001Good evening. I'd like to call the meeting of the Henderson County School Board to order. Uh please stand for our prayer. Uh Mr. Bow your hands, please. Most kind and gracious. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Father, for this day that you've given us the many blessings of life. Lord, we thank you for such a wonderful school system here in this county. We thank you for successful graduations and everybody making it safely. Father, we thank you for blessing this county with a great school system and and excellent people who teach and work in the system. Father, we just pray, Lord God, that you'll just lead, guide, and direct us uh where we can make the right decisions for the for the children and workers of this county. It's in Christ's name we ask. Amen. Please join
002me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Okay, board members, uh, you have before you the consent and regular agenda for tonight's meeting. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? Second. Okay, it has been moved and seconded to adopt the consent and regular agenda. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose like sign. Okay, next uh we now move to the approval of the consent agenda which includes the minutes from the previous meeting and the financial reports. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll make a motion. Second. Okay, it has been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda.
003All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose, like sign. Okay, going on to new business. We have two items under this section. First, an executive session with our board attorney. We will recess for the excess executive session. Only members of the board and those individuals whose presence is necessary for this discussion are permitted to attend. and we'll return to the open meeting following this executive session. We're set up in the executive session. Our ne next item under new business is the approval of disposing of surplus property and M will you present this? Certainly there is a a sheet. This is required by policy that when we have surplus property that we need to dispose of and the board does have to approve of it. There's the year's bin numbers and I'm going to ask
004Mr. Blair to explain the process of how this property is disposed. So, and and I may need to get some clarification from Megan. This is the first time that I've ever actually done surplus. I put her on the spot a little bit, but we uh have you have to present it to y'all. This is our surplus property. Anything that is valued at over $500, we will go to Gov deals and we will actually sell it at an auction. Um, anything disposed of under $500, then we can dispose of it how we see fit. The first list is the school buses. These buses are the buses. It's fine. the school buses that are either aged out or miles miles out. Um so that is the first list and then down at the bottom is some maintenance
005surplus stuff that we have accumulated over the last several years. Um we have replaced with newer or more efficient equipment um or things that are just nonoperational anymore due to due to their age, wear and tear. So that's the two list that you have in front of you. Megan, is there anything you'd like to add about surplus property? No, that money will just go back into whatever account is sold at auction. All right. What the uh what it was bought out of, it goes back into the Yes, it'll go back in. So, if it's buses, it'll go back into transportation. Transportation. Okay. I move we approve the disposal list as written. Second. Okay. So, it's been moved and seconded to approve the surplus surplus property disposal. All in favor say I. I. All oppose like
006some. All right. Motion carries. So, uh, next item on the agenda is the, uh, next board meeting. And the next board meeting uh will be scheduled for June the 12th at 6 o'clock p.m. here at the board office. So the next couple of months uh we'll have it at the board office because school's out of session and there'll be a lot of maintenance repairs done on schools and we really don't need to be in there cuz chairs will all be out. They'll be polishing floors and things like that. So the next two months we'll be here at the board office. Uh the next is uh on the agenda, director of schools updates and comments. Uh Mr. Beich. Thank you, Mr. Walker. I want to say first of all, two outstanding graduations last week, Thursday and
007Friday night, both schools showed out and it seemed like expression of good time was had the hall at both places. And I commend uh Dr. Stay and her staff, Mr. Rainey and his staff on the job well done there. What you'll find listed on these three pages are elementary graduations, award ceremonies. Um, you might want to go to some of those if you're able. You'll notice that a lot of them are at the same time, so that will be difficult. And I've picked out a few to go to myself. Today we had our annual field day at Sports. The weather cooperated. Mr. Hollinssworth did a great job with that. Uh and yes, I give a special shout out to Mayor Jeff Griggs of Lexington who is grill master and two representatives from Senator Senator Hagerty's
008office was with us today as well. Administrative updates. Dr. Norton has accepted the principal ship in Scotts Hill and was assumed duties on July 1st. And we I say we because it's the office and the board. Thank Dr. State and Mr. Wilkinson for guiding the school through this transitional period. At the last county commission meeting, I'm assuming even though it wasn't addressed necessarily, it was it counts as the first reading of the budget. We did not have the first. So, they had to be presented the budget um prior to there's so many it has to be given to them by May 1 and then they have so many days to send it back. um to the board if there was an issue. So that was just basically given it to look at, but it does
