Coffee County School Board Meeting

001I'd like to begin this meeting tonight with a prayer and with Mr. Hanser will lead us in prayer. You would bow with me please. Our dear most gracious Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for this another day that you've given us dear Lord and thank you dear Lord for the rain that you've given us. Dear Lord, we pray that you'll go with us through this meeting dear Lord, that we make the decisions that would be best for our school system. Dear Lord, we pray that you will go with our teachers and all of our staff that is off over the summer holidays, dear Lord, and summer break. And, dear Lord, we pray that you will give them travel grace for all the people that will be traveling. And we pray that you will bring

002them all back to our school when we start up this fall, dear Lord, safely. Dear Lord, now if you'll go with us, watch over God and God and direct us. And we'll be careful to give you all the praise in thy name. Amen. Would you all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? United States of America, the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, well, welcome, everybody. And we have some recognitions tonight, and we want to make sure we get those in place. The first recognition is the achievement in archery. And I'll let Mr. Paul Parsley, principal of Coffey County Central High School, do that for us. All right. I think all of you are aware that we started an archery club this past school year.

003And that season started, I believe it was in November. And it ended late winter, early spring with the state tournament, which would have been, I believe it was in late February. And one of our members of our archery club is Miss Avery Gilday, and she is with us tonight, and we want to recognize her. Now, our archery coaches, we have two of them, and they were just not able to be with us tonight. They had prior engagements. We understand that. But the person we want to recognize is here, and that's Miss Avery Gilday. Avery, would you come on up? Right up here. So Miss Avery Gilday is a freshman, upcoming sophomore student in our school system. And our archery team competed in six tournaments this school year. And I'm told that a typical tournament would

004include maybe 10, maybe 12, maybe 13 high school clubs. We'll say that. A typical tournament might have as many as 200 archers. And this young lady finished first in four of those six tournaments. Out of around 200 archers would be typical. Now, not only that, the other two tournaments that she did not finish first in, guess what? She finished second in. She went on to state in February, late February, and she finished fifth place in the state. That was in Murfreesboro. And, again, this young lady is only a freshman, going to be a sophomore this next school year. So we just really look forward to. hearing about more accomplishments from her in the next three years. That is awesome. I told her, I passed along that there might be a question or two about what

005archery is like. You all may have some questions about what the tournaments are like, what a season is like. Come on over here. And if you all have questions, I'm sure she might be able to answer those for you. All right. How old were you when you started? I was in third grade when I started, so I was about nine or ten. Half your life ago at the most. That's crazy. Wow. Been doing it a long time. In your tournaments, are you competing against boys and girls, or are they broke out into girls' division and boys' division? It's broken out between girls and boys. Okay. Where was the state tournament? The state tournament was in Murfreesboro, and it was in this horse stadium. Yes. I know what you're talking about. Congratulations. That is amazing. I've

006got some grandkids that have been in archery tournaments, and I've watched a lot of art. That's an interesting world. Thank you for your time. Everyone, I'm sure, would like to finish first, but she was fifth in state out of 2,500. Wow. And just a freshman. That's impressive. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Proud of you. I like your shirt. Thank you. The gentleman in the blue shirt back here with the big grin on his face happens to be her mom. Are you an archer also? Did this come from you? I just do archery and hunting. She beats me every day. Are you a hunter also? Yes, I have a hunter's bow. That's cool. There are no sights on her bow. Oh, wow. Really? At all. Everybody shoots with the same identical bow. It's just set

007up for your pool, what suits you. And there are no sites. Oh, my goodness. Wow, that is so impressive. So everybody's on the same playing field. It's amazing to watch these kids do this. Yes. That is so cool. Be so proud of yourself. I know it's hard to stand up here, but be so proud of yourself. You're going to do big things. Yep. That's awesome. I'm going to give you a standing ovation. Thank you. We look forward to you doing the same thing next year. Yep. No pressure. Okay, our next recognition will be directed by Gavin Frankenfield, our band director at the Coffey County Central High School, and he's going to recognize the Winter Guard. Yes, hello. Thanks for having us for one to be recognized I'm a very small piece of this puzzle I'm

008so I'll turn it over to their instructor Jordan guardado in a little bit But just a little bit about the winter guard this year We had 12 members and they had their production was called the seat of her own and I'll let Jordan kind of explain He was the that was his brainchild. He created that and all that's all at him explain it But we had 12 girls and our seniors were autumn gokey Tanisha Thomas junior Rory King Sophomores Selena Garcia, Sarah Maxwell, Lexi Mitten, Jean Walden, and then freshmen Haley Busse, Emily Flowers, Caroline Matthews, Lily Scher, and Nora Tabor. And these girls have worked really hard. We have them in the fall for marching band, but then in winter these girls go off and do their own competition circuit. They had five competitions this

009year. They placed first at the Green Hill competition. first at the Wilson Central Competition out of 12 groups, first at the Columbian Central Competition out of 11 groups, second at the Segal Competition, and they got bronze medalist and the Southeastern Color Guard champion, Solastic Regional, AAA Division out of 25 total teams. And with that, they were the Tennessee State Championships. So that regional championship, there's groups from Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky. all from around the southeastern region, and they placed third out of 25 in their class. So I'll let Jordan explain kind of the show and kind of what Winter Guard it is, but that was kind of a breakdown of their season. Hi, like you said, my name is Jordan. I was with them for the Winter Guard this year. And I think Color Guard's not

010really that known about. Did anyone here do Color Guard or Winter Guard or know what Winter Guard looks like? So yeah, I was really excited to go to the school and provide this for an outlet for the kids because their instructor did leave. So we had a great season. And so you go to all these schools and it's going to be a prerecorded song. So like something you hear on the radio, like anything can be a Winter Guard show. I've done like a Beyonce show. I've done a musical show, like anything you think of. And the girls just go and perform. And I was really excited to just share like my love of Color Guard with these kids because it's not really big in small towns. Like I went to a small town growing up

011and the Color Guard had three kids the whole time. And so like now I also teach Color Guard at Smyrna and we have 30. They're growing here too, so it's going to get bigger every year. And I'm just really proud of the girls because they showed up every time. We would have 3 a.m. call times. We'd have to drive two hours to a contest. They all show up in their pajamas at 2.30 in the morning to try their best. So I'm really just proud of them and how hard they did this season. And we have two of them here with us. We have Nora and Caroline. They're both freshmen, I think. Yeah, so they're both freshmen, and they're going to keep doing it. So, like, we're building another generation of color guard people. Thank you.

012Yeah, me, Mr. Frankenfield, or the girls are more than welcome to answer any questions that you might have about Winter Guard. So is this performed in the gym, on a stage, on the field? I've never seen Winter Guard ever. It's typically performed in a school gym, and part of the, you have to pull out, usually the time limit is. Yeah. So that's part of the, like. So is it a lot like what you'd see on a football field? Or is it I would say it's similar but it's just winter guards like on a football field It's like you're a color guard member and you have your flag and that's it So winter guard we have like a 50 by 70 vinyl floor that we have to bring with us So like that's like so happy

013This year like our show was like loosely about fences and chairs So we had like 12 like 7 foot long fences like 13 kitchen chairs like they each had two flags They had us they had a saber they had a rifle plus like They're uniform and everything. So it's just like more in depth and involved than like just like a marching band show on the field. Cause it's like just color guard and like seven minutes feels like a long time. But when you only have like 11 to 12 girls and you have like 40 different items, seven minutes flies by. Yeah. We were cutting it close every time. So like after seven minutes, they'll start giving you penalties and stuff. Every time we were like six 59. Um, so we, we was hustling out there.

