Kentucky School Advocate
September 2020
Fall regional meetings continue online
Hannah Barnes, Anchorage Independent school board member and KSBA Fifth Regional Chairperson, welcomes attendees to KSBA’s first virtual regional meeting.KSBA has begun holding this year’s 12 Fall Regional Meetings as virtual meetings. The meetings will run until Nov. 5. Registration information will be distributed by each region’s host district in the weeks prior to each meeting. Visit our website for more details.At six of the regional meetings, regional chair seats on KSBA’s board of directors will be up for election. Regional chairs are in a unique position to serve as liaisons for KSBA’s Fall Regional Meetings while also contributing as members of the association’s board of directors. KSBA has distributed nomination information to board members and superintendents in districts with regional elections. Nominations are due 15 days before the respective regional meeting. Nomination forms and deadlines are available on our website.
Kentuckians can now request an absentee ballot online after a bipartisan 2020 general election plan was agreed upon by Secretary of State Michael Adams and Gov. Andy Beshear. Emergency regulations put forth by Adams, and later approved by the Kentucky State Board of Elections, allow those concerned with the spread of coronavirus to request an absentee ballot. There are also provisions for individuals who are finding it difficult to obtain a photo identification because of the pandemic.
Additionally, voters will have ample opportunity to vote early in person in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 election. This year’s general election season was prefaced by a historically high primary voter turnout, thanks in large part to expanded absentee voting.
Visit
GoVoteKy.com to access the state’s voter information portal. Resources include absentee ballot requests, polling locations, sample ballots and important deadlines.
Franklin Board member elected to Kiwanis boardFranklin County board member Chuck Fletcher was recently elected to the Kiwanis International Board of Trustees. Fletcher is a 14-year member of Kiwanis, having served in several leadership roles at the local, state and regional levels. There were five candidates for three international trustee positions. Fletcher’s three-year term as the trustee for the North American and Canadian Region of Kiwanis begins Oct. 1. He’s been assigned to three districts – Georgia, Kansas and Minnesota/Dakotas. Fletcher will spend two years in the U.S. and in the third year he’ll be assigned a foreign country with which to work.
Volkswagen settlement funds available for school districts
The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet has released an application for local school districts to receive reimbursements of up to 50 percent of the cost to replace up to five school buses. As part of the 2016 Volkswagen Settlement, the Kentucky General Assembly authorized $8,521,700 in such reimbursements to be awarded to school districts. Buses to be replaced are those in daily operation with a chassis year of 2001 or earlier.See the application instructions for VW Settlement school bus funding at
eec.ky.gov/Pages/Volkwagen-Settlement.aspx. Applications must be returned to
[email protected] by close of business Oct. 9.