001All right, we'll get started here in just about a minute or so. Okay. All right. Um, we'll call the um June 12th meeting, White County Board of Education work session to order. Appreciate everyone being here uh this evening. We'll take this time to uh go through the consent items of consent uh on our agenda tonight and then um we'll walk through that. See if there's any questions. uh if anything board member has uh has something in the consent that you wish to uh have more discussion deliberation on, we'll pull that out and stick that in the new business as we as we uh uh typically do. So, uh we'll walk through our packet just to make sure that there's if there's any clarity or any questions, we can uh we can address those. Um the
002uh first item was uh had a lot of uh meetings in May and so we're uh going to be reviewing the uh the minutes that were taken for those meetings. So uh uh first item was the uh monthly meeting held on May 8th. That was our regular meeting. We had the uh uh the minutes from that meeting. Any questions or corrections need to be made on that? Also included was uh the work session minutes from uh from that same May 8th meeting. Any questions, comments on on either one of those documents? Okay. Okay. If not, moving on, we'll go uh we had a special called U workshop, budget workshop on uh May 27th where we had uh just a general discussion on the school nutrition and general purpose uh school budget fund for uh uh
003for fiscal year uh 2025 2026. Um so any questions on the uh comments on the workshop meeting meeting minutes? Okay. If not, we'll move into the uh minutes for our uh school budget meeting uh that was held on May 29th. Any uh questions, comments on uh on that? Appreciate the author of the document uh putting that together because there was several uh motions and amendments and redactions and so appreciate uh putting that in for clarity. Okay. If not, then we'll move over to um budget amendments. We have several uh budget amendments and transfers for uh uh for for this month that we want to review. So, all these are general purpose school funds. And then I think there might be one um uh nutrition budget item. Uh there are actually um there's a general purpose
004school budget as uh first one is um actually it's not true general purpose school budget. Uh the first one is um to for the Doyle project um transfer of funds to uh do that project out of capital project funds. Um that's the $1.98 million. And then um there is a capital a general purpose school fund 141 amount budget amendment in the amount of $181,424 that is going to be to uh upgrade the HVAC air handlers at the vocational building. Um and that's money that we also have in a separate account that's outside of our normal budget that was set aside for that. Uh next um in general purpose school fund amount of $48,680. Um this is uh for summer learning camp. These are grant funds that we receive for um for summer school and we're
005just um allocating them moving them to different line items to finish out that program. Then we have a uh our volunteer prek. Uh this is our uh general purpose prek fund. This is end of the year cleanup. uh going to use some of that money to purchase some playground equipment at Bondicoftraftoft. Uh you know, they have a new playground area. We had to extend that because of the fencing and so we're going to move, we had moved their playground way out in the back of the property. We're moving it back to that area and we're going to add another piece of equipment there. Um next, um fund 141 is amount to 22,721. Um this is uh custodial personnel and building contents insurance just clean up end of the year moving money to pay for um
006some insurance out of extra custodial personnel funding that we had. Next one is in the amount of $99,000. Again, another cleanup u budgetary item going to transfer extra money we had for teacher salaries. Uh that's going to pay for substitute teachers. We were I think 66,000 over in or 68,000 over in certified subs. About another 11 over in non-certified subs. A lot of that is maternity leaves, PPL, and u just a lot of teacher absences. So, uh we transferred money uh to clean up that budget item, that deficit. Next is uh general purpose school fund 141, the amount of $28,500. Uh again, just clean up at the end of the year, moving some uh monies over from custodial personnel and evaluation, testing, those categories over to uh where they are needed. I want to make
007note there's a $1,000 there that says um how's that listed? Directors, director of schools, director of schools. Yes, that is I get my $1,000 uh when I reach all my inservice trainings with TOSS and all the PD that I go to. It's listed as career ladder in the original line, but we can't show it as career because I'm not not a career ladder teacher. So, then it's switch switched over to other salaries and wages. So, just will make clear I didn't give myself a $1,000 bonus. Um, but that's customary as I finish my training each year that that's that's how I get paid for that. Um, and that's all those budget items, Mr. Chairman. All right. Thank you for uh for the explanation on on those. Um, Mr. pyram one quick question and it could
008be I'm thinking of a number from from my my own work but for the the dole expansion project for some reason 1.7 sticks in my head am I right yes Mr. Markhamm, you want to speak to that? We need to get him. Okay. Thank you. So, that that answered my question, too. I I was looking back on some things and I saw the 1.7, so that was what I was going to ask. John beat me to it. So, but is that I mean 1.7 was the budgetary number that came through, correct? the bid the bid number. Yeah. Yes. So that was the that was the bid number and that also included contingency amounts in it. So in case we run into something then we will you know have that money already in the contract. If
009not then it'll get uh amended back out of the contract and we'll get that money back. So this number here is really kind of a all-in high number. you know that we we estimate high to to make sure that we have enough money in the budget for that. But the contract for the architect and engineer is a percentagebased contract and so it's based on that. And then we also put some money in for in this amendment for network cabling and stuff to finish out the the classrooms once they're done. Perfect. Thank you. Good questions. Any other questions? I just think it does stand to note that uh when our employees are out, it does cost us money. Um yeah. So all right. Um so those will those will be the amendments that will be uh
010under a consent agenda tonight. All right. If no uh further questions on that, then we'll uh can I make one comment on that? You can you can absolutely make a comment on that. I um I believe Miss Allie's not here, but I I believe the number I think we have $200,000 in that line item for substitutes and we went over another 80 about $88,000 over that. So, you know, a couple years ago, I took a lot of flack for trying to work on our absentee rate and um I'm still open to suggestions. There are um you know some things we'll look at um you know we could do a attendance bonus at the end of the year. We talked about bonuses and I think you know we had a lot of good conversation the board
011had a good conversation about bonuses and really bonuses would probably be a better time to talk about this time next year and not applying them on the front end but on the end of the year when you know okay we have a say we have $2 million we're going to put back in the bank we can afford to take 200,000 and pay bonuses to people. we may want to consider um looking at maybe some attendance bonuses. I know that's been done some other places. I'm going to look into I know another district that's doing that. I'm going to look into how what that procedure is. But uh you know we certainly I always encourage people to use their days or personal days as they like and uh as they're approved and and certainly use sick
012days as applicable and if they're sick that's what they're for. But um we're using a lot of days and going way over and you know we were about over about 30%. So anyway, just want to share that at where we are and um and what those numbers are. Yeah, that's probably um equivalent to about five full-time employees. Is that typical to be that that much over? It's I I don't I don't know. I have to go back and see how far over we are, but it's been it's been an issue in the past several years. Um just I I feel like we have way too many absences then. Um I think I mean just being careful here. But I I I just think we're we're missing a lot of school. It's important. I mean we
