001Okay, good evening everybody. Thank you all for being here. Uh we'll um begin our meeting. I know Miss Hopkins uh informed us she wasn't going to be able to make it today and our alderman, Mr. Bradford, uh indicated he was not able to make it tonight as well, but we have a a quorum. So, we'll proceed with the meeting. Uh board members, in your folders, you had a proposed agenda for the meeting. Uh, and I would uh entertain any comments for changes or a motion that we approve this agenda for tonight's meeting. Make a motion for free. Have a motion. Second and a second. Any comments? All in favor say I. Anyone post say no. Thank you. Um, if everyone would please stand for our pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of
002the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Um, and good evening again. Uh, we really want to thank Fateville Middle School, Dr. West, uh, for for hosting our meeting tonight. It's always great to get out in the schools and I've I've missed the other two school uh school-based meetings. So, my apologies, but um it's uh great to be back. Uh we had emailed out to us the uh meeting uh the the minutes from the April 14th board meeting uh for your approval from Miss Williams. I make a motion to approve the April 14th. Okay. Four minutes. All right. I have a motion. Second. And a second. Any corrections or additions? All in favor say I.
003Anyone oppose, please say no. Great. And then today in Miss Williams email, we had the dispersements for the month. Uh if you haven't had a chance to look at those, there are several files in the email uh that you can take a look at now. question. Sure. More is going to answer them if we have questions by the end of this first. Make a motion to approve April dispersements. Okay. Have a motion. Second. A second. Any last call for questions? All in favor say I. Anyone oppose say no. Great. Thank you for that. Uh now we have our um principal reports. Um will be provided. Oh. Oh. Okay. Sorry. I was looking for Miss Baker. Um, go ahead. All right. Good evening. Welcome to Fable Middle School. Uh, I'll start with uh Akin report. I'll
004start with enrollment. PreK they have 64, kindergarten 109, first grade 87, second grade 68, third grade 78, fourth grade 91, fifth grade 71 for a total enrollment of 568. Uh, this week is teacher appreciation week at ASUS and all the other schools. Um, as treated their teachers uh treats this week. Monday, teachers will present it with ice cream Sundays. Tuesday, they'll be grilling out for teachers for lunch. Wednesday, Beta Club will sponsor breakfast. Thursday, teachers will receive an hand and arm massage from the hair academy. And on Friday, teachers will receive a cookie and scuba ice cream from Beverly's truck. Uh this week on Wednesday and Thursday, askings, we have a puppet show for all grade levels in the gym presented by Rainbow Puppets. Tiger tracks will be on May the 16th and the parade
005will start around 8:15. Pre-league graduation will be on Monday, May the 19th at 9:00 a.m. Uh the end of the year awards programs will be on May the 20th at noon for kindergarten, 1:15 for first grade, on the 21st at 8:30. It's fourth grade, 9:45 for 2 grade, noon for third, and 1:15 for fifth grade. And that's Askin's update. Awesome. Thank you for sharing that. Um, moving on to FMS, uh, our current enrollment is about 202 students. We have 67 sixth graders, 61 7th graders, and 74 eighth graders. Of course, we have a great year. We just finished TCAP testing. We had our last two makeup tests today. I want to thank Chris for organizing that and Adam for helping with testing. Uh, testing went smooth. Um, about 12 and a half days of school
006left. very very busy time of year. Tomorrow we're taking some students to uh a movie here in Lincoln to see Space Space Jam. We have our band kids going to um the main event in Huntsville on their annual band trip. We also start I Ready testing this week. We have our junior's house walk on the 7th Beta Club induction ceremony at 5:00 PM on the 8th. Our sixth graders are going to Tim Ford State Park on the 9th. And we also have our eighth grade field day on the 9th over at the high school after after lunch. On the 13th, we have our fifth graders coming over from Asens. We're going to do a tour and a visit at 9:00 a.m. We have our yearbook dedication on the 16th of May. Tiger breakout on the
00719th. Our fourth quarter award ceremony will be on the 20th. And we also plan on doing a sports awards ceremony at 10:30 on the 20th as well. U this past Saturday evening we had our eighth grade night. Eighth graders looked amazing. had a great time celebrating the end of their middle school years. You saw it on Facebook. It was probably better in person. It was really nice. Thank you. Moving on to the the high school. Um they have 93 seniors, 78 juniors, 70 sophomores, 60 freshman with a total enrollment of 303. Um ELT testing, ELC testing went great this year. Big thanks to Betsy Davis for her hard work preparing and making sure everything went smoothly. Uh, spring sports wrapping up. Baseball is now finished. Softball and boys soccer are in district tournament play at
008this time. On Tuesday, May the 6th, the high school has its Beta Club induction starting at 5:00 p.m. On Thursday the 8th, the teacher superlatives start at 1:30. On Wednesday the 14th, senior signing day at 10:00 a.m. Sunday the 18th, balora at 2 p.m. On Tuesday the 20th, the senior awards will start at 6 p.m. And on Thursday 22nd, graduation starts at 7 p.m. That's the high school updates. Could you repeat the backart? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Um, Sunday the 18th at 2. There you go. Sunday the 18th. Nice. And then graduation is 7 pm on the 22nd, Thursday. Thank you very much. It's quite a report. Yes, I did see some of those eighth grade night pictures and they looked like grown-ups. They did. They looked like adults, didn't I? They were I was
009so amazed amazed. First of all, they looked so sharply dressed, but they just look so older or mature, and it's just amazing. Thank you. Um, this would be our time for any public comment. I don't see any members of the public who are not affiliated with the school system. So, I'm assuming we didn't have any requests for that. No request. All right. So, we'll move on to our supervisor's reports if there are. So, I'm very excited to share some things with you. um really want to encourage you to come to the graduation's going to be great, but senior awards night also will be. There's some scholarships I was sharing with Mr. Jones that are going to be given out that nobody in the high school knows who's going to get them. Um we don't know
010who it is, but there's a student who's going to get a 12 $25,000 scholarship through the um Valley Nursing Home and then some other scholarships that students are finalists in. We have great participation this year. There are many scholarships. We had seven and eight students of our students that filled out those specific scholarships. So, I'm planning on being there and I think it's going to be a really exciting night. We're having some great conversations about our dual enrollment. Actually, tomorrow we're having a conversation with MTSU about a dual enrollment um with them. Also, we've had ex excellent excellent conversations with the TCAP Palaski um looking at doing some very innovative things with our health science program uh that are going to allow students to potentially have a CNA s a medical assistant s because credentials
011are one of the things that we're really coming back around to work on. Uh a lot of the state state dual credits are going away to be honest and candid with you. you know, there there's a very low pass rate in the entire state to begin with. So, we're more excited about those dual enrollments that we're going to be pursuing and sitting at for the benefit of our students. Also, if you haven't heard, we have a student currently that has a 35 ACT and they're a junior and that's their composite. So, there's still uh opportunities to retake that. And um want to brag on Mr. Ensley and the high school. you know, we made it our mission a couple of years ago um that we were really going to start focusing and drilling in on
012improving those ACT scores and we've had tremendous with the work of the people that are in the high school. We've had tremendous success with that work and it's beginning to pay off. And also, you know, one of our goals is Dr. Wes has been a big supporter as well of talking about ACT in middle school, looking at identifying our middle college potential students in eighth grade and encouraging those students to then take that ACT after their eighth grade year to get that baseline 20 that they need to get in the middle college program. So, um, excellent things going on and doing some great things. And do you guys have any specific questions for me? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Good. Um, first off, I'd like to say um we have uh
013started enrollment for next school year for returning students. So, we've turned on our online uh enrollment. It's on the uh uh it's on the web page. Sy's got it on there. We'll put on Facebook. We're going to do an all call and get that out. So, if you see anybody out asking about that, please encourage them to do that. We've we've got around 40 to 50 students who've already registered for next year. So, we're excited about that and that's going along. I'm going brag on uh Zach here for a minute. Tech testing went really smooth with technology and it's been a great year with that and uh we've had had really good technology this year. So, that went smooth with testing and did a fantastic job with that. Um we're we're doing things like updating
014batteries and power supplies and things and and we've ordered some new uh cameras that are coming in. So, we're going to be installing some new cameras. We've already installed several and adjusted several, but we're fine-tuning those in and and making sure we're trying to cover as much of the building in the campus as we can, keep everything as safe as possible. So, uh those are things we're working on uh as we go toward the summer and wrapping up data and trying to finish out the year. It's been a fast one. So, that's it. Has it has it been fast? It has been places. Yeah, it's been busy. It's been busy. It's been very That's what's made it fast, I guess. So, awesome. Any questions for Mr. Kit? Thank you. Thank you. appreciate all y'all. All
