001have to play. So we'll stand ladies and Place your hand over your heart and begin. 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. >> Thank you for that. We have some recognitions tonight. I'll turn that over to >> the director. >> Come on up, Chris. >> Well, tonight we have our district spelling bee champion here with us and we'd like to recognize her. This is Payton Chambers. Payton, you can come on up here. Um Payton goes to Mari Middle School, 8th grade, right? Um she won at Mari Middle School at the competition and then went on to the county competition and in first place there as well and she is looking towards
002going forward in the regional competition. So that'll be coming up next month. And so we're just glad to have Payton here tonight and to be recognized for this this honor. >> Yes, that'll work. >> Thank you. >> Danny, did you want to challenge her with some words? Huh? >> We got trouble. Miss Elder got us into trouble cuz she wasn't here tonight. >> So, we'll have to send her some pictures. >> Congratulations. Thank you. >> All right. >> Miss Angie Rogers is coming up. She's got >> Come on up, ladies. or PTO. >> So, these ladies are the jack of all trades. We've got them from um our crafty organizer to driving a bus to this mother. I've never I didn't know you could cook hot dogs on air until last week. But that was
003an amazing thing. So, seriously, I love our PTO. They um raised 90 plus for a new playground. We I mean that's a hard thing to do, but really got the community invested. They're at our school all the time. I mean, parent teacher conferences becomes a family game night so that parents can come in and play games with their kids and wait on their conferences and just, you know, every time the doors are open, these ladies are here. So, this is Michelle Gogggins, Michelle McGomery, and Sarah Ferris, and Holly Pitman could not be here. But, um, we we just can't function without these ladies. They do an amazing job. Wonderful. Thank you all very much. We got the principal support, the district support. >> Thank you. All right. Appreciate this public input. Now, we got anybody?
004>> Yeah. >> Oh, tonight. Thank you. >> Okay. We don't have anything under board approved agreement renewals tonight. So, special committee reports. Um, we will say that the joint school board county commission committee, the next meeting for that, we got that set for May 21st at 6:30 p.m. at the Patriot Academy. >> We may have to change the location. >> Okay. >> I'll let you know. >> All right. tentatively may have to change location but May 21st 6:30 p.m. building and maintenance committee. How you got anything on that? >> Just our next meeting April 14th at 5:30. >> Excuse me. Where is that going to be? >> We'll we'll send that out. We haven't >> decided yet. All right. Next up, director's input on business session agenda items. >> We'll start out. Uh Trevor Trevor's
005going to talk to us uh go through the five-year plan. We looked a little bit at the changes that were approved, but Trevor just wants to bring us up on that fiveyear strategic plan. the screen the back. I'm sorry that I can't get the TVs to work, but every time I plug them in, everything dies. So, if you want to follow along, the back screen has the information. So, we put together starting two years ago, we started working on a district 5-year strategic plan. And um Mr. Edison asked last month if we could begin to kind of review some of the things that we've done. We met for our first actual committee review in December. I think was in December and um kind of talking about the things that we hit and missed and then
006updated the plan some. So Miss Walk if she will. What I tried to do was um you look at our first goal was the instructional core. Of the instructional core there were three separate strategies listed under those and I I went through and kind of marked as we talked as a committee the things that we hit. Um and it doesn't mean that those things are accomplished. What it really means is those are the things that we accomplished in a one-year scope of the plan. So, you know, we may not have hit the whole fiveyear, but we're making movement toward it. So, the big thing for um in under grade level attainment, meaning students getting to grade level was adopting highquality instructional materials for the current school year. And last year, it was funding science materials
007for the 25 26 school year. and we funded approved and implemented those materials in grades K through 12 like I said and again the board funded those and approved those and we are now in our seventh or eighth month of implementation of those new science materials um as part of the plan every year there's a $400,000 reserve like said that was kind of an estimate that goes in for funding the next round and as was presented Saturday our next funding round is for ELA for that threeyear gap period so that is the next action step that's inside of the plan. It's ensuring we have ELA materials for the next three years. Uh invest in teacher training. We did launch a teacher leader program this year which is helping to it's every grade level and subject
008in grades K through eight has a teacher leader. High school the tested subject areas have teacher leaders and that's the first year we've done that. And then on top of that we hired a teacher mentor and ret retention position. That's a former administrator that came back into the district to help us to train and retain our new teachers and our teachers early in their careers. So, that was a check that we'd hoped to be able to do. Um, we are continuing to fund tutoring in grades K through five at all our elementary buildings. We're fully staffed there. That is saying fully staffed is quite a job, but a lot of those people are retired teachers and all the things that come with sicknesses and illnesses and those things. So, Miss Walke spends a lot of