014That's interesting. I didn't know that there was a timing on setting it up. Oh, yeah, and if you go too long, like every second, it's like a tenth of a point. So it can bring you from first to last quick. Congratulations, girls. That is just awesome. It's awesome that public schools can provide this kind of experiences for children. There's something for everybody if you take advantage of it. I know you girls are enjoying it. And you seem very passionate, and I'm here for you. Yeah, I love teaching kids. And how do you pronounce your last name? Guardado. Guardado, okay. I will say, usually at our Fine Arts Night at the high school, we usually showcase the Winter Guard. So if you are ever interested in seeing kind of what they do and all that, it's

015usually at our Fine Arts Night at the high school in early February, usually. So if you're interested, I would recommend coming out to that to have an idea of what Winter Guard is. It's very different than marching band. So do they perform at the football games? If they're in color guard, yeah, but winter guard is entirely separate. So it doesn't have to be the same students? No. Usually we have a couple that join us or a couple that leave for the winter. So they audition and that's the team that they get set in the winter, and that group is really tight-knit and they work really hard and they audition for that group. But in the fall it's completely different girls most of the time. Have you uploaded videos to YouTube or anything? I'm curious. I

016want to see. Yeah, I bet there's a couple videos online. Okay. So there's certainly... Good done, Rabbit Hole. No, and one of the things that makes it really important is some of these groups we compete against have had long-standing 50-year programs. Their Winter Guard fees are $1,500 a kid. They have a staff of seven different adults. They fly people in. This was just me and 12 girls in Coffey County. And we pulled it off. That is great. Thank you. They work really hard. They do a really good job. Seven minutes and all that stuff, that's a lot. To get up at 2.30 in the morning, that says a lot. A lot of commitment right there. Dedication. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you all very much for coming tonight. Now we will start with the agenda

017of the Coffey County School Board, and I don't think we have any public comment tonight. Is that correct? Okay. First of all, we'll need to get a motion on approving the agenda. Anyone make that motion? I'll make that motion. I'll second. Okay. It's a motion made by Mr. Gilley and seconded by Mr. Cordell. We'll start with Mr. Gilley. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. I vote aye. Agenda's approved. Okay. The first thing on the agenda is the principal report, and I think we've got three principals here tonight. So who wants to go first? We've got four. How many? Oh, I see. Oh, that's four. I couldn't see. Sorry. Okay. We'll start with Ms. Gilley. Hello, it's Bobbie Gilley, New Union Elementary. Just wanted to go back and recognize my top 10%. I failed to do

018that at the last meeting. We celebrated at Lane's reunion on April the 27th, and those students were Abigail Schmidt, Alexis Ader, Cutler Creek, Caleb Monroe, and Emma Horton. We also recognized these young students at our graduation ceremonies as well. On May the 19th, we participated in the fifth grade field day, and the Rebels brought the trophy home. We won first place, so we're very proud of those fifth graders. Not long after that, on that Saturday, we had the Rebel Rumble Car Show. I think I talked to you all about that at the last board meeting. And we had over 150 cars in the high school parking lot. It was a fantastic day, great fundraiser for us. Everything turned out really well. On May the 14th, we participated in Lemonade Day. Our profit was right at

019$8,000. We had to choose a nonprofit to donate some of that money back to. And our fifth grade students voted to... give that money back to the Coffey County Fair Board because one of our students, Ellery Little, her father is Stuart Little, and he's the president of the Fair Board. So that's where they chose to give back their 10% of the money. Let me see. May 21st, we celebrated two of our retirees, Betsy Ratliff and Janine Henley, and it was a very honorable... evening to be there i got to have my picture made with mr ray wenton who was principal there for 24 years i think is what he told me and then miss janice watt was also principal there and i was able to get my photo with them because when i did my

020student teaching there 30 years ago i was with miss janice watt and mr ray wenton was the principal so it was just a really unique experience for me A funny side to that story is I had told the teachers earlier that day, I said, be prepared tomorrow. We're something odd because we're going to paint each other. Well, what I meant by that is we have bought little boards and we were gonna paint you had to paint the person across from you Just a little fun activity in the school year Well miss Ratliff who was retiring looked at me and she said I don't want to go and she said I don't want to go with purple paint all over me because she thought we were literally gonna paint each other So I had to explain

021that situation to her but it was really sweet And then I made 22nd we dismissed for summer and on the 29th I had a meeting with some of my planning team getting ready for the new school year So do any of you have any questions about new union? Thank you. Mr. Parsley's making his way up here. You can't control them making limits. We had a tough night there. We had to move graduation indoors. I appreciate that. It's why we do what we do. And I tip my hat to you. Just a lot of prayer, a lot of leaning, a lot of worrying. They executed plan B. I really enjoyed graduation in the gym. I haven't been to one of those since I was in 11th grade, and I thought it was great. Much better than

022then. It went over very well. You worry, maybe you're a little concerned about having that sort of crowd in the space that we were in, but it really did go off well. It was nice. It was very pleasant. I can't necessarily say that I would prefer to have it in the gym because it is very crowded and it does create some logistical issues. But it was an extremely nice event. Yes. Thank you. So I wanted to share with you all just a couple of things this evening that we've got going on at the high school. Of course, it's summer. We have had summer school going on for the past couple of weeks. We've also had a construction project start at the high school, and it has started very well, and they are on track. And

023I imagine Mr. Shores may share more information about that, you know, at the end of the meeting. Some of you may have heard this past Saturday, there was an event out at Cardin-Gerald Field. And Alonte Taylor, one of our former students, a student athlete who played football at Coffey County, is now a Tennessee Titan. He was traded to the Titans just a few months ago, and so he's a Tennessee Titan now, lives in Nashville. He put on a free football camp. here this past Saturday and I did not get to go over to the camp I was actually over at the school doing something related to the camp but there were there were student athletes you might say young kids down to I believe it was age five all the way up through 18 years

024old and the numbers were in the hundreds I mean they just had an extremely large crowd of kids that were there for that camp so we're just we're we appreciate that he was willing to to put that on uh free of charge to all those kids uh this past weekend uh donated his time and i'm sure those kids that'll be a memory for those kids and they will have grown with respect to their football skill as well i imagine also want to let you all know received a little bit of data today regarding our state dual credit testing for this past school year. And we don't receive the AP testing scores until July. We won't have official and of course testing. for TN Ready for quite some time. But we do have some state dual

025credit data, and this is not individual student data. I wouldn't be able to share that. But I want to let you all know that we've got 45 students who passed a state dual credit test this spring at the high school. And, I mean, those numbers are really good. For some perspective for you, last year we had 26 students pass a state dual credit test. This year we had 45. You know, the classes that we offer state dual credit courses in are American history. criminal justice, and introduction to business. And if a student passes the state dual credit test, the state has cut scores that they deem are a passing score. Now, if you don't make a passing score on the test, that doesn't mean you don't pass the class. You earn the high school credit

026with an appropriate high school grade. But if you make the cut score on the test, you also earn college credit. So again, 45 students passed one of those courses. 26 last year. Going back two years, we had 22 students pass one of those courses. So we're proud that we've got even more kids this year that have earned college credit. So I thought I'd share that with you all. That's really all I have to share this evening. Are there any questions about these things? The dual credit courses, are those offered as a junior and not before then? No, you can take them prior to that. You can take them prior to that. There are some classes that we have prerequisites for, and so there's an order for those. But when it comes to state dual credit

027history, for instance, you can take that prior to junior year. That's really impressive. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Parsley. Thank all you principals for being here. Okay, Mr. Hansard informed me, and I was amiss in not asking for discussion on approving the agenda. So I think we probably need to go back over that again and open the floor up for discussion. How would we handle that? Is it appropriate just to do that? I think you'd be fine, yes. Okay. Is there any discussion on the agenda? Of course, if the agenda is passed, that means that the consent items are also passed. So are there any discussion on any of these items at this time? I'd like to bring up about our policy committee meeting whenever we get to that. Okay. I think that under these

028policies that are on general consent items are the second reading. So these policies do not pertain to the latest policy committee meeting. So this wouldn't be a part of that. Do you understand what I'm saying? All of these are in the five category. And so these policies, it's the second reading. Does that make sense too? When would be the appropriate time, I guess, to ask about how we resolve us being in a sunshine law? I would say that would be when the director gives his report. Okay. We can ask some questions about that at that time. Okay. If we need to. Yeah, under items for discussion. Okay. But are you okay with it? Sure. I think that policy. was in the sixth, you know, the policy committee. I want to make sure that we got

029that before we get to that point. I had the same question because I didn't realize this was the second reading. Okay. All right. Is everybody okay with the agenda being approved as we did? I have a question on the use of facilities for the middle school baseball field. And I was looking at it. You know, they had, I think, a two-hour block, but yet they didn't have. custodial fees and i just want to make sure that that's normal for outside fields that we don't charge a custodial fee you know for when they does anyone want to address that yeah i mean because i'm sure they'll be trash you know just just want to make sure that it's cleaned back up the way we have done in the past is the only time the custodial fees

030are waived is whenever there's a employee present in the in that group and they're there to take care of it and willing to take care of those. That certainly goes back to our football field. Different times somebody might want to use the football field. If there's somebody that is part of the group that is employed and willing to do the cleanup and that is taken care of, it's up to this board on that. But it's virtually the same as what we do. With gyms and everything else if there's an employee we weighed the custodial fees because they pick up the trash employee that's a parent on the team? I don't know. I think this is middle school and I don't know if Dr. Anderson is aware of it or not. I'm not aware of it.

