001my computer's >> like to welcome everyone to the August Elizabeth and Board of Education meeting um to call it to order at this time. And at this time, I will uh ask Mr. Van Hus to lead us in a moment of silence in a pledge to the flag. >> Please stand. Pause for a moment of silence. Thank you. Attention. Salute. Pledge. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> It's time to approve the consent agenda and the regular agenda. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion and a second. >> Second. All right. Any comments or questions? I think Mr. Isaac >> Yes. I got
002a statement I I need to read here. I declare that my wife and daughter are employed in the school system as the coordinated of school nutrition and family resource center director, but that any vote that I cast on issues that might have an effect upon the employment of my wife and daughter is made in the best interest of the school system. The matters to be addressed in this board meeting about which make the decision are the following. It's agenda item 9B. And I'm going to take that one step closer and recuse myself from voting on that agenda item. >> All right. Okay. Any other um comments or statements, questions? All right. The motion is to approve the consent agenda and regular agenda. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? And there are
003none. It's now time for citizens to speak. And is Miss Where is Miss Woodby? >> Okay, I don't think Miss Woodby is here. She had requested to speak. All right. So, we'll move on down to special recognitions and I'll turn it over to Mr. Van Hus to move us through this list. >> Okay. So, we'll just we'll just go in order here. So, the first team we'll recognize are the state meet qualifiers for the TAWE track team from the 24-25 school year. So, Coach Wilson and Coach Wilson, if you don't if you don't mind speaking just so people watching can hear too. Thank you. So, we actually have uh had eight student athletes make it to the state, but there's a lot of activities going on this evening. Football, band practice, uh volleyball. So, B.
004So, anyway, uh we have three of them. Three of the eight made it here. So, uh, first of all, the, uh, our state, uh, track championships were held in Clarksville, Tennessee at Austin P University. Uh, first of all, we'll start with Ryland Garland. He qualified for the state in two events. He qualified in the 400 meters and set a new school record in the 400 meters with a time of 53.89 and he broke the record that was set in 1993. Uh he also he won the first place medal in the East Tennessee sectionals and he finished in 11th place in the state and he was ranked as high as sixth in the state and was the most valuable player for our TA Dugger boys team. Next our our girls four by 400 relay team. It
005was Samantha Bplay, Samira Ebanks, Alice Hackett, and Harper Kake. Uh, which included we had one eighth grader, two seventh graders, and a sixth grader on that team. um had a when we went to the state uh we finished 15th in the state at the meet and uh the good news is we beat Liberty Bell. Uh, next our boys 4x400 relay which included Ryland, Holston, Cole, Maxfields, and Tyson Elliot. Uh, this uh this school record was broken. It broke uh the record that was set in 1990. So the old record was like uh 4 minutes and 2 seconds and at the state championships our team for uh relay finished with a season's best 3 minutes 51 seconds 46. So that's quite a over 10 seconds. We beat the school record that was set in 1990. Um
006when this relay team went to the state, we were ranked number 12 in Tennessee and after our uh track meet, we finished ninth in the state. So those guys, both guys and girls work so very hard and uh I just want to recognize them tonight. And I also want to thank our uh excellent coaching staff. We have we have uh Autumn Thomas, Samantha Manny, and Kiana Bowen. Uh Nikesha Campbell also couldn't be here. Liam Moore couldn't be here. But this is we are very blessed to have this coaching staff. We have four coaches that did track and college. So not many schools can middle schools can say that. >> So thank you Maybe try to center up. Yeah, there you go. Thank you. [Applause] Next, we'll recognize the Elizabeth and High School track team and
007their state qualifiers. And someone that's no stranger to track and Elizabethan, uh, Coach Press. Well, kind of like TA Duggar, we had a whole lot more qualify than we got standing here. We had five young ladies qualify for the state meet and we had two two guys talking about young ladies first. Camden Garland, who's got a soccer game tonight, just like uh Vela does. But Camden was fourth in the uh pentathlon and she was fourth in the triple jump. And uh then uh we had uh the two shotgirl shot putters that are not here. Uh, one of them I I'll go blank trying to think of everybody's name, but uh, Jamir Smalls was state champion. And, uh, you know, that's a that's a huge deal to be to be state champion. And tell me, remind
