CorpusRecord 91604

Mar 18th 2025 - Gallatin County Regular Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Gallatin County School District
Date
2025-03-19
Location
Gallatin County, KY
Material
Transcript
Extent
2,673 words · about 15 min
Collected
2026-06-15

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001e e e marking meeting on 3:18 2025 at 1800 p.m. at the wall of central office building like to welcome everyone all board members are present I'd like to uh motion to approve the agenda with adding item moving item 2A principal's report adding 3A Clos session under KRS 61.81 zero and AD them under consent them add them item 6G to add the new football coach make him a van so he can use the van and stuff okay so you're adding 3A close session um 6G and then what else moving uh principal's report making that 2A so we can get these children out of here well well I'm sure y'all don't want to you want stay with them for an hour I make a motion we approve the agenda with the adjustments John so moves I'll

002second Miss Becky seconds all in favor signif five saying I I all oppose same sign motion carries to a principal's report Miss Megan moris good evening we've got several senates here we we've got a couple second graders from Miss Walter's class and we've got a couple kindergarteners from Miss cutter and Miss Hudson's class and they have been studying and learning and writing so they would like to show you what they've got second grade has been working on a unit about pollination and kindergarten has been working on a unit about trees and so I would like for them to introduce themselves and I thought they could spread out and read and share with you all what they have and then I gave you all some more data to you can look at but of course if

003you have any questions about that you you know you can always reach me at any time Parker can you tell them who you are par we we're a little bit bashful they're not used to this many adults at one time thank you they've been come around come so they've got Focus statements and introductions and conclusions you can come over here me and John will talk to you off we don't care come way you can these guys we must be the scariest it says here okay [Music] get what do they get and how do they carry thear I know but how do they carry it [Music] pictures without me in it good thank you very good sure you two thumbs up more Aspens no is not Aspen what tree you what kind of tree do you

004have ghost Redwood good par Redwood okay you take it around there so you [Music] got is that the way it works okay that's excellent that that this to make the rest very good their first time tying so really good great job really good so do you like do you my girls so SC thear from the flow a new flow that's exactly right okay yes I love it you did a really good job yeah very good I like that all the detail how's a honey bee carry carry the PO yeah that's awesome though I mean that really great where does it go where does the PO where does it get the great job that looks [Music] great you got if you want to share with somebody is that a squirel squir likeed got here is that

005your drawing of the red how big do they oh this is really really big trees I think really really T I've never heard of that my whole life okay so they need water in some shape so what [Music] good job very good very good that is exciting no he did awesome he is like a professional he was not scared at all very good thank you got more here the bird [Music] lik hi yeah what you got [Music] they're really really tall [Music] Bird good job bro well I would have was a butterfly you got any honey Beast good job have you ever eaten any honey you read honey it's a what taste good you talk to me I'll talk to anybody what is it Coast Redwood [Music] porcupine thank you [Music] okay I love yeah

006that's good we love [Music] this the [Music] humming oh my goodness it came off again can you get between these two ladies here ashy can you tell them about this yeah Ashley and Ashley come here I tell the way you look I know your [Music] mommy it it's okay this is what is it you do your name I thought May was a moose but [Music] that's good good job thank you you did such a great job that is awesome you did a great job thank you you guys are done whenever you're done reading and you can go okay what we got [Music] here you [Music] done they're white aren they paper are they like gray white yeah and I also eras the blue yeah I like it though the blue the blue make it looks

007like the sky yeah I like [Music] itav I wonder must really like that I bet it doesn't taste very good but I bet the Moose loves it stuff that gotcha so that's the tree and it needs the sun and the water to provide for the animals the I like it good job impressive okay good job thank you thanks for coming scky now never specified for that right no we thank you good job thank you a great job she went to the farm and I have to tell jul they're going to I thought someone asked about going there they grow tomatoes and stuff and they have to have bees to be able to grow okay John don't you want two A's from them I'm bet you got it should have got an A for art too

008there it's pretty good drawing of a b is it very good job you're doing good work nice job good job thank you all thank you Megan great job thank you thank you you come back well we done our job T not yall ready to go home yeah that was the fun part yeah thank you thank you all thanks for coming thank you thank you anything else Miss Megan moving on to public comment any public comment hearing no public comment item 3A Clos session enter into Clos session under KRS 61. 8101 F discussion or hearing which might lead to the appointment displine under dispens of an individual employee member or student need a motion I'll make a motion John so moves second M am Manda seconds hearing no further discussion all in favor second five saying

