Coffee County School Board Meeting

00115, 2025 regular meeting of the Coffee County Board of Education. We got quite a few recognitions tonight, but uh first we're going to start off with our student ambassadors, but we got one. We have Riley Clark, who has been with us before. So, welcome back, Riley. And uh this is just so much fun. You just uh had to come back, right? All right, so we have quite a few recognitions. We're going to change up the agenda a little bit because of the availability. some folks and stuff. We're going to move Dr. Cornelius to to kind of the end just before our regular agenda and we're going to start off with the attendees of of the scope convention. Then we're going to talk uh the the uh u school level teacher of the year, the district

002level teacher of the year, then the CHS winter color guard, and then we're going to do Dr. Courtney's presentation before we get into our regular meeting. So, a lot of recognitions tonight and thanks for everybody for coming out and and uh recognizing all our uh people we're recognizing tonight. So, uh first up the attendees of the scope convention and uh who's going to introduce? I'll have our student body vice president, Miss Mallerie Rogers. President Oh, wait a minute. Before we go, I I'm I always forget this. We need to do the pledge of allegiance and a prayer first. So So um Beth, if you would lead us in a prayer, start the meeting. Father, thank you for our opportunity to get here together and to do our very best to bless our community, our teachers,

003our students and staff. I ask for the wisdom for the board tonight that we would be in unity and that we would hear your voice on how you want us to vote for certain issues. Father, I thank you that you are present with us in this meeting and we really appreciate it in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Stand for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. I always want to put that after the recognitions for some reason. So my apologies. Okay. Now you have the floor. Absolutely. So my name is Miss Madison Taylor. I am the student council or student government association advisor this year and with me today who were our

004attendees of the scope conference were Miss Mallerie Rogers who is our student body vice president Kira McInturf who is our sophomore class president Lucas Turner who is our junior class president and Miss Riley Clark who is our senior class president. So they will share a little bit about their experience with you all. All right. Can you explain and give us a little background on the scope conference for the folks who may not know? Absolutely. So for those of us who are not aware of the scope conference, it is an event that the Tennessee School Board Association puts on that is called Student Congress on policies in education where schools across the state attend and learn all about schoolboard policies, how school boards work in general, and just some different skills um that our students will

005share with you all about. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Um I'm I'm Mallerie. Nice to meet you guys. Um so I'm going to be talking about like the schedule throughout the day. Um first we had registration um where Belmont provided us breakfast. And after um breakfast we had the general opening session where we were met with schoolboard members from across the state. Um they just told us a little bit about themselves and how their school boards work. And then uh Belmont University had some representative as well to welcome us to campus, tell us where things were and what we'd be kind of doing throughout the day. Um after that we broke into small groups where we had our mock schoolboard meetings. Um we set it up how a regular schoolboard meeting was. We voted

006on delegates and we discussed our debate topics. Um after that we prepared for our debate session. Um your group was either a pros a pros group or a con group. And after that you combined with the second you had a partner group. So you'd be combined with the second pros group or the second con group on the same topic. You guys would discuss who was going to talk about what and prepare prepare for the final debate session. And then after that we all joined back together in the auditorium and had the debate session where we got to vote um personally through our phones on who won the debate session. And then after that we voted on the scope officers for the year. Um there were five officers. I believe there was a president and a

007few others. And then after that we were adjourned. So hi I'm Kira. I'm going to be telling you what we learned at scope. Um scope is very interesting. It taught us about leadership and professionalism. And as a sophomore, I haven't been to any school board meetings and I haven't been in any debate, anything like that. So, they really taught us how um to debate respectfully and professionally. And it was really interesting to see how school board meetings work and how to actually debate. I'm Lucas Turner. Uh I'm going to be going over the debate topics we had. So, initially in our small groups, the first thing we went over uh was the vaping policy. We addressed that and we made adjustments to our own policies and introduced it to the uh main group in the

008auditorium later on. And then for the main debate topics on the stage that our small group split up into to have uh we had uh all students must complete at least one post-secary course in high school. Uh uniform shall be worn by all students. The school calendar shall be increased to 180 to 200 days and every student must complete 30 hours of community service for as per a graduation requirement. Uh, and I would like to say out of all the things I've gone to this year, school events, I think this has been the most informative. I've learned the most from it. So, it was good. I'm Riley Clark. Basically the same thing as him. Going into it, we really didn't know what it was, but after we went on the way home, we were all

009like, "That was really cool. We learned a lot from it. Um, it was really beneficial. was very interesting. So yeah. All right. Thank you. [Applause] Certificates, right? Do we need to sign these or those call? Okay. So, uh, Riley Clark. I should probably just come down there. hand [Applause] over Mallerie [Applause] Rogers. We have Lucas Turner. [Applause] Squeeze in. We can't leave her teachers out. Um, just better let me I know they told you about the issues that they were concerned with. I'd like from for what I'm to tell you what the vote was of the all the participants that were there because at the end of the end of the meeting, everyone voted for either yes or no for that particular concern. So, uh, whoever's got those numbers. Okay. So, I don't have the

010exact poll numbers, but I do remember which one's one. Oh, we do. Perfect. Uh, so, uh, in the post-secondary course requirement, uh, the votes for that were, uh, 40% agreed and 60% disagreed. So, the against one on that one. Uh, uniform shall be worn by all students. 18% agreed with that and 82% disagreed. So, the against one on that one. Uh the school calendar shall be increased from 180 to 200 days. Uh 31% agreed and 69% disagreed. And for the last one, every student will complete at least 30 hours of community service as part of a local graduation requirement. 39% agreed and 61% disagreed. So out of all them, the closest to passing was the 30 hours of community service. All right. Thank you. Some good discussion there. Thank you all very much. I think

011that would have been nice to for all of us to have before we started this. So, they've got some good [Applause] knowledge. All right. So, next up, um we're going to go for the um uh school level teacher of the year. and Dr. Powell is going to do the presentations here and let me get through my uh we have I just want me to read them off then. I'm gonna I was going to read them. Okay, you can read them then. I I got the list here. So, yeah, absolutely. Nope. Go for it. Okay. We'll start with elementary at Deerfield. The preK4 teacher of the year was Leslie Waldorf. [Applause] 58 was Michelle Feller at East Coffee. PreK4 was Dr. Melanie [Applause] Banks and 5'8 was Justin Biles. Yeah, he's not here. I'm just gonna

012do all of them. He's not here. Uh, for Hickerson Elementary, PreK4 was Mackenzie Taylor and 58 was Jana Thompson. Okay. For Hillsboro Elementary, uh, PreK4 was Megan Shores. And 5'8 was Tiffany [Applause] Newman. For New Union PreK4 was Shannon [Applause] Reynolds and 58 was Heather Tucker. for North Coffee Elementary. PreK4 was Allison Driver and 5'8 was Andy [Applause] Barard. Okay, for secondary at the Coffee County Middle School, sixth grade was Emily Daniel. Seventh grade was Malaysia [Applause] Pac and eighth grade was Betty Shelton. For the Raider Academy, it was Shireena Nolan. Y all over here. [Applause] We have more fun over here. And for Coffee County Central High School, uh Josh Barard senior, Lacy Brown, Tisha Jacob, [Applause] and Brad Jameson. [Applause] That's everybody. I think that's here. Okay. Well, let's do this and then

013we'll do the district level after. You want to do that? Okay. So, all you guys will come into the front. Dr. Pal, you direct. I don't know that far. [Laughter] Yeah, I'm gonna photo ball now. Ready? We got them. All right. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Congratulations. [Applause] Mr. Chair. Okay. And we'll go ahead and recognize the district level teachers of the year for preK4. That was Dr. Melanie Banks from Deerfield Elementary. I mean from East Coffee. I'm sorry. I looked at you and said Deerfield and knew East [Applause] Coffee. Our 58 district level teacher of the year was Michelle Feller from Deerfield. [Applause] And our secondary district level teacher of the year was Josh Barard, senior from the high school. [Applause] Smile, Josh. Congratulations [Applause] everyone. And thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes,

014sir. Did we skip the uh winter color garden? No, we're gonna um we they were going to be a little bit late, so we're I don't know if they're Are they here yet, Dr. Powell? The winter color guard, sir. The winter color guard. Are they here yet? I have not seen any of them. Yes, they're here. Thank y'all for your leadership and all that you do. what you mean to our county. Oh, they are here. Okay, come on up. Oh, this a color guard. Okay. Didn't know we didn't didn't know y'all were here. Thank you. So, I guess you um in your competition, you finished first out of 17 groups as we well as being n named Tennessee State Champions. So, wow. Quite an honor. So, Thank you. Well, Dr. Powell, do you have any

015comments? No. Like all the rest of our student athletes, these ladies do a tremendous job. They're out in the rain during football season and um good, bad, and indifferent. There's several of them I know and they do a lot of competition and apparently they've done an excellent job. So, we certainly appreciate what y'all do for Coff County School System and thank you very much. [Applause] Let's give them a standing ovation. Yeah. State champion. [Applause] So proud. Congratulations, ladies. I wish we could see something. That would be great. Like, we're supposed to be getting a video and I will gladly email it. Please. I would love to see it. That is amazing. Definitely. Yes, that performance was amazing. I bet it was. That is really cool. Thank you. All right. That awesome. Okay. Um I think

016that is it for the recognitions. We kind of had to shuffle the order here. So, um, next on our pre-agenda agenda, um, we have the TISA accountability report from Dr. Cornelius. I don't think I missed anything, did I? No. Okay. Kind of shuffle things a little bit. [Music] I'll hold it. How's that? I have to do that all the time anyway. I don't care. So, that's nice to follow a lot of those uh recognitions. I think it's always good if we can recognize teachers and students. That's a good idea. So, the April Tissa accountability report and I'll just kind of hit it along the lines of the um goals themselves. So for elementary for the third grade the third grade goal and actually for all of their school elementary they did the um mock tcap

017in February late February they used school net and then all the admins assured me at the at each of the schools that they um used those results got those to the teachers in their individual professional learning communities did a standards analysis on those so they could identify uh any weaknesses that they saw early on in getting ready for TCAP which is this week. They're actually testing ELA this week and a mathematics will be next week. And then middle school middle school's still using MS they're using Mastery Connect which is a is a good program and they had their results. They've done the same thing with theirs and they use Master Connect three times a year, fall, winter, and spring. And again, they do the same thing. And Master Connect breaks it out by the standard

