The mission of the Franklin County Public Schools is to prepare students for College and Career Readiness and to become contributing citizens.


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Request approval to amend agenda for editing consent item 7.3.1 to approve Scott Klausing Invoice for FCCTC Renovations and Additions, to add consent item 7.6.11 EMS Girls Basketball Overnight to Whitley County Bus Contract, and 7.10.6 Approve BPT TranspARTation Grant.

Approval to Amend Agenda to edit Consent Item 7.3.1 and add Consents Items 7.6.11 and 7.10.6

Order #104 - Motion Passed:  Approval to Amend Agenda to edit Consent Item 7.3.1 and add Consents Items 7.6.11 and 7.10.6 passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Ms. BeLinda Henson.

2013-14 Governor's Scholars:
Western Hills High School - Andrew Bates, Sidney Cobb, Will Grasch, Harper Jones, Todd Stetler, Samantha Hensley, Mackenzie Jones, Kennan Jones, Ethan Aldridge, Morgan Gay, Cam Newton
Franklin County High School - Denise Robson, Hallee Mason, Elijah True

2013-14 School For The Arts:
Franklin County High School - Taylor Strickland, Joe Cheek, Daniel Foster, Madeline Hendrix

2013-14 National Merit Finalists & Semi-Finalists:
Western Hills High School - Andrew Bates, Sidney Cobb, Will Grasch

2014-15 School Calendar Cover Contest Winner; Raygan Shepard

McConnell Extra Mile Award - WHHS - Laura Sell, winner; J.R. Zinner, runner-up; Tara Graves, runner-up

The Franklin County Board of Education has provided time in its agenda for individuals to make comments. Comments to the Board will be allowed up to a maximum of three (3) minutes. The Board does not allow comments on any matter dealing with personnel issues. Kentucky law states specifically that personnel matters are the responsibility of the Superintendent. On all personnel matters, you should contact the Superintendent of Schools. No questions, comments, or decisions/action related to public comments will be made by Board members at this time, unless the specific topic is on the agenda; however, the Board will listen to the comments and/or suggestions which may lead to a discussion of same at a future meeting. If an individual wishes for the Board to discuss and/or take action on a particular issue, they must follow the procedures outlined in Franklin County Board of Education Policy 10.2. The Superintendent or the designee will be able to assist in this request.

As required by KRS 160.470 (7), advertising and hearing requirements must be met in order to levy a tax rate that exceeds the compensating tax rate. 

Advertisements were placed in The State Journal local newspaper on August 25and 31 for the public hearing on September 8 at 5:00 p.m. at the Franklin County Board of Education.

The purpose of the hearing was to entertain public comments related to a proposed tax levy of 65.3 cents on real property and 65.3 cents on personal property.

In 2013, a real property and personal property tax rate of 62.3 was levied by the Franklin County Board of Education.  For 2014, a tax rate of 65.3 is proposed for both real estate and tangible personal property. 

The Board is also required to set the tax rate for 2014 for all motor vehicles.  The proposed rate of 51.0 cents is the same rate that has been levied since 1983.

Order #105 - Motion Passed:   passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Ms. BeLinda Henson.

Procedure 08.2323 AP.2 has been revised under the advisement of the Board attorney to reflect recent changes regarding searching students' personal technological devices.

Procedural revisions do not required Board approval, but your comments are welcome.

Board minutes will reflect the Board reviewed procedure 08.2323 AP.2 changes.

Recommend that the minutes reflect a "review" of revised Procedure 08.2323 AP.2.

KDE District Funding Assurances is attached for your approval.

Order #106 - Motion Passed:   passed with a motion by Mr. Doug Crowe and a second by Mr. William Cofield.

Jim Masters will present information about ACT.

The July Monthly Financial Reports are presented for your review.

Ms. Jones' activities for the month of August are presented for your information.

