Anderson County Board Meeting 4/14/2025

001to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And now we get the now we get the pleasure of uh hearing the Emma Ward Harmony hounds directed by Emily Davis. [Music] Oh, say you see Star. [Music] Oh, save us. [Music] Thank you all very much. Great job. With that, I call the April 14th, uh, 2025 regularly scheduled board meeting to to order. Uh, can I get a motion to adopt the agenda? Motion to adopt agenda. Scott Brown. Second, Steve Carmichael with first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant, uh, attendance report. Um, please show that, uh, all board members are present. Um, can I get a approval of minutes from the

002March 10th, 2025 regularly scheduled board meeting? Most approved, Scott Brown. Second, Steve Carmichael with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown, yes. Chief Carmichael, Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant, uh, financial report. Good evening. Got our March financial report here for you all. For the month of March, overall revenue has increased by 6%. That increase is due in part to an increase in the property tax of 486,000, interest on investments of 68,000, and an increase in seek of approximately 489,000 or 5.4%. Expenditures for salary and benefits are down 2 and a half% from the prior year. Um, as I previously mentioned at board meetings, that's due in large part to funding positions from grants at a higher rate and a decrease in our retirement costs

003for classified employees. Non- salary expenditures are down 9.4%. 4%. It's a little bit misleading. We have almost $600,000 less in bus purchases at this point right now than we did last year. If you take that cost out, we're actually up in non- salary expenditures by about 225,000. And those two cost or those costs can be attributed to a couple things. Uh one would be the maintenance vehicles that we purchased and the second would be um the healthy kids clinic nurse cost that moved to the general fund this year. couple of other financial updates outside of um the March financial report. Going to touch on just a a few points for moving forward um and some things we've got going on. Talk a little bit about some positives and some unknowns for fiscal year 26. Uh

004federal funding, capital funds request, some legislative updates. Um and just a real quick touch on the salary schedules for fiscal year 26. We do have some positives moving into next year. Uh, one of those is that the uh, the seek amount per student is going to be increasing. It's going to go from 4326 per student to 45.86. So, that was planned. That's part of the bannual budget. Tier one funding as well should be continue to match at a higher rate through the state. And their goal is to get to 100% funding on transportation. Now, the goal for this year was to get to 80%. They made it to 74% which was still better than the previous year. uh in fiscal year 24 it was about 57%. So we're making progress in the right direction from

005the state side. And then CS contribution rates, I've touched on this at a previous meeting as well. They're set to decrease from 19.71 to 18.62% next year. So those are some positives that we've got coming into fiscal year 26 for the budgets. Some unknowns are still out there as well. Uh as you know, we had a seek shortfall this year. I don't anticipate a seek shortfall next year, but we never anticipate that. So, that's something that's that's something we need to watch out for and know about. We also have some legislative changes that just came out of the last session. I'm going to touch on those here in a minute. We don't really know what those costs will do for the district, but it's something we need to be aware of as well. And then

006the last thing uh is federal funding and will it be sustained at current levels. So, in terms of federal funding for our district, there is lots of things, lots of services that we provide to our students and our families through federal funding. Uh, number one would be school meals for our students. Thousands upon thousands of school meals for students goes through the uh the food service program and that is primarily funded through federal dollars. Student support for our highest need students. Title one funding is where that comes into play. Special special education services for students with disabilities. talking about idea B, uh, professional development and teacher training through title two, career and technical programs through the Perkins grants that we receive, gifted and talented services, technology programs, and student safety are all supported through title

0074 through federal funding, not food service related in Anderson County. This fiscal year, fiscal year 2025, we have $2,172,391 in federal grants. I'll say it again. $2,172,391 in federal grants in Anderson County for fiscal year 2025. That's all those things that I just mentioned. Title one, IDEA B for preschool as well, special education services at preschool, Perkins grants, title four, and title two. from all of those pots of money, if you will, that is the equivalent of 23 full-time positions that are funded through those federal grants. There 23 folks outside of food service that are funded through federal grants. When you flip over and look at food service costs, through March of 2025, the food service program had received $1,343,481 in federal money. that helps fund the C for our district, the community eligibility provision,

008the CACF programs, and again, thousands of meals for Anderson County students and more than 30 food service staffing positions funded through those those dollars coming through food service. So, the federal dollars matter to our district and they matter to the students and the staff as well. They're very important. I would hate to see them go away. I would hate to see any cuts to those, but we need to be aware that that is the potential that is out there. I don't know it's going to happen. We could be fine. We could get more, but that's something that has has been on the horizon. Uh most recently, some of the esser funds that were given extensions, uh those were cut off. We are not one of those districts. We spent ours before the September 30th, 2024

009deadline, but there were some districts that were hoping to spend that through March of 2026. Right this minute, they're not going to be able to do that. Now, there are some waiver provisions and things that are out there. So, they're going to try and get around that. I'm going to have a capital funds request this evening as well. Um, it's another piece of the puzzle as we move into next year. We are allowed through KRS statute to use some of our building fund dollars for specific purchases um through the general fund or to transfer money if you will. Uh the KRS that lays that out is 157420 and it's very specific of what we can do with that. school plant maintenance, repair, insurance, replacement of equipment, purchase of school buses, and modern technology uh purchases.

010And so over the past few years, um as our overall assessments have increased as a a community, as a county, the amount of money going into our building fund has increased as well. We have three nickels. Basically, what that means is if you take the assessed value, multiply it by 0.0015 0015 or 5* 3 is 15 15 cents of every $100 if you will goes towards our building fund. So over the course of the last few years we are generating a pretty good surplus in that fund and last year we did several capital funds requests and and purchased some school buses with that. Uh paid for our property insurance. You've heard me talk about our property insurance and how it's just increasing in cost. This year we're going to have about um 2.1 or 2.2

011million dollars in excess funds outside of our debt service payments. We got a little over $4 million in debt service. We're going to bring in a little over six million uh in that building fund with the capital outlay fund. So, we've got some some extra dollars that are out there that can be used through capital funds request for the specific purchases I just mentioned. And one of those is going to be school buses. uh we'll transfer that over. We've already done that or already made those expenses, so we'll have that on the agenda tonight. Some other possible uses that we could do with those funds um would be some additional purchases of equipment. We could look at some custodial equipment um that we need in the district that we haven't purchased recently that we haven't

012done because we didn't have those excess dollars that have come up. uh we can look at purchasing another maintenance vehicle this year as opposed to next year to get that fleet back into kind of a transitional period into a much better shape. Uh we can look at some Chromebook purchases. That's one thing that's allowed. That's something we were using er dollars for and we're hoping that we won't have to increase fees to cover those costs going down the road uh for technology at different levels. If you look at the state and the requirements for testing, almost everything is moving online for testing. We're going to have to have a Chromebook or some device in the hands of almost every student in the district in order to be able to fulfill the testing requirements. Um, even

013AP tests are online this year. I believe ACTs online. Uh, K prep testing, all those things are going to move online. So, we've got to stay up to date on technology. If we don't move those funds over, then they become restricted is basically what happens when you close out the year. In an even year, you do something different than you do in an odd year. And in an odd year, which is what we're in, 2025, any money you have left in your building fund or your capital outlay fund becomes restricted money. You can't go get it for a CFR, capital funds request in the future. Uh the only thing you can do with it then is priority one and priority two projects off your DFP. So, that would be what I would propose uh this

014evening and moving forward through the rest of the year as we we identify some of those areas that we can reach out and and take care of some needs in the district through these capital funds requests. And like I said, we'll have one on the agenda tonight and I'll be working my way through um some additional ones moving forward. Last couple things I'm going to throw at you. I know it's a lengthy financial report, not normal for me, but I did want to throw some information out there. We've got four legislative updates. One was House Bill 441 that changes the cap on the number of retirees that we can re-employ. It actually puts us back into the numbers we were at during the COVID uh years. They raised it from 3% to 10%. Now, usually

015that doesn't have a grand effect on us in terms of our budget, but they raise the critical shortage cap as well. and anybody who comes back re-employed under the critical shortage program, we have a greater KTRS contribution um from from our side, from the employer side. And when I say greater, our normal contribution is 3%. That's what we pay into the medical insurance fund um for for hiring a TRS employee. For a critical shortage person this year, I believe it's 27.35%. That can be a substantial amount of money um when you're talking a full salary. The other um House bill that will have some some effects on us long term is House Bill 694. The 3% to the medical insurance fund was supposed to stop through shared responsibility in 2010 bill. That that 3% was

016supposed to stop when the medical insurance fund at TRS became 100% funded. The legislature changed that this year and they said it's not going to stop until the TRS medical insurance fund and the pension fund both become fully funded. Um, so that's 3% that probably should have stopped in the next year or two based on kind of the trajectory of where the the fund was headed, but it's not going to stop now. It's going to continue in perpetuity. The other two bills were Senate bills. Uh, Senate Bill 9 requires that we establish a policy of 10 unused sick days and three unused leave days that the state will fund at the time of retirement after June the 30th, 2025. So basically what that means is moving forward a retiree cannot accumulate more than 13 days

