001He didn't have to tell you twice. Yeah. They would come in that little closet over there. They'd say that that is that where your electric paddle is. All right. It is 5:00. If everyone will please stand. I'm going to ask Ben if you'll lead us a word of prayer. And Becky, if you'll follow with us, lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Let's pray. Most gracious loving father, we thank you so much and we we're humbled by the blessing of another day. We thank you for all the blessings you give us daily. Father, we thankful for the bountiful rain and being able to see your creation come to life. Father, we just ask you be with us tonight during this meeting that we may conduct ourselves in this meeting in a manner that's pleasing to
002you. Father, we just ask that you would be with all the students and the faculty as they enjoy their summer break. Father, just watch over guard and protect each one. Father, we love you. We thank you for loving us. We ask that you forgive us where we fail you. Most of all, we love you. Thank you for your your son and the saving grace of his blood. Father, we pray all this your most holy name. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance 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. You may be seated flag this time. I'll ask Mr. Killzer to call the role, please. Shane Connor here. Ben Couples here. Dr. Kim Scott here. Becky Hutcherson
003here. Norris Frank here. Randy Cherry here. All right. There is a quorum present. So we'll officially call our meeting to order for uh the month of June. And we begin with a recommendation to accept the board agenda. I'll make a motion accept agenda. Second. Okay. Motion's been made and seconded. Is there any discussion about the agenda at all? All right. If there is none, all those in favor of approving the agenda as is say I. Any opposed? All right. So, the agenda is set. Next is need a a motion to approve the consent agenda in your packet. I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda. Second. Motion's made and seconded. There is no discussion on that. All those in favor of approval say I. Opposed. All right. Consent agenda is approved. Uh delegations. I don't
004believe we have any delegations who have requested to address the board tonight. Uh so we'll move right into our celebration segment which a lot of things to celebrate as we're coming off the school year and I have Mr. Killzer kind of spotlight some of these including some of our athletic successes. Well, and just as I shared uh with your agenda, our baseball team, which we've got some folks here that can talk probably with more details, but um they had a great run this school year, had a sectional win. That's like what we used to call substate win versus Lawson with the double header 7193. And I was working in my office when they had that second game one and it was like fireworks were going off outside with everybody hollering and carrying on. So, uh
005it was a great run for our baseball team, especially with Mike Golf as a uh exiting head coach to have a chance to not only go to the state during his final year, but then also have his son play. uh so had an opportunity to to experience that with his son. Unfortunately, we had a loss at the first round of the spring fling with uh two losses to Upperman and South Gibson. And uh but um it was a great run for our school, great run for our baseball team in particular and for the high school. And I know it's memories for that high school team. Then also our boys soccer team. If you remember last year, the boys soccer team did make it to the state championship. Uh but this year they come up a
006little short uh during the sectional game with a real close loss to Hume Fog out of Nashville 4-3. Uh so um but still another exceptional um year for them with the district championship and I believe the regional championship also. So we've had some really big successes with two of our boys uh sporting teams. And then I included here uh which was part of the Chester County Independent News had a seventh grader Mason Meyers. Parents are Christopher and Megan Myers. Uh we have a golf team at the middle school grades now the junior high grades. And Davis Pardon is their head coach. And Mason finished uh with a tie for sixth place with the score of 77 which was just five over par. So it's a great score. and he also was the top performing seventh
007grader in that tournament. So, wanted to just give a quick shout out. You got a prospect that's probably going to be playing high school golf. That's pretty impressive. 77. That's That's good. That's really good. So, uh again, we as a former athlete and as a former coach, those are fond memories that you cherish for a lifetime. It's a great way of bringing your community together. Uh there may be opposition with which side of the aisle you are in your politics, but fortunately in Chester County, everybody's go big blue. So it's it's wonderful to see the success and you know the anticipation for what future is going to hold. Uh we just look forward to continuing seeing those opportunities for our student athletes to succeed and have those memories cherished for a lifetime. So all right.
008Uh, and uh, I guess Bear's mentioning too, we want to talk about our new staff. Yes. Yes. Well, and they're both here serving. They're here. They are before their contract actually starts on July 1. They're here serving. Uh, so have a chance for Dr. Nathan Hall and Miss Natalie Lax, who is the tag team for the Chester County Middle School. You might want to just take a second to introduce yourself. first. Um, nice to meet you guys. Um, I'm just down the road in Hardman County. So much closer. I'm excited to be a part of your team. Um, I've been in the middle school world pretty much my entire career. Um, I taught at Ber Middle School for a long stint and I was in Fate County last year as an AP. Um, just thankful
009to be closer to home and my own babies. Um, I have a house full, three stepchildren, two of my own. We are a huge sports family. just come back from a big baseball trip trying to check off some MLB stadiums with my husband and I. So, um that's just pretty much the only hobby I have time for. Um I look forward to working with the fourth and fifth graders. That'll be a new experience for me. My sixth through eighth grade stint I feel like has prepared me for that. So, I'm just excited to be here. So, thank you. Nathan Hall, I worked at the high school. Um came in in January, had the opportunity to change this other position. I retired from Mississippi in January and and I've done a little bit of everything. I
010um I I'm a little bit twisted because I really enjoy the middle school grades um every and middle school, upper elementary, however you want to call it. My wife's also an educator. She just changed jobs. She has less sense than I do. She she was elementary assistant principal and now is moving to high school assistant principal. I don't know about that. But anyways, we have I have a wife have two daughters. One of them plays college soccer. The other one's will be a senior at current high school. And um just glad to be here. Everybody and I I'll say what I've said every time that anybody's asked me about this particular school. I said it's like a public private school. Um, so I I I'm very blessed to have the opportunity and and looking forward
011to the year. I've got the chance to meet a couple Chestston and a couple other kids there at the high school. I've been I've enjoyed my time this far. Very good. We're excited to have you guys. Yeah, we're glad. We're glad to be here. Absolutely. All right. Well, uh, the next thing we have tonight is an opportunity when the public chooses if they have a agenda item they want to address, that opportunity is presented at each meeting on an actionable item. uh be I don't believe that. Okay. No one on that list tonight. So, we'll move right into our uh business items, which tonight being this time of year is always heavy on uh board policy revisions, those that have been coming through. Obviously, the actions from the state legislature in the in the spring
012and others that we look at. So, you have quite a bit of these in front of you in your board packet. uh what we've done in the past but we can do this we can do this which one we have to separately because of an option situation but uh we can look through these answer any questions I'll have Mr. Killser address them uh as he sees that we need to but then we can approve them all with one motion uh except for the electronic device uh change because that is uh the the legislative action is causing us to have to update our policy and so we have to choose which route we want to take basically. So let me turn it over to you to to comment and then we can look into the approval
013of this. Do do we want to do this one first then the electronic device? We we can. Okay. And then you can then we can collectively do the now with if you turn to page nine uh in your in your agenda file. This is policy 6.312. Uh when I met with uh Shane yesterday, I shared with him that I had solicited from administrators since they're going to be the ones having to enforce these policies um give them the preference uh or ask their opinion about which one they prefer. Now, of the two policies that is included in your agenda, 6.312A and 6.312B, those are from the TWWA taking consideration with the change in the law. The change in the law reflected in that public chapter 103 addresses that no student whether it's um a wearable
014device like a Apple Watch or a device or are to have access to it during instructional except for and the conditions are which you know in in years past we've discussed that here uh when we've taken this path Also uh in case of an IEP or a 504 plan that may dictate that or some other condition, we have to also based on that 103 public chapter 103, we have to also publicize how we would communicate in case of emergency with the students not having access through the phone. you know, because to reassure the families that we're not saying that their child can't be communicated with, but you know, the old school of going to the landline, if you know from most of our work experience when you were in high school, Becky, we had payoneses.
