001Good evening and welcome to the June 8th, 2026 meeting of the Robertson County School Board. Uh at this time, I will ask all in attendance to please silence your electronic devices and join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. >> Standing for the pledge. >> Attention. Salute. Pledge. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. >> Dr. Weeks, will you please read our mission and vision statements? >> We believe our mission is to ensure that each student is prepared to succeed in life. And we believe that our vision is to enable all students to reach and exceed high academic and career standards while empowering them to succeed in
002a culturally diverse and technologically advanced society. >> Thank you. Thank you. U board members, you have before you a consent agenda that was sent out prior to the meeting for your review. Uh at this time, uh we'll entertain any discussion or a motion. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Jeff White. >> Second by Mr. Scott Rice. All those in favor, please make it known by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. >> Moving on to recognitions. Dr. >> Bo members, as you know, we've been participating in the grow your own program and our grow your own program is uh the one which we have been able to select uh carefully students that have an interest in uh becoming teachers and we have uh part of our class of grow your own graduates
003with us this evening. So, Miss Spencer, if you'd uh introduce us to those folks, please. >> Yes, sir. So, at this time, we would like to recognize six grow your own apprentices who graduated from Ball State this May. And this accomplishment now leads their journey to Austin P, where they've already started summer classes, and this is their final year for the grow your own program. So, at this time, we did have because it's vacation time, uh, Miss Kendall Allen, Jessica Hudson, Christine Brink, and Ellie Kidd could not be here with us tonight, but we do have Miss Hannah Martin and Miss Sarah Rymer. Thanks, guys. >> Congratulations to you all. Uh, Dr. Weekes, we'll move on to personnel reports. Item 4 Americans, item 4 A, our personnel reports. Uh would like to recognize our retirees.
004This is on page 75. Uh Katrina Collier, Brian Davis, Eric Hagen, Christy Linder, and Lorie Wyatt are those who have announced their retirements being certified personnel. You will will see several resignations. You'll see some transfers. And I would like to uh point out uh Mr. Will Elliott is here this evening. Uh Mr. Elliott has been named a CTE supervisor effective on July 1st. So, um, Mr. Gregory, I guess this is your last official meeting. We are going to miss you and I believe we're leaving that in capable hands. Mr. Elliott, as always, uh, eager to help and to be a support and, uh, he went through the interview process, I guess about five weeks ago, four or five weeks ago, and, uh, he was named last week and appointed to that position. So, we congratulate
005Mr. Elliott. You'll see that. uh you will see several non-renewals starting on the bottom of page 75 and 76 carried over even to 77. And as you know um the majority of the non-renewal list come from um staff members that are on permits uh or there's some type of waiver. Many of them if they've completed what they need to do for their college or university program and are and if they receive an recommendation from their principal, they'll be rehired back to their position. Uh so a lot of those folks are waiting on those. I do see a few names that have been on retiree contracts also and so they're on a year-to-year contract with us. So, uh they'll be they have been non-renewed through that process and again many of them if we cannot find
006a certified teacher to go back into those positions they will as well be um rehired for their positions for the upcoming year. So HR is very busy. You can see that uh the second page of the classified personnel report on page 78 we have two retirees Miss Sandra Powell and Miss Connie Rice. Both of those from the transportation department. you see us several resignations, a couple of dismissals, and again some non-renewals there. Uh you will start to see some transfers, some hires, and some non-faculty coaches. So you'll see all that placed together. >> Thank you, sir. Moving on to item 5A, expense comparison report. Board members, page 80 lists the expenses from 2026 as we compare those to 2025. Uh you will see in our revenues uh we are considerably ahead of the revenues at
007the same point uh in time 128.6 million or 88% of our budget expenditures 119 million 77% of our budget. We are showing that 8.7 million balance revenues over expenditures. So, we're uh very proud of that and glad to to be able to report that to you. Property tax come in 101% of our budget. Sales tax coming in at 91% of our budget. Um the expenditures that we track mainly, uh I'm still watching those and this may still have been too early. This is through April 30th. But our diesel fuel and our gasoline budgets, um 77% of that budget has been used in diesel and 59% of the budget's been used in gasoline. Uh we're still watching those very carefully. Um and as we talked at our last meeting, it's pretty difficult to know how to
008budget for those two line items for the upcoming year. I'm sure just like I you are enjoying some changes in gas prices going down a little bit. I have not noticed that at the diesel pump so much and I don't know exactly where we are purchasing diesel right now and what price but uh it is again we anticipate that that budget being very tight for the remainder of this year for summer school programming and even as we start in the next school year. Uh the detailed documents for that are presented to you in the consent agenda. Those come from the finance office and we'll be glad to answer any questions that we have on those. Hearing none, we'll move on to item 5B, budget amendments. Page 81 in your packet shows a balanced budget amendment.
