kodell. I'm taking over for John Hagen on some of his stuff. But East Heights, my report will be very short today. So, obviously, as you just said, we had the groundbreaking last week. We have that was ceremonial, but we have actually broken ground as well. So, they started stripping top soil, getting the temporary parking lot set up, trailers been dropped. Um, something that you all can't see every day out there as work is obviously submitting. Those are moving along very well and just looking forward in the future about the next one to two weeks you will start seeing concrete going in the ground. But as far as these tights, that is all I have today unless anybody has any questions. We have a revision. Mr. Thompson, you want to discuss
030that? Yes, we do have a revision to the BG1 um for uh BG24-164 for East Heights Elementary. The initial BG1 that was approved um for the total project cost uh back in October was 17.5 million. And then after we got into schematics and we got in with all the engineers um in January, our uh new BG1 was 25.4 uh and so the new BG1 actually is less which is makes me happy. Our new BG1 is $25,171,8725 and we ask your consideration for approval tonight. Okay, we've all seen what's going on out there. Dr. Lawson, any comments? It's exciting. We appreciate the the ceremonial part. We appreciate the ground being broken. I think it's a very exciting time for East Heights Elementary in Henderson County Schools. When we say we're going to provide extraordinary educational opportunities
031to students, much of that begins with our staff and our buildings and facilities. So, this is just another way that we're pursuing excellence and grateful to our community that continues to support it. I appreciate Mr. Thompson's leadership along with our partners at Kodell. Uh, it's nice for the price to go down a little bit. We haven't seen much of that in the years past. So, I'd request the board approve the revised BG1 for BG24164-164 for the East Heights Elementary project. Technically speaking, we're building almost a brand new school out there. And this one has served us for a long time since 1973 and it's going to continue as will South Middle School East Heights will continue to serve us for a long time with this addition. So you've heard superintendent's recommendation. Entertain a motion. Have
032a motion. Mr. Alvis have a second for Mr. Smith. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. I votes unanimous. We're doing a whole lot around here. Dr. Lo, we are and we're grateful, you know. Thank you very much. Mr. Miller. Next item would be uh Mr. Grace. Good to see you. Thank you for allowing me to uh be a part of this uh wonderful celebration that we always do every other month. So, uh Dr. Lawson board, thank you again on behalf of the high school. Uh you do have my report. I won't go over it word for word. I know that's something you want me to do, but I'm going to I'm going to curtail. Oh, we'll go ahead and pass this time. you put the highlights for and again I want to
033thank uh the technology department. My laptop has been working tremendously over the uh Thanks. Thank you again. I appreciate that. He cried enough to you, didn't he? Yep, it has. It I've they've been taking care of us. Uh so we've had because we gone to some uh digital ticketing. So that has been a a thing that we've done and that recently the VPR VPN is that correct? VPN. So we did have some glitches but Tammy Sz and them worked us uh in that. So again, thank you to the technical department. seriously uh for helping us through those. Uh just a couple points. Uh we did hire a football coach, John Elliot. So again, I think he is makes our 12th head coach. Uh one of those coaches was a duel. He was here twice, so
034he's actually the 11th person, but uh our 12th head coach. We're looking forward to that. They started spring practice today. Uh was stopped by for a few minutes before I came. You should see the excitement out there on the turf. It was uh again, I know we got uh some work ahead of us uh with graduating some seniors. those young men didn't brag on themselves and those ladies because every one of them is also a student athlete as well. Uh but um we're excited for Coach Elliot and putting together a tremendous staff. So again, if you're any anybody's interested in helping out in any way, we'll take that uh there. Boys basketball, what can we say? It's been 26 years, but uh again, we we made it there. We had a good showing, faced a
035a very challenging opponent. Uh looking forward to next year already. They're starting to work. have already got their calendar on uh summer workouts. So again, uh Coach Smithart and his staff is one of the best staffs we uh we could put together. He has a lot of uh knowledge and a lot of great men leading our young men. So super proud of that team and their uh their year. Uh girls basketball, uh again a dominant force, seventh straight. Um they won won their first game, got to that second game, ran into uh some uh very tall uh young ladies uh in Danville Christian, but again held our own. Didn't go down without a fight, never gave up. Um expect again great things again next year. Uh they just keep reloading. Uh the hail tradition, it
036just moves on. So again, shout out to them. Archery, uh just we just completed uh the state archery tournament last week. Uh I was fortunate enough to drive up and and spend some time with those ladies and their coaches. Uh we finished seventh. We had a couple young ladies that didn't shoot their normal average and it kind of kicked us from about the fourth place down to the seventh. And in archery, it's only a miss of a few points here and there. And uh but Dixie Nuremberg uh she was our high archer again. She won the regional title, but she also was our high archer on the team. Uh she finished 17th in the state. Um the the team that won the state this year won both the boys and the girls. So I've uh