015We had landlines everywhere and payoneses are non-existent. We used to have two in the high school cafeteria and two in the lobby years ago, but that was before everybody had their cell phone now. So, it became obsolete and they removed those. So, we have to have uh the opportunity to make sure that any emergency situation can be communicated. So, going back to what I was saying, I solicited the administrators to weigh in and I'll start with the the two groups that were probably the most U I want to say confrontational, but the ones where the students may be pushed back the most, the high school and the junior high. Uh, of course, Rene's here also, so she can speak on her own behalf. Uh, but the high school uh Clay is the one that spoke
016first as the building principal that he had uh appreciated the stance that the Warren County uh Board of Ed took. Now again, I made a hard copy of that because I'd include that in your packet initially because I didn't know where their feedback would go. I'm not saying that we have to just change the letter head from saying Warren County to Chester County, but the premise is that they have just started this past school year. They did it for the 2425 school year based on the uh conversation that that Clay and I had with their building principal at the high school at Warren County High School that they have no students are not allowed to have their devices on themselves anytime during the school day once they arrive. Either they can store it in a
017vehicle if they drive or they have a way of collecting those devices during the morning time. It's one of those early housekeeping jobs and then they retrieve it at the end of the day. Now, that format of how they do that is uh a costly event that they went into at Warren County. But what I would say was from Clay's position, he initially likes this policy because it does remove any access to any communication device or any device from the start of the school day to the end of the day. Now, as he also added as a uh I guess a an addition to his position, knowing not knowing how the other administrators would have because he understands that policy changes happen to all the schools. It's not a situation in this case where we're
018going to say something for the high school. We've done it before for dress code, but say something for the high school, maybe junior high, and then something different the elementary. But his position was to choose if he didn't do this one or something similar to this level of of pro prohibition. He was in favor of 6.312B which was the more liberal of the two choices because that's the one that distinguishes the elementary grades from the secondary grades. Um the again the policy or excuse me the um the public chapter reads which both policies speak to is not having access during instructional time and the um I guess the ambiguity in it was to where some of the administrators said that you have um access for the students to go back to it in non-instructional time.
019thinking about the high school between classes and transition cafeteria time. Um those would still be based on 6.312B as in boy. You'd have that opportunity. Now 6.312A would be a little bit more restrictive and there's not a dis a dissemination between elementary grades and secondary grades. High school principal made that stance. that his two assistant principles said, "We agree with Clay Junior High." Um, I heard first from Jared, she made um Jared again said this would be his um uh favored approach uh being restrictive from it all together. But as I shared with Renee, you know, understand that whatever policy we have here, if one of these two, the A or the B choice is what the board decides here, nothing stops them from elevating a more restrictive plan of action. Um, as I was
020asking Emily earlier on in the lower grades going back to Nathan and Natalie, the fact that you've got Kate third or four or five students, you may not have as many or as much temptation with the cell phone availability talking about they could do more restrictions, but there's always somebody going to say, "What's board policy?" Yeah. Well, a board policy is a minimum. Yeah, that's always So, so you're saying if they had B as the policy, a particular school could elevate it. Yeah, they could. Now, it's a more challenging. Yeah. uh they'd rather have it to where and I say they let me go back and give more feedback because I've just said at the high school and Renee Renee do you want to say anything right now or Well, I guess it's just our
021main concern is during those times of lunch that we have a different mentality going on with kids at the junior high versus the high school. And I still I can see the issue of like drop offs in the morning and during lunch that there might be some cyber bullying or photos videos taken during that time because they're not mentally capable of saying all this shouldn't be doing that right and there's less oversight when you're in a classroom you've got this number of kids I mean and I know they're being watched at lunch and stuff, but but not like you're in a classroom with your kids. Well, the public chapter was very explicit talking about only during instructional time was the restriction. Now, they also set the bar lower than what back years ago when I
022was principal at the high school, you couldn't have it out at all. Couldn't be out on your table even if it was turned off. Mine's not, but I mean, you'd have to have it stored away, backpack or wherever. stored away. Warren County carries it to a much higher level. They have the means in house to store it and it's a locked device. I had done the pricing, but it's not cheap. No. What they've done is this is this per classroom. I'm assuming they the way they explained it or the way the principal explained to Clay and myself that each home room or first period teacher collects the devices and then through the process you you had certain and I can't remember all the details but it was some piece of of hardware at certain locations
023that you could put in some type of code and get a key that would unlock your device. the devices were locked in a special situation. I'd have to do more research if that was the path we took, but it was something that um that uh afforded the the the privacy and the safety and security of knowing that your device is not just sitting in a teacher's desk. Uh now, I'll say this, at the high school, I know I've seen it when I've done observations, some of the teachers at the high school had one of these. used to be what we'd have for like calculators, little holders, and they would just because of the classroom practice, it was just part of the routine. Put you put your phone up in here, you know, and they would
024hold it. Now, it would be visible for everybody, maybe behind where the teacher sat. So, I mean, you would see it. Um, so it wouldn't be like they'd have access to it at the back door where somebody could sneak by and like go on a bathroom break and rob somebody of of their phone. But but now I've seen that out of one of the uh high school teachers at at the high school level. If we if you had your home room class that is where your phone was stored for the day, how much time would you need in the afternoon in order to recover your phone before you caught the bus, whatever? Well, there's that. That's why they the devices that they have at Warren County was at strategic locations throughout the building that they
025would give them access to because again some were closer to go like at the end of West Hall be quicker to go out this way to my car. So I don't know all the details about that. I just know that well and let me say this elementary the K3 principles all weighed in. They like Warren counties. Now again, the likelihood of them having to enforce it is going to be slim. Yeah. So, um it's easier to enforce nothing. Can't have them at all at the high school level. To me, that would be easier because if you allow some teachers to do the slips, it's kind of what we've discussed right previous before the state come come up with it again. But it may it's just like I mean you you start out with good intention
026and then after a while you you get tired of beating your head on the wall so you just let it happen where if you say no we're not going to do it that in my mind that would be easier too you know it would it would stick easier you'd say this is how we're going to do it we're not going to have your phone time you get to school now that does include Apple watches it does any kind of the public chapter includes Apple any type of as it says, personal electronic device, anything that you can communicate with. But what about our athletes? I just feel like they need something to tell mom when to come pick up. I mean, yeah. Well, now Warren County again, as you well, and I know I just gave
