February 25 2025 CCPS Board Meeting

001e e e we're calling this meeting to order at 6:05 p.m. we'd like to welcome everyone at this time we will stand for a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and have the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all review of the agenda and Adoption of the agenda anybody have any changes they would like to make I'd like to add on to the internal board business just a quick review of our conference we attended this weekend just to give a brief overview to where where did you under internal board business is probably the best place to that so four [Applause] yeah okay anything else do we need Mr um um Elkins is

002here our Senator do we need to add him on or you want to he's going to be participating the recognition recognition okay all right just want to be sure um mayor were you wanting to do public comments or are you just doing the recognitions as well just for okay that's what we thought we just wanted to make sure say something I mean you know we love to hear you talk we always want to hear Proclamation I mean I'm make a motion to approve the agenda I second all right motion by Miss Hall second by kaer Mr I getting there Mr kaer I was writing at the same time all those in favor say I I oppos motion carries for to zero with Mr dorsy absence all right um we are now to the a consider

003approval of minutes from regular draft budget board meeting on January 28th 2025 I haven't got mine pulled up yet was everybody here yes okay all right anybody like to make a motion on that I'll make a motion motion by Miss Thomas second second by Mr Kaiser got it quicker that time all those in favor say I I oppose motion carries four to zero all right Clark County Public School recognitions Miss Bush good evening we would like to begin with our recognition by introducing Mr uh Senator Greg Elkins to come up get he has a few words so um I don't I don't even remember where I came to learn about these two young men who had taken it upon themselves they were inspired by family members that had served in the military and they take

004they took it upon themselves to go out and solicit funds to purchase bench for our veterans memorial um so these two young men they found a problem they identify a problem and found a solution and that's something a lot of us adults even struggle to do we're it's easy to find the problem but to identify the solution and go out and bring it to creu and these two young men did so as I saw what they had done they raised $2,700 or more to purchase a bench and they raised they had a some money left over they purchased two bricks from the memorial down there for the memorial one for uh uh I think it was one of them was for an SRO if I'm not mistaken Brian car if I'm not mistaken and so

005that was just to me that was outstanding that they would do that and it I was so touched by it I was so moved by it I wanted to present them with citations from the Senate from the senate floor that that just recognizes them for the work that they've done so I did one for each of those young men um and they look like this and they're done they're done by me and and something that they can have for them for the rest of their lives and so I won't bore you with reading all of it uh these young men have earned every bit of it they deserve it I wanted to honor them with these citations tonight so with that I'll turn it over to D so uh we often U don't get this

006level recognition uh but since we do we want to also partner with the your great the shows so we've got Mr Walker Pucket and Colton Wilson well going direct this is the hard part get the right photo shot right here here we go oh yes ma'am here we go thank you all see a couple we got M very important hey guys congratulations this evening we would like to honor our RDC band and GRC band they are the district seven honor band for our district uh are um the director is Mr Calvin SME and at this time we would like to have Cassidy Moore Daniel Kelly Landon zavitz Anderson kid Sebastian all good Sophie smig and Maximo Shem shemwell sorry shemwell we would like to recognize them tonight and we will get their certificates to their

007sponsor as soon as tomorrow huge round of applause Mr speak you don't get out of this boss come on now without great instructors we couldn't do this he tried okay your head is okay are we good ready here we go three two one perfect thank you all hand one amazing Shake today I don't know our next recognition goes to the GRC dance team this has been an incredible season for the 2425 dance team it's truly remarkable that in their very first ever appearance at khsaa Regional dance competition in November they achieved first runner up in Hip Hop and qualified for State this is a phenomenal accomplishment especially considering The Talented competition that they faced their success did not stop there placing in the top 15 at the state competition it is a testament to their

008hard work dedication and talent it's especially impressive considering the team only has one senior and three eighth graders this young team has many many places to go tonight please help us recognize meline Baran shy bman Ali Hart Haley Wills Madison gullet Gracie borders Sophie floss Aubrey Williams Emma G Galloway sorry Stevie McCullum Lila snail they are coached by Haley snail and assistant coach Riley blle then we have dance off all right here we go three two one you do not want to see him Dance The Difference Maker award is a recognition given to individuals or organizations that have demonstrated exception leadership Innovation or an impact in a field this award celebrates those who have gone beyond and above in a positive Difference Maker for their Community industry profession or at large from her early years

009as a preschool student to her current status as a senior she has exemplified the values and dedication we TR strive to instill in our students Michaela Lopez you are incredible what an accomplishment a huge thank you for your hard hard work and dedication into getting Clark County Winchester a safe haven baby box installed this is truly inspiring we are grateful for your year-long commitment to this project we're so impressed by your initiation and positive impact that you have made on Clark County Winchester please help us in recognizing Miss Lopez you get you get okay oh oh where do you want me I box this up okay here we go awesome congratulations thank you may for all your support appreciate you want to say is this Proclamation time well first of all I think I signed

010up to speak when know to sit down Kayla didn't tell you her story but just real quickly I wanted to share with you back about what kay a year ago July I got an email at the city and um the email said I've got an idea I'd like to pass on to you and long story short to make it brief it ended up being the baby boxes that we put in at the Winchester Fire Department and what that is is a is a box that's literally built into the wall at the fire station it has a bassinet inside of it and when mothers feel like they can't take care of their children and need to give them up they bring them to the fire station open up the baby box and the media alarm goes

011off as soon as that closes in the fire department or the police department one comes and takes the baby out within less than two minutes and transports that baby to the hospital so we are one of the few uh communities in the United States that has a baby box this young lady brought it to me uh at the city as I said and I didn't think she would thought that the city would act on it Central Bank stepped up and gave us $20,000 to help Pur that and U so my hats off to Michaela and what she's done and I'm a product of the Clark County School System I'm retired teacher from the Clark County School System and I just wanted to say um we've got the best and I thank God that Clark County

012is U the school that we are in this the district thank you sir what is a bridge builder a bridge builder is someone who connects people or groups often across differences they Foster understanding collaboration and positive relationships they help to bridge gaps that might exist in various factors in this particular case Mr K cougal organizes and displays his student work from high school preschool to high school is clearly demonstrating this bridge building effort he connected different age groups within the community showcasing their talent and fostering a sense of unity in his Martin Luther King community Community Day celebration that we had a couple Mondays ago the bridge builder award is a fitting recognition of his efforts to bring people together and build connections within the community I doubt Mr Ken anticipated the extent to which

013his student display would now be embraced I believe that the Clark County Hospital wants it to go on the road and I believe he has someone else too so it's very very a remarkable job that he did please help me in recognizing our bridge builder this evening Mr Kent cougal yes okay gentlemen uh anyone who has ever dealt with snow removal whether professionally or at home can possibly encounter some of these comical PS okay so the berry treasure someone diligently cleans a lot piling the stone neatly and come spring we accidentally find a newspaper delivery tube a school mascot signage or maybe the manicured flower bed the slippery SL slippery slope he is confident in his snow clearing abilities begins to tackle a steep slope and then halfway up his blade slips and the truck

014completely goes backward but it's injury pre the snow plow ready to plow in the early morning hours he arrives at the office only to discover he detached the plow somewhere a year ago and may have to find it the Frantic search begins involving the backtracking of where did I store that last winter and he can't ask his wife where he put it the snowball Wars the two workers engage in a passive aggressive Battle of snow placement which is trying to pile the snow higher and higher to create a beautiful mountain range for bragging rights on a serious note this award is called the True Grit award it is someone who demonstrates exceptional courage resilience and determination in the face of adversity it highlights the ability to P to persevere through challenges obstacles and never giving