018also what should be taught. It also has like a pacing guide with it. And um that's all done with that company, which I think is a very very good deal. And high school as far as their um progress toward their goal. juniors tested on ACT in April. All the juniors took it. 300 352 of them at the high school and um they're making progress. I can tell you now. I mean, when I did this, I thought, well, I don't have the results there, but I do. And ACT is not embargoed. That that's not anything that's embargoed. So, out of the 352, there are 88 of them that have already they've made the 21 or higher. That's exactly that's exactly 25% on the nose. Um hopefully with their um senior retake we'll see more come up

019to that 21 and above. As I told you last fall we had 22 students which was very I don't I hadn't seen it that high again in the fall where they came crossing that threshold to get to the 21 or higher. Now, speaking of Oh, I'll go ahead and tell you um high school too. Let's see. They're all they're opening up more dual enrollment opportunities. That's one thing that's being done also to help them meet their um TISA outcome goal. Of course, theirs is a little bit different than the other grade levels as you know. And then for our TISA outcome bonus, what what I did is convene uh district level leadership, the instructional supervisors to Dr. Powell, etc. And then um also the building level principles and we've worked on that over a series

020of meetings in with Miss Melson too and as she alluded to you last week we've come up with each level gets to um have their initiatives that they want and so high school is using theirs for some ACT enhancements. Uh, one of those may be is going to be u teachers to become even ACT certified which will help us because we do need to be we do need to beef up. Now I'm I'm competitive. I'm very competitive. So I have seen in a neighboring district that is also in the county that will go nameless right now. But they had um they had two of their students get a 36 on the ACT. So I want 36s here big time. So we've had 35s. We had some 35s this year in the senior class had I

021think two 35s and then when I looked at the juniors actually this morning there was a 34 so far. So I'm I'm wanting that 36. I'm very very competitive there. Um anyway, the um high school is also going to use for um some of their some of the TIA outcome bonus money for industrial certifications so that we can help so we can help fund those so that students don't have to pay for that so that we pay we pay for that for them so that they can take those certification exams and earn that. That's highly important because as you know not everybody not everybody's university bound. We have a lot of talent in the industrial area too that we need to tap and keep going and that's very important. Um they also high school is

022going to include in their English they're going to use the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching the NIET. They're going to bring that in to their program also. And like I said those ACT enhancements will help quite a bit. Then middle school is going to still use they're going to continue to fund their mastery connect. They're a strong believer and supporter in that from what I've seen. I like it a lot too. Dr. Anderson had shared that with me once and I liked it a lot. And um let's see. Middle school's also going to expand their NIT program. We're going to bring it there. And then elementary is using it. I believe it's uh Deerfield, Hillsboro, and Hickerson are going to add the Net ELA initiative to their schools next year. And that it's very

023that's very important and that's that's should be a very good investment. And um let's see, they're also going to use some of their money to supplement some of their ELA materials, their wonders, and their foundations that they use for ELA. So, I'm hoping to see I'm hoping to see lots and lots of increases, you know, this this spring. I hope to see that. And then, um, you know, hopefully next year, too. We need to be turning our emphasis toward mathematics, too. As a former math teacher, I'm always going to be cheerleading for mathematics also. So, I want to see, you know, some more initiatives there. So, that's the that's the April that's the April report. And I'm supposed to come back to you in July. And of course, if I can share if I what

024results I can share with you, I will naturally if if they're not if they're not embargoed. So, all right. To start to see those results. Well, we'll see them at a district level. Um, with accountability, of course, I work with that team quite a lot at the state. with accountability. We should see we should see some release some preliminary releases or uh in June. Usually in June, we get some of the we get some of those numbers. Again, it's whenever whenever they tell us that we can talk about them publicly. That's not my rule or anything like that. I I hate that, but that's that's not my I have to abide by it or I don't want to end up in TCAP jail. So, you know, that wouldn't that wouldn't be very good place for

025me. And um I think the last the last piece of that is oh on accountabil's part that relates to all of this where in the what they call the CCR the career college and readiness accountability. Um all of that was those um appeals were due on Friday. I had about I think I turned in about 11 11 appeals. Should get all of those no problem. And then I'll have some preliminary numbers. I believe April the um 8th or 29th I think they'll release some preliminary numbers to me on that with CCR and I don't I'm not sure I'll have to ask when we have our account we have a monthly accountability sometimes every two weeks we have these accountability webinars and I'll try to ask if that CCR data is embargoed or not. If it's

026not, I'll gladly share that with you in July. I can tell you about that. Do you have any questions of me or anything on this? Dr. Cornelison, you you mentioned and I know Mr. Blessings mentioned in some of his presentations. Uh what do you mean by dual enrollment? What does that represent? Dual enrollment. What dual enrollment is is, as you know, students have to have a certain amount of credits to graduate high school and they also have to be in certain classes. So I'll just use a very very simple I I'll I'll be partial to mathematics. You could take you could take dual enrollment college algebra. You could take dual enrollment statistics and probability. What that does is that will sub in for the senior level mathematics. They they wouldn't take just a senior level

027mathematics at the high school. They'll take it, but they'll also be getting college credit for it. And usually now that's one thing the high school has done to open up even more dual enrollment opportunities. We have post-secary institutions that each course is tagged to. Most of them have been MLO but now we've incorporated Tennessee Tech into that and Middle Tennessee State. So they get they get they generate a college transcript with those in those courses and then they get the credit for the high school and they get the credit for the college that can be in English, history, just about anything. Lots of fine arts. They do a lot of dual enrollment fine arts. We see that CTE also is very and and and I can't go on. I'm I'm not going to keep hogging

028your time, but um CTE, they have a very good opportunity with those TCAT dual enrollments. There's cosmetology that's dual enrollment. There's welding that's dual enrollment. And I believe there's residential I think there's a residential construction that's also some dual enrollment. So there's dual enrollment opportunities in the CTE areas too that are the post-secary institution with those is TCAT and McMinnville. That's the one that that's the one that that we partner with there. And we haveus or the memorandums of understanding with each one of those institutions. So that's very important to maintain that. I can't emphasize that enough. There was a study that came out recently and I'll kind of throw this out at you but but uh it was interesting because it basically they said that uh uh as a result of the study they

029found that uh standardized test scores and mainly speaking about ACT and SAT was highly predictive of how kids were going to do in in college as a you know and much better predictor of of their outcomes in college as opposed to GPA and things like that. So, are you familiar with that? I am. That is that is true. One thing with the state of Tennessee with the ES ESSA application and it's not been it's not been approved yet. They they they're wanting to. I don't know what the holdup is. Maybe because who knows who knows what it is. But anyway, um there is a move to dismiss some of the standardized testing in high school in the high school level and then make the ACT the benchmark or the test for uh high school the

030accountability test there. Now that hasn't been finalized yet. It's not been codified into rule or law or policy by the SBE, but that is there is a move there is a movement there to do that. So we may we may indeed we may indeed see that and it can Yeah. I don't know how that relates to like TCAP, you know. I mean that's that was specific to SAT and AC. Right. Right. In the at the high school u it's not TCAP at the high school grade 912. It'll go to EOCC the end the end of course test which is analous to the you know to the TCAP in the grades three through eight. Any other questions for Dr. Cornelius. All right. Look forward to your report in July. Yes sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

031you Mr. D or watching him flinch back there as you like it. All right. At this point, uh, we're moving to the main part of our agenda. So, we have the call to order. And I don't think we have any I checked, but no one nobody signed in for public comment. So, there is no public comment. So, we now have call for intent. So, I need a motion to accept the minutes and the general consent items and the agenda as a whole. So, so move, Mr. Chair. Second, Mr. Gilly and Mr. Cordell. Just a minute. Let me get my vote tally form here. So, okay, Mr. Gilly, Mr. Cordell. Um, all right. Any discussion on that? Anybody? All right. So, uh, let's start with Mr. Gilly. I, Mr. Cordell. Hi, Miss Yench. Hi, Mr. Hansert.

032Hi, Miss Jones is not here. Miss Hi, Matthews. I Mr. I and I will vote I that passes 820. So the agenda is adopted. The first item on the agenda is the uh director's contract and that is item item one. Um this was the contract that the um um director search committee uh came up with. uh we basically took a number of contracts and consolidated them together and um and then we we worked it out. Now there is something that uh that uh um Matthew pointed out to me on page four there's a there's a hymn in here and I don't I'm losing it now but uh was that on page four? page four in the top number four in the second. Oh, okay. Uh yeah, this choice. Yeah, third line and number four. So,

033we just need to change that to change the language on that to make it I guess since we have two male candidates and two female candidates probably need to change that. So um so um I do I do I have a motion to approve this uh contract and then we can go to discussion. Mr. Chair, I make the move motion to approve this contract. Uh I think I think the motion does need to carry some cleanup of items such as that uh that was just pointed out in item number four. Okay. Uh, I think that's the only one that I seen when I heard earlier. I looked. That's the only one I heard seen. So, we can clean that up. I make the motion that we accept this with that cleaned up. Okay. Do I

034have a second? A second. Mr. Cordell. All right. Um, so the motion is to approve the uh the contract um with a cleanup of of any language. Um nothing substantive just basically just cleaning up the language removing his or her sexist language I guess. Um that is the motion. So um open the floor to discussion. This would be the contract that we would offer to um to a new director coming on board. I can't find it on here, but it does say on here somewhere that the director must live inside Coffee County. Can someone help me find where it says that? That's residency on page two towards the top. I don't agree with that personally. I feel like that should say surrounding counties. If there's someone that could say you live on Woodbury Highway, say

035you live, you know, right inside of Morrison, that's still so close. I I think that's insane to make someone move a couple miles to reside inside of Coffee County. Mr. SH just to put Miss Hodgeg's mind at ease. I think we discussed that and I think it was it's as simple as a uh uh suspension of the policy uh that we can uh because I think it's in policy that actually says the director must live reside within the county and we can suspend the policy for someone and negotiate this at that time if that's what it took to negotiate. I think it was is that in policy because some of this some of this is going to have is probably going to be changed anyways in a discussion. We talked about that. I think we

