Board gives Holsclaw good marks, OKs sale of district’s Cox’s Creek property
Cara Blackmon, the district’s director of curriculum, Instruction and assessment, reviews the district’s comprehensive improvement plan with the board of education’s meeting Tuesday. This is Blackmon’s final improvement plan presentation as she is retiring at the end of the year.
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STAFF REPORT
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, 1 a.m. — Superintendent Brent Holsclaw received high marks from the Bardstown Board of Education following his evaluation by the board in a closed meeting Tuesday.
The evaluation praised his pursuit of hiring the best educators possible for the district and increasing minority hires and credited his leadership for helping the district attain a “Proficient District” rating earlier this year. The district’s rating “highlights his steadfast resolve to make our schools the flagship in our region,” board chairman Andy Stone said.
Stone said Holsclaw met or exceeded the goals the board and Holsclaw set last year.
FORMER COX’S CREEK SCHOOL SOLD. The board approved the sealed bid of $120,120 submitted by Vincent Ray Downs of Bardstown for the former Cox’s Creek school building the district previously used for its alternative school program.
Joey Downs, director of human resources and technology, told the board the six-acre site and its nearly 20,000-square-foot school building was given an appraised value of $80,000.
Down’s winning bid was approved by the Kentucky Department of Education, which clears the way to complete the sale.
The property is zoned A-1 Agriculture.
In other business, the board:
— heard from Jeremey Booher, principal at the Nelson County Area Technology Center regarding the changes under way at the center in response to the training needs of the community. The ATC recently dropped one content area and started an electrician program that will allow students who complete the coursework to pursue jobs in electronic maintenance, electrician and other career paths. Holsclaw said he would like to increase the number of students who investigate career paths available at the ATC.
— approved a request to apply for a 2017 grant from the WHAS Crusade for Children. The grant would go toward indoor playground equipment for the district’s pre-school. The grant would cover most of the cost of the equipment.
— reviewed and approved the district’s comprehensive improvement plan.
— reviewed the delivery targets for Bardstown Middle School with principal Dr. Ryan Clark. The school received a “proficient” rating recently, and Clark outlined the school’s strategy for continuing its improvement.
— approved the construction documents for the project that will eventually move the district bus garage from its main campus to the former Salt River property on Templin Avenue. The district purchased the property in 2015.
— approved setting the 2017 board meetings for noon on the third Tuesday of each month.
— reviewed a presentation by Mike Paul, a district teacher who is also a Google Innovator, about the Google Innovation Program and his work in the district. Paul is one of two certified Google Innovators in Kentucky.
NEXT UP. The board of education will meet next at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at the Central Office on North Fifth Street.
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