015up tonight we would like to recognize a group of men who are the backbone of our operation working diligently behind the scenes to make everything possible as every day we extend our sincere appreciation to the maintenance department for their unwavering commitment and tireless efforts particularly in the challenging mornings of 3:00 when it is snowing ice and subfreezing weather their dedication and resilience is truly commendable their willingness to work diligently in this cold Before Dawn is deeply valued and appreciated the work of this department is absolutely essential their commitment even on the coldest mornings directly ensures the SA safety of our student staff in excellent conditions that our buildings are today please help us in recognizing the following people and not everyone can be here but I'm going to read their names Mr Tim bulby Jason

016carmichel and you can come up if you're here Bailey Craig Adam Dunaway Shannon Gregory Von Ley Haney Bradley Hardy Shan IO Joseph MCC Tony rickets Aaron Vice Michael Walker Billy Damron and Mr Brandon Watkins was [Music] funny thank you I thought trying be funny cuz I heard about all that yes yes all right ready here we [Music] go thank you thank you all very much okay I didn't realiz this I'm back welcome back we are Christ we all found you funny I promise it hilarious yes all right we are now at public comments and we're going to take M mayor Reed off and we are going to start with Miss Jada Brady hi hello this for you guys oh yes J this is this is just for uh we have one two three four of

017you all so we will keep in around three and a half minutes thank you [Music] all right well as you all know my name is Jada Brady and I'm coming back to address the Clark County School Board as a resident of 717 BBY Road and your current PVA first I'd like to welcome our two new board members Carl Kaiser and Paula Thomas as I've extended to the rest of the board members I'd like to extend an Open Door invitation to the PBA office to you all as well now Mr Kaiser and Miss Thomas today I gave you the same map that I gave your counterparts last year which is the county broken up into school districts and an overlay of the Quad plan this year I will be reassessing quad 2 this will lay over

018the districts 1 3 four and five it's most of your downtown area and SE several of your subdivisions I also gave you property cards for you to look over that um you'll be aware of when your reassessments are Miss Thomas you'll be done this year for Quad 2 and Mr Kaiser yours will be done in Quad three which will be next year the postcard that I gave each of you is For an upcoming public meeting taking place at Clark County Library on March 20th from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. this is an open meeting for people to learn about the assessment process and to ask questions I welcome and hope that each member will attend that meeting my position as PBA is to hold up the Kentucky state constitution section 172 which states that property to

019be assessed at Fair cash value punishment of assessor for willful error Fair cash value being defined as the estimated price it will bring at a voluntary sale now as of January 1st of 2025 the following sales have occurred in Quad 2 there was a home on Redwing that sold for 325,000 it's currently assessed at 190 we have a second home on Redwing that sold for 260,000 its current assessment is 185,000 sunset height sold for 207,000 its current assessment is 110,000 East Washington Street sold for 215,000 previously assessed at 71,000 South Main Street sold for 380,000 its current assessment is 157,000 East Broadway sold for 360,000 it's currently assessed at 275,000 and I had one at Buffalo Trace that sold for 66,000 previously assessed at 101,000 now I bring this up to you to let you

020know that the average assessment of value increase for the homes I just listed would be approximately 117,000 multiplied by the current tax rate of 0984 that would add an additional $1,150 a year for County taxes and additional $144 for City taxes to that property owner now I'm highlighting a small section of recent property sales to show that property values have not decreased coming into 2025 in fact compared to their assessment values in most cases they've increased a great deal the sales that I just described will be one of many factors will that will go into the reassessment process now my hope with this information is to encourage some dialogue between the two elected bodies to work together for the betterment of Clark County I'm not here to say that school funding is not important I'm

021here saying that money kept within the house the home is important as well and one does not supersede the other as always my office door my email and my phone are always open and I welcome the opportunity to dig deeper into all aspects of the assessment process and the calculation of the tax rate I do hope you will take me up on this offer this year as always thank you thank you thank you uh Miss Amanda Baker you've got this I'm excited to hear about this well this is not my thing just so you all know what you're doing fine I'm actually not even coming here today for me anymore um I'm coming on behalf of other Clark County Children and um their parents and their concerns because my concern has already been met um

022so I came here today to speak on behalf of my student and others who felt the same way about the health and PE credit as I did um since a program has already been approved for a summer option I'm now here to speak on behalf of people in our community a lot of the students want more than the minimum from high school there are a lot of upper classmen that also want this opportunity as well is there a way to offer it to those that want more so they don't have to drop a credit they'd like to continue we had many bring up that they were going to have to drop something they already on the pathway of doing to take that health and PE so for kids that are having to drop something that

023they're really passionate about I thought we could at least start with those students um I know that some athletes but not all athletes get a credit for PE and even fewer those that will get Health Credit through their athletic program how is that decided and can this be re-evaluated to add more in to make sure they get that credit I can't imagine any athlete not getting the PE credit and um if there was a way for them to add the health portion and to find a better way for them to incorporate it I think when you're doing you know any kind of athletic program you should be learning the health side of it so that you're not wiped out during your Athletic program so I think it would be good to add that Health into

024there um this will allow them also to take extra credits towards the things they want to pursue later in life and then lastly and I know this can't change so hear me out on this but lastly the required number of English math social studies and science CR credits also prevents some from not getting all that they want out of their high school years but they are finding coming on their senior year some of their elective or pathway class classes actually counted towards some of their mandatory credits that's meaning they already got their four credits for some of these classes and they still have their whole senior year so you have kids leaving halfway through the day or ending in December our goal is to keep them in the whole senior year if we don't have

025kids in school we don't have money coming in right so the goal should be to keep them in the whole year not let them graduate early my opinion um so if we can so example would be business pathway it probably has a math class in it that's a class that maybe they could skip math that Year and be able to take a different elective or not have to drop an elective um journalism will'll probably have an English class in it they could drop one of their English classes in order to take that Jour that class in their journalism um and what that's going to do is allow students to continue on with like their some of them want to do um like cohort and pathway and then they want to do um an associates degree

026or leave half the year you know half the day for for college classes or other classes they want to take so I think that would allow them the opportunity if they knew that they could drop that class and take it in that pathway class that year so I don't think there's enough education on for the students to understand that and if we had a way for us to understand that we could guide our students because I know that you can't possibly hit every student with the number of people that you have at the school thank you thank you have you been to the high school to this and the site based Council to talk to them about this is my first time ever doing anything yeah cuz that is that that might be cuz we

027don't set anything like that yeah um and I know I I hear what you're saying um but definitely might be something I'll pass this on to miss um Harper who is on the spdm okay um say what your concerns are um that and that so she can maybe talk to her that that particular and I know we still have to get all the credits but I know sometimes when they hit their senior year they no longer need some of the credit that were required because they've already achieved them yes so our goal is to keep them yes the yes my um cousin across the street does that exactly what you're saying yes talk anybody that you would help yeah okay thank you all right thank you James day you're yeah you're up uh I'm just

028here on behalf of CC about the use of the field uh at Justice field um I've been a coach in this in Clark County for 14 years uh we've always used of the Justice field I do know um within the last 5 years we've not been Civitan we've been Clark County Youth Athletics I know that there's been some questions on how we do things um we do have our we've offered never offered football for over $75 last year we offered it for $50 uh and we also had a multi family member discount so it's been $50 since last year and that can give you the use of two leagues uh we play on Saturdays and Sundays um on Saturdays is our travel so with the 50 bucks the uh our jerseys are actually $65 so

