001like to welcome everyone to the February Elizabeth and Board of Education meeting. Thank you for the good uh group to be here. If you haven't been here, basically after we have our recognitions, you have the option to stay for the remainder of the meeting, which really shouldn't be very lengthy, but we will allow you to to get up and leave if you need to go before the regular meeting starts. But we just like for you at least stay for the recognitions and then we'll have a time of dismissal if you choose. You'll thrill us to death if you stay. Um but it will give you that option. Um right now we'll do our moment of silence and pledge the flag and I'll turn it over to Director Van Hus for that. Please stand. Please pause
002for a moment of silence. [snorts] Thank you. Attention. Salute. Pledge. >> I pledge algiance 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. It's time to approve the consent agenda and the regular agenda. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> A motion and a second. >> Second. >> Okay. Either one. All right. Any discussion about anything on either item? Okay. Again, the items to approve consent agenda and regular agenda. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? And there are none. It's now time for citizens to speak. We did not have anyone request uh to speak. So we'll move on to one of our favorite times and that's special recognitions and I'll again turn
003it over to Mr. Van Hus. >> Thank you very much Mr. P. So at this time we will start our recognitions with the EHS cheers. So, if the nanny coaches are here, nannies. The nannies. [laughter] >> Well, that was that was a surprise. So, um well, um I'm very proud of our team. We've accomplished a lot this year. Um they started out the season. Um not only do they cheer for football and basketball, we've also started competing this year. And so um they had got third place at the state competition this year in November which was really awesome. That was our first time competing at the TWSSAA state competition and then also um we won the Smoky Mountain Championship and then um were able to compete again this year at nationals and they they've just
004done an amazing job. So I'm very proud of them. Thank you. All right. [applause] Come on up. >> Come on up. >> Come over. We'll take a picture >> and go. Yes. >> See how organized you are here. [laughter] >> Do a pyramid. >> Two roll. Yeah. Do a pyramid. There you go. [laughter] >> Victoria's on top. >> Yeah. Hold her up. Oh yeah. [applause] >> Thank you. >> That's awesome. I think sometimes this is a group that we all take for granted. We just expect them to show up and I don't think we really appreciate how much work they do. So, thank you all very much for what you add to our school and our community. So, congratulations on a great year. Uh at this time, we will recognize uh EHS swim. So, Coach
005Brousard, I think, is here. So, big year for swimming. >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah. [applause] >> [applause] >> I don't take too long. >> No, you're fine. >> I must say Elizabeth and swimming is representing and representing well. Um, we just concluded our season about two weeks ago where we sent five swimmers to state in Nashville. And this season was the first year that TISA, the Tennessee Intercolastic Swim Coaches Association, recognized divisions in our sport, which was a huge deal. and with uh former athletic director coach Holtz help uh we initiated that. So everybody in swimming in Tennessee knows Elizabeth just because of that. Um and as a result the first year that we were able to be recognized as a small school division. We placed fifth. Our girls placed fifth. We only brought five of
006them. So this was a significant achievement for us. I want to recognize first our state team. So, as I call your names, if you guys would please just come up and stand and then stay here. Elena Holt, [applause] Trinity Hopwood, [applause] Maline Isacs, who's not here today, El Nefasil, [applause] and Adriana Steanavichas. [applause] These four girls competed in the 200 medley relay in which they placed fourth in the small schools division and I want to award them with their medals as a small schools division fourth place. >> [laughter] >> Um, Elaine Holt also placed eighth in the individual 50 freestyle. I have a medal for her for that. Adriana Steanavus also placed fifth in the division in her 50 freestyle. And with Maline Isaacs, uh, Adriana, Trinity, and Elena placed second in our division in
007finals. It was the first time we had ever qualified and competed as a relay team for the girls in finals at state. So, this was truly a phenomenal meet. It was super exciting. So, I'm going to award them their medals for that as well. [applause] And the relays are just so incredibly fun. [clears throat] They were in lane seven and we were in lane. And so because we know them, it was great for us and we touched them. by two of a second. >> Wow. [applause] >> Prior to that, we competed in our regional championship where all of the schools in this East Tennessee compete against each other. Our girls place third only behind Dobins Bennett and Science Hill. Science Hill, who we only lost to, by 20 points. So, that was exciting. Usually, our
