001[Music] got [Music] face [Music] I [Music] r [Music] you [Music] keep R keep r [Music] you [Music] ready [Music] for [Music] you [Music] keep [Music] keep [Music] R keep r [Music] oh [Music] you are [Music] you are [Music] keep [Music] I want keep [Music] R keep r [Music] all right we call this meeting of the Nelson County Board of Education to order on February 25th 2025 at 5:30 welcome everyone um please join in the board as we say the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the of the United States of America and the IT stand One Nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you guys um again welcome on this beautiful sunny day considering what it looked like a week ago we'll take it um so tonight um first of all
002looking at that agenda please don't get too over Helm there's a lot on there that was provided to the board earlier um so tonight what we'll be doing is celebrating Thomas Nelson staff and students we'll hear from the leadership team here in a few minutes we'll also have our annual review of the financial audit for the school year and we'll be discussing Strategic Staffing framework for priorities and growth across the district and exciting news regarding the LPC we'll be establishing the membership and facility planning process and we'll re reviewing that here shortly as well so moving on let's W welcome Mr Maryfield as we hear from Thomas Nelson and their team Mr marfield there should be a clicker up there do you see it well then I guess it's not up [Music] there so we're
003uh we're here today just celebrate some of the awesome work going on with the Thomas Nelson team as you all can see behind me front of me uh because this is about them their work uh as we pilot some of the ai ai rank change program that's going on so as we look at some of the district priorities I think about building teams of teachers here see leaders in the diverse learning space in CB leaders a leaders ma leaders English and science leaders all creating a network uh together to where they get to work through the this program I know through the Capstone where they're doing a lot of active research they're actually able to partner together two uh to build some cross-curricular work with that so we think about embracing smart technology looking to
004the Future to build skills to uh make our work uh in the work of our students something that really is something that leads to success in the 21st century ensuring that all the skills that are necessary before they graduate are built into our curriculum this is something taking on so I think the next slide it's just a picture celebrating then miss box is the only one that can't be here let just let each of them introduce themselves really quickly too much right there just to say hi directly put your [Music] pict I [Laughter] mean it's a 3D image there they are are it's so [Laughter] funny I'm Alan Brooks uh I teach math and I'm in the engineering collab as well I also teach theater direct the after school program of this day uh excited
005for the opportunity really appreciate it uh and excited to learn more about Ai and use advanced technology Plass John hon in theab teach agriculture dit what Brook said very good yeah I that um my name is Al hob I teach so I have majority I'm learning I appreciate the opportunity I'm Justin gagy I teach to learning as well and I'm the assistant leadership coordinator here at Thomas and I thank you for the opportunity to participate in this and investing in us and our future so appreciate [Music] we talk a lot about just being a first answerer stepping out your comfort zone really working with AI and taking that step into more professional development is something that we Embrace here so just really highlighting and celebrating the work from these leaders and all the remarkable work
006from all the other leaders here Thomas with that're hand it off to all right so real quick I'm going to actually hand it off to Coach Bo here and let him Spotlight Mr be one of our does a fantastic J school so the uh it became really clear that perhaps my reputation proceed me because I walk in the door and say you have one minute y'all start that timer right now be and be sorry cuz it could take an hour um but honestly I you I can WR about Ru for for days and days and never really hit every talking point I really I didn't I started to think about organizing more and like his impact on on people in place and purpose and it his stats really are fantastic but the impact that it
007has on all the people around him it was really remarkable uh to see a kid like him who is at such an elate level lead the littlest people in our community with passion is really really powerful you know everybody at Camp wants to be on team everybody at every possible race want Leu once Ru to leave them it's just it is impact on people and everyone in this building I think has been been really really really powerful um he's changed his place in a way that I don't know if any other student really has and that he's put this on a map that lots of people in Nelson County don't even know exists and that like people people in the running world the whole world know who we are now because of that and the
008place I think is also had a lot of impact and kind of put sort of that stamp on him whether he wanted it or not you know it might be am B's nagging or you know what it is but like the the place I think is you know that aspect kind of goes both ways and that he has put us on the map but all the while I think that hopefully anyway we have left some sort of kind of positive imprint is coming up through this place but his purpose is is very clear um but I'm just going to run through a couple of these really quickly and I'm not even going to be able to like touch the surface but he's a national champion at the 5K he's the state record holder at that
009distance he's two-time Gatorade Player of the Year something that most people would never had it happening to him one time he's already done it twice he's won I can get into all these numbers but something I'll just brag about you a little bit without even touching on all these stats that kind of helping the picture he has not lost a state championship race since he was in ninth grade and he lost it to Lane who would really appreciate me saying that other than Ru LED half of that race and in pushing Lane to barely beat him in it they both ran under a 37 Old State meat record that day and really it was the Freshman who got runner up who could probably get all of the credit for it so um it's just next
010week he's going to tow the line at a state championship meet and you know everybody tries to beat that guy and they haven't in 3 years so it's just U I'm I'm I'm really blessed that I get to work with them all you know all the time I could just go on and on and on the stats are just pages long but I appreciate you all recognizing him and I think that it's uh I'm I'm really uh I'm really grateful that he's the face on the side of our [Applause] billing in the mailer that just went out to all staff he did acknowledge the strategy to beat you I'm not sure I'm I'm assuming that is that is a true strategy he he would employ I I think so yeah I've already out on it
011yeah basically the sit and kick means you're just going to wait behind that person and then ask me in he gave me a little bit of acknowledgement for maybe having some kind of like old man endurance literally I opened this like I still had the document race you know so I was like oh and sure like it said he's slow [Laughter] I think that really sums up Ru right he brings a smile the places he's in for sure and you know to Spotlight coach ho and the program you built you know Bailey hon is another young lady who's had won a State title who's performing extremely high level just the day she came in early to school on a Saturday to do an AP uh practice exam well before that her parents were telling us
