001I miss that was Yes. Oh yeah, that was that was like when she was like a month ago. Oh my goodness. Is that Randy Brian back there? What's going on, Mr. Man? Go-karts. Go-karts. Okay. You're never on time. You're always running. Well, it's at 7:00. It was a little easier for me to get here. It's like, oh, Ben will be here in a second. I had Yeah, I had a meeting that ran until about 6:30, so well, it was like 6:20, 6:15 and I buzz right up here. I was kind of worried there for a minute, but I made it here time. It wasn't nearly as bad leaving like 30 minutes later. When last night Madison Central Do you see Jason Ward? Do you know Jason? I do. He said he was going. I didn't
002know. I saw a few people. [Music] He asked me earlier if I was going to make it. I was like, I doubt it. We had about two or three other things to do. Uhhuh. This that's what we decided to sell down here. Yes. Okay. We will call this meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. And at this time, if you could stand for a moment of silence followed by a pledge of allegiance. [Applause] I aliance to the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for Oh, bro. I could have turned him around. Yeah, I didn't think about it either. Sure. He's got a flag there or something. All right. Review of the agenda
003and adoption of the agenda. Miss Richie, do we need to at this time make a motion to table section E? Yes, ma'am. Would you like to make that motion? Yes, ma'am. All right. Miss Thomas, second by Mr. Kaiser. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. I don't know why I just did it that way, but I guess that's okay. Yeah. To tell you why did it that way. Okay. All right. So now we need a motion to approve the agenda as amended. Make a motion to approve the agenda as amended. Motion by Miss Hall. I'll second. Second by Mr. Dorsy. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries 5 to zero. All right. Consider approved architectural firm related to upcoming projects based on letters of interest. So you all
004already have the um two letters of interest that we received from Ross Torrent architects and all 32. Um my recommendation is that um we select um Ross Torrent uh to work with on some of the upcoming projects that is also going to have a discussion about tonight potentially that are part of our uh district facility plan priority one items. The information there in the folders will be about a couple of the next agenda items. started sometime. So, we're just making we're just considering approving Ross Terren or you said something 32 alt 32 was the other firm that submitted a letter of interest. Uh my recommendation would be to continue working with Ross Torrent. Um they are very familiar with their facilities. Uh they helped us uh and were the firm that we worked with on
005the district facility plan. uh they have done the building assessments um that are part of KFIX. Uh we are they were also um working with us on the new uh preschool and the innovation center renovation that we have just finished. So, I think just their background knowledge of our buildings and facilities um would be why my recommendation would be to continue to work with them on these upcoming um items in our district facility plan. I I want to say I agree with that. They are very easy to work with and they will answer any questions. They're friendly and they also listen if you have a concern. So I I I think that they've done a wonderful job with the things that they've done since I've been on the board. So So we need to make
006a motion to approve the architect. Yes. Ross. I ain't going to say it. Torrent. It's torrent, right? See, I used to say Ross Terrant for a long time. Well, that's after I'm catching on. I was like, yeah, after after a little while, I started catching on. So, I make that motion. Okay, I'll second by Mr. Cer, second by Miss Hall. Oops. You could just say RTA. All those in favor say I. I oppose. Motion carries 5 to zero. All right. Discussion of next step regarding the district facility plan, Mr. Watkins. All right. So, I included in a folder that I handed you all um the district facility plan that we just approved uh in the last few months. um the local planning committee came together, worked with their architect and their financial advisor and um
007crafted this and then it was approved by the board. So this is uh in there is the uh district facility plan. If you'll notice u it's also available on the on the website the updated version but if you'll notice the priority one uh um projects uh listed there is kind of what I would like to the 1C items and specifically Campbell Junior High uh the roof windows and HVAC pack items. Uh, Baker Intermediate, uh, the roof as part of there under 1C. Uh, I would like to kind of discuss, um, your all's thoughts uh, as far as we we will be wrapping up the preschool project within, you know, the next couple of months. And um as I know Miss uh Roland was on the LPC and she heard some of the the major concerns
008and it kind of most of them revolved around uh the roof at RDC as something that really needed attention um soon. Um, also Baker's roof is also outside of its lifespan um that we would also like to look at. So, there's not a motion or anything uh here for this tonight. I just wanted to to present you all um some of this information, kind of bring back up the DFP and the priority one items and really kind of just ask for your uh blessing to start the planning uh process with our architect um to look at doing a renovation when we wrap up the preschool here in a couple months. that would take care of some of these items that we have discussed. I think from from my opin from my opinion and experience and
