001Okay, everyone. It's 5:30. We're going to go ahead and get started. Um, at this time, I would like to call our monthly meeting for August to order. And if everyone at this time would join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. At this time, would everyone please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You all may be seated. Looks like we should have had this at home. All right. At this time, I will move down to approving our agenda items. Are there any additions to our agenda this afternoon? If not, I'll need a motion to approve by Mr. Porter.
002All in favor of approving the agenda, please say I. All opposed. I hear none. And at this time, we'll move down to Carla with our recognitions. I have a feeling there's several. I have a few videos for you. Good evening to you all. Good evening and to all you guests. We have some outstanding high school students that we are going to be recognizing this evening for what they accomplished this summer through the Governor's Star program. Um, as you know, the governor program is a fiveweek summer residential program for outstanding outstanding high school students in Kentucky. Milberg County is fortunate to have seven students that were selected this year who attended. So students, when I call your name, I'm going to ask that you come up and Miss Or if you don't mind to present a
003certificate. I'm going to refrain from doing pictures cuz it'll make it move a little faster. We will all when I finish um we'll all move out into the lobby and I'd love to take some group photos of you and then you parents if you wanted to take pictures as well. I think we have everyone here but one. So I'm going to begin. I'm just doing it in alphabetical order. So we'll start with Mlin Blake. He's a familiar face. We've got educators as parents. Um his he is the son of Scott and Kesha Blake and he attended GSP at Center College. Next we have Haley Childs. Haley is the daughter of James and Leslie Chut and Brad Childs and she attended GSP at college. And then we have Isaac Coats. Isaac's the son of Adam and
004Sarah Coats and he attended GSP at Murray State University. She's not with us tonight, but Lily Dar. Um she is the daughter, she's a familiar face around here. She's a daughter of Todd and Cindy Dar, and she attended GSB at Murray. Um, and she's at a soccer game tonight and we're going to be seeing her again probably next month for something else. Next, I have Cara Farmer. Cara is a daughter of Christopher and Sarah Farmer and she attended GSP at Morehead State University. And then we have Owen Halcom. Owen is the son of Chad and Amanda Halcom and he attended GS at Center College. And then we have Miss Molly Miller. Molly is the daughter of Brian and Emily Miller and she attended GSC at Center College. And if you remember, I just want to
005added that last summer we recognized her for attending the Governor's School of Entrepreneurs. So that was at Thomas Moore University. We are very proud of these students for their accomplishment. And I spoke with each of the parents. Um, I've heard that they all said that they really, really are ready to go to college now because they really enjoyed that five weeks. So, thank you. And if you'll all join me out there, you'll be free to leave. I can take pictures. Thank you very much. Heat. All right. Now, I think everyone's in. Um we'll go down now to our treasures report with Mr. Blessinger. >> Thank you very much. Uh chair ra members tonight bring the financials as of July 31st. Uh as always we start revenues. Uh this month the total monthly receipts was $4,40.
