001good evening and welcome to the april 19 2021 williamson county school board meeting this meeting is called to order as it is necessary to project public health safety and welfare williamson county schools is officially meeting electronically in light of the coronavirus and pursuant to executive orders number 16 and number signed by governor bill lee and waiver of williamson county school board policy 1.400 board members will you please record your attendance via a voice vote miss glenn will lead the voice vote i'm sorry voice acknowledgement excuse me thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham present dan cash dan cash present elliot mitchell elliott mitchell present brad fiskus brad fiskus present gina priya bring a present jay galbraith gila cleveland sheila cleveland present candy emerson she is entering the meeting now thank
002you mr mcneese rick wimberly rick wimberly present eric welch eric welch present casey hall president nancy garrett nancy garrett present miss glenn do you want to record miss emerson's attendance as well yes thank you candy emerson miss emerson i believe you're still on mute press the space bar again see if that works hello everybody you like that one better thanks thank you miss emerson madam chair you have 11 present one absent thank you we'll now hear the pledge of allegiance which will be led by mr dan cash and then we'll observe a moment of silence pledge allegiance 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 thank you board members our next item on the agenda
003is items of particular public interest this is also known as the public comment section of our meeting we have two speakers tonight speakers you will have up to three minutes to speak mr casey haw casey if you'll lift your hand please is our time keeper so he will let you know when your time is has elapsed we have two speakers as i said the first is chain brown channing brown are you here yes okay that's good would you raise your hand please jenny okay channing you may now speak and just please go ahead and tell us your thoughts okay my name is channing i'm in 7th grade and i'm from woodland i am here to complain about the amount of homework we get every night i spend hours trying to complete my work i do
004a very very thorough job and complete all of my homework and it takes hours to do it teachers say they only assigned 30 minutes of homework but i have seven classes and 30 minutes start to add up also the assignments usually take way more than 30 minutes nor do they account for the time it takes to study for the future one example of this was when on january 27th i had to study for reading for science i had to read articles and then answer questions for math i had to study for a test and for social studies at global histories and the history of life to do another example was on march 3rd when i had to do extension questions for reading for science i had a graphic organizer and i had to study for
005a test for math i had a worksheet for social studies i had vocab and a map to do and i had to study for a test and lastly for spanish i had a worksheet and a seven slide show project i once had seven hours of school work that's literally another school day i used to cry in the bathroom and in my bed because of all the homework it's just too much teachers would go to the board and assign homework and the person sitting next to me would say homework makes them want to kill themselves i've had friends tell me they wish they got ran over by a bus so they didn't have to go to school kids pretend to shoot themselves in their head because they have a test or quiz coming up and they
006couldn't study for it due to other homework friends make suicide pacts together because they feel overwhelmed by school my best friend told me she can no longer feel any other emotion except their hate for school my other best friend told me she's stuck inside doing work while she watches her sister and our parents play together my friend at school has parents that are going through a divorce i have friends that have depression and anxiety do they really need four more hours of school i'm 14 my friends are 12 and 13. how can there be so much sadness and depression as a kid we're only kids yet some of them are already ready to end our lives let your wake-up call be this speech not a death i don't want to lose a friend anything you
007can do to help would be the best thank you thank you miss brown and our next speaker is cornelia gibson ms gibson i mean hi i'm sorry thank you thank you for allowing me to have these comments i spoke with the school board a few some weeks ago about requesting or desiring a diversity equity and inclusion and belonging training or at least a course or some action to move towards that activity in williamson county schools in response to the multiple racism accusations or the multiple act activities or the challenges and the trauma that the children have been experiencing i just wanted to come back and say thank you to the school board for hearing that request hearing so many parents like myself that had raised their hand and raised their voices and requested that the
008school board not just speak but actually take action i know that there is a lot of opposition currently for the activities that you guys have taken but i just wanted to encourage you and let you know that this parent and many other parents support this initiative and i wanted to make sure that i came back and said thank you and to lend my support my partnership and collaboration with the school board to be able to move forward so we can start turning the pages and have our vision and mission for our children children the african-american children that look like myself that they can have a positive and will experience in williamson county schools so that's all i wanted to say i really appreciate it thank you miss gibson that concludes our public comment portion of
