001Well, good evening everybody. Thank you again for being here. Uh this is our regular monthly meeting for uh July 7th, 2025. Uh and board members uh we have a couple board members who uh said they would not be able to make it tonight. Uh but we do have a quorum, so we're good to go for any action the board needs to take. Uh you have before you uh an agenda, a proposed agenda if you would like to um take a look at that. And the floor would be open for a motion that we approve this agenda for tonight's meeting or make any changes you see fit. Make a motion to approve. Okay. A motion. Second. And a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Anyone opposed say no. Great. Well, if everyone would please
002stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Thank you. and board members. Uh, Miss Williams had sent an email uh the one from last week that uh had the minutes from the June meeting. would be open for a motion to approve those minutes or make any changes that you note that need to be made. Was that a motion? Miss I have a motion to approve the minutes from the June meeting. Second. And I have a second. All right. Any discussion on those? All in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Thank you. Um, and then in today's email, you should have received the dispersements for the month.
003And, uh, if you haven't had a chance to take a look at those, please do so. Um, Motion to approve dispersements. All right, thank you. Got a motion and a second. Any questions about the dispersements? All in favor say I. Anyone opposed? Say none. Thank you. Uh, principal reports, Mr. Har is here with us tonight. So, I'll be reporting for all three schools. Uh, I'm going to start with Ralph Asins. Um, they just want to thank Miss Heather Bradley and Miss Lorie Frame for a successful learning uh, summer learning camp. The last day was June 26th and they had a water day thanks to the Fedville Fire Department. So, they came out and let them play in the water. Um Ralph Asins will be sending out their teacher assignment postcards again this summer. Um this
004is where the kids get a scratch off um to reveal their teacher and then their open house is going to be scheduled for July 31st and that will be from 3:30 until 5:30. So again that's July 31st from 3:30 to 5:30. Um Fagville City Schools. So, this is in in conjunction with all three schools. Um, we'll be having a back to school bash and that will be also on July 31st. Um, that's going to be located behind the middle and high school. And we'll have food trucks, ice cream trucks, uh, face painting, I believe a local band might be there. Um, and we'll also have a closing a clothing drive um for all students and apparents. uh to attend. And then we'll have Dr. Mavery. Um he came and spoke to our students last year.
005He will be here to speak to students and parents. Um and that will be in the stadium there, our football stadium, and that will start at 6:00. So, um, just make sure with the open houses, we gave about a 30 minute buffer there, uh, with the elementary school and our middle school to where you can transition to the back of the the campus there. Um, for the middle school, they're they're also excited about the back to school bash. Um, and they wanted to let everyone know that they'll have open house that afternoon from 3:30 until 5:30. uh and then after that transition to the back of campus as well. Um they said now that they're fully staffed, they're finalizing their master schedule and want to encourage online registration for our returning students. Um for the
006high school, uh we had several students that attended Boys and Girls State last month. Uh I've talked to several of them and they had a great time. Um, I think they they learned a lot um at both of those. Uh, we're almost finished uh with scheduling the students for the fall. So, we got a little bit ahead this summer. Normally, it's uh I think as Mr. Jones knows for sure, it's right up until school starts. Um, but hopefully we'll be able to give ourselves a little buffer this year. Um, this year we have a few new programs. Um, we're going to partner with TCAP Palaski and that will be for our health science program and our criminal justice programs. Um, and both of those groups of students will be able to obtain an industry uh
007credential that they will actually be able to go out and use once they leave the high school. Um, so we're very excited to partner with them so we can give our students a great opportunity there. um with our a science students. Um we're partnering with MTSU and so um we have a few different classes within our A program that students will be able to earn um dual credit and be able to carry those credits on with them as well. So we're we're excited about those partnerships. Um I did want to remind our seniors that our senior pictures are set for July 30th. um if they need any more information, we've sent out emails to their school email. Uh and we've also uh have put out a Facebook post. Um if they need any more details,
008they can call the school for that. Um lastly, I just want to say uh thanks to Miss April and Miss Francis, our custodians. Um they've actually been ahead of the game this year as well. They've worked really hard. Um, and we've already had teachers um, come back into the building the past couple weeks to go ahead and get their rooms ready. So, we can we can feel the excitement uh, growing for the next school year. So, yep. Thank you. Questions, Mr. Exciting. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate Yep. Appreciate you being here. Yes, sir. Um and then we have a time on the agenda each month for public comment and we did have a request this month. Yes sir. Um as we spoke about in the executive committee uh we have Nason Maloney um from Century
009Construction Group who has uh submitted written requests to be here. Um he is also comes with Eric uh also from Century and uh we've had the conversation about the the procedural parts of this. So they are aware up at this time. My turn. Yes sir. Well, thank you all for having us. Uh we just wanted to kind of show you a little bit about Century and who we are. Put let you put a a face with a name. Um, as you all know, we are uh one of the contenders on uh your your dome project. We are so very excited about this project. I know that you've uh been waiting a long time. It's been a long time coming. Uh we actually were the only bidder back in 2022 on this this exact same project.
