001To order first on our agenda is our point of Pride Awards I'll pass it off to Dr Causey good evening board members I welcome uh chief operations officer Mr Anthony Johnson to the podium yes sir thank you uh so this evening we have several points of Pride that were rescheduled from February when we had a little bit of snow and so we appreciate everyone being able to be here this evening um I do have about five pages worth of names so I want to apologize in Advance if I do mess up any names I do apologize but I'm going to try to do my best if first I could have the Clarksville High School JROTC cyber Patriot team and their representatives uh to please come forward this team composed of Cadet Talen Talbert, Micah Tate,
002Cade McCombs, Chris Feckner, Jace Karpowecz under the leadership of first sergeant Landi Whiteside participated in the air and space forces cyber Patriot State round competition and here in front of us today we have the first place winners in the all service silver tier division [Applause] congratulations and Ms Hedrick don't go far because we have some more wildcats to recognize if the Clarksville High School wildcats cheer team could please come forward now you might remember from last year that they came to us uh being the bronze medalist at the state at a national competition tonight they're here with us as The Silver medal winners in the D1 small varsity game day division with zero or with three zero deduction routines at the National High School cheerleading competition uh the members of this team include Julie Alford,
003Chloe Blevins, Madalynne Brunner, Blair Butcher, McKenna Carbin, Kinsley Savage, Graham Bryant, Peyton Hay, Kennedy Lang, Ella Roberts, Laney Rogers, Mayleigh Carbin, Kylee Claret, Shaliah Griffey, Aubrie Hardy, Anna Kate Seay, Jayden Barlow, Taylor Clinard, Hannah Thurman, Ava Munch, Annie Spinella and coaches Kim Thurman, Kaitlyn Kinslow, Katie Shelby congratulations on your win [Applause] all right next we're going to recognize several of our JROTC teams that competed in the North Bullitt High School Annual Drill Meet also known as the Jesse Schott Invitational um this evening the uh JROTC instructors asked if they could have representatives from each team because if not we'd have about a 100 Cadets here with us tonight so I'll ask for the representatives first from the West Creek High School JROTC drill team to please come forward and although just a few representatives are
004here tonight this team is composed of cadets Aguilar, Arguetta, Arnette, Baggett, Barzola, Buckner-Harris, Carlise, Clayborn, Greene, Dixon, Holt, Serenity Johnson, Malaisha Johnson, Jones, Lopez, McQueen, Mejia Barahona, Ned, Nieves, Oganezov, Person, Shade, Spears, Tavarez, Beard, Donegan, Fletcher, Haggard, Harding Jackson, Lacey, Richter, Ortiz, Rock, and Ruiz and this team right here was the first place overall in regulation drill categories which includes first place overall Let One champion let one Squad category first place first place let one color guard category first place unarmed Color Guard category first place unarmed platoon category first place armed Squad category first place armed Color Guard category and first place armed platoon category in summary first place and everything congratulations and of course the CMCSS JROTC teams JROTC teams had to show out so if next if I could have Montgomery Central High
005School representatives to please come forward so we had first with West Creek and now this is the second place team and this includes uh Cadets Black, Bodem, Cochran, Dobson, Epps, Gray, Hausman, Heath, Jones, Knutson, Lopez, Luster, Nealis, Reece, Robinson, Shenberger, Kamara Smith, Myla Smith, Wohrle, York, Martinez, Ashford, and Kerr and of course they won second place overall in regulation drill categories with a second place overall let one fourth place let one Squad category second place let one color guard category second place unarmed Color Guard category second place unarmed platoon category second place armed Squad category fourth place armed color guard and second place armed platoon category [Applause] congratulations and next if we could have the Kenwood High School JROTC team to please come forward this team composed of members Krantz, Allen, Hoolehan, Walsh, Ulu, King,
006Roberts, Guardardo, Soto, Lee, Radcliffe, Robling, Wren, Jones, Bracey, Valcarcel, Birdlong, Mosley, Siuta, Montemayor, Matavao, Ramos, Olonire, Gutierrez, Montemayor, Lopez, Cable, Cook, Patel, Twitty, and Hunter and their coach uh uh first sergeant Derrick Austin won third place overall in regulation drill categories including third place overall let one second place let one Squad category sixth place let one color guard category third place unarmed Color Guard category fourth place unarmed platoon category fifth place armed Squad category second place armed color guard and fifth place armed platoon category oh and more second place exhibition category third place solo exhibition category first place unarmed exhibition category and second place armed exhibition category congratulations all right and last but not least from this competition if I could have Kirkwood High School Representatives please come forward and we want to give a