009I I all oppose same sign board is now in close session e e e cre they striking change preschool teacher allocation well I'll read the whole thing if you want but I'm going to create a preschool coordinator position yeah okay until so move second are we going to put a time limit on it or are we just going to keep it open yes yes do what you can do it either way as long as you address leave it open or put a time limit on I want to time put a time limit on it so your motion is to create a position with as discussed in close session with a uh for the remainder of the year for the remainder of the Year okay school year yeah school year let me get that in there

010June 30th at the latest so but you're just now amending the agenda right we yes right thank you okay let's get there all right item do you have an all paper no yes we did do we have a we were all oh we hav second we have the second part no yeah actually second we was all in favor of the amendment on the agenda y you say I I I I and that was just amend and when we get there we'll discuss the time limit on okay got it thank you uh board member comments M mcky well very briefly um I spent the weekend with ksba the board of directors uh we talked about a lot of things but one thing I brought back is the uh credit hours so this is just right off

011the website just a reminder of what hours we need based on when we were elected you're smiling I know um and there's a caveat this year uh about the open meetings law so that's a little bit different I had to take that John I don't know if you did or not but when I it twice yeah you took it twice y oh wow so that's kind of a new one but anyway I just printed that off the website thought it it might be helpful cuz it gets confusing about what year you were elected the the hours are different so otherwise um there's 27 board of directors in case you're interested for ksba um we talked about a self assessment that we did a few months ago so it was just like a survey like how

012we're how we think we're doing and so we um had an outside firm come in and kind of tabulate those results kind of talked us through you know what's working well what's not working so well how we can get better which kind of reminded me of a few years back when we used to do like a summer Retreat a Saturday morning um of donuts and then Pizza um because you know we're all about food but anyway we would talk about what's working and what's not so I'm just throwing that out there we got a new superintendent um actually I'm not sure if you were a part were you here when we had our last retreat no so we just spend three or 4 hours it's just an informal it's a meeting but uh we advertise

013it but you know no but we're just not taking action so we just talk about you know how we can be better how we could be more efficient more effective so I bring that up just to think about um and I think that's all I have Mr mind um no the only thing I have is I'm going to have to step my game up if John's been to two of those open meeting trainings so no I'm good Miss Ashley Mr Jones I just want to thank the tech staff uh I wasn't getting any email and they fixed me up real quick they super job and I wanted to report that uh it was I got a lot of positive comments about the band sounding good at the regional tournament game and that it's been a

014long time since they sounded that so we'll pass it on only thing I got after the uh some bills got crammed together down there the one for the extra 5 days another bill got crammed in with it may change how we do things it's probably going to get I'm going to bet it's going to get V toen and it'll get overridden and once it does instead of the one becoming law where they can anything after June 6 the education commiss can do the extra five days give credit for the extra five days it's going to be uh the bill that got jammed in with it it's going to change how we do a lot of things and ni wise well not just Niti wise the way districts boards and everything's allowed to do stuff basically

015they started public charter schools when they crammed that in there and it opens uh I'll have board more information on it there's several other bills probably going to get beat they're going to override them there's some that if they do get Veto probably not going to fool with them some still on the pipeline to non veto bills because they didn't make the veto cut off the uh veto override cut off those bills will probably go through if they die they're dead till next legislative session but I have a full list of all the bills hopefully I'll have a good idea of what's going to become law some of it's going to take effect immediately some of it don't take effect till July so I'll have that report for us at the next board meeting or

016I'll send something out between now and then as soon as I get a full update on where everything's at other than that I don't have anything anybody else uh M Megan done press for Mr Landon Johnson is not here uh Mr Eddy has you have a copy of the attendance report or enrollment report it's up a little bit other than that no real Trends on that report so have a copy of it any questions good thank you thank you Tony Tony's got the only sound proof room in in this office apparently oh they make it home that's good good L your butt on up let's go it my yes back inting there um this the very short report uh access testing is done and uh we had AC testing last week we did sophomores and

017juniors and everything went uh really good our Tech Team uh they have a lot to do with it nowadays because it's all online all the testing platforms and this year we had actually two testing platforms one for ACT Juniors and then a different one for ACT sophomores it works in our favor because next year the the Juniors will be going to that new platform the sophomores did this year so um new this year we encouraged the high school staff to put out an immediate survey to our sophomores and juniors ask asking them how well they felt they were prepared for each part of the test and what are some things that we could do different to to better prepare them such as you know if we offered a summer school at ACT prep or after

