001All right, everybody's ready. All right, it's 6 o'clock. We'll call this meeting to order. Mr. Childress, would you open us up in a word of prayer, please? Let's pray. Most gracious heavenly father, Lord, we first of all want to thank you for this beautiful weather that we have. Lord, thank you for uh giving us the city that we live in. Lord, I want to thank you for all the uh leaders and uh uh first responders and everybody who makes this uh this town a livable city. God, we just uh thank you for the privilege of being here. Lord, thank you for uh giving us a whole new school system. Lord just uh bless us and be with us God that we will be a shining beacon for you. Lord just watch over us, guide us
002and direct us in everything that we do. These things we ask in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to theublic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, roll call, please. Chris Densson, here. Teresa Cook, here. Debbie Clipton, here. Barbara Gray, here. Cody Childress here. Barbara Hallebertton here. Amanda Compton here. Fantastic. We're all here. Our next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. So move second. Mr. Childress with a motion. Miss Hallebertton with the second. All those in favor? I oppose. There are none. That item passes. Item six is a consent agenda. Two parts. Part A, recommended approval of July 7th, 2025 board of education meeting minutes. Part B, designation
003that the following board of education policies in section one beginning with 1.10 10 0 and ending at 1.405 are correct as listed. So move Dr. Compton with the motion and Miss Gray with the second. All those in favor? I opposed. There are none. That all passes. Director of schools report. Busy day. Yes sir. Thank you uh Mr. Chairman. Uh first and foremost, want to thank P United Methodist Church for a great uh breakfast this morning. Uh Miss uh Miss Moore and her sausage balls are by far the best ever. Want to thank her for those. Uh want to thank everybody that helped us at the convocation. Mr. Densen was there speaking for us. Also, u Mr. Carrie Vaughn with the Millington Educational Leadership uh Foundation. Uh they have given to our teachers over $170,000 in
004in scholarships. So that's They're looking to make it over 200,000 this year. So, very excited about that. Uh, want to start off first with our new hires. We've got 41 Oh, yeah. new positions. I mean, people, they're your same people, but they're in new positions this year. Not all brand new employees. Uh, I can either read them off to you and give you the list real quick, but u Miss Memory Schwarz, who's going to be our BCBA, our behavior specialist, very important. Mr. Zayn Adams is now director of student services. Miss Laura Browning at CO is a occupational therapist. Danielle Stok is our speech and language pathologist. Uh at Millington Middle uh high school, you have Miss uh Miss Lyanna Nakarado and seventh grade ELA. Amanda Hopkins, seventh grade science algebra 1 teacher. Alyssa Black,
005alternative school education assistant, Darien Johnson, ESL teacher, Cassandra Morgan, graduation coach, Mr. John Cochran, guidance counselor, Miss Pamela Allen, another guidance counselor, Katherine Thomas, another guidance counselor, Laura Bivvens, high school band teacher, Mr. Aaron Arnold, high school social studies, Mr. James CS, education assistant, Jordan Browning, middle school band teacher, Miss Mary Armstrong, middle school sped teacher, Latoya Dodson, PE teacher, Aaron Marshall, PE teacher, Renee Reed, social studies, seventh grade, Brian Mitten, Spanish teacher, Matiia Leon Pablo, SPE assistant at the middle high school, uh, Simon Adams study hall Mr. Steve Cross new vice principal Miss Janet Piland our new welding teacher Olivia Baker ROC Mr. Pablo Swiss, our custodian, uh, Charl Charlie Ford. Another custodian, an Angela McCulla in the nutrition department, Norma Bonner. Front office attendance, Melanie Scrugs at MA. Also at MA is general
006ed assistant, Connie Middleton. Kitchen supervisor at MA will be Gwindelyn Hunt. PE uh prek sped assistant Tisha Barry Hill. Another sped assistant at MA Sarah Dial. Plant manager Mr. Vincent Nuome. PreK monitor Barbara Hodgej. PreK special ed teacher Kelsey Wilson. PreK sped teacher Emily McGomery. And of course leading our prek at MA, Miss Geette Farmer. Uh the nurse at MA is Adrienne Lawson. Another sped assistant at Mila is Tiara Middleton Walton spled sped clerical Miss Holly Hendren at MIS sixth grade ELA Jasine Jackson also another ELA teacher at MIS is Ethan Randall assistant principal Miss Tina Wilkerson general ed assistant Shannon Childris clerical Phyllis Barry sped teacher Joanne and Cunningham at the primary. First grade teacher Robin Bradley, third grade teacher, Miss Franny Everson, nutritionist at the primary school, Roxanna Hamlin. Another nutritionist, Christina Hutchinson.