013can't teach kids if we're not there. And um um you know just like we can't we can't teach kids if the kids aren't there. You know we work really hard at making sure that we have a 90% above attendance rate for our students. We're proud of that. We work really really hard at that. But that's not what our attendance rate is for our employees. And so, um, you know, just want to point that out. But, uh, you know, we have really hardworking people. I'm not saying that they're not doing a great job. They are. We have the scores to show it. We we have a lot of absences. And the PPL has not helped. Uh, the PPL has created a lot of expensive absence uh reporting. And so, um, um, we're going to we're working
014on that. That's one of the um, one of the policies that you all are looking at tonight. Um but that that's certainly not helped things because we're paying for those teachers to be out their full salaries and then we're paying a lot in a lot of cases certified teachers to come in field which is really expensive as well. So anyway just wanted to share that information okay um so we'll move on. Um those are budget budget amendments. Um, next item is our uh we do have our our budget uh proposals for uh 2025 2026 our federal programs fund 140 uh 142 uh which covers title one, title 2, title 4, IDA part B and our preschool and uh that totaled uh all those uh totaled approximately $2.5 million worth of federal funds for that. Rounding
015up a little bit, but um so uh those are up for uh approval uh for us to approve tonight. Would you like to speak to any of those, Mr. D? Yeah, I'll let um Miss Sheila Felton, who were our federal program supervisor, speak to any specifics? But uh in a nutshell, we're dealing with title one, which deals with uh lowincome uh families and students and their education is what that funding is for. Um, title two is a lot of, uh, teacher improvement, um, PD, uh, things along those lines to help our teachers teach better. Um, title four is, um, coaches, um, how to improve the, uh, the envir the co the teaching environment in your buildings. And then IDA, part B, of course, is spe our special ed, uh, funding. and and then of of
016course our idea preschool is our sped preschool uh funding. So, um I I'll let her speak specifically. Basically, I think they right now our numbers are what they were last year and then but we're not sure that those numbers are going to stay and there's some also some interesting spending u criteria as well. So, I'll let her speak about that. Yes. Um I think the federal government is just in a turmoil of what they're giving to us or the states in a turmoil trying to figure it out. Um, for our budget wise, they actually gave us the exact same amount of money that they gave us last year. Um, so they're not even sure what they're giving us. And an interesting caveat with that is they said spend 11 12th of your budget every month.
017And usual thing it's spend it quickly. Spend this year's money on this year's kids to let it benefit the kids. Uh, and now they're saying pace yourself. Only spend a 12th at a time. So just divide it and spend it monthly. So that has everybody of interest of what's staying. There's um I actually was Monday and Tuesday at a federal programs conference. Um it's not State Department people there. It's just the people in my position across the state. We have our own association. Uh there's a lot of thought whether title two and title four are actually going to go away this year. Um so it's just all left to we don't know and to spend wisely and slowly. But most of this budget is for for title one. most budget it's teachers that do intervention
018and um teaching assistance with that and the other majority is air coaches that we have instructional coaches. So, Miss Miss Felton, just a quick question on that. Um the uh so basically is this are these firm numbers or are these their proposed exact same numbers they gave us last year? Okay. Just so we would have money to begin budgeting. Um there was quite the conversation at the conference I was at that you know how much you got on a limb to be doing things that you wouldn't usually do. Um an example a lot of districts hired instructional coaches with ESSER um or hired additional people with ESSER and then they're trying to pay for those people with these funds. Uh and some people some districts chose to not hire those people. We're fortunate that we
019didn't go out and hire a lot of new people with ESRE funds, but this is all basically proposed and spend very slowly a month at a time, I think, until they figure out how much we're going to get. We haven't gotten a lot of information other than spend a 12th each month. Okay. Um, we've never had that before in 10 years. We've I've done it. We've never heard spend slowly. It's usually spin quickly to benefit the children that year. So last year we had a little issue where uh we got into the year or almost at the start of the year and that budget number got reduced. We ended up having the end of the year prior. Yes. Yeah. That was uh that was end of our 23 24. So we just uh we're going
020on a wing in a prayer right now. That's all we have. Yeah. I think uh we just need to board members, we just need to keep that in mind so that's not a surprise to us as it was last year. See a lot of wheels turning up there. But sorry, we just don't and that's what we all said. We feel bad that we don't have information to give you because we just don't know, you know, and that's it's a shame that we don't going into budget next year. Um, I think we need to take these two lessons learned from these past two years regarding federal funds. Um, because we may have to add some contingencies in there because that's going to come out of general purpose funds if we're going to continue the program. Um,
021and one thing that's missing this year is I usually have a title five category and we would use that to pay for an instructional coach and half of another one and we did not qualify for that this year because we do not have enough lowincome students based on the 2020 census. So it just now caught up to us for the 26 school year. They'll take that away but but it's not always like you can get it back the next year. It's a yeartoyear thing. So yeah, um not much explanation of why that took so long to catch up to us. Yeah, economy changes a lot in five years. Um all right. Uh thank you. Anything else on our um um federal budget for fund 142 federal programs? No, that's it. There is one more budget
022um from school nutrition uh 143 cafeteria fund. Mr. Markham, do you want to address that one as we look at there's a uh I think we're doing a fund balance from that fund decrease. Yeah. So, um, we're just we're transferring some funds around here to, um, to, uh, make sure we have plenty of funds in the in the expenditure line items by June at June 30th. Um, we're still receiving, uh, some of our invoices, mainly for food supplies as we work through summer feeding program. Um, so there is a fund balance transfer there. We don't anticipate it being quite that drastic once everything settles out, but we're trying to make sure that we do have funds available. And you'll also notice here we had the the temporary personnel. We went over that budget pretty significantly
023as well. Uh kind of alluding to what Mr. D talked about. We had some absences that we that were in above kind of what we had projected for the year. So all in all and maintenance and repair services, we had some large equipment that had to be repaired. Uh specifically the dish machine at the high school which is several years old, but we were able to get that repaired this year. So okay. Um any other questions for our uh for school nutrition budget amendment? Okay. Um then we'll move on to uh uh to our policy report. Um so in in our in our policy um you know this is a time of year where we start having to um approve policies either new policies or update policies based on um legislative activity that took place
024earlier this year. Um, and so there's 23 pages worth worth uh worth of lists as far as uh um summaries of the reviews that were uh uh that were that were published for the various uh Senate and House bills and some of those will be reflected in policies that we will have to uh we'll have to adopt. Um obviously this will be a big uh a big uh um topic this summer next month in summer law in Gatlinburg uh that would tend to update us on that. Um there were and these are policies that TSBA is making recommendations. Um they have have having produced the recommendations based on what these these laws were. So, um there's quite a few of them. And as we as we scroll down through that, um typically what we've done
025in the past is we have uh looked at those those policies and passed them on first reading and uh in a in a in a setting like like this. and then um we can pull those out for a main agenda uh item in our July meeting uh especially those things that need to be passed and in in place before the school year starts. So um would you like to speak to this and make a make a recommendation to us? Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, I sent you uh board members, I sent you an email on uh the 5th that shared uh from TSBA that had all the model policies in those um you know I I don't have those clicked on and then imported in because there was in some cases there were you