027it to you this afternoon, but they had it from the start of the school day to the end of the school day is not accessible for the student. Now, again, some cases, if if uh if one of the children needs to have a doctor statement or doctor visit and they're leaving at 1:00, they'd have a means of getting their phone or something. But it's not like you lose it if you don't have access to it if you leave early. But um how expensive? I don't know. You know, I I was I was um I was shocked initially that Clay Clay heard this principal at a uh virtual meeting PD session speak about how impactful it was. Um, and I was shocked that Clay was in favor of it. Yeah. Because I know that it's gotten
028really uh flexible for kids to have access to their phones even during instructional time. I've seen them like maybe the teacher the last five minutes, the last 10 minutes or maybe even more frequently than that. Yeah. Lunchtime. Yeah. if they use it, you know. Does this policy, whichever one we go with, apply to the educator as well as the student? Well, the educator, that's what Dr. Hall was asking. We have a policy. It does not apply to the educator. This applies just to the students. But now we do have a policy at the section five that says that no educator, no staff member has access to their phone when they are in teaching, offering instruction or when they're monitoring students. They're not supposed to have access to it. They can have it during their planning
029time or during their own personal time, but not otherwise. And of course, you know, that would just break it. You know, whatever restriction happened to the students, you better have at least at least some effort to be consistent with the adults in the room. Yeah. But the adults in the room have a little bit more um Well, again, I would I'm not saying we embrace like if if you guys thought that the Warren County approach was more appropriate. I'm not saying that everything with their uh how the the discipline is handled would be embraced. It wouldn't again I'm not saying just make it where Chester County instead of Warren County, but for the the restriction of it the restrictions of it, you know, we've got the the discipline code with it. um they well I'm
030I'm jumping around now for the what I was going to say is for a staff member to violate section five code related to the same issue it starts with an oral warning leading up to a letter of reprimand leading up to suspension possibly determination if somebody was so u committed to stay the wrong cause let me ask you a question. What if we tabled just this till next month to get a little more information about the cost? It seems like the principles want it and that surprises me. It did. It did really. But I agree with him. I agree with him. Um, I know most parents and kids won't probably, but they're supposed to be here to get educated and stay off the phones, right? So, could we do that, Shane? I mean, to get
031a little more information about where you can store the devices and the cost of it and would it be? Yeah. And I would say this, the way public chapters are written, of course it's not going to impact us with this issue specifically, but the way the public chapters are written, uh, July one usually cranks it up. However, we're not in school in July one, so we do have time. Yeah, we got a July meeting that we could discuss it, but we would, you know, we would have to have something in the works decided that meeting, okay? because you got to get time for to publicize things, especially being that close because it's that meeting is the July the 22nd if we stay with the the tenative plans that we have. So, you're getting close. I
032mean, the next that same week is our countywide inservice. Yeah. So, you you run the risk again, if you read back to the public chapter, they're only talking about instructional time. the principles that have weighed in elementary school, middle school, our middle school, four and five, uh, and then the junior high, they like the restriction. They don't like the flexibility that you have with the non-instructional time having access to it because it would create a greater temptation to get it out and abuse it. this sentence. These devices are being used by students as a means of cheating on tests, taking inappropriate pictures and videos of students and staff. That bothers me for sharing and posting across the internet and there's threatening and bullying just like Renee said and engaging in an excessive amount of social
033interaction during instructional time. So that sounds like the reason why they Yeah. Okay. And we're seeing some of that here. Is it okay? Yeah. Natalie spoke that your question. Okay. So, last year in F County, we did implement this fully in our schools. Um, we we we used a much cheaper option. Um, we did not have lock boxes and safes or anything like that. It did take some extra hands from the faculty. Um, I'm not quite sure being new here, you know, what y'all's specific struggles are. We did have those the post the inappropriateness. I will say drastically we nearly eliminated that um fights, instigation, you know, any social media post, anything like that, we still had them. However, it was happening outside of school hours, not our baby. Um as far as taking them,
034the storage process, um like I said, extra faculty on staff, you know, they kind of had to be on board the buy in from the faculty. Um we had like car riders, bus riders, those specific duties. Um, we bought just the clear tubs with the snapping lids. Labeled them like sixth, seventh, eighth grade for middle school. Um, car lighter car riders when they come in, they would put their name, home room teacher on a slip of paper, phone, Apple watches, Beats, iPads, because they sure started bringing everything they had at the house. Put it all in a big gallon Ziploc bag. Um, put it in their grade box. The bus um drop off was in grade sections by their home room teachers and they did the same. When they come in, they put their name
035on a slip of paper, all their devices in a gallon bag, put it in their right boxes. Of course, we had faculty there monitoring all of those boxes. Um after morning drop off, all of that was over. Um myself, it was kind of my baby. So, I combined everything into the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade boxes. Um and they were stored in our testing room, and only one faculty member had that key. Um, so I locked them into the testing room. Um, during the day if we had kids that checked out, um, you know, I would walk that kid over to the room, unlock it, they got their device and left with it, and I locked the room back. Um, I'm not really sure, you know, how your buildings are set up, but you know,
036cost incurring for us. We already had the giant rolling carts. Um, so really we we bought big gallon ziplockc bags. I used the giant paper cutter and cut up mounds of slips of paper. Um, and then we bought just the big giant tubs with the lids. And we had clearly I mean the clear tubs, the clear tubs. I made the labels. I made like six, seven, eight that I made colorcoded, you know, for each grade for the home room boxes. And those three carts kept everything there. And all of those carts and stuff went into that testing room, locked it up. Afternoon time, um, initially it took us about 15 minutes. We we shaved time off the the easier it got, but you know, our day ended at 3:30, so like 3:10 we had some
037in the building um that were assigned sixth, seventh and eighth grade carts and they went got the carts pushed down to that hall, knocked on one home room door that that group come out, got their devices next door, etc. You know, like I said, by the by the end of it, you know, they were get used to it. So, it took like 10 minutes in the end of the end of the day to get all the devices back out to the kids. Um, and we always did that under the cameras, um, out in the foyer, everywhere that the phones were taken in the morning, in the gym, in the front foyer. Everything was done under surveillance. So, if there were ever a question that we could go back and pull that footage and show that
038in the afternoon, the distribution was done the same. It was done in the hallways underneath the surveillance cameras. So, that was there for them. But, it was a much cheaper. We did not buy lock boxes or anything like that. So, that's a possibility if it's are interested in doing a question for you. What about the parents? Um, so East and West, I was at West. East started this at the very beginning of the year. We piggybacked off of them around Christmas. Um, but East um with Dr. Ford and them, they sat down, they had like a welcome back to school bash. And so they let their parents and students know ahead of time. They walked them through like the morning procedures. they walk them through the redistribution at the end of the day. And ours
039was very much similar to the warrant policy. And I think, you know, the more gray area that you put in there, uh, the more problems that may arise. So, the more restrictive and the more like, hey, this is what it is. There's no question about it. I saw the parents really like they didn't have a choice to get on board, basically. So, you know, they grumbled about it, the kids grumbled about it. middle school levels. I I mean I I spent probably a month hunting down kids with phones in their shoes. I had the kids, you know, reseal it in a bag. I mean, just little stuff like that. But after I would say about the first month, they finally and it was just us like staying on it. You have to have your faculty
