001We stand and be led in the pledge of allegiance by Dr. Charles Farmer from Freedom Middle School. And remain standing please for a moment of silence. Good evening everybody. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nationy andice for all. Thank you. May be seated. All right. Uh excited about our recognitions and good news awards tonight. We're going to start with our student artist of the month and Miss Alicia Barker. Okay. This month's Franklin Special District Artist of the Month is sixth grader Jessica Toado. Jessica, a creative member of the Freedom Intermediate Beautifification Art Team, designed a vibrant personal piece that blends imagination with cultural inspiration. She illustrated a dragon and framed it with a Chinese alphabet. She chose the bold palette of a dragon fruit and
002even included the words Dragon fruit written in Chinese. Using a glitter using glitter gel pens and ink, she brought her vision to life with shimmer, detail, and originality. Jessica's art teacher is Madison Morris. This stunning series artwork along with the work of several other Freedom artists is on display at the central office gallery. A special thank you to Chuck Sud in Sonic Drive for his support in sponsoring the student artist of the month program. And you can see her piece up here on the [Applause] screen. Thank you. Beautiful artwork. Uh now we have uh SRO recognition and we're always very proud to be able to do this. We'll ask Mr. Tim Stillings to Thank you, Chairman Blair. During the May meeting, we like to uh recognize with our sincere appreciation the dedicated service of the
003school resource officers who serve the Franklin Special District. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, you are in the safest building in Williamson County. Thank you for your service. And as I call your name, would you please come forward and stay here? Get a picture. Okay. Deputy Sawyer Morris of Franklin Elementary School. Deputy Eric Trainer of Johnson Elementary School. I'm able to attend tonight. Deputy Cassandra Osborne of Moore Elementary School. Deputy Hunter Angland of Liberty Elementary School. Unable to attend tonight is Deputy Josh Fire of Papa Grove Elementary, Deputy Bryant Fox Grove Middle School, Dr. Marty French of Freedom Intermediate [Applause] School, Deputy Charles Edwards of Freedom Middle [Applause] School, and their supervisors in the Williamson County Sheriff's Office, Lieutenant David Brewer. [Applause] Unable to attend tonight are Lieutenant Brandt Pew, Captain Learno Zakoffer. With us is Deputy
004Chief Matt [Applause] Gren, Sergeant Lindseay [Applause] Cook, and also unable to attend is Sheriff Jeff Hughes. We are deeply grateful for these outstanding men and women who serve as SRO's in our schools. These dedicated professionals are vital liaons between Williamson County Sheriff's Office and our schools. They work tirelessly to provide security and to foster a safe, nurturing, learning and working environment for all. In partnership with FSD safety supervisor Zoe Glass and our school principles, these SRO's provide a positive impact through the meaningful relationships that they intentionally and proactively build within our schools, guiding, protecting, and inspiring those who serve. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We appreciate what you do. [Applause] Appreciate you. Good to see you, man. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next we have Freedom Middle School's quiz bowl team. When
005I call your name, please come forward. Ruth Westerman, Olivia Hansen, Abraham Hardy, Evan Spiritu, Adam [Applause] Muta in Harland Muc. On March 29th, the Freedom Middle School's quiz bowl teams competed in the annual spring forward 16th middle school academic challenge at Gallatin High School. The tournament featured 44 teams across Tennessee and Kentucky. One team featured the students assembled here. They finished seventh overall, earning well just one, sorry. earning earning a coveted bowl coveted bid to the prestigious National Academic Quiz Tournaments Middle School National Championship Tournament in Chicago, Illinois under the leadership of social studies teacher Zach Looney and we have some others Gretchen Corpal and Diane Miller. Freedom Middle School joins Brentwood Middle as the only in Williamson County to qualify for nationals and is among just six Tennessee schools to earn this distinction. We're
006going to give you a round of applause. [Music] [Applause] Good evening. Thank you all for having us today. Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools is a program for schools preK through university that intentionally promotes meaningful social inclusioncl by bringing together students with and without intellectual disabilities to create accepting school environments utilizing three components. Unified sports, inclusive youth leadership, and whole school engagement. Districtwide imple implementation of this program will bring continuity of inclusion for Franklin special district students. From the beginning of their education, students will learn about and experience a school climate in which students without disabilities are accepting of their peers with disabilities both in the classroom and the school overall. We are so excited that Franklin Special District is one of three districts in the state of Tennessee that is a district-wide unified champion school
007district. So, congratulations for that. National evaluations have shown that unified champion schools have created a more socially inclusive school environment and UCS is making a big impact in reducing bullying, teasing, and offensive language throughout the school. In fact, one of the most consistently cited personal benefits of participation is the development of cross disability friendships. Both survey and interview data have shown how the program provides students with and without intellectual disabilities the opportunity to work together and facilitate friendships through that collaboration. Beyond interpersonal relationships, benefits of participation at the individual level include acquisition of broadly applicable life skills such as patience and compassion, social awareness skills such as how to better work with others, and revelations about career choices including working in the fields of disability and education. On a national level, studies show an increase