029we make nothing I mean well most of it comes from support of the community uh we get that from donations we are a 501c3 um the previous I I've been back for about 2 years now been an active member our previous Treasurer did not file the proper uh tax returns she did State usage only and so we're in the process now working with David Bush he's already done all our taxes we just have to enter those in and it's for four years so it's like this thing so we have to manually in that the 20 in a 2023 uh system in through the RS so that's where that's where we get our money so we are a 501c3 um and we get all our money from donations I know that there has been a question

030about um you know there's a no compete uh the middle school just had started a fifth and sixth grade program uh which is kind of got us here uh every year we've come back we've asked for a lease to be put on the field and prior members have been a have done so uh this year there is a clause in there about the no compete and that is about the fifth and sixth grade we don't want to fight we don't want to argue but we are here to say that our parents have come to us and said we're looking look at what has been offered to the seventh and eighth grade in the past and that's not something we want to do last year we played 17 games we went to battleon Rocky Top which

031is a a national tournament um we had 450 kids in our Organization for spring and flag just last year doing cheer flag or tackle football and we offer wreck because we have to offer wreck and travel travel we're we're teaching kids to have good competition to compete for positions playing time not guaranteed in the wreck playing time's guaranteed so therefore you can get a kid that doesn't know if it's his thing football's his thing and he can go down to the recck program and play in the recck program to see if it's his thing and you can do both of them for 50 bucks uh like I said the jersey cost 65 that's not counting all the other equipment to recondition our helmets helmets 180 bucks our pants that we use are $30 $25 I

032mean there's a lot of cost and we are not affiliated with any we've never been Affiliated we I've often said it we're just a bunch of idiots that really want to do this for the kids right and like you know because we put our necks out there and we get seen and I know people have been mad at me for my videos on Facebook but sometimes we we don't know who to talk to we don't have we have no nobody I could probably ask who's been to one of our games I in s in The Last 5 Years last year great and you know and like I don't know what was your experience that would be left I mean it's pretty good I mean my grandson plays in the rec league and we could have

033done better last year and I'll be the first to admit we've got some growth that we do but with the travel program we're we're spread thin and we're kind of battling we got an in battle in Clark County we got another travel League that's left that started and kind of teamed up with the uh Team to the with the high school coach uh they're called the wild cards and they they there was a spin-off of our group um and so and and they were able to host their games at the high school and they had concessions that they did for their home games at the high school um I'll have to stop you there Jimmy we can't talk about other organizations if they're not here if it's not your organization okay um well our organization

034had a championship game this year at from the 127 we were able to use the field at the high school but we not allowed to do concessions or raise any money so um I won't can't speak of what other teams have done but I we weren't able to to to raise fund raise with our concession stand there um the money from the gate did not go to us it actually went to the 127 that we're a part of which is an organization it's a conference in which we play that's Woodford County Anderson County um Mercer County Danville uh West East J Gman um I'm missing a bunch some Madison count yeah Frankfurt Madison County so um you know the thing that we're here for though is just the use of the field I understand that

035there's a non-compete with the fifth sixth grade we just there's kids in this community that that that go to the Calvary Christian that go to private school they're fifth and sixth graders that go we have a flag program that we won't be able to do now we were told we could do it this year for spring but we can't do it after that for any age any grade over fourth grade so we won't be able to do that because of this no compete for fifth and sixth grade and it's and it it's really we just we just want to continue to do what we've done our parents like it they've reached out to us and said we want you to still do it we're pushing forward we want your support uh and a being able

036to play out there um because that's the only attachment that we really have we're self-sufficient we we mow the field we have a big huge trailer out there we've got a we've got a lawn mower out there we mow the field we weed eat the field we take care of the field out there um we actually for the last 5 years since 2020 and since we've been CC have actually helped the Middle School set up and mark their their field every year we go out there we pull out the pins we Mark the field we strike the field and one year in 20 2021 we did it for the practice field at the high school so we're we want to work with people um the thing about it is I don't I haven't got any

037phone calls and I think it was kind of a des spiration because I had reached out to one of the contacts I had but I hadn't gotten any response back um so like I I didn't know what to do other than we're going to we're going to put it out there so I'll let you go a little over but your your time's up bab all right appreciate it thanks thank you Miss Jessica Hopper hello [Music] um I'm actually a member of the CC board as well as footballall so I'm also here on behalf of the field um I'm coming to you just asking for a reconsideration of the addendum that's been put into our lease we are not trying to compete with the school with the middle school I hope the middle school has the

038most successful year they've ever had um I have a son who will be a sixth grader in the fall this would be his last year in the 127 this would be his last year with his coaches that have had him for five years I've offered I talked to him what do we want to do you want to do with 127 you want to go to RC whichever you want to do we're going to do I want to stay with my coaches for my last year mom we had a 100 fifth and sixth grade boys last fall between flag or between wreck and travel 100 voice I don't see how one team is going to be able to accommodate that there are more than enough kids in this County to make sure that the the middle

039school and our organization can play why why take this from these kids it's the kids who are going to suffer from this not everybody is going to get a chance to play on the RDC team like you Jimmy was saying we have private school kids we have homeschool kids we have kids from different counties that come and play because they don't have that offered in their County the kids are the ones who are going to suffer from this they're going to get lost they're not going to have a place to go it's not just Sports it is a community within our organization where there to support these kids we have our kids out working in the community to give back it's not just football it's not just cheer it's teaching them to be a part

040of something bigger than that it's giving them a place where they feel safe A place where they belong a place place where they learn teamwork a place where they learn problem solving everything you're going to need growing up and being out in the world that is what we're trying to give these kids it's not just football and cheer it's about way more than that and it's these kids that are going to suffer if we take it from them and I'm really asking you to please reconsider that there are more than enough kids for everywhere for anybody and I really hope that RDC has the best season ever both of them I don't know Mr sherro coach sherro personally I do know coach John's they did a uh lineman Camp during the winter him and his

041son my son attended that absolutely loves coach John's from what I understand they're going to be great coaches for that school and I can't wait until my son does graduate from CC and can be a part of that but at this point it's his last year and he wants to do it with the team his teammates that he's been a part of for five years with the coaches that he know knows and adors it's the last season he's going to have to do that please don't take that from him don't take that from all of them it's not it's not okay thank you for the consideration thank you thank [Applause] you I'm going to turn this meeting over to you while I go to a mandatory meeting for my child real quick and I will

042be back here shortly okay thank you m you're welcome okay all our next agenda item will be um student learning and instructional Services Miss Kelly Fen is she here tonight she is there she is coming around the corner I'm excited for our instructional Spotlight tonight to be on stro Station Elementary so at this time I'm going to pass it over to miss Anri C the principal Str station and Jordan ful the assistant principal did we clap hour Bo for the presentation there we go want make sure there's an introduction there thank you absolutely and we have our support crew here matching shirts and everything we did you know we have to we're in elementary we plan swag it's all about Swag yeah all right good evening I'm anria C I'm the principal Ro Station Elementary

043and I have with me George bols he's the assistant principal and we have some teachers here with us tonight we're talking about our big rocks our goals for Str station for the 2425 school year when we first started out Miss f and Mr Howard they're like okay what are your goals and so J Miss folks and I we sat down we're like okay what are our goals for the school year so we we talked about a little bit but then we said okay let's talk to our leadership team and say okay leadership team what do you think our goal should be for the school year because they're the ones in the classroom they're the ones in the trenches with the kiddos and see it from the other side from us from us so we sat