007Assistant principal, Teresa Kirchoff. Cafeteria manager Miss Tammy Hendrick, instructional facilitator Denise Brandt, PE teacher Adam P. Sped clerical Michelle Davis. Uh sped functional skills assistant Jessica Leot. Sped F uh functional skills assistant Patrice Young. Sped functional skills assistant Elena Nichols. Sped teacher and the functional skills Miss Cadria Gryom. We are still looking for another full-time uh functional skills teacher, but we did have an interview today, I believe. So, as Miss Godwin's crossing her fingers, I hope. Yes. Um, and of course, uh, our custodians, Miss Kina Hall and another nutritionist, Vernell Lewis. There are 41 new new names and faces. But once again, had a great turnout for convocation. Uh, one of the great things is that when we ask all the alumni, how many alumni do we have? 71. Is that about right? Somewhere in
008there. 71 alumni that are actually working in our school district. So that that in itself should tell you about you know you grow them and you bring them back. So very excited about that. Uh want to also update you on the U Millington primary uh PTO investigation. It is complete and conclude and the conclusion of that Mr. Neil appreciate him taking care of that. There were no violations of policy 5.601 were found. However, there's room for improvement for handling complaints by parents. going to give with the policy committee and we're going to look at possibly adding to policy 5501 with clear guidance on the process for a parent for a complaint. Also, a recommendation was made to amend policy 2.404 line item 11 uh that the MPS PTO bylaws to allow to not allow the
009chair or an executive committee or the teacher liaison to vote on agenda items. Up next, uh once again, just want to say congratulations to Miss Farmer and the grand opening this past Saturday. Thank every all the board members for being there. Do appreciate uh Mayor Dan and city manager Dacon being there on their on their way out to go to Chattanooga for their statemandated um training on Saturday. Uh it was a great day in convocation. Once again, thanks to all the board members for being there. Um can't thank uh the education foundation enough for Mr. Carrie Von and the $170,000 for teachers uh scholarships over the past 11 years. A big thank you to Police Chief Stokes and Fire Chief Graves with helping us collaborate with a trying to think of a good word here.
010The best possible plan for the traffic at the Millington uh intermediate school. Uh been working on this all summer. Uh please be patient for the next two weeks because everybody has to get back to the routine but especially at MIS because we are closing down Cuba Millington. You have a the the map is in front of you to look at that. Also gave you uh a rebuttal on the EOC test scores that we went over um at our work session, but you can see uh big uh big gains in many subjects as shown above. A shout out to the fourth grade for making gains in all three tested areas. Congratulations to the middle school students. Special shout out to the seventh grade science and social studies for their incredible gains. High school ELC showed gains
011in all six assessments. Special congratulations to geometry teachers who grew their their test scores by 10 points. Uh once again, as you can see, I won't go over those, but making progress. You know, when you're, you know, you're looking at 54% of your fourth grade ELA is it meets or exceeds expectations. We won't be satisfied till we get 100%, but we're on the right path. So, wanted y'all to have that. Don't forget Wednesday, August the 6, we start school. Speed limits 15 miles an hour. Uh, please slow down. Pay attention especially on West Street and Cuba Mill for the changes. Um, and our student representative will be here for our next work session because they're not in school. I didn't think it was right for her to come and put her on the board just
012yet. So, but other than that, we are, you know, we're one away from being fully staffed. Want to thank our our central office leadership uh for just getting everything together. The principles are not here tonight because they're still working on some things uh for for Wednesday, but if you have any questions, I am available. I've got a couple of quick questions. Yes, ma'am. Could you give us an update on um the intermediate school project and can you also touch on the collaboration that we have with the city as far as hiring an SRO for the MA school? Yes, ma'am. Miss Clifton, uh we are on we are on we are on target. We are right on pace with the intermediate school. U I did not realize how long it took took to move dirt, but
013it does take a little while, but we are on schedule there. everything. We have not seen any uh we have not uncovered anything with moving all that dirt that surprised us. Um Mr. Leblanc is staying on top of that with uh you know we got a great construction company but we are right on schedule there. As far as working with the city uh once again you know we're working hand inand with everything. Uh I've met with Chief uh Stokes going to sit in on the interview. Uh we have access to our SRO for us to get in and out of MA uh with our city uh leadership there, but we are right on plans for that. But our city will provide an SRO for our MA for our middle, excuse me, Millington Educational Learning Academy,
014excuse me. But we're right on schedule for that as well. So that's Sorry about that. So that person there's people being interviewed for that. Yes, sir. They're they are interviewing them as we speak. Yes. And of course, just like we did with Officer Gibson, he will have a year to get his SRO training, but he will uh planning on doing that during fall break since that that week is available. Going to get it knocked out for them as well. Uh we've had two officers that are already on I believe two officers that are already on the Boone Police Department and a couple of them have got some education background. They're very excited about it. So, anyone else have any questions or comments? Oh, it's very good. Thank you very much. Thank you. Uh the next
