001Let us pray. Our God who art in heaven, we are so thankful for this opportunity that we have to assemble here tonight to be able to discuss the business of the store. We pray that everything that we say and do will be well pleasing in your sight. Heavenly Father, we come to you at this time on behalf of all those who are sick and less fortunate. We want to say a special prayer for Vanny Maxville and his family. We ask you to be with them in his trying times. We pray, heavenly father, that the doctors and nurses will do the things that's most needful. And we know, heavenly father, that you can help much better than we know how to ask. We are so grateful and so thankful for brother Todd being back with us
002and being with him through his sickness and being with his family. We pray that you will continue to bless him with good health and strength that he may overcome the disease that he's finding. Heavenly Father, we ask you to be with our students and our teachers and everyone that is associated in this school system. We pray heavenly father that you will keep us all safe in harm's way and help us to do that which is right and best for children first and foremost. Help us always to look to you for guidance and strength. Heavenly Father, we thank you most of all for your son Jesus who came to this world of sin and suffer who suffered, blood, and died upon the cross for our sins. Help us to never forget that ultimate sacrifice that was
003made for us. Help us always to be better each day than we have in the days gone by. For this we humbly ask in Christ's holy name. Amen. Amen. 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. Like to uh welcome everyone to our May board meeting, especially to Mr. Cheryl pray especially good to see Mr. Upton with us tonight. I know he's glad to be here too. Glad to be here. So we're we're grateful that that he's with us. And Miss Miss Weir is joining us by phone as well. She's a little bit under the weather today, but she is joining us by phone. So we hope she gets better soon as well. Uh we'll
004move to item three on the agenda. Approve the minutes of the April 10th, 2025 regular session as received. Motion by Mr. Cheryl. Second. Second by Mr. W. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? I. Any opposed. Motion passes. Item four, approve the agenda for the May 8th, 2025 regular session as you have in front of you. Only thing I would call your attention to, I think we did add a school trip down there at the very bottom. A little bit late. Uh, but it's on there. Motion. Motion by Mr. West. Second. Second by Mr. May. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item five is our public comment period. Guys, no comment. Item six, discuss the director's evaluation. Um, I wanted to, uh, to put this on here, uh, just for
005a couple reasons. One, uh, our goal would be to have all those completed. Uh, I think you probably received them in your email earlier, um, last month. So, our goal will be to have those completed and returned to me if you could uh by next board meeting. Um, we will talk about maybe some scheduling on next month's board meeting due to our budget uh passing our budget, but we'll get to that in just a second. Uh, but I would ask that uh that you get those back to me for our annual evaluation of our director. That is one of the things that we are required to do as as a board member and I know Miss Monroe would appreciate the feedback. Uh one one thing I wanted to uh ask is we've had a couple
006good uh suggestions that we might consider with this is this form is one we've used for several years. Um if there are additional questions that you would like to have added um now would be a wonderful time the next couple days if you want to send them to me I'll get them out. I don't we've had a one evaluation turned in, but I I'll send those and we can make an addendum. Uh but it like I said, it's something that we've used for several years in a row. And if there's something in particular that you would like on there that to get everybody's opinion on, I think that's that'd be great. So again, just email them to you. Email them to me uh by if you could have them emailed to me. by next Tuesday,
007I'll get them I'll get them assembled and back out. So, just think about that. If you've got questions in particular that you would like everybody to respond to that would be helpful for the director's evaluation, uh just u please get those to me and we'll get we'll get those back out to you so you can respond and then we'll try to if everybody can have their evaluation completed and turned back in before next meeting. Um, we'll discuss that at that time as well. Any Does anybody have any comments? Yes, that'd be that'd be great. You want to mail them to you? Uh, you can mail them. Um, if you drop them by here, um, I would probably turn them into Ashley. We usually just let y' and put them in an envelope yourself and then
008we stick them and get you something. We're talking about questions, right? Uh that completion. If you've got a question that you want to add, email it to me. Then you'll re the Okay. And then if you want to mail your u evaluation back to me, that's fine. If you want to drop it off here and seal it, that would be fine as well. Whatever is most convenient. Any questions on um item six? Uh the 13th. That should be next Tuesday, I believe. Anything else on item six? Brings us to item number seven to recognize Mr. Whit Kazlacowski for his perfect score on ACT at Klay County High School. He's on his way. Push that down. We'll we'll knock that down just to we'll we'll ease back down there. We'll recognize him before right after the
009principal's report. So item eight, consider having a surplus sale on June 13, 2025. Mro, I assume we've got several items. Anything in particular? Uh, actually I know I think he's going to try to put a couple buses in it, which is usually our attraction piece. It's been a couple years since we've had one, so we need to We've got some food service equipment from the renovation. Um, and then maybe some uh old greenhouse stuff. I'm not real sure what kind of shape it's in, but we've got that over there. So, there's there's we'll have a list. They're working on it now and itemizing it and cleaning it up. So, yeah. And if we can approve this, we'll put it in the newspaper. Yes. As required. Motion to approve. Mr. Cheryl, second by Mr. Any discussion?