012that she went and got up early that morning at 5:00 make sure she got her work out in that day right so that's the kind of dedication program that coacho has built and we're super happy to have rku and coacho part of this place as they make it better and special to be a part of of so thank you guys both for coming for sure so I wanted to quickly Spotlight the fact that we got just about half of our kiddos participating in programs I'm really proud of that number it's continuing to grow every single year in the last 2 years we've been able to add uh trap shooting which has almost every student involved in that wasn't involved in any other program so I'm really proud of that program as started as well as
013this spring we're starting boys volleyball uh We've really seen that number jump up to about 16 kids are engaged in that right now we had about 36 initially say they're involved we're trying to recruit them out as well uh we just know that these experiences are extremely powerful for kids not only sports but student leadership overall including clubs is extremely powerful for kids and it keeps them engaged in our school gives them purpose in this place and uh I'm definitely really proud of the work we're doing across all of our programs clubs Sports included and I think the work continue to do obviously makes this place better makes the experience better for students and I'm looking forward to continue to try to build more programs to engage more kids so that's what it's all about
014engage as many of them as possible in these really powerful programs and we're all trying to chase uh coacho and them and try to have programs special as their so really powerful stuff we're do thanks Joe thanks guys and Haley bogs you want to come on up so we don't miss you come on of cuz we know you came to the [Music] party so miss bogs is also part of the AI program we just wanted to to make sure that you had a moment um the team's work here at Thomas Nelson there's been lots of very intentional work very thoughtful work from the teachers um and the admin here so he's going to share a little bit about that I think it just goes back to uh teams and team building when you think about
015investing in purposeful planning uh our design teams uh whether it be math in English but also Science History our electives in the Arts wellness and business as well they all have common planning so they're able to work together around specific priorities and goals that they have not just for their program but the students in it uh they have time to measure what matters really look intentionally at the data that's brought back through assessments like this but also just formative assessments within the classroom and then really diving deep into that data to build in renewal processes to come back to that look at where our gaps learning how can we continue to build that but also accelerate learning to ensure that we're being intentional to meet every student where they are uh so I think this
016is something to celebrate not just in numeracy and literacy but really in all contents here at Thomas Nelson um our teams of leaders have been working very diligently uh to support students in every realm and facet of their lives so just some big celebrations for our team here thank you thanks guys I'm going to give you guys a cloud for that I'm also anxious to hear as you guys dive deep around the AI and how the collaboration goes um maybe come back at another time so we can sort of dive a little deeper into that conversation I'm excited about that so moving on to guest guest comments um I'm going to read this but I do not believe we have anyone speaking tonight everyone has informed me that um they could not make it um
017but we always thank you for attending our Nelson County Board of Education meeting any person wishing to address the board may do so by following the rules individuals representing themselves are limited to 3 minutes individual representing a group are limited to five minutes please step forward state your name address and if you represent a group state your name of the group you're representing as I said earlier though um no one is making it tonight so sorry about that can and I would like to note that I appreciate those who've submitted written comments and that those are distributed to the board members and just remind folks that that is a good way if you're unable to come you can submit the comments in writing and those are shared with us and then they will also be
018added to the minutes for the evening thank you for bringing that up all right moving on guys so we have the consent agenda um as I said earlier this is since we are a week behind um we we got this a few weeks ago we get an opportunity to look over these ask any questions that we may have does anyone have any questions on the consent agenda if not I would um ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented I'll make a motion thank you Miss Dr Lee I need a second a second a second from Miss Deon all in favor any opposed all right all right um moving on we are um over the last few meetings we've been discussing the guest comment policy um this was at the request of
019um multiple board members um at this point we have sort of revised um the um policy in the the verbiage around that did anyone have any questions regarding the guest comment policy okay did we need to do a reading on that since this would be a policy change yeah options I don't think it's really an emergency but no yeah so um we we don't have to read that out loud correct we can just say that we've posted it and we consider this our first read all right thank you do we need to approve that nothing I'm so grateful you're here Mr Crawford our board attorney is here tonight and I'm so grateful because these are the questions that I would not be able to answer I appreciate that all right so moving on um we
020get to welcome our um lovely um Miss Rogers here as she talks about the annual Financial audit actually I'm just going to introduce our Auditors as you know every year we have an independent audit and Tammy Patrick is here for Patrick and Associates and she will give us a summary of their findings fantastic good evening it's great to be back this evening get to present the audit report to you all I think Jessica has already distributed that to you electronically so hopefully you've had a chance to look at that you can feel assured You' seen the letter just kind of a brief overview that we give out so it's easy for youall to kind of uh just kind of look at that real quickly and get a brief overview of the audit there were no
021findings um want to thank superintendent Bradley and Jessica and her staff uh for their hard work during the audit it is a lengthy process and I'll kind of give you a little bit of a quick overview of what we do uh the audit you know we come in we look at internal controls and processes documentation cool samples we look at specific transactions things of that nature in all areas we look at things in cash or Capital assets debt expenditures payroll Food Service Student Activity funds um single audit and then just various internal control and compliance issues that are some of them are State mandated things that we have to check up on and then just other General compliance areas in addition to what we look at for your internal control and compliance of your major
022federal programs each year so um and when we're doing that your audit is a direct result of the things Jessica and the staff at the board and your activity fund um bookkeepers do day today week to week month to month it's a culmination of all those efforts throughout the year that turns your audit results which luckily not luckily but based on that work again we're issuing an unmodified opinion which is the highest opinion that you can have and we did not have any findings that we felt would you know r any kind of level of verbal or written or things of that nature so um really great audit um a brief overview of the financials your all net position went up by about $4 billion for the fiscal year um and that amount is a
