001It's uh now 5:30, so we are going to go ahead and get started. I'd like to call our regular monthly meeting for April to quarter. And if everyone at this time would 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. We're down to approve. Does anyone have an addition to the agenda tonight? If not, I will need a motion to approve the agenda. So, I have a motion. Second, Mr. Jar. All in favor of approving the agenda, please say I or I. All opposed. I hear none.
002And we'll jump down to recognition. Well, good evening board members and all of you guests. The district has been developing ways to expand our recognition of outstanding staff through the creation of a few awards. Among those awards to be voted on by our staff and announced at the Bergie experience in August are the cornerstone award, the legacy award, and the new educator award. More details to come on those recipients, but for tonight there's an additional award and we created and we've asked our certified teachers to nominate and vote for the student teacher of the year. So, as you know, we partner with colleges and universities to allow future teachers to student teach in our classrooms. This is a wonderful opportunity for our staff and our students to meet and see firsthand how rising teachers are
003going to perform. In an effort to both recognize and encourage these individuals, we sent out a survey to certified teachers asking them to nominate a student teacher who has taught during the fall or spring semester of this school year and demonstrated great potential as a future educator. Well, the winner of the 2025 Muenberg County Student Teacher of the Year is Miss Emma McQuarter. She is graduating from Murray State University with an educ uh with an elementary um education degree and will be LBD certified. She's the daughter of Sarah and Brad Divine and Jeff Mcporter. I want to share something with you that Miss McQuarter, she doesn't know that I'm I have this, but um the kindergarten teacher at Central City Elementary where she did some of her student teaching um had the all of them
004writing about their experiences and they're going to publish a book in their classroom. And so she shared with me what Miss Emma is going to have in this book. So I want to share it with you all. She says, "I love kindergarten because it's a place of wonder, laughter, and love. As a student teacher, I've come to realize that I am not just the students biggest supporter, they are mine, too." The way they light up when they see you. Handmade cards, the hugs, it reminds me why I chose this path. Kindergarteners are at a beautiful stage in their life. They're still learning how the world works, how to share, how to be kind, um, and excuse me, how to express themselves. They're growing into the incredible humans they're meant to be. And it's a reward
005to play even a small role in that. They've taught me more than I could have ever imagined about teaching, about patience, and joy. Miss Emma, student teacher 2025. And she also has a drawing that will be included in the book. So at this time, I would like to invite Miss Emmanor to come up and Mr. Law is going to present to you the very first student teacher of the year award. That is all I have. You can stay. It'll be so fun. You'll want to come every month. Okay, we'll move down now to our treasure for Mr. Thank you, Chairman Raser, four members of bringing the financials as of March 31st through food revenues. Uh this month we had 3.697 million in receipts. These are up 29 298,000 from last month and up 777,000 from
006the same period last year. uh of significance. The federal is up 12,000. State is down 240,000. Taxes are up 306,000. Other is up 136,000. Food service is up 79,000 and daycare is up 2,000. Uh on the expenses side, our accounts payable is 998,12. uh that is up approximately 172,000 compared to the same period last year. Again, that's general fun construction. Uh the significant bills in March for Old National Wealth Management of 95,989 for bond payment. Morton food service $126,46 and the Mber County Board of Education was $100,000 was a reimbursement to for us for the science parks for so basically we're shipping fun around there and payroll is uh 3.09 09 million heads up 199,000 versus March of 24 for total expenses of 4,86,812. Accounts payable breakdown fixed and mixed expense about 470,000 variable expenses
007of about 440,000 and utilities expense of 88,000. There any questions? Are there any questions on the treasury report? I need a motion to approve. All in favor of approving the treasures report, please say I post uh April 2025 more bills are 2.6 million. um of that the it's a Mass Mutual was $2,198,910 that is investments. So that will actually be reflected next month once it clears in our investment on the excuse me on the uh balance sheet. So, and then the other large vendor payments were CNC contracting for 108,000 $364.50 and Summit Engineering for $64,94. All in favor of paying bills and salaries, please say I. All we now participation. All right. First is Amy Nelson. She's going to speak about NTI. Good evening. I am Amy Nelson. I live in Greenville. I am not
008an employee of the school system and I'm here to speak about NIA. Thank you for this opportunity. First of all, I want to express my gratitude to all the dedicated and compassionate teachers and other school personnel who help shape the lives of so many children. I have two daughters at Greenville Elementary and I come from a family of educators. My granddad was a teacher and then principal and superintendent of Greenville schools. My mom, aunt, and grandmother were teachers in the county as well. I take academics very seriously, especially when it comes to my kids and the community as a whole. My role as a parent is to support, supplement, and advocate for my children's education. So to get to the point, my concern for our school system is NTI days and how these days affect
009families, teachers, and most importantly, our students. As we know, not all children have the same level of support and opportunity at home. Not all children are fortunate enough to have adults at home who are interested in and dedicated to their children's education. Elementary students especially require the guidance of a responsible adult when they are away from their teachers in their typical learning environments. The bottom line is that parents and other caregivers cannot provide the environment and the level of instruction equivalent to a school day. And a school day cannot be reduced to a couple of worksheets. With NI days, students lose valuable instructional time and those who are struggling fall even further behind. We know that structure and routine are critical for all children and traditional school day instruction is absolutely essential for students who
010receive special support services like speech and occupational therapy, those with IEPs and 504 plans. In addition, like many parents, both my husband and I work full-time, and parents cannot simply stay at home from their jobs to supervise and assist their children with their NTI work. On the mornings of NI days, I am at work receiving messages from my kids teachers regarding NI assignments, attempting to relay to relay these instructional messages with clarity to my kids through their caregiver while I'm at work is a logistical nightmare. Meanwhile, I'm trying to focus on my job and meeting my productivity requirements. This situation is unreasonable and unfair to myself, my employer, and to the patients with whom I'm working. Then in the evening, I must assume the teacher role, ensuring that my kids have been able to access
011their work or understanding their work, completing their work, and doing so to the best of their ability. Meanwhile, I am exhausted, impatient, irritable after work, and my kids are tired, whiny, and unfocused. These in these NTI day circumstances are in no way conducive to learning. Furthermore, teachers cannot be expected to distantly lead their students towards academic success, especially considering the needs of young elementary students and those with special needs. Unfortunately, Mumer County schools have used 13 NCI days this year, 13 check marks of so-called completed school days. Not to mention the extra time wasted trying to determine which students have turned in which day's NTI work and which assignments still need to be completed by which students and is NI work being checked for accuracy and thoroughess or just a check mark if it's done