010If not, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item nine, consider contract with FFA federal funding advisors for -ate consulting services beginning July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. Mr. Up Church, would you like to address that, sir? Yes. I sent you all a little memo in the packet in case I wasn't here because of the ball game tonight, but Mother Nature changed that for us. uh our - consultant that we hired during this last school year. I know it was a new thing for us. She has actually left the CSM firm that she had been employed with and changed to the FFA federal funding advisors. And this contract would just be allowing us to continue using her as our consultant through another firm. It's the same price, provides the same services, the same
011type of insurance where if they miss a deadline or something, we're not losing money that comes back from the federal government. And like I put in the packet, these services give you guys probably around a little over $70,000 a year for -ay reimbursements for internet access and dark fiber leaks and things. So it's definitely something we want to make sure that's done correctly and on time so we don't lose any of that funding in the future. And Miss Beth, that's been our consultant. We've had nothing but great service with her. And Miss Monroe has been to a few meetings with us for our exceed academic network. in most of the districts in the upper Cumberland have learned that they really need one of these people because they've lost money and lost opportunities by not having
012someone to help with these services. Motion motion by Mr. West. Second by Mr. May. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 10, discuss contracts for custodial services at Sal School, Klay Lake County High School, and Herminage Spring School. Um, this is something we consider annually. Um, we have a couple options here. Uh, we can I guess we've got three options. We can roll over the contracts at the existing price. Um the contracts that we currently have also have clauses in there where we can roll over the contracts with u a raise of the contract amount up to 3%. Or uh we can bid it. Um and uh so we've we've done both of those in the past. Most recently we've rolled these contracts over. Um, and I know Ashley did
013check with both our service service providers for these custodial services and they would be agreeable to rolling over the contract. Um, additionally, we have checked with all our principles and to my knowledge, no one has any issues u with again our current service providers. Mr. Maxfield, do you have any issues, sir? No, sir. Good deal. And then as a speaking principal, uh do you have does the high school have any issues that you're aware of, Mr. As far as I know, we're good. And Mr. Dickerson I I think did uh he can't be here tonight but he did indicate that the services provided um currently were acceptable and again as far as I know we checked with Miss Donetta and she did not respond with any issues either. Again that's that's our options. Uh we've
014done it both ways in the past. Both both services has agreed to same same money same money. Um last year we rolled over at the same price. So if we rolled over at the same price this year, that's will be three years in a row at the same price. But they did uh that was something that they would be agreeable to that indicated. I'm surprised with way cost. So that's a whole lot and I think that's something they considered in the in the weight of their decision. As you all know, bidding is difficult. on you all and them at the same time. So, I think that they were willing to do that, but then I'm sure in in the future, three years like that, the fourth year, they may need some help, you know. So,
015they're willing to do it at the same price. I want make a motion to roll it over. I'll have a motion by Mr. Cheryl. Are you in all three location? Same service. Mr. Cheryl, same services. roll over and that's seconded by Mr. West. A motion on the floor by Mr. Cheryl, seconded by Mr. West to roll over the existing contracts for custodial services at all three schools. Any discussion? If there is no discussion, I would ask all in favor. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 11, request bids for A, non-ethanol, gasoline, diesel, motor oil, antifreeze, B, propane fuel, C, dust mops, and mats, and D a new telephone system at Perish Spring School. A, B, and C. We do that annually. Um the we've had some issues. It's an old system uh at the Herman Spring
016School. We've had some issues uh in this last year. Um and one indication was if it happened again, they didn't know that uh they could get it fixed um regarding the phone system. So um felt like that that was just with the isolation and some folks have some trouble with cell phone reception out there as well depending on service provider. Um, so I think that's something that first and foremost could be a safety concern. So we ask for bids on that if it board sees fit to address that problem. Make a motion request bid all four. Motion to request bids by Mr. West, seconded by Mr. Lyn. Any discussion? If not, all in favor I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 12, approve Diana Monroe, director of schools as legal representative to make applications and file