037tasked our coach to doing a little recon to find out what they're doing in that part of the woods to uh to get it there. And and uh so we're working on that. Uh again, baseball, we're on the up tick. We won three in a row. Coach Arts as a skipper out there is doing wonderful things. Lots of great conversation. Uh great work ethic going on out there. Had a few field conditions that we've gotten dried up with this rainy season. Uh but again, they're firing all all cylinders. Should be about 500 by the end of the week. Uh and then moving up on uh hopefully winning a regional title this year. Uh girls softball, I don't know what to say about them, but they're 15-1. I was checking Game Changer before we started. Didn't
038want to get to it while I was in the game while you guys were meeting, but we were up three nothing on Webster County earlier. So again, he's Troutman and his staff uh just keep doing the same thing. uh pursuing excellence and uh their model has to change when you don't have the big hitters like they did last year, but we're seeing that that game. We beat some really quality teams and again, thank you to the board and uh the board office. Um the field renovations with the fencing project, if you've not been out to the softball field is is immaculate. It's uh the field is top-notch. Uh next project we're going to put a a new flag pole out there just to get a little bit higher above the scoreboard to honor uh all
039the uh things that we do. But again, thank you again for that. Um we're hosting the tennis regionals. So that'll be coming in. That's something I didn't I don't think I put on there, but we are hosting uh regionals uh May uh 12th, 13th, and the 14th. Um so again, we kind of latched on that here at the last want to showcase our tennis courts and the renovations we had done there last year. uh our track program. You see the stats that they're doing. They are running we're hosting a middle school meet tomorrow evening on behalf of our middle school teams. Uh hosting the all comers and senior night on Thursday. So if you're around and want to come out and support some of our young athletes and our seniors, I think we have like
04017 seniors on the track and field team. Again, thank you to the board on some support and uh matching some funds with us on uh some new pole vault equipment. Uh you know, that's one of our best uh events, I should say, that we have numerous state champions in. So again, thank you for that. Um, and then the last thing is you stole the thunder on the uh academic team. Tremendous job that they're doing. They fall kind of under our umbrella of student services as well. Uh, just year in and year out just dominating this region and competing for state championships. Um, our band program, something that I wanted to add, we were working this morning on some tickets. We're doing uh they did the indoor winds this year. That's a new program where there's
041competing kind of like marching band but indoors on a gym floor. Uh and had a very great season one over at Davis County here at the end of their season again with our color guard and our marching band. And if you got to go to any of our uh regional competitions and state competitions for basketball, you would have seen the pet band there and uh throughout the year as well. And just tremendous job that those ladies and young men do uh for supporting all the other things that we do. and they don't get enough credit, but again, wanted to shout at them. And then, uh, the choirs having the musical coming up on May the 3. So, just got a few things to add on to that report. Thank you again. Uh, we're in compliance,
042working toward that and, uh, hopefully we'll, uh, moving toward a a new season next year. So, thank you so much. Any questions, Mr. Grace? Go ahead, Mr. Alice. I was out at the YMCA on Wednesday during spring break and there were a bunch of young ladies in softball uniforms out there in cold breeze practicing. That's called dedication. True that. And they are they're uh all of our athletes are pretty dedicated and um you're you're spot on with that. They're putting in the the work. Uh they didn't get to travel. You know, that's one of the things when you play high school athletics, if you're a spring or a fall sport, you don't get many vacations with your peers. And those ladies were here and uh dedicated and winning games. So again, but they're doing it
043the right way. That's the one thing we like to say is we're doing it the right way at the high school uh with dignity and and honor and and trying to support the what we do here as our core values. So again, thank you for all your support in everything that we do. So any other questions or comments? Thank you, sir. Mr. Rush, next item on the agenda, school nutrition. Yes, sir. This wellness report is something it's a formality required by the state every year and so after consulting with my colleagues uh we are hitting the highest marks on this and uh so things are going well and I think there's supposed to be possible opportunity for public comments is at this time or next time. Okay. So, you're wishing if anybody wants to comment
044with regards to the physical activities report and school nutrition that they would make comment. Yes, sir. Any of y'all have any comments? Anybody in the audience have any comments? I do. It's sort of an offthe-wall having worked for the federal government for 30 years. Looks like the US Department of Agriculture has got its fingers all over. Yes. A lot of federal requirements there. Tip Dr. Lawson, any comments? It's good opportunity to recognize all those folks and make sure our kids are fed, make sure that that their physiological needs are met. Early mornings, we've talked about our transportation department among others, out driving roads, keeping people safe, those kinds of things. If you go to schools early in the mornings, there'll be people there making sure kids are fed, making sure kids have stuff to eat.
