001All right, we'll go ahead and get started. I know there's a lot of you out there tonight um here for our board meeting and some are standing outside. Um so I'd like to welcome everyone to our monthly board meeting for May. And if everyone at this time please 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 may be seated. At this time, we are down to approving our agenda. So move And I have um actually a motion um I'm going to make a motion to amend our
002agenda by removing action item D. So I have a motion to remove action item D. So have a second by Miss Y. All in favor of um removing action item D, please say I. All opposed. I hear none. Um supposed. All right. Are there any other additions or changes to the agenda tonight? If not, I will need a motion to approve the amended agenda. Have a motion. All in favor of approving the amended agenda, please say I. I. I hear enough down to our favorite part which is our recognition. Miss Carla. Well, good evening you board members and all you many guests out there. Uh we have a variety of recognitions to present to you all this evening. I want to begin with some outstanding teachers. Um, Maxville Community College along with Murray State University
003have named once again excellence in teaching award recipients for 2025. The purpose of this award is to recognize quality teaching in schools and to strengthen the field of education. Three individuals uh from our district were nominated and named last month. They enjoyed a special ceremony at MCC while we were having our April board meeting. So that's why we get to recognize them this evening. So as I call your name, I'm going to ask that each one come up. I have a um framed certificate for you and Miss W, would you like to come and have a picture? So we're going to begin with our elementary level and again it comes from Muleberg South Elementary, Miss Scholar. At our middle school level, we have Miss Kesha Blake. And then at our high school level, we have
004Miss Paul Ranger. [Music] Congratulations, ladies. Congratulations for such a distinguished award. Next, I have quite a treat for you. um kind of gave it away there with the setup, but um as you know, we partner with the Muenberg County 4 in a variety of ways, including 4 demonstrations for all fourth through sixth graders. There were several students across the district who chose to compete in the county demonstration on May the 8th. Among those who competed was fourth grader Cali Calla Randall. She presented how to make homemade lip balm and she placed first not only in the county but also at the regional competition and she's going to now advance to the state level in July along with Carson Wadel, Amelia Vender, Telin Vender, I apologize if I pronounced that wrong, Charles Stanley, Abby Cotton, Maline
005Fields, and Allison Newman. So, I'm going to invite Kala to come up and she's going to give us her demonstration. So, you can just be reminded what these kids have to go through and she gets to do it in front of our room of people. So, go Calla. I'm going to take lots of pictures. Who here loves living? Because I know I do. And the best part is I know how to make my own because I'm just My name is today I'm going to show you how First of the ingredients you'll need, coconut oil, cocoa butter, and make sure it's the raw coconut butter, not the lotion casual My family likes to keep these ingredients organic cuz they're much more healthier and better for your body. Lastly, we have essential oils. There are lots of
006scents you can choose such as tea tree, winter green, lemongrass, and pepper. I'll decide. Some other things you'll need will be a safe dish, a teaspoon, a stir utensil, an eye dropper. I found an eye easier to see and of course empty. Now that we have everything we need, let's get first dish teaspoon. We need two teaspoon of these vegetables. Did you know that is safe to eat? Even though it wouldn't provide any nutrients for your body, it's completely nontoxic. The next step is two teaspoon of this coconut oil is used in my househ. You want to keep a hand towel handy because sometimes it is hard to get all this. Just keep your hands clean. All right. Next is we need one teaspoon of this. This stuff is really like kind of boring but
007like so one teaspoon. Next up is castor oil. Did you know castor oil has been around for thousands of years? It's been used in everything from medicines to make one. I will pop this in the microwave. Now, it would normally take about 2 to 3 minutes. And I would check it and stir it every 30 seconds. And like I said, give it a little stir and then um give it to 3 minutes is what works for me. But depending on your microwave, you may need to keep it in longer. So before we put that in, let's give it a little stir. We just want to enter our clearly this is not a real Let's give it give it some time and see what happens. All right. While that's magically melting, we are going to go
008ahead and set up our tubes to save time in a possible way. I chose to use these chapstick tubes, but there are many others you can choose such as the middle things or the little whichever you prefer. So clear this eye more seconds. Let's choose our essay. I think I'm going to be using Now that's a little stage. You're going to take a hard drive and slowly get into like I said this part can be kind of messy. You want to fill it just above the top. Once we have that done, we I would normally wait 1 to 2 hours for this to fully harden and be ready to use. Since we don't have 1 to 2 hours to wait, I went ahead and made a final product for you guys to see. You follow
009these instructions correctly, you'll get your perfect home. Thank you for watching our demonstration. Yeah, it took a lot of guts to stand in front of all of these people and we would like to present to you just a certificate of appreciation for coming tonight. If you ever want to judge one of those times, see McKenzie should hook you up next year. They're so much fun. So, the final uh recognition that I have this evening, we have a special guest with us that's going to bring um this presentation. I'm going to invite Miss April Divine to come up and she has a presentation. Hello. Thank you all for having me here. Um, good evening. My name is April Divine. I'm the president-elect for the Kentucky Association of School Administrators. On behalf of KASA, I'm pleased to
010announce that Miss Kim Flem, personnel assistant for Mulemer County Schools, has been named the 2025 KSA Office Professional Award recipient. This prestigious annual award honors a school or district office professional who demonstrates unwavering commitment, resourcefulness, and professionalism while maintaining a positive attitude. It is considered one of the highest honors for art for office professionals in education across Kentucky. Described as the pulse of the office, Miss Leam brings energy, precision, and professionalism to her role each day. Her ability to streamline communication between employees, principles, and central office departments ensures smooth operations in a supportive environment for everyone. I'm honored to present Miss Leam with a $500 monetary gift and a cherry clock with intricate ears symbolizing her critical role in keeping the leadership team and school running smoothly. Congratulations, Miss. I believe we have some special
011guests on screen. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. So that concludes my recognition. If you are just recognized, if you'll join me out in the hallway, that's your easy way of getting out of here. And I'm going to take some more pictures. Thank you. Hey, before you start, I think has something she wants to add to our recognition. I just want to right take the opportunity to tell all the so you the principles and some of the school personnel that's are here what a great job the students are doing in their defense of learning. I have been um as everybody knows I was a former high school guidance counselor and when you've been that you get to be on everybody's scholarship committee. So, I've been on scholarship committees for years, and this year I have read some
012of the absolute best scholarship applications ever, and I really attribute it to the job you all doing with the defense of learning and the students. And I think it is just an excellent, excellent um program that you're doing. And um anyway, but I just wanted to say that and I want you principles to go back and relay it to your person now. Um what a great thing it is that you're doing because everything is you know it it I think it makes sense to them why they need to be in you know clubs why why their education is important and everything. And so today I had the opportunity to be at at the high school. I've done fifth grade at South um elementary uh the middle school and at the high school and I have
013seen some excellent presentations and I want to thank you all for the great job you're doing proper for tearing that down. All right, so we're down now to our treasures report. Mr. All right. Thank you, Chairman. Board members, uh, these are the financials as of April 30th, 2025. Revenues. Uh, this month it was 3,457,741.93. This is down $240,000 from the last month and down 77,000 from the same period last year. SEK is down 42,000. I think you'll probably see that for the next till the remainder of the year for the seed production. Uh just kind of brief you on how that works. You know, they do a tenative seed calculation and then they do a final seat calculation towards the end of the year and they they either adjust it up or down depending upon
014our uh our ADA. So that's down 42,000, federal is up 70, state is down 57, tax are down 24, mother is down 90, food service is up 117,000, and daycare remains unchanged. On the expenditure side, accounts payable is up approximately $640,000 when compared to the same period of last year. This is 305,000 in general fund, 22,000, excuse me, 222,000 in construction, and 170,000 in food service. Uh the significant bills in April for Mass Mutual. Uh I just wanted to clarify something. There was a check written to Mass Mutual, which was the investment side. So, it's really it's it's an expense right now, but you'll see it on the balance sheet in investments once the clear that check and it's it gets added to that. So, if we if we had switched it over to the