031So does the custodial service fee apply to when something is outdoors at the baseball field? I'm just curious. Our facility use policy doesn't, I mean, you have outdoors and you have indoors. It's just a facility, and we charge so much for different facilities. No matter what. Okay. I don't think there was a distinction between outside or inside. Well, I know it says we understand that labor fees will be charges needed for building, supervision, cleanup, and use of kitchen facilities. I'm sure that maybe pertains to the outside, too, but it pretty specifically is talking about the building. I'm sure you could mess a ball field up also with debris. And somebody's always been here in a facility use also to explain that if there was an employee because that was the only thing that got those

032sidestepped was if there was an employee that's taking care of it anyways. I just need to make sure that it's cleaned up after their practice and not left in a mess. There's a number to call Kevin Duncan and see if there is a school employee that's part of the process. Wouldn't you all prefer? I mean, we need to treat everybody the same. I can give him a quick text and ask him if that will help any. I just need to clear it up. Because I actually do have his number. Okay. His number's on here also. Mean we certainly understand we certainly need to treat every every organization the same early right and if Chris just pointed out It's to start tomorrow Also, there was one more thing I didn't find and maybe I just overlooked

033it the supporting document for item number two under general consent The cook bowl, Tennessee camp Did I just overlook it or it's in there? Okay. Would you mind to just maybe email that to us? Okay. Do we want to pull that out until we find out? It'll be an amendment to the original. I made the original motion. I think Mr. Cordell's seconded it. If he's good, I'll amend that to take number four out of it. Okay. For now. i think that was number two yeah number two well number four we're waiting on see if they're yeah but we gotta take it out we still can't pass this agenda and consider it accepted if we don't take it out i'm gonna take both of them out two and four so i'll need to take two and

034four out is that not on here the the cheer squad she's she's got it i think it's just not attached to our stuff Okay, I did get a response from one of the two coaches. John Owens is the other coach, and he said he did not think there was a child of an employee that was going to be there. Then we can grant the usage, just not waive the fees. Right. But that would need to be pulled out and do separately from general consent. And put back into, it'd have to be put back in as agenda item number eight to discuss that and have a vote they're going to have to pay for. Right. Yeah. All right, so we'll move on with this by removing number two and moving number four as agenda action item

035number eight. Okay, so action item number eight will be approval of the CCCHS Cheer Squad Camp in Cookville and the Coffey County Central High School. No, the use of, sorry. Yeah, it would be. Ms. Matthews wants number two pulled out. Okay, two is pulled out. But number four moved to action item number, making number eight. Am I right? You don't want to discuss this. I mean, I guess we can't. Will that interfere with the dates on getting this approved for them to go? I doubt it. I believe that's not until July. I don't know when our July board meeting is. It's like the 13th, I believe. But, I mean, I think Shannon has the document. We just need to. Okay, well maybe if we make it another item and you can pass the document out

036to us right we can then we can vote on it So I'll amend it by pulling number two out making it number eight and number four out and making it number nine Okay, because I wouldn't want us to not get the chair camp approved Yes, okay All right, so item number eight will be the cheer camp, the cheer squad camp in Cookville, approval or disapproval. And item number nine will be use of facilities at Coffey County Middle School for Middle Tennessee hunters. Okay. Ms. Cordell, you're good. I'm good. Okay, so you amended that. Okay, Mr. Cordell. Second. Seconded. So now maybe we're good to go. Okay. Does everybody understand it? That we're voting on the agenda the general consent items with the exception of number two number four and they're going to become action items

037eight and nine Okay, I'll start with mr. Cordell And I vote out it passes eight to zero Okay. Now then we can get started Thank You mr. Hampton Okay, our first action item is the vice chair election, and we have two options here. We can either elect a vice chair tonight to serve out the two remaining meetings, or we can opt to not elect a vice chair, and if I should not be available for one of the two meetings, then the board would vote that night of who would handle the board meeting. Madam Chair. I move that we go with the second option that we operate under policy 1.201 under the line 28 of chair pro tem. We only have two meetings left. If you can't make it, the board can appoint someone that night

038to handle the meetings. All right, we have a motion to. I'll second that. All right, Mr. Hansard seconds it. Okay, you got what the motion is. You want to read that back to us? Oh, you want me to read it back? I thought you wanted her to read it back. I did, but I guess you heard. I move that we do not approve, vote for a vice chair tonight, that we continue this session that we're in until September, which is only two meetings. And if you can't be here, we operate under policy 1.201, line 28, which is a chair pro tem. That night we will vote. If you can't be here, we'll vote and pick somebody to run the meeting for the night. Okay. Does everybody understand? We have a second. Mr. Cordell. All right,

039we'll start with Ms. Yance. Any discussion? Sorry. Y'all remind me because I get in a hurry sometimes. Any discussion on this? I think this is a great option. I'm very excited about it. Anybody else? Okay. Ms. Yance? Aye. Mr. Hatcher? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. Approve 8-0. Hopefully I can be here. Madam Chair. Madam Chair. Yes. I hate to do this, but you skipped the presentation. The presentation for East Coffee Elementary and Hickson Elementary building slash addition rendering. And I know they don't live just down the road here, so I would like for us to possibly go back and let them go ahead and do their presentation. Thank you, Kevin. Sorry, that should have been right after the principal's report. Okay, before we get into the next. action item we'll go

040back and do on the agenda number four the presentation of East Coffee Elementary and Hickerson Elementary Building addition rendering with Wold. Sorry about that guys. I thought we moved them to like 14 or something. I'm going to pull this back so I can stand up the way of the screen so you can see that. Thanks for having us and for going back You had asked before What might these look like these proposals and if you remember where we're at in the current process is we're in what would be called? Predesign or budgeting going to the county to ask for requests So as part of that process, we've developed space programs to determine what the square feet of the building would be, look at the buildings themselves and determine what type of materials you would likely

041use in the building and how that would mass out to arrive at what a budget would be for these projects. You've asked to see renderings, and I'm going to preface this by saying right now, this is just a concept to show you that because we've had... literally no conversations with you about what you want it to look like. So these are things that what it could look like. You have one building that's proposed as additions and renovations at East Coffey, and you have one building that's proposed as new construction. It's easier to envision what additions and renovations would look like because you're most likely matching the building. New construction could be a lot of different things, but it's showing you this is how it might fit on the site. This is the type of materials

042it would have, and so I'll show you what that would look like. If you can move forward, Jacob. We'll start with East Coffee. This is the one that's proposed for additions and renovations. So if you remember, we have a diagram that's overlaid with the floor plan to show the components and the pieces of what that might look like, as well as a diagram for how that would fit on the site. You've seen this before. The next image shows... This is what it might look like if we were to extend that. As I said, you'd likely want to match that existing building. You would like it to look like it has always been there. We've improved the overall entry by replacing that canopy that runs along the face of it, and the new admin area moved