1 -  Principal meeting (P-PGES), Finance meeting
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4 -  Directors' Meeting, School Visits (vision, mission, beliefs, and goal), Board meeting
5 -  School visits (Vision, mission, beliefs and goal), parent meetings, superintendents' webcast
6 -  School visits
7 -  School visits
8 -  School visits, CIA meeting
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11 - School visits, meeting with 504 coordinator, meeting with EL director
12 - KECSAC meeting, school visits, principal meeting, teacher meeting, WHHS SBDM meeting
13 - Principal meeting
14 - Principals' meeting, WRE SBDM, meeting with Brad Bowman
15 - Meeting with assistant superintendent and Director of Student Services, CIA meeting
18 - Planning meeting (math committee), school visits, Board meeting
19 - School visits, Elementary advisory
20 - NISL training
21 - NISL Training
22 - Principal meeting, parent meeting, school visit, administrative staff meeting
25 - Directors' meeting, meeting with finance director, high school advisory
26 - Chamber meeting, school visits
27 - OVEC Board of Directors, OVEC P-16 council, middle school advisory
28 - Principal meeting, district math committee
29 - Advance Ed Accreditation training

Personnel Actions taken since the last meeting of the Board are presented for your information.

Reports from the following schools' SBDM Councils are presented for your review:


Bridgeport
Collins Lane
Early Learning Village
Elkhorn Elementary
Hearn
Peaks Mill
Westridge
Bondurant Middle
Elkhorn Middle
Franklin County High
Western Hills High

The Consent Agenda is presented for your approval.

Approval of the Consent Agenda as presented

Order #107 - Motion Passed:  Approval of the Consent Agenda as presented passed with a motion by Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown and a second by Mr. William Cofield.

August 4, 2014 and August 18, 2014 minutes are attached for your approval.

Orders of the Treasurer

Date:   9/8/14

Warrant #:  090814       Fund: General Fund/Federal Programs

Warrant #: M083114      Fund: General Fund/Federal Programs

At the regular monthly meeting of the Franklin County School Board on the indicated date above, the following claims and bills were submitted to the Board for approval. The Treasurer was ordered to pay the amounts as indicated.

Approve Scott Klausing Invoices in the amount of (1) $3,144.00 for BMS & EMS Bleacher Renovations and (2) $1,215.00 for FCCTC Renovations and Additions.

Approve Scott Klausing Invoices in the amount of (1) $3,144.00 for BMS & EMS Bleacher Renovations and (2) $1,215.00 for FCCTC Renovations and Additions.

The following employee is requesting approval for a Leave of Absence:

Keeley Howard – CLE – 6 week Maternity Leave beginning on or about 11/24/14

Jennifer Bingham - CLE - 6 week Maternity Leave beginning on 10/13/14 through 11/24/14.

Approve the attached textbook/instructional resource plans - Bondurant, Collins Lane, Westridge, Elkhorn Middle, Peaks Mill & Hearn.

Approve textbook plans-WRE, CLE, BMS, PME, EMS & HES

Please see the attached contract, positions, and payments associated with the musical.

The University of Kentucky has presented a contract which determines compensation for supervisory personnel who work with student teachers from the University of Kentucky.

Contract between Barren County School District and Franklin County Public Schools regarding non-resident students is attached for your approval.

Westridge requests permission to enter into a contract with BBY publishing Libby Pollett for a math PD and consultation at the amount of 2730.00.  This Pd and consultation is aligned with our CSIP in improving our math scores.  ASP funds will be used to pay for this PD.

Wiese Training and Development will present a leadership development workshop for GT students from BMS and EMS. The workshops will take place on November 3, 2014 and March 16, 2014 and will be held at First United Methodist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky. Shannon Crump, Brooke Fell and Melissa Rash will be chaperoning and GT funds will pay for the cost of the workshops as well as lunch and busing for the students. Attached are two contracts for your review.

Bridgeport Elementary request Board approval for The Wulfe Bros to perform at BPE on November 11, 2014 during the Veterans Ceremony.  Show will be paid with Tiger Time ASP funds.

Approve MOA for Audra Deli-Hoofnagle to work as a health consultant at KDE for 2014-2015.

It is the responsibility of the school district to provide an interpreter at Admission and Release Committee (ARC) meetings when parents do not speak English.

Westridge PTO requests permission to enter into a contract with the Wulfe Brothers for a performance on September 18th, 2014 to cost $775.  The cost associated with the performance will be paid by the Westridge PTO.  

The AT&T hosted voice phone system will allow us to replace our 20+ year old system, and meet KETS standards in addition to providing more options for our users.  The current system continues to experience increasing issues on a regular basis.  General funds would be used to pay for the system.