036talked about at the discretion of the board is what we said. Well, that's what it would be anyways in a in a uh suspension of the policy or Yeah. I'm looking for a policy here that and Mr. Chairman, one time I know we talked about I don't know recently we talked about a ad a joining adding I think adjoining counties. We did. We talked Yeah. We talked about several different uh situations and and that's like that's whenever I think when Miss Miss Anderson was here and Freda Kay was here, we talked about at the discretion of the board whether we wanted to even change it depending on who you know we ended up offering the director's job to. That's what a suspension of the rule is, is the discretion of the board. Well, this though

037isn't a contract, so would that be different? I zoned out for a minute. What' you say? I just wanted to make sure because I I know that there's at least two candidates that don't live inside of our county. I'm not sure about Well, I know there's three actually. I'm pretty sure that don't live inside of our county, but they're very close. I just want to make sure that this is something that could be changed depending on who we choose. So, it doesn't have to be based on that. It's similar to what Mr. Hansard said. We would have to as a board, we would use a discretion and suspend policy. Okay. Just wanted to bring it up just to make sure. Yeah, we would. And obviously the candidates would want to negotiate that as well. And

038quite frankly, yeah, contracts are negotiable, so you probably end up negotiating some of these terms anyway. I've never hired anybody before, so I want to make sure that we're doing this right. Uh yeah, I mean when we have a contract, you know, I mean, we're starting off with with a contract, but I imagine whoever the new director is going to be will will request some changes to the contract. So So that's subject to negotiation, I guess. Mr. Chairman, here you go. Yes, sir. I think that, of course, this would be the contract that you would offer the new director, whomever that might be, and then you would have to sit down with them and look at a negotiated part of it, then bring that back to the board for final approval uh of the contract

039u as such as amended, right? As amended or whatever you might need to do with it. Yes, sir. Right. That would the contract recommendations that you would have to bring back to the board if there are any changes that would would be necessary in here because there's some that may apply some and others that wouldn't apply to any of them. Right. committee was just getting very very close with this document but close you know as close as we could without getting into right and I know the residency was something that was discussed quite a bit and we had a couple different proposals as Mr. Hansert mentioned so um so is that sufficient or would you like to make a motion to amend the contract or change the contract? I mean, I'm not on that committee.

040As long as like the whole thing if there's like a hard pass for somebody on this, like I'd rather it be negotiable. That's what I was just I wanted it said out loud that that could happen if it needed to. Yeah. All contracts are negotiable. Well, like I said, I work for me, so I don't know. Never had a contract like this. Um and I I suspect that that you know that that somebody's going to come back around and negotiate a few of these terms conditions. So So um consider this a starting point I guess is is this is what we agree on as our starting point and Okay. And I think that's you know but I'm open to other other thoughts and stuff as well. Thank you'all for helping explain that other comments. So

041the motion that's on the floor is to accept the the contract with minor changes cleaning up the language but in the substance of the contract um as is um uh any further discussion if not uh Mr. Cordell I miss y I Mr. answer. I Miss Hodgej I Miss Matthews I Mr. I Mr. Gilly I and the chair votes I that passes 820. All right, next up we have the budget which was the subject of a lot of discussion at the retreat we had last week. And basically we have um four options. Let me bring that up here. I'm sorry. Um so we're talking uh first and I believe that April is on the line if we have questions. She is not here, but she's going to try to zoom in. She's back home. I'm here.

042She does have questions. Okay. If we have any questions, you hear me? Yes. Okay. Okay. Um, Mr. Chair, so that we can properly open up discussion, I will make a motion. Sure. I'd like to move that we approve line number three, option number three of a 4% raise. Okay. There is a motion by Mr. Gilly to accept the budget um option with the 4% raise. So Mr. Gilly and Mr. Cordell seems to be a trend here tonight. So all right, open for discussion. Any discussion? We've uh pretty well hammered it last. April is on the line. If there's any questions, but um if Mr. Cordell has stepped out of the room, any discussion? I don't know where he went. I think he's on some medication that All right, Mr. Chair, I would like to propose

043a 3% raise this year. We're going to have a new director coming in and I think when they come in they're going to come in with some of their own ideas. Um and a 4% after a 7%. Well, we have a motion that we need to have to do that first. Okay. Right now. So, if that if that fails, then we can come back around. Okay. All right. Mr. Chair, uh Mr. Cordell seconded the motion and should be here for the motion. I'm not certain why he seconded and then he may not be aware of that. Okay. Yeah, he kind of he inserted into this motion he needs to be here to vote and he stepped out of the room. So, we'll we'll we'll we will wait for Mr. Cordell to come back before we

044before we vote here. So, um, so sorry about that. I didn't know what else to say. I can say that getting old is rough stuff. I can sympathize. I guess I could have blurted out, wait a minute, but I'm trying to be good after everything I said at the start of the meeting tonight. Okay. I'm trying to do better. You're doing fine. And while while we're waiting for Mr. Cordell, I really want to uh call out April and her team and and Dr. Powell for all the effort they put into putting together these budgets. We had a very detailed discussion in our work session last week and and it was clearly laid out and we had I mean it was obvious there was a there was a a big effort that went into that. So

045so I'd really like to give a shout out to to April and her team for for putting that together and and uh you know a lot of work goes into that. All right, we also need to thank April for calling in from her daughter's cheer competition in Orlando. I hope she's not missing it. She's out of state. So, yeah, if you need to leave, April, you better not. You run. There's a lot of there's a lot of background noise, though. So, okay. Well, that's that's all good. We don't go on till I think 648 your time. So, we have a little bit. Well, unless there's further discussion, we're going to vote starting with uh Miss Yench on the 4% uh option. Uh no. Okay. Mr. Hansert, no. Uh Miss Hodgej, no. Miss Matthews, no. Mr.

046no. Mr. Gilly, yes. Mr. Cordell. Yes. And I will vote yes. That is um five to no six to two. Oh yeah. No, five to three. Yeah. It fails. Five to three. All right. So we need a motion to What was our options? You have a 2% raise, a 3% raise, a 4% raise, and then a flat rate plus 3%. So, or flat and 3% combined. So, same ones that were in our book and we went over. Yeah. That we discussed on on Thursday. So, so I need a motion to accept one of those. I make a motion to accept the 3% raise for this year. All right. Do I have a second? I'll second that, Miss. Okay, Miss Matthews. All right. Discussion. Well, like I said before, we did a 7% last year, um

0473% a 10% raise within two years. That's really pretty good. And I know that when we get a new director in, they're going to have their own ideas. Um, I don't want to get so far out with our present financial climate, shall I say, that we can't meet the budget at some point. So, and if we do a 3% and then next year look at the same possibility, we can get up to that 50,000 that we need to get up to for our beginning teachers. So, that's my reasoning behind it. Further discussion, Mr. Chair, I just I just want to say that uh you know after the spring retreat and everything we went through with the spring retreat, uh we haven't hit fund balance with any of the percentage rages yet. Even though every single

048year they have been intended on hitting fund balance, but luckily we haven't. Uh it's been that well. We never know when this is going to change. We still have a goal that we have to reach. Mhm. Uh I have a lot of faith in Miss April with what she does. Uh it has worked out and she has been proven correct many years in a row. Uh that was one of the questions in the spring retreat I asked was does this year feel better than waiting till next year or what to try to jump ahead and get to that goal a little quicker to where potentially next year we might not even have to do one and we're already there just in average growth. Uh that was the reasoning behind my original. Uh, I think we

049should st still try strive to reach these goals as quick as we possibly can and and uh I believe this was our safest opportunity to do so. All right, further discussion. Is it possible to go back and change a vote for the other motion? [Laughter] I was on the fence. We already voted. No, once it's failed. Once it failed, that's that's it. This meeting Well, bear in mind, too, take the prevailing side. It take someone from the prevailing side to reintroduce that motion. We've also got the bleachers coming up. We've got lights coming up. We're looking at two schools that will either be refurbished or possibly a whole new school built. We've got pavement issues and I value the fund balance, too. But I also value paying our teachers what we can. We have the

050largest fund balance ever. Oh, I agree. Ever. I think we're going to need it. So, that's just my reasoning. So, if you wanted to go back and reconsider, Beth would have to withdraw her motion and then we would have to have a motion to reconsider, I believe, is how that would work. And then and then vote on the 4%. I think uh I think this motion would have to carry through with either a pass or a fail and then I think it could be reintroduced by someone from the prevailing side. I do believe, but that's close. I'm really not positive on this one. I I would think that you can reconsider and bring it back up from the pavilion side like Mr. Gilly said, but but that's that's a guess from my side. I I

051do want to mention one thing. uh the the past several years uh over the past five years uh one of the things is to get was to get the fund balance up to a point where you could push the envelope a little bit and and that was the one of the purposes of trying to get the uh uh fund balance up to where it is. Uh, so that that that was a a strategy, but I just want to make sure everybody was aware of that. That's all. All right. So, to to answer your question, yes, this motion would have to either pass or fail. Then you would look at a reconsideration of the then we can do a motion to reconsider, but it'd have to be someone from the prevailing side, which was would have

052been one of the no votes on the floor. Yeah. The other option is Beth could withdraw the motion, but then you got a second on that too. She could have to agree with as well. So, so I would say we just, you know, I mean, if everybody's in agreement, we would just go ahead and vote on the 3%. Everybody fine with that? So, we're voting on the 3% option of of the budget. So, the motion is to pass the 3% raise option in the budget. So, Mr. Hansert, no. Miss Hodgej, no. Miss Matthews, I Mr. I Mr. Gilly, no. Mr. Cordell, no. Miss Yench, I and I will vote no. So that fails. Uh, three to five. Right. Mr. Chairman, do you mind calling those um votes off once again? What they Yes. On the

053uh on the 4% it was no on the 3%. On the 3% Mr. Gilly voted no. Mr. Cordell voted no. Miss Yench voted I. Mr. Hansert voted no. I voted no. Miss Hodgej voted no. Miss Matthews voted I. And Mr. voted I. Correct everybody. So that fails five to three. All right. So Mr. Chair, I would like to make a motion to reconsider the 4%. Okay, we have a motion to reconsider. So, first we would need to vote on the motion to reconsider. As I understand, you have to vote on that. We're getting into Robert's rules of order. Mr. Chairman, you're going to need a second on that reconsider. Right. Right. Sir, so um so motion to reconsider by Miss Hodgej. And do I have a second to reconsider? I second that. Mr. Cordell seconds.