023calculation and it's a combination of decreases and increases in your cash balances your investments in your Capital assets coupled with your deferred inflows and outflows which basically relate back to your uh net pension and op liability amounts as well as your net pension op liabilities and your general liabilities so you all had um a positive increase in your that position you also had about a $20 million increase in your fund balance but don't get too excited the majority of that is setting in your construction fund right and that's based on those Bond proceeds that you all receive from the bond issuance if the district did in fiscal year 24 and is setting there to be used for your construction Pro projects those are issu for um the general fund did have a slight increase of
024about $950,000 a year which is good and the majority of that is sitting there as on ass sign which is available for use for the day-to-day operations of the district so that's always good um again I just want to say great audit I hope I hope Jessica thinks the same thing um we hope to be back this year and do you all have any questions any questions no but I will share your gratitude for Miss Rogers as well because I do believe that it it has a great deal to do with her and her team um and the Integrity that they have to making sure that everything is kept um cohesive so I would definitely second that you did and a great board it all starts at the top so all the way from the
025superintendent to the board to Jessica I said all the way up to all the schools so thank you all um anytime if you have any questions feel free to reach just for those have reach so thank you so much thank you all right so moving on we have Miss Rogers and Mr Martin who will be discussing tenative Staffing allocations all right so for tenative allocation discussion um this is really an ongoing process this is very introductory just kind of overviewing uh what we anticipate to happen over the next few months uh again this will come up again in April but um we actually met today uh with a few of our principles for just kicking this conversation off we're meeting with more uh tomorrow and and the next day with HR and finance but really
026is it is an ongoing discussion it's also an ongoing Staffing discussion with you guys think about board priorities and what we're really focused on about using utilizing our personnel and really again we'll revisit this uh at the April board meeting before May 1st to establish those final allocations so this is just an overview of the process uh lots of folks involved um really when when speaking to our team and also speaking with you guys and thinking about board priorities these are very much the things that we're hearing and the things that we want to commit to with our staffing process so obviously focusing on reading and math instructure from a K12 standpoint and making sure we're getting the proper resources and curriculum um in those spaces also investing in content experts supports we've seen that
027happen uh in a number of different cases and we're trying to figure out how do we continue uh to leverage that and really increase that um throughout the district and then also career growth and compensation so we've made a number of steps to really support our people in that measure uh we want to continue to prioritize that so really these are just the big priorities that we've heard from you guys uh and this will guide us and the staff and decision making process so um some of this is terminology just kind of overviewing you think about the people that are inside of your schools uh and we had this U Financial discussion there's lots of different pots of money money goes into these different things and then from these different pots your allocation emerges it's
028really the same way with Staffing so when you see this we'll refer to section four Section Five Section six again can think of those as different pots of funds your section four uh contains your certified folks such as your teachers counselors building administrators uh section five are your classified staff and really in most buildings that's your most of your front office staff and instructional assistance section six that's really spending money that schools andms have control over to spend on students traditionally we've done $100 per student in that pot section seven is typically our special program in related arts uh sometimes that's referred to as above and beyond allocation and then we also have our diverse learning and obviously that team is assessing student needs and uh what students need and how we can service them
029so really schools will get allocations from all of these different pots just to be clear today the only ones we're really looking at today in terms of board approval would be looking at kind of the ratios and the way that it works out uh for the most part is really based upon your enrollment what does that enrollment look like kind of dictates uh for the most part the number of staff that you have there are a few outlining things um in terms of needs of the building but essentially what we're looking to approve today uh and these are the same ratios that we' worked from in the past so really you're looking to project student enrollment at the K2 level in a building and then for every 22 kids you would allocate a certified teacher
030so for the third for the fifth that's what we're looking for um and then as the kids get older you know they need not as much um teacher support per se in terms of class sizes tend to be a bit larger uh and then really we're looking at section six we're looking to approve $100 per student these ratios are exactly what we've done in the past so today you're approving this that helps us continue the conversation with local schools in terms of uh working with the projections seeing where that lies and then we can work with them on here's what your allocation would be and we'd finalize that in April any questions through the process what is the reason that the sixth to eth grade ratio is higher than the high school ratio question so
031at the high school level we have lots of different programming that's not not necessarily that doesn't necessarily fit into one of these types of funds so for instance the the up Center typically high school scho high school students have access to that space really that's their added um teachers that lowers that class size down so so the high schools won't receive a section seven allocation so where does these additional staff members come from are PBE allocation that we have with our Workforce leaders that's not a section seven like that's part of the houseo Staffing along with the UPS the middle schools will receive a section seven and that's what gets their class ratios down so in reality the 6 through the eth is pretty or 6 to 12 excuse me is a pretty similar uh
032student staff ratio after it all shakes out it's just how they come from the different pots of funds that kind of scared me are these ratios consistent with what we did last year I know there was some change in with the elementary is that right so this is exactly what we did last year last year we did decide to allocate more resources at the K5 level but this mimics what we have this is also these These are below the state U I guess caps per se so but it is consistent with what we've done last year I'm glad to see the lower ratio in K through 2 that is lower than the state requirement because that allows for more interventions I assume and um so for example our literacy specialist correct so ly Specialists be
033out of a different pot than that actually to be fair I think we all understand that our younger students probably need a bit more support than our older ones so that's why we've allocated resources for that yeah it's safe to say our class sizes are are smaller than average class sizes uh and part of that is the way we've worked to support outlying schools that have um kind of these somewhere between 25 and 40 per grade in Boston and New Haven depending on the year as well as bloomfi Elementary School where we've kind of had to move some different things around that's one of the reasons we moved to this slower this lower ratio last year was because of the transition we saw at Boston and New Haven and Bloomfield uh as well it is