017future amendments, agenda and correspondence necessary to ensure legal compliance and approve grant applications and budgets for fiscal year 26 ESA consolidated application for title one part A, title 2, part A, title 5, EAB, 2601, and preschool 2601. Again, something we do every year. Motion to Mr. Second by Mr. Sher. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 13. Consider the following contracts for 2025 2026. A occupational therapy, physical therapy, Elizabeth Preer. B, speech and language services, Stacy Burge. C, speech and language evaluation services, Megan Brown. And D, preschool services, Head Start. Um, Miss Betsy, as I understand, maybe our our physical therapy will be somewhat different than we have currently. We haven't we had a virtual situation, but she found through the she's able to provit and then I guess we're
018satisfied with the other services. evaluations. Not a lot of people jumping in line to apply for either. Motion by Mr. Cheryl. Second. Second by Mr. May. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 14, consider the proposed edits to the 2025 2026 elementary and high school handbooks on first reading. You should have a copy of those proposed edits. Mr. Edwards may want to address these as well, those highlighted areas. I did have uh Rhonda one that I wouldn't mind everybody being aware of that only I mean for these these are the proposed changes that you have here uh one thing I wanted you to be aware that we considered and if you uh I don't know if you follow any news much regarding actions of other school boards But the state
019law did um the state legislature did propose a law to consider allows us to more flexibility uh and to actually be more strenuous uh as far as our cell phone policy. Uh some school boards have taken steps to uh make some restrictions there. Others have left as it is. Uh some school boards have started down that road and then quickly backed up understanding the uh uh the sensitive nature of such a change. Uh we did Miss Monroe I think talk with Mr. Edwards as well and uh they spoke with our principles and currently I think everyone is on board with our current policy. Um I think the reason the state legislature uh took action was there were some school systems obviously that cell phones were a major major distraction. Um and the school systems felt
020like that they didn't have the uh I guess ability to restrict that. So the state legislature has passed the this law that's allowed us to make changes. But I think at the end of the day, uh, we didn't have a a ton of issues. I will say obviously there there are issues with cell phones in schools. Uh, we couldn't say otherwise, but from being a distraction in class or anything like that, no significant issues. So, um, I think our principles were willing to, uh, continue with our current cell phone policy. I did want you to to be aware of that that that was considered if you are following anything from a state level. Again, you have these other proposed edits uh in the handbook. Mr. Edwards, would you like to address those at all? Well,
021if you have questions about their first one, the Tri Star Scholar and the industry 4.0 diploma distinction, that's justformational uh that's been added to the to the high school handbook. for parents to see. I'll just go through one if you like. That'd be wonderful. I don't have page numbers for these. I'm just doing the same thing you are. But senior honors core course requirements beginning with the class of 2027 honor students will be recognized on three distinct levels. This is something different than what we've done before at Clay County High School. This was proposed by Mr. Mike, Mr. strong and they talked to all the teachers in the building and all the teachers were in agreement with this. It just uh it just puts honor students rather than grouping them all into one category. A
022little bit more distinction based on your GPA and your ACT score combined. Now, I did say I did tell them that you all may have questions about that and Mr. Strong said he'd be glad to come to the second reading if you got questions regarding this. If you do ask honesty is the best. The next one, uh, this will be in both handbooks. All vapes, EIGs, etc. found in possession of any CL County student are subject to be tested for illegal substances. So, if you're aware of the current availability of illegal drugs in these bait outfits. They're very easy to hide. Clothing is designed for some clothing that's designed for students to hide them in their sleeve and you know they blow back in their sleeve and you never know they have them. But anyway,
023when we do find one now, particularly at the high school, we do have a swab kit that we tested for these illegal substances. And of course, it's it's zero tolerance offense if they're found to be positive. So, we just thought that something we should put in the handbook so parents are aware that we can do that. And I think the final thing is something that was recommended to us by the Homeland Security for us to add all of this uh school emergency information in the back of the handbooks. That'd be both handbooks as well for parents to be aware of if there is ever school emergency, how they should respond, best practices for that, best way to contact their students and deal with the traffic situation, so on and so forth. I believe that's all.