026know five policies per section. So that that was the best place to kind of go through and model and see those models. Um, and then, um, what I've put in your packet tonight is just the summary of all those bills, so you could kind of, as a quick refresher, it was kind of a one-page one-stop shop there. So, um, but I can re I will reissue that to you again. Um, you know what, as the chairman said, normally what we do is we, unless the board wants to pull one out, we recommend those on first reading and then it gives you another month to to study those and go over and pull out anything else, any any specific white countyisms or changes that we want to make to those and and make in the u
027in the month of July. So, uh, that would be my recommendation and I'll be glad to speak on any specific u policies if you'd like. Guess there was one that caught my attention. Um or maybe two. Um the one about the local schoolboard elections uh being in the same cycle. Are they at one time they were wanting to have every schoolboard election, everybody on this board be elected at the same time. That didn't pass that way, did it? The way I understand it is when district 7's up for the county commission, district 7 would be up for school board. That's the way I understand that. That that was what I was hoping they were they were shooting for, but I know at one time they they wanted to have a seven member board and all
028seven members were up at the same time. So essentially every four years you would could possibly have a brand new board every four years. Um, I'm glad that they maybe come to their senses and um saw that that would not be a a wise decision. Um, the other one I guess is Senate Bill House Senate Bill 161, House Bill 1199. Uh, talking about the non- voting student member of the board. Um, they were talking about only having one one member. um kind of the way I'm reading it here, are we still in compliance and we can still have a junior and a senior or do we have to cut it back to a junior or a senior? No, I think I think with your leadership on that uh Mr. Chair, Miss Mr. Vice Chair, uh
029we uh we were ahead of the curve there and so I think we're fine. um they they had some flexibility because some other districts already had an advisory board of such that they were able to bring in. Um but um yeah, I think the way this this reads is we needed to have we have the option to uh to have both of those folks on board. So I think we were ahead of this policy. Yeah, I know they were they were in talks of it only being one per district and every district was going to be required to have it. Um, I'm glad they're not taking it away from us because I think those two folks that we have on our board every year are are invaluable. I mean, they're they're good for us and
030they're they're handy to have and to get, you know, get an ear of what's going on inside the school to see um, you know, how those those students react to what happens at these board meetings and how these policies and procedures are put in place. Thank you for your explanation. ask uh there was I wanted to ask that something in there about the prek and uh are they doing away with where if there's only a school that's got so many under um the need assessment then they're going to open it up to other students. I read something like that in that like you said. Yeah. Um public chapter 225 prek eligibility says if the number of atrisisk children seeking pre kindergarten enrollment does not exceed the class size maximum uh this new state law permits
031districts to enroll additional children that meet certain requirements. So um we practice that I think already um in the sense that once uh and there's different levels based on if it's a if it's our funded prek or if it's the the federally funded prek. Uh but that is um there's a threshold and I I'll have to look at the threshold. It depends on if it's federally funded or if it's funded locally. You have one we fund locally. So, um it those are different thresholds. So, we can allow um more in our locally funded one than we can through the fally funded program. So, um I'll look at I'll I'll look at this and get you an answer to that specifically of what the thresholds are. Well, I I just thought when I looked at it
032before, it it's terribly an inefficient thing if like say Caspel only had like 10 students in there, but they could not put anyone else in there even though there were spots available. I thought that was kind of what that meant, but I didn't know if that really was what that was talking about, like that to get up to like the 20 students, which is what we do now. But there are um the federally funded pre preK programs are a lot more stringent about what the dates are and how soon they can do that. So, I'm I have the bill here that I'm looking at, but uh there's just other criteria that those folks will have to meet. But that's exactly what it's saying is that if it's not filled, um then we can open that
033up to to students that are not at risk. I guess one other for me as well. um how are we um going to accommodate the recess law that's that's come in? You know, they they went from 30 minutes per full school week to 40 minutes a day. Um how are we going to find the time in the in the day to add another 40 minutes of recess? Well, there is no more time. Uh we've been working hard on that today. We're trying to come up with an answer. Um, one of the best things that our district has done in the past 20 years is the uh universal elementary schedule that we have uh school day schedule. Um, it's it's served all the things that the legislature has thrown at us in the past 15 to
03420 years. We've been able to implement into that schedule. Um, it does a really good time job rather of reducing transition times and focusing and protecting instruction time. Uh, but at the end of the day, it's what we keep telling legislators. there's no more time in the day. You have asked teachers to do everybody's job in the world and by law and fix it into this this 7 and 1 half hour day. So to answer your question, it's going to come from instruction time and it's likely going to come from mainly social studies and science classes. Um it's um that's that's not a hard and fast rule. We're going to do the best we can. And those science and social studies teachers get graded and just like the other teachers, they have accountability just like
035everybody else. But there's such an emphasis obviously on ELA and math and um and the requirements there. There are a lot of specific minute that times that are that are in code now that we have to do with it with math and ELA. But then there's also a lot of mandated tutoring and intervention that has to be done. Um you know everybody and if you you know everybody still wants them to go to uh PE and they still want them to go to art and music class and those things are all well and good but those those will be next. uh we'll be dipping into those because those aren't things that by law that we have to have to have. Um so um there are no more minutes. Uh right now, like I said, we're
036working very hard on it. What we're going to try and do is extend it. We're not going to have like multiple recesses because if you have two recesses, there's also transition time to and from and you lose a lot of back and forth. So we think to protect instruction time, which is our goal is to educate students and not to play all day. So um so we're going to try and add that to the existing recess schedule. Um, but it's a challenge. We're going to do the best we can, but it's one it's a challenge that everybody in the state is fighting. My personal opinion is it's at 3:00 they can play all that they want, but uh but the legislature is forcing us to squeeze it into uh squeeze blood from a turnup and
037we're going to do the best we can. A question about uh Senate Bill 1417 reporting of activities by school support organization. It exempts those that are booster clubs, parent teacher association, and so on. Do we have any support organizations that would fall into this this law? I don't think so. I was looking at that earlier and I can't think of any that would be that would be out out of bounds as according to this law. So if you want to uh just reference policies, the best policy PowerPoint policy that was uh sent on uh the sent on June 5th, so about a week ago. uh that contains the policies that uh that will have to be uh updated where applicable in our in our uh in our policy manual. So what we would typically do
