001to the forsible liberty and justice for all. And now we have the pleasure of having the ACS choir with the ECC students. Oh, [Music] say proud we held at the twilight last gleaming. stripes and [Music] brightly [Music] stream through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say that our spangled banner [Music] yet for the land of the free and the home of God. of praying [Applause] [Music] Happy young folk on The little Mary and [Music] bright home. Good night. No more my [Music] lady. Oh, no [Music] more. We will sing for my Kentucky home. for my old Kentucky home far away. [Music] [Applause] Yeah. And now that call this uh regularly scheduled board meeting to order. Please show that uh we have three members in attendance and two members on Zoom. Sir, and
002as a reminder, um, if we don't have our microphones on, they can't hear us. So, um, can I get a motion to adopt the agenda? First and second. Can I get a roll call, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Honey Contress. Yes. James Sergeant. Uh, can I get a motion to approve the uh, April 14th, 2025 uh, regular board meeting minutes? The first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown, Steve Carmichael, Contra, James Sergeant, financial report. Good evening. Overall for the month of April, our revenue increased by 11.3%. The increase is due in part to an increase in property tax of approximately $410,000, motor vehicle and utility taxes of 44,000, interest on our investments of 54,000, and an increase in seek
003of approximately 643,000 over the prior year or 6.4%. Expenditures for salary and benefits are down 1.8% from the prior year. As I previously told you, that's due in large part to funding positions out of grants that we were previously funding out of the general fund and a decrease in retirement costs for classified employees. Non-s salary expenditures are down 5.9%. Uh, as I said last meeting, the bus costs that we had last year versus this year about $600,000 less. If you remove that $600,000 anomaly, we're actually up about $350,000 in non- salary expenditures. That is all I have for this evening. Can I get a motion to approve the financial report? Can I get a second? With the first and second, can I roll a roll, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael,
004Sunny Content, James Sergeant, orders of the treasurer. Are there any questions regarding the orders? If not, can I get a motion to approve the orders with the first and second? Can I go to roll call, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael, Sunny Fentrez, James Sergeant, superintendent report. It's great to see so many students and parents and community members here. Um we've had a great month. Um the ending of the school year is always bittersweet. Um there's a lot of things going on across the district and all the schools. Um, so parents and students, please make sure that you pay attention to all the communications that come home, whether it be via text, whether it be the one calls and all the things because we've got DARE graduation, we've got awards ceremonies,
005we got field day, we've got uh field trips, we're still finishing up assessment. And so there's just a lot going on. So please make sure that you pay attention um to all of that communication from your student school. We also had a wonderful um prom on the green on Saturday evening. As some of you were there, you know how beautiful it was. Um, I'd like to say thank you to all of the staff, administration, and community members that work super hard to make this another beautiful um, night to remember for our students. We have seven days of school left with the last day being scheduled on Wednesday, May the 21st, with graduation scheduled at 6:30 p.m. in Anderson County High School. So, please be looking um and um paying attention to um the venue whether
006it's going to be inside or outside because that decision will be made very soon. Um I'd like to say thank you. Let's give our chorus from the Anderson County High School and our littles another round of applause for the beautiful music this evening. We have several um recognitions this evening. We're going to go ahead and get started. Um, first principal glass and I would like to recognize two individuals from Anderson County High School who have achieved top honors at the state level through the Kentucky Family Career and Community Leaders of America. First, we have uh big congratulations to Mrs. Lauren Wcott. Mrs. Wayne Scott, would you please come forward? our family and consumer sciences teacher and FCCLA advisor, being named Kentucky FCCLA outstanding advisor of the year, nominated by students, and elected by adviserss across
007the entire state. Mrs. Wayne Scott was recognized for her exceptional leadership, commitment to student growth, and dedication to the mission of FCCLA. This is a very prestigious honor that reflects the impact that she makes every day in the classroom and beyond. Let's give her a great big round of applause. Congratulations. We also celebrate a very special student, Miss Ella Hughes, a remarkable student at Anderson County High School, who has been elected to serve as the Kentucky FCCLA Vice President of Public Relations for the upcoming year. chosen from student leaders across the state. Ella will represent Kentucky FCCLA on the state executive council, promoting FCCLA initiatives and serving as a voice for thousands of members statewide. Let's give Miss Ella a great big round of applause as well. They've worked hard. What would you like to
008say about the program? Because I know that there's thousand things that you could probably say about the program and your students and how hard you all have worked this year. Um yes, as Sheila attested, um it's a very rigorous process to run as a state officer for FCCLA and um Ella has put in the work and we're so proud of her. um she came to me as a freshman and probably within the first week of class I said, "You're going to be my state officer." And we held true to it. We It's been a a process in the works for a long time. So, I'm just grateful for all the support that we have, the support in our school, the support from the district, and the community um that I couldn't do these things with
009my students if we didn't have. So, thank you. I'm going to say I worked with Ella and she is exceptional. So putting her on the spot, I don't feel as bad because she's been put on the spot a lot worse across the state than than here tonight. But Ella, what would you like to say? I am very thankful for this opportunity to represent Anderson County and region 15. This process has definitely been a very big thing emotionally and mentally. Um, but I am very proud of my my adviser for her award, too. And I just cannot wait to represent Kentucky FCCLA and Anderson County in this upcoming year. [Applause] Next, we have two programs um that work um in tandem together. U the Jobs for America graduates Kentucky specialist teacher and I um Mrs. Natalie
