Williamson County Board of Education Meeting - March 22, 2021

001good evening thank you so much for having me thank you so much for taking time to hear my comments tonight my name is chaner williamson my three daughters are currently ages 19 21 and 23. they all attended williamson county public schools in elementary school and i'm really thankful that you all have made the decision to hire a trained professional to provide diversity equity and inclusion training for teachers this is important work if we're going to prepare our kids for the world that they will one day lead our youngest daughter had a first grade teacher who had pretty low expectations of her i would say i was present in the classroom weekly as the room mom and i observed ways that implicit bias affected my child so much so that by the time the end of

002that first grade year happened i made the decision to homeschool her in second grade there were things that i wanted to do to sure up her confidence in reading and specifically what i realized is that most parents are not able to see what's happening in the classroom in real time in the way that i was and they're not able to intervene in the ways that i had the ability to do so we need our teachers and other staff members to be trained ready to handle a variety of situations education is one of the systems in america i think it's most affected by bias and the results can harm everyone involved not just little children of color but also others who see the way that interaction happens i hope that you see the value and the

003hard work that you've started and my goal tonight is just to ask that you not shortcut this work but please continue to fund the dei consultant that has started the school year and i would hope that you would fund it past the school year so that williamson county schools can have the full benefit of the expertise that this consultant provides this is just one mom's opinion and concerns and thank you so much for having me our next speaker we're going to go back to sharon blunt miss glenn miss blunt okay we'll move on to the next speaker kelly hendry miss hendry she's joining okay looks like a slow i can see the sheriff sharon is back madam chair sharon miss blunt miss flint can you come off mute please how about now yes we can

004hear you miss blind thank you i am so sorry that's okay i'm sorry for the difficulty yes thank you so much i've requested my time to speak tonight as a concerned mother of three okay thank you miss blind i think we've lost audio again i am so sorry i'm not we can hear you again okay i'm i'm calling to to give my two cents about the mass mandates i want to piggyback on what the other mothers have stated and what about now we can hear you again yes it looks like we've lost you again i'm going to go to kelly hendry now and then we'll see if we can get back to you miss blind miss hendry if you'll please come off mute okay can you hear me yes we can thank you hi hi

005so i'm kelly hendry first i just wanted to start off and thank my board member dan cash for listening responding to my emails and my calls and being a strong voice for district 2 and williamson county school families i have three points first masks i'm asking that these be optional for the remainder of this school year so yes the last nine weeks and all of next school year 2021 to 2022. two seniors i have a senior this year it's been quite the year for this graduating class i the graduations are outside on the football field in two months therefore they're outside they're not inside we've seen active case numbers continue to steadily decline as it continues to get warmer we're going to continue to see that right now they are limited to four tickets per

006family per student so i feel like we either don't need to limit the tickets or we need to allow each student more tickets as they can spread out it's outside it's a it's a large venue i've i've spoken to quite a few families that have a large family and one parent is not going to be able to go or a sibling is going to or siblings will miss graduation because of this i actually have a graduate from the class of 2018 who graduated on the football field at independence and there were no limited tickets and there was plenty of room to spread out and do it safely so i'm asking for either more tickets or don't even limit the tickets my daughter's only set of living grandparents are devastated that they don't get to celebrate

007her graduation in person i mean it's been a challenging year for the class of 2021 and they've missed a lot of fun memories my daughter's my daughter's actually in three choirs at her high school and she's only been allotted two tickets for those choir concerts so my parents have missed out on that i know basketball parents were allotted for tickets per at student athlete and that's inside as well so my parents have missed out on her solos in her choir concerts and now they're going to miss out on her graduation so two minutes thank you okay thank you thank you next we'll hear from amanda white miss white hello can you hear me yes thank you please go ahead hi thank you so much for giving us an opportunity to speak tonight i have a

008seventh grader at woodland middle and a fifth grader at clovercroft elementary i am here just asking for a normal 2021-2022 school year on their behalf on many other children's behalf i'm asking for masks off or masks optional for those who feel they need it and i would actually love for that to happen for the last nine weeks of the school year i'm asking for the contact tracing quarantine guidelines to to change my child was part of the contact tracing quarantine i saw firsthand i know firsthand it's not just a statistic you read an article you read i have a child that went through it is not healthy some children are okay and some children don't thrive that way and some people definitely do not thrive in that position healthy as a horse missing the last

009sports games of the year missing out on making friends in a new school year i'd like to advocate for getting back to lockers and cubbies the rite of passage to middle school is a locker it's everyone's joy entering sixth grade also i would like for them to stop carrying the heavy backpacks and be able to use the lockers and cubbies lunch in the cafeteria so they can see each other smiling faces and hear laughter and just have that small time together lunch and recess just to let loose and be kids this is as serious as hearing the words what is the point to this life i don't want to do this anymore it's not just shuffle along come on kids are resilient some kids are not resilient it's got to end this full-blown production of

010the opposite of normalcy we've got to get these kids back to normal and consistent 10 seconds man yes let's stop stripping the joys of these children give it back to them and let them thrive thank you so much our next speaker is karen hensley hi i'm karen hensley i think i'm district six with jen apria but i could be wrong on the number i have three children in williamson county schools one is a fourth grader at jordan elementary one is a seventh grader at sunset middle and one is a tenth grader at ravenwood high school and i'm specifically while i have i agree with all these ladies my biggest issue if i had to pick one would be quarantines my oldest was quarantined after missing a ton of school because of other medical issues she

011had and the quarantine piggybacked onto that just about through our entire family over the edge as much as i don't feel that the schools are equipped to to provide that bridge that gap for continuing education she both when she was sick and when she was healthy and quarantined she was doing mostly self-teaching i saw the ups and downs and it's very frustrating from a parent's standpoint because you're trying to help your kid and they're i felt very powerless i the question i have is have we weighed have we looked at the numbers of kids that have been quarantined who is actually tested positive of the from that contact tracing and who has had symptoms what are the what do those numbers look like and have we looked at the consequences of the quarantining and compared

012that to the data of a covid which is not taking down kids the teachers are vaccinated you know i just struggle with why are we doing this are we doing this because it looks good on paper are we doing this because we just don't know what we what else to do i just i very much both as a healthcare provider i'm a nurse and as a mom i strongly disagree with it and i'm asking you to really look at the data and really look at the consequences of quarantining these healthy kids and 10 seconds man thank you i'm gonna go back to miss blunt now sharon blunt you can come off mute miss blunt okay six times the charm i am so sorry about that i've written down a few words and i'm really wanting

013to piggyback off of the mothers who've spoken about masks and i have a few other items to add i am a very concerned mother of three masks are both harmful mentally physically and emotionally each of my children have had unique challenges with the mask mandates and here are just a few personal examples of emotional issues that we've had we've experienced sadness not wanting to go to school receiving minors for not wearing the mask properly one of my children she expressed she has undue stress throughout the school day for not wanting to get into trouble and disappoint her teachers when she needs an unscheduled mass break my children have been very unmotivated to participate in after-school activities because wearing a mask all day and breathing in your own carbon dioxide is exhausting and it leaves them

014unmotivated some physical issues that we have faced are headaches exhaustion mass acne which is terrible for middle schoolers i have two middle schoolers some additional issues that i'm concerned with that will happen to our children at some point in time if this is not alleviated some of them are bacterial bronch bronchial and lung infections gum and tongue candida which is already being reported suppressed immune systems suicide and or attempted suicide all of these things you can look up and they're all factual and they've been several articles written about them mass wearing should be a personal choice not a mandate that's harming our children in ways we won't know until later in their development so i'm begging you to remove it and finally i think other other moms have mentioned this but the cdc has stated

015multiple times children are not super spreaders they have very little reaction if any to this virus i just am believing and hoping that you will remove all coveted restrictions thank you very much our next speaker is danielle hi there thank you for giving me time tonight i have two things that i want to talk about tonight i am in district district two i have four children who will attend thompson station elementary school next year and we've been there for three years already i have to say i am i'm excited about the diversity team coming in i think that it can be a great thing with everything going on in the world i as a parent of these four boys though i would like to ask that we as parents can see this curriculum before it

016comes out i would like to know is critical race theory is will that be included just as an example and i'm just asking because there are so many different aspects of diversity so i want to make sure i approve of what my child is actually seeing before i expose them to that so i can make the proper decision for my own children as to where i would like to place them in in school so i would ask for that and my second topic is are flex days i just ask that we've been in we've had a full week of school for two weeks since christmas and this is affecting our children kids are missing out at the high school level on say they're they're just skipping over algebra going straight to geometry because there's not

017enough time the young kids my two little kindergartners get on zoom for 10 minutes and that's all they do all day and then there are also children out there who have parents that both work which i and my husband do work or a single parent who can't help them with these packets so they're just not getting them done these things are very sad and now that the numbers are coming down i just ask please that we take these flex days away i so appreciate the teachers oh my goodness so much at thompson station mr bohr tina aaron have been amazing and i thank you for that and i get why you've needed the days but going forward i please ask that these are taken away thank you our next speaker is robin steeman hi first