008in graduation rates for students with and without intellectual disabilities in schools with the UCS program. The impact on graduation rates may be mediated through an overall change in school climate and peer attitudes towards students with disabilities. Results of this study should suggest that the inclusiveness of a school setting has strong correlations with students academic outcomes likely through improved behavior and attendance. Importantly, more prolonged exposure to social inclusion programs like UCS have stronger and more positive correlations with student outcomes, indicating that maximum maximum benefit occurs the longer students are exposed to strategies of unified champion schools. That is our goal with the districtwide implementation. Thank you, Dr. Snowden and the leadership of Franklin Special Schools for making inclusion a priority for your schools. Thank you to all the administrators and faculty within the Franklin Special District
009for being leaders, not only for your district, but also for our state. We look forward to seeing the growth of Unifi Champion Schools in your district and the impact you are going to make. So, I would like from Special Olympics, we have a plaque for you that we would like to present to Dr. And it says, if I can get that, Franklin Special School District in recognition of their designation as a unified champion school district and the commitment to social inclusion for all students. [Applause] We also have another designation that we only found out late in the week officially. There was some who knew a little earlier, but Johnson Elementary has received from the Tennessee Department of Education a steam designation, and I'll read a little bit about it. This honor recognizes school across the
010state for preparing students for postsecary and future career success by committing to promote STEM, STEAM, science, technology, engineering, arts, and math learning for all students. designated schools prioritize math and science education, ensuring that Tennessee students are prepared for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Each school that received this Tennessee STEM steam school designation underwent a rigorous application process and this took two years. It wasn't just a couple of weeks or so, but a lot of work, including completion of a self-ealuation, participation in interviews, hosting site visits. Schools applied for the steam designation through the designation rubric, which includes five focus areas: infrastructure, curriculum and instruction, professional development, achievement, and community and postsecary partnerships. Johnson Elementary is the only school among 70 plus in Williamson County with this designation. So, we're going to invite the administrators
011and Miss Pet who has spearheaded this opportunity to come forward for show us your banner and [Applause] All right, thank you so much. Let's give all of our good news award recipients another [Applause] hand. If there is anyone who needs to excuse themselves at this time, you may All right, public input. There's a podium to my right. If there is anyone here for public input, seeing no one, we declare that public input has now been closed. Move on to reports, presentations, and discussions. Dr. Yes, sir. Thank you. Before I discuss an update on the introduction to aerospace course, we have a special addition to the spotlight and Dr. Snood is going to start us off. Yes, as you know, we've been involved in this brand refresh for a couple of years. So, we have a
012new logo for obviously the district, but we also wanted to do a brand refresh or a refresh, I guess, a logo refresh for our schools. And the schools had significant input on these changes, but we wanted to have to add some uniformity uh for our school logos. And I think you'll enjoy. We'll turn it over to Dr. Deck. She's going to showcase our new school logos. Thanks, Dr. S. Just waiting for the slide deck to come up. Here we go. So, you'll note we're going to walk through each individual school's new logo. This is giving you a picture though across all the schools. You'll note that first starting with Johnson, you'll see the previous logo and then right next to it, the new one. and on down the line. I'll give you just a second
013to absorb those. We really in working with Metal Five and of course the schools and especially the principles, we tried to keep in mind that there are histories behind these logos and that there were some elements that perhaps schools wanted to preserve, maybe update, but still keep in one way or another. other schools were ready to completely reimagine their logos. So, we really tried to honor the history, honor the input of the schools, but also you might note every school has retained its own personality, but we hope you see that when you look at the logos as a whole, you can tell they're all part of the FSD. So, we'll walk individually through each school. So here we have freedom middle and freedom intermediate. You'll note that all the logos have their mascot inside a
014circle. It's very clean. The tags that are off to the side. Freedom middles is red. Freedom intermediates is blue. We can use the logos with those tags or just with the mascot itself. You can see quite an update to the bulldog there, but still a bulldog. Okay, we'll go to the next slide, please. So, here we have Pabler Grove. Popular Grove probably retained the most of its original logo compared to the other schools because it worked. You'll note that there of course is the logo for elementary, middle, and then at the top when they want to use the Popular Grove School as a whole, they have that option as well. Here's Johnson and the tiger got a nice refresh. We hope you enjoy it. The colors were adjusted. Franklin Elementary, we have an updated cubby.