010Frasier are very proud to recognize the work and accomplishments of our first year JAG program and students. Miss Fraser, would you please come forward? First, we'd like to recognize the accomplishment of the JAG business planned team. When I call your name, will you please come forward? Landon Flinchum, Kendall Krider, Zach Lever, and Marissa McLemore. Let's give them a round of applause. They won first place in Jack Kentucky Regional Career and Development Conference as well as first place at state which is quite an accomplishment. This is their first year and they won first place at um region and state. They also did a an amazing job representing um Anderson County at the national um career development conference in Indianapolis recently as well. Let's give them another great big round of applause. Um so JAG like Miss
011Mitchell um mentioned it's our first year. So it was a big deal that we won a region district and it was a really big deal that we won state and the fact that we go got to go to nationals was just a huge deal and we were actually the only business plan team at nationals that it was their first year with a program. The rest of them had had said to me they were trying for several years to make it to nationals and they did. So they were like, "You are blessed. Just know that." Um, and I have been very blessed. Marissa couldn't be here tonight. She's not feeling well. But these four kids have changed my life for sure. And I have learned a lot of lessons from them even after 27 years of
012being in this education world. Um but I do have a certificate of achievement for each of them from um from nationals. So Kendall, Landon, and Zach. And um basically one of the career competencies that I have to teach is how to start a small business. You don't actually have to start a small business, but these kids were ready to just go ahead and start one. So we started a store within the high school. Um, we sell school supplies. What else do we sell? Fidgets, snacks, personal care items. So, things that kids might need during the school day that they don't have a place to purchase it. So, now they do. Um, and we even have two mobile carts and the kids go around the school with snacks after the lunch periods between the last two
013periods of the day. And amazingly, that's where we make most of our money from snacks and drinks from the high schoolers. um just to give them a boost. But I'm so proud of these kids. And if you want to learn more about JAG, we would love to uh tell you all about it and get you involved. And we're going to try to turn the name of the store based on the kids is called Jag in the Box. And our logo even kind of looks like the old Jack in the Box logo, but it says Jag in the Box. And um we are going to start having Bearcat swag and Jag swag and all kinds of stuff like that. So, we're just going to keep building on it next year. And Landon's my only one coming
014back. The other three were seniors this year. So, I'm so proud of them. You guys want to say anything? I will tell you I will tell you that when I got this one at the beginning of the school year, she would never get up in front of a group. And now she has gone to Indianapolis and spoken it in front of people she didn't know. and it they they all have done a great job. So, thank you guys. These two on the end. Yeah, he's not wrong. So, all right. Thanks, guys. [Applause] We also have another program that deserves a lot of ACL accolades and Mrs. Fraser and I are also very very proud of our key club students and their work and accomplishments. Uh Avery Young, where's Avery? Come on up Avery and Paige
015Garland. Come on up. Paige attended the Kentucky Tennessee Key Club District Convention March the 14th through the 16th in Lexington. The ACS Key Club key club placed second in the pop top collection contest for Ronald McDonald House. They collected 29 pounds of pop tabs and donated the earnings to the Ronald McDonald House charities. Let's give them a great big round of applause. Um, yeah, this was our first year going to the Kentucky Tennessee District convention and the girls were awesome. I think they had a good time. They met students from all over because even though it's Kentucky, Tennessee, there's also Georgia, West Virginia. Is that was that it? Okay. Um, but they had a great time and they both actually entered individual competitions and Avery placed second in the speech contest. And I would put
016her on the spot and make her say something, but I didn't I didn't warn her ahead of time. Um, but we had a great time. Um, if you guys want to help us, start collecting your pop tabs at home and send them to the high school. Um, should I tell them the funny part? Okay. So when they were announcing who was um you know third place, second place, first place, they said you know third place was do you guys remember what third place was? Like yeah it was like 25 pounds third place. Then they said second place was another school with 43 pounds. And I was like what what about us? And then they said Anderson County with 291 pounds. And and I was like what? And so I just told Paige I was like,
017"Go get the trophy. We'll we'll fix it afterwards." And so the the team that had won second at that moment came came to me later and were like, "Hey, I bowed down to you like 291 pounds." And I said, "Well, we're going to get it fixed because it was really 29." So we switched trophies with them. But um Key Club is a servant leadership group. And if you ever need volunteers, the JAG kids and the Key Club kids are the ones to call because they love doing community service. So, and I'm so proud of these two girls putting themselves out there when they didn't have to. Thank you. And let's say congratulations to Avery as well. Next we have our Anderson County High School STLP program. Um, if you all would please come forward. At
018the STLP competition this year, there were over 20,000 students from all over the state in the Kentucky uh, in attendance. It's always a big big event and an even bigger um accomplishment to win a state title. Um ACS teacher uh Mr. Steven McKG took students from ACS who competed in five different competitions. Um I'm going to read um all of them um who participated as well as our state winners. Um Coleman Lrand first place. Wave at him Coleman. Let's let's just go ahead and give him a great big round of applause. This was the first ever KCY Cyber Challenge. Coleman competed by himself. Even though this was a team event, he finished first place, topping the other teams single-handedly. In this event, participants were required to use particularly query language to search through various types
019of logs such as email logs to follow clues to gather information in order to figure out who is responsible for the illegal cyber activity outlined in the given scenario. Doesn't that sound like fun? That's pretty amazing. Let's give him a great big round of applause. Jeremiah Johnson, first place, web design. Jeremiah. Jeremiah finished second place in a competition last year that finished and that finish while respectable disappointed him and he was absolutely determined to finish first place um this year. He created a web page from scratch on his own and successfully took first place this year. Let's give him a great big round of applause. We had three other students who participated. A lot of students that went and three other students that participated. Connor Naidm um competed in the coding challenge and Connor was