010And so we have been uh tracking it for a long time. we have uh really had it slotted for um and even over the past year we've had multiple date dates and when we we think we were going to bid and and you can ask your uh um Leo and and Greg with Broadus. We've really been tracking this project and so uh uh we were excited to be here and and have the opportunity uh give you a little bit of background about us. Uh my dad started the the company in 97. Uh so we have been blessed with some growth across the southeast. We're able to to uh even you know just recently open offices in in Austin, Texas, Nashville. Uh we've had an office in in South Mississippi for 15 years now. Uh headquarters
011is is in Tupelo. Uh so we are uh done a lot of work here in southern Tennessee. Uh we've done a lot of work in in Huntsville, the Huntsville area. Uh very familiar with the area. have done a lot of the uh of these these FEMA uh rated dome projects across the southeast uh with your owners with with brought us uh and so uh we've got a great team and and and with them is also your architect JBHM. They're uh located in Tupelo as well. So we uh very great relationship with them. Uh you've got a beautiful building uh designed and we would really want the opportunity to be able to give you that. And so, uh, again, uh, I'm I'm Jason. I'm president of the, uh, the the company and, uh, we are just
012excited for the opportunity and be happy to answer any questions now or or or later and, um, looking forward to to seeing how the results come out. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Does Does anyone have a question? All right. Appreciate it. Okay. Supervisor's reports. Okay. So, wanted to share with you our big thing that we've got on our agenda right now, of course, is professional development. We're very excited about some of the professional development activities we're doing. Chris, we're going to be doing PD the 29th, 30th, 31st, and then the 4th. Biggest thing you need to be aware of is when you come to breakfast, come to the Rock. So, we always want to invite you guys. We're very excited. Um, the Baptist church kind of made some decisions about
013their facility where they're not opening it up to public use anymore. They're just kind of utilizing it for their own worship services. So, The Rock has been gracious enough. It's a fantastic facility, huge parking lot. um very very very you know excited about the technology equipment things we're going to use. So we will be having the breakfast there on the 29th. It's in Park City on the left. Yes. The 29th. So the 29th is our first PD day. Um we will be starting breakfast um 7:30 in the morning and it's going to be catered by um Marvin's. Thank you Lisa. We will not be having banana pudding for breakfast. Just a point. We would like to, but we're not. We're going to wait on that. Um, so to kind of give you a breakdown, we
014are going to have new teacher training on the 23rd and 24th. We decided we're going to spend two days with our new teachers. We're going to have substitute training as well. We make sure that we we want all of our groups to be well trained, well prepared. Very excited about our speakers on the 29th. I know you're familiar with Ron Clark. He's going to be one of our speakers as well as we made the decision um that we wanted to like empower our teachers and our personnel. We're also doing Ted Schultz coming from the state department to talk about retirement and 401ks um because of some of the changes and things going on and we want you know sometimes you think that's an an older experienced person topic but in reality you need to be
015thinking about it when you're a new hire. So he's going to be here. We're going to do content areas on the 30th. Very excited about that speaker. Uh JD Hughes is going to be coming to present. We saw him um at the coordinated school health meeting in Nashville. I want to use this opportunity to brag on Claudia. We are able to fund and pay for these great presenters through the um stronger connections grant. So Ron Clark's a very in demand uh speaker. JD Hughes is well thought of as well in bringing him in and on the 31st very excited. Uh a speaker that Spencer really wanted that we had had before which is Brian Menler. And Brian Mler is also especially since we had him before a very well thought of presenter and speaker. So
016he'll be presenting to our entire group on the 31st. Um, so those are kind of the things. Also on that collaborative PE, we because we were paying through it for a grant, invited some other school systems and I got word today, I don't know if I told Mr. Jones, we've got 10 PE teachers from Giles County coming that are also going to be a part of our our PE training because a lot of times you don't have things for those instructors. We also invited Lincoln County to participate and we've invited more county um because again that's kind of a large group presentation. But those are the things that we've got on tap. Um and again we're very excited about this grant because normally um we wouldn't be able to afford this caliber of speaker. So
