001all right good evening and tonight is our March 3rd uh board meeting I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order our chairman Mr Clark is out tonight so I will try to fill in for him and do the best I can to facilitate like he does so our first order of business is the approval of the agenda that was sent in the email if you would take a moment to look at that look over any changes additions deletions to the agenda okay you have a motion can I get a second agenda has been approved okay now let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance the plag is this way Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation God indivisible all right next
002we have the approval of our February 3rd regular board minutes um are there any questions changes for the minutes Mo okay motion have a second second all right all in favor second I all opposed all right the February 3rd regular board meeting minutes have been approved okay next we have the February dispersements that were emailed to you if you haven't had a chance to look at those we can take a few minutes to look at those and ask any questions sure miss L can help us understand if we have anything for okay if there's no questions or changes I would entertain a motion for approval I mov okay second second okay all in favor say I I all opposed say n all right the February dispersements have been approved okay next on our agenda we
003have the principal's reports come right you're the lucky one tonight so T tonight I will be uh representing Miss Baker and Dr West so I'm going to give their reports um we'll start with enrollment for a Ralph Askins uh prek is at 64 kindergarten 107 first grade 87 second grade 68 third grade 80 fourth grade 90 and fifth grade 72 making a total of 568 students so um they had their Beta Club induction on February 24th which was last Monday they had 13 new members that were inducted into their Beta Club um students had to have uh 95 overall average uh and she said that they look forward to seeing what they uh can do uh and Achieve academic excellence and serving our community so um the Beta Club also helped an event uh to
004help our community it was a Super Bowl so um and they collected 560 cans to donate to hands of Mercy uh last five uh last Friday excuse me their fifth graders came over here on campus to participate in our FFA day um they got to visit with animals sit on tractors um and they went back to school talking about how much they enjoyed it um and they just said they appreciate FFA for including fifth graders in that event uh this week they are celebrating re Across America week so they're dress up days um mystery readers and guest readers each day for all grade levels and on Friday uh the cafeteria will serve green eggs and ham so go and that's that's it for Ralph asins so for the Middle School um their enrollment sixth grade
005has 66 seventh grade has 61 and eighth grade has 74 uh and that is a total of 201 students so uh they're having a great year at FMS um they also got to participate in our FFA a day uh last week the students I know um they had a great time uh participating in that um they took their eighth grade superlatives to the square uh to Stonebridge Park and the Lincoln County Museum for pictures uh and then after pictures They Carried those students out for a lunch so um Friday is the last day of the third quarter um and report cards will go home after spring break on March 20th on March 28th they'll have their uh third quarter award ceremony in the gym and that starts at 900 a.m. so uh our plan or
006their plan is to have lunch on the green um that day on the 28th as well so if you remember that's where the students go out um onto the lawn there and get to enjoy their lunch um this week is national uh School social worker week so they want to give a shout out to their amazing social worker Miss Hicks so and that is FM's report so before I turn it over um I just wanted to briefly mention a couple things we have going on actually tomorrow um which is Tuesday um we have um our mock interviews which will be be our senior so we've got countless I I can't even remember how many people we have from the community uh that are coming in to help be a part of that and uh interview
007our seniors and then tomorrow night um we plan to have our freshman forum and that's where any incoming freshman um that's interested in coming here to feedville high school will come we're going to start at 6 and then I will present at 6:10 um to everyone and then after that they'll have a time to go meet their teachers um intermingle with some we'll have students here um with our clubs our Sports all of our academic teachers will be here and um we plan on it being a great success so um I'm going to give uh Mr Hobs and our drama Department the rest of my time thank you good evening how are you guys great good uh glad to get to speak tonight uh our theater department has been extremely busy over the last uh
008few weeks we've had our production of the empress new clothes at faille Middle School uh and then in February we also had our first and we're making it an annual black history month program and it was a a tremendous success I've Heard lots of uh good things about it and uh we were excited to do that uh wanted to tell you about what what coming up just uh the week after uh spring break we have our High School production of the play that goes wrong and um I've got papers that they can hand out I've got two two students here that are in their production if youall want to give those to the board members uh it's going to be March the 21st and 22nd uh Friday and Saturday we will have a night show
009and on Saturday a MAA and a not show and then again on March 28th and 29th so we're going to have uh six performances uh for this production uh like I said we've have um Lydia and Braden that are both uh in the cast so if you've got any questions that you would like to ask them I'm sure that they'll be uh glad to fill you in on anything that's going on are you having fun yeah seems had a practice the other day where we just couldn't stop laughing great that's a good indication I'm looking forward right absolutely thank you for all the good work you're putting into and we look forward to a great show thank you thank you we hope you all can uh come and join us and see us thank you
010so much okay um so in accordance with our board policy 1.44 this is the time for public comment if there's anyone who like to make a public comment and I do not believe anybody uh no Madam Vice chair no one requested to make public comments this see okay so we shall move on with no comments from the public next we will have our supervisor reports good afternoon so for consideration tonight for the board we have our certification of our textbook adoption process um to give you an idea the last time we did this for science I actually got to pick the science book I was still in the classroom that was about eight years ago so State initiates process about every six it takes about every eight to get everything installed and kind of finished
011out so the process really for us started back in January our local committee's got to meet with vendors review the resources um and you have before you I believe their selections or maybe in the board email um but what we need to do tonight is just approve to certify that adoption so that we can go ahead and send that up to the state and then we'll keep the ball rolling making sure everybody has everything they need for when school starts in August I take a motion to certify the report of the local adoption of text books can I get a second second okay all in favor say I all opposed say nay okay looks like we have approved the service thank You' all very much all right thank you all right now we'll have our
012CFO report um from Miss Lisa on the February financials so the for you are the financial reports through the month of February and these are year to date totals and these were em to you earlier and I any questions you may have anybody have any questions all right thank you appreciate you keeping us straight okay next we have committee reports facilities and transportation okay so I'm pleased to let everyone know that our FEMA Grant has been uh the money has been allocated to the state um we got the 90 90% from FEMA we also have a 5% match from teema uh we had a meeting Thursday that uh was attended by uh myself Mr Jeff Brown from the system um the architect from jbm and a couple of members of the staff from brought us
013an associate one of whom is Greg Kennedy who's been with the project since we um put out an advertisement for for a project manager so he's a project manager uh teema was available if we needed them uh we also had the mayor um Joseph fauler and Mr Bradford attended on behalf of the city it seem to be a very positive meeting uh we talked about a lot of different um components of the Grant and right now we're in the process of making sure that everything is up with the plans is up to current spec since it's approved we got to make sure because the codes have changed obviously over the course of 5 years codes have changed uh with process of approval so we don't anticipate that'll be a very long wait uh once everything
014is approved um I'm basically a little bit later uh going to ask that you all um well I'll just go ahead and ask I would like uh for you all to vote to approve to advertise the FED FEMA 361 Dome project with approved revisions I want to clarify that means you're approving our permission to advertise once all the new codes have been approved and the revisions have been made not before okay well I'll go ahead and make that motion to approve to advertise that that 361 Dome project with approved Provisions second okay all in favor say I all oppos say n all right thank you and that concludes my facilities and transportation report okay so for the finance committee um we have two things to approve before you they were emailed to you it is
015um approval of a contract between Matlock Clement and the F City schools and if you don't mind Miss Williams could you sort of elaborate a little bit on these so these are two reports one is for the um first one before you the Board of Education and these have been submitted um to the cont for their approval and we would just ask for your approval on moving forward with our FY 25 audit okay so we'll do these separately um I make a motion that we approve the contract with the auditor um the first one being the Board of Education okay all in favor say I all oppose say no okay that one has been approved and I make a motion to approve the contract with the Auditors for the internal School funds okay all in
016favor say I I all opposed say no okay both of those have been approved okay insurance and policy we just have two policies tonight um I move that we approve policy 5118 background investigations on the second reading okay we have a motion on a second I'm sorry you going to do them separately or separately okay all in favor say I I I'll oppose say n okay that one has been approved I move that we approve policy 4603 promotion and retention on the second reading okay we have a motion and a second all in favor say I all opposed say n okay both of those policies has been approved you have anything else all right Mr Jones okay uh for the superintendent's report uh the first thing I'd like to bring to the attention of the
017board is um during the legislative session uh going on in Nashville at the moment there just within this week I anticipate about 55 different Bills going before them that are related directly to education um I won't take time to describe all of it but I would like to implore everyone to uh keep yourself informed and just know what's going on of the 55 I would say about 46 of them would have some type of an influence on um the operations of fedal city school system or an impact that indirectly affects our operations um it's just it seems like that's a lot of legislation frankly but um that is that's up to the people in Nashville so um it's our duty and responsibility to make sure we know what's going on and if anything comes down
018the pike that I know you'll want to know I will uh definitely make everyone informed of what all has happened at the end of the legislative session what laws were passed what what wasn't passed and uh I'll provide everybody with copies or links to uh the breakdown as it all comes down the PIP so uh the other thing one of the laws uh previously that's that was or one of the bills that was passed uh relates to a teacher bonus of $2,000 a onetime teacher bonus um there as a part of that law there is a requirement that local school boards pass a resolution um a resolution has been crafted by the tsba that we will utilize uh we have a couple more months to do that I know there are some boards in the
019area and Central that are doing that during this month's board meeting I wanted to wait until next month to see if we can learn anything from those who go before us I think being a small system sometimes it's in our interest to to hold our cards just a little longer and see how things go for other people and uh so I think next month you should be able to anticipate that the tsba crafted resolution or something almost identical to it will come before youall for approval so I want to make you all aware of that and let you know in case any of our our teachers and friends are asking about it that we do have a plan in place and I think it's it our plan will be really solid uh the timing will
020not be affected the timing of a a bonus will not be affected in any way by any of this because that won't happen until next school year anyway so that's where we're at and that's my report all right thank you good ma' all right so on the Chairman's report we have have before you a resolution for the special Area Teachers so I'm going to read just a little bit of it and it says whereas the dedication and service of special Area Teachers and staff encompassing art music physical education technology speech instructors school counselors and Librarians are cornerstones of the febble city school systems commitment to student development these special area Educators and feille City Schools play a pivotal role in nurturing the mental health and Welfare of our students um therefore be it resolved that
021the Board of Education designates March the 6 2025 a special Area Teachers Appreciation Day all across fedal City Schools embracing a basketball theme to reflect the energy and teamwork these Educators bring to our schools so I'd like to entertain a motion um to designate March 6 as special Area Teachers and staff day you have a second all right all in favor say I I'll oppose say nay all right it has been duly passed and enacted and March the 6 is now designated as special Area Teachers and staff day and I just like to also say um that the board extends its deepest gratitude to all School Employees who contribute specialized services to our educational system we advocate for every school and Community to acknowledge and celebrate these individuals for their integral role in fostering the
022success of our students all right does anyone have anything else have anything for our student member not at the moment okay all right if there is nothing else we will stand a journ