017per year in addition to what they have at the moment. If there is some reason that somebody did, we would be on the hook for the full actial cost at their time of retirement. I don't think that's going to have a grand effect on us, but that's something that's out there that I could see changing, moving the goalpost again and again and again as we kind of go forward. The other part of Senate Bill 9 says that by June the 30th of 2030, each district is required to establish a policy of up to 30 paid days of maternity leave. Now, I said 2030, that's that's five years off. I understand that. Um, but that's going to become a recruitment tool at some point. I believe if we're not doing something to address uh paid maternity

018leave for employees, we will be behind the boat. Now, I think that could have some financial implications um depending on how many people we extend this leave to and how many days they take off and so on and so forth, but that is an update from the legislature that that wasn't a requirement previously. And the last thing I'll touch on just very briefly. Um this week we or last week I should say, we spent a lot of time going to the schools recognizing our employees and our employees of the year. We have some really wonderful employees uh in the district and I I've been here for my entire career, worked with a lot of them. Um they deserve recognition and they deserve the most money we can give them. But I also have to look

019at the bottom line. Where are we going to be at financially as a district? I would love to get up here and say, "Hey, let's give everybody a 15% raise." But this time next year, I might be saying, "We can't leave the lights on." That's going to be a problem. Um, so we're going to talk salary schedules later on tonight and just know that we're going to make recommendations based on what we can do and what we can do in a in a responsible way. Um, so just some quick numbers for you. Um, we last year we did a three and a half% raise with the step increase. If we did that again this year, uh, that'd be a little over a million dollars, about a million one. And that would put our contingency estimated,

020I don't have all the numbers finished for the budget for next year yet. Uh that would be an estimated contingency of about 4.8%. If we went with the 4% in a step increase, that'd be about a million two. That would leave us at about a 4.5% contingency next year. Estimated 4 and a.5% with a step increase would be about a million three in additional costs from this year. And that will leave us at about 4.25% contingency uh moving forward into next year estimated. So, the bottom line is we want to do the best we can for our folks. Um, because they are they are the the backbone of our district and they provide great services to our students every single day and we're proud of them. I'm proud to be a part of this district.

021I was proud to go and take part in honoring our employees. I wish we could do more of that because they deserve it. That's the only thing I had left. Yes, sir. Mr. Sergeant you were stated, correct? If it went to zero, I don't think it would go to zero. Um, what was proposed for the actually for this year's budget, which I don't believe they've ever passed one at the federal level, what was proposed for this year's budget was a 25% reduction. So it could it could be a substantial amount of money. Um at that point you're talking500 $600,000 through all the programs I listed at the very beginning not food service. So that was through the title programs that they had proposed a 25% reduction. I don't think it would go straight to zero

022if it did. I I think a lot of districts other than us would be in way worse shape honestly because there are districts that receive a larger a great a greater percentage of their budget through federal funds than we do. Uh, but that that is a concern and that's why I just want everybody to be aware that if you hear about federal cuts, it it will affect our district and that's something that we just need to have on our radar in case it does happen. Serge, can you turn in your mic, please? They want the local people, local folks to take more responsibility. I heard it from both sides. level as well. Can I get a motion to approve the March financial report? Motion to approve. Scott Brown. Second. Steve Carmichael. With first and second.

023Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Carmichael. Yes. Sunny Contra. James Sergeant. Yes. Orders of the treasur. So any are there any questions regarding the treasure orders of the treasur? No questions. Can I get a motion to approve the orders of the treasur? To approve Steve Carmichael. Second. Scott Brown with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Brown. Yes. Carmichael. Sunny Contress. James Sergeant. Superintendence report. welcome everyone here tonight. It's great to see so many students, student athletes, um, elementary all the way up through high school, as well as the parents and community members. So, thank you'all for being here, supporting our students and our school community. Um, I'd like to start by saying thank you

024to a lot of local leaders who worked very hard over the last two weeks helping the flood victims and our community recover um, from um, all of the flooding. Um we had our chamber who worked diligently to put together a lot of resources to go out across the community. Um just really um shouting out all the folks that were there to support. We also had um Nineveh Christian Church um who organized and collected cleaning supplies with the help of Young and Thread for organizing. Um they organized a t-shirt fundraiser to help support Nineveh Christian Church. Um, Bill Thrasher at Walmart helped organize um, food sources for those who needed food. Um, we also had some of our own folks right here in Anderson County, our F FRC director and our, um, assistant superintendent attendant, uh,

025Travis Harley who worked really hard to help our flood victims, our students specifically to get all the school supplies and clothing and things that they needed uh, to be able um, to return to school. So, um, I'd like to just thank everyone. I I know I missed someone along the way, but we are very blessed to live in this community who really cares about each other and supports each other, especially during um times of need such as what we just went through with the flood. So, um I just like to again say thank you to everyone involved who helped with that. Students and parents, we have 27 short days of school left until summer break. I know that doesn't seem possible, but it's true. Um, our graduation date is set for Wednesday, May the 21st

026at 6 PM at Anderson County High School. Um, again, I'd like to thank all of our students, our uh, parents and families for all of your hard work over the course of the last school year. Um, but let's finish strong. Um, over the course of those next 27 short days, we have a lot coming up with our assessments, with um, KSA, uh, as well as our AP. So, let's finish strong. Again, thank you students and parents uh as well as our faculty and staff for all of your hard work reaching um this point of the school year. Have a lot of students who are waiting to be recognized. So, I'd like to welcome our district-wide athletic director u Mr. Corey Ser who's going to do the honors of recognizing all of our student athletes this

027evening. I'm I apologize for having so many people here, but I guess it's a byproduct of having such a successful winner. Um, I was thinking about doing one team every month, but that would put one of you guys in June. And so I thought we would do it all in one month and and celebrate. And I've got a surprise um at the end for for the basketball teams and then for uh the wrestling team. I'd like to ask the boys team to come up first, the boys basketball team, if you guys would come up here for me. Um the coaches also, so everyone can see you guys. Uh while they're coming up, uh make sure Coach Hyatt and any of their coaches that are here, Coach Daniels, if he's here, um a little bit about

028this team. Um this is a very senior laden team. Um hopefully you've had the um the uh the luxury of seeing them play. They're very fun to watch. Um it's special for me as somebody who's been teaching for 22 years. Also, I've had most of these guys in class. Um raise your hand if I've had you in class. Yeah. Um I've written half of their college recommendations. So it's a really special group for me. Um and these are great guys and um I I want to talk about the coaches first. Um Coach Hayatt's an amazing coach. Um he's been a friend of mine for a long time. But I I want to point out that he does things right. I want to point out that he beats teams that recruit and he beats teams that

029have people coming from outside their districts. And that's not what we do. We beat teams for Anderson County students. And I'm proud of that. Um, and I'm proud of the work that Coach High does and the amount of hours. I don't think the people who aren't in school see how many hours coaches put in um that that it's it's untold the amount of travel they do, the amount of uh insane amount of uh film they're watching and game planning and um it goes on and on and on. It's really hard to describe unless you actually see it up close. And while I was a coach for a few years, nothing like what they put in as my first year as athletic director. Um, I I just want you guys to give Coach Hyde a huge

030round of applause cuz he did a great [Applause] job. We were we were one basket short of being undefeated for the district, including going to Woodford County and being a team that none of their starting players are from Woodford County except for one of them. Um, and and we did a great job. I want to talk about these seniors, too, before um we get going. Um, can the can the seniors sort of stay up and the um the non- seniors sort of step back a little bit. I want you guys to recognize and I want to talk about these guys um individually if possible because I know them pretty well. The first thing I'd like to talk about is um Luke and um and Jesus here. Um we've had a starting back court for a

031long time. Um Luke and Jesus would start on on most the teams in central Kentucky. Um they didn't get a starting role. Um, but I think it's a testament to their um, team play that they were playing on a team that they could have gotten huge minutes had they transferred. They stayed at Anderson County um, and they were a huge part of the team. Um, obviously if you know the team, you know the team MVP is is probably Cordell. Um, you can see that he dressed up today for us. Uh, Cordell's a Cordell's a big team a big time for us. Um, um, I've had Calvin in five different classes. Um, and he's a class act. um going to Asbury. Um like I said, Luke and Jesus would um would start for a million teams

032and and came off the bench and provided important minutes. Uh Johnny um I'm a little bit biased towards Johnny. I've had Johnny in four classes, something like that. Um and Johnny is Johnny is extraordinarily intelligent. Um and um um came in one game, hit three three-pointers in a row, and caused me to do a cheer with the cheerleading team uh this year. Um, and he's going to have a bright future as well. Um, where am I? Um, and then obviously Will, I think one thing that you see with Will is that this last year is probably the first year that he felt truly okay on his knee. Um, he's an explosive athlete. Um, a lock down defender and I think he was a huge part of um, shutting down really good players. I know coach

033Hayatt could put him on their best guard and and they had a real bad day with his athleticism. Um um if anybody remembers the 1990s, do you guys remember a ball player from IU called Calbert Cheney? Do you remember Calbert Cheney? Real smooth left-hander. I've always thought Triton plays a lot like uh Calbert Cheney. Um can get near the rim, plays really well, um with the ball, off the ball. Um I'm going to come to Carson last. Um Lane is one of the best uh shooting big men in central Kentucky. Um if you don't believe it, just ask him. He'll tell you. Um but Lane has a great shot um against Woodford County. Came out, hit big threes, put us up. There's several games that when Lane hits a couple threes early, it got our