009talking with our architects, the Campbell roof, HVAC and windows, the Baker roof, there's also some doors at Baker uh that that really need to be replaced. Some exterior doors um that are kind of reached their lifespan. And then also uh I know the um baseball field slash maybe an athletic field for Campbell is also something that we would like to look at putting into a renovation with Campbell as well. Is that the field we discussed? Yes, ma'am. and and we've got several options. You know, we we talked about building a baseball field up on top of the hill by the softball field. We talked about potentially turfing uh another field that could be used as a multi-purpose type of field. Um we've actually Brian and I have had some conversations and done some layouts to
010see um kind of what some what some of that could look like in different locations. We have some space at RDC and we have some space at Baker to where we could potentially do some of those look at something like that. So, I just I wanted to to get any feedback uh from you all and like I said, open open the door for a a conversation and discussion around that if you guys have any. definitely needs to be. Yeah. I I went to one of those meetings and that's all I heard was roof roof roof. Yes. The roof. And then I would love to see those fields get done cuz it's really hindering it's putting everybody out at the high school on that turf when we get a lot of rain that we have this
011year. Everybody's trying to play at the same place. M we kind of like the idea of them having their own field as a middle school. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz I mean your baseball and your soccer can't play if it's raining. They can't play unless there's nobody on the high school fields. So when you say multi-purpose, how many games can you play on one particular field? Well, I know you could do soccer and football if it was done correct, but you could do soccer and football if it was done, you know, on like we do now at the at the stadium at the high school. There are al also some schools that have um turf, some multi-purpose areas where you can do soccer, football, but they've also put um like on the ends a baseball diamond, a
012softball diamond. You put plugs in for bases. You you bring out a portable mound. you have a portable fence. Um there Lexon Catholic, if you've ever been over there, has that that set up. Um Pikeville has a very similar setup. Uh there there are some other districts um that that have kind of a large section of turf that you can use for, you know, three, four different sports. So on a middle school level, does baseball and soccer plays at the same time, don't they? Oh, during the same season, yes, they're spring sports, so there would be some scheduling that would obviously have to to be worked out if we we did something like that. Um, you could I mean, we've really got a lot of options. Um, I mean, I see that helping a lot
013with the games and doing something like that, but what will we do about practices? You know, we still got to look at just adding another field though will help. Yeah. Tremendously. I mean, cuz that's that's baseball up there beside the softball. We've got enough room up there to do a baseball field up by the softball field. Um, it's definitely for a practice field. Um if we if we put concessions, restrooms, dugouts up there, it's it'll be a little challenging. Um as we found out with when we got into doing the renovation with the innovation center. Um the sewer the sewage uh sewer lines and the water lines were not in the in the best shape as you guys will remember. We had to replace some of those and it's going to it it will be
014a task getting you know those up the hill from the softball over to uh where that's at, but it's doable. But there's also room at Baker that we could explore uh over by where the current soccer field is or even behind Baker. Um there's room inside the track there at RDC. Probably not for a baseball field. It gets it's we've kind of laid it out and it's really tight. Um the current football field. Could you set it up? Could you redo it? It could be redone. It's just not wide enough for soccer. That's what I was going to ask if the regulations, but I mean I think we ought to look at that. That's going to be one of my suggestions is what kind of excavation would it take from the left side if you
015were standing at the You just have to move the fence back a little and take it. Well, it's got a big slope there, so I don't know if we there would have to be a retaining wall put in on the left hand side and fill it. I don't know. I think it's well worth looking at. I think that's just cuz if you could turn that into a soccer football field with the property already there, the stand's already there, concession already there. I mean, you would say now with that being said, those concessions probably we've been in the process of That block's bad shape. I know. It was popping. Yeah. 10 years ago when my kids was still up there. So, we've been in the process of renovating that concession stand um here recently. So, yes,
016it needed some love. Yeah. I think we need to start talking about it and getting some stuff together. Yeah. It sounds like already and if I can Oh, yeah. I forgot Dustin was in. I did, too. Go ahead, Dustin. Oh, we lost it. No, I what I what I was going to say is what what Brandon and I and are kind of looking at is if we get a general indication that that's what you guys want to look at, we can put together a scenario A, B, C, D, um, and work with Roster on on what it would look like price-wise to see what you guys would be comfortable with so that we don't necessarily have to decide everything, but we can bring back a whole lot of different ideas and uh, start working towards,
017you know, that in the design phase. if you guys we just kind of want some direction. It sounds like we're on track from what I'm hearing anyway. Yeah, I think like I said number one important the two schools getting them dried up then and if we can tag that on that. Yeah. Well, and we've got to work with our architects and um our financial agent and kind of see how much you know roof's first priority. you know, definitely how much is that going to cost? How much bonding capacity do we have potential? And then kind of go down the list on um on some of those things that that we discussed. So, thank you all very much for your feedback on that. I I appreciate it. I think I think there also in your in
