001e e All White County school board's in session Madam clerk Mr collick here Mr Cunningham here Mrs Perkins here Mr wster here and Mr Marsh here Mr chair I move to approve the agenda for open session as presented second we have a motion and a second any discussion hearing none Madam clerk Mr colck yes Mr Cunningham yes Mrs Perkins yes Mr wster yes and Mr Marsh yes sure would everyone please stand for a moment of silence and a pledge of allegiance I 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 Mr wer good evening everyone it's is March 18th 2025 we're here tonight in Westside Elementary for a special school board meeting
002uh budget work session and we'll roll right into it um kind of tee off the conversation here for the for the listening audience I think it's been since early January we've started working on the budget in one way or the other and it has only ramped up until we are to the where until we are to the place we're at tonight um we've had our public hearing um I know that everybody sitting up at this table has spent an exhausting amount of time asking questions floating around ideas trying to look at different options and avenues for the budget um so where are we tonight so we have taken taken the superintendent proposed budget and we have separated the items that were required from the ones that were discretionary every board member took a stab at
003ranking those items from top to bottom um that way everybody gets vote on what's the top priority then we added those scores up and the lowest score was the top priority and so on Down the Line very similar to how we did last year for last year's budget um we did that for the operating budget and we did that for the capital request as well um those documents are posted right now on board doc so if anybody wants to pull them down you can certainly pull them down and you can see where every school board member stands with a priority and you can see where where the entire School Board stands as a priority for everything um a little bit of housekeeping on this document because uh I think Mrs Whit low tidied it up
004this morning really and there are a couple of items actually there's more than a couple there's several that were tied and so my proposal to the board before we get into too many details is to go down the line for the ties and give them an A and A B um I don't I don't suspect there'll be much infighting over an A and A B for those that are tied that way we don't have to renumber everything right here tonight we can do that after the fact is everybody in agreeance with that okay so let's just stop on start on the first page there uh number 35 was a tie with so there's two it's the textbook fund contri contribution is a tie with HR coordinator so what I propose is that we pick an
005A and A B for number 35 and I'll leave it to someone else to throw out who's who textbook fund is a say it again textbook fund is a everybody okay with that that's fine a for textbook fund B for HR coordinator all right so number 26 is a tie that's after school programs and increased nurse substitute rates floor is open I'd like after school programs to be a and the increased nerve substitute rates to be B okay is everybody all right with that all right pending any objections after school programs will be 26a increased nurse sub rates 26b all right moving down the road there's a tie for number four that's the I a for welding welding is a and then CTE CTE so you want welding for a everybody good with that yep
006okay so number 4 a is IIA for welding number 4 B CTE equipment repairs moving right along 31 there's a tie for Clinic assistance and and travel training Transportation blind in one ey can't see out the other where's it at oh there it is transportation who wants I'd like to see transportation is a and Clinic assistance is B okay pending any objections I would like to see a for Clinic assistance and B for transportation okay um we going to make it interesting you guys want to do an informal vote between a and b for those two sure we okay so those that want Clinic assistance 31a Mr woster yes no Mr Perkins no no no all right your B sorry sir Clinic assistance for 31b and transportation 31b okay next page there's a tie for
00724 CPR trainer stipend and Lead Clinic assistant lead Clinic assistant is a okay anybody else object to that uh I didn't hear what was that lead Clinic assistant 24a that's fine Mr Cunningham Mr Worster I'm good good okay so 24a is your lead Clinic assistant 24b CPR stien trainer stien I'm sorry I'm misspoke Handle With Care stiens yeah there you go yeah old AG is sitting in here Mr Marsh did you see 29 as well on the first page no nope went right over it okay yeah I was wonder what was tie for 29 Dr Coleman pointed it out thanks Doc keeping us honest a lot of numbers up here so 20 29 is SSO and CPR trainer stien trainer stien is a I'm good with that everybody okay with that the CPR first yes
008sir yes everybody else good okay 29a is the CPR 29b SSO okay we're getting down to it 28 that's a my View School Bus Tracker and then 28 is iPad replac replacement rotation like to see technology is a and my view is B I'm okay with that anybody else I'm good okay that's three so 28 you good Mr Cunningham yeah I'm good so 28a is iPad replacement 28b my view and if my eyes are doing me Justice the last one is 36 it's a tie between Transportation vehicle parts and technology equipment for new positions I would uh recommend the uh Fleet Services a and the technology B okay any objections to that okay so 36a is Fleet Services vehicle parts 36B technology equipment for new positions and Mr chair could we get a fresh copy
009of this later this week thank you 17 is tied as well but we didn't catch it did we I was get ready to ask got it okay so 17 is tied that's operations equipment leases and health to aeds annually I would like to see the aeds is a any objections to that I concur with that yes as long as we when we're buying the maeds Dr Coleman we getting the same brand every year okay and hopefully we go through the fire rescue for them excellent is there any more duplicates that we're overlooking okay so good M caller no we're good so Madam clerk if you would be so kind following this if you could clean this up and then uh send it back out and go ahead and post it on board dos for tonight
010that way anybody wants to see what we did tonight it's right there in plain view okay thank you man um and do you want to talk about this Miss Perkins you want me to kick it off so to the board um and Dr Ker and I believe Mrs GS um there's one little housekeeping thing I'd like to discuss the CTE director I think everyone is in concurrence that that position is is needed uh the point of contingency is rotated on or or fixed on adding another person to central office um in conversation with Mrs Perkins I would like to put the football in your court and get your nod to find a way to appropriately assign that position to a school so that the CTE director is actively involved in the program not necessarily sitting
011in Co 100% uh Mr chair NFI may add plural schools uh because both the Smithfield High and WS are high and this person will be working very closely with the uh Shipyard as well as uh we are integrating the IMT I Maritime Trades Academy you and I sit on the board for that so this person will be working very closely with representatives from the shipyard uh and our schools so uh absolutely this person will be working in schools uh the vast majority of the time and Mett and I've spoken as well and we'll have an office in uh one of our schools we will identify where that's going to be excellent Sir Mr Cunningham and that basically was the question I was going to have where is he or she going to have an office
