Regular Board Meeting- October 27, 2025

001All right. It is October 27th, 2025 at 6 PM. I'm going to call to order our regular schoolboard meeting here at the Woodford County Central Office. We have roll call. All members are here in person. And we're gonna uh do our pledge of allegiance, which is right back here on my right. >> Algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I don't know where >> did she um do we have any proposed amendments to the agenda. All right. Well, let's get started with our superintendence report. We have recognitions to start. >> Yes. >> And I believe Dr. Raburn, are you doing the first one? >> Okay, so our first recognition. >> Y Good evening

002board. Tonight uh we are recognizing two of our educators from our district level. They're dig digital learning coaches. Um and what they are being recognized today is they have achieved a great honor uh for our district which is called the ISTY certified educator award. Um and the ST certified educator is an educator who has demonstrated mastery of for the international society for technology and education standards for educators through a competencybased certification program. So what that means is these two digital learning coaches have had to submit a portfolio. It takes a year-long. It's a year-long program and that portfolio is scored based off of their um performance on that portfolio and they have to achieve so many points to get the certification at the end of the time. So, think of it like a national board

003certification but just strictly for the um ISTY standards and the ISTY standards are um tied directly to our technology standards in our state. Um we actually use the ISTY standards as part of our uh digital learning standards that we have for the state. So these um our digital learning coaches are um the first two in the district that have earned it since they've been in the district. I had it previously from a different district but it is an um a program that is highly recognized by um ASCD which is the curriculum association and ISTY because they have now combined forces and it is totally based on competency based um education with curriculum and instruction for technology. So, tonight we're presenting um to our two digital learning coaches, Miss Sandy Adams and Erica Snow for their

004continued support and their comp uh award-winning [applause] or Yeah. You [applause] want to Congratulations and board. You'll hear more about what they are doing on a regular basis in my update today. >> Hold on. Our second recognition is going to be a long one. Just just bear with me because there are so many accolades to celebrate with this team. So, we want to recognize first of all our golf team, Woodford County High School golf team. Come on up. [applause] >> [applause] >> We are incredibly proud to recognize the Wford County High School golf team for their exemplary conduct and sportsmanship. This season, we had another school reach out to us and comment on these young men and on their um just their conduct and sportsmanship. And so, um, the character and integrity they displayed are

005the most vital measures of the program's success. The team, the coaches, and the parents recently received high praise following their participation in the Steuart Gregory Memorial High School Golf Tournament at the Monaceel uh, country club on August 24th. The host organization was so impressed that they specifically commended the team, noting the players outstanding sportsmanship and mannerisms. They stated that the Woodford delegation was extremely supportive and kind, representing themselves, their families, school, and community extremely well. This recognition of character reflects the quality of our student athletes. Thank you for demonstrating those gentlemen. And then we also want to recognize you for being a program of excellence um in academic leadership. Recently we learned from their banquet for the third consecutive academic year since from 2022 to 24 the Woodford County High School golf team is anticipated

006to maintain or be very close to having the highest overall GPA of any Woodford County High School sports team. [applause] Furthermore, every eligible player on the 31 person roster earned first or honorable mention at the KHSAA all academic teams [applause] and then competitive success. While fielding a large developmental roster this year, the team remained competitive. Senior leader Bradford demonstrated exceptional performance and character, culminating in his recent award as the prestigious 2025 KHSAA Midway male student athlete of the year for golf. An honor recognizing performance, academics, leadership, and community service. 13 of the 31 players also earned a varsity letter. And it's also my understanding that Bradford is about to sign with a certain university that shall remain nameless until that's publicly okay. University of Kentucky. SO, [applause] the coaching staff, players, and their families are

007commended for embodying the highest ideals of the student athlete, making character their primary accomplishment. Thank you so much. We have a certificate for each one. [applause] All right. Okay. I'm going to read these names in order that they're listed. So starting with Bradford Lacefield, [applause] Jay Wells, Ethan Mallister, [applause] Pete Thompson, [applause] Troy Zebert, >> [applause] >> Charlie Gatewood, [applause] Cole Asbury, [applause] Mac Meford, [applause] Cole Brown, who is not here tonight, but we'll applaud him anyway. [applause] and Aiden Gold. [applause] All right. Now, we have our superintendent's remarks. Well, good evening. Um, I wanted to start by um just sharing uh a couple things that um have been really uh uplifting in our unique district um this last month. one, our steering committee for our ver our visioning process, our strategic plan and visioning

008process um is featured here on the um very first slide. And I just wanted to share that because that that team has done an excellent job of really taking the survey feedback as well as our focus groups to really align and and work on creating the vision for our next five years. Wanted to also shout out to our high school for an incredible homecoming week two weeks ago. Um the image you see happens to be uh one of our students pying Mr. Reid, our principal, in the face. And I may have shouted that he needed to make sure that the pie got up his nose. So, and he did. [clears throat] So, two really key resources I want to share with all of our families and these are very important. Um, one, this week is

009kindness week and we are based on our student leaders, we are focusing on um, really trying to tackle cyber bullying specifically because our students indicate to us that cyber bullying specifically outside of school is a big it's a big issue that our students are facing. And so, um, we have, uh, a really great program that we're offering this week to our parents, um, that you can do an online, it's just a simple 25minute course, um, that will talk to, it will show you and demonstrate to you, um, really what's going on and some of the the risks with cyber bullying and will also, um, give you resources and information around that topic. So, I highly encourage our families, our caregivers to uh complete that. And then the other one, um our board and myself and

010our district leaders are very concerned about um food insecurity due to the loss of SNAP benefits in November. And so um we have um truly coalesed around that um to come together and to make plans for how do we provide even more resources for our families who will be experiencing the loss of SNAP benefits. And so, um, one of the things I wanted to tell you is that our family resource centers are committed and they have an extensive list of, um, organizations including ours that can offer specific services to our families. So, if we have a family that's experiencing that, please feel free, please reach out to our family resource coordinator in your your child's school um, and we'll get you connected to the resources. And then the other thing, um, we have our upcoming

011food pantry drive all next month and we're really our students are excited about really trying to to really ramp that up so that we can support our local food bank even more. And so, um, be on the lookout for that opportunity for those that can support that. and our emergency management director, Drew Chandler, is meeting with um our organization along with others in the community on Wednesday to really try to focus and even amplify those efforts. I'm thankful to be in a district and a community that cares about that. It's it's my honor to serve and to serve as superintendent. Uh, quickly I wanted to thank the volunteers who um who helped lead the reality store experience for our seventh graders. It was incredible. Um, and we could not have done it without our volunteers.

012So, thank you for that. I [clears throat] also wanted to shout out our marching band finished in the top 10 in the state this past weekend. [applause] to see how they progress from summer coming together and then to just so many people sent me videos and text messages and of just how proud they were of our band and how they represent us so well. And so I just wanted to shout shout out to them. And then our our girls volleyball team, I was there yesterday. um they fought to the very end and their character and their sportsmanship really shined for others to see and they they worked hard to the very end and so I just wanted to do a shout out for them as well. some of the themes I've been uh rounding and

013also meeting with groups, my hive groups and some of the themes that have come out of those uh conversations. One was really identified by our students cyber bullying and so um we are we have a a really full plan in place thanks to our mental health team at the district and school levels and um I'm excited about the work that we're doing around that. our our students in my student hive groups two weeks ago said they feel very safe in our schools. That makes me really happy. And so I put school safety there as one of the areas that we really are doing a great job in and and just a shout out to our school resource officers um specifically um from that rounding session. Student voice that's in the middle. That's something we're working

014on. Um how do we give more students voice? uh we do give students voice but we want to see how we can even expand that more. And then our central office team is working on a comprehensive um system sort of revamp to address our um hiring onboarding and payroll systems to make those um even better. And the last thing that I keep hearing feedback about is thank you for your budget transparency. Um and we are continuing to work on that. If you have not gone to the budget tab lately on the the district website, please do that. Every budget committee meeting is listed there. The slide deck for each one, the the minutes for that, they're all listed there. And then last, um, this month we're really working, um, I'm working on learning more and

015implementing and working on the our operational systems. and that comes from standard five in the superintendent evaluation uh standards and um we are working really hard. I'm working with my superintendent mentor as well as the Kentucky Association of School Administrators, KDE, Baird, Central Kentucky Education Co-op to make sure that we have the very best operational systems in place. So, I just wanted to share some of the training and the resources that I'm receiving as your superintendent around that. Thank you. >> Thank you so much for all of that information. I know it it really helps. I think a lot of people and I've heard feedback that they really do appreciate the information that you're sharing on what's going on and and so definitely thank you for putting all that together. All right. Well, let's go

016to our good news report. And M. Mcinty, I'm going to start over with you. >> Okay. Good evening, everybody. So, for my good news report, I wanted to shout out a student. Addie Moore is a six-time back-to-back region champion for cross country and she just committed D1 to Lipkcom University in Tennessee. She would never brag about it, but I'm going to sit up here and brag about her because she's really humble, but she deserve it. She deserves everything. She makes an elephant. She looks me look slow. Okay, I am not fast on cross country whatsoever, but I mean she's really fast and she's she's got she has got so much grit and determination and she deserves everything she's gotten. So, congrats to her. >> M. >> Yeah, I was uh going to mention too uh

017the great season or the great uh performance uh that our band had over the weekend, finishing top 10 in the state. Um but I also want to shout out Miss Millie who was named our homecoming queen a couple of weeks ago. So, congratulations [applause] Millie. I think everybody had such a good time. I loved seeing the elementary schools, the middle school get involved with all of the themes and I think it just helps to kind of unify the district even more. So, um, it was a great week. >> Mr. Chairman, you all may remember in the summer on the good, uh, news or good works report. I mentioned the band being out on the concrete parking lot working themselves to death. >> I also mentioned that I saw the football team in the dead of

018summer. Well, you fast forward to today, the band is a top 10 band in the state and the football team is number one in the state. So, uh, we are just so lucky to have such good students and staff and coaches and like the two men with the golf team today. You could see how proud they were of those players. So, there's a lot of good around here and it's and I'm glad we can can recognize them. Thank you, >> Dr. Ghoul. I'd like to give out a shout out to both our girls and boys varsity soccer teams. They both made it to the the championship game of the districts. The boys w won in a very exciting PK shootout. Um you got to love a good PK shootout. So congratulations to both of those

019teams. Our athletes are just doing amazing things. Um I was also very privileged to participate in the reality store. Um those of you who were around last month, I I love that event. I get so excited every time I have the opportunity to participate. We have some amazing seventh graders who really learned how to budget, make good choices, really thought had forward thinking in that process. Um, some of them had kids, some of them had, you know, really well-paying jobs, others maybe not so much, and they had to learn how to work within their means. And so, I just I love that program. Everybody who puts that on does an amazing job. And it's great to see all of our community members come together that come and table at that event. So, if you have

020an opportunity to next year, I really encourage you all to sign up and volunteer because it does take a lot of volunteers to make sure that runs smoothly and successfully. >> Thank you, Miss Frankie. >> Well, I'm glad that uh you guys left me the the learning demonstrations when we were coming in today. How amazing all of the students that were out there with their tables, with their work, ready to talk and discuss and really just show off what they've been doing. Um the presentations were just amazing. It's nice to see. >> Second that as well. They did a great job and I think some of them are still here. So, yeah, great job everybody. Um, I also just wanted to shout out I love Anytime Students and just community organizations partner together and I

021saw so many students having fun at Spooktacular. There's like thousands of people downtown last night, so most of you might have been there. Um, but just seeing all the different, you know, students and whether they're athletes, whether they're in theater, whether they're in academic teams, you know, they all have something fun to do when we have these big community events. And so, I just wanted to say thank you to all the community partners and everybody that participated. Um, whether you're a zombie, whether you were, you know, uh, just on the sidelines watching it, it was a really great time. >> I wanted to give a shout out to to Miss Bug Brown. um we have had a lot of athletic events and for you those of you who don't know her, she is the head,

022one of the co-chairs, um her and Mr. Swingle of FCA and they both do a great job um just getting around to the kids, being present, um being that positive adult influence um and they show up. They show up and they're on the sidelines and they are there um just for I don't think I ever go to a game that that Bug is not present. So, she is a longtime fixture in Wford County and we are just very fortunate to have her. She didn't know I was doing that time. She's [applause] >> all right. Now, we're ready to see a performance. So, Mr. Marcy, turn it over to you. Three, four. There we go. Sorry. Maybe my beard muffled some of it. I'm not sure. All right. My name is Greg Marcy. I'm the director