006Uh seek is up by 137,000. Federal is up by 59,000 while state is down 212,000. Taxes are down 32,000. Uh other revenues are up 216,000. Food service is down 294,000 and daycare is up 6,000. Uh the monthly receipts are up 51,000 from last month and down 2.1 million for the same period last year. Last year we had a excuse me a franchise check that had come in. So that's where that large swing accounts from. And on the expenditure side, accounts payable was 1.125 million. Uh of those that's now approximately 577,000 compared to the same period last year. Uh significant bills in July were CNC contracting for $36,333.90. sports turf, the the football field turf was 384,68181. Uh KDMI was our work uh comp insurance was 91,000 and has construction for 72,900. Payroll was 949,74960 which
007is 313,000 versus June 24 accounts payable breakdown fixed and mix expenses about about 815,000 utilities expense of 53,000 and variable expenses about 258,000. Any questions on the treasure report? If not, I'll make a motion to approve on second. All in favor of approving the treasures report, please say I. I hear and we're down to payment bills and salary. >> Thank you. Uh August, the four bills I bring to you in August are 1.4 million 1,428,74020. Uh of that is significant bills. We received four of our buses. So 612,000 of that is our buses. So which is really good. Again, you know, we ordered those at a time when the buses were cheaper than they are now. So we decided to go ahead and order more at the at the lower price on on and forgo,
008you know, having to eat so many this year. So uh CNC contracting uh $453,389 and the uh final payment for sports turf was $91.76. There any questions? Any questions on payments of bills and salaries? If not, I'll need a motion to approve it. Second by Mr. All in favor of approving and salaries, please say I hear none. And we're now to participation. All right, we'll move down now to um our administrative reports and first is our superintendent report. I think we have Miss Vicky Y who's with us tonight to share um some information from store here. All right. Well, board members and committees, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk a little bit about Soore tonight. Uh, Story is our early childhood education program funded by the Phil Martin Junior Foundation and supported
009by Mil County School District. Um, just some numbers really quick. I don't really spend a lot of time about this, but the Phil Martin Jr. Foundation has provided over $3.6 million in grant funding to support early childhood education uh, initiatives in Nor County. And that accounts for more than 8% of the total funding allocated for the whole community. Last Friday, the Philly Smart Foundation board approved my presentation and additional $311,000 to the sore early childhood education programs. That is comprising approximately 10% of the total grant making for the year. So, we're very excited that we were able to do this. Um, we do a lot of things at early childhood. I'm just going to tell you a little bit about what we do. This is one of our billboards in the county. Hopefully, you've seen
010this on your way to Walmart. And this happens to be the nephew of Logan Porter. This is Jack. And everybody loves Jack. And he loves dinosaurs. He can tell you anything about a dinosaur. All you have to do is ask him. He will tell you. This [Music] I'm hyper. You may want to do. Okay. Keep going. Okay. And we know that uh children and families participate in the store programs are entering kindergarten more ready if that's who are more prepared than those who aren't. Uh working with children to ready them for kindergarten offers many benefits. One is better academic performance and that's definitely what we want. But however it's also improved social emotional development and greater motivation. As I was looking at your mission statement, our mission statement I should say on the law I
011thought you know mission statement could be the same thing. It's a quality early childhood education. It's the same thing. We want our kids to be successful and so that's what we do. And you know, I think it was Steve Jobs that said that um what did he say? Uh he said that the the the only way to do great work is to love what you're doing. So what we want to do is get children to fall in love with reading, fall in love with learning, and be as successful as they possibly can. So we know that Newber County a screener for the branch and this is a screener that all children have to take before they enter our school 50% ready. So that means half of our kids are but that means there's a lot
012more work to be done. It's really hard to to get all of our kids ready but it's something that we're going to strive to do. The state was only at 48%. I love saying that only. Okay. Keep going. Uh baby preps on average 25 birth certificates are filed in Milber County each month for county. So that's approximately 300 babies are born in the county. So if you think about that, we've got 300 new babies coming in every year in county that we need to start working with as soon as they get here. Preparation. Preparation involves education and that's where comes in. We want to educate these especially the new mommies of all the different things that they can do to help their child be successful. We're starting a new program called Getting Ready to Welcome