054All right. So, um, so we are motion motioning to reconsider the 4%. So, we need to pass the motion to reconsider and then go back and make a motion as I understand it and I'm getting into pushing the limits and that doesn't have to be from the prevailing side. The motion to reconsider is correct. Right. All right. Okay. So, we're we're correct so far. Yeah. We got a vote to reconsider and then vote on the 4%. So, and then motion on the 4%. All right. So, motion to reconsider. Um, uh, Miss Hajj, I Miss Matthews, no. Mr. no. Mr. Gilly, yes. Mr. Cordell, yes. There's the edge. Yes. Mr. Hansert, no. I will vote yes. So, one, two, three, four, five yeses and Three nos. So, do you have that, Melissa? So, okay, I can

055read them off if you want. So, so now we need another motion to reconsider the 4%. Mr. Chair, may I make a statement if you don't mind, Mr. Ballard? Uh, the difference between a 4% and a 3% is going to be about $390,000. Okay, Mr. Chair, I move that we accept line three, option number three of a 4% raise. Okay, Mr. Gilly, do I have a second? I'll second that. Mr. Cordell, further discussion on the 4% raise option. Mr. Mr. Chair, I I would be remiss uh not to all the emails that I got u to be against this because of of our structure that we have and our our our pay system. Uh where our our top uh people that's making in the 100,000s, you know, we're going to be getting right at $4,000

056raised this year. and our classifides are going to be getting like a $900 raise. And I just uh I can't I can't, you know, see why that we're doing that, you know, and leaving those people that far behind. I've made the statement a couple of times that the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. uh with this rate that we're doing here, it's nothing and I don't have anything against a raise, but uh that's going to be putting it way way out of my comment. Other discussion. All right, Mr. Ch Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. We I just want to remind everybody we have continuously every year wretched down into those other areas classified and attempted and and made made a lot of progress in those individual areas to close those gaps. Um,

057I think this is still a part of the major plan and the goal that we must reach and you know I I intend on continually reaching down into those classified areas and things of that nature and let's making up some make up some space and gain some strides there as we have while we're still trying to achieve this goal. And with that, I'll call question. Okay, we got a call to question. That does not require a second. It does. Any We didn't do that the last time, but it does need a second. You need to vote on it. Okay. So, Mr. Gilly, do I have a second? I call the question. Terminate debate. There's no second then discussion is still open with uh anybody else. All right. So, we are voting on the 4% raise

058option. Uh did I what did I do last time? I'm running out of paper here. I think it's Easter. What? Start voting. Yeah, we're gonna vote Matthews. Are we voting? Yes, we're voting. I'm sorry. Yeah. Okay. It's It's getting confusing. Okay. Uh, no, Mr. No, Mr. Gilly. Yes. Mr. Cordell, yes. is the edge. I am really struggling with this one. I understand. And I know this is not the time for discussion, but I also know that we have to have this budget in by the end of April. So, I'm going to vote yes. Mr. Hansert, no. And I Oh. Um, Miss Hodgej I. And I will vote I. That passes. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, five, two, three. So, we have adopted the 4% raise for the uh for the budget, and

059I'm just about out of paper here, so we can't do that too much more. All right. So, uh, next item up on the agenda is the nutrition budget. And basically we have the same um four options. We have a 2% raise, we have a 3% raise, we have a 4% raise, and then we have the flat plus 3% I think um split out and um thank you. So [Music] um the nutrition budget is the 143 budget, right? So that's it. Yeah. So, um, we looked at, um, basically the same scenarios. So, I need a motion to accept one of those scenarios, the two, three, four, or the three plus flat rate. Mr. Chair, Mr. Gilly, I move to accept option number three of the 4% raise on the school budget as well. Okay. Do I

060have a second? I will second that. Mr. Cordell seconds. Okay. The motion has been made for to approve the 4% option on the 143 nutrition budget. Any discussion? Now, am I understanding correctly what we vote for will come out of the budget of the food services? That's a whole different Yeah, we have the 141 budget which is the um general budget and we have 143 fund which is the the school lunch the nutrition budget. So for the school lunches so whole separate budget different fund balance they have their own fund balance that's separate from the 141 fund balance. So that's so we're voting on the 143 fund. So we we are basically deciding what the director will increase the pay of her people working underneath her. We're making that decision. We're voting on the budget

061that will provide a pay increase of uh I think the motion is 4%. Yes. So same same as the 141 budget except this is just a separate for for the food service program, the nutrition program, right? We're basically deciding what she will increase. Maybe it's her employees increase uh pay raise. Oh, no. No. Will it come out of out of our general budget or will it come out of her budget? The pay increases. I understand that comes out of her budget. That comes out of the 143 budget, separate budget. So it's we went over in the uh if you'll remember we went over in the uh work session when we talked about the funding sources on both the 141 and the 143 they are separate. So it's mostly 143 fund is mostly correct me if

062I'm wrong USDA funds. So it's it's federal money. There's some other other monies that come in there, but it's mostly USDA money that that's whole separate um revenue source than than our general education fund, which is the 141 fund. Okay. So, whole separate budget. All right. Whole separate budget. But we are making the decision about how much of her budget will go towards raises out of that particular one. Well, the overall budget. Yeah. So, okay, that's of the revenues that are coming in, you know, plus fund balance and they do have a fun they have their own fund balance. So there's fund balance available too that um so that would go towards the overall budget which would include a um a three 4% raise. I guess that's the motion right now. That make sense? It

063does. But I'm wondering in voting for a 4% raise, how much of I mean, we're looking at her needing to increase that'll come up later, her needing to increase the cost of food. So, if we vote the higher budget for raises, does that come out of what she has to spend for food items, which would make it cost more for the students lunches is what I'm trying to figure out. Not unless Not unless we pay for those lunches out of the general budget or the participation in programs. And I would like to call on but it's really not for this discussion. I don't think I think it's for the next agenda item of the explanation of that uh participation program for the free free free lunches for everyone. Mr. Chair, can I make a comment?

064I highly highly recommend to not do the school nutrition different than what the general budget or is in the G because that that's that that's not good. That that's I highly recommend not doing two different things with the two different budgets. Thank you. I I highly Can I can I speak for just a second? Sure. In the past, we've never done anything different for food service because we've always kind of followed what general school does. So, I have talked to my school person um about if general school can help pick up some of her um deficit and she said basically it's allowed unless we have something in board policy that does it that says we can't do it. I haven't found anything in board policy that says we can't do it. um if if there

065happens like I got to continue to read their policy and make sure you know it doesn't we don't see it anywhere in policy but at this time I haven't seen anything in board policy that says we can't do that but if if it did come up that's something that we could take to policy committee and that could get we could make amends to that policy to help out food service right now I have a huge balance so we're not in danger having to do Mostly I was just trying to cover your expenses. Yes. Okay. Breakfast that works out. Any further discussion? The motion that's on the floor is to um do the nutrition budget, the 143 fund, a 4% um increase. So, um Mr. hi. Mr. Gilly, I Mr. Cordell. Miss Yinch I Mr. Hans

066answer I uh Miss Hodgej I Miss Matthews I and chair will vote I that passes 820 to zero. Okay little confusing. All right. So, next item up is the the meal increase uh food service price increase. And um that is uh item number four on on your agenda. So, you can bring that up here. But um Scott, you want to explain we we talked about this at at the retreat, but you know, before we get a motion, maybe you can give a quick explanation of what we're looking at here. Okay. Um what we were going to do to help cover some of the additional cost of course for um increased salaries. Um of course we had the snow days. I mentioned that inclement weather days. Um we also had co relief money that was coming.

067Now it's gone. And there's an increase in amount of food cost by a lot. So what I was going to do is just do an increase of 50 cents for breakfast and 50 cents for lunch, which would make it 175 for breakfast across the board. PreK through five would be$ 2.75 and 6 through 12 would be $3. So um that way, you know, we haven't increased in 10 years since I've been here. So, I don't know. It's probably been more than 10 years. And think of how much cost have gone up in 10 years. And the fact that we've made it this long is just a miracle. But I was sort of waiting till we hit fund balance to really try to increase because if I'm going to use any fund balance, I would want

068it to be to keep the prices low. But now the time has come. And if it's not enough this year, I may have to do a little more next year or, you know, we might be able to go free do the free breakfast and lunch. But I'm not positive on that yet. And just just uh for a point of clarification, this budget this uh price increase is not included in it's not included in there because it wasn't approved. Okay. Yeah. Y but it'll make a significant difference. All right. Thank you. So, uh I need a motion to approve the price increase. I guess Mr. Chair, Mr. I move that we do not approve this price increase and that we pursue the fact of general budget covering all breakfast and lunches for all students in Coffee

069County schools. if the pursuance of the state and federal grant that I think the director made made us aware of in the board retreat can't be obtained. So you're proposing from the 141 we transfer money from the 141 budget to the 143 budget. Yes. To uh cover the cost of school lunches. I think that number was close to 1.350 for this next year anticipated. April, do you remember that number? The number. What was it? The I know your food number. We had a deficit the number you're having to raise it for the extra the extra cost of food plus the food that you normally budgeted in. Right. Well, I had a deficit of 245 almost 250. Well, we wasn't talking about a deficit. We was talking about the food paying for the lunch. Food. Well,

070just the food alone, I mean, it just depends on how many people eat. Like, we had less eat this year than we have last year. So, you can't really compare them. I just know that cost You gave us a You gave us a number in that meeting and it was around it was either 1.350 or 15 the best I I can recall. Somebody else may remember those numbers. I don't remember that. Are you talking about our total food budget? I think it was about 1.2 1.2. Well, April's on. Go ahead, April. I think it's I think y'all are talking about her total total amount of food. I believe I think it's your food line, Carlin. So that whatever is coming from Gordon Food and that line that would hit that where it would hit for

071Gordon Food, right? It it did not. See, it depends on how many kids you feed. If you feed less, then it's it doesn't matter. But let me see what it is. Let's Well, if you've got an average, that would probably probably work for my goal here because my goal is to pay. Yeah. So, last year it was 101 and this year I was estimating it's a little bit less, but like I said, I've had less kids eat. So, and food cost, you know, it just varies according to how many I feed. I had estimated it is going up as far as 20,000 if we feed more. My my goal out of this motion is to pay for all of the all of our food for our students. So basically free lunch and breakfast. Free lunch.