040buy in. You have to have your admin, you know, support. But once they realized that there was no getting around it, they were just like, "Whatever. I'm tired of fighting it." you know, to include parents, you know, um but they they did not have any issues with that. Um we didn't really have any I had a couple, excuse me, ESL students that had to have their device for translation purposes. Um and so they were able to keep those obviously. Um I did not have any with IEPs that stated they had to have it. Any medical devices, um like diabetes, that kind of thing, heart monitor, obviously all those would be exceptions. Um but would you have 504 for those kids. Do you remember? Um, was there something? I know. The only ones I can remember
041specifically were our ESL kiddos. Um, and it was in their ILP that they're they would keep their devices because that's what they use for translation purposes. Um, I'm sure our med we didn't have any medical students. I only had a faculty member that had to have their device for their um, monitor on their arm. Um, but I didn't have any other students in the building. The only ones that we had that were allowed to keep them, like I said, were two ESL students that used them for translation. But of course, yeah, if you have that in their paperwork, um, they just got to keep it. So there was no like teachers having to handle it. It was like the second they walked into our building, if they were a car rider, they met the car
042rider faculty, bus riders met the faculty there at the bus rider drop off, and that was just the first thing that they So it never got to the first period class. And we did not see any more videos posted in our school building. No more cyber bullying because that is a real thing. Um it it cut down on so much of that. So much. It really that was, you know, you're you're going to have to be flexible with how your faculty handles it. I would assume like at the high school level, you're going to have kids driving. you're going to have a whole different set of procedures that you may want to do for them. So, their their procedures may look different than the middle school procedures that may look different than our procedures definitely
043look different than the elementary procedure. Here's one thing I'm missing on this that I would like to ask about the more restrictive one because I see, you know, I can see both angles. But if the policy is you cannot have it no matter what from the moment you walk in the building to the moment you leave, why do we even allow them to bring it to start with? Why do we go through investing in money M for a lock box. Why do we have a teacher take up 30 minutes of her morning or afternoon collecting phones if they can't have it? Don't bring it. Don't bring it. Yeah. Of course, I think in this one it does read that if you want to not go through the hassle of having to turn your phone in,
044leave it. And if you drive Yeah. But you're giving them an option. I mean, I'm saying if if all that you most of her conversation was about process of collecting and handing back out, correct? And if if you're going, again, I'm not saying this is what I'm leaning toward, but if you're going with that one and it says it's prohibited from the moment you enter to the moment you leave, why are we going through the collection process? I mean, that that's I mean that's a question. I don't know if he they have a maybe why they picked to chose to do that in this policy. Well, we had to do that during TECAP as well. We had to take up all of the devices, right? So, this is every day of the year, right? Right.
045every day. Well, you might have some high schoolers that would go to work that don't drive. That may somebody's going to pick them up. Yeah. Right. I mean, that's just I'm hearing a lot of seems like the bigger issue with this is the collection process. The process. Yes. And what do we do, you know? But I mean that that gets to that just gets down if we determine to go with that route. There's still open conversation about the other policies. there's any concerns or on AB or Warren County here. Any other comments on these? It's just another example of a few people doing the wrong thing with something that could be very very helpful um to a burden. Yeah. Now, you know, and again, this is not speaking to uh the use and utility of
046our Chromebooks, laptops. We have access to that for our students. We're still a one to one. We buy the quantity every year. So it's not like they won't have the opportunity to have technology. It's just that their own personal technology is the question mark. Well, based on the public chapter, it says no. You know, during instructional time, right? I I I do know adding to what you said, Shane, it's a different world we live in. You know, when I was a kid, my dad or my mom or my grandfather would tell me what I was expected to do when I got off a school bus. Nowadays, that subject's changing. It's as easy as sending a text to you if your if your device is at school but stored away and then you get it back
047and you get on the bus. And it's like, well, papa says, "I got to feed the horses when I get home." That's how they communicate that. I agree. My devil's advocate to that is do these videos not happen as much on the bus as they do at school. Oh yeah. I mean I mean probably probably more so. I mean that's when they got their freedom. So I get the the answer to that. Well, when they get on the bus they can have it. Well, if our we have to be consistent in our reasoning. If our reasoning is to cut down on bullying and videos that are inappropriate, they're on a bus. That's just as bad happening on the bus as it is the boy's bathroom. And you know, as you have less monitoring going on
048and less monitoring, right? That can be done in the afternoon at their house as well. I don't know if it'll work or not. Well, unfortunately, the public chapter doesn't address what happens in the home. That's right. That's right. Just what happens at our place. Yes. Yeah. Well, if if we go to Norris's comment of of moving this to appointed time, which would be the next meeting, is that something we would still have time or is it really something that needs to be Well, again, personally, after this meeting, I will develop a a draft of this to to have something for again soliciting feedback from these folks and also just sharing with you guys can't take any action because it's not official till a board meeting. But uh addressing what the um the the interest of
049the feedback that I've received plus the conversation that's happened today, I can generate one. Again, my recommendation would not if if we did go something more restrictive, would not adjust our discipline policies. We have a solid discipline policy if you get caught with it. And this one, uh, the the public chapter requires that the teacher can have the authority to collect if somebody's abusing it. If she sees little Billy sitting there with his phone on his desk or fumbling around with it during instructional time, she has the opportunity, he or she has the opportunity to collect it and to store it. We've always been doing that anyway, uh, when it's been countable, you know. So, and I think that we would probably be better off to do the cheaper version. Yeah. Yeah. I was I
050mean, if if this is what we decide to do. Yeah. So, do I need to make this into a motion? B is pretty restrictive for the elementary. It is if you took out during breaks throughout the school day, school If you just took out the grade specific and just said, if I'm not mistaken, am I am I right on that? The B is the one that's got the Yeah, they may possess it. K5 is going to be the same on either one. Is that not correct? Correct. So, I mean, it it's not really going to make a difference with these two policies. Students may possess wireless communication devices so long as such devices are turned off and stored for the entirety of the school day unless one of the exceptions above applies. Well, those exceptions
051are legitimate exceptions. It's not videoing somebody going to the bathroom. So, if you took out may use wireless communications during breaks. Yeah. If you just took out Well, and what I was saying, Dr. Kim is if you just drop the right a grade 6 through 12 and it K through 12. Right. Right. Then it would I mean that would still do what the public chapter requires obviously because the TSBA generated this. Well, it just seems like then the schools could decide are we going to let them have them at lunch? This is our baseline. Are we I mean instead of the other way around because I don't see how you could have it one way and then say the schools could make it more restrictive than the policy because they're going to come back. They