018time here i'm district 12. i hear you on the mask and the social distancing i have to say that my daughter's actually been going to a private school with no social distancing and no mass for the entirety of the year with no shutdown days and we've had zero coveted cases so that could be a data point for you guys but i have a kindergartner and i have a four-year-old and a five-month-old and my main concern is the adoption of diversity equity and inclusion to include the 16-19 project critical race training intersectionality california is presenting esmc which is an ethnic studies model curriculum and that will be rolled out at the end of this month and it's going to be paraded as a blueprint for the rest of the country and trauma-based pedagogy which actually teaches

019kids with via emotional trauma my point is i know you guys have started down this path and if you give them an inch if you give one inch to this kind of teaching then you're going to subject yourself to the whole spectrum it's just going to keep continuing to slide and where does it stop examples in virginia there's been blacklisting of parents for speaking out in philadelphia an elementary school forced fifth graders to celebrate black communism and host a black power rally in wake county public schools north carolina parents according to teachers should be considered an impediment to social justice in arizona they provided an equity toolkit that painted babies are racist at three months old in ohio i've yet to find out the school district the crt critical race training theory had to be

020removed from the curriculum because the students were literally turning on each other in william clark in las vegas a high schooler filed suit against his high school for attempting to force him to label himself as an oppressor when he has a white father and a black mother in new york city the eight white identities and in california the list is too long to to read so i want to know what the plan is and is it safe for our kids because once you start down this slope you're gonna slide the whole way down our next speaker is allison anderson miss anderson if you'll please come off mute miss anderson can you hear me miss anderson i believe you're still on mute mr mcknight we seem to be having some audio issues with miss anderson so

021i'll go on to rachel weaver right now and then we'll see if we can get miss anderson back in first can you hear me yes thank you please go ahead hi i think i'm in district 11 i'm not quite sure so i have four children in williamson county schools i have a senior a freshman a sixth and fourth grader we moved here in september from a different state with the sole purpose of resuming in person school i followed the metrics over the summer that this district was miss weaver i'm sorry we've lost your audio can you let's see if we can hear you now no we've lost audio okay can you hear me now yes okay sorry about that okay i followed the metrics okay these are the three things that i'd like to address

022tonight the first thing is the choice to wear a mask in school where we as parents take calculated risks every day when we send our kids to school we sign many waivers and documents at the beginning of school and when our kids make a school sport stained that we assume risk and liability i don't see any difference in the choice to have our child wear a mask and assume all liability and risk of sickness that may come with that the second issue is the quarantine my senior soul was quarantined five times in the fall and she has not even had so much as a sniffle in over a year i know in the beginning we didn't know a lot about the virus and we were all doing the best we could but now we know

023a lot more my senior daughter was told to go home for 14 days at a time with no instruction and then penalized with late assignments which resulted in bad grades when she's a straight a student before i have to i had to keep reminding myself that this was not her fault and she was sitting home learning from notes as a perfectly healthy kid in my opinion contact tracing and quarantines need to be lifted the community spread is so low that it's not warranted anymore as a measure to control the virus in my professional opinion i'm not going to complain without trying to offer a proposed option for others that feel the same way would you as the board consider a simple waiver where parents were given the choice to assess the potential risk of attending

024school on mass and also assume any risk of exposure in order to be accepted from contact tracing at school there is never going to be a zero percent risk so like everything else in life and moreover what we are trying to teach our children at some point you take a calculated risk finally my life with the board please consider increasing the number of tickets for graduation since it's now outside as of right now with the limit of four tickets my young children will not be able to see their sister graduate thank you for your time and consideration and our final speaker for this evening is allison anderson miss anderson your showing is on mute sorry now we can hear you yes okay you can hear me yes okay i'm allison anderson i live in district

0252 with dan cash i have a first grader at thomson station elementary a sixth grader at thompson station middle and a ninth grader at summit high i am a former kindergarten and special ed public school teacher i taught special ed across all grade levels and i hold a master's degree in marriage and family counseling with many years of experience with children during this covered era my single greatest concern has been the mental and emotional well-being of children and adolescents not just in the here and now but their well-being well into the future contrary to popular belief suicide rates are not the highest in the cold dark winter months or around christmas or other holidays but the highest suicide rates occur in the month of april may and june and it's usually two to three times

026higher than suicide rates in december we're quickly approaching those months we know that coded restrictions quarantines cancellation of extracurricular activities and mass mandates contribute to these increases in mental health incidents among children and adolescents i myself have a child who begs me to switch to online school simply because the mask causes so much anxiety and distracts them at school from focusing my husband and i really struggle with knowing which with deciding which learning environment would be best for this child simply because of of mask mandates pediatric emergency room visits from april to october of 2020 were down significantly for injuries and illnesses however emergency room visits were significantly higher for mental health incidents they increased as much as around 25 percent for ages 5 through 11 so even elementary schoolers are seeing an increase and

027over 30 percent for ages 12 and 17 and then ages 18 and up young adults is just astronomical some areas of the country have seen more than triple the amount of mental health incidences in light of this data and due to the fact that we're entering into the highest risk season for suicidal behavior i hope you all consider getting our students lives back to normal not for the next year but as soon as possible thank you that complete concludes our public comment for this evening we'll now move on to the approval of tonight's meeting agenda do we have a person to approve consider getting our student slides motion to approve from mr i think it was mr mitchell is that correct yes okay is there a second second second from mr welch is there any

028discussion i see no hands raised if not then let's move to a roll call vote miss glenn thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash mr cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes jennapriya jeff jay galbraith jay galbraith 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 nancy garrett yes your vote is 12 yes zero no motion passes thank you board members the next item on the agenda is the approval of the consent agenda do we have a motion to approve rick wimberly move to approve mr wembley makes the motion do we have a second elliott mitchell seconds mr mitchell seconds is there any

029discussion i see no hands raised we can move to a vote ms flynn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliott mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes gina priya jenna priya yes jay galbraith jay galbraith yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch mark welch yes ecmo yes nancy garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is 12 yes 0 no motion passes board members with the approval of that consent agenda you've approved the february 15 2021 school board meeting minutes and also the franklin high school replacement of gymnasium floor and revised logo on the multi-purpose field our next item is communications to the board and i'll turn this over to our superintendent mr jason golden mr golden all right thank

030you madam chair and thank you board members for being here tonight you all know that we just finished our spring break and i'm i'm so excited that we are in the fourth quarter and yeah this has been a pretty incredible year so far and i will tell you i'm just so impressed with the skill of our teachers and the efforts of our students through this time and you guys know we're in a pandemic and it's really been impressive to to see what our folks are doing i will tell you that i still hear from time to time from families moving into the district that they've they've moved here from an area where some of their some of their children still haven't been in school actually on campus through the year and i'm really proud of

031what our staff has done through this year in in pushing pushing pushing those efforts to to do what we could to keep our students on campus it hasn't been perfect we've had some times where we haven't been able to be on campus but but but the effort has been there and i think it's been worth it so far as you all know especially this year it seems like things change daily since our work session last thursday before spring break we have had some changes already and i want to give you an update on those i'm going to keep this fairly brief especially compared to our work session and tell you a little bit of what you heard through some through some media sources this the cdc did receive some research related to social distancing and

032we mentioned to you at the work session that that had occurred but there have been no changes yet from the cdc or the state health department friday afternoon last official day of spring break at around four o'clock gary anderson received an email from the state on what they call the list serve where they published some detail from the health department regarding some changes i want to give you a brief report on those changes that they are making to their processes and it's going to be a nutshell it won't be the detail but but the basics of what we have learned from them is that at the elementary level the six foot social distancing standard is being reduced to three feet if students are wearing masks and at the middle and high school level it's the

033same standard based on whether a community transmission rate is at what they call low or i think moderate not high and so they have reduced in in many circumstances that standard of six feet 15 minutes that we've heard for the last few months and you all may remember even prior to that it was six feet 10 minutes and so there's been another change but we're excited about that mr anderson and his staff met today with a health department with a local health department to talk about the implementation of that state standard and what that means and i want you to know of course they just had their first meeting today in the then and gary is available if you have any questions but i want you to know some of the specifics about what we're

034going to be working on over the next few days this is i think relevant to what some of the questions you've actually received from some of our some of our great parents are earlier today we're going to be looking at how we can improve elementary mobility in our buildings you all know that many of our schools have been have kept those classes together at the elementary level we believe that with this change especially at the elementary level there's some potential for us to make some changes this quarter with that mobility and i'll give you a couple of specific things we're going to look at actually moving to an art classroom moving to moving to music some of our some of our schools have not physically been in the cafeteria based on student numbers and capacity

035in the cafeterias we're going to go back and review those and that's going to be some work over these next few days to see how we can take that next step towards towards operating within the cdc and health department guidelines safely and still give as much flexibility and freedom to our students as we can at the secondary level we're going we're going to analyze and see what we can do to to address potential change in our outdoor activities and there's actually a reference in the cdc or what we're actually in the state department state health department guidelines related to outdoor activities with a strong encouragement to do what you can outside and we're going to evaluate what we can do with with attendance and crowds at graduation ceremonies because as as you know we've moved

036those weather permitting to to outside based on what we know related to those the the facilities that we're going to we have historically been using and their need to host other things or restrictions internally where we could not use those facilities we're going to evaluate that the extent to which we can expand attendance based on based on those new guidelines spring sports likewise and so we're very excited that this that this messaging we received from the state health department on friday afternoon has opened up some doors for us to take those next steps towards towards again safely moderating our guidelines you also know that after our board work session a week and a half ago we did make the decision to eliminate our temperature checks and i want to thank those board members i know