015item on the agenda is item eight, recommended approval of FY26 budget amendment one for general nutrition and capital funds. Need a motion and a second. So move. Second. Mr. Childress with the motion. Miss Gray with the second. Mr. Curry. All right. Good evening board. Again, these are the same um amendments that we discussed at the work session. The first six are tied to the general fund budget. They're a total of $979,34. Um this uh an increase of TISA allocation for $181,749. Um money we received from the state for the education freedom act teacher bonus in amount of $445,625. a small information techn technology grant in the amount of $62,560. An increase of the FSCS grant in the amount of $263,119. An increase of the first eight Memphis grant in the amount of $16,86 and then
016an increase of the VPK grant in the amount of $9,445. So, I'll put a pen in it there and ask if you guys have any questions regarding those. I do. Um, is has the bonus for the Education Freedom Act teachers has that been distributed? Yes, that went out on the July 31st. Okay. Paycheck. I thought that's what was what you said it would be. I'm just Yes, ma'am. hoping it was good. Thank you. Okay. Uh, the next two are tied to nutrition and capital. Um Vicki has received the U fresh fruit and vegetable program grant in the amount of $70,950 and then an increase to the capital funds in the amount of 3,375,000 and this again this is tied to the U MIS project and these are anticipated incre invoices from Lincolnis and A2. Any
017other questions or comments? M. Thank you very much. Roll call, please. Cody Childress. Hi. Barbara Hallebertton. I. Amanda Compton. I. Chris Densson. I. Teresa Cook. I. Debbie Clifton. I. Barbara Gray. I. That motion passes. Next item on the agenda is item nine. It's the recommended approval of the disciplinary hearing authority, also called DHA, and the members. So move. Second. Fantastic. Dr. Compton with the motion. Debbie with the second discussion. Uh any comments, concerns? We got that list. Yes, sir. That list is in your uh file folder there, but these are just uh new members will be Mr. Zay Adams will be the chair. Miss Janet Pyland will represent uh middle high school. Miss Tina Wilkerson will represent the intermediate school and Miss Teresa Kerchaw will represent the primary school. Alternate members are of course Mr.
018Mark Mill and Mr. Hank Cox. And also just a quick update. I just got a text from powers of being they have hired our new SRO for MA. So it's already taken care of. It was taken care of today. So we're good to go. That's awesome. I just don't know his name yet. Sorry. We'll find out Wednesday. Yes, sir. All right. If there's no further questions, comments, this is roll call, please. Barbara Hallebertton, I. Amanda Compton, I. Chris Densson, I. Teresa Cook, I. Debbie Clifton, I. Barbara Gray, I. Cody Childress, I. That motion passes. Item 10, recommended approval of modification of 2025 2026 instructional calendar to adjust Friday, August 22nd, 2025 to a half day. Need a motion and a second. So move. Second. Mr. Childress with the motion. Dr. Compton with the second. If
019you want to explain that right quick. Yes sir, Mr. Chairperson. Uh, as we celebrate the 100th year of Millington football, we have a lot of things going on that day. And of course, like we said before, we have 71 uh alumni that are on our staff that I don't want to try to try to have school that day and not we would be short, especially at the high school level. We have the golf tournament. We have other things going on as well, but just so that everybody can partake in this once in a-lifetime historical event. We like to meet for a half a day that that day so that everybody can be a part of it. There we go. in the game that season kickoff game on 8:23. Yes, sir. Saturday against Fairley. And I
020know Mark Healey and and a whole group has come together. They're going to have an incredible offering which we don't talk too much about, but they're going to have uh for a lack of better words, legacy items. I wanted to say relics, but that no legacy items is a much better word. Legacy items uh that folks can come and tour. And Mark was telling me today that they have a 93y old who's donating from the 1940some team, which is unbelievable that they're tracing down folks even like that. So, it's going to be a great time. Uh alumni, players, and all will be on the field. There's going to be the walkth through and the looking at the items and then also for alumni, coaches, players, etc. They're going to have basically a tailgate right out
021here in the field From 4 to 6. And then they'll walk over to the field and then there's going to be a a ser a short service if you want to call it that. There will be a s short celebration walking folks out. Uh be very cool to participate and even some emotional participation in that as well. Yes, sir. Due to some of our most recent losses, but I want to encourage everyone to join that. Now, I know we hadn't voted yet on this, but I wanted to at least explain uh from a on top of the booth perspective what we have going on. And once again, we'll hear that Deep Sport South on Friday nights, but this time be Saturday. And our our good friend Tommy Clifton Jr.'s name is on the field. Yes,
022it is. I couldn't think of a a better person uh in order to have that name put there. Of course, he's got family up here, but me and Tommy go, we go back, not just here, but at the city of Memphis where we work together. And I'm I'm going to tell you, he was the same here as he was at work. He said what he meant. He meant what he said. So he he's a man of integrity. And uh I think we all miss him. So that's very cool. That's going to be great. So now that uh I got out there, I'm going to reel this back in and we're going to do a roll call specifically on the 202526 instructional calendar to adjust that Friday to half a day. Amanda Compton. Hi. Chris Densson.
