Scott County Schools Board of Education Meeting 6/11/2026

001Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Welcome everybody to our meeting this evening. We're going to jump right into it as usual. Um we're going to go right to Mr. Parker and awards and recognitions. >> All right. So, if you were anywhere near the campuses of Scott County High School and Lemonsville Elementary School uh a couple days ago or if you follow social media, uh you likely know that there's big things going on in our district this summer. We kicked off the summer meal program for children in our community. So, thanks to the leadership of school nutrition director uh Christy Collins and a dedicated team who [applause] listen, you know, you've done something when I don't even have to I mean, I didn't even say anything and they're already clapping. >> Christie, uh thanks to her

002leadership, her dedicated team, um we were able to uh to make this happen. And this week, our district served nearly 2,000. Well, actually, this week our district served exactly 2,96 children from our community. >> Each child received 14 full complete nutritious meals, seven breakfast, seven lunch. And when you add all of these together, the total is more than 40,000 meals served in this first week alone. >> The program will continue to provide meals at each site on Tuesdays throughout the summer. And yes, we know we about shut down the bypass. And yes, we do have plans to uh to fix that. Um we've already worked closely with law enforcement and our friends at um parks and recreation to to make some tweaks to make that happen and it's going to be great. But anyway, this

003is for sure worthy of celebration. Uh the truth is that for the last two years our uh uh last two years prior to Miss Collins taking on the uh leadership role for the nutrition department, we've been operating as a at a deficit in that department. You all are aware of that. We've talked about it. >> Um so when hired, Miss Collins faced two significant objectives. Number one, get us back in black. And number two, offer summer meals for children. Because last summer, we're thankful that the Aean House stepped up and they took that they took that on and they did did a wonderful job. But, you know, we're better suited for that because we have on top of volunteers, we've got people that do that for a living. So, um, we we're just we're just

004in a perfect position to be able to take that on. Um, Christy and her team have risen to the challenge. The long lines at the summer mill pickup location and the sheer volume of registrants prove that the people of our community need this program. It's our duty and responsibility to take full advantage of programs like this which exist to feed and nurture children year round. Uh now Christy would be the first person to tell you that this was for sure a team effort. Uh it truly takes a village and she's right. Around 50 people showed up on Tuesday to help nutrition staff and district leaders alike. And that doesn't include the workers and volunteers that showed up a few days uh other days of the week to uh to prepare the meal packets. If you

005saw them or if you are one of them, you know that they worked hard and kept it going uh until the last car was through the line the line despite the rain. Uh staff at each school volunteered to serve [snorts] a day this summer to help and the first day was Anne Mason and Great Crossings um week and they had student folks and they had uh staff as well. It was just they they did a great job turning out. Uh teams and student groups were were packing meals. Um and community partners like Aman House and again uh they provided uh you know they provided us some support and and like I mentioned with parks and recreation and the Georgetown football club. They provided us access to the L road soccer complex. So that that will

006be the route we will be taking for Lemon's Mill next week and beyond. >> I like that. That makes sense. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um that'll relieve pressure on law enforcement and the traffic that that was that resulted from the program. >> Yeah. It's a plain along lane. >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh from the start, this has been an incredible example of the power of community days and programs like this. Um and all the people uh that that say this, it it proves all of us right that Sky County is the best place in the world to live and learn for everyone. Um, but it's also a testimony and a testament to the power of leadership and the fact that helping hands at home make a difference. Tonight, we recognize nutrition director Christy Collins for all the

007planning, organization, long hours, and hard work that a program of this magnitude uh, and significance requires. Not to mention that this is her first year in the role and the impact of the program far exceeded where I thought we would be after day one of the first year of implementing this program. So Christie, on behalf of thousands of children and families, we applaud your leadership and thank you for your service and dedication. [applause] [laughter] It's her favorite thing. [applause] Thank you for everything. Okay, thank you so much for um your putting this all together for us. This is such an important program and very uh dear to most of us. So, thank you all of us, I should say. I'm sorry. Thank you. Okay, number five, um excuse me, number four, agenda approval. >> So,

008move second. >> Uh all in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number five, public comment. We have I have three people I believe want to come up and sit and talk together. Bob, Lynn, Evan, Patrick, if you'd like to come up to our table. We have two chairs. Do we if you could Yeah, before you get started, I want to just kind of explain to you how this process works for us. Um, there's going to be another speaker right behind you. So, your group and that person will have five minutes. You are more than welcome to talk to us about what you'd like to discuss or talk to us about. However, we will not be answering or communicating back. We will listen to what you have to say and, you know, consider everything

009wholeheartedly. I promise you. We just won't be conversing back and forth with you. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> We will have something to give you at the end. May we bring that around at when we're finished? Is that all right? >> Yes. And this is our little shock block that we have up here. >> Okay. [laughter] so you know. >> Okay, here we go. >> Are we ready? >> Yes. Yes. Please go ahead. >> All right. Good evening. Uh my name is Evan Patrick. I just graduated from Great Crossing High School last month. Uh with me are my parents, Bob and Lynn Patrick. Uh before they talk to you though, I asked to speak first. I just want to say that I'm very grateful for all the opportunities I've had the past

010four years both at Great Crossing and Elhorn Crossing. Uh, I'm thankful for the many good teachers I've been fortunate enough to have and I really have loved all 13 years of my time in Scott County Schools. Thank you for allowing us to speak to you this evening. >> Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to talk with you tonight. I'm happy to get to tell you just a little bit about one of your outstanding Scott County District students here. We are certainly very proud of Evan and his accomplishments both in his service to the community as well as in the classroom. He was one of the students selected from his school for the highly prestigious Governor Scholars program. But we are especially proud, however, of what he accomplished just this last semester in his senior year.

011During his last semester, he took on an unprecedented six AP classes, plus seven dual credit courses, all at the same time. That's 21 college credit hours along with six very challenging AP classes. This was a monumental undertaking with 13 classes all at once. There were multiple assignments due daily, papers to create, articles and books to read, and many tests to study for. And as you can imagine, he didn't have a lot of time to sleep. But amazingly, he not only survived, he earned an A in every single class. And all that incredibly hard work resulted in him having the highest weighted grade point average in the entire senior class of Great Crossing High School. The Scott County Board of Education established a written policy in 2019 that governs the selection of the validictorian. That policy

012was not followed at Great Crossing High School this year. The policy establishes the order of the criteria used to make the determination. The first section lists the three data points that are to be considered. The selection moves on to the next data point if a tie exists on the current one. Should there still be a tie after those three points, the policy then outlines the formation of a selection committee to include two members of the school board. The very first criteria of the policy is that the student must have earned sumakum lad status. Evan easily meets this standard. Other students also met this standard. So the selection moves on to the next criteria in order. The second criteria states that the student must have the highest weighted GPA. Evan has the highest weighted GPA as

013shown on his certified transcript. At this point, the tie is broken and no further criteria needs to be considered. >> And yet, a student with a weighted GPA lower than Evans was selected as validictorian. Clearly, this was an error. an error that took away the opportunity for Evan to be recognized for his accomplishment before his peers and the community at graduation. But as the school board, you have the power to correct this mistake. Respectfully, we have come here this evening to seek that which he fairly earned, that he be named validictorian of Great Crossing High School in accordance with your official policy. We do have uh for each of you a copy of the policy and a copy of Evans transcript along with other documentation for your further review. >> We look forward to hearing

014from you and we do thank you for your time. Thank you. >> Thank you for coming this evening. >> Did I get >> Yes. sir. [snorts] >> Thank you, sir. We have another speaker, Ryan Blood. [cough] >> Good evening. [sighs] Good evening, members of the board and superintendent. My name is Ryan Blood, and until very recently, I was a certified teacher here in Scott County Schools. I loved my job and my co-workers even more so. I resigned my position effective May 12th. I am stepping up to this podium tonight, not to litigate a personal grievance, but to shine a light on a rigid administrative policy gap that forces human compassion to take a backseat to computer system automation. Before my resignation, I worked hard to accumulate 29 and a half days of sick leave. When

015a close colleague in our district faced a sudden catastrophic medical crisis requiring long-term treatment, our school community did what educators always do. We rallied. I immediately stepped forward to donate my 14 and a half of my earned sick days to help cover their absence. A move that perfectly aligned with board policy 03.1232, leaving me with exactly the required 15-day balance remaining. However, because my formal donation request was processed a few days after my official May 12th separation date, the transfers flatten flatly denied by HR, I was told no simply because my system status had shifted to inactive. Because of the systemic lockout, those 14 and a half days couldn't go to my colleague. Instead, I was forced to face a frustrating reality. The system effectively gave me no choice but to use those days selfishly