009time, like I said, helping principles keep those tutors in place. Um, we do have a really solid, and I think our results speak to that, our balanced assessment system. And to me, what that means is we have a benchmark screener ready in grades K through 8. And then we have standardsbased screeners in grades 3 through 11 that really help us understand where our students are and how to change and adjust instruction as we go along the line. So that that's a big priority that's helped us kind of make and and attain the scores that we currently have. Do two more really quick on the side. Sorry Christie, go back. Um invest and support innovative school models. Um that is as we were talking Saturday and you kind of talk through the ISM innovative school model
010was meant to be a three to fouryear project from the governor fully funded year one and each year of the grant the state I said stopped funding a portion of it. So we are now next year in that place to where if the board so chose through the plan to fully fund the innovative school models for middle school grades and high school grades. So again, every year it's a 25% reduced. This coming year the plan states that the board will fully fund that model in our middle school and high schools. And then investing in ACT. One of the large um goals that we have, we have an elementary K2 goal that kind of tells us if we're hitting our marks or not. We have a 35, a 68. The high school, the ACT was kind
011of like the ultimate benchmark that we chose. And you'll see in just a second, we did miss our mark in that, but we showed improvement. So, continuing the ACT push at the high school level is a big push for us moving forward to get back to scores that we saw precoid. That is the only place in our plan that we have not made up ground. So, as we were talking through that, that is leading up to that. Chris, if you would. So, if you'll think about all the things that we kind of talked through, our big goal, like I said, for our district is always to be able to show improvement in our literacy scores. And this year, the things that we kind of talk through, six A schools for Jefferson County schools is is
012such a big deal. And then when they name that having over half of your schools be a schools, 22 districts in the state earned that designation. Of those 22,5 were city school districts. Most of those school districts that earned that designation had one, two, or three schools. It's a lot easier to hit it when there's one. We had the third largest number in eligible schools for that. And we all saw the press release stating $1.2 million, like I said, rewarded Jefferson County Schools. And if it's fully funded by the governor, $2 million as a recognition for that mark. So again, the strategic plan, leading those literacy initiatives, the implementation of science materials, all of that work really shows up inside of these metrics for reward schools. And then for high school, as we work through
013this, I said I can remember, you know, Doug said, "What do all the acronyms mean?" ACT, CCR. We chose CCR, college career readiness. We chose that as one of the leading indicators for our high school. Meaning that when seniors graduate, they earn one of the recognitions that the state considers college and career ready. That might be a 21 on the ACT. That might be an industry certification they can use when they leave the district and go to be employed. Military readiness through the ASPA. There's all of these different indicators. We set a five-year goal and and Doug when we actually rem Doug said, "Was it ambitious enough?" We were around 63% when we set the goal. We set a 5year goal to be at 75%. In one year's time, and I said there's a ton
014of work that goes into innovative schools, there's a ton of work that goes into the ACT work. We went from 63% to 74.4% in one year's time, meeting our almost meeting our 5-year goal in one run. If you think that that's easily done, if you will look at surrounding school districts and their college and career ready rates, it is not that rate. So again, that that is a huge 75 roughly 74.4% of our kids graduate with an industry credential ACT score or ASVAB score designated as college or career ready. I'm going to stop there. Once again, that is the instructional core. Any questions from the board before we move on? >> Question. The innovative school models Now that we're taking that over, do we know how much that costs us a year to run? >>
015Roughly half a million dollar salary. I mean that's real road. >> What exactly does that do? >> Sure. So we we went through that um and the board bought into the plan. So previously a student becomes a freshman in high school and they are introduced to um CTE, career technical education classes. And a student may dig into it a little bit their freshman and sophomore year and then they do an intern their uh junior year and they get to somewhere think they want to be a nurse. They see blood and they pass out and then they determine that this is not for me but it's too late to enter into another field. So if we introduce it into sixth grade, seventh grade and eighth grade, students have an understanding of fields that um they may