044down we came up with three goals over this summer which was congruence differen differentiation and monitoring now that was the Summer where everything's golden and you have these great plans of how things are going to go but once we got into the classroom we started seeing you know what we need to narrow narrow our focus a little bit more and so in November we met with the entire staff and we said okay what do you all think our focus should be based on the data that we're receiving from our kiddos so we're looking at I ready data and the KSA data to see okay where we need to focus and so with that the school as a whole decided we need to focus on differentiation how are we meeting the needs of all of the

045kiddos in our building and so that has been our Focus from November on out it has been differentiation hand it over Miss B I think Miss C explained everything I was going through I told them today I talk a lot no but really our instructional like moving on um really ties in with differentiation our big rock is differentiation so so should be our instructional Spotlight because that is what's really allowing us to meet students needs um so we agree that differentiation should not just be for our students but also for our staff so when we meet we're thinking about different needs for our staff and really getting their opinion on okay what do we need to do differently at every grade level to make sure we're meeting needs so what better way to explain that

046than to bring the experts themselves so we have we have brought um leadership from every grade level to really explain what we're doing instead of Miss C and I babbling to you all cuz they really know what's going on so um Jennifer Kelly from kindergarten gonna go first first all right um you know when she she asked what we do to differentiate and I was like I mean primary I think it just comes natural we differentiate all the time so we I chose one main thing we started just recently differentiating our um phonics construction and so we kind of started basically like we set up literacy liftoff this summer and we looked at um all of our kids what they've mastered all their phonic skills they've mastered and then we group them according to the

047phonic skills they need to work on and um with all all the kindergarten teachers all the kindergarten staff working together we've been able to create smaller groups for the kids that really need that extra focus and attention um we've been able to put our res Resources with the kids that need that extra attention um we just started this right after Christmas break um but already we're seeing confidence building in our students um a little more Independence um a little more participation during class um we're we're really enjoying it and I think the kids are really enjoying it and you know we haven't been in school long enough to do any major assessments yet but we we feel really good about what we're seeing our students do in kindergarten hi um my name is Misty Wilson

048um I teach first grade and I'm going to Pig you back off exactly what she said because she covered the same thing that we do um they had just started it at Christmas um first grade started doing their phonics um the way ker has at the beginning of the year and we started the same as them we assessed our students based off of specific Concepts that they needed all the way back to kinder and we used all of that data to group them based off the skills that they needed um this helps us fill in any gaps that they have we get to meet them on their level and then above their level and we're more intent with our instruction we get to drill down and focus more on it um our groups are flexible

049they come in and out all the time and we communicate consistently as a team to make sure that we're meeting the needs of all of our students um so far we have some phenomenal growth I am going to brag on us we have grew a lot and these kiddos they're amazing if you could see what all they could do now it was it's it's awesome and we are very excited to see the growth that they continue to make to the end of the year um I'm Anna asada I'm a second grade teacher at shro and we are kind of similar in Kinder and first but different and we're different we have we have two grade levels that we kind of go back so we do Aion time where we try to differentiate and meet those

050needs of those skills that were maybe they need some Kinder skills they need some first grade skills and we do that as well as we still do tier one instruction in our own home room classroom so we're still giving them that standard in-depth learning for second grade as well as differentiating and providing those Target supports in stallion time and we've seen a lot of growth and being able to move kids during our stallion time from one group to another being able to switch them once we get them assessed and all of that and still being able to do that tier one instruction as a Home Room class and so this really helps this balance approach for us in second grade it helps us uh keep those learning gaps closed and so that way we can

051kind of reach okay this group needs this set of skills that group but not completely forgetting those second grade standards in phonics so but we've seen a lot of growth we um we enjoy it it's good cuz we get to mix and mingle with all the other kids that we don't have in our home room class and it's just a fun time cuz you get to get those kids and you get to enjoy them but then you get your kids and uh focus on those tier one instruction goals so my name is Caitlyn Miller and I'm a third grade teacher at strud station in third grade we have used data to Ability group our students for the content areas of reading and math we believe that grouping students by ability can be a powerful differentiation

052strategy that tailor instruction to meet diverse learn learning needs by organizing students into blocks based on their skill levels we have been able to scaffold instruction and place support staff where needed the third grade team has had to implement this approach thoughtfully and with a growth mindset ensuring that we're centered around student engagement confidence and achievement this customized learning experience has helped meet Learners where they are and guide them in reaching their full potential hi my name is Ashley Thomas and I teach fourth grade math at sh station um in fourth grade we try to differentiate in a few different ways one way is during our stallion time so that's some of the older grades that we do stalling time with we have six groups of students for about 40 minutes in the morning and

053we base that off of their achievement their I ready scores their grls um lots of different Focus areas that we look at um to figure out where they would best where we where we can meet their needs the best um so our tier two and tier three students are in really small groups we try to keep those really small five six students um they're getting getting really really individualized instruction during that time it's really focused on uh meeting their needs the other groups um are getting instruction based on their standards some of our highest achieving students they're getting enrichment we kind of focus on with our enrichment we focus on like a more horizontal approach to um giving them something that's not just a vertical learning experience but more a horizontal learning experience where they're

054getting exposed to new things um so we also differentiate reading and math groups using I ready groups I ready masteries standards masteries um we give quizzes and then we group them based on the students who need extra practice for specific learning skills and standards um this makes our groups more fluent and we can be more intentional about our standards that the students need we can work on those more specifically in the classroom um to better need meet those needs with those students [Applause] finish with the Legend legend I'll let you know you've been doing it a long time right um can't get rid of me um well I'm Laura Wilson I'm the music teacher at Str station and I'm going to talk about the related arts team and related arts incompasses music art PE library

055and stem so just by the nature of what we do it's very diverse and we are meeting needs in a lot of different ways other than the ways they are met in traditional classrooms because that's what we do so of course with PE we've got Fitness we've got Athletics she's got some adaptive equipment in music variety of instruments including adaptive instruments for those who need it with stem they're doing Hands-On projects technology she's got um using all of that in art it's the artistic mediums art teacher gets into blow my mind all the time um and then in library of course focusing on literacy she has books she has audio books she has bilingual books I do bilingual instruction when needed we really try to reach the needs of all of our kids because we

056teach all of our kids we have every child in our school every week and so it's a joy it is a challenge sometimes but we also have a great team and the teachers here are so incredible to work with to give us feedback if we're like What do we need you to do to better serve this child so anyway the honored to be here for that but thank you okay I'll close really quick by letting you all know that we we set out with a perfect the purpose of being really intentional this year and we're going to continue that intentionality throughout the year and next year too so that we could further grow our students and I I keep joking with them saying I'm going to get a tattoo that says intentional on me somewhere

057because we talk about it so often that we have got to be intentional with our kittens but thank you so much for listening to us tonight we appreciate [Applause] it thank you all are telling us about St station so um we need to go back up to our um minutes approval um from the January 28th meeting 2025 meeting um Ashley Richie Roland was on first W but she was she did not vote so we need to um reee we looked at that last time with Robert Rules of Order she can vote and approve the minut can okay she's the one told me to go back okay so so we're good then okay awesome thank you I know that's been the board's custom but it's not necessary it's not necessary okay perfect okay are you so

058you're good okay all right our next agenda item um is within the student support services and it is the acknowledgement of wellness policy nutrition and physical activity report by Miss Nelson hey there Miss Nelson here good evening um I am accompanied by the lovely Dr Gent here as well so we're going to kind of tag team um this nutrition and physical activity report just to share some information with the community about some of the awesome things that we do in our school system uh to promote student wellbe so one of the requirements uh that the state has is that every District have a wellness policy I'm going to give you just a heads heads up here this is not reader friendly and we're not going to read every word to you but we're going to