008me the other shot put, Ava Rogers. Thanks. I just need a little poke. Ava Rogers also threw the shot put at state meet and I think she finished fifth. So it was have two girls there only eight girls competing and we had two of them. So you know for Jir to be state champion that was that was a huge move for her. Then we had uh Lyanna Nave. She threw the discus and came in second. Right. >> Came in second. The weather, you wouldn't believe. We had weather delay. They warmed up. We quit. We warmed up again. We threw two throws in competition. They they suspended it again. And uh one thing I'll say about Lyanna, when we come out after the last rain delay, we had one throw left and she threw her best
009throw then. So, we were two feet short, but uh the good thing is she's she's coming back like all the other females on our team. Then we have Vela, who broke all of our records in the 1600 and the 3,200. Uh qualified for the state in both of those races. She was third in the 32 and fifth, sixth, something like that. in a 16. It was a long day cuz she she ran the 32 early in the morning and then we had all that weather mess and you know finally you know I think you know she got to run and uh then we have Cheyenne who qualified for the 400 and uh they suspended the meet and she had to we had to spend the night another night. So, she was the first race on
010the track and uh but qualifying in the 400 meters uh she she wasn't crazy about running 400 meters. Nobody is because it's such a difficult race, but she did a great job. And uh let me quickly talk about the two guys that aren't here. They were both throwers. Landry Buckles, they both competed in the discus. Landry uh threw 177 feet to win, which uh before Landry and and Diesel Russell came, I held the school record. So in 1977, so the first thing happened uh Landry broke it as a sophomore in 23. So my record lasted 50 years. And then uh Diesel when he broke when he broke my old school record, he yelled across the field that now I was number three. Uh but I told uh people never in my wildest dreams of coaching
011in 46 years have I had two discus throwers that threw 177 and 165 in the same year. So Landry was state champion when he was a sophomore and he missed getting there as a junior and he state champion again as a senior. So he was state champion twice and Diesel finished second his junior year and fourth even though he threw further uh his senior year finished fourth in in the state. The good thing is that all five of the girls that qualified for the state are coming back and we had a really strong team. you know, we we uh took home some trophies and plaques and things like that. So, we're hoping this year we get a little help from TA Duggars, you know, bunch and we're very pre we're very excited about TA Duggar
012track program and how hard they work and and we know that those kids, you know, 351 for the boys 4x4 is not a bad high school time. So them th them doing it as a middle school team, you know, it was uh very impressive. I'll say quickly about my coaching staff. Coach Campbell is, you know, he's just about like he's he's the head coach in charge of everything I don't want to be in charge of. And he has shingles >> and he's very very sick right now. He's the head cross country coach. So, guess who gets to do all his work now? And and we coach Nave Derek coached our throwers. Uh does very good job. Helps us with other things, entries and things like that. And we had uh Miss Bertzfield uh Camden's mom
013uh and Ryland's mom. Uh she helped helps us there. And uh Michael Grind Staff, he started helping us last year. And I told Coach Grind Staff, I said, "You might as well learn how something about the pole vault." I said, "We just bought a pole vault pit and none of us know anything about coaching." And I said, "Since you don't know anything about anything, you might you might as well start there." And you know, he's he's become a really good pault coach. So we have kids who maybe next year we're standing here, you know, are pole vaultters and that's our that's our goal. I appreciate the school board always being attentive. Uh they'll at least listen to me before they tell me no. I you know, but they've they back us when we need help
