001[Music] This Yeah, I got the good spot back here tonight. I norally like curly hair. [Music] Y'all online I lost follow. All right, we'll go ahead and start our meeting tonight. And first thing on the agenda is roll call here. Here Neil here. [Music] All right. Next is the we will stand for the invitation and heavenly father Lord we thank you for this day Lord for the beautiful weather we've had for the great weekend. Lord we thank you for the reason for Easter. Lord, I pray that you be with us tonight as we go through your business. Um that we do what's pleasing to you and and what's best for our students. Lord, thank you um for getting us here today, Lord. And I pray that you be with us as we go home. And
002Lord, just be with us all as um we work to do what's best for our students. In your name we pray. Thank you. Amen. I aliance 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. All right. Next is to approve the agenda for today of April 21st, 2025. All right. Motion made by Diane, second by Jody. All in favor say I. Any post say no. Motion approved for the agenda of the April 21st, 2025 agenda. Uh next, we would like to welcome our visitors to our meeting tonight. All right. Next is to approve the minutes of the previous meeting on March 10th, 2025. If there is any changes or questions, I'll make a motion previous. Motion
003made by John. Second. Second by Vivian. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carried to approve the minutes of the previous meeting, March 10th, 2025. Next is the public comment. Um, we allow a signup sheet prior to the meeting. If anybody would like to speak on anything on on items of the agenda and if there's no sign up, we'll just proceed. All right. Next is the custodial pay adjustment. Board members, I mentioned this in our work session. Three years ago, our custodial staff were on 200 day contracts and one of the major concerns that we heard in the buildings was the clean limits of the schools, just the general upkeep, and it was very difficult for them to stay ahead when they were following the same schedule as basically as the teachers. So we
004improved it to a 220 day schedule the following year and then the la this year we were supposed to move to a 240 days and that's what their schedule has been but through a keystroke error we've talked about those things can happen they were being paid on a 220. So they're on track to do 240 but have been paid as 220. So 20 days or so. So what you see in front of you is what needs to be paid out to them. and the money is there in the budget, but we wanted to bring that to your attention because it requires that amendment for us to go ahead and do it. So, they've been working the days. It's just what is right to make sure to take care of them and then moving forward, they
005need to stay on it 24 days. It's made a difference. You saw the development on the adjustment, correct? Amy, do I got that right? It's just a pay adjustment to fix what we have. We've made an error. We need to fix that. I'll make a motion to add. [Music] All right. Motion made by John. Second made by Miss Diane. All right. Let's do roll call. Absent. Copper. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Jones. Yes. Snider Windsor. Yes. All right. Next is the fiscal year 2526 budget review and approval. So, Amy, were there any changes that were made based on any conversations you had with anyone? I did not make any changes. what what we did in the work session and in the additional two um meetings we had scheduled for two days this past week. We made
006no changes whatsoever, but it is a proposed budget and so our plan is to if something needs to be adjusted, we will do that starting July. Are there any other questions? I make a motion to pass the budget and approve. All right. Motion made by John. Second made by Jody Roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. Next is the Freedom Education Act resolution for the teacher bonus. So let you pass along to me the example from and I actually had a side by side document and then I I reached out to Sam attorney and I said hey I have prepared a second document for this but I shared my concerns with him about what legislation has done because in that other one it says we support all this export the teacher bonuses but not the
007scholarships. and he said, "I do not recommend you put anything in there other than what they provide." And I said, "Okay, but obviously it's the want of the board to do that." The fear is is out of I don't know how else to describe the possibly vindictive behavior. Exactly. I think Jimmy Dell said it in a meeting one or two meetings ago uh when I sent you all that article targeting and TSBA. right or wrong. It's just something that's unprecedented. They've I've never known them to do that before and I wouldn't want this board to be a target because we changed the language. So, based on the board of attorney's recommendation, it was I wrote it just Lake County Board of Education as it was provided to us. If you wish to add something to