023Hi. Teresa Cook. Hi. Debbie Clifton. I. Barbara Gray. I. Cody Childress. I. Barbara Hallebertton. I. The eyes have it. Next item on the agenda is recommended approval to contract with Central Technologies Incorporated to purchase 16 48 port 5320 extreme switches. This is to increase port capacity in our schools. This purchase will be an 85% funded by USA Cat 2 funding. The total cost of this project is 62,560 of which Millington Municipal School District will actually pay 9,384. That's our 15% funding has been identified in the 202526 general fund budget. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. I believe that was Miss Hallebertton with the motion. And was that you, Miss Clifton? It was Dr. Compton. Dr. Compton. I'm very sorry I didn't catch that. Very sorry. All right. Is there any questions,
024comments for Ryan? Ryan, you're welcome to explain. As we're just purchasing uh 1648 port switches to increase switch capacity at every school and in anticipation of the expansion MIS. Fantastic. Getting ahead of the curve. Very good. Very good. Thank you. That's a short one. Roll call, please. Chris Densson. Hi. Teresa Cook. Hi. Debbie Clifton, I Barbara Gray, I Cody Childress, I Barbara Hallebertton, I Amanda Compton, I. The eyes have it. Item 12, recommended approval to award roofing and related services and products contracts to Weatherproofing Technologies Technologies Incorporated and Garland DBA Incorporated in conjunction with Omnia Partners LLC for statewide use in the state of Tennessee for a contract period of August 5th, 2025 through August 4th, 2029. We need a motion and second. So move. Second, Mr. Mr. Childress with a motion. Miss Gray with
025the second. You're welcome to speak to it. Yes, sir. I just uh Mr. Leblanc is still recovering from surgery, but uh no, he went into great detail for us at this session. Uh the thousandpage uh manual is at the at our feed. If you'd like to skim through it, if you're having trouble sleeping, it's right there in front of you. But uh if you have any questions, please send them to me so I can get them to Mr. Blanc so we can get them answered for you. But, uh, this is just a great opportunity for us to make money without doing anything. We're going to get a percentage on anybody that uses these companies. We'll get a percentage of that. So, that's good news. That's fantastic. It's one of the first, I believe, that I
026know of that we actually are part of a state contract. Correct. Yes, sir. So, that's that's fantastic. Thank you'all for bringing this forward. Uh, roll call, please. Unless there's questions. I'm sorry. Roll call, please. Teresa Cook. Hi. Debbie Clifton. I Barbara Gray I Cody Childress I Barbara Hallebertton I Amanda Compton I Chris Densson I the eyes have it. That's a really good one. Item 13, recommended approval of the guaranteed maximum price of the Millington Middle School project, also called MIS, from Lincolnis Construction Company Incorporated for 29,421,780. We need a motion. Second, Mr. Childress with the motion. Miss Gray with the second. I know Mr. Leblanc is not here, but you're welcome there. Yes, sir. This is the maximum that the price can be. Let's just say for example something goes wrong and still shoots up
027twice its price. They cannot charge us more than what is in this contract right now. So that sets the price of a maximum price. There we go. So I know we had some questions about what's the final price. Well, can we go over what the additional costs are because we've got the construction manager fee and then the person that was looking into it the overview person that I think the total cost is higher than that. This is just to lynx us. This this specific is Yeah. to the construction piece, right? Can we can we go over those for the benefit of anybody who's listening with Mr. Phil not here? I thought somebody on the board might remember them. No. But I could get those numbers to you to explain to what's going on as far