013Baby. And these are our partners so far. We probably will add a couple more, but this we do getting ready for kindergarten. We do getting ready for 12th grade. Now we're going to get ready to welcome babies. So we're going to be working with mothers uh that are expecting. Right now we're at 1100 kids enrolled in our education library program. This is funded 50% by Philip Martin Foundation sore program and the other 50% is donated by Dolly Parton. Bless her heart. She's a good one. So we're 1100 people, 1100 children birth and we figure there's around 1,500 in the county that's eligible but we're at 1100. So you know those are pretty good stats for a county to be honest when you go and I talk to other people from other counties. Uh we do
014have a communitywide baby shower and this the wonderful thing about this is our parents come in and like we have vendors there like Rosie was there from adult ed and she got to talk to these parents about possibly getting their GED going back to school and so that just helps everything. Yeah. Keep going. This is a presentation I actually do at the Martin Foundation. So I didn't want to create a whole new one. So, I'm just going to skip through some uh our elementary schools reported through the needs assessment that each year 5 to 10 kids in our school system are elementary live with somebody other than a parent. Those numbers may be a little higher than that because it's self-reporting and sometimes people do not report for various reasons. And about 11% of our
015children live in a single parent home. Now, you know, we hear a lot of negative about single parents. We we hear a negative about parents aren't doing what they're supposed to do and a lot of parents are. So, as we will see, uh, this is Z. I have permission to use these, and you all know Laura and Melody probably cuz she taught me years in our county, uh, school. But Z is living in a single parent, but he has a support system. This is so important for our kids to have support systems. Z has two great aunts and a great grandmother that makes sure he does everything he's supposed to do, getting what he needs to get. So, kudos to those those support systems out there that are helping our kids that maybe would not
016have that support. Um, let's talk about our pandemic babies just for a second. So, children that was born between 2019 and 2020. Well, here's a perfect picture of one. Next one. And she went to kindergarten camp. She is a co baby. That's what you want to call them. I don't know how much they're going to appreciate being called co babies just to be honest with you. But they are the pandemic children. Now, there's been a lot of research starting, but it's still early. But, uh, the next slide will tell you that um, a lot of people are concerned. They think that these children are going to be uh they won't achieve their potential because they went through the pandemic. However, some reports are saying that they're doing much better than what we expected. And let's
017talk Warber County, our kindergarten camp this year, we had a record-breaking number of 245 kids. And the teachers and some administrator told me that they were the best group they've ever had. So, when a couple teachers came down in my office to pick up something, they were just bragging about how good the kids were. And I said, "What do you contribute that to? What what's the difference?" parents and they were like they're pandemic babies and I was like yeah and she's like parents were home parents were home for the first 3 years probably they were home a lot more than they normally would be think about that guys I want to do a study on the right grant do a study because I think that is phenomenal evidence that when the parents are home with
018the child is much better uh teachers say it best said during our center time at camp it was evident that our students did an amazing job communicating playing well with others were creative And Ashley said that most importantly each child came camp with wonderful social skills. This is something we don't always see but there again being at home with their family. I do believe that's the answer. Okay. We did have 245 kids to attend this year. I'm going to show you some pictures of those. Keep going. Don't play that video. There you go. All right. Central City had 30. Green had 40 to attend camp. Central City had 36. Greenville had 72. Longest had 45. And Milber South had 52 to attend. And most of them had first attendance. It was really great. Okay, keep
019going. Uh the mother, let's talk about the mothers for a second county. In fact, the Pope reported that from January 1st to July 31st, they had 74 pregnant clients. 16 babies were born to mothers under 20 of years of age. The youngest being 15. However, I do know that we had one at least one 14y old give birth in my county. So, you see how critical it is that we get to these young mothers because at 15, I don't know about you all, but I didn't know much about babies at 15. So, we really need to get to those mothers and to help them as much as we can. 45 babies were born from 21 to 30 year olds of age and 12 babies from 31. And we had one at 41. And bless that