008biggest rival is Tennessee High and we we beat them. So, that was very exciting. and our boys placed fifth. And considering we only had four boys that were able to score for us that day, that's a huge achievement. >> Um, I want to next recognize our allconerence and all region recognition swimmers. So, to add to these four, Lillian Blandon, [applause] Holly Hollesclaw, is she not here? [applause] Trip TV Trevette, Lewis Trevette, and Austin Davis. [applause] In order to achieve all conference or all region status, they have to place in the top eight in the region in their events, and all of these kiddos did that. So, we're super proud. Next, I want to recognize who we are nominating for a uh National Intercolastic Swim Coaches Association Academic All-American Award, and that is Cara Carr. [applause]
009Cara was co- captain of our team this year along with Adriana and she exemplified what a co- captain should be. She led with authority and kindness. She was a great liaison between her teammates and her coaches. I can't commend her enough. Her leadership was unmatched. It was great. We are as we speak uh filling out the application for her academic all-American award and it will then be on a banner in the pool area which we'll purchase as soon as this happens. So, we're super excited about that. The remaining team members that were just exceptionally crucial to our successful dual meet season were Yousef Craig, who I don't believe is here, Anna Hill and Amelia Turbuffil, and Aiden Wolf. Aiden, I'm not going to leave you sitting there. Come on up. [applause] Adam scored points for
010us in every single meet he swam in. He scored he placed 10th at regionals, so he was very close to placing in all conference. uh making the all-conference team and as a result this team helped lead us to an undefeated inconference season 5-0 and an outofconerence two and two. We broke six school records, all three relay records for the girls in addition to the 50 and 100 freestyle and the 100 breaststroke, a record that stood for 27 years. >> So, we're super proud. >> Way to go, guys. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> Thank Thank you. Great, great season. Uh, next up, EHS golf. Uh, Coach Enzor, there you are. close to >> we had a uh >> a great year for the golf program. Um had these kids anywhere from Nashville to Newland. We kind
011of drove them around all over the state. We had a really good year. Uh we had we were district champs. Um we actually beat Greenville in the first playoff poll. So that was exciting. Uh Bryson Harden was the medalist for our district. Then we went on to the uh regional championship and we won that as a team. That's the first one in school history there. So that was pretty special. So this was the first time we were able to take the golf program to state as a team. Uh in the region, Bryson was the individual medalist and Tyler York finished third. Uh and then when we went to state, uh spent two days down there at Severville and we placed fifth in the state. So that was a huge ordeal. Um, Bryson Harden was tied
012for 29th. Tyler York was tied for 32nd. Braxton Avery was 40 uh 46th. Marshall Hollesclaw was tied for 47th and Gage Stout was tied for 58. Um, all these guys competed, did everything we asked them to. They represented the school and the community very well. Um, especially Braxton. Uh, great senior leadership throughout. Uh, and tomorrow we get to celebrate him as well because he is going to sign with King University after school to continue his collegiate career. So, it'll be fun to see him go on and prosper and grow as a young man and golfer. And, uh, we'll start working on next year. [applause] Again, [applause] we thank everyone for being here. Everyone is welcome to stay, but if you do choose to leave, this would be the proper time to do that. We'll take
013just a couple of minutes to allow that to happen. Thank you. [clears throat] Okay, we'll go ahead and get started. Again, again, thank you uh for coming to support all of our students as they continue just to impress us in everything they do. It's time now for director's update. Mr. Van Hus. >> Thank you, sir. A couple of things. First of all, uh again, just further recognition of uh schoolboard appreciation week a couple weeks ago, and you have some other uh goodies here from some of the schools. Again, just a big thank you because we know the pay is not very lucrative. Uh since you do it for free, but we appreciate what you do for your community, the time and effort and your talents that you provide to this board and the the way
014that you love on our students. We >> appreciate you very, very much. So, thank you for all all you do. >> I had the opportunity last week to attend the uh AASA, that's the National Superintendent uh Association. They had their national conference in Nashville. So, I was able to attend that. It was a great conference, a great opportunity to network with superintendents all over the country and attending great sessions, lots of cutting edge things going on across the country. and what I came away with. There's always great things that to learn there and opportunities to improve and get better. But the other thing I took away was uh so many things that I heard that we're doing right here in Elizabeth. And that's a tribute to our teachers, our administrators both at the central office