018your packet there while we're discussing the district facility plan I did include some information for Miss McCoy. Do you do you need a copy of that or do you have I actually updated the date and made copies for everybody already provided. Okay. uh as just as information uh for y'all to have as we are are working through some of these things and then it if there's anything you want to add to that, Miss McCoy. No, basically there's, you know, very strict regulations on how if the district determines that there's property that would be surplused, like real property that no longer needed, the statute kind of outlines three possibilities on how that would be sold. Um, first what I would recommend is the first step regardless of what you take, the first step would be an
019appraisal because subject to some exceptions, you're going to have to get a fair market value out of the property. So at least you'll know what you're looking at. So if you are inclined to dispose of any surplus real estate, I would recommend you start with the appraisal. If there's any questions, feel free to give me a call. It's a good learning experience. May be a for a future school administrator. I I see it in his jeans. Anybody got any questions for Mr. Watkins? And that's on that. Have you talked about this yet? No, that was my next item if you all are ready for it. Yeah. Do anybody have any more questions on the uh facility plan before we go to the next one? Okay. Discussion of possible programming at the Carinal Innovation Center. I
020I'll I'll kick this off and then um I know Mr. Howard may want to add too. Um but but I kind of just typed up a uh a little outline for you guys. We had a um we've kind of been meeting and working on some of the next steps with the innovation center. Um, and this is kind of just for anformational uh piece for you guys because I know that you all have been very invested in the innovation center and are excited about um kind of what's what's going on there and and the future of that building and and those programs. Um, we we discussed uh some new pathway considerations because we still have those two big garage bays that we have basically a blank canvas to add some supports and some additional programs and
021we've all kind of talked about adding career and technical education programming and pathways down there. Um, one of the things that we we talked about, um, kind of pathway options. We sent out surveys to the local community and local businesses to kind of, you know, see what the demand is here in Winchester uh, for pathways and skills that they would like to see from our students. We also have some student interest data that uh the high school sent out surveying students to see what what pathways they are interested in. And then u we also came to the realization that we believe we need to do more with our seventh and eighth graders at the junior high to uh expose them to career and technical education programs and pathways at an early age so that we're
022not just bringing them into high school walking them around for a day and say okay pick the pathway you want to do for the next four years. we need to to um we want to be more intentional uh with exposing them to career and technical education opportunities early earlier in their academic uh career. And so uh you'll see that their expo exposure to students in grades seven and eight. Uh, and then, um, also, you know, we've discussed the space and resource considerations, and like I said, we've kind of got a blank canvas down there to to be able to really, um, put our our our dreams to work and, um, make it the very best that we can for our students. I included a couple things here from um the um Kentucky Department of Education
023and Office of Career and Technical Education. You can see the top five in demand sectors being healthcare, manufacturing and logistics, construction, education, and then professional, scientific, and technical services. uh construction technology was really uh the pathway that we felt like would be a great fit to explore in the innovation center. It is a high demand pathway um not just in the state of Kentucky, but it's also something that our local community said was something that we need as well. I included, if you'll look on about the fourth page, construction technology kind of encompasses all of these things. air conditioning technology, building construction technology, construction carpentry technology, electrical technology, heavy equipment sciences, masonry and plumbing. Um, so it is a pathway that really we don't have to just say we're going to do an electrician program
024or we're just going to do a plumbing program. It is something that we can really give a give kids a variety of skills uh and and make them more um I guess employable uh and more flexible and what in what they go into. Uh so the the last page uh there is some uh just some information about exploration opportunities for grades seventh and eighth. Uh there are 16 different kind of career clusters that we can um intentionally set up some programming to expose those kids to different a lot of those different pathways and kind of peique their interest to see what they want to do when they get to high school, what they would like to maybe um take classes in. It's not too And it's not too early to start thinking about, you know,
025what they're going to do when they walk out those doors at GRC, too. Um, so and some kids like me aren't going to know. Well, I I didn't know until I got to college, but some some do know from I've seen some kids who and worked with some kids that knew from an early age what they wanted to do. And the more support and resources that we can give them, maybe the better uh prepared they'll be to make some of those decisions. Well, and it's easier, and I don't mean this a bad way, but it's easier to find out at that level that you don't like that than waiting until you've already picked that pathway and you're stuck to it for four years and then you get senior like, yeah, I think it's four years.