007special shout out to Kirkwood they won even though they are not yet even an established JROTC program since they are only in their second year of existence but they won third place in the let one color guard category among those established JROTC programs from multiple States uh this includes Cadets Pruett, Nyia Hernandez-Henly, Nora Hernandez-Henly, Van Kirk and their Coach master sergeant Clarence Johnson congratulations Kirkwood all right moving over to the Tennessee All State musicians we have all state musicians from several schools if I could first have the Montgomery Central High School um representatives to please come forward from Montgomery Central High School we have Freya Jozwiak who earned a place in the All State uh TTBB choir and Bastian Rothering at the All State TTBB Choir and they're joined by their teacher Angela Rouse and
008congratulations to you congratulations next we could have the Rossview High School All State musicians and their representatives please come forward from Rossview High School we have Jalen Soto who earned a place in the All State TTBB Choir and Joo Hyunwoo who won a spot in the All State Orchestra congratulations and West Creek High School from West Creek High School Skyla Wierzbicki was named to an all to the All State SSAA Choir okay if the Kenwood High School unified bowling team and their representatives and coaches could please come forward I am proud to announce that Kenwood High School is our first ever CMCSS state champion in unified bowling members of the team include Jerome Asbury, Elijah Farrior, Sebastian Kelley, Karlos Ransom, DaSean McFerrin, and Matthew Walls and then their coaches that are here with us today
009in addition to coaching the state champions they also won the state coaches of the Year coach Kellie Piche Tatro, Melissa Suss congratulations that concludes this evening's points of Pride and we'll have more for you at the next meeting [Applause] we'll give yall a moment to exit so that way we can go ahead and continue on all righty item two Surplus prop Surplus property Child Nutrition Dr Causey board members you will notice in your packet a list of surplus items from our Child Nutrition director uh you will see quite a few of those uh wishing to be surplused and salvaged anybody have any comments okay all righty moving on item three Surplus property Montgomery Central High School football jerseys and helmets first read board members you will also notice in your packet a letter from Montgomery
010Central High School uh regarding old football jerseys and helmets wishing to Surplus those so that they can sell those for a lift a thon fundraiser uh to support their team they're no longer usable okay anybody comments on that okay item four textbook adoption certification first read Dr Causey board members it is science textbook adoption time and I'm going to turn the mic over to uh Dr. Schanda Doughty our chief academic officer to give you more information about that so in your packets you'll find the recommendations from the CMCSS textbook committees for each grade level or subject specific for high school it's important to note that all of these books were vetted at the state level prior to being put in front of our teachers for review um they were reviewed by teachers administrators um parents
011and community members this year we received over 1,200 pieces of feedback which is very exciting Tennessee has not adopted science textbooks since 2017-18 um so as you can imagine that we are very excited upon your approval to proceed with purchasing these training our teachers um and being ready for our kids to learn from these materials starting next year Mr Maberry are these be physical books or are they going to be on the computer it will depend on um what the teacher committee's recommended however our recommendation is always physical books yes anybody else Mr Nelson uh the books that you had to review was it just like one specific selection or did you have multiple books that actually look at and choose from we had multiple books yes sir for every subject except some of the
012high school subjects when you get to the high school subjects and it's like AP biology just for purpose of example sometimes there is just one Textbook Company um that wants to print those because that's very extensive content um but for the elementary and middle school and the entry level subjects in high school like physical science and biology there were multiple textbooks for us to review okay thank you anybody else all right um item five budget amendments first read board members I will turn the mic over to our Chief Financial Officer uh up to the podium Mr Jeff Taylor to uh discuss with you the fy25 March budget amendments for first reading good evening board how is everyone doing this evening um um several budget amendments for tonight starting with the general purpose fund um we're
013adding an additional revenues of 6.1 million most of that is from the outcomes based Tisa funding which was 2,979,000 and higher than anticipated sales tax revenues we're adding an additional $3 million to that as well that takes up the line share of the revenues expenses as you see on that sheet there the total amount is $2,063,872 and there you see the $3 million additional uh projected sales tax revenue we'll continue to watch it we might have an additional adjustment at the last budget amendment we do in May um it still looks pretty good but we'll just continue to watch that on the next page like I said you see the Tisa outcomes based revenue of 2,979,000 um reimbursement adjustment under the special education grants to the state for 110,000 uh air grant reimbursement for substitute