052always did that to me. Have you read the policy? Yes, I've read the policy. So are you Let me make sure I'm I'm tracking with you. So you're saying like when you're looking I'm looking at B. Um, you're saying that the section under grades F K through five would be you would are you using those lines 21 and 22 as the basis for K12 or Okay. All right. And that takes away the collection process. No collection. I mean, unless they're not using it for one of those five reasons. The collection is the penalty for it's not a daily collection. Correct. Okay. So then when the last bell rings that they they can they see what Peppa wants them to do when they get I mean you know but but I I can see where I'm
053guessing the reason that Clay chose this one is because that's going to be that's going to be a burden at the high school. Yeah, but technically he didn't choose that. He liked that. Well, he like Yeah, he didn't choose it. Yeah. Well, and and what I would I'm sorry. No, you go ahead. Well, what I was going to say is, and I wanted to make sure I said this in the presence of like a Renee who's had me, I've worked with Renee. Nathan and Natalie have not, but what I don't want to have happen is where the the uh parent who's frustrated with the principal said, the principal tells them, "Well, you can take it up with the director." Yeah. Like all my day is just going to be over cell phone issues. which it
054still happens, but now I don't want it to be a knee-jerk reaction, you know, because my workload is not just waiting for the next cell phone conversation. I think the reason that they chose B second to this is because A is going to be impossible to enforce at the high school level and the junior high level. And they I mean, we've had this conversation before. Um, if we will if we go with a and and not this, they're going to have to enforce in between classes and lunch and all this, you put your phone away, can't have your phone out, put your phone away, and then they're going to be taking up everybody's phone. So, it's hard to enforce that. I think that's I mean, and I'm not assuming that's what they're thinking, but that's
055what I'm thinking. That was their argument before. I mean, if a child has got their phone on them and they the bell rings, the first thing they're going to do when they walk out in the hallway is pull that phone out even though they're not supposed to. And B allows that area. Okay, you can have it out in between classes, put it back up when you get in class. And and that's which is like the policy has been. So you would you would still have the based on what you're saying, Brandy, are you distinguishing then K5 from 612 the way policy B reads? You're you're saying the way it currently reads. I think B is the closest to how our policy was. So you're saying keep B as it is where Kim was saying unify
056uh K12 under the K5. Isn't that what you're saying? I don't want to put words in your mouth, Kim, but that's what I'm saying because I I feel that it's during these breaks that some a lot of the issues are occurring. Now, again, I think it's just a few a few kids. The other kids are are perfectly doing what they're supposed to be doing. Well, I have seen some video of some grade levels, higher grade levels, and I've seen multiple kids not taking pictures of each other, but you can tell it's getting the end of the class period and they're looking at their phone doing this. So, I've seen that. And I'm not saying these are troubled kids or bad kids. It's just it's because it's there. Yeah. And it's accessible. Um, they're able to
057and they do. I think it's sad that for seven hours a day we can't be without it and teachers too because we spend a whole chunk of time communicating just just with the grown-ups in the building. I I'll make one. May I I will say if you take them up and you have to evacuate your building and their mama can't get touch that baby, you're going to have a problem. Yeah, you're right. I have heard from multiple That's just a I've been in a building where you've had to evacuate and it is so much easier if if you can just text your mom and say, "I'm okay. Here's what's going on." That's just how that's how we communicate with our children now. That's just the way world we live in. And I'm and I am
058as guilty of it as anybody else. Y I'm okay. Same. I text my child at school. I do. I've heard from lots of parents after we had this discussion a few years ago, and I think every parent that I heard from, they like the option of texting their child at lunch, you know? I mean, do they do they want phones out during instructional time? I think that I think I've said this before. I think we all agree phones don't need to be out during instructional time, period. And I realize that makes it difficult to enforce on teachers. I know that. I realize that. But if they have but if you have a an electronic device, they can email or whatever as well. I mean they they can communicate with their parents without it being a
059cell phone. Um so I would if you if you said, "Hey, just make it a hard note on the cell phone." That's totally fine. Just don't get it out. But if you if you really need to talk to your child, just shoot an email or a message or whatever and they can get to every bit of that on their on their laptop that's that's right there right beside you. So that's a good point that was never brought up when we had this discussion before but their school email you know they could still email a parent. Yeah as well. Remind works just like text that I never thought about. My high schooler has emailed me multiple times from high school. What? My high schooler has emailed me multiple times from instead of text me he's emailed
060me multiple so there is a way to communicate okay that because every student has their own schoolbased our email address K3 I don't think we allow them to have access to email we could turn it on but our policy has been in line with what most other practice most other I don't think it would be an issue in K3 you don't have many K3 kids that have a cell remind to do two-way communication requires the child to be 13 or older. Same with parent square. Yeah. So, Kim, what would you like to change on the I mean, well, you Well, Kim Kim Kim likes I'll try to summarize it from Kim is um saying the B that you have in your policy, but K through 12, there's no distinguishing like it is that is printed
061on paper. Brandy is saying as is. Is that correct, Brandy? K through K through five and 6 through 12 are different. 6 through 12 can have access, but I think that's the closest to the way the policy is right was. But I'm not saying that that's necessarily how what I'm I'm not opposed to this if we have a way for parents to communicate via school email during the day. I think that that was a drawback for me the entire time was with being this strict was not being able to parents not being able to communicate and I know I know we've all said oh well you can call the school if you have a transportation change or if you have a but it's that makes it so difficult on our school staff when you know
062and it it's when they could easily say ride the bus don't ride the bus go to aunt house, you know, and so having that option of communicating parent to student during the school day with the email I think changes a lot of people it changes my perspective. So and keep in mind if I don't know if you go to this over B what we're setting is the baseline. So we want to set the more lenient one and let the school level administrator decide if they want to take if you do this that's everybody. That's it. Okay. If you do this, they can decide in their school. Well, we're going to stick by the policy, but we're going to go an extra step. Correct. Yes. Yes. Okay. That would be up to the school. Yeah. If
063we com if we pair it up like Kim is saying to K through 12 that allows each school to do well you would have a K12. It would be un the way Kim is pitching it would be uniform for K12. If they want to take it to a higher level of course again it would have to be every school K12 K through 12. Yeah. If we leave it like it reads now, the high school could increase whatever and it wouldn't affect the junior high. Junior high. Yeah. Yeah. Now again, the TSBA and their legal looking at the public chapter came up with these two options. I mean, I'm again, I'm not advocating either or. I'm just saying that their policy folk at TSBA is the one that came up with these two. Well, the K12
064is the same thing as the A. That's correct. So, um, yeah, I'm good with with B if that's what what the uh the board wants. I think the administrators, I don't know, they that puts it in their hands if they want to be constricted. Well, again, Clay said he likes this policy, but if he had to pick, he'd go with B. And then Wes and Angela echoed the same thing. Now, uh Renee and Jared also echoed this. Uh now, they didn't say they like B instead. They just said this because of the and that's what the lower grades below the middle school. The K3s, they don't like the ambiguity. They don't like the opportunity to gain and lose. Just like what was said, whether non-instructional time you have access to it, instructional time, you don't.
