001will please rise and lead us in their prayer and then our two board members will lead us in the place. >> Let us pray. Our God who art in heaven, we come to you at this time thanking you for this day and all the blessings of life. We thank you heavenly father for the great sacrifice that you made by sending your son here upon this earth to die for our sins and help us to remember that each day of our lives. Heavenly Father, we are so grateful for the school system that we're a part of. And we pray, heavenly father, that you will watch over it and continue to bless it with safety and guidance for young people and those who work in our system. Heavenly Father, we know that there are many who are
002sick and less fortunate than we are. And we come to you at this time on behalf of those and especially for Todd Upton. We ask that you would continue to bless him as he is trying to recruit from his illness and help him to overcome if it be your will. Be with him and his family and those who are around about it. Heavenly Father, we are so thankful for our school system and each young person that represents our school system. We are so thankful that they have an attitude of wanting to learn and to do good and help make our county and our community good. Heavenly Father, help us as we are about to make decisions that we will do things that will help them in their endeavor and help the school system and help
003those that pay for. Help us to be mindful of everything that we say and do while here upon this board. Continue to bless us. Be merciful towards us. forgive us of our sins. For this we humbly ask in Christ's holy name. Amen. >> Aliance 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. >> Want to welcome everyone to our January board meeting. We appreciate everyone in attendance. We also appreciate the opportunity to be here in our new CPU building. Glad to be here and wonderful thing to see when it all as it's all come to fruition. So, thank you for that. We'll move into item three on the agenda. Approve the minutes of the December 11th,
0042025 regular session as received. >> Motion by Miss W. Second by Mr. Hson. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Item four, approve the agenda for the January 15th, 2026 regular session as you have in front. Motion by Mr. We. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Brings us to our public comment period. >> Item six, request bids for a category 2-ray equipment switches, access points, and associated licenses. [snorts] >> Right now, our current wireless hardware that keeps our networks going in our schools are a little over seven years old, and we are having to a reoccurring licensing fee of a little over $18,000 per year to keep that equipment working and where we can actually use it and maintain our network. And
005we would like to request bids to see if it will be more cost effective using our category 2 - money to upgrade that equipment and get five years of licenses included in the purchase so we don't have that reoccurring 18 to $20,000 fee every year over the next five years. [snorts] And that would allow us to get new equipment and eliminate that reoccurring fee. Of course, we would have to bid it out to see, but looking at last year's estimate on some public bids and other school systems, we think that our match would be considerable less than paying that licensing fee for that time period. >> Thank Mr. L, second by Mr. Ashley. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Item seven, consider bids for a window replacement at Hermedage
006Spring School. Um, you have a copy of the bid tabulation sheet for these windows at the Herage Springs School. We uh we received three bids that we were able to evaluate. Uh one of the bids that we received did not uh was not signed. So it was not valid. [snorts] You see that on the on your sheet there, but we didn't see received three valid bids. And we also you have a copy um of a letter from our architect as well that actually handed out beforehand u discussing a little bit about the project as well and the bids that were received. Um if you'll recall some it's been several years but uh over the years or over the summers uh several years ago we would try to replace some of the windows um as we
007could at Herage Springs but uh then that process be became tedious to get someone to do it. Um and we went several summers there without being able to do that. Um, so last last month we brought this before you to request bids to replace these windows and this would replace them all uh that are in need. Um, one thing I think that uh it's been a recommendation from our homeland security assessment uh when Homeland Security comes around. They've done that the last couple years. Mr. Nope. Um, Miss Megan Copus, if you recall, is kind of heads that project up, I believe. But, uh, they visit all of our facilities. Um, and this has been at the top of the list from a security uh, standpoint for us to uh, look at. And so, that brings
008us to this point. We requested the bids and we got three of those back uh, that were valid. And I guess is there anything I'll open up for questions or comments? M I know it's it's something that >> I highly recommend and Ashley has done attached this sheet to the back page if you'll let me. >> Right. Yeah. With >> with the letter from Upland Design Group as well. You can see Ash's attached us some information. We have some grant funding um to the tune of about $51,000 and some change that we will be able to use towards uh this project. And then you'll see uh if you do choose the low bid cost which is recommended u from our architect Mr. Hill, then our ultimately the the amount that we would fund from the