059hit the highlights for you um one of the reason reasons why it's near and dear to my heart as um the school nutrition director is the fact that even though nutrition is a small part of this report I am accountable on my tri review and next year is an audit year so I want to make sure that you know I do everything correctly um the requirements include a wellness committee which we have uh the nutrition and physical activity report a public forum that we held last month discuss some findings with you and then uh Mr Howard will present a Wellness Plan to KD by May 1st yeah and the overall purpose for this type of Regulation is we know that um The Better Health that an individual has the uh more optimally they will be

060functioning so we know better health for our students equals better Learners so that's our goal overall um so we're going to share some information with you so one of the things that we do annually is we ask for updated data from all of our schools through what they call the healthier generation report um so this allows School leaders and administrators to go through basically a survey with their team um and indicate certain areas that they feel like they are um performing very well and they are fully implementing but then also Identify some areas for growth so we know we're always looking for ways to improve and do better uh so this particular survey helps us to do that so some of the big celebrations that we found from our most recent survey is uh we

061have observed some notable increases in the areas of policy and environment um around health and wellness for students and staff um and then more specifically some increases in the area of employee Wellness um so our School District offers a number of benefits to staff that promotes their overall mental and fysical well-being um we also had several items that were endorsed as fully or mostly by our schools um so looking at our start times looking at having a school nurse available in all of our buildings full-time providing counseling Psychological Services to our students across all buildings and then ensuring that we have health assessments available for staff so those are some of the big wins for us here in Clark County um some areas for growth so things that as a wellness committee um we're going

062to put some stro our stroke Peaks left but uh we're going to get intentional about these particular areas for growth um so looking at things that we're doing outside of the school hours ensuring that um they meet our nutritional standards looking at physical activity opportunities that we have available looking at professional development for our classroom teachers and then um I think a biggie for a lot of adults um currently in the world Stress Management Programs is something we all need to grow and work on so as a committee we'll be focused on those things some of our district school nutrition information hopefully you saw our district Facebook page which released our flyer and it had a lot of this wonderful information we are a full C district and we're very proud of that means all

063students in Clark County get a free breakfast and a free lunch uh in addition to that we participate in four Federal grant programs a national school lunch program which includes breakfast um we also participate in the child and adult care food program which is new to us this year uh when we took on after care it allows us to give the kids a snack and a supper we're very proud of that um with the summer food service program continue that this year I've got a training all day in Frankfurt today so host that again uh this coming summer and then um the fresh fruit and vegetable Grant pretty proud of that that's a new one not to Clark County we've done it in the past but we' had been several years since we had done

064that and it's only for elementary schools but all four of our elementary schools get a fresh fruit or vegetable three days a week in the afternoon and there's aned component to it so the staff has to be willing to talk about that in some way shape or form and then we're also trying to go out of our way to by locals so I try to make sure that I try to find um Farmers that are producing something that's within 100 miles of us awesome um we also want to highlight I'm going to go through these next few slides pretty quickly um we reached out to several up to all of our buildings and we just asked for input like what are some of the awesome things that you guys are doing that may not be

065ref reflected in this more formal survey um that we might be able to highlight and talk about so we have a lot of different things going on throughout our district um baker has a number of different physical activity opportunities that they provide their students um we have character lessons even looking at things like Internet safety personal hygiene healthy choices um you know when we're working with that uh group and age of students those particular um Health aspects become really important to how we develop um you can go on to the next slide um we have several things offered at our elementary and our middle school as well so again um the thing that you're going to notice as you look at all of these highlights is we have opportunities that benefit our student population but

066we also have opportunities that benefit our staff population as well um and we're looking at various components of Health and Wellness so we're we're looking at things related to nutrition um physical wellness and mental Wellness so as we yeah the whole child so as we look through these those are going to be the highlights that you're going to take away um and then I think the next slide looks at uh some of the various things that Justice is offering as well so we have a variety of things our buildings are out there um providing great offerings to our students our staffs and our families as well which is important because we know when we think about the whole child the health of that child is not just isolated to to that being but it extends

067out into their um family and their community so really we're our goal is a healthy Community overall we held our public form uh in January and we were quite pleased we announced to the public that if you wanted to come by and speak to us about anything to do with nutrition or physical activity uh we were available from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. before the January board meeting and we did have four community members show up and two of our board members so we were very pleased um the group they showed up was very um they wanted to talk about the swim they were very very proud of what we have done in our community with Parks and Recreation and they shared their vision of a drown prooof Clark County um their data shows that over

068400 preschoolers um in the 4-year-old class have taken swimming lessons they are very hopeful that we will continue that program in the fall even though we've moved to a new school they were they really wanted to make sure we said that um I thought it was impressive that we have a swim team a competitive swim team here in Winchester that has over a hundred of our students on that team and many of them then also compete on the GRC team as well and they just I really enjoyed speaking with them we emailed back and forth and the biggest thing that I told them I said I want to make sure I represent you and say what you want and they said their big vision would be obviously to continue those swimming lessons continue or consider

069adding exceptional children to that program and then they said if they want to look even bigger than that would we ever consider adding um learning to swim as a physical education uh curriculum standard so some action steps uh one of the things that we just listening to them and then just talking to our schools we realize we needed to share the actual USDA policies on smart saxs and the competitive foods and vending machines with our principles we have a lot of new principles so we just need to educate them on some of those rules um I think I got a message the other day hey can I give students a pop as a as a you know incentive and as a bring to lunch and it's like unfortunately no you can't you know it's not

070my rule it's a USDA rule so we just realize we need to educate on that um if the fundraising you know you have to do it 30 minutes outside of the lunch hour and up to like 6:00 a.m. in the morning all you know there's all kinds of rules for that so we just need to educate on those um yes um and also so working with um our director of Community School initiatives Miss Christy Bush to really just help make sure that we're doing again all the things that we possibly can do to really have the greatest impact across our community um and then maybe in recruiting recruiting some additional members to our Wellness committee so right now it's uh really consists of mainly um District Personnel so looking at you know how are we

071intentionally pulling in feedback from our our building administrators and our building staff because they're going to come with um great ideas and and bring some great options to the table um and again continuing to collaborate like Dr Wy said with um our parks and wreck um looking at being intentional with our professional learning opportuni specifically for our teachers um who teach uh fiscal um and health Ed um and then really looking at that overall PD for staff um ensuring that they have an understanding of what the regulations and the expectations and strategies that we can promote will in our classrooms every day all day and then we want to increase our breakfast participation we we do know that's one of the most important meals of the day if those schools and those children in their

072building in the mornings ready to go ready to learn um I think hunger-free Kentucky is going to be reaching out to you if they haven't yet because uh they called me yesterday and they're really proud of Clark County we are one of the few districts in the state that have over five schools that do either breakfast in the classroom or a second chance so um those are opportunities that think outside the box of coming just in the cafeteria and sitting down for breakfast even though we do that our numbers still aren't what we would like them to be um elementary schools are running about 80% which is wonderful because they are allowed to eat breakfast in the classroom because you are allowed to have up to I think it's 15 or 20 minutes you may

073know more than I do instructional time while serving breakfast in a classroom um but we would like to see that higher obviously the older students get I think GRC is a little bit lower it's maybe in the 50% rate on breakfast even though lunch is way higher so you know what can we do to increase that and next week is National School breakfast week so I've already emailed the principles and said please help us promote this and and get the word out and encourage students to come get healthy yeah I think that's it I think for us in closing um obviously if there's any questions we'd be happy to take those but I'd also um encourage you all if you have any ideas for the on this committee or particular uh focuses or collaborations reach