037many of you spoke to us about that and convinced us to do some data collection and some research and based on that and based on what we learned from from that and from from our from our individual school communities it was time and so thank you for that i will tell you that just as a reminder that county government is requiring temperature checks at the at their building still that includes our central office likewise twsaa is still requiring temperatures checks so what we're talking about is as students enter the building in the mornings but there may still be some events and there will still be some events where that is required because we're governed by other entities next thing i want to mention to you is related to those specific guidelines from the state health

038department they really re-emphasized the continued need for mass and we talked we talked a week and a half ago in our work session about our projections from asking those critical dates that we were that we were seeing coming up we do with about you know a week to two weeks after a long break and then with our students who are online coming onto campus to take their tcap tea and ready test and end of course test because the state is requiring that on campus but what i've seen from the information from the state health department that they published on friday afternoon is realistically i have to project that more likely than not we will be wearing masks we'll still be requiring mass per our return to school plan that you all approved back in july

039through the end of the school year but as we've discussed also if there's a change from them in these next eight or nine weeks then then that is that is still a possibility but i just think i need to be frank that i just given that re-emphasis from the cdc that i think that's extremely unlikely and the cdc still is recommending that schools require those masks and again i want to emphasize that reduction in the social distancing standard is dependent on all those participants actually wearing masks so not only does it re-emphasize that that need from those health authorities it confirms the plan that you all approve that we're at for this for this school year i will tell you also i think it's extremely important for us to re-emphasize as clearly as i can

040that we will continue to follow the cdc and state health department guidelines and listen to those health authorities as much as we can and that includes this year plus next year right now you all have approved the plan for for this year i'm optimistic about next year we talked about that at the at the board work session and i know that we all have different opinions on that one of the reasons i'm optimistic is because we do see changes as as the health authorities determined that changes are appropriate another item that makes me optimistic is what we're hearing at the federal level about the distribution of vaccines there's a lot of talk about phraseology like herd immunity and those kinds of phrases that we almost never hear and almost never heard until until this event

041but i will tell you at this stage as we sit here in late march i can't predict the future i can be optimistic but i but what i can tell you is that my intent and my plan is to follow our health authorities guidelines as much as we can with a goal that we've had throughout the school year of keeping students on campus so that's that's a really significant change for us that we'll be working on over these next these next few days as soon as we are able to make some changes based on that and do do our work internally to figure out what we can do we'll of course communicate that with you and communicate that with our families but we're excited about where we are with the future next thing i want

042to specifically address is fostering healthy solutions you all know we've made it a point to talk about that as much as we could at our meetings and i very much appreciate what we heard from members of the public in public comment today and it really does what we heard from just a few people really does reflect a lot of what i've heard in the community i've heard from some of our young alumni and you all know this that there were times in their careers where they were the victims of discriminatory behavior and they were either uncomfortable reporting it or they didn't see a result on the other side we have heard from folks that are very concerned about curriculum and what they're seeing at a national level and i want to make sure that we

043re-emphasize what we've talked about that about what fostering healthy solutions is doing for us and what they are not they are helping us do a better job of making and helping our students all our students feel safe in the environment that they're in when we're serving them at school all students feeling safe is very important to us and what we've learned over this past year plus is that many of our young alumni and current students and parents have told us there were times when they weren't comfortable reporting that i am so gratified that we're at a point here in this community that they are comfortable now telling us that because just a few years ago that was a rarity in my experience and so i think that's a step forward and you all making the

044decision to bring in fostering healthy solutions is is another step in that direction they're going to review our policies they're going to help us set goals and action steps to help our students be more comfortable and be safer in our in our schools they are not creating curriculum for us they are consulting with us in helping us walk on this journey to improve how we serve our students i will also tell you that we have a small frequently asked questions section in our strategic planning web page that addresses those questions and so i would always invite folks to to go to that go to strategic planning and on the right hand side there are a handful of questions that basically reiterate what i just talked about we'll continue to update those as questions arise and

045i know that miss garrett is going to actually talk to you at least briefly about some scheduling issues related to that so that is my brief update from a superintendent's perspective we're really excited about where we are this fourth quarter we see growth and change on the horizon we're not out out of the woods yet but but we're making some progress on the on the coveted front and on something that i think is going to be a very long-term growth journey for us with how we serve our diverse student body so madam chair of course i'm open to any questions that anyone may have madam chair you're on you thank you let's stay ahead of myself there board members if you have any questions would you please raise your hand in the chat take a

046quick scroll here mr galbraith thank you madam chair jason a few a few questions sorry jay galbraith here district six with the with the three-foot rule versus the old six-foot rule what was the old rule as defined by the cdc the old number one i'm going to invite gary to to to make sure i'm correct it the old rule was six feet 15 minutes constituted that was the minimum baseline that constituted a close contact which would trigger the health department making a quarantined decision that was a threshold i will tell you also we learned from them that there were also times where they would quarantine even if someone did not meet that threshold based on the details of their investigation gary yes sir that's correct that they changed it from six feet 15 minutes to

0476 feet 15 minutes over 24 hour period so it didn't have to be all at one time of 15 minutes it can be over an exposure period of 24 hours so what actually changes with this with this three-foot rule well according to the cdc documents and the information that the that the health department the state health department is following and they then send it down to the regional and regional sends it to the local health department what that all entails is they are still doing close contact based on the six foot parameter even though the distance even though they're saying you can get closer they're still going to go through the six foot distance as their baseline to determine close contact so this guidance is really more of of what's deemed to be to be

048a safe distance to be in school right so the cdc prior said that a six foot distance was required six foot distance was required to he had to be over six foot away from me but i'm not it's not talking about quarantine it's talking about just a safe distance to have a school they're saying you can you can be three feet apart so if you don't if you're if you're putting distance and quarantine don't come in play together on this three for the distance doesn't doesn't play the same as the quarantine that's that's what i'm that's what i'm trying to point out so the old the old cdc guidance was that a safe distance was six feet they did not support us us having school the way we were having school we made a we

049made a determination that we had to weigh going hybrid or having less than 100 capacity with having 100 capacity and being as distance as possible but less than probably less than six foot apart did we make that determination we made the determination you all think back to our discussion in you know in july we made the determination based on their recommendations that well two things one they you know the mask issue that but second in this particular context they said to be to maintain social distancing when possible and what we determined and we're very clear with folks over the summer is it's not possible for us to have everyone on campus and be that six feet if at the time it was it was ten minutes so we were going to do what we could

050within that range but knowing that it wasn't wasn't feasible to do that all the time so to your point yeah the guidelines were if feasible do it we said it's not feasible okay so with respect to the temperature checks what guidance were we following when we chose to continue the temperature checks for three months after the cdc said that they were no longer warranted well the original the original cdc guidelines word were to do it and you all may recall that the state bought hundreds of thermometers for districts across the the state when when that change was made the cdc included in that a recommendation that parents take their children's temperatures in the mornings we were already set up for it locally it was it was feasible the county had it you know was still

051doing it was doing it and it's still doing it at their buildings we determined that because we had it in place and and it was feasible and doable that it still made sense for us to do that rather than put that expectation on our parents and but you said the reason that you that you discontinued that was largely in part was largely due to the to the data that we collected to say that showed that was not a worthwhile effort that yeah that's that's right that it was that there was no need for that based on based on the data that we've learned so we have the ability to collect data and make decisions irrespective of the cdc we've done we've done it we've done it with we've done it with the three foot rule

052or the six foot rule we made a determination that we couldn't we couldn't accommodate six feet but having kids in school was better than not having them in school and then we determined based on our collection of data that the temperature checks were no longer needed that's right the cdc recommendations for for close contact for proximity was if feasible we determined it wasn't feasible to do what they recommended and made decision made the decision to to have students on campus even though it wasn't feasible and we did as you point out continue the temperature checks beyond the time that they were actually recommending schools check so when so do we don't we have enough data over over the course of time over a half a million quarantines or so our quarantine days to to determine

053that the transmission rates of of these quarantine students is i mean i've heard anywhere from one and a half to three percent something like that like don't we have the ability to to know to know that especially now that the cdc is saying that three that three feet is adequate you know can we how how do we implement a three foot limit for quarantines because that would that by i mean with the combination of our teachers not not quarantining our vaccinated teachers not causing our healthy students not to quarantine by virtue of their vaccination and then the three-foot rule we would we would eliminate i mean what do you what would you think 80 plus 90 plus percent of our quarantines yes ma'am if i can make a clarification here i just i just want

054to remind the board that these guidelines have just been received and there's a lot of conversation going on right now with the health department i know that the staff has had several meetings today about you know how how can we apply these new guidelines what do these new guidelines really mean so i just want to make sure that we all realize that you know staff may not be able to answer all of the questions that we have for them tonight and so jason and staff i just want to make sure that as always you feel comfortable to say i don't know the answer to that right at this time because we got these guidelines at four o'clock and we've been looking at them all day but we will we will inform the board and the

