001meeting order. If you will please rise and I order our prayer and Mr. Lynn will lead us in our pledge. Let us pray. Dear gracious heavenly fathers, once again we come thanking you for this day and all its many blessings. Father, we're so grateful for the many opportunities that you've afforded us, Father. And and tonight we're grateful for this opportunity together here, Father, to conduct the business of the school system. We pray that you would be with us. We pray that you'd guide us. We pray that you give us the knowledge and discernment needed, Father, to do what's best for our school system. What's best for our students and our faculty and administration and everyone associated with our school system. Father, we pray your hand of blessing would be upon our system. Father, keep our
002students and faculty and everyone saved. Father, at this time, Father, we're grateful again for all the blessings of life. We're grateful for this avenue of prayer. We're grateful for your son and our savior, Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we pray at this time that you would be with our country. Father, on a day that we know mean so much to us and in light of recent events, Father, we pray for the peace that only you can provide. Father, we pray that our nation as a whole would seek your guidance, Father, in all things because we know if they do so, it would be well pleasing in your sight, Father. Again, Father, we pray that you would be with us all. Forgive us of our sins and shortcomings. Be with those who are sick and afflicted, Father.
003There are so many that we love or are dealing with health issues. Father, we pray that you would be with them and comfort them and restore them back to reasonable health if you will. Father, >> again, just be with us in all things. Guide, guard, and direct us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> I want to thank everyone for being with us tonight. Um, as you can see, we uh are a little short-handed. Um, so our meeting will not be official tonight. Uh our policy requires uh allows for participation uh electronically but it requires for uh the physical presence to meet quorum. So we
004would need six members to meet quorum to be physically present. Uh we have four uh Mr. Ashlock, Miss Weir, Mr. Melton are joining us electronically but they do not count towards that quorum. Uh what we'll do um we will consider the items on the agenda that need uh action taken uh and we will postpone the other items until next month. So if you're here with us, we so grateful that you're here and we'd ask that you come back and be with us anytime that you can. Um I don't think anybody's here for the public comment period so we will proceed there. uh will be unable to elect u the chairman and vice chairman for this uh school year at this time. We will postpone that till next month. Item seven I would have you to
005consider. Um we have uh that's to consider bids for the a new telephone system at Salina K8 B new telephone system at Klay County High School and two uh rocked rip wrap line waterways at Klay County High School. Um the first two items for the phone systems at Salonic Aid and Klay County High School, we only have one bid on each. Um pleases the board will proceed. We can write it up approved with the executive committee but still since everyone we do have a number of people with us present tonight either here or electronically I would ask that that would please the board uh to do that and proceed with the the bid that we've received for each of the phone systems from Twin Lakes. Anybody have any issues with that? Thank you. Um the
006other item or item C, uh if you'll recall, we have worked in conjunction with Klay County Soil Conservation Service um to fund a grant uh to address an issue that we're having and will only get worse at the Klay County High School with that waterway that runs to the left of the school if you're facing it. Um we have two we've received two bids there. Um we have a a local bidder in the county and one from an adjacent county. Um the local provider local bid is considerably cheaper. Um we have had the soil conservation and their folks consult on the two bids and both bids meet the specs that they would require that they drew up. So based on the price, I think uh it would be reasonable to proceed with the lowest bid
007unless anyone has objections to that. We could also do that with the executive committee. >> No, we couldn't we couldn't vote on it anyway. But uh if anybody has any objection to it uh please speak now or forever hold your peace. >> Was that I mean we send it out where we could that's the only two we got back. >> That's all. Yeah. We sent out about seven people and that's the two that we got back. >> This is all grant. >> Most of it. Yes. Maybe all of it. It's it's based on a reimbursement of um rock and stuff. So but I think the most of it will be taken care of. >> If you guys would like to uh postpone that, we could. I don't know that that's >> they're supposed to do
008it during fall break. >> Okay. >> Both both theaters said that they would try to do it during fall break. So, >> with time constraints, I would ask that it's okay. We'll approve the executive committee. Anybody have any issues with that? All right. Thank you very much. Um, you can see in your packet we have a copy for item eight for our school calendar for 2627. Uh, no rush there. We can approve that next month. Uh, no rush on number nine for the state recommended 2526 differentiated pay plan. Item 10. Missy, do we need to approve the renewal of that. >> It subscription expires the 30th of this month. >> Okay. So if you see there item 10 on our agenda is consider renewal purchase of the SAS success maker reading intervention program for K8