034a bit more challenging there in those spaces because they have fewer students means they have fewer staff in general it allows for Less flexibility and the numbers don't always work out uh very clean right so those smaller schools are a bit more problematic more more challenges to work through um from a staffing standpoint you know there's obviously advantages in other ways um I think that cost us around $450,000 last year is that that was our estimate yes so reducing it to the number 22 was about $450,000 commitment are we still providing classified staff in all kindergarten classrooms right so at the cas level at the K level so 22 to1 that also means uh those classes have an instructional assistant in that space so if a school based on projections were looking at four uh
035kindergarten classrooms they would also have four instructional assistance that are part of that space and preschool would not be included in this allocation because it's a separate funding source corre are yall counting the assistant for the special needs kids to for the special needs kid in there is that kind of that would fall under that's under the diverse learning pot of funds which is but the 22 to1 is not calculated that NE that special ed team has a has a way that they go about that process in terms of identifying allocation um but they'll also really have two types of folks that kind of inside the school you're looking at a certified teacher and then you're also looking at an instructional assistant being there based on student need that's kind of assessed at a schoolto
036school situation it's a case by case basis right right we do spend beyond the federal funding for diverse learning we spend above and beyond the the federal funding just some context not all districts do Nelson County does good to hear thank so really today you're just looking to approve these two things and that allows us to Contin he to move forward Staffing conversation and then April we'll come back with some U allocation numbers all right all right so any further discussion all right so I will need an motion to approve tenative Staffing formulas for further discussion with local principles and spdm councils I'll make a motion all right thank you Mr Norman a second I'll second and Miss e second all in favor I any opposed all right motion passes all right that that conversation
037will continue over the next uh couple months correct um cuz it is there's so many layers to it that we want to talk through sounds good all right the next um exciting moment of the night is the LPC membership uh Mr Martin and superintendent Bradley I think we started talking about this January 21st so it's been a little over a month um just as a reminder 702 kr4 1880 defines the process so there's two components to the process tonight the first component is ensuring we have one representative from these six schools and two representatives from these three schools uh as well as the second component is that the board will be making decisions on three Community leaders and a board [Music] member during the January 21st meeting we summarized some characteristics of LPC membership we
038provided that to schools we provided that to the community as a reference point uh not only did we advertise in the Kentucky standard we also share it on social media as well as sent messages out to All Families um and these characteristics were what we shared in terms of strong LPC membership characteristics these members from our community uh schools were chosen either as a teacher parent representative central office representative administrative Representatives planning and zoning and facility these members that are in green are already defined based on the reg and our process these are all members chosen so Miss Hogan was chosen by the district office Jim Nelson was chosen by Planning and Zoning Kevin mattingley is the v um director of facilities these four administrators were chosen as well as Boston only had a parent
039representative so that is all that they would have so today the other remaining options will be sorted through in a random draw we're going to have two members of the audience Miss Grace Cox who's so excited to be a part of the draw she has no idea what she's drawing for as well as uh Miss Caitlyn Norris from the Kentucky standard uh I will be drawing from the process that Mr Martin will explain we already have one parent so we'll be choosing four teachers and three parents thank you ladies for actually taking the opportunity to do this for us welcome to the party noris come on up Grace Cox come on up you're the next contest fold them up here in a bit spread them out right here so you guys can see I'm not
040sure what's going on this is not part of the plan over here we want to make sure it's official like we're on Wheel just Fortune Mr Martin would could you reiterate the purpose of the drawing why these are not already fixed right that's part of the process I think um try not to get my things mixed up there we're good so all right here's here's here's where we are so um as Mr Bradley explained really we're looking to U SE our LPC making sure that this process is really as fair and Equitable as possible is obviously the goals in the process says um essentially what we have is at each of the local levels a parent group conducted an election locally where folks were nominated and there was an election held and parents were elected
041to be part of the random drawing likewise in the teacher process teachers were nominated they had local elections and teachers voted on who they would like to move forward with the random drawing and these are the names that essentially won their local elections now because we need uh really based on process elimination we need one representative from each of the schools and these three schools will have two um here's here's where we have the the four building administrators um they were nominated and they were elected by their peers so they therefore they're taking uh those seats so coxis Creek really did not host a parent or teacher election uh because the one seat that they have is held by Miss Haley Victory uh at Boston like Mr Bradley communicated there no teachers were nominated they
042had one parent that was nominated and this parent obviously won their local election so they moved forward so essentially Boston has to have a representative this person has to be on the LPC because that is the only person so really of the nine schools that are eligible to participate coxis Creek has already been taken care of and Boston has already been taken care of so really what that means for say New Haven uh who will take the seat Mary Bagel or Jeff fish we to conduct a random drawing to see which of these two will take the seip uh and to make it really again as Fair as equal as possible we have two boxes and in one box has the seven schools that we need again coxy Creek's not needed because it's already checked
043and Boston's not needed that's already checked so of the seven schools remaining those are listed there uh you guys can see those and then the in the other box are really it doesn't list the person's name it just says teacher right so we need four teachers so it's there's four slips of paper that say teacher and there's three three slips of paper that say parent because we already have one parent that's already taken a seat so what we're going to do is we're going to fold these up and we're going to put the schools in one box and we're going to put the parents and teachers in the other box and then our representatives are going to essentially draw out so the first person will come up they're going to draw out the school box
044and let's say they draw Bloomfield Elementary and then they're going to go to the parent or teacher box they're going to draw to that let's say they draw a parent so if they draw Bloomfield Elementary parent then that means that representative would then take the seat really the only thing that's uh a little Wrinkle in our mix is Jeff parish is a parent nominee from New Haven and a parent nominee from Thomas Nelson and reason why he was able to do that obviously he won those elections but he's also he also has students that attend both of those spaces so Jeff marish uh cannot serve on the LPC as a New Haven parent and a Thomas Nelson parent so really if if New Haven parent or Thomas Nelson gets parent gets drawn we have to