028as that goes. Miss Cook, I understand what you're asking. I believe I get the right numbers to you. The 29,421,780 uh that includes all the contractor fees. So that's in this price, but I don't have the breakdown of them, but it is included in in this this final price. Okay, good. If that helps, that clarifies. We'll rely on you, Cody. It's in my notes. There's a lot of information with that. And while we're on that, I want to There's a lot of work that goes into this. uh I'm in construction every day and it's just not moving dirt and putting up walls. The preliminary seems to take longer than the actual work and there's a lot of partners and a lot of players and a lot of moving parts and uh I I want to
029thank Phil. I want to thank uh the mayor and the city because without them we couldn't do this. And uh I I know that uh uh we limit them and what they can do because we got them out on the limb a little bit. And I hate that it has to be that way, but we're going to make the payments, but you know, they have to endure what their bond rating is. But it's all for the kids. It's all for the the future. And uh I I just want to Thank you, mayor. Thank you. It's good. It's good. All right. If there's no more questions about this particular item, roll call, please. Debbie Clifton, I. Barbara Gray, I. Cody Childris, I. Barbara Hallebertton, I. Amanda Compton, I. Chris Densson, I. Teresa Cook, I. The eyes
030have it. Next item is the recommended approval to contract with MFA program, excuse me, management to provide resident on-site inspector services for the duration of the Millington Middle School project at a cost of 342,328. Funding has been identified in the USDA funds. We need a motion and a second. So move. Second. Miss Gray with the motion. Mr. Childress with a second. This ties into your question, so I stayed quiet about that. So, it is included in the total USDA funds. Okay. That's I don't want to say directly related to the construction, but it's more of on the uh inspector services side. And and again, I don't want to oversp speak for Mr. Leblanc, but he did provide us with they sent out the RFP had two respondents. The other company responded with uh the first
031price was almost a h 100,000 more. The second one after they cut out something was still 50,000 more. And so uh th this particular company guaranteed us the same person. Well, barring tragedy that's I I need to because we don't control the health and welfare of human beings. Barring any tragedy then we'll have the same person who is an expert in this area and retired in this field will be dedicated to us. I do not know the name. I can't a number this inspector. It's required with the USDA alone. So, it's something that we we have to have, right? It's built in. They they actually require that that it's none of us. It has to be. So, fortunately, we've got someone who's retired from that arena and that'll help us along the way. So, if
032there's any other questions, we can certainly take those and and get them to Mr. Leblanc. If not, we'll do Roll call. Excellent. Roll call, please. Barbara Gray, I. Cody Childress, I. Barbara Hallebert, I. Amanda Compton, I. Chris Densson, I. Teresa Cook, I. Debbie Clifton, I. The eyes have it. Next item on the agenda is the recommended approval to contract with Stellar Therapy for a speech language pathologist at $75 per hour for the 202526 school year. Funds have been allocated under contracted services in the general sped and IDA budgets. So moveton with the motion, Miss Clifton with the second. As y'all are aware, we have not been able to sustain an inperson speech pathologist. Um, our current contract is through advanced. She, Miss Amy, can provide us with virtual therapy. But if we're going to do
033virtual therapy, Stellar actually has Miss Laura Risinger, who was our former speech pathologist, who knows our students, tested the majority of them, and we'll be the ones serving us until we can find an inerson speech pathologist. Fantastic. And with that, um, once we get it set up with Stellar, we do we get to claim reimbursements. So, they will actually bill insurance with parent permission, of course, um, to kind of help offset the cost. That's about good. That's good. Hopefully, it won't be a permanent, but I know you've tried so hard. I'm old fashioned. I want in person. Well, we don't disagree. We all do. Yes. Thank you very much for your efforts. Any questions? Awesome. Thank you. Roll call, please. Cody Childress, I. Barbara Hallebertton, I. Amanda Compton, I. Chris Densson, I. Teresa Cook, I.