009general fund budget would be about 96,336. Um, if we chose to do that, uh, I know there, and somebody else can probably address this better than I, but the way the bids are laid out there, if you look at the specs, um, there's the base bid, you got alternate one and two. But I think uh I don't know that we could really differentiate them or do that without uh based on part of it is the considerations for the the age of the building and the structural components that will have that could need to be replaced as part of the window replacement as well. But that would address the both wing and where the old auditorium was as well. >> Are they the same? I mean that's a 30,000 difference. >> I mean I think we
010need to go with that but that's a big is it one of them double pain or something or >> there were It's not full window replacement. It's um the windows are closed up in big areas and then leaving the >> fire escape >> the Yeah, the fire escape window. I don't know that it was one of them said 78. That's a big deal. >> Pretty good. >> There's a few of these rooms that we've been able to do over the years and you can kind of see uh even like at the old central office how you got all that glass um in the old classrooms for the old high school. They'll bring that down. So then you'll just have one window and then they fill in that in a lot so there's not as much
011glass and students aren't as exposed as much. >> I think I should go with King Construction Group. >> Motion by Mr. Ash proceed with King Construction by Mr. H. Is there any further discussion? >> But they did exactly the exact same specs. >> Yes, sir. We had the architect lay out with a project this size. We have no other option but let the architect do the specs and so they he did all that. We had several folks there >> At a pre-bid meeting >> and those those windows have a safety spec of a new window going into a school building. Period. So yeah, they have to meet that. >> Reason they should choose that actually what he said in his letter. >> I'm quite certain that they do a lot of work for Twin Lakes.
012uh a lot of the buildings that they the Twin Lakes has has built the last few years in construction. A lot of that >> the and like Miss Monroe said the manager that is in charge of [clears throat] that that came he also was the manager of our midstate project with our plumbing. So we already have that connection because he was over that >> motion on the floor by Mr. Ashlock to go with King Construction for the Hermitage Spring School window replacement. Seconded by Mr. Henson. Any further discussion? >> If not, I'll call a roll. Mr. Ashaw, [clears throat] >> Mr. Henson, >> Miss We Mr. Cheryl. Hi, >> Mr. L. And I vote I motion passes. That will bring us to 7B, the dark fiber lease. Mr. Up Church discussed that a little bit
013at our last board meeting, but if you will, sir. So when we put this out to the - platform, we only received one response and that was from Twin Lakes. But in their response, they provide two options, the dark fiber and the lit fiber. We use the dark fiber, but they have to respond with both parts, dark versus lint. That's part of the - rules and regulations when they respond to that. So, my recommendation would be to go with the twin lakes dark fiber at the lower cost with our -ate. Although it says 17,000, - pays 90% of that. So, the cost to the board is only going to be 10% of that cost. and you know definitely want to thank them and North Central for what they have worked out along with the help
014of our - consultant Miss Beth McConnell by reworking this bid from last year. It's going to save the board annually $4,169 a year. So those companies be willing to work together with her help of finding a way to make this work. You know, it's a good thing for the board and the taxpayers utilizing their money. >> Thanks, sir. I'll make a motion. Motion >> Second by any discussion. If not, all in favor. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Item eight, consider travel reimbursement rates retroactive to January 1st, 2026. You have a copy of a packet here for our typical expense report. And then you can kind of see there at the bottom what we're currently paying for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus the mileage rate. mileage rate currently that we're reimbursing our employees when they use
015their personal vehicle is 58 half cents a mile. Um the IRS effective January 1st raised that uh to 72 1.5 cents. Um we uh the last time we addressed this was probably in 2022 I would imagine at the change that was made by IRS in 2022. Um there was a lot of activity there uh postco um and uh we just held pat for several years uh to this point. Um but the current recommended rate by the IRS is 72.5 cents a mile. Additionally, um they uh the meal reimbursements are currently 1315 and 26 plus incidental a total rate per day of $59. That was uh recommended at the time in in 2022 as well. Uh the similar rates at this point will be on the last page of that uh packet. uh $68 in total
016which would be 16 19 28 and five for incidentals. Um this is uh something I think that a lot of folks a lot of school systems are addressing. Um we don't nec I think a lot of school systems and other governmental agencies have gotten in trouble saying that they just blindly follow uh this IRS recommended rate and then they'll end up changing it. Um we explicitly state uh the rate that uh we're going to follow in our documentation. Um and uh it was probably time to reconsider that at this point. I know we we talked about it a couple time well at least once in the interim between our last change and here but it has changed significantly. Um these are all suggestions as well. If you don't want to go to the uh to