014teacher expenses of 9300 and then $3,000 under other government groups and uh citizen groups for Career Connection 6 program that's in relation to TCAT moving on to the expenditures a lot of these are just adjustments to the payroll and expenditures budgets just making sure that we keep those under budget for the remainder of the fiscal year um on the first page under regular instruction an adjustment of $149,058 for salaries and 169,586 the majority under the benefit side is for medical insurance we're starting to have more people go with our family plans which means we end up having to increase that budgeted amount then an additional $30,000 for summer learning supplies and materials for the elementary schools then adjustments for payroll projections under alternative school and special education as well as increases for the high cross
015reimbursement reconciliation under special ed as well as the state's bed Pre-K entitlement Grant increases in supplies and materials and equipment moving on to the vocational education this is mostly has to do with the Innovative School model Grant just to align it what what we have in E plan and you'll see under one of the other functions we where it's where the majority of this money is getting moved under salary benefits contracted Services supplies and materials and Equipment um under student services and other adjustment for payroll projections as well as moving $10,000 out and putting it elsewhere for uh doing a renovation over at the Greenwood complex adding two additional classrooms over there under Health Services an additional payroll projections and then of course purchasing uh adding money for the St B Early Learning Center for
016nursing supplies as well as for another $1,000 for district nurses under other student support um you'll see just some more money we're adjusting for Innovative School model Grant to align with e plan as well as just increasing the salary and benefits line other other student support for uh payroll projections then as far as uh prefer paying moving funds to pay for professional learning language line translation additional funds for the Greenwood renovation which I think total 24,000 when it's all said and done then the grant for the career connection six TCAT Grant and then uh additional funding for supplies and materials moving on down staff development um that was one where I think actually made a typographical error on that but that was I take it back that one's fine it's it's more for the Innovative
017School models Grant where we moved 271,000 out on that under other regular instruction support um we had to add money to salaries and benefits to in order to losing my train of thought here pay for these teachers residents we have to hire Subs so that they can get days of training it's an additional cost for Subs in that time frame while they're training and under payroll projections we had to add an additional 101,000 there and changing some of these positions from EA Spanish to admin assistant Spanish interpretation added a few days if memory serves me correct in those positions which add an additional 19,836 and then as you go down you see the rest of those under special ed uh just once again for SPED Pre-K entitlement Grant just an adjustment to that grant for
018salary and benefits as well as just increase for payroll projections and then just the impact aid for the from the DOD SPED funds and the PCG Grant contract for $50,000 under contracted Services most of that was moved out of the staff development or the supplies and materials line just below that under vocational educational sport this is where all that money that was moved out earlier from the other functions went to under vocational educational support for the Innovative School model Grant under employee benefits contracted services and staff development I mean excuse me equipment and then under technology just increase and again for uh benefits mainly medical and then lastly under Board of Education an additional $270,561 for increase in insurance and liability costs then this page just like I said smaller increases the one that says
019correction under Office of the principal correction to previous month's amendments we actually did if y'all recall on the previous two amendments we had removed funds from those allocation accounts for St B and Burt accidentally we did that twice so we're just adding those funds back to zero that back out under Human Resources um adding 21,500 part of that is $20,000 to aid in paying for a compensation study and just an increase in their scanner lease and then under operation of plant the largest one there is the 410,000 um as Norm can allude to their garbage truck their main one has reached the end of its life and it's to the point of failure so we're adding $400,000 there for that as well as $5,000 for increases for their box truck that they were purchasing and