020money's heart. That's all I can say. Sorry. But however, not everybody has a a support system. This is a lady that came to our new baby shower. She is raising her great grandchild because her great granddaughter is a great her granddaughter is incarcerated. This lady doesn't have a lot of support. She doesn't have a lot of resources. Luckily, and it was not rigged, she won a beautiful bookcase with all kinds of supplies, and she actually squealled when she won. The big family involved in Early Head Start in June 21. You all, this family, this mother attended 191 sessions with Early Head Start and never miss the one. Kudos to her. So, see parents are doing what they're supposed to do. They are trying. I know we have a lot that aren't, but let's celebrate the
021ones that are, you know. Kudos to her. 191 visits. I don't think I could have done that just to be honest with you, but we did celebrate those. Uh the total number of books that we gave away this year is 20,247. Uh we give away books a little bit everywhere we go. This was at the Read Cross America and this little girl's mother read to her quite often the Lorax books and she loves the Lorax and she believes also like the Lorax that we should save our environment. So she actually brought seeds to Lorax so he can plant more trees and Lorax is like your seeds. I can't we give away visit uh books to uh head start for their home visits all the family nights all the events that they have hands the same
022thing early head start the same thing our reach out read program uh reaches all children that enter come to a pediatrics or a doctor at the hospital CC health departments world health so they get books it used to be just for well baby I mean well baby visits but now the sick get It's real good. Everybody gets it because they want it. So, thank you. Let's talk about our fathers for a second. You know what? Fathers do show up and and they really do a good job. This is at our one of our I think this was at home at our getting ready for kindergarten. These fathers not only came, they were interested. They asked questions. They paid attention. And the wonderful thing about getting ready for kindergarten is that they they do their activity
023in front of the parent. Because if you ask a parent on pretty much any given day, oh yeah, my kid can do that. that when they see number of they're like maybe they don't know their colors as well as they should. Maybe they can't spell their name. So it helps them to see what their child can do, but they also get to take home whatever they the activity they do that day at night they actually get to take that home with them. So they leave with about $160 worth of toys at night, play with a purpose toys or fathers and according to a local pediatrician about 15% of medical visits are attended by the father. So, I don't know if that's a good number or low number. I don't know. But I do know that
024fathers are getting involved. We want to just congratulate them and celebrate them. But what better way to learn about reading to your child when a manly man like Dr. Smith gives you a book and says, "Read your child 15 minutes every day." That that says something to me. I believe that that father would be one like, "Wow, you know, this manly man said to do that." So, it's a good thing to do. The family, we do the ra kind. This is for four and 5 year olds and this is where they do the activity. Uh sometimes grandmothers come and grandfathers come and aunts and uncles and it's just a joke of getting ready. We work with our head start. We packed out Philips Martin Hall this year several times. One was for the Head Start
025Christmas program and they love to see their children perform. Who doesn't? Don't y'all love to see your children perform? We all do. So they performed on the stage and we packed it out. We also had a cars movie night where kids went to St. Baptist Church and they made cars and got to watch the movie Cars and eat popcorn out of their car. Our hands Christmas party we had hosted that at the store office and we had a character breakfast at McDonald's. McDonald's does a wonderful job because they donate breakfast to every child and that's amazing. Who goes to our community? They're giving back. Uh these are just some events that we did. Anything from kids fest to mental health fair, gospel fest, poke, we do Pokemon night, you all kids love Pokemon. I don't
026know much about it. Some people there is some controversy about it, but you know what? That ring was packed out with kids. We did a diversity fun Sunday and longest day of play this year. This was a first. We used to do longest day play years ago. We quit doing it, but now we're bringing it back. It was one of the hottest days. It wasn't only the longest, but it was the hottest day of the year. Thought I was going. Okay. Uh we also participated in the special needs day at the fair uh which was very successful and we had a sensory friendly books and cream. Now the sensory working with our parents of autistic children has been really blessed this year. I have really felt a need to do more and so we are
027adding on to what we're doing. work with Spark out of Orange. I don't know if you all know her about that. Amanda Owen I believe is from Jan and so she is now working at Orangeboro and so we are going to be working with them and they just get to have discussions and conversations with parents about special needs. We across America day was successful at a center. Go ahead. She's a picture of my husband. Okay. Family reading day at the library. We offer this to all of our libraries in the summer. The kids can come in during the summer into their school library and look at all the new books they got and we make a craft. We just have lots of fun. Rotary members read to all second graders in our school system. Uh