034team going and and we just we took off. And and Link here, especially me, I've had Link in a whole bunch of classes. Um and um he also is an amazing teammate. He's actually doing he's the voice of the Bearcats for the baseball team right now and is doing great. He's another ball player that had um they're not we not been so guard heavy on this team. I think Lincoln plays a ton of minutes at a bunch of other schools, too. So, a lot of these kids are sacrificing for the betterment of the team. And I think that shows if you're at practice, you see that you can't get better unless you guys got you're pushing people the whole time. And then for Carson, um Carson is the all-time Anderson County leader in steals and

035assists. Um, and uh, probably, and coach Hyatt says this all the time, if um, Coach Hyatt plays a very defensive minded game, if we ran up and down the court like some teams, he probably is a top three or four scorer of all time, too. Um, I do want to say, if you ever seen the the replay of our district championship game, um, I lost about 45 pounds jumping up and down and giving high fives to everybody. Um, I don't know if you know, um, if you haven't seen it, go on YouTube, go to Glycott and watch it. We won a 29 to4 run, probably the most impressive fourth quarter. Brian said he's ever seen that gym. Um, and and as an athletic director, I don't really do a lot. All right. I don't have

036a lot to in towards our success, but I got to act like I did. And and I will tell you that that fourth quarter was the most fun I've ever had watching a basketball game. Um, watching Calvin hit threes, watching Carson get steals, watching Trayon go to the basket, watching Will stop people, um, watching uh, Noah um, go to the basket, get rebounds. It was it was like seeing your own kids be great. Does that make sense? And it was I was so proud of them. So, I want you to give you guys um don't leave yet because I want to I have to do the girls. I have a a surprise for you guys. Um I want you guys to give these a round of applause. They've represented us so well this [Applause] year

037with uh our our double our double district championship and coach Hyde's first of many district championships. Um, and this senior laden team was really fun to watch and put everything they had into it and I just I couldn't be prouder and I wanted to just make sure you guys um got to honor them. So, if you guys go in the back and I'll talk about the girls for a second and then I want to tell you um a surprise and if the girls team and the coaches want to come up. Seems like we got fewer girls here than um so on the girls side, I want to talk about first off the coaches. Um um um coach Holclaw and obviously coach uh Bird Whistle. This was their 10th district championship in a row. Um which

038is pretty unprecedented for us um or anyone in the district. I will tell you a real quick story. The girls basketball team is what you might call not well-liked amongst the district uh foes. And um we were in our district meeting this year and Clay and I are friends. And Clay's also an athletic director with me and and we kind of had a discussion before we were in this meeting and Clay was like, "I'm going to be good. I'm not going to talk back. I'm not going to." And the Spencer County AD said something kind of mean and Clay Clay said something and um they've been so successful that the other teams in the district at the district meeting voted against their own best interests just to try to hurt Anderson County. It's not going

039to hurt Anderson County, but it was funny. They hate us so much for winning. They're voting against this against each other just to try to stick it to us. And we keep winning. It's why we play the March of the uh Empire every time they were introduced. I think that's fantastic. Um also in terms of comebacks, um down nine at halftime to Woodford County, down eight, I'm sorry, down eight at halftime to Woodford County and we're on a 190 run coming out of the break. um up by 13 after the fourth quarter and then a real good um uh buttkick in the fourth where our girl Laney got to talking to one of the Whipper County players as she fouled out to let her know that um it was going to be a long bus

040ride home to Versailles. Um Coach Bird Whistle has um already been to four um Sweet 16s, one final four. Um, and I think if you were a Bearcat fan in 2020, I think you know that we would have won the state championship had there not been for CO. Um, and I want to talk about again, um, I want to honor all the girls, but I do want to talk about and I've had a whole bunch of you in class. I've had several of you several times in class. Um, if Ella was here, that'd be a little bit more. Um, and I'll talk about the seniors in a second, but um, I do want to talk about the importance of this program when it comes to recognizing the role of women's sports in our county. If

041you've been to an Anderson County girls basketball game, we have the best fans. Um, it's a huge homec court advantage. A lot of the players in the other teams are not used to getting heckled. um and our student base will heckle and we have uh a huge fan base and I think that's a testament not only to coach Bird Whistle but also to the community for getting behind and seeing that this team is fantastic and are a huge part of the Bearcat success story and um I couldn't be any prouder. Um I would like to talk about the seniors for a second. Um I'll start with um Ella who's not here but um um Ella has been on the varsity for three years. Um this year she averaged seven points and four rebounds. I also

042when I asked Klay, I said, "Who is the best teammate on the team?" He said, "It's Ella Bomb." If you've seen Ella play, she's very athletic. She is a defensive stopper. Clay can put her on the best player and and shut them down. Um she's also a very good athlete and plays on the softball team as a starter on the softball team who's also gone to state tournament and gone very far. So last year, um, she and Faith were able to go to the state tournament in two different sports, which is very rare and I think a testament to to how athletic and how, um, special they are. Um, Faith and Ella together in their three years um, on varsity have 87 wins um, between them. Um, Faith averaged eight points and nine rebounds. If

043you've watched Faith play, she's a rebounding machine. She's not real tall, but she's a rebounding machine. Um, very strong and athletic. Not only is she an amazing softball player on a state ranked softball team, but she's also a very good volleyball player on our volleyball team. She plays all three sports and plays them at a high level. Um, and I think I think if we had a few more Faith McGregors, we'd be in real good shape. Um, I want to talk about Laney for a little bit. Um, Laney has 172 wins on the varsity team. She's been playing varsity basketball since her seventh grade year. That's a I want to say that again. It's 172 wins. Um, that's a lot of wins. Um, Faith and Ella, I went back and I think in their three

044years playing varsity, I'm not sure they have 10 losses, maybe 11, um, between the three of them. And these girls have not lost much. It's it's not something that they've gotten used to. Um, Laney in the seventh grade, I went back and looked, averaged 1.5 points. Um, she went to the state finals. That was the 19 2019 2020 year where um, CO happened. Um in the eighth grade she was able to bump that up to 4.2 points a game. Went to the sweet 16 again this year going to the final four. Um and then in ninth grade uh bump that up to 8 and a half points a game. Again goes to the state tournament. In the 10th grade she averaged 22 points a game. We didn't go to the state tournament. I'm assuming that's

045because Laney was shooting all the time. We didn't get to go. Um no she did great. And then her junior year she averaged 19 points a game. We again went to the Sweet 16. Laney has taken or been with a team that's gone to four state tournaments. That's one child taking teams or being with a team for four state tournaments. Um and then this year she averaged 21 points and was how many about 100 points shy of the all-time scoring record for Anderson County boys or girls. Um and um had several division one opportunities and is playing for Cumberland or for Campbellville. Sorry. Are you going to Camel? You're going you're both going to Camelsville. Okay. And then um Ella's going to Midway to play softball. And you're playing softball, right? And volleyball. Okay. Um

046so I wanted to I wanted to give these guys some recognition for 10 straight district championships. Also, I talked to um Troy Young. Um we'll be getting this. We haven't gotten it yet, but February 28th from here on out, we are getting plaques will be um comeback day in Anderson County. So, um, from now on, February 28th, from the boys coming back and the girls coming back will be comeback day from here on out. And it'll be signed by the mayor, signed by the judge executive, and we'll have a plaque hanging Anderson County that forever from now on, it's comeback day. And if you were at those games, raise your hand if you were at the games on that day. Um, that Okay, Calvin was there. Um, you saw it. Um, that was that was

047a great day to be a Bearcat and um and I really appreciate it. So, if you could give them a giant round of applause, I'd appreciate it. and then the wrestling team, if you guys want to come up. Okay, so I've got my notes for the wrestling team, too. Um, we had a we had a real big winner um this uh this season and Jerry sent me some stuff. Okay. Um, first I want to talk about the team in general. Um, this team made ACS wrestling history um, as a team by qualifying three years in a row for Kentucky Wrestling Association Division 2 state duels. Um, I hadn't gone to a lot of wrestling events, but I started to go to some of Jerry's uh, wrestling events and they're fantastic. Uh, phenomenal athletes. Quick t.