018school ACT prep and all that so we we'll get all that data back in and start looking at that and so um our staff can respond to that survey any questions what you going to talk about today's meeting or was you going to I was going to okay always remember afid to ask for money never be afraid to ask for your money bud that's right back to the astronauts okay superintendent report Mr David Arvin just like to recognize a few students uh two weeks ago we had some students attend the uh high school state meet uh the indoor meet uh Philip Turner uh London Baker and Alysa Burns uh and while they didn't medal uh still being able there to be participants uh is is a great honor I didn't make it to the state

019meet when I through discus and high school track so I mean you you've got to meet some criteria to get there so that's an accomplishment in and of itself our Middle School academic team we also had two students that qualified for State Leah Reed and Braden Lutz um our FBLA at the uh High School had a regional competition had several students place and they will be attending the state competition April 14th through the 16th um mey Walters Alexis Gillum Maya midd Middendorf uh Christina sefor Owen Rogers Haley Bowman Marley CER T Vasquez Ern Sanner Savannah Tower and EMT scin so congratulations to them for placing and earning the opportunity to go to the state competition uh our band uh Mr Jones since you brought that up our band performed at the kmea district 6 large

020Ensemble performance assessment they were given an overall rating of proficient scoring on a one to four scale and scored either proficient or distinguished so a three or a four in all categories so a big congratulations to Mr Boone and his students stud they've done a great job at some of the ball games I've attended and obviously going to these competitions as well uh it's been a huge growth uh in his first year as our band director and uh I had a great meeting today as well uh with Mr Ryan Coral from kctcs uh and several people from his office uh state senator Jay Williams Mr Davis Mr jury myself about opening up the ability for our students to be able to attend both uh Gateway along with jctc for dual credit opportunities so just opens

021up some more Pathways that our students are going to have a chance to pursue uh that are much closer than the jctc downtown campus in Lou so we're really excited to be able to share that with them uh and see what we can get set up for them for next school year and that's all I have and as a reminder never be afraid to ask for money I told him I want a 10 million this morning moving on did uh everybody get a chance to look at sbdm and the 200% enrollment we had in the one school everybody get a chance to look at Human Resource actions yes item six consent agenda and remember we added the G van d g van dber I do have a question on F those out of District applications

022is that to start now or is that to start this coming year or the next year I mean the two applicants that we have is that like starting immediately or is that for next school year was a teachers kid I'm going have to ask Jody I don't remember because I didn't see a date on it and so I was confused if it was for next year and they're just being proactive or if they were rolling in for Wednesday it's this current school year okay I was just going to was late in the year and I just so do they get enrolled and we kind of follow up afterwards to approve them they usually when they enroll or it's something that we follow up with them every year to get those done in August so I'm

023not sure if this student's been with us the whole time or if the teacher is just now moving them and uh finally submitted the application but uh the kicker is we got it and so is a student already enrolled here they weren't enrolled whether they were intending or not I don't know they weren't enrolled so make a motion we approve the consent agenda John so moves a second Mr Mander seconds he no further discussion all in favor signify by saying I I all poos same sign Mo carries 5 for consent item seven recommended action new business 7A reie re review approve reception Event Center contract for Prime April 2026 I so move second double second all favor s hear no further discussion all favor saying I I I all oppose same sign Mo carries 5

024review approve ad Tech agreement for eates services July 2025 June 3026 IO move second Mr Jones seconds hearing no further discussion all favor signify by saying I I I'll oppose same sign most carries 5 review approve final KT's offer those year IO move second Mr Jon seconds here no further discussion I do have a question are we matching this like we normally do it's the 10,000 I think right yeah yes okay you have to to get yeah that's what I thought anyone else all in favor signy saying I I all post same sign motion carries review approve elll instruction position for 2425 school year you want to touch on this real quick Mr Arvin uh yes just came ac across U an applicant that uh is bilingual and U so I'm asking the board to

025create this position uh for us to be able to have uh somebody that's bilingual that can just help us translate and better communicate with our families I move to approve super excited about that Mr Amanda Mr Jones second he no further discussion all in favor second five saying I all oppos same sign 5 O motion carries item 7 e review approved job description for preschool coordinator position I so move second Mr Jones second hearing no further discussion all in favor second five saying I I all oppos same sign motion carries 5 item F create preschool coordinator until June 30th I move to approve Mr Manda moves to approve second Miss Ashley seconds hear no further discussion all in favor signify saying I I I'll oppose same sign motion carries 5 review approv student accident Insurance

026renewal I'll so move I'll second M Becky seconds hearing no further discussion all in favor secondy saying I I all oppose same sign motion carries motion to adjourn make motion Mr Jones makes motion second M seconds all favor second saying I I all post same sign to adjourn thank you all have a good evening and I'll get them numbers and Report

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