020the first student we ever had to compete in this challenge. Students were required to use specific programming language and were given four different tasks to program within the time limit of about two hours. They were required to program on I uh oh excuse me TI thank you TI calculators which made the challenge even more difficult and he gave a big valiant effort. Let's give him a round of applause as well. Payton Lame Coleman Lrand competed in game design. Payton and Coleman were both a part of the cyber security class that designed and built our second themed physical escape room. They presented our escape room in the game design challenge competing at SCP this year. Let's give them a round of applause as well. It's very cool. Matthew Mensah, second round participant, showcase project. So, he
021was uh titled the smart scheduler. Um, showcase judgment begins in the fall. This year, there were over 1,200 projects. Matthew competed in the showcase project category this year. His project was called Smart Scheduler. He was at This Is Cool, Mr. Glass, Mr. Harley, you're going to love this. He attempted to create a program that could utilize the database information in Infinite Campus to schedule classes for students in a more efficient way that accounted for um complete credits and free requisites. The purpose was to provide a tool that could create student schedules quickly while avoiding the common issues of scheduling students in classes they have already had or scheduling students in classes they were not qualified to take. Um they worked hard um and they moved on to round two at the state competition. Let's give
022them a great big round of applause as well. And as I said before, um, superintendents gather, we hear the wonderful things that the the children do. We always hear from KDE and they always invite us to go every single year. And last year we had state winners. This year we have state winners. So it really does speak to the quality program um provided at our Anderson County High School by Mr. McKen. So very proud um of all of our students um and Nathan as well was a participant I believe Nathan Binge and uh we just have such good kids that um want to participate. So highly highly intelligent and as you see state winners again this year. Let's give them another great big round of applause. Um I'm not going to say too much other
023than these guys are great to work with. Um, there's not a lot that I do. They really do all the work and they deserve the credit. I basically present the opportunity and give them some guidance, maybe some ideas. Um, but these guys do all the work. So, they really earned what they what they did this year. And even the ones that went and competed and didn't come back with with the trophy, you know, like you said, they were competing against 20,000 other students and they all competed uh to the best that they could. they gave their their best effort and it was for me it's a joy to watch them you know when they're invested in something and to see the when uh you know in the uh showcase competition they have hundreds of tables
024and so they the judges walk around and interview each table and for about 10 minutes to to learn about the project and to score the students and then at some point they announce the tables one at a time the table numbers that are moving on to the third round and when you see how nervous the students get when they're waiting on that number. Are they going to call my number? Are they going to call our table? It's it's just so amazing to see that interest and that investment and how much they really love doing this. And when they can come out, you know, with with a win, it's even sweeter. But, um, all these guys are great and they're fun to work with and they really make my job easy. So, I'm great grateful to
025have some wonderful students. Let's give them another round of applause. Last but absolutely not least, um, Anderson County High School art teacher, Mrs. Angie Champion, and I are so excited to recognize the exceptional work of our AP photography student, Brady Hawkins. Would you all please come forward? Let's give them a round of applause, and I'll tell you why in just a second. [Applause] So, you're looking at a photograph. I think that's the unedited version. Um, but Brady Hawkins is the winner of the sixth district congressional art competition photography award. She was represented or excuse me, she was presented the award on April the 23rd, 2025 by Congressman Andy Bar and her work will hang in the sixth district congressional office for one year. Let's give her a great big round of applause. And as you
026see, her work is absolutely beautiful. so beautiful that we've asked her to shoot our photography for our event, our ceremony coming up on Thursday evening. Um, and she's uh is going to do that for us. So, we're so proud of you and uh wow, what a beautiful photograph that you have produced. Um, would you like to say a few words? Sure. I just want to say that this young lady is fearless. She is just an amazing photographer and artist. Um, I just want to say Brady um was accepted into a very prestigious Governor School for the Arts last summer. I mean, hundreds if not thousands of people audition, put their portfolios in and she was selected and what she brought back this summer and what I saw was just stunning. You traveled around Kentucky. You
027got the sites. You've got the beautiful horses at Keeland. You've got the community gatherings. And what Brady does is give a voice, a visual voice to the people of Kentucky. She's going to go somewhere. You look for her name. She goes to places and captures the essence of the people in ways that other people can't. I mean, I'm I I do a little bit to help you like just Oh, get up at the angle. Look at this. look at lights, but it's all you. It's all you. You've got the voice. You've got the talent. You've got wonderful things ahead of you, and I'm super proud. And um photos by Brady. Look her up. If you want any photos for any occasions, she has got her full business going on. So, I'm just blessed to have
028students like her and to have a program to be able to run just an amazing opportunity like this. So, good job. I'm proud of you, sis. All right. Round of applause. chairman. That's all I have this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is comments from visitors, but uh we did not have anyone sign up. So, I'll wait just a little minute and let everybody play around. Go ahead, Mr. White. All right. For the tenative budget this evening for fiscal year 2026, uh just a real quick reminder here, we are required to do this by KRS and we will submit this budget or I will submit this budget to KDE prior to May the 30th. uh once we have your all's approval this evening. Previously when I talked about the tenative or I'm sorry the
029draft budget or the the tenative and uh working budget from last year I presented this same type of slide with the same type of information. And on the lefth hand side is really the information we need to to create a solid budget that's well informed um and that meets the needs that we have. And on the right hand side you'll see the information we have. in December when I'm sorry in January when I presented the draft budget, we didn't have much of this information at all. We have a little bit more of it now, but if you look beside in parentheses, almost every one of them says estimate. We're still doing a lot of estimating for the the tenative budget cycle. Um, but we're getting closer to having real information um and and good information.
