CorpusRecord 215174

School Board Meeting; June 8, 2026

A searchable transcript preserved as part of the Discourse Corpus. Passage numbers provide stable references within this record; verify quotations against the original recording when available.

Source
YouTube / Maroon Devils Network
Date
2026-06-09
Location
Swain County, NC
Material
Transcript
Extent
5,716 words · about 32 min
Collected
2026-07-03

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Our heavenly father, we thank you again for allowing us to be in this setting. We thank you for our community. We thank you for our school system. Thank you for everyone that's involved. Thank you uh so much for our our kiddos. And Lord, we pray for their safety this summer. Lord, we ask that you would uh be with our faculty and staff. You ask, we ask that you would be with us during this meeting and that we would look to honor you in every decision that we make. Again, uh go with us and be with us. We do love you. We ask all

002these things in your precious holy name. Amen. >> Amen. So, [clears throat] now we have the approval of the agenda and we [clears throat] want to make a couple um amendments to the agenda. Dr. Sutton. >> Yes, sir. >> We want to um move the consent agenda to follow close session. So we can actually put it um after discussion or yeah after discussion right before action the consent agenda. >> Yes sir. >> And that'll be the approval of the consent agenda. We'll go ahead and do both personnel and minutes. Okay. [clears throat] And we need to add uh an action item uh is a resolution for June 30th budget amendments to be signed by Mitch and Brandon and presented at the July board meeting. we close out our books uh for June then there will

003be need to be some moving of funds and so we just need to be able to >> so make that Jay >> yeah Jay >> okay do I have a motion to accept the agenda with the amendments >> so moved >> second all in favor raise your right hand so moved so now we are on to public comment we have any public comment Joanne No public comment. So, we will go into close session. Do I have a motion to go into close session? >> Are we going into close? >> We move back to the end. Mitch, >> you want to move it to the I was moving the consent agenda to the end. You want to move close session as well? Okay. >> We might as well. That way we can have the discussion and

004let everybody go and we can close the meeting from [clears throat] there. >> So, that's what you that's what you thought I meant. Good. So, it's already there. [laughter] So, we will go into discussion. the superintendent update. We're gonna >> Yeah, we'll go ahead and do that. I hate we ain't got the pictures, but as uh as we wrapped up our school year, um I got to catch some exciting things happening in our classroom. Um I got to go through the high school and we had a teacher outside, uh Miss Agbar, who was u kids were measuring a yard of dirt and identifying the number of uh uh different plants that were in that. Uh so just outside moving around doing some work and then we got to come up here and watch a sixth

005grade mock trial uh from Miss Lucas's class. And so you our teachers are trying to give hands-on experiences to to our students. And I thought really both of those were real fun and uh opportunities as we were closing out our year. Um then our year we ended up with several celebrations um from prek graduation, kindergarten graduation, uh 8th grade moving up, all the awards ceremonies in between. And I I was really thinking about um all of those celebrations and just the accomplishments and we we take for granted and that the school is all about arithmetic and uh reading and writing and all of that stuff. But uh along the way attending our schools and experiencing day-to-day, our students learn to collaborate. They learn to communicate. Uh they build resiliency. Uh they develop empathy. They develop

006leadership skills. uh they learn to manage their time and they are held accountable and I think those are skills that are applicable uh to the adult world when you enter the workforce and things that we often overlook uh when we have these celebrations things all of these soft skills we call them that students learn uh just by attending our schools daytoday and the experiences our teachers design for them and the things that the the school administrators help design within their schools. So, I really just want to to celebrate that as we had at our new our celebrations there at the end of the year. Um, and then also recognize some new chapters. Uh, got to set through the uh uh attend the FFA banquet. Uh, and they elected some new officers and the outgoing officers