028I believe Logan, you've done this a couple times and I think this is Seanham, but anyway, at every school, Rotary members go in and read books and cream. This year we had 320 children to attend. Over 1,000 visits and over 3,000 books were read. We're going to talk a little bit more about that in just a second. So, they had caterpillars. They got a head when they registered and came in, but every time they read five books, they got to add on to the body of the caterpillar. We had a pre-long caterpillar. I'll tell you about in a sec. Okay. We had one day. This family on the left represents all ages. You see the babies in the chair, but we have all ages there. And that's we really do target birth, but we actually
029serve the whole family. This is a typical day at books and green. In the left corner, top that is our playroom. Right corner is our baby room. Left bottom is our reading room and right bottom is um the room for older kids. And thanks to the Renaissance and Miss Carrie Clark for allowing us to use the rooms with those new Renaissance during the summer. We had a magic show at Longest Elementary. Kudos to Longest for allowing us to come there and do that gym. These are the lunch ladies at Long Elementary and Joe Cooper. I can't say enough about you and your lunch ladies. They do a tremendous job serving the families and our families came back with some cream and said we went and got a free lunch yesterday. They just had a low
030cost and they said those women were so nice to me. We packed out Martin Hall again with the uh Jerry Brooks. I hope everybody here got to see him. If not, check him out. We are go ahead. And then yesterday we did do the bird and we did Jack. Can you play that video, J? So Jack Hartman is a early childhood uh promoter. He does songs and concerts. He does a wonderful job. our teachers left with all kinds of information and also we had a free giveaway wall where they got to take home all kinds of supplies and resources. Uh this is Ree. He was 3 months old. Love picture. He's almost a year old here. This is our our goal is to get them as a baby or even before they're born and keep
031them those whole 5 years. And children remind us that the world is a canvas. We're all artists. And I just want to thank the foundation of course and also the board of education for allowing me to curate my basketball cuz it's a lot of fun and it's very rewarding. So thank you for what you do. We do all kinds of stuff. We do read for the record and that's every child in this elementary school reads the same book the same day at the same time. And this year we're doing 10 things I love about school. It's a great book and I gave you all a book to take home. It's called the dot. You may have read it before probably many times. If not read it and then I encourage you to get it. read
032it and give it and give it to a child or encourage a child because it's all about recognizing kids and their special gifts that they have. So, I did say that the caterpillar they every time they read a book. So, tonight we want to recognize the Coburn family which is Logan, Arena, and Sky. This family read 265 books. Wow. This This is yours. You have another gift, but I couldn't carry it in here because it's in the back of my car. It is. And mom, you're going to love this. It's an inflatable slide with pool. So, y'all going to have some fun. You got a few days of summer left, so you can enjoy that. If you want to stay on the line, you'll get your pictures in just a second. And our second place
033was Landon Vick. And this is the grandson of our very own Lisa Vic. And he read 175 books for him. Thank you guys. Thank you. So again, I just want to say thank you and thank you for your support, especially elementary principles, administrators, teachers. They are amazing to work with and thank you all for letting me do. I'm going to do a standing ovation for Thank you. She's going to make it easier for all the teachers. If you want an example of passion about honesty by far, we thank her for everything she does for all of our kids and our incoming kids at some point in time in the future. Um, she does an amazing job and you can just tell the excitement that she has for all of our kids in the county. So,
034all right, at this time we'll move to Or Cooper, our food service director, would like to share some information with you all at this time. First of all, Gregor, board members, I want to thank you all for allowing us to do so. such a wrestling and I wanted you all to know that from May 27th through August the 8th we serve 19,26 then we'll move down to construction information we have Charles with Summit Good evening everyone. I just want to give you a quick uh one project to let you know how we're involved with all those. The new county middle school classroom renovation, it was completed on August the 4th, 2025. So it is teachers, I believe in 4 acre walk through and everything looks good there. Uh the new county middle school field house
035is still ongoing completion date still October 29th, 2015 will be final completion. Also too on the uh new county high school baseball field and kitchen renovation outstanding uh lunchless items. We have got a schedule from construction and we are working with him to push those items. Thank you. >> So then I have Josh with >> Good evening everybody. Um, so I'm on the longest project. We are down to three items to complete to get our TCL on Monday. Uh, we got to swing few doors, get some hardware on, uh, finish up the floors and just finalize a little bit of case work. Um, so teachers are moved in completely on I don't know what first side, first side uh, of the building and then starting this evening and tomorrow we'll be able to start moving