015and the school level. And I just couldn't be more proud of uh of this school system and this community, the way it supports the school system. and again just the people that that love on and genuinely want to do everything they can to try to give students the best education they possibly can. So we're we're very blessed and um that that was my big takeaway from there. Uh and then I had the opportunity to stay uh Monday and Tuesday this week to attend the Tennessee School Board Legislative and Legal Institute with Mr. Smith and Miss Sha and had a great opportunity there to hear about a lot of the different >> What's that? the highlight of your week. >> That That was it. I didn't want I didn't want to go too far over the
016top, but [laughter] just the opportunity to hear about some of the legislative um um events going on in the state and some of those focuses there and some things we're for and some things we're not for. Uh but also it was a a real opportunity for me. I thought they did a great job of talking about, you know, vouchers and things like that and the way they impact um obviously public schools and the the the gest of the first session was all right, we need to put our big boy pants on, quit whining about it. Vouchers are here. It's our job as public school administrators and systems to make it the best option for uh parents and students in our community. So, uh that was that was a really great session for me to hear
017and look at some innovative ways that we can uh again just look improve the product that we have and the opportunities for students. So, uh I'm sure that uh two board members will want to share their experiences as well uh there and some of the things they learned. Uh also wanted to say congratulations to Travis Thompson who was the district supervisor of the year and Eric Wampler has been selected as the principal of the year in the district. So, just want to give them a shout out and and tell them how much we appreciate them. And you know, the you know, the barrel was kind of thin. It was kind of thin. I [laughter] believe he's the only one running. >> No. Yeah, that was it. Race of one. >> Not you, Travis. >> No.
018[laughter] >> In all serious, they they do a great job. Again, just two examples of people that work really hard to try to make the system the best they can. So, again, congratulations to them and they'll move on to regional competition there as well. Obviously, the last few weeks we've had some weather challenges and it sounds like there may be the possibility some snow back in the forecast Sunday into Monday. So, we'll we'll see how that goes. But I just wanted to say how much we appreciate the city of Elizabeth and and all they did to, you know, to try to uh you know, get the roads back in as good a shape as they could. This was a really unique uh two two unique snow events in the fact that it was kind of
019warm at the beginning and then the temperature dropped and so there was a layer of ice everywhere as we all know and then snow on top of that. Just really unusual, very, very challenging. But again, just thank the the staff for being flexible as well as students and parents. I know it's a it's a hardship when we're out of school or we have a delay, but please know that we take that very seriously. Safety is our uh our biggest concern. So, we spend a lot of time and effort trying to make the best decision we can. I'll be the first to admit it's not a fun uh one of the fun tasks that that we tackle, but uh it's obviously important. So, we we try to do the best we can there. So, thanks to
020everyone for their support and flexibility. Also, just this past week, the turf installation, uh the reinstall at Citizens Bank Stadium at the high school has been completed and it looks fantastic. If you when you get a chance to see it, you're going to say, "Well, it looks really similar to the other one," which it does, but we've also added a couple of little features that give it a little a little h flare, I think, from from what it was before. We put down the again the exact same material that we had down before because it held up so well. Most places don't get 11 years of use out of the turf like we did and especially the volume of use. I mean, it's used all the time. >> And so, uh, we were we appreciate
021you for supporting us in replacing that. Again, that's a great surface for all of our students to utilize. And so, if you if you've not had a chance, I know there's some uh pictures on our uh different social media sites and Certainly, I'd encourage you to to swing down by there sometime and and check that out. Uh, a couple other things here. If you notice behind me, we have a new sign and this sign was created by John Lee's STEM class at Elizabeth and High School and then our maintenance staff installed it uh at the end of last week. So, I think it looks great and appreciate uh them doing that for us. We needed something to kind of dress the space up a little bit and again just the fact that they had the
022capability there to do that and the students had a to on that. So, you know, anytime they're around, they can see that and say, "You know what? I I help I help make that." So, uh so it's great. Again, it looks looks fantastic. So, we appreciate them for that. Uh there's also an item on the agenda talking about some positions for additional tutoring supports for students that uh we have we've received two different grants. Uh one is a TNL core grant for $74,600 that we'll utilize that we'll utilize to pay for some additional tutors. And we also received a another $15,000 grant and that's specifically for students that may have been retained that we're required to provide tutoring for. So those funds will help us do that. As you know, a lot of the growth