038with these being in consent agenda, this would be first re uh uh recommendation approval on first reading. And that gives us uh uh till next to July 10th to uh uh bring up any questions, modifications that you said uh make them applicable to our district, but then we'd be approving those on second reading in in July. So again, that will be um that will be a a main meeting agenda item. So that way we can have further discussion deliberation on that. Mr. Chairman, I just put that PowerPoint in this packet in your for this month so you can find it easily. All right. Any uh any other questions on uh two live policy recommendations? Any questions how we're handling this? Okay. If uh not then we'll go to uh uh just a couple other things
039in in policy. Um there would be this would be a first reading approval of uh 5100. Um state uh state law says uh that uh our policy should reflect that uh the board's personnel goals are to as follows and uh first first bullet point is to sure that the director of schools recruits and employs the best qualified individuals to staff the school district. Uh so I think that was to clear up some clarity on whether it's the board or the school the director of schools and it is the director of schools and that's u uh our policy will reflect that. So that would be a first reading approval. Um the next uh next two policies uh deal with uh just updating based on personnel change. Um so uh policy uh 50 5501 that's actually yeah
040that uh policy is basically stating we have to uh have to identify in policy the uh appointing complaints manager and so uh we identify the the male complaint manager for the white county schools and the person uh responsible for that is our student data supervisor and so we're updating updating the policy to reflect that. And then the next one is uh in similar in in fashion uh 63041, our title N coordinator. Um we uh have updated that policy to reflect Miss Stephanie Davis who will be uh assuming that that those responsibilities. And so that's a change from u uh from Mr. Thompson's retirement on I think on both accounts. So, uh, those policies will be changed. That would be, uh, first reading, uh, edits on those two policies. Two, two quick things on that last
041policy you talked about. I I noticed the title has changed, so special population supervisor. Is that getting away from the special education supervisor to get more in line with the populations across all the district? first and foremost on that. Um that's just a um those terms are interchangeable. Um it's kind of like director of schools and superintendent. So that's that's how it's came from TSBA. That's how the board had approved it. I mean if we can make that change, but they're they're used interchangeably. And second thing on that is is there a need to have a a male counterpart to that as well? Um, I mean, some people might feel um somebody might feel not inclined to speak about a sexual harassment or or some kind of complaint like that. Uh, a male may not
042want to speak with a female on that or or female may not want to speak with a male on that. So, is there a need to add a second person to that? So, she is the coordinator that is addressed in the previous policy in 5501. Uh we have a uh when you have a complaint the the female uh complaint manager is uh our HR director which is uh Jennifer Riggsby and then the male will be our student data supervisor which is uh Nathan Aaron. Okay. And then as the coordinator she oversees that program or any complaints that come in but they originally go to the complaint managers uh then she's the coordinator and then I'm what's called the decision maker in that process. Okay. All right. Sounds great. Thank you. which is oddly what I
043have my wife call me at home too. The decision maker. All right. All right. Make sure make sure they get that on stonecom. All right. Um move moving on. Uh so that's uh so that's policy edits for 5501 6041 first reading uh approval tonight under consent agenda with those minor changes. So uh then we will u uh need to be reviewing our section 4 policies uh this month and I will uh try to get some some more assignments out uh between now and and next meeting. uh maintenance report was included in our in our packet. Uh you have that uh to review. Uh know that Mr. Alli's here uh joining us with us tonight. Thank you for being here. Any questions for Mr. Ally regarding the uh maintenance report? Quick quick question. When it comes
044to athletic facilities that aren't aren't a gym essentially, who is responsible for the maintenance or the planning for upgrades or things that need to be done there? H how is that determined? Um so it comes with the principal. We have our meetings throughout the year. If there's something that comes up that's immediate need, we address it then. Um, but we have a meeting with the principal's budget meetings at the end of the year. We take a wish list of things that they want to to have done. We prioritize that and then work within the means of the budget to try and get some of those things done. Mr. Ali, do you want to speak to some of the things that your your guys are working on right now? Well, uh, to to continue with that,
045if uh, if there's a time and a place that I can help, I will. Um, it all comes down to to money. So, um, as far as our summer schedule, uh, things are going pretty good right now. Um, chemistry labs going well. The, uh, renovation of some restrooms at Woodland. Um, I'm, uh, I'm in process of dealing with carpet for middle school and, uh, um, Northfield. It's amazing how expensive that is. Um it's blown my mind, but um so uh we've uh got things going good. Uh I tell everybody that uh you know, we're is in best shape we've ever been, but I could spend four million in the next month if you give it to me. So if you got any questions, let me know. Mr. Chairman, if I could, I have one um
046addition to that. Um, we had put $25,000 and I think in our budget that for this next year to work on a bathroom project with uh in conjunction with the county uh at the county tennis courts and basketball courts which are located on uh on the high school property. Um we think we have a plan to utilize their portion the county's portion of the money to handle the bathrooms. We're working on that plan. And then we're we're already planning to utilize our portion of that, the 25,000 to renovate the uh locker rooms at the high school with the visiting locker rooms which were in uh terrible shape. Yes. Rather embarrassing. So, we're working on that. Already started working on that. So, we're thankful to have that money in the budget. We're going to get get
047two projects done at the high school that'll that'll help our community. All right. Thank you, Mr. Alley. Um uh any other questions regarding maintenance? Okay, then we'll uh move on. We don't have any school reports uh this month, so we'll move on to a budget report. Mr. Smith, thank you. And as I hope I do every meeting, thanks to Mr. Markham and his team for the great work that they do. The months of May and June are relatively busy months from a financial perspective as the county starts to wind down expenditures for the year. the close of May, which marks the 11th month of the fiscal year, the county has added approximately $147,811 to its cash reserve across all fund balances since July 1 of 24. As discussed in previous reports, we continue to monitor
048local options sales tax revenues. Since December of 24, we appear to have fallen into a pattern and collection rate consistent with fiscal year 24. This trend leads us to believe that sales tax growth is flattening out and the large year-over-year growth seen since 2020 is dissipating. While this is not of the greatest news, it's encouraging to note that we are not experiencing a decline in collections yearover-year. The general purpose school fund appears to be on track for a financial close similar to the previous fiscal year. This trend holds true. The fund will be in a good position to allocate funds for the Dole Elementary School addition out of this year's budget. Overall revenue growth is slightly below expenditure growth in the fund, but only by a quarter of a percent, which for all intents and
049purposes is flat. The month of June will see a significant increase in expenditures for this fund as we expense both June and July teacher payrolls during a single month. Expenditures in the school federal projects fund continue to wind down as we prepare to close out the various grants by June 30. Fiscal year 2026 budgets for the various grants of the fund will trickle in over the coming months as federal federal allocations are given to us by the state of Tennessee. The central cafeteria fund continues to trend in a positive direction. However, increased costs have had a significant impact on the ability of this fund to add back to its fund balance year-over-year. Historically, the cafeteria fund has a grown has grown fund balance. We will continue to monitor this fund's trajectory over the coming months.