015Here's more. Kept the same eagle, of course, but you'll note that the the circle with the mascot is much cleaner. Liberty Elementary got a lion update. Retain the red. And those are the new logos. We hope you like them. Any questions on this? Okay. So, on to the next part of the spotlight. You have of course in your report all of the details on the latest happenings with our introduction to aerospace course. Uh you know that we'll be offering aviation one next year for our students that are now in 8th grade and will complete introduction to aerospace and are moving on to Williamson County for high school. But they'll come back for their first class in the morning to Freedom Middle School and take Aviation One with Mr. dollar and then they'll ride a bus
016to either Franklin or Centennial High School. But I thought maybe the best way to present the update tonight is to share with you a recent news story from WSMV4. So, hope you enjoy. How's it going? Good to see you guys. Good morning, sir. How are you? I see you, Mr. Dollar. Intro to aviation may begin in the classroom. All right, guys. Let's get started. Here's our weather this morning. Oh, actually, this is a good one for you. But pretty soon takes to the virtual skies. It's exceptional, honestly, being able to fly over the lakes and all of these things. We even flew over Venice one time. It was Yes, you can go all over the world. All right, take a look at it. Read to yourself for a second. First, just as a pilot would
017prepare for a flight, students have to learn their equipment and the conditions outside. All right, and our layer of clouds is at 45,000. And there's a few of them. It also means learning the pitfalls. So what if they'd continued that landing? I would had a collision there. Turn left on left. Now the guy's readback's a hot mess. I came in very skeptical about whether I would actually take the job or think of taking it or not. This class alongside Mr. Dollar has really inspired me to pursue that goal. As you know, like the different lights on the runway, they mean different things. So, it's it's it's taught me a lot. Gaining experience on the simulators, each student earns high school credit and logs hours they can put towards a pilot's license. They already have a
018jump start on the lingo. So, there's only three notches of flaps cuz it's not like one of the big commercial airliners. So, you can It kind of feels like you're talking in another language to me, Jack. You can decrease your throttle a little bit. Okay. And push down on that yolk. And we don't want them to be afraid of flying. We want them to understand uh the safety aspect of it. They want them to be able to understand what went wrong and to use that information to become safer pilots. Becoming a safer pilot starts in the classroom. There you go. Successfully landed. That was a bumpy land though, huh? Hey, as long as you landed, one landing at a time. All right. So, reporting in Franklin, I'm Amanda Roberts for News Channel 5. They're going
019to have a lot to answer. Thank you. Any questions? All right. Moving on. Discussion of one away property proposal. Yes. Um well, we'll open it up. When we sent this information to to us, there was no consensus maybe which direction the board want to go wanted to go. So we didn't put this as an item of consideration. However, if this discussion leads to a situation where the board thinks that you're ready to vote take this under consideration, we can add that to the agenda before the agenda is approved. So you have the information from Chris's presentation that he made in March. I know Mr. as part of the real estate a member of the real estate committee has had some conversation with Chris Whitney. So, you may want to go ahead and kind of say
020what your conversation has been like from our uh public work sessions. We briefly discussed about potential ways to strengthen our relationship organizations. Perhaps there's some benefit of working together in this new in this new facility or with this new facility and that our contribution might be credit towards purchase price of this property. Now that's just at the level where I mentioned it to Chris and he's trying come up with some uh potential projects, potential opportunities where there might be some he's in the process of attempting to reach out to spoke to him this afternoon and this was a discussion item tonight on the agenda and that absence of coming to us with a contract to purchase offer to purchase any forward movement on discussions for lack of a better term next month. So that's question.