023that we've seen, especially at the elementary schools in the last few years academically and growthwise, we we attribute a lot of that to not only the great work that goes on in the classrooms, what we call tier one instruction, but it's also these supports for students that need just a little bit more to get them over the hump. So, we're excited about the fact that we're going to be able to again, this just allows us to serve more students and provide opportunities for them to to close those gaps. So, uh, thank you for your consideration on approving those positions later in the men in the meeting. Last item this week, we've been with the last couple of weeks, we've been distributing emergency panic uh badges with a button on them for all staff in the
024school system that will allow any staff member if there's a local emergency in the school, they they know how many times they need to push that to get administrators to come. And then there's also another feature if it's something more serious that would would be a larger emergency event that could actually contact law enforcement. So, uh, that's another great safety feature that we're able to add for, uh, the safety of our students and staff. So, we're really excited about that. So, we're just trying to finish up the implementation of that, getting everyone online with that. But, uh, again, thank you for your support allowing us to purchase those. And again, I think that's going to go a long way to providing another layer of safety for our students and staff. So, that's all I have.
025>> All right. Thank you, Mr. Van Hus. And now, board member reports. as he mentioned, we had some that um went to uh Murersboro or Franklin. Um and I know they'll find who goes first, but um we do want to say thank you for the the gifts that kind some of them came last board meeting and through the time it's awfully nice to um again for y'all to do that. Um and we really do appreciate that. But either of you or both? >> Well, I'd like to say I appreciate the opportunity to get to go. It's just amazing to me. out there a little bit. Yeah, get that down there. >> I've never needed a microphone. [laughter] >> I can yell really loud, but uh it's just how well they're prepared for us. I mean,
026it's like clockwork and they don't stumble for their words. They they're on point and it's it all pertains to what we're going through. So it's really very educational for especially for me but and also to see what is going on on the house floor, what TSBA opposes and what they support and they give us every little detail of what is lined up in that bill. So there won't be any surprises if it doesn't get supported or it it's just a really fascinating thing to watch how I mean they just get up there and it's just like they just quote off those numbers and they don't stumble and I thought that If that were me, that would be embarrassing because I would I wouldn't have any idea, but I really appreciated the opportunity to go. Thank
027you. >> I would just say echo Jaime's comments and Mr. Van Hus's comments and that there are pieces of legislation our elected officials are going to be voting on are voting on and it's incumbent upon all of us to watch those very closely. Uh absolutely your message about uh vouchers are here. It's time for us to not just educate the community about the amazing stuff that's happening in our schools, but also the TSBA says we have more freedom and flexibility to be innovative in what we offer our students. And uh I think that's a a big challenge for us. Another one that really jumped out at me was there was an significant amount of time dedicated to addressing the reality that many of you know is existing right now and that is the increasing number
028of behavioral issues that our teachers are having to deal with in classrooms every day. They're trained to educate. they end up having to mediate and it is our responsibility to not just support them but also to advocate for them at the legislative level so that they have more power to deal with those things as they happen and to just let them know they're not alone. I have to add while I got the mic open, I just want to congratulate Coach Kelly for building an amazing swim program. Absolutely. uh for making Elizabeth in a swim town and a swim school and u and your tenacity is appreciated. So, thank you. Thank you. >> It's it's fun when we hear firsts for our when we're a system that's been around a really long time and we've had
029swimming for 50 plus years since that building was built. Um and maybe before, I don't know. but to hear first and hear golf talk about first and everything. Those are really a big deal. So, we do really appreciate that. So, those are the things we can advertise when we're competing for students uh or what we're doing and the opportunities they have. So, anybody else you want to talk about Switzerland? >> Okay. Beautiful. >> All right. Beautiful place. All right. Okay. I now time for city council liaison, Mr. Simmerly. Good to see you. It is so exciting to see all the students in here. >> Wow. I wish we could get give them to city council. [laughter] >> They throw rocks at us tonight. >> You have more parking at city council. >> There you go.
030There you go. I've only got two things tonight real quick. One, we know voting. I'm sure everyone saw in the paper, saw in the news how our basically our city charter is written. Unfortunately, those uh Mr. Smith, you know, you're going to be run, if you're running for reelection, you've got to run here for the August election, then you've got to turn right around and run for the November election. It's because of our city ordinance and the way it's written in the charter is written that it requires that if you have a replacement council, any elected official within the city, if you city governments, if you have a change in that, you have to have an election the very or you have to have that position the very next election. And then as you know
031that position basically expires and you have to run in November as my you know I mine expires in November as well. So it's kind of crazy about that. My apologies for that. It's the way the the charter is written. We are actually talking possibly with the state if we could change that. We have a I'm gonna call it a sister city. I think it's down near to Oklahoma somewhere. >> And if they're our sister city, they have to agree to those changes as well. and if they can, you know, they'll agree to those changes. We agree to those changes, then we would approach our state and and talk to them about changing the charter. So, again, apologies, but you know, it's just part of the way it's written for at least for now. And it
032also cost a lot of money for those that are running for office. So, you know, it's just part of it. Uh you've already been talking about the uh the march or excuse me, about the meeting with our legislators. We're going down for the TML, Tennessee Municipal League. We go once a year to Nashville to meet with our our our legislators, you Crow and Jones, and we're going to be talking to them of a lot of a lot of different issues. Obviously, we're going to be talking to them about vouchers. But if Mr. Vanhus, Mr. P, if you can get with me or get with our city manager or our mayor and give us some talking points, whatever it might be, because we'll have about I don't know, they give us 15 minutes, but we're always
033in there for at least 30 to 45 minutes. Uh, but we have something we hand to them. So, as quick as between now and the 1 of March, you can get that to us. We can, you know, sit down with Crow and we'll sit down with Jones in their offices and talk with them about why we want, you know, the situation with vouchers. We want, you know, transparency there. We want to know what's going on. Can't change it. It's there. Nothing we can do about that. Or obviously, if you've got anything else you want us to talk about with the state legislators, this is our once a year chance. We go down uh we get our training as well. We have to go down for training and but again it's a chance we go up
034on the hill and meet with staff and be able to talk with so be happy to carry anything up there that you have >> and if you have anything for me. >> All right >> throw rocks at [laughter] >> Thank you. >> All right and student liaison's report we'll turn it over. So today I got to attend an awesome event at EHS called the community of practice where we hosted some schools and community leaders in the area and just kind of shared how we built a relationship with our community and how we have our workbased learning program and our community centered learning which are growing exponentially. And it was just a wonderful opportunity to make sure that we're growing as a community and just unite so we can give our students the best education. And
035also some exciting news. A couple of weeks ago, we elected our next student lison. Phoebe Holly is in the audience. [applause] >> You have your speech ready? You have your speech ready? [laughter] >> You're accepted. >> I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. >> Yeah. So, we're really excited about her and the leadership she'll bring to this. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. All right. Now, it's time to move on to the regular agenda. First item on the agenda, uh, to approve for Elizabeth and High School to hire a grant communications coordinator using XQ funds. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion and a second. >> Second. Thank you. And >> any discussion or >> if it's okay, Dr. Mitten is going to come up and and talk
036to you a little bit about this position and the the need for this position. >> Yes. So, thank you for the time. I'll build off what Helen just said. Our community of practice today um was really cool. We had at our C deck had some of our regional partners both in our community, local businesses. Ballot Health Academy was there and also some local schools to come learn from us about some things that are going on at DHS. It was really part of the original vision of our XQ grant years ago. So when we purchased the Union pharmacy building, that was kind of the one of the underlying ideas behind purchasing that space is to have a flexible setting for people to come and learn from us. And so um Eddie Montalvo, who's here with XQ
