Board Chair Price Smith called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.

All agreed.

Lakeshore Learning accepts grant requests through the platform Donors Choose. In order to provide storage for sensory friendly toys on the HES playground, a Lakeshore toy storage cabinet will be requested for donation using the Donors Choose Platform.

For many years, the Crusade for Children grant has been used to fund significant projects in our district that support learners with disabilities. This year, the following projects will be requested in the grant application:

- Musical instruments for the playground at Hodgenville Elementary School for sensory play

- The continuation of our district subscription to Learning Ally, which is an online audiobook platform that give students at all schools access to 80,000+ audiobooks.

This is a federal grant awarded to the Kentucky Department of Education that is now being offering as subgrants to local school districts under a competitive grant application process. If awarded, our LaRue County Schools would receive $1,300,000 over the next 4 years to support public schools and participating early childhood partners to improve oral language, increase readiness for school, strengthen transitions between levels, and improve reading and writing instruction and student literacy outcomes with 16% towards early childhood, 42% towards elementary, and 42% towards middle/high. Activities include purchasing high-quality core instructional programs for reading/ELA and curriculum-based professional learning. Remaining funds may be used for a variety of other literacy supports such as reading intervention materials, reading assessments, transition readiness, or family literacy engagement. 

The 2024-2025 Comprehensive District Improvement Plan is included for your review and approval.

This is a quote for routing software for the bus garage. This would give us access for 2 users.  Here is some of the potential for this program:    

• It will help with the communication between the schools with new students and/or added stops.

• School office staff will have access to check bus numbers and routes.  We currently use a google form for this.  

• It will help with bus manifestations.  There is an option that students could "scan" themselves into each bus everyday.  
• It requires the bus drivers to check in and check out and gives everyone specific times they are driving.  

• I would be interested to see if the report this prints off could replace timesheets for Amy.  From what I saw at Nelson County, it should be possible too.  She would still have to manually enter them in, which is what she is doing now.

• It will help with trip management and scheduling. 
• We could use it for the bus maintenance schedule.  After we got a good routine with this system we could not renew the other system (about $700 savings). 
• It will help streamline the T-Code process.  This is big. 
• It will help with sub bus drivers with step-by-step directions.  
• We have most of our routes planned for this year, but I do think it will help the routes be more efficient.  I would like to see it immediately used on the special education routes.  We have some timing issues there.

Request approval of the 2025-26 School Calendar

Contract between Good Night Communications, Caleb Phelps Creative Director, and LaRue County Board of Education for services relating to strategic communications. 

The contract term is for a 12-month period beginning  January 20, 2025 and ending December 20, 2025 at a total annual cost of $ 44,292 ($3,691.00 monthly).

• Nelson County ATC Update 
• Board meeting dates and locations

Board member discussion about board meeting dates and locations for January 2025 and possibly the rest of the 2025 year.

Adjourn this meeting of the LaRue County Board of Education

Order #680 - Motion Passed:  Adjourn this meeting of the LaRue County Board of Education passed with a motion by Dawn Conner and a second by Farrah Pruitt.