021When Chris presented it to us, it sounded like they had done the appropriate fundraising and were really wanting us to sell them the property so they could finalize their ability to start moving forward on it like as soon as possible. So, are we opposed to following through with that? That's a decision, but I think that Okay. I thought he had proposed to buy it to purchase it for the 225,000 that was already fun. I think I just knew they were kind of on a time frame. And as we've discussed, Dr. and I discussed and discussed with Dr. Carrian for this, it' be the closest school to this new facility. We don't see any downside or disadvantage to having in that location. I know someone Chris that mentioned think our retreat. We had a course technology
022signal, but something was mentioned about a sidewalk. We would not be in favor of a sidewalk going across in Franklin on Franklin Elementary's property. Obviously, we don't we can't change the city's approval of sidewalks, but we would adantly be opposed to a sidewalk at where the location is would be at the back part of Fes's campus and a sidewalk across into there would be a security issue for certain. So, that's the only thing that was mentioned that we would be in opposition. I relate that to Chris. I just appreciate it. The last time we had this conversation that Alicia brought to our attention reminded us that we've been partners with them since day one. Tim, are you wanting Chris to get us a contract prop? to look at or just are we still waiting on
023ideas about how we may be able to work through details on his end about any potential for essence we are for real estate. So if he offers us certain projects to work on that reducing price that's something that discussion now Tim are you also if we want to move on the very next meeting. I know you're saying Kevin, but let's say we got a proposal. I think you want us to signal to you that we would like it to be on the next. Am I wrong? Um maybe you're not wrong. There's no uh there's nothing that we need to be doing. We're waiting for Chris. So, if he comes to us with an offer and some discussion items, it'll put on the not everybody said, "Yeah, let's explore this. I just want to be clear.
024So Chris is not sure if they want to purchase this from us or he's looking at other options. Are you sure he wants to purchase this from exploring how that might look? Any other discussion? Thank you. Approval of board agenda. Is there a motion? Motion to approve board agenda. Second. All in favor of consent agenda. Is there a motion? Is there a second? All in favor? Dr. Snoke? Yes. We have one item for consideration. Policy revision enrollment and advanced courses 4.2205. This is a first reading. Revisions reflect the addition of introduction to aerospace. On page five is an addition to the high school classes that FSD offers. In addition, language was added clarifying the weight list for those students that would like to be reconsidered for classes. The weight list does not pertain the seventh
025grade algebra 1, item 13, page three. There are no other changes with this policy update. We we recommend approval of first. Thank you, sir. Is there a motion to approve? Is there a second? Is there discussion? report. Thank you. And I've added some items. We just keep getting a lot of good news recognition. So, uh, first I want to Dr. Are you back there? Is Scotty back there? You need to bring our newest therapy dog up and left a board. Meet Scotty. She was asleep. Well, she's been working all day, so So, we're back to each each school having their own therapy dog. So, we're we're excited about that. I know Dr. Munz is she is the primary handler. Eli Adams is the secondary handler. So, thank you for stepping up to be the primary
026handler, Amanda. We appreciate it. Also, at the end of the week, uh, we had recognition from the Williamson scene. I don't know if you saw this, but out of all the elementary schools in in Williamson County, Papa Grove Elementary won first place and second place was more elementary school. So, quite a feat. Congratulations, [Applause] It's through the Wson scene. Uh what is it called? Vest of they were campaign. Did you get out campaign Dr. Ericson? No. That's just a great recognition. Also this afternoon we received notice that Dr. We had been named a regional semi finalist for Tennessee supervisor of the year. So continuing with the FS FSD volunteer of the year, the volunteer selection committee selected Franklin Elementary's Cali Alexander as a 2425 FSD district volunteer of the year. Miss Alexander has been nominated
