Final vote on personnel items at Regular session Monday;

Lawrence County Board of Education Regular Meeting

'Every Child College and Career Ready'

May 20, 2013 6:00 p.m.

Lawrence County High School

Louisa, Kentucky

AGENDA

1. CALL TO ORDER 

Mission:  Every Child College and Career Ready

2. PLEDGE TO THE UNITED STATES FLAG

3. STUDENT/STAFF PRESENTATIONS/RECOGNITIONS
 
    3.A. School and District Outstanding Volunteers 
Betty Mullins, District Parent Involvement Coordinator
(Goal III: Strong and Supportive Environment by Using Next Generation Supports; Goal I: Produce Next Generation High Performing Schools/District; Goal IV: Graduate Next Generation, High Performing Students)
   

3.B. Space Movie Project – LCHS Team: Ben Esham, Dylan Fitzpatrick, Ali Dotson, Callie Conn
(Goal IV: Graduate Next Generation, High Performing Students; Goal I: Produce Next Generation High Performing Schools/District)
    

3.C. Tennis - Tournament Success
(Goal III: Strong and Supportive Environment by Using Next Generation Supports; Goal I: Produce Next Generation High Performing Schools/District; Goal IV: Graduate Next Generation, High Performing Students)

4. COMMUNICATION

    4.A. Superintendent's Update
4.A.1. Community Eligibility Option (CEO) – Free School Meals
            Cindy Hay, Food Service Director
               (Goal III: Strong and Supportive Environment by Using Next Generation Supports)
    4.B. Public Comment 

5. STUDENT LEARNING AND SUPPORT SERVICES 

    5.A. Approve minutes of the May 17, 2013 Special Board Meeting 
    5.B. Approve Claims and Orders of the Treasurer  
    5.C. Approve Consent Agenda items:  
5.C.1. Per diem and expenses for members present 
5.C.2. Contracts:
5.C.2.a. Lawrence County Schools with partnership Institute for Math & Science Education Reform (PIMSER) – introduction of new science standards - $500 plus training and travel expenses – Cassandra Webb, CAO
5.C.3. Requests: 
5.C.3.a. Use of Facilities: LWES for Zumba Fitness – Jennifer Pannell - May 2013-May2014 (insurance provided)
5.C.3.b. Use of Facilities: Parking lots at LCHS and LMS and Bulldog Lane for 5K Race for Recovery – Derek Hinkle – May 25, 2013 (pending proof of insurance)
5.C.3.c. Fundraisers: Lawrence County Soccer Club: Tootisie Roll Drive at Wal-Mart; car washes, yard sales, concessions, t-shirt sales, field signs, bake dales, JV soccer Tournament, Youth Soccer Camp, Varsity Tournament, Mary Kay sales, candy bar sales, salad sales (April 30th through 2013-14 soccer season end) – Brett Jenks
5.C.4. For Review:
5.C.4.a. Review of Procedure 09.14 AP.232 Release of Records to State Welfare Agency
5.C.4.b. SBDM/Advisory Council Minutes (FES, LWES)
5.C.4.c. School Activity Fund Reports - April
5.C.4.d. Educational Enhancement Opportunities

    5.D. Approve Construction Agenda Items

    5.D.1. Construction Update

5.D.2. LCHS Renovation Project (BG- 12-019)

5.D.2.a. Approve Change Order # 3-3  for BG#: 12-019 Lawrence County High School Renovation; Bid Package #03 – General Trades (Per RFI #15 New Lintel) Rising Sun Developing, Inc - $1,834.83
5.D.2.b. Approve Change Order # 3-4  for BG#: 12-019 Lawrence County High School Renovation; Bid Package #03 – General Trades (Demo “L” shaped wall in future culinary arts room 157 and re-lay wall to 10’ 8”) Rising Sun Developing, Inc - $4,156.53
5.D.2.c. Approve Change Order # 6-1  for BG#: 12-019 Lawrence County High School Renovation; Bid Package #06 Painting (Demo “L” shaped wall in future culinary arts room 157 and re-lay wall to 10’ 8”) B. L. Radden & Son, Inc.- $195.00
      5.D.2.d. Approve Murphy + Graves Invoice LCHS11-12 (LCHS Renovation – BG 12-019): $638.00
5.D.2.e. Approve Murphy-Graves Invoice LCHS5-13a (LCHS Renovation Phase I – BG 12-019): $12,461.57 (pending confirmation of % previously paid)
    5.D.2.f. Approve LCHS Renovation Contractors/Suppliers/Codell’s Pay Application #13 -  
          Total invoices below: $ 732,190.64
                Vendor            Invoice            Amount
5.D.2.f.1. Codell Construction      LCHS-13        $  45295.00
5.D.2.f.2. B. L. Radden & Sons       LCHS-2        $    8817.30
5.D.2.f.3. Central Sheet Metal            LCHS-4        $  49223.70
5.D.2.f.4. Ferguson Enterprises      3674604        $    6103.11
5.D.2.f.5. Ferguson Enterprises      3636585            $  20456.20
5.D.2.f.6. Ferguson Enterprises      3634549                          $      904.28
5.D.2.f.7. Ferguson Enterprises      3677318                           $      164.86
5.D.2.f.8. Graybar              965222241                     $    5411.00
5.D.2.f.9. Graybar             965578663                    $      875.00
5.D.2.f.10. Graybar             965524972                 $  15735.00
5.D.2.f.11. Graybar             965507376            $    1610.00
5.D.2.f.12. Graybar            965499260                 $    1780.00
5.D.2.f.13. JMK Electric          845-4                     $  23310.00
5.D.2.f.14. R.L. Craig & Co          73594                                $      840.00
5.D.2.f.15. Sherwin Williams          LCHS-2           $    2579.55
5.D.2.f.16. The Atlas Co              4672                       $  13540.20
5.D.2.f.17. The Atlas Co              4669               $  49218.04
5.D.2.f.18. The Atlas Co              4652                       $    1752.00
5.D.2.f.19. The Atlas Co               4620                 $    1612.00
5.D.2.f.20. Rising Sun Developing       LCHS-3          $206280.00
5.D.2.f.21. The Bri-Den Co           LCHS-Three          $273083.40

5.D.3. Approve Lynn Imaging Invoice L842534 (LCHS Renovation Project BG- 12-019): $106.42

5.D.4. Approve Murphy-Graves Invoice LCRoof11-12 (LC Partial Roof Replacement Project BG- 025): $233.07

5.D.5. Approve Murphy-Graves Invoice LCHS5-13c (LCHS Renovation Phase III – Tennis Courts Project BG 13-038): $12,934.55

5.D.6. LCHS Facilities Upgrade Phase II Update

5.D.7. Approve Murphy-Graves request to issue Lawrence County High School Facilities Upgrade Phase II to bid pending KDE approval

    5.E. Approve 2013-2014 Tentative Budget

    5.F. Approve Lawrence County Schools 2013-2014 Salary Schedule

    5.G. Approve appointment of American Fidelity General Agency, Inc. as the Lawrence County Schools Agent of Record on the following product lines: Dental, Vision, Group Life, Cancer, Accident-Only, Disability, Hospital Indemnity

    5.H. Approve permission to apply for the Champion Creatively Alive Children 2013 Grant – Noel Goble, Family Resource Center Director, LEES/LWES

    5.I. Approve 2013-14 School Calendar
 
    5.J. Approve Community Eligibility Option (CEO)

    5.K. Discussion of policy to increase dropout age

    5.L. Approve mission statement for Lawrence County School District

    5.M. Approve 2013-2014 School Council Activity Fund Budgets (internal accounts)

    5.N. Materials Distribution Issues

    5.O. Review and discussion of maintenance service bids

6. PERSONNEL 

     6.A. Approve all personnel as needed for College and Career Ready (CCR) Grant Program
     6.B. Superintendent's Personnel Action/Update 
 
7.  ADJOURN

Special BOE meeting to include personnel actions;

Lawrence County Board of Education Special Meeting
 

'Every Child College and Career Ready'

May 17, 2013 6:00 p.m.

Lawrence County High School

Louisa, Kentucky

AGENDA


1. CALL TO ORDER 

         Mission:  Every Child College and Career Ready

2. PLEDGE TO THE UNITED STATES FLAG                                                                     
3. STUDENT LEARNING AND SUPPORT SERVICES  

3.A. Approve minutes of the May 2, 2013 Special Meeting   
3.B. Approve per diem and expenses for members present   

     3.C. 2013-2014 TENTATIVE BUDGET WORK SESSION   (no action)
                     Edris Humphrey, Director of Federal Programs & Finance/Treasurer
   
4. PERSONNEL 

4.A. Approve abolishment and creation regarding positions 
4.B. Superintendent's Personnel Action/Update
5.  ADJOURN

Eight honor students from Louisa at KCTC graduation

Supplemental Instruction cutline: Supplemental Instruction Leaders were recognized at the ACTC Honors Night Program on May 9. At left in the back row is Louisa resident Jeremiah Maynard with his daughter.