030So, I'm going to kind of tag through some some of this as we go for SEEK next year. The seek forecasted amount is out or the seek forecast sheet. We do see an increase for fiscal year 26 over fiscal year 25. And in total, the increase is about $327,000. The base increases by 690,000. Uh that's really due in part to the increase in the per pupil allocation. This year in fiscal year 25, the per pupil allocation is $4,326. And in fiscal year 26, that jumps up to $4,586 per child. The at risk increase for next year is 57,000. Our child count number is very similar. Um it's it's off by just a few but not very many, but but the increase per pupil gives you an increase in the at risk as well. Exceptional child,
031same kind of situation there. Increase of 199,000. And in transportation, we saw an increase of 163,000. Now, if you remember previously when I was talking about the tenative budget coming up and and where we were looking at from state funding, the goal of the legislature was to fund transportation for fiscal year 26 at 100%. That was their goal. When when I got the seek forecasted amount, it's not at 100% yet. We're at about 82% is what they've sent out. Um, so I just reached out to the state and said, "What's the deal? You all said 100%. we're not in we're not hardly any closer than we were this year and the response I got was well we'll see what happens in March. So hopefully in March there's a change. Um but really that's at about
03282% of what we should be allocated based on what the state says but there was still an increase in transportation funding of 163,000. Limited English profic proficiency we saw an increase of 3,000. And then there were two areas where we saw a decrease. Uh, tier one saw a decrease of 162,000 and that's going to be based off of your per pupil assessment amount. And so our assessments are going up. Um, you'll see that in the next little box there at the bottom left. Our assessments are going up based on what that's estimated to be. So the tier one saw a decrease of 162,000 and the state match side of the building fund we saw a decrease of 382,000 but overall up in the seek box. property values. Uh the forecasted seek showed an increase of
033approximately 8% for property values. And as you know, for every $1 million increase in property value, SE goes down about $3,000. So we do see a greater local effort coming in. That's approximately $8.3 million in local effort that would be required for fiscal year 26, which is about $631,000 higher than where we're at this year. Same thing going into the building fund from the seek and local um local building fund would be approximately $4.1 million for next year which is about $315,000 higher than the current year. Did include um some bus purchases as well. We've done a really large investment in the bus fleet over the last five, six, seven years. Um and that's really paid dividends for us. We also applied for the EPA grant. Originally we got it, then it was kind of
034a little iffy and now we have it. So the EPA grant has been approved at $25,000 per bus. I left the full budgeted amount for the three buses in the tenative budget. I don't anticipate we'll spend all $443,000 as budgeted, but I felt better about leaving the total cost in there. Just knowing the situation we were in, I don't think it's going to be an issue because I do believe that grant has come through. Um, but I wanted to leave it there. And then the staffing levels, uh, those are just at the KDE and board approved staffing levels for each school. And it does include the approved salary increase at the previous board meeting. Some investments um that I'm asking to make for next year. As you all know, the SRO and nurse cost, we
035were we were funding those with ESSER fully um in the previous fiscal year or in fiscal year 24 25. We picked up a good portion of those because we we ran out of ESSER funds. Um, so those are some expenditures that are that are continuing to be there that weren't there in a couple of years ago. Workers comp and property and casualty insurance. Uh, we switched providers for who is our agent of record on property and casualty. I've reached out to them. We don't have our final increase or our final numbers yet for either one of those, but I do anticipate we are going to see some adjustments upward. Um, so I I just estimated somewhere between 10 to 15% on both of them based on my conversations with our agent. So you'll see that's
036going to cost us an extra $15,000 for workers comp and 64,000 estimated for property and casualty. I left some fleet vehicle purchases in the budget as well. Um, this year we were set to spend 125,000 in the budget. I reduced that to 85 for next year. Those are things that I wanted to leave in there to keep that cycle going. Those are obviously things we can do or not do based on what you all decide. Uh, as I just said, got the buses in there. Three buses for next year versus two for this year. Keep that rotation going. Um, and then in working with Mr. Ser, he's asked for some increases in athletics and ACS a $5,000 increase and at the middle school a $2,000 is increase. Um, and he kind of laid out some
037costs that have really been kind of ticking up over the last few fiscal years. helmet reconditioning being the greatest. Um, that's it's a driver of cost, security, officials, and supplies. As you guys know, it's $40 an hour for security. Now, official costs continue to increase as well, and those budgets haven't had any adjustments upward in the last three or four fiscal years that I could find. And then I also included, as he had brought to you all a few board meetings ago, I believe, the possibility of doing some field maintenance on the softball and or baseball fields. So, I included some dollars um in a couple of lines to be able to do that if we so choose. Some savings that we'll have for next year. The CRS retirement contribution rate is going to decrease.