008it, happy to help. I'm going to be going back to this signing the resolution. Yes, we want that 2,000 bonus for our for our folks, but does that state that we are in favor of voucher? Is there an answer to that? I feel like it's my opinion is it feels like a victory after legislation that was accomplished because this board like many other boards signed a resolution last year for all students supporting all students in public education and this is kind of that it's retaliation for your support of all. So I I don't you know, the end result of that. I don't know where that goes. I I can't think like like that. So, so maybe it really doesn't matter if it's if I don't think I don't know that it would I would say
009it matter if we charge to apply for grants or we apply for extra help or we didn't. I think that's what I normally put words in Sam's mouth. But that was what my feeling was when I reached out to that if you don't sign it could affect us. We're not signing. Do you mind if we read the resolution? Okay. So, the resolution by the Lake County Board of Education. Let me just do a reading of what this resolution states. Um whereas the Lake County Board of Education is charged with governing the school system so that all students receive the best educational opportunities in order to graduate prepared to enter a post-secary institution or the workforce. And whereas the Tennessee General Assembly passed the Education Freedom Act of 2025 during the first extraordinary session of the
010114th General Assembly. And whereas this act includes a provision providing one-time bonuses of no less than $2,000 to public school teachers in the state. And whereas section four of the Education Freedom Act of 2025 requires that a local board of education for an LEA seeking to participate in section four of the proposed act must affirm its intention to participate via a resolution in order to receive state funds to issue these bonuses. Therefore, be it resolved that the Lake County Board of Education affirms its intention to participate in the section 4 of the Education Freedom Act of 2025 relative to bonuses for teachers. So, so the bonus is great, but I guess the question is we don't know what's coming down the pipe. I'm going to say, are we afraid not to do it? Face retaliation.
011We ask for something. That's that's a great point. We certainly don't I'm not even thinking about the money. I'm thinking about that. Well, I heard strongly that verb requires right up there somewhere. I It's kind of like you deserve and we don't and we do want to support our teachers of course um in our schools and and all of our staff. Um, I really don't like the storm because that's that's how I see what they That's just like the state recommended to adopt this policy. It's a recommendation, but you're going to do I think that they're doing exactly what the intention was was to create divisiveness between leadership and teachers. Nobody wants to stand in the way of an educator getting an extra $2,000. And so this is a part of the divisive. Are you
012going to stand on the resolution that you passed last year? support teachers. And this is how this is how it's being done. They've got us. They got us. And so this is pass through money that helps teachers. They get $2,000. It's great for teachers. We're certainly not the only school district. I don't know how many there are, but they're they have passes. But I know that when I sent that list was a month or so ago more than half. And so when they're targeting like Tulsa, what is their plan? Well, with with those two organizations, it was if I understood that article correctly, it was the belief that there was misinformation that was being put out by those organizations that they both run off of taxpayer money and that's how we are members of that
013of those programs and that those organizations have lobbyists who are able to lobby against what legislation is trying to do. So they feel like they're being strong on by using tax dollars that come out of our school districts. I know. I mean, so you use the term strong. It does um it does state if if we need to we need more time that we need to have an agreement by no later than June 1st because the process is they're doing a test of who the staff are on TN compass who meet the criteria that over 120 days they meet that criteria then the one that they're going to use to pull is in June June that June pull is who's going to get past your man that's paid out that's in July. But none of
014that language in the resolution is going to change. I mean that's what I'm saying. If if we wanted to amend it or anything, we have until June, but if not, I mean, this is pretty much straightforward. Yeah. Sam Jackson, I'm prepared. I'm prepared to make my decisions if y'all need more time. Whatever. Anybody else need more time or ready to make a decision? We can there's there's the options. We can table it next month in May, but we'll probably need to have a decision by then. But the verbiage remains the same. The verbage remains the same. We'll have next month probably. And the bottom line is we'll still be operating from a point or they don't retaliate. Yeah. We'll be saying that next month. [Music] change table. I make a motion. Motion made by John.
015The resolution. Second made by Vivian. All right. Let's do roll call. Okay. Crawford. Yes. Cook. Yes. Yes. On your destiny. Yes. But put that gum by my nose. All right. Next is the districtwide bonuses outside of the resolution. So, kind of like, you know, giving teachers a $2,000, but we want to we also want to include all of our staff because it's all of our staff that work with our kids and help our kids to be the best that they can be. So, this resolution will be coming out of that's passed through the money which and so Oh, yeah. This next part comes out of our GP. Yes. work with I work with Amy to create this proposal to you all. The total cost of this is the 76,500. You see the 2,000 per certified
016and the supervisors and then the 500 per for cafeteria staff. probably right behind the resolution. [Music] So is it the vote the total okay the total overall is 76,500 coming from the general this budget. So Amy this request I just want to be clear to the board. It would have to be approved by the county commission if it's coming out of the GP budget. It will again. Yeah. So, there's another part to this process. Okay. And I would also assume this is where it gets a little bit more entangled. This is a little bit behind the scenes because we would pay it out of this GP budget or we paying it out next year. It's not paid until July. That's the pass through money. This money that we're allocating, are we putting it in this
017year's GB? Are we going to put it in next year? I'm not understanding. It's all supposed to be for next year, but it's paid for this time employees, which did not make sense to me. Um, but that was my understanding. It's through the June and they have to be, you know, but for this resolution, we could decide how we're doing. So, you want to follow suit and use the GP money next year to pay that. If we do that, we'd be able to use the budgeting process to budget it. Well, you could, but at this point, you would Yeah, you would make the amendment. If I'm making sure I got that right, because you can't spend this year's money next year unless you pay it out in June, in which case you would be paying
018that out ahead of the past money that's coming that's coming here. So, you would do an amendment to the budget. So, you do that resolution now. You're making that commitment. We would reconvene after the budget has been subtled by the county commission. And then you would do an amendment to the budget adding this money to it. So this just shows the commitment to I have to ask we afford to pull $2,000 for employee out of our So the fund balance and I know there was some commitments to that but the fund balance was still doing the math still well over million. And then our minimum that we have to keep is no more than $400,000. We're going to give everybody $5,000. See what you do. It said a minimum of 20, but if it's if
019it's next year, it's going to be on the next year. So, there need to be amendment. That's right. So, you commit to it and then we will readress it. That way your staff knows that this board's committed to it and support moving forward. It's just theirs will be delayed because in the past our county commission past couple years hasn't got our budget passed until August, right? So it may be the end of September. But if we are doing it for next year, would it not go in under amendment next year? Since this is the proposal, we would make an amendment on the So, you're just making a commitment. In a couple months, we'll be able to say where it's coming out of and how we All right. Are there any other [Music] questions? I'll make
020a motion. Pass the district wide bonuses outside of the resolution. All right. Motion made by John. Second made by Diane Hall is absent. Yes. Yes. Yes. Jones is absent. Neil, yes. All right. Next is Laura Kendall's field trip Beta Club. Well, members, if you recall, we had this discussion about overnight trips, out of state trips. And so, following our policy, Gamble submitted for her building a beta club trip that is overnight. Anything that you want to offer about that? Um, and I don't know if y'all have any questions. We're going to go into the St. Yes, I will not be going, but um my sponsors who were going were unable to come tonight, so I'm coming in for them. Don't know if I can answer all the questions, but I should be able to. So,
021we're providing a bus. There will be overnight lodging. I can say I drove that trip years ago in middle school and it was very good. a chaperon. But it is a good group of of kiddos. 37. Give. But yes, these are ones I would trust. I made a sponsor trusted. I think it was misplaced. Any questions? [Music] All right. Motion made [Music] by second made by Jody. Thank y'all. All right. Let's do a roll call. Yes. Yes, thank you. All right. Next is amend the 25 26 calendar. some board members. For those that weren't on the board at the time, we were we were on a quest to make sure that we had our school calendar out three years in advance. We did that. We want to continue to stay out that advance, but also
022when you get new information, you want to be able to change what your needs are. And the schedule is an instructional tool to leverage point to improve what we're putting in front of students in the classroom. And so when we were talking about professional development opportunities for teachers and when to provide that to maximize, we realized that we need to make some shifts in the calendar. So Nikki and Sunny, if you want to explain what the shifts were and the why, that would be very helpful. So Sunny and I had some conversations. Well, the the district leadership can have some conversations about what would best what the calendar look like to best support the um PD and then the support for the students and what that look like. So, I reached out to the calendar