009Um really the the the amendment is for $17,400. Uh we received two grants uh both related to school nutrition and those are uh shown on the top of the page as income uh 12,04 in one and 5,000 and another. So that 174 uh you see that balanced out at the bottom of the page 174 and the two food service line items at the very bottom of the page where that balances out. The other budget amendments throughout the page are preparing for audit and this will be our last budget amendment for the year. So, this document will go to county finance tomorrow with your approval. County finance will approve that to go to county commission next Monday night for final approval and that will be our last budget amendment for the year. Board members, you have
010before you a $17,400 balance budget amendment. Uh, do we have a motion to approve? >> So, move motion to approve Mr. Steven Ayes. >> Second by Miss Connie Hogan. All those in favor make a known saying I. I. >> Motion passes. 5 Z. And item 5 C 2026 27 proposed budget members at our May meeting um we had presented uh a draft budget to you at that point in time. you would ask that we go back and add money to both the classified and certified staff so that we would uh have an increase of $750 per position and we have done that. So that's the only change uh in the large budget document that you have. The budget summary document that I passed along with that um shows where we will end up if you
011approve this budget tonight. Uh total budget would be 140 million $140.9 million uh in revenues with $150.7 million in expenditures. And so uh the budget uh expenditures over revenues at $9.7 million. I think we were at about 8.6 last time and I projected that uh the increases that you'd added to the budget going to be somewhere in that neighborhood of $1.3 million. I think I was pretty close. So, we're about 1.2 one and a quarter. So, um that's where that's a result of the action that you directed us to do uh at our last meeting. Again, there have been no other changes other than the line items that are particularly tied to raises. So, uh, that would be social security rates and retirement rates and Medicare rates. So, as you see, uh, each full-time position
012has an increase of the, uh, $750. And then the retirement rates, as we talked about, have gone up to 8.9%. And they're still projecting medical insurance, even though they've not finalized that with us, they're still projecting that at about 12%. So, if you're comfortable with those numbers, we uh we are scheduled to present to the budget committee tomorrow afternoon at 4:30. So, uh either we need to make any final adjustments that you'd want us to do or change or we need to adopt a budget this evening. So, we're contributing what are we contributing to our fund balance based on I mean I know we still a little bit of time but roughly we're going to attribute how much more to our fund balance this year >> as of the April reports that you have now
013uh we're 8.7 to the good >> uh and again we projected to be eight negative So, you can see that as a 16,000. It's not a true $16,000 gain, but it's the $16,000 revenue is over. >> Um, >> sales tax is coming in strong, we're probably through with property tax for right now. If things trend as they normally have, I would say at least say at least four, if not five million. >> Contribute our fund balance. Yeah, good. Good. >> We've been very fortunate with grants this year. >> 6 27 total. >> 26 27 maybe as high as 20 very low 28s. >> Okay. >> I would remind you and I will make this clear to the budget committee tomorrow. if you pass this budget today and send send us up there with that. Uh
014if you look in the middle of your budget summary page, uh we will need to this year and I use the word need. We we're going to have to these are not wants, these are needs. Uh we will need to purchase uh some technology for our students who are going to be required to test online this year. And so we're going to have a large expenditure in technology. uh we have to buy some buses and we're figuring out which buses that we will need to replace and then we uh we have a couple of large HVAC projects. So, we know we're going to have to take some money from the fund balance in addition to this 9.7. But again, that's that's what those fund balances are for is to use that on necessary projects. And
015u you know, you can argue one way or another about the technology purchases for testing. I mean, we're going to have to set that money aside for that. Uh but that's you know we have no doubt that's that's going to be a requirement. >> Do you have a projected price on any of those three projects? >> Uh technology I hope we can do for million8 million nine. So somewhere in the $2 million range. Uh buses last time I heard buses are running about $180,000 a piece. uh if we can use some other uh piggyback off of some other bids that are out there right now. Um that's going to be a close but and that's for the large buses. So again, I'm not sure we're going to need all those buses. We'll get with transportation