074out to uh Jen and I and we'd be happy to consider any input that you guys have those grants you talked about are they federal or state grants they're all Federal grant they're all federal there's no chance of I like to joke that I work for like five different bosses I have a USDA boss a Kentucky Department of act boss I have a superintendent plus I have a KDE boss I have lots of bosses with all the cuts of Grants and things going on on the federal government that hadn't affected any of that no not yet there was con concern there when it first came out people were really really scared I'll be honest with you I was I wasn't we're going to feed children yeah and you can't tell me the federal government's not

075going to feed children it's been around since I think 1947 P me on that but I know it was in the 40s so they're going to feed children um our biggest concern right now that we're fighting and I'm getting ready to go to Washington DC to help with that fight is C numbers um they're wanting to change some funding on C and if they do that and they raise the bar to what's called 60% um direct certification and it's a lot to it but for the record we're only 59% so if they do that we would have to go back to uh the oldfashioned household income forms for free and reduced lunch and not just us it would affect almost the entire state so we are really trying to fight to keep that from happening

076cuz right now the bar is pretty low it's like if you have over 25% of your community that is in direct C which is there in snap tanif any foster care homeless migrant those types of things um you qualify but it's got tiered rates tiered rates so we're we're not at the highest tiered rate but at 59% we're really close but they make the bar 60 make cup sure what if we were to push lunch back later so they can have that breakfast a little bit later would that allow more opportunity because a lot of these kids don't have dinner till 6 or 7 so they're having lunch at 11: that's seven or eight hours I just that's truly there again that's a school-based decision- making policy you have to talk to them most of

077them have those spread apart based on their schedule and there are some that are as early as you said 11 a little bit before even I'm 10:40 I know I didn't want to say it and then there are a couple that you maybe as Clos it's a little after one and it's really muched a matter and that's every that's everywhere in the state you can't go to a school in the state if they don't have that spread it's just trying to work it in are are you guys going to read that top of that last slide there it is for I know than you thank you guys thank you so I'll ask Mr Jamie Kean to come in um so we can consider approval of application for change in school assignment our non-resident procedure uh

078to where they are automatically re enrolled it it rolls over unless parent request not to or if um may be that privilege may be revoked by the school based on attendance Behavior grades so with this and this would start next school year yes ma'am okay um do you all have any questions no it looks pretty did you get it so this is a form yes ma'am okay I make a motion to approve of the application for change in right and have a motion by Mr Kaiser and I'll second and second by Miss Thomas all those in favor say I I motion passes three to zero thank you thank you Mr ke wish [Applause] okay I'll ask Mr Brandon Watkins to come and um so that we can consider approval of the district facility plan public

079hearing report so you guys have that document part of the district facility plan process is once everything is done and it is board approved uh we hold a public hearing on it we did so last week uh on the February on February 14th uh Mr Eaton our facilitator um handled that and you have a copy of the hearing report it has to be board approved for us to send to the Kentucky Department of Education okay Mr Watkins was there anything in the report that you were concerned about or do you feel like it was reflecting what what the district needs yes all he did was go over the dfp that you all approved there were no public attendees so there were no comments or anything brother I think that we met didn't I meet him

080the day of the meeting or something like that you did ksba is okay do you all have any questions for Mr Watkins no I've already read it it sounded good to me so yeah all right do I have a motion to approve the hearing report okay Mr Kaiser makes a motion and I'll second all those in favor say I I I motion passes 3 to zero um just real quick since Miss Roland is not here do we have is there anything we need to do in the minutes to reflect that she's not here voting those two V just have it reflect that she had to step out step out okay all right all right our next agenda item is our finance and human resource update I'll ask Miss Ellis to come and give us our

081our financial update good evening good even so in looking at our revenues and expenses compared to this time last year we are again pretty close we're 1% um higher in Revenue Collections and 2% higher in expenditures but again that is right on track um tax collections we are um at the time of January we were at 98% property 14 % franchise 42% motor vehicle but since then um the monies that came in the first of February which you you will see on the report next month we're actually at 101% of our property tax collection so we have col collected more than what we projected we make very uh conservative projections so that we don't miss the mark but it's fantastic that at this point we are already over that Mark we're at 53% on our

082franchise it's that's one that you just never know the timing of when you're going to make those collections because that's on tangible property so that's with businesses paying on their property taxes and all that so taxes are all going on right now people are filing taxes so that kind of trickles in as people get their taxes filed um and then motor vehicle is at 49% right now so we're tracking really good on our tax collections which is the bulk of our budget so um good news there um any questions on any revenues expenditures any questions okay um we're going to talk about discussion items a couple um BG FS AR tenative allocations standard consent items are Booster agreements fundraisers Surplus so that is okay the overview of Finance okay thank you no questions then we'll

083move on to authorizing payment of salaries and accounts payable I need a motion to approve and authorized payments of salary and accounts I'll make the motion okay a motion by Mr Kaiser and I can second that motion all those in favor say I I motion passes 3 to zero um the next agenda item is consider approval of the BG5 Closeouts and do you all have any questions about those or what those are um those are for our construction yes so that is BG5 is the last step of the construction process so we're finalizing what we spent what we um MoneyWise of how we paid for it and if there's any what we call residuals or leftovers so we're closing out five projects and with those five that frees up $133,000 that we can use on

084future capital projects okay all right that's a really good thing that's a really good thing I think there's so many people in the room I just wanted to yeah talk about it so we get excited when there's people here there usually not a lot of people here so you love it welcome to the family right so um so we need to uh make a motion to approve the BG5 close outs I'll make a motion okay Miss Thomas makes a motion do I have a second oh second and second by Mr Kaiser all those in favor say I I I motion passes 3 to zero and then um the next um item is consider approval of um FY 2526 tenative sbdm Staffing allocations so this is the first step in the process of our staffing allocations

085for next school year um so we basically took the numbers of their enrollment of what they are staffed on this year which was finalized in September we do a third look at all of the enrollment numbers in their staff and so that's what the 9124 numbers are 1218 is the numbers that we pulled for this comparison to see kind of where they sit and what we created this Staffing allegation on so um and with that the actual allocations themselves as far as ratios has not changed from when we were here last year having this discussion the biggest change that you're going to see um is that we have added bsp which is behavioral support teachers and instructional assistance to our each of our schools um so you see that added into their allocation um and

086really otherwise everything is pretty close to the same it's just the numbers of how the ratios had fallen out when you said behavioral support teachers what was the second thing you said an instructural assistant oh okay gotcha gotta okay and I've looked at those and do you either of you have questions about the allocation Staffing allocation stand how about you car no I'm good you're good okay and this you said this is the first step so this yes so this is the first step they have to provide these to their councils March 1st so a lot of them have already we've all met as principal's admin team so they're you know discussing these with their councils already in their meetings and then the next step will be back at the April meeting we'll do an

087adjusted one that they have to present May 1 and that's what they'll start the school year with okay all right so um we'll need to um make a motion to approve the FY 2526 tenative SBD and Staffing allocation I'll make motion okay Mr Kaiser makes the motion and I'll second all those in favor say i i m motion passes 3 to zero thank you Miss Ellis thank you Miss Ellis yes um so we'll we'll go on to number one under internal board business um we are um there there's no one listed there so do I just want me to talk I I could just say that traditionally um every year uh we really try to celebrate our GRC graduates um we also try to provide a safe environment after graduation for our graduates uh we

