UPDATED: Caverna board to set tax rate at special meeting

Caverna Board of Education is located at 1102 N. Dixie Hwy. in Cave City. Michael Crimmins/Glasgow News 1.

By GAGE WILSON 
for Glasgow News 1

Updated as of 1:42 p.m. on Aug. 6 with the revised special-called meeting agenda.

The Caverna Board of Education will meet in a special-called session on Thursday, Aug. 7, at 5 p.m. at the district’s central office. Several key items are slated for discussion and action, including the approval of the 2025-26 tax rate and final approval of student handbooks for all grade levels.

Superintendent Amanda Abell is expected to recognize both students and staff during her report. The board will also review updates to personnel documents, finance reports, grants and travel.

Among the agenda items, board members will consider approval of the district’s Student Code of Conduct on acceptable behavior and discipline, an item that was tabled at the last meeting. Schematic designs and related bonding are also return for discussion after being tabled previously.

Other business includes approving a $2,500 stipend for a public relations coordinator, setting a chairperson and alternate for the Certified Evaluation Appeal Panel, and approving updated job descriptions for district positions, including the Director of Human Resources and the administrative assistant to the superintendent.

The agenda reads as follows:

Superintendent Reports:
-Student Recognitions
-Staff Recognitions
-Presentations (Speaker Kelly Mrsic with Baird)
-Personnel Report (Uploaded to Drive)

Consent Items
-Board Minutes from July 10, 2025 Meeting
-Orders of the Treasurer
-Finance Reports, Monthly Activity Funds, Lunchroom Accounts
-Bus Inspections
-Superintendent’s Travel
-Seasonal Travel
-Grants
-School Wide Fundraisers/Field Trips

1. Approve Tax Rate for 2025-26.
2. Approve Schematic Designs and BG-1 for the Bonding Projects (Roofing and Canopy, Outdoor Bathroom, Track Resurfacing). (tabled last meeting)
3. Approve Caverna Elementary, Middle and High School 2025/2026 Student Handbooks.
4. Approve Caverna Independent Schools Student Code of Conduct of Acceptable Behavior & Discipline. (tabled last meeting)
5. Approve Chairperson and Alternate for the Certified Evaluation Appeal Panel.
6. Approve Certified Evaluation Assurances.
7. Approve $2500 Stipend for District Technology Resource Teacher to Help with Public Relations Work.
8. Approve Updated Job Descriptions: Director of Human Resources, Central Office Manager, Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent
9. Adjournment.