020um once again that correction to the previous Amendment regarding St B under maintenance of plant you'll see two class room additions for $24,000 for the Greenwood complex and then additional funds for the uniform contract that lease that we were trying to finish out and of course the increase based on salary and projections under early childhood education moving on to Child Nutrition have additional 10,446 in vendor rebates and an additional cost in contracted services for school nutrition association dues of $90 3,000 just for the cost of Maintenance to their vehicles and then another $8,523 for increased cost for staff development due to the increased staff that they have and then lastly under transportation um high cost reimbursement here the $150,869 high cost reimbursement Grant and then increase for the employee benefits almost exclusively medical insurance for
021163,907 any questions Mr Garland yeah under this new tariff that's just been put out today under nutrition do you expect an increase in those prices I'm hoping we can make it through the rest of this school year without having to worry about that but that is a potential issue for next fiscal year okay thank you Ms Bryant sorry I got a quick question might not be super quick um you know I'm brand new to this still and trying to figure it out these adjustments are is it an increase based on what was originally budgeted or is it just they're being adjusted as you're spending money as we're spending money well for like the truck that's something that was unexpected so that's an additional 400,000 we've had to add the medical insurance is one we budget
022it as best we can but if employees decide to take the family plan and that's been a lot of the situations because that redoes it at the end of the year right that that renews at the end of the year they change their packages in January correct I think I think the Open Enrollment is in August so it starts the new year in September so that's one of the bigger expenditures we had this year and then like I said a lot of that was too was with the Innovative School model Grant where we're moving funds around to align it with what we have in e plan gotcha okay thank you just learning okay moving on item six live streaming board meetings first read board members um there was a board member that had asked us
023to bring this on the agenda uh you've been given some of the cost of that and the subscription cost anyway to move forward with that uh Mr Johnson has done the the leg work for that and and I'm sure can answer any questions that you might have or Mr Nolan as well so uh I will open it up to any questions you might have based on the information you already have Mr or Mr Garland my my only concern is that if if we implement this uh we need to wait until the next budget year in order to make it a reality I have no problem with streaming or other the way it's been done now because what I say I'm going to say regardless of whether cameras are rolling or they have to do it
024at a later date uh so the bottom line is I support whatever the board actually come up with but I ask the board personally to consider waiting until the next board Year Board I mean next budget year so we can get the cost in the budget where understand this cost $300 a night in order to actually put this on and that's $3,600 that we're going to have to find if we don't wait that long thank you Mr Maberry Mr Johnson um so I appreciate the email and following up with this um the cost was it was it $50,000 a year that's all no okay can you tell me the costs I me there we go no no the $50,000 so when this was first uh presented uh uh Mr Baggetthad presented this idea back in
0252022 and we did some research and so that was for the hardware uh basically the the technology that they already have so that was already purchased back in 2022 and they did purchase the equipment so that it could be ready if in the future the board ever decided for it to live stream the recurring cost is for accessibility for the cart service so in in summary right now Zach Whitaker who's our videographer he takes the video file that they send to him the next day he captions it um and then we put it on on YouTube with live Services it takes someone who's who's certified and being able to do that live captioning through a cart service so we would look at something very similar to what the county uses actually I have to give
026a lot of credit to Skip at the county who really helped us several years ago in formulating this and so using a service that would live caption it now I want to be really transparent you know that was probably on the higher end 300 we we're probably closer maybe to about 150 or so just depending on how long the meetings are but we don't know exact prices till we go out and kind of shop for those quotes I was using ballpark figures based upon what uh the county was was paying uh what Skip had shared with me um but that's the only recurring cost I mean I want to say probably in a few years we might need to update the technology as technology changes and whatnot um but as far as recurring costs it's