012regardless of the quality. What is our priority? Our students education or a longer summer break. We already know that the longer the summer, the more students forget, but that is another conversation. I want to stress that the issue is not whether or not we should cancel school for weather, sickness, or whatever reason. By all means, cancel school if needed. Health and safety come first. The issue is using NI as a replacement for tra for traditional academic instruction. In short, school days that must be missed should be made up as traditional school days. Let's not take shortcuts on education. In conclusion, I take pride in my county and in my state. What are we working toward? Are we working toward Kentucky? As it stands now, Kentucky is far from the top in educational rankings. NCI days
013will not advance us up the educational ladder but instead will move us in the opposite direction. The role of a school system is to provide students with the best education possible. So let's be real. NI days are a great disservice to our students education. We already discovered that during co moving forward we owe it to our children to do what's best for them. Thank you. Thank you. And next we have Jeremy Milton also. My name is Charity Milton. I have two boys, second and fourth grade elementary. Thank you for having me today. And so Amy made some great points. I wholeheartedly agree with her on everything she just said. But I just want to kind of expand on a few things real quick and kind of share my personal experience. And like she said, just
014to be clear, this is not about school refusal. You know, my mom was a school bus driver for 25 years. So I understand the dangers you know surrounding that. So obviously for safety is our top priority. It always should be. Our main concern is just that the overutilization of NI days um you know we're given 10 days at the beginning of the year. Okay. And just because they're there doesn't necessarily I don't feel like we need to use them. I don't think they're unnecessary in all situations. You know we're already at 13 NI days. We've extended this summer break by two two and a half weeks uh from the beginning of August to late August. So that's a month a little over a month right there. The kids can be in the classroom learning the
015things they need to be learning. So um I I don't always think that ETI days are the best option. That's just my personal opinion. I understand that there are surrounding counties and I guess all the counties get the the 10 days, but I do know surrounding counties that have just kind of called it what it is and use a good oldfashioned snow day. You know, we go to school a little bit later into the summer. We did it. We survived. And for the most part, I think we all turned out okay. So anyway, I just um don't get me wrong, I feel like NI days have served their purpose in the past, especially during co that we didn't have any other option during co it was either you do the NCI work or you don't
016do anything you know I remember sitting at the kitchen table for hours with my kindergarter that is and struggling to get the work done and um and it's and it's hard because I'm not a teacher you know I don't homeschool my kids for a reason I don't have the qualifications that most of you do in this class in this room and so we trust you guys to to teach our children and I appreciate everything that teachers do. Do not get me wrong. Like the teachers at Greenville Elementary, even the principal has been fantastic to my voice, okay? But I'm not qualified. I'm in healthcare. My husband is in law enforcement. And when school gets cancelled, we still have to go to work. It doesn't change for us. And so when that happens, we call them
017the grandparents. You guys know as well as I do that grandparents are not good about making their grandkids do any kind of work, let alone work. So, after my husband and I have worked an 8 to 10 hour day, we come home, we're exhausted, like Amy said, and we've got NCI work to do with our kids at 6:00, 7:00 p.m. And nobody wants to do NI work then. I know the teachers are available during the day, but we're not. So, we don't have that communication available to us. Um, and my younger son, he's second grade, so he needs a little bit more instruction, but my older son, he literally whizzes through his ENT. And it's not because he's that smart. It's just that it is not challenging enough for him. We go over it. We
018make sure that he's done everything correctly. But um once it leaves our house, I have no idea what happens to it. I don't know if it if it's scored right or wrong. I don't know if it's participation right. I don't know if it ends up in trash cuz I never seen him. Um and I just want to throw this out there. We timed him during his NC hour during the floods those three days that we had NCI days during the flooding. and it took him on an average of 8 to 10 minutes. And that is really disappointing to me that to think that that's a continuation of learning and it's equivalent to a 6-hour school day. 10 minutes equivalent to a 6-hour school day. That that makes me sad for for our kids. And it's
019no fault of the teachers. It's it's not the faculty or anything like that, especially during the flooding because nobody was prepared for that. We didn't have Chromebooks or packets or anything, but was it the best option at the time or should they have just spend those days at the end of the year? Just something to think about. And I think I do feel so strongly about this because I do have elementary age kids who are learning the fundamentals and basics, reading, writing, you know, all those things that you need to know now. Otherwise, you're going to just be left behind and you're going to struggle the entire way through. So, and then like Amy said, you have the kids with the IEPs and those that get speech therapy and occupational therapy. I know how important
020those services are and those kids obviously don't get those um those services in NCA. So, yet again, we're falling behind. Um and kids of all ages, all academic levels, they need the structure, they need the routine, teacher instruction, hands-on, which is how I learn best that you're only going to get in the classroom setting. And if you know my boys, our house is wild. They don't have head at home like they would in the classroom. Um, and just to kind of wrap it up, I see Miss Commission statement is up here on the wall and it says, it really stands out to me that we provide a quality education that instills in all students the will and ability to succeed. Okay. And do I feel like they're getting that in the classroom? Absolutely. Yes. Teachers
021are fantastic. My boys are excelling because of them. But you know, we need to ask ourselves, do they get that from NCT? You know, are we are we helping our kids to reach their highest academic potential and helping them to succeed in the future by assigning them 10 minutes of busy work on the days that they can't get to school? Or are we sacrificing valuable time that can be spent in the classroom or a few additional days by the pool? and I love the pool, but my kids education is more important. Okay. So, personally, I think we're doing a disservice for our children by overutilizing NIAs, and I think we can do better. Thank you. Thank you. We'll move down now to our administrative report. And first is our super. I'm going to let Charles
022go first and let him tell kind of some updates on construction projects. I hope everybody's doing all right today. Uh we're going to start off with a long elementary school renovation. We got bids in today and it's over budget. So and some architecture will be uh value engineering to bring the cost down. We need it. Uh county high school baseball buildation. Uh Scott no CEO he is going to meet with a construction to get that handled for the bunches as well. Uh the fieldhouse at the middle school as they went by there today. They are starting to uh get the mud and dirt off of the concrete footers and starting to lay block this afternoon tomorrow. So you should start seeing block coming up out of the ground. Uh I have uh some still needs