017um would invite you if you'd like to come in and sit in. It's it's going to be really good stuff. When Okay. Are those all on the 29th? No, the 29th is going to be Ron Clark and Ted Shot. And then JD Hughes is, and I'm very excited about his topic. This is why when I saw him, I knew we had to get him. Uh, academic integration in PD PE class as well as collaboration and working as a team. So, he is he is the best at what he does. He's on the 30th. And that'll be also all of the science people will meet together, all of the ELA people, all of the math people, uh, all of the CTE people because that's been something that we did that the teachers requested over and over
018again. And then if you wanted to see Brian Menler, he will be on the morning of the 31st. Okay. And he is an excellent speaker as well. Clark is going to be the 29th at the church. Yes. Ron begins at 8:30. So you can eat breakfast and then we'll slide straight into Ron. So do you guys have any questions for me about this or anything else? Oh, also Redstone, we're very excited. I want to brag on them. They approached us about doing the meal of course for the cookout and they're gonna Yeah, they're gonna pay for that. They're gonna Yeah, they're they're coming. They're cooking. They're paying for it. So, they're going to do burgers and hot dogs, and then we're going to um we're going to integrate some things there and pick up some
019baked beans and other things, which works out great for us because then our people can be facilitating those content areas. And what day is the cookout? Um the cookout is is it the 31st? It's on the Thursday. Thursday. I think it's Wednesday or Thursday. I think it's Thursday the 31st. I was pull I pulled up my email. That's okay. I just pulled up my email before I came up here because but we're going to be sending this out to you guys as we're doing our whole detailed deal. Um, yep, 31st. But yeah, the 31st is that and it will be at the middle school. So, we definitely want you guys to come and help do that. And I think that is where we're going to work in the banana pudding, by the way, because that's
020been a goal. Yeah, that was that was a goal when we were putting our notes together. What what school is Brian Miller going to be at? He is actually going to be talking to the whole everybody, but he's going to be at Favville High School. So, we're going to be doing that one in the cafeteria. Now, here's what's awesome about it. He's not just doing an hour presentation. He's doing like a three-hour workshop. So, there's going to be a lot of up and moving around. And he's a very unique presenter if you haven't heard him before. But um yeah, we had a lot of positive feedback when we had him a few years ago and that's why Spencer is going to be introducing him. Spencer would tell you as a teacher, he changed how Spencer
021interacted with his students and Spencer was the one that brought him up and open discussion and it was amazing we were able to book him. Awesome. Yeah, this is one of the more dynamic years for PD that we probably ever had. We're blessed to have great grants and great people to write the grants and manage them and orchestrate all this. But yeah, but those guys, all of those presenters are well worth the investment and I would I would put those individuals up against anybody um that goes. But anything else you guys would like to know? Again, you'll be getting a more detailed list of all that as it's fleshed out in totality. Thank you, Dr. Styles. And I just I it's just piggy piggybacking on that. Um Ron Clark, you've got to come. You've got
022to see him. He's uh one thing that he's going to address with our with our teachers and staff is um just the buyin of students and making sure that you know in the classroom there's good classroom environment where um school it's basically school climate. I think if you've ever gone to his I've never been fortunate enough to go to the academy, but he started the Ron Clark Academy. It was a nonprofit organization for um it was in Atlanta, Georgia for um um the low socioeconomic area. And he apparently right when you walk in there's this what threetory slide that he put in the the main for your area. I know Bridget's gone, so but um but it's pretty cool how he's he's um created a lot of innovative things for the school. So I'm I'm
023eager to hear him. But I also want to mention summer camp. I know that Spencer bragged on that and that that was a big success. We had about 150 students and um with our title funds, we were able to offset the cost on the STEM and we provided STEM classes for all students. So, we had an engineering section for students as well as um Mr. Hobs, Mr. Hobbs and Ashia Hicks, they were the ones that put that on. And then they also dissected frogs and owl pellets and things like that. So, that was a lot of fun. So, it wasn't just ac, you know, it wasn't just hardcore academics. It was a lot of fun for the kids. Um, and then prek, I want to mention that we've really, you know, put a put a
024call out to get kids in involved in our prek program. So, we've got um about 60 students enrolled. We've got 20 slots left. So, we usually have several trickle in around this time. So, hopefully we'll get it full and we'll have our 80 students enrolled. So, thank you. Do you see change there changes in Head Start? Yes. Coming? Yes. Do you see that impacting? Definitely. Yeah. We had a meeting the other day and they're they're clo they're focusing on um their three-year-old program. So we'll get a lot of their students as well. So yeah. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Miss Williams. So the uh year-to- date revenue and expenditure reports for the month of June or the year to date through June was emailed earlier and I will entertain any questions you may
025have. Just these are not the final numbers. Those will final numbers probably be August of August. We'll have final numbers. We're still closing out the year but getting close. Getting close. Appreciate those monthly reports. Any questions about those? All right. Um committee reports, facilities and transportation. Yes, sir. Um, I'd like to start put an update on the Dean property. Um, we've been getting some assistance from uh an attorney and they right now we have uh I believe we hold that our name is on the deed. We are writing a check this week that'll go out. So, by the end of the week everything should be processed and we should be the official owners of that property. Um, we'll go in and start looking at it, see what we need to do. I would anticipate that
026we will be able to utilize it to some of the uh purposes that we have intended uh even at the beginning of the school year. So um that's exciting. Um well it'll be great advantage to us. I'm also very appreciative of the de family. Um they they were really good to us in the deal. So, uh, we're appreciative of their help and support and patience, uh, as we went through the process of purchasing that. Uh, the Teima grant, we I still don't have an official, um, letter from them. What I do have is um information as or as recently as about an hour ago uh that says Teima has approved our initial request for additional funding. Uh both of the biders who qualified bid above what our grant a lotment was. So we've requested additional
027funds. Um, TEA has verbally told me that that has been approved. Uh, those funds will be coming from basically some COVID funds that they have available that they need to have on the books by September. So, it works out really nicely. But their process is generally completed. They send it to FEMA and FEMA now has it. We're hoping to get confirmation tonight. Um there's obviously been some natural disasters across the country. Uh FEMA uh is they're staffed um at a level that they're uh they were not able to get that completed. I anticipate those we'll get some information back relatively soon. Now that being said, uh one of the things I'd like to bring to the attention of the board is uh we have an objective um we have objective parameters whereby we will make
028a selection uh for uh who what company to go with. Uh it's based on lowest and best for the city school system. um as that is within our purview to to control and to uh to kind of make sure that we're doing right with. Now once this has gone through with TEMA and with FEMA, it comes back, we get a letter um and the match is up to a certain percentage um if if we get the same matches uh that we have got, it's obvious like what is lowest and best for us. it goes beyond you know 13 and 15 and 17 uh the margins get they become like really narrow and then it goes the other way. So what I would like to say is my recommendation is going to be that we go
029with whatever the effective math works out with as the lowest and best um qualifying bid uh within those parameters. uh philosophically I think that's the the right thing to do. It is the best use of our funds. It is the uh most objective uh way to go about it. Uh that being said, my intention is to proceed accordingly once I get the letter. I would probably uh send everyone an email or a text. Um, but this is the time if we want to have a discussion about any of the philosophy or if anybody has misgivings about anything in in that um order of operations or if you have concerns about um how the objective math works out. Now's the time to have that conversation so that we don't delay uh the project by another 3
030weeks or a month. Now, if y'all want to, that's fine. We can we can do that but it's just another delay. So I I would present that as my recommendation to the board as we move forward and we won't need board action on the selection. I guess really the thought is philosophically as a board member of the Fable City School System. Do you view lowest and best means the lowest and best out of the funds of the Fable City School System, which is your recommendation? Yes. Uh or do you view that we should define lowest and best in some other way? Um we are stewards of the fable city school system. Not I mean my personal opinion is we not we're not stewards of the federal taxes. We're not stewards of state taxes but we
031are sworn to uh to do what we can for the system. I appreciate the recommendation and what that like I say there's no board action needed but just so that if the you know hypothetically if the letter comes in next week and it's let's say it's a 10% match the math is going to tell pretty clearly which the lowest and best bidder is out of failed city school funds. So based on any discussion we wanted to have if everybody's comfortable with that but he's just air just run. So this is forgive me if this is something. So looking at that numbers that we received last month, we kind of had that graph. We were looking through some of those. The match that we're anticipating to get back or correspondence back from team up could alter
032yes those that match number is going to tell uh basically make the decision for us. It becomes a math problem. Okay. Um, if it's a low number, one of the companies is more advantageous for us because of the way the structure of their bid works. If it's a higher number, it goes the other way and and breaks um just because of the way what qualifies and what doesn't qualify. It's not really super complicated. It's just the way they everybody put their bids in. So, it's best for us to go up to a certain number with one company and then the to go the other way if if it goes higher. And like I say, I don't know what the matches are. I'm encouraged from Teima's verbal conversation that it will get a good a good
033match rate. Um, but I don't want to, you know, it's premature to say what I think will happen. Um, and I don't want to do that out of turn. At the same time, um I I think it would be probably in everybody's best interest also whenever this happens, um that the next board meeting after we have it that I'll just go through the math and show it's like this is where the numbers came in. This is these are the letters verifying that this is how we made our decision and nothing changes about the grant we know about. The question is now we have we have about three roughly three million additional funds that we have requested an additional an add-on to the grant and we just don't know what the terms of that are going
034to be and so once they define that all the math falls out very quickly that's exactly right I think that is my I think I concur with you that our fiduciary responsibility taxpayers have payable and then so on so Right. Right. Right. Hope everybody's comfortable with that and I I assume you are, but I think it's I appreciate you bringing it to the board just for a discussion to make sure that's everybody's comfortable with that definition of lowest and best to the fable city school system. Yes. And everything's Yeah. I want to make be completely transparent. Any other questions or concerns on the matter or any opinions that you'd like to share? Okay. Very well. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks very much. Also, I will say Eric took us the facilities through the Ralph Haskins. So,
035it's cool. Impressive. The crews are working. I mean, everything was just like clockwork. Jeff was on top of it. Everything looks so nice. It's going to be really amazing when that's completed. Just as a side note, on the facility side, good things are good things are happening, which is cool because we saw the drawing of that, you know, so many years ago. And it's cool just like Bridget and I said, it's so nice to see this finally conceptualized in real life. It's just it's exciting to see that being done now. It's going to be such a better facility and uh it's going to be so much more convenient and helpful. and I think of all the different events that we have. Grandparents Day is what keeps popping in my head. Um we will have so
036much better a situation for the grandparents to come in and to be able to, you know, we'll even have uh um ADA van parking. Uh they'll be a people be able to go straight from the parking lot with no cur no break whatsoever right onto you know the sidewalk and then be able to use the ramps and go in. It's going to be a completely different world than it has been. Well, the year we did the meet and greet the first day of school and it came a tarantula monster. You'll be under nice cover. This is going to be a treat for everybody under cover. It seems like it's going to look really good. So that's that's great. We're pleased with that. And and that's on schedule, right? It's on schedule in spite of all
037the rain. We're uh they got about three or four days behind um week before last when it rained every day. Um but then they made up for it and we're right back on schedule. They that group has been phenomenal to work with. Uh we're we're really pleased. Uh they they tell us what their intentions are and then they go do what they said they were going to do and you just can't ask for more than that. So, and the schedule is for it to be usable day one. Yeah, the the canopy, the the plan is the canopy and the sidewalks and all of that part will be ready and usable um substantially complete, ready to use on day one. That's awesome. By the end of fall break, we should have everything, landscaping, the um the