055public when we can thank you madam chair i don't know that i can answer the 80 question that mr galbraith asked but what i can tell you is that what we're exploring is the potential increased input that we'll that we'll have when we speak to the health department about quarantine decisions with what we're doing and so my hope is and what we're exploring with them is that our input in individual quarantine cases may be more significant i think the next few weeks will tell you know based on that based on that reduction from the cdc i don't know if gary has the ability to answer the statistical question gary anderson i wouldn't know about what percentage to put on something like that so no i don't i don't have a good answer for that right

056now well the i mean the three foot the three foot change is worthless we haven't it's it's completely what we've been doing all along and so if we don't if we don't work with whether we work with the health department or without the health department if we if we don't stop quarantining people for that are where where the where the distance is less that is more than three feet apart and less than six feet apart then we're going to continue like we the board asks you to do something to to limit the number of quarantines and you've you've continued to say that working with the health department is reducing the number of quarantines and that's just not true now so we have the ability to make our own decision on whether students are allowed in

057school or not only the cour only the health department can send that letter that gives the health department backed endorsed order to stay home by order of law but we don't have to do that all we have to do is tell the student whether they can and can't come to school and we can do that like one of the parents said with a life letter to tell them that someone in their in their class within their vicinity was found to test positive if you're asymptomatic and are comfortable with coming to school then you can still do that we have the ability to make that decision on our own do we not i'm not sure of your question but let me tell you what we do have the ability to do and i feel better about

058this change than i think you may because you said this doesn't do any good i disagree with that in part because of where we are at this stage in timing i my opinion and what we're working on is that we will have the ability to convince our local health department based on this based on the safety measures that we're implementing to to to be less broad in in their quarantined decisions as they quarantine to your to your in in we're early to miss carrots point but i haven't just looked at those on friday and said this doesn't do us any good i think it opens up another door for us to discuss with the local health authorities to talk about what we're doing to talk about some of those some of those numbers like you've

059discussed and make and make different decisions on that i think this is at this stage a change that is encouraging that deserves that exploration as far as your question about can we can we tell students that they that they can come to school you're right that the health department is the quarantining body that they tell someone they can't they can't come to school as superintendent when when when a health authority has made a decision that someone needs to quarantine it i can't as a as an education professional say i know the health department has told you that but come on anyway no i'm not i'm not i'm asking the opposite so okay if if you don't if the health department doesn't know right if the health department has never told about the person and then

060you have the authority to allow that student in school or not because of because of having symptoms either test the positive or having a fever or symptoms based on based on your guidelines you can refuse a student's ability to come to school and request that they be sent home i think i know what you're i think i know what you're saying and so and hopefully this answers this question when someone is sick we take them to the nurse or to the office and say you know call a parent or a guardian and say you need to come home and pick your child up they're sick we have not quarantined or told anyone you have to go home now because we think you were in a close contact we haven't done that throughout this year we

061have told people hey it's possible you may be you may remember some of those early months when the health department was there but we haven't been telling anyone you have to go home because we think you were exposed to a positive case that has been something that has been in the exclusive purview of the health department throughout i do know that there have been school systems who have done that on their own but but we have we have not done that but we i'm not sure i think that answers so we have we have the ability to do that so right right now our nurses are compiling with our with our assistant principals and probably other administrative staff they're compiling this big old long sheet of data that we're handing over to the to the

062health department we could use that same sheet of data and determine who can and can't come to school i just want to make sure that we're we're legally i'm not i'm not asking if you want to do that but under our legal authority allows us to do that could we tell someone we believe that you are a close contact and therefore you need to go home yes we could do that right we can't tell them that they can't go anywhere else by order of law order of the health department only the health department that's a quarantine we're just telling them that they have to go home and can't come back for a certain number of days right and so and we and we can base that on what we all know based on our based

063on our data and based on what the cdc says the three foot distance is a safe distance like regardless of whether they're changing the quarantine determination or not we can base our decision whether to allow somebody in into school based on that three foot distance instead of a six foot distance is that correct we could do that i think what you're saying is the same thing that i just answered which is we could tell somebody we think you were close contact and therefore you can't come to school yes we can do that i don't think that's a good idea but yes we could we could do that why do you not think why do you not think that's a good idea so i try i'll try to be as blunt as i can why would

064we overstep and make decisions without the health professionals doing it why would we in essence tell somebody to get out of the schools when the health department hasn't told them to i just don't understand why we would do that but the same for the for the same reason that that we don't that we haven't been the we follow the health authorities i'm not prepared to say as an education professional that quarantine makes perfect sense and you know that the legislature has from time to time in the last year or so are argued this very question about putting that on putting that on schools if that passes and we're the decision maker we know we know we're it we could do what you're saying but i don't see the reason for doing more than the than

065the health department does well right i'm not i'm not saying to do more i'm saying to follow a guideline that's different that follows the cdc guy like right right now the cdc guideline is contradictory right it's saying three feet is safe but we're gonna quarantine you up to six feet so like so we could if you if you set your if you set your desk three feet apart then and you're sitting next to each other it's safe but we're still gonna quarantine you like that doesn't make any sense and we have the we have the intellect our nurses have the intellectual capacity to understand that doesn't make any sense and all it's doing all we're we're we're basically allowing the health department to determine our educational ability right so we're we're allowing them to just

066quarantine 20 15 20 people to ever for every contact even though a very very small number of those ever test positive or shows any symptoms and we know that by data so why don't we i mean why can't we go back to the life's warning and we notify the parents that they that there's a that there is a communicable disease found in their in their classroom in close vicinity if you have if you have lice if you have any symptoms please don't come to school but if you don't just consider it a warning and be on alert for the next two weeks to know that you might have been exposed to that madam chair may i call a point of order here it's off brooks is that permissible yes it is okay so so i

067guess my point of order is this we do have an agenda to continue on and follow and i believe mr galbraith has had an opportunity to ask his questions to mr golden per mr golden's offer of answering questions but i guess i would make the point that it i feel like it's that we're venturing down into an area of badgering and argument as opposed to just asking questions my point is i think we want to remind us that we have an agenda of voting tonight on items as well this is not strictly just a work session may i continue so sherman garrett this is dana osbrooks i do think it is an appropriate time at eight o'clock we've been going since 6 30 to take a break i would appreciate a comfort break okay we

068can take a break here and we'll we'll come back in 10 minutes mr welch and mr mitchell labor at this point we'll move ahead we're back to mr galbraith's questions and then following mr galbraith mr mitchell mr wimberly i believe some hands have gone down since the break so we have mr galbraith then mr mitchell then mr wimberley mr galbraith thank you madam chair jay galbraith district six so jason i mean listen to the parents that spoke a majority of them maybe 12 or 13. they all wanted to understand the timing of the of the registration deadline tomorrow and with the you know having to have just a vague notion of of the current plan for last year and i know i guess it's your plan to to keep with that same framework but we

069are not the i guess the board is not weighing in on that we're just we're just accepting that you're not making any changes for for next year is there i mean is there a is there anything that you can give them other than other than waiting and letting the health department determine what we're going to do like you know right now right now it says zero cases is what we're going to look like for no mask and until then where it's mask and all the other restrictions until zero cases in the county so what else can you give them besides we're going to wait on the health department to to be comfortable with making their decision tomorrow well first of all thanks thanks for that question and the framework was for this year for 2020-2021

070that you all approved and it gave me the flexibility to make changes what i can tell you right now as as superintendent like i like i said in my report i intend to follow the cdc and state health department guidelines i can't predict the future in five months but what i can tell folks is that we're going to make the best decisions we can for student safety follow the follow the guidelines with a goal of keeping students on campus and like we talked about at the work session i'm i'm optimistic because of those those those items that i've seen but i can't predict the future other than to say we're going to do what we can do as education professionals to make sure students are safe based upon what the health authorities give us so

071i guess i mean the suicide rates are up as we heard somebody say the president of the apa is speaking out to return to normalcy as soon as possible for for lots of reasons other than covid right so the health department is giving us and the cdc is giving us guidance only for one little piece of the of the puzzle which is protecting us from coven but at some point we have to let parents make decisions on how to protect their kids from everything else not related to covet and so the online program was instituted to give parents a choice so that we weren't forcing people to go to school when they didn't feel comfortable and so at winter winter so you're saying the parents choice is to know as tonight is tomorrow their choice

072is to determine if they trust that the cdc and is going to is going to remove the mass mandate at some point or you're you're sending two constituencies now to online programming you're sending the students who are still scared of covid because of their health condition or one of a family member and now you're you're gonna you're gonna force the students right now to make a decision based on their estimation of whether of whether the restrictions are going to be removed let me let me if i can answer that with a couple of pieces number one the decision is based on a semester not a year and i know that one of the parents had mentioned a full year so i want to make sure that's clear second as we talked about at the work

073session ordinarily these decisions related to enrollment and classes are made in january we push that schedule as far back as we possibly can but but finally what i can offer everyone is given that we've pushed this back as far as we can we are going to make the best safety decisions we can for everyone with a goal of keeping students on campus i can't predict the future i can't make a declaration one way the other i just can't and in in and i understand what you're saying and i respect it but but what i what i can do is tell folks that we will follow the health department guidelines as best we can while keeping students on campus i understand so but other other school districts murray county rutherford is up for a vote on