015balance sheet right away, it would have overstated uh finances. So, uh with that said, so that was that was 2.198 million. Uh there was a Trafera which were Chromebooks was $215,000. Manning Brothers food equipment was $129,712. That were that was the wash the washroom at the middle school. Uh and then CNC contracting of $108,365 payrolls 3,154,87854 that is up 255,000 versus April of 24. So that's a professional pay and salary. So that's another sorry uh further breakdown uh fixed and mixed expenses were 2.9 million variable expenses of about $840,000 and utility expenses $87,000 are there any questions any questions on reporting Mr. All in favor of approving the treasures report, please say I. I. All opposed. None. Down to payment of bills and salaries. Thank you. Uh this May I bring you [Music] [Applause] $416,99969
016in four bills. Uh general fund is 216,000. Fund 2 is 39,000. construction of $161,000, food service day take daycare of $200. Uh significant uh bills in this in this one are CNC contracting for $161,100, Hogue Chrysler for $43,77 and Scott Trailer sales of 31,615. That was their license. That's correct. Uh right now, just to make keep you up to date on it, I've gotten some of the the what they're going to pay us on insurance and I'm arguing. So, I'm not happy with it. So, I will continue to argue as much as I can. I'm going to make a motion to approve paying bills and salaries. Mr. All in favor of paying bills and salaries, please say I. All thank you. We are now down to publication. So, we have several signed up to uh
017to talk tonight. Um so, just a FYI, um you have 3 to 5 minutes to speak. You will not go over five. Um we'll have a timer set and once that 5 minutes is reached, um you know, we'll ask that the next person um goes on. Uh just a note too, the board members will not have any interaction or questions back and forth to the ones who are speaking, just so you know. Um, and we'll take your thoughts and your concerns into consideration whenever we take our vote on dress code. Okay. All right. And the first one on the list is Miss Brook. Okay. So, we'll move down now to is it Taylor? Tyler Wales address the issues with our code. Uh, y'all have seen changes. We have had no issues in the past and
018I do not see a reason just is unfair restricted discrimination bias. We see how this often leads to targeting to uh targeting girls and students who don't perform to traditional gender norms. Instead of holding clothes instead of holding clothing responsibilities for disruptions, we should focus on teaching respect and creative creating a positive environment. I know some might argue that dress professionalism. We have to consider that professionalism should not come at the cost of suppressing indigen how we present ourselves whether it's makeup accessories or specific types of clothing forces mold that doesn't count for our unique identities our body should not be treated as distractions they should be accepted as part of who we are further the dress code disappropriately affect students from different backgrounds forcing us to change clothes or call parents during schools which
019I know most of our parents are during schools that's how we public schools. It disrupts our education but also unfairly punishes us for expressing ourselves. Our school should be a place where we feel comfortable and safe, not worried about whether we have to change clothes or not. I shouldn't have to wake up every morning whether or not worrying if my clothes is going to fit you or your dress code. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any guidelines, but there are reasonable Americans in force. We deserve a dress that respects individuality and promotes self expression. That is all. Thank you. And next we have Mal. And then next we have Miss Kendra. He um I was asked to deliver these to you guys. These are for they are from Miss Kirby and from her um students
020they have written letters. So those are just some of the things that our students have said that you guys can uh look at later. Um I have a few areas that I want to address specifically on the dress code uh for the high school and middle school. Um, I do appreciate that you all listened to the feedback that was given prior to and that you separated out and kind of took out sports and made a separate policy for um, prom and formal. That was um, very helpful. So, a couple of things uh, that I want to point out about our current dress code on page three in lower body apparel. It says if leggings, jeggings, or yoga pants are worn, the shirt hemline must fall below the individual's body. We've had this at the high
021school before. Um, this was a rule that we eventually changed because it was very problematic for us, especially um, you know, when you have a kid wearing a shirt that does cover, but then they put on a backpack and then their backpack it gets pulled up. And quite honestly, um, our students are not distracted by the yoga pants and being able to see a girl's bottom in the yoga pants. And again, um, that is specifically targeting girls. Um, the other concern I have is in the additional items. And I've pointed this out in both of the drafts. It says hoods, hats, toboggin, sock, beanie caps, um, or any other headwear that could cover a student's ear and conceal earbuds or headphones, thus presenting communication and/or safety challenges are not permitted. In the wording of this,
022we're unclear. Is it that hats are not permitted, that hoods are not permitted, that sock hats and beanies are not permitted, or is it that they're not permitted if they cover the year? So that wording on that we're just unsure of. Um then again loungewear not really defined. Um and also before I leave the page about the yoga pants, I think it's important to note also that we have teachers in our district, especially at the elementary level that wear yoga pants to school and that that is part of what they wear. And I'm not advocating for you to to do a teacher dress code. However, if it is professional enough for employees of the Muenberg County Board of Education to wear that to work, then I think it is also appropriate for our students to
023wear to school. Um, in addition to that, um, if you would like to look at the dress code for school dances and special events, it says that shorts are not allowed unless they are worn under a skirt, and it says that t-shirts are not allowed. We have a homecoming dance that is a huge fundraiser. It raises over $1,000 for our cheer team. Um, when students go to that dance, they are not dressed up. They go to a homecoming football game and it's usually about 100° and the kids go in t-shirts and shorts and then they come directly from that event and they go to the dance and so that would be problematic there. Today we had a beautiful event. We had the peer buddy prom at the high school and what happened at the peer
024buddy prom, it was a dance. It was what I would consider to be a dance and while it was during school hours, we did have students wearing t-shirts. Um, a lot of our kids from the unit were wearing t-shirts that had tuxedo shirts on them and they were wearing sweatpants and that is a part of their disability that they struggle with texture. So, they would not be wearing um, you know, things that were like button-d downs and that kind of thing. So, we we want to be really careful with that. Um, and then also the the punishments that you have listed in your dress code. um tracking unexcused absences while the students are in the building is very problematic and there's not really anything in infinite campus for that. So the way it's worded, what
025happens is a student that is in violation of the dress code, they have to go to the office and they have to sit and they have to be considered unexcused absent. When unexcused absent, the students are then given a zero for any work that they they miss. That is our school policy. So, what we're ultimately doing is we're impacting their academic um opportunities by locking them in the office and saying they can't come back. In addition to that, don't forget that the law also requires that any student that has an IEP. They cannot be suspended. They cannot be in ISD. They cannot miss more than 10 days of instruction uh through punishment. So, that is also something that you want to consider when you try to say that the punishment will be that they are
026in ISD or suspended. that that can be very problematic and have some legal ramifications. So, um in addition to that, um in my final 40 seconds, I would like to challenge you. I want to challenge you to invest the same amount of time, energy, and effort that we have into this dress code to address other important issues at the high school and at every school we have, such as children not learning and reading at grade level. change. Um, is Joseline or does she mark out? Okay. It looks partially um Kendall Armstrong. many of the things that I was actually saying how to um hit those things very very on point. One of the things that I want to to address with the dress code um or the the one that you guys have proposed is
027with the prek to to fifth grade. So, we're going to exploit my 9-year-old who's in current third grade by allowing her to wear spaghetti straps to school mid thigh shorts, but yet we're going to tell my teacher that she cannot um actually she today is wearing jeans that are above the um the post-it note, the 3-in posted note. Why are her knees and shoulders a distraction? Why does that make anybody feel uncomfortable? Um the other thing that as a therapist I do work in mental and behavioral health 90% of the dress club targets girls and unfairly causes girls to experience a burden and responsibility of not being distraction by having bodies that look a certain way shoulders and knee so these girls can feel comfortable. So many girls in schools today are already self-conscious about
028their bodies. So drawing so much more attention to the issue by the way the dress code um emphasizes that especially outside the dress code more so the dances um it limits their self expression like um Tyler mentioned and limits their ability to be who they are enforcing a strict dress code both on and off campus um especially with the casual dances with not allowing boys to wear shorts and t-shirts. I know that my daughter when in middle school they paid for the neon t-shirts where they all got to wear and go have their neon party. So now that's not going to be acceptable with a new dress code. Many other events like Kendra said with the dances they're going to go from a football game. They're going to go from another event and they're going