017the current rate, I'm sure we could entertain other options and and discuss that, but uh you you see where the current rates are. >> How many vehicles do we own? >> Uh we've got at least three vans and then a CT vehicle. So the mileage that we're paying is not what it used to be. >> It's absolutely not what it used to be. Most of the time [clears throat] when you see those travel line items in 355 and 524, it's going to you're going to get to see that a little different in the future where they made me break out that 524 that I had to put in the budget this year. Um but the 524 is the code that pays for um conference fees, rooms, um and that kind of travel, the meals. But
018then the 355 is the one where you're going to pay for the travel back and forth. So it's going to be the incount travel that you'll see. You're not going to see that. Uh it's definitely not what it used to be with the three vans because they stay on the road going all the time. The only reason people take the others is whenever it's either long distance and you know we've got a van down or if it's um just that all three of our vans are being used by kids going to sports and stuff and you've got to go somewhere like that. So >> are we still keeping a log [clears throat] on that? suburban >> where I think I think Miss Amy is >> where is it at? >> It's at the >> central
019office. >> Excuse me. I might I don't want to come off but I probably going to in county travel. >> Are you talking about maybe going from here to they get paid mileage to do that? >> Yes. Yes. That's when you show up to work the way the rule is with anything like that with audit. If you if your job is to go to Herminage Springs every day and that's what you sign up for, like say that I was a teacher assistant in Herid Springs or I was um a teacher at Hermedage Springs. That's my job. You go to that job every day and you do not get paid for that. But if I ask you to come to Salana, if you if you work at Herminage Springs or if you live in Herminage Springs
020or Moss or wherever and you come to Salana Ka, but then I'm the music teacher and then I ask you to go from Salana Ka and go to Herminage Springs and then come back to the high school then you get paid in between for that and that's always been that way as far as I know. The first place you go to is your work place. Anything that you ask someone to do in between there, you reimburse them for it. >> You don't reimburse them home. It's >> your own personal vehicle. >> It is your own personal vehicle. Yes. [snorts] >> That rate theoretically uh covers obviously fuel cost and wear and tear on your on your personal vehicle. motion current. >> Are you Hold on. Are you okay with the [clears throat] the meals? Which
021way do you want the meals? >> Everything is suggested on this. Okay. >> Okay. >> The 16, 19, and 28. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Mr. Ash again, does everybody understand Mr. Ashlock's motion go with the current IRS mileage rate which is 72.5 cents and then on the third page of your pack or fourth page your packet go with that current state rates at the top $68 in total. which is equivalent to the last time we addressed this which was $59 at that point. So go from 59 to 268 based on Mr. Ashock. Any discussion? >> If not, all in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. brings us to item nine. Consider the 20 2025 2026 spring sports non faculty volunteer coaches. You have a listing of those non faculty and volunteer coaches
022for spring. >> They have >> I do and I want all of you all to know [clears throat] that this is a really good group. coaches and we really appreciate all of these folks who volunteer. Some get paid, most volunteer. We could not carry on our programs without all of these folks helping out. So, I I want everybody to know how much we appreciate coaches being willing to volunteer their time. How do you do? [clears throat] >> I I didn't hear the question. I'm sorry. The is it Did she ask who? >> How do you decide? The head coaches determine that. We have identified uh in the handbook I guess or policy one or maybe you somewhere as far as roles right assistance [clears throat] how many paid nonpaid what sport >> yes it's not
023everyone you know football has three paid assistants basketball two and most of the spring sports sports have one and some don't have any. [clears throat] >> I don't know if they got all the stuff in yet. They got us a couple years back. That would be Brian Brian's son and he was going to try to help us again this time. How much How long does he have to turn that stuff in? >> Well, I I talked to De about him today. uh he he he hasn't completed a couple things and and once he does that we can get him on the agenda for next month is is what the plan is to do. >> Have a motion on the floor for Mr. West seconded by Miss Weer. Any further discussion? >> If not, all in
024favor? >> Any opposed? Motion passes. >> [clears throat] >> That brings us to our principal report. Dr. Tinsley, since you're our host, would you like to tell me first? Sure. Um, thank everybody for coming out. Um, get to see our building. Show you around. Um, had a few things going on. One was winter formal. Um, we talked about that couple meetings ago. I think it got started. The students wanted that, requested it. Um, I think some of them talked to Mr. Joe Adams who agreed to um kind of be a sponsor and kind of kind of take that on and the kids were big help. They were the the impetus behind getting this done. Um, but also like to thank Mr. Adams and the other teachers that helped out as well. Ball council went really
025well. I wasn't able to be there, but you know, we we received a lot of good reports from that event. I'm glad that the kids got participate in that. Um, [clears throat] AIRS in recently has been focused on uh getting CO or community service hours in for our seniors who need that for their intensive promise and uh they reported to me today that 60 of our seniors have completed all 32 of their community service hours. Um, can't say enough about those folks. The, you know, the the people that came from mayors that came and evaluated our program here just uh you know, they were over the moon about uh Miss Kim Upton and Miss Angie Burch that they just work ahead and you know, they're always ahead of the curve with other schools. I think