023of orchestras for Woodford County Middle School and I also co-e uh with Miss Zoe Harrison at the high school to cover all the elementaryaries. I'm also the uh woodworking teacher over at the middle school. So, thank you all so much for checking out our uh displays and our students who uh brought their projects to demonstrate them and show what we were working on. um thank the board for uh allowing us to have a program like that in the schools because these students are realizing this is part of their future that they can actually apply to um working in working in an industry they didn't realize needed new people. Um today in front of you we have our seventh grade orchestra members. This is not all of our orchestra members but this is just a condensed

024size of them. Uh first violin we have Mr. uh Harvey Slatten, Mr. Parker Page. Yep. Please applaud them. They deserve it. Mr. Ben Free on violin, second violin. Landon Carol, second violin. Mr. Liam Foley, viola. Melinda Doyle on cello. Sammy Whis on cello. And Mr. Wade Couch on bass. [applause] We have just finished putting together one of our pieces for our upcoming concert on December 15th at the high school. It's called Bats and Bones. Um, we hope you enjoy it. While it may not be our finished uh polished product, we are just rejoicing that we're through it and moving on to new pieces. So, hope you enjoy. Heat. Hey, Heat. [music] Dalat. [music] >> [music] >> Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Hallelujah. [applause] >> [applause] >> Thank you so much, Mr. Marcy,

025and everybody that just played for us. Thank you so much. It's apparent how talented you are and how much work you put into that. So, great job, everyone. [applause] All right, we'll give a little bit for parents and family to head out with their musicians. >> As someone who is not very musically inclined, I'm always so impressed with people that can do that. So, just amazing. We are very fortunate to have Mr. Marcy in our school district. As a parent of two kiddos who have been through orchestra, I cannot say enough wonderful things about our program. So, shout out for sure. >> You're welcome. >> All right. Well, next up, we have Miss Preston to give us our Woodford County Middle School presentation. All right. Sorry, I'll ramble if I don't have this. So, um,

026all right. So, thank you guys for coming early tonight to see our exhibitions of learning. Um, and thank you to the families who were here and have stayed because we have a couple more students who you guys are going to hear from here in just a bit. Um when I started planning this, I knew that I wanted to share about some of the things that we're doing um at the middle school and what our students are involved in. And so the timing just really worked out that our students have just finished their first nine weeks and their portrait time projects and um so I was thank you for putting that together um and allowing that to happen. So, um this year we are just really focusing on um providing opportunities for our kids to to

027have learning experiences and to do things like that and to be in front of people and talking. Um and we just think that that's really important. So, um I'm going to highlight just a couple of things from last year. Um a huge part of our presentation last year was a focus on um relationships and bar. Um, last year was the first year that we implemented that at the middle school. I know that, um, I started it at the high school a couple years ago. They're still going strong with it. And I knew after that first year at the at the middle school, like we've got to get barred. We've got to do this. This is it's really going to fix a lot of stuff. So, um, it was a really big change, but it also

028made some really big changes in our building. So, um, just last year we had a 0.5 increase in attendance and then our office discipline referrals were down 40%. um and that was not changing um like our behavior system or any of that. So it is um our component and then it's also just really intentional relationships and knowing our students and um meeting their needs and just getting to know them. So it's it's a really great model that we do. Um we also focused on PLC last year. So all of our um PLC's uh went through and identified all of their essential standards and unwrapped those those learning targets and all of that work was just to ensure a viable curriculum. Um another big change for us last year was we changed our entire bill schedule

029to add in a fourth period that was dedicated to portrait of a learner. Um and we came in it with really big plans and honestly the the first couple of weeks it was a struggle. Um, and so we had to come back to the drawing board and we had to um, just revisit constantly what success in that in that class looked like. Um, so our teachers were so dedicated to finding something that worked for us. Um, so I'm really excited we kept it. I'm really excited for the things that are coming out of that class. Um, the things that you saw out there today, those are the types of things that are coming out of that class. um just giving students a chance to experience things um and to have um just really great learning

030experiences. So um moving to this year, our big rocks um of course they're just the things that center us. They guide us as we make decisions. Um our first one is on unity. So um something that I'm really passionate about is that um students feel like they belong in our build building that they know that they're loved in our building. Um, and I think that the students that are in here can tell you how I end announcements every day because I end it the same way. And I tell them that you belong here and you are loved. Um, and I just I am really passionate about every student um, believing that and having opportunities to feel that. Um, because middle school's hard. Middle school can be really hard for kids. So um, we have things

031like the bar model. We offer tiger times. We do clubs. Something new we started this year was student of the month which has been fun. We kind of took over a trophy case and are putting up those. Um, we have the student interview panels that we are offering. We do sources of strength. We have, of course, we have all kinds of extracurriculars. And then our own little spin on the house point model, which is earn your stripes. Um, and so we just do everything we can to help our students feel included. All right. Our second big rock is all kids thrive. So, we're continuing that focus on PLC and um just unit planning and just making sure that we are supporting our students while also challenging our students um and and meeting them where they

032are. Um, we are working to grow leadership opportunities and to expand our work with exhibitions of learning and just supporting students where they do need support. So, all right. And then our last one is future ready. So, after being at the high school, when I got back to the middle school, I knew that we had some work that we could do to help our students be more prepared for high school. Um, and so we have worked really hard to um add some more exploration classes. One that you're going to hear about, one you already heard about. Mr. Marcy is teaching a woodworking class which has been really great. Um just really wanting to ensure that our students are leaving the middle school and are prepared for the high school and beyond. Um so just really

033committed to helping students engage in authentic experiences. And so to highlight those I brought a couple of friends with me. All right. So we're going to start with Miss Katherine Lester. I was about to call her Sophie. Miss Katherine Lester. [applause] All right. Okay. So, as Miss Preston just said, I'm an Katherine Lester. I'm in eighth grade at the middle school and I've been a part of family consumer science and SECLA for two years. So, family consumer science is one of the newer added explorations. And what it is, it's all in the name really. Family focusing on healthy relationships with family, friends, peers, teachers, whoever you may be around. working on manners and conversations around the table wherever that may be as well and child development and care that comes also with having children. Also

034consumer preparing all of us for life skills that we need now and in the future as controlled spending um saving money wisely comparison shopping and unit price to ensure the best purchases made. Then science. Even though we don't do chemistry, biology, things like that, we do expand our knowledge of measurements and foods and nutritions, making sure recipes are exact and the ability to prepare food when those safety concerns. I'm also a member of FCCLA, which also ties perfectly in with FCS class. So, it's FCCLA stands for Family Career Community Leaders of America. FCCLA um focuses on leadership and that even means at home. If you create healthy habits at your house, you can be a leader, even influence those around you that might not be your age, even family members. Career, um even though it's

035a middle school class, you choose a pathway in high school and it's important to know kind of what you're wanting to do. Um learning the leadership skills that are important in the workplace as well. Also, community. Another big part of SECLA is working um with local people, community members, businesses. We do a lot of hands-on work in the community. So, that's an important part. And the biggest thing I think for me, probably leaders of America, that we are like we are tomorrow's generation. We are the next set of politicians and teachers and educators. and SECLA strives to bring people out of their comfort zone and become a leader for the peers, chapter, family, school, and community. So, thank you. [applause] >> All right. And you all mentioned the reality store earlier, um, but Mr. Sammy

036Whis is here to talk a little bit more about it. Hello. Uh, I'm Sammy Whis. I'm in the seventh grade at Woodford County Middle School. And on Friday, October 17th, we went to KCTCS for the middle school 7th grade reality store. Um, and we quote unquote bought things like food, childcare, insurance, transportation, and housing. Um, like to simulate real world. Uh, and some people were more fortunate job-wise. I was not. I was a paleontologist. Not not not that much money. Um, but I think it's a good opportunity to learn what it's like for our parents to pay things like bills, taxes, rent. Uh, and I think it can relate to like portrait of a learner because uh when things go wrong like you run out of money because that happened to like everyone I knew.

037Uh and uh uh there were cops that were walking around and you could get tickets if you were like running. So uh you could be like a resilient learner if you just kept pushing through creative problem solver if you just like find a way to get the money back like take from savings accounts uh get a second and third job. I had to have three jobs. Yeah. I had five kids so [laughter] Yep. Um, but uh some uh kids in Wford County Middle School, I think they're lucky because uh not all schools get to have experiences like this where you get to learn uh real world things um that everyone's going to use. U but as far as personal experiences goes, uh you might not want to take my advice because you have five kids,

038three jobs, not not ideal. Thank you. >> [applause] >> All right. And last, um, I asked Mr. Gavin Burns, there are some more pictures from reality store. I asked Mr. Gavin Burns to come and talk to you all about the amazing shake. So, this was something that we did last spring. I think that several of you came and were able to see it, but Gavin was our winner last year. So, he is here to share that with you all. >> Yeah. So, uh, as Miss Preston said, I'm Gavin Burns. Uh, I was the co-ch champion of the Amazing Shake last year here in Woodford County. Really fun. I got to sit on the back of a car in a parade. So, that was fun. Um, so I'm here to tell you a little bit about

039the Amazing Shake and like what it is, how it connects the competencies. So, first, what is the Amazing Shake? It is a gauntlet of 10 different st situations that you are thrusted into and you have a minute to work out the problem and make a solution or act out the role that you must do. and you are scored on a scale of 0 to 20. 0 being the worst and 20 being the best. This is judged based on your performance under the pressure of the situation and if you executed to the prompt correctly. The situations are made to test your skills with stuff like selling a bad of bag of food to a customer, explaining to a player why he isn't getting as much playing time as he thinks he should, taking a phone call

040from a concerned parent about their child's grade, and my favorite, um, giving a weather forecast like you're on TV. All the situations challenge you and you have to be ready for anything. Oh, and don't forget your handshake at the beginning. You will get docked points if you forget it. Professionality, good speaking skills, and critical thinking are key. Without these skills, you will not perform to the level needed. Well, that's images. Ah, there we go. Of course, the whole reason I'm here is to tell you all how this connects to the portrait of a learner competencies. So, let's go through all of them. Starting with resilient learner. You are not going to know what to say for all of the stations. So, you have to be resilient in the challenging ones. One of them [snorts] was

041selling a house. I don't know much about real estate, but I know people love their high ceilings. So, I channeled my inner HGTV and talked about that. And I worked it for a minute, and that's what got me to succeed. It's those little things that just work. Empathetic communicator. Not only do you have to have great speaking skills, you have to listen to the other person. Communication is a two-way road. You have to learn to listen to the other person and know when to speak for yourself. Talking to the athlete who wanted more playing time was a great example of this. You had to listen to the athlete then tell him why you as the coach made the decisions that you did. Creative problem solver. Again, you will not know all of the stuff that's

042going to go your way. But you can't sit back and let your problems encompass you. You have to embrace them. The station that showed this to me was the red carpet station because you had to think of something amazing you had done recently to share with the paparazzi. you did not have time to think. So even when I found it hard to think of something, I just thought FFA and project and boom, that's it and just went with it. Sometimes the quickest solution you can find is the best one. Responsible contributor. You only have one minute for each station. This, which may seem like a lot, it's really not. Everything you say needs to be useful to the conversation. Take the 7-day forecast station. You don't want to have too many filler words or repeats.

043You want to focus on everything at face value and give the information you need to give. For this one, I went day by day and gave only the important information and not much more than that. And it did help me dominate that station. Well, my highc caliber knowledge on the topic also helped, but I digress. Reflective collaborator. Collaboration for this event may seem slim as you are the one generally leading the scenario once it's given. But there's a lot of collaboration still needed. The one that I feel showed this was the store owner scenario where I was selling some stuff to a customer. If they hadn't told me some of the things they wanted, like the gluten-free restriction or the size shirt they wanted, I would have been like a lost puppy in a thunderstorm.