029to go straight to a dance. They're not going to go home and change. If you are aware of the statistics county poverty rate is well above the national average. Um right now I think it is currently 17.8. National average is around 12%. When you add shirts and pants, $10 to $20 for a shirt that's got to be button up to wear to a dance for that pants and with shirts, $10 to $40 for jeans or pants. They're just not going to be able to do that. It's something we got to take in consideration when making the dress code. So, policing our dress code, policing our students is only going to increase the negative interactions between the teachers, the staff, and the students. Therefore, that is what's going to be the entire performance. So, this is
030going off of what my mom said. I am the sophomore vice president, and I'm going to use my voice receipt for my peers who the voice say, "Go to a homecoming dance, you can't wear shorts and t-shirts, but we can wear strapless dresses." And going off what my mom said, the poverty rate is very high in Miller County, which is basically not being able to wear t-shirts and shorts when that's all they can afford, but you're requiring formal attire. That's telling the kids who cannot afford that they cannot attend the dance which is again creating a less positive interaction between students and staff. And I'm also going to use my voice from personal experience anxiety caused by dress code. I I suffer from like very high anxiety and I'm always in fear of being dresscoded.
031But with this new dress code that you all are implementing or trying to is going to cause a decrease in academic performances because of the worry and focus on the dress code. like is my is my outfit going to be dressed up rather than is is my school going to be my priorities. Good evening board. I'm Ryan and I'm a county resident. Pardon my attire. I work in Todd County at the high school. Um, where dress code is also an issue. I have 25 years in the military where you have to wear the uniform and you have a standard of dress that you have to wear. And even in a full military uniform, males or females can still be a distraction for the opposite sex. There are still incidents when you're wearing a full uniform
032because they're going to do that. At the high school, teachers have to worry about interactions if they enforce frequent dress code violations. Current current uh fad dressing like the 80s or dirty dancing with shirts off the shoulder. I have four kids, 20, 14, 11, and 10. Three boys, one girl. My boys, super easy to worry about. I don't have to worry about what they wear. They pass it down. They don't wear hats. Something I like to point out is you have hats, hoods, something that covers the ears, has a dress code violation. So, how is it counterproductive to make it a reward if my kids will kill me to have hat day if it's a safety violation to have your ears covered because of headphones or to have your face covered from cameras? How is
033it one day of a handful of months suddenly safe and okay? If I was someone who analyzed that situation as a as a terrorist, I would target those days. Simple as that. My kids would kill me. They love Hat Day. But Hat Day, I'm known as one of the most vulnerable teachers at school. Take your hat off in the building, please. Take your hood off in the building, please. to where teachers have to worry about their interactions and relationships with students in a positive way because they're constantly having to chase after dress code violations. The current trend for shorts where most of our individuals shop Walmart, you know, pivots, finding girls shorts. My daughter is taller than I am and she has really long legs. I took a picture of her this morning in her
034shorts and they are sports shorts. They are definitely not within 3 in from her knees. The military says you have to have socks to cover your ankles. Why is that? Because in the 1900 if a woman showed her ankles it was considered they were promiscuous. So why are we focusing on dress code violations? Yes, I'm fairly conservative and I think a dress that shows everything God gave you is probably a little much, but it's very difficult for families to shop within these constraints. Finding shorts that are going to meet your dress code for for girls in high school and in grade school is going to be a financial challenge. I don't know how many stores I had to go to even just to try to find some. The average pair of free pants cost way
035more and on a hot day that is a safety issue. You're going to have kids that are going to have heat exhaustion because they're trying to meet your dress code. Is the sports is okay for the sports teams to wear volleyball wearing with their little spankies? Track team wear their short shorts. Why is it a problem when they're walking around in the halls every day? individuals, young individuals running around high school with hormones are going to still cause no matter what they wear as a distraction is a choice. They're going to do it. If someone can point out what I'm wearing in a uniform and and make inappropriate comments, they're going to do it no matter what the kids wear. As long as they're tight enough the essentials, I think they're okay. Our daughter loves
036wearing yoga pants. She put tight pair of blue jeans is going to be showing the same stuff. So, something to consider. You're putting your staff in a in a tight spot. You're going to be chasing after dress code violations and causing anxiety not only for students but for your staff as well. Not focusing on academics. Thank you. That's all we have for participation and thank you all for sharing your thoughts with us. obviously very um we'll move down now to our superintendent before I'm going to let um Charles go first just to share um construction updates hope everyone had just shong field house slab is complete block walls will start going up next week um Muenberg uh first and for classroom renovation. Uh the documents are underway and that should start around the 27th grade
037[Applause] completed further with the project. Brian will detail other board action items to come if you have any questions. Thank you. Um, we also want to share we have Josh coming with us and so as we start talking about construction, if there's any questions that come up about the longest project um, piece here to offer that and then we also have John on Zoom who can chime in if there are any questions too. All right. Okay. I just wanted to take a moment during my presentation and share um I ready data. So based upon the charts the the um the bars are showing the progress from fall to spring. And then um so kind of noting there that the 2425 you see I've got those numbers um 45% green which means that they are mid
038or above grade level um or on grade level or above sorry um 39% yellow which puts them at one grade level behind and then um 16% uh red which is two or more grade levels behind. And so just kind of noting um the the first one was mathematics. So kind of seeing the the drop of our red which we want to see um and the increase of our green obviously because that means we're we're moving our students. But I also wanted to kind of do a comparison. So taking the end of the year for the last 3 years keeping in mind these aren't the same students, right? You know we got third grade coming in. So so they'll be different every year. But just kind of noting um that we are slowly making progress in
039bringing that uh red down that number and increasing the green which is of our students on or above grade level. Same thing when you look at reading um for the 2425 beginning the fall to the spring um we move they move to 52% green uh 29% yellow and 18% red. Um and then looking at a comparison over the the last 3 years, um kind of seeing again, you know, we're going from 52 when we started 49% and 223 uh green to 51% green to 52% green. So again, kind of seeing small moves um which is is um we're we're glad to see that. Obviously, we're going to continue to work on that and and keep that going. Um, but I know we've we've heard from a lot of teachers that uh the value um and
040the benefit they see in the I Ready the assessment plus the curriculum piece that comes with it um they're seeing students move and progress. So just wanted to share that um with you all and I will share that through an email so you have that graphic as well. So then the other thing I wanted to bring you um up to speed on are the Paxton Patterson career labs. Uh exciting thing today we got them um they were shipped middle school. You got yours? Yeah. Um they were delivered today um here at the board office. They're downstairs and they're um we got the all the elementary ones and then middle school got all of theirs. So, kind of bringing you up to speed on the funding sources that we utilize for that. Um, we were very
041blessed that Martin Foundation um gave us $100,000 for this purpose. Um, Perkins funds we were able to utilize 50,000 there. Title funds 85,000 donations that um have come in from the community 20,295 giving us a total of 255,295. um expenses. We purchased 30 labs for the u middle school and then um six labs for each of the um elementary schools. And um we're we have not purchased the carts yet, but we're looking for some carts for the middle school and estimating approximately $9,000 for that. And then the technology needs um there's some iPads and different things that um that need to to be purchased in order to especially like with the robotics and things. So the technology um expense there are 2500. So 255,435 um right now are the expenses. Um I know that looks
042like we're in the red. We'll figure that out. Where's Eric? He's not here. Um we're not too far off. So we're pretty pleased with that. um and feel oh I said we're in the red but we won't tell Eric um but it is a small amount and we're very excited um in order to kind of look ahead thinking about the elementary schools there are six more totes um that could possibly be purchased for the um each of the elementary schools um and that's a pretty extensive cost we're going to continue to come to get some funding next year what we can do to to get those other six totes for each of the schools. Do you know what that cost is? Do it's on my paper in my office. I will send that to you.