027on behalf of our district to be considered for the TSBA midland district volunteer recognition award. We're very grateful for each of our volunteers whether they are parents or community members and are proud to have Miss Alexander represent our district as our FSD volunteer of the year. TCAP I know all the administr administrators as well as Dr. are very glad that standardized test is over, but it also went very well. We certainly appreciate Dr. Williams and Miss Maxwell from the central office, our school administrators, and the many teachers and staff that were part of making the testing season a success. Dr. We and Miss Maxwell have been especially grateful for the new secure staging area they have here in central office. So they can principles or assistant principal I guess main drive up pick up their
028tests and then once they're finished they bring them back. So it's a secure location right outside here on the drive and it's really worked out well. I think assistant principles bragged more than anyone didn't they Dr. Wing? Yeah, absolutely. The budget process remaining dates for budget work session May 19th and June the 16th. Revenue and personnel will be the focus at the next work session. FSSD teacher and staff appreciation. We celebrated our personnel last week. Baskets of treats were delivered to each school, the MAC office and maintenance, landscaping and transportation on behalf of the board and the director of schools. School nurse appreciation day was May the 7th. As you know, we're very fortunate to have a wonderful team of nurses and to have one at each school. If you had the chance and you
029see them in the near future, just please offer them some gratitude for what they do for our students and staff each day. Our night of night of celebration recap on the 24th. We're still receiving positive comments from that night. We're very pleased with the results of the planning and feel that everyone that attended had a good time and enjoyed themselves. FCS summer meal program as noted the last meeting this is an this open site will be at Johnson where we'll also be having summer MAC meals will be provided at the learning academy at Papa Grove School and Young Scholars at Freedom Middle information for our summer MAC and registration forms can be found online. Young Scholars Institute June the 2nd through the 6th and 9th through the 13th. Teachers are ready to welcome students for
030the 2025 camp for independent and highly motivated students who have completed first through 8th grade. And if your schedule allows during those dates, we would love to have you. They would love to have you come by as well to visit classrooms and see what's occurring at Young Scholar. Our summer learning camp this year will operate Monday through Thursday for four weeks starting June the 2nd through the 26th excluding Friday. teaching and learning department members is wrapping up to make this a very productive opportunity for our students. Dentry's Educational Foundation summer camp. Information about sign up forms for this camp can also be found through our through excuse me the foundation's website, not our website. The last day of school is hard to believe. May 23rd is an abbreviated date for our students. And then Memorial
031Day, May the 26, all our offices will be closed. Thank you. That's all I sir. teaching and learning. Nothing additional, sir. Thank you. Finance and administration. Yes. Good evening, everyone. May's collection did show a slight decrease. If you look at the tax revenue report, sales tax report, but for year to date, we're still 6.7% over yeartoear comparisons. All right. Any uh announcements from the board? Um I just wanted to say that I was um buttons were bursting over how excited I was that Frank Talks was here today and our leaders um Dr. Snowden, Dr. Dr. um just hit it out of the ballpark with just their excellence and sharing and um I received so many positive comments about it and I just appreciate how you did an excellent excellent job in telling our Franklin special
032district story. Any other announcements? And I agree with Miss Bale. Several positive comments. The room was actually full. They their capacity is 80 and they actually had more than 80. And so the presentation Oh, sorry. Sorry. The presentation was great. And I know there were plenty others who were behind the scenes. Carol, Susanna, Drew, and others who also made it possible. And Uh but they were excited to be here and again as Miss B said the presentations were great and just a great day. I had one other thing I'm sorry I forgot to mention. This Thursday we'll be we will be hosting the middle region middle middle grand division exact title of superintendent for a legislative I guess wrap up legislative information. I say this we'll find out what all the legislature had in store
033for us. I'll say it that way. So, we're glad to host that event. This is the first time we've ever hosted because we really didn't have a place before. So, it'll be about uh 60 people here from across the middle part of the state. So, we're glad to host that group. Thank you. Anything else? There's nothing else. We are journ