027it's simply for that that cart service and just to break down what cart is it's essentially in an easy way you've got our live stream with a slight delay being sent to someone who's a certified cart they're listening in they're like a court reporter they use a stenograph machine very quickly at about 250 words per minute is what they they need to be able to do typing it out it sends it back into our stream aligns it with the YouTube video and boom the live captions are there so that's basically what it is I appreciate that um give a shout out to Mr Baggett for thinking about that um back then uh so about $3600 a year is what we're talking about at the most if it's $300 a month uh I do I'm gonna
028say I'm gonna kind of give a range if if meetings are about an hour I'm thinking um conservatively probably around $150 or so for that service um and then times two so that 300 so yeah 3600 but I want to say the range could be anywhere up to like 7200 just depends like I said this was based on figures that we got nearly three years ago now and I know with everything else I don't know if costs have gone up and we would do uh what I would recommend we would do is use a remote cart service so they don't have to be in the room with us like I said it's that whole thing where they're they're sending it out and so each company that does this type of service you know has their
029own rates we obviously would look for the highest quality but also the the lowest rate and would the goal be to like stream on YouTube Facebook separate like website definitely YouTube um I don't don't want to get in on the record anything about different social media companies and whatnot I'll just say YouTube is has more robust features that allows for us to to live stream uh a little bit better that's what most are using County uses YouTube that sort of thing so YouTube is the platform we're currently using and um correct me if I'm wrong it's we're not paying anything at all for that YouTube service it's completely free for us I don't believe so it's it's free that service uh we're really you know the only piece would be that Cart Service I appreciate
030it um I that's I misunderstood the email uh again I appreciate Mr Baggett for um being Forward Thinking with that getting the technology in place for this um the reason I brought this up is something that you know a year and a half ago when we or maybe two years ago when we originally put this in place there maybe was some concern about putting it in place not necessarily live streaming immediately but let there be a delay I feel like in this last year or two that we've been doing this I think everything's gone well um and if correct me wrong I believe every other local elected um official bodies here do stream live I know 100% the county does they've been doing it the longest and they've done a great job um I know
031the city when we visited with them about it in 2022 they were doing it I still think I believe I I see um uh their meetings that are live um so I can speak to those two governing bodies certainly that they do they do live stream yes yeah and and the city does I've watched City Council meetings and other school boards across the entire state do I've tuned in live to many of them um and so that's the reason I brought it back up um when I requested it at the last meeting when I did request it um I let the chair and uh Mr Nolan know at the beginning of the meeting I was going to um bring that up had nothing to do with anything that happened at the meeting um I let
032them know beforehand I was going to bring it up so just something that's been on my mind um that I feel like we're we're elected body it'd be great for people to be able to tune in the day of while it's happening and that's the reason I brought it up um and we can continue conversation for anybody but I would love for this to be put on the agenda to to vote on to to adopt um in the next meeting thank you Ms Bryant just a couple quick questions first I want to say as a parent that was before I came onto the school board I would have found this very helpful that was one thing that I was really hoping the school would Implement Because by the next day it was like you already
033read the articles and the paper and all the things so I think that this would be a really great feature for parents um the a couple questions monitoring comments do we have a plan for monitoring comments as they come in because I know sometimes that can get a little out of control yeah so that's something we we would we would definitely work through um you can just disable comments but I do want to be honest once you do enable comments people have freedom of speech so they can say whatever they want to say about you um and as long as it doesn't you know the the typical rules of decorum they they will be there but I do believe and and I'll do I'll do some more research you know obviously if this if the
034board moves forth this um but I do believe many are probably disabling comments because it would be hard to monitor in real time uh those those sorts of things if there was something that was egregious other than that though just like our Facebook page um people are allowed to state their opinions it wasn't mostly the opinions it was I was thinking more of the along the lines of people asking questions as we're going through yeah great yeah yeah uh the other question is do we believe that this will increase participation do we have any um studies or did the city or the county see a big difference when they live streamed um I don't want to speculate and I don't know that anybody relayed that to me necessarily I will say it really ranges on