014and they're all it it's such a good feeling to have people that you can count on that'll have your back when you need something. So, uh thanks for supporting our program. Track and Elizabeth and city schools is full steam ahead right now. [Applause] [Laughter] Okay. Next, we would like to recognize some of our Naval Cadet Corps members who participated in the Area 8 summer leadership training. So come on up. >> All right. Good evening. Thank you for having us. Uh we really appreciate being here. Um so we uh we had 11 cadets go to three different uh summer leadership academys over the course of the summer. uh one in in May, Sale Academy. If you Sale Academy cadets would stand forward, step forward. Okay. That's at uh Camp David Crockett in Whitesburg. All right. And
015we're going to have Cadet Rey talk about what she did there here in a moment. Um we had Leadership Academy, which was down at Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia. We had uh uh four cadets attend that. If you guys would step back, LA cadets step forward. Okay, we're missing one tonight uh out of them. And then lastly, right before school started, we had summer leadership training um at camp Bud Sheila in North Carolina. So would you SLT cadet step forward? Right. So this was a great opportunity for these cadets to learn a lot of things. They're going to talk about what they did. I'm going to quiet myself here uh shortly, but uh so these are uh mandatory camps that the Navy expects us to do. So first and foremost, I'd like to thank
016the uh the VFW and American Legion. They donated a combined $4,000 to send these kids to camp. So, I don't think anybody from there is here, but give them a round of applause anyway. It's a lot of money. So, so and to compare last summer without that assistance from those organizations, we only sent one kid to Leadership Academy and four to Sale Academy. So, um that was a huge contribution and I think you'll see why when when uh these fine cadets get to talking. So, all right. So, Sale Academy cadets, we had cadet Reese Rei. Um, we had cadet Jabbron Elo. We had Cadet Lewis Trivet, Lily Johnson, Angela Andrews. She's no longer with us. She's back down in North Carolina. And who am I missing? Ree. Oh, yeah. Cadet. Cadet Carson Miller. Right. So,
017uh, I'm gonna introduce Cadet Rita here. She's going to talk to you about her time at Sale Academy. She's nervous. Be gentle. >> Good afternoon. As he introduced, I'm Cadet Rei. And when I went to Cell Academy, it was a great experience for me and my fellow cadetses. As you can see, we had the opportunity to sell boats on the water, which was both exciting and challenging. One of the most memorable parts was flipping each other out of our boats. It was all in good fun and brought us closer together as a team. Beyond the fun, we learned valuable lessons about teamwork, discipline, and leadership. We were able to meet and connect with other amazing cadets from different schools, which gave us new perspectives and friendships. Each day was structured with a clear schedule. We
018started with breakfast, then headed out lake to the lake for sailing, which we would sail, and then we would eat lunch, and then we would spend the majority of the day at the lake. We learned how to build ourselves, how to navigate, and how to work together on the water. Competition competitions tested our skills, but we also had time to relax and enjoy being out on the lake. Overall, Cell Academy has helped me grow as a cadet and as a person. I am grateful for the opportunity and the memories I made, and I know the lessons that I've learned will help me in the cadet program and as a person. Thank you so much. >> All right, we'll do a summer leadership training next. So that's Cadet Harden, um Cadet Johnson, Cadet Trivet, and Lily,
019you're going to talk that one, right? You good, sister? All right, come on. I'm tiny. >> As y'all know, I'm cadet Johnson. Um, we went to summer leadership program that was mildly that was mildly training field type uh was a training field type environment with days that started from 7:30 which was breakfast. Technically, we got up at 5:30. Um, and it ended at 5. We got time to relax during some of those points, and some of it was stressful. Without cell phones or the outside contact, it taught and was taught by 40 retired Navy and Marine Corps naval science instructors. Our cadets participated in activities such as marksmanship, swimming, drone competition, PT, rope, rope repelling, uh team building exercises, and we practiced many many drill and ceremonies among many different subjects. We also held staff
020meetings which were very rep important and reliable to help keep our uh time move moving. That's really it. Okay, last one. And this was the the most arduous by far of the three. So that was Cadet Bandara, who's our commanding officer. Cadet El, who's our executive officer, Chief Rifenberg, uh, who's an outstanding cadet. We're missing Master Chief Russell tonight. Uh, she's under the weather, but the four of them, uh, went down there to to, uh, Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville. Um that was a no joke environment for the 4U. Um I think Michael you going to talk to that? >> Okay. So as you can see they have these silver cords um on their right shoulder. That's called the aglet. Um they earned that by completing that uh academy. Um and uh it I think