043Um cuz I did Stacey and I worked on a figure and it's it's on paper. So I I'll send that to you. You can see what that is. the Oh, yes. Sorry. This um identifies all of the the um labs and the totes that we were able to purchase. Like I said, 30 for the middle school, six for the elementary schools. That also um incorporates professional development for our teachers, set up an assembly. So, for the middle school, like they have a group that will come in and actually kind of help get the room set up. um and and ready to go. And then it includes a 5-year online subscription, so for resources that are online that teachers and students can use with these um career ways. So, um a lot of great things. We're
044excited um to get it up and going the new school year and and see it in action. Uh and then when we do, we're absolutely going to invite you all as well as community members to come in and see what it looks like um in action with the students doing it. So, we're very excited. It's been exciting for me at the hospital seeing the teachers excited about this happening in the middle school. So, we're looking forward to helping students figure out their pathways before they get to hospital. Exactly. Yeah. See a lot of excitement going even starting at the elementary level of knowing kind of what goes into health sciences and um robotics and that kind of thing. So, yeah, I think it's going to be great for our kids. Um the only other thing
045I have during my um block of time for superintendent report is just to kind of make you all which we've talked a little bit but just to make you aware um I know you all have received information and know about the um letter that we received at the district from uh the national organization called Freedom from Religion um regarding FCA at the elementary schools. Um, we had sent that letter to our board attorney and we're working on a solution to that dilemma and so kind of talking with her back and forth and trying to figure out what a good answer for that is. This does in no way affects FCA at the middle school and high school. um it is uh the organization is considered a studentled organization and students in the middle one way
046school are um definitely able to kind of take that and run with it. So our dilemma and our issue and our what we've got to figure out is what we can do in the open. So we are working on that just to kind of keep you up to speed and once we get that solution figured out you won't be first. Was that brought to our attention from someone in the county? No, that came from Minnesota. Somewhere from Minnesota. It's a national organization. Yeah. Do we have to follow them? Um, according to our board of attorney, we we've got to come up with a different solution. Yes. Yes. So, more elementary schools than the state has. So again, we're looking for what are the options to be able to continue that but not have it be
047a school le organiz schoolled club if that makes sense. As a district, we can't make a decision. You cannot. We want to make sure that whatever we do, we are legal into so yeah. So we're working on it to come up with a solution. Thank you. We're down now to our attendance and enrollment report. So, good afternoon, chairman, regular board members. In review of month nine, attendance and enrollment. Month started on April 21st and ends tomorrow. Kind of a lot like last month where when you all got the report, we still had a few days left and I can send you that updated report tomorrow. Um, our average daily attendance for month was 94.17% and our enrollment is 4,192. Our elementary leader for the month was Greenville at 95.2%. 2% and our upper division leader
048was a middle school at 93.72%. So definitely good to see that attendance and enrollment rise and uh this was our best month of attendance since um the first month and that wraps up my report. My son helped a lot you are the morning coffee. Um, we also have a school presentation. Okay. Um, Miss Clarkson. Good evening, Ward. And thank you, Miss Ward, for letting us talk about our school. Tonight I have Carly Wales with me who is a student at the Renaissance Center and she's going to help kind of help me go through our presentation tonight. We'll talk about her in just a few more minutes. Uh just quickly our um our program we have two different Renaissance center. We have our alternative learning center and we also have our virtual education. So we have
049uh two different programs in our school. Uh the students that we serve, we serve students that are at risk for dropping out, students that have repeated disciplinary issues with social, emotional, mental health needs, uh in need of credit recovery, attendance issues, uh students that have jobs, need flexibility with their schedules or just need to care for themselves or other family members. Um the picture up there in the corner is actually one of our students. We do lots of activities uh with our students and one of them is they made braces. I mean bracelets and how to choose a word. So that was just one of the bracelets that they made. Um just to tell you a little bit about our staff, I mean who we have at our school. We've got a principal. Um I
050want to thank you for a full-time guidance counselor this year that has made a huge huge difference. Miss August is here tonight and I cannot say enough great things about her, how she's helped us out. Uh we have eight certified teachers. We have uh four core content teachers, a humanity teacher, um two special teachers, and then a teacher in charge of our um move program. Two instructional aids, one with our program, and another that I thank you for the hire to Miss Savannah Wells who helps in our move program, and that's been a game changer for the effectiveness of our program. We have a secretary and a custodian. And that's just a few pictures of our teachers interacting with our students this year. Um our just I'm just going to kind of give you some
051numbers uh quickly. In our um move program, we do have 91 students in our program right now. We were able um to move our middle school program over with Miss Beth Ellis who was in charge of our high school program. So that's been um that's a pro a part that's kind of grown this year. We have 24 students in the middle school program and they have we've just finished up most of our classes and they have earned 92 credits and then we have 67 high school students that have completed 383 credits. Uh some of those in credit recovery. We do have 30 seniors. We have 27 that are going to graduate with the 26 or more credits from the high school. We have three hardship graduates this year. Um that was a policy that was
052approved a couple years ago. Those are three fifth year what we call fifth year seniors that came back. Um and they they applied for the hardship and they will graduate. And then we have a couple students that we're trying to drag across the finish line these last four days or five days. So, um, our program, I will just say, is is successful really because of Miss Beth Ellis. She is amazing. She does a wonderful job. Um, all of our students have to do everything that every graduate does in this school. They have to complete their defensive learning. They have to um do their ACE requirements. So, they it's not just they're just getting credits to graduate. They they still do have to meet all of those requirements. So, we are very proud of that program.
053Uh just quickly, our alternative learning center, we started the year with 20 students. We are at 45 now, which is kind of big for us. I know that doesn't sound like very many students, but um we do have 45 students. We have 26 high school students and 19 middle school students. And we have 21 students that are due to exit at the end of the school year, whether that be going back to middle school, going to high school, or graduating. So, that's just some of our numbers. I'm going to let Miss Harley talk to you a little bit about her experience at the Renaissance Center. So, I've been coming to the Renaissance Center on Middle School. The school is open in many ways when there are less kids in the school. So, it's easier for
054teachers and others to see each other. Another way the school has helped me is making a way for me to get caught up and even ahead after I got back. They've also made a way for me to join their program. so that I'll be able to work a job since I've had basically here in my school. One last example of how the res center has helped me is Miss Vir. So Harley has been with us for a little while and she is um going to be in our move program next year. She's worked a lot with Miss Vicki in the sore program and helped a lot down there and she's actually like she said going to be a summer intern down there this year. So she she pretty much runs our school not if you
055can't tell. Um this we she talked about the individual um attention. This was a celebration that we did with her in conjunction with Champions of Drugs. It was her one year soiety party. So we had Miss or actually got to come by and we had her family and a lot of our students came down to do that. So we are um very very proud of her. I'm going to let her talk to you just real quickly kind of about what we do every day. Okay. So every day four things we try to focus on is being prepared, respectful, productive and responsible. And if we do them every day at the end of the day, we have like a paper and we take it to our teachers and we get all our points most of us
056do. And then like you get a level of go the highest level and then every Friday we get popcorn and if you're on get different things Harley is on the gold stage right now she is due to to exit and go to our program. Uh these are some things that we've done. I'm going to let her talk about what those are. The first one was pain. We had a pumpkin contest bracelet. We got like a day of like each class. We did different yoga and he's graduating. We we do a lot of different things. Every couple weeks we try to do some different activities just to get our students involved in and talking and different things. So, those are just some examples. I didn't do a very good job of taking the same pictures as
057I should. Um, honestly, our kids don't like me taking pictures. they don't like their faces um attached to the red center. We're trying to change that because we're not a bad place. Um but so I try not to take a lot of pictures out there. So that's pretty much all we've got. Just want to thank you for letting us tonight. Thank you and congratulations. All right. So, um, we're now now what everybody's all excited about hearing about or not is our first reading of our revised policy 09.427. Um, so I know we appreciate all of you coming. Um, like I said before, you know, we don't engage in conversation back and forth um, during our public participation, but this is the point of time where with this item on the agenda that us as board
058members can discuss some of your concerns that you brought forth to us. Um, once again, this is the first reading of our revised dress code. So, if there are things that we come across um that we still want to change, what we're voting on tonight is just the first reading with potential changes. Um so, we are taking into consideration, you know, how everyone feels um and what you all brought forward to us um as your concerns. Um so, just to let you all know that. Um so, at this time, I'll open up the floor. Um I know Miss Bard and Miss J. Um, and I'm not sure Logan, did you I think Miss Johnson, Miss Park were on the committee meetings that um were held um I know with Miss P. So, I'm going to
059kind of let you explain what our changes are because from what I see as a board member and discussions, you know, out there on social media that I think there's a lot of misconceptions as to what we're actually looking at changing. So, I want everyone to be on the same page as to what our changes actually were compared to what the original um dress code policy that we have in place as it is now. Um, so I'm going to turn this over to Miss Bar to kind of let her share with you all the discussions that were in the meetings to her knowledge and and you know, Miss and Logan, please chime in as you as you will. Um, so the dress code that was posted on social media, um, and the and the schoolboard
060website. Now, first of all, let me let me back up. Um, it's really difficult to come and speak for yourself and stand up for yourself. And I applaud each of you students especially that came in tonight and spoke to us directly. This is how things get changed. This is how you make a difference in your community. So, I applaud you for that. We may not always agree on what we're talking about and we don't have to. Just because I don't agree with you or you don't agree with me doesn't mean you're a bad person or I'm a bad person. So, first and foremost, thank you for coming and talking to us and telling us what you think about what's what's happening right now. So, going over to the dress code, we made zero changes on
061the grades preK through 5ifth grade. We did not touch that. It was left as is. On the grades 6 through 12, the changes we made, we're adding the words to lower body 3x3 post-it note. The current dress code, if I'm not mistaken, says this, the clothing cannot be 3 in above the knee. Is that correct? It was or was it mid Oh, that's right. Sorry. Mid thigh. Okay. And that's something that we're we're discussing. The reason we were talking about the post-it note is in our committee meetings, it gives parents and students something visual that you can look at. So this is a first reading. So please keep that in mind. We're here to hear you tonight and we will take your thoughts into consideration. Um the we did not we didn't touch anything that
062had to do with hats, apparel, something you wear on your head. We didn't do anything with that. That is the dress code that's already there. You remember we make any changes on that? Yeah. So that that was exactly the same. So for and those are under additional items. Shoes must be worn at all times. No gloves may be worn. Hoods, hats, surviving softies, hats, or any other outer other headwear that could cover a student's ears and conceal earbuds, headphones, thus presenting communication and/or safety challenges are not permitted. That's in your current dress code. We did not create change that we have. If it covers their ears, they cannot wear it. So you can wear a baseball cap, but thank you on covering your ears. Correct. Um, what we did add was if leggings, jeggings, or
063yoga pants are worn to the lower body apparel, the hemline must fall below the individual's bottom. And that's what was added to that one. The only other thing we changed is adding the dress code for dances and special events. Um, we're taking into consideration that there are casual dances. We'll talk about that and thank you for coming tonight and talking about that. That's something that I wasn't aware of that there was something before a football game or after a football game for homecoming. We're very reasonable people. You may not know that, but we are. And there are reasonable times to wear things and there are reason and there are times when things should not be worn. Uh just says uh the mother I'm sorry where you went. Oh right there. Thank you. You were talking
064about military clothing. You know things are appropriate at certain times and things are not. So what we're doing uh for the students here in the room we have noticed as a school board that since co the dress code has gotten laxed. When we had our committee meetings, the people that were in the committee meeting said, which concerned us greatly, "The dress code is enforced for some, but not all. And it depends on who you are." That should never happen because as a board, we are bound by the laws and the rules that we set forth. And we are if if a teacher is to to dress code you, then the teacher is supposed to dress code you every time. But I want you all to understand, we didn't make wholesale changes on this. We just
065added a few the few things that I just spoke about. So I urge you to go back and look at your current dress code that you have and then compare it to the new one that that we are adding free items to. And the thing of it is is really and truly the one thing that we were not really dress addressing um casual dances. we were really addressing uh the whole winter ball is what and that is what sparked this conversation is several on the board have gotten comments from people about the way students were dressing for the uh winter ball both middle school and high school so I think that's where our main concerns were is the winter formal And mine was the complaints that I receive are from parents and grandparents of students.
066I know my son graduated 2 years ago. Um, and I got a lot of comments about what the girls wore to the senior awards day. Um, it was there was several with very short dresses. I mean, very short. They couldn't even barely bend to even get their skull put on. Um so you know that kind of sparked complaints with myself um in the last couple of years was what you know you've got your grandparents your aunts your uncles your you know your whole family at senior awards day you know and you should look professional you shouldn't come out with your butt hanging out the dress for lack of a better word. So um I just think professionalism is you know what you would wear to church. You wouldn't go to church dressed in a mini
067dress most likely. I mean, most churches would not. I know certain church says you got to have really long, you know, dresses, but um you know, I think it's just it's the the length of the dresses that were brought to my attention. It's not really anything else that was complained to me about personally. So, um I I know we want all of our kids to stand out and be great, you know. Um, so this kind of sparked us looking at at the the dress code and for school functions, you know, how everyone needs to dress. So, Mr. I think if this point was made tonight, we should also possibly look at like a staff dress code to match the dress code we're going to implement in the high school. I mean, we can expect our
068teachers to do one thing and our students not to follow suit, you know, or expect one thing from our students and our teachers not to do that as well. So, um, it should be an even playing field for all. And I will I will add to what you said, Stephanie. The whole reason we're here tonight and talking about this, which we should be only talking about academics and good things in schools, but we have constituents that that voted for us to be here on this board. And when the constituents are sending us photographs of students at dances, and it wasn't just the girls, it was boys taking their their shirts off, boys taking their jackets off and having only like nothing on underneath or putting their jacket back on with no shirt. Um, several items
069like that and pictures were sent. So, when we get complaints like that, we have to address that as well. So, that's that's why we're here tonight. All right. So, um I guess at this time is there anything that anyone wants to add to a revision on this reading or when we approve it next month it will be ready to go. on board. Well, will that be enough time or will we need to do another special call? Have to do another We'll have to do changes to the whatever and then we'll have to come back and meet again for a second first reading with the changes and then we'll have to have a second approval which will finalize. But we'll probably have to do a special call meeting for that in order to get it done
070so all of the handbooks and everything can be changed and can reflect um for next school year. So we're going to table this um we'll make a motion to table this until um our committee has met once again and discussed final finalization again. Um, we appreciate all of you all for coming and speaking and telling us what you what you think. Um, because you're our kids. I mean, that's you all are why we're here. And it's not that we're trying to make things difficult for you all, but we want our kids in Minburg County to stand out. And we don't want our kids, you know, people from other places coming here and and thinking that our kids are just able to do whatever they want and and dress a certain way. I mean, each of
071each of you have individualities, you know, that um makes you who you are and and we're not up here trying to say you have to be a certain way, but you know, there has to be a standard, you know, I mean, and I, as a nurse, you know, I can't go wear certain things to the hospital to work. I have to follow a strict, you know, policy that says I have to wear this. I can't go and wear, you know, a sports bra and a pair of scrub pants to work just because that's how I feel like wearing that. I can't do that. So, you know, just understand that as you are are getting older and you're becoming adults and moving into, you know, adulthood and and and public jobs and college and things like
072that. This is to help guide you all in proper presentation. You know, you'll have job interviews, you'll have jobs yourself that you're required to dress a certain way. And, you know, I can promise you that you're not going to get very far with an employer like you probably get in the school district right now. You know, as far as how you feel about, you know, the dress code and things like that because when you work for a place, you know, such as I do, a hospital, they don't care what I think about the dress code. Their dress code is their dress code. So, I just want to throw that out there and and you all know that, you know, in your future it they're probably not going to care what you say, but we do.
073So, I mean, we take everything that you've said today into consideration. So, when we get our next meeting with our um our teachers and and the committee that, you know, brought forth these um changes, um you know, we'll go from there and and hopefully everybody will be happy with how it turns out. We're not but anyway but just like what um Miss Barnes said you know if you have I mean I think that's the part of democracy everybody has a right to speak how they feel and whether you know you agree with us or not you know that that is a good I mean you know because you're not everything is not going to happen that you're going to agree with and so anyway then I do admire the students that came and talked to
074us tonight because who else is going to advocate for yourself if you don't? So, it's a great quality to have is to be able to advocate and that's part of education. You need to sometimes advocate to your teachers also. So, anyway, so I have a motion to table this till next month. Second one is all in favor of tableing this item please say I move down now to item B and that's consider job posting for speech language therapist you always come back. Yeah. All right. Well, good evening and I am glad to be back um to a board meeting, but I've come tonight to ask you to consider um the hosting of an additional speech language pathology position. Um in our district we have almost 600 kids who are receiving speech um or language therapy.
075Um it's not only the kids who have speech language impairment but also we have rising numbers of kiddos with more significant disabilities such as autism developmental disability functional mental disability and a speech language pathologist is central to those students. So, um, we currently have eight speech therapists on staff. Um, we need 12. Um, but we're worked we've been working with contracted services for the past 2 years in order to fill the need to the tune of $65 an hour. Um, but we are actually in a pretty good spot and we have a lot of interest in working our district as far as being a speech language pathologist. So, we have had a couple positions posted to fill openings that we've had vacated for some time. Um, but then after looking at the numbers, we do
076need an additional person to fill that spot. So, I'm asking you tonight to consider that. Um, also in the decision paper, I I've listed in here what the ramifications are if we don't. Uh, one, we want our kiddos needs to be met. Um, but our speech language pathologists have to operate under a strict guideline of maximum case load sizes and they cannot go over 65 kids on their case load. So, it's not as simple as just adding to their case load. We actually have to look at Kentucky regulations to fill this motion by Mr. Sec. All in favor of the considering the job posting for the speech language therapist, please say I. I. All opposed. Thank you. Item C is to approve interim contracts for the renovation of classrooms at Longest Elementary. This order. Um
077so you all have in your pack of the materials the um letter from Kodell um laying out the interim contracts that we are looking at. Um, you know, when we were here last month, we talked about um that the bids for the whole project came in too high. So, we're going back and and making some revisions to the the new part, which would be like the preschool. Um, but in the meantime, we need to be able to move forward with the kindergarten classrooms to get them ready for the new school year. So this um these packages are the different um trades uh that will need to be utilized and the renovations happen for those kindergarten classrooms putting bathrooms and storage closets for those classrooms. What was our initial estimate for this portion of the So
078we didn't have it broken out to begin with. We had the big project. Um, you know, if you remember last month, we talked about that was hanging way too high. Um, and so the same company do what? Um, working with the same company about $10 million. So that was the whole project. So yes, these are some of the same ones um that did the lowest bid and so we were able to um get them to to break it out. Um the one thing I do want to note on this the flooring um with CDI that is not just the classroom not just those four classrooms but it's all the rest of the building. So you know we started um last year we had to put it down the center of the building. And so this
079um they need to go ahead and get all the flooring ordered so that we have it if that makes sense. Um, and so that that's a large number there, but that's because it's for the rest of the building as well as the classrooms we're looking at. Josh, do you have anything you want to add to that? Um, I don't. It's It's extremely crucial though that flooring gets ordered because if it does not get ordered, we're probably not going to be getting any of your flooring in what we consider area B, which is the center of the building. The little pink area there. the area C's, which is the first side and then back to your to your gym since we're trying to match. We've already changed a bit, moving some stuff around to make it
080work out. If we delay any longer, I we're going to have to sh probably cuz there's no way to get it in and get anything done. So, the contracts in front of you um include everything in area B plus all the alternate work in area B and all the other alternate work of the building. So, the only thing that we're not writing contracts for right now is the renovation of the main building and the new addition. Everything else we have to get done so we can get them by the summer building at the beginning of it. Is the flooring in need of being replaced or we just changing the color scheme? Yeah, many of the much of the flooring is in need of repair and needing to be fixed. And so this way it it
081I mean you're talking about like if you replace this but then not this, you know, so with consistency across the building. Um the other piece of that like the flooring that's there now requires waxing and and stripping and that kind of thing. This new flooring doesn't require any of that. Um so that alleviates um you know that that issue and that extra cost of doing that every summer. Any other questions about the work general? What's the general trades? All right. So the general trades is going to include all your demolition, your masonry work inside. Uh they're going to be framing. you're going to be doing. I guess that's a big chunk of what you have going on. Uh so the only other trades involved outside general trades there would be your mechanical, electrical, plumbing contractors.