009the meeting we're moving on now to the approval of the agenda do you have a motion to approve tonight's agenda motion to approve eric mr welch makes the motion is there a second brad fiscal second mr fiskus makes the second is there any discussion i see no hands raised in the chat if not we can move to a vote ms glenn miss glenn you're on mute i apologize thank you madam chair angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell william mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes jana sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall yes nancy garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is 11 yes zero no motion passes thank you our next item is the approval of
010the consent agenda items is there a motion to approve motion to approve air mr welch makes the motion to approve is there a second brad fiskus ii mr fiskus seconds is there any discussion about the consent agenda items if so please raise your hand in the chat i see no hands raised so we can move to a vote miss glenn thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskas brad fiskus yes gina priya priya yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch welch yes casey hall yes and nancy garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is 11 yes zero no motion passes thank you miss flynn and by that approval
011of the consent agenda the board has approved the following items the approval of the march 22 2021 school board meeting minutes board policies for second reading as follows policy 4.600 report cards and grading systems policy 5.104 equal opportunity employment policy 5.200 separation practices for tenured teachers policy 5.201 separation practices for non-tenure teachers and the following item the approval of the centennial high school football locker replacement our next item is communications to the board and the first item in this group is the superintendent's report with superintendent jason goldman mr goldman thank you madam chair and thank you board members i also want to thank you for the thursday work session that we had and i want to tell you this is one of those rare times this year where there has been very little change from
012the thursday report to the sunday week well to the to the monday report i guess i'm leaving one day behind you may you may recall so many of our meetings this past year where we've had to give updates on monday from the thursday because so much has changed there's very little change from the things i reported to you on thursday so what i wanted to do is take a short review of where we are and so i want to make sure that those who are watching tonight get a glimpse of what you looked at when we spent some time focused on our vision statement where we talk regularly about about challenging our students to to be excellent in academics athletics and the arts and so we're going to we're going to give a video presentation
013of a couple of minutes just about two minutes to remind everyone of where we are this time with just about five weeks left in the school year i'll give you a brief reminder on health protocols before we show that video and you all know that we've talked about that process that we've gone through when you all approved the return to school plan way back in july and the structure that we've had to to adjust as the health authorities adjust and our plan that we are sticking to to mask through through this through these last few weeks based on the health authorities guidelines second i want to give you that brief review of wcs online as you all know we're in a we're in a window of time where we've we've allowed those who committed to
014wcs online to to change their mind based on what we've heard from the state board of education and we do have that item on the agenda for you all to approve an actual wcs online school rather than a program based on what we heard from the state board last week last month rather just after your meeting next item that we talked about in more detail on thursday was our summer school program that new program from the state that the legislature passed earlier this semester for this program this coming summer we're in that window where where folks have been notified that we'd love to have them for this summer and they're signing up and once we get some some sign up numbers and if we have some more teachers available and the teacher numbers exceed the
015students we'll send another push out to invite others to come to our summer school finally i made it a point these this past year to continue to talk about our cultural strategy planning update and i really do invite folks to look at look at our video from our work session but also look at our website in the top right you can scroll down to to superintendent and we have a cultural strategy planning web page that really will answer a lot of your questions we have faqs that we're updating and we talked about what this is the strategic planning to find ways to help us serve our students better and make our students feel safer in our in our in our district and what this is not more specifically this is not the fostering healthy solutions
016writing curriculum for us and this is not a process of of pushing some of those issues you might hear about nationally like critical race theory and some of those questions we make it a point in our faqs to answer those but with that short synopsis of our thursday meeting we really want to make sure that everybody gets that chance to to get a glimpse of that incredibly hard work that our students and faculty have done over this over the course of this school year up to date so brian tim if you would please please roll that short reminder do so go thank you tim thank you brian and thank you carol for putting together that video they gave gave a little bit more than what we talked about at the at the work session y'all
017i am so proud i'm so proud of our faculty so proud of our students and the work they've done you know i think about channing's comments just a few minutes ago to the board and i am so proud of her for stepping up and talking about that and what she described was deeper than homework and we are aware of that and you all know we talked about students taking the right stand our counselors our professional clinical counselors who we have available for our students so i wanted to make sure everyone here heard what we tell our students we want to help we want to help and so when when students feel those stressors you all budgeted for and we put folks in place to help them to get them direct help help their parents and