026I don't even like doing that. Correct. No. So, Mr. Howard, did you is there anything you wanted to add? Um there I mean you you've made it tough because you were so eloquent in your presentation. Uh clearly we work well together because uh I I completely agree with everything you said. Um I think something that we're looking into is curriculum wise for seventh and eighth grade. Um I'd like to take a group down to Spencer County. They've invested heavily in a module CTE program for their seventh and eighth grade where they can spend nine weeks or semester exploring up to 24 different pathways. Um they have a they branded it really well. My good friend really Foster is a superintendent down there and they've made some really good gains in the last three years with
027not only at the junior high level but that translating into CTE pathway completion and career readiness at the high school level. Um, I also think by investing heavily in to a multi-purpose bay, and the bay we're thinking about is the the larger bay that if you walk through the front doors and turn right, it's the one on the left. Uh, providing that flexibility that we can get kids exposed to plumbing and electric and masonry and construction. And none of those things conflict at all with what we have at the high school. So, we're actually building and expanding programming and possibly even getting some junior high kids right down the hill into that building to do some extra exploration, too. Um, so I think that's kind of the the vision we have at this point. I
028may come back or if somebody on the board's interested in going to Spencer with us to kind of take a look at what they're doing at the junior high level. Um, that that's really kind of our our next steps as far as career and technical education here in Clark County based on all the feedback we're getting and and conversations we've had. So, just kind of want to get your own feedback and and we want to, you know, share this information, keep you guys in the loop, uh, because there's been a lot of work done on this and and I know um that you guys are super excited about it. I think that it's a great thing to to start getting interest in the junior high, especially when you get into high school because you're kind
029of thrown in and you're on a a on a your pathway. Um, and everyone and our our goal is for everyone to have a meaningful diploma. And so, um, I'll give an example. My son, he he was in the ROC, he's in the ROTC, so his pathway is ROTC. his diploma is meaningful in the sense he could go into the military at a higher rank and and blah blah blah. So, but does he want to do that? I'm not sure. Um he's not sure. But, um for kids who maybe don't have a lot of guidance if if there if we can help them with that before they get to high school um to help prepare them because you have to have a diploma nowadays to get a job. It's not an option. Um, but I
030really like that idea and I like the idea of all these the things that you all are talking, you know, presenting us are things that you have to do with your hands and robots are going to be able to eventually replace that. So, and that's the kind of thing that kids, you know, young people it's good to invest in that. Um, when I was in school, it was you either went to college or you didn't. Now, you don't have to go to college at all to get a really good paying job. And some of these kids can start if they really get interested at that, then they can follow that pathway. I think it's fabulous. I love the idea. So, I'm excited. Agree. Anybody else have any comments, concerns, anything? Mr. Watkins or Mr. How?
