001was he part of the school system was it I think okay so we'll go ahead and call to order this regular meeting of the kitten City School District's board of education for March 17th roll call Mrs heidinger yes Mr lley yes Mr Wingfield yes Mr carine yes Mr Hensel yes 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 invisible with liberty and justice for all okay item number three is approval Andor correction of the minutes of the regular meeting held on February feary 10th do I have a motion to accept carine thanks Doug hcel thanks Rodney Mr lley yes Mr Wingfield yes Mr carine yes Mr Hensel yes Mrs heidinger yes okay moving on to item number
002four uh principal well student showcase uh the preschool students from Kenton Elementary School America D such last two it's crazy I said we don't care first time I'm out of here he likes it's like good evening um these are 10 of our preschool students from Kenton City preschool and we're just going to give you a little preview of how we teach the leader me program in preschool and one of the first ways that we do that is we sing a song and we're going to sing that song for [Music] you it first things [Music] first sharp the we are [Music] [Applause] we another way that we teach the leader and me program in preschool is by encouraging leadership in the classroom through classroom jobs classroom job responsibilities are rotated each day so that all students
003get the opportunity to lead this helps students to take ownership to learn accountability and to develop their independence in our classroom we have um these job charts and this is how we rotate through and take turns having jobs in the classroom they're going to share with you their favorite job to have in the classroom my favorite L are daughters to be the one doctor my favorite weird dog is the star room my favorite um my favorite job is to collect the cards my favorite we is greater my favorite my favorite job is the L here my favorite job is a n needle my favorite job is the CER helper my favorite job is a c helper my favorite job is the snag [Music] Kow thank you for letting us share our genius with you we
004can get a picture real quick if they don't mind just stay right there we're going to have board members come and stand behind them anybody else guys did a really good job if you look up here real quick ready one two three one more time one two all right [Laughter] nice job job [Music] [Laughter] guys too cute it's kind of wild to watch those kids think like your kids you know our kids were there like it doesn't seem like that long ago but it's that long it's crazy it is crazy just get get rid of the ones I have I mean Luke is a freshman that's good enough cut her loose next year get her own place they're out did for the place yeah she can Uber eat I wish had Uber in bye bye
005[Music] bye they're cute oh yeah okay moving on to uh item number five was there anybody signed up signed up okay thanks Doug um item six reports of treasure okay um couple things in the agenda here um on line 10e we're just amending in Appropriations uh for those funds ahead of us we did get some extra federal funds so that's why you're seeing seeing 10 e and 10f some of those have been increased um and there is a transfer of funds from the general fund to the pi fund of 400,000 again that's to help provide for the upcoming building project items that until we get our other money released we're using our PI fund money whatever we do get come back from the building project we'll go back into the O3 fund to reimburse ourselves
006um in our interest earned for the project um in total between our lfi and local funds we are at 3 point almost 3.3 million and then just as an item for the agenda on here 10n needs to be increased by about $3,000 we the quote didn't get sent to us till like late today after we thought we had a good idea of what it would be but it's just an additional 3,000 on that so we'll just increase that by 3,000 on 10n and that's it okay thanks Joe um moving on to oh wait we have a yeah motion to accept that y Wingfield no vote um Mr Wingfield yes Mr carine yes Mr Hensel yes Mrs heidinger yes Mr lley yes um item number seven as the superintendent's report yeah uh just a couple of
007things uh I you guys hopefully all got my as R calls it my Sonet uh all the explanations of things but I wanted to highlight tonight um the those that are going to be recognized right um that will be recognized individuals for alumni of fame um this will be recognized during graduation you guys probably remember that uh in years past but uh I wanted to make a little bit of a couple of comments here on on the individuals um especially one in particular because we have some family members here so um if you don't know uh Mark Ian uh graduated uh 1971 from Kitten High School uh he ended up spending quite a few years coaching as the head uh women's um basketball coach at Toledo and had a lot of very successful Seasons there
008but um not only is he one of the most winning winningest coaches in the Mac but also uh had one of the highest ppas was always big on his girls doing well academically one particular year he actually finished second or his team finished second in the country uh with the highest GPA in division one so he obviously you know coached in a way that not just took care of the Athletics with the academics as well but he also uh volunteers and has done quite a bit for youth organizations and things and I'll I'll highlight a lot of that at graduation uh the other uh individual or two other individuals but one other one uh John Jester and some of you may or may not have known him because he graduated back in 1935 so it's