018so i always want to encourage our students to communicate with us so with that we know we've got five weeks of school to go tcap is going right now and we are looking forward to seeing how our students share what they've learned over the course of this year even in that unusual year but the final comment i have is what is what i mentioned to our faculty in a message i sent friday night in my regular friday notes we've done some amazing things this year not just amazing in a kobe jeer but amazing for any year so i'm looking forward to finishing out that school year and thank you all for your leadership thank you mr gordon are you ready for some student spotlights i think perhaps we are so talking about all the wonderful
019things that we have been doing this school year this is carol birdsong by the way you got a glimpse of our 41 perfect act scores we as is tradition are going to honor 27 students this evening and these these students have earned the perfect ect composite score we're gonna start with brentwood and this is maxwell alina francis bailey john dawson and man and goal next slide is also brentwood jake hudson oakley martin and harinishi sathu also from brentwood sienna shepherd harper thompson noah true and lange young from centennial delaney devlin abini dixit from franklin james anissie lennon sway emily taylor and james williams from independence hunter basola srivasa nimani from nolansville nathan montpole robert shelton from page high school halliburg from ravenwood high school reagan enderly sharada gandasala amanda huang connor wodak and folks first
020time ever from renaissance high school this is mason adams so these are 27 of the 41 perfect act composite score students that we have had so far this year now let's move to the arts and you saw daniel from centennial high school also in the earlier presentation this is also a first for us allstate jazz band for piano and his teacher is scott miller continuing on in the arts we're going to talk about winter guard this is franklin high school's winter guard and they were the state champions in the single a division their instructors are michael hobart and levi brandenburg summit high school also state champions in the double-a division tristan hamilton and jeremy hugley are their coaches and y'all a staff spotlight tonight as well this is brent green from franklin high school and
021brent was just named nashville technology council's technology educator of the year we are so proud of all of our students our schools our teams and our staff for their accomplishments this school year thank you madam chair that's our report great and i'll give a quick board chair report board members as we discussed on thursday please let lydia know if you plan to attend the tsva convention and training in november it is the i believe the weekend before thanksgiving so planning ahead is probably a good thing and we do ask that you register through lydia and do not contact tspa correct directly also several of you have mentioned a short spring board retreat and that is something that we talked about in the fall as a follow-up to our fall retreat so i will be getting
022in touch with folks this week just to see what their availability is and ideas about what topics you want to cover in addition to the topics that we thought we would check back in on in the fall and that's all i have i'm just taking a quick view in the chat to see if anybody has their hand raised before we move on to new business i do not see any hands raised let me give it one more chance one more look here no hands raised so with that we will move on to new business mr golden thank you madam chair the next item the 2020 2021 school board budget item a1 approval of general purpose school fund amendment 4.21 private grant for sunset middle walking trail there's a 20 thousand dollar approval we're asking you
023to approve for us to receive this money and we recommend approval you have a motion to approve simon candy emerson miss emerson makes the motion is there a second elliott mitchell seconds mr mitchell makes the second is there any discussion i see no hands raised so we can move to the vote thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes gina priya emma priya yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson candy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall yes nancy garrett yes your vote is 11 yes 0 no motion passes thank you our next item is the approval of resolution 5.21 transfer from school federal projects to general
024purpose school fund for sr grant 2.0 mr golden thank you madam chair we have received the funding from what we call esser 2.0 this item is a request to transfer the money to the appropriate line items based on the approvals you have given in the past for these funds i mean you can see the memo there we recommend approval is there a motion to approve sheila cleveland first miss cleveland makes the motion is there a second in cash second mr cash seconds is there any discussion board members i see no hands raised we can move to a vote ms glenn thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell julian mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes jenna priya benapria yes sheila cleveland sheila
025cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall casey hi yes nancy garrett yes your vote is 11 yes zero no motion passes thank you our next item is the approval of the 2020 2021 capital fund mr golden thank you madam chair this is the annual agenda item to request board approval of annual capital expenditures outside the five-year capital plan but for annual maintenance technology and safety request the total amount that we're requesting you to approve is 10 million hundred and sixty six dollars and if you approve it we will then take it to the county commission for their review and ultimate vote in july we do recommend approval is there a motion to approve board members rick wimberly moved to approve mr wimberley makes
026the motion is there second second i believe i heard elliot mitchell's second is there any discussion let me take a quick look here chat i see no hands raised then we can move to a vote thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes jenna priya sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall yes nancy garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is 11 yes there are no motion passes thank you the next item on the agenda is the foundation's autism charter school application mr golden thank you madam chair as you know from the work session the charter school review committee made a presentation included
027in that is a memo and a synopsis of the individual committee members findings plus some detail and then finally before you right now on the screen is a proposed resolution resolution of the board denying the charter school application submitted by foundation's autism charter school based upon the recommendation of the committee we do recommend and i recommend that you adopt the recommendation of the committee to approve this resolution denying the charter school application recommend approval of this resolution thank you mr goldman is there a motion to approve elliot mitchell moves to approve this resolution mr mitchell makes the motion to approve the resolution is there a second and in priya second mississippi seconds is there any discussion i see no discussion we can move to a vote oh excuse me mr cash i see your hand
028i'm sorry i couldn't get it raised fast enough madam chair thank you i'd just like to say the information that we all got on the charter school it's quite interesting and quite in depth 37 pages of this and that and it was it was really outstanding and i just want to compliment the committee thank you madam chair thank you mr cash it was a lot of work and i think you know when you see the work that each individual did that is very clear and i really do appreciate their work as well so thank you for that and we do have another board member who wishes to speak mr mitchell struggling with the buttons this evening this is elliot mitchell thank you madam chair i wanted to echo mr cash's comments that yes we don't
029see these very often and in fact i don't remember us seeing one previously and it was it was very informative of the to to review the process that goes into to these type of requests and the detail to which which they're vetted or for a similar type of levels of excellence that we we expect to to our students to have i'll make the point here too real quick that a vote for this resolution is to accept the committee's recommendation to deny the application so everybody hopefully recognizes that a vote of affirming the recom the resolution is denying the application this is jason golden thank you for that mr mitchell that's exactly right if you have any questions about that of course dana osbrooks is here but i appreciate you making that doubly clear i see
030no further discussion so we can move to a vote and mr golden would you clarify that just one more time thank you madam chair this is the motion on the floor and miss ospress correct me because i know that this is often your role we recommended an approval of the resolution which denies the charter school application upon your approval of this if you do so approve the charter application will be denied and miss garrett will sign the resolution to that effect this osprey just double check me superintendent golden that is correct board members your vote to approve the resolution will be a vote to deny the charter school your vote opposing the resolution would be a vote in favor of approving the charter school application okay i believe we can move into our vote now
031miss glenn thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskas brad fiskus yes gina priya anna priya yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall casey hi yes nancy garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is 11 yes zero no motion passes thank you our next item is the approval of the 2019 2020 tenure recommendations and this isn't an annual agenda item mr golden thank you madam chair this is as as the chair mentioned a list of the teachers who are eligible for and we recommend tenure and the process that our professionals go through for tenure is much more complex than what people traditionally think
032it's not just three years it's it's five years plus evaluations that are judging how they've done over over a larger window of time and 10 years no guarantee either that's it's and i don't want to go through the detail now but we do recommend approval and i will add my thanks to our professional teachers for for making this work is there a motion to approve rick wimberly moved to approve mr wimbley makes the motion is there a second board second second whoops oh seconds i believe he was the first one there any discussion board members i see no hands raised so we can move to the vote thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskas brad fiskus yes
033jenna priya priyaf sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson candy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall casey hi yes nancy garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is 11 yes you are no motion passes thank you board the next item is the approval of the facilities use fee schedule board policy 3.2.6 annual and this again is another annual agenda item mr golden thank you madam chair we have presented before you a recommendation for facilities use fees you can see that there has been no increase to the facilities use fees since april 2013 our operations folks did an evaluation based on utility increases of four percent over that time we are recommending a four percent increase in fees recommend approval board members is there a motion to approve dan
034cash approve mr cash makes the motion is there a second eric wells for second mr welch seconds scroll through the chat here i see no hands raised so we can move to a vote ms glenn thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskas brad fiskus yes gina priya sena priya yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall pc high yes nancy garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is eleven yes zero no motion passes i think our next item is the approval of the wcs online k-8 school and high school mr golden thank you madam chair as you know from our detailed discussion thursday
035night the executive director of the state board of education let superintendents know just a couple of weeks ago that they did not intend to approve a structure for a student to be fully online next year without a dedicated school so based on that we are recommending that you approve us to have a two wcs online schools one a k-8 and then second a high school and based on our budgeting and our evaluation of that process our recommendation is to have two separate schools based on clarity of leadership and management of those two very different programs recommend approval board members is there a motion to approve jennifer move to approve mr priya makes the motion is there a second second iroquois mr welch makes the second any discussion board members yes mr cash yes thank you
036madam chair this is just a quick question mr golden where are we at on numbers last year we were over 6 600. what what is what what's the projection for this year that's a so the most recent numbers that we have we are looking at probably total of about 900 or so the process we yeah it's a lot less and so i'm actually encouraged by that i think families are focusing on the on you know their students you know what's best for them instructionally but it's going to be in that range we anticipate we don't have final numbers yet but it's in that range okay went way down thank you yep mr fiskus mr thank you madam chair mr golden after this evening's action and if it does pass and so on what's the process
037next with this so we submit a form to the state there's a spot for my signature we check some boxes and they actually give a number a designated school number that's a statewide number that we can insert into our system and then we actually enroll those students in that online school logistically it's pretty simple for enrollment purposes and for scheduling purposes it's actually simpler for us than maintaining the students on the on the other on the other path assigned to their individual school but if a family chooses if a student chooses to be in that school they will be enrolled on that in that school for the fall i will tell you the other process for us is on the budget side but it's not directly related to this vote we based on our numbers
038we projected for in essence two full schools because we intend to take the budget back to the board from at the may meeting to address the increase that we know to expect from the county for benefits and health insurance we do propose a reduction in our budget for this based on staffing to make sure it's appropriate for the number of students we have do you anticipate any pushback from the state approving this at all no and i will tell you when this when the executive director of the state board mentioned it to the superintendents we were in one of those large rooms with the vast majority of superintendents there there was a lot of talk a lot of discussion because it came as a surprise to many superintendents and what we have heard at the
039state level is that they are making sure that these are approved quickly thank you mr mitchell thank you madam chair mr golden i have a couple questions real quick will we go through a will you establish a committee and naming committee for these two schools at this stage we don't intend to for the short term just to to name it as wcs online ka wcs online high school i will tell you that my plan prior to hearing this from the state board was to spend this year going through a vetting process and that item was one of the items that we that we intend to discuss so my hope and expectation is that we can go through that this coming year what it what is your a couple more questions real quick what what is
040your vision for the long term on this do you do you see this is as just a 20 21 22 kind of hybrid until we get truly past the pandemic or is this going to be something that you anticipate going into year three and year four so let me let me mention the hybrid first is a bit of an aside to that we still intend to have what i think of as a hybrid plan for our high school students where they can stay enrolled in their school but take you know a couple of online classes that we offer to those students who are on campus which was our program and our strategic plan back before covet hit but for but for this i anticipate that we may very well have a viable online school at
041these grade levels from now into the future but it's going to be driven by by student choice and the academic and instructional needs of our students so at this stage i'm thinking of it more along the lines of if a class makes kind of like that college model then we'll then we'll offer it our intent is and was to to vet the student needs over the course of this year so it's going to be driven by student numbers i will tell you also we have spent so much effort in in putting this together you know back back in the summer and you all know over the course of this school year we're doing we have some teachers who are doing some amazing things and i will say the emphasis for me is amazing things at
042the elementary level especially because they are interacting daily it's not for everybody but for those students who it is right for for them and their parents instructionally and you know the whole gamut of how we how we help parents raise our children with the with the instructional side i want it to be an option if we can have enough students for it to make fair enough and what and that kind of drives my last question really was what's the point where the numbers do not warrant the cost or the staff allocation yeah so that's part of what we're going to evaluate this year and i will tell you we already know that any smaller program has a has an increased expense just because of economies of scale and anyone who has a business model knows
043that you must have a leader and if you have if you have a leader of 1500 students statistically speaking it might be might cost less than the leader for 300. we don't know the answer to your question specifically from a numbers perspective yet but that's part of what we're evaluating i will tell you that our current brick and mortar schools all have a slightly different per student expenditure for that very reason and we'll be analyzing that over the course of the school year and make a recommendation to you all later on this year and madam chair if i might one last question and then i'll finish the is there a so we're talking about two schools we're talking a k-8 and then a high school if the number with the total numbers across the two
044schools being less than a thousand students is there is it is it more economical to do this as two schools or one school the cost to this with us with a state it doesn't matter there's no difference in the in the cost with for us to submit one versus two from a leadership perspective we actually budgeted for this to be a program not two separate schools and we budgeted leaders at both grade levels we're going to need those leaders regardless and so the real potential savings is going to be based on total aggregate numbers how many assistant principles we budgeted that sort of thing so as i sit here i don't see a savings one way or the other because we're really talking about the people that are there needed to do the work whether
045we have it separated into one versus two all right thank you thank you mr mitchell and i have my hand up here just as to restate what i said on thursday night which is i want to make sure that we aggregate all of the learnings that we had from from this experience this year and quantify them and make sure that they are part of this school or are of these two schools for next year and particularly at the high school level i think because there are just so many more variables at the high school level so whatever whatever we learn that makes things work and whatever we learn that makes things not work as well you know i i do trust and i do expect that we will put that into the plan for next
046year thank you madam chair and that is on our plate to do i will tell you also that we've we've addressed some of that in our budgeting because we know that some key components of communication direct contact with students those are much more difficult in an online setting especially at the high school level because of staffing and just because of the nature of the traditional online which which puts a lot on the student to do things on their own so thank you for that recommendation mr mitchell is your hand raised again no madam chair i'll take it again thank you i see no further discussion so we can move to a vote thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliott mitchell yes
047brad fiskas brad fiskus yes jenna priya priya sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch er excuse me eric welch yes casey hall yes nancy garrett empty garrett yes your vote is eleven yes zero no thank you and our final agenda item for the night is a board policy for first reading 1.4.03 agendas mr golden thank you madam chair this is first reading for a proposed agenda change and this actually came from some of the board members i know especially mr mitchell mentioned this is a proposal to add a public comment time for special call meetings so based on that we recommend approval and we'll go back to the policy committee for second reading okay board members is there a motion to approve elliot mitchell moves
048to approve mr mitchell is there a second yeah cleveland miss cleveland seconds is there any discussion mr mitchell with your hand up yes ma'am yes madam chair it sure is thank you real quick just wanted to clarify what i understood from the work session that we are we are formalizing the requirement to offer the opportunity for public comment at special called meetings but with that requirement we are also limiting that comment to only the agenda of the agenda item of the special called meeting can i can can we get clarity and clarifi i guess clarification on that those two points real quick mr mitchell you've described that accurately you are correct the proposal is to specifically allow public comment at special called meetings for the items that are on that special called agenda which by
049the way has to be pre-published by the by the way the tennessee rules and laws are structured for special called meetings and thank you mr golden and that is that that is distinctly different from our public comment in our regular meetings for instance as it is tonight where the comment can pretty much be on any any item pertaining to schools or district that's correct okay thank you thank you man i'm sure thank you mr mitchell that was our one request for discussion we can move to a vote thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell mr mitchell yeah my space bar was not working there elliott mitchell yes brad fiskas brad fiskus yes gina priya gonna priya yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes
050candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall casey hi yes nancy garrett auntie here at yes your vote is 11 yes zero no motion passes board members and staff and public that was our last agenda item for tonight mr golden do you have any closing remarks just thank you all just re-emphasize how proud we are of where we where we are this time this school year i got a few more weeks to go the next time we meet i think we will be in the last week of school so we're we're very encouraged about where we are but we know there's still a lot of work to do for our students and staff and thank you again thanks everybody this concludes our meeting everybody have a
051great evening and see you soon bye bye good night thank you everybody you