088really really do it up uh big time the staff are there uh it's it's really a great program we keep them there pretty much all night they're supervised with there's games they get to hang out with their friends for the last time and look around the room some of us remember graduation and we didn't talk to people after that right so um but again for us it also keeps kids safe but to do it the right way the board has always chose to fund that um to help fund that at a $5,000 clip and so I was I I very much support uh the board continuing that but again that's that's that's why you guys vote on so I happen to be a parent of a senior this year and I'm on this planning committee

089and Miss Jones Miss Christy Jones has she has done so much work if you all know her she's fantastic um Miss Amy Harper is also so um they're they're spearheading this and they'll make sure that every every senior who attends gets a swag bag and they have a they're um raising um donations for gift cards for each of the seniors to have that um so I I think it's a great program and um the $5,000 goes towards the it is a a very large number to put it on because they have games they have food they get like and they can bring if at the can bring a friend let's say if they don't go there they have get approval so it's just really it is and they're locked in for the night so you

090don't have kids that are there then leaving so again as a dad of a senior also U my kid will be going to this uh yes and I super pris it for years when I was a teacher and staff at GRC and the struggle will be for the teachers the next day and staying up especially when you're an old man like me and go to bed at 9:45 but uh it's going to be great so thank you and and they do ask for parent support to to go help out my kid said I can't come we'll see how that goes well I told my son I was going and he probably won't go but I'll go help out so whatever so so I'll um I'll make unless you all have questions I'll make a motion

091to approve the funding for the GRC Project Graduation in the amount of $5,000 I'll second all right thank you Mr Kaiser all those in favor say I I I motion passes 3 to zero um I would like to call a short recess because I know Miss Roland wants to be here for the next agenda item I'm going to find out how far away she is um and also I need we just need a short break so we'll be back what time is it 7:23 7:2 so we'll be back at 7:35 and hopefully Miss e e e call the meeting you w't finish that part back to order you're the chair I'll you yeah so I apologize I call it something it's got like a cold or something going on so we're call our meeting back

092to order at 736 um our next agenda item is um consider approval of Mo MOA between ccps and CC for use of field bide Justice elementary school and I'll ask Mr Brandon Watkins to come and speak to us about this absolutely so you guys have the M Mo u m MOA M MOA uh there for review for the uh Clark County Youth Athletics to use the justice football field uh for grade up to fourth grade so just just to ask some questions do we have other M oras with other community uh act Community programs like this not that I'm aware of okay um Carl do you have a question the so we don't have any memorandums of understanding with any others we've just got some other type of things but we really don't have any

093other things being used except for like FCU or something like that would have all of our other facility um agreements or or rentals uh all go through just a standard facility um use form that's aboard policy standard abuse is that you said a it's a facility rental agreement facility okay so why I guess my question is why are we wanting to put this into place for this specific group is there something motivating that or um I I guess we've had it in the past here and I was asked requested to put it back back on the board agenda for review so okay all right I'm the facility gu you our facility guy and we appreciate that so um and we had one with them last year that's great and uh we changed it from from

094the fifth and sixth grade to the fourth grade it really didn't have any parameters on have no parameters okay previously um and so this year with us starting a fifth and sixth grade football team um you know that was kind of the the rationale for putting through fourth grade yeah so we we still hope to partner with them and U allow them to to use that field to to have their league on so I'm just going to be transparent I think that and there's only three of the board members here and I am not clear um I'm speaking for myself but I do not know what Mr dorsey's opinion is on this um or Miss Richie in cland um and I I think um I'm not sure how Mr Kaiser and Miss Thomas feel about

095maybe tabling this until March I think so is that something we can do is to make sure that all five of us are here to have a a good conversation with all five board members you guys at the Board of Education the reason is I I just found out about this yesterday afternoon and honestly my son's just never played football it's not been something he's ever been interested in um I know that that field I mean Miss Roland knows so much more about the sports aspect of the whole system and I just want to make sure that we are doing what's best personally and I agree I agree with you I think we need to uh maybe learn a little more about it and kind of research sure table it till next time and just

096I really feel like we need to have all five members I don't feel comfortable making a motion to approve it or not approve it without having all five of us here because it it feels like a very important decision that is it's going to affect the community affect kids and then of course we're here for the kids number one so that's how I feel you all Mr cos you have anything to say I'm fine if we want to table till next time I'm fine with that okay M Thomas do you have anything no I'm good and I'll be glad to make the motion for okay so you like to make a motion to table this until next until March 20th meeting okay um I I can second that motion um so make the motion is

097to table the the approval until the March regular meeting all those in favor say I I I and none opposed so the um the approval is to is the word I was doing so thank you thank you table it until um the March regular meeting okay right just a second M walk so but when we do talk about it again the the date I mean that's not till June correct is what because they've still under one for last year I believe that's corre still under that July one would be the new that's when our calendar switches over okay able to play spr to football with our kids right yeah I mean you all got the you got would not changed tonight no matter what we just want to make sure before we start you guys

098are ready rock and roll FL it up we want to make sure thank you you're very welcome apprciate and I don't think the intent was to change anything as far as not having a league or anything like that uh Clark County the board you know has directed us to uh expand opportunities for our students so a fifth and sixth grade team was expanding opportunities for our students with all of our Fields there's only so many hours in the day and the time slots that folks can use them so that that's just you know why that that request was made uh to bring that M MOA back to you all okay thank you you're welcome I do have a question on that you say she's running the meeting sir yes sir yes sir what's your question

099never mind and if you so he says expand Fifth and six we already have Fifth and six what are we expanding them to expanding the team is that what you we have a fifth and sixth grade he said we're expanding to fifth and sixth I think I think what he meant was expanding it it's more of a broad term not necessarily expanding it expanding in school system yeah but I will tell you that I County Public Schools I'm yeah go ahead Mr you might say it better what random was saying is CLK County Public Schools is expanding into a fifth and sixth grade team I understand that we have the fifth and sixth grade in also and only in limiting that too it only does not only does tackle but it also does the flag

100and everything else which is which goes way deeper into the things that we do our organization yeah valuable Beyond just the tack of football yeah thank you can I say one more thing s we also have other leaks in this community that goes on beond fth and sixth grade and you know we have baseball that's in RDC that has you know we have leags that are in this community that offers all the way up to 16 and if we are standard to keep it as you know can't go past fourth grade you know there's all kinds of people home school kids private school kids that cannot play and that's our concern completely I you all that um I'll address just a little bit um yeah we just want tomor we've tabled it till next time

101yes our email addresses all of Us's email addresses are on the board website send us an email okay tell us what you think and our phone numbers are on there too so you know the reason we want to do that so that we all have a better understanding of what's going on so that we make the best decision possible for all the kids in Clark County so we really appreciate it yeah thank you our next agenda item is um consider approval of funding for Clark County students to attend the global amazing shape competition not to exceed $6,700 I'll left the room clear out and ask Miss Murphy to come up you don't hear about Miss Murphy's things I'm here pretty special [Music] I mean to call you out like apologize I just could the amazing

102shap is awesome so okay m m okay so um this item is to consider approval to send students to the global amazing shap competition that's held in Atlanta um so this is a competition we've had in Clark County since 2018 and we've sent students in the past to the um national competition and we're actually this week we've been hosting our district competition um and so we've really tried to be intentional this year in timeing each of our rounds of competition to our Clark County um portrait of a learner and so this would just provide students with opportunities to Showcase these competencies at the national level yeah and I my my therapist went to to or they were going to RTC and I said there's going to be a lot of people out there this week