038Um it's at 19.62 this year, I believe. 19.62% and it's going to 18.54, I believe. So, that's going to go down. That'll save us about $50,000. That alone will Mr. Jury got us switched over on some phone line costs. So that's going to continue to be savings for us. The per gallon cost of diesel fuel over the last couple years has stayed down. So from 23 to 25, we've spent $100,000 less in diesel fuel. The SRO reimbursements um that's coming in. We have spent almost all of that money already in those reimbursements. So that's $20,000 per campus that wasn't anticipated that's been coming in. Fleet vehicles, as I just said, $40,000 less. And then we had a meeting with the healthy kids folks um last week, week before last. And they brought us some really
039good news. Right now we're on a 5050 split in cost with the nurses. Next year they're going to be able to do 6040. So they'll pay 60, we pay 40. Um I anticipate that will save us somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to $30,000. So that was a really nice piece of information to get from them. In terms of contingency, fiscal year 22 we ended at approximately 10%, 23 at approximately five, 24 at about 8. This year we're budgeted at about 4.59 and then next year I have budgeted tenative budget for fiscal year 26 at 4.22%. We are using some capital outlay funds and building fund transfers to help kind of bolster our uh costs that are out there and you guys have seen those as I've asked for capital funds requests this year. I
040would anticipate doing that next year as well. And then whatever tax rate you all decide to set um in September, October of next year could obviously increase or maintain or whatever may be needed for the contingency fund. Questions so far? So, kind of laying it out here, next year, our revenues are projected to increase approximately $1.7 million over fiscal fiscal year 25 budgeted amounts, um, with additional local and state revenues, plus an increase in our starting balance. Um, so that should be good. I think we're going to start quite a bit higher than we started this year. Um, which is a positive thing. And then you can see kind of going down through there, I left property taxes at a a very very conservative increase really. It's only a couple hundred,000. And you can see
041I pretty much left motor vehicle and utility taxes flat for the tenative budget. The seek amounts there, the revenue from state sources, that's right off the seek sheet. Um, so that's where that's coming from on behalf is just what it is. It's an in and out. We don't really get to keep that money or do anything with it. Um, and then the inner funds I just talked about bringing money in from the capital outlay and building funds. Kind of going through those expenses on the general fund side. Personnel expenditures increased by 6.1%. That's based off the salary schedule you approved last meeting. That's about $1.3 million. And then operations expenditures increased by about 2.9% or $390,000. So any additional revenue, there's where it went right there. um it went to your salaries and to your
042increased operating expenses and the drivers of that will be uh school buses and insurance really I mean that's really where we're seeing the cost and insurance is the big one the special revenue fund fund two I've only done slight changes on that thus far the one grant I know we have next year that we don't have right this minute is the RDIF grant from the state at $40,000 per elementary school a total of 160,00 000. There has not been any additional information released on state grants. That'll be middle of the summer. Um, so for the working budget, I'll update all of that. And then the federal funding, as I've touched on in a couple of previous meetings, uh, that's the biggest unknown until the start of the next school year. Everything I'm reading, it sounds
043like Title One and IDEIDA will kind of be excluded, if you will, from any major cuts. Uh, which is really good news for us. But, uh, right now we're just we're just holding tight on those things. So, special revenue fund. The only change I've made there is for the RDIF grant so far. Everything else I just rolled forward at the moment. The food service fund. Um, the food service fund has seen increased salary cost based on uh the approved salary schedules that we've had the past few years and they have been spending down some of their excess balance that they've had over the course of the last few years as well. And some of that spending down is because of the CO dollars, the CO grants, the local food grants, all the things that that
044was coming from the the different government sources that aren't there anymore. And the CACFP and the summer food service programs, they have been revenue generators. They haven't cost the food service fund anything, but in general, everything you do is costing more. So if you're buying food, it costs more. If you're buying equipment, it costs more. So all those things are are driving those costs. Um, so that is leading to some smaller carry forward balances, but right now I think the food service fund is in pretty good shape for the moment. The daycare fund, much of the federal grants that we have for the daycare fund that were coming through co dollars as well. There are two daycare sites that still have money to spend. And I would guess Robert B. Turner since we have payroll
045coming out on Thursday, that one's probably spent up now as well. Um it was really close to being done the last time I checked at the end of April. MMA Ward still has a little bit left. Um it probably carried them about another three or four months uh into the new year. Personnel cost then will go away from the federal grant and back to the actual daycare fund. And so what's been happening over the last few years is the daycare funds just been building up um and really has a pretty healthy balance at the moment. and that fund can sustain itself uh for the short term. But as I've told Miss Mitchell, looking longterm down the road, I think we need to look at what we're charging for daycare services and what we're charging for
046preschool services and start that conversation so that we don't get into a spot where we've spent everything we have in this fund and we're looking back at the general fund to cover any cost. Um so over the next year or so, I would like to to work with Miss Mitchell and you all to look and see what we can do with those costs. And what I told her is my son will be a freshman next year and what he pay what we paid for him to go to preschool when he was three and four is the exact same cost that a preschool parent is paying now. So really good deal for our parents over the last you know decade or so. Uh but at some point we're going to run out of money in that
047particular fund and we'll need to make sure that we have that to sustain those programs. So just something to be on the radar. capital outlay building fund and debt service funds. Um that that reflects the uh changes to the reduced revenue from the state in the building fund, but we do have an increase in local revenues. Our debt service is maintaining at about $4.6 million. And then you'll see in the far right column uh $342,986. That's a federal rebate for interest on a bond we have. So when you back that out, we've got about $4.3 million in actual debt payments that go out because that federal revenue comes in. And the capital outlay is reflected at $100 per student. And then the building fund is is our local contribution and the state contribution. And I