035what's on the agenda as far as our viewership so we can have several hundred or we could have 50 it just you know it just depends um you know one thing and and I kind of wanted to dispel this misconception I did you know several years ago when I when I talked to you all is that just because it's live streamed it will still be there for people to watch whenever it's convenient so I know that that a question had come up at that time that if we live stream it would they still be able to watch it later because sometimes you know people are still working at 6 it's not convenient for them but yes so basically once the live ends then it takes a little bit of time to do what it's got
036to do on on the YouTube servers but then it's there just like our videos are now awesome last question it sounds like the only downside really is the cost are we is there anything that I'm missing here as far as consideration in this as far as downsides I just want to mention just a few things that can happen but they shouldn't I don't think they should be taken as downsides obviously to live stream you have to have connectivity we've got great service providers in Clarkville we have a great technology department but there is a situation and I know I've seen it myself when I follow other school systems sorry the live stream's not working tonight um but we'll you know film it and record later that that's going to sometimes possibly happen we're going to
037hope we'll always have great connectivity but um it does take a lot of broadband to to get that pushed through so if those happen I think we just need to realize and be okay with the fact that in those situations we would just have to they're going to still capture on the hard drive we would still post it later so that's that's really one of the the main things and then there can be I have seen this before there can be people get a little bit more nervous to speak because they know they're live you know it's really no different because we're all going to be seen tomorrow but when you're in that moment I know sometimes that causes some angst for people but have to help shaking yes yes yes I see it yes
038I didn't mean to interrupt thank you very much all right Mr Maberry I just want to say CDE Lightband is an incredible partner of Education I'm sure they're going to keep us up to speed uh I just want to go to record saying that I would also believe we should disable comments because the person if they are commenting well then they're not speaking for any of us you know so that would probably make sense that comments be disabled but I'm sure we're going to write a policy around that of how we um do things that that we could approve um and and honestly the costs here are very minimal um especially you're saying it's the cost of the County Commission already does um and other elected bodies do as well so um I think I
039think it's great I think you guys did an incredible job give a shout out to our team back here you guys did an incredible job and I actually spoke to them before I even brought this up as well making sure they were in the in the loop and for those watching online and pointing to the amazing uh I don't know what the department IT team back there uh that that put everything together um so I didn't want to Spring this on anybody I put did some time before I brought this forward um but uh I I believe the costs are minimal this is something all the other other elected bodies do and we should do it as well thank you and if I might I just want to add one other thing just to kind
040of piggyback off of what Mr Garland said I do want to say you know when the if the board makes a choice to move forward in this direction I will ask if you give us a little bit of time so technology although the so you know the hardware is there they have not tested this will also take us a little bit of time to find that cart service enter into that agreement and then I do believe and correct me if I'm wrong because you know unless you chose to say it starts July 1st I do believe we would have to request budget amendments if this is something we were to do now so either way whatever the timing is I do just ask for that favor just like you all did when we uh recorded
041for it that we have a little bit of time before we flip that switch so we can make sure that it's done properly Mr Garland just have one additional question is there a market marketing plan to get this information out to the homes and the families that actually going to be receiving this information comes over the airline yes sir just like when we started with um with the recording you know making sure people knew that those meetings would be recorded so you know one place we advertise you know board meetings is is in the district calendar you know that gets printed for everybody we don't always put all the dates because we know that those can change but we do tell people that they're typically you know every other Tuesday the first and third and