034Debbie Clifton, I. Barbara Gray, I. The eyes have it. Next item on the agenda is the recommended approval to contract with the YMCA for YCare services for the 202526 school year for an estimated cost of 150,500. Funding has been identified in the FY2526 FSCA grant. Need a motion in a second. So move. That was a time. We'll say Dr. Compton with the motion and Miss Gray with the second. All right. This is the contract um that enables us to provide free Yare services for a set number of qualifying families as well as our employees children. Um the estimated amount is based off of last year's enrollment and cost with a similar cap on enrollment for the coming year. So it should be more than enough from August through May. Fantastic. What is the enrollment? What
035was it last year? Last year's enrollment, we ended up with 40 something um qualifying families and then upwards of 30 employees, children. So, we we had a cap on it last year at 50 families plus employees. So, since we ended up I think the end of the year it was actually down to 40, maybe a little under just because of people withdrawing. So we set the cap this year at 40. So that's that's 40 families is a or 40 children. 40 children. Okay. 40 children plus no set number for employees. It's however many employees that we have that need it. Awesome. Any other questions? Just one. Um but we still have the the um I guess the guidelines in place that will prevent people from signing up and then not utilizing the services. Yes. We
036actually So, the ones who were on the grant last year were emailed a code that they could use, assuming that if you qualified last year, odds are you're going to qualify this year. The Y has sent me for the last two weeks an updated enrollment list just so that we can verify that yes, they do or do not still qualify. Um, but yes, the same parameters are are set. Um, I don't want to use the term economically disadvantaged status. However, we cification list which comes from certification from DHS. So if the families receive SNAP, TANF, they're homeless, foster care, things such as that, then they qualify. Okay. Thank you. Such a good offering. If there's no further questions, roll call, please. Barbara Hallebertton, I. Amanda Compton, I. Chris Denson, I. Teresa Cook, hi. Debbie Clifton
037I Barbara Bur I Cody Childress I the eyes have it. Next item on the agenda is the recommended approval to contract with Literacy Midsouth for tutoring services for the 202526 school year for the cost of 205,000. Funding has been identified in the FY2526 FSCA grant. We need a motion and a second. So move Second. We had a tie again. Miss Gray with the motion. And who was the second? Was that Dr. Comp? I can't hear down from down there, so I can't tell if somebody else is approving it or not. Well, that's great that you're the second this time. Go ahead. This is the contract that we have with Midsouth Literacy to T do during school tutoring services for up to 100 students at Millington Intermediate, which will greatly assist us in meeting the state's
038tutoring requirement due to the third grade retention law. And it's all done during school hours, not before or after. Is that certain days or is that available every day? That I can't speak to. I can find out. Do you know Mark? It's built into some students who needed their intervention schedule and so I think some kids are going to get more than others. It all just kind of depends on levels. So they they'll work around the students for sure schedule and their Yeah, Mr. Brown has a schedule and he we experimented with them last year. So going into this year, like I said, this will be year two of working with them. Mr. Brown has a good working relationship and he's built the schedule to put the students who need that specialized tutoring with that
039group and other students stay with teachers and get their tutoring in house. So, it's all doing his intervention schedule. Uh primarily fourth and fifth grade. There may be a handful of sixth graders. If we don't use the 100 slots, we don't pay for the 100 slots. Howdentify the students. I'm sorry. No, go ahead. How do we identify the students that need the tutoring? Yeah, some of their uh benchmark testing that lands them in a like a tier 2 uh so it won't serve students who are receiving intervention through sped services. So these are be non sped students who fall into a tier three um intervention need. So depending on their needs, that will be the which tier they're on will be the amount of tutoring they get. And this is uh just literacy tutoring here.
040Okay. Can you remind me what the FSCA acronym stands for? It's actually FCS. It's full service community schools. Okay, that's it. Thank you. So, not a S. Mr. Neil, I have a question. How do we measure student outcomes with this so that we make sure that we're getting our money's worth with them and to make sure we'll use them again? So with intervention students progress monitoring and so we will see if students are coming if their tier is elevated. If they come out of intervention then that's telling us it's beneficial. Um, and then we always look at end of the year uh TECAP data, but we can also look at case data. But because it's so fluid throughout the year, as students may be moving in and out, because as students move out, other students
041may test in and then we put them in. But I think the biggest thing is looking at end of the year data and see if there's growth. And is this one-on-one or group tutoring? Three to one, I think. Three to one max size. I see the grant on here. What is Can you explain that the word grant on this at the end of FCA? The full service community schools grant. Um we received it a couple years ago. It's a five-year grant um through seating success and the US Department of Ed. Um, we're allotted a certain amount of it each year and it slowly decreases over the over the life of the grant, but we are still at over a million dollars for the coming year. Okay, thank you. Good questions. Anyone have anything else? Thank