044But with the collaboration from the main person, I was able to thrive at that station, as well as many others. To conclude, The Amazing Shake was an incredible experience to help me better my communication skills as well as working with other people and the things I excel at and the things I don't do so hot at. I'm really excited to go back out later this year and attempt to defend my champion title, but most of all, I hope to gain more skills for communication, problem solving, and collaboration in the process. Thank you. [applause] >> So, this morning he said, "I can talk for 15 minutes, right?" I said, "Five under five." So, he said, "I like to talk." Um, all right. So, that is all that we have for you. Um, thank you all for

045all that you do to support us. Um, thank you again to the families and students that came out and presented and shared today. Um, and then come by anytime and visit. So, >> all right. [applause] >> Great job you all. >> Yes. Thank you so much. >> I think I might switch chairs with him actually. He's uh I think he can handle this up here. Listen, Gavin has been the goalie on Cash's soccer team and I love hear that's my favorite thing about going to games is listening to Gavin cheer on the team from the goalie box. So, he is great. >> Good job. >> But we will need future board members, Gavin. So, >> I'll think about it. >> All right. Uh let's see. So, next we are we have our international book exchange

046program information that I believe somebody's going to share with us. Hello, good evening. My name is Rachel Ray. I'm with the International Book Project. And this is Jamie Fischer who works at the afterchool program at Southside Elementary. And >> I'm Kim. >> Hi Kim. Nice to meet you. Um I just want to say I kind of wish I were a Wartford County School student because these programs sound really amazing. So excited to present to you all. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to talk. So, International Book Project is an organization organization that's been around for 60 years. Um, we're based in Lexington, Kentucky, and our mission is to provide educational materials to communities that don't have them, whether those be here at home in Kentucky or all around the world. Um, we

047just shipped a 40ft container full of books to Ethiopia, for example. It's about 30,000 books. Um, but we also do a lot of programming in our communities, and one of these is the Books as Bridges program, which Jamie got really excited about. Jamie has been working with us on our Globe Trotters, well I was going to say summer camp, but they're not just summer anymore. Our Globe Trotters camps um has been really really amazing to work with. So you guys are are very lucky to have Miss Jamie. Um but our books as Bridges program is a cultural literacy exchange program. So we pair young people here in Kentucky with an international classroom and then over the course of a semester they exchange letters and get to know one another, get to know each other's cultures,

048get to know each other's um u like foods and songs and things that they like and they exchange three letter at least three letters throughout the year. Um, and then we have an education coordinator at IBP and she comes to the local classroom and she will teach a class on the partner country. So that's what Carrington has been doing all this week. She's taught lessons on countries in Africa. We have um a partner class in Ukraine that we just uh got their letters in this week. And then the schools will also exchange what we call a cultural package. So they'll put together a box of we leave it up to the students what they want to send. Um, we got at the end of the year, the school year last year, we got a box

049from Thailand that was all ramen noodles that we gave to the to the young people here in the local classroom, which they they're very excited about. Um, and then we also, um, at IBP will send the partner classroom, um, the international classroom a box of books to help supplement their library. In a lot of cases, these are areas that don't have a lot of access to books. We had one partner uh, last year that was a refugee camp and obviously they did not have a lot of books. So, we're very fortunate to be able to help facilitate them growing their libraries. And this program is completely free for all participants. It is grant funded. So, we don't charge anything for schools to participate. And schools also don't have to mail their packages internationally. We handle

050that as well. That is very expensive. I will tell you. Um, so yeah, that is the kind of the main bulk of the program. Um, I'd love to answer any questions if you have any or let these two wonderful ladies say something. I just got up here and started going. >> Are there any questions? >> I don't have anything. >> I just have one question. Do you um with with the letters, do you mail them all together as a one package or do students like do the do teachers who are participating in their classrooms give you all the student letters and then it gets all >> shipped? We all at once? Yeah. >> We also preview the letters um just to just to make sure everything's okay. >> I mean, they're children for the most

051part. They're not gonna get too off color, but you know, when you're when you have children who live in a refugee camp, there might be some kind of disturbing things that might come out. Yeah. >> And then do you translate the letters from >> They're in English. >> Oh, they are. Okay. That's wonderful. >> All our partner classrooms. Everybody speaks English pretty much. Yeah. >> Um what we'd like to do is kind of p We This is not a pilot program. We've been doing it for 10 years, but we'd like to pilot it for you all in Jaime's afterchool and Kim's afterchool classroom. Um, and if it's a success there, we would love to roll it out further in Woodford County schools. It's for third third grade through high school. >> So, we'd like to

052start it at Southside and see how it goes and then maybe pilot it out to the other schools in the after school program and see how it goes. So, that's kind of where we want to start. >> I think that sounds exciting. That's what I was going to ask is what sort of is with this information, what is, you know, what are our next steps kind of what are we looking to do? Is it an optin sort of thing? So, I'm glad to hear that it'll um start at one of the schools and evaluate it and see if if it's something that can be rolled out to others. >> Yeah. So, the thought was since Jaime's involved in this project that I would work with Jamie as community director and we would see how this

053would go at Southside. >> Um how that would go, how that would what are the pluses, the minuses on that and then we would expand it within Southside's afterchool program to other classrooms, meaning within the ETC program. And then we would then use that as a model for the other four sites to do that same project in the other ones. So, >> sounds great. >> Thank you so much. Appreciate it. >> Fantastic. >> Thank you. >> Next, we have our new high school project update. And I think Mr. Smith's >> Good evening everyone. Uh so not a lot of changes since the last time we spoke in uh September. We are down to just a handful of items uh punch list items primarily around the HVAC system and controls in the building. Um but we're

054working diligently and meeting with the warranty and the manufacturers trying to get all those items resolved so that we can close this project out and move on to the next thing. Um the a barn we're sort of stalled. We're almost finished with it, but we still still like a little bit on the inside. We're sort of stalled at the plumbing permit stage. Kind of waiting on that to happen at the state level so we can finalize that. Um I do not I did not get quotes in time for the deadline for this board meeting for the auxiliary parking lot that we began discussions on last month. So uh I'll have that for the November board meeting um and ready to present to you about that. So, uh, as of right now, the projects, uh, both

055phase one and phase two, the the balance and the contingency for both projects is $82,000 approximately. So, um, that's sort of the status of the project as we stand currently. >> Well, it's not really a question. It's more of a statement. So, um, I know we talked about the gravel mixture that's at the county park up by the football stadium. I will say I went up there um during some of the different sporting events just to check that out to see what that looks like. It is not as stable as what I thought it potentially was. I mean, it is stable, but it's not like together together, but one of the things I did notice is there is already a lot of like weeds and things like that popping up. Now, I know the parking

056lot would get a lot more use than what that current parking lot is actually getting, be it daily versus just at game times, but I would say, and again, not a road construct constructor by any means, but it may be worth looking at. Do we need to lay something underneath of that to prevent kind of like weed paper, I don't think that's probably the right thing, but you know, I mean, something to keep that from coming up if we did decide to go that route. So, maybe with the quotes since they haven't happened yet, that might be something to ask. That was just an observation. Well, I'm glad you brought that up because the quotes do have that uh it's essentially it's not landscape fabric. It's better quality, but it does the same thing as

057what you're referencing. And u when we discussed this last month, I was really unfamiliar with what was put down at the uh following spring. So that's milled asphalt. Uh we don't have a lot of access to that. like really the states and the counties are the only ones that have access to that because they're the ones milling the the existing roadways and reclaiming and reusing that. Uh what what I have requested in the quotes is what's called dense grade aggregate which is basically once it's watered and rolled, it's really smooth, really firm. It's what's put down underneath asphalt and it'll probably give us the best surface. you know, it's not going to stay smooth forever as tire, but it'll pack down and it'll become as close to a concreted or asphalted surface that we can

058have without putting asphalt or concrete down. So, that would be my proposal. That's what we're having quoted. But, yes, we we are asking for that fabric that you're referencing to go underneath that to keep the the the weeds from penetrating through that over time. So, yeah. >> Very good. Can you tell us what the what's going on with the HVAC at the high school? You said that there were some questions with the manufacturer and or the warranty. >> Yeah. Well, there's been several issues uh things going into alarm and and it's based on various things um without getting too much into details. Your HVAC system at home has a condensation line that allows the condensate to be removed from the house. um those have been backing up and and with these commercial units, there's a

059sensor in that that shuts them down once it detects water or stoppage that they're not draining, which is a good thing because that would just cause a lot of water to backflow into the building and fall through the ceiling tiles. Um just some tweaks that they're having to make because that was, you know, when things were put in, maybe the slope of the lines didn't didn't get exactly to the amount of fall that they should have based on the specs. uh the the controls, you know, that massive of a project. It's just been very time consuming getting all the internal controls set up with, you know, when a unit kicks on, when it kicks off, and some of the some of the variables. Now, there had been some warranty. They've had to do some component

060replacements on some some units. So, um um one of the fresh air intake units, it's called an ERU unit. Uh we've had that's probably the biggest ongoing issue. It's um running at like 80%. We've had the manufacturer um dealer out there working on it and the electricians um still having some unidentified issues around that. But um so that's kind of kind of the deal with all of it. It's just been a lot of little things, but um you know, three months ago, I think we had a lot of little things. Now we've got it down to a more manageable um situation with more more along the lines of a handful of rooms. So >> I did have a couple questions. Um so the the contingency balance you said is $82,000. >> Yeah. >> And that's

061after all outstanding. So that's after we have purchase orders um created for everything that I'm aware of that we've talked about that we've approved. Um so that would not include the gravel auxiliary parking lot that we're talking about. Um or um that's really the only thing that's coming to my mind immediately. But yes, that's that should have everything that we've talked about. >> Okay. >> Taken care of. And then the document um that we received last month and then again this month that has the negative $77,000 that says remaining after all cos that's >> so that's going to be in the change order. Um the change order is for 70 it was $77,000 and then there's a $1,020 credit uh for a couple of dead trees that aren't going to be replaced and that gives

062you the change order balance of 76243. So that's not remaining contingency balance. That's >> um the 77 >> Mhm. >> the 77 is the cost of the change order that we're going to talk about. >> Okay. >> The the the So let me let me clarify. I think something that may be the documentation with the change order that Trace Creek provides is purely construction costs. They do not know what Woodford County Schools has spent on that high school for certain things that were outside of the construction project like camera systems and there's a whole bunch of stuff that that has come along after that after we you know did the construction in order to get the building operational. So, so what he has does not reflect my balance. My bal the $82,000 balance that I'm

063telling you is when we take all the revenues that were generated for those two projects and we paid out all the expenditures that we have encumbered and actual expenditures and invoices against there's $82,000 left >> and that's before tonight's project. >> That's before tonight's change order. Yes. >> And that's combining project one and project two. >> That's correct. Yes. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Anybody else have any questions? All right. Uh then we're moving on to the approve new high school change order. >> Okay. So in September I brought to you um a a spring remediation for an issue that um was with the project when we started working on it. Right. There was a underground spring that was pumping some water out somewhere along December of 2023. Uh it dried up and went away

064and it did not return until this past spring after we actually got the the high school open, got everything paved, the parking lots put in. Uh as you recall, we had a tremendous amount of rain this spring and so the the the underground spring returned. we started seeing water kind of accumulating in the landscaped area to the right of the bus loop. Um and so um the the the uh architects engineers Drace Creek uh work together for a remediation plan. Uh I presented the remediation plan to you in September and there's two parts. There's a a part A that puts in some French drain pop down along the side of the paved areas in the landscaped areas to help remove the water. And then there's a part B which installs a spring box sort of

065in the middle of the bus loop roadway there um with the intention of that portion A will probably maybe fix it. Portions A and B will most likely fix it. Um, and so that was what I recommended to the board to present. The board, you had some questions. And so I've invited uh Travis Curry from Trace Creek Construction. I've invited Michael Hughes from Ross Torrent. And I've invited Michael Mays who's from CMTA Engineering to come and hopefully they can answer any questions that you have in regards to this change order. So, I'll ask these gentlemen to step forward and come up and um they can answer any questions that you have. >> Sounds good. Thank you. Um yeah, gentlemen coming up. I know. And you know, we we had a school board meeting that this

066kind of came up and and many board members had questions. Um I'll try to grab some of them. If I miss any, let us know. Um but one of the things was that that stood out to us was that this was found out at one point. we weren't made aware of it or given the opportunity to address it at that time. And then like you said, you know, things dried up and it was kind of forgotten, pushed aside, whatever it was. And then now it's it's kind of come back and it looks to be an added expense that potentially wouldn't have been the same at the time of when it was discovered. And so as a board, you know, we were talking about this and and wanted to get more information from you, which is

067why we invited you here kind of on that timeline, that process, possible solutions, um discussions that we may need to have about the cost and things like that. So, does that cover it pretty good so far? >> That does. The other thing that I have concerns with that is new for what Mr. Smith just shared is that this may fix it. Is there if you could speak as well to a permanent solution that is I know you can't nothing's guaranteed right 100% but more toward like the 95 plus area because this is a significant amount of money that we're going to have to invest to remedy a problem that was there prior to the building of the parking lot. The other thing that I would like to see addressed is how will this since it