016for myself before walking out the door, a choice I voluntarily rebuffed on principle. rather than allowing me to pass them along to a peer fighting for their health. Those days were earned through my labor as an active employee in this district. They represent real tangible financial security. [snorts] I would like to know why our current administrative framework chooses to let a departing teacher's hard-earned sick leave evaporate or freeze indefinitely into a database rather than allowing a retroactive manual override to support a staff member in crisis. I could have taken these days. I did not and would not on the basis that my peer and friend needed them and could far better utilize them than myself. I ask this board to look past the automated cut off dates in the payroll software and consider the human

017element. I ask that you grant a one-time administrative exemption to retroactively process my donation card and more importantly that you reexamine policy 03.1232 particularly section sick leave subsection sick leave donation program paragraph 10 so that the future resigning teachers aren't forced to choose between systemic waste and personal selfishness when a colleague's livelihood is on the line. Thank you for your time. And additionally, if I could see board agenda section 6F personnel report from the last couple of board meetings, I looked online and I wasn't able to find them um because as far as I'm aware and I've uh discussed with an individual who's relatively familiar with these types of policies that it has my resignation should have been approved by the board before my sick leave transfer request was denied. So, if I could see

018when the board officially accepted my resignation, that'd be very helpful. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you so much. That ends our public comment for this evening. We are going to consent agenda items A through G. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number seven, construction report. Come on up. Just right here at the same table. We'll be just fine. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Thank you for for joining us this evening. >> Absolutely. I'm standing in for tonight. >> Yes. >> Conflict. >> Thank you for coming. >> You It's been >> You've spoke once or twice, haven't you? >> Yes. Yeah. When we were selecting colors, I came in with Tony and worked with you guys a bit on the color selection. That

019was fun. upstairs. >> Yeah. >> And then he was here the night we made the decisions. I remember. >> Yes. So, we're coming full circle. The finishes are coming in. Um >> I'll I'll give you a construction report with pictures I took on Tuesday. >> So, as you can see, the um Is this is this working? Am I getting projected properly? >> You sure are. >> Excellent. Uh as you can see, the the roofing is coming along. We've got most of the metal roof on. The storm shelter is dried in with windows in place. Uh roof installed. It's been pretty rainy down there. It's a wet day to be down there. Um the vast majority of the masonry work is done. There's still a little bit of masonry work on the gym that's coming along

020that you should be able to see here. Uh they've got those two walls to to break up. Site work is definitely coming along, too. You can see the grading for the uh parking lot in the front progressing. The whole building is dried in. Uh mechanical systems are are progressing pretty well. There you can see the uh front canopy. The steel has been erected on the rear canopy kind of at the top of the image. The uh the decking is in place and it's getting ready for the metal roofing. The front entryway is currently dried in with a temporary board. Here's the area with the uh the parking lot. Front entryway again coming in there. You can see some of that uh white glazed ceramic tile on the the pilot steers near the exterior of the

021building. This should look familiar. This is uh near the front lobby. >> They've got quite a bit of uh progress on the drywall, those reveals, stuff like that. Uh looking into the attendance office, you can see the the bulkheads are in place. The drywall is going up. Uh electrical systems being installed. Here's the media center. Um drywall sophets are going in. Everything's progressing pretty well. Um the gym, I think the gym is looking great. Uh when I stepped in there, I was I was really surprised. The >> the colors are starting to come out. Absolutely. And I think the drywallers did a a great job on that big curve sophet. Uh know I talked to the contractor a few times about that and I think they they really nailed it. Um here you can see

022looking through the platform area. There's the cafeteria behind and there's a photo in the cafeteria as it's progressing. It's they're staging a lot of materials right there so they can get ready to to do the drywall ceilings in the cafeteria and the uh the kitchen area is behind there in the back. This is the rear lobby. Uh it's kind of hard to tell in the picture, but there's the the curved wall there on the right. And they should be putting that that storefront in within the next couple months. Drywall in the hallway. There's a blue classroom. I don't know if you remember, we've got a few different colors of classrooms. Here's the the yellow classroom. And uh as you can see the windows have been installed in the classrooms. The orange classroom. There's one of

023the storm shelter windows. So that's a tornado rated window in the storm shelter area that's been installed. The loading dock area is progressing. They've got their their ramps built and some formwork going up for uh some of the truck loading places and the garbage area. What's going on in this corner? Can you go back? >> Is that some of that repair work? It looks wonky in that or is that a >> that? So, they're still working on the masonry in that area and after they put in the mortar, sometimes they they let it sit and cure a bit and then they wash it off so it'll it'll clean off after that. So, that's a typical part of the process. >> You see they've got the scaffolding up for doing the masonry there. Kind of on

024the right side of the building. There's the rear canopy. and another overall shot of the building. So, I think in terms of uh construction schedule, quality of work, I think Grace is doing a great job. They're really great guests to work with and I think that progress is satisfactory for sure. >> Good news. Any questions? >> It's great. >> Excellent. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. Happy to be here. Thank you. >> Thank you. Number eight, student achievement. >> Good evening. So this evening we are going to be going over the end of the year I da um and so this is what our students um this is their third benchmark for the year and so it really a good picture around reading and performance for our students as well as growth. So

025we will just jump right in. All right. So a lot of this very familiar we'll go over some of it quickly but if you have questions please feel free to ask. This first slide is just showing that we have a um good data sample. We had minimal rush flags for the third diagnostic. This slide is about the performance and growth chart. So just a reminder, the top portion of the chart is for high growth. The bottom portion is for low growth. Um that dotted line is the minimum goal that we want to reach of that 100% toward typical growth. To the right hand side, that would be high performance. left hand side would be low performance with the um 50th percentile line from top to bottom being that national norm and this is different than

026normal than other data that we look at but I looks at the median score so we're again that's just a reminder that's that middle score that we're talking about all right so first we will start off with mathematics. And so this first uh diagram is showing um per grade. So you are seeing everywhere all grades kindergarten through 8th grade. And then if you look over to your right, you see a bar graph and that shows how each of those grade levels are trending towards the goal of 100%. And so you can see that almost all grades were achieving the 100% plus goal. Um the one area that we really um have been taking emphasis in and we already saw our data trending that way was grade four um because it is only at 87%. And

027so one of the things that we had already done preemptively is on May 19th, it was election day, so we did not have students. So we actually brought in I Ready to work with our fourth grade teachers around mathematics. Um just to go ahead and get some additional support and we're also going to be doing additional things for next year specific to that grade level. Um, but of course all because math is still the area that we um, and you'll see this once Wendy goes over reading is still the um, area of of most most growth for us. But um, and we'll talk to that in just a little bit, but you can see um, all of our um, a majority of our schools or excuse me grades are on that high performance side and

028of course we really want them in that high growth uh, cortile as well. We are looking again, you can see fourth grade is the one that is in that low performance, low growth and we'll and like I said, we're already putting measures in place to really dive into what that instruction looks like. >> Do you know what attributed to the fourth grade? Is there something in the curriculum or >> No. So, interestingly enough, on Monday, uh Wendy, myself, Damon, and um and Kelly went to a um a regional meeting. Well, really just not regional. It's a lot of districts that are very similar to us. Um and um the fourth grade scores were a trend across all areas. Um and so um but regardless, even if it is trending, we're still going to dive in

029and see what we can do further for our fourth grade students. Um if you go to the next next one. Um so this is and and really this is just showing that we have seven um schools in the high performance high high growth area and we have five schools that are in that low performance high growth. So we'll go ahead and look at the next slide because it goes into more detail about what those schools are. So again when you look at the growth portion our goal is to be 100% plus. And you can see that all of our schools whe whether low performing or high performing are meeting that growth area. And one thing that we always have emphasized since I've been here and I'm sure before is we just want our schools and

030our students growing. And so therefore, you know, all of our schools are meeting that growth objective. When you look at the performance, our the goal is is to be in the high performing you need to be at 50. And so when even looking on the low performance side, Georgetown Middle School might be at 43 with performance, but they're at 115% growth. So we are feeling good about the work that is happening at that school. Um and Mason is at 46 and 103. Um and Lemons Mill is at 47 and 100. And so one of the areas that we are really digging in um with the mathematics especially in fourth grade is going to be Creekide Elementary and Southern um just because they're still not quite to the level that we want um to the trend

031of where they are in performance. So we're pleased with the growth of all of our schools um and honestly you know looking at performance we're starting to trend in the right direction just not quite at the pace that we have seen with uh reading. Um so so yeah you know with mathematics um next year um you can talk to both Damon and um Kelly the emphasis for all of our schools around PLC's um is going to be especially at the elementary level is going to be within the area of mathematics we are bringing in CKC to do work with our elementary schools around small group um so we are really going in big on um on mathematics um not that we are >> 27 I'm sorry 27 or >> yes 26 27 when you're saying