048They get a knocked in nose, they're sweating, they're bleeding, and they just keep on going. It's pretty fantastic. Um, um, they work hard. Jerry's a great coach. I want to give um, um, praise to Jerry. Um, he advocates for this team all the time. We worked together to try to get more dual meets in so we can get um some more exposure for the wrestling team. Um and we had a couple stars too um at the meet. Everyone did great. Um all the way from Mackie to Zeke to um we have two females. No, she's not here. Okay. Um to um to um Anna, is it Annabelle, right? Anna Lee. Sorry, I haven't had her in class yet. Um um in terms of individuals um Luke um is Luke here? Um Luke Knight was a

049KA state qualifier four years in a row, a region four runner up three years in a row and finished the two and two record at the state championship at 150 pounds. Um Carson is here, right? Um Carson, step forward, please. Um um Carson is a region four champion for the second year in a row. the only the second freshman uh to medal at the KA Championship coming in at fifth at 144 lbs. And then Corbin, if you can step forward. Corbin is uh a two-time Region 4 uh champion, a three-time KA state medalist, including becoming the first ever Anderson County High School KHSA state [Applause] champion at 126 pounds, a weight that I have not seen in a long time. Um, and again, this is a testament to the coaches and the amount of hours

050they put in. Um, I I know I talked about I talked about um uh about coach Hyatt. Again, I'm friends with Clay. The number of hours he puts in looking at film is insane. The number of hours that Coach Nance is doing stuff outside of his job, he works a very demanding full-time job and then comes in and is with these boys and pushes them. Um he's both gracious when they have problems but also firm. He's a fantastic coach and one of my favorites to deal with. Um and um I also talked to Mr. Young and we are making March 1st Corbin Nance Day in Anderson County um for winning a state championship our first ever individual state champion in Anderson County history. Please give him and the wrestling team a round of applause. [Applause]

051We have never had a winner like this before with all three teams that share gym space. Um, our cheerleading team also did very, very well at nationals. I thought if I brought the cheerleading team in, we would shut the place down. The fire marshall would come. So, we'll do them next time. But they had a great year, too. And so I couldn't be prouder um to be the district athletic director and to have no real um sense of uh you know I didn't do anything but I get to take credit for it right so I appreciate it. Please if you see these coaches please thank them for the time that they put in because it's really hard. They probably get paid a couple dollars an hour when you count how many hours they're putting in,

052watching film, driving places, talking to kids who are having problems, calling me up on how we're going to solve an issue. This stuff happens behind the scenes all the time. You're a coach now. You know how much we communicate on this stuff and magnify that um so much. And I just couldn't be prouder. and I really appreciate everything that they've done and all these students who are great kids and are really a testament to Anderson County being a great county. We're not recruiting kids. We're doing it with Anderson County kids and we're kicking butt. Give them a round of applause. [Applause] All right, we have two more recognitions before we move into our uh meeting this evening. I have a very special uh community recognition and Mr. Fields is going to come help me um

053present um this next uh recognition and award. Um, we have a very special community member that has um, served over 40 years in emergency management and 20 years right here in Anderson County. Mr. Bart Pal served as the Anderson County public safety director for 20 years. He recently retired, leaving a hole in Anderson County in the Anderson County team that he worked so hard to establish, leaving big shoes to fill. 15 years ago, I learned that Anderson County is a very special place for a lot of reasons. One of them is because our local leaders work super hard together to create this community atmosphere that allows us to really depend on and support or or have support in the time of need, especially in the time of emergencies. And we just witnessed that over the

054last couple of weeks with our with our flood. the Anderson County School. For Anderson County Schools, that meant something very unique that all entities unite together to protect and serve our students and our staff. And as superintendent, it is critically critically important to me. I was and am grateful that I could depend on that unity. I do not take it for granted. I still do not. Bart helped create that team and create that unity. He was a collaborative leader. He was always willing to work with our administrative team, preparing us for any emergency we could possibly think about encountering right here in this room. He taught us how to stand shoulder-to-shoulder and communicate effectively so that we could be better leaders for our children and our staff. His knowledge goes unmatched, and his work ethic

055is one that I've never seen matched. Bart answered calls right along with me at 4:00 a.m. and he was grateful to do so. He checked that radar and always gave us feedback. As one local leader put it, if there is an emergency, you want BART standing by your side. Simply put, Bart is the best of the best. Bart, thank you for your service. You will absolutely be sorely missed. Please come forward. Let's give him a round of applause. [Applause] Well, you know, uh, Director, uh, Barb Pal, um, I guess everyone knows that Anderson County is one of the leaders in in, uh, school safety, and, uh, I've been in this position since 2013. And so, I want to read some things to make sure it's on the record. If I speak off the cuff, I

056might miss something, but I want to make sure you all also understand uh some of the very specific ways he has helped us become a leader in school safety in the state. Uh first, uh I've been a prepper since Red Dawn. Anybody remember the movie Red Dawn in part uh also due to uh growing up with uh my parents grew up during the Great Depression and my grandparents obviously raised them during the Great Depression. So that was one of the things you were kind of ready for anything. One way director uh Pal encouraged me was to show me that it was okay to embrace the idea of being a prepper. Okay, he would usually introduce me and say that I was a prepper. That was being a prepper really wasn't a cool thing back in

0572013, but he really told me to embrace that and to think about that in order to make sure our schools are safe from all hazards. And uh I really hadn't heard the the idea of an allhazards approach. I learned that from director Pal. So, uh, he always told us to, uh, prepare for the worst and pray for the best, and he led by example with that. Second, uh, he led the way, uh, to further bring together the Anderson County team. They've always been close, but, uh, by that I mean the public safety, health department, EMS, sheriff, police, fire, and our local school district by being willing to always schedule district walkthroughs. We did a lot of tabletops and every tabletop I worked with uh director Pal on creating exercises like the one we did with

058the tornadoes where we actually did family reunification at uh Sand Spring and uh making sure that we were worked with all first responders and all uh first responders knew our principles and the principles knew the first responders. We would have this uh room filled with all first responders. He um he in addition and I think he's a very tactical person. He also added me to the district 911 committee and local emergency planning committee. So he engineered the process to always have schools at the table with first responders for county planning especially for disasters. And that is huge. That's one of the things that I think we have an advantage over uh a lot of other places. U whether it's uh needing a school bus uh to help warm uh first responders some different things like

059that. He is the one that led that idea of really trying to get us together and always having us at the table. Uh because in a in a county like ours, if there's a problem at the school, that's a problem that affects everybody in the county. Everybody has loved ones or loved ones they know that are in the school. So, he did that. Lastly, there are too many things to mention, but here's some other examples of how his work uh with Anderson Anderson County Schools has made us a leader in school safety in the state. His first suggestion was to require ICS uh ICS training for administrators incident command system. And I know that they've been tortured with that, but that was one of the first things. And that was important because uh as Anderson

060County uh whenever uh they respond, Anderson County is probably the best in the district. They always have uh someone takes command on scene every single run, every single time. And he led that. And so he wanted to make sure that if we had a disaster that we would be able to speak with them and as uh Superintendent Mitchell said stand shoulder-to-shoulder in unified command. So we can speak that language because director Pal uh did that. Um, also additionally, one could stop the bleed training and uh stop the bleed kits or uh bleeding control kits if we're not going to use the copyrighted uh version of it and make sure long before anybody else. We had that and every teacher was trained in that. And every teacher had a a uh stop the bleed kit in

061their classroom and in the offices. rescue task force training, advice and counsel on ice, snow, flood, severe weather, fire code issues, mercury spills, bloodborne pathogen procedures. I remember very specifically asking about some of those. And finally, some of our work we did with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. You know, you see uh the response for the tornadoes and everything like that. Well, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture through the commodity program is part of providing food for disasters. And in planning that for the state, at the time it was Steve Castanis, he was uh one of the leaders for them. Sat down with Bart and I and we came up with a list of things that would need to be done for the schools to help the community in the disaster and some of those are

062still on their official uh their official documentation. I mean the the things that we talked about are still there. So Director Bart Pal has played a tremendous role in helping us fulfill our mission of being safe, prepared, and responsible. And he'll Absolutely. We did it for them. On behalf of Anderson County Board of Education, the student, staff, and administration, we'd like to present you with this very small token of appreciation. And it says, "Presented to Bart Pal to honor your service and dedication to Anderson County Schools and the Lordsburg community." Please, let's give him a great big round of applause. [Applause] Bart, before you step away, we've worked a lot of incidents together and I really appreciate your leadership over the years. I just want to give you that heartfelt and very have a very

063good retirement. Thank you. Mr. Alexander, would you like to come up here? Mr. Alexander and I um also have two very special staff recognitions. Um and we'd like to recognize two staff members for Robert B. Turner for their exceptional work. Miss Olivia Winkl is an expert math achievement fund coach and a key contributor to the Kentucky Numeracy Counts Teacher Academy. Her work spreads across the building into classrooms, coaching teachers and students alike in deep mathematical thinking and learning. Olivia arms teachers and staff with strategies that enhance math instruction and help students make deep mathematical connections, developing critical and problem solving skills. As a result, her coaching has built a culture among students and staff who love math and get excited about learning each and every day. Mrs. Winkle's work with KCM has not only impacted

064classrooms at Robert B. Turner, but it has played a vital role in shaping Kucky's math curriculum across the state. Her work has been recognized by leaders at KCM as some of the best across the Commonwealth. Miss Olivia Winkle, will you please come forward and let's please give her a great big round of applause. [Applause] I'm gonna let you speak in just a minute. Next, we have Mrs. Nikki Hicks. She is one of the classroom teachers who collaborates with Mrs. Winkl to create an exceptional mathematical learning environment for her second grade students. She fosters a culture of curiosity about math and empowers her students to take risks, explore multiple problem solving strategies, and engage in meaningful classroom discussions about math. The motto in her classroom is it's totally okay to make mistakes as long as you

065learn from them. Her hard work also caught the eye of Kentucky Center for Mathematics, who selected Mrs. ICS to participate in training videos to be used in collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Education to help teachers across the state. The videos highlight best practices in early numerousy instruction, spotlighting lessons built around problem strings and number talks, encouraging students to develop mental math strategies, explain their thinking, and build deeper understanding of mathematical concepts. As an educator, I look forward to watching your videos and learning from you, Mrs. Hicks. Let's give her a great big round of [Applause] applause. It is an honor to be selected by KCM. If you don't know KCM, look it up. I promise you it is one of the absolute best um programs. I guess it's an entity that just does development

