Kenton County
June 02, 2025 7:00 PM
Kenton County Board of Education Regular Meeting
I. CALL TO ORDER
I.A. Roll Call
I.B. Moment of Silence and Pledge of Allegiance
II. RECOGNITION
II.A. Special Education Teacher of the Year
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II.B. Governor's Scholars Program
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II.C. Governor's School for the Arts & Entrepreneurs
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II.D. Team Kenton Awards
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III. MONTHLY REPORTS
III.A. Attendance
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III.B. Construction
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III.C. Energy Management
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III.D. Human Resource
III.D.1. Employee Days Without Pay
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III.D.2. Personnel Actions
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III.E. Professional Travel
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III.F. Purchasing
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III.G. School-Related Student Trips - Overnight
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III.H. Student Nutrition
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IV. PUBLIC INPUT
V. CONSENT AGENDA
V.A. Bid Requests
V.A.1. Consider/Approve awarding the Bus Fluids Bid to the vendors as indicated on the attached tabulation from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
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V.A.2. Consider/Approve awarding the Bus Parts Store Discount Bid to the vendors as indicated on the attached tabulation from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
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V.A.3. Consider/Approve awarding the Bus Tires Bid to Bob Sumerel Tire Company as indicated on the attached tabulation from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
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V.A.4. Consider/Approve awarding the Kitchen Equipment Preventative Maintenance and Service bid to Tech 24 as indicated on the Kitchen Equipment Preventative Maintenance and Service Bid Tabulation for the period of July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 with three (3) optional annual renewals available.
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V.A.5. Consider/Approve awarding the Waste Removal & Recycling Bid to Best Way Disposal, as indicated on the Waste Removal & Recycling Bid Tabulation for the contract period of July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026, with three (3) optional annual renewals available.
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V.B. Board Meeting Minutes
V.B.1. Approval of May 5, 2025 Regular Session Minutes
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V.C. Community Use of Facility Agreements
V.C.1. Consider/Approve Community Use Facility contract with the City of Edgewood for use of the parking lots at Caywood Elementary and Turkey Foot Middle School on July 4, 2025.
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V.C.2. Consider/Approve Community Use Facility contract with Drew Mitchell Elite Basketball Club for use of Summit View Academy gymnasium on various dates in 2025-26 school year during non-school time.
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V.C.3. Consider/Approve Community Use Facility contract with the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Summit View Academy for use of the building from June 9-13, 2025.
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V.C.4. Consider/Approve Community Use Facility contract with Recess Legends for use of Summit View Academy gymnasium on various dates in 2025-26 school year during non-school time.
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V.C.5. Consider/Approve Community Use Facility contract with South Kenton Nittany Lions for use of Summit View Academy gymnasium on various dates in 2025-26 school year during non-school time.
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V.D. Construction Change Orders
V.D.1. Consider/Approve Change Order No. 5 with Monarch Construction for the New Central Office Project - BG 24-084.
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V.E. Contracts, Agreements, and Memorandums
V.E.1. Consider/Approve the terms and conditions with Acellus to serve as the K-5 Virtual Learning Platform for KCSD for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.2. Consider/Approve the agreement and extension addendum between the Kenton County School District and AlphaBEST Education, Inc. for Summer Program Services.
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V.E.3. Consider/Approve the software renewal for Amplify Boost and Ryland Heights, Caywood, Kenton, White's Tower, Beechgrove, River Ridge, and Summit View Elementary Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.4. Consider/Approve a sales contract with Amplify mClass Intervention for White's Tower Elementary for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.5. Consider/Approve the software renewal for BrainPOP and Taylor Mill, Ft. Wright, Summit View, and Caywood Elementary for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.6. Consider/Approve the software renewal with BusinessU/Stukent for Dixie Heights and Simon Kenton High Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.7. Consider/Approve the software renewal with Certiport for a Microsoft Office Specialist Site License for Dixie Heights and Simon Kenton High Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.8. Consider/Approve the software renewal with Character Strong for Turkey Foot and Woodland Middle Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.9. Consider/Approve the sales contract with CodeHS Inc. for Simon Kenton High School to purchase 1 teacher license of the CodeHS software for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.10. Consider/Approve Districtwide participation in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program in order to offer no-cost breakfast and lunch to all seventeen schools within the district.
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V.E.11. Consider/Approve the sales contract with Conjuguemos/Yegros Educational LLC for a 12 month subscription to the Conjuguemos for four(4) teachers in Simon Kenton's World Language Department.
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V.E.12. Consider/Approve the software renewal for The Core Project with Simon Kenton, Dixie, and Scott High Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.13. Consider/Approve the renewal of Delta Math for Dixie, Scott, and Simon Kenton High Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.14. Consider/Approve the sales contract with Edpuzzle Inc. to purchase the Edpuzzle Pro School: Starter Edition Site License for Simon Kenton High School for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.15. Consider/Approve the software renewal with Generation Genius, Inc. for Beechgrove, Caywood, Kenton, River Ridge, Hinsdale, Piner, White's Tower, Ryland, Summit View, and Taylor Mill Elementary Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.16. Consider/Approve the sales contract with Gimkit LLC. for site license for Simon Kenton High School for the 2025-26 school year to provide the Gimkit website access to all students and all teachers.
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V.E.17. Consider/Approve the sales contract with Grace Notes LLC for the Sight Reading Factory program for Simon Kenton High School for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.18. Consider/Approve an agreement with Infinite Campus (IC) for the Campus Learning module for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.19. Consider/Approve the contract terms with Infinite Campus (IC) and Kenton County School District (KCSD) for use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Campus Digital Repository (CDR).
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V.E.20. Consider/Approve the 2025-26 Kenton County Non-Public Transportation Contract with the Kenton County Fiscal Court.
