The mission of the Franklin County Public Schools is to educate students in a community-involved learning environment that ensures all students will achieve their greatest individual potential in order to succeed in a global society.



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WHHS FCCLA National STAR Gold Medalists

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.

Joanne Lang of the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation will provide an update on the district's participation in AdvanceKY at Franklin County High School and Western Hills High School.

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.  The district is exempt from those requirements due to the recommendation of approving the compensating tax rate of 57.1 cents for 2012.

In 2010-11, a real property and personal property tax rate of 57.0 cents was levied by the Franklin County Board of Education.  For 2012, a tax rate of 57.1 cents is proposed for both real estate and tangible personal property. 

The Board is also required to set the tax rate for 2012 for all motor vehicles.  The proposed rate of 51.0 cents is the same rate that has been levied since 1983.

Approval of the tax levy of 57.1 cents for both real estate and tangible personal property, and 51.0 cents for all motor vehicles for 2012

Order #21 - Motion Passed:  Approval of the tax levy of 57.1 cents for both real estate and tangible personal property, and 51.0 cents for all motor vehicles for 2012 passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Mr. Doug Crowe.

Our network core consists of fiber and copper wiring that connects each of our 14 sites and the central office together, and also allows each of our users access to the internet.

This system is currently close to 10 years old, and the software cannot be updated beyond versions that are 3 years old at best (that would require over $1,000 just to add more memory to get to that out of date version).

 Why do we need to upgrade?

1.       This system must be our most up-to –date. If it is not functioning correctly, not 
          working at all, or incapable of staying up-to-date, then our entire infrastructure
          will fail and we will have no Infinite Campus, no email, no internet, and no shared
          files.

2.       The system is too old to update properly with new hardware, and the software is
          out of date

3.       There are not enough 1 GB ports for the computers in the central office (there are
          0, in fact)

4.       With increased wireless coverage, we will see an increase in bandwidth from the
          middle and high schools soon, and the other schools as we progress. This
          proposal moves our bandwidth from the middle and high schools to a 10 GB
          speed.

We have a great opportunity to upgrade the system at this time, and also provide higher bandwidth to the middle schools, high schools and Career and Tech Center. The upgrade would take us from 1 gigabit in speed to 10 gigabits for those sites.

 Here are 3 options:

1.       Outright purchase, from board general funds

2.       4 year lease, with board general funds paying for it

3.       4 year lease, using part of our KETS funds each year. This is the least favorable,
          since it would commit almost $40,000 per year from KETS to the upgrade.

Approval of the purchase of the bandwidth upgrade

Order #22 - Motion Passed:  Approval of the purchase of the bandwidth upgrade passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown.

Policy 05.31 AP.21 has been revised with the addition of a rental fee schedule. This schedule will be used by the district when rental fees are required for building use.

Policy 08.2323 AP.21 has been revised to split the consent line for e-mail and internet use into separate consent lines.

Policy 01.45 AP.2 has been revised by KSBA.

The minutes will reflect a first reading of these policies.

Mr. Crowe was not present at this meeting and, therefore, may not vote to approve these minutes.

Approval of the 8-15-11 minutes

Order #23 - Motion Passed:  Approval of the 8-15-11 minutes passed with a motion by Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown and a second by Mr. William Cofield.

Bids were opened and tabulated on July 19th for the CTC renovation.  The bids came in significantly higher than what was expected.
The low base bid with no add ons was $10,980,000 which was $1,105,729 higher than the estimate of $9,874,271.
The low bid including add ons was for $12,938,000 which was $1,793,429 higher than the estimate of $11,144,571.
With this large of a discrepency between estimate and actual bids, we feel that it is in the best interest of the district to reject all bids.  We will make some design changes and rebid the project. 

Approval to reject all bids for the CTC renovation project

Order #24 - Motion Passed:  Approval to reject all bids for the CTC renovation project passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Mr. Doug Crowe.

One of the compressors for the Chiller #2 unit at the ELV is not working and needs to be replaced.  Capital Outlay funds will be used for the repair.
A Capital Outlay Funding Request Form is attached for board review/approval.

Approval to use $17,500 of Capital Outlay funds for the ELV chiller repair

Order #25 - Motion Passed:  Approval to use $17,500 of Capital Outlay funds for the ELV chiller repair passed with a motion by Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown and a second by Mr. William Cofield.

The Monthly Financial Report is presented for your review and approval.

Approval of the Monthly Financial Report

Order #26 - Motion Passed:  Approval of the Monthly Financial Report passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Mr. Doug Crowe.

Correspondence with Dr. Buecker is presented for your information.

Governor Beshear's appoinment of Dr. Buecker to the School Curriculum, Assessment and Accountability Council.


BG-4 acceptance from KDE for:

    ELV Boiler Replacement
    WHHS Roof Repair

Dr. Buecker's activities for the month of August are presented
for your information.

Met With: Melissa Rogers, Fran Scott & Charley Preston, 
                Rob Minerich, Willie Bartley, Casey Sparrow,
                Maurice Chappell & Cynthia Lawson, Michael
                Franken, Katheran Wasson, Lee Ann Hager,
                4 Parents

Attended: Transportation Update Meeting, Performance
                 Evaluation Meeting, West Campus Charette
                 Meeting, Gatton Meeting, Pearson Textbook
                 Meeting, Instructional Coach Meeting,
                 Board Meetings, United Way Board Meeting, 
                 Kentucky Leads the Nation Summit,
                 Administrative Team Meeting, OVEC Board of 
                 Directors Meeting, Preliminary Assessment Data
                 Meeting

Visited: All schools

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

Reports from the schools' SBDM Councils are presented for your information.

BPE, CLE, ELV, PME

EMS

FCHS, WHHS

The Consent Agenda is presented for your approval.

Approval of the Consent Agenda as presented

Order #27 - Motion Passed:  Approval of the Consent Agenda as presented passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Mr. Doug Crowe.

Orders of the Treasurer

Date:  09/06/11

Warrant #:  090611

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.

Date: 09/06/11

Warrant #: SFS090611

Fund: School Food Service

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.

Approval of payment of bills

The following employees are requesting approval for a Leave of Absence:

Jennifer Stapleton (ACA) – Maternity Leave – 6 weeks  beginning 8/29/11
Mike Stapleton (CO) – Paternity Leave – 2 weeks beginning 8/29/11
Courtney Staples (BPE) –  Maternity Leave – 10 weeks -beginning 8/26/11
Robin Emery (BPE) – Maternity Leave  – 6 weeks  beginning 8/21/11
Jennifer Sexton (BMS) – Maternity Leave – 6 weeks beginning 10/5/11
Amanda Beth Weber (CO) – Maternity Leave – 12 weeks  beginning 11/10/11

Westridge Elementary School PTO would like to participate with Mountain Empire Promotions Fundraising program.  Students will be selling cookie dough.

Ms. Gates our Art Teacher would like to do the Art to Remember fundraiser which takes students' artwork and then puts it on items like mugs, mouse pads, frames, etc.

ELV PTO would like to request approval for ELV to have a Fall Festival on Friday, October 21.  This event would be a fundraiser the the PTO.

ELV PTO would like to sale Kroger cards for $5 per card.  Parents would use this card to swipe during purchases and ELV would receive 4 percent of total purchases made each time.  

ELV PTO would like participate in a schoolwide collection of box tops throughout the school year. 

ELV PTO would like to request approval to host it's annual Breakfast with Santa the second Saturday of December from 8:00 to 11:00. 

ELV PTO would like to request approval to sale ELV t-shirts to parents, staff, and students at various functions throughout the school year.

ELV PTO would like to request approval to participate in McDonald's Night two times during the school year.  ELV PTO would receive 25 percent of the total amount of purchases made from 5:00 to 7:00. 

BPE Music Department requests Board approval for fund raiser with Kroger to raise funds to purchase risers.  Cards will be sold/$5 each.  Cards have $5 on them, individual uses card and reloads and 4% of purchase comes back to school.

Request Board approval for BPE PTA's annual catalog fundraiser thru Innisbrook Sales to be held in September.  Also the BPE PTA ask approval to hold the Annual Fall Festival Fundraiser on October 28, 2011.

BPE requests Board approval for Computer Lab fundraiser of recycling ink cartridges and cell phones with "Recycling 4 Fundraising".  Funds will be used to buy supplies for computer lab at BPE.

Western Hills High School would like to hold a Middle School Baseball Tournament on September 8-10 at the WHHS baseball field as a fundraiser.   