009not count in the press rating. That will all go um with the county government budget as one hole. Gotcha. Okay. Thanks for clarifying that. I I mis I misrote here. I thought because it was on the agenda that counted as the first reading, but it was simply the presentation. The board has finished their budget. Here's the budget now. Okay. So, there'll be two more board meetings. That's what I've seen do and I saw it on the agenda that DOE budget was on the it's hard to understand what saying it was a pre will there be they will have to meet a deadline so at some point in June so the first training will have to be before June uh let me see the We're on track for July 1st. Yes, the first reading will have
010to be before June 9th. So, um Okay. I anticipate it being the end of May, the 31st of June when they have that. All right. Thank you very much. Um so, breaking news, uh this afternoon, Marcus Balinsky and Patrick Lewis from Scotsill High School both won they won in a as a doubles team and will be advancing to the spring fling. Congratulations to them. LHS has a track team competing at Murphy'sboro and uh LHS soccer is competing in Sycamore this afternoon. Other than that, our sports, our spring sports are through for the year. The other things you'll notice down there are things you can read yourself. The last day of school is May 23rd. Summer school will only be held at Kenno one school this year for the elementary. Both high schools will have summer
011school. But I wanted to give an operations update. Mr. Blair got this information to me. Um, a lot of questions have been asked about number two, the outdoor classrooms. It seems like a long time ago when we approved that bidding is expected to begin in early June recently. Is that No. So, what we're doing is is they are finishing up the bid packages right now. Uh, the first the next thing that has to happen is they've got to have a soil integrity and compaction test done. and we are doing those on Friday. If all that goes well, they are hoping to present us the first um preliminary bid package first of June. Okay. Um so the Scottsdale baseball building hopefully will be done very soon. He had weather didn't cooperate well and uh get opening
012for buses is scheduled for May 16th at 10:00 a.m. We're still on for today that basically uh that's it except I want to double back to and then the uh lights for Scottill U parking lot is that yeah, can you give an update on that? So I've got a quote done from Phil Ward with is it integrity Acuity Acuity Acuity Lighting. He's got a package put together for me. I talked to Derek Fesmire. As soon as school's out, cars are gone, we're going to get a layout on how the electrical needs to be run, and we will have to bid out the labor portion of doing that. Um, but he found us some LED packages to replace the lighting on both the walls and in the parking lot. And then we'll have to go in
013and we'll have to make sure that all of the electrical is compatible with that. And then we'll have to do some trenching and and get that done. the labor had to be bid. The uh the lighting package itself was that what came in. Yeah. LED lighting is real finicky about grounds. Yep. So, yep. As far as uh updates and comments, that pretty much sums it up for me. Um, it's been a good week, busy week, but when you get into this season, it's a chance to celebrate our kids, our students, and both high schools did a great job. Our elementary schools do a good job as well. And it was nice to see those elementary students out at the sports soccer complex today coming together. All seven schools having a great time. So, it was
014wild. Well, you know, actually it wasn't that wild. Really? Yeah. I was pleading. I came at I came at lunch. So, they were eating their burgers that the mayor had drink. Anyway, it's been a it's a good day to be an employee at the Henderson County School District. Really enjoy today. That's all. Okay. So, next on the agenda is public comments. So, uh there's no one here. Okay. I would like to say one thing. Uh I attended the uh foundation scholarship uh programs at both Scottsdale and Lexington done and I was real pleased to see that committee's students receiving the air scholarship. I mean that it it was quite impressive. I appreciate Mr. Carter bringing that up. It absolutely was. uh Scotts Hill year after year they've done a great job down there and Lexington
015has lagged behind and this year they had a packed house too. Lexington high schools the Aris Foundation is a blessing to our district and the amount of scholarships and different colleges they're going to keep it with the intent is to fully keep it going. That that is actually her passion uh even more so than his. Yes. President. Yes. Thank you, Mr. I mean they it just pleased I was just so pleased to see that many students planning to do something after high school. Yes. And yes, that that that was a good thing. And they encourage them to return to their communities too. That's part of their initiative. They've started new onreership thing center and they're they want them to come back. They said that's part of Mr. er's vision, not just unlocks college and trade
016school and military, not come back, but to come back and be good citizens of our county. Okay. So, if there's no further business, anything else? I I'd just like to say both graduations, I'd like to staff to know both graduations I thought went off. It was efficient and and I thought they did a really really good job. Like everybody enjoyed it. I like the kid. I like the kid that walked across the stage when they called his name. You could hear his dad in the crowd. Congratulations. Now get out of my house. I heard about that. The whole place started laughing. It was It was two good nights. Mr. I thought it was really good. Is there any more any business that needs to be discussed? I move we second. All right. Uh all in
017favor say I. I. All oppose like sun. Meeting adjourned.