065They'd rather just see it all or none. That's what the K3s. But again, the K3s probably won't have to be dealing with it as much as your junior high and high school administration will. So, so, so Clay was okay with them using it during breaks is what that's what they're doing right now. Yeah, it's like Brandy said that that mimics that's what they're doing right now. Now, I would say it's probably not as restrictive during the class as it as the policy now has to be based on the public chapter. The public chapter now says no instructional time students can have access to their devices or the devices have to be turned off and stored away. That's what your policy or your public chapter has during instructional time. But they were very specific to say
066only during instructional time. The non-instructional time you could have access to it ba based on the way the public chapter reads. My preference would be turn the phone off when you walk in the door and you turn it back on when you walk out the door would be my preference. But well that what about possession on the on the body or keep it that could have that's what Kim is saying and that's B K212. Yes. That's what Yeah. Turn it off when you walk in the front door. You turn it back on when you walk out. That would be my preference. But I don't know if we could do that unless it's an emergency. Yeah. Unless you got it. You got it. If it's an emergency something happens, they have it. Right. Yeah, but that
067that would be my preference. If if you have to if if we go with a policy where you have to pick it up and you have to redistribute it, that's a heavy lift every day. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I'm just I'm just I'm just making I'm just thinking out loud. Seems the collection super super easy at our building and down because they're only going one or two places. But the high school I I just in junior high I just can't imagine. And just like what Dr. Kum says, what about our athletes? They get out an hour early. How do you you would have to have somebody give them their phones and you got to at the high school you got people that leave or they come and go. How do you It would
068just be it'd be something we'd have to navigate. It'd be a burden from now on. There were many days that I was the one. Yeah. Well, and really is that is that worth our if we're if you're using an instructional p person for that, is that a good use of that person's time? No. And this will be something that will have to be driven home like a inservice teacher saying this is no longer, okay, we got 10 minutes in class, get your phone out and ends that either option there's going to have to be a buy in. We're going to have to get all the faculty on board to do it, you know. Well, and and there there is no the gray area is going to have to there's there's another policy in there that
069we don't probably need to spend as much quality time talking about is the physical activity. They have made it explicitly clear that during the physical activity they're not supposed to have access to the devices. Well, that's instruction. That's during that. Well, it's it's uh that gets kind of loose, but like it's supposed to be the free play. I've listened to them argue this debate and uh but they get credit for it, don't they? No, no, no. This is not this is not PE. This is the physical. This is recess. Yeah. Recess for Yeah. For who? For K for the elementary. For us it' be K5. Uh well, they're too busy playing. But then for the they don't mess with their Well, that's what you'd think. But also for the there is still the policy hasn't
070changed for the high schoolers or for the junior high and high schoolers your 6 through 12 they have to get 90 minutes a week and it's supposed to be based on this based on that uh the newest edition of their physical their free play time uh is uh not using their their devices. So, it's supposed to be they're supposed to be in some type of physical activity, not just scrolling. Yeah. Not just the finger. Right. Would you want to put that in motion since you devised that one? I'm going to make a motion. Go ahead. That they can have their phones on them, but they're turned off when they come in school. They're turned back on. Well, if they want to turn them back on when they leave school, but they do keep them on
071their possession, but the phones are supposed to be turned off with the mentioned exceptions in the policy. Yes. Okay. So, you're saying I'm sorry. No, I was going to You're going to Well, if you'll second, I'll kind of rephrase it. Make sure I Is there a second for that? I think we need clarification before the second. Okay. Here. All right. Let me try to rephrase it. You tell me if I'm correct. It is it is the B policy as written and basically the only difference is taking off the K through five and making it K through 12. So they can use it during breaks. Yeah, that's what I was asking. What? What? Wait, no, no, no, that's not right then. Okay, it's K K through 5 being K through 12 and 22. Oh, okay. Not
072not not 24 through 26. 21 and 22. So K through 12 match 21 22. Yes. And take away 24 through 26. Yes. because 24 through 26 states during breaks throughout the school day, students may use wireless communication devices. Can can we add in there um about or would that just be a communication thing on our part that they can use their email to communicate here in the school? We are required to have in the means of for the public chapter in the case of emergency ways to communicate. we would communicate that we included with one of the drafts that it could be just like what I think u uh Nathan suggested with remind or our uh technology that we have but we could also use the email too but it wouldn't necessarily be for an
073emergency it would just be ride bus two today instead of bus yes it can be okay if so so if that's the case I'll second it Okay. So, I'll rephrase and then we can discuss before we vote if there's any discussion. So, the motion is following 6.312B as written except it ends at line 22 and K through 5 becomes K through 12. Students may possess wireless communication devices as long as they are turned off and stored for the entirety of school day unless one of the exception applies. Emergency authorized by teacher. manage their students health possession required by their IEP or 504 or it's being used for a student with a disability using it for the technology. So those are exceptions that they would not have to follow the policy as you know otherwise. Now
074is there any other discussion or or clarification needed? So during break, if a student is caught with a phone out without permission of a teacher, that's a violation. Yes. Go back to our discipline code lunch as well. And the high school principles are okay with that. They've looked at the two and again what I've shared with you is what they've what has been looked at when they were looking at this again. The high the three high schools again Clay said he likes this but he would pick B and both the assistants said the same. They echoed what he said. But I bet we're taking out what makes this one this one is that's the only difference. This one is more restrictive than B. The the revision that you folks are are reflecting or communicating. This
075one is, you know, as soon as you walk in, you again, I think at the high school level is going to be extremely hard to discipline and police a high school student from taking their phone out during break. You know, lunch maybe got people walking around in there, but it's not like the elementary school. I mean, lunch at the high school is a little different. So, it's going to be extremely hard if every student in the high school has a phone in their pocket that all of them aren't going to pull it out when the bell rings to go between classes. Well, that was the argument last time when we tried to make the policy more strict. What you're and if you don't have somebody enforcing it daily, it's going to happen whether you want
076it to or not. You can put it in 14 different policies, but if somebody if Nars, if you're not walking down the hall beside me when the bell rings, I'm going to pull my phone in. I got you. I got you. Well, then if if class change will be easier to monitor than lunch. Yeah, because because your teacher should be at their doorway at lunch during class change. So, that one will be a little easier to monitor. Lunch would be really difficult. Y and what is the violation? You mentioned that like if they see it first violation, do they take it and hold it till the end of the day and they give it back? give it back to the student is and I don't know what the protocol is like two three I know
077either I think the second one of the violation parent has to pick up so um I think the third one is like it's held for a few days I don't know it off top my head well what we need to do at this point if the motion has been made and seconded we we have to vote yes if you choose not to go with that and you'd rather bring it back up as written where you they are available during breaks then we would have that motion made seconded and vote again. So we do by clarification need to follow through on the current uh item that's on the floor. So the motion's been made and seconded for the policy to be K through 12 turned off the entirety of the day um and with those exceptions
