001[Music] you [Music] he [Music] I keep [Music] ring keep ring [Music] you are [Music] I [Music] I [Music] you [Music] oh [Music] got [Music] you [Music] I [Music] you [Music] you [Music] all right you guys ready make sure that goes all right we call the meeting of the Nelson County Board of Education to order on March 10th 2025 at 5:30 please join our board team as we recite the pledge I pled to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all well thank everybody for um Coming Out on this gorgeous day so um over the last few weeks we've been in contact with KDE um regarding our district facility or local planning committee and luckily we had
002an opportunity because of some information they provided and they revised some of their guidance um we took this opportunity to call this special meeting so that we could address those concerns and make sure that um we were doing everything that we needed to to adhere to those regulations so tonight that's why we're here um to discuss the members of the LPC the community members mainly um that did not qualify for the committee community members um and mainly it was around the location in which they live um they need to reside within the Nelson County School District so I've provided the board with all of the names so I do have the the uh updated guidance of KD here just as a part of the email that they share with us I think a couple things
003one um we're fortunate that KD has been really generous the process of engaging um but I think um one of the nice things is that is the department also uh they they owned that they had given us guidance that provided us with uh the opportunity to move ahead with um residents that live within the county but also within the city in this case Andor non-resident teachers um and if you notice the email you know they did it I think really it was a very nice message uh they spoke spoke to the diligence of the board members in the process I think they had watched some of the videos and engaged in in our conversations in that manner they also were were back and forth with Mr Martin throughout the process and in in the last
004week uh with me so in short um it's interesting because KD basically didn't say that board had to change any of the recommendations they just encourag you to change the recommendations which is just one of those unique things so um ult ultimately a local Board of Education could act uh outside of this recommendation um it's not typical but it does occur um with that said uh the last line there I've highlighted considered directing the board to select a resident member from the group of nominations for the community leader that is revised guidance uh and then the last part I think is important we greatly appreciate the diligence you the and your board have made in compiling the initial roster in a compliant and transparent Manner and we offer our commitment to the district for moving
005ahead in the process as quickly as possible I think you know as you know KD has coming out and giv us a couple trainings over the past year to further our progress with the local planning committee it's no secret we had uh you know ongoing conversations about the facility plan for almost four years now so tonight is another step uh in that direction where we can continue to make decisions that support the future of our schools and our students and communities so on the um February 18th m u meeting we had made or I had made a recommendation for Tina long and David Cook um are those still considerations for you guys on those two is there any discussion on those okay those yes so um we would need to replace Miss e since she
006lives within the Bargetown City School limits any discussion I appreciate the clarity from the Kentucky Department of Education and the ongoing efforts to ensure that each step that we made that we s sought clarification from them and specifically asked questions regarding what the process is and are we doing that correctly and my understanding is they had a consultant who was answering those questions and that when the um facility um oh sorry when the LPC membership was presented that their legal team had a slightly different interpretation and again it was not an it was a more of a recommended change on our part and I'm thankful that our board team and our board members were in agreement that we want everything to be done in accordance with the facility planning manual with the statutes and with
007full transparency well luckily I think that's the that to me is the blessing in disguise we're catching it before we're in the middle of this process so I think that um we do have to share some gratitude for that I think to the reg says you want a diverse representation of members from around the county um with that I think we know we have students that live in the county and the city we also have students at teachers and live in the county and the city we also have schools in the city uh so it's just uh you know not every County's impacted with the city and county District um and KD's initial interpretation was for the Community member living within the county was being a resident so um this is all about how you
008define what district means so there's three it looks like eligible people on this list for Community to to replace we need one more Community member correct um and you know I'll just speak to one it's Roy Le gas Jeff Dickerson and Donna blinko and Mr Dickerson was a former board member he was a board member when the previous LPC um presented the recommendation that's one I feel like that's I think he was too involved in the initial uh process so I feel like that's a conflict and I know Tracy and emails you had sent to us you initially felt that way as well I did but you know again at this point KDE didn't feel that there was a conflict with that they also didn't feel a conflict with Miss milor um as being a