050Overall, we maintain a positive outlook on the district's financial position. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Any uh any questions or comments on our budget uh budget report? Good to know that we're uh going to be adding some money back. So, thanks thanks again to everyone who's worked to make that that possible, kept spending in check. All right. If nothing else, we'll move over to TLN report. Miss Douglas, is there anything on TNL TL in report? All right. So, uh, not in session means that nothing to cover there. So, uh, sometimes that can be a good thing. Uh, not that we don't like hearing your report, Miss Douglas. Um, so, next item on our on our consent is you've been provided with the monthly threat assessment report and that was dating back cover the month of May.
051Uh, good to see that not nothing credible and all uh, potential threats closed. So that's uh that's good news. Um you have your personnel report uh included in the packet uh talk uh that uh lays out the applicants interviews and the uh and the hires uh through that uh that period of time. And so uh that's been uh included in your package. Any questions or comments on the personnel report? You also have uh included in your packet was the uh personnel changes for the the month of May with uh additions and terminations. Any questions on personnel? All right, that uh that brings us conclusion of all the consent items. Again, if uh when we consider approval for the agenda for tonight's meeting, if there's any item in the consent agenda that you wish to pull
052out for further discussion, uh let it be known at that time. We'll pull it out, add it to the new business. Uh otherwise, we will journ our work session. Thank you. All right. This is your two-minute warning. Okay. All right. At this time, I'd like to call the uh June 12th meeting of the White County Board of Education to order. If you would please rise, Mr. Jason McDonald will lead us in the pledge. I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Mr. McDonald. Appreciate that. Appreciate everyone being here uh tonight. Um board members, uh administrators, and members of the public, we thank you for uh your interest and your involvement in White
053County education. Um so tonight's meeting uh cover a variety of issues. Uh this is uh probably highlighting on our our list tonight is fundraising requests, but we'll also be approving the 2526 calendar. And then uh we've got a couple of new business items that were added to the agenda. approval of the heirs foundation partnership with White County Schools and also uh some policy change to uh 5100 that's added in. Uh but before we get in into that just like to say that Tennessee code annotated board policy 1400 states that every meeting of the board is open to the public except where law allows for a closed session. The agenda for the board meetings are posted on the district's website at www.whitecochools.net at least three days prior to each meeting. State statute requires that each meeting
054include agenda items reserved for public comment. Signup sheet has been made available prior to the beginning of the regular meeting and individuals who have signed up prior to the start of the meeting to speak will be recognized in the order listed on the signup sheet at the appointing agenda designated for public comment. Board meetings are streamed with the help of Warrior Media for live or recorded viewing. Links are provided on the district's website. attendance and or speaking during tonight's meeting implies consent for comments and appearance to be appearances to be used. So before we proceed with uh the agenda for tonight's meeting uh like any board members that have a uh potential conflict of interest to disclose that at this time. Mr. Chairman, as I do each and every month, um nothing on the agenda
055tonight uh has a conflict interest with me, but just uh for the record, my wife is a an employee of this district. Uh but the comments and and things that you hear from me tonight are uh for me and in the best interest of the district and the students of White County. All right. Thank you, Mr. McDonald. Mr. Chairman, my spouse is employed by the district, but my opinions expressed tonight are mine and mine alone. Thank you, Mr. Officer. Mr. Chairman, uh my wife also works at the White County High School and uh the comments and opinions are mine tonight. Thank you, Mr. Smith. So, uh Miss Sams, if you would just uh please note the minutes that uh Mr. McDonald, Miss Officer, and Mr. Smith all indicated they have spouses working for uh for
056the district, but nothing on the on the uh proposed agenda tonight would constitute a conflict for them requiring them to abstain. So that brings us to the next item on our agenda and that's approval for the agenda for this meeting. Uh board members if there's anything on the agenda that uh uh you have questions about uh please let be noted at this time otherwise that improve entertain a motion for approval of the agenda for tonight's meeting. Motion by Mr. Smith to have a second. Second. Second Mr. McDonald. Any discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. Motion passes. Uh next item on our agenda is our consent agenda. Uh in tonight's work session, uh we reviewed the items in are under consent for tonight's uh meeting. Uh that was
057approval of the board minute meetings hel board meeting minutes held on May 8th 27th work session budget workshop and uh the 29th special called meeting for uh budget approval. Uh we reviewed budget amendments and transfers policy report uh where we reviewed the June policy recommendations from TSBA which would be adopted on first reading uh tonight as uh we also reviewed the edits to policies 55 and 5501 and 63041. Those would also be adopted on first reading uh uh for tonight. And then uh our annual review of section 4 policies is uh is is in in place. Uh we had a reviewed a maintenance report. There was no school school report. School being out of session. Reviewed our budget report and uh the district financially is in is in good shape. Um TLN report. There's no
058TLN report this month. Uh monthly threat assessment report. All items closed. And then we reviewed the personnel uh report that uh showed the uh transfers and and uh terminations and additions for for the district. So uh those are items covered under consent agenda. So uh without objection then the uh consent agenda will be uh adopted as presented. Any objection and the consent agenda will be considered adopted. Next item uh will be on our agenda is our fundraiser requests for fiscal year 2026. Um there were significant amount of fundraiser requests uh presented to us board members for our approval. Um this is the time of year and we have uh requested that uh rather than fundraisers dropping in uh on us at various points through the year to try to get as as much as possible
059get uh fundraising requests uh presented to us prior to the start of the year so we can uh address fundraising and and uh in in at one time and rather than have that to be uh continually pop up through the years and we don't have to uh uh make any special arrangements to try to get a fundraiser pro approved before a a deadline or a need to start by date. So, uh those fundraisers were presented in your in your packet. You had a you've had chance to review those. Uh that would include elementary fundraisers, uh elementary school fundraising request, uh middle school fundraising requests, and the high school fundraising requests. So, uh, before we get into discussion on that in consideration for approval, uh, like to, uh, let Mr. D speak to this, uh, before
060we get into, uh, discussion. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, board members, just to let you know that as we talk about pursuing excellence in our district, this is one area where we need to to pursue a little harder. Um we have uh in the neighborhood of 130 to 140 requests uh before you this evening. Believe it or not, that's down where we were from several years ago. Uh but we've got a lot of work to do in this area. We're our process. I don't know that we're scrutinizing uh these requests well enough at the building level and that's something I'll work with our principles to do better on and with our athletic director. Um there are there are some balances in some of these funds that could handle the needs that that these programs have.