074whether or not they are going to allow mass for for next year so it's something within our authority to do we're not we're not beholden to to anyone to make this is a decision that we can make as a board correct yes sir yeah that's right quarantines are awesome so i'm gonna this is dana osbrooks i'm gonna stop you there superintendent golden because i want to make sure i understand mr galbraith's question can you state that again yeah so there's a couple of counties have either have not required math call all year or are proposing to have votes for the from the board to determine if they are going to make mask optional or before required next year and so i just wanted to understand if that's something that's within our authority to do so

075i'm happy to have that conversation with you offline but generally my answer is going to be yes but i obviously want more specifics so feel free to contact me offline for that legal advice thank you mr galbraith that's fine i appreciate that so i guess jason my last my last plea is and i know i know most of the people on here don't have kids in school and so i just want to give you and miss aprea made a great plea for for her son and i really do i really do appreciate that perspective my perspective is coming from coming from a senior who is waiting for this meeting to understand and happen to make a decision because he cannot just mentally cannot cannot do another semester like like the last two and so we've

076got to make some tough choices in my household and so i just wanted to make sure that everybody understands the difficult situation that we're putting parents in right now but my question jason is if if the health department is going to be so involved in setting policy for our public school system that i would like to propose that i would really like for you to propose to delay the registration deadline until we have a special session where we can invite officials from the state and local health department to to discuss these things and i'm asking to do it fairly expeditiously but they're also public officials and i've only i think we've only had one opportunity to to talk with any of the i think there was a dr parrish came on to the county commission

077one time i wasn't able to attend but but these are public officials that are making public policy we have to sit here and have public meetings and be subject to public public meetings and public scrutiny and i think that the least they could do is come and answer some of these questions for us as far as to give our parents and students better understanding as far as what we can expect in the future it's garrett if i may yes please mr galbraith this is dana osbrooks again great suggestion thank you for that comment and that's something that we can discuss offline i guess with all due respect i wanted to i want to i want to discuss i want to make the make the statement publicly and i'm fine to have the conversation offline as

078to as to how we do that or if we can thank you thank you for your comments mr galbraith our next speaker is mr mitchell thank you madam chair jason mike my question is around what can we do towards the question on graduation tickets and the if we if can we revisit that for maximum rule possibly given the new guidance or given the fact that not all schools are the same and that you know and i guess i'll remind everybody the reason we're doing this outside is because the facilities that we normally use are not available to us this year whether it be libscon belmont or the county county agricultural facility so anyway that would be my question is there an opportunity to revisit that limit thank you mr mitchell short answer is yes that

079is something we're working on right now as a result of what we receive friday afternoon and i guess i'll the other point i'll remind my colleagues around the and parents too that the reason for i guess setting a limit or a deadline on on deciding you know online versus in person for yours for your children is the district has has the challenge of scheduling hiring staffing and the placement of staff right so moving teachers from one school to the other determining whether they're willing to accept that movement and us and things of that nature so it really becomes quite a logistics battle in organizing the staff and scheduling the staff plus i think we mentioned in the previous meeting that it becomes a lot of these a lot of the staffs that make this decisions

080are not 12-month employees they only work 10 or 11 months of the year and so their ability our ability to have them extend beyond their contracted obligations is somewhat limited too so thank you for my i'm done with my comments mr wimberley thank you madam chair and i guess what i was going to ask about kind of piggybacks on what elliot said and first of all as far as the delay or changing the deadline for notification as to what the intentions are for next year i felt like i made a pretty strong case i thought it was a strong case at the work session for for that delay but mr gold and dr webb did an outstanding job explaining it but the thing of why it was important now but the one sentence that stuck

081with me was when dr webb said if we delay the deadline we may need to delay the start of the next school year and to me all right i'll back off of that but i also wanted to to make sure i heard this correctly and to some degree it's tied to what you said elliot that three to six change by the cdc is not a minor thing if i heard correctly because almost everyone who spoke up about the pandemic precautions in in live comment and certainly you know we've we hear it over and over mentioned that there was concern about kids not being able to be together in cafeteria that there was concern about specials outdoor activities and if i heard you right mr golden you said that this three to six and correct me

082if i'm wrong will allow you and staff in the coming days weeks whenever to improve elementary element improve i think you called it elementary mobility which means that within this quarter that some of the schools that have not been using the cafeterias the way they did pre-covet would be looking at expanding the use of the cafeterias and that special instruction which has been restricted as far as the mobility of the kids that some of that mobility would open and then i think he said on the secondary level that there was that this really opens up the outdoor activities which includes graduation and that you and staff would be looking that at that over some time so did i hear that correctly yes sir that's accurate i will say at the elementary level number one getting

083to specials is an issue number two we're going to explore whether whether based on on this with the eating we can expand at some of those schools that have been sitting in their classrooms yes okay thank you mr hall thank you chair in addition to what mr wimberly brought up in into mr galbraith's concerns about the registration deadline if i recall from a work session if if people have specific concerns i believe dr webb said to contact with the principal or central office what accommodations should what what would advice would you give to somebody who's really struggling with this decision right now in in the midst of such uncertainty for tomorrow let alone this fall speak with your principal that's that's the that's the appropriate answer we have we have spent a lot of time

084going through individual needs and it is very important that folks have that deep conversation with their principal about individual needs because we know every student is every student is unique that's a portion of what school counselors do as well it's a significant part of a counselor's work to be very specific in counsel but short answer which i struggle with speak to your principles share that okay thank you and then i'm excited about any changes that do return us to more normalcy and as you've termed a new phrase tonight for me elementary mobility that sounds like a good thing but how will those changes be communicated and how swiftly do you think that we might be able to see some of those things take place well i'll answer the first one first we're going to communicate

085it in multiple ways but it will it will go directly to parents every parent that's that's that's number one and it may be class by class in school by school because they're they're because of the way the school facilities are structured and student numbers and staffing it may look a little bit different at each each school second how quickly it you know i struggle with a specific answer to that i know we started those conversations today because we got the you know message for on friday afternoon so as soon as we can make a change each time we will thank you ms durham thank you miss garrett just a quick question about i have three questions one is about prom is that also going to be revisited like graduations as well you know with the

086groups of eight and staying in boxes and you know stuff like that i mean it seems like if kids can sit in class for several hours three feet apart they should be able to be it be to prom you know just that i mean and the reality is that you know i was reading emails on a break and a parent said they're going to be unmasked before at dinner they're going to be unmasked after at parties and let's just face reality it's not like we're going to reduce spread order's not going to by putting all these restrictions in place same with school don't reduce spread by you know having them wear masks and having things you know all the restrictions because they're just doing their own thing afterwards you know because they're not spending the

087majority of their time in our building so i just i think as much as we can lift and let people make their own decisions overall the best is for the best and so just with that this problem going to be addressed as well well that's that's a good question and yes we are going to review that and all our extracurricular activities because the standards have changed and what we what we based our restrictions on was you know a prior standard so it deserves a review awesome just want to clarify that and then in terms of the registration i mean parents can enroll and then disenroll and then they can not enroll and then they can still enroll when they make their decision right i know it's a deadline but technically i mean we would accept

088them you know august 1st if they enrolled right it wouldn't be easy on us to have to adjust and make changes but the reality is we don't we could still accept or they could just disenroll if they made the decision at a future date to go to a private school right well we're a public school and so anytime anyone arrives we serve them i will tell you that there are times where somebody you know might show up at a particular day when school's in session and it takes a day or two to figure out you know classes and whether they can whether a class is made you know if there's enough students you think about how a college does the schedules whether there's room in a particular class because of pupil teacher ratios so all

089those factors will you know will become relevant anytime someone comes not that i'm encouraging it i'm just you know making a point i mean i enrolled my kids but i'm definitely gonna make a decision for you know my son's senior year and my daughter's sophomore year based on where they can have the most normal experience so you know playing basketball doing dance team just all the things that they want to do i want to make sure they get the most robust unrestricted high school experience they can get so they're enrolled but they're going to go where ultimately where i feel like they're going to get the best experience so i just want to i guess emphasize too with the parents who joined the call today which i really appreciate everybody coming on i don't i

090think there's a lot of discussion around masks but i think it's the whole again the whole experience and from a learning and communicating perspective it's very difficult to communicate learn get to know people whatever in a mask so i cannot wait for the mass to be gone i don't wear them any chance i get not to wear them and so it's definitely i support as much freedom in our faces as well so but thank you i know everybody's just trying to make the right decisions i just feel it necessary to share my position too so i support loosening things up and giving freedoms and letting parents make choices thank you mr cash yes thank you madam chair dan cash second district angela i couldn't agree with you more that was part of what i wanted

091to say and jay thank you for taking i mean talking about the real issues jason we have we have the cdc the state health department the local health department tssaa all these entities that have say in what our children do and what our parents do i've got a real problem with some of those you know the tssaa now we still have to have temperature checks well you know it's no big deal really i guess but in the case of the cheerleaders we have and kind of like referring to what angela said we have wrestlers out there sweating on each other basketball players bumping and rubbing you know football face to face and yet they make a decision based on what for cheerleaders that that's something that i feel this school system has the authority to

092say hey we're going to do this for these cheerleaders and they are going to perform that never happened there's there seems to always be some fine point some fine t that's not crossed or that is crossed that keeps us from going to school or on how we quarantine i mean am i right or wrong how many different entities are we dealing with six here five but you fit the right ones and the mr cash and that's a that's an excellent point about cheerleaders and we agreed with that and you all may recall the tws double a said we didn't want to do this either but we received a directive from the governor and it took a few weeks but boy i'm glad i'm glad we were able to get that changed but generally six weeks