032next year. >> Yeah. Well, I guess we're already there. [laughter] I just wanted to clarify. >> So, this year. Thank you, Diana. Yes, this year. Sorry. Yeah, absolutely. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Uh no, no, no. But yeah, so um math is definitely going and we're going to talk a little bit more in detail. Um but we Wendy gets to share the amazing reading scores. >> I won the coin toss for that. [laughter] >> You won the coin toss. So when we flip to reading um you can see a dramatic shift in where our grade levels fall. So we have um most grade levels are above that you know typical growth achieved. If we look over at the bar graph on the right hand side first grade is slightly below at 96%. Um, I

033do want to point out seventh and eighth grade. Seventh grade at 160%. >> You talk about transformational. Absolutely. Holy cow. >> Yeah. And eighth grade >> years we've set stewing about what's going on at seventh and eighth grade level and dag on >> right. I know. We were very excited about that. Awesome. >> So what did they do >> in seventh and eighth grade >> is it? >> So I think there's a couple of things. I think we have exceptional leaders in those buildings who are using data to drive instruction and using the PLC process to really like dig deeply um into that. We also implemented the HQIR of Common Lit 360 did a pilot this year and so um some schools were further along in the implementation of that than others but I think

034that's also contributed. And I would also add our reading scores have been continually growing every year. So the kids who were in fifth and sixth grade four years ago when we started the work with HQIR and now they're in middle school, I think that's also a factor as we're seeing with that later. >> Yeah, I think that's an attest to using HQ as well. And you can see that first grade is right on the line, but when we get um further into our data, you're going to see that we're still performing better than the state and the nation at the first grade level. So um even though that's not exactly where we want it to be, we're still trending upward. Okay. So here we have school data and all of our schools are in the

035high growth area. And when we look at that percentage um there are definitely some areas to celebrate if we look at GMS specifically. So they are you know 49th percentile one point away from that national norm but 165% toward growth. So just amazing percentage toward growth there. Back to math. All right. Um so this is um again just kind of breaking down that into a bar graph of where our students are in regards to um reaching typical growth and then stretch growth. So our goal um our district goal what we have set for ourselves um for what we want to achieve is that we want to be at a 70% of our students meet typical growth right um and so you can see that that third fourth and fifth and you'll see clearly that fourth

036grade is um an an area where we are um where there is a need I mean 100% >> this is the co >> these are the co kids so wait fourth grade K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K one and two did not experience COVID in any fashion because they were not even maybe they were infants. >> They were infants. And I also would like to >> So anything above that at this point we're looking at these students experience in addition with K1 and two um so we started this is our second year of implementation of the math HQIR. So I

037think also in addition to that there um math has be math across the nation across the state across our community is is a need and um and so I think that the foundational skills that um that th those students have missed in addition to I think having that HQIR and ensuring that our students are being taught to the level of the standard is is having an impact and I think that's where you're seeing kindergarten, first and second grade. Those students have started school with an HQIR and and I can tell you and we've we've >> missed anything, so to speak, >> right? They've not missed anything. And so, and not that and I don't think any teacher intentionally didn't teach to the level of the standard. We've just been asking teachers to do work that

038none of us were trained to do to analyze a standard, pick um assignments and assessments and instruction based on our knowledge and and provide that to the student. And so we've been before HQIR, we have been in multiple classrooms where you walk in and the teacher because they're pulling things from teacher pay teachers or whatever they can get their hands on. you saw teachers teaching um material that was below grade level and and so I think the HQIR is ensuring that the level of the standard is being taught. Um and so I really look forward when we are four to five years down the road of what kind of growth we will see um in mathematics. And I can tell you um there >> teachers often and this is just my observation I think are

039a little less confident unless you have nerdy people like Wendy and I who love math um are a little less confident in teaching math than they are reading. >> Sure. Um and and so really providing a lot of even our some of our principles have said I'm not as familiar and comfortable with mathematics and so that's why we're pouring into our teachers. We're pouring into our principles. Um you know we've and we'll talk about this a little more detail. I'm jumping way ahead but you know we had so many teachers that have signed up to be a part of the numeracy academy and then this year so we've done the first year we've got more teachers who are now on boarding into that work. And so I think they too realize um that that there's

040there's definitely work to see in mathematics because when Wendy shows this same chart and again our goal is 70% for typical growth and our goal is we want 30% of our students reading meeting meaning stretch growth you can see kindergarten and first grade we're doing we're we're trending that way right and when you see reading it looks a lot different um and so so yeah so um again this just is more data to support the the the the um resources that we're pouring in um around mathematics. >> Okay, so this slide looks exactly the same but for reading here we can see we are much closer to that goal of 70% for typical growth. Um very very close to 30% for stretch growth across all grade levels with a few exceptions there. Um but dramatically

041if we go back and forth a little bit like it it definitely increases for reading >> and the instructional budget that you all approved last month. We knew there was something with reading in K1 and two and we've been seeing the data trend. So when they brought this to us this is just data that supports the need for us to revisit the HQs that we were doing in K1 and two and making sure that we were looking something more comprehensive. So, >> so this is new. Um, I Ready has something they call a super stretch school. And so to be considered a super stretch school, you have to have 200 or more students and you have to have 55% or more students who reach their stretch growth, which is a substantially hard goal to um

042to reach with stretch. We are not here yet. Um, however, we do want to celebrate that Gar Elementary, that's right, had two grade levels who met this qualification. >> Gar Elementary. >> How about How about them? Yes. >> And this is um this is just a slide forformational purposes. It's nothing that you all don't already know, but it just really um gives an explan explanation of what each of those areas mean for mid or above, early on, one grade level below, and then second and third. And as as you all know, if you are two grade levels or three grade levels or more below, that is where we are doing some major intervention um and in work with our kids. Oh, will you hit that again so I can turn my slide? All right. So

043this is um we always love to show you the growth of our kids from um fall to spring. So that bottom bar graph shows where our students were in window one. Again, for window one, yellow is okay because they should be entering if they're on where they're supposed to be. They should be entering grade one grade level below. But um once they get to uh window three, that's where we really want to see that one grade level and below um shrink. And of course the two to three grade levels below shrink. And so this just shows you that um overall um for one grade level and above so all the green 54% of our students are um at or above grade level. We still have 33% of our students um who um are one grade

044level below um and then 13%. But closing that gra gap of two to three grade levels below from 28% in the fall to 13% in the spring is substantial. So, I know that sometimes the math data doesn't always look as great as the reading, but I think this really shows that the work is paying off because, you know, as a former special education teacher, um you know, that those are the kids that um are are struggling learners and for us to get down to 13% uh K8, I think is is is substantial. >> Oh, still me. All right, so the next slide. Um so, this is I know what you all like. If I could get the Will you help me? Apparently. Oh, there we go. Okay. All right. So, this I know is something

045that you all are always interested in seeing and that's how we are performing in comparison to not just the state of Kentucky but also the national norm. And um with this you can see that Scott County um is um outperforming definitely outperforming the state of Kentucky um and and slightly outperforming the national norms. Um so we are feeling good about that. Um slowly the gap keeps widening between us and the state of Kentucky. Um and so that's great to see that. >> Yeah, we like to see it and eventually we're going to really start to outshine the rest of the nation and world. But anyway, I [laughter] love it. We are the ones. >> Um but yes, so so really trending. Um well, I also um we also provided the grade level. I'm not going

046to go over that, but if you really want to dig into that data, you can see how each grade level is performing to the um state as well as the nation. >> Okay, so back to reading. We started the year with 34% of our students in the green. Um, we ended the year with 60% of our students in that green category and we were able to decrease that two or more grade levels below, three or more grade levels below from 27% to 16%. Then when we compare ourselves to the state and to the nation, um, we have substantially more green than the state and the nation. we have 60% and they are both at about 53% there. And I will add lower red which we're really proud about. And then again we have um the

047grade levels that are laid out for you here so that you can dig into that further. And and really quick before I go into the professional learning for for the 2627 school year, I also want to add um we did go to the um the comparison of the states and they're not allowed to put which district you are, but they gave us a number and we're and they identified our district and then we were allowed to tell other districts what our number was if we so choose. And >> number meaning rank >> number meaning just randomized number to >> Yeah. So like I knew that we were district number one. >> I see. Yes. So, but then like I knew that what was it? Pilaski was district number three. But um and and I will

048say the the players in the room are high performing school districts. Um, and you know, you're talking about Oldm County, Plasky, Laurel, um, Fyet, Jessine, Woodford, you know, and so we are performing. We're outperforming about half and we still have about half that are outperforming us, but um, and we will beat them. I promise. >> We'll figure it out. >> Yeah, we we will get there. But definitely really starting to see the the data trend in in a positive in comparison to other high performing school districts. Um so just to kind of overview um our continued support in I Ready Classroom Math like I talked about earlier u we are going to be partnering with I Ready and they're going to start doing some targeted learning walks where they go in they see the teacher