061And so we'll be working on that. We're still using various forms. I don't know why we can't seem to get on the same form, a procedural form, but that's something we can fix very easily. Um a number of different things. You also in your packet, some of these um some of these won't come to fruition. Some of them are placeholders in the event that if a if a team or a a program gets to a certain level of competition, they want to go ahead and have the fundraiser approved in case they go on to the next level. Um, there are also some of these that were approved that are really in-house things like a bake sale or a t-shirt sale that would happen inhouse that they're not going out and selling things. So, there were
062some there was a little bit of fluff there um that maybe didn't need to make it into your packet, but just wanted to make note that um that we're trying to be respectful and as director, I understand the economy we're in and we want to make sure that we're not trying to raise funds just for raising funds. We definitely want to be more specific. Instead of saying we're we're we're raising money for equipment, what equipment approximately how much does that cost? And so we can be a little more transparent there. So, um, I feel confident in approv in in presenting these tonight, but I also feel confident that we have a lot of work to do and we can get better in this area. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. D. And, um, board members, any,
063uh,body want to make any comments before we consider approval of these fundraisers? I would uh I would just echo uh similar sentiment, says Mr. D. Um when reviewing these these fundraisers, um having been on served on this board for several years now, uh I do think I do think the intent is better. I would just like to see us have a much more formal process of the way we look at these. Um, and what do I mean formal process? Um, the uh it's great to see that there is a uh there's a current fund balance on the report. That's better than saying prove a fundraiser and you have no idea how much money that that a particular organization has in in their account. Um, so I think that's that's good. But I think there should
064also be evidence in from year to year that if we're going to be approving fundraisers and we should see evidence that the monies for the prior year that they were raised and they were in intended on they were expended on their intended purpose. Um, I do think we can do a better job than that at that. And I think that probably starts here at central office working with the uh administrators. Um, kudos to the uh to those that use the correct form, but it was surprising to see multiple forms being used to to fill that out. We can clean that up. That's easy fix. Um, but I would like to see if you know if your if your account balance is is $6,000 and you want to do a program uh a fundraiser and you
065want to raise $5,000 for a particular expense, then you're still going to have $6,000 in your account when when it's when it's done. at some point um some somebody back up the line that went out and solicited funds for this fundraiser are not getting the benefit of what they the work they went out and did. So we we need to we need to con next year like to see some some progress being made in this area. Any other comments? I guess I made a comment during our our work session and um would like to see I know, you know, we do see a lot of the the account bounces on there, but some of those some of those accounts are are pretty hefty. you know, I mean, we we have some in the 50 60
066$70,000 range on some of those that um I know it cost a lot to to to do some of those sports, but and some of those those clubs, but um we need to be using using that money um and not just banking it year after year after year. So when it comes time, I would make a motion to approve these. Okay. So, uh I Mr. Smith being in the fundraising profession, um folks that donate to whatever cause expected to be expended, you know, for such cause and reporting back out to uh the school board, the school system of how those funds were expended. Um it would also be helpful to know how much for some of these activities, what what is their budget, you know, how much does it cost to run this every year?
067Um, so to to some of the other comments being specific on we have enough to run but we'd love to have x piece of equipment or take x trip and this is what we're raising money for. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Um other comments and I also think that you know when you're when you're putting a fundraiser together I mean you need to be thinking about it in the context of how much margin you're going to make for the effort. Um, some some fundraisers requests look rather lucrative. Some I would question why you would go through the effort for that little return. But, you know, I guess that's the that's club's prerogative. But, uh, but yeah, uh, I look forward to seeing what we could do between now and next year to, uh, just improve. as
068you said, let's let's try to be excellent in in this as well. So, if there's no other other discussion on on fundraisers, then I'm going to uh I'm going to ask that uh you've been submitted elementary school fundraising requests. Um I'm okay to entertain I'd entertain a motion to approve all elementary fundraiser requests at this time. Move. Motion by Mr. McDonald. Do I have a second? Second by Miss Officer. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Um, next we will I'm just going in in the order of my packet if y'all are following along with me. Um, next would be uh White County High School. Um, they've had numerous uh numerous fundraising requests uh presented there. covers uh um various uh uh programs and including
069uh athletic programs. It also includes booster clubs where they exist. So uh this time I'd entertain a motion for uh entertain a motion for approval for the White County High School fundraisers for 2526. So moved. Motion M. Smith. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Miss Douglas. Any discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. And next we have uh middle school. Uh entertain a motion for approving the fundraiser request by what county middle school. So move. Motion. Mr. McDonald. Have a second. Second by Miss Stone. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Motion passes. Next, we'll move on to the next item on our agenda. And that is approval of the auditor for in uh internal school
070funds uh per our policy uh 2703. Uh it's been recommended us that uh this year uh that we solicit uh Mr. Buddy Dikus, CPA for uh for that uh to provide that service. Anything you'd like to add on that Mr. D? No, we've been with Mr. Dyus for many years and provides good affordable service for us and uh comes at the recommend recommendation of our finance director as well. Okay. So, uh, recommendation by our our director and our fin county finance director, uh, that we, uh, approve, uh, Buddy Dikus, uh, CPA to turn to, uh, perform our internal school, uh, audit for the this, uh, past 20, uh, for the 2526, excuse me, 24 and 25 school year. Uh, so I entertain a motion for approval. Move. Motion by Mr. Smith. Do I have a
071second? Second by Miss Officer. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Next item agenda is approval for the uh fiscal year 2026 sale uh salary scale. Uh the new salary schedule uh was presented to you for uh this upcoming school year. Uh that did reflect the added uh $1625 uh increase to uh to that scale. Uh and so as you see there is uh we our salary scale for uh for licensed professionals uh is is based on their uh degree of education uh from a bachelor bachelor's, mast's uh uh educational specialists and doctoral uh degrees. Um and they are uh based on whether uh various scales from from 11 months employees to uh 10-month employees salary scale and we don't have any 12-month license scale, do we?