016as as we plan as we move into the year to do that. But a new large bus is a 180 185 and HVAC projects. Um just we're going to continue to prioritize those and get with our maintenance department to figure out where those priorities are. Uh we have needs all around the county, but there are some very large needs that have to be addressed and cooling towers and things like that that'll be at least a half million dollars a piece. >> And how many buses do you think you're going to need? >> Um anywhere from four up to Maybe four regular and couple of special ed, maybe five and one somewhere in that neighborhood. They have the state has given us a little break on uh extending the life of buses that we use for
017after school and travel and things like that. Not for route buses, but they're going to allow us to extend the life of uh daycare travel and things like that in the afternoon. So, we may get another year or so out of some of our buses. >> So, we're looking at possibly another three to four million dollars out of fund balance to to cover these projects. Uh, I would say that's a good approximation depending on the severity of the HVAC projects that we need. It could be a little bit higher depending on HVAC. I know this is not on budgets, but there was a time we all we had a meeting and I'm positive y'all was here. We actually listed out all the different projects that needed to be attacked. Do y'all remember that? >> Yeah,
018we had it that and the athletic side. >> We Yeah, we covered everything. Parking lot, ceiling, we we had everything. And it might be time to get to that again so that we can see future projects. And we prioritized them as as a board with staff >> um you know, helping us. The board didn't know who needed the HBAC first, >> but we helped prioritize what we needed to tack and and we put it in a five-year plan and we completed everything before five years with the exception of one thing. And we still hadn't done that one thing. But I think it's time we we might look at doing that again because um I understand we need some HVAC's, but we probably do need more than two. And I'd really love to see exactly how
019many we need. Um I think we we have a preliminary list of some of those things as principles have their midyear meetings with us. And then uh again I I think you mentioned parking lots. You know our parking lots some of them are in very rough shape. >> We still got pictures of all the other charts that we had. I think you want to say >> we try to do a couple of those a year and you know I think we've got two budgeted for this year >> but yes it's >> I thought that worked good. Scott, you was you on the board then? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> I I thought that that worked good as far as it give a plan of what we was attacking. >> Did that also have have you
020know a date of the last time we addressed it or what year this was installed and you know how old stuff is getting? Yes, that was presented to us as we was prioritizing. We knew and actually we had pictures of the roofs. We we had everything. >> Um, one thing that we did at that time is what you was talking about, Mr. rises. We went ahead and set a $1,000, sorry, a million dollars aside. Uh$1 million for HVAC uh and roofing each year, a million for technology each year, and a million for athletic fields each year. Uh that's been gobbled up in the process of the years, or we don't have that anymore. Um I think if we could do, I know I've mentioned to you, uh we need to look at ways of saving
021money and sometimes you have to spend it to save it, >> right? >> And I think we need to do some work on some of our athletic fields to be able to save some money >> and that's talking about lights. >> Sure. Thank you for that. >> And and I think that's something that we need to think about as we go into this year. I I know a community that's they're working very hard toward that. Of course, that's a very costly project and uh I know it's tough on them. I know the community and I know the I know the the people who are trying to raise the money for it and I I I have to agree with them. It's something that needs to be done and it's not my community. She's not here
022tonight. It's her community. >> It's your community. I know East Robertson's working so hard trying to get together with this project and and when you talk to electricians and you get into the field that I'm in where you hear these things you're talking about it pays itself off in a few years just the savings on electricity. >> So that that's just something putting the notes to the side. I'd love for us to have a a planning session to put together what our wants and needs are over the next five years. Ch. It's a great idea. >> Now, back to the budget. Sorry. >> But that is part of the budget. >> Yes, sir. >> Have any more discussion on on the budget as presented thus far? So you present to the finance committee tomorrow. >>
023Finance and budget committee tomorrow afternoon. Yes sir. Then I go to the if if they they have been taking department heads budgets for the last guess two weeks. U they're taking them all under advisement and putting that together in one document. And then some people have asked to go back and revisit their budgets. Some of them They may accept them as presented and move those to the full commission. >> I don't see any reason not to I guess make a motion to approve budget as presented. Um so I think we've discussed I make a motion to approve the budget as presented here tonight. Got a motion to approve the budget as presented by Mr. Scott Rice. I'll second the motion. >> All those in favor, please make >> Come on. Just I got a question.