016be interested in. they um start learning, you know, what area fits their um their self the most and and then whenever they get to high school, they have a level of interest survey that they are able to um kind of find their niche in the program. Whether that's with computers, whether that's out in the building trades, uh with plumbing, mechanical, electrical, welding, uh building, woodworking, whether it's nursing, culinary, you know, those opportunities are endless, but that's what that does at the middle school level. Uh following up uh following up on uh Paul's question, is that a is that an expense that you will be budgeting into the budget next year? >> So whenever uh innovative school model became a grant, we bought into it as a board. It was funded at 100%. Then we picked
017up 25% of the cost the second year. This year we've picked up a little bit more than 50% of the cost, 20 75% of the cost, right? >> And then next year it falls 100%. So we've gradually taken on up to 75% of the cost already. >> So the that cost will be in the budget when the budget is presented. >> It'll be presented to you with that cost in it. >> Okay. One other statement. Um Trevor mentioned about the uh 22 schools and I posted this online but I know some folks are not on Facebook that bus is there's 174 school districts >> what's that say 147 not 1747 school districts in the state we are in the top 22 that means we are in the top 14 percentile of all schools in Tennessee.
018That is a huge development. And in the top three in East Tennessee, in other words, we are there with Alcoa and Maraveville and we kicked Oakidge out. That is that makes me feel like I'm on the gold medal hockey team this year. That is something that is absolutely amazing. And I congratulate Dr. honorable and all the staff for that. That's amazing. Thank you. >> All right. So again, area for improvement here. Again, that ACT ELA benchmark story is one area for improvement. We have put a really robust plan in place this year. You want to think this this review ended at in May and June of last year. That's when the work really came to us. We've been working hard on that since then. Working in English three. That is the one place our scores
019are the weakest and that's the one place we spent the most time this year working hoping to see those results improve when we take the ACT in the month of March. So Christy if you would. Um so again we adopted those three different guidelines. Um at the last board meeting Mr. Hardy did ask a question hit that just for a second. When you look at our scores in elementary school what you do see across the state is the earlier the grade level the higher the scores until they hit high school. When you get into middle school, you end up with no anywhere you go. If fewer teachers per grade level, they get four exposures to science, social study, math, and ELA as an equal block. Elementary school is more time in in reading and math.
020High school, it's more time in reading and math. We always see that shrinking piece of it. Setting a 50% proficiency goal for middle school is an ambitious goal, even though it may not look like it. When you look at the averages across the state, when you look at averages for high performing districts, 50% for grade 68 is for us. Last year we were 364. That is actually above state average as a grade stand hitting about 3 to 4% a year is what we're shooting for to be at 50 by time we hit that. We are not shooting for a 3.4% increase this year. We are shooting for 6 or 7% hoping by the time we can hit 28 29 that we're at 50%. Our 35 rate, you can see we're at 44%. Now, we did
021make that 60. That felt much more attainable knowing where our current position is. What I would like to state is this year, if you ask any middle school principal in the building, we said 47% of our fifth graders are moving to sixth grade proficient. Your job is to hold them at 47%. Or grow them. So, we're going to try to hit that 50% by making sure we maintain our sixth graders and grow them sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. High school. We chose that ACT benchmark in reading, but this gives you an idea of what we're shooting for grade level by grade level. Please remember that 444, that 44 and 364 top scores in the state, top 22 districts. That's the way to frame it as we look at it. Again, moving toward 50 as our
022goal. When we started this work five years ago, we set a goal for third grade ELA to be at 50%. And I remember these people in the room looking at me like, do you know where we are right now? and we all had that conversation. We are within five points of our 50 third grade. We're within five points instead of this year. This is the end of our fiveyear cycle. Correct? You remember that right? Focus five like 50%. What are what are you what are you doing 50%. Five points away in four years if you would. Um district personnel kind of the same structure that we looked at with the other one recruitment and retention and morale and climate. Um, again, not having all these things completed, but I would say that we are on
023track, like I said, to meet that $50,000 starting salary by 2627. That was one of the things that we put into the goal. And then from there, a 3% increase every year. Um, that second piece continued to increase salaries across the salary scale. Um, in the district, not just hitting 50, but Dr. Arnold and the board as you were doing that, you were also elevating everyone's salaries across the the scales. um making an increase of approximately 3% for non-certified staff. That's goal two, strategy two. Um full medical insurance for employees, continue differentiated pay plans because um as we talked Doug was really kind of adamant on your rewarding performance. That is a grade three, four or five on observations or a TBOS measure. Um grow your own opportunities and funded state programs for additional lensure.