042then to check the website um what if it's if it's live streamed we'll definitely make sure that people know where to access that those links um Zach's already done a great job of curating all the content on our existing CMCSS Focus which we already Market heavily and on everything one of our our three major social media and so uh we'll I I'll look to his expertise and ways to make it more prominent uh on that page so they can know kind of like the counties does it will say you know meeting tonight at 6 and it will pop up so you know that that's going to be there ready to go so we'll definitely work through some things and I'll I'll tap into the the expertise of my team I do agree with the disabling
043the comments if you know for those at home that want to come speak to the board they need to put a notice out to come speak to us so it it would also deter seeing comments from people actually paying attention what's going on in the board meeting so I agree with that all righty uh moving on item seven proposed modifications to EL5 and EL6 first read board members you will find your packet uh amend or changes to EL5 and EL6 it really comes down to uh the law changed and allows us to uh change the uh the limit for formal bids from 25,000 to 50,000 so it's just uh um it's equaling what the law says now and if you have any questions about that Mr Nolan has volunteered to answer those it is to
044it is exactly what he said EL5 executive limitation is a limitation on the director currently it reads that the director cannot commit a single non budgetary purchase or expenditure greater than $25,000 and in EL6 it just says um that they cannot commit over $25,000 without going through a formal bid process so periodically when the Law changes we've done this before we've kind of cleaned up and and so when the legislature changes our statutes we try to comply with it so um the recommendation would be just increase the authority from 25 to $50,000 on both of those ELs just modify them are there any other questions the recommendation is based on the State Maximum correct yes okay the state maximum over the years has changed from 10 State minimum on the state minimum I'm sorry it's
045it actually the State Maximum okay uh we the state allows non-competitive bids currently up to $25,000 now it's $50,000 we couldn't say as a board we're going to authorize our director to do anything up to $250,000 because the state law doesn't allow it so it is Raising it up to the Limit that the state allows thank you okay item eight County Commissioners comments all right thank you all other business can I end it yeah um first of all I would like to say personally uh thank you to all the Chiefs who did present tonight um and U and I can say they they're fabulous group to work with um however good good evening board members on behalf of Dr Luna-Vedder I would like to say that as we approach spring break all of our students
046teacher staff and District level support have been working tirelessly over the last 26 almost 27 weeks or so doing what is right for all students in CMCSS I wish everyone a relaxing break as we gear up for assessment season where we get to show what we know as the saying goes and I hope everyone is safe headed home all right um a little bragging if y'all didn't pay attention to all the news article that have been out in the last week or so I feel like I've lost a lot of sleep since then but um the the Kiwanis Club of Clarksville has been doing this for 40 years and it used to be the reading is fundamental program where we gave we we went around and we would give I'm also a member of the
047Kiwanis club of Clarksville for 20 plus years um and currently serving the board we used to give an option for kids to pick their book and we would go visit the schools and everything like that and then with our partnership with the Education Foundation we changed that a few years ago it seems like just a couple but I guess it's been longer than that and we had this year we had Chris Grabenstein come he's done our book for quite a few years and so we gave in the F&M Bank Arena we had every third grader in the school system come and we gave them an Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library so 3200 students came in and got their book um you know we all incurred expenses from that and the Kiwanis club was happy to
048pick some of that up and um you know we're just proud to I have two signed copies if y'all would like them um come see me afterwards if you have another student or something that didn't get it but as your third grader moves through the system every third grader will be affected by this program and that is our goal as the Kiwanians is that every child is that is in our system that's ever been in a third grader will have an impact from the Kiwanis club of Clarksville so I just wanted to do a little bragging that's a thing that's near and dear to our hearts anybody have anything else oh Mr Maberry um just say my my third grader went to that and had an incredible time so thank you so much for doing
049that and I do want to say to my lovely wife happy anniversary it's our anniversary today of 19 years so just put on the record yeah thank you thank you all right anything else all right this meeting is adjourned