045uh rearrange some things for saying boxing so what that would mean let's say New Haven parents drawn then Thomas Nelson teacher would automatically be on by process elimination so and I would like to um reemphasize that when we had KDE down for the training process they spoke about this drawing as a method for selection a random drawing I feel like this was Alex's way of saying I didn't cover on my basis when I introduced it well we didn't want any questions so I guess before we start see if we have any questions T Tim Alex has been working on this speech here for at least at least two days okay so our first step we have you guys already have voted up we just mixed them together you and Mr crafer can you verify this
046is the correct [Music] process I think we're Tak get it a setep further I promise oh we are okay all right why don't tell one of you guys want come guess I can please I'm apprciate stand right here though J on camera I'd like to see that on camera please all right so so the first box check first box you're going to draw out of a school box here let's open it up and check it out all right Bloomfield Elementary okay so now you're drawing parent or [Music] teacher parent bloomf Elementary parent all right so now we're going back to schools lfi Middle School par all right five more to go we're going back to school Thomas Nelson teacher Nelson County High School teacher oh Kentucky H [Music] parent all right what do we got
047left one left two left two New Haven School [Music] teacher so we leaves Foster Heights teacher all right thank you all right thank you guys for your assistance thank you guys thank you so this would be the uh the teacher parent Community sorry teacher parent Planning and Zoning central office facilities and administrative group that have been selected uh my next step will be to communicate with this group of people to make them aware uh and uh in the case that someone isn't isn't able to or willing to serve the local planning committee would be the one to fulfill the process once it begins uh based on my understanding from KDE uh it's this it's the other group of people that would determine the process to to help them fulfill those roles so that's the uh
048that's the part that the superintendent really is responsible for overseeing um and I I feel good about the process employed with our team uh and our principles across the district and look forward to beginning the process uh in the next weeks I'll be communicating with team members tomorrow and I'll talk more about that timeline uh later as we move on to the next slide so the next part is the Board of Education selection uh and of community leaders and board members well um Mr gililland had submitted his nomination and I think I had mentioned back in January that I think he would be a great fit for this so I would like to nominate Jody to be our representative on the um LPC I would second that all right all in favor oh go ahead
049Mr gilland I would like to take a moment and just um encourage you to involve all Community within our Nelson County area during your exploration for this I know that we each represent individual districts when we are elected but we are part of Nelson County as a whole and I would like to um ensure that each of our communities is equally represented through this process thank you all right all in favor of Mr I any opposed all right motion passes so I'm going to talk a little bit about the Community member Representatives um we had a great pool of people send in their nominations we had 10 10 members of our community um submit applications to be part of the local planning committee um and they were all all well spoken and believed in this
050process and um the board had well i' say the board we had some I had presented the questions that I felt were going to be substantial to this process um miss or Dr sorry Dr Lee had helped me negotiate some of those questions and make sure that they were well intended to vet our um community members very well I interviewed each Community member and I I made a recommendation to the board um my recommendations were based on community leadership these are business owners um and the ability for them to actually be present at these meetings was highly um important to me um also the fact that they lead in the community they are actually part of being in our community on a regular basis um and I think that spoke to what they were going
051to be able to bring to the table they also are very diverse and in their approach to or what they do in the community and actually their their businesses as well um and my recommendation to the board was Rebecca e um Tina long and David Cook um again the board has the authority to take that recommendation or they can open this up for discussion Miss Bing I would like to hear some conversation on how you ensured that the process was Equitable and fair to each of the 10 applicants please well I think first of all um I tried to find people that were not just living centralized to Nelson County um we had a member um uh Tina long she actually lives in Bloomfield and she is a city council member uh for Bloomfield and
052I thought she would really bring a lot to the table speaking for that Community um she would be able to actually speak highly about what um what happened in her community and how she can best connect to the members of her community which was also a part of that conversation one of the things that I ask each of them to do was that um I'm going to challenge each board member to actually host some sort of forum in their community and invite whether it's a community leader or a parent or teacher that's on the LPC to be part of that process um so I want to make sure that they were willing to do that as well I also spoke about what the process of the LPC was and the responsibility that would lay on
053their shoulders being part of the local planning committee um and everyone melt that challenge very well um they all believe that they are looking into the future and not into just right now and where we sit um and they they believe that we have to look ahead um I also talked a lot about um making sure there was no um conflicts of interest making sure that that these these members were going to stand on their own um without outside influence that they were going to be able to ask questions and challenge the process and that was also part of the the Integrity of that communication without naming names were were there any candidates who um did have or present a conflict of interest um yes there were so can you give us example of the
054nature of conflict of interest that may have been considered one was on litigation that was that at the time was um against the Board of Education one was a pass board member and I felt those two for sure would be knocked off of the table alog together litigation in itself and also just bringing bias to the table as a board member um I just felt that that it would leave us vulnerable um any any type of situation again with litigation that was extremely important to me to make sure that we took any of those com confs off the table um and there were a few others that just had deeper relationships with individual board members that I also took off the table I know that we had a prior lawsuit related to the seating of
055the LPC and given that we are board members who are selecting three community members um what what were some of the pieces that came up in that lawsuit that we should be aware of to ensure that we are doing things above the board here um I know transparency is and very very important in that well um I don't well I can speak to that like I'm not sure I'm comfortable speaking to I think there's a couple layers one you know the the reg defines the process and um I would say there's no one probably in the state of Kentucky that met the level of fidelity to the process that we met four years ago or today um however that doesn't mean that you won't have faced litigation I think what we know is when we