024Those are things taking advantage of state funding monthly staff focuses. So when we started this process, employee recognition got its own action step. That was one of the things that we wanted to make sure we were recognizing our employees. If you look through our central office update when we started that goal, was it the next month Christy and I started working on how do we recognize our staff, our coaches, our principles, and making sure we highlight those people who don't get highlighted as often as we would like to. That became a very big focus for us. uh faculty and staff tailgate at the beginning of the school year put on by the eternal children services department and then our teacher and employee of the year banquet that was our one of our big initiatives this
025year that was um very successful and we are still highlighting that in our office update every month so those are all the things we saw outside of district personnel any questions I'm sure Mary wishes I would slow down I only have 20 minutes so that's all he gave me um student supports this one heavily focused on behavior and attendance When we started this process, buzz monitors were a pilot. Like I said, those things have been moved into action. Now, um framework for consistent behaviors. We continue to meet with principles and assistant principles regularly on just defining behaviors, punishments, rewards, and those types of things. You will see several places here where there are not checks. And if you look at a lot of those, it is really focusing on that public facing piece. And we've
026talked about the need for that curric curriculum, sorry, public relations. What are we calling that, Tommy? communication communication >> communication coordinator. Thank you. That would be one place that would come into play. We did see our chronic absenteeism rate decline for grades K8. We celebrated that. That's where we were. High school stabilized last year. That was one of those areas where it had been going down every year. We didn't make movement on it last year, but we also didn't see an increase in it. Um in the plan, you can read our precoid 13.9% was the chronic absenteeism rate for the county. It is over 20% now. And you will find that same rise and increase in almost every district across the state. Two years ago, Granger County had a 912 asset rate of 50%. We
027were at 23 24. So, I mean, there's a lot of work being done. That is considered to be missing more than 18 days or 17 days out of the school year if you take full advantage of your snow piece. So, again, that's that's missing a lot of school. So, we saw the reduction. We hope to continue to do that. We've increased communication and education across the out of school through the central office update through social media. And again, we're never done with that work. I talk to principles all the time. They go, "What are we doing? What do we need to do? Where are we?" It's it's a large heavy work and a hard lift to get that sport to be where we want it to be. Um, next step, continue focus on student attendance
028and that community education piece. Like I said again, through the social media networks, through principal conversations with parents and so on. Christie, >> when we got to this in December, it was like we always just said check mark and move on. The goals that we set for building programs, evaluate a three-step plan. One of the first things in that three-step plan was hiring an assistant maintenance supervisor to begin doing punch orders. And I know at the time Tommy said one school had been kind of taken care of with that. Moving on to the others. Perfections works group perfection group scope of work roofing plans. Jeff Elementary there's not a completed Jeff Elementary but if you look at that it is a consensus scope of work joint committee actionable plan. I said we decided at that
029time that actionable plan it is in the hands of the architect. There's no and the next steps for that is monitor that plan and timeline as we move forward. So that was kind of the next steps we chose there. At the time we built this, Tab Elementary was not a done project, but now there's actually boots on the ground. So again, that is just monitoring timelines as we move forward. Any questions with that? We have work to do to build this up again when we meet again to go into the next steps for this. >> Um, I got a question on the one the slide before this. >> What what uh is the plan for creating a public facing campaign to educate stakeholders on bullying. >> What's going on with that? >> We did not
030make movement on that plan. >> Okay. >> So, that's that's why there's no there's no check there. There's still work to be not to say there's not something being done, but the public education facing outward piece still has work to do. >> Okay. >> For the number four on that, grant opportunities for additional high level behavioral supports. What exactly does that mean? >> It could be grant opportunities uh for any type. I know the governor has put uh lots of money into behavioral supports. There was some talk about additional counselors that didn't make it in the governor's budget this year, but there was discussion about it. There was also some discussion about some uh supports for um can't remember what they're called. It's a um level of position. Um, but they are there are there