02122 washed out within the first 24 hours. So it wasn't like hey we're here and we're going to have a good time. It was like hey we're here and if you can't cut it go back home. Right. So, uh, I'm really proud of the four of these cadets, all of them. But this was a this was a no joke kind of environment that they were in. So, good job to, uh, to the four of you. I received nothing but, uh, rave reviews from the cadre that was there. They did a great job. Um, in fact, uh, some of one of them's from Cherokee. He's like, I can't wait to see like, you know, what that does for your your program because of, you know, how well that you guys perform, Master Sergeant Taft. So, um,
022anyway, come on up. Michael showed up. All right. Good evening. I'm Cadet Lieutenant Michael Bandera. Uh I'm here to talk a little bit about Leadership Academy. So Leadership Academy was similar to uh an officer candidate school environment. Um the day started early uh at 4:30 in the morning. Uh sun wasn't up yet and uh long nights ending at 10 o'clock p.m. We had no cell phones, no downtime and a 100% packed schedule. Um we were taught by 28 retired Navy and Marine Corps naval science instructors. There is an arduous screening process to attend and is not for the faint of heart. As chief mentioned, the 22 cadets were sent home in the first 24 hours. Our cadetses were taught classes on subjects such as leadership, integrity, psychology, goal setting, discipline, disciplining, subordinates, delegating authority, and
023decision-making amongst other many subjects. The graduation ceremony was described as impressive. I would have to agree. Um there was there was a lot of cadetses there. There was a lot of cadetses. Um we were separated into I believe 10 or so platoon. Um over 300 cadets there. Um a lot of long days. Um a lot of studying. There's a lot of physical training. Um a lot was learned at leadership academy for all four of us. Um it was a very necessary experience for all of us to bring back what we learned at leadership academy. and we were I was very excited to go. Uh I must say I was a little nervous. I've heard the stories from leadership academy, but I must say I would 100% do it again. I can I can pretty confidently
024say that uh Chief Ryenberg, the executive officer, our master chief, would probably do the same. Um we've all expressed that we were very very glad to go and that we were very thankful to be able to go. Um, we're glad to bring that information back to make our program even better with that new our newfound knowledge that we've gained. So, >> thank you guys. [Applause] Thank you all. This is the time where if you want to stay, you're more than welcome. But if you need to go, you're more than welcome to head out this time before we get into reports and the regular agenda. Board has to stay. >> Yeah. [Music] I'll turn it over to Mr. Van Hus for the director's update and for some district data. >> Thank you very much. Uh again,
025we've had a great start to the school year. So, just wanted to say again a thank you to all of you that were able to attend our opening in service as well as the back to school bash. Both of those were extremely successful and again it's been a great start to the school year. Uh so we're looking forward to continued growth and uh that we'll see in our students in all areas as we move forward, but just u just a great start to the school year. So we're going to try to springboard that into the rest of the fall semester. Uh we were going to well welcome Miss Hackett, our new school board liaison, but she was unable to be here this month. So we will save that and welcome her at the September meeting.
026Uh lots of progress uh being made at the ARCAP, the Dave Ryder Center for Athletic Performance. Um the the word is that the majority of the facility will be finished by September the 1st. There may be some delay on the gym floor. The wood has to be at a certain moisture content before they can nail that down. And so there's still some acclamation that needs to be done with that before that installation can be finished. But uh they're preparing. Lots lots have gone on this week. A lot more will go on next week. They're preparing. They're actually doing some asphalt work tomorrow, milling up some of the old asphalt that comes from Jason Whittenway uh the rest of the way into the back of the school there, pouring some curbing and some things like that.
027So, it's really starting to take take shape. Um can't wait for you to see it. If there's some time next week that you have some time and you want to go in there and take a look, just please let me know and we can do that. turf. Uh all the gravel has been leveled actually today, so they'll start turf installation tomorrow. Um so it's it's really coming together and everyone's really excited about what it's going to mean for for our student body as well. Um Dr. Newman will share in just a few minutes uh some student data with you from last year. Um it's it's very impressive. We're very proud of it. As as we've talked before, there's always room for growth. So we will certainly focus on that and uh but just a great
028uh way to start the school year to celebrate the achievements of last year and the uh the support system that this that we've put in place to help teachers continue to grow in their craft which in turn helps our students achieve even more and more. So some tremendous growth and achievement information we want to share with you. Unfortunately, we can't share the growth information with you. That's embargoed for now. But as soon as that embargo is released, we'll share some growth data with you as well. Um, just real quick, I also wanted to mention that the community involvement program, uh, as you know, the the big focus right now of the community involvement program is the Typhoon Swim Club. So, I was approached by coach Eddie Morurell and Forest Hull about the possibility of doing
029a similar program for wrestling. And so, our intention is to start that up. And so students from the community uh children that may be interested even in elementary school that may be interested in uh the sport of wrestling will have an opportunity to begin in that program and and continue to grow in their knowledge and and it may be something they want to pursue once they get to the junior high or high school. So uh it will again it'll be just like the Typhoon Swim Club. It will be self-supporting. So the the funds they generate from the participants will go to pay for the instructors. So, just wanted to let you know if you heard anything about that. Our intention to try to get get that going and again support that activity. Um, again, I
030want to thank you in advance for your consideration tonight on the stopins for educators that weren't included in the state uh bonus. Uh, the bottom line is you didn't have to do anything at all, but just the fact that you're willing to consider that for the others, I just wanted to tell you I appreciate that in advance. Uh, also along the lines with the facility, uh, there we're in the process of we're the athletic department has raised over well had donations of over $50,000 to go toward the equipment in that space and those donations continue to to to come in. And so we just again want to thank the community for their support in that. The equipment has been ordered and should be here around the middle of September. And then that'll give us time
031to finish up top those loose ends in the construction process and then we'll be looking to have a groundbreaking sometime there pretty soon after that. So again that's my report. Thank you very much. And so Dr. Newman's going to share some student data with you. >> I get to do the fun part because I get to brag on our teachers and our students and our administrators because if if they had not put their hard work into it, we wouldn't have the data that we have. So, um I'd like to do a shout out to everyone that had a part in it. So, um but uh first of all, I wanted to show some slides about um we purchased and you allowed us to purchase a product called Mastery Connect and it's a u predictive assessment
032to the TCAP. So, we give it three times a year and this the last assessment is a cumulative. So, it shows us a prediction of what our students should perform on TECAPS. So, I wanted you to see the um Mastery Connect. We call them cyclone checkpoints. They're in orange and our TECAP scores are in blue. And so, you can see how well it predicts across the year. Uh we can kind of expect where our students are going to fall on TCAPS. This is our third grade ELA and um I have to brag on them. We have um we get standard reports um standard analysis reports from our um state TCAP test and our third grade scores were outstanding. We we didn't have any standards that were below 50th percentile. So that means um 50% or
033more of our students perform proficient on those standards. And that's just fantastic. Here's our fourth grade ELA. I'm just going to click through these pretty quickly because there I just wanted you to see how well it predicts um our TA dugger and our high school the thing about our high school data um we had something to happen in the first semester we had a flood and it was during our cyclone checkpoint window. So they did not get to perform that or uh take that assessment. So this data is only from the second semester cyclone checkpoint but it still helped us to predict how well our students are going to do. So then our math and our science. If there's a slide that you would like for me to slow down on, again, this is biology