078we mentioned. So is there any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Okay. So that that that one fails. All right. So is there a motion to follow the B version as written? I make a motion to follow the B version as written. Second. All right. That motion has been made and second. Is there any discussion on that? Okay, if there's no discussion, all those in favor of of item B as written K through five, they're turned off throughout the day, unless one of the exceptions applies. 6 through 12, they're turned off during instructional time, but available during the breaks throughout the day. That's the the difference in the vote. So, all those in favor of that say, I opposed. No. No. Okay. I'll vote I as well. So the vote is
0794 to2. Robert would be proud of you. Thank you. All right. I would I would like to add though on for on Rene's behalf, this is something that it has been revisited and and now that it's it's come during inservice, we need to, you know, get something solid as far as everybody being on board. As an administrator, I can see at the junior high, junior high is hard age group. I mean, it's and and a lot of those kids are really starting to learn how to use a phone. So, I can see where the cyber bullying and all that is even more prevalent at the junior high level than it is the high school level. So, man, it I think if we could get the teachers involved, just don't don't just come to school and
080and well, that's the same thing we got now. That mindset needs to go away. We need somebody to say, I want you to crack down on watching these kids use their cell phone. And I know they've got other things to do, but if you want to make a difference, you're going to have to do that. I think that needs to be Well, I know that the principal at War Warren County when they made that comprehensive move in their district, it significantly improved their social skills practice because again, you didn't have kids that were sitting shoulder but communicating through text. So you had that force, you know, just like the communication like what it used to be several years and encourage them to use their uh laptop to communicate with parents via email because there a
081lot of kids don't do that. I mean I'm not going first thing I do I'm OCD about those little red numbers on my all my apps. So I'm I'm deleting emails constantly but I'm not I'm not expecting my son to email me either. That might be something we need to bring up too. Okay. Anything else before we move on? And that goes back to that is the one that Clay and high school. Correct. That's that held a lot of weight with me that the high school administrators were for that direction. All right. Then there are other policies. Uh there's a lot of them. So you've had a chance to review them in your board packet over the last couple days. Now I'll ask Mr. feels if he wants to address any, but is is there
082any other policies that need to be moved out other from a bulk action? Okay. So, you want to address it? Well, the only one of course I've already mentioned what I was going to share was u about the u student uh the wellness um the state law previously for elementary grades required 130 minutes per work week full work week was for physical activity again to say just to make sure the clarity this is not PE which we still require PE as part part of their coursework. This is in addition to that addressing the as it was discussed through subcommittees in the full house and senate the issue with obesity at these lower grades trying to fix it between the 8 to three hour. Um so they had first said 60 minutes but then through the
083deliberation and the amendments offered it's reduced it down to 40 minutes they use and that 40 minutes can be but that's 40 minutes for K5 per day per day for for PE for recess not PE that was my question when I was reading the policy I I thought that's what it but that that's in addition in addition to PE whatever their PE time. So like at the East Chester where you got Chad Hannah and Carson Hehei now leading the PE you got additional 40 minutes a day. Now, it's it's going to be difficult because and that was the argument the directors and coordinated school health teachers I suspect because I've had a conversation with Kirk Hasten who is an also a coordinated school health director for his Perry County School District. I suspect that this
084after a year of of utility, it's probably going to be revisited next year and maybe tweaked a little bit more. It's been tweaked again a little bit. It went from 60 minutes, 30 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes in the afternoon down to 40 minutes. And it can be however that 40 minutes need to play out. It doesn't say it has to be backtoback 40 minutes. It could be 20 and 20. It could be smaller in chunks. Uh for the high school and the junior high 6 through 12, it's 90 minutes for the work week for a full work week. So it's roughly about 18 minutes. So, a day if you were to look at dividing it out per day. So, roughly about 20 minutes per day. How? Yeah. How? Well, the chairman of the
085state board of education advocates for this saying, I've seen schools use it because or do it scheduling in their master schedule. I still haven't seen that one master schedule. And they did not increase the school. No, no increase in the school day. This obviously the things that we attribute as more important, the ability for students to read and grade, right? Right. Um that is going to be impacted by that because you can't you're still going to have to have students using the restroom. You're still going to have to have students going to going to lunch. You're still going to have to have those breaks already built in. So, okay. When they do brain breaks and stuff, I mean, it's not scheduled. Does it have to be on a written schedule? No, it doesn't. Okay. No,
086it's it's I mean, I know that some probably would appreciate something more formal, but yes, but you because the less formal it is, the less the likelihood that somebody's going to be Yes. we'll get to it. Yes. Get around to it. Yes. And it did say preferably outside. Yeah. preferably if the weather permits. Yes, I suspect that that will be revisited after one year, but the state law does require that. That was one of the big topics of the this first general assembly of 114. Any other of those policies you want to talk about or have questions about? Okay. If there are no questions or discussion, uh we can make a motion to approve these um policy revisions as presented from the TSBA uh in one vote. If uh if someone wants to make a
087motion on that. I will. Okay. Second. Okay. Motion's made and second. Any discussion? This is for approval of the policy revisions for Chester County Board of Education from the TSBA. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? All right. They are approved. We did that one singled out because it was from a faculty member. And if I could speak since it's been approved, that first policy of the student board member. Yes. Yes. Uh just to let you know that I did speak to Melissa and Stacy Alexander. Jace, if you remember, he was willing to serve in that state board. Don't know anything about that resolution that passed if we had any success with it. But because of this, uh I asked Jace and his family if it would be okay. he would start serving in
088based on the board opinion here board vote uh in August. So his term starts in August. So he'll be at at the table with us uh he does not have a vote but he will have the opportunity to ask questions to be able to offer feedback. But if it goes into like an executive session or if we're having to deal anything with with staff member issues, uh they would be excused from those commitments. So, but he's willing to serve in that capacity. The next is a recommendation from school counselor for board approval of one of our policy revisions. Have Mr. Kzer explain why this is necessary. Well, the way it was written initially, this was policy was actually written as, you know, to have a a smaller group of students to be able to be
089considered for the valictorian saludiatorum for those honored scholars, they had to take a certain level of coursework to to credit to that and score a certain level of grade point average. The way the policy initially read, it included it on the 100 point scale and also on a four-point scale. Those two scales are a little bit contradictory to each other based on the way the numbering system works. Since the state has codified the 100 point scale in the state law that an A in state of Tennessee is a 90 through 100 and all the grades down to 60 being passing uh at now at uh in the state level or all the public schools. That's why we decided to just to drop the fourpoint uh scale from that policy. Is there a motion to approve