031is $25 million in the governor's um grant through the um behavioral health and substance abuse um party in the state at the state level and and that money somehow is going to flow through next year, but we don't know how. Do we actually have somebody that does grand writing? >> No. No grand writing. >> I don't believe the I don't believe the county does either. >> No. No. >> And I will go back to say a public facing campaign to educate stakeholders on bullying. We have we do have a see something say something program that's out there and the anonymous skip line that exists for that piece. It is that there's not that there's nothing existing. It just doesn't exist to the level that we were beginning to work on the plan. I can do
032that. Okay. I happened to think of that as we were going through it. It just did not meet the full goal that we had to actually get the big message out that we wanted to. Any other questions? All right. Last one to kind of wrap up with. When we um were building this one, we were really talking about trying to increase just public awareness. And I will say I I told Doug it is that not that we didn't work on getting these things done. We did not meet the full um intention of the goal. And this is where the idea for the community relations person came from. We've increased social media. We have 2,000 hits a month on our central office update. I could you have clicks on video. We have more people engaging with
033our Facebook site. But we are all taking turnout. Chrissy and I were working this afternoon her office trying to get the central office update ready. It's what we do when work is over. It's those things that kind of fall on our plates once the day is finished. So, a lot of those things were left undone. We we worked the the the joint committee between school board and county commissioners was achieved. So we did say when the public relations community relations person is hired we said as a committee we'll come back together and we'll rework this goal with that person in mind. Right now this is very vague as far as increasing our presence in the community and again it is our jobs that we do when the other parts of the job are finished like
034so this would be if any of this is the only goal with only one indicator marked as complete like said and again that position is meant to help achieve this goal as we move into the next school year. So, high level overview. Any any other questions with this that you think of right now? >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Appreciate that. Said last time, we appreciate all the folks that are on that committee doing work. It's thankless sometimes, but we appreciate it. gives us something to work towards and that's what helps us achieve these goals. So, >> anything else I >> a few things I saw you came in right after end of public input. Did you have something to address the board about? >> Uh, yes I did. >> Let me check
035with Come on up, sir. I could tell you had something on your mind. >> Oh, yeah. Well, mainly what I wanted to bring attention to was my child being assaulted at Barney Middle School on January 16th. Um, I have pictures of the assault where he was punched over 20 times and kicked and stomped. And he in the process of this happening um no teachers came to his aid. Nobody he yelled for help and nobody whatsoever. No adult was monitoring the hallways. I feel like my child was unsafe inside of Mari's walls because the lack of monitor and the lack of transparency. I asked them for the incident report. They did not file one out, which I'm pretty sure that according to the Tennessee Code Act of 4761 is procedural requirements that any physical altercation needs
036to have an incident report. That's kind of a law. And there's also a mandatory reporting for anybody involved that um needs child services to be notified. The child that attacked my child is a foster child and nobody ever reported anything as far as I can tell to child services. That is another violation of the law to the best of my understanding. I am really just really concerned that my child is not safe in Marty Mill School's care because the lack of reporting. Nobody is doing what I understand is required by law when an assault happens in your custody. It seems like it's being swept under the rug. It's being neglected. When I talked to Michelle Walker today, because I had tried to contact her before and she had to call me back, she said that
037she does not bring any of these altercations to Doug's attention or anybody else's. She said because I specifically asked, she was going to make Tommy Arnold aware of the situation as of today, which happened over a month ago. And I'm really not seeing the protection for the kid in general. Like I I know of other uh assaults that's happened within Mar's walls that I don't believe there was any like reporting done. The actual reporting is what's required to the best of my knowledge by law like that you all are supposed to report every single physical altercation whether it was the aggressor or whether he was going to be being attacked. There's supposed to be an incident report. Um the SRO which I have a picture of is said that his chief told him not to
038file a report. So, I'm trying to get to the bottom of it and figure out why that these uh assaults are not being reported when it happens under inside Mar's walls. And I was just wondering what what steps can I take to try to keep my kids safe. I don't feel like I don't feel like that they're being transparent. I don't feel like they're being forthcoming about what really happened. Uh, I caught quite a bit of flag just for going and talking to Sheriff Dunlap, Chad Dunlap, because I told him I wanted to press charges because Emily Gwyn, the principal of Mari Middle School, said that my kid was attacked and found to be not the aggressor. He was trying to get away. He was trying to do what was right. He was not trying
