001Special called schoolboard meeting here at Woodford County Public Schools. Do roll call. All members are here in person. We also want to welcome our new superintendent, Dr. Jones. Thank you for being here. Thank you. All right. We only have a couple things on the agenda today. The first, uh, can I have a motion to approve the travel requests? Motion by Mr. Wilson. Second. Second by Miss Macauen. Any discussion? I just wondered about I emailed Dr. Jones this morning. Um but the funding source or title one funds and so like how how many how many dollars do we have in those funds if these travel requests are approved? Like how much will we have left over and that kind of thing I thought would be good to know. So, North Side, oh, thank you. North Side
002um is using funds from from like leftover funds and they actually on their request put either um July or September just waiting to see what happens with all the frozen funds currently right now. And so, um they're just they just wanted to have the approval in case that they had the the funding and felt like it was okay to go. And then, um I checked on Simmons and they would have 12,000 left in their allocation just for their school. So I didn't email you this. So if you don't have this information, I totally understand. It was just something I thought of just now. Who is going? Is this primarily teachers or is this administration as well? Okay. I was just curious about that. Now and so I think one administrator and maybe the new dean
003would be going um with North Side, but Okay. Yeah. Any other questions? All right. All those in favor? I I Any opposed? Motion passes five to zero. All right. The other thing that we had on the agenda is just a discussion item. Um most of you know we've been working on a voting district for the board members and so we did meet um with county clerk's office to to get this done. So we wanted to share the results. We posted electronic versions of the options already, so those are made public. Um, we want to make sure that everybody has time because we'll actually be voting on this as an item at the regular meeting on the 28th this month. So, this was just an opportunity to make them public, have everybody uh give everybody a
004chance to review them. We can talk about them here as well, but just so the public has them and uh can give their input for the over the next few weeks. I just had a quick question. Do you know when they were posted? Was it last Wednesday? Oh, okay. Okay. When when you sent out the notice for the agenda, I looked and I just didn't see them attached, but they've been attached. Okay. Just wanted to make sure. Thank you. Yeah. And just a little recap on these. So, um, we didn't have to move things a ton, but there are obviously changes. there were some of the voting districts that had too many people in the population. Um, some that had not enough people and so we did what we could to move certain neighborhoods around
005to even out the between all of the different districts. Um, so the population is listed per district on each of these options. Uh, that you can see the street names, you can see, you know, kind of where the lines changed. Um, you know, personally, I like the ones where the the lines are a little bit smoother on two and three, just to throw that out there because it kind of makes district one, Mr. Ambrose's or Mr. Wilson's uh district kind of a clean cut across the top there. But yeah, it was an interesting exercise. we we were able to utilize the system um that the county had in having the census data so that as we moved and everything had to be done by census blocks. We couldn't just draw our own kind of lines
006across. It had to be very specific to census blocks. Um which when you think about the different sizes of our different neighborhoods and subdivisions, one little change drastically altered it and then you got to make another change somewhere else. So, it it took us a couple meetings to get through it, but um hopefully the options one of the three options are agreeable to everybody. But yeah, just really wanted to share these for for everybody's information. So, this is just as that's what it currently is. Yes. So, so that and that can be found online as well. Um we don't have a big print out of that one, but that's one. But yeah, so the one that is for the streamers, this is what it currently sits at. And the last time this one was done
007was back in 2017. Um, and so we wanted to use more recent census data. And it's funny too, the other thing that we learned is that like if you see on this first map, this first option, you see the orange, the yellowish orange where these two are together kind of right in the middle. You can't just take one of those and put it with another district because they have to be you have to have like a contiguous thing. So if you did that then it would be you know not connected to another yellow spot or something like that. I mean it was all very and like Adam was saying it's all got to do with sort of census blocks and they have to be touching each other. So it wasn't like you could say oh
