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Board members also reviewed and approved the fiscal year 2026 SBDM allocations. Staff noted the SBDM allocations are formulaic, based on student counts and teacher-allocation ratios; no changes to ratios were proposed and the presented ratios included 31-to-1 at RCHS, 29-to-1 at RCMS, 24-to-1 for kindergarten through third grade, 28-to-1 for fourth grade and 29-to-1 for fifth grade. Staff said the SBDM allocations are routine approvals and were uploaded for board review (presentation access was affected by Internet issues during the meeting).

Board members moved, seconded and approved both the amended calendar and the SBDM allocations by voice votes. The approvals were recorded as routine operational actions in the meeting minutes.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Rockcastle County Schools Special Board Meeting 5/27/2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Rockcastle County Board approved an amended 2024–25 school calendar adding two early-dismissal times (12:00 p.m. in May and last-day dismissal at 11:00 a.m.) and approved FY2026 SBDM allocations, which staff said are formula-driven based on student counts (no allocation changes were made).","taxTitle","Rockcastle County, School Boards, Kentucky","taxId",38766,"location","Kentucky","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6226036,"Board approves combining community/family communications and HR duties into single role to save about $40,000",389,256000,645000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3524514-7e7c9351c005687f2a9130723196b88b&start=256&end=645","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3524514-7e7c9351c005687f2a9130723196b88b/thumbnail_256000.jpg","/articles/6226036/Kentucky/Board-approves-combining-communityfamily-communications-and-HR-duties-into-single-role-to-save-about-40000","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6226036-3b0ec2596111c445cf327466975a0f35/orig.mp4?Expires=1771194708&Signature=kxsn8ZeVknGOfkheFA-udvpqyU3MHfpabQeQIpYrehK7VvVdVkshSfzJp0k5r1p7B55hst2fc97YZc4tfRc-7H2-a5oQeIPIk41~ZtcKa7G2HjdgMY4y3bQX25GVUEhKHNjatP1~pGIp7PW3-cZtUcLvUlfAxcYDBgXUsqSbXRfINgPxnPpFUIXPJ1Ywfq9aye21JYQrnGWpvjMEH0JE2CpWdbJACEn5v8uRIMBs6wu1eb-vmoFwdOB2QSXWskuvB1DP1Ue3Z5P5EqKkeBSIFn6ppc4z~UV7H~Ze3tTfnc23rMMHi-lRC5ObFnoyqQ~9WCGbzOFkdeLIvIpr8WOgsA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","At the special-called meeting, board members reviewed and approved an updated job description that combines the community and family communications specialist role with the human-resources specialist into a single position, a change staff said would save the district approximately $40,000 annually.

A presenter (identified in the transcript as a staff speaker) asked the board to approve combining the two positions and said an updated job description had been prepared. The board moved, seconded and approved the consolidation by voice vote.

Discussion during the same agenda segment included plans to expand school-level communications capacity by modeling Mount Vernon Elementary’s approach to social media: staff said Mount Vernon has used its SBDM allocation successfully to pay for social-media work and the district plans to train school-based communicators so messages and the district app (ThrillShare/other tools as noted) look uniform. Savannah, identified as district staff, was named as the staffer who would train school-level communicators.

Other personnel changes discussed and reflected elsewhere in the agenda included aligning elementary assistant days from 30 to 20 to match middle-school assistant days after a retirement, adding days to central-office receptionist duties instead of summer hires to save costs, and adding an assistant coach position for soccer and volleyball citing safety and travel needs. The presenter tied several of these changes to overall cost-saving efforts and to the salary-schedule and budget items the board approved later in the meeting.