049teaching the HQIR and then are able to sit down with that principal and that teacher and give really good solid feedback. Um, in addition, um, with the support of our principles, and this actually came from our principles, we're going to redo how we've done cohorts, um, in than what we've done in the past because they have requested that we put um, more grade level content together. So, like Damon and I were just talking like to have a fourth grade math cohort um, and start really start to do some targeted um, supports within that. >> Yep. Yep. And then of course um this upcoming year is full implementation in IM at the middle school level algebra 1 and then this year we are adding geometry. Um in addition we've um middle school and algebra 1 piloted

050that this year and then we've had them sitting at the table and then telling us okay now what else do you need? So providing them some additional supports like they all said we need more practice. So we are working on um some stuff to get them more practice and super grateful for Billy Travis and her support in that work. she has really just dove in to all of this work with us. Um, and of course the Kentucky Numerous Counts Academy, we had we just finished our first year with a group of teachers and principles and now we have another group coming in. Um, Common Lit 360 for middle school English. They piloted um and then thanks to your all support, we are adding the assessment piece to that um for this upcoming school year. And

051then again, um, thanks to you all to, um, investing in that K12, um, uh, HQIR for reading because you could definitely see that that is the one the three grade levels where the data is just not quite where we want it. And so, we're really excited to see what uh, what this does and I know our teachers are super excited to have that. So, other than that, what questions do you have for Wendy? I'm curious about this data and what you think how this is going to predict what we're going to get from state. >> So they give us a predictor, >> right? >> Um but it is standard error of measure plus or minus 10. [laughter] >> Yeah. So and it's interesting because I've been track I have that data. I I'll share it

052with you if you want to see it. >> Am I correct to say though that like at the elementary level in the past we it's been a mixed bag. >> It's a mixed bag. Yep. And so, but I'll I have it I have how they what their KSA was at the end of this past um KSA and then I have benchmark one, two, three, and I have the proficiency um predictor. So, I can send that to you all. I mean, if you all but I don't we and and I've told Billy this once we figured out that it was a standard error of measure of plus or minus 10. Like that's basically like we don't know. So, we don't really hang our hat on it. Some schools get really close to what KSA or what

053I Ready predicts, but then some you're like, "Well, that wasn't even close." But I'll I'll send it to you all after this meeting and you all can >> You would think it would be consistently close or not close across the board. >> Yeah. And if it were, then I would be like, "Oh, okay. This is a good predictor." Um, but at this time, it's it's kind of all over the place, but I'll send it to you and you all can check it out. >> Y >> I have a question. Our coaches, are they going to the Kentucky numeracy counts? We do have several coaches who have signed up for that um for this year. And actually the cohort, one of the cohort leaders sent me an email and was congratulating us on our numbers for

054the cohort. So >> that is good because I mean like I I was a part of that but if nobody helped you after the fact >> that's why [clears throat] the coaches are there to kind of help push that along. >> Absolutely. >> Our instructional coaches have been like >> a game changer in in this work thanks to Wendy's leadership and um and they just the support that that they have for our teachers and like their want to want to go to the university academy and yeah >> thank you congratulations >> okay we have a long little reading period here >> you got a mask >> everybody ready >> you got you got a mouse in your pocket >> [laughter] >> You guys ready for this? >> Yes. >> All right. Number 10. >> Number

055nine. I already got it highlighted and said 10. I was ready to go. I'm going [snorts] to miss I'm go every other number. Number nine. Approve selection of board member to serve on the local planning committee. >> I nominate Diana Brooker. >> Second. >> We are represented. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Number 10, annual approval of the certified elevation C for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Make a motion to approve. >> Second that. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? >> Motion carries. Number 11, first reading of the 2026 2027 KSBA board policy updates. And and again, this this is one that um you know, we don't have a vote on, but I did want to just jump in and share

056that last year um the policy updates from KSBA were quite substant. >> Yes, they were. >> And and there's a couple pieces of legislation that that may but me and my team reviewed it um after I shared with the video, but I think it was Monday or Tuesday we went through it and it should be kind of nice day. It Early early indications are we may have just a tweak here or there from this first meeting that you all are seeing. So >> nothing like last summer. >> No, it was a lot. >> Good to hear. Okay. Number 12. Approved transportation agreement between Scott County Board of Education and Bright Horizons Child Center LLC. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 13, approve agreement with

057Wedco District District Health Department and University of Kentucky Department of Pediatrics and the Scott County Board of Education. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 15. Approve memorandum of agreement between the Kentucky Center of Grieving Children and Families, KCGCF, and the Scott County Board of Education. >> Move. Second. >> Any discussion? Um, all in favor? >> I do 14. >> Pardon me? >> 14. >> Did I miss 14? >> I think I'm going to be doing this all evening, so get ready for me. >> Sorry. Sorry. Okay. Number 14. Thank you. Approved memorandum of agreement between the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Education, and Labor, Cabinet, and Scott County Schools for the 2026 2027 school year. >> So move second. >> Any

058discussion? >> All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 15. I'll reread that one. Approved memorandum of agreement between the Kentucky Center of Grieving Children and Families, KCGCF, and the Scott County Board of Education. >> Move to approve. >> We've already done it. So, >> yeah, we did. We >> I didn't call all in favor, did I? >> Yeah. >> Did I Did we vote on it? >> We did. >> Okay, we approved. >> Maybe maybe Susan should take over this. [laughter] >> Here we go. Number 16. >> Serve it. Your pleasure. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. My goodness. All right. Let me get this in order. Number 16, approved memorandum of understanding between Scott County Fiscal Court and Scott County Board of Education. So >> move second. >> Any

059discussion? >> All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 17, approve memorandum of understanding between the Kentucky Horse Park and the Scott County Board of Education. >> Move. Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 18, approve dual credit memorandum of agreement between Northern Kentucky University and the Scott County Board of Education. >> So move second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 19, approve contract between Music Therapy Services of Central Kentucky, Paulo Roberts, and Associates and Scott County Board of Education for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Move. Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 20. Approve memorandum of agreement with Cultivate Behavioral Health for 2026 2027. >> Move. >> Second. Any discussion?

060All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 21. Approve agreement for a maintenance contract with Toshiba for a copier located at central office for fiscal year 2026. >> Move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 22, approve emergency certification for the following 22A and 22B. >> Move. Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Number 23, approve to create the following positions 23A through 23 C. So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 24, approve the establishment of the Scott County High School Girls Golf Team Booster Club. >> Move. Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. I am curious to know if We we we approve booster clubs each

061time they come up and in the nine plus years we've been doing this. Diana >> has Scott County High School girls golf team never had a booster club or did it dissolve and then it's come back because it seems to me but at this point in the game we would have approved all these. There can't be anything left to approve. >> Good question. >> Okay. So So they're coming back up because somebody let it go and it's come up. That makes more sense to me. Thank you. We voted on that. Did >> I miss He sarcastic? >> Yeah. Thank you. >> We did not. We did not vote. [laughter] Okay. >> All in favor? >> I >> Those opposed. Motion carries number 25 approve the 2026 2027 tenative budget. >> Move. >> Second. >> Any

062discussion? All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 26, review and approve student fees and charges as of June 2nd, 2026. >> Move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> I had just Is it up to the individual schools then to put the uh student fees each school? It's not a countywide. >> That correct? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yes. And even with the high schools or the middle schools, they all have because I was looking at the some have changed. Yeah, we've had those conversations before with concerns about big jumps or or lack of consistency among elementary, middle, and high, but at the end of the I mean, I recall some I mean, as far back as Joanna >> and and at the end of the day, even when we've dug deeper before, it just

063seems like they've got each school is specific with their needs and their what they're doing with their students and and and we had a hard time having a problem with it, you know? >> Right. I know. I compared uh Scott Honey Middle to Royal Spring and Georgetown as far as their fees and uh they're quite a different >> I've seen that before >> not which is and it's all principles >> with base. Yeah, guess they working together with the department. >> Okay, that's okay. That's good. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Had a question when I was going over that. >> Yeah. And I just wasn't sure. >> The flip side to that though is then you know the board were to step in on something like that then you run this situation where you got

064this you got schools where you know >> some feel penalized because they had a plan and >> they had a plan and they're like look yeah this school over here it's it's this but ours might be more but here's what else we're offering. You know like uh at GMS they have the Georgetown Leadership Academy. That's one specific student fee that's independent of them. But you know that that's one of those where if we set some uniform >> platform rate might might create some difficulties and se several others that they have that u I was just I I remember way back when we had a set fee. >> Yeah. I agree. It >> I recall when it when I first came on the board >> is more particularly with ECS that there you know they have

065a they do a lot of things and there were all there were lots of questions about it and my recollection is as we dug deep into it we found that >> it really regardless of how it looked at 20,000 ft when you got down to the bottom >> they were just they were asking for something they needed and it was specific. Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. Good question. No makes sense. Good question. I appreciate that. Maybe not at the elementary level necessarily, but the what used to be LEC funds, I still call them LEC funds because it's >> shorter, but um the supplementary CTE supplemental funds sometimes those have really offset student fees over the past. >> Okay, thank you. >> All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 27, approve January 1st, 2026 through

066June 2nd, 2026 donation reports. >> Move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 28, approve renewal and rates for school insurance and workers compensation for fiscal year 2027. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 29, renewal of purchased meals bid for fiscal year 2027. >> So move second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 30, renewal of the award and trophies bid for fiscal year 2027. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 31, renewal of clothing bid for fiscal year 2027. >> Move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries.