009students at Salina Kate Herage spring school year one-year license. Miss Misty would you like to address that any? This is the online program that our K through8 students use during their intervention period that's required by the Tennessee Department of Education. It's a renewal program. They've been using it in the past and it is the same publisher for some of our English language arts textbooks and all of our math textbooks for grades K through eight. So the quote you see is a discounted price because we do not use them as a >> Would anyone have any issues continuing uh with Silus here? >> How long have we been using? >> This would be the third year I believe this will be the third year >> and everybody's happy with the service. Any objection to approving that
010in executive commission? >> If not, we'll do that as well. >> Mr. Up Church, we do need >> Yes. >> to proceed with item 11 as well. Correct. >> Yes. When I got these quotes, the vendors all stressed to me that in the next couple weeks, if we had to seek new quotes, their pricing will go up due to tariffs being imposed. So, there is kind of a time limit on these prices. >> So, I would ask you uh that we consider quotes for a Chromebooks and B desktop computers, item 11 on your agenda. Mr. Church has written us uh some recommendations there and the executive committee would proceed with those recommendations if it pleases the board. And that would be with Trafer and Howard. Is that correct? Yes, on the desktop, if you guys
011are okay with it, we actually can split that up and buy the desktop tower from Howard and the monitor is significantly cheaper from CDW. And I spoke with both vendors and they are fine with selling one part of the other, not the entire package. >> That doesn't give you any heart. I'm sure >> no, that's going to save us, you know, pretty good amount of money over 3540 computers. Again, would anyone have any issues proceeding with Mr. Up Church's recommendations? >> How many Chromebooks are we looking at? >> Hopefully around 120 from what we had allocated in the budget in the quotes that they came by and probably somewhere around 45 desktop teacher desktops and they are probably about five years old now. Five, six years old. >> Five years old. They're approaching in the
012wild. We're trying not to replace them all at one leg like they did five or six years ago with those current fuzzing cars now. >> Chromebooks. You get about four years out of them till the warranty runs out and it's any day they can just go and that's the end of it. >> These seem to be holding up pretty good that you got. Yes, we have been very pleased since we switched to the Lenovos from the Dells. We probably had maybe four or five out of 500 that's actually had, you know, hardware defects. Everything else just been damaged from use, broken screens, keys popping off, that sort of thing. >> We'll do that. We will do that. Obviously, item 12 would be policy on second reading. We can't do that tonight. Item 13 next month.
013>> Sorry, miss church. Thanks for coming. Uh we will uh we discussed our amendedou [Music] that will include u new insurance prices that include updates to uh our what's the word I'm looking for here Ashley our >> professional development exactly schedule to better define that in ourou >> and it has your defined uh insurance contributions you may have said that and I was talking I apologize >> but uh we'll we can approve that next that also has that revision to our earn sick leave policy in there as well that we're we would approve next month. So nothing earthshattering but there are some amendments that we will be making to the other thing that I would ask you to consider tonight uh I didn't have it on the agenda was going to add it but as
014you recall um couple months ago um we were able to approve a new policy regarding a student board member Um the state um had uh through their uh I guess July session that when the laws went into effect um it allowed us to add a student board member. Uh obviously the board member student board member is not a voting member of our body but is here for uh consultation and discussion and things of that sort. Um and at the time everybody was uh interested in that. So uh Dr. Tinsley has uh sought some nominations um for this position. Uh we have three wonderful candidates. Um and I think uh uh what Dr. Tinsley would recommend and and I'm in agreement as well. Um it's very hard to pick between these three candidates. I think they're
015all here tonight if I'm not mistaken and we're thankful for that. Um, so I would suggest that we allow all three to participate. >> Uh, have all three written an essay uh that Mr. Tinsley had had got had suggested for them to do um, and shows their interest in the position. Uh again, these were all three recommendations from our faculty and so we're we're grateful for their interest and I think uh in many situations they would provide a lot of valuable insight to our board and hopefully um they would they would gain something as well through their participation. So if that pleases the board, we would proceed in that in that fashion. >> Absolutely. >> So it doesn't matter. I understand it's a busy time uh for everyone and students are uh very busy as
016well. So please uh don't feel the need. Uh I would encourage you to be here at every meeting if you can but if you can't we understand obviously uh we uh we not everybody can always make it uh as you see tonight. Uh so we wouldn't hold you to any higher standard. Uh but we would love to for each of you to participate uh and be with us uh at every meeting. Uh feel free start next month if uh that works for everybody, Dr. Timsley included. And again, there won't be a maybe a lot of items every month that uh that uh you'd be interested in, but hopefully there's enough that keeps your interest. And we would we would certainly appreciate your your thoughts. time to time on a lot of issues that we have.