072We have um a principal. That's right. Yeah, a principal and um there's a couple of district staff that are that are 12 months outside of myself. Okay. So, uh, the salary scale was presented to you in in your packet. Um, discussion, questions on that before we entertain motion for approval. Okay. Hearing hearing none, I'd entertain a motion for approval of the uh, fiscal year 2026 salary scale. Motion by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Miss Douglas. Any discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Next item on our agenda is approval of the 2025 2026 school board meeting calendar. Uh that will be the dates that uh that we will be meeting. Uh so that will start uh next month on uh July
07310th and will be uh the second Thursday of the month with the exception of when you get into March and May we've had some adjustments there. uh March, we have moved our meeting date back a month, back a week to to accommodate for uh spring break. And then in May, when we get into that busy season of graduation, uh we've pulled it up a week in order to uh accommodate for Warrior Academy graduation. So, uh school calendar for uh for next year has been uh been published and all those uh all those locations will be here at the board of education. But as you can see in the schedule that as we go through uh as we go through the year uh we will be spotlighting our schools. We will just be doing those spotlights
074here at the uh central office rather than at their their facility. Um there is uh been recommended a theme for uh for this coming year uh artists of the artist of the year awards uh celebrating those involved in fine arts in our school. Uh so Mr. You want to speak to that a little bit? Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I made a suggestion to the board. Each year we choose a theme. We did school health heroes this year and uh thought this is a group of folks that maybe don't get the spotlight enough and this is folks that are in fine arts. So, I thought it it cast a broad brush, pun intended, over a lot of different uh groups. And uh so you have you know people involved in photography and sculpture and
075visual arts or music or digital arts and ceramics painting a lot of different a lot of different concepts a lot of different kids involved in that and I thought it'd be a way for our for our principles to be able to spotlight some of those talented folks. So uh that be my suggestion and then as you see uh as we go through the month starting in September our different different schools are represented. we could invite those principles and those teachers and those students to this location and celebrate them on those given nights. So that's my suggestion for the theme for artist of the year awards for fiscal year 26. All right, comments. I think it's an excellent choice for for a theme for next for next year. brings some uh brings some variety to our
076to our meetings and and I think our our principles and our staffs at the schools will uh appreciate not having to stay those extra late late nights um you know on their on their month. So appreciate y'all allowing me to bring that forth and um letting it get through. Not a problem. And we have two two staff members that also appreciate that your leadership there, Mr. McDonald as well. They're they're smiling tonight. I'll make a motion we approve this schedule. All right. Got a motion to approve the uh 2025 2026 school board meetings calendar. Have a motion to have a second. Second by M Miss Officer. Any discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Next item on agenda is district update. Stroberger. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
077Uh it's a very very busy time here at the central office. I know a lot of people think they keep seeing me and saying, "Hey, do you enjoying your summer?" And uh it hasn't started yet. It's a very very busy time. I'm perhaps busier now than I am in the last month of school, but working hard with personnel changes, legislative changes, budgetary items, lots going on, but it it's a it's a good work, but it's it's it is def definitely busy. Um, I want to say thank you to my supervisors in the room. This team of folks, uh, uh, my cabinet, so to speak. They work really, really hard. They, they don't get all summer off either. They're up here. They have a little more flexible schedule, but they're here working. Some of them each
078and every day. There's a group of them here working hard on finishing this year and starting the next one. And I appreciate their presence here tonight. Uh, we have several new hires. Uh, a few recent changes as even even as today. We're filling those vacancies as soon as they as soon as we can uh with the best available candidates. We feel like we have some really good new talent coming in and uh we're excited to keep things going in a positive direction. Uh speaking of new personnel, we want to welcome officially Dr. Stephanie Davis, our new sped supervisor. Welcome to the team. She has been had a foot in both worlds. She's still finishing her her current job and and working here as well. And so we appreciate her uh time and thanks for being
079here this evening. Uh legislatively next week I'll be sharing changes with supervisors and principles as we get paired prepared for next year as you've seen a plethora of new laws and policy changes. Uh I'll be at some toss meetings the middle of next week as well focusing on the legislative fallout. Academically our TCAP data continues to roll in. It looks very promising. data is still officially embargoed at this time, but we look forward to celebrating with you and our students and staff very very soon. Um, on the safety front, um, we're applying for another COPS grant, uh, as it's called, the acronym, uh, up to $500,000. Mr. Haley is leading that charge along with Michila Felton. Uh the main focus of that money should we receive it would be for uh protective window treatments uh
080mapping of the school buildings and uh and some other uh radios, safety radios and things like that. So communication devices. So about $500,000 worth of improvements. Financially, as you heard, we're in a good financial position. No new positions in this uh particular budget. Uh very similar budget to last year. So, we're we're proud of that and we plan to be try and be conservative on our spending again this year. Athletically, summer practice is underway. Several sports already getting going. Uh several of our sports like soccer and volleyball will start at the first week of school comes back. Um but we are currently looking for a high school ba baseball coach and cross country coach. Um and the TWWSA dead period, as it's called, is June 23rd to to July 6th. That's a time when things
081don't really shut down, but they're as close to it as possible. and uh people take a little breather and for a summer break. Building projects, as you've heard, the Doyle project has been given the green light. Uh so they crews can start at any time. We hope to see movement there uh this in the coming days. Uh remodeling project at the high school locker room is underway as well. Several other maintenance projects across the district. Very busy time at the BOE, but at this time that concludes the director's report. I'll be glad to answer any questions that you have. Thank you, Mr. Stroar. Any questions for our director? We know how the summer feeding program is going. It's going well. It's uh it's going really well. It's uh it's very hot. Uh I have helped
082the last three weeks and as some many of the folks in this room that give of their time, uh it's going really well. Uh I think we did over 500 uh meals yesterday or Wednesday. What is today? Yeah, Wednesday. Um and we similar numbers the previous two weeks. One more week to go in that, but it'll continue ser'll continue feeding program through the library program and I think somewhere else throughout the rest of the summer. So, it's going very well. All right. Any other questions for our director? Summer school. Summer school over now. Summer school's finishing up next week. Yeah, next Wednesday it'll finish up. And so, uh, it's been going well. Um, and we've I've have haven't had any major problems. Knock on wood. Uh, kids have behaved well. Teachers are teaching hard. We