072The food cost alone would be 110,000. Now I do know can you explain a little bit to the members of what you're pursuing again on the to cover the cost of the if the director if that's something they want to proceed with I would see about getting um the community eligibility provision and in that it um allows the kids to eat free breakfast and free lunch but I would only be getting a certain amount back for the amount that once like right now I think I would get 70% back from the USDA to pay for that and the other 30% I'd have to pick up the cost. So it depends that number comes up from how many um direct or um free and reduced kids you have. So So we have so many we we

073have a couple several different options here to make sure that we just cover these meals for the students. Yeah, we we'd like to restate my motion if I could, Mr. Chair. Sure. There there's been no second yet. So, uh I just move that we do not approve any additional cost to the for meals for our students at this time because I think I think the coverage of the meals I think that will come with the pursuance of these efforts. If not, we can do we can do a budget amendment. Will have to change. Well, we can do a budget amendment just as we as it was laid out. We could do a budget amendment at a later date and take over those meals if the state doesn't come through or this program doesn't come through.

074Right. But we have to approve the new meal prices if if you want. Okay. Well, then I'll restate again. It shall go ahead. We do not approve this and we pay as a system. We pay for every student's meals in this system, breakfast and lunch because we're we're we're not So the motion would be to pay for the student lunches out of the 141 fund transfer to 143 fund to pay for student lunches or lunches and breakfast. Yes. Clarification. Okay. So, the motion would be to for for the board to approve a transfer from the 141 fund to the 143 fund to cover the cost of the uh student lunches and breakfasts. Correct. Yes. All right. Do we have a second on that? Mr. Gilly made the motion. Do we have a second? I'll second

075it. Miss Hodgej seconds that. So I think All right. So the motion is to transfer money from the 141 fund to the 143 fund to cover the cost of student lunches and breakfasts so that there is no charge to the students. Discussion. Do we know, Mr. Cotton, if we're going to get a grant yet? Can we wait to I mean, I'd like to see if we wait and see if we're going to get this grant first or not. Um, I would have to apply for it. Um, but I, like I said, I'd have to have the director, you know, to to back that. Is that what you talking about the other night? Wait to see whether we had a director that would back you on it. Yes. I want them to support this because it

076it's You can lose money on it, but I feel like we will not. But I want their support. And this is not something that you could do without the director's support since you kind of stand alone with the school lunch budget. Well, I had it approved just today. They said they'll give me to June 30th to to decide on the seat the the community eligibility provision if I want to do that. It's more of a it's not a grant as much as it's a provision that you can sign on for, you know. So, but if this board backs you and this board likes this idea and wants to pursue that is why we could do that. I mean, I think could our new director get the hint and we can still do it. We can

077approve these numbers and still do it. This is just to cover me in case we don't do it. I don't I don't like I just I'm out on that answer. So clarification though, your your proposal, Mr. Gilly, is not contingent upon getting the the grant that that No, we're going we're going to pursue that. But if we don't, I still want to I still want to cover it if we if we have to. Okay. So that we would cover it regardless of whether we get the grant, the free lunches and breakfast. Yes, I guess that Yeah. All right. Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. Just as and I don't have all the details, but just remember there's federal implications with this program. If you go this way, you may lose federal money depending on how numbers work

078out. And it is impossible to know what that impact would be tonight. It could be on the -ate side. And also Miss Cole, remember she mentioned something about that with her programs. So that's just something we got to be aware of. And that's I think that's where uh Miss Cotton is talking about the new director. That would be all the options that they would be looking at to make those decisions. There's more factors than just the food uh school nutrition involved. So I would want that person to be on board with everything. And it's something we need to look at further as far as how it affects Ry's division, the federal division, and our numbers may be advantageous or disadvantage. Whereas the neighboring counties, just the way their numbers work, that's the better way to

079do it than the other way. Mr. Chairman, there's a lot of moving parts on this that's not been looked at. It's a big This is a really big decision and and I appreciate that it's being discussed, but there needs to be some things I'm afraid needs to be looked at a little closer of of other changes and other things it's going to affect before moving forward and it might need to come up again next month. But there needs to be some things looked at because this Yes, there's a lot of hidden things that we might not be aware of that's not been checked out yet. It is a possibility, but like I said, we would need somebody to make the help make that decision that is looking at the whole district as a whole, not

080just food service, but as a whole. So, that would be a and then the director who is over the district needs to be a big part of that. And, you know, if we approve these tonight, you know, to rate doesn't mean that we can't go that direction. It just means that we we've covered ourselves as far as making up for what hasn't been done in 10 years. You know, we needed to increase the prices to to get to today's inflation, you know, for what where we are today. So, I would advise, you know, maybe passing these and then we can alter it later if we need to just because we need to give, like I said, I would really like to have a director's opinion on on this. I think that would be my recommendation,

081Mr. Chairman, that we go ahead and approve what we have here tonight and then look into it further about Mr. Gilly's motion. And it may very well happen at a later date. We're not saying it's not going to happen, but at least we'll be safe in this one as of right now. Okay. Well, we would need to, if we're going to do that, we would need to withdraw the motion and vote on on the price increase. So, are we still in discussion? We're still in discussion. Uh, just me personally, I'm not I'm not going to I'm I'm not going to go for any kind of increase. Uh it's uncalled for. If we have some kind of issue because of the raises, then that's just the least that's a little bit of money we're coming off

082of 141 to the 143 budget to cover while we hope we pursue these other things. Uh I'm I'm just that that's where I'm at. Uh if I need to uh withdraw the motion and just vote the way I need to vote, that's fine. If that's what you request, Mr. chair, but u otherwise we can vote and let it fail. Either way, you know, it's your motion. So, no seconded it. If if you request me to withdraw, I'll withdraw that motion at this time, but I will not make another motion. And we would uh would you be okay with withdrawing the motion? Yes. Okay. So, if you withdraw the motion, then we can get a motion from somebody to approve the price increase. Do you withdraw the motion, Mr. Gilly? Uh, yes. Okay. All right. So,

083the motion has been withdrawn. So, I would need a motion to approve the price increase at this time. I make the motion to approve the price increase as we see it before us at this time. Okay. Miss Yitch. Do I have a second? I'll second. Mr. second. All right. Discussion on this. We have a motion to approve the price increase as presented to us. Miss Con? Could could we leave it the way that it is now till we do we have to raise it? Can we leave it where it's at until we get some clarification on some of this stuff? Oh, we could I but I'm just I was just going to go ahead since we were under budget. I wanted a solution to that. So, I have that's why I presented it at this

084time and we can't increase prices without board approval. No, I understand. Yeah, I'm gonna agree with Mr. Hans. Write that down everybody. I agree with Thank you, Robert. Duly noted and recorded on video. See, we're making headway. Yes, you are. That's awesome. No, I just Thank you, Robert. I just I I don't because of the federal thing that I talked about during the uh uh the work session. We've got a lot of issues that's coming up with the federal government right now. and and uh you know I just I know this we'd have to go back make another motion on it but it was just an idea in instead of raising it because I you know I've been involved in the backpack program and I know 50 cents is don't seem like a whole lot

085but it's a it's a great big deal to some people you know but I agree I I I just know we haven't increased it in a long time. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. And I agree. I I you know I just with a lot of stuff that's changing in the you know the getting rid of the federal government you know board you know education and uh federal board of education there's a lot of issues that's going to be coming up and we're going to have a new uh superintendent here in a couple of months and then we could go back and revisit this and you know that's just a well one of the reasons I did go ahead and put it on there is because all the principles send out agendas. Yes ma'am. um and they have

086to turn in what they put in their agenda in what May or June. And um so every year they're asking me what are the prices, what are the prices, what are the prices and you know I've been keeping it the same but if we're going to change it I'm I want that to be put out in the new the new agenda because that goes to every student at the beginning of the year and it goes home to the parents. So, um, I just thought if we're going to put it, I don't want to put anything. I'd rather put nothing than have it incorrect. So, you know, if we go ahead and put it in there and it ends up free, well, then that'll be fine. But, if I don't put the price increase, that might

087not be the best. I don't know. How do you all feel about that? It's Yeah, whatever you decide. It's an idea. I mean it, like I said, it's, you know, it's up for discussion what other what other board members think, you know. Well, I think for your sake, I think it would give you more peace of mind to know that you're going into this with the increase. Now, if you find that you have a lot of parents coming back at you saying, "I can't afford this increase." Please get back with the board because then possibly we could look at the board making supplement to take it back to the old place again. Um I don't know. We would need to know the reaction of of who can still afford it. Do you see a steady

088drop off in the number of kids now who are not eating because of the increase? Right. Well, and I will say this is pretty much in line with the rest of the state. I looked at other schools and you would have to look really hard to find something that's a lot less than this because I mean you can't eat lunch anywhere for $3. You can't get a hamburger for $3. So I mean even though it is 50 I I know that is that's a lot for some people. Um it still is is very reasonable overall. Well, I can see how you wrestle with it. Oh, it's hard. Yes. All right. The Any other discussion, Mr. Chair? Yes, sir. How many other districts near us or around us are providing their meals for free? Um I

089know several are uh Franklin County, Bedford. So, yes, but Manchester City is not. We're sort of in the same position. and we're right on the line as far as um numbers go with free and reduced. Um that makes it all the difference. Thank you. Okay. So, the motion on the floor is to approve the price increase as presented to us. Any further discussion? All right. With that, um Mr. Gilly, uh no, Mr. Cordell. Yes. Miss Yinch. Yes. Mr. Hansert. No. Miss Haj. No. Miss Matthews. I. Mr. I. Chair votes I. So one, two, three, four, five to three. That passes. Sure. I got it right. Yes. Five to three. All right. All right. Next item on the agenda is textbook adoption. This was pulled off the consent agenda last month um at the request of