024Yes, sir. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Edwards regarding the proposed edits to the 2025 2026 handbook? What about them? Some have. Some tried it um I believe on a temporary basis as soon as the law was passed and some of those have already understood the magnitude of that situation and I would expect that they may retreat from understand right and obviously they can be distractions in the class u and other places, but it's it's almost a necessary evil. That's the world we live in. Look around the table. Everybody's got those right now, right? We're no different. Who's doing the testing of the vapes? I would assume or SRO's is that how often you certify to actually conduct the testing. I understand what the testing is, but I'm saying that if you find somebody with
025something elicit, I mean, it moves from just kid got in trouble at school to into the court of law. How's that going to hold up? Yeah, we charge them. We don't charge them with the actual drug charge. We charge them with Okay. And that's what we still understand that it depends how you juvenile court. The level of certification that proves it's just paraphernalia. All right. It's a lot lower standard. I don't want us to get up on something we find because we will find it is said very much so but it opens us up to potential lawsuits. Any other discussion on item 14? I make a motion to accept the first read. Motion by Mr. Cheryl. Second. Second by Mr. May. Any discussion? If no discussion, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. And
026again, as Mr. Edwards said, if you've got more questions and you would like to consider these things and like to have Mr. strong or or someone else present at next month's meeting, just let us know and we'll do we'll do that. Item 15, consider the following trip request. Uh Klay County High School FBLA two students to the National Convention in Anaheim, California from June 29th through July 2nd, 2025. You have a a copy of that trip request in your package as approved. Our administration and I assume we're well satisfied with the chapron situation. Yes. I make motion. Motion Mr. Ash second by Mr. May. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. We'll go back up to item number seven. Like to recognize Mr. Whip Kasakowski for his perfect score on
027the ACT. So, we've been very fortunate uh in the last couple years to have uh two individuals. Mr. Kascowski is our second and I know it was a personal goal of his and worked hard to achieve it and from a school board we couldn't be more proud. We we celebrate a lot of things. Um as a school system and often times uh academics gets overlooked but uh and shouldn't be that way but again it's a testament to you with your success uh and we're extremely proud of you and we look forward to big things from you in the future. So congratulations [Applause] How about his name? Congratulations. It's welld deserved and we we appreciate and again I know it has a lot of hard work involved and we appreciate appreciate your dedication to that and
028uh we couldn't say enough quite honestly on that achievement. That's tremendous. So again congratulations. We'll move us to item 16 of our principal report. We had great attendance here in I know that you know may not mean one but it's very important that we get all of our students there. We nearly had two grades that had perfect attendance and they had one or two miss on last week. We were actually going to do pizza parties to uh celebrate that but you know things happen sometimes and people get sick but as I felt like our students really tried their hardest and really worked hard. We're looking forward to great results at the end and we did reward all the classes, all the students uh throughout the building with a snow cone party on the last day.