083were visited by the state had a monitoring and they were very impressed with our with our program. They were they they wrote back how impressed they were with how hard the teachers were working and some of the act instructional practices that they saw. So, it's going very well. All right. Any other questions for director? Okay. Okay. If not, we'll move on next agenda of item on our item on our agenda, uh the student representative report. And uh we won't have a student representative report probably till September. Uh so we'll make sure that item's cleared off the uh the agenda before uh for next meeting. Uh next, so that moves us down to public comment per policy 1404. Uh signup sheet was provided before tonight's meeting for anybody in the public wishing to make comment about
084uh anything regarding the district. and there was no one signed up uh to speak tonight. So that leads us down to new business. Uh new business, we have two items. Uh one that both will require our uh board action. Uh one is the approval of the Airs Foundation partnership with White County Schools. Um Mr. Mr. D can speak to this better than I can, but it had to do with um uh career coach uh uh career coach at the high school. Uh we lost funding but we were able to apply for a grant with the heirs foundation partnership which is uh local here to the state uh in Sweetwater. They're Yes. They're out of East Tennessee. East Tennessee area and uh so they uh fortunate to have them step in in areas where uh maybe
085the federal government has stepped out. So that's uh that's great to to have that resource, but I'll let uh Mr. Mr. do speak to that and uh what uh it's required for us as a board. So I apologize. I'm looking at my document here. I don't do you not have that document in your folder. Okay. I have this right now and I'll be loading it as as we speak. But um the uh we are very very excited to announce that White County High School and White County Schools will be partnering with the Foundation. Um they serve uh distressed and at risk counties across the state of Tennessee. They bring in counselors to work with your students starting in eighth grade and they follow them into post-secary. They stay with them communicating with them well into
086their postsecondary experience in college or or in um technical school. So, uh and they do that at their cost. It's free of charge and they stay with you forever until you maybe don't want them anymore, but I've never heard anybody that didn't. We're very excited. I've been short of I've used the word harassing the AIS Foundation for a year now. really trying to hopefully get on board with them and we're so happy that they've chosen White County to partner with. Um they will be selecting two school counselors to put in our schools and then they have a coordinator as well that helps of course. So they they'll hire three people to come into our building and then live in there and be a part of our our school family and work with our kids. And
087so uh really excited. They've shown great success over the years. It this is a really good thing for our district and for our community. And uh I will put this in your packet for your uh for your reading pleasure. Uh but I would hope that you would approve this tonight. Uh our partnership with the AIS Foundation. Okay. Thank you, Mr. D. And I really appreciate you uh really appreciate you being persistent of that. Uh like I said, we would uh we lose that resource at our high school if uh if they hadn't stepped in. we haven't we hadn't got that grant and uh covering three personnel. Um that's uh that's that's that's big. This is a really good uh opportunity for us as a district to have that be able to have that resource to
088follow on. Um what will be in your packet is uh is basically just the uh the uh agreement um between the two uh between the organization between the school district and the heirs foundation. Um, and it's going to outline what they'll be uh services they'll be providing uh things like uh sharing sharing data back and forth and and making sure that that's done the appropriate way and also uh lay out the um the areas of responsibility for both uh confidentiality and things like that will be will be stated in there in this this agreement. So um from a board what we would be doing is we'd be uh approval of that uh that partnership agreement with them so that could be fully executed. So any questions just one could it grow into additional staff and
089h how much control do we have? It it's based on your enrollment. Uh I think it's 200 I forget what the ratio is. I think it's one for every 200 student or 250 in a in a graduating class. So anyway, that by their ratios, we we qualify for two. Our enrollment would have to increase in order to get more uh more personnel. What are the chances we're going to get to keep Miss Rushing? I don't know. Uh hopefully good. I've I've told them if um if they didn't choose us, they better choose her because she's that good. But I know that she's interviewed with them or gone through the going through the interview process with them. We're hopeful to keep her. Um she was part of the advised TN program which was going away. So
090that was the one extra budgeted uh position that I put in our budget. U but now with the hopes that heirs would pick us up. So I know that she's in the interview process. We're hopeful that she'll be able to stay with us um and then they'll find another quality candidate to join her. Any other questions regarding partnership with Foundation? Okay. Uh if not then I would entertain a motion for approval for the uh u air foundation partnership with white county schools. So move motion. Mr. McDonald. I have a second. Second. Miss officer. Any discussion? Did I understand you right that once we approve this they're here forever? That's the That's what the agreement says is that they'll stay unless there's a there's some exit clause, a termination clauses in there that we can both
091agree to, but they once they're in, they're here. So, as long as their foundation exists, as long as we want them, they're they're here with our community. Okay, sounds great. So, that means we don't have to worry about that funding getting cut. Knock on wood. All right. Um, so have a motion in a second. Any other discussion? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. All right. Next item on our agenda under new business is uh there is a policy update that we need to need to make. Um and it's uh regarding policy 5100. Um and it's about the uh the board's personnel goals. In the very first line, um it says uh policy state should state and it's being proposed that it states to ensure that the
092director of school recruits and employs the best qualified individuals to the staff uh to staff the school district and uh that policy change would be uh from the change to the director from the board because we uh uh as board by law we only employ one one employee. So, uh, that is the, uh, the recommendation for for changing. Would you like to speak to that, Mr. D? Yes. This is just an addendum that came in after the packet, the email that I sent you from TSBA. They sent this one separately. Um, so I did, it sounds a little self- serving that I will choose it, but I I didn't make this up. This came straight from TSBA. They amend the recommendation for this change. Yeah, that's uh and that's based on u uh TCA uh
093uh public chapter legislation that passed just this past uh past session. So that would be included. This would be a first reading uh just as the same would be for the uh the June policy recommendations, but this was not included because it came after. So, uh, at this time I'd entertain a motion for approval of, uh, amendment to policy 5100 as presented. Motion by Mr. Smith to have a second. Second. Second by Miss Douglas. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. leads us to the uh next item on our agenda which is old business. There is no old business on our agenda for tonight. So uh that takes us down to chairman's comments. Our next schoolboard meeting will be July 10th, 2025 here at the
094White County Board of Education. Our work session will begin at 5:00. Our regular our regular board meeting will be begin at 6. As a reminder, uh July 18th and 19th will be a legislative session in uh in Gatlinburg. Uh if you have any questions about accommodations on that, please uh see uh see Mr. D. And we will also be following up with that with a uh board retreat uh that Saturday afternoon at the uh um Park Vista Hotel uh meeting room. So uh that will that will commence uh in the in the afternoon. So uh with that that brings us down to the final item or agenda and that's adjournment. I entertain a motion for adjournment. So move motion by Mr. McDonald. I have a second. Second by Mr. Smith. All in favor? I opposed.
095All right everybody have a good evening. Thank you everybody for coming.