048did want to touch on this as well on the capital outlay and debt service funds. I reached out to our fiscal agent um earlier this week and talked to her a little bit about our bonding capacity and she sent me an updated bonding capacity um based on where the numbers were on May the 8th of 2025 and rates at that moment essentially um and she called it a conservative rate of 4.44%. So based on the revenue that's coming into the building fund and that 4.44% 44% rate. Combined with the SFCC component of of borrowing, our district has a total bonding capacity of about $42.7 million currently. Sounds like a lot of money, and it is a ton of money when you think about it. But then I was reading on as she was giving me
049some more information. Um, and you know, she said the same thing. Everybody says money just doesn't go as far right now, right? So, I looked looked back through some articles just to kind of get an idea and I listened to what she had to say. And in 1920, 2019, 2020, an elementary school could be built for about $25 million. Right now, that elementary school probably cost about $42 million. Same one. And I was at a conference earlier this last week as well, and I was talking to some folks. Um, I was at a they were talking about building funds and and revenue coming in and building a school. The Henry Clay High School, I believe it is in Lexington, is going to be rebuilt. And they originally put it out to bid and it was
050going to be estimated to be about $150 million for Henry Clay. It came back, it was $186 million to build Henry Clay. Now, I'm sure that's far bigger than anything anybody in this community would ever need or want, but that's a humongous number, even when you have a $42 million bonding capacity. I believe Woodford County just finished their high school, and it was somewhere around the $70 million mark. Um, and they just opened that up at Christmas time. So, just an idea of what's going on in terms of what it would cost to build a school. Um, I can also tell you though, 2027, 2028, and 2029, we're wrapping up some bonds. So come 2030, that $4.6 million worth of debt that we have every year drops to under two million. So that's when you'll
051have another increase in your bonding capacity beyond kind of where we are now or if there's some additional dollars that go into the building fund. So just kind of keep it all in perspective. While we do have a pretty healthy bonding capacity at the moment, the cost to build something is quite exponential almost. Yes, sir, Mr. Sergeant. You know, every day when I'm going to Chevyville, I'm looking over at Heritage Elementary School and I see that they're building on to it. Just last week, I went out and visited Turner. And I see if our growth in our school, it keeps increasing, I can see the need real soon in the next couple years of us building on to that school and also doing something with the parking classrooms. The teachers are I I'm not one
052that likes to see a lot of children in classroom. I I believe I've always said it for 15 years. I grew up in a school system of small classrooms and I've always had that belief in my heart that you have small classrooms not large classrooms and I do see a need future they got one of the top 10 or whatever rate I can't remember what it's rate school in the state and I I think we need to continue to invest. I think people's going to come here wanting their children in that school. I think we're future we're going to have classrooms. I asked the question, is there more is there available classrooms to hire more teachers? Answer was no. I can see the need that we're going to have on to that. And I also
053see the need there's no parking. had to circle around twice to find a parking place. It's going to have to be some improvement on parking. I'm glad you brought that up in terms of the parking. Um I was talking to Mr. Jury earlier today and and you know we've done a lot of investment in in transportation vehicles, that kind of thing this year and some other capital funds request. And what I told him was we gota either go from the roof to the pavement at this point is kind of where we're we're somewhere in between. Need to do some projects there. If you've driven on basically any campus we have, we have black top needs um in some way, shape, or form. And we do have some some roof needs as well throughout the district
054that will need to be addressed. So that that's why I've been kind of pushing some of these things that we were going to do next fiscal year that I wanted to do next fiscal year into this fiscal year in terms of fleet maintenance because that's going to free up some funds in the building fund. If I go back and look down here, you've got 5.9 million coming in and 4.6 going out. Really 4.3 going out. That's a pretty good spread between there. So, you got over a million dollars that we have that we could do some of these maintenance type projects in some of the things you're talking about without having to borrow money. Um, which also sets us up a little bit better in the future so we don't have any bond that's coming
055onto the books when other bonds are falling off the books. Um, so I I agree with you that there are some needs that that we have that we need to start addressing uh as we have this excess in the building fund. Anyone? I agree. The final slide here is just a summary of all those budgets together, all the various funds. Um, it's just a synopsis of everything that I had on the previous slides. And I'm happy to entertain any questions you all may have. We're going to have to get more or bigger monitors if we keep it. I'm sorry. That's right. It's it's a very small very small print on a very large spreadsheet for for one screen. That's why I tried to break it out on the previous ones. Um so if you go
056to the previous slides, there are some some better screenshots. Can I get a motion to accept the tenative budget for 2526? with a person second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. James Sergeant. Yes. Capital funds request consideration to approve uh a capital funds request in the amount of uh $284,118 uh from the capital outlay funds uh for the following uh building repair and maintenance uh for uh [Music] $57,665. Um, building and HVAC repairs, $19,711. Uh, maintenance, equipment, and repair, $5,469. Uh, building repair, maintenance, uh, 9, uh, $639. Uh, field maintenance and, uh, flooring replacement, 35,8 25 built maintenance supplies in the amount of $155,89 again for a total of $284,118 in capital funds. Can I get a motion to approve with first
057and second? Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. James Sergeant. Uh, technology purchases over $10,000. Uh, consideration to approve the following technology purchases over $10,000. um KV uh software renewal for $10,91873 cents for a period uh of June 1st, 2025 through May 31st, 2026. Um Gallup renewal um three-year renewal at $6,500 each year, renewing on April 15th. uh agreement would expire April 14th of 2028. Uh parent square engage. Uh this will replace our current system uh to meet Senate Bill 181 requirements. Uh three quotes were obtained. Uh parent square engage uh $16,425 uh which is uh $15,300 annually for three years uh with onetime onboarding fee of uh $1,125. uh remind uh at $22,136. That's 20 uh [Music] 20,660 annually for three years
058uh with a onetime onboarding fee of $1,500. Uh Apogee uh at $19,100 and that's 7 $17,100 uh dollars annually for five years with onetime onboarding fee of $2,000. Uh frontline renewal $8,93467 absent management renewal uh only u with a recommended alternative um moving to frontline from powers school will put everything in the one database for HR including absence management uh front line will lock in an upcharge of 5.4 5.5% for these. We are currently locked in at 5% on absence management for the next two years. Uh he's trying to get approval to merge both contracts and extend the absence management contract. Um but it will not change the price. Are there any questions around any of um number three which is parent square engage andor the recommended alternative? I just want to commend um Mr.