090Miss Yench. And um to do some further review and so um it's back on the agenda this month. I think everybody's had a chance to look that over. So, um, I would need a motion to accept the textbook recommendations from the textbook committee for this year. Do I have a motion? I'll make that motion. I'll second. Cordell, Mr. Okay. All right. The motion is to accept the textbook recommendations from the textbook committee for this year. Any discussion, Miss Yinch? That was Are you happy with Yeah, I feel I feel better after getting a chance to look over some of the books and Okay, any discussion? All right, let us vote on that. Uh, Mr. Cordell. Yeah. I miss I Mr. Stansert I Miss Hodgej I Miss Matthews I Mr. I Mr. Gilly I and chair

091votes I that passes 820. Okay, next item up is the five-year plan committee and we discussed this briefly in the retreat last week and really decided the best way to do this was to put together a committee to really take what what is kind of a narrative document and convert it into smart goals or or however you want to do it uh uh resultsbased goals. And we attempted this like a year and a half ago or so when Kathy Rose was on the board and and we had one meeting and it didn't get too far. So, uh, you drew a lot of pictures on the wall. Yeah, we had a lot of pictures on the wall. That's right. And and, uh, so, uh, we thought the best way to tackle this would be to put

092together a committee to make recommendations on that. And it's probably going to take a little bit of work to put this together. So I, you know, first I'd like to see, you know, who's interested in being on the committee and then we would basically approve that committee and and pick a chair and then start start having meetings. So is anybody interested in being on that committee? So how's your strategic planning skills? I have great planning skills, but also have three babies, so count me out. Okay. Anybody down there? Slinking down in their chair. Could Could we do that at make it like a work session or do to do that? Yeah, but it's probably going to be multiple work sessions because when you're doing a strategic planning document, it's probably going to be an iterative

093a little bit of a process to go along. So, I mean, I would volunteer myself for the committee, you know, to do that. Um, but we're going to need some I could volunteer for Rita, too, since she's not here. That's the danger of not being here at the meeting. You can put on committees, or we could just leave the document as is. I think my my feelings on it is, you know, we're about the only school district around here that even has committees anymore. And uh I mean that'd be something that we're all going to be involved in. We all need to be involved in I would say um I don't know how we could do that. Maybe having a a work session or something. I'm just mark it up and send it to Yeah,

094we could we could do that. And what we could do is you know One way to do that, uh, Mr. Answer, might be to, you know, get everybody, have everybody look at the document, put together what they want to see for objectives and and pile it on. Poor Melissa. God bless you. And kind of, you know, you know, put it in one place, compile it, and then we could just kind of work on it that way and then pull together a couple work sessions to, uh, to finalize the document. So that might be, you know, a good way to do it. Would Would that be I I I personally would be fine with that. I just I think that's a big a big deal for you. We're going have to bring it all back to

095all of us anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Now, we do need to have this five-year plan. It's a it's a state required document. So, a five-year plan and needs to be looked at what, every two years, I think. I think it's every two years. probably where you put your goals. Yeah, you got you got to review it every few years, I think. So, Mr. Chair, I think when we done this the other day and discussed it, it was the reason we put it off was to wait on the incoming director because obviously he might have a little bit of say of direction and goals, right? Although the contract specifies that the the the new director is going to develop a strategic plan. So, we got the five-year plan. Well, you're talking that's two different things. Strategic plan

096and fiveyear plan is two different things. So, am I correct? Right. So, we can kick the can down the road. Now, do we need to formally approve the the plan to kick it down the road or your only agenda item is for a committee? Yeah. So, if you don't want to form a committee to do it, then you're kicking it down the road till you're ready to do it. All right. Well, I think, you know, I agree with Mr. Hanser. Maybe we just kind of start compiling stuff and then when we bring the new director on then kind of work with them on that. So, so let's kind of do that direction. So, it's a homework assignment for everybody to look at the uh light reading of the five-year plan and come up with some

097ideas. I never did turn in my homework. That doesn't surprise me. Um, all right. So, no action on that on agenda item six. And uh so the next item up is the furniture bid. And um Mr. Shores and and Dr. Powell, can we just make a motion several times and I need to let Mr. Shores address it at this point in time because it's going to depend on what part of this furniture build you want to use. All of it or part of it or what we've looked at in the past. Um where is that? I think that's basically what we're looking for right now is be ready for all of it if you so desire. Okay. It was discussed at the the spring retreat. Uh there is three different parts here. This is the

098high school uh the cost center and also the central office. It is broken up that way. Uh I I can honestly say all three of these areas need the the furniture, but it's up to the board on what direction you want to go. if you want to do one, two, or all three sections and and we'll go in any one of them. Um but but there is a need in all of all three sections. Can you give us a total on doing all three? The the complete project is $136,168.76. Okay. And April did she had to leave uh because of where she's at and what's going on. and she did say that we can cover that with the furniture. The money that's budgeted in the furniture, there's still enough there to cover that amount. Okay.

099Uh I would need a motion to approve the furniture bid. Um I make a motion that we approve all the furniture at this time. Okay. I second that motion. So Miss Hinch and Mr. Cordell. All right. So, the motion is to approve the entire furniture bid. Do we have any discussion? I know Miss Matthews, you had some this is back on the agenda because of your request. I um I don't really have anything I think I said everything the other day, so I don't think I have anything to add to that. Um, I obviously think we need the furniture. So, yeah, we talked most these things through pretty good last Thursday. We did. We covered a lot of ground. All right. Well, if there's no further discussion, then uh and I forget where we're at.

100Uh, Mr. Cordell, we're going to vote on this to approve the furniture. All the furniture. Ah, Mr. Yinch. Hi Mr. Hansert. No, uh, Miss H. I Matthews, I Mr. I Mr. Gilly. I And I will vote I. That passes 7 [Music] to1. Uh, oh, next up is the paving bid at the high school. Uh, Mr. Shores and and Dr. Powell. Mr. Shores, I'll turn this back over to you again, please. Okay. I did contact to uh Tinsley Asphalt and asked them the question that Miss Yanch had asked as far as being able to get the job done if this was passed during the summertime and the the date that was set, which was I think June 30th. And um he said yes, they could and would so and they would hold to or honor this

101bid. And I think everything else was uh discussed at the spring retreat. If you have any questions after a motion and second, I'll be glad to to try to answer them. And Dr. Powell, you have a recommendations on this? Yes, sir. I would recommend tensely doing the high school bid on the paving striping storm running project as presented. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the paving bid from Tinsley? Mr. Chair. So yes, sir. I move to approve the CCC CHS paving striping storm drainage project at Coff County Central High School and go with the bid of Tinsley asphalt for 272,000. Mr. Gilly makes the motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. Miss Hodgej seconds. All right. So the motion is to approve the Tinsley bid for the the paving. Uh discussion. Mr.

102Chair, there is one more thing that the uh Miss Melson mentioned and the amendment was already taken to and and is taken care of and the the price actually that we received is a few hundred less than what the amendment was for. So, we're actually the money's already there to take care of the paving job. Okay. Any discussion? We hammered this pretty good in the uh in the work session last week. Okay. No discussion. Uh Miss Yench I. Mr. Hansert. No, Miss Hajj. I Miss Matthews. I Mr. I Mr. Gilly. I Mr. Cordell. Uh I will vote I also that passes 7 to one. All right. Next item on the agenda is a demographer and uh um Mr. Shores again and and Dr. Powell. Yes sir. I think Mr. Shores has taken care of this.

103So I'll let him present it please. Okay. Of course, this is going back to the decision for Hickerson and also East Coffee on what to do as far as do we need the extra classrooms, do we not? What direction do we go to the county commission with? And this is just pulling more data and more information together. Um, Von Dirks with Wool was the one that actually reached out with the RFP. uh he and I were together on things, but he he actually sent it out and his recommendation is to go with Hazel Reinhardt for a base fee of $9,800. And you have the the documentation. I had emailed it to you the other day with tons of information. So, I hope you had time to to look through it, but he felt that Rinhardt

104would be the the direction to go. Okay. So, Dr. Powell, your recommendation. I had a question for Mr. Shores. Where is the U Hazel Reinhardt organization? I'm not sure. I'd have to look up. I'm not sure what this says. It says u uh to be determined only if travel is needed. What does that mean? It's actually their their organization is out of Minnesota. uh she can and she basically put on here that she could do it through Zoom unless we want her to be here. If we want her to come and actually do a presentation to the board, then it's going to cost bringing her down. So the the additional cost that she put would be only if travel was needed uh to be determined and that is if we wanted to bring her all

105the way from Minnesota to to do the presentation. Otherwise, she would be glad to do it through Zoom and take care of it that way. Does that answer your question, Dr.? Yes, sir. All right. Um, I need a motion to approve the demographer and based on Mr. Shores and Dr. Powell's recommendation, that would probably be Hazel Reinhardt. But I guess somebody has different thoughts, we can Do you entertain that also as in a motion? But can you just make a motion to uh accept the what did you call them? Denographer. Demographer. Demographer. And then we can discuss about the different groups. Can that be done? I don't understand. Discuss what? uh the different groups that are available like instead of just making the motion where we put Hazel Reinhardt in as a part of the

106motion just to make a motion to agree to a demographer and then decide the discussion which one to go with. My my suggestion would be to actually make a motion to the one that you feel like would be the most appropriate and then you could go into discussion. Then you might do an amendment to the motion to make a change to the um to that motion and then of course you would have to vote it through the amendment. Then you go back to the main motion with the new amendment and then you'd vote through that direction. I haven't had enough tea for that. I'm not sure. I mean, that's that's the only way I know you can do do what you're saying. I'm not sure that, you know, we may not have enough information to

107discuss each one of these and what their capabilities are. We're assuming, I guess, Miss Beth, that that Hazel Reinhardt has the capability of doing this project. I agree. The only thing is I do notice that Harpath is is more, but they are a Tennessee company. So I think they'd have a better indication of what growth is like in the state of Tennessee than someone coming from Minnesota. That that's my only observation. Well, you can make a motion if you want to approve somebody different. And and the reason why I sent the entire information, I mean, this is the whole packet. So that's the reason why it's not in your your package that there's a whole lot of information and and I'd have to actually read back through to see exactly what they said about the