 Upgrade includes:

• Voicemail for any and all users
• VOIP phones
• Allows phones to be upgraded eventually at any school to this new system
• Integrates with Windows, iOS and Android devices
• Calls can go to multiple devices at the same time
• Phone number and system available remotely
• No system to maintain locally, just telephones

The contract/agreement is attached for your approval.

Request approval for overnight trip to Whitley County for EMS Girls basketball game and approval of charter bus contract for transportation.   Funds for the trip will be paid from the girls' basketball activity funds.

EMS girls' basketball team will leave Elkhorn Middle School via Memorable Bus Adventures Charter, following school on Friday, September 12, at approx 4:30pm. The 7th and 8th grade teams consisting of 19 players, 3 coaches, 2 volunteer parent chaperones will travel to Whitley Co, Ky. and will stay overnight at Holiday Inn Express in Corbin, Ky.  Both teams will play 3 games on Saturday at Whitley Co High School and then return home at the conclusion of the tournament on Saturday night.

Please see attachment

Due to additional students enrolling at The Academy an instructional assistant is needed to fully implement all Individual Education Plans (IEPs).   At this time, I am recommending we create a 7 hour per day instructional assistant position for the remainder of the 2014-15 school year.

The funding for this increase in time will be obtained from IDEA Basic, Part B.

Approve request for 2 additional part-time, certified district instructional coach positions

Due to a shift in school populations and in order to comply with the board's SBDM staffing allocation formulas, we request that the board make the following position changes:

Elkhorn Elementary - Abolish 1 Primary position
Early Learning Village - Create 1 Kindergarten position
Early Learning Village - Create 1 Kindergarten Instructional Aide position
Hearn Elementary - Create 1 Primary position (7/10 of this position will be paid from Title I funds)
Western Hills High School - Increase 0.5 English position to a 1.0 position
Western Hills High School - Increase  a 0.75 PE/Health position [currently funded by Section IV (.5 of position) and (.25 funded by Section V funds)] to a 1.0 position (funded fully by Section IV funds)

A teacher from Elkhorn Elementary has been transferred to the Early Learning Village, leaving only the need to fill a Kindergarten Aide position.  The actual increase to the allocation at Hearn is .3; however, they would like to supplement with their Title I funds to be able to have a full-time classroom teacher.

Currently we have one Instructional Coach position that serves all schools (elem/mid/high).  This position
was created as a 240-day postion but last year was staffed at part-time (120 days).  We are asking that the board change this from a 240-day to a 187-day position, and request to pay for .36 of the position with Title II funds.

Request addition of supplemental duty posistions to be paid for out of Section 6 money from EMS.  The positions are as follows:

Elkhorn Elementary School SBDM would like to increase a secretary's hours from 7.5 hours for 225 days to 8 hours for 225 days.  This will be paid out of Section 6 allocation and ASP funds (if needed).

On behalf of our Bridgeport SBDM we are requesting to pay the following team leaders a stipend of $500 for the 2014-2015 school year.  Funds for the stipends will be paid from the school's Afterschool Program.

Team Leads for 2014-2015:
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Enrichment
Intervention
Special Education

Request extending Kay Quire's contract as an instructional coach by 10 additional days to provide support to the teachers at the Academy.  Ms. Quire will work with teachers on instructional strategies and the funding for the 10 days will be paid from the KECSAC grant funds.

Request Approval to create, post and fill a 2-hour per day Cafeteria Monitor Position for Collins Lane Elementary for up to 148 days.

To approve position

Collins Lane is requesting the creation of a certified position to serve as a reading and math interventionist for the 2014-2015 school year.  Funding for the position will be 0.5 paid from Title I funds and 0.5 paid from the school's ASP funds. 

Request to amend Intervention Position for Private School which was originally created as a (.5) position to be paid from Title I funds, but there are not enough funds available to fund the position at (.5), so we request that this position be reduced to a (.32) or 60 days.

Request to create a (.35) 60 day Interventionist Position to be paid from Title I funds for the ELV.

Western Hills High School is requesting approval of an assistant director position to assist with the Western Hills High School Band.  This individual would be paid $10,000 and this fee would be paid by the Western Hills High School Band Boosters.  The assistant would be responsible for working with Mrs. Wallace, band director, during school and after school rehearsals and performances as directed.  Additionally, the assistant would choreograph and write cadences for the WHHS Band.

Westridge Elementary requests approval for Scholastic Book Fair fundraisers on 11/17/14-11/25/14 and 3/2/15-3/10/15.  These fundraisers will raise money for books and supplies for the library media center.

The fundraiser activities are attached for your review and approval.

Peaks Mill is seeking approval of the Book Fair as a fundraising activity.

Peaks Mill PTO is requesting approval to hold McDonald's Night fundraiser in September. McDonald's will provide 25% of sales. The money will be used to fund educational assemblies, family activities, classroom materials, etc. 

Collins Lane is asking for approval to hold a Book Fair on March 2-6, 2015 and November 17-21, 2014. They will use the funds to purchase materials for the library media center.

Franklin County Career and Technical Center currently operates on a small budget with little funds that can be utilized for food, rewards, gifts, school items, etc. for students use. We are seeking approval to begin collecting "Think Box Tops" to generate revenue where we can celebrate and support our students in their successes.

FCCTC Students will be the beneficiaries of all funds.

The fundraising campaign would last through June 30, 2015.

Group: Franklin County High School Softball Team

Cost: $30 per participant

Purpose for Funds: To raise funds to support the FCHS softball program.

Date: 9/28/14

Location: Lakeview Park

Bondurant Middle School is requesting approval of the following school wide fundraisers for the 2014-2015 school year.

Beef jerky sales, Book Character Pumpkin Decorating Contest, Book Fairs, Book Swap/Sale, Ink cartridge and cell phone recycling, Shoparoo, Box Tops for Education, Labels for Education, Tyson A+, Coke Rewards, Kroger Cards.

Funds raised will be used for student needs and to help promote reading throughout the school. 

EMS is requesting approval for multiple fundraisers to raise funds for students and staff.

• Kroger Card Fundraiser
• Fall Dodgeball Tournament
• Haunted House
• Box Top Collection
• Kona Ice
• T-Shirt Sales

The 7th grade GT students have been invited to participate in the 8^th Annual Kentucky’s Night at the Museum in Chicago.  Students will have the opportunity to be a part of an exciting night of learning and fun while they sleep over at The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. 

HOSA meeting held in Louisville, KY at the Galt House on October 26th-27th. We will have nine students participating with two chaperones in attendance. Students will be representing WHHS and FCCTC. Students expenses will be funded with HOSA student funds and the chaperone expenses will be covered through PERKINS.  Transportation will be provided by Franklin County Public Schools transportation department.

WHHS Band is requesting to take band students to Dallas and San Antonio, Texas during Spring Break (4/5-4/10). The trip will be optional for students and will provide those that attend with educational and performance opportunities. A detailed trip request as well as a contract with the tour group, Taylor Tours, is attached for your approval.

Westridge Elementary is requesting approval for the acceptance of the United Way Bornlearning Academy Driven by Toyota. This grant is $6000 for the 14-15 school year. The FRC will be coordinating the Bornlearning Academy.

Ms. Amy Nance has submitted a request to approve use of a Community Service Grant from the Franklin County Fiscal Court in the amount of $5,500.00.  A letter of explanation and summary of grant funds use is attached for your approval.

Mathematics Achievement Fund Grant (MAF) is a state-funded grant for elementary schools. The proposed grant provides funds to selected schools to provide mathematics interventions for students in the primary program.  Attached is the MAF grant application, which is due October 9.  Each school's completed grant will be submitted to the Board on the October 13 meeting, for final review/approval. Six elementary schools, excluding the Early Learning Village, are requesting approval to apply for the competitive MAF grant.

EMS requests to apply for the Fuel Up to Play 60 Grant which can award up to $4,000.  With the grant money we would like to do the following:

• Make over the school concession stand- begin offering more healthy options
• Purchase more equipment for school workout room
• Purchase class sets of exercise balls for students to sit on
• Buy food and equipment for cooking labs
• Field trip to Kroger to shop for food labs- for 8^th grade students
• Purchase rewards/ incentives for teachers that are following health and wellness policy

Sarah Vivian is requesting approval of the attached Title I, Part D, Subpart 1 grant to be utilized to enhance the education of students at the Academy.

The next meeting of the Franklin County Board of Education will be 6:00pm on September 29 at Westridge Elementary School.

That the meeting be adjourned at

Order #108 - Motion Passed:  That the meeting be adjourned at 7:10pm passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown.