001I youd okay we will go ahead start the meeting the first thing we're gonna do is um Square in Michael Kan in district one as our as our school board member he was appointed uh by the County Commissioners and we are happy to have him with us um so welcome um jury's going to come up um judge [Music] I'll come to you I'll come to you do you here I'm hold I'm read it you agree say yes do you Michael support con Tennessee the United States of America of the office as a member of Board of Education represen County Tennesse works for me [Applause] congratulations got I've got a child You're Now official congratulations we will go ahead and start meeting first is here here Homer Jones here [Music] all right and next one we
002will stand for the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance let's pray Heavenly Father Lord we thank you for the day Lord we thank you for this beautiful WEA you've given us and Lord I just pray that we conduct this meeting Lord that be pleasing to you and that uh we look at the students first Lord we thank you um for the safe travel you're going to give us home Lord and U bring us back tomorrow for our appointed time that we're supposed to be at for whatever we're uh to do tomorrow Lord thank you you for everything you do for us your name we pray to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all next is
003to approve the agenda for Mar March 10 2025 there any questions or changes motion made by Vivian second by Diane all in favor say I any opposed say no all right motion approve uh to approve the agenda for March 10th 2025 and next is we would like to welcome all of our visitors um I see the The Culinary the high school students from from The Culinary class did an awesome job of making us a meal and I know also that they went to state to for a competition which is awesome so um wh you want to say anything about like what yes so um we last Friday attended State for the junior chef competition our students placed fourth in the state um there [Applause] were there were a total of nine teams one which got
004cut before before they even made it um one that dropped out and so we competed against six other teams um and we got fourth and and I'm so so proud of them this is all of their first time competing um and because they got fourth place we also walked away they're now Junior certified chefs we were talking before the meeting started this is only our second year of colonary Arts the colonary arts program came into scep because of the the ism SCH so two years ke has L this program at Trail Blazers as far as culinary arts into high school so thank you for all your hard work and being vulnerable and courageous enough to go to compete you have never done that before well done and I know you have already done Reflections and
005after action review about what are you going to do better that's how you get so thank you thank you for the meal today it was wonderful great job um next is to approve the minutes of the previous meeting February 10th 2025 are there any comments or questions or changes that need to be made make the motion motion made by Jimmy Dale second second by Miss Deborah all in favor say I I any opposed say no the motion Carri to approve the minutes of the previous meeting for February 10th 2025 hi guys thank all right next is um public comment we allow uh for the public to come if there's any comments or questions um we give them an opportunity to come and allow for a sign up and nobody has signed up so we will
006just proceed next is the Tennessee education Freedom Act resolution and teacher fuses ma' so I've had a chance to talk to you all about this resolution and I just took it way was as example it I describe it this is the Victory lap for legislators and that's the way the process works so it was voted into the existence part of that plan was is $2,000 to each of our certified teachers you have the criteria that was attach P some of the biggest parts of that is they had to work 120 days to be considered they have to be in the TN Compass program which is where we have all of our certified teachers for the purpose of evaluation accountability they will do a practice round in April and then the final round for those teachers
007that are listed on the June 15th we as a district get to consider whether or not they meet that 120-day criteria the state will provide the 20 ,000 plus any of the benefits to go to the backend because every time it runs through payroll there are taxes that be paid there are teachers that are still in the career ladder so those of yall remember from the 90s the career ladder so we have we have teachers that we have to pay that to so all of those benefits are wrapped into this so a couple of points that well one of the biggest things that we're still unclear about we had a conversation today about so as they coming out of this year's budget or is it coming through next year's budget right so we are still
008uncertain of which budget because it's not getting paid until July 2026 are we receiving the money in June of 2025 are we receiving the money in July 2026 so a little uncertain now so I want to set that to the side for a second when I was talking to Jimmy Dale he brought up a point that I know that other school districts were discussing do we wish to compensate other employees who've been a part of this District during the same amount of time so thinking about PA professionals cafeteria custodians maintenance the admin are not a part of this plan so an assistant principal princi not a part of nobody from the central office is a part of that plan the toe is only paying for the certified teachers so includes Librarians school counselors instructional coaches
009so forth and so on do you wish to consider so M gave you another piece of paper and it gives you a basic idea of what that would cost if you wish to commit so my suggestion to you and I'll take your questions is if that's what you want to do I would say do it in one swoop of the pin instead of addressing this twice if you do it tonight with the resolution then you're only agreeing to $2,000 for teachers that's serving in the classrooms um and even then I'm not certain of when it's going to come out whereas if you decide that you want to take this on that's the estimated amount of money which would actually be coming out of the fiscal year 26 budget so what I'm asking you to do
010is one consider it and two is to delay and actually enact them if that's what you want to do you need more answers you need to know what's in the fund balance if that's part of your consideration do you want this built into the budget as a part of the 25 26 school year there's some thought that has to go into that as well so I'll leave it to y'all to discuss if you have questions I if think that we should take carebody all that's my would you agree that to adhere to the 120 Day rules tell me who's not 120 day so it would be more about um custodians Care Professionals staff material staff we've had turnover there so they wouldn't have met the0 days um I don't know if the full-time substitutes have
011hit the 120 days so there's a there's a few in there because you might have somebody who works there for three months did you excl okay see but I do agree with classified the C price also get more confident you ask that so if you agree to this if they don't return do you wish so not the $2,000 because TD is like if they don't return you can still give them the money do you wish to make that same commitment to somebody who doesn't return and they're not a part of T so if you have a custodian that leaves in the middle of June they met the criteria they don't come back you want to use it as kind of as a retention part that's part of the discussion as well get a little more
012complicated my question is do we have to have to pass the resolution you do if you want the teachers to receive the te ,000 that has to be done I believe 1 of June I believe that is right it doesn't have to be tonight I I know that other school boards or school districts are discussing this right now and like with Northwest Tennesse so I kind of want to hear what what yeah I'm not opposed to giv teachers money opposition is to have some resolution to start with because I think it in essence it gives people who are already in private schools a bigger Advantage than children who you know return to public schools and I think it takes away from public schools and so I just really have some questions about it and some
013concerns yeah I mean want our teachers to get the money it's not that it feels like collateral damage it does it does feels like they almost about making you do it it's twisting it's twisting our arm but they the state makes for the 2000 right qualified ones that's right they have to agree to the resolution so to right it becomes Pastor Mone you sign the resolution and then so do we um do we want to get more see what other school districts are doing or get more answers some of the other districts are doing because I mean like I said ultimately what we're saying when we when we approve this resolution what we're saying is is we are all for the educational freedom and it takes away from children in public schools just really I
014have a suggestion so the resolution goes back to TD just as it's