108one you were talking about. But I do know that Wool has worked with that was one of the things that they were looking at was who they have worked with before. And some of these they have, some they have not. And I'd have to actually read back through to see who they had worked with. But but I understand also I like to to keep as local as possible. And if they're from Tennessee, I understand that it does say in here 14,000 includes the expenses involved on the onsite meetings, presentations, and knowledge. For which one is that? Oh, Harpath research. Harpath. Okay. I I've I've done u had some u dealings with Harper and they're they're really good. Uh, I believe they're out of Franklin, so they're uh I mean, I'm sure that we'll they probably

109work with Mr. Reinhardt a lot, so they're going to pitch her. So, of course, that's why they're going to use her, but that's my that's my opinion. But I think the reason why he said that he was picking her was because she was the cheaper of the ones on here. She has a lower cost. She he he really, I don't think, had any problem. The Harpath research this what Harpath research has worked with our government practice group on justice and detention projects. They can also provide enrollment projections but have less experience than the other solicited. So they have less experience in it uh but they they have worked with them but is on a governmental part rather than a school part. All right. Thank you for that information. So, I would need a motion to

110approve one of these, I guess. And I have no problem going with Harper, but that's the board. So, they have used W has used her quite a bit with school systems then is what you're telling me. No, I'm I'm actually I need to read through and and tell you. Let me find where it's at here. Each of these companies is a great to work with and you would be very happy with any of these responses and information they will provide which makes this a no- risk situation. Given that, our recommendation would be to engage Hazel Reinhardt for the base fee of $9,800. So, that sounds like to me is basically because it was a lower bid. Uh, she did note the potential for travel, which I just went through. So, if she had to travel

111here, it would cost more on that part, but she could do it through a Google Meet or Zoom, something down that line. So, uh, but according to what he's saying, it's it's a no no. I mean, you're not gonna mess up either way. Anyone that you want to pick. All right. You've heard Mr. Shores and and Dr. Powell. Do we have a motion? No motion. Mr. Chair, I move that we accept Harper Research as a demographer. Mr. Gilly motions to accept Harpath Research as our demographer. Do I have a second? I I'll second that. Miss Y seconds that. Um, any further discussion? We've kind of The only reason I done that is I agree with the Tennessee thing and then we've got to have a demographer to get our numbers together. know if we're going

112to build buildings or not. So, and the fact that they're out of Franklin means that they're pretty close. So, they have an idea of what's pushing our way from Nashville and Murphy'sboro. The $5,000 difference ain't that bad either because coming from Minnesota to here by the time we put her up and plane flights and everything else and feed her, it's probably 5,000. So, what is the possibility, Mr. Shores, of sharing this data with the county and getting some money from them? would have to ask the county. Yeah. But I mean, would it would this be useful to the county? You think they've already got I know they'll charge them for it. I'd already you know, the industrial board is has got information that they that that we need. You know, that's what I shared with

113everyone. So, and Mr. Ballard, off of what Scotty, Mr. Hanser just said is they they they gave it to us free of what they had. I don't feel like it would be right for us to turn around and and charge our county for something that we needed already that we want to use with them. That's my own opinion, but but if they're willing to share things with us, I think we need to tore go back with it. I was just saying if it was something they could, you know, that that it might be beneficial to them and All right. But if it is to me, if we're going to use it, we need to share. Just a thought. Yeah. And if this needs to be done, it needs to be done without because they would

114have to go back through committee to get it passed and back to the full commission. So that may delay it another four or five weeks minimum. All right. So we just share it if we, you know, if we do it and we can share it, you know, so because this would probably be useful because I know they development issues and all that stuff themselves. So all right, but that would be a decision of the board. Yeah. All right. So the motion on the table is to accept um Harpath Research as our demographer. Um any further discussion? Mr. Hansert. Hi. Uh Miss Hajj. I Miss Matthews. I Mr. Hi. Uh Mr. Gilly. I Mr. Cordell. Hi. Miss Yench. I and I will vote I. That passes 820 to zero. All right. The next item on the

115agenda is um we uh um we got a request from from Miss Parsley at Deerfield Elementary to extend their TISA outcomesbased funding for another year. Right. So, all right. And um uh that is that was the request. So, Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. I make a motion that we approve the request to extend the TISA outcome funding until June 2026 for Deerfield Elementary. Till June 2026. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'll second that motion. Mr. Gilly, Mr. Cordell. Okay. Um discussion. So, the motion is to uh extend uh Deerfield's TISA funding until June of 2026, TISA outcomes based funding. Mr. Chairman, I want to commend u Miss Parsley and Deerfield because they were moving forward and doing what was set forth and this is their request is due to a savings that they were able to

116pull to no fault to to the the admin team there. This is something really good that happened to them that they don't want to blow and waste the money. They want to use it wisely and and I I want to commend them for what they've done. Definitely appreciate that. Dr. Powell, your recommendation? Yes, sir. I recommend this, please. All right. Any further discussion? All right. Uh, Miss Hodgej, I. Miss Matthews, I. Mr. I. Mr. Gilly, I. Mr. Cordell, hi. Miss, I, Mr. Hansert, I. And I will vote I. That passes 820. All right. Last item on the agenda or the regular agenda is our budget update. So, and uh April is gone. Okay. That's fine. So, I Dr. Powell, do you Nope. No, sir. I think you have this information in front of you. Uh

117and it's just a matter of approving it because it's where it is and I don't think there's any changes that's been made in it. So you wouldn't hurt my feelings. Moving on. Yeah. All right. Now I need a motion to approve the the budget update. So move. Mr. Gilly. I'll second. A second. Mr. seconds. Um. All right. Any discussion on the budget update? We don't really have anybody here to ask questions of, so all right. So, uh, Miss Matthews, I Mr. I, Mr. Gilly, I, Scordell, I, Miss Hinch, I, Mr. Hansert, I, uh, Miss Hodgej, I, Chair Votes, I, that passes 820. Okay, now we have our items for discussion. So, we can uh start with Miss Hodgej. Free form. Whatever you want to say. All right. I don't I haven't had time to really

118think about this much. Um I do want to congratulate Miss Leah Parsley. Someone told me that you received a TMEA award for outstanding elementary school administrator of the year. And we are so proud to have you. So, thank you very very much for all your work. Congratulations. All right. And our hearts go out to our third graders as they embark on these ELA TECAP tests this week. There's been a lot of hype about it and I really hope that they all make it through without their little hearts being too stressed out. It just makes me so sad that they're so worried about it. And that's about it. Well, I wasn't prepared to to say anything, but um congratulations, Leah. Um and yeah, good luck to all of our awesome students and teachers in the next

119couple weeks of testing. So, that's all I have. Mr. Cool. I'd like to give a shout out to all of our teacher of the year winners for doing an excellent job in their field. Um I assume that that's voted on by their peers. Um, I'm not really sure students, you know, who voted for them, but apparently they're very, very good at their job. And I just like to give them a another round of applause for the hard work that they put into educating the children of of our district. [Applause] Mr. Gilly. I'm going to pass tonight. The loss. I'm tired. You okay, Robert? I just want to thank our teachers and our staff, our team. What a team we have in Coffee County. It's an honor to serve on this board to represent our teachers,

120our staff, our faculty, and whatever. And uh I thank I'm thankful for this opportunity to help make their lives better. We're investing in them and they're investing in the county. So, I'm so appreciative and so thankful for our team and let's be in prayer for our teachers and our system, our staff and that we have wisdom and discernment and what's best for our county, for our for our whole team and our students. Thank y'all. Gary stole my thunder, but I would put our teachers, our all of our staff up against any county around. We are very very blessed in the in the personnel that we have and I I I'm just really grateful. Mr. Uh I'd like to thank the teachers as well and Leah. I congratulate you and uh like to thank God that

121uh we made it through our prom without any um catastrophes or any accidents or anything. That's that's a blessing in itself. Um but that's pretty much all that I've got. And um um for my part, I'd like to remind everybody that we are doing candidate interviews next week and and so uh Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. And then we will have a work session on the following Monday and the 28th followed by a special call board meeting to select and approve the candidate and offer the contract that we just generally approved tonight. And uh so next week is next two weeks are going to be pretty pretty darn busy, but uh I'm looking forward to it. We have a number of questions. We came up with both TSBA recommended questions and and questions that uh

122different board members had. We're putting those in a pool and we're gonna basically kind of randomly assign them to, you know, make that uh make it, you know, as unbiased as as possible, I guess, is how we we uh work that out. And uh so we'll be we'll be working on that. Melissa's working on that. So that's coming up next week. Um so we can steal ourselves for that. And uh you know the one thing we did not do that that got left off the agenda is the uh principal's report. So and we have a few principles here who have really hung in there. So So um let's let's do the principal report. So I guess we just got Miss Parsley and and Miss Parsley and Mr. Parsley. There's a microphone up here, too. So,

123yeah, front and center. Yeah, I'm sorry. We were trying to put you at the beginning, but we left you off the agenda. I totally missed it. We had a busy month at Deerfield. Um, or we had the Nashville Opera come uh do a performance for us. Miss Mary McCartney arranged for the opera to come and something I'd never seen before and it was really neat. It was just that's the best way to describe it was really neat. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Um the second grade went to Nashville Zoo. Uh we had Q3 citizenship reward so everybody can work on their citizenship and their behavior and try to be a great representative of Deerfield. So those that excel in that we uh uh recognize them every month, every quarter. Um, we celebrated our pair of professionals

124on April 2nd. We had a taco bar and we got a gift for them. We could not survive without those people. They're such a huge part of our school. We had our spring concert and Miss Mary McCartney again organized that. She had the second and fourth grade and some of the ukulele uh club there and Miss Freda Jones was able to join us. So, and I showed her I gave her a tour of the school afterwards. So, I really enjoyed that. I like I love showing off the building because it is beautiful. Um the ukulele club performed at the Autumn Oaks on Saturday. That was great. She takes the club around to um do performances. They performed at the old-timers day, Autumn Oaks, various places in town. We had math night organized by Janice Tally

125and a lot of people showed up. We have we have had our academic pep rally last week. Uh we had Easter lunch with the second and fourth grade families and Dr. pal visited us that day and had dinner and then he I gave him a tour of the school. And if you hear that we've had the president of the United States visit Deerfield, Dr. Pal was asked more than once by the kindergarten students if he was president of the United States. So there you go. So but he visits Miss visit us too and I gave her a tour of the school. So if any of you want to tour Deerfield, just come on out. I'll be happy to give you a tour. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful place. It is. Um, we had our Easter