067Number 32, renewal of towing services bid for fiscal year 2027. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 31, renewal of a transportation parts bid for fiscal year 2027. >> Move. Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 34, renewal of fire extinguisher service bid for fiscal year 2027. >> Move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 35, renewal flowing flooring supply bid for fiscal year 2027. >> So move >> second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 36, renewal of printing bid for fiscal year 2027. >> Move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries.

068Number 37, approve supply item, excuse me, approve surplus items as submitted. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes, I have just a little bit about I noticed there were some textbooks. Hundreds. Did you all I mean So what happens to those textbooks? >> What gone? >> The sun. [laughter] We used to have somebody that what was his name that used to work at Mr. Wilson? Remember Mr. Wilson? Didn't he used to take the the books? He had a donation portal or something. He used to take all the books from the high school when we were surplusing them. But yeah, I guess they just get >> I think >> different day. >> Yeah, it's a different day. Textbooks aren't as Yeah, there's not >> Yeah, >> everything's like [laughter] >> And we have

069lots of books coming in and software packages and everything else this year, right? >> So, renewal. >> Yeah. >> Did you want some? >> Get in touch with DT. You want to put a bid in? >> Highly inappropriate. Sorry, Josh. Okay. All in favor? >> I? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. I didn't mean that. It was a joke. Um number 38 financial statement >> summary of cash activity for the month of April 2026 our beginning balance was7.1 [cough] million we have receipts at 10.2 million expenses of 14.2 million leaving our ending cash balance of 72 million 617 out of that there was 7.4 million in investments at $55,171,182 >> and a penny. >> In a penny. >> Oh, [laughter] >> Crucial penny. >> Thank you, Gina. >> Thanks, Gina. >> Number 39, approve current bills.

070>> Move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 40, superintendent report. the uh middle of May to the to the middle of June is generally celebration season. Um and uh so you'll see uh superintendent report with a a boatload of those. Um Georgetown Middle School, they have started a hall of fame. >> Um it is uh something that I think Shane Picker kind of let Ryan Taylor take the lead on. >> We don't have all we got was a blanket blanket. >> I mean, we'll listen to Sure. We can hear you. My apologies. >> It's We'll just listen. That's good. >> Yeah. So, the the GMS Hall of Fame ceremony um that was uh and this is under cultural leadership. Um Ryan Taylor took the took the

071reigns on that one. That's something that had kind of been tossed around by a few folks for several years. Um it was a it was really really good event. Uh Raymond Perkins, Dale Stow, Bernie Jenkins, all three were uh the inaugural >> Well, they're the golden boys. >> Yeah. Yeah. It was the stories were that was very >> Oh, I can only imagine. >> That was very fun. I wish they had Yeah, >> Dale didn't care to use the mic. I wish he had because >> it was so good. [laughter] >> There were bits and pieces of it that I did not. >> He would stand up there in seventh grade math and he would say, "It's this thing, this thing you have. And if we could control this thing >> and shake his hand."

072>> Yes. And he would get his hand right in front of his mouth. It was I I'll never forget as long as I live. >> One of one of my favorite >> preach to us this thing. He he shared a story in which he was talking about a a relative of one of my one of my daughter's friends parents and it's just interesting to see that you know parents that get animated on the sidelines often times that comes from somewhere the grandmother story was the same as what yeah it was just like wow that's anyway it was it was really a good time >> um and you know Steve Burke spoke and he spoke about the the you know the the thought behind it is, you know, showing kids, hey, these folks in our community

073and that have gone and done gone on to do big things. This they came through here. Um, and just the shared experience there. It it was again, it was a very very good event. >> That's awesome. >> Um, graduation parade, throwback, uh, bus tour. I usually don't get to participate in that, but I was helping with the southern time capsule celebration preparation, and they strolled through the gym while we were getting ready. So, that was pretty neat. Of course, our graduations um and again, we had a last year we did we started doing this where all of the folks that help with graduation, we just got together and had a meal afterwards. Um just an opportunity to kind of just say thanks because it is a tremendous tremendous undertaking. And again, we made some tweaks

074to some things um that made particularly Scott County High School's graduation much much smoother. Um Scott County School's retire retiree celebration. Um we we made some tweaks to that last year. Stuck with what we what we knew that worked last year and and did that southern time capsule. It was such an event it ended up in on here twice. Um it's under the cultural leadership piece because of the celebration tied to it. But then I also put it down under collaborative leadership [laughter] because the amount of people and the involvement of the community that we had in trying to find that sucker uh was was tremendous. [snorts] Um we we met several several of of myself and our team met several people from the local community. You know, my big thought was, "Oh, if we

075did it after hours, it might, you know, it might not be as problematic. That's worse. >> That's worse. We we just everybody and their brother wanted to come and learn about it." But anyway, it was a >> it was a really fun experience. Um I'm very very thankful that we found it. Um and again um >> so double >> well >> because I've been reporting back this saga [laughter] for a couple months. >> So actually I believe there's a digital isn't there a link to a digital you can see >> all right >> yes there was even my favorite was the cassette tape with the because it was pioneer days. Okay. >> And so the cassette tape that was found that had the kids talking about who the friends were and >> different skit and

076things that they did. >> One of my neighbors wants that cassette. What >> I don't know that one person is going to get the cassette. [laughter] >> Well, an audio file. >> Yeah. There's an audio file. >> Yeah. There's a copy of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So many I don't know. You might have to surplus book. So many former students posted online. They everyone had got they'd all gotten to re write a letter. Yeah. >> And talk about what their future self and what the world was like. And some of them friends of mine posted their letters online. It was really interesting to hear what they thought it was going to be like now and what they thought they were going to be like now. It it was it was fabulous. >> Some of it

077was remarkably accurate and some of it not so much. Um >> Winnie and I missed it by a year. Yes, we started seven the year after they did the time capsules. >> Yeah, the uh I did. So, one of the things that that I as we were walking around talking to people, some of the people that I came into contact with, they were like, I don't know what this was about. And they drew a picture of like a horse and buggy or something. And and and for us where we'd been so deep into it, we were like, well, it was because that was when they did the Pioneer Day celebration. So, that was probably >> things that they did. It wasn't connected to the future. It was connected to what they were doing around Pioneer

078Day. So because they were like I must have been a pretty dummy. I don't know how I [laughter] why I thought we being you know like no that's not what you thought. So, we tried to tried to help people help people out there, but it was uh a hectic sit situation, but certainly um I I I hope that everybody found value in it. And Renee, thank you for uh all the leadership you gave right there with uh with Southern and helping to to make sure everything lined up. Uh because Principal Keegan, they had a they had a great plan. Um but but it always helps to have some some outside support especially when you've still got school going on in your building. So >> and the teachers were so appreciative of her teaching that >>

079yes mom and Doris Cooper. >> Yes. She has not changed. >> I mean not one iota. She they were thrilled to see their papers and their students, right? >> And for the most part, the paper >> was there were a few dark spots, but it was really well preserved. >> So anyway, the teachers were thrilled. I saw Kane breathing, Missing Alay was thrilled. Yeah, >> it it was it was heartwarming to see. >> I think Liz Liz isn't in here now, is she? >> Okay. I was going to say I thought you were cuz Liz probably got the award for best uh best guest host and personal tour guide. Um she she uh she got to know got to know some members of our community. So it was pretty cool. Pretty cool. >> Um let's

080see. I've jumped around a little bit so my apologies. Um I mentioned already summer feed and then um I'm getting I'm about halfway through with principal evaluations at this point. So knocking those out. And then the last thing, it's not really um it's not really anything that it's not something that we have done here in the past from board meeting to board meeting, but it it is something that um it you know, we told you that we went ahead and we shared non-renewals about a month earlier. Instead of waiting closer to that due date of May 15th, we did it right before spring break because at that point generally principles are telling people and you know what are we waiting for at that point? Um, we've had a combination of other factors, I would imagine,

081that have played into it. And I think part of that, too, is the fact that I do truly believe that Scott County is is becoming or has become a destination district for people that want to work um in education. And so, I am happy to report that hiring is going for this time in the hiring season better than I can ever recall hiring going. Over over half of our schools either are completely staffed or only lack one position. and over 75% either are either fully staffed, lack one position, or lack two positions. So that's great. >> Uh it's I mean and and you know, as a principal that weighs on you all summer and and again things can change and people can come and go through the course of the summer still too. So there

082may be some eb and flow there, but but man that you can you can exhale a little bit a little bit easier when uh you know, you don't feel like you have, you know, 50 pound of bricks sitting on your chest um to have that to have that done. So again, kudos to Crystal Horde and her team because they are, you know, they're meeting with them, cranking them through and um it's been a it's been a good hiring season. So, >> okay. >> And that would be I think that's that's it. Superintendent report. >> Okay. Thank you. Number 41, superintendent presentation of Capstone. So following the same format that we have followed for many many moons, many many moons. Here is uh this is the capstone um that I have for you. I always start

083with last year's next steps. Um you know honest really more than anything it's a way to just kind of keep me honest. Um really uh that was the thing that I got sick of seeing every single year was JOTC [laughter] not getting resolved. So um last year I think last year when I sat here I said well I don't know exactly what I said probably I hope it was school appropriate but I was expressed frustration about not getting that to the finish line but also that that was our my strongest desire. So um you know that is that second one on the left resolve JOTC at the high school level. Thankfully, we have that resolved. Um Todd Reed is letting leading that program. For those of you that were able to go to the chamber

084lunch, he presented at the chamber lunch talking about um kind of his vision for for everything. We're really excited about that going to be offered. And and again, we stole from uh 4T being something that both of our high schools can can participate in. Uh being located there in the basement of Sky County Middle School, and that's where that JRTC program will be. The first item, I kind of skipped it, the advocate for revisions to Senate Bill 181. Um, you know, kudos to uh Maria Bennett. She was um my strongest lifeline on this for sure uh because of the fact that that's the one that was tied to the traceable communications and communication with students and there was a there were a boatload of unintended consequences. um we were able to uh leverage Maria's Maria's

085leadership within the school tech community within the state and um she was able to get um a seat at the table to make some make some very meaningful changes and again many of those changes are going to be reflected in our board policies that have that are that we're going to be approving uh officially I guess after the second reading and um it makes it far more sensible um I mean I can't even off the top of my head think of one super huge huge issue that I have with the with the new traceable communications the way it the way it's now spelled out. Um DT's had some involvement there as well. And and here's the other thing too. You know, other districts with regard to the way that they handled Senate Bill 181 spent

086up upwards of six figures to um to secure platforms and different things to make it happen. Um, again, we we took a different approach than everybody, but SportsU, uh, I mean, DT, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but SportsU seems to be something that, um, using that as our athletic [laughter] uh, >> oh, did you say free? >> No, I didn't get there yet. [laughter] >> Right. So, >> oh, it is free. >> Yes. Whereas and again whereas other districts spent a lot of money on it, we we we we and that was the thought too is who knew what the changes were going to come, we knew changes would come, but we were we were careful to not just throw money at something knowing that if it all changed, maybe that was

087not money well spent. Um continued to further evaluate and refine Georgetown Leadership Academy. We continued on with that. Finalized the school-based health clinics at Southern and Gar. We were able to get there. That did take a little longer than expected, but we did get there. Speaking of something else that's taking longer, but we plan to get there is the uh work at Oxford Elementary [snorts] working with legislators on new legislation to reduce substitute teacher need. That turned into um regular session 26, Senate Bill 124. Um I I'm I like to give Matt Nun grief because I'm like, you know, this is like the first piece of legislation. I haven't gotten to the finish line yet. And so anyway, but we're he all joking aside, he sees the power of it and that's something we're working

088for next year. Leader in me, profile of learner, continuing that and continuing to advocate advocate for school funding under strategic leadership. Okay, under strategic leadership, I'm not going to talk about everything, but I did want to talk about a few. Bus garage revitalization project. Um, you know, with the change in leadership back there, I don't believe anything had really been done to the bus garage since 1996. So, we're not doing anything crazy back there, but we are uh refinishing the floors in the um the areas of the space where the buses don't exist. Um like the office area, there's a break area, those areas. So, we've we've redone the floors there, put some paint on the walls, um putting new base um base down around the around the floor there. it just we're not totally

089finished yet, but we are planning on perhaps having a little bit of a uh open house as we get towards the start of school. Um and and again just doing things to try and liven up the place um and give it a little bit of new life. Uh next on that I'd like to talk about is the Scott County High School graduation parking logistics meetings. Those just because of the gravity of the situation and secondarily the impact that that had on how successful the parking situation was at graduation. So again, huge team effort. Congratulations to everybody that was a part of that. That went off without a hitch. Three, Oxford redistricting timeline and proposed um proposed attendance zone work. Um while Oxford has been delayed, the fact that that work is done is that's a

090tremendous weight lifted knowing that we've got something that we can just plug and play for next year. Again, addressing the delay of Oxford, that was u that kind of ties in there. But, you know, I I fully expected um I fully expected for there to be maybe some push back or some frustration because I get it. But simultaneously, I think our um our approach to making sure that when we communicated the delay, we also were able to communicate the solutions that we had in place to address it. I mean, we we really received very little um feedback. Everybody generally understood and uh were able to move forward. And then the last one on there that I wanted to talk about was just the uh US uh Department of Education um Secretary McMahon's visit at um

091GMS. It was just a uh just a good event for Georgetown Middle School and an opportunity for them to celebrate uh the successes that they have been been seeing there. Next one uh standard 2 instructional leadership. Um the first thing I'd want to talk about there is the kindergarten first grade uh retention plan. That was one that was from again another piece of legislation that caused a lot of um a lot of consternation from superintendents and district leaders. Um we organized a uh opportunity for central Kentucky um central Kentucky district leaders to come together and talk it through. Ended up uh took a lot of the anxiety away and everybody had an opportunity to uh be better prepared for it and it was a little bit more of a nothing burger because of it. the

092Kentucky Board of Ed came to a high school transformation work group at ECS. And you know, that's the thing that um I think sometimes I never fully uh appreciated what we what we have there at ECS. Um because it's it's nothing I mean I call them the ballrooms. John Null makes fun of me because he calls them the labs, but I guess everybody but me calls them labs. Um but anyway, it is a it's just a tremendously valuable space and we're able to through that bring people across the state in because where we're centrally located and um I don't know I it's just it's just one of those things where um I just wanted to make sure to highlight that because uh and that's another thing I would say you know John Null as he's

093walking out the door and and Amanda Burroughs is coming back to us uh as as well she was there last year but coming back to us as a as uh and being principal there. Um they understand the importance of of utilizing that space the way that it's been utilized and they're great great hosts. Uh the third thing I wanted to talk about, I've got three or three things on there that are tied to 4T and again 4T, you know, we had DT at 4T because we we recognized that we had some of our elementary and maybe even middle school um leaders that really didn't have a lot of familiarity around it. So it gave them familiarity around it. And again also like I said previously uh 4T helped us in terms of being the model

094for the thought behind hey why can't we have other programs that are located there that both schools can access. So hence JROTC um which was my next on there's JRTC meeting with high school principles and curriculum meeting lot of whole lot of planning that went into that um and just really proud of all the members of our team that were a part of that. uh Miss Emmens, Bren Allen, um you know, John Null, and then Amanda Burroughs uh started working into it there, too. I mean, just just a lot of work that went into getting that off the ground. And then the last is the uh leader in me leadership day. And there is my buddy Jiren Marks, great representative Scott of Scott County High School and Scott County schools. Um and that was uh

095that was where we had an opportunity for uh leader and me, the national leader in me to come. Many of you were there and kind of showcased some of our schools and what we have going on there and our commitment to um the seven habits and leader and me curriculum. Next is cultural leadership and again last summer we we did have a lot of people in our in our uh organization, myself included, that participated in the summer mill program through the aimhouse helping with their pickup. Um that was again a powerful opportunity and also drove home for me the importance of knowing that we needed to um to take that burden off of our community and for us to be the ones that led that charge um this year. Next, the GMS Expo. The GMS

096Expo was an opportunity where they just wanted to showcase what was going on at GMS. They wanted anybody that wanted to come um current students, prospective students, community members come and see what their what their school is all about. great event. They did a great job with it. Wally Mess Messer was presented with the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools award. That was a great situation to get to award someone who is really working hard um as a specialist in his uh in his CTE area. And um we've we've we've got we've got some other people that we'll be celebrating here in the coming months, I think. So, uh that'll be neat uh as we as we get towards the awards cycle for this coming year. Um then you know we did this before but uh