039to really fight back. He just wanted to get away. This kid kept dragging him back into the bathroom. And I said, "Well, don't y'all monitor your hallways. How come nobody could hear my kid hollering for help? It's not just it happened in the bathroom. It's that nobody, no adult came to help." >> What was your name? >> Cody Love. >> All right. Thank you. >> And that's Kod. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you for bringing this to her attention. >> Okay. And I do have where my child went to the hospital and we went to the emergency room and they classified it as the assault and he was definitely assaulted within y'all's custody within Jeff County Schools custody. >> Thank you. >> All right. We also have um items for discussion that's going to come
040up on the business agenda. Um one item there was the board evaluation that um we've presented to you from DSBA. You know, ever how you feel about that, we'll bring that up. You'll have a opportunity for consideration of that at the business session. And then also on the business session is a request for consideration to use fund balance of $750,000 to purchase ELA materials for gap year 6, 7, and 8. Um, and that'll get us back around to the next ELA adoption. So, um, the adoption initially was scheduled for six years. Now they pushed that out to eight. So, um, that's why it's a a three-year period for that. And, um, we discussed that a little bit at the retreat and just that'll be for your consideration on the business agenda. And then um that
041those are the only two items that we have under new business for the business agenda unless you all consider adding something else. >> Can I add something on the policies? We we will have policies for first reading. I I believe we have six policies for bring first reading. And um just to let everybody know our next scheduled policy meeting is April 27th. So that will be we will set uh the date when policies need to be submitted to be considered. So April 27th will be the next policy. Thank you. >> That's all I have to >> All right. Thank you for that. Commissioner items for discussion. Anybody got anything on this? I know we just had our retreat and everybody's ready to talk again. Based upon the public input we just had. Um could I
042u after that if he's willing to that gentleman come back up? I have a couple questions I'd like to ask you if I start with you Mr. Chairman. Obviously, I'm very concerned about what you had to say. Could you tell me from the time the incident occurred till now, what you mentioned that it happened? Um, you obviously not satisfied with the responses you've gotten from the school district. Can you kind of go through what responses you've had from the school district, you know, based upon what you understood happening? The only response that I really got was that they weren't allowed to tell me who assaulted my child and that I was emily. The only real response she had was is that you have the right to press charges because your son was trying to get
043out of the confrontation and the other kid continued to try to pound on him, drag him back in and beat on more. So you're saying the only response you got from our school district when you reported it was from the principal stating that you could press charges but and but that was pretty much it. And then anything else that happened was from your initiative going to the sheriff and all of this. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Emily made it clear that there was no incident report even when I came to get my son that there had not been filled out that there was no reporting being done. >> Did you give me a reason why that was the case? >> No. >> Okay. Uh Dr. Could you go over kind of what the procedures are
044for things like this? uh as far as you know when you know uh alleged incidents of assault takes place kind of what the regular flow of information is. >> So an assault is a criminal charge. >> Yeah. So we do not we do not issue assault charges at the school level. So evidently there was a physical altercation at the school. Um, Miss Gwen notified you of the incident and there was no I would imagine that there was nothing filled out on your child because your child had no consequence, no punishment, >> um, nothing there. So everything would have been done with the other child and we do not share um other student disciplinary records with another individual. Um my understanding is I believe you had your day in court on this. Uh were you able
045to go to court yet on this? >> Uh yeah, we went to court Wednesday and happened to seek more legal counsel. So, so the school discipline the child involved um and then you know this individual seeking restitution for um you know we're not a court of law. >> Oh no. >> So the school has done the school in my opinion the school's done everything that they needed to do. U we don't have monitors in the bathroom. I I don't know how it was finally uh recognized and whenever people got there. So, you have a gym right next to the bathroom. U there's a lot of stuff going on. Um kids go to the bathroom all the time by themselves. So, we have a lot of fights that occur in schools from time to time. So,
046you know, I I that's all I've got that right now. >> Well, I'm not trying to assign any kind of, you know, who's right. I just want to understand the incident. >> I I'm not um I mean, you know, I I'm not one to ever handle an incident like he spoke about. He got to Michelle Walker. Talked to him today. Um you know, I start out my morning Asheville, North Carolina. I ended up here. Um, so that's for me to deal with. So I don't have all the details of this init. >> My main concern was the lack of reporting that is supposedly required by by the Tennessee code. >> Thank you very much. >> Did you say you took your son to the doctor? >> Did. >> Huh? >> Yes, sir. >> What? When?