The board approved the combined job description and related staffing items; staff will implement the role consolidation and update job postings/descriptions per board direction.","The Board approved an updated job description to combine community and family communications and human-resources specialist duties into one position, projected to save the district roughly $40,000; the meeting also covered school communications staffing, social-media support, and coach/assistant staffing for safety.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6226040,"Board approves FY2026 salary schedule with 2% raise, added longevity steps and new induction coordinator days",378,312000,690000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3524514-7e7c9351c005687f2a9130723196b88b&start=312&end=690","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3524514-7e7c9351c005687f2a9130723196b88b/thumbnail_312000.jpg","/articles/6226040/Kentucky/Board-approves-FY2026-salary-schedule-with-2-raise-added-longevity-steps-and-new-induction-coordinator-days","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6226040-104b993331d5584a809c29cc2eb8230b/orig.mp4?Expires=1771194708&Signature=Vpcw7mS-dgo~uamdOLEuoU4fA3ZHdBs1RWJXDIrDSpZP05DKz6M-SYpYRWvQ8FLj8ZEjd5-8kAp0wF6RXjQrclUl5-OlUNjysNEUJV5kWuhdgvDII7VD-5HxMmzkLHN~zhU3Giuwx2koOJdcMUxXx2IgEu-uR5e2AXY0m4P3uC49fihFYwCV8zJTqljNqgG7ujaxKyubRXOoAWqnAdcTEWHk7aKC2sd7SkcPOhsUzg2fkwjRlRKzVQGNOEF6BHhJlBj6STD8WM5qb6bx45-h3qmdyVnrmfiZIZ7Q9AkbAUNZiuOe8nN8XnGuVCGYpG7zqJ5v9KLRNzG41oeKj-srwg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Miss Jenny, a district staff member, presented the FY2026 salary schedule and related employee incentives and programs to the Board of Education and the board approved the schedule by voice vote during the special-called meeting.

The salary schedule includes a 2% raise for all certified and classified employees; Miss Jenny said that increase is part of a multi-year effort that the board has approved and that the district has provided about a 12% total increase over the last five years. The schedule adds a longevity step at 27 years of service for certified staff and a 25-year step for classified staff; the board discussed these adjustments as part of a retention strategy for veteran employees.

The schedule also formalizes several role- and program-level changes: adding 20 days to an existing position to serve as coordinator of new-teacher induction (staff said this is not a new FTE but additional days to be paid on top of a current position), and providing 10 additional days for two teachers assigned as My Rock Online parent liaisons to meet with parents before school starts. Miss Jenny said the additional induction days would replace the district’s prior contract with the Southeast South Central Co op for new-teacher induction and allow the district to perform the work internally.

The board also confirmed continued payment of National Board Certified Teacher stipends even if a teacher later changes assignment, saying the district will continue the stipend to recognize the accomplishment. Miss Jenny indicated there are about seven teachers who currently receive that stipend.

Other adjustments discussed in the meeting included an alignment of elementary assistant days from 30 down to 20 to match middle-school assistant days (the change followed a recent retirement), a small increase in substitute pay from $90 to $95 per day intended to attract more applicants, and new or clarified duties for staff who would support school-level social media/communications with training from Savannah (district staff). Miss Jenny said schools such as Mount Vernon Elementary have been using school-level SBDM allocations to fund successful social-media support and the district would like to scale that model.

A board member asked about qualification requirements for substitute teachers; Miss Jenny said state rules have changed to allow high-school graduates to substitute but the district is monitoring applicants and continuing to prefer a 64-credit-hour threshold to ensure qualified candidates.