126egg hunts. That's always an adventure in elementary school. First grade went to the zoo as well. We had a teacup pep rally. So, um, we've got the kids pretty pumped up. Third grade, you said the third grade's nervous, but we really tried to encourage them to try their best and put forth their both effort best efforts. So, they're they're pretty excited about it. So, I'm feel good about that that they're not just overly overwhelmed with it. So, we trying to encourage them to do their best and just do their best. I mean, that's all we could ask of them. And of course, we're in the middle of state testing, so that's what we got going on at Deerfield. All right. Thank you. I encourage anybody who can to to visit Deerfield. It is a gorgeous

127school. I was just blown away. Gorgeous. Just wait till we fix the potholes. I did notice that. Bring your uh go-kart with you because it's a long way around that building. All right. Good evening. Good evening. Um, at the high school, we are uh in preparation for uh lots of testing that begins tomorrow. Uh we'll begin with some state dual credit testing for US history and also we begin uh some of our end of course testing, our state testing uh for English tomorrow and that would be for English too and it's in multiple parts. Uh there are I believe um eight days of end of course testing and those are scattered over the next couple of weeks. There are five days of state build credit testing scattered over the next couple of weeks and uh

128in addition to that we have many many AP classes as you know at the high school and that testing will begin on May the 5th and pretty much run right through semester exams. there are so many AP courses uh that those tests are scattered for about three weeks or a little bit more. Uh I do want to draw your attention to uh the organization that goes into all of that testing. uh for each classroom, you know, we we may have 20 up to 25 students in those rooms that are testing for all these various uh AP test, state dual credit test, end of course test. Mr. Jason Creek is our testing and instructional coordinator. Uh he's got a really difficult job this time of year and I'm just amazed at his ability to keep everything

129together uh and be prepared for uh meetings with our staff that are administering those tests. He had a couple of meetings after school today with various staff members that will administer tests tomorrow and at later days. And uh again, I just uh really proud to have him on board at the high school. I believe this is about his ninth year with us and I just can't say enough about the work that he does. Um, also want to mention that we have lots of senior activities coming up. Of course, we've just got a little bit less than five weeks left in this school year. And so, um, on May the 5th, a little bit out from that, but on May the 5th, we will have our senior graduation meeting with our, uh, senior class. and that'll

130be in our theater. It'll be uh pretty much their their last meeting in the theater and we'll talk with them about expectations for commencement. And so, uh that time is upon us. Uh we also the very next day on May 6th, our seniors will visit uh their elementary schools uh from about 8:00 a.m. to around 10:00 a.m.ish uh that morning and uh they'll get to walk those halls and they'll get to see the elementary students that attend there currently and u you know I think a lot of those elementary students just sort of look up at our seniors in all and uh so it's uh you know it's beneficial not only for our senior students to go to those elementary schools but also for the elementary students to see them. Uh we will have senior

131awards day at the high school on Thursday, May the 8th. And uh I will be sure to get a formal invitation to you all for that. Uh that'll begin at 9:00 a.m. And uh also we have yearbook day coming up in about three weeks and that'll be on Monday, May the 12th. And so uh just lots of important activities for seniors, not only for them, but for uh all of the students at the school coming up. Um, our student ambassador has a few other things to be shared momentarily and uh that's Miss Riley Clark and I want to uh really just praise her for her commitment to uh not only student government but to uh representing the school uh at these meetings and uh just appreciate the work that she has done. Uh her time

132is almost finished uh at the high school as well. So we appreciate having her back. So, thank you. Any questions for me? So, she's got a little knowledge on something that just took place. Well, what is that? I'm not sure if I know what something is. Football. Uh, I'm sure she's got a little bit. Yeah, I'm sure she got a little bit. Any questions for me? Thank you. You okay? the uh committee reports. We had policy committee, I think, and we uh we rocked out 17 policies and done really good job. See you next time. All right. On May the 5th May the 5th. Yeah, we had compensation committee. We'll send you an email. Don't get lost in all the other emails. Okay. May the policy and what we had compensation committee, right? So We

133hashed out the budget options. Anything specific there? We survived it. We just say that. All right. Um, student ambassador report then. And uh Riley, welcome back to I want to know if there if the if the uh if the scope mock board meetings were anything like the uh board meetings that actually happened here. It kind of is. Yeah. Okay. I mean it was like I I was kind of like prepared when we started the like mock school board meeting because I'd been so many. So I was like, "Oh, okay. This is like okay." You know how it goes. Yeah. Um we have a lot of stuff going on. um theater had a wonderful performance of the mystery of Edwin Drew last month. The Coral Spring production that took place from April 3rd to 6th. Discovery

134Disney. Discover Disney was a huge success. Our girls basketball team went to state uh Thursday, March 13th at MTSU versus Bradley Central where they closed out a very impressive year. Tennis has two matches this week. They play Toma away this afternoon and Lawrence County at home on Thursday. dance team had uh tryyouts and they have their new team picked out and ready to get working for next year. Boys soccer has had a very successful season so far and they play Warren County at home tonight at 7. Baseball senior night was tonight against Lincoln County and they're wrapping up the regular season and taking uh taking on the district tournament. Softball senior night is this Thursday at home versus Lincoln County. Our FBLA club went to their state leadership conference and competition on April 6 through

1359th and Sarah Weaver was elected for the state treasurer. Coffee County was the second largest chapter in attendance with 90 student with nearly 90 students participating. Skills USA we have uh we have a lot of people at the state comp like the state conference right now. Um and we also have two guys that are running for state officer positions. I know for sure one of them already got it. I'm not sure about the other one, but it's very impressive. Um, congrats again to our color guard and they have auditions this week um coming up and our student government. We had our your So golden extravaganza kindness project. Um, it went incredibly well and fell in line perfectly with our Rachel's challenge assembly. We have election campaigns coming up for the next school year next week,

136starting with student body officer elections on 425, class president elections on 52 and class rep elections on 5'8. Um, and we had a great prom. So, thank you to Miss Jacob and everyone that assisted her for all the work that they put in to make it such a success. That's all I have. All right, you look gorgeous at prom. I saw it on thunder. Thank you so much. Thank y'all. Thank you. Thank you for your service. All right. Next up is the director's report followed by the capital projects update. So, yes, sir. Don't have a whole lot. Just the dates that you mentioned for uh interviews will be next week and you've mentioned those. Uh the special call board meeting on the 28th. I believe you mentioned that. Uh we want to say that most

137of the elementary schools have been testing this week. They'll be testing again next week depending on the grade level. So that's going strong. Uh I would like to commend the the students that went to to scope this year. This was something that uh I think was a tradition several years ago and then it somehow got dropped off a little bit, but we're glad to have those kids back again and uh I think they seem to enjoy it. I've been to it several different times, but uh I appreciate that. Uh just keep Freda in your mind. She's having some health issues and uh not sure what's going to come out of it. She's got to have some test I think next week. So uh keep her in mind if you if you don't mind in your

138thoughts and prayers. And uh I know time is approaching quickly. It's going to be quicker than you think for. Uh we have a policy meeting on May the 5th. Uh the 7th is uh fifth grade field day at the Raider Academy. And if you have a uh time to come out and see that, that's when all the fifth grade students will get together to have a field day that day, weather permitting. And I hope things will go fine that day. Mr. Parley missed mentioned about wards day on the 8th. Um we have another board meeting will be well the regular board meeting will be on the 13th of May and then um virtual academy will be having their graduation on the 22nd at 7 o'clock. Yeah, you may have gotten some information from Mr. uh

139Johnson on that, but that'll be at 7 o'clock. virtual academy graduation and then graduation for our high school seniors will be on May the 23rd. So all of you kind of keep those dates in mind because you're all uh invited and urged to be in attendance that night and uh we certainly appreciate I appreciate the fact that we had a good work session, a good retreat the first part of the week last week. Board meeting I think went smooth very smooth tonight and that's that's good. I appreciate that from all of you. Thank you, Mr. If you haven't turned it in. Okay. If you haven't turned in your board scholarship money, be sure to give that to uh Melissa. And I don't know, does Mr. Ballard normally give that scholarship? Yes. Okay. You'll present that.

140Yes, sir. And that will be on u May the 8th. It's on a Thursday. It starts at 9:00 in the morning. And all of you again, as Mr. Part said, are welcome to be at uh the awards day. That's a big ceremony for the students. Uh a lot of scholarships and a lot of funds are given out that day for our students and recognizing their talents throughout the last four or five years. Who knows, you might see a rare sighting of me with a tie on, sir. You might see a rare sighting of me with a tie on him. You never can tell. All right, Mr. Shores, Capital Projects update. Okay, with Capital Projects, we had the window laminate. It's going up still. It's just takes a lot of time. It's a lot of windows.

141It's getting it. Uh CTE door access to the main building from the the CTE building. Uh that is up and working and and been installed. uh door hardware and doors at East Coffee, the high school, Hillsboro, and New Union have been purchased, and we're waiting for for delivery for those to be installed. And if you're wondering where's where it's at. Um East Coffee, Hillsboro, and well, East Coffee is going into the gym. Hillsboro going into the gym. new unions going into the cafeteria and then at the high school it's going into Angie Prader's room due to some situations there. Uh we we've got u materials ordered for the high school track that's been started on some of the things that they need materials and of course we have the project of the lighting. Uh they

142wool came out with uh some representatives to start pulling information together for the lighting for athletic fields. Also looking at the partitions and the doors for the high school. So they're they're starting to work on that. That was done during spring break. Um few more things that's coming up that's been it's in works. Of course, the high school bleachers, the renovations to those u the theater steps, the the putting nose piecing on the steps. We we've had problems in the past and and hopefully that's going to take care of those problems. Uh press box awning that's putting an awning at the end of the press box at the Cardan uh stadium. Uh we were having water getting into the the press box and it's we we've got that taken care of, but we're the awnings

143should help prevent more water getting in there and make it more damaged. So hopefully that will take care of that part as well. Uh any questions? Any questions for Mr. Shores? All right. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move. Mr. Gilly. Second that. Mr. Cordell. Um, all in favor?