097Great Crossing High School went to Sweet 16 and myself and many of our team went and helped cover so that people at the school could go and participate in that event uh since it was during the school day and we did not cancel school. Um and again I feel like that was one that by and large was received very well from our community because if you cared you could participate. If you didn't we didn't disrupt your day. Um, and I think everybody understood that. And the last the last one I wanted to talk about there was there we go was the uh an Bevans book signing event that we had at Scott County High School. Um, that was just uh I don't know really really really special special event and really blessed we could be

098we could be a part of it. Uh, human resources leadership again I talked earlier in my superintendence report about hiring being uh such a a blessed area right now for us. Um, and it's not one of those things where you could just say it was a it's it's a byproduct of coming out of the pandemic because I know other superintendents that are not in the shape that we are in right now. They are I know superintendents that are driving buses. I know superintendents that have um they have they're running double routes with buses and kids are having to wait an extra hour to get home. Um just lots of shortages that we are fortunate and blessed to not have to be living with and dealing with. Um we did have uh you know new district

099leader meetings earlier this past year. This past year we did have some transition then too and that felt like a lot until this coming year. So um so anyway here we are. Um then planning for upcoming openings and timings of those positions with the other thing that I you know spent some time on there and then the planning for allocation meetings with principles that is a tremendous u tremendous ordeal and this year because of Oxford Elementary's maybe opening then delayed opening that altered that timeline a little bit and I really appreciate the patience that I had from uh the member of Crystal Hord's team and the member of our uh and our principles that that had to bob and weave a little bit with me as we as we tweaked that schedule just a little

100bit, but in the end finished up just about right where we normally I think within a week of when we normally would already have had the final meeting. Uh we addressed transportation personnel shortages and you all were a big part of that. you, as you'll recall, I talked about the timing in our mechanic with our mechanics of having just a inordinate amount of of uh people on leave and given the fact that there's so few of them that creating such a burden and you are were open to creating that one position in addition and you know, as an update, right now we have two people still on leave back there. So having that one position, even though it's one up from where we kind of should be because we're two down, we're still overall one

101down there. But again, one down's a lot better than two downs. So again, thank you all for for your help and support there. And then new teacher orientation. Um, you know, at the beginning of the school year, there's a lot of events where we will um where I'll speak and and and try and help help our team set the vision for where we want to go. Managerial leadership. Um, here policy and procedure revision work. I don't even know if that would make the cut as something I'd even talk about most years, but last year was for sure an exception. It dominated a grand portion of my summer. Um, but it I I will say 100% it was time well spent because as the next as we get went through this past school year, you could

102tell and I heard from other district leaders and other districts that maybe they didn't handle it the same way and and uh they were they were spending time catching up. Um, again, a lot of work on on Oxford with progress meetings, with colors, with utility progress, those kinds of things. um snow days, snow days, uh you know, snowageddon, snow apocalypse, whatever you want to say. It was uh this year was this year was interesting. And then I always try really hard to participate in the Kentucky Center for School Safety's current uh drug trends webinar because, you know, it what you know that's what makes it current is it's it's happening right then and it changes from year to year to year. It's a it's a free um free resource that they offer and it's something

103that um helps me keep my hand on the pulse of realizing the challenges that that exist for our students. um summer meal program planning that's I mean again instrumental uh in terms of the fact that I don't have exact numbers right in front of me but I'm fairly certain that you know this first week we've served roughly three times what they served their maximum week at last year so we we're really able to to touch a lot of a lot of families and then weather related activities again we talked about snow days but this was uh we had a staff appreciation lunch as we came out of that super cold spell where we were out of school for a bunch of days and a bunch of districts couldn't get down roads and all the things

104and we brought all our custodians and maintenance crew in and just loved on them and let them know we appreciated them and just had a meal together and um you know that I don't know just it was a it was it was a good day and I really enjoyed that opportunity. Number six. Um, again I talked a little bit about uh 18 Senate Bill 181, but then as this school year evolved, we were able to again share our suggested revisions there. The second thing I'd want to talk about is again the coordination with the city, county, and state road departments. Um, not every community has um the relationships with their with their departments that we have. Um, and we're we're we are we're lucky to have those. uh Southern Time Capsule had to make the

105cut. And then last but not least, the continued partnership with Toyota. And here's a picture with Janet Fox. And Janet Fox is one of those people that um for me personally, I don't I don't know, others might say differently, but um you know, she she does not ever um she like it's almost like she tries to stay out of my hair, >> but she does such great work for us. Um there's things that I don't realize she's a part of that I found out after the fact that like I'm like oh how did that get done? Oh well Janet you know so she has been an absolute blessing to us and >> exactly is her position. >> She's our what we call the community. >> Yeah business and community >> community liaison. >> So she

106needs a coin so we need to celebrate. >> Yeah. Fair enough. Yes for sure. She she would she would be fitting of a coin. Um and then last is influential leadership. And really the pattern with that I think is peppered with the fact that um I was able to be involved in a lot of professional organizations and impact um impact the educational profession and other leaders um through through opportunities to share and collaborate and then legislative events and activities um to try and again make make an impact there as well. And this is uh I I I did get the good fortune to three different times. It's so it's not for lack of trying. Three different times we spoke about Senate Bill 124. And again, um what I what I tell everybody because I DT

107even had somebody come up to him at the we hosted the Kentucky Center for School Safety annual conference at Great Crossing High School. And this is I think our third year doing that. And um in doing that he he said several people but one in particular came up to him and that was giving a lot of detail around he's like you know I really hate that that that Senate Bill 124 didn't work because in some districts again our our SRO's are not our employees so it would not work for us but in some districts where the SRO's are the school's employees they have the problem where they are retired from law enforcement and so they're having struggles with them not burning through their face. >> So, this would help with with that. Um, and so

108so I didn't realize that I had, but I've got a friend in the Kentucky Center for School Safety SRO community that is pushing this legislation as well. But again, it's just another credit to every every time I turn around, I'm finding more reasons for us to support it, and I'm not finding any additional reasons to not. Um the the one thing that did keep us from getting there is they they coupled in some legislation, a different bill. They joined it with ours and that different bill talked about using sick days for religious purposes. And I the sense I got from the meetings I was having and then once that happened and then my sense the sense I got is that is what um tanked our titanicked our our bill. So >> I have a question

109about the sick days. So when someone retires, do the is the pay the district that they retire in pays for those sick days or like I'm in two different districts. So with Scott County pay some of my days, Bay County pay the other or B? >> So Gina, correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is the actual payout of the the 30% value of those days is paid by the district. But for tiers one, two, and three in the teacher retirement system, any credit that you would get that impacts your retirement would be paid um by the state. Now, where that's now gotten a little different is they've capped the number of days that teachers can get credit for annually. So if you were in a position or in a district where they gave

110more than 13 days a year, anything above those 13 days is now the responsibility of the district. So, that's something me and Gina had talked about changing some um changing some board policies around because um it it could put you in a situation where even if you're doing all the things right in your district, if somebody comes to you from another district and they got let's say 20 days a year, whereas we're only giving 13, that's seven days a year that the last district that has them is holding the bag for. So, um, but anyway, that's, uh, yeah, a lot to the sick days and a lot a and and again, every legislator that we talked to, um, there there were a couple of small things that I think we can we can address next

111year, but there wasn't any kind of humongous thing that kept it from from moving. And then next steps for last year, next year. And and I always, you know, the thing I don't like about next steps is so much of, you know, there like for instance, there's some things that that are kind of in the works and some things that we've had an opportunity to already talk about and some things that I haven't even had an opportunity to talk to you all about because it's not quite to the point where it's it's like a it's a go or not. So, there's more things than these, but these are some of the next steps that we will be working on. The top two on both columns are really kind of tied together. So again, another thank

112you to you all because the readiness coach pilot at Great Crossing High School is going to be the opportunity that we are able to use because when we're continuing our work on our CT pathways, that doesn't necessarily mean we need to create a boatload more. It could mean, yes, we create some more, but it could also mean that we look through the readiness coach information that we gather, how beneficial those pathways are in cranking out students to actually do that work. And so we may find from that work, my hope is that we start finding from that work that the the um effectiveness of those pathways to help us to help drive us towards okay, you know, we've got way too many offerings in X pathway. Why not use this as an opportunity to bring

113in Y pathway? Um you know, Amanda Burroughs, we had a really great conversation around CTE pathways um and the complexities that the village system does put on that. And again, it's not a I mean, there's there's great things about it, but then there are there are drawbacks to it, too. And that's something that I don't think that the business community understands. But again, I keep going back to um I want the business community to be unsatisfied with us. Like not in a like pitch, forks, and torches kind of way, but in a always wanting us to do more kind of way. Um because that's how I feel about our organization. I want us I want I want to be pushed. I want them to feel like we can, you know, they want us to try

114and help do more and and it also brings to the surface an opportunity for us to have conversations to discuss why those things might not make sense for one reason or another or maybe it's a time situation. Um the next uh thing on the lefth hand side there, conduct a successful summer feed. Again, we've started off um in a just I mean in an exceptional fashion. Uh we just want to make sure we're able to continue that. And again, I think our pivot um recognizing there was issues with how people were able to arrive at Lemons Mill Elementary is a demonstration that we try to be responsive when there's things that need to be that need to be addressed. On the other side there, complete the district facility plan. Um the district facility plan is

115a is a document that every four years is due. Ours is due December of 26. Um, what I learned from the last time around, while there are complexities to trying to set it up this early, I do think that we can, again, we've we've determined the board member. I've already reached out to principles and we've got the principal members figured out. We had the ad in the paper for the community members. So, you all will um soon you all will be approving the community members for that. And then I'll be working um starting tomorrow and probably finishing up next week getting the representatives for the teachers and um and parents that would round out that we'll round out that committee. Then we'll send that information on to KDE. they'll give us approval to move forward

116cuz my hope is that we can get it cranked out and completely finished by um fall break because there's some things I'd like to discuss tied to that that um that this the the the DFP or the district facility plan is going to hinder us on if we don't get it get a handle on it. Um finish Oxford Elementary. I mean that that's just >> given a Yeah. Um and and even though again the the >> be a whole different kind of evaluation if it was great [laughter] >> it'll be a whole different kind of meeting. >> Oh goodness. So [laughter] that's >> last I think last year and I think I think previous years um we have talked about leader and me and we've talked about profile of a learner and um again the

117first year we did throw a lot at our staff and part of that was because of the fact that we had to jump on the leader and me timing otherwise I mean it saved us a million dollars by being able to get that funded through a grant. Um but since that time we have been very consistent and we've been very careful to not try to overwhelm our schools and our staff. And so again continuing to work on leader and me and profile of learner. It's work we value. It's work we've said is important from the beginning. It's work that we will continue to push uh push from our people. And I think we're starting to see too where you know if you've been in it a while you understand that things come and go and

118sometimes there's that group that'll just wait you out and think ah it'll change. And I think they're realizing it ain't changing, it's here. So, let's let's uh pull our bootstraps up and let's let's get rolling. Um and then onboarding new principles and district leaders. This will be a unprecedented time for us this school year in making sure that we have um that we are very intentional about our new folks coming on board and myself, Bren Allen, Stephanie Emmens, and really we've gone beyond that. But we we we have had numerous conversations about the framework and the supports we want to have in place for our new folks coming to the district. Um and and again our new folks coming to the district bring an abundance of support of uh of experiences with them too. Um

119but still we want to make sure that uh that there's no question about around what the Scott County way is for them as they as they kind of assimilate here. And then the last one again is continue to pursue the sick leave cash out legislation. So, that will be uh that will be my probably my own legislative my only legislative push this year perhaps. So, we'll see. And I think I think that's the last slide. So, there you go. >> All right. Thank you, Billy. [applause] What a year. >> What a year. >> It's over there. >> There we go. Okay. >> I said the switch is on. >> Yeah. >> Lost my brain. We did >> number 42 board comments. I'm going to jump off and start. Um, first of all, I want to

120say thank you to Stephanie and your staff, your group, Billy. What what we focus on expands. I believe that over and over and again. And um the trajectory that we're taking with the focus that we're having in um instruction and reading um our programming, everything, it's just showing year after year. And I just greatly appreciate that. Um, I had the opportunity to meet with um, Harper this week and talk a little bit more about our special education, our dyslexia program, everything. And just super excited about what we really have on the horizon for us is just super super exciting. So, please know and and I think I could speak for all of the board. Thank you so much for that because um, through that leadership, Billy, thank you. Um, it really makes a difference for

121us and um, I'm really excited. I'm also going to throw in I'm really excited to see what we're doing with math next year. So we'll we'll be talking about that I guess this year next time this year so or this time. Um but thank you so much. Graduation is our Super Bowl of the year. So for our school district and it's it's just wonderful to see the kids walk across stage and and all the efforts that went into those are just absolutely amazing. And then of course our summer feed, our summer our our fun meals, sun meals. Um what a great program. Glad we have it. and um let's make that a good summer. So, thank you everybody. Becky, >> okay, what she said. Um plus just want to thank um Liz for all her

122guidance and her hard work on getting the grants for the onetoone coaching. I participated in that both years. It was a great experience for me um and other people in the community whom I know who participated in it got a lot out of it. We hope and believe our students got a lot out of it. We developed relationship with them and I think that might have been as key as any kind of academic learning uh what that did for them. So appreciated that program. Thank you. Um the only other thing I had a question on the um time capsule. My understanding is a new one is going to be made and buried and where are we on that? >> So my understanding Rene correct correct me if >> [laughter] >> somebody else. >> So, what

123I did, you know, I thought this was Oh, I thought this was humorous. So, I hope you find humor, too. But my understanding is they changed the time frame, I think, to 20 years. Is that right? >> Yeah, I did hear that. >> And Miss Keegan said, "It's going to be 20 because I want to make sure I'm here to be part of opening it up." So, I thought that was um Yeah. And a lot can happen in 50 years as we demonstrated with this one. So, um, yeah, it's, uh, >> So, will it be buried down and buried this next school year or do we know? >> I I don't have that information. >> This this coming fall >> that new next group of students. >> 250 is what we're celebrating this year. >>

124Well, 270 270. >> So, yeah, we'll have it open at 270. I think it'll be a great connection for these current students to do it having just experienced all that they did from unveiling the former one. >> It Yeah, it's certainly Yeah, certainly more stressful than >> Yeah, >> I think Scott County School has one, too. [laughter] >> Don't start that rumor. >> [laughter] >> of where did they leave a map of where it is? You know, >> I have no idea. >> You don't know. >> Oh, Lord. >> It was at the new >> Get out your metal detector right now. [laughter] >> The middle one. >> The middle. The middle one. The current sky kind of middle one. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Yes. >> That's where Carol Yeah. I >> I don't ever

125recall a conversation about a time capsule being there. >> Yeah. Well, Carol said someone said that they did have it. I asked >> Well, you'd have to go through >> Dr. Southworth has passed. >> Good luck. >> Right. Davy Jones locker >> have been Dr. B. Yeah. Well, we just we're moving from one time capsule to another. I guess we'll we'll start. >> Yeah, you just gave everybody in the back anxiety. >> Sorry. All right, we're gonna we're gonna jump in here. Wendy, you're next. >> Well, I I was able [snorts] to attend the time capsule at Southern and it was just I just felt like a kid all over again. um you know going there from first grade all the way to fifth grade and seeing family members and teachers and you know I

126was able to see um one of my teachers and take a picture with them and so that was really I I was really glad that I was able to leave work and take the entire day and celebrate that. Um the graduations I just want to say the team looked good. I like that they all had the same shirt on. I mean that was that that was like you know, very organized and so whoever was in charge of the team, I just want to say thank you because we look very >> okay. Graduation was just thank you so much that had so much to do with it. Uh [clears throat] several of my friends had grandchildren graduating and they were they talked about how nice it was. Uh so that I was so glad And all

127three were wonderful in their own way and I enjoyed that. >> Um, also I just amazing shape at 11 and it was it was great talking to the students and it leader me is just I mean I can't say enough about it. So anyway, thanks to you all for everything that you do. Thank you. All >> Susan, >> uh, I was at the Amazing Check, too. It was so much fun. It just those little humans are so impressive >> in their own each one in their own way. And I just could have hung out with them all day long. It was the sweetest thing. I I thoroughly enjoyed it. And um, students rise to the level of expectation we set for them. And so much of that rises and falls with leadership. And I just

128came from a room full of what I can't imagine couldn't be some of the best leaders in the state. The new new people and the seasoned people that were there to support them. I I just I feel so fortunate to know that those are the people that we are putting in charge of making sure our sweet little children are safe and happy and fed and most importantly educated well. And I have zero concerns after sitting in that room with that group of people. Um, I truly believe that they are going to set an expectation that is going to really, really impress us all and then the kids are going to get there. We can do it. We are SC. [laughter] >> I was waiting. >> Go ahead, Wendy. It's welld deserved. >> Y >> number

12943. On that note, approved to enter into exe executive session pursuant to KRS61.810. 810 >> 1K and KRS156.5576 for purposes of preliminary discussion >> relating to the superintendent evaluation >> move second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody. Good evening.