026there's 360 high schools listed. The spreadsheet I saw today, there's three of those 360 all 100%. Every kid is complet or one of those three schools. So, uh doing a really great job. Um they have uh planned some nth grade classroom visits to discuss what the heir's role is going to be in their future. Uh help them start thinking about what's going to happen after high school. We've also got uh incorporation with them next month. We got a on your own simulation coming where you may some of you may have participated that before. It's got to be popular in recent years. Um where students are given a budget and there are several tables set up where they go around and purchase insurance. They'll decide on their housing. You know, they got to fit all this
027into their budget. So, it's a very good exercise for those students. Uh and then, um we uh received our letter grades. Don't know if you guys had a chance to see that. That's probably in your packets, I'm assuming. Um [clears throat] our letter grade the high school this time was a C. I think last year, year four, it was a B. We uh on a scale of 0 to five, I think 3.5 is a B. We're 3.2. Um what what brought us down one letter grade was achievement is half of that score. Our achievement went from a four to a three. Um so um you know, we're always working on that. You know, we're not satisfied with the C. You know, we want to be a B. We want want to be an A. Uh
028we got several things that we do. Um one of those is teachers are always available for extra help in third and seventh period. Sometimes they ask students to show up. Um and sometimes students, you know, they they know they need help and they can go to those classrooms. Uh another thing we've done is uh in case of we had to use it too much this year. Um but we got a two-hour delay schedule. Instead of just missing those first two periods, [clears throat] we created a modified schedule where every student gets to see every class that day. You know, they're not going to those same two classes every time we might be late, two hours late for school. Um, we found out yesterday we qualified for an ACT prep course for our juniors that are
029going to be taking ACT. Um, we've identified several juniors already to take that course. They're going to do that during third and seventh. Kind of excited about that. See how that affects things. And then we're looking at getting an ACT boot camp going right before we take it. Just a kind of intensive review going into it. So, um, we have a great school, you know, uh, we don't want to see, but, uh, just looking at our graduation rate and just, you know, all in all, great school, but we're not satisfied with the C. We want to we want to move up. We want Thank you. Who wants to go next? You're on the front row there. >> We're We're still celebrating this. We're no longer on the TSI lead. This is federal. Uh [clears throat]
030we're just so proud of our students, teachers for the hard work that they put in last year to make this possible. This is a federal report card that each school receives. and not feel on that list. You're under more of a microscope when you're put on that list. And we're just so proud of the effort that was put in by our students and our staff. They just did an excellent job last year and are working really hard this year uh all across the board. Uh on the state report card, we received the letter uh D. Uh even though we remained at the same letter grade as the year before, we did show growth in different areas u in the area signs we need to need some improvement to come along in that and I think
031that will bump us up. We were just a few ten of a point from being uh at the letter C. So hopefully next year, you know, we're our goal is to remain or be a reward school and we're only 8/10 of a point from being reward school next year. So I think with the effort that's being put in uh by our by our staff, [snorts] our teachers and staff and and the students and what we're seeing uh I think that can happen along with um moving from a a D to a C I think is very possible. Uh the steps we're taking is we're doing classroom walkthroughs. I go through uh regularly along with our L and AN that comes in these groups that come in and they but they do go through our classrooms
032and they give advice um as to what they see and where teachers can improve. They give them things and you know they're seeing a lot of good things. We sat down yesterday with Miss Donna with Ela Andrew and she, you know, she was showing where we were at from years prior to today and we've made a lot of progress. Really excited about what our teachers are doing. They're challenging our kids. Uh those kinds of things are with questioning. You know, that's one of our biggest things I talk with the teacher. I say, you know, questioning is a big thing with students. you can really drive and see what the the students are learning and doing. So I see a lot of productive struggle if you will in the classroom. We target students that are almost
033meeting TECAP. We went to our LA our last TCAP scores and we said okay these students were just two or three% off or two or three or question. So we we targeted those at least five students in every grade level and put them in in groups to if we can move those students on up and with that I think that will move us into the um being a reward school um we are trying to make sure that we value instruction time rewarding student growth achievement for math testing we try to reward uh after maps testing if they've met goals we try to [clears throat] them something whether it's um a box of cotton candy or a snow cone or popcorn or something you to treat our kids to show, you know, we reward everything else.