024>> Oh, sorry. Yes, sir. Go ahead. >> What happens if we don't approve this budget tonight? If we study it. >> I've never been in that position. The county commission has given us a budget calendar and I guess for the last couple years as we've done budgets, we've had those in March and April. So, I've never not been able to present a budget to a county commission. >> You thinking of us having a special meeting >> just for the budget or >> Yeah, >> that's just my thoughts. I I like I say, it's a lot of money and uh want to make sure I'm putting my due diligence in it and I really hadn't had it in my hand a whole lot. Not especially this final version and now I've got to get my gray
025pen out because nobody put the untouchables in gray on this budget. You know what I'm talking about? >> Yes, sir. >> All right. I know there are some things there's nothing we can do about it's always been in gray, >> right? >> I'm just looking through it now. >> I will say nothing nothing other than the changes you made at your last meeting on the 28th has changed in the last six weeks. So this is a budget >> other than the >> other right >> and we had $188 I believe for certified positions. We bumped that to we bumped it 756 I think is the number because we always look for a number that's divisible by 12 for payroll and then we put the 750 >> quarters and dimes too in payroll. >> Well they
026do but they sometimes round off to strange >> we teach fractions. We teach >> so uh but other than other than those changes nothing has been added or deleted from the budget since then. Okay. >> So, there's really nothing in here to make provisions for what Mr. White was just talking about. You know, the the athletic fields, the this that, you know, those things that he just mentioned, there's >> I mean, those are those are included at the funding level that we have had those in. So, you know, we we still have the flexibility in the budget. If if we need to take something from one line item and shift it to another, we can do that throughout the year as that's needed. Um, we know it's a very tight budget here. The county commission
027has told us um, you know, they're not expecting projected raises and you are not projecting larger raises or anything like that or large increases. uh the other department heads that we've heard their budgets very little change at all to those and again you'll see ours we had talked about the the biggest difference in our budget is the lack of a lot of the grants that have come to us in the past we we've lost several of those grants and not not that we've lost them they've expired right >> you know we knew they were coming they're not being renewed and so that's >> that's just a function of where they are and so Um what you see is a budget highlight page there is really you know those are the those are the places that
028we have added and many of those are are necessary. >> Go back to your question Hogan. I I don't know what county commission would say if we called them tomorrow and tell them we didn't have a budget ready. And the only reason, you know, Jeff, you know, you made some good points on that, we we're contributing a little over $4 million to the fund balance in this budget. So, I feel confident that that money would be available for special requests, projects, and we had a list of, you know, for roofs and heat and air units. We got $4 million versus if we just go back and put a million for this, million for that, million for this. as we talked about the differentiated pay uh process, we could go back and add that versus hold
029up the whole budget. But I'm I'm willing to do if you want to call a special meeting, I'm good with that. Um if you want to hold off and meet another time on the budget, I I got if the timeline allows it, um I'm good. Either way, >> I'm glad you know how I came being okay with going ahead and approving the budget because we have $4 million we're contributing to the balance that >> that's always good >> as long as we can have another meeting to discuss like you said facilities and stuff going forward needs and like not just this year like I know we need to discuss the reserve items on here for this year but so we can get this is what we're going to do this year this is what we