066for curriculum across the state of Kentucky. So, it's pretty um pretty awesome that we have three people here who work very closely with KCM to be a part of this great work for Kentucky students and teachers. Congratulations, Mrs. Winkl, Mrs. Hicks, and Mr. Alexander, who were all selected to be a part of this important work that is shaping the future of math education across Kentucky. We are always so proud of our students and their accomplishments. And tonight, we want to equally show our support and gratitude for the three of you for your work as exceptional Titans Anderson count and Anderson County leaders who make a difference not only in the classrooms at Robert B. Turner, but across the state, across the Commonwealth. Olivia, Nikki, and Jason, we're so proud of all three of you for

067your exceptional work and leadership for Kentucky students and staff. Thank you for being a Titan. Let's give them a great big round of applause. [Applause] All right. Well, listen, as you all have heard me say, we've got some Titans here today, and I'm so proud of you all. Excited for what you all are going to do here in just a couple minutes. But I'm blessed to be a Titan. You all hear me say that a lot. You all have heard me say that in our our cips. It's a special place. And um we're blessed with amazing people and amazing uh kids. And so I'm just so proud of each of you and the work that you all pour into the kids every day. And also just for your leadership. Um and you do it with

068a smile and you do it just because you care about kids. And so I'm grateful. Miss Mitchell, thank you for spending time to just recognize us and you guys are going to rock here in just a minute. Thank you all. [Applause] Chairman, that's all I have this evening. Can you turn your mouth on, please? I work every day with Jerry, the wrestling coach. 14 years I've served on this board and uh until Jerry became the wrestling coach, I really never realized what the coaches do, what dedication they give to the sport that they're involved with. I'll be the first to admit Jerry's management and I'm not. I am union. I'm the I'm the employees union rep and I deal with boss uh on occasion over different situations. I truly don't know how I if I

069was in his shoes there's no way I could have been coach in management he has to go out on call outs and I don't but they go above and beyond for the love of the sport. It's not the he woke he woke me up and you know and I thank him and I And I also wrote letters thanking his boss for supporting him and what he does for our schools. Next up we have comments from visitors. Dr. Anissa Pin Davis Hi, I'm Dr. Ina Pin Davis. I'm president of the Anderson County Education Association. Um, I've been talking about raises and percentages for months now. You know where I stand. Um, we had so many recognitions tonight because we have so many great things going on. We're an hour in, so we're not going to go

070through all that, but I just want you to remember that, you know, these students do great things because our teachers are doing great things as well. And you know what other districts are doing to keep their teachers? We don't want to lose um the great teachers that we have in this district as well. So, please keep that in mind when you vote. I don't know what number is it, 26. Uh whatever the number is on the agenda, please keep that in mind. Thank you. Thank you. Agenda 85. 85. Uh, next up, uh, Robert B. Turner, Titan AG, uh, club Rotary, uh, club participation, uh, presentation. I am Charlotte Hoclaw. I'm the fourth grade science teacher and the Titan Farm and A Club sponsor. Um I'm actually going to turn it over to them and then

071I'll talk to you last. But um we wanted to start uh with a presentation to you um because the kids want to explain what we do in our club. I am Hartley Hicks. I am the head of committees. We allow fourth and fifth graders into our club. Three years ago, there were only 12 members. Today, we now have 44. Ad club not only brings us closer to the community, but also helps us become closer to the community. Hi, my name is Maddie Spalding and I'm the treasurer of the Titan Farm Club. Agriculture is more about or more Yeah. more about agriculture is more than just growing crops and raising animals. It's about caring for the earth, growing healthy food, and building strong communities. Agriculture gives us a chance to connect nature and learn important skills

072for life. Hi, I'm Hadley Wintech, chair of the growing a program committee. Our a club is a is inviting to everyone. No matter your a background, we make sure everyone feels valued and included. Together, we can learn and grow. My name is Ella Dial and I am the president of the Titan Farm and AD Club. And together we just like support each other and we just help each other through everything and we're not just worrying about ourselves and our positions. We just help our community and help our land and our agriculture and our earth. Hi, my name is Samson Gellfinger and I will be talking about gardening and FFA partnership. In gardening, we are learning about how to plant and harvest the plants. We will we are also learning life skills. Life skills are important

073if you want to provide food for your family. I am Samson Gelfinger and I'm the chair of the strengthening ad club committee. Our partnership with the FFA allows us to be mentored by current FFA members and learn about the opportunities they can provide to us in high school. Hi, my name is Kinsley and I'm chair of the building ad committee. I'm going I'm here today to talk about a day and our nature trail. A day allows us to build partnership with our a committed community and support local farmers while learning about a career opportunities. We visit all classrooms and read to promote a literacy. We are also responsible for caring for the nature trail. It provides students to It provides students opportunities to have hands-on experience while connecting connecting our learning to real life experiences.

074My name is Noah Curts and I am the secretary of the ACT club. I'm going to be talking about landscaping in our outdoor classroom. for landscaping. It helps us develop good work habits and it makes the school campus look better than all trashy and and it's creating a sense of ownership for out for our outdoor classroom. It increases how creative kids are and it's also a hands-on experience so kids can go out and have fun while learning and also it increases student engagement while connecting our learning to real life and nature. My name is Josiah Wells and I'm the vice president of our Titan Farm and Egg Club. Um on the screen there are a few farm expansion plans that um we want to make and improve for our ad club. Um and some of

075these um are creating a space for all of us and all of the future students to learn, grow, thrive and succeed in their learning. Um this crew had the opportunity to um meet and talk with the Rotary in the fall. Um and we are they were so impressed. They did such a good job that we wrote a grant and applied um for our greenhouse purchase. Um and they were so amazed at the work that these kids did. They actual actually actually quadrupled what we were asking for. Um so with the Rotary along with um Susan Campbell and the Anderson County um 4H extension, they're looking at giving us or purchasing a greenhouse for us that is anywhere from 8 to $9,000 um to bring to Turner. Um, which is very exciting because our goal um

076is to give kids vibrant learning experiences to give them real life application to bring what they have in their classroom to life to make those connections and give them those real life experiences and those memories that last forever. Right? They might not always remember the exact strategy that I tal taught them in school, but they'll say, "Hey, remember that one time we did this in class? This is this makes sense, right?" And so those are the experiences that I am looking at giving them. So what we are coming to you to ask for um since the Rotary has offered up such a significant amount of money to us, this greenhouse would allow our group um not only to learn skills but also give us an opportunity to sell plants um to provide and put more

077money back in the club to um do our farm expansion and to improve outdoor spaces in the outdoor classroom for not only just this club and my science kids, but it will the spaces that all Turner kids can use, right? And getting our kids, right? We have an expansive, beautiful campus. And it's my goal to use every part of those five to seven acres that we can use um to bring uh to bring our learning to life for these kids to make these experiences. So, what we're asking from for you, um, I've been in contact with several different community members. Um, we've put together a quote for you, uh, for the foundation since the Rotary is covering the greenhouse portion along with 4. Um so that would cover sorry that would cover the foundation al

078uh the concrete the materials along with um water uh that would be ran to the greenhouse. Um we contacted or well I contacted several different um companies over the concrete. Those prices were going to be anywhere from 2500 to 3,500. But Chris Stewart with Stewart's Concrete, I met with him last week. He's so impressed. He's about giving back to the community. He has offered to give all of the labor to us for free. So, no cost for excavating all of his labor time. He's actually going to do some sod removal for us to um so that I can teach a no till uh farming to extend our gardening as well. Um, and so you can see the quote on there because a, you know, that's going to save us 2,000 to$3,000 by him donating his

079labor um to our kids and about giving back to our community because like Miss Mitchell said earlier, we are so blessed with a community that is willing to support our young people. And so we appreciate that. Um, the concrete quote is on there as well. I'm actually have a contact with there with um someone at the concrete facility. So I think I can actually get that reduced even more. Um and then I talked to Mr. Drury with maintenance and they have the capabilities of running the or the water to the greenhouse. So it would just be that's a rough estimate of materials. A second. Steve Carmichael with the first second. Can I get a roll call, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Carmichael. Yes. Sunonny Fentress. James Sergeant. Say yes. Congratulations, [Applause]

080Miss Hosk. I would just like to say I am so impressed with their students and all the hard work they put into this presentation. Um I love the fact that every one of them wanted to speak. They weren't shy. They're passionate about um this work. And um just thank you to the students and the parents, but thank you to you as well for your leadership. And I can't wait to see this [Applause] expansion. Next up, we have construction updates. Oh, I see. I believe Miss Suzanne Irwin is going to give us an update tonight for all the projects or for the projects. Good evening. Uh so I wanted to start I was speaking on behalf of uh Stephen Osborne. He wasn't able to be here. Uh so the uh updates for the HVAC renovation project

081uh there are still just a few little things to finish up. Uh there is some signage that is pending uh and that is uh to be returned uh sometime this week and in the next few weeks that that should be available for installation. the uh several items that have been completed is the um SRO door at that office that's been completed. Uh there's been a third-party hardware inspection done for the entire project and that has been approved. Uh there were floors uh in the um custodian closets at the Safl Elementary School that has been completed uh as bestice was abated from those floors and the commissioning is uh uh nearing completion. Uh there was a meeting with uh MCOR uh today. Is my understanding they met today at the Sappel Street uh elementary school and