009board member as well so you know again this is up to the board to make that decision um and to have that discussion around these three members I think if you really look at the representation of the district as a whole as the county um we have representation for Bloomfield currently um with three members I think on there currently so um I think that would make a a tough argument for um Mr legaspi um so again it comes down to the the Mr Dickerson and Miss blinko one of the members that was originally on our district our community leader list um sent me a text today saying she was no longer interested in being on that committee so I don't why we but he's a former former School Board member so he was a representative
010in David's District he did not run um on his last on the last term runaround gotcha and is we don't have much representation from New Haven right at this time just we have a teacher representative currently gotta I me personally and I you know I said this at the last meeting but I believe Donna blinko was the strongest candidate anyway in terms of investment in our schools not just in money but time I think she is uh certainly proven that she's invested in students and once what's best for our district I think she's served in a variet of areas within District leadership even when her children were students and and now you know as uh later in life so I think that would be my choice of this list I think she would be an
011excellent representative and I think she's capable of being open-minded and listening and making Intelligent Decisions so now again I don't know everybody here so Donna her role or the reason why we were skeptical to begin with is because she might have future Financial involvement no oh no no she won't have she's a family member of Miss de she's my my children's grandmother okay okay but she's served in a variety of roles she was on um gosh I'm at a loss for words now but she served on oh the up Foundation the up Foundation she served on that board she served in a variety of capacities within the district and that wasn't a conflict so I don't believe this would be either yeah I think Miss blinko does a bring a unique she's she is very
012a knowledgeable of of buildings and what things will cost and what and I don't think she's doesn't mind speaking her um opinion that's what I like about her um she has been proven that she will support us and she's been very big very big supporter of Nelson County Schools that'd be my pick also miss blinko how long was Mr Dickerson on the board he served one term one yeah I was going to say four years and he what years was that was that one and a half yeah so it' be 5 and a half years five and a half years MH yeah I think it really just comes down to to what extent do you want to look at the diversity and representation and you know how do you qualify um conflicts of interest sounds
013good that we have multiple people I mean that's right I I think again I go back to um I do think there's a conflict of interest um with Miss blinko um and and again I think if if we're looking at how we're representing a district and all of the people in our district I mean I would think you know Mr Norman you would appreciate someone from New Haven being there to speak up for your your community um we don't have a lot of representation right now from the the west side of the county well both of them are from district one miss blinko and M dick Mr Dickerson um I just feel like Miss blinko would bring a very unique perspective where she's not from that that's my opinion from the two I would be
014Miss blinko as far as either candidate and their respective employment I I don't know about their employment situations or ownership but one question that I continually ask throughout this process is an additional layer of of conflict of interest is are they involved with are owners of any type of business that does um or has done business with our board or potentially would because that's and I check that and to my understanding music construction doesn't do school work now they do employ you know that they're participating in the work that's learning I mean obviously they have a construction company with but there's nothing we purchased from musics no I don't think there's a financial I don't think there's an immediate substantive issue or I would have concern about from that um again I I would just
015say you know if it was my mother-in-law would I have them on there probably not me personally but I'm not making the vote I'm also not married so I don't have a mother-in-law we previously also had addressed um removing anyone who had donated to our campaigns so I do want to think about that as well um from that of I don't think that would be an issue either if anybody knows Miss blinko she doesn't she doesn't um report to anyone she's her own person and that's what I like about her I think she she's very open-minded but also very um she she'll let you know what she thinks and that's what I like about Miss blinko but I would like to make a motion for Miss to bring the vote for Miss blinko so the