030plan to do next year next year next year I'm I'm okay with the current budget as long as we can do that question. >> We've got a motion. Move your question. All those in favor make it known by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Budget motion passes. 50. Moving on to item 6A, attendance report. Page 82 in your packet. Board members is our April and May. So, this is our final attendance report for the year. Uh during April, Greenber Elementary School led the elementarymentaries with the 96.3% attendance. Uh White House Heritage 98.4 for our high schools with our district total 95%. Still that's outstanding for attendance for students. In May, Robert F. Woodall was 95.2% leading the elementary schools and White House Heritage 98.7 leading the middles and high schools uh 93.6%. 6% during
031attendance for the May period. I did circle the following schools. Coopertown Middle, uh, Crest View Elementary, Green Middle, Joe Burns High, and Springfield High. Each of those schools had more than 50 students uh, with 20 or more absences. So again, we talked about that being a month of school. uh 735 students finished the year missing at least 20 absences. So that's about 7% of our student population that's missing uh 20 or more days. >> I would like to talk to Heritage High about what they're like they even in May a high school their attendance went up in May. >> Like I don't I just I'd like to hear from are they doing something different? Are they doing what's you know? I'm saying like a kudos. It's great work. I I just want to know what
032are they doing. Like it's great. >> I think they're consistently been 96 or above since we started school. >> Good job. >> We'll uh we'll get Dr. Heard on that as since he >> returned high went up. >> Yeah. >> Um so on these are you know we've look at these numbers throughout the school year. you know, other districts um close to us. Are the numbers similar? I wonder what some of the other counties numbers are as far as number of students that are missing 20 plus days. And I guess what I'm looking for is is is out of our hands and once it gets to a certain point, you know, the courts have to be involved. We can only do what we're required to do. We have no real legal authority. Um, and I'm
033just be interested to see what some other communities that have. Are we in line, everybody in the same boat, or is there one or two communities that are running 98%. You know, or something that statistically is eye-catching. And I'd be curious to see what their legal officials are doing different than we are. >> We'll be glad to collect some of that information of of districts. I think we've shared with you in the past there are seven or eight districts that are like us very similar in size and then there's several eight seven or eight districts that surround us that we we compare ourselves to a lot of times and so uh we'll try to gather that information and have that for you in a summer report. Um I I can tell you just coming from
034another district three years ago the the number of chronic absentes doesn't compare anyway. We we didn't have a handful >> court system attacked that. Now, I think that's something we ought, they ought to hear that, >> you know, this community, this community is achieving these levels and the only thing could be different is the legal system in those local communities. Well, it's it's probably fair to say that if you've got a if you've got a school that has 50 or 60 students with 20 plus absences, yet the school overall is running 95%, you've got probably really strong attendance with the exception of of those individual students. So, if they had more incentive to come to school, >> you know, that's a number large enough to sway a whole percentage of the student. And that's, you
035know, again, we've talked about that's 10% of that school's accountability. >> Yeah. I mean, don't sound like when you say 735 kids have missed a month or more school is is tough. I mean, obviously there's percent of those have medical reasons. We completely understand all that, but there's >> there's a pretty high percentage of that number. I feel certain they're just there's no accountability. >> You know, sometimes we hear that that's an elementary problem as well because, you know, elementary students don't usually make the choice. That's a parental choice about getting up and coming to school aside from sicknesses and illnesses. Uh but if you look at our schools again, you know, for the most part, these are middle and highs. So, you know, we do have a lot of ability some of that and
036I think our administrators are are trying to address that through extra privileges and ball games and proms and and looking for those things to both incentivize students that are there and they're also u sometimes being cumulative to students that are not. >> We'll try to get that report for you for our our next meeting. >> Any other discussion on the attendance report? Moving on to item 6B, policy revisions. >> Mr. Dickerson, >> this spring we've had some statutory and legislative updates that have prompted revisions to about 14 policies. I will tell you, we've not gotten the um information from TSBA on the majority of those changes. So, this is just one phase of changes that I'm bringing to you tonight. Um, so there are 14 policies and I'm just going to kind of give you