034and it's because it looks like there's a big jump, but it's really not. It's 47.6% and this is 48. So, it's not a big jump. It just the way the chart laid it out. Oops, little fast there. Social studies. In social studies, we do not have a social studies test for three through five. So, there's no data for that there. Um, this is what I kind of want you to spend a little bit more time on. This is our data throughout the year. This is years. This is 2019. 2020, we didn't have an assessment because that was COVID year. And then on throughout um until 2025. So, you can kind of see our trends. So, this is third grade ELA. And you can see our trend continues to um to go higher in our fourth
035grade, fifth grade, and sixth grade. And I'll just kind of go through these pretty quickly. We had some great growth in our high school this year. And this is um a fantastic I have to point that out. 70.2% 2% of our students um score proficient on English, too. And here's our math. So, we're even outperforming on most of our um assessments, as you can see, were most of them were performing or outperforming pre- pandemic. We've worked really hard at closing those learning gaps. I'll quick click quickly through these because there's something better coming. All right. Oops. Not sure what happened. There we go. All right. So, these are our state rankings. So, um we have these from 2012 to 2025. This is ELA and math together with all of our 3 through 12th grade assessments.
036So, out of 147 districts in the state, we are ranked at the 20th um at 20th. So, um, that's pretty darn good to be saying, hey, we're we're right up there in the top, what did you say today? Top 13% of the state. Um, so we're really proud of that. Then we broke it down into just ELA. Um, just for ELA, we're at 13th. And subgroups are important with our accountability. So, we kind of wanted to see where we were at with our subgroups. economically disadvantaged, we scored at the 20th or ranked at the 20th. And then our special students with disabilities were at 48th. And then here's the breakdown of math 25th and our economically disadvant advantaged and our students with disabilities and that's it. So we have a lot to be proud of
037and I think um a great system a great place for our teachers to work but we have a very high expectations for our students and it only will help them to be successful in the future >> and we can share I will email you a copy of this so you have have a copy of it as well. So >> any any questions comments when's the growth release? Do you know what is the the 28th? So, we just missed it by, you know, a week or two. So, >> and what we may do if if it's okay, we'll wait till that embargo date is over and we'll send you the entire PowerPoint that has the growth in it. We just didn't didn't share that with you today. >> Question does Dr. Is it is there an
038area of growth I'm sorry an area of focused work that you're seeing that really does need attention that's emerging out of that data that you could say we really got to work here and second part of that is kind of what do you have in mind? >> That might be that might be good >> our data really drives our our goals for our system. So we have to do a district improvement plan every year and our data is so important in helping us to focus. We have an ELA goal and a math goal and um a college and career pathways goal. So those are our focus for this year. Um we've worked really hard with our ELA as you can tell um for probably the last five years and it's paid off but we've got
039to continue. We can't let it drop. We can't you know slack up on it. So, we get new teachers all the time. We have to train up. Um, so math, every time we have a new adoption, textbook adoption, we see a dip in our our data. Um, and we call that the implementation dip. Um, and we had that last year. So, we're seeing that climb back up this year. So, that's something that we'll continue to work on. So, >> thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Sometimes it's cohorts as well. Sometimes there's a cohort, you know, you think, okay, well, we were here this year and then a different cohort of students comes through. And so there's some nuances there that that play into it as well. But, you know, when you look at economically disadvantaged
040uh performance uh students with uh special needs, those populations are always a real focus for us and they've done some amazing work uh in in those areas as well. So, all right. Anything else? Any questions? All right, it's now time for board member uh reports. U seems like it was an eternity to go, but we did have a chance to go to the uh the law uh institute there in Gatlinburg. Three of us um were able to go. It it was an excellent event again. Um and um I just very appreciative that TSBA keeps us up to date on what's going on across the state. They predict the battles that are coming. They um they have have an idea about how they're going to approach that and they they ask for feedback and and I
041appreciate um the fact that they're that open. Um, the next thing for us this Monday for anybody who was a or wanting to go is the fall district meeting down in Morstown. I don't know am I is anybody else going to Morristown? Okay. I knew the timing of that. That's as far away as it can get, but I'll go just for representation. I think Mr. Van Hus uh is going to go and then our next U big event will be the state convention which I think uh is really good. So, uh, that that will be good. Anybody else though have anything? Um, >> well, I need to put a shout out to all the faculty and staff that helped with the musical and service >> that came to practice and Teresa Parker uh was a
042special member of the community that came and did some solos for us and helped us practice. So, I appreciate all that. >> It's always really good, but I don't know. It was like really really good, you know? I don't know. It was >> We were ready for you. >> Yeah. Well, >> thank you all as well for the the the donations for the >> uh door prize that that really means a lot to the staff. So, thank you very much for your sacrifice there. >> It boosts their morale. You know, everybody likes the door prize. >> And then a chance to participate in the back to school bash is always pretty cool, too, just to see >> uh the people there. So, >> anything else? >> Could I add uh is that not the most
043beautiful parking lot in the world? No, and the student art is really >> showing it off. And so, thank you for your leadership in getting that done. It did until it was done. I didn't know how much it needed to be done. And um so it was great. >> It really does. And the students were amazing that just the well thought out. It's really cool. >> Okay. >> They finally wore Dr. Mitten down. Finally. Yeah. Finally gave in. >> Caved. Caved. Um, it's now time for city council liaison report. Mr. Samly >> it has. I know. Good to see you. >> Good to see you, too. Appreciate your uh time this evening. Good to see everyone again. And uh Mr. Van Hus is always giving me a hard time about money. Bringing money. Well, tonight
044I'm bringing money. Well, bringing an opportunity for money, but just wanted to remind we do have a a program with Keep Carter County beautiful and we have some funding. So, Mr. Colbert, where'd he go? >> He left. >> Remind Mr. Colbert, we need to get together, but we have a program and we can do a couple three things with it. I've got Ed Bastonio here with me tonight. And Ed and I are on the board of Keep Car Beautiful. And on that board, we have some funding that we get through grant funds and other funding, but we have matched funds from the state. And with that, we could work with the school system. We've also made the same offer to the county school system to make everything fully transparent. And with that, we could do
045several things. We've done a lot of different projects, you know, over the years with the school system. We painted rocks. We had uh classroom programs. We're packing our seeds for the flowers uh that you've seen throughout our city. Different things. But this year, we have some funding where we could possibly if you've not already got money to pay for your landscape work around your new sports complex, maybe we could do that landscape work. I know I mentioned that to Dr. Minton recently. Yeah. So, we can either do that or we have another program that we had actually been talking with Mr. Culbert on that. So, uh just again just make sure they get with us so we can put it in our budget and get you guys a little bit of money to help you
046know a little bit there as well. Uh back to school bash. Gosh guys, if you weren't there, >> I know you worked hard. I didn't get to see it and I didn't get to see you. You were on the other side of the building. I was in the building. But wow, that was awesome. That's just such a great program. This year, it's like every year we step it up a notch >> and this year after it's kind of almost over. I'm out walking around. We're giving away shoes this year. We're I mean just things every year we do a little differently and it just really it's very impressive. Food's not bad as well. Pizza's good. I love pizza. But uh but we appreciate everything that the school board does and for the children in the
047city. It's just just a wonderful program. You've got some things I see here tonight working with the county. That's all good stuff. You know, we really appreciate that. And uh and again just like I said just please reach out to me because we've got a lot of budgets we're working on with keep Carter County beautiful. I know I represent the city but I I wear a lot of as we all do wear a lot of different hats you know here in the city but we'd like to to help you guys if you know if it's workable doable we'll be happy to help you on that and let's go to football game more beat somebody >> beat somebody. >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you for being here and
048again Miss Hackett will be with us hopefully next month. So, we'll move on to the regular agenda. First item on the regular agenda is to approve CTE exchange agreement with Elizabeth and City Schools and Carter County Schools. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> A motion and a second. >> Second. >> Okay. So, just real quickly, uh, for those of you new to the board, um, about a year year and a half ago, we had a situation with a student from Unicoy County that a particular program they were having an issue uh finding an aviation instructor. So in that process, Miss Ow and our schoolboard attorney worked with their schoolboard attorney and came up with an agreement that if we had room in the program that that particular student could their own
049obviously on their own transportation dime, but come to Elizabeth and during that class and still stay stay on track to finish that particular program of study. So, in in in that situation, we determined, hey, this may be something that we can use maybe with Carter County Schools as well. And I spoke with Dr. Carpenter a week or so ago and there was an aviation student that they had that they were considering doing this with. He I've talked to him since and it looks like that students decided to do something else, but we both felt it was in our best interest to go ahead and move forward with this uh agreement. So, if that situation happens again in the future, we would be able to just take take those students and it may be it may
050be us. A few years ago, we had a student that was uh in Carter County Schools came to us. The program that they were in there, we didn't have and so they allowed him to go to Happy Valley and finish out that program. So, that's one example where they helped us out with the students. So we want to have this agreement in place so there's no question about things like insurance coverage and things like that. So that's the gist of this at this point in time. Uh again as as I said before the particular student that generated this one looks like he's gone a different route but we would have this in place to use in future future years or even this year potentially. So any questions on that? Okay, seeing none, the item is
051to approve CTE exchange agreement with Elizabeth and City Schools and Carter County Schools. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? And there are none. Next item, approve stipens for employees not included in the state of Tennessee teacher stipen allocation at a cost not to exceed $200,000. These funds will come from the school systems undesated fund balance. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion and a second. >> Second. Comments or I know that we've seen some of this. Mr. Van Hus, you want to >> just real quickly? Obviously, first of all, as I mentioned before, thank you very much for even considering this because the bottom line is you wouldn't have to do anything. uh you know again the state uh as part of the um education investment act the
052voucher bill this was an add-on to that to provide two a $2,000 stipend for every teacher as they define a teacher. Um so in that process we had to go through and evaluate it based on their criteria and there were individuals professional individuals that were not included in that total. So, uh, after working with Miss Wilson and the finance department and looking at the year-end close out, if you remember, we said we needed to get to that point so we could look and see where we all were funding wise to see what we could do. And so, based on that, uh, every professional employee, not included in the the state uh, teacher uh, portion would receive $2,000. And then every full-time classified staff would receive 500. part-time classified staff would receive 350. Now, at the
053end of the day, we would all love to do more. I mean, we'd love to do more, but again, what we're proposing right now cost about $190,000. That's why we put $200,000 on there, just to give a little bit of cushion. Um, but again, we would love to do more, you know, but again, it's going to take $200,000 out of the out of the undesated fund balance. So, uh, thank you for your consideration of even doing that. Historically, when we've given raises or even things like this stops, we've tried to do it with everyone, uh, to some level. So, uh, so that's kind of how we landed where we did. So, questions or comments on that? Okay. All right. The item is to approve stipens for employees not included in the state state of Tennessee
054teacher stipent allocation at a cost not to exceed $200,000. These funds will come from the school systems undesated fund balance. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? And there are none. >> All right. Next regularly scheduled business meeting is Thursday, September the 18th at 5:30 here in the Mac Pierce boardroom. I know there are there things that they need to sign before they go a lot. So just kind of couple things. So kind of if you'll hang around, make sure you get those signed. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> Everyone have a good evening. Thank you for being here. >> Thank you.