082created the list of items that might need to be uh remedied and uh we do have an item a list of items for the middle school and that is all underway of of being completed. Um so there's just you know a few things uh wrapping up um commissioning being one of them. Uh but it it is nearing all the little the little items. So, and then on the uh project from several months ago, the Saffl Street structural repairs project, there was one item that was outstanding, which is a a lock set for the exterior door that did finally come in. uh was correct the correct keying and they did install it and so that one is completely done. Thank you. Next up we have change order approval for project BG23-130. uh consideration to approve change

083order number nine in the amount of $17,83942 uh for differential pressure sensor in classroom wing uh sixth and eighth grade uh BAS uh connection to second heater uh located in mechanical room uh BAS connection to electrical uh heaters in the north uh and south side mechanical mezzanines and air dampers and electrical heat control for HP uh 700H uh breakdown of the cost central uh Kentucky sheet metal uh $16,329 uh architect engineering fee $922.58 and construction manager fee $587.84. Are there any questions? Can I get a motion to approve? Mot approved. Scott Brown. Second. Steve Carmichael. With a first second. Can I get a roll call vote? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. Sunny Fentrez. James Sergeant. Uh, Interstate Environmental Payment. Uh, consideration to approve payment to Interstate Environmental in the amount

084of $1,800 for asbestous removal and disposal of three custodial closets at Sappel Street Elementary. Motion to approve public. Can I get a second? Second. Scott Brown with the first and second. Can I roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. Sunny Fentress. James Sergeant. One question. Is this all of the aspects? That is a great question and the answer is no. Um Suzanne, would you like to um expand on that? Yeah. So there were a few other items uh at Sappel Street that did have asbests present or assumed to be present. Uh several of those ite all of those items that are remaining are not in danger of being of exposure. They are contained items and there the presence of that will is only a concern if that particular

085item is removed or renovated. And those are uh the original windows which are it's it's the actual glazing which is like the putty stuff on the outside of the window. Uh those are there's I don't know about six of those original windows. Um if those were to be removed then that would trigger the need for asbestous abatement but if they are in place they're not of any danger. Um there's also uh some sophet panels in in the roof uh that is very integral to the whole roof system. Again, they're not being touched. If you were to tear into that, you would need asbestous abatement, but not uh they are of no danger to anyone. I think I was wrong on that statement. I think they said that we'd have to do the monitoring of Yes.

086Well, that that is true. You always have to check and make sure that they're not deteriorating in such a way that they're exposing anything, but they're it is not. And then the the final item was some of the fire doors were assumed to have asbests present in their core. And that's a little trickier because um our hardware consultant who is very very knowledgeable about that when we were planning the project did not feel that that was actually the case to verify that they did have asbestous you would have to actually tear into them. Um, so every asbestous report we ever get, they assume that the fire doors have asbests. So again, they're in totally encapsulated. So they do have to be monitored but it's not an issue for uh next up is uh facility commissioning

087group uh consideration to approve payment to facility commissioning group in the amount of $15,660 for Anderson County Middle School Sappel Street Elementary project BG23-130. I believe this is bill two and we will have one more because I still think they're completing the commissioning at this time but this is bill two you all approved one at the last two questions regarding the commissioning to approve Scott Brown with the first and second can I get a roll call vote please sir Jason Collins yes Brown yes Steve Carmichael Sunonny Fentress James Sergeant Payment to Ross Torrent Architects. Consideration to vote, please. Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, yes. Steve Carmichael, Sunny Content, James Sergeant, school psychologist position. Uh Beth Morgan Cook, uh director of special education, requests consideration to add an additional district-wide school psychologist, uh position

088due to current and projected needs uh to ensure compliance. I want to thank you first and foremost for all of the uh school psychologists that we currently have as well as um the ARC chairs. Mrs. Morgan Cook has done a great job of really working with the staff and um getting um as many school psychologists um as well as um ARC chairs as possible. Um at this time and in the past we've had one per school. Uh we've not been able to fill those positions. So her request was to fill it with an ARC chair and it has been a large helping us get through this school year. However, um we do have a need um to make the request to add an additional school psychologist if possible to help us stay in compliance. They

089do a lot of a lot of different they wear a lot of different hats and right now we do have school psychologists serving two schools which can be challenging at times. Um and they do need additional support and help. Miss Morgan Cook, would you like to add anything else? I think you covered it, but I'd be happy to answer any questions or add anything to the justification for that need there. They do a lot and there are certain things that you have to have that certification to be able to do. So, even though the ARC chairs help and they can chair meetings and facilitate some of those things, there's some things that you have to have that certification to be. We've had a statewide shortage for a couple of years. Um, they're starting to put

090some more out through programs right now. So, we're hoping to grab somebody this year if we can. Can I get a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Scott Brown, second with first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant, James Wood so busy. He would help you summer food service program. Yes. Uh we'd like to request uh to part participate again in the summer food service program. Uh the dates would be approximately May 27th through July 25th. It would be a mixture of the congregate and non- congregate sites. The congregate would be Emma Ward, also the splash park and the library. And then the non- congregate multiple day uh pickups uh using the box truck and buses. Last year

091uh we had two routes. We're looking at ways to maybe be able to expand that to three routes to provide even uh more meals uh uh to the kids in the community. Thank you. I would echo those same feelings. You do a great job with this program. It's a tremendous asset to the kids in our community. Thank you for all you do and the folks who work with you. Absolutely. Yes. Motion approved. Scott Brown. Second. Steve Carmich with first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Sir Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Contra, James Sergeant, creation of three summer food and service positions, seasonal. So, uh if we expand to uh to include three routes, uh looking at a way to maybe staff some more. And of course, these

092positions would be open to anyone, but they would also potentially be a good fit for maybe some of our high school seniors and people that are going to college that would be able to have a summertime job. you know, it's seasonal and then uh of course they would be going back to school in the fall. So, um you know, if we expand, um we would like to see about maybe uh getting some help by perhaps using some of our students or obviously it's open to anyone, but seasonal that would be something that potentially they could be involved with, too. Steve with first and second. Can I get a roll call, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael, Sunny Centrez, James Sergeant, indirect cost rates. Um, recommend to approve uh, sorry, recommend

093approval to accept the indirect cost rates for the 12-month period. Uh, starting July 1st through June 30th. Uh, the non-restricted rate is 12.67% 67% and the restricted rate is 2.31%. As you all know, this is um specific for federal programs allowing us to um take some of those um costs such as lighting and different things like that to be put back into the general fund for those programs. Mr. Wright, would you like to add anything to that? The only thing I will add is this is based off the 23 24 school year and the cost from that year for the 2526 year is what we're approving now. Um so the rate this year is 12.2 non-restricted 2.01 restricted very very close together. So um these great come straight from KDE. That's what that where we

094get that information. Motion to approve. Scott Brown second with first and second. Can I get a roll call vote please? Yes, sir. Um, Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, yes. Steve Carmichael, Sunonny Fentress, James Sergeant, auditor contract, uh, consideration to approve the audit contract for Denise King for audit services for the year ending in June 30th, 2025. Uh, cost has increased slightly to $21,000. So last year's cost was $20,000. So the co the price change would be about $1,000. As you all know, Denise has done our contract for some time. We are still able to utilize her again, mainly because Josh um is um this is his second year. Um and so we typically rotate. However, it is very challenging to find an education um specific auditor. Um, we've had one change, um, in the middle

095of since I've been superintendent, just very challenging to be able to to find them. Um, and Denise does a great job. Josh, would you like to add any or Mr. White, would you like to add anything to that? I would just add that's a it's a reasonable cost, I think, uh, for the services she provides. She's also always willing to answer questions in the interim in between. Anytime I ever reach out to her, she'll get back to me within 24 hours. So, I know it is a little bit of a cost increase, but I think she was 20,000 for the previous two years. Um, so I'm sure her costs to conduct the audit are increasing as well. second. Steve Carmichael with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir.

096Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, yes. Steve Carmichael, Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant, uh, service property, uh, Todd Woodridge, uh, Street as Sappel Elementary principal requests permission to surplus approximately 5,000 library books. Uh due to the volume of books being surplused, they plan to eliminate the book via uh remainder of the 2425 school year and 2526 school year. Uh books will stay on the shelves. Uh when the student checks the book out, the student will be allowed to keep it. Uh any titles remaining after the 2526 school year, they will be adopted uh in classrooms. Students will take home uh donated to friends of the Anderson Public Library or donated to other entities. Motion to approve. Scott Brown second car with first and second. Can I get a roll call, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott

097Brown, yes. Steve Carmichael, Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant. Capital funds request. uh consideration to approve capital funds request in the amount of $934 and $934,912 uh from the capital outlay fund for the following uh KISSA principal uh 55,435 uh interest of 47 47 $736. Uh Bus purchase/maintenance equipment replacement $48,800. Uh property insurance $465,941. Motion approved. Scott Brown with a first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes. Sergeant Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Carmichael. Yes. Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant, shorten school day request. Beth Morgan Cook uh requests consideration to approve a shortened school day uh a shortened school day uh slashweek is being requested. Uh the request is based upon the recommendation of the individual administration and release committee the ARC uh for the student based on the data from the current

098individual education program and the physician. Uh the ARC will continue to address the possibility of and plan for the students return to full day. Most approved. Scott Brown second. Steve Car with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Sir Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Sunny Pinterest. I'm Sergeant. Yes. Amended 2425 school calendar. Last board meeting discussed a new calendar. forward in some minor changes and I made the comments that evening that have been considerably lucky in our commonwealth. We've had some some issues here at home, but we are still in better shape than a lot of folks around us with regards to our school. What I'd like to present to you to help us out to go ahead and finish this particular year with the help of

099House Bill 241. It does allow us a little bit of flexibility with regards to the number of school days that would be completed. We have to have a minimum of 170 school days which we will be able to complete minus any additional issues that could come up. House Bill 24 241 uh really focuses on meeting the 1,062 hours which we will be able to do with the request that's in front of you today. You should have a copy with you uh of the 2425 amendments that I've got there in front of you. The request if you'll noticed online almost the fourth one from the bottom April the 7th school dismissed last week as a result of weather. Everybody's aware of that. The request that I make to you today is to not have students make

100that day up, rather to have only staff members make that certified professional piece of that up on closing day on May the 23rd. That will still allow us to meet the school term of 1686 day contract. still have the minimum hours requirement met of 160,62 and also allow us to have 173 school instructional days completed. You'd like to look at the adjoining papers that are there with you. It shows each of our elementary schools above that 1,062 threshold. I communicated with my representative KDE to ensure that that one banked hour that's there is as good as 15 banked hours that's there. We've never got we've never cut the quick that thin. And barring any issues, we can still finish the school year at 1,063 instructional hours in our lowest hours met with with our elementary

101schools over there. There are no issues with regards to instructional time um at any of our schools and meeting that. Should we not have that instructional day made up from last Monday, the request that's in front of you this evening is that we do not make that day up, have students not make that day up from last Monday, yet have that that calendar day be made only up with our staff members after the school year has been completed. Yeah, that was discussed this morning, our admin meeting. It will be curriculum based and or closing days. Typically on a closing day, what it as a classroom teacher, what I would do is is is organize all of my classroom items, close out that particular year. Anything curriculum based that could be guided uh from our principles

102and or our administration. They'll work through that exactly what takes place on those days till that time. It's all inclusive of those things. Uh, traditionally, principles have the ability to utilize that time toward the end end of the years. Each of those schools have different needs to wrap up a school year plus moving into the summer to begin the next school year. typically doing exactly that. We're wrapping up a year and planning the next one all at the same time. Our administration will be involved in engaging our staff members on that day. Should you approve it tonight with first and second? Can I go a roll call vote, please? Sir, Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. Sunny Content. James Sergeant. Uh second calendar reading 26 27. Thank you. Our calendar committee connected

103with them after our last board meeting with regards to the first reading. There were no recommendations for additional changes and the calendar is the same calendar that you did approve the first reading. The recommended uh the recommendation by the committee this evening is that that calendar would be approved for a second time and then be able to be posted to the public so that they can go ahead and make arrangements for a couple years down the road with regards to today's school will not be in session and or in session based on that calendar. Motion to approve. Scott Brown second. Steve Carmichael with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Sunonny Fentrez. James Sergeant. uh salary schedule for 2526 school

104year. Joshu, I'm going to give Miss Marshall just a second to get my presentation going there for you. But just uh to recap what I spoke about earlier, if we look at the costs associated with any of the the raises, anywhere from three and a half to four and a half percent, you're looking at a million plus for the following year. I went and took the salary schedule on the um certified scale and went to all of the different ranks and steps and did a calculation to determine what's the average percentage for a step increase across all of them from a doctorate down to a a rank three. The certified step increase averages 1.4% across all ranks. Now, some of them are like 1.62, 1.63 63 in a step. As you go further into the

105years, some of them are closer to 1.3% uh as a step increase, but overall they average about 1.4%. The classified step increases are a little bit harder to look at because we have so many different grades and and the the cost associated or the the difference between one year and the next is is different. So that was anywhere between 6 and 1.6% 6% as well. So when I put together these numbers, I used 1.5% as the average step increase. That's probably about the best I could do to come up with some number that that gave us uh some data to look at. So I've already touched on these these values. In the green to the right, I'm using some some estimates for our revenue next year and some estimates for expenses. We just don't have

106a ton of information at this point in time. Uh but I feel like these are some safe estimates based on the numbers that I have presented uh to me at this time. So I gave you the the 4.8% estimated contingency if we went with a 3 and a half% step, 4.52% estimated contingency if we went with the 4% step, and 4.5% or 4.24% contingency estimated if we went with a 4 and a.5% with a step. So based on that information, my recommendation for the certified schedule would be to do a 4 and a.5% increase plus the step for our certified scale. And to kind of give you an idea of what that would look like um for the folks in our community and our our district, the staff, I just went and pulled some some

107random ranking steps. Um no rhyme or reason to this. went kind of early career, rank three to late career uh doctorate to give you an idea of what that would look like for an increase in a in somebody's salary. So, rank three step three right this minute gets paid 43,380. Next year they would be a rank three step four. They would move up one step. If we went with a four and a half% increase, that'd be $46,76 for their salary. Next year, that'd be an increase of $2,696 or about 6.2%. You can kind of glance through the rest of them there. 6.1% for rank two step 10 to rank two step 11. 5.8% for rank two step 23 to 24. 6% for rank one step 17 to 18. 26 to 27 on rank one would

108go about 5.8%. And then somebody with a doctorate uh step 15 to step 16 be about 5.9%. So pretty close to an overall 6% salary increase uh for most folks in the district. So that would be my recommendation for the certified uh staff members for the classified schedule. A little more complicated on my recommendation here. Um but you guys know we've kind of been reviewing grades as we've gone along over the course of the last four or five years or so. when I I took a look back and went back and look through to see which grades we had been to and which grades we haven't been to and and and who's had greater than a a four and a half or a three or a two or whatever we went for in that particular

109year and which grades been reevaluated. And so in general for the classified schedule uh four and a half% increase plus a step for that group of folks as well with that continued periodic review of the grades. Um, so the grades that I looked at this year were the ones that I couldn't find that we had kind of touched in the last few years or ones that were having some trouble filling and we're really trying to to make some strides in those areas. So first recommendation there is to bring our bus monitors to a minimum salary starting salary of $13 per hour. Currently that's at $11.88. Um, so to do that in addition uh to the four and a half percent, it's a four and a half percent plus 50 cents for the subsequent steps to

110kind of bump bump them all down the line, if you will. Grade 10, I recommend that we do a four and a half% plus uh a 25 cents on the hour increase. Grade 15, instructional assistance, I would like to bring them to a minimum $15 per hour salary. They're currently at 1384. So, we do a four and a half percent plus an additional 50 cents in the subsequent steps per hour for our bus drivers. Bring them to a minimum of $18 an hour. We've been making some strides there, but we need to keep making some more strides to keep pace. Um, so this year, I'd like to get them to $18 an hour to start out with. Uh, that would be four and a half% plus an additional quarter for subsequent steps. Grade 56 does

111not have any step increases currently. I'd like to establish those step increases and doing a four and a half percent plus 25 cents on the hour. And then for a grade one, we don't do a whole lot with that, but we've we've got some miscellaneous things that happen that sometimes it'd be nice if we just could pick a grade to put them at because they don't really fit for something, whether that be a student worker helping out with some sort of task along the lines. Um, so I would like to take that to $12 an hour and that would be our minimum rate of pay in the district essentially. I don't foresee that being used a whole lot, but that's something that we we don't really have out there that just kind of a miscellaneous

112catchall for something that's not defined somewhere else. Then the next thing I'd like to recommend is that we create I've used the word formal. Um, this is nothing that would hold us to anything, but really kind of establish where we're going for these grades and reviews. And so I tried to lump together um grades that made sense that were like all of the secretaries at one time or all the bus folks at one time or all of the assistants and daycare aids at one time. Just what made sense and also what makes sense based on the number of employees per category. There's about 197 classified employees. And so trying to hit not everybody in one year to to balance out the cost, if you will, but also hitting as many folks as we can in

113in every fourth year using an additional review of your grade to to make sure we're we're getting those touched. So that'd be my recommendation there. You know, we're not really holding anyone to anything. It's it's more of a guide for me as we move forward to kind of see where we're at each year. The fourth thing I would like to do is add a supplement for classified staff acting as a substitute teacher. This is something that was put into to the ability for us um believe this school year is that a a classified employee could go in place of a substitute teacher. Uh typically that wasn't something that could happen, but if they're going to do their job as the teacher that day, um for example, a kindergarten instructional aid uh who could fill in

114for the classroom teacher just as well, maybe even better than a substitute because they know what's going on in the in the classroom that day. They're taking on additional responsibility. So, if they did that for the whole day, I would like to to compensate them an additional $40 for the day or $20 for a half day in addition to their regular pay. um is basically what that would be. We do not have a grade for the Savile Street daycare director. Um that doesn't exist. That was based off of board action a long long time ago. Um that that that pay amount and this came up in our audit last year that that was out there. Had to dig up some information for the auditor to find that. I just want to put that on the