038canopies of the sidewalk going out toward the annex, all that should be good to go. That's awesome. Yeah, that's going to be great. And that's my report for facilities and transportation. Okay, thank you. Any questions? Any further questions or discussion? All right. Um, in finance committee, we have one uh amendment that we need to make to the FY25 general purpose budget. It is a line item amendment and you'll if you it was emailed out, but if you if you've looked at those dollar totals, uh you can see it is really really fine-tuning some of the end ofear adjustments to some lines uh down to the $25.34 sort of mark. So, not uh big money, but but it again we're audited every year and these are these are things we just have to make. Well, Miss
039Williams ensures are perfect when the audit uh audits are done. And so, I would make a motion that we approve line item amendment number four to the FY25 general purpose um budget. Second. All right. Thank you. I got a second. Uh any discussion or questions about that? All in favor say I. Anyone oppose say no. Great. Thank you very much. And this this is since it's just line item, it will not have to go to the city. So no action required uh by the mayor and all of them. Um insurance and policy. Nothing. Okay. All right. Uh Mr. Jones. Yes, sir. Um it's July, but everything's rolling right along as you can hear from the supervisor and principal reports. wide open. One of the things that I want us to complete before the end of
040the summer is I want the um leadership team comprised of these the staff up here as well as the principles to come together on the 17th. Uh we'll do kind of a leadership um conference and we'll start here. Uh then we'll go uh basically just a time for us to discuss do a little strategic planning um incorporate how we're going to uh make sure that we're in in compliance with some of the new laws that have changed. Uh anytime the legislative session is really active, there's a lot to go over. So, we're going to spend the morning doing that and then we're going to take a little retreat um as long as no one has an issue with it and go get a bite to eat and have some leisure time in that afternoon. Maybe
041go to Top Golf or something like that uh for for a couple hours and do some team building that afternoon. So, um we're this is Claudia Regina and everybody's done a great job with um our finances and our grants and we're going to utilize as much as we can with professional development while we're able to spend grant money and things like that. So, I'm excited about those possibilities and I'm I think there's a lot of really good um a lot of really good buzz and a lot of really good excitement heading into the school year. So, I'm pleased. That's my report. Okay. Could I a pop quiz a question? Sure. Um a lot of news uh about title funds uh whatnot as we go forward next school year. Yes, sir. on July 1st as of
042how that'll be affected. Uh we don't know completely, but I I'll bring the board up to speed on the the situation. Um there's been some changes in federal funding uh for public education on of course we just finished our budgetary cycle and we got put a nice budget together. It went to the city and they worked hard on their budget. And on July 1st, which is the very first day of our uh fiscal year, I got an email saying that there's probably going to be some changes to some of the smaller titles like three and four um as well as some of the others. Some of those don't impact us at all and some of them don't impact us significantly, but in total um we're already looking at, you know, 50,000 plus of budgeted funds
043that may not come to us. Um we are going to get some uh one of the big things that may be affected um could be our afterchool program. Now what that means is we have no intention of making any changes in response to this information. We will just have to um basically you know buckle down and pay for it out of general and make plans accordingly for next year. That's what's unfortunate about the situation. If they if we gotten this in January, we could have easily uh planned for it. because we didn't get it until after the start of the fiscal year. Uh we're having to react rather than plan, which is not, you know, it's less than ideal, but you know, every cloud has a silver lining. They may restructure and it may be
044to our benefit in the long run. Uh however it goes, we will put a plan together and make sure we're taking care of our tigers and we we're in a good position to be able to do that. Um, I did have one last question. Uh, about the start of the school year. We've had this tradition of meeting and greeting students and parents and whatnot on on one of the first days. Is there a preference for which day works best this year from this like board for the board to sort of show up and do some meet and greet? We've all, you know, the first day or the first school day, either once they be phenomenal as far as we're concerned. Um, so so either the fifth or sixth or the fifth is the first Wednesday.
045That's a Tuesday. The fifth is the half, right? Yeah. The fifth is a half day. So maybe the sixth is the first full day. Wednesday. Okay. Is that Okay, we'll plan on that and maybe maybe inquire with the full board. So, we make sure we usually do show up around seven or so. We just set it's funamilies. Uh we pick what we usually do is divide and conquer with three buildings and six members. We kind of just pick our whichever one you haven't done in a year or two. So if you have a little if you'll start that conversation, we can all we can do that and it it's really needed to get to go to different buildings to see the responses. Like some of the little ones are crying, some of them are like
046jumping and skipping and all the older ones are just kind of excited to be with their friends and show off their clothes and Yeah. It's it it's a really neat tradition. I appreciate the parents are doing wheelies out in the parking lot. It's great. It's a fun cooling backpack whole backpack fashion show. That's right. Backpack. That's right. And it's really just the whole meet and greet aspect. I think it it it really strengthens the family feel. You know, one of the be beautiful things about a small school system is you really can know people. When families pull up to drop off their child, they see people they know. It's just it's a real blessing for them. So, um, um, and then board members, our next regularly scheduled board meeting would be Monday the 4th of
047August. We're throwing out a lot of dates and times, but, uh, Monday the 4th, if that's uh, not going to be a giant conflict for any board members today. um will not as long as we get a quarum hearing nothing else we'll we'll proceed assuming that but then we'll we'll uh trust the other board members will speak up if they have time we can always uh change that date if necessary uh we have no further business Mr. Bradford, anything from the city? Uh, just a couple of things just very quickly. Uh, to go along with our new asking building, hopefully we will have third repaid before. We're working on that. We have worked with FPU uh trying to work with them to have a good pavement plan for the city and we have identified different
048streets. And of course, Third is on the top of the list, but uh hopefully FPU will complete their work on the square and then they will go to Third Avenue. So, we didn't want to pay Third Avenue and them come in and get it right back up. So, hopefully we'll be hopefully we're shooting very hard for to get it done before the first day of school. And uh that's one of the things that we hear a lot about uh on the city side of things. I know everybody's read and heard about our mess up screw up. I mean that's just what it was uh with the tax rate. So our budget was presented with that particular amount of 1.40 4 Z. Uh since we had a a meeting last week and went back with House,
049we all made sure during the budget process that we wanted it understood that we didn't want to have to raise taxes. So, uh that being said, we went back the tax rate the same. We're in a little bit of a hole, but we'll dig oursel out. Budget is just a planning document, right? It is. But I'm excited about the third entity thing because I've got a grandson. I'm over there a lot and uh the school does look good. I've been over there several times checking it out. Well, please appreciate the city's, you know, consideration of that, trying to take our time frame into account as best as possible. We're grateful. Yeah. Yeah. I know those residents will be excited. That's they won't they may not be excited about the the work being done having to
050be done at night, but uh you know we we have a city ordinance, but the ordinance has a provision in it for infrastructure for public safety. It'd be better to be done and it'll be over sooner rather than later. That's awesome. Well, thank you. Any final comments? Otherwise, we will stand a journ. Thank you.