037a brief summary of each one, a statement or two. If you have questions, just stop me and we'll we'll take a look at it. Board policy 1.404 appeals to and appearances before the board. The updated policy contains a provision that allows public comment on any matter that is germanine to the jurisdiction of the local governing body regard regardless of whether it is an item on the agenda for the meeting. This legislation does not change the ability to place to place reasonable time, place, and manner of restrictions on the public comment period. Do you have any questions? Board policy 1.804, alcohol and drugs in the workplace. The updated policy contains a provision on examinations based on reasonable suspicion. Board policy 4.802, student equal access, and board policy 4.805, prayer and period of silence. There were some
038very minor edits to wording um in these policies based on recommendations. Board policy 5.114 personnel records. This updated policy clarifies that disciplinary action is part of the employees personnel file. Board policy 5.1151 teleawwork during emergencies. This policy has been updated to clarify that teleawwork outside of emergency situations is not permitted without the director's approval. The following includes three policies. Board policy 5.2000, separation practice for tenure teachers, board policy 5.21, separation practices for non-tenure teachers, board policy 5.202, 202 separation practices for classified employees. These policies include a provision for temporary suspensions that may involve suspending with pay in limited circumstances. Board policy 5.400 personnel health examinations communicable diseases. Um, this policy contains a new provision on providing options for employees who may be ill. Board policy 5.403, drug and alcohol testing for employees. This updated policy
039contains new information on best practices for reasonable suspicion testing. Board policy 5.608, tutoring with pay. This updated policy includes a more detailed provision on tutoring pro arrangements. Board policy 5.800 director of schools. This updated policy includes provisions clarifying the personnel responsibility of the director. And the last one, board policy 6.411, student wellness. These revisions were made to align state board language with statutory requirements as well as reflect the current practices and needs of school districts. Are there any questions? Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Dickerson. Do we have any uh discussion or a motion regarding the revised uh regarding the policy revisions as presented. >> These are all legal. >> All these updates are pretty much legal. >> They were taken directly from the model policy. >> Okay. So, these are pretty much all legal.
040So, not much yet. >> Motion to approve is presented. >> Motion to approve by Miss Connie Hogan. >> Second by Mr. Jeff White. All those in favor make it known by saying I. I >> any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Dr. Reek's moving on to item 7A, facilities and land. >> Members, since our last meeting, just wanted to give you an update from Huelet Spencer. They are meeting with the property owner in the Springfield on on a property in the Springfield city limits again that we have uh just had some preliminary discussions. uh they're attempting to put a footprint of a potential 750 800 student middle school on that property just to ensure that it would fit. U they hope to have that document ready for you at your July meeting just to look at that
041to see if we want to go in that direction in terms of property. Uh we've also pulled plats. you'd ask us to look at some land uh around Coopert, I'm sorry, around Sheen Park Elementary School and some land at the Chrysler Elementary School. So, we'll have all that together in one packet to to share with you the information that we've collected and gathered since that point in time. And uh we we did stress I think there was a um a directive to make sure that we settled on a price before we uh went through spending any money for geotech work or anything like that on the property. So um Jamie will have that for us at our next meeting. >> Thank you sir. Automate. We have any old business? Do we have any new business?