082You got a painter involved. Um and a few other things in there, but the biggest cost in that is going to be your mechanical plumbing and electrical cuz we're having to change sprinkler systems, HVAC, plumbing, bad lights, moving stuff around. So that's the biggest cost in there. and then demoing out and getting the batter ready to go. So I see electrical here for 73,450. Mhm. The the total of this some more electrical work that is only in area B. So the numbers you have are only for the area B and on the screen. So yes, there's more cost included in the rest of the project, just not in front of you. Now, we're currently working through value engineering options in the summit. Uh they're going to get a bit of drawing to see if we
083can take away the overall picture of the building to get you guys closer to your budget number that you're looking for. So, the other thing to kind of note about the flooring, like right now it's got the new flooring down this down the middle. um they did not do it the other hallways because especially on this end hallway when they started doing the renovation of the classrooms it would have messed up those that flooring. So at that time they did not you know go ahead and quote the rest of it that's kind of clipped into this um because we knew when you start doing renovation you would have ruined the new floor. So questions. Jared, is there a way to zoom in on that? So, Mr. Green, the existing old longest building. Yes. So, if
084you look and if I made someone, I apologize. So, this is what you currently have sitting here and this will be your new addition. However, it would not look like this. Uh, you're going to lose this wing of this building. Uh so this work and everything over here the site work out here this is all what we're we're talking about value engineering to save you money where you can still give you what you want but maybe not so much extra or to the level that's there other than that this area. So this we're working on over the summer this and we are doing our best to add this in there. The rest we're still trying to work on. That might be we might have to come in there over a fall break or spring break,
085Christmas break. Work with you guys with your schedule cuz you have a lot of furniture that you're going to have to move. It has to be completely removed. Can't just stick in the hallway cuz again you damaging everything that we're moving at that time. So that's going to take more coordination now especially coming our budget. Um so we're can to resequence to do that. But area B will be done before you get back into school. Heat. Heat. Any questions? Second question by Miss John. All in favor of approving the interim contracts for the renovation classrooms at longest. Please say I. All opposed. Now to item D. And this is to approve the AIA contract between the Milber County Board of Education and Ronald Johnson and Associates. Thank you, Chairman, regular board members. So, this is
086our AIA contract. So, we can begin looking at this. This is for our high school roofing. This is the metal roof part is what we're talking about here, which is the same roofing that was there in 1990. And so, we're starting to have some issues. The middle school is in the near future, but right now the biggest need is the high school. Uh we have several things that are taking place. A lot of your ice breaks are no longer there. Um so they've got of course since 1990 things have improved on what that looks like. And so part of that will be a part of this once we're able to bid this out. But this is just a contract uh to work with Ronald Johnson and Associates uh to look at project. And I would
087recommend we approve the AI motion by secondar. All in favor of approving the contract with Johnson Associates, please say I. All opposed. I hear none. And we're down now to approving change order number three from Milberg County Middle School. So, change order number three. Uh, this, uh, kind of goes along with the same company that worked on our cafeteria. That looks fantastic. If you haven't been at the middle school, it looks looks great. And so, what we're doing is now that we're in one middle school, we we've learned that there's some areas that we need to look at. And one is where we put the special education classroom, and we need an ADA accessible bathroom in that in that area. So, that's that's one piece of this change order. The second part as you know
088um there we're using a lot of rooms in that classroom or in that school and so if you remember the old business classes in the schools those were those long classrooms. So what we looked at is okay can we take those long ones that we no longer need for business classrooms and make instead of two classrooms make them fours. So that's what this change order uh includes and I would recommend that we we approve change order number three. Okay. So, what you're saying is you're going to have wall are you're going to have walls whereas in the you just had separators or Yeah. And right now they're just wide open and so you've got 20 25 kids or so in those 30 kids in those rooms where you have a lot more space. And so
089this would allow us to allow them to really break up and allow more room. And the walls we put in are not going to be I'm from Oak South Mill and the walls that you can hear the classroom next to you. We're not looking at those type of just temporary walls because this will be something permanent. We have to knock some holes in the walls for uh for the doorway. Okay. So you'll have an outside doorway. Okay. So we don't get back into what we had at Oak where you have to pass through one room. Yeah. That's what I was wondering. I thought Okay. questions have a motion by Mr. All in favor of approving the change order number three from middle school. Please say I. All opposed. I hear none. We're down to item
090G to consider bidding DOT fiscal for the 25 26 school year. So this is our yearly uh we bring this to you every every year requires all school bus drivers to have annually DOT physicals according to 702 KR K5080. And so this is just uh a yearly recommendation to do bids for DOTS and I would recommend that we approve that motion by Mr. Joe. I'll second all in favor of considering bidding the DOT physicals please say I all opposed hear item H to consider the 2526 certified evaluation plan. So this is our 25 26 what we call C certified evaluation plan what we bring to you each year about this time and typically there's not a lot of changes except for where someone has retired and we're replacing someone for that purpose. Uh and we
091have that in this in this year but we have so one we'll have the date change to reflect the new school year. We will have Lee Jones and Casey Meford will be listed as new members. to replace people who have either changed positions or have retired. The big change this year in the C due to House Bill 48 is that where in the past our summitive cycles were threeear cycles for our tenure teachers and House Bill 48 moved that to a 5-year cycle. So that will that's included all that language has changed in our CP. We will still be doing formative evaluations each year. Uh we don't want a year to go by that someone's not evaluated. But as far as the summitive cycle, we'll move from 3year to a 5year cycle. And I would
092recommend that the board approve 2526 CB. All in favoring consider please say I oppose. I hear none. Item I is to consider early posting of a food service manager position at the county high school. Some are some that we had last month. Uh again, we have another uh retirement resignation that will be effective after the July 1st uh which will be an August 1 retirement. And we're being out past that we allow posting position early so that we can make sure and get that person in, make sure they get the trainings in and are ready for when our school year starts. I would recommend that we approve the early posting food service manager position at the high school. Any questions for Mr. Four. All in favor of considering early posting for the food service manager
093position, please say I. I. Opposed. Item J to consider approving the job description for the media specialist assistant. If you remember last month, we tabled posting this position, but we did not have the job description that we needed at that time. So this is the job description for the media special specialist assistant heading works out elementary school. Um there are no funds to our general funds. It's all coming out of their funds there at the school. Um you got the job description in your packet and I would recommend that we approve the job description specialist assistance at South Elementary. Mr. All in favor of approving the job description of the media specialist assistant, please say I hear none. And item K is to consider posting a part specialist position at South Elementary. So now that
094we have a job description, we're now ready to post this position. And that's what this action item is. And uh you see there all the information as far as what this person will be doing, the responsibilities as well as the funding that this comes through. And I would recommend that we approve the posting of the media specialist assistance at South Elementary. Make a motion to approve second. All in favor considering posting of the parttime media specialist at South Elementary, please say I. roll. It's all for you tonight. Item L is to award bid for Miller County Board of Education parking lot asphalt paving construction. So, as you probably noticed as you come in the back, we had some sewage issue here at the board and due to that now our parking lot is in need