009been a while um but he was a board member uh for Kenton City schools and uh helped with a lot of uh I think they had a couple a new Elementary maybe new middle school there were several different projects that he was involved with and again I'll give a better explanation later um but he also was one of the co-founders of the Community Foundation and as you know you know the Community Foundation uses a tremendous amount of money um to uh local projects and things now that we benefit from involved with the Boy Scouts he um also was one that helped to kind of start the decorating of the courthouse and that kind of thing here in Kenton so there's there's a list and I'll I'll go through that better at graduation but I wanted
010to give that and then the last one that I wanted to really take a second here is uh David sturgeon so all of you probably are very familiar with David start uh 1959 graduate and served the Kenton City schools for 37 years um was a teacher assistant principal principal and eventually superintendent for a while um and that's awesome that he served our district for that long but also the way that he served the rest of the community uh through whether it be Lions um I know he was involved with the United Way he worked for the sheriff's uh Department a lot of this even after he retired and so just definitely somebody that gave back to the community and continue to give back to the community um and then one of the things that I
011know for me my family was impacted by was the uh he was a co-founder for the Excellence for Education uh foundation and so both of my my kids have benefited from scholarships and things that came about because of that so I I just uh I don't know I want to make sure that we thank the family for coming his wife is here his son is here um and two um spous yes well daughter-in-law and two granddaughter so thank you guys very much for coming and we're very excited I'm super excited to be able to make this official during the graduation ceremony because um there isn't too many people that deserves this anym than he does so thank you all right thanks Chad for sharing that um item number eight is board committee reports I think
012it was co-curricular right yeah we had um the extra and co-curricular um it was kind of interesting um I never really grew up in the uh music side of the world so I definitely got my eyes open to how that works it was very fascinating they took a a look back of how successful they were uh this winter they were extremely successful um and they're very proud of that uh they work super hard um Tod quino and and and Travis wisman in there I'm just telling us all about that um their first uh inaugural Canon cup uh was success um they have a lot of U other events that they have attended and traveled to and they were talking about how much success that they've had of that compared to the history of Kenton and
013how we are continuing to uh progress the whole music a department into the right direction that was really you know the big um take talking points for there um then looking forward um they spent a lot of time talk about looking forward to and and with the new Pac um is you know a lot lot of opportunity there for that um they're planning future events um they got the you know second you know they want to redo that Kenton cup again uh next year um they also talked about some fundraising um and the one thing that I took away uh from that they're talking about doing some fundraising had a wish list and I was shocked by some of the value of what it would cost to get like a trombone or something like that
014um I would have if you would have bet me I would have lost whatever the BET was cuz I would have never ever guess that um so yeah it's kind of interesting see they had a couple things under wish lft some um equipment there and then some equipment for the P um we also uh Brett pcel was there on the uh athletic side there was some discussion about a athletic uh Kenton athletic Hall of Fame for sports um so we are working through that to see and that may be something that pops through uh here later all right thanks thanks Brad um I just wanted to mention real quick too that I think it's just neat to recognize the band will be going to perform at state for their large group contest and I think
015it's been a very long time since they've went and been able to do that so I just wanted to make mention of that real quick yeah I want to say 50 something years before last year I think when they got the superior ra and then they got it again yeah I'm thinking right yeah so yeah they get an opportunity to go to comped state so just a congratulations to kids and Mr wisman and Mr Gibson and all them all their staff and everything so it's a really cool opportunity I I think we also need to recognize the girls basketball team made it to District finals uh had a tremendous season um ended up what 19 and four 20 and 4 something like that 21 and4 whatever it was yeah so uh I mean you know
016one of the best basketball girls basketball teams we've ever had and uh they played hard I went to the tournament game up there and you were there yep um it just uh you know that things just didn't fall their way so but yeah so congratulations to uh um Jay and and the girls so yeah thanks for sharing that Rodney I think it just goes to speak just here recently how there's just been a lot of really cool things going on and a lot of good things that we should be proud of and you know been a lot of success stories so how many kids did BPA Nationals right I mean it's won we want to stay BPA an event having how many kids go down to there I just think anywhere you look around the
017school from the kids here at preschool all the way through you know kids that are in high school or even just graduated that are doing great things yeah there's I think that you can highlight y any way you look yeah a lot of things to celebrate so really awesome I mean a lot of people just look all the negatives and if they don't if they aren't up close to this school you know even you know if you could just go into these schools and see what these teachers are doing it's just phenomenal and you know I was that way I heck I didn't know what was going on in there other than you know parent teachers my kids were in there so um it's it's pretty amazing uh what this school system's doing right now