042>> All right, moving on to item nine, communications and request to speak. >> Well, we do have a request uh uh to speak as a citizen and bring awareness to the board. uh citizen reports that they have um met with system administration and uh have indicated they've met with the director of schools uh to share some findings. Uh this would qualify under our new policy and our new practices which I'll be glad to make sure you have copies of those. Uh our typical time frame is three minutes for requests to speak. There are some special circumstances and under some accommodations that are necessary. I would recommend that we allow up to five minutes for that presentation. >> Miss Paul, if you'd come to the podium, uh, if you'd state your name, address for the record,
043please. >> Do we need to vote to change the >> uh, yes, you would need to vote to accept the accommodation if >> Sure. >> Okay. >> motion to approve accommodations as noted. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Start. All right. Second by Mr. Jeff White. All those in favor make a known saying I. Any opposed? >> Motion approved. 5-0. >> Before I begin, I wanted to um respectfully object to my individualized ADA accommodation request being handled by a public vote. This request involved disability related access to public comment and I ask that my objective be objection be reflected in the record. Okay. Good evening. My name is Bri. I'm uh I live in I reside in Greenbryer and I'm a Robertson County constituent taxpayer and former school bus driver for Robertson County schools. I'm
044here to place a concern on the public record regarding transportation staffing, the use of taxpayer funded resources, and how the district handles formal complaints and accommodation related issues. During my employment, I filed multiple formal complaints involving disability accommodation, discrimination, retaliation, safety concerns, and compensation issues. Those complaints did not receive timely review, clear findings, or a documented outcome. The lack of resolution had consequences beyond my individual situation. It affected transportation operations, students, parents, and other drivers. After I was medically cleared to return to work, I reported my availability daily for approximately six weeks. During that time, the district continued to report a bus driver shortage and reassigned a central transportation personnel, including staff responsible for safety and routing. I believe even the uh director of transportation to cover routes while I remain unassigned. As a result,
045students and families experience delays, route disruptions, and inconsistency while other drivers exert additional workload. In addition, my return to work was conditioned on a retire on a requirement that conflicted with an accommodation already on file. This raises a broader concern when complaints are filed and individuals involved in those complaints are also part of the review process. There appears to be no independent oversight and no clear path to resolution. So for the public record, my question is this. When those responsible for oversight are also named in complaints and the board has already been notified, where does the accountability go? That's all I have. Thank you for your time and thank you for letting me speak. >> Thank you. Um without any additional public comment, we will move on to item 11, director of schools report. Board
046members, it's a pleasure to report that summer school is under the way and uh if you see buses out, uh we are running se summer school in several sites and uh decent attendance. We're we're having several students there and uh they are going through process of summer camp activities. So they are getting a good experience in uh mathematics, English language arts and then uh doing some supplemental materials there. So we are excited about that. Uh our maintenance department has had the opportunity to start working in some buildings and some places where we normally do not take care of work when the school year is going on where students are in there. So, uh, we hope to get some of those things taken care of. We've had a smooth transition for our janitorial services. Uh, they
047are servicing our classrooms and our schools where summer school is is underway as well as they're starting the process for taking care of getting our floors into good shape as we start school. U mentioned already that our HR department is very busy working toward filling uh positions as well as uh principles are doing a good job of interviewing and getting those recommendations to us. Uh we also are partnering with the Robertson County Sheriff's Office for a camp this summer and excited about that. And my last well one thing I wanted to just uh remind you that we may still have a seat at the TSBA summer law workshop which again they'll cover legislation from this last year and policy changes. Uh that is the third week of July. I think Mr. White and >> have
048somebody else going good good sessions. Uh so we have that available. I did uh want the board to look at your calendars. Um someone brought this to my attention. It's it's not a problem. It's just it was a conflict on our calendars. Uh our November 6th our November 6 board retreat uh is scheduled um November 6th and 7th. That's a Friday and Saturday. Someone mentioned there might be a few people in Knoxville that week. So, if you want to look at rescheduling that, that might be uh something we look for a different weekend. Uh but we can certainly meet that weekend if the board wishes to do so. And that's my report, Mr. White. Thank you. >> So, you want us to just report back to you on that those dates? priority. >> We just
049need to we have some time if we need to notice that we will need a notice and if we make any changes to that. >> Okay. >> But again, that's the board review calendars and we'll maybe discuss that at our next planning session. >> Um we'll move on to comments by board members. Uh we'll start with Miss Connie Hogan. >> Um I don't believe I have anything. >> All right, Mr. White. Enjoy the sub. Mr. All right. >> Same here. Everything good? >> All right. I'm good. Sounds good. Everybody wants a little bit of daylight, I guess, to get out of here. Uh, I don't have anything either. Uh, if there's not any other business to attend to, we stand a journ.