The Hardin County Board of Education voted to accept a resolution recognizing several students, staff and community volunteers and approved the meeting’s consent agenda during its regular board meeting.

The board honored North Hardin High School freshman Zuri Basso for receiving the Kentucky Council for Exceptional Children’s Yes I Can award in self-advocacy; Chef Roger Ramsey, lead culinary instructor at the Hardin County Schools Early College and Career Center, for national and state ProStart educator awards; Leah Reynolds, a North Hardin High senior and culinary pathway student, for competition wins and a planned culinary education path; and Ally Tremblay, Radcliffe Elementary interventionist, for her work implementing interventions and mentoring teachers. The board also repeated its Better Together recognition for Trinity Searcy and Kevin Addington and acknowledged labor and equipment contributions from CARBEC and Addington Transportation that helped prepare North Park Elementary for the school year.

Board members moved and seconded a resolution to recognize the honorees; the board approved the recognition by voice vote. Later in the meeting the board voted to accept the consent agenda, which included acceptance of a $2,000 donation from the Alpha Omega Sigma chapter at Fort Knox to the HCS Family Stability program, approval of change orders related to turf projects and Central Hardin dugout work, information about I-3 capital funding, and certification of personnel actions and a job-class change in buildings and grounds.

Why it matters: The recognitions highlight district classroom and career-pathway work and community support; the consent agenda contains routine fiscal and personnel matters that keep district operations and projects moving.

The board’s recognitions came at the start of the meeting. Wright, who introduced the awards, described Basso’s honor from the Kentucky Council for Exceptional Children and noted Chef Ramsey’s national and state ProStart awards and his role as a lead instructor at the Early College and Career Center. The board applauded students and staff and asked families present to stand when named.

Consent items approved in the single vote included the donation to the Family Stability program, several construction change orders, and a personnel job-class change in the buildings and grounds department. A board member moved to accept the consent agenda and a second followed; the board approved it by voice vote.

Ending: The board proceeded through its agenda after the votes and moved on to instructional and operational updates.