037today, um he's been a close friend of ours that's worked with XQ in various roles and um so he happens to be here tonight. So we appreciate him being here as well. And uh but that that is just one example of how some of the grant opportunities that we've been presented with telling our own story as part of this grant communications position, a part-time position that will help us advance the work. Um we have that in our system and you know Nicole does an awesome job at the high school. We just have so many unique things that are going on. Having a storytelling position as part of the grant um helps us talk about obviously the tradition and the history of our school, but also the direction that we're going to try to grow and
038some things have been mentioned here tonight even about innovation and about the way high school is changing rapidly. And we want to keep up with that. We also want to stay ahead of it. And so this grant communications coordinator would be a position again part-time with your approval that will allow us to put somebody in place that will help us advance that work, bring back some things that will help us tell stories about again where we've been, where we are, and how we're trying to advance the mission of the grant at the same time. Be happy to take questions if you have any. >> That was actually one of the recommendations, wasn't it? to have someone do that to put your school out there so people could see what we're offering and what public schools
039is offering to the community. >> Thank you. >> Question. Thank you. Okay. All right. Any other questions, comments? We're very fortunate to have had XQ be associated with Elizabeth and >> uh for so many years. Um so, all right. The item is to approve for Elizabeth and High School to hire a grant communication coordinator using XQ funds. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? And motion carries. Next item, approve the creation of two full-time tutoring assistant positions to be paid for using Title One and tutoring integration grant funds and five part-time tutoring assistant positions to be paid for using tutoring integration grant funds for the remainder of the 2025 2026 school year. Need a motion to approve. >> A motion. >> Motion and I'll take one of those as a second. Okay.
040And um I know you've already mentioned it a little bit. Anything else you want to add? >> Yeah, I I thought I' I'd ask Dr. Newman if she would come up and just briefly give you a synopsis of the two portions of that grant. Mainly, this one again deals with the TNLCore tutoring grant, which is the larger of the two funding sources there. But I thought it might be good for you to hear a little bit about those. and she was the lead on getting those two grants u submitted and approved. So, Dr. Newman, >> we're still waiting on that approval. So, hopefully that'll happen in the next couple of days uh so we can start the tutoring since it's at the end of the year. But um the law really changed a little bit
041during um the third grade promotion um pathways and so it now requires us to provide tutoring for any student that's been retained in K through three. >> [clears throat] >> And so that's the first part of that grant is the early literacy tutoring grant. It provides us with um $500 per student that is required to receive tutoring. So we received about $15,000. So we'll use those funds to help us pay for our current tutors. So right now we have one lead tutor which is a certified teacher and one full-time and one part-time tutor in each of our elementary schools to help us to meet that law requirement. And then in fourth grade if they did not have a proficiency rate um on their ELA TCAP we are required to do tutoring. So it's we're providing
042tutoring from K through fifth grade in our elementary. So it's it has to be a ratio of 1:3. So with that many we can have around I did some figuring so I could tell this correctly but we have 108 students across our districts per grade level being receiving tutoring right now. And this additional well that's next. So that's um it we're looking at students who have been retained, those students that may um not um qualify for RTI or for special education, but those students that might need that extra support to get to proficient. So that's our goal is to help our students to move towards proficiency. So the next part of the grant or the application is the innovation tutoring grant and we received or allocated $74,600. So we are going to use those funds
043to provide our elementary um schools with one additional tutor and our middle school which right now is not receiving any tutors or any tutoring services for tutors. So that will give us um with this grant we're allowed to do some math tutoring as well. So K3 that tutor will be able to do um ELA and then four five they'll do math tutoring and then our middle school will have two tutors to do um ELA and two to do math. So that will allow us to increase our tutors at the elementary school um um by 54 students in ELA and 36 students receiving tutoring in math. And then at the Elm Middle School, it'll be 36 students for ELA and 36 students for math. So that's 36 students or that many students that will receive some
044additional support. It's already scheduled in our master schedule. So, it's not like we're pulling them from our tier one instruction. It's not after school or before school. So, we have them at school. That's when we're going to do it. So, um it's just giving our students that little extra bump. And what we do is we use our high quality instructional materials and we really focus in on our pacing guide. We either pre-teach or we do some teaching afterwards some to help them to get caught up. So, That's our focus and we're excited to have these funds. Um we have been told that these will be renewable funds so each year we can apply again for those um which will help us to meet the requirement of the law but also to serve our students. >>
045Thank you. And again that's why it says just for the remainder because we don't know about the renewal. Okay. So >> that's right. And again, the two the two full-time that are that are mentioned at the beginning, uh, two of our elementary schools would like to use some of their additional title one dollars to make those two part-time positions full-time. So, that's that's the difference on that. >> It'll be a combination of those two funding sources for the full-time position. >> All right. So items to approve creation two full-time tutoring assistant positions to be paid for using title one and tutoring integration grants and five part-time tutoring assistant positions to be paid for using tutoring integration grants fund grant funds for the remainder of the 202526 school year. All those in favor say I. >>
046I. Any opposed? And motion carries. And last item, ratify and approve modifications to the Elizabeth and City Schools 2025 2026 school calendar. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion and a second. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So, very quickly again, as we talked before, we've obviously had some challenging weather. As you know, we have 13 stockpile days that are built into our schedule every year. We earn those 13 days by going an extra 30 minutes of instruction each day for the entirety of the school year. Historically, we have taken uh six of those days, excuse me, seven of those days as seven is professional development, six is snow. I always get that backwards for inclement weather. So, we've already used uh at this point we've used seven inclement weather days.
047So, that put us one over. So the the first part of this request is that we retroactively go back obviously went to school Monday for President's Day which was originally a PD day. That gets us if you want to think back even with the board as far as the required number of school days uh for students to attend in a school year. In anticipation, if we have any other inclement weather, what we what the other part of this request is that you allow us to convert our March 20th PD day and our May the 5th PD day. Convert those back to regular school days in the event that we need those. I also want to share with you that based on the snow events that we had, we do have the opportunity to apply for
048a waiver with the state to wave additional days that we may miss. uh but the first thing first requirement is we have to exhaust all of our stockpile days. So in other words, we can't apply for that waiver until these other two PD days are used in some form or fashion. So this action would allow us the flexibility. Uh obviously again we made that decision to go ahead and do the one for President's Day prior to the meeting. That's why we ask you to ratify that portion. Uh and then then we won't have to do that in the future. uh we'll we'll already have a plan in place. I will tell you that that our plan may be if we miss another day, we may actually take those in reverse order. We may take the
049May 5th day first. Uh a couple of reasons. Uh first and foremost, the March 20th date, as you know, is backed up to spring break. And so there's fear that some pe some parents may have already made plans to maybe leave earlier on that Friday. So, we're afraid it may negatively impact our attendance on that day. So, if we miss another snow day, I would anticipate us converting the May 5th day back to a school day. Uh, and then if we need another one prior to the 20th of March, we would use that date. Let's say we I know a few years ago, it's been several years ago, but we had a pretty major snow event in April one year. So, let's say that happened again and that March 20th date was already gone. That's
050at that point we would apply for the waiver to wave any additional days that we would need. So it's [snorts] probably more than you want to know, but I want you kind of have a thought on on what on our thinking on how we would move forward. So questions or comments on that? >> I appreciate you looking ahead and thinking about the order of that that gives us the best option. Question >> and I'll call any of you Sunday night if you want to help decision about school on Monday. Anyone that wants to anyone that wants to get out and ride the road, you're welcome. >> Yeah. All right. The item is to ratify and approve modifications to the Lisbon City Schools 2025 2026 school calendar. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any
051opposed? And there are none. Next regularly scheduled board meeting will be held Thursday, March the 19th here in this boardroom at 5:30. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Have a good evening. Thank you all for being here.