023committee and they had some concerns of wanting some time up front uh to have in their classrooms, which in the past were our administrative days. Um they're not typically shown on the calendar. However, the front of the the calendar looks the same as it did in the previous one, the five days up front of PD where it's marked out, but the change that um we talked about is the 28th and 29th would become administrative days. Uh Sunny is going to offer PD, summer PD, a very intentional PD that can be uh that the teachers are able to attend. And if they attend those PD sessions, at least two of those, then that would account for those two days and they would have administrative days to work inside their classrooms. If they do not attend the
024summer PD, then those two days would be required PD inside that week. So that's they have the opportunity to have those days to work up front. Um, another thing we did was move uh some of the PD days to the break before Christmas. Students would now release on 17th and half a day and then teachers would stay and then return the next day and half the following and then we move the January 20th PD to February 17th. I believe that was all that changes. lots of consideration about so she got teacher input and a lot of the conversations is what does this do for students so we didn't start with just teachers is this impact students where they are in their learning is this going to impact that so once we got past that next
025the next part was going to the teachers so we did do it with student first there was also another conversation we had in the principles and assistant principal meeting and I think It was it was a great decision that they they learned about color coding from that girl long ago and just kind of g backing those dates up giving the opportunity for teachers to process and here's professional learning and then spend a day working together and then coming back and reflecting with the age and range of teacher abilities and professionalism. Just going through that giving and that opportunity for us to felt was a little rushed this year and like we were talking through it about the time we realized we had something that we needed to kind of pivot on and spend some more
026time doing. We didn't have days built in. So this gives us so my goal is when they leave December the 25th, they will have everything they need to get that next nine weeks period ready to go. We'll be able to support and provide that time. partner up teachers, bring in specialists, anybody that we need to help us do it. And this summer, they're gonna have it by by next week. I plan to send that out. There will be two days in June and three days in July. They'll have opportunities. And once I know who my teachers will be there, then we'll have specific things that meet their needs. Yes. Some of it will be self-paced. up will be you show up that day and you'll work with the team and there will be somebody that
027work and they're all of them are whatever June 15th is July 15th the Tuesday Wednesday Thursday that week and they'll get that information on Monday we just have to get through this I make a motion amend the 2025 2026 motion made by John second made by Vivian All in favor say I. Any oppose say no. Um motion carried to amend the 2526 calendar. All right. Next is the anonymous information policy review. Um so so with the the anonymous information policy review um there was a couple of instances where schoolboard members received an anonymous letters and um we reached out to TSBA just to see what we needed to do um when somebody would like to make an appearance. parents before the board. And so um we reached out to TSBA. This is something that they
028came up with um to add and it states anonymous complaints or letters submitted to the board or individual board members shall not be read during a board meeting and everything else is the same. Um, but if anybody would like to, you know, if anybody has concerns, we are more than welcome to listen. You can call us, you can email us. Um, we also have a time right before the meeting to sign up if you would like to make a public comment. Um, so we have things in place um, if you would like to to talk to the board members. Um, does anybody have any questions? Well, I might look at the wording a little better. Okay. Anonymous complaints or letters. I think any anonymous information should not be presented to the board because there are
029procedures in place for someone in the community to reach out to one of us or go through their director, right? Instead of us presenting anonymous information because I can come in and say I had a constituent come to me which would like to remain anonymous that said Jody was behind you selling drugs that was just anonymous information presented by to me not in a letter form but by word of mouth. So I think anonymous information should stay out of us. We should not present anonymous information to the board. I know that TSBA worded this for us, correct? Yeah. Does TSBA support what that says? Okay. I called Ben and he was in great in agreement with any anonymous information because whether it be in letter form or word of mouth or verbal it's still there's
030no legality to it to say that there is a [Music] criminal suggestion I guess or something like that it sounds I said Lord let's hope it's not criminal well I mean just it's it's open to that What how we would need to do is change a couple words here. Anonymous complaints verbally or written should not be submitted. So complaints or information. Now you're saying anonymous complaints verbal or written. So add verbal or written. So if we have information we want to share. We don't do it in the board. Well, not from an anonymous person. You can do it. You can you can express your own and we have sign up for people in the community to come out. I can give you an example misinformation. I didn't see this, but as I was standing in