045If you walk through lunch, you'll see smiling faces and people dipping food with good food. with good food. And so we're grateful for that. Grateful for all those people. Thank you, Mr. Rush for the report. Thank you, Mr. Rush. Next item would be uh no old business to discuss. Onto the new business, Miss Wolf. Good evening. Um first off, I want to look at um the 2425 amended calendar um which you have in front of you. Hopefully this will be it for us. Knock on wood. I may have just jinxed us, but um I have this is a com the complete year um here. So I just wanted to put before you tonight that um this would be our official record for the 2425 amended calendar. Um, the one thing of note I just want
046to make sure everyone sees this makes the last day of school for students May the 22nd and closing day for staff May the 23rd. Any questions with regards to this amended calendar? Dr. Lawson, just want to take a second to um again to Miss Wolf, to our oversight team, to transportation, to our technology department. Um, they have studied this and studied it and used every single tool to promote student safety and student achievement. Whether that be keeping them on NTI or doing a delay, doing an early release. There is so much thought and planning and detail put into this and every every bit of that begins with the student experience. So, I just appreciate all the work they've done this year and just appreciate their their pursuit of excellence in this calendar arena. I'd request
047the board approve the amended calendar as presented by Miss Wolf. Heard the superintendent's recommendation for approving the amended 2425 calendar. Entertain a motion, please. Have motion, Mr. Alvis. Second. Second, Mr. Smith. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. I vote unanimous. Keep going. Okay. And so the second um piece I have on the agenda is the 2526 amended calendar. Now, this is a little early. Normally, you wouldn't see an amended calendar for the next school year until that school year, but at our last board meeting, um we um the board approved for us to reduce the number of instructional days from 175 down to 174. That being said, that required um one minor adjustment with our 2526 calendar, which had already been approved in December of 2024. So, um what this would be
048would um to change some professional development days, which you can see there, but the big change would come at the end of the school year. Um this would take um the last day of school would be May 18th and closing day for staff which is election day um would be May 19th. Um and you can see the changes on the the old calendar. We actually had um on the old calendar we actually had the 19th off and the last day of school I believe on the 20th. Um, so this adds one additional professional development day, which you can see that reflected October 13th and it bumps up the last day of school one day also. Well done, Dr. Lawson. Again, um, I think Mr. McGar is on this committee. U, but there's a committee that
049works on this and there's certainly a science to it. All these strategies are for better student outcomes. Beginning with professional development for staff, looking at our assessment system, when our team can come back and respond to data, uh the breaks in which our students and staff need and how to get the absolute most uh out of our team and out of our students. So again, appreciate Mr. Wolf's uh efforts on this and all those who who contribute. And I'd request the board approve the 2025 2026 amended calendar as mentioned by Miss Moore. Heard the superintendent's recommendation. Any questions? Have a motion. Mr. Alvis second. Go ahead. So I think I've asked about spring break. Yes. Is it something that should be looked at as far as there's that long stretch? January spring breaks then there's
050only five weeks after spring break. Just curious about the thought on that timing week. Yes. So there's a few things. One is um and Miss Tracy you can correct me. Um it's been about 10 years I would say um that the board requested to have spring break the first week of April. Okay. Now there was some debate about that whether it was the first week or the first full week of April. Okay. So that's that's traditionally why it's been placed there. Another reason is we do not want to overlap with college spring breaks which happen in March. Um and there's a few reasons for that. Um so that that kind of um those are two things. The third thing I I can't I don't have measurable data on this, but um one of the things
051that's been mentioned before is that um like some of our neighbors took an earlier spring break this year, one week earlier, and that families like to have a spring break that is in warmer a warmer time. But we can definitely if you have concerns about that or want us to at it. We can definitely look at that in our calendar committee when we convene this year. That's absolutely something we can throw around and discuss because I know we talked even in here before about that long. It is a long stretch and it's a tough it's a tough time. Yes. Part of that used to be aligned with the KA week or something. Kentucky Education Association when they were meeting for three or four days or two or three days or something like that and all