043to the front door. gives us the opportunity to put a different roof form on there, have that face the parking lot. The parking is all redone to separate the buses from the parent drop-off. And the larger addition for the gym, the media center, music spaces is off to the back. Same type of roof. This gives you a diagrammatic look at what that might be relocated playgrounds towards the back of the building But more or less looks the same as their existing building Be cleaned up nice coat of paint on a lot of these surfaces where it applies but masonry as the as the base Building element throughout and the idea is that it matches What you have at the other buildings as well. So the next image shows Interior, a gym is a big part

044of that. We've toured these buildings with many of you. As you can see, this is intended to match what you have. We want it to be equitable between the buildings, so very similar to the other additions you did a few years ago. Sloped roof, windows into that gym area, performance space to the side. So very easy for us to envision what that would look like. Hickerson, a little bit different. We have on that site, the idea is that you're replacing the building on the same existing site. So we can't build it, obviously, on top of the existing building. We have to build that towards the back of the site. We don't want to lose very many trees in that process. It's a very nice site for that. We want to make sure that we're maintaining

045that. And so what we've taken a look at with this is what might a two-story building look like on this site? One story would fit, but two-story would give you a little bit more efficiency. It reduces the footprint. It's a smaller roof form. So the next image shows what a two-story building might look like on that site. Again, if we go through the design process with you and you say, no, we want it to be very contemporary, modern, it would look different than that, but it would still likely have masonry, have metal roofs, a lot of windows coming to the site, that canopy. So trying to make it fit in with the other buildings, have a similar quality and feel to it, but that's the materiality for that. Again, separating out the buses from the

046drop-off area. relocating the playgrounds in the back. This is the helicopter view. Not many people are going to see that coming in. So the next view shows what it might look like if you were approaching the building and car coming in. Conceptual, not a final design, but just enough to give an idea of this is what it could be on that site. It's set back a lot further from the road too, which is going to greatly improve traffic, which I think is an important feature for that. I think that's the last image. If I counted 11 correctly, I did. That's beautiful. I like it. I like it bad. Hopefully, it will get funded, and you can envision that in reality with photos instead of renderings. But to give you an idea, and we can make

047that available for however you'd like to use it, but just to go along with your request of could you show us what it might look like, that's what it might look like. Can you provide that to us? Yeah, absolutely. Because that's visual learning. I would suggest we put a stamp on it that says concept only because what we found is when we do stuff like this, sometimes people will go, two-story? I don't like two-story. No. And we don't want that to be the end case. This is just an idea to get people excited. Get their minds turning and their wheels turning to picking out things that we'd like to see in different places and things like that. It gives us an opportunity for people that has not been around two-stories in Franklin. In particular, as

048you know, a lot, just about everything that y'all have done in Franklin has been two stories. And it's a lot more room, a lot more concept. Thank you very much because that does help us a lot with our commissioners as well, too. Thank you. The design process, you have those conversations as we were laying the building out and go over the pros and cons for that. We find with two-story, not only does it reduce that footprint, but it also gives you some options in terms of do you want to separate the grade levels, maybe have the older kids up above, the younger kids down below. Yes, sir. And it brings everybody in closer to those core elements, like cafeteria and gymnasium, so you don't have as much circulation in the buildings, too. Good. Thanks for

049doing that. That rendering of the Hickerson, the Tate story, is that a four-section school? Yes, that's a four-section school. This feels like Christmas to me. Don't take this away, you two people. Don't take this away from us. We're so excited right here. You know, we have one really beautiful elementary school. All of them are, but the newest one, Deerfield, that's such a good design, too. I mean, every time I go out there, I think this is awesome, the way it was designed for elementary. But this is beautiful, too. And I think the exterior of the building helps with people getting behind wanting something like that. Maybe it looks like a prison or another box. Who wants to spend taxpayer dollars on something that looks? Like you don't want to go inside it. Well, ironically, we

050design prisons too. So we want this to look like an elementary school, not a prison. Can you throw a little bit of guidance towards... price concept two-story versus crawling single-story. It's actually from a cost per square foot. We don't budget any different. It's really just more of a how are you going to use this site and from our perspective. If you're going to stay with that site. Yeah, exactly. If you're going to stay with that site. I will point out. There's a lot pushing it. Might be the wrong site. Easier to do on a clean site. This site certainly has some of its terrain challenges in there, but we do know that it would fit on the site. I did want to point out, in case somebody's looking at this, there will be a greenhouse

051there. Just because it's not in the rendering does not mean that the greenhouse is gone. It's in the back with a really sunny area. Did you hear that, Kathy? We'll make sure you heard that. Do you see this parking lot? I am so excited to park there. I can't wait. No more on the side of the highway. For that lot, the smallest lot that that is, that would be more of a good concept to go with that type of a second two-story building for the size of the lot that that is? We think so. One story would certainly fit on the site, but we're trying to minimize the amount of trees we'd have to clear in that approach. So this is for critical brainstorming only. Yes. Thank you for doing that. Absolutely. Is there anything

052else we can answer for you? The school at Cascade is beautiful. It's two stories. They didn't have to do that. They had plenty of land. It's just a beautiful exterior, in my opinion. All right. Thank you very much. Well, thank you, and I'm sorry I passed you up. It was worth the wait. Forgive me. Stayed an extra 20 minutes for three minutes. Now you all can go eat supper. Appreciate you being here. Okay, now we'll go to action item number two, the board meeting dates. And I know all of you probably had a chance to look at those. It's part of our packet. It's mr. Hargrove or mr. Shores would y'all like to talk about that or anything? It's basically The same second Monday of every month, isn't it? Try to stay as consistent as

053we could Okay, and it tells us when our board work sessions are and time and date Do I have a motion to approve? I'll make a second. Mr. Coon made the motion. Mr. Cordell seconded We'll go ahead and take a vote. I'll start with Mr. Hansard. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. It's approved 8-0. Okay. The next one would probably be... Mr. Damewood, I guess. Is he the one that's over there? No, ma'am. Okay, is this you, Mr. Hargrove? I'm going to share with you a little bit about Synergy Analytics. Okay, it's EduPoint Synergy Analytics bid. Yes, ma'am. Dr. Cornelius could not be here. He's at a conference. But when I think about Synergy, I think about attendance. Well, on the analytics part of it. We don't really know where the realm is

054of what we can do with this. You're talking about everything from measuring progress, a student's progress in the classroom in a certain course, BLA or math. You're looking at any kind of learning gaps. It will tell you the trends in our district. those learning gaps there may be trends in different schools there may be trends in the district a lot of this ties into our accountability as well it monitors discipline trends it can get into socioeconomic it could get into The demographics of who performs well and who doesn't perform well is very, very targeted. And when it gets into the analytical part like that, it can also drive your PD. If we're weak as a district in certain standards or certain course subjects, that directs our PD. We need help there. It makes our PD

055much more directed. As long as we are providing training and Dr. Cornelius has assured me that we're gonna train our people because our high school folks need their hands on it. Our middle school people need their hands on it. We need to understand what we're looking at to utilize all these great things that this program does. It could be really, really beneficial for us. It streamlines attendance. where our attendance sometimes now is a little more labor intensive, it streamlines that process as well. That eats up a lot of folks. But the training of others on top of what I believe this program can do can bring a ton of value for the purchase. ton of value you're talking about college career readiness to graduation to a second grade standard in ELA I mean it could

056get that minute that small to that broad are we meeting our graduation credits are we getting kids in the CCR and meeting those goals so I'm anxious to see what it can do You sound very excited about this program. Well, I mean, the potential of it. It sounds like it has a lot of potential. As long as it's not as labor-intensive, you know. Somebody's going to have to enter the data to do that. So you're recommending that we accept this? Yes, ma'am. And then we'll vote before we can have a discussion. Before we do that, what is the funding I guess? So he had part of this in his budget and it's already in his software budget The remaining part 20,000 of it come will come out of TSA outcome Bonus funding and it was