034Why not reward, you know, for grades, uh, meeting those marks, uh, using high quality quality instructional material, maintaining a positive work environment for our faculty and staff, uh, utilizing all data platforms and communicating those with the teachers. Uh, we we we have meetings. We have actually next week we'll have a math team meeting. We have those monthly and ELA team meetings where I've got teacher le uh we meet with all those staff and the teachers lead that and work on what are we what are we seeing and what do we need to do to improve in our math area what are we doing to need to improve in the ELA. Those are the common those are the core subjects. So we want to make sure that we're hitting those. Uh keeping down chronic absenteeism and
035I you know again my hats off to Mr. church and Miss Mallerie, they do a excellent job at and making sure letters are mailed out or phone calls are made and you know having them take them to court if if they be you know making sure their students there that's going to also play a factor in uh our grades in what we give utilizing all staff members for RTI and ma and helping maintain small groups those are the steps that we're taking also our basketball teams have done well this year and start getting ready for to start their post tournament. >> Okay. >> Well, we'll we'll start right out with the report card. We are D. I think Herman Springs has been a D two or three years. There's different ranges. You could be a
036high D or a low D, but we're still a D. We are going to be a target school. Now, you have to realize that is not a current reflection of what's going on today. A lot of this data goes back two years. That's how you get the growth. How how did you do a couple years ago? Did you grow from that? So, based on that, we're kind of refocusing some energy and I mentioned this last board meeting and removed a lot of the distractions during the school day, during the school year, and uh it didn't reflect our academic needs and the purpose. Uh so, We're kind of streamlining that. We're sharing with students what their predicted scores are and how close they are to reaching the next level. There's an amazing amount of students that
037are only one or two questions away. And when you have small numbers like we do, one or two students either way can really skew everything. So get two or three of those students up, that's going to help us. If two or three students slough off, that hurts you. We've created data wall showing those students who met the predicted scores or showed growth on last year's TECAPS. We've also had a couple of award days to celebrate those students who met or exceeded state test levels on those same tests. Uh we're working with teachers on instruction, rigor, time spent on task. We've got to raise expectations and we've got to align our instruction with testing in the curriculum. for chronic absenteeism, which was a bright spot. We were a four in that. We're continuing with our incentive
038program where each class who has perfect attendance for the day is acknowledged on a wall display. Miss Debbie does a great job putting that up. Uh and it's based on a children's book and whichever class has the most is rewarded at the end of the grade period. For the second term, it was the eighth grade. Again, they got it the first time. They've kind of figured it out and they all come to school. Right now though, fourth grade's giving them a run for their money for this next term. Uh, and the reward for this time is going to be smoothies and slushies for them. Students and faculty assisted with the Christmas mitten tree at Herman Springs Church of Christ. Uh, approximately 60 families were helped with toys, books, food, and household supplies. Recently, we had
039a security visit with Miss Amy and someone from the core office. We fixed what was missing from last year's report. We just completed a bus safety drill. That's the one without students. Uh that is a state requirement. Sixth grader Paisley Smith was the SRO student of the month for December. And big thanks to Miss Misty for helping us find a long-term [clears throat] certified sub uh to fill in for our teacher who's out on leave. U Miss Michaela and Miss Debbie have both been helping out to catch those students up. They're doing lesson and a half, if not two lessons each day to get them caught up. And right now, we should have it done before President's Day. And home basketball is finishing up tonight with eighth grade night. >> Thank you, sir. What you
040say target your target school? >> What's that consist of? They send in aid for help for the target school >> as he just said where they were last year. he could speak to it more because it's a new one for me. Uh, but there is a little bit more stuff to do. I mean, I just did a webinar based on it. There's more stuff that we have to submit in E plan showing what we're doing to try to get off the list. Uh, a lot of stuff that I just shared with you. It's what we put into that. Um, we were close, but uh, our goal is definitely to get off that list. >> I I think one thing I would all three principles. Um, you know, we're in the same boat that you guys