017So, I appreciate your interest. I appreciate you folks being here tonight. If you would just go ahead and come forward. I think we've got three students. Mr. Wick hasowski, Miss Martina Riddle, and Miss Abby Shaw. >> Abby. Thank you. So again, we're we're grateful for you guys and so so glad that you could be here tonight. Often times, uh we have uh volunteers that are on the agenda. We have coaches on the agenda. We have different things on the agenda and uh people don't show. Um so we're certainly appreciative of you taking the time out of your day to be here. And again, we look forward to to working with you. Anybody want to speak? I'll speak. Thank you guys for allowing us to even be here tonight. Thank you for considering us this position
018and I speak on behalf of these ladies that we're all grateful for your decision to let us be student board members. Well, we look forward to it and hopefully uh as we said, it's beneficial to you as well because I know it'll be beneficial to us and we appreciate it. We uh we sit up here a lot of times and sometimes we're a little bit disconnected unfortunately to what's what you guys see every day. So, we appreciate your insight. We appreciate your participation and your interest in the position. Again, be with us anytime you can. We're so grateful for that. principles, would you like to give your report? I want to say again congratulations these three the nominations come in basically I ask the teachers to nominate students um so you know clearly the teachers
019all felt like these three would be excellent representatives of student body so look forward to working with them um Um, I brought a fly around that CT put together. You see several things going on there. Um, Mr. Craig and his wife took FFA down the state fair and repeated. You can see they placed in several areas. Um, just just a a lot of stuff. You can see our CTE is very active. Uh, created a display there in the school. Um, been discussing career clusters and um the floor design class which is responsible for the the the flowers you see here arrangements um they're doing excellent in there and then um you can also see several things on the back and then in addition a couple of CTE teachers and um there were and then another
020teacher today it being 911 apparently they do this I've done this for the last couple years I sat in on a session where Deon Brown and Carl better Joe Adams do a presentation on 911 and it was really excellent. I mean they they really broke down the events going way back that led up to 911 happening. You know what the attack meant, what was intended and how it changed this country, how it changed the world. It was a it was an excellent presentation. I really appreciate those teachers putting that together so that our students who none of them were born at that time can appreciate that event. Um in addition in students taking a couple trips with our seniors. They went to the TTU career fair and then today they went on a visit to
021Ball State and TCAT. So and they'll be taking more as time goes on. Uh the uh CD director Dodson was able to secure the B Pro B proud truck which we have hosted all week. I'm hoping to get in there tomorrow. I haven't had a chance to go through but the students have said it's really interesting. Uh a lot of lot of trades work type positions where they get hands-on experience and simulators. Um you know from what I understand it's been a very excellent experience for our students. The our students have already gone through and eighth graders from both the K and her springs will be coming over and looking forward to hosting them as well. Uh besides that, sports, fall sports are in full swing. Football's had a couple of big wins in a
022row in Smith County and Jackson County and tomorrow night we'll be playing M playing Monterey at home. Uh volleyball 7 and one tied for first in the district playing Vir right now. It was tough competition. So, um, things seem to be going very well. >> Thanks, piggyback on that. Volleyball season for us wraps up next week. Coach Warren and Weaver, she's doing a great job. The girls seem to be improving. Hopefully, they can pull one out tonight. The Red Bull. We have volunteer training set up for the 22nd and 23rd. Miss Phillips has arranged that. Looks like we got about 15 or 20 wanting to to help out. We're in the process of also hiring a new assistant who would take care of morning daycare. So maybe that will finally get that fixed. First grader
023Ellie Copus was selected by Officer Densen for the monthly SRO award, which is given to a student each month who's been seen giving a helping hand to others, standing out in a good manner or going above and beyond to help classmates, staff, or the school. Also, Officer Densen and Volunteer Behavior Health have paired together and made presentations to grades four through eight about the dangers of baby. So, Some of the kids know more than we do about it. That's it. >> Thank you, sir. We have a little report there from Mr. Maxfield. Mro, >> well, board members, but my director's report is in here with all the list and updates and all of that. And I won't go over much of that. I just want to remind you guys that on a August the 22nd,