031the bus line picking back up from school the other day, I heard a parent talking about Jody out drinking with some students the other day. [Music] said that on YouTube [Laughter] now we do open the record come and they they're more than welcome to come to us and I always but what do you do with it when they come to you? I direct them to talk to if it's I'll talk to them if I can't give them information they want to know I'll find out and I'll relay that information to them. If I can't do it, I Well, in a lot it's the information that you're receiving in some cases building principal. I don't hold it up here. Next sense. Okay. So, we want to we want to include anonymous complaints, verbal or written or
032letters submitted to the board or individual board members shall not be read during a board meeting. And so, we should not even speak of Well, that's where your verbal comes in. That's why you're adding We don't speak of it at a board meeting, right? I'm talking about verbal complaints complaints. If you get ready for the motion, she can read back to make sure we have update the policy. Right. I'll make the motion. I heard I don't know. Did you I don't like the motion. Did you makeotion? I like the motion. She was gonna read afterotion. I motion made by John. I agree. Okay, I agree. What do you Okay, you made the first question, right? You made a decision. Yeah. Okay, so we're going to say anonymous complaints, verbal or written or letters submitted to
033the board. I think verbal or written probably. Anonymous complaints verbal or written submitted submitted to the board. Individual board shall not be read during Okay. spoken or [Music] readal spoken in there shared anonymous complains spoken or read verbal or written shall not oh shall not be spoken or read. Verbal matches spoken. Oh, I see what you're saying. Letter matches written. That makes sense. Spoken or read. All right. But it's anonymous. Anonymous complaints verbal or written submitted to the board of individual board members shall not be spoken or read during a board meeting. All right. At this moment we cannot You can watch your own. I'm glad to know that. All right. I do have a first first. All right. Next is the mileage policy right now. Absent. Cochran. Yes. Yes. Yes. Homer. Yes. Neil, I
034mean Jones is absent. Neil, yes. Snider is absent. Next is the mileage policy update. So, board members, the way that this policy been written actually had the state rate in it. and the state rate would continue to increase and policy would remain static. So we have to follow the state but we weren't following policy the way this is worded as given to us by TSBA. It would allow us to pay as the state of Tennessee increases with the reimbursement rate. So the wordage helps us support our staff in reimbursement and that way we don't have to come back to a board and be behind. There was times where we couldn't pay mileage checks because the policy was not ref. So this allows us to be flexible as they change. Any questions? Motion made by Jody.
035All right. Motion made by Jody. Second. Second made by John. Roll call out. Yes. Homer. Yes. Out. Neil. Yes. Snider's out. Winter. All right. Next is the strategic plan five-year plan. Well, members, if you recall in our retreat, we talked about the vision, the mission, the goals, strategic work we had laid out and how much more that that really could be in the board's office for me to present to you all strategic plan. Gave you a rough last month's meeting and then discussed timelines, not having timelines. So went back to senior leadership. We put the dates that coincided with the objectives. Jennifer Robertson did an amazing job I think bringing the whole thing to life. The way she organized it throughout the plan concerning those images that went with it. This is a plan that
036you will also see. The district also does a district improvement plan every year. And there's two ways of looking at a district improvement plan. It's a compliance or it's best practices. We firmly believe that the district improvement plan should be a best practices living through the document. The school improvement plans that have to submit every year should be based on district improvement plan. What this represents is the overall the 45,000 foot perspective of the district. Everything that we write in that plan should be aligned to this and aligned to the school and hopefully it meets your expectations as far as timelines goes and what you want in the schools. I think it's very comprehensive. I think senior leaders team did a great job pulling that together. I just wasn't sure that timeline could be applied
037to everything, but it's amazing that that's gotten done. I just So remember, and I will say this, you'll notice we'll say throughout the plan because we're looking at starting up with two new principles next year. Even though Dr. Elliot feeds us for half a year. That work starts at ground zero with his staff and anybody that comes in contact. So we're constantly every year going to be going back and sustaining figuring out what that looks like and supporting teachers. So, we try to be very specific in this plan just like we do the LEA plan because we want our our administration, our teachers to know what our vision is moving forward. And so, giving them as much information as possible, but still recognizing that there are things that we're going to do in year one
038that we're going to have to do again in year two that we're going to have to continue to do in year three. So, that's what that looks like. And at the same time, new principles andor new staff. That's I think that's where I wanted I didn't want to get hung up in well I thought you said this was already done. What's not if you have new staff coming so it's our want to be transparent your want for accountability and understand where we are and we didn't want to talk both sides. So just hats off the time. I just feel like measure. We also want to use this fiveyear strategic plan to be able to report to the board just like what we had set out a calendar for this year about reporting out using this
039as the catalyst to say where we are be able to talk about high quality instruction materials through the lens of ELA math or science or if we're going to talk about MTSS multi-ter system this should be our pacing guide for our discussion of improvement Open up. There any other questions? Will there be a um like maybe like a progress like by let's say January of next year of this strategic plan just to see that's right so everything that you say that we're implementing we have completed it should be our pacing it's fair game to ask questions if you bring that to the board of so can you share you are something we have an inclination that's what you want to talk absolutely sure any other questions it's also a talking piece when a report card
040data comes back up instead where so whatever those grades might be, where are we in the strategic work in addressing to approve? That was the that was the Ben Torres suggested that in the retreat that we create that document for you because this gives me the marching or once you approve it then everybody in the organization should understand what I have any questions about I make motion we approve motion made by Second by yes and I appreciate this because that feedback that I got in the retreat, it was clear what the board So work our way through whatever it is going to look like. Now we're on the same page. Communication help. All right. Next is Schneider Electric Update. members, you know, the the scope of work was approved by this board based on a
041priority list goes back to the money $389,000. So, Richard Bryce Rich Price is the project onsite coordinator project. He sent me an update on Thursday and said there were initially some hiccups with the fencing because of some underground utilities, but they have worked through that. Almost all of the fencing has been installed. All of the video doorbell systems on the front of the buildings have been installed. Emma, you can speak to the one at Larry Kendall. Has that improved the security? I think so. and some broken fingernails, too, cuz people don't open the door lock. And there is a sign there. There is a sign. Here's your sign. But, uh, so it's just taking some getting used to for my staff as well. But, uh, we like it. The camera's really good when So, before
042we even let them in the building, we can see their face and talk to them before they even get in the little lobby area. So, there's two doors before they can get to us. So, yes, we we have liked it. If you recall, part of that issue in the festival is there's a fire station, fire pull station right there. So, you'd be able to just walk in and then you have access to a fire pull station. So, now then they have to be granted access to get there. So, they have to meet some sort of clearance to get into the building. So, that's good. I don't want the words in Jimmy Dale's mouth, but Sunny and I were over at the high school a couple weeks ago and he said it's the first time in
04322 years those doors closed on their own and locked. So I haven't been around that long, but people around us that heard that statement said he's exactly right. And we watched it happen. You pushed every one of those doors open and the closures brought the doors back and they blew locked. That's awesome. [Music] The metal detectors were ordered and they are in the maintenance shop waiting to be installed. And at the end of this, all of the project should be done reported by Rich by the 28th of April, less than 30 days. Did we have a wand yet for the elementary school? Because that's what we decided to use, wasn't it? Yes, ma'am. Um, and April the 29th is the training for the staff. So, we have it, but the training is the 29th. John,
044I got a question and this is probably one we should have thought of sooner, but how are we going to wand those kids and not just freak them out? I think the wanding was for the purpose of visitors or we wanted the kids. Did we decide? I don't think we miss B. I don't want to speak for you, but I don't think that we have defined uh procedures yet. So that we still have time for that conversation. Matter of fact, Miss Gamble has uh did a Google form for us that we had all these questions that we've had about it because I forget my question. Yeah, we forget our question. So we're putting there. So there is some procedures just just some daily procedures that we we don't know yet. So second grade down the
045question is should we want each kid? My opinion is no. I don't think that was even okay. All right. That's not employees of our, you know, because we obviously you had to go through a background check and everything, you get employed here. So any visitors that are not employed for Lake schools that would come in, we wouldn't want them. And they it's they've got a standalone matter on Ter. Any questions about the progress on my priority are right next to hear from the principles first. Carrie want high school. Dr. Ellie is representing us at our ball game. So I'm going to be here speaking for the high school. First off, the CTE programs helped the uh health department with the community fun day on April 12th. The weather was fabulous. It was a great turnout.