042you for the interaction. Roll call, please. Amanda Compton. Hi. Chris Densson. Hi. Teresa Cook. Hi. Debbie Clifton. Hi. Barbara Gray. I Cody Childress. I Barbara Hallebertton. I. Awesome. The eyes have it. Next item on the agenda. Second page. recommended approval to contract with McCartney Produce to provide fresh fruits and vegetables for school nutrition for a funded period of August 1st, 2025 through July 31st, 2026 at an estimated cost of $62,718.80. Funding has been identified in the FY26 nutrition budget. We need a motion and a second. So move. Second. Mr. Childress with the motion. Dr. Compton with the second. Hello. That was our one and only bid that was returned and we've used them for the last eight years. It's great company. Fantastic. And we can always tell it's you, Miss Vicki, because it's specific down
043to the penny. Well, it's a grant, so it's a very specific. And 80 cents. You know, you got to get that in. So, I don't I'm not making fun. I just find that to be the case. Anyone have said that's the same for the last eight years? Yes, eight years. That's the only one we've ever used then. Well, we have uh we used Cisco one time. Oh, okay. It really didn't work out. So, we're glad that I thought I remembered this one. That's awesome. Thank you, Miss Wy. Roll call, please. Chris Dson, I. Teresa Cook. Hi. Debbie Clipton. I. Barbara Gray. I. Cody. Hi. Barbara Hallebertton. Hi. Amanda Compton I the eyes have it. The next item on the agenda is the recommended approval of modification of board of education policy in one reading 5.110
044compensation guides and contracts. We need a motion and a second. So move second. Miss Gray with the motion. Miss Clifton with the second. Thank you Mr. Chairperson. If you will look at 5.110 uh policy, if you will turn your attention to line 15 in the red, it says, "All supplements shall be paid in line with established budgetary categories. Prior to budget approval, director of school shall present a supplement chart to the board showing the supplement rate for each category. Anything not explicit including in the chart requires further board approval. This is added to the policy just for more clarification and more transparency for everyone to understand uh why someone would get a stipen or so forth and so on. Of course, I've sent uh I did send y'all the uh recommendations I had on that
045to make it more transparent plus also a better process and procedures for us to do that so it could be more transparent as well. I may have missed it in an email, but have you already sent a recommended supplemental chart to the board? I have not. No, ma'am. I just sent you the the the way to attack the issue that at hand, but I once we get all our supplements together, I will send that out because we do have several. As you know, with coaching, we also have stipens and supplements for tutoring, so forth and so on. Uh the reason I have not sent that out because we weren't sure with federal funding. There was a few that were in question and hopefully We'll have those back. But as soon as I get that information,
046I just wanted to be complete so y'all have everything. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. I think and myself included, I I didn't never I never even realized that uh the stipens and supplemental were coming from another area besides taxes. So, it's not we're not dipping in anything like that. No, sir. There there there are some uh like I said for for uh tutoring and things of that nature that we have get in the federal budget. And as y'all know with the holding back of the 5.5 billion dollars we just got released last week. Uh we're still waiting on that to drop to see where we're at. So interesting. Any further questions, comments? Thank y'all. Roll call, please. Teresa Cook. Hi. Debbie Clifton. Hi. Former Gray, I Cody Childris, I. Former Hallebertton, I. Amanda Compton, I. Chris
047Stinson, I. The eyes have it. My favorite item. Recommended approval of TSBA modification of board of education policies in one reading. Bear with me. 1.1021 student board member 1.407 school district records. 1.7000 School District Goals 1.901 Charter School Applications 2.43 Surplus Property Sales 3.2 Emergency Preparedness 3.24 Threat Assessment Team 4.10 Instructional Program 4.212 212 Virtual Education Program 4301 Interscolastic Athletics 4.43 Library Materials 4.46 Use of the Internet 4.61 Reporting Student Progress 5.10 1000 Personal Goals 5.110 Compensation Guides and Contracts 5.119 Employment of Retirees Family and Medical Leave 550 Discrimination, Harassment of Employees, Sexual, Racial, Ethnic, Religious. 5.701 Substitute Teachers 6.20 2000 Attendance Questioning Students and Searches 6304 Student Discrimination, Harassment, Bullying, Cyber Bullying, and Intimidation. 6.312 Use of Wireless Communication Devices. 6.411 Student Wellness 6.600 Student Records. We need a motion and a second. So
048move second question. Uh do we need 5.110 in here again since we just voted on that and that was at 19? We do not need it. I didn't think so. Okay. So I will entertain a motion to amend this to strike 5.110 as it was approved with item 19. So moved. Second. There we go. So we have a motion and a second. Now we need to vote on that motion, talk about it, and then vote on the overall. I'm not going to read this again. You sure you don't want to do that? I'm just gonna say we're extracting this one piece 5.110 because it was in item 19. We'll do a simple uh vote to begin with. All those in favor so move say I I we already have we already had a motion. No,
049we already motioned. So the eyes have it. Now no opposition. Now, what we will entertain is a discussion or a roll call on this as amended. And I again, I won't read it all, but it's everything except that one. I just want to put on the record here that none of these are board driven. These are all was a result of laws and our lawmakers. Yeah. The one that everybody has asked about is the wireless communication devices. Director, would you a little for everybody? Yes. Just let that wireless devices, personal wireless devices must be stowed away and off during instructional time. All of our students have oneonone except for our little ones, which they don't need access to that. So, we will not have to have those for classroom for any reason. So, they can
050use their their laptops. Uh once again, this will make it easier for the teachers to enforce the rule because it's a state law. We don't have a choice. Agree or disagree, we must enforce the law. Uh but that's is Mr. Perry at Middle High School did a great job of it the last couple of years. We've not had major issues with that. But just like anything with a new policy or procedure, it's about consistency. And I know that Mr. Perry, Mr. Brown, Miss Perkins, and Miss Farmer have talked about that not just with our staff, but also with our students coming back this week that it will be enforced and it will be consistent. Well, and one change for the high school students will be lunchtime. Correct. Yes, ma'am. They will no longer they were
051able to on their cell phones during lunch, but now because it's a state law, they cannot have them during lunch. It's just during school. Bel. Is all of that information included in the student handbook? Yes, ma'am. That was one thing uh we did go out just to let you know the weekly leadership notes went out uh from our school leaders and that was one emphasis by every school leader to remind the parents to look at that to understand that and that it will be enforced. Uh the only other major all the policies. Just remember that our student board member is Miss Marissa Briggs. Just want to make sure y'all have that name. So for a parent who thinks that they need to reach their child during that belltoell, how would they do that? They can
052contact the office if it's an emergency. Uh like I said, we have open lines. Uh if it's that big of an emergency, if they come up there, we will like like with anything else, we're here to serve. But once again, just not having that phone on for as a distraction is going to make a huge difference in in the academic fields. Is the procedure going to be the same as last year if if a cell phone is collected from a student? Yes, ma'am. It will be the same as it was last year. Yeah. The good news is we've been ahead of this. I was talking with Mr. Neil earlier today that when he was principal and my oldest kids were in this when this was legacy Shelby County, uh the kids lost their phones. I
053don't mean lost it. They were locked up. They were taken taken to the vice principal's office and physically locked up. And if it got locked up on a Friday afternoon, you were hosed because it didn't unlock until Monday morning. So, we we've been ahead of this for a long time and I'm really glad of that. But it is state law. Every So, I know we said a mouthful and I made a joke about it being a lot, but you're right. Every one of these are annotated code. We have no get around. Director, do you remember the procedure? I don't remember it exactly of what happens the first time it's collected versus the second versus the third or Mr. Neil, do you? I will report to our new director student services, uh, Mr. Zay Adams, to
054answer that question. Not saying don't call the superintendent on this one. I'd like to be wrong, but I have a feeling this is going to be something you'll have to deal with. Yeah. So, the first time a student got their phone taken up, it got turned into the front office. It's it's locked away in a cabinet behind lock. you can't get to it. Um, the parent can pick it up between 2:15 and 3 that day. The second time it got got taken up, the parent can pick it up the following day between 2:15 and 3. After that, the third time we went to like a a suspension pending a parent meeting, it may be that next morning so they don't miss any instructional time. And after that we went progressive, but nine times out of
055ten we never got past that that third time where we had to have the parent meeting and um do that overnight or suspension per parent meeting. But that was the three three steps that we took. Thank you. And that's in place this year as well. Thank you. Yeah. I hope we never see that. All righty. We did have a really good discussion in the policy committee meeting about all of these. So, I mean, we we actually talked about each one of them. So, yeah, we appreciate y'all's diligence because a lot changed from the legislative floor this year and it it it was handed to us. We don't get to debate it. Thank y'all for your efforts, those on the policy committee. Roll call, please. Debbie Clifton, I. Barbara Gray, I. Cody Childress, I. Barbara Hlebertton,
056I. Amanda Compton. Hi. Chris Dson. Hi. Teresa Cook. Hi. The eyes have it. I don't believe we have any public comments. That's the next part. To close public comments. Thank you very much, Miss Albert. Second. Thank you, Miss Miss Teresa. With a second. All those in favor? I opposed. There are none. Last item on the agenda. Ajourn motion and second. So move. Miss Hallebertton with the motion. Miss Gray with the second. All those in favor? I opposed. Yeah. None. Thank y'all very much.