018so we should all be very proud I think absolutely yep all right uh moving on to item nine old business I don't think there was any old business so just a a motion to accept nothing for that nothing oh nothing sorry going to new business going into new business item 10 authorizations and resolutions um item 10A is to approve the following donations um Bert and Ronda grubs to KHS conservation class in the amount of $100 um K khhs Sports Quest Federal Credit Union in the amount of $900 uh Rogers Insurance Agency in the amount of $500 Robinson Fen in the amount of $500 and then Mulla Industries in the amount of $11,000 so again we just say thank you to all those donations um item 10B is to approve the following overnight trips uh top
01920 show choir going to Norwell High School Fort Wayne Indiana um March 14th and 15 uh Kenton op FFA to the Ohio Expo Center Columbus for the uh Ohio FFA convention April 30th through May 2nd um HOSA to host a state competition and Glass City Center too Ohio April 9th and 10th and then the JROTC junior senior trip to Miami Florida Cayman uh April 20th through the 26th that would be a fun trip to probably be it's one way to get kids no kidding um item 10 C is to approve the facility use agreement between K City schools and the Harden County Agricultural Society has presented um item 10d is to approve the 2024 tax rates and the 2025 estimated revenues as submitted by the Harden County auditor uh moving on to item 10e uh
020is to approve the following amended Appropriations and Joe earli in her report kind of gave us a overcap of all of these here uh item 10f is to approve the amendment of to the certificate of estimated resources as follows um item 10g is to approve the following fund to fund transfer which is from the general fund to the permit Improvement Fund in the amount of $400,000 um item 10h is to approve the school calendars for three years period August 20 August 2025 through May of 2028 as presented um item 10i is to approve the following sliding fee schedule for preschool students um item 10j is to approve the purchase of a Ford Transit van for the cafeteria from brye family dealerships um and item 10K is to approve substitute bus drivers on any field trip
021of eight or more hours shall receive re uh a $220 per DM payment for meals for the 2024 2025 school year and this is the same language that is in the opsy contract uh section 164 um item 1011 is to approve the updated special education model policies and procedures um item 10m is to approve the guidelines for the Kenton business Professionals of America uh BPA scholarship is presented um item 10 n is to approve the purchase of server and Licensing for cameras for the new middle school high school and jel again uh covered that new amount uh earlier in her report uh moving on to item 10 approve Northwest transport LLC to transport a student effec of February 26th 2025 through May 22nd 2025 to High Road school of Maran and now we just need
022a motion to accept if there's no further henel Rodney carine will second thanks Doug vote uh Mr carine yes Mr Hensel yes Mrs heidinger yes Mr lley yes Mr Wingfield yes moving on to item 11 uh Personnel items uh item 11a is to approve the following volunteers for the 2024 2025 school year and we can see the uh list of volun unteers there um again thank you to all the volunteers that are coming stepping forward for that um item 11b is to approve the following substitutes for the 2024 2025 school year and you can see the list there and again thank you to to the substitutes coming forward for that um item 11 C is to approve supplemental contract employment for the 2024 2025 school year um Eric Baker as the kitten High School spring
023weight trainer um item 11d is to approve the retirement resignation of Cathy Bishop um KES educational assistant effective August 1st of 2025 uh Cathy has been with the district for 27 years uh so we just want to give a a very big thank you uh and appreciation for all of her years of service and commitment to uh get city schools in KES um item 11 e is to approve Gina Shin KES custodian second shift item 11f is to approve David Jones K custodian second shift item 11g is to approve Deb man's fifth grade ELA for a limited one-year contract for the 2025 2026 school year item 11h is to approve Ellie Allen as KMS science teacher for a limited one year contract and item 11 I is to approve the written resignation of Carrie Miller
024KHS educational assistant effect of March 13 2025 uh motion to accept mfield thanks Brad hi thanks Tasha vote Mr carine yes oh anything it's okay I was just say as a reminder we will be recognizing quite a few of the folks that have are retired uh and because it's happened throughout the year and our May board meeting so we'll have those people come and be able to talk for a minute and just thank him so all right thanks Chad thanks Mr Hensel yes Mrs heidinger yes Mr lley yes Mr Wingfield yes we need a motion to go into executive session okay a motion to go into executive session hiding a thanks m f Brad thank you time what's the time uh 7:25 725 7:25 all right okay the next regular Board of Education let's do
025the vote Mr Hensel sorry yes Mrs heidinger yes Mr lley yes Mr Wingfield yes Mr carine yes okay that's it okay the next regular Board of Education meeting will be held on April 12th 20 April 21st 2025 7 p.m. huh right there's no there will be no further business after that right for executive session those are for you to sign keep us on T is this is this your first meeting uh