052that tried to be lined up together and that's just in years past. I don't know that it lines up or not anymore. That just tells you how old I am. But do I? But we have a second from Mr. Smith on that. Other questions or comments? Okay. All those in favor of uh approval for the amended 2526 calendar, please signify by saying I please. I vote unanimous. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. You've got about three items that you would uh need some uh approval on. Yes, sir. Uh right down through those three. I'd appreciate it. Be happy to. I know that over spring break you guys had an emergency call board meeting to approve uh the TBJ preschool the water damage that we had as emergency so we can move fairly quick
053um through there. And so tonight we are bringing you the BG1 uh for um the preschool elementary emergency repairs in a total of 157,500 to give you an update. Uh they started tearing sheetrock out on Friday. Um, I walked over there uh before I came in here. They have all the sheetrock tore out, all the batten insulation, all the casework. Um, everything out of there. They are, I'm going to guess around 60% complete with new sheetrock. They should be done with new sheetrock tomorrow uh and start mudding. We have the floor um floor folks coming in tomorrow to start tearing out the tile in the entryway. So tonight we ask for your consideration on that BG1. Also we have another BG1 uh BG25339 on football stadium lighting and sound uh renovation project. Football stadium lighting
054is old, really old, and it costs us a lot of money um to run because the old old style lights and we would like to upgrade that to LED lighting. Also, if you're out there at any event, um the sound is very difficult to hear. And one of the things that we did when we installed turf, then we have a lot more events out there. So, improving the lighting um scope of the work and improving the sound system uh that total approval for the BG1 is 341,964. And then also uh we have another BG1 which is BG25346. Uh on top of the red unit at the high school, we have four RTUs. We have had one in about January that completely uh played out on us. So we are needing to um approve uh for
055your consideration this evening replacing that rooftop unit. And the total price on that rooftop unit uh is $397,576.20. Dr. Lawson. I'd request the board approve items looks like 9 C, 9 D, and 9 E as presented by Mr. Thompson. Okay, you've heard the information, Mr. Thompson, and the recommendation from the superintendent with regards to these three big projects that we're going to continue working on to improve our facilities. There any questions or comments? I move we accept the motion. Have a motion, Mr. Alvis. Second, Mr. Magcgar. All those in favor signify by saying I. Please. I. I. Votes unanimous. Got a lot of work going on. Next item on the agenda would be the consent agenda. We have six items on there. We had bid recommendations for drug screens, medical service, safety and uh equipment
056inspections, audit service, banking service, and uh student accident insurance. We had approvals for fundraisers for boys basketball and south middle school student council. We had overnight trip requests for high school HOSA as well as up upwardbound uh out of state trips have grant applications from Niagara gift and the gifted and talented and we have a approval for a shortened day for a special needs student. Uh and then the uh independent auditor's contract with White and Associates who did our pass the year's audit. Is there any uh item on this consent agenda needs to be pulled for discussion? Therefore, I'd entertain a motion that we approve the consent agenda as presented. So move. Have a motion. Mr. Albus have second, Mr. McGar. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Both unanimous. Consent
057agenda is approved. Next item, Miss Cloier. We're spending a lot of money. We got a lot of money, too. Absolutely. Looks good on that report. I saw it, too. That looks good. Okay. The treasures report for the month of March includes total receipts of 29,583,729, which the majority of it, 24.8 of that is bond proceeds for the East Heights project. So, don't get too excited. Well, I know where it's going. total expenses of 8,730,359 for a total increase in all funds of 20,853,370. Any questions on treasures report? Let me make sure I understand the 28 million. In other words, we we sold bonds and that's proceeds that is going into the building. Yes. Okay. Just be sure. Absolutely. Still showing 96 million in the bank, too. Dr. Lawson, there are no questions. I'd request the
058board approve the treasures report as presented by Miss Clotier. Heard the superintendent's recommendation. I have a motion, Mr. Alvis. Second, Miss Williams. All those in favor signify by saying I, please. I votes unanimous. Excuse Miss Clerier. Okay. The paid warrant report covers a period March 18th through April 21st and includes total paid warrants of 5,158,24154. Any questions on the paid warrants? Anybody have any questions with regards to any of the bills that Miss Clair included on this? Dr. Lawson, if there are no questions on the paid warrant report, I'd request the board approve the paid warrant report as presented by Miss Cloier. Okay. Okay, you heard the superintendent's recommendation. I have a motion to approve the uh paid warrant report. Mr. Alvis, second Mr. Smith. All those in favor signify by saying I please. I
059votes unanimous. We'll pay the bills. Robin, would you let the record reflect that we've uh received the personnel actions and they've been reviewed since the uh last regularly meeting, regularly scheduled meeting. About to run out of gas here. And the next item would be Mission. I have a motion, Miss M. Williams, to adjurnn. I'll second that motion. We're done. Appreciate y'all being here. Hope you have a good rest of the day and the rest of the week. Thank you so very much. We ran through some stuff, didn't we? Mercy.