031Do we have to approve anything? We don't have to prove anything. No. discuss. Yeah, thank you for preparing the information though because that's really helpful to be able to take it back and read it and then ask questions later. that Brandon, if I understand right, like if we decide to do something in a bay up these lines of say that construction deal, I don't think it would take much much to get that classroom ready as far as I think it would be a lot of just building workbenches and as far as really having to do any kind of major renovations. Yeah. No, I think the major work has been done down there. Uh we even with the mechanical systems and plumbing and HVAC, those were those rooms are ready to go because that was included
032in the main renovation. It would just be giving them a little bit of love, so to speak, some paint, furniture, things like that, like a tool room or something like that built. Correct. And and those are things that we can do in house to get those ready. So, I mean to get something off the ground going, we could do it at a pretty reduced price. Correct. Yeah, it's even better. The HBAC part's a big one. And so, you know, having that done as part of the previous work is is really critical as mentioned. You know, there may be some updates in terms of some electrical power requirements on the pathway you all select. So, construction tech. Luckily with that you're not looking at like a welding for instance because welding then you have additional ventilation
033requirements and things like that but um construction tech is a what would be a good kind of catch all for a space like that broad idea do lots of different things. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. All right. Consider approval of overnight trip for GRC FBA students to attend the National Future Business Leader of America Conference on June 26 through July 3rd in Anahan, California. Good evening. I'm Miss Ciano. I am the business teacher at GRC and the advisor for FBLA. We have had this up and going for three years now. And this year our kids made it. They qualified for nationals. So we have in FBA we have um regional competition, state and then nationals. And we had three qualify um at the national level to go to Anaheim. And with that
034I think that you all received Did you all get the details like finances and stuff. Um, in that roster of students, that's mostly all of our officer like our officer team and then two of the ones that qualified to actually go and compete at nationals. Um, I have two students that would like to speak to you all about it this evening. So, we have our president, Miss Anna Wilson, and she's going to come and then our community service chair, Pton Hammonds, would like to speak to you guys. Hello everyone. Um, so as she mentioned, we are hoping to be able to go to California um, in June. Just a little bit about the club, as she mentioned, it's been running for three years. Um, in those three years, not only have we grown our chapter,
035the first year, I think we only had two students, then we jumped to 64 this current year. So, not only have we been recognized at our school for one of the biggest clubs, but we were also recognized at the state level. Um, we've won multiple ribbons for our region six. Um, and with that being said, we've just had multiple opportunities to represent our county and of course our school and all we're asking for is your support to be able to do that again. Hello. I'm sorry. My name is Payton Hammonds. I'm a sophomore. I'm the community service officer. Few things I want to say is thank you all. Thank Thank you for your time this evening. Be honest. I've never been to a board meeting. So, this is a first time experience for me. Nice
036meeting all y'all. Uh, I want to take a few moments to recognize and brag on Misso because this is the third year of FBA running and without her being one of the only business teachers at GRC, we would never have grown to two students to 64 students in that short amount of time. As we said, we had three people qualify for a national level, which is awesome and huge. So this is a huge opportunity for us as a school for GRC but also as a state because it is a national level. So we can represent GRC in the state of Kentucky which I think is awesome. Um for today so we are going to California. It has been away thoughts right now. Thank you for your time. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So if y'all
037have any questions I can help answer those right now as well. Now you said they're going to compete. What exactly are they going to do? So the two student well so we had three students. They were all objective tests. So Katie is actually one of those. She took a test in organizational leadership. So when she would take the test again in California to see if she would um qualif like place at the national level. Okay. We have a student that took a test in intro to FBLA. um he qualified and then we had a young lady qualify in journalism. They were all objective tests, but we had several students. So Anna, for example, at state, she did public speaking and a scholarship interview. We've had students do presentations. It's just it's a wide our regional