068is a portion of the bus circle what are we expecting timeline to remedy the issue and how will that impact that area for our students. So, that's just an add-on to those things that just came up. >> You want to cover first? >> Oh, yeah. Let me do that. Well, good evening. My name is Travis um with Trace Creek. Um um appreciate you inviting us to try to explain this to you. So, um I just recently got involved in your project. Uh you know, Clay was your project manager at the time. So, I've reached out to Clay and went back through and found some timelines. So I'm just going to start from the beginning, give you the information that I'm aware of and then we can go deeper into it. So based on the information

069I found and as Mr. Smith said, um this was uh there was a proposal request issued in June of 2023. Um based on that proposal request, there was pricing uh submitted on June the 21st of 2023. That pricing was submitted to the design team. design team asked for some revisions. There was one revision made, then they asked for another revision um and there was not a revised pricing submitted. So I based on my investigation and talking with Clay, which I have an email from him, was during the time of June of 2023 through December of 2023, they continue to monitor that wet spot and it dried up. at a uh December uh monthly progress meeting. Clay in and based on his correspondence here, he informed me that there was discussion with the design team and

070Mr. Smith was present and the recommendation since was dried up. They thought it was uh disappeared and wouldn't be an issue anymore. So, they decided to close the proposal request uh and not move forward with it. It wasn't until uh and correct me if I if I misspe here. Uh we met when Clay was leaving uh we met on site May the 13th of of this year with Mr. Smith. Clay was on site um our superintendent Mike Grayson and Mr. West and some others to get an idea what was remaining etc. Uh during that meeting, Mr. Smith brought the uh wet spot back up again and said we need to deal with with the water situation. Um after that meeting, we contacted uh Ru uh RTA and discussed uh Mr. Smith's concerns and we asked

071Michael to look into it and issue a proposal request for that. So that proposal request was issued and I'll let Michael go into those details. And then we submitted pricing uh based on that information. Um so that gets you from June of 2023 up till where we are now. So I'll let Michael talk about the proposal request and we can go more into the pricing if that's okay. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. I'm Michael Mays with civil engineer with Ross Torrent. So when we originally found the spring the site was under construction. None of the existing improvements were done. The pavements weren't done. Final grading weren't done. [clears throat] So, what we did is come up with a spring box detail. The location of that spring based on Clay's correspondence was directly underneath the

072road, almost underneath the center line of the road. So, we came up with a spring box detail and daylighted it, took it to the closest drainage structure, which is the the visitor parking lot. That's where the closest drain structure was. As Clay said, we had a couple back and forths with the contractors to try to, you know, negotiate the price down after the second round of revise and resubmit. It kind of stopped until December. And then, uh, fast forward until earlier this year. Uh, the wet spot had come back up. Now, it had moved a little bit. It had moved from the middle of the road, which is where you have pavement now, to the grassy area between the bus loop and schoolhouse. So we revised the proposal request because if we utilize the existing

073drawing, it would have cut through a lot more pavement to end up at that same drainage structure. So what we did is improve the swale between the bus loop and schoolhouse road by putting a perf pipe French drain in that location and then kept the spring box located in the bus loop. We think that's probably the best way to fix the spring at that location. to address your concern, the 95% is to do both parts A and B because it captures the originally located source of the spring and the wet spot that was seen here recently during the sitewalk which is in that in that soil. Again, with underground water, there's no telling where it may pop up. But based on the information that we have, the underground system when it gets very inundated comes

074out in this location. It's not all the time it happens, just during very wet weather periods. So, we only affected a 20 foot by 30 foot swath of the pavement area to try to get that spring box put in, take it immediately into the grass area and then down towards the drainage inlet just uphill of the bus loop entry. >> I believe the second part of your question was time frame and what impact it would have. So, the the plan was uh [clears throat] excuse me, if this change order was approved at the September meeting, we were planning on getting in and doing it over your fall break and having it done not disrupt your uh traffic, etc. That will not happen now. So, depending on if you approve, you know, when we get approval,

075if you do or don't approve it, I'll have to come back and advise advise you of when we can get that done. The problem is now with the asphalt plants, we had a little window with them and everybody's pushing to get all their work done. This is this little patchwork is a headache to them. So, they've got to try to get all the bigger projects done. So, um depending on which direction you decide to go, I will uh investigate that and report back to Mr. Smith on that. >> I just had a couple of questions. So, on the paperwork, the current approved amount of $684,000, what's the current approved amount for? >> 654. >> Uh, it looks like 684. It's just the the first number on page two. Sorry. the current approved amount under construction

076contingency. Is that what you're looking at? I to stand there and tell you I can honestly tell you what that is. I'm not 100% sure because KD's form create it their contingency balance up there runs a little different than what the project balance contingency show. So that may be the difference there. I'm not 100% sure that I can adise Mr. Smith and he can report back to you. >> Okay. Thanks. I just wondered because you know we see a bunch of documents and it's hard to really kind of keep straight. Um but the net effect of this change order would be a negative $77,000 to the contingency. >> Yes. Um and and that reflects a fee for of 54,000 for the construction manager and 3,800 for the um I guess AE is frost torrent. Um,

077and so I guess one of the things we had kind of talked about last month was if this was something that the survey showed was an issue, then before all the concrete was put in, before any of that kind of stuff happened, I guess, uh, I was a little bit concerned that we didn't just go ahead and address it at that point. And so we would have been able to avoid the, you know, um, that's what almost $60,000 in change order fees. Um, and then of course the work and just kind of the the breaking everything apart that we just put in and doing the fix. Um, so that was one of the concerns that I had. And I did want to just say um to Mr. Smith, thank you for noticing that and bringing

078it back up. I feel like um you you did honestly the dayto-day um in and out work of of getting the new high school. So, um, so I really appreciate that you saw that again and brought it back up and brought it back to us. So, thank you. >> And as Sher mentioned, she's a little bit concerned. I'm a lot concerned. Um, and I would like to know who was responsible for saying, "Oh, stride up is not an issue anymore." And making that choice because I feel like this is a very large expense that we could do things like building a new parking lot for our high schoolers with that money or putting a new roof on our middle school or something of that nature. And now we are faced with an expense of a

079spring. And if you just do a quick Google search, you can see where springs sometimes will change. So I was just curious as to how that decision was made to go ahead and move forward with the process to maybe not reroute the original drawing. I wasn't on the board at the time, so I don't know what that process looked like, but maybe reroute where the bus circle was to to maybe prevent this long term or I don't know. I'm not an engineer obviously or a contractor, but I I am very concerned that we moved forward with this with the dice roll of maybe it might dry up, maybe it might not. I mean, we're in Kentucky, we have limestone, we have a cave system, you know, there's there's lots of things that we're working with

080here. And I'm sure with well, I shouldn't say sure, but I would think that with shifting of ground and building surfaces, things like that, you know, may also impact this. So, I just would really like to have a picture painted of how we went from June 21st, it's a problem. In December, it's not a problem and we're just not going to address it and we're going to go ahead and move forward with the project. And that's me asking from a board member who wasn't a perspective that wasn't here before. So I would just love to have some conversation around that because I do feel like this is a lot of money that we're having to pay for a fix that you know as you said that sometimes water will shift and come up in other

081places too. So, um, if you all don't care to speak to that, I would really appreciate. >> So, again, and based on the information that I can find in and communicating with Clay on it is from the June until the pricing was received and through December. I I don't know when it dried up, but but they continued to monitor it and it dried up and based on and and what I saw in the meeting minutes is the decision was made at that board meeting with all parties standing here >> present to close out the proposal request and not move forward with that. >> So, can I speak to my fellow board members who were present at the time? >> Was that brought to your attention where you were able to vote on it? That decision

082was made at a progress meeting, >> not a board meeting. Okay, got you. Got >> you. Sorry. I'm sorry. >> Because we were all kind of shocked by this. So, I was like, yeah, it's on December monthly progress. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say board meeting >> and and I can speak to it because I I believe Mr. Smith and I were were were the two who who were there. Yes. >> So, I uh so I mean that was you know, obviously we were following up on the pricing. Um we we had issues with the pricing at the time. So we'd sent it back twice clearly. Um and u you know we weren't seeing additional pricing when we were checking in on it and eventually said hey you know the contractor's been watching this.

083It's been six months now. Uh we really think you should close that out um because there's no water. And you know at the time um that seemed like a way you know a cost-effective way forward for the district. you know the th those both sitting in the room um you know that that seemed like a reasonable decision. Uh you know essentially we left the meeting as the AR the design team with the direction to close that proposal request out that we were not going to receive a price for that and and and that was that. >> Um >> so who made that choice? So, how do we Well, how do we So, you didn't get a price back then, but now we have a price. And I think what our concern is the price now

084>> is probably more because we have to tear up concrete and do all that. And so, as a board, you can tell we're a little defensive of, hey, we didn't even know about this issue when it was cheaper. Now, to fix it is more expensive and that's on us. And I think that's where our, you know, a little bit of a disgruntlement, whatever you want to call it, is so you guys talk to that at all of just >> maybe some possible solutions on on the pricing or is is this what's proposed is is what's here or is there any, >> you know, negotiation there? >> Before we get to that too, I think it's important to know >> how do we know that this is the only spring? I mean, it is Falling Springs

085Boulevard [laughter] >> and I mean, if we do somebody who who knows way more about this kind of thing than I do said, you know, was did the architect include a substance in uh subsurface investigation for the property? If so, we should have seen it. Woodford County should not have to pay for the change order. That's what I'm hearing from my people in my area. >> So, the project did include a quite extensive subsurface investigation. They will identify surface springs like anything that is currently bubbling out of the ground. >> What we did at that site, we did a lot of mass excavation. We removed a lot of bedrock. We did a lot of blasting. Any of that could have changed subsurface conditions as far as water routing through the subsurface car features of the

086of the ground. Additionally, you take the existing soil overburden off of the rock, you're going to see a lot more that was never evident in the first place. So, we didn't see this until they uh Trace Creek and the contractors had all of the soil excavated from on site. We were I was walking with Clay one day and we saw a big wet spot hadn't rained, but water was coming out of the ground and so the water was coming out of about a 2-in hole in the ground and that's when we started this process back in 2023. Well, and I was just going to say like I I I do understand very aware that we are like, you know, looking back and now like, oh, why didn't we just do it then? And there were

087literally probably hundreds or thousands of decisions that you all were making at the time and bringing things to us, being very aware of cost savings, and it it didn't seem to be a problem. So, um, you know, I can understand how that decision was made and so I'm not trying to second guess that, but I I would like to know if there is any kind of wiggle room in some of these fees just because I feel like, you know, we really weren't aware of it at the time. It wasn't really brought to us at the time. So, I didn't know if that's just a possibility. You all can kind of think about that and kind of see if we can kind of share some of the responsibility. Um, or if that's, you know, I just

088thought I would just throw it out there because I guess it never hurts to ask. As far as >> anybody is this I mean does this need to be a separate conversation or I will I will say we we kind of shared this at the last meeting and um you know when you get into these situations and and we as one party feel like hey had we known it would have been cheaper to take care of it and then you have your side that's obviously the one doing the work and and putting this in and figuring out what the fix is, but we do feel like there needs to be some type of additional conversation for this as opposed to just approving the cost that's been laid before us. >> And I I agree with

089that. Like I I feel like and that's why I asked the question of who made the choice. And maybe that's not a conversation that you're comfortable having right now. Maybe it's something that we need to have more conversation around. But it just again wasn't present. I was not present at the time. I know that some of you here were not present at the time and you're doing your due diligence and we have a beautiful high school. I don't want to take anything away from that. Um but I do feel like especially for our taxpayers as we balance our budget, as we look at this, this is this is a significant cost that it seems like it's it it's it's hard for me to take the language of well, it just dried up and went away.