036on the other side as well. Um, so we'll be out of there. Uh, Charles came and did her punch walk uh today. So, we'll get that uh to the contractors and we'll be wrapping up and uh we got a few things to work on, but overall it's Monday will be the day that's you guys. >> So, that is like the on the the kindergarten side. We still have the flooring to put down, which those will kind of do over breaks, correct? >> Yeah. the hour break still be, but we're never have enough time. A long weekend probably won't work. This is considerable amount of room to do for the rest of the building out. And then also the bleachers and stuff in the gym that's looking like it might be next summer. That way you
037guys are not interrupted at all during the school year and we can get there. Thank you. The kindergarten classes will be in the new classrooms. Yes. That's the one they can they can start moving this afternoon tomorrow. >> Yeah. Yeah. afternoon tomorrow and I'll be ready for all there's no reporting but I do want to thank everybody with registration enrollment the open houses it takes everybody so uh kind of Like Vicky, I said earlier, we got a lot of great grandparents and grand aunts and uncles that our kids live with thankfully, but kind of struggle a little bit with that online. So, just thanks to everybody that is here for this time. We're still kids every day. So, >> we hope you bring us some. So now we'll move down to um item A and
038this is to approve architect for the district facilities planning process along the elementary early childhood wing renovation and Milber County High School auxiliary gym renovation. Yes. All right. So we did the um RFP and um got some interested architectural firms. I did some reference calling, kind of checked with some other superintendent and would like to make the motion that we select Ross Torrent as our new architect for those projects. I need a motion to approve order second. All in favor of approving Ross as the architect for the process for longest and county high school gym project. Please say I all opposed hear. And item B is to approve final contracts for area B and alternate one. And can the the new architects they're here and wanting to introduce themselves? Hello, I am Sarah Mir with
039Ros Architects. I'm a senior principal at Ros Architects and I have been with them for 25 years and my passion really has been designing educational facilities all over the state of Kentucky. With me tonight, I brought Gris Gibson, who's been with us for 20 years and also um knows all about educational facilities um but also um has expertise like in food service design and things like that. But we are thrilled that you have selected us tonight and we look so forward to getting started on your projects. In fact, we were at the high school today doing some field measurement and some KEX work and we will have a team down on Monday to look at all the elementary schools and hopefully get to the middle school, but we might have to make that another day
040depending on how long schools typed. Um, but we are an office in in Lexington, Kentucky. Um, we have 71 um designers on staff between civil engineers, architects, and interior designers. Um, and we've been in business for 55 years and we were very happy to be here today. Um, next slide. Um, one of the things that we talked to Miss um, early on was understanding schedule. And so we have, like I said, we were at the high school to start on that DFP today and get that going for you. Um, but we also know the early childhood center. Um, um, you want to get that done. We have started talking to KDE about the process of getting that on the DFP in order to allow that to be a project bond. So we think we can
041design it in about 6 months, but we do have a little bit of flex time there as we work out some details with KDE. Um next slide. Um we were at the um high school today. So, we started field measurements and thinking about where that auxiliary gym can be in addition to the high school. And each step of the way as we're designing, we'll be presenting to you and showing you kind of what we've done. And again, we anticipate that is about a six-month process. And then for the DFP, and we did start that today, and once we get all of the audits and surveys done, we'll review that with Superintendent Ore, make sure we all agree with what's on there. um and then do the draft DFP and get that started for you as
042well. And um sorry. So that kind of looks like this where we start the verification um do the audits. Um there's a lot of stuff to fill out on the KIC system. So we'll be working on that and then we'll keep you updated every step of the way. So if you guys have any questions for me. All right. Well, if anytime you think of any questions, I um miss or not, you can contact me via um text and I will answer as soon as I can. So, thank you all so much and have a wonderful evening as you welcome on board. Thank you. Item B, approve contracts for area B and alternate one. motion to approve second. All in favoring the final contracts for area BD and alternate one, please say I. All >> opposed.