095of repair. It became a lot bigger issue than we had anticipated until they got into it. So, we do need to uh take care of our parking lots and something that we are looking to do with this and I think it's actually in the drawings that you have in your packet is to extend our black top behind the building because when we have trainings um nights like tonight, I'm sure people probably have park out in the grass and so we're going to extend that area of the parking lot as well. So I would recommend that uh we award the bid for the county board of education parking lot asphalt pavement corner. All in favor of the parking lot pavement construction please say all opposed hear none. Um item M is to consider approving the MOA
096with Madisonville Community College. And this again is a yearly uh that we bring the MOA with you. This is our dual credit with Madisonville Community College. And it's being submitted for your approval. And again, I would recommend that we approve the MOA between Madisonville Community College and County Schools for approval credits. Thank you. Motion by M. Second by Mr. All in favor of approving MA with MCC, please say I. I. All none. Item N, that's to consider approving the MOA with Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Again, very similar to the one we just approved, except this is with Kentucky Community and Technical College System uh for the 25 26 school year. We submit for your approval. I recommend that we put the MOA between KCTC and county schools. Mr. All in favor of KCTCS,
097please say I. Allos hear none. That's it. Mr. L show is over. We're down to item O and that's to consider the fiscal year 26 principles combining budget here. All right. All right. Uh this is the principal's combining budget. It's an annual thing. Basically shows their anticipated beginning balance, receipts, expenses, and ending balance for each of their their uh local farms, their local accounts, I should say. Any questions? Motion to approve on this board. Second by Mr. Porter. All in favor of considering the fiscal year 26 principles combining budgets, please say I. I. All oppose. I hear none. Um item P to consider the annual KD audit contract. Uh this is the contract that the state requires. Um there has been there there there is a cost increase as you all see the explanation as
098provided by the um auditor themselves. I will state that um I don't recommend we put this out just because even as of last week I while I was at Caswell I had the opportunity to speak with my colleagues. It is very difficult to get an honor uh just and and what they do like we put it out to big to get something back that's more than what this is. Um, we've worked well with cars and Ingram several years. I I've given you all my explanation before, but they they change junior auditors all the time. So, it's different eyes looking at ours. Um, they're very critical and I appreciate that. And again, my thoughts on audits, if they find something good, if they continue to buy the same thing, that's when we have a problem. All
099in favor, please say I ring. uh this year uh I've gone through our financials. I've projected out 10 years um and I feel comfortable uh bringing 1% to you guys. It's not what I'm sure but it is what I feel comfortable with and I feel financially secure. So, I've spent a lot of time over the last month looking at salary schedules and I want to thank Eric and Miss or for answering all my random questions and providing what questions I have. So, um I guess I would like to make a motion. Got four parts to it. So, so I would propose that we do a 2% raise to all team members except team members in category 1 and two of the hourly pay scale. And I would make a motion that we give them a
10075 cent raise. That would take all of our positions paying except for our co-op position, take our salaries up to 1324 and higher would be our minimal pay. So that would be the 75 increase for categories 1 and two of the hourly wage category and the 2% for everyone else across the board. I would also like to take the Cook uniform allowance from $100 to $150 and then change job code 7301 which is the community relations specialist from category two on monthly wage category to category 3. I just feel like now the social media era and doing the podcast I think more of what this roles has expanded. So I think it's justified in just an additional salary that comes in category 3. And then I would also like to propose that we change uh
101job code 7765 which is the administrative secretary 2. And I would like to increase the board administration secretary stipen to $500 a month which is more in line with our neighboring counties for my research. So I will tell you this. I've done some analysis just so you're aware. Um current payroll just let me let me back up here. When I got here, we had our first issue in terms of we decreased salaries and those things. Our payroll was at $38 million. Right now, this year projected out we're at 36 36,723,657. All right. Um that is an increase of about 1.175 million which is 12% which is what I predicted last year that is because it was the five five and excuse me 5% plus the other various ones. So the weighted average 6 1/2% which
102is where we're trending. Uh a 1% increase is 642,664. 2% increase is1 million $9,000 9 $9,900. Um 1% plus that 75 cent increase that 75 increase is 23 cost of $234,887 just on base on that. So that would be an increase of $897,12580. Uh and then the 2% plus the 75cent increase would be [Music] 1,264,36238. Uh every year thereafter step raises are about 75% increase. So then you're not doing 75% on on a larger number on a larger number on a larger number. That 2% plus the 75 is 37,988,19. that's right where we were when I got here. So that's why I exercise caution on top of that. Um so you know that so in fiscal year 22 we had co CO funds are and this is pulling out beginning balance. I want you guys
103to know what the raw numbers are. Uh the grand total of our income, our revenues were 63,766 roughly. All right. Uh fiscal year 23 was 56,743 because we still had co monies coming in not as much. And then last year was 55,847 and this year right now we're at 49 million. That should probably hit between 54. Okay. Um overall if you took and just divided those raw numbers that's about 70% salaries are 70% of those raw numbers. However, if you look at general fund which I gave you guys in the in the uh tenative budget that's 85% salaries are actually 85% because it's general fund. So there's also about $2 million in restricted funds. If we take that, if we look and say, okay, you know, and this again, I don't know when this is
104going to happen, but it's I've been told by the state and I this where I hate it that I'm glad that's continued to happen where we get our TVA funds, but it reduces uh even just the $3 million, that's now we're down to about 51 million annually, at least about 13.2 million. Um when you start taking that can like look at all of our items uh in terms of transportation uh utilities, insurance, the things that are needed just to keep the doors open. That brings it down to 9.3 million. Then there's the $2 million that's restricted. So now you're down to about about 7 million operating. So I'm giving you these numbers. is still at the pleasure of the Lord. But I do want to let you know that these these things do have impact.
105Um, and like I said when I first opened up, I would love to be able to recommend something higher, but you know, we did give a 5% last year and I just for my peace of mind and knowing where we've been, that's that's where where I'm at. So, I'm I I hate for Jesus not to get 1% but I would not on the page for this one%. Can I propose that we table this into a work session so that we are on the same page? Absolutely. 1% whether it's close session or work session. 1% is not I'll stand with all the teachers and take the blame that they didn't get 1%. But I think they'll understand why they didn't get this abuse. I feel like we need our very best people working in our schools
106and we have to deal with some very I'm not I'm not arguing with you. I'm just saying it's not you know here everything else construction and everything else is going up but we are taking that under consideration but you're not taking under consideration the life construction like you said don't have to dial people to come to work and forget about the table session. Yes. Um a motion to table the salary schedule and work session to discuss further on the floor. So all in favor of tableling the table until later time please say I all right and then we're now down now to the portion and agenda items and this includes approval of the minutes of the board meeting approval of shorten school day for students hall proposed public season 2526 bus surplus surplus agreement elementary
107items consideration your request in our package. Any discussion on our file? All in favor say I return. Please say hi.