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V.E.21. Consider/Approve the software renewal with Kuta Software for Simon Kenton and Dixie Heights High Schools for a 3 year site license.
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V.E.22. Consider/Approve an agreement with Lightspeed for Lightspeed Internet Filter and Lightspeed Classroom Management for the 2025-26 school year and request a waiver from KDE from implementing the state's new internet filter software, Go Guardian, for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.23. Consider/Approve the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Kentucky Department of Education and the Kenton County School District.
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V.E.24. Consider/Approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Eastern Kentucky University to provide Dual Credit courses to qualifying KCSD students for three years beginning with the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.25. Consider/Approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Northern Kentucky University to provide Dual Credit courses to qualifying KCSD students for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.26. Consider/Approve the Memorandum of Understanding between the Kenton County School District and Thomas More University for the Masters of Education in Teacher Leadership course specific to new to the profession teachers.
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V.E.27. Consider/Approve entering into an agreement with Microsoft for 3 Year EES extension beginning with the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.28. Consider/Approve the contract with Ft. Wright Elementary and Music Theatre International to perform the production Elf Jr. December, 2025 produced by the staff sponsors of the Ft. Wright Elementary Drama Club.
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V.E.29. Consider/Approve the contract with R.C. Hinsdale Elementary and Music Theatre International (MTI) for Hinsdale's Drama Club to perform Disney's Moana Jr. in April/May 2026.
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V.E.30. Consider/Approve the software renewal for Newsela/Formative and Ryland Heights Elementary and Dixie Heights High School for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.31. Consider/Approve the sales contract and terms with NoRedInk for Beechgrove Elementary.
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V.E.32. Consider/Approve the software renewal for The Polar Cloud 3D with Caywood, Kenton, and Taylor Mill Elementary and Twenhofel Middle School for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.33. Consider/Approve the contract terms with Read Naturally Live for Beechgrove, Caywood, Kenton, and Summit View Academy for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.34. Consider/Approve Participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) at all seventeen schools in the district, in addition to the Afterschool Snack Program (ASP) during the 21st Century programming at Woodland and Ryland.
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V.E.35. Consider/Approve the software license agreement between Stemscopes and River Ridge to purchase a supplemental, standards-aligned science resource.
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V.E.36. Consider/Approve Student Nutrition to pay indirect costs to the general fund at the non-restricted rate, 14.24% for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.37. Consider/Approve the software renewal of Student Optimized Services (SOS) for Woodland Middle School and Scott and Dixie High School for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.38. Consider/Approve the software license agreement between Studies Weekly and River Ridge to purchase a supplemental, standards-aligned social studies literature resource for K-5 instruction. This is for a 3 year subscription.
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V.E.39. Consider/Approve the renewal of Super Teacher Worksheets for Summit View Academy, Taylor Mill, Ryland Heights, and Caywood Elementary Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.40. Consider/Approve the software renewal for Swank Motion Pictures and Simon Kenton and Dixie Heights High School and River Ridge Elementary for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.E.41. Consider/Approve the software renewal with TCI for Summit View Academy, Turkey Foot, Twenhofel and Woodland Middle Schools for the 2025-26 school year.
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V.F. Fund-Raising Requests - Schoolwide Activities
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V.G. Leave of Absence Requests
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V.H. Payment of Monthly Bills
V.H.1. Accounts Payable
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V.H.2. Purchase Card
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V.H.3. Student Nutrition
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V.H.4. Employee Reimbursement
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V.I. School-Related Student Trips - Approval of Fees, Destination and/or Common Carrier
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V.J. Treasurer's Report
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V.K. Various
V.K.1. Receive 2025 Summer Food Service Program dates, times, and locations.
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V.K.2. Receive the Annual Data Security and Breach Notification Best Practice Guidelines for use with the District Technology and Confidential Information.
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V.K.3. Receive the 2025 Community Based Accountability System (CBAS) Annual Review.
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V.K.4. Consider/Approve the 2025-26 School Activity Fund Budgets.
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V.K.5. Consider/Approve the June 30, 2025 General Fund Restricted and Committed Balances.
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V.K.6. Consider/Approve Renewal of the Treasurer's Performance Bond for fiscal year 2026.
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V.K.7. Consider/Approve Caywood and Beechgrove Elementary schools as recipients of the Reading Diagnostic and Intervention Fund Mini-Grant.
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V.K.8. Consider/Approve hiring one additional certified teacher for the first 13 days of school (August 13-29, 2025) at Beechgrove Elementary.
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V.K.9. Consider/Approve revisions to current job descriptions for Coordinator of Public Information, Media Producer, Student Nutrition Operations Support, School Nutrition Systems Coordinator, Student Nutrition Manager, Student Nutrition Worker, Procurement Manager, and Human Resources Coordinator.
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VI. DISCUSSION AND ACTION
VI.A. Consider/Approve the renewal of Incident IQ for Technology Help Desk software and the districtwide Asset Management system.
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VI.B. Consider/Approve the Microsoft Licensing renewal with Insight for the 2025-26 school year.
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VI.C. Consider/Approve the Design Development plans for the Piner renovation project (BG 25-353)
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VI.D. Consider/Approve the Design Development plans for the White's Tower renovation project (BG 25-351).
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VII. MOTION MAKING AGENDA AND ATTACHMENTS PART OF THE OFFICIAL BOARD MEETING RECORDS
VIII. OTHER BUSINESS
VIII.A. Board Members
VIII.B. Staff and Teachers
IX. RECESS BOARD MEETING TO HAVE FINANCE CORPORATION MEETING
X. MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION PER KRS 61.810(1) (b) (Land Acquisition), (c) (Litigation), and/or (f) (Personnel/Pupil Personnel)
XI. MOTION TO RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION
XII. MOTION TO ADJOURN