103yeah um and they they didn't believe me until they came back yeah my day was a lot yeah that was the day they went I was like there's a lot of people that was yesterday wasn't it okay all right does anyone have any questions for Miss [Music] Murphy no I think it's great okay do I have a motion to approve the funding for the I I'll make okay thank you Miss Thomas do I have a second oh second second with Mr Kaiser Al those in favor say I I IUS just because I wasn't here so I'll go with you all the motion passes for to then so um thank you miss m thank you we um we made the decision to table the approval until the march of meeting on what on theou between ccps

104and CCA okay because I I felt like we needed to have all members present before we made a decision about that particular so where we at now we are at the super your favorite part we're at the what superintendent oh actually the ksba conference just real quick yeah it was a really wonderful we got to spend time together as a board and and um you know work together and I loved all the speakers and um the C I think my favorite though on Sunday morning it was it was a jazz band and they they played some really good music last year it was our rdz jazz and and they weren't com so our band was you know it's perfect that they were okay you know cuz already see wasn't there this year but what did

105you did you have anything you want to say uh I mean pretty much everything that I got out of it um from the finances to the ethics you know being a first year board member I learned a lot um got to ask questions got to hear how other districts were doing it and heard a lot from other superintendents and training um still got a long ways to go to figure out Finance finan is complicated so we did have every County had a banner and our Banner was really cool I don't know who turned it in but it's got a cardinal and it's got it says greatness Clark County do we know who did it yeah it was in it said who it was the student at the high school sure yeah it's a really great

106the theme was road to Greatness that's all they uh a cop off you well well I mean I think the whole conference uh copy off Clark County since we're growing greatness everywhere yeah there's a road right so so Ashley did you want to add anything and that was on the big board down there too just to say not just in a book it's on the big jumbo TR thing outside of the classrooms and told our student that draw M Thomas do you want to add anything my favorite part was the vendors did have a good time I gave all kinds of information cuz there's so many things done there that we can add to our schools if we have the money and uh I gave some up to Mr Howard this afternoon and maybe we'll

107look at doing some some different things so that was my favorite part I learned a lot National oh your mind will just be blown when you go to the National Conference cuz they that's when you get to go on the tent like the stars are all above you and everything yeah yeah that's that was it was really cool you yeah we'll lose follow she'll be in there and then the people U Mr Howard had to remind me that who's doing the system at Phoenix the um audio hands yes they were a a sponsor but they also went I was able to talk with the representative and real excited to get that started we we don't quite have it in yet or we're getting not yet we're working on it Mr Kate would T says with

108this close I'll let you know when we've got it done so that's exciting so that that was just to let you guys know that is what we did we we had meetings Friday Saturday and Sunday and um we are required each one of us have it depends on how long you've been on the board how many hours a year you have to have so um so we that is what we did over the weekend so I'll pass the torch over to Miss Roland Richie or Richie Roland Richie Rand okay uh so we are now I'll pass it on to Mr Howard I saw this coming it's going to come so the big news of the week is we have now opened our world class state of thee art preschool y I'm I'm I'm beyond ecstatic

109um just just with the finally getting done after some people would say it took uh 18 to 24 months to build I would say it took 13 to 14 years to build um because of the the progress and and uh local planning committees from years past and and this board finally got it done and and uh the smiles I was there 6:45 on Monday Monday morning uh as the first buses kind of rolled in and to see the parents walk their students in and these little fellas are taking it all in and it's the nicest place they've ever been probably in their um and then seeing um parents tear up on the way back the kids still running in the building uh after dropping them off and our staff and uh Miss Jill Blandon just

110a huge shout out to her and the entirety of the staff our maintenance crew for helping Mr Watkins R push um our transportation director um wonderfully done even Keith back here I'll give him a big shout out he's back here in the vest he tried to get me in the vest but I already had a gray suit on with purple ties so I just started flagging it around but it it was really it's been a great week be patient on some traffic things we're still working through that that's one of the benefits of starting mid year um tomorrow will be kind of our first uh full day with the parents not necessarily walking kids in so we'll take notes and we'll get better um first time we've done this so just be patient with us

111but know that now our kids are the first kids of the state of Kentucky to have a $25 million preschool um big shout out but I only leave food services out cuz uh they've done a tremendous job getting ready to feed that many kids in a kitchen that just got approved on Friday and then we fed kids on Monday so um thank you guys I appreciate it um also we heard a little bit about it from Miss Amber Murphy but amazing Shake week it's one of my favorite weeks some people like Shark Week I like amazing Shake week um it's a great program we've implemented here for a while I won't talk as much about it cuz she she was pretty eloquent with it um but it it's for us it showcases our students their

112skill sets it ties specifically into our portrait of the learner uh so now we we get to measure them on how well they're empowered leaders and reflective innovators and engaged citizens effective communicators uh resilient Learners and and committed collaborators um and it's an all week process it starts with a gauntlet for Fifth and fifth through 8th grade also big shout out to our high school students who came down and pretty much helped run it um the other shout I want to give to our community I saw folks um from you know uh business owners to public servants uh they're there working hand in hand we'll get those official uh shout outs out and about so that I don't short Change anyone unintentionally um East Kentucky Power hosted our second round today down the road um

113the mayor caught me midday along with the the new city manager and that's all they could talk about was how Blown Away they were with our kids their skill sets and how they show out um tomorrow we've got a third round fourth round fifth round and then of course the combination will be us going to Atlanta to the Ron Clark Academy and uh holding Court we're going to win the thing that's how talented our kids are right here in CL County um third thing we do have a big event coming up this week uh the Chamber of Commerce we're actually hosting the breakfast for the chamber uh so we'll have hope hopefully 100 plus people here uh to really continue to connect with our community uh we want to connect with our kids we want

114to connect with each each other our staff we want to connect with our parent and my goodness we need to continue to connect with our community um so we'll do that on Thursday morning again big shout out to Miss Cindy Banks kind of helping us uh lead the way with that and then Food Services I me I hate to even say what it is I saw I signed a bill today it's not too bad by the way we're going to feed everybody but um they're going to have a gourmet buffet pan oh yeah pancakes if you want to stop by if invited you too so um and again we're going back to the basics hammered on literacy basic math skills um staying in school uh going to school every day um and I really look

115forward to to the next uh 3 months continue to educate our kids at a at a world class level so any questions can you make the school year slow down some well couple things I've learned this year I can't control the weather uh I can only react to it and slowing time down I uh we'll try um cuz we've got a great group of graduating seniors and on down that are going to keep moving up and if you're sitting with one in the audience they will walk across stage one day and you'll look back and think my goodness gracious how did we get here so quickly so yep thank you Mr oh sorry I need this for a second so I just put mine up um we need to go back you didn't she said

116we don't have to do that we don't have to do that no no um last meeting we looked into that with Robert's Rules of Order you can you can approve the minutes even if you didn't attend okay well I was I did attend I just didn't vote okay so there's our answer okay we're good all right uh so now we are on to consent agenda items and uh would anybody like to make a motion for items or J one through J2 make a motion to approve the consent agenda I'll second motion by Miss Hall second I'm W on your door I'm sorry second by Miss comments all those in favor say I I motion carries 4 to zero need a motion to adjourn into close session consider approval for adjournment to Executive session per KRS

11761.81 make a motion motion by Mr Kaiser I'll second second by m Thomas all those in favor say oos motion carries 4 to zero we are in close session at 7:57 now we got to figure out how to turn this thing off I'm just going to turn it off I might for