059White, Mr. Jury um as well as Mr. Murphy. They've worked very uh hard um to um for several months trying to um make a the the best recommendation um for the state uh upand cominging um HR component uh and Mr. Jury has worked two years in a row now um to really uh find a strong recommendation that will um meet Senate Bill 181. Any questions that we can answer regarding any of these items? with the first and second. Can we get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, Steve Carmichael, Sunonny Fentrez, James Sergeant, Purchases over $10,000. Consideration to approve the following purchases over $10,000. uh capital funds request will be utilized for these purchases. a Chevy 2500 with uh plow maintenance or with plow maintenance truck not to exceed uh
060$65,000. uh capital funds would be used and a Chevy 1500 uh crew cab for transportation director use not to exceed 43,000 uh capital funds would be used and six Tomcat Rival 20-in standup uh rider floor scrubbers, one for each school. uh $9,949 uh per scrubber for a total of 59,000 five or $694. Uh these would be capital funds would be used for that. Only got one comment. Whoever buy these trucks tell them the board me Not a very good price on those trucks cuz I just bought a brand new truck in December. I know what I gave for mine. What I was saying, Scott, is that to me that's not a very good price on those trucks for us being a nonprofit school system. you know, I just bought a new truck in December and
061I know what I paid for my truck and uh you know, I would ask them, you know, I'm not going to vote against it, but I know that they give rebates and stuff and I'm just want to make sure that we're getting our rebates and things that we're entitled to entitled to as a nonprofit uh organization. I used to sell schools of equipment and you have to uh when you sold equipment to a school you have to apply to with the company and the company re gave you back so much money uh for selling it at a cheap price and so you know I just want to remind that that's to me that's not a very cheap All right. The Can I I'll just I'm the one who's getting the prices, so appreciate your feedback.
062The 2500 truck has a $10,500 plow on the front of it. The truck itself is $54,700. And then the plow is 10,500. That's a straight plow instead of the Vplow. And then there's another $1,500 rebate off of that price as well. The second truck is priced at $50,735 with a $5,000 discount and a $5,500 rebate. assuming it's still in stock, which I believe it is because I called this afternoon to ask and make sure the actual purchase price will be $40,235. So, we're $10,500 off of the MSRP. And those are the state contract prices because we that's who I utilized is a state contract through Bachmann Chevrolet with a person. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. Yes. James Sergeant. Yes. uh national
063school lunch uh national school breakfast community eligibility program uh available for the 2025 2026 school year. Uh Ronnie Fields director I just I just want to tell you thank you for the great job you do with this program. I I greatly appreciate you what you do and I make a motion to approve with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael, Sunonny Fentrez, James Sergeant, yes. Uh paper bid, uh consideration to approve the purchase of paper for the uh 2024 2025 uh school year. uh quotes were received uh from uh contact paper uh Danble office and Staples. I'll let you all look at the numbers there. And it should be 2526, not 2425. the first and second. Can I get a roll
064call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, Steve Carmichael. Sunonny Fentrez, yes. James Sergeant, yes. Uh, Florox bid. Uh Terry Jury uh director of maintenance requests the purchase of floor wax uh cleaner to be purchased from Staples with an estimated cost of $12,935. Votes were received um from Staples, Kenway, uh HD Supply, and Granger um with Staples being considerably less than some of the others with first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes. Sir Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentress. Yes. James Sergeant. Yes. Uh districtwide school supplies. Uh Travis Harley, assistant superintendent uh requests approval uh to provide districtwide uh school supplies for the 2025 2026 school year in the amount of $45,000. I want to thank you, Mr. Harley, for that. I know myself as
065a kid when I was in school what it's like to be sitting in class not having supplies that other kids have. Thank you. I'll make a motion to approve. With first second, can I go to a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. James Sergeant family resource job description approval uh consideration to adopt uh revisions to the family resource youth service center uh job description for uh class code uh 7492 and 7493. This allows us to have two separate job descriptions. one for uh employees that are certified to be able to pay in a TRS and ones that are not. Um, and these are in compliance um with the recommended um by the uh family resource um center um and Kentucky Department of Education. Any questions? I'll
066make a motion to approve with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Sarason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown, Steve Carmichael, Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant. Yes. Uh creation of family resource uh youth service center student assistant position. We are very blessed to have uh an amazing um staff of family resource and youth service center um coordinators. um the one at the high school um is making a request um to create the student assistant position so that we can have an intern at the high school. And um this would give um students the opportunity to interview as well as hold that position. Um and um later in the agenda, you're going to see um a um salary schedule that would be a tag to that, which would be about $12 per hour. um
067the youth service center coordinator at Ders County High School would be the supervisor for this position and work very closely with the student. They would um interview make a selection and take them through the process as well as supervise them um for um this specific position. Mr. Harley, is there anything you'd like to add? Oh, thank you. I do I do have a question because I was going to ask it when it got to the salary and I might as well ask it now. Okay. Uh I'm not I don't quite understand. So is this going to be a student from school working this position or it's going to be an adult working the position? It's a great question. So it would be a student um Okay. And there the job description is written specific to
068a student. Um and um I'll read it a little bit because I think that's a great question. Mr. Sergeant, I probably should have done that on the front end. Um, but the job description um falls under the job category of 7788 and um it is entitled the family resource youth service center student assistant and the qualifications are one must be a current high school senior in good standing and two must be reliable, responsible and able to work independently with guidance. um reports to principal, superintendent or designate which would be um the family resource center coordinator. Um and then the job goals it states the family resource center or excuse me family resource and youth service center student assistant will provide support for fryc coordinators and staff in delivering services to the schools. This row offers
