Members approve Section 7 staffing requests for Second Street Elementary and Frankfort High

Members present approved Section 7 staffing requests for Second Street Elementary and Frankfort High after a staff presentation on projected enrollment, staffing changes and budget trends.

A staff member (S2) told members that Frankfort High’s projected enrollment for next year is 282 and that the district has accepted 12 tuition students so far, which the presenter combined to state as 294. The presenter said a billboard advertising tuition applications will go up on May 18. The presenter also reported that Second Street Elementary’s projected figures were higher than current enrollment, though the transcript’s numeric phrasing for those figures was unclear.

The Section 7 request for Second Street, the presenter said, would convert staffing from one certified position plus two classified positions to three classified positions, which the presenter described as a savings of "about $30,000." The request also included adding a 0.5 classroom teacher to match the site-based allocation, retaining a full-time music teacher, and converting an instructional coach role into a full-time interventionist focusing on students on reading intervention plans. The presenter gave a total for that request rendered in the transcript as "$3.83 74" (amount unclear in the record).

For the high school, the presenter described requested positions including an academic support instructional assistant to support dual-credit and career-and-technical students (including at Trailblazer Academy), a math interventionist, an internship coordinator with 15 extended days, and an instructional coach with 15 extended days. The transcript records a total cost in garbled form ("$2.21 $3.37"). One segment of the transcript uses the name "Frederick High," which conflicts with earlier references to Frankfort High; the record here treats the school as Frankfort High and notes the naming inconsistency in the transcript.

The presenter also provided historical Section 7 expenditure figures, saying "From 2223, your total section 7 expenditures were $852,317.91" and that the district’s current request is a little higher than last year but down more than $200,000 over the last four years, citing the staffing changes as a contributing factor.

The Chair (S1) called for a motion to approve the Second Street Section 7 request; the motion and a second were recorded and members voted in favor. The Chair acknowledged a brief delay in one vote but confirmed it was counted and that the motion passed. The Chair then called for approval of the Frankfort High request; the staff member said, "So moved," members voted "Aye," and the Chair declared the motion passed unanimously. The meeting was then adjourned.

Votes at a glance

- Approve Second Street Elementary Section 7 request — Passed (unanimous; see vote tally notes in clarifying details). - Approve Frankfort High Section 7 request — Passed (unanimous).

Rutherford High was named in the Chair’s announcement of unfinished business but no Section 7 details for Rutherford High appear in the provided transcript.

The meeting adjourned after the two approvals; no further procedural steps or implementation dates were provided in the transcript.