090So out of sight, out of mind, we're just not going to worry about it. we're going to move forward. That seems incredibly problematic when you talk about a major multi-million dollar construction project just to roll the dice on that. And as my colleague, Miss Macauan said, it's Falling Springs Boulevard. We know the lay of the land in Whiter County, and it is there's a lot of Cave and Spring systems here. Um, and again, anything can happen. There could be something that pops up under this building tomorrow that's been laying dormant, but we knew about it and did not take the opportunity to act at that point in time when it could have been more costefficient to remedy the problem. Um, then now we're saddled with a quite large expense to remedy the problem. Either way,

091it has to be fixed. We all can come to that conclusion. We're not going to roll the dice again and say, "Well, maybe when the whole concrete buckles out or the sidewalk or whatever is being impacted by then, we have to be responsible with that." However, I just feel like, and I'm gonna be more forb than my colleague with Springgate said, I feel like that some of the cost, the burden of the cost should be on those who saw it and did not advise because we're paying a lot of money to advise and listen to your all's recommendation again wasn't there present, but I'm assuming that's what that process looked like. And now we have to bear the burden of the cost. I just don't think that's quite fair um for us or for our

092community or for our kids to be quite fair. And I think and if you guys aren't prepared to answer that question then uh as far as cost changes um you know you talked about timeline earlier and with the weather and winter coming up this might not even be able to be installed for a while. Uh it sounds like it could potentially be the spring. So knowing that and that you know I don't know that we're going to come to an agreement here tonight. we may need to, you know, personally may need to uh not pass this and and have some further conversations with your your teams um about that unless there's anything else you guys want to share. >> Well, I think uh Trace Creek's position as far as bearing a portion of the cost

093is our position is we're not uh willing to bear the cost. Now part of that cost if you are asking us to look at our KDE fee associated with that we may be willing to look at a percentage of that and I can report back to Mr. Smith before the end of the week on that. >> Okay. >> All right. Now, one thing also wi with the with this pricing as with asphalt, even though it's it's a it's a small portion, but yet it's it's a >> $19,000 and that I know that don't sound like a lot, but you know, this this subcontractor may come back and say, you know, this was based on 2025 asphalt prices that all flux. It may be cheaper when based on oil prices. That's what asphalt's based on. It

094may be cheaper. If it is, then we'll give you back a credit for that. But he may come to me and say, "You know what? It's went up. I can't do the asphalt for that." Now, >> just full disclosure because we this was based on being able to get it in and get done uh and out of here on your fall break and out so we wouldn't disrupt your >> traffic flow on that. So, >> okay. >> So, I will report back to Mr. Smith uh by the end of the week, if not tomorrow, if we're willing to do anything on our KDE percentage of our fee >> uh and report back. >> So, sorry, I I was just I was waiting to see if Mr. Brickler wanted me to weigh in from procedurally how

095that works now that that's going to happen. >> I would. >> So, So, yeah. So, you would you would vote to uh not approve the change order as it's written and then you would direct Dr. Jones and Mr. Smith to have a conversation and come back to you all with a change order that reflects whatever further conversations they have with with Trace Creek. >> Okay. >> I would still like to know who made the choice. Like that's that's the burden that I feel. >> I don't know that that's >> that that's going to happen. >> No, probably not. But it just seems like it just feels like there's a lot of responsibility. Again, I think we're paying a lot of money as a district, as a as a taxpayer body, as our community to make

096these choices. There's a lot of burden on on that, you know, and um I just I don't want to belabor this, but I just I I want to appeal that I feel like that there there should be a discount um knowing that it was present. But that's just my my two cents. >> All right. Can I have a >> Mr. Motion? >> Second. >> Have a second by Miss McCallen. All those in favor? >> I >> Thank you all very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next we have our school safety president. Oh, >> Mr. >> Yes, it was five to zero. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. >> No, good call. >> Thank you, gentlemen. >> Thank you. >> All right, Mr. Wells. >> Good evening. Um, Chief Sutton and I stood up here

097back in the spring and talked about um our school resource officers at the middle school and high school and how we were going to take that over. And we know understandably that that caused some anxiety for some different reasons. Um and I think one misconception was that maybe the relationship with the police department was frayed or fractured or whatever. And um we spent some time since then assuring people that was not the case. We've presented on uh many examples of how our relationship with our local police department is very strong. And tonight we just want to share one additional example of how we've partnered together since some of those previous conversations to improve the safety of our school. So, I'm going to turn it over to Chief Sutton to talk about that. >> All right.

098So, each SRO obviously has a school radio where they can communicate directly with school admin. Um, we've always had a Purcell PD radio. Without getting into technology too much, there's kind of a multi-step process to communicate with them though. So, we recently sat down with Chief Young and I don't want to try to say Dan's last name, but their dispatch director to try to work out some things to improve that communication process. So what they did is arrange for us to use their channel 2 in which dispatch has agreed to actively monitor and they put in their CAD system which electronic again not to get into technology but they know they have our work schedule and we're there uh what officers assigned to each school and these radios have like a electronic signature so even

099if we were to get them I say for Simmons for every emergency I couldn't get out what was going when I key that up they know that Simmons and it's me and if I need help that's where they're going to come to. Um since we're covering after school events that applies as well. So if we work the football stadium, we'll call out we're at a special detail community stadium. They log that in. So because the officers could be from all the schools working there giving you key up, they know that radio's assigned to community stadium for that time being. So again, that drives provides that direct communication uh with us. Um so they monitor us all 24 hours a day for us. Um it's worked well so far. We've had a couple medical emergencies and

100a fire emerge. We've used it for I think increased the response time. I had a vehicle fire in front of Simmons. uh our sales PD was there was in a few seconds help me a traffic fire department was right there instead of trying getting on different channel get my phone out it was instant communication with them um so that's kind of definitely increased that uh communication level same thing sheriff's offices also can talk to us at the football mark special events they've been working with us some they can communicate with us as well on that same channel um so that's kind of the improvement we've made in that communication process especially in events of so far it's been not a huge the emergencies but I guess you know the medical was very quick. So that's

101just one thing we've done to kind of improve that. And I would like to thank Chief Young Adana for because again it's not something they have to do. Their dispatchers are busy, but they've agreed to monitor that for us. And in the event of a bigger emergency, they can it's a simple push of button. They can cross communicate with all of us kind of like on one channel is the way they explain it. So if we had to have that, it wouldn't be talking back me talking to him, him talking to him, and back to me. It'd be an instant communication. I have one question about our I guess our safety protocol and our relationship with the police department [clears throat] and I don't want to I'm just thinking and planning. So if there were

102a larger kind of an emergency and we are working with our local partners, is there like a document or some kind of a charter or something like that that says here's who's in charge if if there is this sort of an incident happening at a school. you know, our SRO's are in charge or the Verscell's Police Department takes charge. Is there just something in writing so that everybody >> Dr. Jones has discussed that same thing with us? We're working on that's a little extensive to write overnight. We've talked about it is in the works. Uh we are the primary law enforcement for the school district. >> That's just the way it is. We we're all employed. We have no sense of since we're smaller. It's like I came from Frankfurt PD which is a pretty

103good size agency for Kentucky. >> Um but let's say there's a serious vehicle accident. All of us could write a report. I've done it for 30 years, but they have laser scheme. They have laser scanners that could document a scene in seconds. We don't have that. We've bought a few small pieces of equipment that we could use like let's be honest, like an alcohol related incident football field, which we didn't cover before. I bought a few of those devices. But since calling them to come to Community Stadium, I've got two on order. So again, if it was a larger scene, we had to work with them for sure. >> Yeah. >> But as far as being the primary source of law enforcement, we are in charge of the school district. >> Yeah, I get that.

104I guess what I'm saying, I'm thinking about situation. Yes, >> we would we return to them for assistance. We would still be in control unless Dr. Joe something we absolutely there's no reason why we couldn't work with them and partner if it's a mass event that's common. It's instant command system we've used in all my departments I've been at. >> Um it will take some time to get that in actual writing. >> Just so everybody knows like this is >> you've and you've started that. >> Yes, we worked on one draft with me. >> We talked about the active event thing that I talked to you about to where >> some of the wings we're trained on getting that out. It's a little quicker, shorter one, but to that would be a kind of extensive

105thing to cover again an immediate answer for that one. >> But they would have no doubt they'd work with us, we'd work with them. Emergency management also is the same way. It'd be multi- agencies responding to that state. So take not just for sales PD, you're talking fish and wildlife, state police, ABC might show up. I mean it if it was a major major event to be numerous law Frankfurt PD might even come for us and help out if we needed them. So >> but the call is made by the SRO. >> Correct. We are you're my boss and I run the police department. So it will be us. We'll be the direct one. The officer there, first officer there is the one that's going to be in charge till relinquished otherwise. >> I want

106to say thank you for working on that communication system. I know that's something that I brought up when we were talking about the SRO shift. And so I'm just as a parent as well as a schoolboard member and a community member extremely excited to know that we have that direct line and that that has been worked on. So thank you so much for your diligency in working on that. Um, >> and I was actually in the drop off line when that fire, that car fire was at Simmons. And so I saw how quickly everyone was moving and and it was out there. It wasn't even close to, you know, the students up by the building, but you guys were working fast. You got the police department, all the emergency vehicles there. So yeah, it worked

107really well and I got to see it firsthand. >> I just wanted to say a quick thank you, you know, the school board, Dr. Jones, Mr. Wells, Chief Sutton, just for putting student safety at your top priority. I mean, especially I mean, I know I addressed it back during the summer right before school started about, you know, getting a crossing guard or some type of officer out by where students are walking, parents are going into the middle school. You know, students are coming out of the high school. 17-year-olds are not the most safe behind the wheel of a car. Um, you know, I'm not saying the average parent sometimes makes bad decisions as well, but you know, um, there's so there the officer that stands there. I mean, I'm so appreciative to whoever is. I

108don't know his name, but you know, to whoever who does that every day. I sometimes even make driving mistakes. I am not a perfect driver, but you know, having him there, you know, I've even had some students say, you know, I'm really glad that officers there because I think I would run that stop sign or, you know, sometimes, you know, it's such it's such a blessing that someone is out there, you know, directing traffic, keeping all students safe. So, thank you to all for prioritizing that. >> Sure. Absolutely. Real quick follow up on speaking of the partnership. This past weekend for sales had a severe incident outside of safe harbor. Not going into too much detail. Chief Yung reached out to me about 7 o'clock at night. Um they asked for some video footage which

109captured some of the event. We're working on getting that to them. So that goes back to that partnership as well. Our cameras at one of the schools able to capture some of that. So that goes back to the same partnership of they need our help that time and we're glad to help them do that and get that to them to help with their investigation. >> Thank you for sharing that. And so it's officer Carmichael at the intersection between the schools and officer Fortney is at the stop sign on on the high school property. But it's a game changer, the radio access, being able to have that instant access. Um, and the conversations haven't started like we we want to continue to enhance that specific piece. And one last thing on uh Miss Macau's question. Um,

110while that written agreement, we're still working that out. just want you to know our the training is the exact same like the when we train when they train for those the most significant events that we won't get into all the details but um everyone knows what his response is going to be he knows what their response is going to be so um we're all on the same page when it comes to the response to those events >> can I ask a follow-up question not to that but something that Millie brought up when we were talking about the SRO's and I just happened to drive by the building the other day and I did not see. So, I just wanted to ask, are we where are we about getting the numbers like the windows numbered and

111and those areas at the new high school? Do you guys know? >> To my knowledge, the high school has done some internal numbering themselves. The company originally did that. I have to dig into I'm not sure if they're even still in business. It's called He was actually a former Frankfurt police officer and Frank County deputy. I'm not even sure if he is even in that business anymore. So, that's something we have to even look into. It was a trademark business, you know, so it's also some licensing stuff with him. Um, we'd have to real look into that to see if he's even available. Again, he may have closed that business. He was working at the place who helped decal our cars. He's left there, too. So, that'd be something we'd have to look into on.

112>> But, this is just numbers, right? Like, >> they have exterior. I saw like a nice hive number. >> The windows. Okay. So, that I guess my other question was, is that something that we need to talk about like funding or is that already been funded to be able to put those decals on the windows? >> I believe the district has supported us in that. Awesome. >> Okay. >> So, but it the cost is already accounted for. We're just waiting on getting it completion. And do we have a timeline for the completion of it? Because I feel like that's something that's pretty important. Shane, Mr. Smith. >> Yeah, I was over there the other day. I noticed several doors had it with door 10. I saw for sure had that little high honeycomb. So, it

113made even >> school aesthetics look good. I did see some of the day was at the high school for an incident. I was over there for so no summer done. >> Well, I was talking about the windows on the outside because you know if you go by most of the schools now that there's windows not even just in our district but another sub and I know Millie brought that up at one point in time about the windows being numbered. >> If you don't have a timeline as soon as you have a timeline could you share that with us or share with Dr. Jones and then Dr. Jones could share it with the board if you do get a timeline on those windows. I do think officer Whartney, he has talked to me about it that

114he is in the process, but we will get a timeline to the board. >> Thank you all so much. >> All right. Next, we have our curriculum and instruction technology update. Dr. Rabburn. All right, board. Good evening. Um, tonight our curriculum instruction update is going to be provided by me. The curriculum instruction team um does support I do support them. And so this is my update that um has been asked for by the board members in the past. And so, um, we thought that this would be a good time to take advantage of a a need. So, um, what I'm about to share with you is a lot of information, uh, just so that you all have it. Um, but it it'll also be available to you afterwards that you can email me or schedule

115time to discuss. Um, the first thing I want to say is we do have a campaign going for cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is heavily involved with technology. While technology is not necessarily the school device that they're using, it is their personal devices that we don't have control over for students. And so it is a community event, not just a school issue in a school community. It's a whole community. Um, so I just put some little tidbits on here for everybody to read that's watching or may watch this later. You know, the first thing to do is stop. Don't reply back. Um, in the event of a cyber bullying incident, stop and don't reply back. Um, the next thing is to save the screenshots and block the individuals that are currently um, doing the cyber bullying.