069a senior high school student an opportunity to gain professional experience while giving back to their school and community. There are five um responsibilities and duties. And number one, it's to assist the FRSC staff with day-to-day operations, talking and organizing resources. Two, helping plan, prepare, and support school events and programs, including summer programs. Three, create flyers, bulletin boards, and social media post to help promote information to students and families. Four, uphold respectful professional behavior. and FI perform other duties as assigned by the F FRYSC staff. At no time will the F FR YSC student assistant have access to any confidential student information. So, Mr. Sergeant, thank you for asking that question. I hope that does help to clarify a little bit. Well, yes, it it does because I was going to sit here and oppose the
070salary because if it was an adult, I I think the job should pay way more. uh a student, I understand, you know, it's it's a different situation, but I wasn't going to sit here tonight and vote for a $12 an hour position. Uh it's just just think it would be way more, but with you telling me it's a student, it changes my thoughts. Thank you for doing that. Yes, sir. And I make a motion to approve and I think that u it's great to have internships of any kind. Uh, it really teaches the students how to get into the real world. Um, and I'll make a second on that. So, with that, can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, Steve Carmichael, Sunny Fentrez, James Sergeant, yes. uh
071approval of family resource uh slash uh service center student assistant position job description. So this is the job description that I just read. The first item was the creation of the position. This one is the approval of the job description. Are there any questions around the job description? I make a motion approve. Thank you. uh with the first, second, and almost a third. Uh can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, Steve Carmichael, Sunonny Fentrez, James Sergeant, uh salary for family resource, youth center, uh student assistant, um so it will be grade one, $12 per hour as needed. Is it as um stated on the um approved salary schedule? Any questions? Is that grade one or grade zero? There's a zero on here. Well, it's a grade one
072zero experience. Okay. Grade one, zero experience. Thank you for that clarification. Any questions? Well, the first second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Sir, Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunonny Fentrez. Yes. James Sergeant. Yes. Uh fundraising approvals. Uh consideration to approve the following fundraisers at MAV Ward. Uh there's graduation pictures on May 16th, 2025. uh proceeds uh will be used to purchase programs uh for student use. Um signage donation May 25th uh 25 2025 through May 26th or May of 2026. proceeds will be raised uh to support students in schoolwide needs, instructional support and technology and and maybe other uh back to school bash uh June through August 2025. Uh proceeds will be raised for schoolwide use, instructional supports and technology, etc. Can I get a motion to approve? the first
073and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. Yes. James Sergeant. Yes. Uh, finance officer bond approval. uh consideration to renew the finance officer bond uh for Josh White uh CFO in the amount of 5953 cents for the period of July 1st 2025 through Jul June 30th of 2026. with the first and second. Can I get a roll of call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, J uh Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. Yes. James Sergeant, uh integrated pest management control approval. uh consideration to approve u the renewal of pest control services uh with uh Oak Okalana uh pest control in the amount of [Music] 9,227 which is the same price as last year uh original approval was uh June 4th 2024
074uh with additional three one-year renewal extensions. ends. I'll make a motion for with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. James Sergeant. Uh KD minorandum of agreement. um consideration to approve uh of the memorandum of agreement with KDE for Christa Sawier uh as comprehensive literacy state development grant administrator for the 2526 uh school year. You all know Mrs. Sawyer made the request um during this particular school year um and um that has ended and so annually a new MOA will be requested. So she is making that request for the upcoming 2526 school year. Are there any questions? As bad as I hate to not have her here, uh I'll make a motion to approve. Thank you. with first and
075second roll, please. Yes. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown, Steve Carmichael, Sunonny Fentrez, James Sergeant, uh donations over $1,000. Uh consideration uh to approve the following donations over $1,000. $1,000 from local ASAP board uh to ACE uh for summer tennis camp. Uh $1,000 from local ASAP board to ACE for summer volleyball camp. uh $2,000 uh for local or from local ACP board uh to ACE for uh prevention uh education activities and supplies with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunonny Fentrez. James Sergeant uh educational leave approval consideration to approve an educational leave for uh Jen Clark uh MMB ward teacher for the 2526 school year. I'll make a motion approved the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote,
076please? Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Eve Carmichael, Sunonny Fentrez, James Sergeant, shortened school day request. Uh Beth Morgan Cook um requests a consideration for approval for a shortened school day. A shortened school day and or week uh is being requested. The request is based upon the recommendation of the individual administration and uh the ARC release committee uh from the students based uh on data from the current individual education program and physician. The ARC will continue to address the possibility of the plan uh for the student to return to full day. I'll make a motion approve with first and second. Can roll please. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. Yes. James Sergeant. Uh physical therapist. uh contract for the 2526 school year. Uh consideration to uh to increase physical therapist contract from 114
077days per year to 130 days per year um uh to increase in school needs for educational school-based therapy. Any questions regarding this request? I'll make a motion to approve with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, Steve Carmichael, Sunonny Centrez, yes. James Sergeant, uh, field trips consideration to approve the following field trips for Anderson County High School. Uh we have one for the bass fishing team. Um softball. Uh Andrew County FFA. Um the for the FFA, the district transportation is requested uh Anderson County FFA uh to uh the Kentucky FFA leadership training uh in Herodsburg. Uh and district uh transportation has requested for that one as well. Are there any questions? Sorry, sir. I make a motion approve with first and second. Can
078I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentrez. Yes. James Sergeant, yes. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? The first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Centrez. James Sergeant. We are adjourned.