057it was in a budget amendment. I think last month To go ahead and move that funding and then when we got the quote from it We need to get approval because it was over the 25,000 Okay, everybody understand that and then okay the recommendation is to approve Five year cost of ninety two thousand seven hundred and sixty nine dollars. Is that correct? for the edgy point software license agreement Okay, it's a knit this five years so you look at the first year it's thirty six thousand I believe But the five years total of 92, 769. Yeah, so we'll pay it each year. We won't pay the 400. That's not all paid at one time. Right. Okay. I have a couple of questions just because I'm interested in it. Okay, well, let's get a motion on

058the floor. I'll do my very best, but the Synergy Guru. I can just ask him. Yeah, that's okay. I'm just curious who the end users would be for it. Who actually uses the software? Is it principals? It could be principals. It could be a CTE director. Or does it go on down to teachers? Elementary school principal. It could be an assistant principal. I'm just curious how it works because it sounds really, really cool. Can we get it? Get a motion on that. I so move. We can discuss it. Okay, Mr. Cordell makes the motion to approve this. I'll second it. Mr. Henson, second it. Okay, now we can have discussion. Now, any questions for Mr. Hargrove or anyone? What was that? You may want to continue. I'm sorry. You may want to continue. Yeah, I

059was just wondering, like, is it administration that uses it? Do teachers use it? And, like, does it tie into synergy or? Well, I'm sure the administrators will share all the data. You know, we see this trend. That goes on now. If it's used properly, I can see that it would be worth every penny. If it's just data that shows up at the central office and no one actually delves into it. It's got to be shared in your life. Yeah, right. Mrs. Frida, you have hit the nail on the head. Right. And so if there's a method of when that information gets here and who's... responsible for sharing that with appropriate personnel because I'm sure the principals and teachers would it really be a diagnostic tool for you and it and seeing where your students are

060what we're supposed to have approved received scheduled training in August So next fall. So there will be training on it for school personnel. The program's not worth the penny if it's not shared. So, April, you were saying it's $35,000 the first year. So I'm thinking that's the professional service cost of the $27,28 plus the $14,569 for our first year. So it's adding those two up. But then after that, it's going to go more along the line of the analytics. Year by year, we don't have to pay, come back and pay the professional services every time, right? Just the one time. Okay. And the funding will come from what area? For the next five years so it's already in his budget the software budget to cover year two through five The additional money that doesn't cover

061year one which is like the professional development will come from TSA outcome bonus So mr. Dang would would be implementing this correct? No, mr. Cornelius The attendance department completely funds the analytic piece. TISA outcome bonus is used one time only for the implementation piece this summer and early fall. Attendance has the ability to fund the reoccurring costs as we are locked in for five years, which goes along with our student information systems contract. The initiative did not cause us to incur extra costs. Keith already had that budgeted in. So do they have an implementation team that comes in? I'm sure they do. That might be a Keith question as well. I guess that was my question. Who's going to be implementing this? They'll have support. I mean, Synergy school information systems throughout the state, there

062are a lot of districts that are in a pickle. because the Swords and some things as people transition into different student information systems, Synergy has met the standard as our state has transitioned. So we're kind of in a good spot with our SIS, our student information system, compared to other districts that are going to have to transition from whatever they're using currently to. There's a lot of folks going to Synergy now. So we're in a good place with data, student data, attendance type stuff. Everyone ready to vote? Any more questions? How many schools around us have got this, that's implemented this? I know. We're on it, and there's some folks that wish they had it. Yeah, so we're not I'm not exactly sure who all uses synergy around us But I'm glad we did because

063we get contacted quite a bit as people are looking to change their si s I don't know if that answered your question Okay, we're ready to vote that correct. I'll start with Mr. Hansard lies. Let's start with Jennifer And I vote aye and it passes 8 to 0 The next item on the agenda, item number four, is maintenance truck bid. And I guess that would probably be Mr. Schor's. Okay. it's to that point we're trying to keep our fleet up and running and we need to change out a vehicle truck that we have put it out the bed and we had two bids come in one is from al white's motors and the other is russell barnett chrysler dodge g and as you can tell there the the low bid is 55 55 that is

064the truck itself as well as the utility bed on the truck uh the trucks And if you looked at the paperwork behind it, the bed is a large cost to it. And that's how much those utility beds are. And you can tell that the director's recommendation is to go with the low bid, which is Al White Motors. Okay, let's get a motion on the table where we can discuss this. Do we have a motion to accept? Madam Chair, I'll make that motion. I'll second it. Motion made by Mr. Giddey, seconded by Mr. Cordell. Okay, now do we have any discussion on the maintenance truck bid? As you can see, there are two bidders, and they're recommending the lowest bid, which is Alwhite Motors in Manchester. The truck that we're replacing, how many miles has it

065got on it? I believe it was a hundred and sixty, but don't hold me to it. I thought I brought that sheet, but I did not. I could tell you a couple things about the truck that we are replacing. It was actually bought off of GovDeals from a military base. It has major oil leaks, power steering pump is shot, water pump is shot. There's a tick in the motor and our head mechanic said I would not put any more money into this truck. That's what I wanted to hear. I want to make sure we view both of these and do our bids correctly. There's two bids, Al White Motors, $55,055. Russell Barnett Chrysler Dodge, $57,179. So the recommendation is with Al White Motors, and I'm sure that, Mr. Shores, both of these are equitable. Yes,

066they had to match the bid that we put out. We sent out specifications, and they had to meet those specifications. Okay. I'm glad to see, in almost seven years, I'm glad to see Alwatt Motors being able to compete in some of these vehicles, some of these, our local hometown. Anybody else have any questions or discussion on the bid? Yeah, April, when it says it comes out of the general fund, What exactly does that mean? So that's one area of the budget that I'm allowed to, if we don't spend the money, we restrict it and bring it into the budget for the next school year. So there's enough funding left in some lines within that budget that I can do a budget that Mr. Hargrove can sign a budget transfer for. And so we don't have

067to pull it from anywhere else in the budget. So I can pull it straight out of maintenance. It's just over $25,000, so you need board approval today. Correct. Okay. Everybody ready to vote? Okay, start with Ms. Matthews. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. Passes eight to zero. We'll be able to put the red CC on the side up since it's black. It's a white truck. It'll have what we have on our other trucks. On here it says it's black. No, I think it's the black. I think it's the Dodge. Oh, is that the Dodge one? All right. Yeah, it is the Dodge. Sorry. It's specified to be white. Okay, the next item is item number five, the differentiated pay plan. I guess that would be Mr. Hargrove? Yes, sure. Okay. The differentiated

068pay plan is something we have to bring to the board each year. By law, we have to have a pay plan, differentiated pay plan. This is very much what is the same pay plan we did last year, and actually it's the same one we've done the last six years. The paper is here. It kind of tells you the different parts of it. It is based on student population at schools, and it's based on $500 per teacher, and it's dealing with teachers taking on leadership roles at our schools. This has been taken to our leadership team up here at the central office as well as our principals at different times throughout the years, and we've decided that it's still the way we need to go. So this is a formality that we have to go through

069each year, and if there's any questions after the motion is seconded, I'd be glad to try to answer those. Okay. Do we have a motion to accept the differentiated pay plan for 26-27? I so move. I'll second. Mr. Cordell made the motion, and Mr. Gilley seconded. Do we have any discussion? You kind of explained it for everybody, Mr. Targrove, how this works. On a differentiated pay plan? Yes, sir. I'll do the very best I can with what I've got left. We're required by the state to do this every year. And you've got certain positions. Some systems consider them hard-to-fill positions. I believe ours is through... It's this one right here in the description. Right. Just... unique roles that are kind of special to each district it may be in a behavior mod class it may

070be for a number of things but they we do pay them more a little bit more Well, it's in the provided documents. It gives a description. And it's basically what teachers have been doing for free on their extra work for a long time. And finally, the state recognized that there does need to be some compensation for teachers and administrators that are going above and beyond what their actual job role is. And we have teachers. And that sort of thing that have extra. responsibilities that provide additional mentorship to PLC's and other groups and we compensate that stop and pay to teachers who serve leadership roles such as PLC facilitators data team leaders mentors content area leaders and I'm assuming that means you have to have five positions or more to be for it to worry about

071yeah come into play But this is state mandated, correctly? Correct? We do it yearly, the differentiated part. I think it's rewarding our instructional folks. Yeah, and I understand it's mandated, but systems do it differently. Yes, they do. You know, some pay more, some pay less. I think there's maybe a minimum. But anyway, it's something that we have to establish. It could be a hard-to-find position. Yeah, that's what you checked on the provided documentation up in the top right-hand corner, whichever way you're going to go. If you're going to go to hard-to-staff areas, then you'll have those listed, and that's what you'll do throughout here that you turn into the state. You know, we're choosing the instructional roles instead of performance areas or alternative salary schedules. Is there any way to find out exactly where this

072is going to go, to which part, or are we just approving a number here? Well, I mean, it's marked on the document. Instructional roles. And it even provides a description, who's eligible for it, and the amount of the compensation. I mean, it says compensation type and size are $500. It didn't say, am I reading this wrong? I mean, what particular number of unique roles? What is the roles? What is the unique roles? The description. The description. The leadership roles and facilities data leaders. That's correct. Mentors. To me, that's very small compensation for their willingness to take on more work. I mean, my goodness gracious. That's $500 a year? Yep. Yep. So that's like baby pay. And, you know, it's 70 people that's getting the $500. Right. Thank you. So under the education part, does that

073mean that... You're only eligible to get it if you have at least a master's? Or am I misinterpreting that? That area is actually talking about the pay skills that we have and all the different ones that are able to get it in those areas. When I'm filling this out, I also have to upload our pay skill as well. And that's part of that pay skill part that we're, the different areas we have with our pay skill, we have everything, master's. EDS, doctorate. We still have the master's plus 30, but it's been frozen several years ago. So basically those are the ones that are still out there that they can be in. And I think that part of that is more towards a for the state's benefit when they receive this from us. But that doesn't

074mean that just a teacher with a BS can go. No. If they're in one of these roles, they can get $500. But it is certified individuals, yes. Right. So somebody that didn't have a master's could also qualify to get different. Absolutely. Okay. That was my question. I think that was put in there at one time to make sure that people knew that master's plus 30 was changed. It was actually frozen in 2014, 2015, as you can see. But it's not any longer? It's frozen still. It's still frozen. And what that means by it's frozen, nobody else that has a master's plus 30, let's say I got a master's plus 30 tomorrow, I could not go on to that pay scale. It was frozen, so whoever was on it before that could. Now you actually have

075to have an EDS rather than. go with a master's plus 30. Used to a teacher could get 30 additional hours and qualify for another bump in pay, but that's frozen, like you said. That was frozen. They have to have an EDS degree to get the next step. Okay, are we ready to vote on this? Okay, I guess it's Mr. Coon's turn to start. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. It passes 8-0. Okay, the next one is the Food Service Budget Amendment 143-2026-2. And I guess that's Ms. Cotton who's going to tell us about this. Yes. I am needing to get to put another $150,000 into my food line. At the last board meeting, I also moved money to that. That is for my summer feeding program, which... is rather large, and

076it's getting larger. And what I realized was we are trying to pack bags to give out in advance. So we are trying to keep ahead by at least a week. And to do that, I'm going to have to go ahead and pay for some of July's food so that we can have those ready. I try to, whoever we have that can help. I'm trying to pack bags and just keep them packed. On this Thursday, from 3 to 5, we gave out 723 seven-day packs. So the total for the week of meals that we gave out was around 7,500 breakfast and lunch. So we are really going through the food. So I need to move $150,000 from fund balance over to food to cover those expenses. Okay. Does this come with your recommendation, Mr. Hargrove? Yes,

077ma'am. Okay. So do I have a motion to approve the amendment for the food service fund 143? I'll make the motion. I'll second. Okay. Motion made by Jennifer and seconded by Mr. Cordell. Can we have any discussion? How much is our churches and organizations helping us out on that now? I know that a lot of the churches are helping us out as well with that. So are they not? Not really. Mainly I have a lot of, I have several employees that are coming to help as well as a lot of kids that need promise hours. you know, to go to community college. So I'm getting a lot of those kids. I think I had about four or five this time. And I just had some community volunteers as well. So I don't really have any

078churches that, in the past I have had a few but not a whole lot. Are they just not contributing? I haven't asked. I mean, we just put it out and anybody that wants to come help. And right now we did really well on Thursday with just having the, we try to get some. Some people that can lift some heavy things. So that really helped. I also had a principal. Jimmy was there at the school, so he came out and helped us, Jimmy Anderson. So that was really nice. And some of my managers come back and help, and I had a maintenance person or a custodian from Raider Academy. He came and helped. It's just whoever. Every week's different. So anybody that wants to come, they're more than welcome to. A couple of churches, a church

079that I go to, and I've been asked about from a couple other churches that said that they were going to be donating to this. Okay. So are they not, have they just not done it yet, or is that what it is? No. You know, we buy all of our food, and we get reimbursed, you know. Are we allowed to accept donations? Oh, I bet that it is. I bet it's Family Resource that they donate to, and that's a whole different program. That's different. That's down the hall with Ms. Davis. We do have a community partner that has reached out with us, and I don't want to say their name until Ms. Cotton and I have talked to them, but their donations would not be on the food side of it. Okay. We're handling every bit

080of that. Their donation would be. Water for workers, those type of things, which I'm very appreciative. And maybe in July I'll get to shout their name out. I bet you're thinking of Family Resource because they do donate to our family weekend backpack program. I know they send food home on the weekends. So I bet that's what they're donating to. Some of our teachers have asked to participate in this. So is that what? So I guess it may be a different program, but if it's mine, I'd love to have them. I mean, it's in our school system. That would be helpful for us to know because whenever we get asked questions, you know, that's a pretty valuable piece of information right there. It's like, hey, look, we're going to be given to the backpack program in

081the Coffey County school system. Well, that's great, but we don't know where we're at. We don't know which one, you know. I don't think that yours is a government program. I mean family resource. Yeah, it's entirely different. So that would be the strict guidelines Yes Avenue for anybody that wanted to help out of the community, right? Are there any other questions? done this with Ms. Carlin before and it's a wonderful thing. In fact, on Thursday you're getting me and five kids and I encourage everybody to come help because it's hard work but you feel so good after you do it. And I bet they're so appreciative. It's just wonderful. I can't speak highly enough about this. It's a lot of work but it's worth it. And it goes by really fast. It does go by

082fast. Okay, I guess we're ready to vote. And we'll start with Mr. Gilley. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. It passes 8-0. And I want to congratulate Ms. Cotton on becoming a grandmother. Welcome to the grandmother club. That's exciting. Well, you were already in the grandmother club, but having a daughter with a little baby is a little bit different, too. Okay, the next one is item number seven, budget amendment 141, 2026-29. Yes, sir. This is a budget amendment to, we had a couple of. State grants that need a little more revision after we reviewed them one more time to be able to spend so spend our funding State grants if we don't spend it the money goes back. So we We wanted to make sure we utilized all

083the funding in these grants So this is to move around the funding to be able to do that and then I just needed to increase retirement for extra labor bus trips custodial field trips Things like that. So that's what this budget room is for if you have questions, I'll take them Mr. Hargrove this comes with your recommendation. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve? The budget amendment 141-202 6-29 I make that recommendation. I'll second that Commission's made the motion in mr. Cordell second it There's no discussion. We'll start with Mr. Gilley. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. That passes 8-0. Okay. The next item is number 8, and this has to do with the request for chair count. Yeah. Okay. Does everyone have their request to look at? Madam Chair, I make a

084motion we approve this. I have a second. I'll second. Okay, Mr. Gilley made the motion. Mr. Cordell seconded. Okay, do we have a discussion on this point? Anybody have any questions regarding it? Copper County Central High School, its number of students is 29, and transportation is provided by parents and also a school bus, and the school employees are Christy Klaus and Mandy Wallace. Do we have any questions on this discussion? I guess we're ready to vote. I'll start with Mr. Cordell. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. It passes 8-0. Okay. Item number 9 is the Coffey County Middle School. I think it's called the Mentors Program. Mm-hmm. We already had that in front of us. Did we find out? My recommendation is we're going to have to add the custodial fee to there.

085Okay. I've got a real good feeling that at one time the Middle Tennessee Headhunters had a faculty person on that, on their roster, one of their children. and I'm not I'm pretty sure that that young man doesn't play with that club anymore yes ma'am so I'll make I'll make a motion that we approve this but we do not waive any fees any of the fees associated motion made a mr. Giddy second mr. Coon any discussion Does the form have to be corrected before we vote on it? Would the form have to be? We would just have to make a note, I guess, on the form that was approved with the addition of them paying the custodial fees or any other fees. Mr. Gilley's motion actually states what the board's wishes would be if it passes,

086so that's what you would go off of. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. All right, we're ready to vote. I'll start with Ms. Yentz. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. Eight to zero passes with the addition of them paying the custodial fee if there's not a school employee part of the program. Okay. Okay, now we're on item number eight, items for discussion. Madam Chairperson. Yes. There was. Ms. Nelson noticed that the budget update, which is normally one of the action items, had been moved down to number 12, and it needed to be part of the action items. So whenever it is actually covered, it does require a vote, a motion, and a second, and a vote. Not sure. What happened on it getting down to number 12, but it did. We'll make

087sure that's up in the action items next time, but it does require a vote. Okay. I noticed that that was the last thing on the agenda, but I thought we would be voting on that at that point. You can do it that way, but it is an agenda item. It should be underneath the action items, and Ms. Nelson just realized it. Okay. Do we need to leave the agenda like it is or move it to item number 10? It really should have been number 10. Okay. So I guess we need to make a motion to move the budget object to item number 10. I'll make a motion to put it as item number 10. I'll have a second. I'll second. Okay. Do we have any discussion? Okay. Let's vote on that. We'll start with Mr.

088Hansard. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. So item number 10 is the budget update, and it passes 8-0. So we'll go to that item next. Ms. Nelson. This is the budget update through April. In April, we received $3.9 million in revenue, which brought our balance to date to $47.9 million, which brought our budget to 90.05% compared to last year of 90.22%. 14.4% of the revenue that came in in April, which is $574,000, was local. We got 3.3 million from the state, which was 85, 85% and then about 26,000 of other going down to the expenditures. We we spent 4.4 million in the month of April, which brought our balance to date to 44. $44 million, and then used a percentage through April of 73.72%. Year-to-date last year was 71.19%. And the biggest reason for

089the increase between last year and this year was the extra pay that we gave out in December and then the estate bonuses that were given out from the state. But if you have any other questions about line items in this update, I will gladly answer those. Okay, this comes with your recommendation. Mr. Hargrove. Yes, ma'am. Okay, do I have a motion to approve the budget update? I so move. I'll second. Motion made by Mr. Coons, second by Mr. Gilley. Any discussion? Okay, I guess we're ready to vote. Mr. Hansard? Aye. Aye. Aye. And I vote aye. It passes eight to zero. Now we can go on to... items for discussion and that would be our board of course and uh i guess we'll start we'll start with mr gilly uh don't have much i do

090want to say that uh i've been talked to and and the numbers seem to look good mr parsley mike can elaborate a little further i know that uh when we allowed the high school to look into the fact of starting flag football as a club we would look at actually making it a more set in stone club in the future and I think it's been a year and I think the ideas and I think it's really successful that's what I've been heard and I'd like to see us look at the fact of maybe incorporating that more in steel programs rather than a club but I know that's going to take further discussion and That might be something we could put, is it too late to put it on our board work session? Or June work

091session. We could discuss that at our work session. I agree with you. The community is really behind this, and there's a lot of excitement behind it. I've got a lot of intel, just people just poking and saying and seeing, and then the things that I've seen and the attendance at games and all of that good stuff. The amount of community support for it has been really, it's been up there. It's been neat. That's it. Okay. Mr. Cordell? Mr. Parsons, I think we had, what, about 380 or 382 seniors, and they've gone through a turning point. and they're going in the next chapter of their life. And I thought that was so well constructed and presented, and what an evening that was. What, about an hour and a half? I don't know how you crammed all

092that in there, but what an evening that was. So thank you and our team for your service, and we are so blessed. And I want to thank our entire system for the work you do. Thank you so much. Proud of you. I'm just really curious, how much was your total fund on your pennies that you got him? I'd never seen that done, and I just kept saying, what are they doing? They keep handing him something. So that was really cool. Did you split it with Mr. Hargrove? I'm still holding it in. Now, I enjoyed that graduation very much. Of course, I had a granddaughter graduating, which made it extra special. But I thought it went over very well, considering we were kind of packed in like sardines. Oh, and I would ask, next year when

093I come, is it possible to get a lower chair? The whole time I'm sitting with my feet like this and my toes on the ground just so I don't fall off the chair. I can make that happen. I would appreciate it. Are those the team chairs? Because I thought they had to be for athletes, you know, that are tall. Brands new. They're made for tall people, let me say that. No, it was a nice night. You did a great job. Sure was. Chancellor? Yeah, I've got one thing. I wrote to Mr. Hargrove the other night on June the 2nd. That afternoon whenever I got home from work, I got a call and I did call mr. Hargrove about we had a policy meeting that didn't go out to the public and that's a Great big

094no-no as far as a violation of sunshine law And you mr. Hargrove did write me back and I appreciate it. He had told me that him and Miss teens fielded Talked about it and resolved it. I guess my question to mr. Argrove is how have we resolved that? Moving forward we've resolved it. I mean there's not I mean once the act and we messed up we didn't post it We announced it at the meeting the last board meeting But we didn't post it. Yeah, I think we have to go back and redo that. Well, yeah, and we can take care of all of that. I don't understand when you say resolve it. Moving forward, it won't happen again. And it's my fault. It is ultimately my fault. But I'll tell you what, the meeting was

095nothing short of spectacular. It lasted an hour. There was great dialogue. The people, we agreed to disagree, and we worked our way through number six. And if you'll notice, part of the resolution, number six is not on your board agenda. So we'll add that in with one on July 9th during that policy committee meeting. The meeting was well led. It was a good meeting. Oh, no, nobody's saying that. It was on YouTube. Yeah, but it wasn't. I mean, Matt, did you know about it? No, I've already stated. I own it. We didn't post it. Right. Well, that's your policy. Your policy is on the posting part TPA 844-102 when it was announced at the last meeting. basically covered the Sunshine Law. Do I like the fact that we didn't see it actually get out to

096Thunder or Manchester Times or somebody and get posted on Facebook and stuff like that? No, and I'm assuming that's what you're talking about. That's correct, and I don't like it either. We'll rectify that problem. Because we're doing the meeting again anyway. That was a practice run. We'll call it a practice run. That's correct. But when we come in to quote law and everything else, we need to quote law and policy correct. Policy is what we... technically didn't follow so we didn't put the five days notice right so it's resolved we're doing it over yes and uh everything's fine right and all those are listed in an email i share a weekly email and i share those and in fact the last thing i'll talk about in this meeting was the same thing i talked about

097last meeting the next policy committee meeting That was in the transcript from the last meeting. And that's going to, Ms. Shannon, you've done a great job. One little thing here. No, it's not on Ms. Shannon. We're going to do it again. We're going to do it again, but, you know, hey. Well, I appreciate people taking ownership. That means more than anything. Yes, ma'am. And she has done remarkable with the policy. Oh, yes. She got a lot dumped on her. She had it ready to go. I appreciate every member of that team that was there that day. It was a great meeting. It was a good meeting. I look forward to the next one. Yeah. Mr. Hargrove, thank you so much for all that you do. Yes, sir. And your weekly updates. Thank you. Those are

098so important. I'd like to read those. Stay informed. Thank you, sir. Thank you. What do you mean when you say we're going to do it again? Are we going to have to go through all those policies again? Not necessarily. Oh, good. I mean, we had a huge stack. The only thing we guys is review the data anyway, so we just got longer to review it. And we do have a reference. That meeting was. It wasn't. So really, basically it can be you've previewed them. Yes. And now you can, you know, send them up for approval. So basically the meeting wasn't wasted. No. No, it was just, I guess you could call it a study session. I don't know. Right. I think, like I said, I got a call, and being on the board and not

099even knowing about it, and it being a policy. Listening to meetings. But I think it. If you look in the state law, it says that meeting is... It's not good business, but I did state it. It's in the transcript of the last meeting. That was what I talked about was the next policy committee, and I gave the date and the time for that. But we've got to do our due diligence. We've got to do better. I'll take ownership of that. It's not Ms. Shannon doing that. That's me. We'll get it right. Okay, sometimes things like that happen for a reason, so you really pay attention from then on, because I've had things like that happen to me, and it makes me remember next time, oh dear, I've got to make sure. So it's been resolved,

100and everything's fine. So anybody else have any discussions on that one? No, ma'am. Okay. All right, I like to praise, so I made myself a list of crazy things. I already praised graduation and the free food, so. Whoever decided and I guess it was us I just didn't remember to make registration for the upcoming year start in May and go through the summer Thank you so much I did not have to wait for the dreaded day in July to try to register for children for school with it trying to reload and freezing got them all registered in a Lovely May morning and it was just so much better than having for the whole county Just join in parent view at one time. That was amazing So, so thankful for that. The Elante Taylor camp, my

101oldest got to go to that, and it was very fun as usual. There were a lot of kids there and a lot of happiness. It was very hot. A lot of work went into it, so thank you for that. Coach Taylor and his team put on a really, really good camp last week for basketball, and the basketball team worked the... where you pay at the gate. They did concessions, all that. They were all very respectful. It was great. Our facilities looked wonderful. Loved it. We also have a new football coach, Mr. Freeze, or Coach Freeze at the middle school. He is inspiring these kids. It's going to be very exciting. They're all pumped about football right now, so look forward to the fall. That's all. Ms. Matthews? I just want to say, Mr. Parsley, You

102the graduation I did not get to attend but I was I was there virtually and you did a fantastic job Pulling that off you and your assistant principals. I know we're heavily involved and it was just An awesome night. I hate that I wasn't there in person, but I've really enjoyed watching it I thought the gymnasium looked really really good I also really liked seeing on the screen, it seemed like there were police presence there throughout the gymnasium, which made me feel really good. So I just want to say thank you, because I know that was a huge undertaking. You had to drop back and punt there at the last minute and change plans. I mean, I don't know what you could have done differently. So really, really appreciate you and your staff, your assistant

103principals, everybody reading off all those names that I'm not sure I could pronounce if I had to. But anyway, thanks. My only other thing is I was wondering if the board, the whole board could get an update on or a status update on where we are with any kind of litigation or lawsuits. or if there's been anything new come across or what where the current ones stand i know at one time before we changed directors there were some and i don't still exist i don't know okay i was just curious i did that for a one of our our attorneys in the last okay weeks anyway yep i'm just curious like where any of that stands and if we've got anything new and where we are with that so you could just i think the

104whole board would probably benefit from just a status update on that and that's that's all i have that's a good one something we don't think about yeah i'd just like to uh thank every district employee for the hard work in this previous school year and I hope they enjoy their summer vacation and ready to get back at it in August and you know I hope everybody has a great summer. I think everybody else uncovered pretty much everything. That's what happens when you go last. There ain't nothing much left to say. Yes, that's everybody I do want to say that curtain out there I don't know what y'all got that for but it was perfect for graduation and made that backdrop and That was a good good purchase whenever you got it because I'm sure it's

105useful for a lot of things but right the gymnasium look beautiful and and Miss Yancey and I got to sit there close to those kids as they stood there to go get their diploma and you know a lot of those kids never got recognized for anything but they were they had the same look in their eye as the ones that was getting all those scholarships they were so excited and and proud of themselves and just makes me want to cry because without Without public education, what would America be? I mean, we've got these kids that are coming through 12 grades and hopefully out in the world educated to a certain point. And it's just wonderful to see them all walk through that line, all types and genders and everything. And so I really had a

106good night watching those kids. And I think Mr. Coon said it right. There's nothing else to say. Y'all have already gone over everything. Okay. The next item on the list is committee reports. And I think, you know, we had the policy committee and we've already discussed that. That was just practice, Romy. Right. And have there been any other committee reports? And our policy committee meets one day each month through August. And then once we get to September's meeting, we should be done and caught up with board policy. What is our next meeting so that we make sure we just take a minute here to let it register? July 9th at 1 p.m. What is the July 9th? That's our next policy. And we'll do number six in section six and one. Are there any other

107committee meetings coming up this summer? That's the only one. Hopefully our policy after August will turn into a quarterly thing or we'll slow down. I appreciate everybody's hard work on that committee. It's a lot. And thank you all for taking the time. Ms. Shannon gets it out, and then you have time to peruse and look, and it makes our meetings more effective. And you can tell that the folks are looking at it. Thank you all. Okay. The next item is capital projects update. Capital projects. We have a lot of the securities. The locks and Medeco locking and handles that we ordered, they're arriving here. Hopefully they'll be put in fairly soon. Boilers or ballards at our elementary schools will be started within the next few weeks. Getting those installed and painted. Working on the... The

108work at the high school with the security improvements with doors and walls is under the way. They're ahead of schedule right now. Mainly, a demo is taking place. It looks really different with a bunch of those walls being removed and things moving forward. It's looking really good. Anxious to get them started with the... framing on this Wednesday. So we're gonna start seeing some really changes in that area. Bleacher seat replacements for the broken bleacher seats. That's supposed to start on the 22nd of June. Band and choir ceiling tile and work on those rooms have been taking place for the past couple of weeks, updating things as well as putting in higher NCR. rating tile and that's to help deaden the sound a little bit from it bouncing and that's something through us and Mr. Frankenfield

109and it's going to make a big difference for that band room and the students as far as their hearing we're hoping it makes a big difference with all that a lot going on a lot taking place do want to let you know that the Weapons detection systems have arrived. They're still boxed up. They're at the high school. So we will begin that plan for our training on all of it and a starting date with it. We're looking at the possibility of, after Labor Day, actually getting it started. We've got to work things with the training and the way they want to do some training. So there's still some things that we have to work through with the high school to make that all happen. The other thing on here is the engineering plans approval for

110the high school, and that's dealing with the walls and the construction that's taking place now. That's fire marshal plans, and that's coming out of what you had already approved as the contingency fund. So even though it's showing up on this report, it's coming out of the contingency fund that was already approved. It just has to be shown that direction. And I think that's pretty much it. If you have any questions, please ask. There's a lot going on lights at the high school for the football or baseball the softball They were moving really well, and then the rain set in rain stopped everything they do have the base poles in and they're concreted in but it stopped all the trenching and Doing all the work, so they've kind of a stop point, but we're not in

111a rush right now for it So it's working out fine And I want to say those handrails were really good for the graduation. I think a lot. For the older people. Appreciate those, yes. Yeah, they really have come in handy. At some point, I don't know, I'll coordinate with Mr. Shores, and we all have to have hard hats. If there's a group at some point, more towards the end of June after Bonnaroo, and let's pray for good weather for Bonnaroo because that affects our budget. maybe take a tour and show some of the high school, what's going on with our high school. But we have to all have hard hats. Kelman and I share one. Are you saying bring your own hard hat? It has to be Moxie approved. I'm not bringing mine. I've got

112stickers on mine from over the years. Well, hopefully in the next few weeks we'll try to line something up and give you guys an opportunity to go look. I'd love that. Me too. Okay, the last item on the agenda is the director's report. No, ma'am, I don't have anything. Okay, you've already gone over all the things. Yes, ma'am. Okay, anything else? I guess we can have a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed?