001call to order this meeting the clerk for McGomery County School Board. The first item on agenda is pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence. You stand with me 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. Our next item tonight is public conversation. We had no one sign up to speak tonight. So we will move forward to the uh third item consideration of director of schools contract. Amen. >> Yes board. Every year we look at the director's contract and it's for consideration for extension of a year. Uh the what you did last year and what you have done in previous years. There's no modification of the contract other than just to extend it for one
002more year which would make the contract extend through June 30th of 2029 if the do board approves. So that is what is before you to make a motion. Second and a discussion etc. Is that a motion? I have a motion for Mr. Garland, a second from Miss Barry. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll go to the vote. Well, all discussion is now closed. Please open the vote. Are all people satisfied with your vote? Please close a vote. It passes 60. Congratulations. Next item is consent agenda. Dr. board. In your in your packets, you have um the consent agenda from last time. I I believe it involves theou and the budget amendments as well as the the session minutes. >> Please open the vote. You're right. >> I've been on vacation. Need a motion to accept. I
003have a motion from Mr. Mabry and a second from Mr. Nelson. Now, please Vote. Everyone satisfied with your vote. Please close a vote. Motion passes 60. Next item is policy monitoring. Dr. Better. >> Board. Please find in your packet information on executive limitation 6 asset protection. This executive limitation has eight compliance expectations. The director of schools shall not allow assets of the district to be inadequately maintained and appropriately used or unnecessarily risk recognizing budgetary limitations. Specifically, a complete property appraisal, valuation, and inventory of school system assets is completed each year. Additionally, employees handling material amounts of funds will be bonded. A preventative maintenance program is in place for all facilities, vehicles, and where appropriate, the equipment. Proper maintenance of equipment is an integral part of employee training and industry specific professional development. Adequate professional liability
004insurance, as indicated in your board packet, is in place to protect district, board, and staff. Furthermore, all purchases follow purchasing procedures outlined by state law and local administrative policies. Security measures are in place to ensure protection of district information and intellectual property. In conclusion, the most recent audit conducted by the state comprollers's office resulted in financial statements being in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and there were no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies identified. District decisions are data informed using a team approach that filters individual and collective actions in light of impact on improving student achievement. Chairman Griffy, this concludes information on executive limitation six. >> Car's a motion to accept executive limitation six. I have a motion for Mr. Mabry. Have a second for Mr. Garland. Any discussion hearing? None. Please open the vote.
005Is everyone satisfied with the vote? Please close the vote. It passes 607 >> board. In your packet is executive limitation 7, the emergency superintendent succession. This executive limitation has one compliance expectation to protect the board from the sudden loss of the director of schools. It states that no fewer than three other executives must be familiar with issues and processes. Four CMCSS executives have been designated to handle district business. The chief human resource officer, chief of staff, chief communications officer, and chief academic officer. Mr. Griffy, this concludes information on executive limitation 7. >> Here's our motion to accept DL7. Motion for Mr. Garland. Is there a second? Second from Miss Barry. Any discussion? Please open the vote. Is everyone satisfied with your vote? Please close vote. passes 60. Next item for board discussion, consideration is 2526
006school calendar adjustments. Dr. Better. >> So board, as you know, you've already um approved the 2526 calendar. Since that approval and since we have printed our calendars, there have been some some adjustments. So, we have multiple upcoming elections, including a newly proposed special called primary and general election that will need to adjust parts of our 2526 calendar. Um, the the Montgomery County Election Commission uses 21 of our schools as polling sites and having students in school on election days raises safety, security, and logistical concerns. Right now, what we are looking at is just the first potential primary date, which is the tentative seventh congressional district special called election primary that has been slated tentatively on Tuesday, October 7th. Currently, we already had a professional development day set for Wednesday, September 24th. it makes the most
007sense to us to go ahead and adjust that professional development day to only have teachers um having their inservice to to um counteract that election date. The other tenative will be in December and then May 5th. So we may be coming to you again soon about those but we really want to get the September October one taken care of as soon as possible for parents to be informed. So what we are asking for is to change the uh Wednesday September 24th professional development day to Tuesday October 7th. >> Is there a motion, Mr. Mayberry? >> Motion. Is there a second? Have a second. Miss Bryant. Any discussion, Mr. Bryant? Yeah. >> What? So it says tenative on here. What happens if it changes again? >> We have been assured that this this is most likely
008the date. We are supposed to have definitive this week. Um if in case it would change, we would likely come back to you this next month. But um this is a first read and final because we wanted to get the vote in um to make it public to to our constituents. >> Any other discussion? >> Please open the vote. Is everyone satisfied with your vote? Please Couple vote passes 60. Next item resolution school board support post Tristar Ascension St. Thomas Clarkfield hospitals. Is there a motion? Mr. May motion. Is there a second? A second for Mr. Garland. Any discussion? Herb Nelson is green. You'll be next. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, while I think it's uh beneficial for us to have as much help as we can, I just really don't see this as actually
009being a board of education issue for having uh this hospital in and I think that this was better placed on the uh county commissioners to make this decision. Um, while we want as much health care and and and uh aid available to our students, I don't think this is a school board uh vote. Thank you, >> Mr. Garland. I uh I strongly support uh the uh the resolution. I haven't read it. I don't need to read it. uh because we need more hospital support here in Clark, McGomery County. Um with the hospital, we need a we need hospitals because we are growing rapidly. Uh every day we have additionals to this community and we are having people to go to the Tonova hospital and have to sit there 6 8 n hours before they can
010get to the back to be seen by by doctors. I understand that we have also other outline dispensaries, but we need professional health care uh operatives here in Montgomery County to take care of our county. Um Nashville got it, Memphis got it, Chattanooga got it, so why can't uh Clarksville have it? And I strongly support the resolution from the county commission and any other organization that will stand with it because this is something that's vitally needed for our community. Mr. Mayberry. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the city council and the county commission for the unanimous support that you guys um passed. With that, as I was looking at that, I brought this resolution for our school board. Um it is in our board packets. I we wrote in the resolution, health
011care is vital to student attendance, staff well-being, and family sta stability. And that's the reason we brought it forward. Healthc care is very important to our community and our students are greatly impacted by it. Tomorrow is the certificate of need hearing in Nashville. I do want to encourage everybody to come out and support in Nashville and and join us in our support. Um I can tell you our entire state delegation will be there as well in support. Um, tonight I ask for our school board to continue the trend of our local elected bodies and showing full support for these both these hospitals because our students and our community need this. So that's why tonight we brought it forth uh for support of both of these resolutions. Thank you. See no more discussion, please open the
012vote. Is everyone satisfied with your vote? Please close the vote. It passes 60. Next item, comments before school as on officer. Uh board members, Dr. Luna Veter and Council, my name is Karen Watkins Ju and I am one of the school liaison on the installation. My partner is Miss Laquivia Garrett and we look forward to starting the school year. We will begin visiting principals, uh, school counselors, and military life consultants in September, giving them the time to get settled. Uh, we're eager to serve our military connected students and our families. And on behalf of the Fort Campbell Garrison, we would like to thank you for allowing us to be of service. Thank you. >> CMC a rep. Good evening. I want to start by saying that the engaged sessions sessions were great again this year.
013I really enjoyed I only went one day. I could only go one day, but the vibe is great. It's wonderful. The vast learning opportunities and the food trucks. I have to mention the food trucks. So, um it was it's just a good vibe. I really do enjoy that every summer. I also want to thank the director for prioritizing people over programs with the loss of federal funds. I think it is crucial to ensure that our educators feel valued not only by Dr. Luna Veter, but also by all of CMCSS leadership, especially those that rely on social media for communication. I have read a lot of social media posts that are inspiring educators and students for the upcoming year. But I've also read social media posts that can negatively affect our educators and students. Our educators
014and students are all different and unique individuals as we know. And we never want those differences to make them feel as if they are the wrong people for our school system, community, or state. Each student in this district is in the right place at the right time for learning. Thank you. >> You pet representative. >> Good evening board members. Dr. Luna Veter. As you can tell, it was a work day. I have my shirt on, so I'm advertising for everyone. So, it just seems like I just turned around yesterday. I was up here in June saying, "Everyone have a great summer." Well, here we are again. So, summer went by so quickly, but I would like to look forward to a year of celebrations because talking with our academic coaches this afternoon, we had some
015celebrations to um talk about with our TCAP scores and also talking with legislators this weekend, I held nail them up against the wall and I said, "I'll make sure you fully fund our budget." And I was told, "Do not worry about that. It will be taken care of." So, that's another celebration I'm I'm happy to hear of. And also next week we'll celebrate our new teacher orientation. It's always great for us to be there along with other groups welcoming new teachers, talking to them about uh the year, taking care of yourself, but also in that conversation next week, I will remind them, if you will remember a story I told you about the locker rooms and the IQ scores back in the spring, I want to remind teachers of that story. Also, set your expectations
016high. Always think the best of every teacher and every student. Thank you. Comments by county commissioners comments by board members. Mr. Mayor, I just want to thank the board for the support tonight for these resolutions. um joining with our county commission, our city council um as the three um major elected bodies here and joining with our state, our full state delegation. I believe this is going to send a great message from our community uh that we support these hospitals coming here. So again, thank you all. Thank you all. We appreciate it, >> Mr. Garland. Yeah, I would like to say to uh Dr. Luna Veta and the staff and any teacher that might be here tonight. Um, I applaud you for the work that you did last year, but this is a new year and
017I know and I believe in my heart that as you go forth in this new year that your aspirations and your your desires and goals will be even higher. Uh I sat here for the child for the children and if I'm sitting here in support of the children then I'm supporting you as well. Uh I am not here for fame. I'm not here for for to be noticed but I am here to make sure that we do what is right uh in in season for every child that goes to Clarkville McGomery County. Uh we're coming up on 40,000 kids. uh we do have cities in this state that don't have 40,000 people. And so we are we have a uh we have a grave requirement to make sure we get it right. And we cannot
018get it right without the teachers, the staff and the leaders that we have here uh today. Uh congratulation and we we are with you. I am with you. I can say for me, I'm with you 100% in order to try to make this year better than last year. Thank you. >> Uh, director of schools report. >> Good evening, board members. It's hard to believe, but tomorrow marks two weeks away from the first half day of the new school year. While we still do have some teaching and bus driver positions to fill, I'm happy to report we are in a more favorable place than we were last year with staffing. We are currently over 98% staffed for our teaching positions with hiring and onboarding still occurring. Most vacancies are in the area of special education to
019no one's surprise. We are continuing to provide our sped teachers with an additional $6,000 of differentiated pay as well as potential signon bonuses for those new hires who will be joining us over the next few weeks. Similarly, our bus driver situation has improved greatly. We still do have 16 open bus routes, but we have 22 candidates in the driver training pipeline. Our team will continue working diligently over the next few weeks to find qualified candidates for the remaining spots. Finally, tune your radio to Q 108 this Thursday and Friday for Q up the classroom. Last year, $27,000 was raised for the teacher warehouse provided by the Clarksville Montgomery County Education Foundation. The goal this year is to hit $40,000 for all the extras to help our teachers and students. And if you tune in at
020the right time, one of these fine people out here may be someone that you will be listening to. And last year, we even had um contests such as, "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" So, I can't wait to listen. So, thank you all for everything. Thank you for your your vote of confidence tonight. And this concludes my report for the evening. >> Uh my only comments, I apologize for such a lengthy meeting and keeping on here so long. So, we'll try to do better next month and make it a little more longer. That concludes our meeting.