ACTC Recognizes Student Achievement
 

Eight Louisa residents were among the Ashland Community and Technical College students recognized at the Honors Night program on May 9.  The program honored students for their academic and services accomplishments in the 2012-2013 academic year.

The Outstanding Performance in General Chemistry Courses Award went to Derek R. Spillman.

The Kentucky Association of Nursing (KANS) Student Award went to Tiffiney Carroll.

An Excellence in Leadership as a Peer Mentor was presented to Christy Lumpkins. Peer mentors help new students adjust to college life.

The Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Scholarship Hallmark Award went to Fannie Cantrell. She served as President of ACTC’s Alpha Omega Gamma Chapter and received the Distinguished Chapter Officer Award and a Rising Star Scholarship Award from the Kentucky Region of PTK.

Supplemental Instruction Leader Awards were given to Alex Hogan, Treena Hogan, Christy Lumpkins and Jeremiah Maynard, of Louisa.  Supplemental Instruction Leaders help other students study and prepare for traditionally difficult courses.

Thompson Wins Gussler Award

Alice Kay Thompson, Professor of Mathematics at ACTC, has received the prestigious Gussler Family Endowed Chair in Science and Mathematics Award.  The award was announced at ACTC’s Graduation Ceremony on May 11.

An Ashland area native and Russell resident, Professor Thompson started her college education at ACTC, known then as the UK Ashland Center. She then completed a BA in Education and an MA with an emphasis on Mathematics/Education at Morehead State University   She earned a Rank I in Educational Administration at Marshall University.
After 30 years as a mathematics teacher in the Russell Independent School System, she taught Transitional Math area at Marshall University.  She taught developmental mathematics part-time at ACTC before becoming a fulltime faculty member in 2000. 

Thompson is listed in Who’s Who among Outstanding Teachers and was selected to the Commonwealth Institute of Teachers. She is a member of Kentucky Association of Developmental Educators, National Association of Developmental Educators, and the Delta Kappa Gamma National Honor Society.

She received ACTC’s Teaching Excellence Award in fall 2011 and was the college’s nominee for the National Institute for Staff and Organization Development 2011-12 Teaching Excellence Award.  She has also co-authored two books designed to help mathematics teachers to align with the Ohio Content Standards.

The Gussler Award was established by Dr. C. Gordon Gussler and his wife Dixie Gussler in 2007 to recognize full-time math and science faculty who foster in their students a desire to learn and reach their maximum potential.

Recipients are nominated by students, fellow faculty or college staff.  Award criteria include inspiring students to develop capabilities they did not realize they had, empowering students to succeed beyond their experiences, and instilling in students a love of learning.
Graduate Enjoys His New Job

William P. Mullins, Jr, was unable to attend ACTC’s Graduation Ceremony May 11 because he was working at his new job at the Marathon refinery in Catlettsburg.

He was one of three Applied Process Technology (APT) Program students who participated in the first internship program with Marathon this spring.  “When my intern position ended, I was offered a job which I gladly accepted,” said Mullins, an Ashland resident and 1993 Paul G. Blazer High School graduate.

Preparing for a good job was the reason Mullins entered the APT program after AK Steel announced its plan to shut down the Ashland Coke Plant where he worked.

“I heard about the APT program from friends and thought it sounded promising with its high percentage of graduates finding decent income jobs,” he said.

“I took a chance and set my goals high. It has been a long tough journey, but two years later I can say things have fallen into place even better than I had hoped,” he said.  He earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in APT with the Chemical/Power Plant.

“I can honestly say ACTC was a great experience for me,” Mullins said. “I met some great people, and Bob Chaffins, Woody Fosson and Ralfred Hall were three of the professors who made my experience at ACTC very rewarding.”

At ACTC Honors Night May 9, he received an American Chemical Society Student Recognition Award.  He was honored to receive the award but considers his job to be the real award for his college efforts.