Board of education approves plan for merged middle school football teams
Cox’s Creek Elementary School second-graders hold their chimney sweeps high as they perform “Chim Chim Cheree” from the musical “Mary Poppins” at the start of Tuesday evening’s Nelson County Board of Education meeting.
By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 — The Nelson County Board of Education gave its blessing Tuesday evening to a plan to improve middle school football for Bloomfield Middle and Old Kentucky Home Middle schools.
The approved a proposal for the two schools to join their football programs in order to field competitive 7th-grade and 8th-grade teams.
Rodney Morgeson, principal of Bloomfield Middle School, and Old Kentucky Home Middle School principal Robin Handloser present their plan to merge their schools’ football efforts.
School principals Rodney Morgeson and Robin Handloser present the plan in order to improve the football efforts of both schools.
The new teams teams will also receive a new mascot. The teams will be known as the North Nelson Spartans. Current plans are to field one 7th-grade and one 8th-grade football team.
Declining numbers of students going out for football has hurt both schools’ ability to field competitive teams, Morgeson told the board.
The combined programs will not require the expenditure of new money. Plans now include staffing for one coach and two assistants. Superintendent Tom Brown promised the district would provide whatever resources were needed to insure the program’s success.
FINANCE PROCEDURES. The board delayed a request to approve a new finance policy document on the request of board member Diane Berry.
The 34-page document outlines the district’s financial policies, and was recommended by the district’s financial auditor, Stiles, Carter & Associates.
Tim Hockensmith, the district’s chief operating officer, told the board that the document outlines how the district handles its finances every day. The document was created from a template based on the financial policy document of the Simpson County Schools.
Tim Hockensmith, the district’s chief financial officer, discusses the financial policy document the board was asked to approve.
Berry told Hockensmith she had read the policy closely and asked for revisions that would add the district superintendent in a number of places as one of the parties’ responsible for the district’s finances.
Hockensmith said he would make the changes in time for the second reading on the document at the next board meeting.
In other business, the board:
— approved mental health contracts between the school district and JP Interventions, Astra Behavioral Health and Communicare;
— approved a memorandum of agreement with Spalding College for the district to serve as an internship site for the school’s occupational therapy interns;
— approved the district’s application for the 2018-19 school year’s non-traditional days of instruction.
The board of education convened a short executive session and emerged without taking any action.
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