090the recommendation? I make a motion. Okay. Second. Any discussion or questions? All those in favor of making this adjustment uh for the policy um for the three unit the three point four point scale to the actual grading scale is that that's consistent with the state policy. Say I. Any opposed? All right. It is approved. Uh, next we have our budget final draft in front of you in your packet. We have a recommendation to look at the budget. Stacy's here for questions as well. Mr. Kzer can address any questions and maybe adjustments since the last you've had a chance to look at this. Um, of course I'm I'm going to say just briefly um I included from last month to this month the May Tissa estimate and again remember that the estimate is always based on
091your uh ADM. It's taken in the newer months. Um it's still an average. We're still waiting for our June estimate and then we have a July final. But the trend again as I've shared with you last month, the trend that our a daily membership has reduced from day one back in August to May. So we still expect a a a lessening effect of our tissa uh estimate. However, like in this case, the estimate is only about 3% reduced. So it's it's a very small reduction. It should not impact the the budget as from the May to the June. So I know that's projecting something prophetically, but the expectation is not going to adjust anything. What has adjusted from your first draft to this final draft is that we have as a district decided to end
092the partnership with staff easy for custodial service at the junior high and the high school because of the the lack of acceptable performance. And in that process, we will then re turn to as we were doing before and hire our own custodians. So then we pick up our own salaries, take care of their benefits based on what health insurance plans they would have. So that's what you've noticed in your adjustment there. Um Stacy, you might Is there anything else? No. The only other thing that I did not include in your first draft was the $2,000. Oh, that's right. And I just forgot to put it in. So this corrected that this draft I mean this final draft corrected that. So that would and that will be that won't go into effect until it's for the
0932425 faculty educators that are full-time that started in uh it's uh started in um that are not pie partial year exemptions uh that spend the majority of their time with uh direct influence with the students that takes care of everybody except superintendent, instructional supervisors and also principles, everybody else, including guidance counselors, school counselors, uh teachers, obviously, speech pathologist, everybody, librarians, all of those qualify. We submitted a list today uh uh of the June estimate and uh that list will be used uh for the determination of the dollar amounts that come. It's $2,000 plus the benefits that the state provides us. So this is a state bonus structure. This is not ours. This is the state's bonus structure on it. Stacy, the the the way we used to do it compared to the staff EZ, is
094that a big money difference? It's not a big money difference, but we do have that 90day period where we still have to have staff EZ because that was part of the contract. So it wasn't a complete wash because we still had to have funding for the contract for those 90 days plus. So from the minute that I sent the the owner, we're ending our partnership effective X date based on the contract. They have a 90day window. So and it goes over both fiscal years. So there there was some still left there. And but and we also, if you recall, we had to have an additional custodian for our new buildings. And then we moved our um substitute just into the regular line. So, yeah, that was already in the draft. It was It was in
095the first. Yes. Any other discussion? How about a recommend? There is a recommendation. Is there a motion to accept the 202526 budget on the final draft? I make a motion to accept the budget. Second. Okay. Motion's made and seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. Opposed. All right. and it is approved and the budget committee if I may interject our budget committee is going to be meeting here next Monday. Uh we have expectations hopes that we'll have a budget passed before this fiscal year ends. Uh the next week is when the next week is when the county commission general meets. Well, they have to have that public hearing before the county commission meeting for the tax rate and then that county commission meeting will be after that. So, she's not as optimistic
096as I am. I'm not get that get that Emerson guy out of work for us. Uh just a couple more items uh kind of that we need to address tonight. Number one is of course we're coming up on the new uh new year, so we have to just set our new meeting schedule. uh you have the proposed dates for the meeting schedule for 2025 2026. Uh keep in mind we set these but if something comes up with a board member or we have plenty of notice they are adjustable as the year goes on. This is just our uh base schedule from the from the starting point here. So uh is there any questions about those or any that stand out that might need looked at before we vote? Okay. Uh is there we have a
097recommendation. Is there a motion to approve the meeting schedule? I'll make a motion to approve the meeting schedule. Okay, second. Motion is made and seconded. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. Any opposed? All right, that schedule is set again over. And now I'll go back and share this with the principles to find out which dates they want to host the meeting on site. And again, as long as you give us, you know, a couple weeks notice, if somebody has a work event come up or the one of these needs to be changed, never hesitate. We can do that if we have enough notice. So to let the public know, it's 10 day is 10day window. Yes. Yeah. Yes, sir. Uh and then we have a bit of a housekeeping item uh involving
098our administrators. And I'll have Mr. Kilzer explain this. Well, for Renee and Jared at the junior high, the local bank that that the school uses to add them to the bank accounts, just like what Shane had to do a few years ago, we have the the bank the local bank requires that the the board minutes reflect that their names re uh regarding their uh administration at the schools. So, and I know this is redundant in some cases because the high school hadn't changed, but rather since Nathan is a new at the middle school and Natalie would be new also just to make sure we're not leaving any stone left unturned, just go ahead and identify all of the administrators at their specific schools. If in case the middle school issue comes up and it's also
099in same s circumstance, it requires board minutes, then this reflects all of them. Just need a motion to recognize these administrators for uh for banking purposes. I'll make the motion. Second. All right. Any other discussion? Troy, you you're going to list all the administrators on this motion. Is that what what you're saying? Well, you're doing it right now. Yeah. They're listing people in your agenda. Yes, sir. Any other questions? All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Right. They are. Is that a new rule? I think it's one of the bank policies. I I now I I don't want to just speak to the bank, but you had to do it for shame. If and when we uh fill the the position at Eastchester, will it have to come before the board again? It could.
100And you just add it to the Well, it have to be reflect. That's the way that reflected in the minute. So, it has If that if that specific bank carries East Chester's account, then yes. If it doesn't, then we'd probably of course again it just depends. I don't know if the assistant principal at East Chester I don't had to be on the bookkeeper and the principal. Yeah. Well, the final thing we have that's all the business, but just any updates the board may have questions about or any updates you want to share tonight. We got permanent power on both the multi-purpose and the a auto. Yeah, I saw you guys working on the A auto what uh last weekend or Friday? Uh it was this week. Oh, was it this week? Monday. Monday. Monday. Yeah.
101Um and again, I encourage of course again it's it's kind of hard. You don't want to get in their way. But again, the a auto shop is going to be as the reflection here reads uh expectation the end of this month, first of next month will be the punch list. So transition will happen outside in the hallway. We've got some of the hardware that's going to be in the a auto and then some other um items like the lifts or stored at different locations. So they were laying the flooring in the hallway. Good when I was out there. That was yesterday. Looked really nice. Do you have any you want to mention? Okay. Any other questions or anything needs to come before the board? All right, thanks for everybody's participation, patience. Uh, our next meeting
102will be July 22nd, a Tuesday night at 5:00 pm. That will be back here in the board conference room as well. And with that being the end of the agenda, this meeting is adjourned. See, Ben, that takes care of your 10day notice right there.