056went through the process four years ago we knew we were going to get litigated before we went through the process uh and that litigation still exists um so I think that um the claims were primarily playing on some ambiguity within the regulation um suggesting you know that this conflict of interest occurred or this conflict of interest occurred I'm not sure as it called motion when you when you file a claim and you ask the judge to make a motion is that what it's called the law initiated with a claim that you want the court to make ruling so from what I can discern there's not been a motion filed on that particular claim since it was originally filed um meaning it was filed and then it was used as a kind of a generic threat
057uh and I share that just publicly because that's how it's played out uh we expect to get litigated again on this um because that's the nature of things um so I'd say over the next two to three months um depending on the process we could expect uh likely to experience additional litigation um and I think that's just you know a byproduct of the times we live in a highly litigious uh Society where anyone can file a claim is that normal throughout no it's not normal okay and I think that's why it's so important that we continue to build capacity in this process and and share information very publicly throughout our community um I think that we know um misinformation is really difficult to fight against and we want to be very transparent and Community discussions
058be above and beyond the regulation that defines public forum through the LPC and I think I'll I'll let you go here in a second I think what's really important here is when I say we had 10 really good candidates we had 10 highly qualified candidates and to be clear if I wanted to stack the deck I would have because there were some people on here that I believe would have brought integrity and commitment and engagement and they would have challenged the process but because of what we went through a few years ago I am not taking that chance by putting people on there and putting them through this process for them to get beat up and to be challenged and their integrity challenged even though I believe 100% they would have been able to handle
059it um it was important for me to have integrity as a board chair to bring people to the table that were vetted that that did not have any conflicts of interest that anyone could beat them up over and so again I you guys have the authority to override that and and that is on your your in your lab but I feel very confident in the three community members that I brought to the table and I would ask that if any of our board members have a real or perceived conflict of Interest with any of the three that that are nominated or otherwise that we do make that known I do not have any conflict of interest with the three and these are really good I mean you know and I know these three individually and
060you know there's there's nothing I could say about Miss ice and Miss Long Mr cook um and I and I think they would they would be fine if that's what the majority decides then that is fine I think there were two really strong candidates on there and I I think that they're two individuals that were probably the two most and some of the most involved people in Nelson County schools and their involvement dates back long before the LPC was seated before um those two individuals would be Nik Maus I mean just with with Meo and and the level of knowledge she has and expertise and professionalism and um and the other one would would be Donna blinko I mean you know she's been a big contributor go re she's been on the up Foundation um
061I think it would be impossible to beat those two individuals resume and so my preference would be for the two of them to serve but these are excellent candidates that you've named so uh that that's just my two cents right and I agree 100% actually I had um n on my list originally as you well know um but her her construction company has done work for Nelson County schools in the past and there's a possibility with construction that they could do contracts with us in the future that is a an obvious conflict of interest and again and again miss blinko in any given circumstance she would be an ideal candidate on a local planning committee of any kind in a school district she comes with a wealth of knowledge Miss Deon is not wrong however
062her relationship with Miss Deon is why I believe it's a conflict again there is there are people that each of us know that like I said you know the board member I 100% believe that that board member would have brought integrity and they would have brought a wealth of knowledge but they also could have brought bias and whether it's real or perceived we have the ability to um sort of barricade ourselves in integrity and responsibility that I think we must uphold and again that is why my recommendation for the three that I mentioned um is again where I hold the board has an opportunity to discuss further and if they would like to um re-evaluate those names that's it's open for discussion yeah Miss blinko BR a special thing to me that's literacy I love
063that literacy part that she brings to give so much money to us and to leave her off this this um process is heart tugging to me uh because I know how much literacy means just to my family absolutely me uh but I think she would bring bring a unique perspective and I like blinko would bring a unique perspective and I mean if we break it down there' be a we can probably find something with every candidate somewhere a connection that we certain one of us one of us five of us would find something with each candidate and that's what I'm saying we can pick in this all day long if we wanted to but to leave these two off I think it be a huge disservice to us I wish we put them on more
064than what we the three I wish we put problem on there and I agree 100% but if we're going to overlook one and and then not Overlook the others I think that's again we're getting to a position that you know we either remove the conflicts of interest and we set us up for a process that is clean and fair and has Integrity or we put them on there and we set ourselves up for a possibility of people to question it and that again that is that is on this board majority it's going to be a question anyway Tracy M Bing it's going to be a question anyway no matter what we no matter who we pick but we have control over these three people we don't have control over who was selected tonight we have
065control over these three individuals as a board and that's where that's where our integrity has to shine yeah but these these two Donal blinko and Miss n mat knows construction them out of this process is is doing our our our system a huge disservice that's what I'm saying um I saying I do understand what you're saying yeah thank you so I just want to say I'm not voting on this I just want to acknowledge as an outsider part of the conversation because I've experienced this for four years I've experienced and and witnessed the slander and the accusations I think it's safe to say we would all agree to this miss matys and miss blinko you guys have know as great contributors to our school district great contributors to our community I think we could all
066agree if you had a multiple choice and you said which would the following would be a conflict of interest accepting bids for construction being a family member to a board member I think we'd both probably acknowledge we check those boxes so independently of them being highly you know influential I don't question their integrity in any way I think they both uh appealed to to this process for the right reasons and I respect them both at the same time we have to be realistic okay so is there a motion I guess on the table well it depends on if you guys are moving forward with the recommendation or if I think that is the question um it again I made the recommendation I feel like I do not I do not have the right to make
067a motion on that recommendation so you talked to all 10 and that's where this recommendation is coming from you there were only two people I asked every individual the exact four questions five questions um and the only two people I did not ask those questions were the board member and the um the person that had the litigation against the district I just again I took that one all on my own and said absolutely I appreciate them putting their name and like I said I think they would have brought Integrity as much as U miss matthys and miss blinko but I am trying to protect the Integrity of this board I appreciate all 10 applicants and their willingness to be part of this process and um and I have no doubt that they have a vested
068interest in our district and um a desire to see things move forward in a in a good manner so I appreciate that all 10 um have volunteered to serve absolutely so what would you guys like to do would you like motion I I'll make a motion to accept the three all right have a motion do I have a second I'll second all right all in favor I any opposed all right motion passes we have our LPC all right moving on so we do need to do the Motions I guess we did them I guess we just did them oh yes sorry so this is just going to be a very broad uh overview of the timeline we went through training on January 21st went through the recruitment process advertisement process um it said originally Katie
069would review the process on February 19th everything has been moved back obviously with the board meeting uh we originally talked about with Miss bowling a potential work session on March 4th to focus the conversation for two key points um academic update and LPC goals for the board just allowing the board members to speak to the goals um that work session could be determined later in this meeting uh if that's the choice but now the KD review process will begin tomorrow um our original goal for starting the local planning committee was March 5th now that's moved back to March 12th um and just sharing that so that's a that's a general timeline so from here my role is to begin that process communicate with the LPC uh and allow that LPC to form uh over the
070course of that first meeting or two they will identify a chair and a vice chair to help facilitate that process as well Mr Bradley what is the KDE review can you remind us and refresh us good question so KDE basically ensures that we met the requirements of 702 KR 4180 which going back to four years ago KD did it then too once KD approves it it's essentially legally binding so they are ensuring that the membership reflects what is required in the statute and also that the process was upheld indeed okay thank you the Board of Education role just to confirm uh is required to appoint a board member we've achieved that adverti for an appoint three Community Business Leaders you also appointed an architect additional check box up there those are all part of the
071requirements there is an additional optional for the Board of Education role in the LPC and that's to engage a facilitator uh the reg defines a facilitator in that process we've not discussed that I would very much like to consider having an outside neutral facilitator in this process um have you explored options for that and what may be availabl so the options that I've discussed that I'm that I've currently evaluated are through the cooperatives that exist in our State the educational cooperatives like gr and CK which uh they have they they just have a wide array of resources um previously four years ago we utilized a gentleman um from a few hours away that had been engaged in facility planning for years and years I believe his name was Tim Eaton um and he showed up
072maybe the third meeting or fourth meeting for a bit um and he was really just there to help give perspective um I think he came into the party a little late so um I think they're they're also there to sort of make sure that the the local planning committee moves along that that they sort of wrangle everybody together make sure that they are moving forward and not just spending a lot of time um I guess beaten up by the and I would that they're also ensuring that everyone has equal voice and and opportunity to be engaged the a good facilitator you would should do that yes um so I I we reached out you reached so I've acknowledged to the cooperatives that it could be potential and I've I've asked them to what extent may
073they uh meet the requirements of the regulation so the regulation was written in 2008 17 years ago and it defines the facilitator uh kind of agreement and contracts Etc um really if the board is interested in FA in a facilitator process what the next step would include would be allowing me to to uh establish a facilitator in the context of the regulation that exists so it pretty much spells out here's what a facilitator can do in the from a how much we can pay them based on the number of schools we have um if it goes over a certain limit how how they get paid per hour it's all defined by rig how do you guys feel about um engaging in that conversation would you guys like for the superintendent to um speak with them
074in regards to a contract for a facilitator I would like to explore that Avenue I would as well so we will need a motion to enter into that conversation I would believe yeah I think the motion would just be to allow um the superintendent to uh establish a a relationship with a Cooperative to have a facilit a group that would facilitate the local planning committee that I could then share in our next work session I would like to make a motion that superintendent Bradley engaged with a one of the educational cooperatives in Kentucky to engage a facilitator for our LPC process in Nelson County I have a second second all right all in favor I any opposed motion passes thank you superintendent Bradley just broadly the timeline this was uh just when we start the
075LPC it says Wednesdays beginning March 5th that would be Wednesdays beginning March 12th um the LPC convenes the however much time it takes they develop a draft facility plan KD reviews that facility plan uh it goes back to the dfp the Nels County board reviews it that's just if you look at the that's generically the what exists in there so um Wednesdays occurred last time Wednesdays is the goal Community engagement in local planning is also defined by regulation uh by reg there are three public forums they occur in collaboration with LPC meetings there's one public hearing that only follows the approval of a draft facility plan by reg what I am working to explore is how we can reach communities and I use Wednesdays and Fridays as potential days those Community discussions uh would occur
076more naturally in in our community wees and these are minimum requirements correct the community discussions would not be a minimum requirement that would be as board members choose or as the district team members choose to engage as needed with the community okay have we when I met with Mr um Bradley on February 14th I suggested the potential for um establishing a community survey that's right to gather feedback about priorities and values and where we um rank things and so I would like to present that to our board as something that we could explore at the next work session makes sense y so um kind of talking a little bit about the community discussion um I again I'm going to challenge each board member to sort of take some of that responsibility on go to your
077community um and like I said take a Community member along um take a parent a teacher a principal someone that's on that local planning committee that's that's diving into those conversations um so that you can get some of that feedback um and also just allow your community sort of um to be part of the conversation not everyone's going to go to the LPC meetings even though I would encourage everyone to um if you can um so you're you're engaged in that but I know that's not possible for everyone so I want to try to make sure that that we're putting the effort in as well to um get that information out my understanding is that the public forums and the the three public ones and then the one following board approval are largely for comments
078is that correct for public speaking and so the community discussions would be an opportunity more for small group exchange and interaction am I correct in that if we choose to do those yes okay I will commit to doing one of those in my Bloomville community so the public forum then would be at the beginning of a meeting kind of like we do these meetings where community members could come up and speak is that right going to do the same or separate they they can happen before or after it doesn't really matter okay I would like to have it in a manner that would enable all the LPC members to be present to hear those comments because I think it is important that they um hear the same Community feedback that that they will because that's
079the purpose of it for their decision making agree all right any further discussion all right moving on I I did have a uh mistake back here let's see let's see had the wrong name of the person up here of course this is not board approval I must have just typed the wrong name in that's actually she's the didn't even run oh okay I think I typ I think I typed does in there I think we need to say that more clearly okay there she is clear can you say that into the microphone just so that it's heard clearly on the I want to be sure that our community can hear everything and it's captured got it we did have a typo on the slide for New Haven teacher that that was drawn uh Mary bagel's
080name was there in fact she did not I think she was contemplating running but she did not run Shelley Newton was the only person that's a teacher that ran at New Haven and obviously she won her name was drawn so she would be asked to be seated on the LPC just for transparency there you go it's my second official mistake here of 2025 somebody right right now getting written up so the board calendar upcoming board meetings all meetings of take place at 5:30 it's currently scheduled uh originally this was prior to the move we had March 4th for potential work session recommended to do two things academic update and a LPC goals so it would be the board's opportunity to frame the goals for the LPC from their perspective Mr Bradley I believe we also
081had discussed um a few items that would be added to that Rel relative to Staffing and in Prior board meetings I had mentioned um the discussion around maternity leave for staff a paid maternity leave and having the cost presented to the district at that time and also I would like to request that we review um a couple of pieces here the r to succeed Act passed a couple of years ago and I know that we have employed literacy specialist and continue to do so in our Elementary programs and the numeracy ACT also passed and comes into effect this year which is mathematics and so as I think about that I would like to hear an update on how our district will be addressing the math implementation particularly for tier 2 and tier three mtss interventions
082which is for students who may be struggling I know that we have backpack leaders at each school which have ties to connection but I'm not sure if if that's a piece of that because that's something I think we need to consider as a board and also we have a math coach 6 through 12 but I'm unclear that we also have a literacy coach who is working with Literacy for middle school and high school students who may be struggling and I think we've also talked about school libraries so these are things that I would like to hear engaged in our um Staffing discussion if that could be part of that March 4th good stuff thank thank you and I'll send that in an email as well so there's a couple of other revisions here April 15th
083we be moved to Bloomfield Middle School because we wanted to move May 14th to the airport to combine it with some of the micro school work we're doing across the district and talk about the Agra Science Center project that's occurring in our community um we felt like it was going to that was a more timely opportunity for that to occur so we just flop those around so essentially the motion is as written to revise locations and add a work session all right we need a motion to add the board work session for March 4th 2025 at central office and revise the location of the April and May board meetings as discussed motion all right thank you Miss Deon do I have a second second thank you Dr Lee all in favor I any opposed all
084right motion passes all right all right so we are um going to need a motion to um enter into executive session pursuant to KRS 61. 8101 C and KRS 61.81 01f for pending or proposed litigation and student Discipline Do I have a motion I'll make a motion do I have a second a second all right all in favor [Music] you [Music] you [Music] for [Music] keep keep [Music] r [Music] you are [Music] r r [Music] face [Music] keep keep [Music] you [Music] you [Music] got got [Music] I [Music] keep [Music] R keep [Music] you are [Music] you [Music] a [Music] you [Music] you are [Music] all [Music] r [Music] got [Music] you [Music] I [Music] you [Music] keep [Music] you [Music] you [Music] got [Music] you [Music] keep [Music] oh [Music] you r r [Music]
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086result of the executive session pursuant to KRS 61. 8101 C and KRS 61.81 01f we need a recommended motion to uphold the discussed expulsion recommendations made by the expulsion committee I'll make a motion thank you Mr Norman I need a second I'll second second by Mr Gilead and we need a um all in favor any opposed all right motion passes so with that we need a motion to adjourn oh was there any further discuss because I want to celebrate one thing yes I was going to say there was no celebration on here I know we don't have that on our agenda but we're going to take a minute to celebrate discuss so I have to say that um at the ksba annual conference over the weekend that our um some of our CTE students did
087a wonderful job and I would encourage anyone in our community to to go on to YouTube to the kedc YouTube channel and they have on the road with Carla and they about halfway through they focus on some of our students and McKenzie DS teaches a lesson on there she did an excellent job there was a piece for Robotics and I also want to give a shout out to our district the Kentucky School advocate this month had two separate references to things happening in Nelson County these were unrelated one was um basically a shout out for our CEO program which is excellent for our teacher Recruitment and Retention and a SE separate one was an interview with um representative Scott Lewis who is chair of the primary and secondary education committee and the House of Representatives
088who came to Nelson County and shouted out our apprenticeship program as being an exemplary um program for recruiting students or recruiting teachers and training students so to everyone who's involved in those pieces definitely and I'm just going to give a shout out to some athletic programs that are going on right now thas Nelson is playing and Nelson County's girls team won their wasn't District district semis oh it was they moving on so we're going to cheer them on as they go against um Bargetown cor um again you can tell that I don't know but I watched the game last night it was super exciting so um continue to cheer these kids on yeah continue to cheer cheer these kids on there are a lot of amazing things going on in our district and I'm going
089to challenge every board member to come to these meetings prepare to share something good um pick something and I going to put everyone on the spot from here out to make sure that we are continuing to share what's happening in our district and make sure that we are taking these opportunities to share the amazing things going on so with that anything else you sto my lady cards all right um we needed a motion to adjourn the regular session of NS County Board of Education second second all in favor I any opposed all right thanks guys have a good rest