046Also, the FFA greenhouse flower has been taking place on the 12th and the 19th. It's awesome. We've not been able to wander around in the greenhouse. It's wonderful. Uh we're also continuing our ELC testing this week with Mathology US history. So, you know, good luck to us on that. Lots of prayers. And then um top 10 banquet will be held Thursday which is the 24th. This is going to be at 6 with Chuck Graham as our speaker. So we hope you all and that prom will be held at Main Street Center on May 3rd. Pretty much what we got um we are teapping it few more days. Um so we're still wearing our math and we have science and social studies left. We have a celebration day on Friday and then next week we'll be
047back to our regular program instructions and all that good stuff. Not that they're not doing that now, but um we're finalizing plans for our end of the year things getting some details worked out. Tonight is our eighth grade night at the baseball and softball field. Miss Terry is there so I can come here. I thought I was gonna have to walk anyway. I do have a but um anyway, we're just rolling right along. You can tell the kids have some spring fever, summer fever, whatever you call it. Um, so we're trying to be extra watchful that we definitely have spring fever. One of our ways we're trying to combat that is we have falcon signs on every door and once the students go with once the students get initial for each of the letters of
048falcons they get a class reward. So uh Thursday we had five of our 13 students received one of their parties and so for working they moved to a new reward and the other ones are still working. So that has been going well. Um, our book fair bears April 28th through the 30th and that's Monday through Wednesday. Family night is going to be Tuesday the 29th, 3:30 to 5:30. And we um have lab where each student is able to purchase a $5 book. They will always uh also in front of you board members is going to put in an auditor report. Is it ATA that does that? So that's the auditor's report because they're the ones that do before before we had cafeteria inside our finance system, they were outside. So a different company did the
049the audits for them and also the schools. And so that's report funds and Amy sent me a number for the 141. That's the fund balance. So currently the fund balance is for 141 which is your GP budget 4,11,184.39. So four million as of right now. So at the end of the school year we will close out the books and then whatever is left and there were a couple of projects that the board did agree to pay for. So remodeling project Kendall which is completely done the fire marshall signed off on and now can be used fully to capacity in the gym and also that storage area back. So all that's taken care of might have to do that may have to get into it for science curriculum. I hope to present. We we have selected
050but I'm in the process of getting the mount getting the budget and they're just swamp the representatives and I've sent in my request. I'm just waiting to have actually have a virtual call on Wednesday have some conversations about products. The other part was the insurance that the board committed to focusing on one specific area. We agreed that if need to we go into the fun that as well. So, and the the difference in the retirement or what we needed to fix there. So, there are some small things that weren't going to come out, but still a very helpful. All right, I think that was it on any other business? No, I was just going to ask Miss Sunny, could you do me a favor? Um, I think I mentioned this to Dr. burden that when
051y'all get a decision on like the curriculum to post that to the Facebook page of the school in case parents want to go look at it, they have access to it. It's currently already there and when we I have a feedback forum and I gave them the links to look at everything the teachers looked at and actually closed that last Friday, but it I can open it back up but once we make a post I will put it back. But we they had I have to tell you y'all will vote at me. So we went with um solace for K5 which is a Pearson product. Um in the 680 space is KDM which is open and in the high school 912 is going to be and I'm just waiting on pricing that way. Well, Pearson
052said something like Oh, open to platform. So, it's remember the criteria was high quality instruction. That's different in the past to create soci this. All right.