015right. Um, as kind of everybody else has already said, we did have a great week of testing. It's a it's a busy week. Uh, and it it's a bear, but I cannot say enough good things about the teachers, the building testing coordinators, the admins. You know, there's a lot of minute details that go into making all that work very smoothly and everybody's been a huge help. Um, the kids did a amazing job. I know most of the ones as I talked to the teachers like they were working hard and and trying their best and and also too, you know, the the adults are trying to make it fun for them. So the TECAP parades and I know Dr. West, they did a lot with rewards and I know Spencer and them have some things for
016them at the high school. So hopefully uh when all this comes back over the summer, we'll have some better news to report. But just want to thank everybody uh for making it run smooth and appreciate everybody's hard work. Awesome. Sure did. Thank you. Okay, our CFO report tonight, Miss Williams. So, the revenue and expenditure reports are emailed to you earlier for through the year to date, April 25, and I will entertain any questions you may have. You sure? Hearing none, uh, we'll move on to our committee reports. Uh, facilities and transportation. I'm pleased to report that we will have a bid opening on the FEMA safe room and dome project tomorrow at 2 at central office. Hope we did have a meeting uh, pre-bid, mandatory pre-bid, and there were a number of people that showed
017up with interest in the project. Uh so if we can have two or three biders, I think uh that increases our odds of having a good bid and being able to get the project uh underway. If not, there are avenues for us to extend uh the the monetary amount offered in the grant. Uh but I'm looking forward to the possibility of getting a really good bid in and being able to start the process in earnest. Um after tomorrow, what will happen? Um, JBHM will be there, which is our architectural firm. Uh, they'll take the bids. It'll all be very formal. Um, they will go back, break the bids down, and then write us a letter of recommendation based on what they believe the uh the lowest and best appropriate bid is, and then I'll bring
018that to the board next month for approval, and we'll go forward. It's not just a low bid criteria, right? It's not technically acceptable kind of it's yes but uh frankly the bids are so intensive that anyone who could appropriately bid will meet those benchmarks it would more than you know I mean you never know their variables I wouldn't be able to account for but it's highly likely that anyone who would meet the criteria for the legal appropriate bid would bar in some type of a you know if there were some ongoing uh court case or some issue with their license turn up that I'll be qualified and appropriate. So, it's a it's pretty intensive big process. So, it's hard to believe the day has arrived and it's tomorrow, right? It's right here. So, I'm I'm
019pleased with that. Um everything else is uh going smoothly. We've been in conversations um concerning the front of Aaskins. It looks like um everything will be able to start, you know, as as summer's going. Um likelihood that the front will be complete and ready to go at the beginning of the school year. The covered paths, the material probably going to be fall break before that's fully installed. But we'll have uh what's called substantial completion by the time school's ready to run for the front. stuff to the main lot to go. Should be good to go. Are we paving? That's not paving that parking lot's not part of this project. It it will be a part of the project um later. We we'll it may be even at the end of summer. It just kind of
020depends on when everything comes together and there's um there's an ideal time to do it and we'll we'll just follow the schedule and instead of fighting to force it, we'll just make it happen whenever it's supposed to be. It's on the docket. Get the best. It is. Yeah. Yep. And there's a there's a more complicated issue with the creek behind Ralph Asins that involves uh the city. Um so we'll pave around to the back to a certain spot and we'll stop and then we'll probably pave the rest of that at another time because they there may need to be some fill in on the creek where the new bridges come in with the floods and stuff. It's eroding that bank. So we uh the city uh we're trying to coordinate with them to make sure
021the erosion is controlled appropriately and the city's been a great partner in that. We appreciate their attention to the matter and that is my report for facilities excellent and transportation. Okay, thank you for that. Yes, sir. Um board members, moving on to the finance committee. Um we have some um amendments, budget amendments. Uh first one listed is the FY25 general purpose line item amendment number two. And I am what it's the multi-age if you're looking either online or in the hard copy. It's a multi-page uh uh movement and and this is simply moving money between line items. No, but no new revenues, no new expenditures, just making adjustments through the school year as we do these days. And so, um, happy to entertain any questions. I would make a motion that we approve, uh, this
022line item amendment. Second. And I have a second. Any any questions? Um, support we vote. All right. All in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed say no. Thank you. And let me jump uh skip the c I don't have a print out of the cafeteria line item. Oh, I do now. This just in. Thank you. Um uh the next one on the list is FY25 cafet cafeteria line item amendment number two. And and again, these are these are just movements of re uh increasing and decreasing among existing lines in our approved budget. Will not need to go to the city either. And I would make a motion that we approve uh this budget amendment. Second. I have a motion in a second. Any questions about this particular one? Um okay. All in favor say I.
023Anyone oppose say no. Great. Uh then we have FY25 general purpose budget amendment number two. And um it uh is to correct a revenue code for some grant monies. There's uh no again no new revenues, no new expenditures, but we're uh correcting the alignment of uh in the in the of on actually on budget amendment number one that we made, right? And now we're actually making a correction to uh align that those funds are going in. for the most part as well as a few other um funds. Um I would make a motion that we approve this budget amendment. Second. I have a second. Any questions about that one before we vote? All in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Say no. Great. And then our fourth one is FY25 capital um budget amendment number
024one and it um it this one like the previous one we voted on just a moment ago will need to go to the city. Um remind me Miss Williams the nature of u the revenues and expenditures here that we're increasing and increasing. There's no revenue increase. is just moving from different line items with different functions. One was uh because we added additional bus and so that's to increase the transportation equipment equipment line and then um we're taking it from the capital expenditure line of the 731,000 and then increasing because in original budget we did not originally have the principal payments um bond bond payments lease And so that is to cover those funds. Cover those. Right. It's just no new money is just moving within different functions. How paying Yeah. How we're paying necessary payments.
025Okay. I make a motion that we approve this budget amendment. Second. And I have a second. Any questions? Great explan explanation. Thank you very much. All in favor say I. I. Anyone oppose say no. Great. uh insurance and policy committee. I make a motion for approval of policy 5302 sick leave on the second reason. Second. Okay. Got a motion. Second. And a second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Okay. I make a motion for approval of policy 5.701 substitute teachers on the second reading. Okay. Got a motion. Thank you. And a second. Any questions? All in favor say I. Anyone oppose say no. Thank you. And the last one, I make a motion for approval of 350 repeating high school courses on the second reading. Okay, got a motion. Second. And
026a second. All in favor say I. Anyone oppose say no. Great. Thank y'all for that. Uh Mr. Jones report. I just want to report that I'm really proud of all the work that went into testing and toward getting things arranged for the end of the year. there. This is other than the very beginning, this is the busiest time of year. And on nights where uh the administration, the teachers are, you know, just they're in the buildings, they're working, they're making preparations for an event. They uh accomplish the event, and a lot of time for celebration, a lot of time for enjoyment, but there's a lot of work that goes into it. And I appreciate all of the adults and I want to congratulate all the students who are the recipients of these awards and acknowledgements
027and they deserve every every bit of recognition that we can give for this. And uh I think of you know we've already had the eighth grade night and it's just really easy to be proud of those young people when they come out. They look great and they have you know they can deck themselves nicely and appropriately and uh are just about the best ambassadors for our system that you could ask for. So much appreciated sir. Thanks. Uh a couple of matters uh to as we wrap up. Of course, the board conducted our superintendent, our annual superintendent evaluation. That's a process that's mandated by the state, but it's something we began before it was mandated because we knew it was a good idea. And we started this uh couple of years before it was uh required.
028Uh we conducted that at uh earlier this afternoon and uh we on a scale of one to five each board member ranked a whole variety of um uh professional standards and expectations that we have of our superintendent of schools and I am um I I averaged those scores. I didn't have anybody check my math but I'm 99.9% positive that this math is correct. uh the average over uh over the entire board for the entire evaluation was a 4.89 uh out of five. So uh again another very successful year and we we appreciate the leadership you bring to the to the system. Thank you. I appreciate I appreciate the confidence of the board and I'll continue to try to do my best. Awesome. Awesome. Um, that said, uh, and with that sort of a a positive
029feeling from the board, I would like to make a motion that we, um, and this is following tradition of several years, that we extend, um, Mr. Jones's contract with the board. Um, four years is the most state law will allow us to have a contract with a with a director of schools, but I would like to uh go ahead and and do that since we have we're about to wrap up year one of of the contract we uh uh signed last year. Um, and I'd like to bring you at the next board meeting a uh a new contract to begin uh July 1st of this year and go for four more years so that we extend kind of guarantee his extended service uh to the school system. Um, and I don't know that we need
030any vote on that tonight since we'll really vote to approve it at the at the June meeting. But uh but that is something that I will uh be be bringing to you for your consideration at the June meeting. And um and then board members will recall and I know the employees will recall we did a systemwide bonus um at uh the uh in the December time frame uh for our employees. Uh Mr. Jones was not included in that bonus. And so now that we've conducted this evaluation, we would like to uh uh ensure that Mr. Jones receives uh the same uh bonus that our employees all received. Uh so I would like to make that motion uh that we uh we uh take care of his bonus having concluded such a great year performance. Second.
031Okay, I have a second. Any comments or questions? All in favor say I. I. Anyone oppose say no. Great. Uh, thank you for that. U, and as I looked at the calendar, it it appears that Monday, June 2nd will be our next a monthly board meeting. Does that look okay on everyone's calendars? It's getting into vacation season. So, we you never know. But that's uh if that's okay with everybody's uh expected calendar, then that's certainly the next scheduled board meeting. So, we'll plan to be together on June 2nd. It does be and we will be back at the central office yet multi-purpose room upstairs for the for the for that. And again, thanks to all of our schools for hosting the board over the last three months. And as we wrap up, it's a sad
032moment as we uh have a graduating senior on our board. And we want to do just take a moment to stand up. We just want to take a moment and uh express our uh sincere appreciation for your uh service on the board. You have been vocal here and you've been very vocal in the school and we uh and it has been a very positive thing for the school and for our system. Your participation, your active participation we sincerely appreciate. Um uh I have marveled at the leadership you've brought to the high school uh the things uh new activities and new initiatives and uh I love it because you're a bubbly excitable uh leader who people and people love following a person like that. So please don't lose that. Don't ever lose that. Continue to lead
033uh just in your natural uh personality. It really attracts followers. So, uh, this is a small little gift and I I anticipate there will be some graduation related picture u u to go in that. But on behalf of the board, thank you so much for all you've done and being a part of our school board. You you also get to take your name plate which uh is a a treasured uh thing for uh for because few have served in the seat that you have occupied. So, uh, so congratulations on bringing you board members. Anybody have a comment for Raila as she served. You you're welcome to continue. Uh, technically we won't have a new student board member until the fall. So, we'll be meeting in June and July and your seat will be available. Okay.
034If you find yourself if you find yourself busy with other activities, we certainly understand. Uh, that's why we want to make sure and take care of that top. Any any other comments? Board members, it's been a great year. Nope. Yes. Big shoes to fill. Thanks. Big excuse to fill. That's absolutely. All right. Okay. Any final thoughts or comments? If not, we stand a journ. Thank you.