023to get some proposals for uh new county middle school second floor classroom renovation and the first ADA to the special ed and a few other smaller projects that we need uh on the uh county high schooler gym. Uh Scott is reworking and revising the floor and other just fun and don't say you are just fun and by going in and looking at some of the finishes. Some of the finishes are high cost finishes. You come back and switch those out for cheaper finishes. Uh certain can be certain things that are in the architecture package. We can value engineer down to where we can get the budget down or yes quality will still be the same. It's just when say interior you pick out our interior designer. She picks out a certain flooring or a certain
024wall covering or something. She may have picked it from a manufacturer that is a lot more expensive than another manufacturer. The quality is still there. It's just different manufacturers. Why won't you move from well at the beginning we were we were going for for just the overall design of what we thought we the teachers need to school I I won't do the same contractor anything I will go with a different contractor I would not waste my time somebody so so what what he's saying is like they give us a design, right? And we look at that design. We're like, we love that. I don't care how much you can't $5 million. Well, we're probably not going to get it down to the $5 million budget. No. But we can get it down from the 10.9,
025which is where it is. That's the thing. Getting it down to something more reasonable is our goal. And it's not it it like once we open the bids and we see that it's that much over then we go back and say oh that that tree that's on the wall is pretty but do you really kind of thing that you kind of go back in and go this what was our approximate budget for that you know that what what did we just thinking you know how easy it don't matter what we or what branch or what table I'm talking 100% use so things like 10 million 5 minutes the so let's take the admin suite on a design if there was there were offices here and then some offices and a conference room here so we
026can condense and say we don't need this conference room and these offices we can make do with these offices so that takes off a whole section of of the building. So when you start looking at taking things like that away, they're not taking away the integrity of the building, just some of the, you know, finer things that have I think I know what he's asking that he's not asking is if our budget was 5 million, why did it come to 10 million? Is that what you're asking? And if you came at 10 million, why are you dealing with the same company to bring into 5 million? I mean, why would they come to us with something that cost 10 million? If they knew our budget was five, why would they go and pick these fancy
027finishes if that obviously was way over budget? Well, the finishes that that are picked are for the whole project. What happens is when it bids out, we we find out what the total cost is going to be. Like right now, I think it's like $420 a square foot for construction. for schools as of right now. So what we usually do and this happens on many projects architects will come back and revalue and value engineer the projects. you're not losing the quality of the projects. Just like certain things like we have a a canopy, the main canopy in the front that's kind of is a steel frame canopy as far we can replace that with a aluminum can just like the outside. Man, I know when we did bring the ball fields, you know, we had
028a million dollar donation. So, you know, we had these nice plans of what, you know, and we literally end up with some lights and fans and a little But if you project, you know, we told them the budget, they came in significantly higher at that point as well. There's two schools of thought. If you think about this, we can tell them the budget and then they if they take those plans, they can build it up to that budget. All right? or you can go in and not tell them the budget and maybe it might come in cheaper, you know, not knowing like, you know, with the finishes and all that kind of stuff for that thing. If if you know a general cost per square foot just as you mentioned, you know, and you're designing
029something up to that budget and that's your school of thought going in, you know, then you submit those out to bid, you know, you may not want to say our budget is $5 million. You know, it may come in under that. So that there's also that school of loss on and we don't say like we don't tell the people. I mean you don't go to car lot and say hey I've got $50,000 to spend on a vehicle. What can I get? And they're going to take you over there and show you a $90,000 Cadillac Escalade. They're not going to do that cuz they already know that that's not in your budget. That's so there's two schools. So, like, you know, I I feel like I would rather someone, me personally, show me something that they
030know is more within my budget, even if it may be just a tad more because you can still, you know, versus double what you already know that you're going to have a lot of money. I didn't No, I know. We're just saying Yeah. So, are you saying that they knew what the budget was? No, I had no idea. Yeah. Yes, they knew. No, they did not. They did not have because that's what I'm thinking. I mean, the city when we always bid out something, we always bid it out. They didn't know. No, they don't. So, okay. Cuz I thought you were saying that they knew. No. No. But I'm saying I know. Yeah, I know. That's a lot. Yeah. Heat. Heat. You're good. All right. Um what I have passed out to you all is
031a draft of our framework for the future which is our draft of our what you call strategic plan our blueprint for success. Um at the beginning of March our committee came together and looked at these areas and we talked about that last month kind of telling you what the areas were. Um so the um company the organization we work with took the feedback and the information from those two days and gave us these um outcomes success um matrix and then big moves. So we have sent this to the committee for them to kind of review. Um Stacy and I have Do I have any? Okay. Um Stacy and I have a meeting with Katie Martin who helped us put this together in May. So we'll get the feedback from everybody, come back and say, you
032know, here's some things we want to tweak, here's some things we want to add. And then the actual document is several pages. So there's like a letter um in there and then about our mission and then our profile and the different things that are part of that. So it's it's a pretty I say extensive, but it's a pretty extensive document when it's all put together. Um but none of that is all together yet. So, I gave you um you know what our draft is at this time, what we're working on. Um and then like I said, getting feedback um to come back later with a final draft of that. Um the other thing I wanted to share about was our visit from Commissioner Fletcher. Um he came the day before spring break uh and was
033able to visit. We started in the central office with some of our students, able to share a little bit about our district um things they were proud of and the work that's going on. So that we took a picture of him with those individuals. He they enjoyed sharing with him and then he asked them questions and was able to ask him questions. So that's where we started. And then this is just a few pictures to show we were able to go to South Elementary first and visited some classrooms, talked to some students there. Went to Longest and he got to to um hear a defensive learning there um on at Longest and then ended our day well we also went out to the playground. He got on the playground equipment with some of our students.