047How? What? When did you take it? The day it happened. >> The day it happened. >> You got to get it. >> Yeah. The nurse at Mar Middle recommended that I get him checked out because he had been hit very hard by a kid that was twice his size, twice his weight. And they said that he, you know, he was so much bigger. They were worried about concussions or brain damage or potential brain bleeding. But yet there's no reports. There's no incident report. >> Was there a report done by the resource officer? Do you know? >> That's exactly what I'm bringing to your attention now. >> So that that's not under this board's control. That's not our employee, >> right? So, um, you know, I'm sure if we if if I was to look into
048it, there is a disciplinary action on the other child involved. Um, but, you know, I I I can't answer for the juvenile records through the justice systems. I don't I wouldn't have access to those. >> Don't we have a certain procedure or policy dealing with how a resource officer whether he does have to or does not have to file a report. >> I would think that that would have if they're in our schools, I would still think that that would still have something to do with us as a district um happening on our grounds. Now, I'm not saying that we we can do anything as far as legally against the child that was the fully. >> But I would think that there needs to be something or make sure that the process is done properly
049on the resource officer doing their job properly. >> If there's no >> Yeah, I can't say that. >> If there's no paper trail, then things don't happen. >> I can't say that he didn't do his job properly. I don't know. I can't sit here and say that there wasn't some report file. So obvious right the sheriff I'm not sure but he confirmed that there's no report thank you sir Any other school commissioner items for discussion? >> I do have a question. >> Yeah. I know that we recognize our teachers and various different employees throughout the year. I've noticed one day that we don't recognize specifically and I'd like to see us maybe start recognizing secretaries. we do anything specific. I mean, just be not I know that April 22nd, which is a Wednesday this year,
050actual national secretary name. I'd like to make sure there's one in every school doing her job and I think we make sure that we emphasize that for them. else I will say on this whole whatever happened at Mari I believe Dr. Arnold will take care of it. I believe in his leadership and abilities and there's certain things I mean I know from being school system myself there's things that he can handle and there's things that the law have to handle and once it's with the law it's you know it's out of our hands if we've done you know I say we if the school system has done what they could um you know this is something I guess it's with police or whoever it is that's out here or the school or county whichever So
051>> yeah, I'll follow up. I mean, I will send you all and uh I'll send it through Bennett. It'll be a confidential email with student records. So just make sure that you know you treat it that way whenever it comes. >> All right. Anything else? All right. I appreciate everybody's input and I appreciate everybody that was at the uh board retreat on uh Saturday. A lot of good information got shared there, some updates, all that budget stuff. Some of it goes over my head, but I appreciate the work Dr. Arnold and staff put in on that cuz that budget and when we're talking about shortfalls, that makes it even harder. So, that $1.2 $2 million that came in from the uh uh the schools getting, you know, the reward through Tennessee Department of Education. That
052that's helped out a whole lot. I know they're still working hard on everything. So, appreciate that. Yeah. >> Dr. U for that 1.2 uh 1.2 million. Do we need as a board to vote on how we're going to allocate that? you know how we're going to use that or is that pretty much your discretion to use? >> So, it's my discretion. So, it'll be within the budget for you for you to approve. So, it'll be considered as revenue in the budget >> in the budget that we approve. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> And that'll be coming up in April. So, not going to be too far out. >> All right. There's nothing else. will be adjourned till the business session next Thursday. Hope everybody stay warm.