093it was six weeks their whole their whole semester i mean i don't care what the tss they didn't want to do this or because what somebody said at the governor's office that's where i feel that this board should be more involved in these decisions and that with the board support that gives you the support you need to make a decision like that but to go on i you know about the registration did i also hear that it's gonna be only for one semester yes sir we're still that might help that might help some people but in the case of quarantines now my grandson first grader i was called not last the tuesday before spring break i had to go pick him up he was quarantined no date to come back course we were going to

094spring break so that took care of that but i asked where why haven't we i usually get a email or a text or my son does neither one of us ever got a text from the health department never heard from the health department whatsoever but we were sent home from school okay all right my seventh grade grandson i was called to pick him up because he was quarantined never heard from the health department then then all of a sudden after about eight days that time they started asking how he felt okay the only one out of my four that the health department did contact my son was with my fifth grader that was done in the process that we have set up so i don't know who's doing this or what the health department's doing

095i don't care if they're backed up or what their problem is they want to handle all this but i'm just saying and that's my personal you know experience now there's many more like just like that so where i would like to get is i would like this board to have more say rather than sit here and talk about this stuff till we're blue in the face which doesn't matter because this board has no say in this to continue on like we're doing i think we need to really look at some changes you know in in the process again i said it early early on that i didn't feel like i thought this was much too big for just a superintendent or a couple staff members to make decisions for so let me just look just

096to make sure jay made some really good points and i agree with him you know on some of this the distancing and whatnot so i think you know a couple of us might be if it's possible to be in a you know a session with with dana on that if that's possible i don't know if it is i don't think it is but and so anyhow i see dana on there yes sir miss chairman garrett if i may mr cash i am always happy to speak with you offline if there are some questions that you have about authority or what what you want to see happen or suggestions feel free to to reach out to me and when we can have those discussions okay those discussion will be separate i will not have a discussion

097with both you and mr galbraith at the same time but well that should be that's what i thought but but going forward these decisions you know who ha who does have the authority like a couple of school systems board members have been voting on this stuff in other school districts but we're we're dealing with one of the six six areas that has a health department correct jason it's actually the other way around on the health department the big metropolitan areas of their own health department and the state governs us and most of the of the state does govern williamson county yes okay i thought we had our own along with that okay thanks for clarifying that okay thank you that's what i wanted to say appreciate it thank you mr cash it did real real

098quickly to your point you're right there are a number of entities who have their area of authority and our area of authority you know we addressed with with with the board vote for our plan back in july sorry madam chair go ahead okay i was just going to call on mr welch thank you i guess i have a question or i guess my question is there an action on the floor for us to be considering or voting on dream and garrett if i may to answer your question mr welch no there is not this has been a series of questions over the last hour to mr superintendent golden regarding his report well dana i'm going to disagree with you i don't think it has been a series of questions i think it's been a series

099of statements and we're two hours into the meeting if there is action to be taken then i would say we should have an agenda item and discuss it at a work session and vote on it at a board meeting but we're rehashing the same conversations we've had here for three six nine months and there's no action to be taken so if this is the will of the board or this is what individuals want then i would respectively suggest that it should be placed on the agenda the motion should be made and we should discuss it at that point because we're spinning our wheels again and again here and there's nothing that is being accomplished other than the same discussion that's already taking place again and again thank you mr welch mr mitchell i'm sorry my

100hand it wasn't up i'll take it down okay thank you okay i believe that is our last comment from mr golden's report and now we will move on to miss birdsong's student staff and school spotlights and i understand that there are many many student spotlights this month so miss bergson and madam chair this is jason gold if i may just preface this i'm so excited about these because it really just does emphasize the successful work that our students have been doing this year miss birdsall thank you mr golden thank you chairman garrett we are celebrating tonight many many students so for the third year in a row and mr mcneese is assisting me and so thank you mr mcneese for the third year in a row we are celebrating more than 50 students who are

101being recognized as national merit finalists we are going to start at brentwood high school with patrick bowe shilpa chalby joe grundberg abby jordan next slide thank you parker cassette kiswick tristan kennedy julia lee and oakley martin isabel oldham kylie overton michelle we samuel robbie also from brentwood high school anna sullivan emily glenshack stephen walter elise wilkins and ron yee from centennial high school this is jacob williams from fairview high school this is ryan kilgore and from franklin high school we have jason ansler connor beaven williams foster eileen who sue patrick lama daniel matten sarah naughton whoops i got ahead of myself bran brandon vaughn ella watley and joy yin from independence high school joshua cannon don danville amelia prouse and emily sauer from nolansville high school alex jones from page high school hallie berg anika

102kaushik logan sava and lee walters from ravenwood high school sharita abdullahba chris abram and ashley harmon also from ravenwood high school amy heard trisha mazdumer ashanameda emma meyer also from ravenwood high school peter salmon selena wang christian west and aaron wu from summit high school nava brinson those are your national merit finalists now we are going to move into the tennessee high school press association awards and once again brentwood high school has been named the best tv station in the state of tennessee also brentwood high school brought home the award for best sports coverage of a live event also brentwood high school's harrison mcconnell won for the best sports show chad barker won first place state award for the best sports feature story and alex wells kami roadman jack wilson and zach gamer won for

103the best public service announcement their teacher is ronnie adcock but franklin high school also brought home an award this is christian ward best commercial his teacher is carrie thompson and independence high school won for best music video harrison kyle and gabe hall and they also won at independence for the best sports video this is bradley hicks and sam wilde their teacher is matt balzer and in athletics from fairview high school this is riley bennett he won the tws double a wrestling single a double a state championship in the 145 pound weight class his is james derek so board members mr golden so many students to celebrate tonight congratulations to them all thank you miss birdsong those are those are really nice celebrations to see during this year that is so unique so appreciate your time

104and putting that information together for us moving on to the board chairs report i have a few items here some some brief notes and reminders first of all we've received an email to sign up to volunteer at the round two vaccine clinics for williamson county schools both this week and next please let ms glenn know if you want to work one of those slots or one or more of those slots i think we talked about what a great experience that was to be able to see our teachers because we haven't been able to see so many of our teachers and staffs the staff this year and so if you haven't done that i'd encourage you to find some time on your calendar and get over there if possible the second thing that i want to

105report is that march 29th from 6 to 8 is our board's meeting with fostering healthy solutions and we'll be discussing diversity and inclusion topics so please make sure you have that on your calendar also heard the tennessee school board association please register if you plan to attend the tsba convention in the fall we've all received an email about that and then just want to remind everyone that right now there are three primary ways that we can stay in touch with constituents and those are our wcs emails phone calls and then public comment like we had tonight of course the email and phone calls are the opportunity to have more interaction with folks and sometimes you know a much a much speedier way to talk to people and understand what their concerns are and regarding concerns

106we've we had a lot of discussion here you know usually these monthly meetings are voting meetings and obviously we had more discussion here than we normally have at our voting meetings but i just want i just want to make sure that we continue to provide this input from our constituents to superintendent golden and to our staff because this is certainly not the only place to to give and receive that feedback we have the opportunity to take some of these ideas that we've heard and you know provide them to the staff and i just want to reiterate that the staff did say to us that you know they've received this information friday when when everybody was on on spring break and they've been looking at it today so i'm confident that the staff will respond to

107anything that we forward to them and anything that we bring to them during this week and i know that i'm i'm confident as well that there's an emphasis on trying to to do that and to see what we can open up quickly so i just want to make sure that we continue to do that not just in this meeting but outside of this meeting and then finally i want to address something that i haven't heard before this year on the board but you know it's it's a discussion of you know there's a big division you know there's a possibly a division between board members who have children in schools and board members who don't and i just i want to say that i think that every different perspective brings value and i am now one

108of those board members who is not a current parent after 12 years of being a parent and 12 years of being a pto officer and 12 years of being very engaged in what my child was doing but this the side of that i want to make sure that we all appreciate and respect is that what that brings me is much more opportunity to talk to parents and to be at other students students events other than mine and much more free time to really reach out to people and engage with people and i think that's true you know with with other people too so i just i just want to make sure that we appreciate that we bring a variety of experiences we bring a variety of professional expertise to this to our meetings into our

109works and i appreciate that i know that many of us have family members who are still in schools and we have we are very close to those perspectives and close to the issues of what is going on with our students this year so i just want to say that to everybody and also want to say that i appreciate everybody's unique perspective so thank you and that concludes my report and now we'll move on to new business and the first thing is the 2020 2021 school board budget the approval of the general purpose school fund amendment 3.2.1 gps private grant award five thousand dollars mr golden thank you madam chair this is a private grant for stem and we are asking for your approval for us to accept it and put it into tech supplies with

110the detail that was in the memo recommend approval is there a motion to approve brad fiskus motion to approve mr fiskus makes the motion is there a second dan cash mr cash seconds is there any discussion there's no discussion miss glenn we can move to a vote please madam chair this is lydia glenn angela duron angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliott mitchell yes fiskus bread fiskus yes ginapriya jake albert jay galbraith yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson mrs sumerston i believe you're still on mute press the space bar and hold it down and talk thank you yes candy emerson wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall e.c hi yes nancy garrett nancy garrett yes vote is 12 yes zero no your motion passes thank

111you our next item is the approval of the 2021-2022 school budget and the first item is the general purpose school fund mr golden thank you madam chair as you know from the budget work session we had in the work session and a number of questions that you all were good enough to ask of of our staff we have prepared the budget for you and i want to mention some just a small number of key points just to re-emphasize this for those who who are watching we've included a recommended four percent pay increase for next year for our for our faculty and staff we have added a significant amount of funding for the online program and we have made sure that we have covered the special education needs of our students we do recommend approval is

112there a motion to approve rick wimberly moved to approve mr wimberley makes the motion is there a second quarter second mr welch seconds is there any discussion mr fiskus mr golden there's always a lot of discussion about the bep and for for those listening can you help or maybe rachel would let's so that we can be clear about what we fund from the county funding what bep funds and so that would help people understand a little bit how this funding works thank you mr fiskus that's a great question bep is the basic educational program that the state fund it is a baseline percentage of what they have determined at the state level is the basics of education i don't know a district in the state that doesn't fund more than bep because it it is

113it is clearly from an educational perspective not covering everything we need especially at places like like williamson county where where we offer a lot of instructional choices especially at the high school level our county does more and i'm estimating rachel correct me if i'm wrong somewhere around 59 percent of our total funding comes from the county then bep is next and then we get maybe about two percent or so a year from federal so that should give folks perspective that over the years our board has has set high standards for the services we provide and our commission has funded it to a pretty high level so this recent money that was given from the state we were we had in order to give our stude our teachers a bonus we had to fund part of

114that bonus for the 2021 bonus that we just gave them correct so that's a good question so the state put money in through a through a special called january legislative meeting they voted to to fund a particular portion of bep which covered classroom teachers some nurses in a handful of other specific jobs there were many jobs in the district that were not part of that piece of the bep that they put money into so yes we did pay for you know through our funding through your vote and through the commission approving the expenditure those other positions that were not part of that particular element that where that where the state put money thank you mr galbraith thank you madam chair jake albrecht i guess this is for feminist farmer and i just wanted to know

115if the if our gap has gone down based on any additional information that we've received over the over the last couple of weeks since our last meeting thank you mr mr galbraith this is rachel farmer and the answer to your question is with us being closed last week there has not been a whole lot of change other than we do feel very strongly and that the sales tax number that we had kind of projected well not had that we had projected there will be a little bit more in sales tax coming in that's going to help bridge that gap is wasn't the was it the esser the esser number the that 5.2 million that was not in in this included here right that is correct and that is another 5.2 million that we have coming

116our way and there was also the i thought there was a couple i thought there was 2.2 million or so that we weren't showing is going to be received that we plan to receive also from the federal i mean maybe that was esther too it was from your spreadsheet right that is from esther ii and that is correct so there's two there's around two million plus potentially another 5 million from sr3 that we have yes that we have coming in that we have not accounted for the thing to keep in mind with sr3 as part of that is going to be going towards we need to allocate it towards learning loss which will go into next year's fiscal budget seven of esther ii is coming heading back in this year right but this year it

117would either it would either contribute towards the beginning fund balance or the ending fund balance assuming that we're we're not jason we're not gonna we're not gonna spend any more money based on whether we get federal funds or not correct that's right our plan is not to spend something for the sake of spending it based on federal i will tell you one example with sr2 that's actually in this agenda we did not include about 1.5 million in this in this budget before you for for technology because our plan is to pay for that out of esser so that's actually a reduction in the in the budget in in that sense because we did not include it in the budget esther 3.0 has some more restrictions so we just got notice last week about the about

118the projected number the actual number actually that every county is going to get and that's the 5.2 that you're referencing it is restricted to miss farmer's point they're restricting it to what they're describing as learning loss so we're gonna have some work to do to figure out how to address that knowing that those are restricted funds is that but the any any money that we spend this summer would be would would fit that bill right that's correct and and we're and we're only getting i mean we're certainly not getting enough money so do we do we know how much money we're going to be spending this summer on those summer camps that we don't that's a good question we don't yet know that for sure and we also don't know how much the state's going

119to give they did budget some for this and it's based on enrollment and ratios of which students come and that's why that's one of the big reasons we don't know how much we're going to actually spend but yes to your point we can we can make sure that no no money i'm confident based on that number rachel correct me if i'm wrong that we will spend no general fund money out of for for the for the summer school program that the legislature approved based on this because we now have this esr 3.0 so for learning loss couldn't some of our rti that's over and above that's over and above what the what the state provides be considered towards learning loss i'm can you ask the question again our specialists the the focus on rti oh

120i got you thank you one of the things we're going to have to evaluate is whether whether there's there's an allowance for what is traditionally described as supplanting with federal funds generally speaking they do not allow you to supplant existing programs with federal funds that's something that we've got to get an answer to okay well so all the srs3 outstanding i mean i guess the answer to that being we'll get as much as we can it seems like we're going to have plenty to to bridge the 5.5 million dollar gap that we have my goal is still to to get to a to a number in excess of that we can that we can fund our fund balance to to an acceptable level and i still have you would have you had a conversation with

121the mayor about that since we talked i've let him know that's something we're looking for and i don't have any good answers from him at this stage what i what what i believe is we're in late march they're ultimately working on their budget in july i think there will be a lot of discussion at public meetings at the commission level over the course of these of over the course of the few months that they start working on their budget what what i do know is that they've worked really hard on getting alternative funding sources for us you all know that on the capital side especially and so my hope is that they see they see that the same opportunity that you've described in this right okay well thank you and i mean i'm obviously we

122don't set the revenue side of the budget we're just setting what we think is going to come in so i'm i'm comfortable with the expense side of the general of the general purpose fund i would just like to and i obviously i would i would love for for any of our board members to to talk with a talk with the county commission about about the revenue side to to see if it's possible for for for them to set the set the tax rate in such a way that it that it funds the budget without using the one-time increase from the sales tax that we're getting this year and it would allow it to to increase our fund balance to give us some to give us all some flexibility going forward i'm speaking not necessarily as

123a board member but as a as a as a taxpayer and a citizen i would i would love to be able to to go from as a board standpoint i would love to be able to work with the commission so they have some flexibility when when they're short in a future budget over the next three years to to be able to have something to pull from rather than us having to use our entire fund balance to balance our budget every year so i appreciate it thanks ms farmer thank you i don't see any other questions we can move to a vote miss miss glenn thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliott mitchell yes brad fiskus grand sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes

124candy 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 12 yes 0 no motion passes thank you the next item is the central cafeteria fund mr golden thank you madam chair likewise we've had this discussion about the central cafeteria fund and i appreciate all the questions that you've asked and we do recommend approval of that fund or that budget rather thank you we have a motion to approve andy emerson moved to approve miss emerson makes the motion do we have a second eric wells second mr welch seconds is there any discussion mr galbraith thank you madam chair jake albrecht so i'm sorry i just i know we discussed this a lot at the at the work session as well

125in in its current form i just i just can't i can't support this budget i just don't i don't feel like it you know the fact that we have the fact that we've allowed the fund balance to to decline and we put a million and a half in plus whatever we have to put in this year to to provide solvency to a fund that we really shouldn't be subsidizing i just don't support and i don't support us providing a loan that's not documented and without a without any payment terms and we're not including any any kind of repayment terms in the in this budget so i just i don't think it's responsible and i just can't support it so that's my that's going to be my vote thank you mr galbraith this is jason golden

126definitely respect that and appreciate your sharing of your thoughts throughout this process mr welch yeah just for a point of clarification i want to make sure the public understands that the loan is williamson county schools loaning money to williamson county schools and the repayment would be williamson county schools paying back williamson county schools it's it's moving numbers between blind items on a ledger it is not loaning money to any outside organization thank you mr welch for that you are you are correct and that's something that the that the board looked at a couple of months ago thank you i have my hand up so regarding this approach to addressing the fund balance we did benchmark what other districts were doing correct and what were those other districts doing yes ma'am we did benchmark other districts

127i would actually like to refer to miss farmer for that okay thank you this is rachel farmer and yes we actually reached out to the division of local government audit and asked them to give us their best recommendation on how to handle a situation where we had a fund that could potentially end with a negative fund balance which can't happen and that was the directive they gave us it is happening all across the state in situations that has come up and it has come to them with some with the same kind of questions and their recommendation was to do the transfer from funds from fund to fund with the stipulation that should be paid back when a fund balance that was sufficient was there in order to pay it back other counties around us including

128i know rutherford county is in a similar situation have done the same thing and also just another question let me let me know i've got my notes here so it's so we're we're in a we're in a very unique situation we've just we've just been in a situation where you know the reason you have a fund balance is basically you know things like things like what we've just gone to so that i'm i'm personally very very proud of our decade long audit of no findings do we feel like using this approach that has been recommended by this by this outside local government entity do are there concerns that we're going to get dinged about this in any way again this is rachel farmer and no ma'am i mean the local government audit for tennessee and

129that is who gave us the directive and they would be who our auditors were coming in the assistant director actually for the state comptroller's office is who gave us the instructions on how to handle it so this is definitely would not be an audit finding and just one more question would the district accept donations to help address the budget gap we always accept donations we always accept donations for for anything that the community is willing to help with okay and madam chair if i may since you asked about donations of course anyone can make restricted gift donations but i will tell you one of the points of emphasis and mr galbraith actually spoke to this weeks weeks ago is for every meal that we serve through the end of the school year and actually if

130i'm not mistaken it mark correct me if i'm wrong it goes through the end of september i believe maybe october these the federal government is reimbursing every meal 100 percent so everyone can can get a school lunch of for for no charge and we actually ask that you do that let us serve your children this fourth quarter take a break from from sending lunch if you still feel like you need to send you know an item great but but take a lunch and that'll actually help us as well okay thank you mr galbraith thank you madam chair i also wanted to clarify so yes these are these are these are both funds they're they're both fully williamson county schools but the reason that they're separate funds is we have a general purpose school fund that's

131funded by the tax rate and we have a we have two funds that are supposed to be self-sustaining and so my i guess rachel i've got a question with regards to the there there's a half a million dollars that we transferred from the general purpose school fund last year and then there was another half a million dollars that we that we transferred that was specifically related to the cares act so with respect to that those two buckets of money roughly half a million dollars a piece is were those given as a loan or were those or were we able to somehow transfer money from the general purpose to the to the cafeteria fund and we gave some also money to the to this to the sac fund as well but how how how are we

132allowed to to make those transfers if the if the guidance for this for this you know up to two million dollar shortfall for this fiscal year was determined that we should do it as a loan it's actually not a loan in technical terms it is a transfer between funds we wrote the resolution with the wording that the intent is for the funds to be paid back when a sufficient fund balance is available because the state of ten within the state of tennessee you can run the cafeteria funds in two different ways one is it falls under the gp and one is it is it is its own separate fund we have traditionally kept it as its own separate fund but we can move funds between the different we can move money between the different funds

133and so the state recommended that we just what would be an audit finding going back to mrs garrett's question would be if we ended up with a negative fund balance in one of these funds which we can't do we won't do and that's why we made the recommendation and so in answer to your question the first 500 my understanding is that was a transfer and then the second was part of a reimbursement from cares and so that was not money coming out of our pocket per se it came from additional funding that we did receive so the only so i understand the difference between a transfer that's intended to be paid back versus a loan so i get that but in so from your perspective the only money that is that will that will be

134intended to be paid back is the money that we that we give for under this fiscal year under the resolution that allowed for up to two million dollars to be transferred correct okay thank you hey i don't see any other questions miss glenn thank you madam chair thank you madam chair angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliott mitchell yes brad fiskus rad fiskus yes napriya anna priya yes jay galbraith jay galbraith no sheila cleveland 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 one no motion passes thank you our next item is the extended school program fund thank you madam chair jason golden here this is our

135third fund and final fund that we are asking for your budget approval prior to bringing this to the commission for their ultimate vote in in in july hopefully this is another one of what we call the enterprise funds the extended school program fund and we've had those discussions over these prior two meetings we do recommend approval of this proposed budget thank you do we have a motion to approve wimberly moved to approve mr wimberley did we have a second mitchell seconds mr mitchell seconds is there any discussion i see no hands up miss glenn we can move to a vote please angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliott mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes priya priyaf jay galbraith jake albrecht yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson

136yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall e.c hi yes all right nancy garrett yes your vote is 12 yes you are no motion passes thank you and the final budget related item for this evening is the approval of the eplan sr2 cares act grant and budget for fy 2021 mr golden thank you madam chair this is what we are calling sr 2.0 and as mr gabriel mentioned there is an esser 3.0 coming down the line so this is our request that you approve the specific funding based on the funds that are passing through the state level from the federal government to us recommend approval is there a motion to approve andy emerson motion to approve zimmerson makes the motion is there a second elliott mitchell seconds mr mitchell makes

137the second is there any discussion let me just scroll through here i see no hands raised so we can move to a vote ms flynn thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes cleveland yes sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall casey hi yes garrett nc garrett yes your vote is 12 yes zero no motion passes thank you board the next item on the agenda is board policies for first reading and the first one is 4.600 report cards and grading systems thank you madam chair this proposal is actually a change on the third page of the policy at issue which is to add the international baccalaureate program

138to ap advanced placement classes for the purposes of of the latin system awards and valedictorian salutatorian this is a specific request related to franklin high school since it is our only ib program and we ask for your approval of on first reading motion to approve andy emerson motion to approve emerson is there a second handcast second mr cash seconds is there any discussion i see no hands up we can move to a vote angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliott mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes jenna priya priya yes jake albrecht jay galbraith yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes wimberly rick member yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall ac hi yes garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is 12 yes zero no motion

139passes the next policy for first reading is 5.104 equal opportunity employment mr gold thank you madam chair this proposal comes from ms osbrooks and from our human resources department based on the detail of all the federal protections and we are recommending approval at first reading because these are all classifications of protected classes for employment purposes recommend approval you have a motion to approve motion to approve from nancy garrett is there a second andy emerson second miss emerson seconds any discussion i see no discussion miss glenn may we please vote thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliott mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes jenna priya dana priya yes jay galbraith jay galbraith yes cleveland gila cleveland yes candy emerson candy emerson

140yes rick wimberly rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch guest casey hall bc hi yes nancy garrett insecurity yes your vote is 12 yes 0 no motion passes thank you the next item policy five two zero zero separation practices for 10 year teachers thank you madam chair this particular vote and the next one actually represent a separation of one existing policy and what we're working to do with this is make sure that all the detail of separation practices for tenure teachers and separation practices for non-tenured teachers be contained in one policy to really figure this out it takes going to multiple laws and so ms osbrooks and again miss hall from our human resources department work together to put to together something where our teachers can actually get a clear understanding of that process in

141one policy so we recommend approval you have a motion to approve red fiscus move to approve mr fiskus makes the motion is there a second any discussion i see no discussion with glenn angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes gina priya jenna priya yes jay galbraith jay galbraith yes sheila cleveland sheila cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly yes eric welch eric welch yes casey hall see hi yes nancy garrett uc garrett yes your vote is 12 yes 0 no motion passes policy 5.201 separation practice for non-tenure teachers mr goldman thank you madam chair likewise as i mentioned for the previous item we recommend approval have a motion to approve angela durham yes makes the motion do we have a second is there a

142second brad fiskus second mr fiscal seconds is there any discussion i see no discussion miss flynn thank you madam chair this is olivia glenn angela durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliot mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes ginapriya jennapriya yes jay galbraith jay galbraith yes candy emerson candy emerson yes wimberley wimberly yes and i believe you missed miss cleveland i'm so sorry and sheila cleveland's yes sheila cleveland yes thank you eric welch eric welch yes nancy garrett yes your vote is 12 yes zero no motion passes next up is an annual agenda item the approval of high school court courses mr goldman thank you madam chair we have one memo in your board packet for the next two votes annually we request that you approve special high school courses

143and high school course applications and this year for this particular item we are asking that you approve african american history exercise science pre-law social media marketing and analytics principles of agribusiness and agricultural business and finance and recommend approval of those courses or remember do we have emotion board members do we have a motion to approve rick wimbledon to approve mr wimberley makes the motion is there a second angela durham seconds is there any discussion board members yes mr welch school i just thought of this are any of these courses as i'm looking through it honors or well i guess it wouldn't be ap but are any of the any of them honors level that's a great question the answer to that is no at this stage they're not they they are generally speaking electives but

144we at this first stage of getting approval we don't have an honors curriculum structure for them okay thank you thank you any other questions if not we'll move to a vote miss glenn madame chair this is olivia glenn angela durham angela durham yes and cash dan cash yes elliott mitchell elliott mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes priya and apria yes jake galbraith jay galbraith yes sheila cleveland you the cleveland yes candy emerson andy emerson yes rick wimberly yes welch eric welch yes casey hall yes nancy garrett nancy garrett yes your vote is 12 yes 0 no motion passes okay and board members our final agenda item for tonight is the approval of the special course applications and this is also an annual agenda item mr gold thank you madam chair this year we are

145proposing world war ii honors and to mr welch's point this one is an honors curriculum as a special course and two special courses of studies special programs of study that i'm actually excited about because this is right in line with our strategic plan project lead the way which is a cct college and career technical education engineering and computer science elective focus and engineering by design which again by its description is engineering so we do recommend approval of the special course and the special programs of study or members is there a motion to approve dan cash to approve the cash makes the motion to approve is there a second second candy emerson miss emerson makes the second any discussion board members i see no discussion ms glenn thank you madam chair this is lydia glenn angela

146durham angela durham yes dan cash dan cash yes elliot mitchell elliott mitchell yes brad fiskus brad fiskus yes jana priya jenna priya yes jay galbraith jay galbraithus sheila cleveland gila cleveland yes candy emerson candy emerson yes rick wimberly yes welch eric welch yes casey hall see hi yes nancy garrett nc garrett yes your vote is 12 yes zero no motion passes board members staff and those viewing this meeting that concludes our agenda mr golden do you have any closing remarks manager i just want to thank everyone for the robust discussion you know that when we started this about nine months ago with kova that we knew that there were going to be some some tough times and i really do appreciate the discussion as we continue to work for for doing what we can to

147keep all our students first so thank you board board members thank you for your time and attention and hope to see some of you at the vaccine clinic sometime this week or next