016motion you'd have to make a motion I'd like a mo make a motion Miss you'd have to make a motion for all three of them oh so we need them so oh yeah for all three so for Tina long David Cook and so you would need to make a motion for all three that we'd have on there I would like to make a motion for all three I would second that motion all in favor uh any opposed ah ah so at this point we need to to look at this list and we need to have a really good conversation here because I again my concern with with Mr legaspi is we have representation for Bloomfield and I don't think we can add an additional person it's not representing the district as a whole these are
017supposed to be stakeholders that represent the entire District District well I mean I think as a community member that is what they're doing is is I mean I think the idea is that they would represent the whole District so what regardless of what their address is I I I don't think there's a presumption that they come in you know with with that so I don't see that as what's your thought on that Mr Crawford um to have such a heavy set of people from one portion of the County versus the rest of of the county that's I so I just want to apply the board for the diligence the process you guys have been going through this has been a four-week five week conversation um it's a tough conversation you know you had some recommendations
018along the way we've had to take five people off the list because of issues we didn't even know existed yeah um so I do want to acknowledge that from a standpoint of the the rag it says diverse representation across the county so but that's that's uh I don't vote on the community members I'm just acknowledging that's what the rag says well I'm leing toward Mr Dickerson because one I think it's interesting that he's a former School member I think that's important I mean that's obviously I would think a good thing and the New Haven thing that sounds like we wouldn't need that representation CU New Haven's always been talked about the one that's needed to help the most so I feel like the more Minds we have to split up the uh I think it's
019conflict Interest being a former board member being on there in my opinion and such not just a board member but a board member in such a divisive time you know I think we could argue that I want to bring someone in that's not on one side or the other I think you could argue that though with Miss milb that that there's going to be people at the table that that have different perspectives our goal is to um well we're we're assuming that everyone's coming to the table in good faith that everyone's coming to the table to um have good honest discussion ask questions that that are relevant to their community and to the students of Nelson County Schools um and we are hoping that everyone is coming with that in mind and that it's not
020about um coming with a preset recommendation again the reason why I chose Mr Dickerson as not being on the original recommendation is because I'm trying to overcompensate for the legal troubles that we've been in since 21 and I'm trying to overthink this process otherwise M Mr Dickerson would have been part of my original recommendation because of his history in New Haven and his ability to think outside the box and him also understanding the processes part of the questions that we asked or that I asked during this was what is the local planning committee to you what do you what are the responsibilities that it has he's able to come to the table with those things but because of individuals in our community that continue to question the Integrity of this process I wanted to take
021it a step further and that is why I did not put his name in the Hat um and I think that that again I've not heard any feedback I had one person question Miss Milbourne but I've not heard any feedback from the community or KDE or this board in regards to miss Milburn being on this LPC so if Oney we didn't pick Miss Milburn she was voted on by parents of the school now had she come before us then potentially we could have probably argued you know the same the same thing she was a board member and we already have a board member you know we don't need multiple former board members but we didn't pick she was chosen as a parent so can I I think she was just a board member about three
022months ago was it a divisive time it was but she we but we were not in the in the seat in order to we couldn't she was she was voted on by the parents we didn't have a saying that so which again is why I was trying to be very cautious of who I put on the who I made the recommendations for so I think we can we can look at this list and we can make a you know if you guys want to look at it for a few more minutes if you all want whatever you all want to do but I think we're going to have to make a decision on on the representatives that we have in front of us I would make a motion to nominate Roy legaspi along with Tina
023long and Dave Cook for the LPC community positions on the board I'm second that all in favor uh all opposed no no so we're at a standstill people if if we're going to have to make a decision here we'll just nominate who you're going to nominate and we can vote but it is what it is there's only three people on the list so we've gone through two of them I just think there's too much conflict with Mr Dickerson I I do I think there's too much friendships and bonds there and I think it's going to look really bad on us it's my opinion just going to lay it on the table what it is I know Miss I know Miss blinko doesn't doesn't answer no one she's her own person no matter if she's Miss
024um Amanda's deon's mother-in-law ex-mother-in-law or not she's not going to answer to mantha I'm telling you right now I know she's her own person she's not scared of no and again can't be B I think we're we're assuming everyone's coming to the table in good faith yeah I agree I think it's inappropriate to to she's a very supportive our district so I I I would just say you know with the 10 people on here we can assume that they're all coming with good intentions um so I just I just want to encourage us to to not cast somebody in a certain light it's totally totally unhealthy I think we've been very supportive of all the the members on the of these 10 people I think we were lucky to have 10 people sign up to
025be part of this LPC oh yeah you got to thinkk each and every one of them this is not an easy task here guys this is it's going to catchat we've scrutinized this process more than anybody in the state of Kentucky because we do have a group of people that are looking with a magnifying glass at every single thing and they're trying to Target any specific conflicts of interest and over the past two weeks I I said 3 weeks ago we expect to get something every week we've got them right we've gotten the first one we got the second one we'll get the third one probably tomorrow there are groups plural yeah I I I think you're right there is absolutely people in our community that are going to take us to task and hold
026us accountable and to be clear I welcome that that is why we are doing this right now is because we know we are who we we are holding ourselves accountable in this right now and that's why I think it is a good representation that this board is doing that we are responding to an issue that KD e brought and their reversal and we are responding to that so I thank each of you for being willing to come here and make sure that we are holding ourselves accountable to that so um again with that if is there any other motions on the table for the community members so you said there was a friendship is there some friendship that I'm not aware of because like I just yeah Mr Bradley and and Jeff Dickerson hangs out
027a lot together and that's uh and that's the thing you know it's uh when when you when you're hanging out on weekends and partying with each other it kind of you got biased they have a friendship and it's a post friendship guys and I'm I'm not aware of that I'm not I'm not aware of it either you're not aware of it m I'm not aware of of that but again this is this the type of uh this is the type of conversation Mr Norman that I think it's appropriate to to work from a good faith assumptions if you look at the first motion you made you know I think it I mean how are we how are we going to continue to go back and Bel labor this conversation around right being make a decision
028here Mr crawf my that this is who I so we need a motion for the three community members we need a motion is this mother-in-law situation is that an issue too the the relationship with Miss Deon is that do you think that would affect yes there's nothing in the rag it says your mother-in-law can't be on the LPC so you make EX motherinlaw okay okay there's nothing on there's nothing on there that says that there's nothing that says that somebody that that drank a beer with somebody four years ago can't be on LC got right I'm just you can find something wrong with every single person on the list we pick even the ones we picked beforehand if you want to well then I'll like the new hav relationship I'll make a motion to make
029uh Jeff Dickerson Dave Cook and Miss Tina long I need a second Representatives I'll need a second I'll second it all in favor any opposed no all right three to two motion passes Mr Dickerson Dave Cook and Tina long will be the three LPC members for the local planning committee um for the Nelson County Schools so in closing the upcoming board meetings will take place at 5:30 March 18th at Cox Creek and then April 15th at Bloomfield Middle Mar May 14th at the airport um any questions or regards to that we good how are we on the LPC meeting now when will that take place I think the high schools are doing elections today or tomorrow I'm not sure if it maybe tomorrow and then we'll after that we'll resubmit okay so we s to
030get K approval MH we won't have to get any non-resident exemptions or waiver request this time because n exist what is the standard length of time by which KDE approves such processes well looking at the spreadsheet I think it's probably a 24 to 48 hour checkbox um however yeah you know it could take them a little longer but we don't expect it to take much longer um all the other requirements are already met so I think in general Katie recognizes that we've we're you know a few weeks behind where we originally scheduled they came in January 21st um so they're aware that we were moving in the process they're also aware because we talked to them last week about this uh out of area out of non-resident exemptions for quite some time um ultimately they're
031scrutinizing our process at a level that's uncommon um because you know the rag is easy to kind of maneuver within and pick and cherry-pick parts of it um um and that's something that as you noticed in their email they said that it gave them an opportunity to go back and revisit their regulation so we nothing else encour that too when I spoke grateful for the scrutiny also want to express my gratitude to all 10 people who did apply I do think any of these 10 would be wonderful it's a very difficult decision I do believe in having geographic representation and I feel that my district is sufficiently represented I'm grateful for that all right so we will need a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion I'll second all right all in favor I boys
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