038level, we had several students place in all different categories. And so will there also be other will there be learning opportunities there? So what does that look like? Yes. So while so like the other kids, so the officers that would be going, they would have leadership breakouts um Sunday, Monday and Tuesday um are full stocked with different networking opportunities, um leadership breakouts, all different kind of networking, um different breakouts like that. And so in the fall we went to Columbus for our national fall leadership conference and there GRC was recognized as having the largest chapter in attendance at the conference. We took about 19 students to that. Um and then there as well they did a whole bunch of like different breakouts and um leadership building type things. Okay. Well, I am excited that the
039um chapter has grown that it was a big chap it was a big thing when I was in the school just a few years ago. Um but I also think that you all encourage and the involvement there's a lot of involvement. You all had something recently about um food trucks or something. What the food truck wars? So FBLA in partnership with JAG, we did food truck wars. So, my fifth and sixth period classes took the lead in um Mr. Staltz's JAG classes. We had 10 teams that created food trucks for like three weeks. They had to do a business plan and okay, come up with their food truck and then um have the logo and everything. And then we went into the food lab and they chose one thing off their menus to make. And
040they all baked and cooked and did really well. They were awesome. And then students bought tickets to go and they got to try all the food trucks and vote on their favorite. That's really cool. Yeah. I never knew that my 18-year-old knew what an oven was. So when I saw the picture, I was like, "Huh, look at that. You bake some good bacon." No, that's fantastic. It's It's fantastic. And I think that you the the program just seeing what the classes are in in the involvement, it's very exciting. It's just and it's a needed thing. So, thank you for what you do there at the high school. So, I'm I will quit talking now. Well, I think it's great that you all the trip was costing 27,000 and a little over, but you all have
041raised what? 17,000 of that. So, you only need another 10,000. Yes. So, I think that's wonderful. I'm just jealous y'all are going to Great Wolf Lodge. I mean, really? Oh, it's the Great Wolf Lodge in Anaheim. That's where we're lodging at. the conferences at the conference center which is just a few I it's been a minute since I read through that. So yeah I've seen that and was like well how do we get there when we had our conferences? So is it is this that's the need to stay every year in California or is this so every year it changes. So both of the national um conferences change so like even next fall their leadership conference will be in Phoenix instead of Columbus, Ohio. Um, and then the next last year it was in Orlando.
042The summer conference was in Orlando, Florida. So, it changes every year. Every year. This is probably as far away as we could get probably. [Music] So, what we're this this agenda item is voting to approve the I make a motion to approve. I'll second that. Motion by Mr. Kaiser second by Miss Thomas. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries five to zero. Thank you all so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys. Y'all have a good time. Thank you all. Thank you, Mr. Hammond. All right. Consider approval of donation for GRC FBLA trip to GRC National FBA conference in California. My personal opinion is is we should give them the rest of the money and they've raised $17,000 that I think we can give them the other 10,000. I mean, they're
043going to Great Wolf. That's right. So, I just have a question for Mr. Howard on the computer. Actually, it was I think the number went down some today in the thing that I've seen updated. It went down to like 8,000. Yes. Which I'm just wondering which fund would this come out of, Mr. Howard? Would it be the board fund? Th this these will be out of the board funds. Yes, ma'am. How are we on our board fund? Uh we are in we are in good shape for the year. Okay. And the fiscal year ends on June 30th. Correct. That's correct. And so what we'll be talking about later this month is actually uh the budget for next year. Uh but we do uh expect to roll over money from this year into next year. Um,
044so that's that's that's good. Gotcha. So we can give them this money with no issues whatsoever. Uh, no ma'am. Um, I think we can fully support our kids. I don't have the most updated number. Um, I know they've been actively fundraising. Um, I don't know. Just send an email. How much is it? Still there. $8,33.81. Woohoo. I make a motion to donate 8,3381. Get that 81 cents in there for FBA trip to leadership FBA trip to Anaheim. Motion motion is second by Mr. Passer. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries five to zero. Now you have your money and you have your trip. So you all have a good time. Can you all come back and tell us about the trip? We will. We'll bring the souvenir for you. Okay, that sounds
045great. All right. I hope you have a good time. Thank y'all so much. We will say man. Thank you so much. Oh, you're Thank you. Tell me your first name. Uh Payton Hammonds. Payton. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. I got the Hammonds part. I just didn't catch the first. All right. Well, that is it. If somebody would like to make a motion to adjourn the whole meeting, like be done. Is that what you mean? Yeah. Well, I make that motion to adjourn. I thought we had more stuff to go through. I mean, you can stay here if you want. No, no, no. I'm good. I'll second that. All right. Who did you make that motion? Yeah. Okay. Question. I was just confused. Second by Miss Thomas. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries five
046to zero. Oh, that doesn't say I We are adjourned at 7:45. We usually just have our shortest