116Taking a screenshot puts a timestamp on the evidence for that so that if there is an issue with school that we can help mitigate that when we get when in school. A lot of this happens outside of school, which makes it a little bit harder um because we don't have the ability to necessarily take that into our control, but we can help support and um provide services to students that need that. Um and then to seek help, you know, don't don't assume that you have to do this alone. Um tell a trusted adult and um we do have proper protocols in place for that. Um but there is a whole plan that's being placed like Dr. Jones mentioned in her report. Um I just wanted to bring that to everybody's attention like we do have

117um stop save and get help uh on on that. So the technology staff consists of myself the chief information officer, a network administrator, assist administrator which is our systems information systems that is uh Infinite Campus. Um that person is over all of the things Infinite Campus related. Uh any reports that we ask for or anything along those lines I report to the state they handle that. Um we have four and a half district technicians currently. Um two of them support the elementary school, Safe Harbor and WVLA. And then we have one for the middle school and one for the high school. And then we repair all of our Chromebooks in in house. And so that is where our halftime um technician is currently. Um we do have on the books more, but due to budget

118constraints, Dr. Jones and I have met and we are not hiring those other positions until we review the budget. So, um those are not those were vacated due to retirement and a leave and so we decided to not renew um those until we had budget talks. Um we also have seven and a half infinite campus attendance clerks at every building. Every building has one including safe harbor. Um that is the halftime position that handles also all the alternative education which includes WVLA home hospital and some special education. Our two digital learning coaches which is Erica and Sandy who you presented your awards to. And then I have an administrative assistant for my department. Um that is the technology staff. Seems rather large, but you're getting ready to find out all that we do. Um we

119are not just a curriculum. We're not just operations. We walk right down the middle of the lane and do everything um to keep the building going. As um you you know on August when the internet went down, things don't work when the internet's not working. So, um, just I know Miss Springgate asked a while back about our Chromebook refresh and a while back may have been a few years ago. I don't even remember how long it's been, but this is our Chromebook refresh. Um, every second grader has a device that remains in the second grade. So, every new second grader gets that same device until it's time to refresh that device. Um, a device lasts about six years total. Um, and so with this cycle, we do five years in the classroom, one year as

120a loaner program, and then we surplus it at that point. Um, so third grade gets a brand new device. That third grade device goes with them all the way through se sixth grade. At the end of sixth grade, we recycle those down to kindergarten and then seventh grade gets a brand new device. And then seventh grade uses it through ninth grade. After 9th grade, we rotate that down to first grade and then 10th grade gets a brand new device. that 10th grade device carries with them when they graduate. So we don't keep that device after graduation. Um as of current right now the um so I wanted to provide you with some historical things that we have done since spring break of this year. Um spring break was a horrible time for us. Um that

121was when Mr. Tuttle passed away. Um right in the middle of that move um we were moving our data center from Pisa Pike to here. that includes taking the internet down for the entire week um and moving all of our equipment. And so during that time, we also switched our phone service from AT&T to Clearly IP, saving the district about $600 a month. Um we updated our all of our Metronet connections. Metronet is our internet service provider. Actually, it's Kentucky Department of Education. they provide our internet, but uh we uh lease out the fiber lines from each building so that the fiber can come to our building and then we can distribute it out to all of our buildings within the district. So, Metronet actually doesn't provide us the internet. They provide us the fiber

122line that goes to our building. We also closed out adult education over the summer since we no longer own that u building and that's now sitting at KCTCS. So, we don't pay for that internet subscription nor do we pay for 330 PISGA. um we are using a cellular device to maintain um security there and so that is uh maintaining what we needed to do and so forth. Um the the next thing that we did over the summer is we refreshed 900 plus new devices for teachers and students. Um our last Chromebook purchase was about 915 for students. All of those went to our third graders, seventh graders, and 10th graders. And then we bought some new staff devices to c cycle out some of the old ones. Uh we had about 400 broken repairs that

123we had to fix over the summer. A broken repair can be anything from a screen not working to a keyboard popped off. Um every every summer we cycle through those, check every single device, and make sure that they're working properly so that students can come back to school with a a working device. We don't want any student getting a broken um device back at the beginning of the year. um we ask them to report it at the end of the year and then that gives us a cue, but we then go and check every single device. So, we're checking 4500 devices every single summer um to make sure that they're working. And um some do slip through the crack, but you know, it it's just the way it is. And then at the beginning of

124the year, we distributed 5,000 devices between new staff members, new devices, and um all the kids. We collect all their devices at the end of summer. We store them in our little hotel room and then we give them back to them um after they've gone to the vacation beach house and gotten refreshed because we all need a little refresh over the summer. So um the other thing that we've done is we've transitioned our internet content filter from light speeded which was provided by the state. This is still provided by the state to now go guardian admin. Um that was in my report to you all in in July. I provide a written report every July to the board about our internet safety um and cyber security. It is a written report because I can't go

125into great detail about it, but you all have access to that. Um, I also hired a new network administrator in July. Um, and then we worked with finance to get parent square pay up and running. Um, so that we can collect fee collections through parent square instead of infinite campus. Um, which has had its little hiccups. It's not perfect. Nothing is. Um, but it is a process that's actually getting fees and trips paid for that in the past would sit idle and not get paid. Um so we also have replaced several disk uh on servers that have failed. When we transitioned over to here we noticed that there were several servers that were failing in discs. So to provide um to provide that uh need to replace those discs we've been replacing those disc as

126time has come on. Um and each disc could take 24 to 48 hours to fully repair. So, every time we prepare repair a disc, that's literally a hard drive that we're shoving into a server in our data center um to repair that. Uh, as you may be aware, and if you aren't aware, Windows 10 is no longer supported from Microsoft. And so, if you haven't done your personal devices, please take the time to do that because now you're at a security u you're very vulnerable to security and hacking um because they don't provide any security updates. And so we've had to take about 135 devices were still sitting on Windows 10 in our district and we had to update those to Windows 11. Um, and just so you know, we had 2,300 tickets that we

127closed from August 1st until today. I ran that number today. Um, and we have 270 plus that were in in the queue working on right now. That is everything. Anytime a teacher or a staff member um or anybody asks us to do something, we ask them to put it in a help desk ticket so that we have data to support what we're doing. Um and so from August till now 2300 tickets we've closed. Um just like maintenance also collects their data so that we can see what everybody's doing. Uh it just gives us nice little numbers to report but it also keeps us a historical data so that we can see device history on everything we've done to that device. Um 2300 also includes Chromebook repairs, device repairs, um something's not working in their room,

128they can't get on to Infinite Campus, those type of things that includes that as well. Um some of our upcoming goals for the year um surprise uh Miss Preston and and Mr. Colbertson are getting a new wireless access points that'll be coming sometime in the next month. Uh we work with a third party vendor that's part of our rate funding um which is money from the federal government that helps to subsidize our um connectivity. And so we can use that money to offset some of the costs that we have. We get a 70% reduction in all of our cost for that program and then they come on site and they install it. No school is going to go down. We literally take one access point off the wall, put the new one up and move

129to the next room. Nobody um is going to do it. We do it after hours. Um and then we're continuously maintaining our servers. Um a lot of our servers are outdated and so we're upgrading those as possible. in the state has provided us what they're calling the Q's project which is connected user experience which basically takes the ability for all of our data that goes into Munis which is our human resources side and all of our infinite campus data and anytime anybody gets put into that system now they get a new email address that's created. We've had a system similar to this for about three years now that does account automation. Um but this will be paid for by the state so we're going to save a little bit of money there. Uh but it

130does provide you know once a person leaves their account is no longer active. And a lot of the districts that have had some email address problems it's because they have an open email address from years ago that they don't realize is still open and so somebody hacks into that system finds the email address and now they're sending out to all of our list serves on all over the state. Um, you know, our most recent one was that uh there was an email that came across that had um payroll notification voicemail. And so people thought, "Oh, that means that somebody's calling me about my payroll." And it was basically you click the link and then you put in your information and now you're hacked and you all your information is taken from you. Uh so cyber

131security is something that's very important to us. When those come in, we instantly delete them from our server and block those from our um list serve so that that can't happen. And anybody that has clicked the link, we instantly change their password so that they can um hopefully not get into our system. Um and so having this automated system where the moment they're inactive in Munice, they no longer have an email address or they have a certain offloading time um after that to transition to a new job or wherever they're going or into retirement to their next phase to get their stuff off. But at certain point that account's no longer active um is what the state is trying to do for every district. And so we're uh we're within we're the first group to

132go. They had a pilot group and then we're the first cohort. So we're we've done a lot of data cleanup um over the last two months for that. So that was the technical side. Now we have our Infinite Campus side. So I Infinite Campus clerks all report to me under my um and they're my employees. And so over the summer they've processed 2400 online enrollment applications and 440 of those have been new applications. That's not including any of those that are have left and they've had to transfer their transcripts to the new schools. Um, our infinite campus clerks do a lot on top of making sure that attendance is posted every single day. Um, and they do a lot of data. There are a lot of a lot of what they do is data cleanup

133and data validation because um, everything that we pull from for students come from Infinite Campus. It goes to our thirdparty vendors that allows the students to do that. And if it's not correct in Infinite Campus, it's not correct on the third party app. So, I put a little diagram down there just so you could kind of see like everything comes from Infinite Campus. And so there's been a lot of training in my department on how that all works um and with uh staff as well. And so it could take anywhere from 48 hours from a new student to get access to all of the programs. We don't control when the third party accepts our data from Clever or from another program. We don't control that. Um but they they do it when they do it.

134Um and just so you know, we're 99.6% contactable through Parent Square. So that means we have 99.6 six. There's 13 people that we are diligently trying to get information on um that do not have the ability to accept an emergency call from the district or whatever through parent square um or get any kind of updates. So, that is our that is our job of our infinite campus clerks who make those uh changes. And then if you really want to know, here's some more data for you. Um this is our and I'll share this with you so you don't have to, but this is our um as of June 6, 2025, all of our parent square um information. So 54,000 direct messages have been sent to parents through parent square. Um and then there's other things

135here. Uh so that's the infinite campus side. Now we'll go down the instructional side of the road. um GoG Guardian Teacher, which is what we use to see computer screens for students. Um we've had HPARA for many, many years. When the state purchased GoG Guardian Admin, they gave us a deal that we could purchase GoGuardian Teacher, which in my opinion is a far superior um program at a significantly reduced price. So, we were able to save money through switching to GoGuardian Teacher from HPARA. It's just taking some t some instructional learning on the teacher side of it to get it going. Um our middle school and high school students are in their first full year of Canvas. Last year was a middle um where they could choose between Canvas or Schooly. Um and then we

136purchased for the district um from the district level the parade learning suite which is an interactive engaging um program that does the instructional side, it does the practice side and then does the assessment side. So I put on here just a little bit of um little the data that I pulled. We've had 530 interactive engaging slide presentations. That would be a teacher giving a presentation. The student can interact with that presentation on their Chromebook. Answer questions, give the feedback to the teacher, and the teacher can then go back and assess the student right there with formative assessments. And then pair practice is the I'm going to use um a time for like um going in and doing a recap or a review. I'm going to use this as a gamification model. But then every question

137that the student gets wrong, it then uses AI to help practice and make um make their learning a little bit better. So the teachers upload their presentation or their slides and then they use AI to go back and practice. So we've had 50,000 minutes of practice in that program since August. Um and then we've given almost 3,000 exams through pair assessment as well. Um so it is well worth its money. It's a little expensive, but um it is something that uh as a whole package, it's it's hard to break it all down. We pay for GoG Guardian teacher, GoG Guardian Beacon, uh pair deck, pair practice, and pair assessment all together. Um and it's about $60,000 for the entire thing. U pair beacon is what I didn't put on here. Beacon is our safety check.