029So celebrate that. This our tennis was really good. Um our girls and softball and boys baseball teams have had a good season and I think the boys even won yesterday and are still playing. So we're we're excited about that. Our first ever STEM night was a great success. We had probably anywhere from 250 to 300 people, students and parents there. Uh TTU brought out a planetarium and had two different guided programs going on. So it was it was a good night and teachers even told me they were really more impressed with it than they liked it more than they did the literacy night, you know, because students were more engaged with things and had a lot of things going on. parents were sitting down and working with kids. So, it was it was a good
030night. Uh our field days were just last week. Teachers and students both had a great time enjoying themselves after all year being nearly end. Uh we are getting ready for prek and kindergarten celebrations next week along with their junior high graduation. Uh and I want to thank the board and miss for everything that you all do to help, you know, help our students, our schools, everything you do. Great. Thank you, sir. Any questions for Mr. Max? Miss Detta is attending their prek graduation tonight, so she's unable to be here. Uh, and coach Dickerson's not able to be here as well, but he did send a representative, very worthy representative. Slide up here front and center. We also have we'll have a little information there from our FFA program as well. uh principal reports. This is
031where coach typed up for me this afternoon. Um the school's coming to them for the 2425 school year. Lots of events have taken place over the last month and I won't say that. I had a guy tell me a couple weeks ago in the greenhouse that anybody can teach the first 150 days of school. That's the easy part. But the last 30 I see some proof in that. Uh tennis is still playing and competing in their regional tournament. Our girls are district champs and region runner up. They'll play in the individual regional uh finals on Monday. Roman Roman Briggs will be competing for the boys singles region title on Monday. Martina is competing for the girls singles region title. And then Addison Brown and Audi Reagan along with Hannah Jim and Cory Ba will be
032competing for the region doubles championship. Baseball ended their season last week I think in the district. on that. Um, Secretary of State of Tennessee came to CCHS on Wednesday, May 7th, and presented a flag to the school for 100% participation for seniors registering to vote. Wellchild was at CCHS on April 30th and performed 18 physicals. Five students competed in the Reb Memorial Art Competition against students from Crossover Cumberland. I think placed in the competition placed first in color pencil categories and third in the pen and ink and then Riley Prince placed third in the charcoal category and I've seen both of you work and it is rather impressive. I'm sure that third uh CCHS anglers face and Audi Reagan placed 19th in Bassmaster tournament in Bugs Island, Virginia on May 4th. Uh Chris Nelson and
033myself took a group of STEM students to Vanderbilt. They made a blackberry solar cell lab and tested it. And then we also got to part of the V University campus to see some stuff they have going on in STEM there. Prom was hosted on April 25th at an Grace was a big success. I' had several people say that they thought it went well and I thought so. And then finally I will present our annual FFA report. I thought kind of all day about how and I'm going to run through brief. The first one is just to extend our chapter appreciation for the school board for draw support over the last year. I know we've done a lot of that job and you put a lot of trust in us and our students to carry out
034the vision of Lake County High School and I feel like our students have stepped up the plate represented that and they couldn't have done it without the support of all of you guys, our administration, our other teachers in the building. Everybody partner. And the second thing is I've been working on this for about a month now. I sat down and compiled everything that we have done as an FFA chapter in the last year. So I started this at July the 1st. It runs until now. Um and one thing I do want to point out because this is the part that often goes unseen. But our chapter officers um and our committees will get together during May and they will come up with and put together a program of activities for the entire next year. So
035everything that we did in this come from those meetings we had in May and it's a student driven organization. We push hard for the students to be the one to pick the contest to pick the activities to pick the things that they want to do. And a testament to that is our a advocacy committee that they come up with this year. So that was student led. They come up with ideas. That wasn't me and Amanda. That was another teacher come from the students. They said we want to get active in our community. We want to find out what's going on. They formed the advocacy committee and together they started attending different meetings throughout the community. You guys seen that? our students that we've had here throughout this semester. That is where that stem from. They've
036been to county commission meetings, conservation board meetings, farm bureau meetings. That has been, I would say, one of the biggest biggest successes we've had in a while as far as community involvement. But our program is student le. They sat down and they put this together and we put all the dates and agendas that we can for that entire year together. So everything that was in here, we had on a piece of paper last May. And Monday after graduation, we'll go through that process again. We'll sit down with each of the officers and they will set the slate for what they want to do in the upcoming. Um, if you look at the first page I put together kind of just a list of highlights of everything we've done. One of the things I'm most proud
037of is between me and Amanda, we put 190 individual students through at least one agriculture class in the last year. And that's my count students to take two or three different courses throughout the semester. And that's approximately 60% of CCH students, which for me that's we're getting 60% of the student body involved in agriculture and FFA members. That's a testament to the work that these students have done. Um I sat down and put some numbers together. Nearly tell in the last school year we've had at least 70 days in which there was at least one FFA activity of some kind going on. We did over 12 different events and activities at school. Uh members competed in over 30 different teams and individual contests throughout the year. Uh we went to 12 different events and activities
038on top of all that around the state. Uh I sat down and counted up a rough count. We did somewhere around 15 probably more different water meetings throughout the county. We got students on the campuses of three of the major major agencies in the state. They got to see TTU MTSU and then UT market this year and during a career fair I reached out to UT Knoxville. They sent some students from the department or from their school of agriculture career fair. We got the kids exposed to at least four of the major universities, not counting what they say national. And then finally, this is another one that I'm really proud of. We had over 40 different students compete in contest throughout this school year. So, it's been we've had a lot of interest and a
039lot of different kids. It's not been just the same kids compete in everything. It's been a a vast array. Had seven state FFA degree recipients this year. That's the most we've had. I've been here in the last five years and I'd imagine as far as I know that might come in white. We had seven this year. Um our proficiency this is something that I have pushed this year. It's been on my list for several years but we finally kind of made it this year. And what so every student that is enrolled in an agriculture course has a supervised agricultural experience of some form. So they are getting some form of hands-on experience in agriculture. That ranges from doing some job searches and some stuff in school all the way to what they can do on
040their own farm and everything in between. So the next step above that is what's called a proficiency and an FFA proficiency is an application that students put together and it recognizes their achievement in their individual SAP to provide their experience. We had a total of 20 students that those this year. Eight qualified to go on to the regional contest that they have. Everybody placed in at least the top six at regionals. We had two that won at the regional contest and went on the state level contest and they were both state runners up. One of those was Ella Cumins for a veterinary science sary office. She's intend on becoming a veterinary. And the other one was a young man named Seth Kilpatrick and his was in a mech campus. So he worked for a diesel
041and automotive repair shop on Highway 11 after school. And so he got recognized for his work and we had everything rang into poultry production, equines, cattle, horiculture and greenhouse and we had a social media application everything in between. So that's a program that I think is going to build in the future and it really recognizes what these students do outside of classroom related to agriculture. And then we had two regional star applicants. That's just that is another level beyond those proficiencies that represents overall success in FFA and they was both placed out the top five regionals. And then finally for the second year in a row we was the FFA overcome district points champion. that looks at counting everything your FSA program does as a whole and I don't know if you're reading these numbers
042off but Mr. Jason told me 20 something years ago now that all he did was drive the bus and I understand that today really all I do is I take the kids and I get there. So they do the rest and so that's kind of just the highlight. you guys. You have any questions on stuff we've done, feel free to ask mayor when we give here and I guess what I'll wrap up with is you know y'all talk about the academic excellence that we look for and I wholeheartedly believe in that and on our officer team we had six senior officers this year and of those six they represented about height of the top 11 students in the school building and one of those is going to give about state. So not Not only have
043they participated and carried out everything that you see here, but they're maintaining their academic excellence. If you look at the list that I read off, they're active in other sports. I mean, we have some amazing students at CCHS and I'm blessed to have them on our officer team and so I'll wrap up by saying once again, thank you guys for the support you g. Thank you. It's easy to support a program that's doing such great things. We appreciate it. Uh you got a lot of members here tonight. Uh I be glad to open up the floor to any of those folks that would like to speak. So if you guys do want to stand up, I want to recognize. So this represents six of our FFA officers. We have uh three senior officers that's going