115books. It's not a recommendation. Actually, no increase for that. that that position is just a a set dollar amount um per hour across all grades and or across all steps I should say. And then the sixth thing that I would like to look at and and work with Miss Mitchell and Mr. Murphy on, and Mr. Murphy hadn't heard me say this before, but it'll be okay. He'll be all in for us. Um is to createmies for instructional assistants and daycare workers, like an intensive training for them so they can learn some additional skills and then give them an annual stipen. Now, that's not next year. I like to look for that for the 26 27 school year to really give them uh some additional skills to serve our students and give some intensive training to

116them and an ability to to improve them themselves in terms of instructionally in the classroom and the services they provide, but also that we can enhance their salary once they've gained some additional skills. So, I'd like to look for that for the 2627 school year. Some additional recommendations. You heard Miss Mitchell and Miss Morgan Cook speaking about certified school psychologist. Like to increase that stipen to 5,000 to maybe help us in recruiting um some more folks to those positions and really help provide those services and take care of those needs. Like to add a certified school financial manager stipen of $2,000 annually. uh to to earn that designation, you have to go through a course at either the University of Kentucky, pass a test. Uh but the more folks that we have with these additional

117certifications, the better off we are in the financial realm, the financial department. So, I'd like to add that stipen. Like to add a doctoral degree without a rank change stipen of $2,000. Somebody who holds a doctorate degree but didn't necessarily get a rank change. They cannot uh qualify for a rank one maybe, but they have a doctorate. So, I'd like to get them an additional $2,000 stipen, formally add some pay amounts for all those things listed there. Many, if not all of them have already been approved at some point, but my goal is to try and house as much stuff in one document as we possibly can. Um, because at some point folks are going to turn over in positions. um whether that be superintendent, whether that be uh Miss Rogers behind me, folks who

118have been hanging around for a little bit who have the institutional knowledge, I'd like to get it on paper uh before uh those changes are made. So just have those things codified um in writing. Then I'd like to review the athletic, academic, and extracurricular stipens and include some steps up after years of service. Um, and so what I've looked at there is zero to four years, five to nine years, and 10 plus years of service, um, in the same position. So if you've been a a coach for five years, bump your pay up. We talked about how much time and effort they put in. So go ahead and do that for them and look at all of those additional stipens. If you've been the the academic team coach at the middle school for 10 years

119and you've been getting the same $1,500 for 10 years, you let's bump that up just a little bit. And so I've got those proposed to be increased a little bit. Reviewed the admin salary schedule back about 10 or 12 13 years ago. Uh the assistant principles were at 230 days. We bumped the uh high school principles at 230 days last year. I like to bring the assistant principles of the middle school to match them, get them back where they were and match those stipens together as well that so that they're the same. Increase the substitute teacher daily rate by $5. We bumped that up $3 last year, I believe. Bump it up $5 this year. I may be wrong on that $3. I'd have to go back and look. Increase the certified sub ESSPD hourly

120rate to 35. It's 33 currently. And then all of the substitute daily rates for classified are at 98% of a grade that they're at where they match the grade with at year zero. Like to go back and raise all those to to meet the increase on the uh salary schedule that's there assuming you approve it and continue with that bus driver sliding scale for substitutes. Those are all the recommendations I have. Thank you for all the work that you put into this. This is incredible. Any questions I can answer? Yes, sir. So, I looked at the seven surrounding districts around us and then I went and took all of the um salary schedules that exist on KDE's website for all 171 districts in the state of Kentucky and did very similar to what I did

121On this slide, I went at like rank three, zero years, rank three, five years, 10 years, 15 years, and I sorted those um those schedules to kind of compare us across the surrounding counties and across the state. I will tell you, uh the surrounding counties are beating us in many areas. So, I think we need to do this to get get more in line with them. Um, I don't know that in one year we can make up all the ground with everyone, but I know that over the past few years we've done some some steady increases. And some other districts have done some large jumps. And so I don't know that they can sustain their large jumps year after year after year, but we're kind of we're like the tortoise and the hair, if you

122will. They've been the hair, we've been the tortoise. So we're making progress there. So we're not at the top, we're toward the bottom in some. when you go across the state, it it really starts to change based on our ranks and years of service. Um, so we're like bottom third early in career, top third late in career. So it really it it gets really hard to make comparisons when you're not looking at every single year and step. Um, but I think this will help us make progress and this will tell our folks that we're we're making a step in the right direction. I would agree with that. Absolutely. And that's what I saw, too. Late career, we're much more competitive than we are early career. I'll make a motion. 4.5%. Second, Steve. Can I just

123clarify, Mr. around that it's and in addition to the other recommendations as well. Okay, thank you with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Sir Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, yes. Steve Carmichael, Sunonny Fentrez, James Sergeant, I would just like to say thank you to Mr. White for all the hard work he put in um to help um get all of this information together. I'd also like to say thank you to the board for being so supportive for our um staff. Um we have an amazing staff. You've done a lot of great work this year and I'm super proud and grateful um that you've um approved the salary schedule. Either I'm getting better at understanding this or you're getting better at remediation because I felt like I had a better

124handle this year than the last two years. Whichever it is, thank you very much. Next up, donations over $1,000. Uh consideration to approve a donation in the amount of $1,000 to uh prom sand Stan Simmons to the Anderson County High School football. Most approves. Scott Brown with a first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, yes. Steve Carmichael, yes. Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant. Uh, next up is field trip requests. Um, I'll let you all look over those. A second. Scott Brown with first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. Sunny Fentress, James Sergeant, early graduation request. Motion to approve early graduation requests. Do you know we have um a couple of

125students that made this request um Mr. um Glass and Mr. Harley um have looked through these and pending completion um make the recommendation um to uh for these approvals. Any questions? I'll make a motion to approve. Jason Collins Brown second. The first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. Scott Brown, yes. Steve Carmichael, yes. Sunny Fentrez, James Sergeant, annual technology plan. All right. So each year we have to submit our technology plan to the department of education. Uh our plan is actually uh 24 through 27. We update it each year. So this is just an update to that plan that that I submitted last time. We do have some changes and updates as it's a living plan and it it changes every year. U couple of things

126I want to point out. Uh goals met uh improve network monitoring and security protocols. That was our big over the last two years that has been our big uh focus. um as you know cyber security is very important and so we've made a lot of changes we've implemented some things the state has has added some things as well uh to prevent fishing and so we've we've uh added some tools there to really help us um maintain a student computer ratio of one um as u Mr. White was talking about they have you know a lot of our testing more and more of our testing has moved AP this year has moved to that. Uh last year we actually did a a smaller port you know purchase of Chromebooks because uh we were able to use

127reuse or continue to use some of the ones we have. Um and so that was that was a a good for us but we're getting to the point now where we need to to continue to push into that. So that's one of the things we'll be talking about. um continue to monitor the network, support STLP, our student uh technology leadership program. We have students going to compete. Uh that that competition, state competition is actually next week. We had some state placers last year and we're hoping for some this year as well. Um we did completely eliminate the reliance on our copper lines. That was one of our big uh things from last year. uh expand district technology professional development plan and implement uh technology interns for students and a student help desk program. So we

128we've done those things. Um as far as the areas of focus for 2025, uh continue to improve uh secure teacher student parent communication methods. This was one that was introduced last year. uh it was in our plan last year and we worked we actually uh implemented a solution that uh does not cover everything we wanted to do. So we're we're going back to the board or back to the drawing board on that. I'm hoping to have some recommendations for you next month as to what we'd like to do. Um those recommendations would also be in line with Senate Bill 181 which was passed into law. Uh and so that's something that that we've continued to work on for a couple of years and I think we've got a good solution uh that we're we're trying

129to pull together uh that we can bring next month uh begin implementation of the new uh KDE connected user experience. So we are changing the way uh internally we're we're doing a lot of work onboarding but the state is doing a lot of changing about the databases we use uh to create accounts and how we provision those accounts. So uh big project there and we're continuing to work on that. That'll be into the summer when we actually start our move into that. And then continued enhancement of cyber security and saf student safety protocols. This is something that we every year we we revisit all of the time. Um so those are that's basically it as far as the plan. Uh this year this is a you know the plan doesn't have to be approved again

130this year. I'm just kind of presenting the um that. So any questions? Appreciate it. Next up, purchases over uh $10,000. Uh chief information officer Blake Dury is requesting to purchase 800 uh student Chromebooks uh in smart charging carts uh from uh Velocity uh for the 2526 school year at the cost of $269,525. Three quotes were obtained uh requesting to use the general fund uh for the purchase of or to be reimbursed via capital funds request per CFO Joshua. So you'll probably notice this is about a month earlier than we usually bring the Chromebook purchase. Uh but with everything going on in tariffs and talking to a lot of the people uh in the business, we're really looking at a big price price increase. And as you can see the the bottom price there is one

131that that actually that pricing actually came in April 1st which is they had already raised their prices. So I looked at that as a projection of what we're looking at in the short term at least of of seeing on some Chromebooks some technology. So um along with the fact that we could do a capital funds request uh to have time to get that process to get these in and if Mr. White brings that to you guys we would actually be able to to use that as well. And so it would replenish the general fund with that. That's pretty good. Save almost double the money. Motion to approve. Scott Brown. Second. Steve with the first second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. Sunny

132Fres. James Sergeant. Second. Steve Carmich. Well, the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. Sunny Centur. James Sergeant. Yes. We are adjourned.