138So, anytime a student does um sends a message that is self harm related um our mental health specialists or counselors or principles all get annoying emails until they click on it to get help for that student. And um it uses AI to not track but to alert based off what that student did. Um so sometimes it will pull um a in the counselor's emails where they put suicide hotline, it'll say the student's researching it. It doesn't send an alert for that one, but it does. We have we've had several alerts where they have been active and um Jill Harus has had to make phone calls because of that. So, we've had GoG Guardian Beacon for many years. Um and so it was nice to get that at a reduced price as well. >> Can I

139ask a follow-up question on that? >> So, if I understand correctly, it's monitoring their searches as well. Like, so if they search suicide hotline or something of that nature or maybe attempt >> options, what about AI? Is it monitoring chat at all or any? >> It monitors everything they do on the Chromebook. >> So if they access chat or any AI and type in a question, it'll ping. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> So anything they type into the into their Chromebook or comes up some like even in comments on YouTube videos sometimes it'll tag it just as a comment. Mhm. >> And so it provides a screenshot of the student, what they did with the website, what time they did it, um, and allows the mental health specialist to get in there and

140associate or to get with that student to see if there was there was an issue. Um, and it's 247. It doesn't stop. So, um, the schools handle it during the day and then the there's an overnight team that handles it at the night time. Um, so it's a it's a pretty powerful thing. Um, and it protects the students, but it only does it on their Chromebook. It won't do it on their personal devices. Um, our digital learning coaches, just for your reference, have given about 107 PDs. That's about because that's about where we came up with 107 PD hours to our schools and to our teachers. Um, and have taught about 100 co-taught lessons side by side with teachers. Um, they do everything from 3D printing. Lego has a new science kit that they have

141to get kids interested in science. So, we purchased a classroom set that they go around and co-e with them. Um, the teachers, we also have Amplify Science that they're working on. Um, and so these are just a few things. Lego brick cues, it's another, um, getting kids thinking about math in different ways. Um, that's what they do. Reading progress, I shared a year ago, I believe, um, where it's using AI to track the reading. Most of our elementary schools are using that. Our EEL teachers are using it, and now our world language teachers are starting to use it. Um and so that's just some of the things that they do. Um there's three pages of stuff. Um and so the other thing that we are focusing on is our cohorts. So every teacher is a

142part of a cohort. And for technology, we're using artificial intelligence. I'm leading that one. Erica is leading 3D printing. Um and then demonstrations of learning through technologies by SA Sandy is taking care of that one. And these are six hours over the course of the year that teachers will get um as part of their professional growth plan. Um this is a little cool thing. So I didn't put a lot of pictures, but I did put this picture. So um I'm going to geek out for just a moment. Bamboo Lab is a very nice um 3D printer. Um they they make 3D printers. And so additive manufacturing is one of the uh top things that we are producing in Kentucky. And if you haven't seen, Somerset just started 3D printing a house. Um, and at the

143Somerset location through the KCTCS program, you look it up on the internet. It's really cool to see this big machine going around in a circle printing concrete um, layer by layer. So, it works the same way. Um, but Bamboo Lab has rolled out a and they are an international company by the way. So, Bamboo Lab is rolled out these things that are called Cyber Bricks. They per they partnered with CADCL class. I'll get there in a second. CAD class is a curriculum that we have purchased for students to learn 3D printing. We use it with our engineering class and our elementary ones. Um and so they have sent us enough for our engineering students to go through the curriculum. Bamboo Lab sent them sent us all of those for free so that we could get

144feedback for their curriculum that they're trying to roll out. So what the students have done is they've printed all their parts and now they're programming this robot to accept the commands that are becoming that are coming from the um controller to manipulate and do different things. Uh, and this directly relates to manufacturing because if you've ever been inside a Toyota uh, site visit that they do, they do tours and they have what they call the big bird and it basically takes the car from the first level robot robot, lifts it up to the second level and places it on the second level chassis and continues on down the line. That's essentially what our students are learning all about right here um, through this program. And this was a gift to us for um giving them

145the feedback. So we have enough for our engineering class to do that. And that's that was just one of the pictures. Um so they had to they had to print the files and now they're working on trying to build all these different motors and making it manipulate through that. Yeah. Um and then we also have our technology and innovation academy. Um this is nine teachers, one from each elementary school, two from the middle school and high school, two from each of those and one from Safe Harbor. They get six half-day professional learning activities. Um, and we've had two of them so far. We did breakout and Legos. And then, um, CAD class and 3D printing was our last one. They get lunch. And we've had our lunch sponsored by, um, Fivacity, which is our Chromebook

146sponsor, was the first one. And then CAD class sponsored our second one because uh, we're trying to get our lunches sponsored so it doesn't impact the district finances. All right, that's it. So that's four years in the making for you, Miss Springgate. [laughter] >> I was just gonna take a moment to brag on you. Um the technology department has always been um just a real um highlight, I think, in Woodford County and so I really always appreciate that, but it's nice to have the slides and the data to back it up. Um I did have a couple things. One, can we have the slides attached to the agenda? So anybody that wants to see it could go back and we could go back later and see it too if we have questions. >> It'll also

147be on the board brief. >> Perfect. And then uh the second thing was I really appreciate how you listed the positions and then you listed the number of students and you listed the replacements um schedule that we're going to be doing. Just a couple of things. I wondered um Dr. Jones, if we couldn't get a listing of um the positions or just the number of positions um the number of students kind of served and then um the the budget for maybe the past five years just for the technology department. So it would have like those three pieces of information if anybody else wanted something added >> just technology. Well, I mean, honestly, I would like for for all the departments, but yeah, technology uh just just to start just so that we can kind of

148look at that historic information and kind of have an idea about where that what that looks like. And then if there's anything unusual that happened like I know we went a number of years and didn't replace so that you might just make a little note or if we had the one year where we replaced all of them and started the program for the entire you know school. >> So that would have happened during ESSER funding. Eser funding kickstarted the K12 replacement program. >> Yes. So if you just make a note so that we would kind of understand, oh that's a big jump because we were just doing the high school and now we're doing, you [snorts] know, whatever. Just something like that would be very I think helpful just to kind of get in our

149mind what the trends look like. So thank you. >> Anybody else? >> Yeah, thank you for sharing all of that. And I I will say also because I know a lot of people think of AI, I really appreciate that you and your team are leaning into it and using it for, you know, moving us forward. And, you know, some people are just afraid of it, but I it's not going anywhere. And technology and AI and everything is something that all of our students are going to utilize and so we have to lean into it and so I really thank you for not only sharing it here, but also just as you're promoting the technology departments. >> Yeah. Just so we're clear, I did not use AI to create this presentation. I mean, >> I promise.

150[laughter] >> I I really did not. >> One thing along the lines of and this this is just like a planting a seed for further conversation along the lines of um what Mr. Brickler was just saying, I I think and and having a conversation with my own child about ethical use of AI. As a college professor, I run across this and we've had conversations about AI all the time, but I would really love to see as we move forward with some of these programmings to kind of get above the curve of I don't know what other districts are doing, but to be able to teach our students how to ethically use AI to continue to boost critical thinking, but use it as a tool just as we do other calculators or, you know, a Google

151search or something of that nature. So they are on the right path to be able to incorporate AI in a way that does not retract from their learning experience but just adds to it makes it more robust but also with the training wheels as well especially around the mental health and I know we've talked about that as well but that that might be something that actually comes through the legislative session um coming up about the mental health and AI risks but um but do I I do think that having those that planting those seeds even in our elementary schools about how to effectively use AI as as a tool um and not use it to do your work 100%. Having that balance I think would be really really good >> and I think that might

152be something innovative for us to do. >> The uh calculator at one point was the scary technology. >> Yes. And now it's in our pockets, right? >> All right. Thank you very much. >> But thank you for all you do. You guys are doing great work. >> All right. I don't think we have any public comment. So, can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Motion by Mr. Wilson. >> Second by Miss McCauen. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes five to zero. Can I have a motion to accept notification of personnel matters? >> So move. >> Motion by Mr. Wilson. >> Second by Miss Macauen. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes five to zero. Can I have a motion to approve the

153minutes of the September board meetings? >> So move. >> Motion by Mr. Wilson. >> Second by Miss Macauen. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I I myself. >> Motion passes five to zero. Uh can I have a motion to accept notification and payment of bills? So move. >> Motion by Mr. Wilson. >> Second by Miss Macauen. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Motion passes 4 to one. Can I have a motion to approve the September financial report treasures report? >> So moved. >> Motion by Miss Macauen. >> Second by Mr. Wilson. And we'll open it up for Mr. Smith. >> U. So in [clears throat] front of you is the September FY26 general fund monthly recap document that I've been providing for the last several months. >>

154So the revenues for September were $1,278,8782. The expenditures were 3,4,268.36. Uh, of that the breakdown for salary and benefits is 2,631,311 which is 88% of the total expenditure. And uh the non salary and benefit was $372,956 which is 12% of the total expenditures. And we just wanted to point out there, you know, typically our salary and benefit breakdown is somewhere closer to the 80% mark. So that just shows you how we're trying to cut out non-sary and benefit expenditures. And so that ratio has sort of skewed outside of what we have done traditionally. Um [clears throat] there's the pie chart of those expenditures. And then I just wanted to give you just a cash collection breakdown at the bottom uh through September for the month. So you know we get some SEK dollars and we

155get some uh other monies that trickle into the general fund from uh [snorts] July 1 through September 30th. But those are these are the cash uh needs that uh are over and above our collections during that period. Uh we have a debt service payment of $1.5 million. And then the the other general fund expenditures so far are $4.9 million for a total cash requirement above collections of $6.4 million during that period. Okay. Um what questions do you have for me about the remaining financial documents? >> I don't really have a question. Uh, but I did want to um note that I liked the um I'm not sure what it was called. Hold on. >> Yeah, the that document. Yeah. >> Yeah. Really like having that information. >> So, I've [clears throat] provided that document since

156July one. That's the that's our um breakdown by department that you've asked for. Uh that's the closest way like there's no way for me to go into munus and say give me the budget by departments right so we code everything classify everything by projects the projects most closely represent um the department so you know you mentioned the technology department so all the various departments are laid out in that um technology finance curriculum instruction uh there's a a board a couple of you have asked questions in the last couple weeks about the board activities what's what's that number made up of? And so those are the things like the property uh liability insurance, the things that the board pays on behalf of the district to operate, uh tax collection fees, um just those big overall general

157expenditures that the district needs. So that's what makes up that for the most part. >> Anybody else have any other questions? >> Um I was just commenting um I emailed Mr. Smith because I had a question about the way that some of our some of the items looked like they were they were negatives and he said that the projects that have negative balances usually also have revenue codes associated with them. So those are recorded as credits and the and the credits look like negatives because that was throwing me off [laughter] >> and I also scary. >> Yeah. >> So I just wanted in case anybody else came upon that that's what I learned. >> Yeah, that's a good question. And some of these projects do have revenues assoc ass associated with them. So like Medicaid

158reimbursements and some of the other reimbursements there's a revenue line in there and the revenue revenues and munis or most accounting systems are are recognized as credits. Credits have are negatives and so when you see those negatives they're almost always I'm not going to say you might never see a negative that's truly a negative expenditure but I think that holds true in just about all cases on this document. So >> thank you. All right. All those in favor of approving September financial report treasures report. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes five to zero. Can I have a motion to approve the salary schedule modification? >> Motion by Mr. Wilson. >> Second by Miss Macauen. Any other discussion or questions? You want to just give us kind of a highlight of what this is? >>

159Yes. So, that modification is a $500 stop and request um to administrate a regional or district tournament that is hosted at either our high school or our middle school and I suppose any other school that would potentially ever have any such an event. Um from my understanding, we probably only host these events once every three to five years. Uh but it is a lot of work understandably. Um, and so, uh, I was requested, uh, to have that put on the salary schedule. So, that's what that's reflective of. Um, and I put the the request for this particular time was two people wanted to split that split those administrative duties. And so, I just kind of put the wording in there that it could either be one $500 stop or two 250 or, you know, essentially

160however the breakdown needed to be. But that's that's what the request is for. So this would this would be giving somebody funds that are organizing the event the district or regional tournament that we would be holding. >> That's correct. Right. Yeah. >> And who who would this person be and what's in like what's in encompassed in that time frame for them? Like what where's the limitations between what like our coaching staff may do for this versus the administrative person versus a parent or guardian volunteer, you know, like what is what is this consisting of, I guess, is my question. Tyler, you want to? >> Yeah. There's a lot of supervision duties that go into teams that aren't count. [clears throat] [snorts] The goal of this is this would be revenue. >> Well, I guess my

161question is, and I was at the Shelby Collins game working the gate, by the way. Um, what does that look like when you say administrator? Is that the SRO officer that's there? Is it the AD that's there at the game? Who who is considered the administrator? And do those because all those people have a role, the coaches have a role. Um who how is who is the administrator, I guess, is what I'm asking. days >> and is that them being present? I I guess my question is what what exactly does that $500 entail that they're and the reason why I'm asking this is I don't want to take away from an extra duty that someone's doing. But so I'm trying to tread lightly because that's not what I'm getting at, I guess. But I also

162want to be protective of the funds that our athletics generate from those gate fees as well. And I know that KHSA K that acronym KH Kentucky high school schools >> what am I trying to say? Thank you. The athletics that you know they set the gate prices and that sort of thing. So what is that where does that leave our athletics that are maybe gaining some value from those gate prices um and hosting those district games. We don't gain a lot from hosting district. We take all that revenue and then that pays out to run [snorts] the tournament then once all those expenses are paid those competing schools. districts are in the district. >> Okay. >> That does make sense. I guess my question is how will the $500 impact that and is that again

163with the duties of that is that putting what additional duties does that have put on the the person who maybe paid this $500 as well as what does that look like as far as because if I understand correctly don't school officials who come to the games and are working that get an extra fee get paid extra to be at the present at those games >> or any game workers an hourly that's already paid out [snorts] to do their duties. Most of those relate directly to high school. So again, this is just kind of our So, are you saying that? I'm sorry to ask so many questions, but I just want to make sure I understand. >> No, go ahead. Go ahead. >> Get your mic. >> And I've heard you bring this up before, too,

164and Miss McCallen does a great job of asking questions before the meeting so that they can have time to prepare an answer. And you know, and I think that would be helpful in the future if we have these type of of questions that can help everybody. We ought to be [clears throat] able to to get that to them so they'll have an opportunity to to do to do the research and answer it. >> Well, and I I completely agree with that and I'm sorry I'm asking all these questions and I don't mean to put you on the spot. >> Well, no, I just I think I didn't realize exactly what this typing was going toward and that's why I have all the >> Oh, I understand. No, I'm just sorry. No, no, no. I'm just

165trying to >> Yeah. No, I agree. >> Because I know we asked we asked a question during a presentation and we have four people just staring at each other. >> Right. >> Because they didn't know how to answer it. >> Right. Right. >> Uh and I know that's that puts them in a difficult situation. >> It does. And I think that it's important to note that we do ask those questions for the people that are watching this too because sometimes they don't see like why didn't they ask that? Why didn't they discuss it? And I think that Miss Macauen does a great job of saying I I emailed this question and this is the response that I got. So, um, and I did email a question to Mr. Smith about that and he responded to

166me. Um [clears throat] >> workers like we are hosting a basketball for those kind of games that aren't necarily in our school. >> Well, and I guess that as a parent who's worked that worked the district tournament recently, I did a lot of concession shifts as well as worked the gate a couple different times. I I don't think parent volunteers or guardian volunteers ever expect that's part of your kid being on the team. You get you pay that out in your volunteer hours in a lot of ways to make sure the team runs smoothly and smoothly and that sort of thing. So I don't think that's so much of an issue. I'm just I guess my concern with our budgets being as tight. This is another cost. I want to make sure people are effectively

167compensated for their time on the other side of that. So I was just curious of what that breakdown like how do you determine who gets that fund if it goes directly to the ad or if it's hey we had a you know we had a teacher that came and they worked the clock for us and they get you know $100 for their time and then we had like I guess that's my question is it all going in one lump sum to one person because they're facilitating everything or is it those individual people who have volunteer not necessarily volunteered as a parent but our school staff in some capacity who are staying there longer, working extra hours, I do think that they should be compensated for their time. So, I'm guessing is it all $500 to

168each person or is it $500 is distributed across people who may be there being spent extra time. Is that additional cost on top of what they get as a stipen to begin with or is it just going straight to our IDs? What does that >> break? The way the salary schedule modification is is there would be one $500 stopend per tournament tour either regional or district to tournament >> and that would get divided >> that that would be up to the principal and the athletic director at the given school's discretion if they wanted to split it two ways, three ways, you know, that would be up to them, but it would be one $500 total from my understanding for the uh tournament. that they're getting ready to host. They're going to split it amongst two

169people to share that. So, it' be 250 for each each person and they're going to share those administrative duties that that Mr. Reid's referencing about that particular tournament. >> Okay, that makes that makes that clarifies that. Thank you. I appreciate Sorry to ask a bunch of questions to get to that answer. I feel like >> I do think discussion is important and should be had an open meeting. So, I do appreciate what you know the questions. Um I did just want to clarify. So, we have a ton of district and regional tournaments each year, right? With different sports. >> Yes, we hosted boys soccer, girls soccer. >> Okay. And then like So, how many district and regional tournaments are we talking about like in a school year? What about like the WCI or specific tournaments

170like that? >> Okay. And then the other thing just uh it does say there is a line that says the cost would come from the general fund unless the tournament entity allowed for a reimbursement to the district. >> So do we know if the tournament entities which I guess is KHSAA if it's regional and district tournaments do they allow for reimbursement to the district? >> Yeah. So yes and I only put that on there just in the event Mr. Reed referenced earlier that the idea is that we host a tournament and we take in the gross ticket sales and then the before we do the split to the other schools that are um attending in that tournament, we would deduct the operating costs for the district which that one of that those operating costs would

171be that $500 stipent and then we would distribute um the residual to the other schools. If that makes sense. >> It does. >> Pay us. pay pay us first to host the the tournament and then distribute the residual. Right. >> So, can we take that it would come from the general fund out if it sounds like they do allow it to come from the tournament? Um, >> the the only reason I put that in there is because, you know, we had a discussion about this a couple weeks ago with Mr. Johnson, Mr. Reid. There could be a situation that comes up with some of these tournaments. And it just depends on who the host sponsor is that it could be something that we might not be allowed to do what we're talking about here with

172paying that stopping out of. And so I just wanted to put that in there to give us the leeway if that event happened that we can pay that stop and out if that makes sense. So >> okay, so we're covering all the bases. So, there could be situations where we get reimbursed, we don't have the $500, or there could be a situation where it does need to come out of general fund for this to pay the extra organizers for these district and regional tournaments. >> Yes. Okay. >> With the normal situation being as prescribed earlier, gross ticket sales, pay pay the stop and distribute the residual. So, >> and to be clear, this is not just the organizers. These are other people that may be also contributing to running of the event. And that will

173be and I guess I want to advocate for that to happen that it doesn't that this it takes an small village to run one of these district events. I want to be clear about that and that those people who are in our staff who are contributing that that they get also compensated as part of that. That's just my advocacy point. I know I have no control over that but I just want to mention it. [laughter] >> Yeah. I I just want to clarify that Mr. Reid mentioned it. you know, within our salary schedule, we do allow for if somebody's working a gate or or whatever cons whatever to to be able to pay them for those activities. This specific uh stop and is just for uh this particular person is going to be the the

174home field administrator. They're going to coordinate all the other team. Yes. Right. >> Uh all that. And so that's what this is for specifically. and there would just be one per per tournament. >> So, we're kind of going back to that previous conversation of that this looks like it's probably following more athletic directors and people that are on the front end, not so much the people that are doing the work at the game like the clock example. Is that correct? So, because that kind of goes back to >> That's my understanding. My understanding is it's the person that's going to administrate the tournament. I'd like to make a motion that we not approve this um recommendation until we have some additional information lining out what what it is we're approving exactly who is eligible. >>

175Motion on right now. >> So So there's a motion on the table. So the way to do that now would be to vote nay. >> Okay. Perfect. And I just want to say too in regards to this, my only issue is that I know that there are other areas of uh extracurricular activities, clubs, organizations, and folks who spend a great deal of time um outside of outside of you know what you would normally expect that do not receive stipens. So I want to be careful that we are not being selective and saying this is worthy of a stipend, this is worthy of a stipend. that's not. So, I just would like to get a better understanding of that >> and maybe just have a discussion in the future about what where we're doing siphons. Um,

176might be helpful just to have a big picture. >> I don't remember who made the motion. >> I did. Okay. >> Yeah, it was second. So, we're here. What I will say, and I know we're about to vote, um, but I haven't said anything about this. I mean, this is something above and beyond a normal sporting event that people do already get paid for. Everyone would still get paid for. This is just an additional $500 stipen for individuals to run a bigger event that may or may not even have Woodford County involved. So, to me, this does not seem like a big ask. And [snorts] I don't know, I think we've dug deeper into this than we have on other bigger issues, but I think this just makes sense that we're asking a staff member

177to do above and beyond, host a bigger tournament, organize with other schools, other organizations here. $500 does not seem out out of the ordinary for this. So, I I understand there are other things and and we need to be careful that we're not trying to micromanage how everything is done, especially with an amount like this. So, that's that's what I'll say on my piece, but um vote. >> I don't I don't think it's micromanaging. I think it's just vote because we've talked about this for a while. >> Well, can I ask one question? >> All those in favor of approving the salary schedule modification, >> I. All those opposed. >> Nay. >> Motion fails. Two to three. >> All right. Can I have a motion to approve the shortened school day, shorten school week? >>

178So moved. >> Motion by Miss Macauen. >> I will second it. Any discussion on that >> here? >> All right. All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes five to zero. Can I have a motion to approve creation of position? >> So moved. >> Motion by Miss Macauen. I'll second it. Any discussion or questions on the creation position? >> I did just have the same request that I had for the tech department. If we could just kind of get a listing of the number of positions, the number of students served in the budget for the past five years or so for the um special education department, I think that would be helpful too in looking at trends. >> All right. >> We can do that. We have that. >> Um if you could

179just I I believe this one is mandated by law, but if you could just give a high level overview of this new position. So, if a student um well, if you were within a grade level of certification from um K through sixth grade, you can only in the state of Kentucky have 15 students on your case load. If you are in seventh and up um to grade 14, then you can have up to 20 students on your case load. So, we are we are required at 15 to do something. We're we are about to cap out um at Southside with the number of teachers we have. So, we are going to have to do something there to make sure that they are covered. That is one location. And we may be looking at um coverage

180in another location as well given moveins and um new referrals [snorts] and things like that. >> What happens when those numbers change? So, Southside may be in that situation now, but they may not be in that situation next year. So what happens to those people that are hired and may not need them any longer? >> So in that event, which has not occurred while I've been here in nine years, it just keeps going up. Um and we have had to add based on numbers. Uh we would look at staffing from a legal standpoint and then we have to look at it from a maintenance of physical effort standpoint. We have to look at it from a lot of different angles. um idea is governed around a lot of different pieces that's required. So that's that's

181one we would really have to look at it. But I do look at all that every year. >> And can I ask um I know you come to us and say we're about to be at calf or we're about to be over if somebody else moves in then we're going to be over the numbers. So, when you're looking at that, are you um are you bringing it to us like proactively or or do you wait until like then we have the numbers and then you bring it? >> I'm waiting until I can't push another student on those case loads. So, we've had students move in and we have like one open spot and we have like five students in referral. >> So, it's more proactive. >> Barely. >> It it is barely proactive. Yeah, we

182do. if it is barely proactive. That's the best way to put it. If if I >> I can't predetermine students are going to place for services. But if I can look at data and I've been doing this a long time and I know what I can project out >> based on that, then that's that's where we are with those referrals. But I barely bring it. Yeah. I wait until I have one or two spots left and we have moveins every week. So, um, we rarely have people leave in the middle of the year around here. So, it's not like, um, some districts have them have them come and go a lot in the middle of the year. We really do not. So, it's a good question, though. >> Anybody else have questions? All right. Uh,

183all those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes five to zero. Can I have a motion to approve the hardship applications? >> So moved. Motion by Miss Macauen. I will second it. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I motion or any opposed? Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Mr. Chairman, I move I make a motion to go into executive session for discussion concerning student discipline pursuant to KRS [clears throat] 61.810 810L and F deliberations on the future acquisition or sale of real property of which publicity would be likely to affect the value pursuant to KRS number 61 uh.810 LNB and for discussion of pending litigation pursuant to KRS61.810 810 L and C >> just [snorts] just to clarify for the record. Sorry. The statutory sections are 1 F, 1 C, and 1B. >>

184Okay. >> Sorry. >> McDonald is in favor. >> I voting There was no action in executive session. We have a motion to return from executive session by Mr. Ambrose. >> Second by Miss Macauen. All those in favor? >> I. >> Miss motion. Mr. Motion. >> Motion passes five to zero. >> I move we adjourn. >> Motion to adjurnn >> by Mr. Wilson. Second. All those in favor? I >> motion passes five to zero. I'm glad you're here. Thank you all. >> Thank you. Thank you.