041are. Uh, whatever our grades are, we would like them to be better. Uh, no doubt. Um, and as [clears throat] as the board to be part of that, I want to encourage you guys to evaluate anything that you might need. Uh if there's something different that you need from us, um if we need to re-evaluate and reallocate, um don't be afraid to ask. The worst thing that can happen is we say no, we can't do it. But I know we won't be able to do it if you don't ask and we don't know because that that's kind of where we fall short as a board sometimes. We're we're not there dayto day. We don't know the programs that that are available um that you may need that you're using that aren't helping. If there's something
042there that that you could use some help from from us, please I think on behalf of everyone I [clears throat] think I would encourage you to speak up because we want to be a part of that. Well, I will say that, you know, if you go to the state website, uh, and and it's not been mentioned. I don't know if anybody was going to mention tonight or not, but if you go to state website and look at achievement, there's four categories. There's exemplary, there's advancing, there's satisfactory, and then there's uh in the need for improvement. And there's only like 10 school systems in the exemption and and those are a lot of your school systems that are like Putnham County that has the revenue and the things Klay County schools fell in advancing which is
043the second from and we fall in a group of 100 and I think that's pretty good speaking for our school system that we're in there with and we got some surrounding school systems that are not in that category that they're in either one below or in the bottom. So, as a school said, I know the grades sound, you know, like I mean, we all want A's and B's and that's what we our schools, but to say that we're right there with a big group, that says a lot. [clears throat] Miss, >> I want to really do a shout out to Miss Debbie Elrod and Miss Michaela Emer Hollingsworth. [snorts] they have taken upon themselves to teach um math and ELA, the two main subjects that are being tested this spring for one of our teachers
044that's on a medical leave, and we are really proud of that. Uh they are working extra extra hard uh to help that class not get behind. Our goal is for that class not to get behind. So, I'm really really thankful for the plan of Mr. Tles. We're so proud of that. Um, Miss Mey and all the central office staff me is the supervisor of instruction. Everybody is working extremely hard on data. We have asked the state board of education representatives to come up here extra to help our staff understand the data and ways to improve. So, I really appreciate the central office staff and Miss Ni working so hard on all of this. Um, if you guys have time, if you will just read, I know there's a lot of stuff on here. Um there's
045[clears throat] a lot on the director's report. Um Miss Misy, do you want to discuss the early literacy grant we've just received, please? >> Yes, it was a competitive grant from the state of Tennessee Department of Education. Several counties applied and as to my knowledge today, um several did not receive it. So, it was kind of an honor to be chosen by the state. Um it will come with what they call vendor money. The state will choose companies to ser our count in Tennessee and that grant will pay those vendors to do uh walkthroughs and teacher training, principal training and even have some data and measurement goals. Um so that's this is a fiveyear grant that will touch ELA in grades 5 through 12. So that is a grade band that we have not served
046um in my time here in the last six years. Um, so I definitely think looking at our data and all three principles I think would agree that these are some target areas that we want to boost and even if we're doing well, we want to do better. Um, so I think that was a an honor for us to receive that and we look forward to that five-year grant process. It should u begin in spring of this year, spring of 2026, and then we'll have four years after this school year. >> Thank you, Miss Misty. Um, K8 school. We are honored to have some new student teachers this spring and they are Brandy BS, Riley Edwards, Katie Bernett, and Lauren Weaver Smith. We're really proud to have those young student teachers. Uh Miss Ally Ebertton, she's
047our grow your own apprentice and she's at Salina Kate as well for this spring. So, we're honored to have these [clears throat] teachers that maybe can be future teachers. Um you'll notice on the back the school health you want to update them on coordinated school health? [clears throat] >> Well, essentially we uh the the health department is going to come back to the high school again uh and do the spring semester wellness classes, the vape education. The SRO's are continuing to do that in the U elementary schools when they can get get some time to to meet with those students. That's pretty much what we're working on right now primarily. education. >> Miss Alicia, do you want to catch them up on special ed just a little bit? >> Uh, well, we received our annual