044to give their um last presentation FFA members on Monday at our banquet. And then we've got three of our junior officers that are going to convene the Monday after that to put together business programmatic activities for the next year. And it does remind me um I would like to invite everybody here on Monday at 5:30 at the high school cafeteria. We'll do our banquet and any of you guys would like to attend. We would love to have you. Thank you for the report. I've been on this board for about 16 years and that's the first report I've got. I'd like to say thank you. Well, I know y'all have put a lot lot in. I think what was it in July? We come in here and had I think seven different overnight trips that y'all
045had to roll through. And so I just wanted y'all to see that you know what you're approving and what you're doing. It it matters to these kids and they're following through and it's all them. So, thank you guys. Thank you. We appreciate you guys being here, too. Y'all have been active at our meetings. I've seen you at other meetings. We appreciate y'all coming. Appreciate um your desire to be not only good FFA members, but members, productive members of the community and participate in things like this. And I know it's not a lot of fun. Uh but we don't have too many people coming uh to our meetings and we're okay with that, but we love to see you guys when you come and we appreciate y'all coming and we love seeing your successes and being
046able just to celebrate them with you. to keep up the good work and congratulations to the outgoing seniors. You guys have been a big part of that. We appreciate that as well. One other thing, Mr. Kazakowski, I didn't give you an opportunity to speak either, but if you would like to, now's a great time. All right. If nothing further with the principal's report, we'll move to our director's report. Well, first thing, all of the students in the in the audience, congratulations on what you've done in the past. I want all of you to be teachers, okay? So, I'm expecting that. Okay? But the end of the year is such a busy time and such hard work goes into it all. Uh it's it we almost kill all the teachers, the students, and the staff just
047to get it all in and then the last day of school comes and then we start over again. So that's what we've been working on here in the central offices next year already. So thank you all for everything and thank you board for all your support. Any questions for Miss Monroe? Uh some housekeeping items. Um I mentioned it earlier in our discussion but uh we I would ask you to look at your calendars if you can. Our next scheduled board meeting u would be June the 12th. Uh that uh we each year we consider um our budget obligations at that point. That will be the the meeting that our June meeting will be when Ashley and Miss Monroe will present our next year's budget uh to the board. Uh, as you know, that's a big
048part, really big part of what we do. Um, it's kind of how we have our influence on the direction, um, of the school to a large degree. Um, but as part of that, uh, we want to give as much thought and consideration there for everyone as we can. Uh, we would like to have a planning meeting next month as well. Um my proposal would be to have a planning meeting on the 12th uh June the 12th. That would be our normal regular meeting. That would be Thursday, June the 12th. Have our planning meeting, discuss the budget, and then postpone or actually have our regular June meeting uh that next uh Tuesday, which would be the 17th. Um that would uh one give Ashley just a little bit more time to dig into the budget. Um
049but also with the planning meeting, it helps give her that final direction that she would need from uh the board. Uh I don't know if that uh schedule is acceptable to everyone. Uh we typically try to push it back to like June the 19th, but that's a holiday, so we can't do it that day. So When is the party? It's the 30th. I have to have it there by the 30th. If we wanted to push it to that next week, that's no trouble. Uh my only thought there is if we wait that late, well, I I don't know that there's a big need for a July meeting. You guys, good. No big deal. So that would that be acceptable everyone meet in planning session on the 12th which is our regular schedule meeting and then
050actually meet to approve the budget on Tuesday the 17th that works for everybody we'll advertise accordingly and and approach it in that way. Uh we we did talk uh earlier on, you know, we had some concerns previously about our student count um in regards to the fact if we went over that thousand threshold of students, it would have a significant impact to her budget. I don't think we're going to go over that threshold. So, uh that additional funding that we received for being under the thousand student mark, uh we should still receive um that was evaluated earlier um because that would have quite a an impact on our budget if we were to lose that funding. But we should be in good position in regards to that going forward for this next budget year. this
051time. Is there anything else that needs to be considered before the board? I want to thank everybody for all they've done for me while I've been out all you guys what you have. appreciate everything. That's what I did. Thank you. So, anything else at this time? Motion, Mr. fail for a second. Let me try. All in favor?