007got to uh share their experiences. uh got to attend the eighth grade moving up ceremony and and the athletic banquet and um saying eighth graders are saying bye to the middle school and coming in and starting a new adventure at the high school. And we had some decorated seniors uh that are leaving uh our programs and going on to their their next whether that's continuing their athletic pro u careers in college uh going on into college uh to pursue a degree or entering the workforce. They're all starting new chapters of their life and it's a real opportunity to celebrate what they have done but then also looking at the doors that's opened into them. And then spent a lot of time here recently uh with our custodians and our maintenance facilities. Um looking at our

008summer plans and what all needs to be accomplished and uh just had this thought about is uh we invest in our buildings and grounds. We don't just maintain the properties uh but we cultivate a culture of pride, safety, and excellence where learning can thrive. And so [snorts] got a picture of of a meeting up at the maintenance staff uh maintenance shed as them as we talked about some duties and some opportunities this summer. Um we are going to recommend that we hire some temporary work to come in and help us over the summer with some grounds and with some painting. Uh so it's was was good times in Memphis custodial staffs today to talk about uh summer work and what they might need uh to help them and I really appreciate Millie and Levonda u

009had some u requests from our custodians in the past they have been u uh paid for uh prepaid for some July work. So their June paycheck had extra hours on it. Uh so it was a little bit larger, probably got taxed a little bit heavier. And then their July paycheck was much smaller because they'd already been prepaid for some of those. But Millie made a way uh so that they're going to get paid on their June paycheck for the month the hours worked in June and their July paycheck will reflect all the hours worked in July to give them two standard paychecks. So, I really appreciate them and I know our custodians uh really appreciated uh that. So, thank thank y'all for making that happen. Uh we really appreciate it. Um but that is my

010updates as superintendent. Just finished a few minutes ago with our first community meeting. Uh we had uh I think about nine people registered. Uh lots of great conversation and I think it's a great first step in in collecting uh information from our community and working for building partnerships uh as we lead this school into the future, this district into the future. So I appreciate y'all. [clears throat] Thank you, Dr. Sutton. And to echo what he said, a lot of people say, "Oh, that's insignificant that y'all are working on a a June and a July paycheck for your custodians and one was bigger and they were getting their uh due money." But um I think it's our due diligence to uh help them out in that regard and I appreciate y'all doing that and working hard

011to get that done. CTE annual plan I'm assuming Mrs. Sneed. Good evening. So I believe in your packet you have a one pager that was shared. Yeah. Just some uh general information on that. But I wanted to add just a little bit. Um and uh we will share this presentation with you, Dr. Sutton's presentation with you later so you can see this if you also want to see this. But in addition to what I put in your packet, um I just wanted to highlight a few things. since it's that time of year where um I have to get the annual plan approved for CTE and I will be asking for your signature uh Mr. Carson at the end of the meeting just to approve the plan. But I want to go over just a few

012things. Um this is the CLNA year which is the comprehensive learning needs assessment that we have to conduct every two years. Every year we do a local application, but every other year we do the CLNA. And what that means is a smaller group of individuals um kind of a CTE leadership team along with admin some administration meet and we go over goals and strategies from the previous two years and we look at what we need to work on for the next two years and then we look we revisit that annually every year. So it's a rewrite every two years and then look at it that in between year. So, just to kind of go over CTE, um, we have 15 different pathways covering the 10 clusters and that does include our three dual enrollment programs,

013which are automotive, carpentry, and welding, which are dual enrolled at SEC. Um, this year from the graduating class, we had 71 students that graduated um with a concentration and those seniors earned over 186 credentials. So, some of those students earned multiple credentials. It just depends on what courses they were in from stop the bleed to um AutoCAD um lots of different credentials that students can earn while they're in high school. Now, that's not the number of credentials student earned this year because we've got students in ninth grade earning credentials all the way up to senior year, but that literally is just the seniors. They graduated with 186. I believe we had 17 seniors that graduated um with a certificate from SEC. Um and there were four different certificate areas including welding, carpentry, medical assisting, and