048monitoring back and this year we only had five IEPs pulled versus 10 and I think I had my first year 15. So, we were doing better and going down and we're down to only having seven errors and I think that when I started out we had 50 something. So, lots of improvement there. >> Okay, Miss Amy, you want to catch us on safe schools and CTE? walk through. Well, CTE, first off, thank you all so much for supporting this building. Um, Mr. Crackhead says he asked for storage and this is what we've got. So, uh, we we love that this space is multi-purpose. Everything other than these chairs will be on wheels so it can be set up and rearranged for different class sizes, different events that we have. On the safety side, um, Dr.
049[clears throat] walk through at home Springs went well. We got the public school security grant that was 22,000 of the 51 that'll be going [clears throat] the window replacement at Herminage Springs and um the lady from the core office from the state, she was really pleased that that that was being done. All that comes from uh the homeland security assessment and that is our top priority for this year is those windows and the safety there. So please thank you all very much board members always I asked Derek to put the enrollment numbers at on this page. Uh and when the board meeting is over we want all of you to get up around. Matt wants to show you all the storage area back here. We go through those doors. Two bathrooms. Uh, so we want
050you all just to look around at the building. Hope you enjoy the new facility. We're going to really work it hard. I can tell you that. Thank you all very much. >> Any questions for M. >> I don't have much to say because me and Mart were actually on the council and that went really well. So if you want to see like pictures of our decorations or anything, I took a video, but Yeah, we didn't have any expenses at all. So, we ended up making a lot more money than we thought we would. So I don't have a copy of our ticket but you have it in front of you. So, I'm gonna highlight that I kind of participated, but I'd like to get on me and are both in the same advanced office application
051class. We're currently working towards our completion date of our certification module, if you will. And our goal, we set it for March 31st. So, hopefully our [clears throat] April board meeting say that hopefully 100% of our class has um been certified Microsoft Word, but other than that, I'm also um taking greenhouse management and I think it's on the back of the paper. You can see some students working on our model green houses, making it pop cleaners. It's really fun. I feel like I'm just crafted and you know, even though it's right, you really have to about a greenhouse. So that's pretty cool. Um and then one other thing fairly recently we competed and when I say we I mean myself Lake Reigns Json and Addison Brown. So we have freshman, sophomore, junior and senior which
052I love to for all grades who represented. Um we did have district speaking on Tuesday of this week. Um so that was very exciting. We did we did have a district sweep so we all got first place. So we're all going to advance to sectional and we're going to this Thursday, this upcoming Thursday next week. Um, so that's very exciting. But we're going to go to Le High School. Hopefully we do good there. It's more of a a lengthy and more competitive competition, but I'll have to get back to you and see how that goes. But as far as I think pretty soon, I thought that was pretty and our teacher was also teaching the class at the nursing home. So I think she's really enjoying that. There's also five students that pass their horiculture.
053So they get three credit hours and our animal science class is going to show next month which is the last week of February and I'm sure Matt and all of us to be there. We also help organize the storage and other things. >> You don't want to show that off. Correct. >> Thanks, guys. Again, we appreciate you guys being here and your participation and all the things that you're that you're involved in. Again, I mentioned it, but please remember uh that the filing with the Tennessee Board of Ethics Commission is due annually by January 31st. Uh so, please, if you recall, you go out to the website. I think you can maybe do it in person, but it's not very fun. So, uh it's a it can be a barrier. Uh but please go out
054there, fill that out um and file that by January 31st for all elected officials which includes us. Please remember that. Is there anything else that need to be considered by the board in terms of new business at this time? If not to second