043I hear none. And item C is to consider approval of revisions and updates to student code of acceptable behavior and discipline. >> KRS requires that local boards of education review and update the student discipline code every two years. The county code includes updates regarding current policy procedures and personnel questions. I'll make a motion to approve second by Mr. Porter. All in favor considering approval of revisions and updates the student codes acceptable behavior discipline. Please say I all oppose. I hear none. And item D is to consider approving theou with the Mber County Job Center. Uh chair breaker board members the attached document is the standard memorandum of understanding between county school system and county job center. This is being submitted for your approval questions. All right. A motion to make motion miss. All in favor
044of considering approving theou at the Mber County Job Center, please say I. I opposed hear. I do have an update on myself and this talked a little bit today and I talked to Gavin G which is the center director. U of course job core is ran by Congress. Uh they have been approved or the budget has been approved for job core through June 2027. So when the news came out earlier in the year that they were shutting down, of course they lost a lot of students. So kind of building that back um there's a part where all the kids have to go through a criminal background check. Those are starting back up. So Mr. Jones knows that takes a little bit. Um but they're hoping that enrollment will pick up each week 10 to 15
045students. So we ended the year with 60. We're back down to we're down to one and now we got 14 or 15 back. So hopefully that number continues to grow. Sounds good. Item 8 review alternate program policies and procedures. Um so we're here tonight to present you with the alternate school program um policies and procedures. This is something that you need to review every year just to let you know there are no significant changes to the document at all. So then just a motion to approve Mr. Porter. All in favoring alternate program policies and procedures, please say I. I all oppose here. Item F is to approve contracts for school psychology services. Unfortunately, we did lose one school psychologist this year. We did lose a position. We were not able to get a school psychologist
046this year. That's not uncommon. They're very difficult to find. Um so we did reach out. We have two contracts in here for you to review. Um, one we were building a couple years ago and we had an opening that work just fine. Um, and then we have a retired psychologist and director special education who's willing to go in and do some evaluations for us this year. So our remaining three psychologists will do all the work. So this will be um some that we can call on whenever we're getting to be doing evaluations for special. I'll make a motion to approve second. All in favor of approving contracts for school psychology services, please say I. I hear none. item G to approve contract for orientation and mobility services. The contract you have in your family is
047for Mary. We work with her forever and she um works with her students with vision impairments to help them learn the skills they need to navigate. So she has a handful of kiddos that she sees throughout the year. All in favor of bringing the contract for orientation and mobility services, please say I. And item H is to consider adding band first assistant second assistant coach positions at Miller County High School and eliminating the band director in assisting the high school. Thank you chairman Raider board members. Uh these new positions will create additional support for our county high school band program. We'll also improve our student to coach director uh ratio. uh while also even that out with some of our basketball football programs as well. Uh by creating these siphons, we would not need the
048additional compensation paid for the band director that's in the salary schedule says if assisting high school. So we would uh eliminate that siphon. Question may come up what about the person who's fulfilling that role? They would probably they will move into one of the assistant director positions. So, it's not that we're just eliminating that person. Um, and I would recommend that we approve the addition of the first and second assistant manufacturer. All in favor of adding the first assistant second position, please say I. I. I will oppose. I hear um item I is to consider posting two full-time bus monitor positions. Transportation department has requested to post two full-time uh bus monitor positions. You received the rationale that Mr. put together uh which is very detailed as to the need. Uh we ask that you
049consider switching these two fulltime bus monitor positions. Motion motion by Miss by Mr. All in favor considering posting two full-time bus monitor positions please say I all oppose um item J is to consider approving the MOA with Western Kentucky University. So you have the attached document which is the MOA between New Ed County School System and Western Kentucky University. This is for the dual credit classes for the 2627 school year. We've approved Massville Community College earlier. Uh so this is being submitted for your approval. Make a motion to approve second. All in favor of MOA with Western Kentucky University, please say I. I. All opposed. Hear none. Item K is to consider second reading of KSBA policy update number 48. >> So you have all of the board the updates to the board policies are
050required by state law or recommendations by KSBA. You have those in the e meeting and just a few changes that you need to be aware of uh with policy 03.1233 and policy 03.22. 2233. That's the maternity leave policy. We have until July 1 of 2030 to make a decision on that policy and we'll be waiting and got some see what other districts do with that so that we can learn from them. And then also policy 09.4261, the telecommunication devices. That's the one that says students are prohibited from using a personal telecommunication device during instructional time except during an emergency or if directed to do so by a teacher for instructional purposes. In our policy, we have structural language that says or if authorized by a teacher. So, I would recommend that the board approve the
051second reading of KSBA policy update number 48 and accept the proposed changes as written and the modifications that were mentioned. motion from this board. All in favor of approving the changes in board policy update number 48, please say I. All opposed. I hear them. Um item to consider adding a driver's education site for the 256 school year. >> So this position will be funded by high school site base allocation. One thing that we have realized with House Bill 15, now the 15 year olds can get their permits, uh it's created added uh stress to our high school getting courses. Uh we're also down to one driver's education uh instructor at this time. Uh currently we have 263 students who requested this class, but the high school is only able to accommodate 156. So you're, you
052know, roughly a little bit over 100 students not being able to get into a course. By adding this site and we can open up another block which is going to be able to take care of more students and get them into that driver's ed course. Um, if you have any questions, Miss Paul is here as well. Free to ask any questions you have. We would recommend that you approve this site. >> Can I teach the other course? >> Yeah, we're doing a race course. All right. Any questions? If not, I'll need a motion to approve a motion by Miss. I'll second. All in favor of considering the driver for the 2526 school year, please say I. I. >> All opposed. I hear them. move down now to item and that is to amend the 2526
053schedule that class. >> Hey chair, this is uh the just the beta siphon. So we we had one the one that we presented to you in May. It was just it was on the middle school the middle school level and then we also wanted to add one the elementary level. So the the $1,000 one that was the middle school wanted to make sure that was exclusively for middle school below that elementary. All in favor of meeting the 2526 salary schedule, please say I. All opposed. None. And item N is to approve the 4% revenue increase tax rate for fiscal year 26 which is.1% increase.1 increase >> just to make sure >> for fiscal year 25 on what is it again? >> 4% increase in revenue. >> Correct. So which does not directly result in a
0544% increase in rate the rate increase would be.1%. >> So that's >> we're going to say that. >> So which essentially is right now so it's $134 for $100,000 value is going to be $535 for $100,000. Does that make sense? >> Say it one more time. goes from $534,000 per $100,000 value of the property to $535. >> And what that is is that that's also because of the increase in assessments, increase in property value in uh that's also new property additions, the increase in industry. So as industry comes into the county, this can be very good for our county because then that increases the the tax base and the valuation which will then which would hopefully, you know, in theory actually lower rates more. So which is a good thing. >> We want that. you
055know, we are we are still in the bottom 20 of tax rates in the entire state. So, out of 170 districts, we're around the 150 range. So, that's pretty good. What was that? 1% $100,000. Okay. All right, I'll make a motion to approve. Second by all in favor of approving the 4% revenue increase tax rate for the fiscal year 26, please say I. I. All opposed? I hear none. Thank you. And item out is to consider district funding for the fiscal year 2016. Chairman Raer and board members, the district funding assurances are a yearly requirement for the superintendent to submit to the Kentucky Department of Education, ensuring the district is following all federal and state regulations regarding the use of funds tied to grants and other required activities. A majority of what you find in
056the document is redundancy of reports we complete for each specific grant as we access each type of funds. Other items included are focused on operations regarding improvement planning related to their funding requirements. District supervisors that oversee the various components of the asurances have each verified the respective items in the asurances and they can be found in the document shared in your board member packets. Any questions? If not, I need a motion to motion by this board. All in favor considering the district funding insurancees for fiscal year 26, please say I. I oppose. Thank you. And we're down now to our four consent agenda items. Um this is approval of the minutes of the prior board meeting, appointment of districts ARC and 504 chairpersons, approval of contract with Mount Comprehensive Care Center, approved memorandum of agreement
057with Penroll mental health center, consider emergency certification block of up to five positions for teaching positions within the Muer County School District. Consider surplus of central office furniture facility use. Consider fundraising requests and field trip requests. All of these are in our packets. Everyone's had a chance to review those. Any questions on any of those items? If not, I will need a motion to approve the board consent agenda items. So move motion by Miss Johnson. Second, Mr. Porter. All in favor of approving the consent agenda items, please say I. I. >> All oppose. I hear none. Um we are down now to adjourn motion second. All in favor of journey please say I. I. All oppose I hear them and we areing.