024we had a gas leak near Salana K8 School and that showed our community at its best. uh quick coordinated response from everyone, the faculty of K8 school, all the staff, the central office staff, all the bus drivers, all emergency responders, both local and in all the surrounding counties ensured that the students were safely and quickly dismissed and and out of danger. And uh it was just a great team effort. And I want to personally thank everybody for anything that you did to make that go as well as it did. I was extremely pleased. We had all the SRO's. We just had a lot of folks helping us. It was it was a wonderful thing. So, I'm so thankful for that. Ashley um and um Matt Sil and I we talked to um architect Alan Hill
025today about the windows at Herman Spring School and he's going to come up with some numbers hopefully in a month or so for us. Okay. And we're looking to if things go halfway decent if we do the project if we think we can pay for it then we're going to do that in the summer hopefully if it all goes well. got a lot of hoops to jump through between now and then. All right. And there's all the the there's lots of updates here in the director's report, guys, if you all read that at your convenience. And all the personnel updates as well. >> Thank you, Miss Monroe. >> Any questions? >> Thank you for the report. That's really been helpful. >> Thank you. I have a lot of central office help. All the folks help
026uh get the information Amy Dodson and she helps us put it all together. So, a lot of effort goes into that and hope y'all are thankful for it. >> Yeah. >> Know it's a lot of work. It sure does help us with you know the discussions we have. >> Very good. I'm so thankful. >> You know looking great. >> We are the largest in Lake County. >> Do you want to do you want to mention the pump station that we're working that. >> Yes. You all may or may not know we're having a time the pumps the pumps have gone down for the septic at in the football field at Klay County High School. You all know that we have um a homecoming there tonight with the K8. We've got Monterey at home tomorrow night
027and we've got homecoming two weeks from tomorrow night. And um I see the pumps we're looking at two new pumps. Correct. >> The old ones have been pulled and um they have been in there for 22 years. So, I guess it was time. >> So, but we do expect that to be a big ticket item. We don't have the quote yet. They're working on that because they're having to get prices on the pumps plus the labor. So, when we do, that could be something that would need to be urgent and would need an executive order written at that time. We didn't have anything to present tonight so that we couldn't give you that, but if we do, we'll do that executive and type it up the same way as the others and then we can
028let you send it to you guys and let you see it. >> We'll let you know. a 300galon. >> Yeah, there's a 300galon holding tank that we've had pumped, right, Ashley to get ready for tonight. And we don't think they'll be >> 300 gallon. >> Well, and we've got portaotties over there as well. And we're going to do that until everything gets in and gets proven. Just we're going to have a plan A and a plan B, but both on site. Dr. Tinsley, for your information, we're going to keep everything there. It was one of those things said there's a red light that should have let them know that this is out and that light was out. So, you know, it's one of those thought unfortunate things. >> Yes, >> we're lucky to get 22
029years out of very good flush down these. >> They were surprised actually. >> By the way, uh when we were talking down today, Ashley and I did want to mention to you guys that we have him to look at the the windows inside this building and we're just going to investigate some stuff there. We'll report back to you. >> Okay. We don't know anything yet. >> We'll let you know. >> Yeah. I want to thank all the students, guys. Thank you guys so much. Looking forward to it. >> You guys be prepared. We may not add it to the agenda just in case so we don't have to hold it to hold you guys to it. But, uh, this will be the time at the end of the meeting. We'd like to give you guys
030the floor as well. if you got anything to add. >> But again, we're certainly appreciate appreciative of you guys and your interest and we look forward to you guys contributing to our board. Appreciate that. >> Absolutely. >> Any other thing that needs to be acted on executive? We don't do that a lot. We don't like to do that, but you wouldn't believe it by the night, right? If not, we'll adjourn our meeting. Thanks again for coming everybody. We appreciate it. >> Yeah.