014early childhood. So, a couple of those were online programs as well. Uh something else that I want to spotlight that is a huge accomplishment um are career development plans that are taking place now in middle school and going through high school. And that's a partnership um that is also with Gearup uh the counselors and um CTE and especially Cindy Thompson that's worked a lot on this as well. So, North Carolina law now requires all middle school and high school students to maintain a career development plan and they must complete this before promotion from 8th grade to to 9th grade and then they have to review it before they go into 10th grade. Now, we review it annually [clears throat] at registration. So they they're doing that with either Miss Thompson, the CDC uh career development

015coordinator or a school counselor or possibly um Gearup staff, which is Taylor Dodge is primarily um the Gearup coordinator and then also an assistant coordinator is Crystal Simmons. Um so between those people and the school counselors at the middle school and the high school, they're reviewing that annually. And this plan helps students identify career interests, explore pathways, align coursework and extracurricular activities with future goals to help prepare them for success after high school. Now, we've been putting a plan together for um the last year and a half really worked on it a lot and we've refined it and we actually submitted what we've been doing at the middle school level and it won a Trailblazer award and they've been awarded $12,000 for that. So, we don't have all the specifics to that, but we're actually

016presenting that at a conference this week for our region. Um, and I could see us really getting some shout outs for that. It's very impressive work. So, if you see any of those people, please congratulate them on the hard work they've been doing um at the middle school and and at the high school levels with CDPs. So also talking about the CLNA stuff from needs assessment uh the strengths that were identified were a high number of CTE concentrators and that we met 90% of overall local benchmark data for the previous two years in um academic proficiency in reading and language arts. So basically we're looking at students who completed a pathway and they look at their English two scores and we are meeting the state benchmark for that. Now on the flip side of that

017um that that is a weakness um area for us in science and in math. So in looking at the biology and the math one scores that is something that we're going to be working on to help supplement those scores within CTE. So we have a plan for that. Um we also a couple of other weaknesses that we're going to work on um are meeting with some of our special population students and making sure that they have a plan as they go through high school and go into life after high school and what their plan is. So working a little bit more closely with those students and also Cindy Thompson is taking the lead with that as she is also our special populations coordinator at the high school level. And then also we're going to be

018looking at just making sure that we're getting our information out to everybody to stakeholders um with our pathways and information about articulated credit at SEC and how students can can get uh the dual enrollment credits here at on campus for free so that they don't have to spend extra time and extra money. They can leave with that credential right from high school and go straight into the workforce. And we know we've had that program for a while. Um, but it never we just left a meeting where somebody had actually commented that we just need to continue to get that word out to to families and to the community. So, we're going to be working on that. Um, and we're just really excited about that. So, um, at the end of the meeting, um, uh, I

019believe Joanne's got a signature page for Mr. Carson. It may be in your packet. I'm not sure. um to sign off to approve the plan. And there is a two-page, I believe, executive summary where you can access the plan and look at it more in depth. And it's not the easiest to read when you go to access it on the public facing view. So, um, if you want me to email it to you, it's about a 100page document, but I will email it if anybody's got questions about it because it does give a lot of information about test scores and um how we're going to work to um achieve some of the goals that we've set for the next two years. So, >> when is that innovation conference going to be? It's in Asheville for

020the region. Um because it's a Gearup, it's kind of a Gearup LE event. Um the next two days and then I I don't know after that if they will present after that. I would say regionally we will present on some stuff now that we've especially won this this award. Um and they don't have the information yet on what exactly the award entails, but as we find out more, I'll let you know. Is it the um innovation conference, academic innovation conference? Kudos to them. And then um the next part is federal programs which is also me. So, just wanted to update you uh that we successfully completed our spring audit um and we had submitted 667 artifacts which was almost a record [laughter] for federal monitoring. Um and the letter I believe I attached in your

021file just saying that we've been cleared um and that we met all compliance requirements. And then um our Native American education grant was submitted in May and we will continue with our Native American tutoring program there at the middle school, at East Elementary, and at the high school as we've had in the past and we are excited to continue that. Um anything you want to mention? >> Can update about u Native American language, Cherokee language at high school? Yeah, I'd be glad to. So, we are going to continue to work with that with Kinsey Eagleman is going to be teaching that at the high school level. She'll teach a period of that in the fall and a period of that in the spring, Cherokee 1 and Cherokee 2. And um we're still hoping that New

022Gadua will be able to send us some support for that in both both semesters. We hadn't heard back yet, but the chief's office, we met with him. um it's probably been about a month ago and he's going to try to help us get some support with that. And then in addition to that, Kinsey's also going to teach a cultural elective class uh both semesters and that's kind of a new addition for us. So, we were excited about that. And then her um her other half of the day will be planning and Native American coordination for the students at the high school. >> And that language class will be a foreign language just like Spanish would be. You would get a credit for that, right? North North Carolina University system accepts it as a foreign language.

023>> They do. Yes. >> And then at the middle school level and at the elementary at East Elementary, um East Ele, they operate just a little different than Kinsey does. Um at uh East Elementary, we have Sarah Bradley and she does an cultural elective and they do different things in there, but she also rolls in some keyboarding skills with them. They work on that, but then they also do the Cherokee language and culture stuff. Um, and we went recently and bought some materials and I think they're going to make mats when they get back in the fall. So, just some neat activities that she's going to bring into the classes. They all get that class. And then at the middle school level, it is currently Shelby Stageber and she is she goes into the core

024classes and pushes in and helps with students at the middle school. Anybody >> any questions? >> I was just thinking about that early childhood certificate. Is that through with Southwestern? >> It is through Southwestern. It's online classes um because we don't have that in person at the high school, but we did have one student that completed it this year and um I think it's been two years prior before we had another one. But yeah, >> there's several online programs that they offer. They used to have an associate. You could get an associate degree at Southwestern and it would transfer for like teaching toward your four-year degree. >> They still have that. And we had two students that achieved that at graduation. Two students received an associates this year and two students received an associate last

025year. So, we do have that. And we do have a couple of students every year that do um take those classes. It does require a very um intentional effort on the student and summer classes typically. Um I know that uh Dr. Sutton's daughter took advantage of that um and had an associates degree, but a lot of time and effort into the planning piece, but it is very possible for students to stay at our school and graduate with an associates degree. So, and we're trying to actually work on a plan um that is better advertised so that students know they can do that. >> Yeah. >> But like I said, it does take intentional planning on everybody's part. Going back to that career development plan that we were talking about, kind of knowing that when you

026go into middle school and the importance of that so that you can set up your coursework in nth grade um to be ready to hit the ground running. >> It's that's really the key to it. a lot. Yes. Anybody else? >> Thank you. >> Budget amendments. Miss Millie. All right. So, the budget amendments [snorts] are bringing increases to state and federal funds. Um, our state fund increased by 77,000 and that's due to national board support allotment and guaranteed allotments for employee benefits and paid parental leave. Um, and our federal fund has increased by $773 due to increases in rural and lowincome schools, title two and title four. Um, there's also two resolutions I'd like you to sign. Um the first one is a resolution to for a continuing budget that starts July 1st. Um and

027that just lets us continue to pay salaries until the state passes a budget. And the second one is our year-end budget amendment authorization which um just allows Dr. Sutton and Mitch to approve those budget amendments as we go through year and close out. And then I'll do a report in July. Um, and the last thing I have is, um, the contract for WCU driving. Um, so they used to charge us $200 a student plus the $65 student fee. So we would they would charge us less than the allotment because we paid that $65. So we just pay per student. Um, now they're unable to do that just because of rising costs. So, they're going to charge us the allotment. And then they wrote up two separate contracts if we want to continue the covering the

028$65 charge or if you want to pass that off to the students and families. So, I have those two options. Okay. You said we've been covering the 65. >> Yes. Yep. >> What does that amount to annually? >> It was 265. Um Oh, annually. It depends on how many students do driver's ed. So, we get an aotment just for the ninth graders. >> Okay. >> Um but since he hasn't charged us the full aotment, I can't find where we've ever gone over what the state's given us. Um, so there might be potential for us to do that just because of the increase in aotment, but I I couldn't say how many people are going to actually do driver's ed. >> So it wouldn't be an astronomical number if we did. >> I think it's like

02925 bucks per student. >> Do we have that built into action tonight? Yes. >> Action is to uh approve one of the WCC driving. One of them. >> Yeah. So I guess we just we can go into discussion when that happens or we can do it now. Um whatever you would like. >> Does anybody have a pleasure any issue paying for items? Might as well keep it that way. >> And that you know an incoming class now is about 130 students or less uh between 100 and 130 students. So, you know, it could be potential for, you know, if every freshman took it, it would be $65 multiplied by the number of freshman in that class. But the way it's working out right now is not all of those students are taking driver's ed as

030freshman. Some are pushing out longer. You said the difference is only like 25 bucks, right? >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, yeah. What you you have you feel the same, Lisa, on >> I'm good with that. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Okay. >> Inter budget resolution. We went over that. Insurance contracts. Did we go over that? >> Oh, yeah. Sorry. Um, we're just renewing or I like to get us to National School Board Trust. It was um the workers. So since we're on all of those together, they give us that 5% credit once we pay for it. >> Okay. So >> yeah, Millie, one other question on the driver's ed. We had that budgeted for covering it like we have done in the past and what we put together.

031>> It's just budgeted in the aotment. Okay. >> And I don't we've never got over it that I can tell. >> Okay. The potential is there but >> not not likely. Okay. >> Okay. CACFP Ram. >> Miss Michelle. >> Good evening. Um in May, um the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services had came in and done an audit on our afterchool program, which is the child and adult care food program at risk after school meals. Um they had zero findings. You should have a copy of that letter in your um packet this evening. Um, just to give you a little info on the after school meals for this year, we 70,350 students requested a meal for after school. Um, in three of our locations, um, it produced $345,000 in revenue for the school

032nutrition program. Um, it the meals do consist of five components. They have it's like a whole meal. They get the meat or the meat alternate, the grain, the fruit, the vegetable, and the milk when they order these meals and they are served at the end of the day. So >> So 70,000 after school meals were sent out and that put us like after we broke even we made 300. >> No. >> Okay. That's just what it brought in. >> That's what it brought in. And then against the expenses like were we to the good. So I don't keep it separate from my other programs in the same program. Okay. My expenses. Any questions about after school? Um I I do want to kind of slide in summer feeding started today at East Elementary. Um we'll

033be serving breakfast and lunch until July 24th there. And um >> just at the east >> just at east. >> Who all is that available for? >> Any child 18 and under. It's free meals for them. >> Okay. >> They have to be registered with this school. No. >> No ma'am. >> Okay. I want to make sure the community understands that and hears that. >> So anybody can go. Do they sign up? >> And under? No, ma'am. They just walk in between 7:30 and 8:30 for breakfast or 11:30 and 12:30 for lunch and they get a free meal. >> [clears throat] >> how how we uh communicated that mainly I guess Facebook. [snorts] >> Facebook it's been out. >> Has there been any uh call outs or I don't know if it was put on

034the radio maybe or anything like that? >> Not yet. No. >> Okay. >> We do serve CYC too. We deliver meals up there somewhere. >> Okay. >> The rec park will start next week receiving meals too. >> Okay. Anybody else? Okay, >> thank you. >> If the community is interested for 18 and under, they have to go to East. >> Uh they will have to go to East for the meal. >> Okay. >> Next up, article 46 request. >> Yes, sir. So, we had y'all already voted on this once, but we needed to change some things around after we got the application for the repair and renovation from the state uh requested money. Uh, so what we uh had to move off of the um repair and renovation was the roof for the bus garage

035and that has to move to article 46. And through this process, I've learned that what I will do have to do is have to have a letter saying that y'all approved the following items for article 46 and send it up to um the county. And so what is on our article 46 funds right now is um make sure I'm on the right tab, a roof for the bus garage, a tractor, a box truck, an F250, the small projects team salary, and a playground at East Elementary, a playground and installation of that playground at East Elementary. That is what we're requesting for article 46 funds. Um and then what we had to do is move some things to our um repair and renovation fund from the state lottery. Uh and in that we now have um

036the roof for the arts center. Uh it's $85,000 for the roof for the arts center. We are requesting money for um roof for the seventh and eighth grade hall of the current middle school to repair that roof. A bathroom remodel at east and a bathroom remodel at west. We're going to do the the bathrooms right outside of the uh the GM area in both elementary schools. We're doing some HVAC updates uh at the prek. Um they're getting three um mini splits added to the current prek building. We have are going to request uh repair and renovation funds in the amount of 80 just short of $85,000 to pave the lower parking lot and ramp at the high school. You know, we got the additional parking outside of the baseball field. We want to pave that

037and pave the ramp up to the building for the students. And those would be our RNR, repair and renovation fund request. And you would have to vote on those. And Mitch, I have some some documents that have to be sent to the state that the board chair would have to sign if you approve those requests tonight for article 46. And for >> Have we heard anything back from the county on a budget? >> We have not heard anything official. Um I think they had a discussion last week. um does not look like we're getting everything we ask for, but it looks like they're trying to do the best they can for us. Um so, but I've not heard the final final number. >> Any questions on that article 46? >> Just on the bus garage,

038is there I mean, do we think about putting metal on that roof instead of shingles or >> bus garage? I don't know what was asked. The the company um will remove it, replace damaged um fascia on everything. Um do an a synthetic underline layment. Um ice and water shield. Um new gutters. It is architectural shingles. So I don't know if they they priced metal for that building or not, but it's coming with architectural shingles. And it's a it's a $33,925 request uh quote from the company. >> Did we not want to look at metal? I mean, >> we could we could potentially look for metal. I don't know if the company he found does metal or not. Uh but we could price metal. It's just I don't I didn't know if there's a reason just

039to go with shingles or not. There might might be some of that. Um I don't know how much the removal of the old roofing is costing us in that quote, but if you go with metal, you might not have to even remove the old >> just lay it on top of it. Yeah. >> Yep. So, I'll have I'll have Brandon follow up with uh that company to see if if they do um metal. >> Okay. Anybody else [clears throat] got a question, concern? Good. Our first reading policies. So, you have a list that we've uh we've gone over some. These were the ones that uh there was some some discussion, a few changes. Uh the first one was policy 1310. Um a parental involvement. Uh there was just some a reference in B1 added. Um

040and then a description on religious-based exemption from school programs and it updated some cross references. Barb the Mitch and RL read over that one. um okayed it and Barbara read it and it it aligns with things we're doing already. So there's no significant [snorts] changes for us. So we thought we'd put that forward for first reading. Um then we have the board meeting agenda. Uh that one it's changed a little bit. That's policy 2330. Um RL and Mitch talked about uh in the current the policy that it was given to us talks about 6 days uh but they they were agreed to a 5-day leave. So instead of getting your packets on Fridays, you would get your packets Thursday afternoons. And so Joanne and I would just have to adjust our schedule moving forward so

041that those would be ready for you Thursday afternoons. And the policy came with the 6 day, but we were going to adjust that to a 5-day. Correct. >> So that was one update. And I'll be honest at this point in time, I do have a contact now to how to get these updated, but I do not have word documents of these yet. So I'm working with him so I can actually type in that uh to reflect what changes you've requested. Um 2340 with uh parliamentary procedures. Uh there was uh one of the requests was to look at our board policy uh around chair voting. There's not no restrictions on our chair voting. So there was no no real substantial updates to the par parliamentary procedures for us. that is policy [clears throat] 2340. Uh then

042we have technology responsible use and there was some uh language clarification in part B uh 9D. Uh we discussed that and then I sent it on out to uh Mr. Holt uh Karen Williams um and uh Karen Cook. They've reviewed it. There's a few questions uh but no no um no disagreement or problems just as as we adopt this some some clarity we'll need to provide to those uh moving forward uh things that I think we already do uh but they just want to clarify that that it's correct um one is uh most of V9 is about uh student recordings u and um the other question was making sure that if they get permission to post from parents, parents get permission to post their kids on social media, if we would continue doing that and

043that the answer would be yes to that. So, no real concerns about that one. And then the electronically stored uh information. It was just some minor editorial updates and up updates to the legal references uh but no substantial uh changes to that one. And then we have policy 6220, operations of school nutrition. Uh it updated some language uh about students and unpaid meal charges and some minor editorial changes and then updates and footnotes. Um Michelle said there was no substantial changes to her. Um and so we we moved that one forward for first reading. And then the last one off for first reading tonight is policy 7130 lure. uh and that just some clarifying language, updates to legal reference and updates to footnotes. Uh but Levanda said there is no substantial changes to the way

044we do lure or support uh employees as they pursue their lure. So that is all of the discussion. Any of you any of you have discussion around any of those policy updates and our first reading now? Uh, I did receive back the 4342. Yes, I'll be sending that to you. I thought I had sent it, >> but it did not go through. So, I'll send that to you in RL. >> Yes, sir. No problems. And one of the things we've done, uh, I think RL and Mitch has has been the policy review committee in the past. So, after they look at them and we discuss any updates or changes and they agree like it looks good to them, we are now sending it on to the department that is impacted. and so that those department

045uh people have a chance to proofread them and read over them to see if there's any significant updates to their operations uh before we bring them to you tonight as first read. So sitting on that 3225 that needed clarification so we we've got that now right clarification from Joe. >> Yes. Yeah, we I I talked to all of those people and it was no real changes to anything that we do. Uh they they did recommend maybe some posting some signs in their art center or some way to to notify people during performances if there are uh restrictions on the music or anything that's being being used and posting it on on social media and things. But that no real no real changes from then. They were good with it. I I sent that out to

046all of them. Anybody? [clears throat] Okay. Before action, uh, we are going to go into a close session. Do I have a motion to go into close session? I make a motion for the board of education to go into close session pursuant to general statute 143-318.11 under subsection A1 and five to prevent disclosure of privilege and confidential information. >> Have a motion. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor stand up. Shouldn't take long enough. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Hey. Hey. Hey. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Baby, [music] don't do >> [music] [music] >> baby [music] down hey baby hey hey Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Hey, heat. Hey, heat. >> [music] [music] >>

047Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Baby [music] [music] >> [music] >> D hey. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Hey, [music] [music] hey, hey. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. [music] Hey, heat. Hey, heat. >> [music] [music] >> Hello. [music] Hello. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Hey. Hey.

048Hey. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Going around. [music] Going around. >> [music] >> Do [music] hey [music] baby. >> [music] [music] >> Hey, [music] hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. N. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Hey, hey, hey. [music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Baby. [music] Hey >> [music] [music] >> hey. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hey. [music] [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >>

049[music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hello. [music] Oh. >> [music] [music] >> on. [music] Hey >> [music] [music] >> Hey. Hey. Hey. >> [music] [music] >> Hey, >> [music] >> D [music] hey [music] >> [music] [music] >> D hey. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Hey. [music] Hey. Hey. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. N. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Hey, hey, hey.

050[music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. >> [music] >> Donkey [music] baby. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. N. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Hey, Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. N. [music] >> [music] [music] >> I don't [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> God. Hold in here. [clears throat] >> Okay, we are moving to the consent agenda with the amendments that were made. >> Yes. >> Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda with the amendments that were made? >> And what are the amendments? The amendments are we're approving fall sports contracts band and drama and we'll improving uh the personnel

051and minutes from May 11, 2026 >> and the contract renewals. >> It's cross country also. >> Yes, cross country. It's part of the fall sports. >> Okay. Yes. >> Yes. >> We're going to approve fall sports contracts only. um the personnel and then the May 11th, 2026 board meeting minutes. >> Okay. With band and drama. So moved. >> Band and drama. Yes. >> Okay. I've got a motion in a second. All in favor raise your right hand. Motion carries. [clears throat] On to action. I'll turn it over to Dr. Sutton. >> Okay. I recommend that Swain County Board of Education approve the CTE annual plan. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion second. All in favor, raise your right hand. Good. I recommend that the Swain County Board of Education approve the budget amendments as

052presented. >> Motion. >> Second. All >> in favor, raise your right hand. >> I recommend that the Swain County Board of Education approve the interim budget resolution. >> Is that the continuing budget? >> That's the continuing budget. Yeah. And then we will also add a one on down there uh for the uh year >> a year and a bud budget amendment. So as we clean up June, Mitch could sign off on those and then she'll present them in July. >> Okay. >> But we'll add that to the end. So >> we have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. All in favor, raise your right hand. >> Okay. >> I recommend the Swain County Board of Education approve the auto inland contract with the North Carolina School Board Trust. Motion. >> Second. >> I

053got a motion. Got a second. Everybody in favor raise your right hand. Approved. I recommend the Swain County Board of Education approved the workers compensation contract with the North Carolina School Board Trust. >> Got a motion. Got a second. All in favor raise your hand. Excuse me. It's passed. I recommend that Swain County Board of Education approve the Syber contract with U CHB. Motion. >> Motion. Got a motion. We got a second. >> Second. All in favor, raise your right hand. Wasn't for sure if that's an abbreviation for something. >> Chub. Chub. Chub. Yeah. >> Wasn't for sure. The other the other ones >> when in doubt. >> Yeah. >> Spell it out. Um, I would recommend that Swain County Board of Education approve the WNC driving contact contract for that. We continue to pay

054the $65 fee. >> Contract A. >> So moved. >> Motion. Second. All in favor? Reg. >> I recommend that Swain County Board of Education approve of the article 46 request. Motion. >> Got a motion. >> Second. All in favor raise your right hand. >> Moved. >> I recommend that the Swing County Board of Education approve the repair and renovation request. >> We was going to check about the metal. >> We check on the metal. Yeah. But uh we'll check on the metal, but do you we we need to submit that request to do that before the end of June so that we can get funds in July to actually do it. >> Okay. >> Uh so we will check on the metal, but either either metal or shingles if we can move forward. >> It

055may be less and we've already budgeted for the 33. So >> So I'll motion I'll make a motion we do that. >> Got a second. >> Second. All in favor raise your right hand. >> Moved. All right. And I recommend the Swan County Board of Education approve the first reading of the policies mentioned above. >> Motion. >> Got a motion. >> Second. All in favor, raise your right hand. And we have one last one. >> Yes. >> Um I recommend that uh the Swain County Board of Education approve the resolution to allow the board chair to sign off on June budget budget amendments as we close out the year. >> Motion. >> Second. Got a second. All in favor, raise your right hand. Approved. We have some >> We got [clears throat] some FYI dates

056of importance. M Dr. Sutton, if you want to expound on any of those. >> Um yes. So, going in closing out the year here, uh we'll have holiday July 3rd. Uh for our Fourth of July, uh Swain County Schools offices have moved to uh 10hour work days. So, we're working Monday through Thursday for 10 hours. Um, and we've got several gear up trips that you'll notice down there uh in June. An FFA state competition in June and then plenty of gear up trips in July also. So, staying busy. And then our next meeting will be July 13th. Is everybody good with that? >> July 13th, >> I think. So, yeah. >> Five o'clock. Cody, he's thinking. >> If you're not, we can >> make an amendment. >> I I should be, but if we have

057to, I'll see. >> So, tentatively. >> Yeah, tentatively. I should be good. >> Okay. 5:00. >> 5:00 and we have some transfers there on the back page. [clears throat] Okay. Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. Have a >> second. All in favor stand up. >> All right. >> Not in favor. >> I am in favor. I raised my hand. That's close enough. [laughter] >> 32. >> Yeah. >> Mitch, I got some things that you will need to sign, buddy. Yes.

This transcript may contain errors introduced by automated or source-provided captioning. Bracketed descriptions such as [Music] are retained from the source. Passage divisions are editorial aids and do not alter the wording.