034You can see him um there at Longest playground. And then we ended our day at the high school where our flyer was able to perform and then some of our students who were part of the foot loose um cast were able to perform a number from couple of numbers from that document that presentation. So it was a great day. Uh we enjoyed spending the day with him. Um and thank you all for the ones that were able to make it um to to meet him and to kind of walk around with us a little bit as well. That is mine. Thank you. Oh, I forgot. Wait, I forgot who this was. Thank you. I looked at it. I was like, "Okay, Green goes next." So, um Greenville and Ray's going to share their um presentation.
035I think Lee got excited. Yeah. We'll see if he's back in practice yet. I don't know. It's one of those things. Okay. I remember last month that um Mr. Browning said it' been about 18 months since he had spoke to you all. It's been about 10 years. since I spoke to you all. So, uh live over here. Thank you, Eric. Anyway, uh just want to uh I'll share a few things u with you this evening. I'm going to go over what I call the fun stuff and then I've got Mr. Evans. He's just going to talk a little bit about some curriculum things since he's been there all year. So, but I wanted to to deal with the fun stuff. Uh obviously Green Bull very passionate about Green Bull a special place in my heart
036and we got a lot of Blackhawks here uh in the audience. So first uh Blackhawk news team and clubs we have Blackhawk uh news team they do a live broadcast Monday, Wednesday and Friday to the whole school. Um they are awesome uh fourth and fifth grade students. Uh they give sports reports with the Mustang. They give weather. Uh they do happy birthdays. Um I get on there, I do some announcements and uh Mr. Browning before he left and I don't know how long he's been, but there's a joke of the day that's just sort of continued on. Uh so we do jokes of the day and we also have like special interviews like we had some high school players come. We've had uh new staff members. They just do a great job. Uh, and it's
037awesome. I I'm so tickled with that with that program and what they've done there. We also have some clubs that we meet the same day in the afternoon once a month. Uh, my favorite is the cupcake club within 30 minutes. They're able to make cupcakes and I tried one one time. They're pretty good. But Lego club, music club, just different things like that. Uh, and uh it it's a it's a good deal for kids. So, um, Blackhawk Pride Assemblies, um, these been going on for probably 15 years or more. Um, Miss Jones carried it on the tradition. Mr. Browning, uh, I sort of, um, step right back into these things where we recognize u, our Blackhawks of the month, we have special recognitions. Um uh but for like last month uh school resource officer day
038we we recognized Mr. Alro got him down on the floor. Um we do positive office referrals. Um and um so it's just a great it's it lasts about 25 30 minutes uh just recognizing our students uh and the contributions they make. Also, uh, at the end of it, I don't know when they start this, but it's great. But throughout the week, uh, they have a relay race at the very end. It's usually top three times of a relay, Miss Level or P teacher will come up with something and it's really cool. The kids getting into that. So, um, a lot of fun there. Uh, fifth grade boys life skills. I I don't know when they started, but this is great. I'm telling you, this is awesome. Um, Mr. Evans, myself, uh, Mr. Casey, the music
039teacher, uh, we we've got like four different sessions with our fifth grade boys. We did a meet and greet, handshake, how to do a handshake, eye contact, just that how to introduce yourself. It was it was really good. Uh, last week, family resource, uh, where we got every fifth grade boy a black tie. We went in there and showed them how to tie ties. They had to kept keep the tie. Uh, I mean, I told him I think I was in high school. I remember my dad tell me how to put tata. So, that was really neat. Uh, we're doing a episode on uh or a section on proper manners uh and etiquette, things like that. We had a local dentist come in this pastime, talk about some hygiene, also some life skills, some job
040uh skills that they needed and and things that they prepared themselves in life. And and then next the last one we have is a local remodeling contractor that's going to come in. Uh my wife has been told that I need to attend that. They're going to uh show us how to do some basic construction type skills. So um Mr. Revis always knows that but but I do not. So anyway, attendance um those who know me in the past there I'm especially being a former DPP I am huge in attendance. I mean big in it. uh beyond big and uh so had a traveling trophy few years ago. They've upgraded. This thing is nice. You see a picture of me with a it's a a banner with the traveling trophy. It's given out every month uh
041and it's given at the Blackhawk assembly. Um and basically what it is is a home room with the best attendance that month uh during that school month that they received the traveling trophy. I I started this um this when I got there I looked I noticed uh there was a u a basketball goal like a Nerf basketball goal and when I was growing up I had Nerf basketball it was in a package uh and I put it up in the office with my Louisville sticker on it like I'm going to do something with attendance. So we have a a weekly attendance drawing and they come down and they they shoot a basket and they make it they get prizes. Even if they miss they get prizes and I mean I've got kids come, hey can
042I go shoot your basket? So, you know, if they've been good, I I'll send them in there and shoot. But they absolutely love it. Uh I had a first grade girl today. She came just a little short. She hit the bottom of the rim. And but we do that every uh Thursday. I announce it on Wednesday. And then on Thursday, I sort of pretend like it's a radio broadcast cuz I'm doing the announcements and and the kids really like it. Um we're doing a monthly attendance goal. Um we're always shooting for uh what that month was last the previous year. Uh first month we beat it by probably two points. So everybody knows that I can't sing. So I sang a solo happy birthday to the kids at the assembly. Um I had a special
043science program for a guy from Westboro came with some reptiles. And this one's going to be great because um I told them if they meet it that our principal, Mr. Kevin or or myself or Mr. beverage. They get the vote going on who gets a pie in the face and they're going to beat it by like two points. And so I'm starting during the lunchroom starting the process of, hey, Mr. Kevin needs to get the pie. And it looks like Mr. Kevin's going to do it. We'll see what happens there. Um, that's sort of some interesting and fun things going on. But hey, all those things, they deal with student achievement. There are underlying issues dealing with student achievement. they have an impact on it, you know, and and so I I wanted to touch
044on those things. That's sort of what we're looking at there. I'm going to let Mr. Evans, assistant principal, go into uh some of the more curriculum things dealing with that and and uh since he's been there most of the year. So, I'll turn it over to Mr. Evans. Thank you, Mr. P. Uh just a few things that I wanted to put on here. Uh MTSS of course is our big push for the district making up uh our reading and math time and trying to get students up to where they need to be. Um we do reading and math interventions uh 4 days a week uh which all together is about 2 hours for each one. Uh Friday consists of where they go in and they do uh progress monitoring tools. They check to see if
045we're understanding are we making growth? Are we doing what we need to do? Do we need to go in re-evaluate what we're doing for these kids? Um, we started uh with the flood and everything, we started a little bit later. Uh, so the only current data that we have out of here is for our reading assessment. Uh, you can see I put up the fall reading assessment, which of course is where we uh we began. This is for schoolwide. Um, the ones that are in red, you can see the hatched red are three or more grade levels behind. The solid red is two, the yellow is one, and obviously we want our kids to be in the green. Just the solid green is on or above grade level. in excuse me honor mid-grade level and
046then we have the hash green which is above grade level. Uh comparatively you can see we've had a massive reduction in the yellow range which is those students that are one or more grade levels behind. Uh we have had a massive increase in those that are on or above grade level. Uh also those students that are critically behind you can see the red area has been reduced. Uh if you'll take a look those that are above grade level, we actually had a 24% increase in those students who went above grade level uh comparatively we had roughly 19% uh decrease of those students that were in yellow. So obviously those students transition to where they need to be. So uh data is showing that we're we're on the right track. Uh but that's something we're going
047to continue to monitor. I went in and looked at math since we haven't started. There were a few fifth grade classrooms that started it, but it wasn't enough data to be able to compare, you know, some good some good comparison. So, I just went with the reading. Um, another thing that we was able to complete um prior to the flood was our intensive learnings. Uh, we do that for third and fifth grade. Uh, that is something that has really been eye opening for myself. Uh we actually had a student, a third grade student, uh really a sweet girl and her defensive learning described how she went in was responsible for the care of a younger sister. The sister ultimately passed away. We had no idea as a school that this girl had been through such
048trauma. You'd never know it by looking at it. But it's things like that that allowed us to peek in to those students lives. It it was it was an awesome experience because she's overcome things like that. Things that we I couldn't fath myself and Miss Carver were in there. I don't know if Miss or and Miss Jones were in there at that time or not, but Miss Carver and myself, I mean, it was it was showing us up. It it was it was awesome to see what this girl had been through and you would never know. Fantastic. Um, another big push that we're doing is PBIS. This is something that we have decided as a school to take an approach with. Uh if you're not familiar with what PBIS is, you can see it's positive
049behavioral interventions and support. More or less what it is is a different approach to this. Uh if you've been around long enough, you may have heard aspects of that. Uh it's something that we as a school have decided we want to push forward with. Uh we have connected with WKEDC. We've been working with them throughout the school year. We actually had uh a coaching call the other day and we had uh Miss P, our school counselor along with two teachers that went down to Eddieville today for a teacher training uh where they provide some strategies that they're they're going to bring back to us. Uh we hope to be able to implement tier one for the 25 26 school year uh is something that we we are quite passionate about. We're gaining steam uh within
050each grade level. We've presented it multiple times. We've looked at behavior reports through that time period. Uh we've implemented little strategies that we found along the way. We're finding it to be effective. Uh so it's something that we're going to carry on with. Uh through that we created a schoolwide behavior matrix. I went in and took every situation in the school, labeled it accordingly. You can see to the right that is kind of our slogan. It's black off pride. Um and you can see each word is kind of paced out for there's P is for positive REC, I candy, dependable, and he's engaged. And we've taken that and implemented each phase of the day, be it classroom, be it recess, be it dismissal, each piece of students going to know exactly what those expectations are.
051Uh and it's something that the uh we we've rolled out for hallway and lining up procedures just as a fever for uh staff. Fantastic staff has had really really positive reports back to me about that. Uh you can see also it incorporates social emotional behavior lessons. Uh Miss P uh our school counselor is working really really hard to get those social emotional lessons embedded in this stuff. Uh we're hoping to be a more proactive approach to those issues. Uh that way we're not dealing with so many behavioral outbursts. If we can address the problem at the beginning, that's our hope. We won't have to deal with the the long-term aspects of it. Uh and then I was actually in contact with WKC today through Miss P while she was there. Uh we have four PD
052days at the beginning of the school year, the 15th, the 18th, 19th, and 20th. Uh we are going to uh schedule two PD days, uh the 18th, and the 19th. Those folks from WKC are going to come down uh and work with us. We actually had a walk through uh scheduled for the 21st of this month. And that's going to give them some information as to what we need to work on, what they're going to bring to us uh in August. So, we're looking forward to that. That's all. Thank you. All right. Now, good afternoon, chairman, board members. Uh, month 8 ran uh March 17th through actually tomorrow. So, what you have is the first 15 days. Uh, that report was uh ran on Friday. Um, cuz you won't need it by Monday and you're
053covered. But I did uh run the uh attendance and the group average today. So I do have some updates and I will send you all tomorrow once the month ends the actual numbers for the month. Um but our attendance uh percentage for this month with this month was 93.1%. Uh which uh is up over the last 4 days. Um, and then our enrollment was 4,180, which is also up from last month, which was good to see. Um, a little bit on that. You can see the job course job course numbers went up 10. Um, so they helped us out a little bit this month. And then if you go school to school, you can see most of our schools kind of maintain their attendance and their enrollment, which was great. Um, our elementary leader for
054the month was Central City at 94.6%. 6% which you can see that's even up over the last 4 days. And then our uh New York County middle school was at 92.3%. And I will add that Central City last Friday only had six students out of the building. So that was pretty impressive that that I don't think I've heard of that over the last 2 years, but that's good to see. So hopefully we can maintain uh our enrollment for the rest of the year and then uh parts keep climbing. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. So now we're down to our board action items. Item A is to consider approving summer feeding program for the summer of 2025. Cooper. Thank you. All right. The food service department uh would like to continue the
055summer feeding program for the children in our county. This agenda item would formally approve the program for the summer of 2025. So, Miss Cooper does recommend that the board approve the summer feeding program for this summer. Question, but I will get back to you on that. We will check. I know that will though. As a matter of fact, today Joe shared that um if any of us here at the central office want to be trained to give out and distribute lunches this summer that we can be trained to do so. So many of us are planning to do that. All in favor considering approval of the summer feeding program, please say I. All opposed. Hear none. And move down now to approve community eligibility provision for food service for 256 year. Yes. And that's known
056as the C. It provides free breakfast and lunch to every child regardless of income. Mueller County is eligible because our percentage of children who are on Medicaid, food stamps, or foster children. This is a federal funded program and it is at no cost to the district. uh because we are a severe need county, we also get an extra 6% reimbursement on top of those. She does also recommend that we approve the community eligibility provision for the 202526 school year. All in favor of approving the C for food service for the 2526 school year, please say I. All thank you. Item C to consider the first reading of policy 09.427. Oh, this is all right. So this policy is regarding our dress code. Um and there have been several questions um clarifications that have been requested
057from um multiple people um in our district. So we are I'm going to make a motion to table this um until next month from Mr. All in favor of tableling first reading of board policy 09.427 427 regarding the dress code. Please say I oppose. I hear that. All right, we'll move down now to item D and that is consider early posting of a K through five teacher city elementary, Mr. L. Mr. Chairman, regular board members. So, this is a posting uh so that we can post this. Now, we have a staff member who will be retiring November 1st. We know if we wait until November to post these, a lot of our good applicants will be taken by other districts and other schools. Uh we also know if we were to hire someone that's from
058a school that you have the domino effect. So um this this hiring if approved would be a hire date of July 1 rather than having to wait till November for that. So I would recommend the board approve the posting of the K5 teaching position. All in favor of approving the early posting of the teachers in the city, please say I. I hear them. All right. So item E is to consider early posting of the family consumer science position at Lar County Middle School. Similar situation here. We have a teacher retiring. This one is actually September 1 with us not starting till August 27 somewhere in there. Uh same reasoning and opportunity to get uh more qualified applicants here at this time of year. So I recommend this early in the consumer science position at the
059middle school. Please say I and item F is to approve change order number one to the Miller County middle school house. So switch hands here. go from HR now to facilities. Uh so this is a change order. You got the description in your packet. Uh this is one that as they got into some of the work for sink hose some of the drainage that's been there for years uh is not was not in good shape when I saw come out of the ground. Uh so this is a change order uh to make that change and I would recommend the board approve that change. Mr. order. All in favor change order number one for the county house. Please say I do approve change order number two for the county school and on these change orders and
060I will get a signature at the end on these but this is change order number two. Um, this is to a similar situation to where there's some damage to some items that have been there for a long time. So, this is to remove the 3-in PVC water line all the way back to the existing middle school. What we have found here recently is there are a lot of we've had a lot of leaks recently in our water line. And as soon as they replace one, those lines are so brittle after all these years that knowing that we have this project going, just go ahead and replace that whole line because if we don't, we're going to patch patch patch just continuously. Uh so I would recommend that the board approve change order number two county
061house all in favor of approving the change order number two for middle school please say I all opposed I hear none and now item H to approve the change order number three for middle school house and Uh change order number three is in result to uh somebody mentioned earlier about the wind that we've had uh that took out our one of our press boxes and dugouts at the middle school. So this is to uh create some a feed to the new press box that we eventually hope to have down the road. Uh like I said, those were both demolished by the wind. I will make a note that on the change order, there are three extra zeros in there. So, this is not a billion dollar project. So, we will not sign this one tonight.
062We'll get a new form to sign, but the price is the same minus those three zeros. Uh, so apologize for that. I appreciate the catch on that. Uh, so I would recommend we go ahead and approve it and then wait to sign until all in favor house. Please say I did have a parent ask about the dugout dugout right now. There any plans to fix that or there are we are looking at some designs right now for that to take place. It will not take place this baseball season. I actually think the canopy that was there. It seems like we are windy city now for some reason and that was flipped over as well. Uh so we've got a temporary fence up to help safety wise for any power walls or anything to the dugout.
063U so we're working on some ways to get that. Yes, there will be a new question now to item I and that is to approve procedure 09.36 for student request form. This is a uh this a procedure so it only requires one reading. Basically what it was that the district used multiple forms when we requested a bus trip and so this consolidates them into one form trying to streamline it for a bus garage for those folks requesting make it a streamline process and we and uh we worked with bus garage and everyone to get the right things on this on the form. I'll make a motion to approve that. All in favor of approving procedure for the school request, please say I now J. This is to consider the fiscal year 2016 tenant budget. All
064right. Thank you again. This is our tenative budget, second iteration of the budget process. So, uh what's new? You add fund two and then this is the revenues for all the funds that are that are that we have that we can at this time. And we also had major construction and maintenance issues. Um now when I say revenue for all funds you'll notice that daycare revenues are not on there. Um it does not munus does not the software system does not populate it. I have I do have a slide where I'll show you what we estimate what it will be but it will not show up until the working budget just so you guys are aware. Uh so revenue line automotables uh decreases seek which was reflected in the draft budget was you know is
065decreased by about $1.1 million. Um fund two is about a million and that is through that's also through se but it's through the on the on the fund two side. Uh then food service is $180,000 reduction. That's through non-reimburseable expenses. That's when they get uh like certain grants that will come like in the middle of the year. You don't know you don't know if you're going to get them for certain. So those are pull off. Uh increases. All right. Property tax $165,000. This is not me saying property taxes are increasing. This is me saying that the assessment value goes up. So that increases it a little bit. So the revenue that's it, not the tax itself. So which in all actuality as assessments go up, you guys know as the tax rate will come down.
066Just wanted to make I wanted to be absolutely certain that we already said that. Um and then fund two increase of 126,209 and that's in federal uh dollars through through state avenues. So all right so total fund revenues uh and I pulled beginning balance and um the on behalf out just so you guys can get a real feel of what is pulled in. General fund is about $39 million. uh daycare which is what I was mentioning before about 551,000 uh the last three years or so it had been elevated due to uh co funds that they received. So just so you're aware of that it's and it could actually come in less when they funds start dropping out. Just so you're aware of that. Food service about 3.85 85 million building funds uh 1,429,000 that
067is used to make bond payments. So those are funds that come from the seed formula as well as local taxes and state funding sources. So that's a I didn't put comments in there, but 1,429,000 capital outlay of $410,643 is $100 per uh child enrollment. Okay, so that's how we get that from the state. So the that and building fund are both used to make payments for bond payments. So when you see our bond payment schedule, that's where those funds are actually shifted over to. It's called a fund transfer. We move it out of that and we move it into debt service. So when I like when you see the old national wealth payments, right? Those come from that those dollars. Fund two, which is federal, state, all different combined is 6.8 million. Um like when
068we had co funds that was in the 11 12 million range. Well, you know, that's dropped down. So, and one thing that we tried to do with our CO funds, um, some of you were here and some of you were not, uh, is that we use CO funds to pay staff because some districts did use it to build, use it for construction, but when you get into federal dollars, you then have to pay Davis bacon wages, which are, and I think I I think I brought this to you all at one point, you know, it was a $700,000 increase in the cost of building something whereas the you know increase in cost for salaries was like 4 to 500,000 so it was a savings really of 300,000 so we decided to use that and that's
069we've used it to kind of bolster our general fun expense line item notables decreases we're in supplies about 244,000 debt service of 113,000. However, um I will say that when we start bond for a new new construction, that's going to go back up. So, I mean that that'll be reflected. I'm you know, I'm not going to put it on there until we actually do uh pull the trigger on those. uh increases in expenses. $975,000 at the high school is for the resurfacing of the metal roof over there. There's a lot of holes in that in that roof. So, we did the the flat roof last year on both the middle school and the high school, but the you'll notice that there's metal roofs over there. They're in disrepair. And this is actually uh a coating
070on top of it because to replace all the metal was in the $2 to $3 million range. So this is a good use of it. Actually they'll they'll color it like gray. So kind of go with the new color schemes of the the high school. So good. Um I had about 600,000 previously, but now I have additional 900,000 year mark for turf at the school. because it's in disrepair. So that's about roughly where that resurface at the the football field. So we don't want kids getting hurt. There are holes in it and people have gotten things. So, how much does uh roughly I mean at a minimum? 780,000. Uh which we thought it was going to come in a little bit cheaper than that, but in order to get something that is comparable to what
071we have, it's going to be around and then 7 or 80,000 is a minimum if we can contract directly with the company. But if they force us to use architects and those sorts of things, you have to go, it's going to it's going to add to the cost. So I've earmarked that 900,000. And then I have a question on that just since we're talking about it. Do we know where the turf is manufactured? Is that with things going on right now? That I'm not certain of. I don't know if it's a domestic or not. I got Derek kind of digging into that. Um, he did contact, you know, like we've been I know he's been working with Scott Noel on that to try to say, "Okay, where is a lot of times and I will
072say this, we're not certain where to I mean like there's no yellow pages for, you know, like turf. So, um, for instance, you know, like I've had to go to these guys about like like lighting, you know, like like like for one of one of the things that's going on at the middle school, uh, where that new feed and that kind of stuff where they just did uh, is going to new lighting, you know. Well, I can't just like the only one I know is Musco, right? And then we found another company that was about $200,000 less than Musco, you know, same LED lighting type stuff. So, um, this is a a vendor that they have worked with in the past that they've recommended. So, and that's kind of how I'm kind of getting like
073I go to I go to other districts and say, "Hey, who have you used?" And that kind of stuff. They put me in contact with people, too. But it's also another So, yeah, that's I'll ask I'll ask Darren. Thanks. I appreciate that. And then uh I've created a major uses list so you guys can see uh just some really maintenance things that are are in the 3 to 5 year range that really are are going to call for use of funds. So uh general fund general this is general fund only. So and which is our biggest fund. I want you guys to really that's the focus in on salaries about 28.4 4 million. Uh I did put on behalf of this again that's a non-cash item. It's 12.79 million. I will say that there was
074legislation that was defeated wherein they were going to give us on behalf through the seek formula which I called multiple times to tell them please do not do this because what would happen in my opinion is that at some point they back off on the seed formula and then we're still on the hook for that on behalf which then places a tax burden on us. So um and I don't think we all want that at all. So employee benefits of 4.5 million professional technical services 687,000 purchase property and service 3.3 million that is where that $975,000 is for the roofing just so you're aware. Other purchase services $991,000 and then supplies above 4.8 million. that that ranges from everything you know uh and then property of 1.96 million. So these are these are for future
075projects and maintenance needs right. So at the high school the elevator is in operational. It is operational but it is becoming more and more uh haphazard at times. So, I've asked Derek to kind of keep it going until we get to that point where, you know, he calls me up and says, "Hey, it's really, you know, kind of like the the PVC line. We're going to be patching it till we blew the face and then we we spent that much money anyway. We could have just fixed it." Um, turf repair. I It was originally at 600,000, but then I I changed it on this slide. So, uh, black top is going to be needed out of the high school. Uh, about $440,000, which was the same amount that was out of the middle school. I
076will say that, um, you know, that that amount may may or may not decrease depending upon if there's any construction that may uh encroach on that area. So, I don't know. Exterior doors about 11,000 per door. Uh Der told me only have one door that's probably going to need replaced. So, and and the reason why they're 11,000. If you look at like the I'll just take for example the entrances of the uh the gym, you know, on either side that have the three doors as one whole unit. So, it's not just a replacement and all. Yeah, it's framing all that's for removal, install, that kind of stuff. uh metal roof repair $975,000 at the ALC uh boiler is about $20,000. They have an older unit. Um it's a heater units that they have for individual
077rooms. Uh 13 of them is about $65,000. Rooftop units that to cool are seven of them about 3,000 a piece. Uh black top resealing close to 10,000. Uh, at longest I got 46 heat pumps that are that which is now middle school. Those are those are ones that are about 20 years old. So, as they start falling off, there's 46 of them that could be up to $230,000. Rooftop units, that's about $200,000 just cuz those are bigger, larger units. So, uh, middle school again, same thing with the elevator. It's identical the other one. Then metal roof repair. Eventually, that one is not in near the condition that the high school one was, but it will eventually be needed as well. Central City Elementary has 13 condensers that are will probably need to be replaced uh
078in the next 5 years. 65,000 heater units. Again, another they're about they're about 5,000 a piece is where estimated. Greenville Elementary has 62 heat pumps. That's 310,000. Uh outside air makeup units, uh those you have there are CO2 levels in the building and you have to keep it at a certain part per million. So, the outside air units will pull in outside air to lessen that CO2 that's in the air. Um, that's about $75,000. Does that make sense on those things? Okay. Again, a lot of this is HVAC issues. Uh, South Elementary heat pumps. Now, it's a it's a newer school that's going to be uh beyond. So, we do I did want to say the Central City Elementary and plan on doing that around fiscal year 27. So, not next year, but the year
079after. We're going to try to start looking at at getting those fixed in the bus garage. I'm sorry. Okay. So, but back uh bus garage, HVAC, uh the units alone are 90 to$125, but the duct work and that kind of stuff. And then you want to make sure that it's properly insulated, that sort of thing. So, it's probably about $500,000 project. And they operate in the summer with the doors open. So, you know, I want to take care of those guys cuz they're keeping our aging bus fleet on. I really want them to be comfortable. So, uh, and we have folks out there that can retire and we really need to keep them on. So, so the total for that all these items that I've just listed is about five little over $5 million. So,
080I just wanted you to know like that's that's something that's right off the top of what we have in savings, you know. So, just to make you all aware, those are things that I'm going to be placing in the budget over the next few years. So, that's part of why we keep keep things on hand. So uh also committed earmarked funds those are the major renovation and construction items that might be you know basically you know we are going to get bonding funds but the the we're in the ear mark those those payments cuz there there is only some that's going to be covered by the building fund and the capital outlay. So they do have to pull funds in from our general fund in order to make those bond payments. those maintenance items that
081I listed and retiring commitment annually is about $500,000 to $600,000. So, are there any questions? And I wanted to get this to you all early here so I can really start focusing in on the next phase of our salary schedule and that kind of stuff. You guys start atession 26. All in favor of considering this year 2016, please say I opposed. Thank you. And then we're down now to our fourth consent agenda items and that's to approve the minutes of parkour meeting surplus of Central City Elementary items, surplus and disposal of broken and outdated technology equipment. consideration of facility use agreement and field trip request for members have a chance to review these. Um there's a field trip request um that doesn't have a it says it's going to be a charter bus, but it's
082not specified which bus company and that's the trip to just make a note that that needs to be completed. Thank you. Um so anyway, anything else on the board agenda? If not, I need a motion to approve. All in favor of approving the board and agenda items, please say I have motion. All in favor of please say I hear we are. Right here.