Board members moved and seconded the salary-schedule approval and voted in favor. The district will implement the schedule for FY2026 as budgeted in the tentative budget.","The Rockcastle County Board approved a salary schedule that includes a 2% across-the-board raise, a new step at 27 years for certified staff, a 25-year step for classified staff, additional days for a teacher-induction coordinator, and continuation of National Board Certified Teacher stipends.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6226045,"Rockcastle County Schools unveil $44 million tentative budget; general fund tops roughly $37 million",1651,865000,2516000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3524514-7e7c9351c005687f2a9130723196b88b&start=865&end=2516","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3524514-7e7c9351c005687f2a9130723196b88b/thumbnail_865000.jpg","/articles/6226045/Kentucky/Rockcastle-County-Schools-unveil-44-million-tentative-budget-general-fund-tops-roughly-37-million","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6226045-84ce50d8d0122ef44d903edb78082d29/orig.mp4?Expires=1771194708&Signature=YgyebvLMloT5hZ5~EeXAS2ew5hY8snbhEJbJT3Sbf1QRdrr~6k0SxXCd8jEiQKeX6s2nfqyaZ54Vdki4i8G-Fnoni-0PkMnAkMbV8nX5rqNhWBxn4S3o-lvUr5qWqv0CLdcWCirOoi2Gv2Du~qc79XectHuO9PAHI0I6VPPaBba-VvovOTWBiEFCswWqqN-ZD1MvnndIWEZXWB80nFIbZ7w1sD~cWyFx9VlyqmcRCfbpDMA~QXjqiGFnDDZK6CBHfYMuqR1H2~G023bnL72ro3pvi9ML606gO~~NI82UGrJt8PH555~60SKq2jiO3F1oJKgiAoJ1YHPqWZ0d51IK6A__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Miss Jenny, a district staff member, presented the Rockcastle County Schools tentative fiscal year 2026 budget to the Board of Education, describing total budgeted activity across funds of about $44,000,000 and general fund revenues and expenditures \"a little over $37,000,000.\" The presentation took place during a special-called board meeting on the night the agenda was adopted by unanimous voice vote.

The budget matters because it funds classroom instruction, transportation, building and debt service, and other core operations for the district. Miss Jenny said salary and fringe account for almost 50% of general fund expenses, and that the district is maintaining a tentative contingency of 6.67% (15.81% when restricted contingency/CDs are included).

Miss Jenny said the district’s SEEK (state) forecast is $17,417,663 and local tax revenue is estimated at $2,692,519; she noted that on-behalf payments (state-paid benefits) inflate the budget figure and were estimated at about $9,400,000. She told the board the district’s general fund and related funds reflect carry-forward dollars, the SEEK increase for the year, and a local plan to transfer tax receipts into the building fund. \"Investing in education is not just a line item in a budget,\" she said, describing the budget as a \"down payment on the future.\"

The presentation included several line-item details: a capital-outlay SEEK allocation of $244,900; building-fund new revenue estimated at $3,650,504 (not including carry forward); food-service revenues and expenditures budgeted at $3,417,481; and debt service figures near $1,900,000. Miss Jenny said the district recorded $4,495,512 in current building-fund cash on the prior month’s balance sheet, estimated next-year debt payments of $1,975,591 and projected an ending building-fund cash balance near $6,170,425 after those payments were made.

Transportation and facilities were highlighted as inflation-affected areas. Miss Jenny reported a bus replacement cost of $152,514 for a bus recently damaged, with insurance proceeds of $46,785; she said the district will spend roughly $563,000 on buses next year based on previously approved purchases and the replacement need. She noted transportation funding from the state rose and that full transportation funding for the district would be about $413,906.

Miss Jenny said the district plans a 2% across-the-board raise built into the salary schedule (discussed separately on the agenda) and that the budget includes an estimated 17% insurance premium increase that would equate to about $75,000 in additional premiums. The district is also budgeting additional operational dollars for the Rock Building and a new athletics/fields line with $105,000 set aside for equipment and maintenance; a roughly $16,000 equipment purchase was cited as part of that plan.

Board members asked clarifying questions about monthly payroll (noted in the presentation as roughly $1.2 million), timing of grant awards for Fund 2 (most awards expected by August), and the separate construction fund (Fund 360) already in use for an ongoing construction project. Miss Jenny said the district has been tracking unfunded mandates and reviewing software subscriptions and instructional-program spending.

The board moved, seconded and approved the tentative FY2026 budget by voice vote during the meeting. Miss Jenny said the district will continue to refine the working budget for the coming year, publish required documents on the district website, and begin uploading monthly financial statements next fiscal year as required by the cited KRS requirement.

Questions and next steps include finalizing grant awards (timing varies by grant), monitoring insurance-cost proposals at the next meeting, and returning with a more refined working budget for formal adoption later in the cycle.","District finance staff presented a tentative FY2026 budget that totals about $44 million across funds, with general fund revenues and expenditures described as \"a little over\" $37 million, a projected 6.67% contingency and $3.65 million in new building-fund revenue.","actionData","errors"]

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