008let's take this street and move it here because that makes sense. Well, when you look at the census block, it was too many too many people. So, it was very interesting, right? And we're also trying to keep in mind the voting precincts um so that we didn't split neighborhoods or split streets. And how did that work out? Well, I know in the past I've been in four or five. We have Yeah. So, the the the difficult part of that is there's eight voting precincts and there's five school districts here. So, it's not going to be perfect, but that's that's another reason we wanted to share this now is so that the county clerk's office also had this available and they can review and maybe give some insight into which option may work better for them
009too with those voting precincts. But this keeps all of these options keep everybody in their district. Nobody gets moved out or anything like that. So, really just redistributing um the population. And on the first option, this is at 1.5% and then the other two are 1.75. And you might remember from a previous discussions with Kenneth just saying that you want to get it as close to nothing, you know, as you possibly can. It can't be anything way outlandish or way off. So these were all I felt like really very good and deliberate trying to get it as accurate as possible as evenly spread. Well, thank you guys both for doing all this work. We definitely appreciate it because I know it involves a lot of nuance and moving um and definitely appreciate um our county
010clerk, Miss Jones and Kenneth too for their work. Um, is there um an option that the the county clerk's office leans toward or was easier for them with moving folks around? We don't know yet. That's why we wanted to make this um available this early and have it on on the discussion now so that they would have time to review it as well. um kind of just took advantage of the fact that we're having a special meeting right now uh for the travel request to include this so that it was out there and and available and we're look we'll look for feedback over the next few weeks. Where where is it located online? The option it's on our website. You will be able to if you go to the Woodford County Public Schools website, we
011do have a link to it there because people had been asking for that. So that is there. Awesome. It's kind of hard to find otherwise if you just Google it. It's kind of hard, but it is. And but it's the current map, not not the proposed maps. Correct. Okay. Yes. Perfect. And the proposed maps um and the current map are all attached to the agenda. So, anybody that wanted to see it could just go to this agenda and look at it and they'll be attached to the regular meeting agenda also. Perfect. Perfect. And then I guess the only thing I would say is I think the last time uh we neglected to um the room was full and we neglected to see um our clerk and staff. So I would ask that it be put
012at the top of the agenda so that they don't have to set hours and hours and hours into a meeting. I agree with that. Yes. Thank you. Does anybody have anything else? Do you all have any favor? I I honestly don't. I'm not married to a single one of these. I think they're all fair and I don't I don't have one a feeling about them strongly. Yeah. I mean, for for my piece, like I said, visually, option two and three kind of have a more clear-cut like flat line across the top. Um, and I think option two, if I'm not mistaken, has the populations of the five districts the closest. Um, option one would have to be option one because it's 1.5 for option one. Yeah. Or with the Yeah, I mean compared to option
013three. Sorry. I think option two with the flat uh line across the top and option three both have that but I think the population was even the percentage of variable is the same but I think the numbers were a little bit closer but anyway it's very close. So we really wanted to make them as close as possible for the census information. And did this take into account any um uh new building kind of areas, population growth kind of areas just to kind of I know it's hard to kind of get ahead of it, but if we know there's a neighborhood of you know what I mean? We asked about that or maybe Adam asked about that and Kenneth said you can't it has to be based on that 2020 census even though we know there's
014growth that's going to be happening in these areas. It can it can only be based on that information. That makes sense. That makes sense. I just wondered. I'm like always trying to plan ahead. I know. Right. Well, we might have to do this again in 2030 when we get new census data. So, Adam, the only uh comment I would have is on option three, district one population. That's the largest for me, 5449. And I like that because my area is probably the least likely area to grow to add population. So that's uh I kind of like option three because it does, you know, if I lose some, I'd still not be, you know, below everybody else. But I know district one will be the least populated growth area. Okay. In the county, I would think.
015All right. Anybody have anything else? Don't think so. All right. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? So moved. All right. Motion by Miss Macauen. I'm gonna have to go ahead and second. All right. Isn't she in favor? Dr. Ghoul. Good. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. 520. Have a good night, everybody.