The PME PTO is requesting approval to have this fundraiser in order to raise needed funds to help pay for educational materials, assemblies, etc.

We would like to use KONA Ice as a fundraiser various times during the school year to help raise needed funds to help offset costs of helping students go on fieldtrips, to help pay for assemblies, etc. No more than once a month KONA Ice would come to the school at least 30 minutes after lunch has been served and sell to students.
The flavoring is 100% fruit juice. The items cost anywhere from $3-5. The PTO would also like to have them come to some of the PTO sponsored evening events and sell their items as well.

We would like to host two book fairs this year as a way to raise funds to purchase additional books for the library.

The WHHS boy’s varsity golf team has two overnight trips planned for this season.  We need to leave the day before due to the early start times for both tournaments, however, our travel will not be during school hours and transportation will be provided by the student’s parents.

 Aug-27 @ 8:00am
John Hardin High School Bulldog Classic
Lindsey Golf Course
Fort Knox, KY

Sep-24 @ 8:00am
North Hardin High School Invitational
Lincoln Trail Golf Course
Radcliff, KY

The Western Hills Chorus would like to attend the Kentucky Music Educators Association Conference Wednesday, Feb. 8 through Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.  The conference will be held at the Louisville Internation Convention Center.  WHHS students involved in All-State Chorus will be attending.  Participants will be determined after Octover 24th district audition.  Registration and lodging will be paid for by the students and Chorus Boosters. FCPS transportation will be used for the trip to Louisville and parents will provide the return trip.

Hearn Elementary is requesting approval for their 5th grade students to attend the North Central Kentucky 4-H camp on Wednesday, November 2nd thru Thursday, November 3rd.  Our 5th grade meets once a month with the local 4-H Extension Office and the camp is a portion of their program.

Mrs. Knight, sponsor, requests permission to take the DECA Officers to the Region 4 Leadership Conference at the Capitol Plaza Hotel.  Meetings will be from 7:00 p.m. on Sept. 16 until 12:00 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2011. Parents will provide transportation.

The Lady Elks Basketball program would like to ask for approval to attend an overnight team trip to participate in the Whitley County Middle School Classic 8th Grade Basketball Tournament held in Williamsburg, KY and approval of the Above All Charters contracts.  The tournament dates are Friday, September 16th, 2011 and Saturday, September 17th, 2011.

I am requesting for the attached contract to be approved between the Franklin County Board of Education and Marcie R Jeffers.  This contract will be allow us to request Sign Language interpreting services.

Due to one of our Occupational Therapists being on maternity leave, I am recommending we contract with Hands on Therapy for Occupational Therapy Services.

Ted Wiese of Wiese Training and Development, LLC presented leadership and team building seminars for middle school gifted and talented students last year.  The events were very successful and students gained a great deal from the sessions.

The Gifted/Talented staff wishes to provide these workshops again this year by contracting with Wiese Training and Development.

All students in the gifted/talented program will be attending a college visit to learn more about the different types of post-secondary education--public and private.  This trip is to the University of Louisville and the Louisville Science Center using Miller Transportation on September 21, 2011.

The Big Brothers/Big Sisters program would like to have a partnership with EES for the 2011-12 SY.

Mrs. Hurley would like to contract with R & H Theatricals to rent the play for the Spring Musical. 

The cost of the rental is $1898.50 and will be paid from gate receipts and Drama funds.

This is for the day treatment program at the Academy.

Request Board approval for 3 part-time Child Care aid positions using Tiger Time Funds.

Due to growth in kindergarten students for the 2011-12 school year, it is necessary to add a kindergarten teacher at both Bridgeport Elementary and The Early Learning Village.  Bridgeport gained 27 students overall and The Village increased by 17.

These are the 2011-2012 assistant coach positions paid by the boosters:

Cross Country (1) - $800.00
Volleyball (1) - $800.00

The boys' soccer booster club would like to create a camp director position. The director would be paid $500 by the soccer boosters.

The WHHS Site Based Decision Making committee would like to create the following department head positions for the 2011-2012 school year.  The $250 stipends will be paid from Section VI money.

English, Math, Social Studies, Science, Foreign Language, Fine Arts, & Career Tech

ELV would like to extend the instructional days of our math interventionist make a total of 135 days. Funding for the additional 42 days would be from our After School Program.

At its May 16, 2011 meeting, the Board of Education created a part-time math coach position for elementary, a full-time math coach position for high school, and a part-time district-wide curriculum coach.  After posting the positions and finding no suitable applicants for the two part-time positions, the superintendent asked the Board to create a full-time curriculum coach position in place of the three part-time positions.  The Board approved the request at the August, 1, 2011 meeting.  District administrators scheduled interviews, but the two viable applicants decided to remain in their current positions in other districts.

District administrators would like to now ask the Board to create 3 part-time coaching positions to fill current needs.  We feel we could find part-time people to assist the Curriculum and Instruction staff in areas of need, for example, curriculum development, literacy, and program reviews. These three part-time positions are in place of the full-time coaching position created at the August Board meeting.  Title I Professional Development and Edujobs money will fund the part-time positions, which will consist of 90 days, 75 days, and 25 days respectively.

I am recommending we contract with our job trainer for the additional 6 days at 7 hours each to cover the time she spent obtaining required training to perform her job. 

We are asking approval to add a 3.5 hr/day-135 day pre-school instructional aide position. If approved, we would move the current split (CLE/WRE) position (7 hrs/day-135 days) to CLE and use the additional position at WRE.

Approve the following supplemental academic positions for the 2011-2012 school year. Funding will be from BMS Section VI.

$500 each:   Exploratory Team Leader
                    6th grade Team Leader
                    7th grade Team Leader
                    8th grade Team Leader
                    Special Education Team Leader

$300 each:   Exploratory Department Chair
                    Math Department Chair
                    Language Arts Department Chair
                    Science Department Chair
                    Social Studies Department Chair

$800 - Yearbook Advisory

$300 - NJHS Advisory

Friday School Teacher (stipend on pay schedule)

We would like to request that the board create the following positions:

Boy’s Basketball—1 assistant coach to be paid $2000 from booster funds
 
Girl’s Basketball—2 assistant coaches to be paid $1000 each from booster funds
 
Wrestling—2 assistant coaches to be paid $1000 each from booster funds

Mr. Owens has recommended Ms. Heather Betsworth to fill the new position created due to the increased enrollment at the Early Learning Village.  Ms. Betsworth was previously employed by Franklin County Schools as a Primary Teacher in 2004-05; however, her certificate is expired at this time.

Authorization from the Board is needed in order to obtain a Full-Time Emergency Teaching Certificate for Ms. Betsworth.

Approval to request an Emergency Teaching Certificate for Ms. Heather Betsworth.

The Superintendent, in consultation with the Director of Special Education, will recommend to the Board for approval a list of Franklin County School District Representatives Admission and Release Committee (ARC) Chairs by job or position title.  The Superintendent, or designee, may designate which specific staff member on that approved list will serve as the Franklin County School District Representative for any Admission and Release Committee meeting as per Franklin County Schools Special Education Procedures.  A district representative is one who is qualified to provide, or supervise the provision of, specially designed instruction to meet the unique needs of children with disabilities, is knowledgeable about the general curriculum and the availability of the resources in the district, and is not a teacher of the student.  The district representative has specific responsibilities, as outlined in the Special Education Procedure Manual, Individual Education Programs, Section 3: ARC Membership.

We are recommending a shortened school day for a student.  The ARC has followed the appropriate procedure for requesting a shortened school day.

We are recommending a shortened school day for a student.  The ARC has followed the appropriate procedure for requesting a shortened school day.

The Salary for Extra Duties schedule revision is to update middle/high school athletic gatekeepers.

The Stipends for Coaching schedule revision is to add Head Archery Coach to elementary/middle/high schools with a $1000 stipend.

Scott-Klausing is asking approval for payment of the following invoices:

East Campus Roof Repairs - $3807.91
CTC Renovation - $17,262.51
West Campus Master Plan - $5398.31
Academy - $12,190.00
FCHS Softball Fieldhouse - $281.50
FCHS Baseball Lighting - $1103.50
Total Payment to SK - $40,043.73

Pay Application to Zero Company (FCHS Roof) - $169,816.50
   (balance to finish: $86,903.50)

The next meeting of the Franklin County Board of Education will be 6:00pm on Monday, September 19, 2011 at Bondurant Middle School.

That the meeting be adjourned at

Order #28 - Motion Passed:  That the meeting be adjourned at 7:39 passed with a motion by Mr. William Cofield and a second by Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown.