001Will all who are registered voters, will please rise, and uh Mr. West will lead us in our prayer, and then Mr. Mayes will lead us in our pledge. Father, we're thankful, Father, for the many blessings in life you've given us. We pray, Father, that any decision we make tonight will have a positive impact on our school system. We pray for students, teachers, and support staff. May we continue to have a safe and healthy school year. Father, we pray for the sick in our community. May they be restored to a measure of good health. Most of all, Father, we thank you for Jesus Christ and the sacrifice he made on the cross. God guard and direct us in everything we do. It's in your holy name we pray. Amen. Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of
002the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome, everyone, to our April board meeting. We appreciate you joining us tonight. Move to item three on the agenda, approve the minutes of the March 12th, 2026 regular session as received. I move to approve that. Mr. Henson. Second. Seconded by Mr. West. Any discussion? If not, all in favor, I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item four, approve the agenda for the April 9th, 2026 regular session as you have in front of you. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Ashworth. Seconded by Mr. Ashworth. Any discussion? If not, all in favor, any opposed? Motion passes. Item five is our public comment period. See any public comment? No, that's good. Item six, consider tenure for
003A, Matt Craghead, Clay County High School, and B, Tina Drumright, Clay County High School. Baseball game? Anyone want to speak? Matt Craghead would. Yeah. Miss Tina might, too. Y'all want to speak? Do we want to speak? I just made a comment because you wanted to speak. >> Miss Tina. Mr. Matt said he wanted to bomb this, so I was just going to let y'all know that. For getting his tenure? Well, you're the one that was talking about the extra days off. I just like to thank you for the opportunity to be able to come home and do what I do. It's come full circle for me. Even pulling in the parking lot was like, I really am home. So, thank you for that opportunity, and I look forward to continuing my service with you. Um
004I just like to thank you guys for the opportunity to continue my career here. Of course, I come out of industry and become a teacher, and that was a great change for both me and my family. And this is my sixth year teaching, and so it's hard to believe that I've been here for six years. I look forward to many more, and so thank all of y'all for your support. Thank you for your support with our ag program and our FFA chapter over here. Before we get into uh Dr. Tipton, he could not be here. I asked him to go to the baseball game at Gainesville. They had a tournament tonight. Uh he strongly recommends both teachers, and I strongly recommend both teachers, and they're two of our best. Thank you. Question for Miss Williams?
005Sir. You have no problem? You got a problem with I don't have a You got to talk about that when we talk about it. Yes. No. >> We have motion on the floor again by Ms. Weer seconded by Mr. May. Any further discussion? And may I know did you have teaching? I'm on 26. I win it. What 20 of those were in Sumter County? Yes, sir. You have motion on the floor to approve tenure. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Just on behalf of the board, first of all, we want to thank both of you very much. One for being here. We We appreciate it when we are granting tenure that the teachers show up. But, more so for your dedication to your profession. We're so grateful for
006you and people like you that give so much time and effort, concern and compassion in what you do. We're so grateful for you and really appreciate the job that you do. Again, look forward to meeting with you. Item seven. Consider tenures to be reinstated for A, Miriam Dillingham, Saluda K-8, and B, Ms. Christina McGee, Holly Springs School. These individuals have been with us over the years and then have have are back with us now. So, we're grateful for that and offered a lot of service as well. No principals for their respective school. Well, Mr. Dr. Tippins is here. Yeah, she's good. No, she's been a real help in the transition this year the way things work and the way things they've done in the past. Thoroughly recommend. And Mr. David Maxfield, he is really sick.
007He's been sick for a year or two now, but he recommends Ms. Gillenwater as well. And I strongly recommend both of them as well. Motion by Mr. West. Seconded by Mr. Weir. We'd love for you guys to speak as well. Ms. Christian, you want to be out of habit. Um I left after my mom passed away and I am so grateful that y'all welcomed me back. I got my half years and interim teacher and then I'm back in middle school and that's just where I feel like I need to be. I love those kids with everything I that I am and I hope that I can continue working for you. I appreciate you being here. I was here for 6 years and then I went to Overton County for 2 years. That's where I grew
008up, so I thought I was going home, but it just hits different, so thankful to be back. And I'm good. Thank you. In motion on the floor by Mr. West, seconded by Mr. Weir to reinstate Tim. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. And again, thank both of you as well for your service. Not only the last couple years, but before that as well. We're we're grateful to you. We appreciate the appreciate the all the hard work that you guys do. I'll say the lot of them come back. They do? They appreciate that. Move to item eight, consider the bid for category two E-rate equipment, switches, access points, and associated licenses from Central Technologies Central Technologies, excuse me. Retroactive to March 20, 2026. You have a copy of that
009bid in your packet. We talked about this briefly, I believe, at the last board meeting. There were a few things that we were waiting on from the E-rate contracts. They weren't available at the time for our last board meeting. Um but we were able to approve those with an executive order. And we would ask the board approve those currently at this time. Anything else we need to consider, Mr. This is the equipment we talked about several months ago that when we evaluated it to keep our old equipment, it's going to cost us roughly $20,000 a year in licensing fees. And by doing this with the E-rate offset, we will get new equipment and 5 years of licensing fees included and save the board somewhere close to $40,000 over 5 years and get the new equipment.
010We thought it was more cost-effective to recommend replacing, getting the license and everything than keeping old equipment. I'll make a motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Sherrill. Second by Mr. Weir. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passed. Item nine, consider textbook adoptions for schedule E, PE health education, CTE advanced manufacturing, and CTE information technology. You have a breakdown. Those textbook adoption recommendations? Ms. Misty, This adoption cycle, we have to select textbook titles and we have formed a committee of the teachers that pertain to those titles and those subject areas. Um selecting is not purchasing. The way the state requires districts to operate is that when textbook adoption rotates and it's their year to adopt, adoption is just considering what the state approves as your choices, and then from that list
011of choices, we choose one title per subject, and then over the next 9 years, if we had a need to purchase, then that would be the time we would purchase. At this time, we do not plan to purchase these textbooks. It's just selecting a title, uh because as you see on that list, some of those courses are taught by CTE instructors, and they provide their own textbooks. But in the next 9 years, none of us know what the future holds. So, if that ever changes in the next 9 years, then this will be the title that Crockett schools would purchase for that class. Um also, computer science is currently taught at Crockett High School as a graduation requirement, but we use a free curriculum provided by Tennessee Department of Education. So, at this time, there's
012no need to purchase, but we do have to select so that over the course of the next 9 years, if we did have to buy, this is the title that we would buy. And it was a unanimous decision by all the teachers who reviewed the materials provided by the state. Does anybody have any questions? Make a motion to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Webb. I'll second. Seconded by Mr. Webb. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passed. Item 10, consider the 2025-2026 school nutrition program budget amendment. You have a copy of the proposed amendment in your packet. Ms. Dean? Yes, um on this amendment the main reason I had to do an amendment this year is because my service and repairs um they are going over what I budgeted because
013as you all know, Clay County High School is now 20-something years old and that equipment's not ever been replaced or repaired. And this is the year. Um I have replaced how many compressors a compressor in every single school in almost every single freezer and refrigerator. I'm fixing to have to purchase another compressor for Clay County High School for the walk-in cooler. Um I did not have to touch the fund balance. I'm just moving some items around which is listed. And I amended four categories that might be close cuz I had Ashley to run my expenditure summary. And so anything that we thought was close, I just went ahead and took care of it tonight so that I would not have to do a second amendment. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Sheriff seconds by
014Mr. Mayes. Any discussion? Could you these what you're decreasing and you could afford to move that money, right? Yes, yes. Everything in the bottom those last bottom three, the money that I moved it from, that was money that I have left over in those line items and I just moved it up to the other line item. Motion on the floor by Mr. Sherrill, seconded by Mr. Mayes. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor, uh any opposed? Motion passes. Brings us to item 11, Consider the 2025-2026 general purpose school budget amendment number four. Here's that simple action. And this will not be my last one. I will have to bring another one. We do not have summer camp funds allocated yet, so you will see that one coming whenever we get that allocation, probably next
015month. So, I'm not going to go over all the little bitty ones because those are just in your benefits. Unemployment went up. Um this had been $21 and $35 per person, so we had to make that adjustment. You're going to see some retirement adjustments, social security, and insurance. Those are all just benefits benefits that match those salaries. But, I'll go over the bigger ones. Some of these you have on the agenda that you're going to vote on next, but we wanted to make sure and go ahead and put them in the amendment, then if you vote differently, we can change the amendment back in May. Um the regular instruction equipment is an extra purchase purchase of Chromebooks. We'll go into more detail about that shortly. Um the extra 20,000 that you see down there under
016contracted services, that's extra funds that we need for OT, PT, and speech to serve those children. Um the other contracted services that's 20,000 to 45, that's the public school safety and security grant, which we're using to do the windows with at the district office. And then the site development is I don't know if you guys recall, but we talked about some capital outlay projects that we needed to do when we decided how our budget was going to look this next summer, and paving at Sonna K8 and Polk County High School was on that. In looking at those projects with some people, they Sonna K8 seems to be the greatest need at the time, so we have put some money in there for that. We have no idea what that's going to come in like. It's
017something we're going to ask you to seek bids and look at, but that would be hopefully enough to help us get further along the road with that. Um, I went down here on the decreased expenditure side. Um, as Ms. Misty told you the textbook part, she wasn't going to buy this year. So, we're going to move that hundred thousand out for the Chromebooks, OT, PT, and speech, and some capital outlay. And then you'll notice I don't usually do that in the building construction and payments and capital outlay at the bottom, but I'm moving that to the site development to help with the paving project if you guys allow us to do that. Then at the bottom you'll see increased in revenues. Um, we got a Tennessee tutoring grant, um, some money from a youth risk
018behavior survey that Robin and some of the high school teachers participated in. The public school security grant, flood control brought in some extra funds this year, and then insurance recovery for um, the roof that's on the agenda that you'll see here shortly. So, they're all in there to help fund those increases in expenditures. Any questions on amendment number four? Make a motion to approve the amendment number four as amended. I'll make a motion to second it by Ms. Williams. Any discussion? If not, all in favor. Aye. Any opposed? No. Motion passes. Item 12, consider quotes for sanding, repainting, sealing, finishing the gym floor at Horace Springs School. Um, you should have if you were able to see it, Mr. Edwards has sent out um, some of this information that you also have in your packet
019tonight previously. Um, Dr. Peoples could probably address this as well as anyone. Every year we redo the the floor, reseal it. We've come to a point we cannot do that anymore until we address the issues. There are some gouges in the floor. They're not a safety hazard today, but 6 months down the road they could be. So, it has to be taken all the way down to wood, repaint, refinish it with a clear coat, and add some volleyball lines that we just had to put down with tape the last time. I think he mentioned Praters was the low bid. I've worked with them for years. They're a national company. They do a lot of the final four final four floors and things. It's a good bunch. And now, this will going down to wood and
020doing a water base, it will make the floor a whole lot lighter. The lines cuz a lot of times if you put a line down in a color and then use the oil base, it'll change that color. With water base, it won't do that. So, whatever the the colors are, that's what it'll stay. Yeah. Did Mr. Edwards say Praters is who we used the last time to redo the high school gym? Praters is a good company. How did the gauges get in the floor? You got any idea? Some of Some of it's over time. Some of it was putting down the temporary lines for volleyball and when they pulled them up and it pulled the clear coat and everything off. There's a couple of them I have no idea. So, they're just the school is
021all that's using that floor, correct? I mean, there's Well, there there are groups who rent it for birthday parties and things, but yeah. Volleyball and basketball typically is all that's Yes. And MP, obviously. Yeah. I make a motion to go with Praters. Motion by Mr. West. Second by Mr. Maze. Praters is a good company. Any discussion? And motion on the floor by Mr. West, seconded by Mr. Maze. If no discussion, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 13, consider the quotes for a new mower. You have a copy of several quotes here in your packet. You received those as well by email. This is something that uh we've got budgeted for equipment. We've got six quotes there. And I guess the first two are both I guess more comparable, if you will, with the
022larger engines. Matthew, you got any Uh what I can say as far as on on personal opinion here, we've run Grasshopper the whole time I've been here, and that's 2010 on. I'm pretty much all-time with that serial numbers. And they've been good motors. I have nothing bad to say about them. Parts are local. And I have a Scag. On a personal note, I have run the Scags. I know they're a good mower, too. But there is not a parts dealer in the state. So. That's the main thing that I've got to say about that. Uh When you get to that cat mower, they're all pretty good mowers. I mean, you know, we made it pretty pretty decent mowers. So there's none of them you could say is a cheap mower. Uh he and I have
023talked about like quote number six and quote number five. We made notes on there with a smaller engine from what he's used to. And then a demo, and that company's getting out of the mower business. So those two he he was kind of let's try to stay away from those if we can. And then we looked hard at quote number one and number two. Yeah, the last two Grasshoppers we had bought, that particular engine and model, they don't make them anymore. So you'd have to step down or step up. If they're about at same price, which one did you get? I mean I mean it's Am I right that 13 255 and 13 349 and this has got a big engine. Yeah, I I mean I would think I would think that a big bigger
024engine's better. So. Are we good? That would that cure what you need done, right? It sure will. Who's going to use that's what we'll get. I mean you're the one who'll be using it. >> Yes. Yes. I mean yes. $100 difference. Yeah, I'd love to have a mower like this. I got you. I'll make a motion to get that approved. Quote number two? Quote two? Yeah, I I I guess. Yes. Motion by Mr. Ashlock to proceed with quote two and that was seconded by Mr. Sherrill. From Copeland's. Need to make sure that the maintenance people are the only ones that's running this one for us. Yeah. We'll try our very best to make sure that. I know you want to keep jumping these words. Yeah, I like that when I get get the key they
025start, so. You have a motion on the floor by Mr. Ashlock seconded by Mr. Sherrill to go with quote number two from Copeland's Lawn Supply. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passed. Item 14, consider quotes for Chromebooks. You have a copy of those quotes in your packet as well. I believe the low bid is our prior provider, Troxler. Uh and a couple of things I think that that Troxler could probably address better than I, but Yeah, there are there's some concern I think of increased prices in the near future. Yes, most of these quotes expire as of tomorrow because prices are changing weekly going up and our fleet what we're facing now a lot of the ones that are kind of approaching into service are the ones we bought
026during COVID or at the start of the COVID and we bought it you know very large quantities and we've got to replace those and it's mainly for state mandated testing whether it be AIMSweb or your intercourses 10-ready all the required testing that students have to do. Next year that's going to change in some form or fashion to second through you know 12th grade instead of just 6th through 12th grade. I mean do you have any idea about how many Chromebooks we've got? Around a thousand that are testable and operational. >> Yeah. Uh 1,100 that we can actually use to test. A little over 1,100. I think it's 1,123. And some of those are 6 years old? Plus 6 plus, yeah. And some of them are >> We just get 90 more. Yes. You getting good
027service with the mobile data here? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you getting good service with the mobile data on there? Yes, absolutely. We can ship a damaged one off and usually within 2 weeks it's back in our hands repaired and ready to go back to the classroom. So you're good with that? Yes. I make a motion to go with the mobile data. Motion from Mr. Sherrill seconded by Mr. Weir. You want to confirm the service provider is Mobile Beacon? I think we're wanting to Yes, sir. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 15. Consider roof replacement on old auditorium due to storm damage. Uh as the old auditorium is attached to this building, we're currently using it uh for a lot of storage. About uh well, a couple months ago
028now almost, uh there was a storm that rolled through, peeled back large portion of the roof. Uh so, Mr. Rowe uh consulted with Turner Roofing uh to be able to repair that. And uh the repair in and of itself was about $7,500. Of course, a portion of that would be covered by insurance. Uh in addition, um I think there was a discussion that day in regards to uh repair versus replace because uh obviously you know that that's that roof is has seen its better days as well. And so, there was uh consideration given, and I would ask that the board consider it as well, to consider replacing the entire roof at this point. Uh it would be something that will have to be done in the near future. At this point, we have uh is
029it $8,700 or $7,500? $7,500. We have We do have $7,500 from insurance to go towards this project uh as well. So, again, it's uh it is a little pricey uh as far as an excess of the repair, uh but it would provide something that will last us a long time in this process. Uh Turner Roofing is someone we've used quite frequently uh over the last several years. They helped us out with the K8. They've even done some stuff with the high school as well. This building here, Mike could probably speak to that. >> Yeah. Not a lot of people would probably be working on the Well, there's not many I don't know any locally. I mean, you're you're limited an hour and a half out of town to get somebody to come here and mess
030with this. And I can speak for the auto part of it. It's got It's held down makeshift now. We really had to do some rigging to make it stay down to what's required, but it's it's worth the mad chain. It really is. I think Jack put the other roof on and I think he thought it was in 1990-ish, about 35 years ago. And we wrote something up in there that you guys can read or whatever with the documentation of it because the urgency of the water coming in that and us needing to do that, we would be doing that as an emergency purchase. If you guys approve that tonight, we'd probably put it in the minutes that way. And when you use that, would you buy off and those directors and stuff that you're about
031to do? We need a a safe dry place. Okay. This is a what? Just a one price, no no no competition price for this is a No. The insurance company amended together to get that and that's what they gave us the people the price, so um, that that would be if we had to seek bids and do all that process, we would be a couple more months out. Make a motion to approve the motion to approve the plan. Motion to approve the motion of Mr. West. Second. Second by Ms. Weed. Any discussion? And again, as I actually said, this is a little unique um, due to the emergency situation to get it redone. Um, so so, will be disclosed accordingly. This mean, bad weather was just now starting to make some noise, so. You have
032a motion on the floor by Mr. West, seconded by Ms. Weir. Any discussion? When they were doing this rather quickly? No further discussion. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passed. Item 16, consider requesting bids for grading paving project at Solana K8. Um, as I actually discussed a moment ago, in the budget process with the amendment we made, um, the paving projects have been something that have been on our five-year plan for some time now. Um, Mr. Monroe had, uh, company come out and look and kind of evaluate, draw up some specs for the project. Uh, and in their opinion, um, Solana K8 was, uh, in the biggest need. Uh, all three of our facilities, all three schools are in need of some paving, but, uh, they thought that Solana K8, uh, needed paving worse
033than any. Uh, the the quote that we have, uh, or estimate, if you will, uh, that has been provided as part of the spec process was considerable. Uh, we can discuss that outside of the meeting. We don't want to give away any, uh, bidding advantage, but, uh, as a result, we brought the Solana K8 paving project to you tonight. Um, again, that we we proposed a budget limit for it earlier. Uh and that uh about professional opinion is the city most in need of a a paving project. So, if uh you so choose, we'll request bids tonight and begin working on that process. I don't know that we will be able to rece- uh have bids back by next month, but more than likely by June. Uh that would be something that would be in
034this budget year uh to to get accomplished. So, I'll make a motion to request bids. Motion by Mr. Harold. Second. Seconded by Mr. West. Again, this is just requesting bids. If uh the bids are outrageous and over budget, we're not committed any. So, you have a motion on the floor by Mr. Sherrill, seconded by Mr. West, to request bids for the project paving project at Saluda Dam. Any discussion? If not, all in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 17, consider the following trip request. A, Clover High School girls basketball from Clover High School girls basketball for a team camp from June the 4th through the 6th, 2026. You have a copy of that. Request for out-of-school trip request, anything like that? Motion by Mr. Weir. Mr. Harold. Answer the chapter on the sign back
035there. Yes. She wants the parents to go, Mr. West, to watch all the games as well. I'll say. Seconded by Weeks. Any discussions? If not, all in favor? Uh Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 18, consider the following policies on first reading. A, revise policy 3.400 revenue, and B, revise policy 6.411 student wellness. You have a copy of those revised policies in your packet. These are Some of these changes, especially in the revenues, I know is based on TCA changes. I believe they added that last rounding section and cash transactions there. And then student wellness is the one that we review annually in April and revise by TSBA and reviewed by TSBA. Those are minor changes in our policies. And this is first reading. Motion by Ms. Weir. Seconded by Mr. Henson. Any discussion? If not,
036all in favor? Uh Any opposed? Motion passes. That brings us to our principal's report, Dr. Peoples. You got to speak for all three, I think. They don't want me to do that. We held the parent-teacher conferences right before break, along with kindergarten and pre-K registration. There was a very light turnout, usually is in the spring. Overall, our numbers are down kind of across the board. We held Easter egg hunts for the lower grades last Thursday. The had the alumni dinner last Saturday. Big turnout for that. Held a sports banquet this last Monday. We had our most recent fire, lockdown, and take cover drills. The SRO award for March went to kindergartner Parker Crowder. And the attendance reward program is still going strong. Miss Tara's third grade came out on top for the third term and
037they're leading for the fourth. They enjoyed it so much they all keep coming back cuz they were rewarded with a popcorn prize pack. Miss Debbie put together this wonderful thing. Miss Monroe got to see it. And the kids absolutely loved it. The last award will probably be Gary Burger or something like that. That's it. Any questions for Dr. King? Thank you, sir. You do have a copy of your hands-on Mr. Maxfield's reports in your packet as well. Mr. Monroe said they're available for you tonight. Mr. Monroe? Um We've come back from spring break and everybody's working really hard getting ready for the spring testing. Um We've got a lot of facilities update for you. The Brownfield grant abatement process in the basement here and in the old gym are underway. They may be finished within
038here, but they're still working on the old gym. Um the I hope you've looked at it when you passed by Clay County High School the new drainage ditch. Soil conservation grant. Uh they're finished with that. And we really, really appreciate that. That's for about to be with it $40 or $50,000 grant. Actually, 38. 38. 38. Uh Clay County Schools, Miss Misty wrote a grant for free shoes. And uh we were able to get 50 pairs of shoes for needy children. And I have the honor and the privilege of delivering some of these shoes to some needy children, and that's been the highlight for me lately. We want to congratulate Ms. Kim Upton on her retirement after 33 years with the Clay County School System, and we again congratulate her for being hired with the Ayers
039Foundation at Clay County High School. We're really proud for her years of service and thank her for that. We have two new employees for you. Cheyenne Cross and Judy Hatcher are our two new employees. Um Ashley in the finance office are working really hard for the audit process. And then, as you all know, the budget. Ashley's knee deep in the budget. And you all can tell Tina, and Ashley, everybody works hard with keeping all the money in order and keeping us all straight. The CTE students, and I'm sure Mr. Matt's going to give us a good update. Mr. Matt, you want to jump in there with CTE? Yeah, I can. Please do. Oh, this is busy time for CTE. Uh we had our FFA state convention, and uh took 14 kids up there and come
040back with just a longer list of different awards and accolades they got. Uh we had uh probably six, seven, eight kids on stage throughout the week. Had one team in the bull pen contest, which is basically Shark Tank for ag kids. Uh they ended up winning state in that contest. Our food science team, which is they this team has been working this contest for three years now, and they were state runner-ups this year. So, that was exciting to finally get on stage with that. They was uh fourth last year and third the year before that. So, they keep climbing up the ranks there. Uh had seven kids get their state degrees there, and there's several other things on there. Uh FBLA just got back today from Thursday convention. They took I think it was four
041kids uh down there, and come back with a first success there in some contest and got to be active there. Uh across the board beyond that, all of our programs are active. I was in the welding shop today and they're rebuilding uh one of the welding graders out there right now and got several kids working on certifications and you know, you go out there right now and they're the kids are always welding. You know, there's progress being made there. Um on the nursing side, I know they've been working through a lot of their certifications and some of their practices. Kind of the same thing there. You know, when I be going in there, there's normally a kid that are active and doing something uh related to that field of study. Uh then I talked to
042Mr. Laberda today and he's in charge of the TAP program and um they was working through a uh digital lesson uh decoding basically where he put together a set of different lessons for them and kids are going through and basically breaking down the lessons and looking at what works and what didn't. And uh one of that last week I was in the hallway and um uh Mr. Laberda was demonstrating a lesson on how to build a uh paper airplane. He did the first one in kind of a negative way or a bad way for a teacher to teach and then he did the second one um using some of the better practices and the kids were breaking that down and then they had to teach the same lesson. So, that was really neat to watch.
043And then uh across the hallway in family consumer sciences, they've been in uh full prom mode. They had about 60 tablecloths they was ironing on today. Um I know they've been cooking. Uh I think they got their aprons done this week. Uh And on Wednesdays, they're doing mental health Wednesdays where they'll take and look at different mental health aspects and work through it with the kids. So, a lot of progress going on there. And I think that covers it all. If I missed something, I'm sorry, but uh we got your newsletter and you're welcome to ask any questions you got there. Mr. Matt left out that Clay County received a superior chapter award at the convention, right Mr. Matt? >> We did. We did. Congratulations on all of that. >> Thank you. Uh all of
044the Clay County teachers and staff want to say a big thank you. The Easter meal that Ms. T and her staff provided was wonderful. Turkey and dressing, thank you all board for providing that. That everybody sincerely appreciates that. Guys, it's kindergarten and pre-K pre-K registration time. If you know of any children that need to attend pre-K or kindergarten, we have applications everywhere. Ms. Misty and her bunch has even uh took some applications and presented to some churches for them to hand out if you've got any younger children in your churches. Um planning is well under way for summer camp. Uh Ms. Amy Dotson in the safe schools area and Glenda Harris, SRO at Clay County High School, they're conducting preliminary walk-throughs and correcting any deficiencies that they see before Homeland Security comes to do walk-throughs.
045Uh in technology, uh Ms. Church and Robbie are busy keeping us all updated for our testing equipment. It's very important to have good computers, good equipment when testing season comes. Thank y'all for getting all that ready. We appreciate everything everybody does. Any questions for Ms. Monroe? One thing I wanted to mention that you should have received I think it's in there. maybe a couple different ways, but you should have received an evaluation for Ms. Monroe. Um it is we're required by policy and state law once a year to do an evaluation of our director. You've got a copy of that. If you need another copy, I've got one here tonight. If you would like a copy, email to you. I would be glad to do that as well. Um it's our goal. I know we've
046thrown a lot at you tonight. We'll throw some more at you next month and even more probably in June. So, it is my goal to be able to discuss the evaluation next month. So, please be mindful of that. Uh fill out your evaluation and get it back to me. You can get it back to me in a number of ways. You can mail it, you can email it, you can drop it off here. Uh and they will seal it up for me and nobody will look at it except for me and then I will evaluate those results and again we will discuss that Lord willing at our May meeting. We'll have to advertise accordingly as well as we always do when uh those things are done. So, please if you if you will, please participate
047and fill out the evaluation. As always, if you have any questions, let me know. Uh Mr. Ashworth had spoken to him Monday. He didn't answer today, but Mr. Ashworth He's in good spirits. Hopefully he's sitting in the hospital and gets up. They have a place down there like a little apartment complex, I guess. I haven't been there. Where they can They can stay there while he's He got space up over the hospital, I understand. But he's he's in good spirits, but still no word on how everything will be anything if his transplant work and all that. Hopefully he he He's in really good spirits, so. Any other new business that needs to come before the board at this time? I think Ray would make a motion that would be good, but Motion by Ms. Ray
048to adjourn. Seconded by Mr. West. We adjourn. Thank you.