012so it'll be in one of the high schools yes we will identify where that's going to be and again this person uh won't just be at that particular school because the work is going to be between schools and with the a maritime Trades Academy they will be working again with the shipyard as well as with uh Camp Community College where uh the grant the $2.7 million grant that we acquired the lab school Grant through the governor's initiative uh is in partnership with Camp Community College so this person will be working with representatives from Camp as well okay the other thing is um myself I don't see a problem with him or her working having an office in central office because he or she is not going to be sitting in central office uh why are
013we concerned about about where he or she sits when he or she is going to be wherever he or she is needed that's my question to the board um I want the person attached um it would be most likely to Smithfield High would be my guest based on the amount of CTE programs that are over there and with the Middle School um but I want the more more accessibility both for the CTE teachers and for the CTE director and that way that they're not dividing their time being unavailable to both schools right there on campus so I'd like the interaction to um be more you know the availability okay so that was my concern yeah I'd like to um chime in a little bit on that because um I'm I'm kind of go hand inand
014with Mr Cunningham you know ultimately you know if something's a central office position our school position it's not where they sit it's who they work for okay this is going to be a central office position period okay no matter where they sit no matter where they work and I agree they should be in the school that way they they've got hands on with the folks that are working for them they've got the ability to bring people from the shipyard over from Camp over in the school and see what's going on there so I agree with all that but to say the person is not working for central office that you know that would be a falsehood um so we are creating a new position a new central office position who will be working directly for
015the superintendent or one of his designes will not be working for a principal and um so I I just want to make sure everybody is aware of that okay it's we we're not creating a position in a school otherwise in three years We'll be asking for another CTE director in another school and we're not going to do that yeah no that wasn't my intention at all I just wanted them to be based in the school physically no that's I have no issue with that I just want to make sure the public is well aware that you know what this position actually is I think to your point uh Mr Kik is and you as well M Perkins we have other positions where the people do not report to a principal and they spend the vast
016majority of their time in schools this position will be spending the overwhelming majority of their time in schools working directly with our CTE staff and our principles and to your point yes they will not be assigned per se to a principal but it doesn't mean that they won't be spending the majority of their time in a school and again it won't just be the schools they will be working with Camp Community College as we are extending that partnership there which is a requirement actually through the governor's uh requirement to have ACH received a lab school and we'll be spending time as the program evolves with uh representatives from the shipyard um so I see this person again being in our schools to your point uh Mrs Perkins the overwhelming majority of the time now will
017they be at central office and may have a satellite while they're in meetings there of course and there are budget board meetings that we will be having uh with camp for the lab school uh but yes it will not be technically the person will not be technically reporting to a principal but they will be spending most of their time with principes and with the CTE staff okay um and and again I think just for the sake of everybody watching I'm sure there's people watching tonight and if they're not watching now they're going to watch later this week so when you look at this sheet this prioritized list which which our esteemed School Board clerk is going to clean up the A's and the B's I cleaned it up and it's up now you're quick that's
018what I'm talking about thank you ma'am so the items that are listed as required these are just what that that's exactly what it says these are required these are things that we have to do the items below are discretionary um so moving forward assuming we get a a vote tonight if we pass this we will adopt this budget and it will be presented to the county and then the county has to decide how much money they're going to allocate to alaw County Schools whatever that number may be if it's enough to cover everything on this list everybody's happy if it doesn't cover everything on this list whatever their threat threshold is we're just going to start from the top priority and go down and what doesn't make the cut just doesn't make the cut the
019same holds true for the capital requests um and and if that ends up being the case then the board and superintendent will work to figure out what if any changes have to be made same thing happened last year um am I missing anything I my intent is to make sure that everybody's that's watching knows what we're doing no I think you explained it well it's identical to what we did last year Mr wer good good Miss Parkins one point on the CIP um numers the bandm and the weapons detection system were reversed on the last thing so that'll need to be updated if it hasn't already been did they change no our rankings are the same and they're in the correct order everywhere except for um on the last ranking list when we were fing
020it out on that second page they were just reversed so got it okay you got that for Action Miss Willow got that for Action okay Mr Cunningham what say you sir I'm good with it we're good Dr Kramer what are we missing I'm not sure if you're missing anything sir I think uh you've stated as Mr C Mr KX stated I think it's very similar process to last year if that's what we follow um we are here to support you in whatever way you need is board okay y okay um somebody want to make a motion or you want me to okay uh board I move to approve the FY 26 Alaway County Schools budget and adopt it as presented tonight and as ranked by the board second we have a motion and a second
021any other discussion before we take the vote I will say one more thing we're we're we're putting this monkey back the counties back um those Folks up there have the very difficult task of figuring out how much revenues that Al County can afford to pay the schools it's no easy undertaking um so whatever we end up getting I'm not saying we're not going to go up there and Advocate strongly for the schools just know that they've got those tough choices to make so we'll be grateful at the end of the day no matter what and pending any other comments Madam clerk please take the vote Mr collick yes Mr Cunningham yes Mrs Perkins yes Mr wster yes and Mr Marsh yes motion passes budget is adopted that's outstanding I don't think we got five last
022year yeah good deal any other comments before we close out listen Dr Kramer staff Madam clerk everybody who's had a bid in this uh thank you I don't think we're done yet Mr very we're not done yet we still got to go work with the county but thanks for all your efforts and and time so far this meeting is adjourned thank you