0016 o'clock. So, we're going to start this meeting. We're going to call it to order. And Miss Hallebertton, if you will open us up with a word. All right. Let us pray. Gracious God, our heavenly father, we thank you always for an opportunity um to experience your grace and your mercy. So we thank you for this day and we thank you for the opportunity to serve this community. Uh we pray, Father, tonight that you would allow us to uh conduct the business of this district uh to do it with wisdom and with um knowledge and also in kindness uh and grace. And we thank you for all of your hand of protection throughout this school year. And as we're coming close to the end, uh we thank you uh that it will end successfully for
002our graduates and all of those who are preparing to go into their summer. God, we thank you and we give you praise in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America. Roll call, please. Chris Denson, here. Teresa Cook, here. Debbie Clipton here. Barbara Gray here. Cody Childress here. Barbara Hallebertton here. Amanda Compton here. Here and present. All right. Next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Motion made by Miss Hallebertton. I believe I heard Dr. Compton with a second. All those in favor say so by I I opposed. There are none. The eyes have it. Next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. It's two parts. Part A, recommended approval of
003April 7th, 2025 board of education meeting minutes. Part B, designation that the following board of education policies in section five as they're listed are correct as listed. I need a a motion and a second. So move. [laughter] The motion is made by Miss Gray. Second, second by Dr. Compton. All those in favor? I I opposed. There are none. The eyes have it. Next item on the agenda is the director of schools report. Mr. Griffin. Thank you, Mr. Chairperson. Of course, first and foremost, we want to honor our students and staff of the month. And we will begin with Miss Natasha Perkins. Good evening. I would like to start by saying a heartfelt thank you to my MPS family and community. The outpouring of love that they showed for me during principal's day was unmatched. I
004am the lucky one. I am beyond blessed and humbled to serve as the principal of MPS and I cannot thank you enough for the sweet notes, cards, posters, gifts, smiles, hugs, and surprises. I can say it over and over, but I am the luckiest principal on the planet. We had a very busy April, and I look forward to having a fun and busy May. Last month, we also celebrated our amazing assistant principles, and I have the absolute best around in Miss Sha Deot and Miss Debbie Welch, and our honorary prek supervisor, Miss Barbie Hodgej. We held our second annual donuts with third grade grown-ups to provide updates and testing information to our third grade families, and we are grateful for those that attended. Our third grade teachers worked hard to prepare our students for TCAP
005testing, and our students got an opportunity to show what they know on the TECAP test. We are anxiously anticipating the results to see our growth. We celebrated our brave and courageous bus drivers Tuesday, April 22nd for National Bus Drivers Appreciation Day. Driving a school bus is no easy feat. April 23rd, we celebrated our hardworking administrative assistants for administrative professionals day and we honored our military children with a special program and gift from the Navy Wives. Thank you, Navy Wise, for all you do for our school community. We hosted a popping into kindergarten day where rising kindergarten families could come and get some information on kindergarten readiness and meet the kindergarten team. Tuesday, April 29th, we had a general sessions PTO meeting and voted in our board members for the 2526 school year. Congratulations to Michelle
006Davis, president, Michael Welch, VP, Megan Welch, treasurer, and Candace Londo, secretary. We had our first grade bird program in the gym and it was great to see so many families in attendance. Our first grade Trojans did an amazing job. Quarter 4 interims went live April 30th. We celebrated our school lunch heroes last Friday. They are always serving up something yummy with a smile and we appreciate them. We hosted our second annual spring carnival and had a blast. A blast was had by all. Thanks to all of our families that came out to join the fun and a special thanks to the committee for organizing and working so hard to make such a fantastic event as well as well as all of the community vendors that came out. Our Trojan store will be open May 5th
007through 9th. Students are able to spend Trojan tickets that they earn for good behavior on items of their choice. This week is teacher appreciation week. We can't wait to spoil our teachers all week. We have the best primary teachers around. They are true rock stars and work so very hard each and every day. We will have our MCMHS senior walk tomorrow where seniors can come back and walk the halls and visit their teachers where it all started. We will celebrate our school nursees, nurse Michelle and nurse Sharon on Wednesday for National School Nurses Day. They are some amazing ladies and always help everyone feel better. May 8th is National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day and our third graders are are having a career day. We have some fun field days planned the week of the
00812th and yearbooks have been passed out and we have a signing day for students May 16th. We still have a few left for purchase if you haven't gotten one. So feel free to order yours before they sell out. Our ELA scores will be released on the 20th and retake opportunities for those that qualify will be administered during the school day May 21st and 22nd. We will have honors programs the week of the 19th and the last day of school is a half day Friday May 23rd. Wow, did that come quickly. But now for the real reason that we are here, our students and employee of the month. Our character word for the month was perseverance. Our employee of the month, Miss Ashley Chilson, is a dedicated educator that definitely showed perseverance as she adapted to
009a new tier one curriculum and departmentalization. She is rocking it out in the classroom, teaching our second grade to read and write every day. Congratulations, Miss Ashley Chilson. Now for our preschool, Eva Diaz, Sebastian Barrera in kindergarten. Everett Simpson and Golivia Stoddill in first grade. Sebastian Beard in first grade. Also, Mallerie Jackson in second grade. Alana Thomas in second grade. Also, Kyle Rose in third grade. Ally Baskin. And last, but definitely not least, Kingston Helton. [applause] Hey, good evening board members. We are finally able to say the three words that every educator and probably students and parents as well love to ring out. Testing is complete. [clears throat] As April came and went, I was very, very proud of our staff and students for a great testing period. I want to thank the students for
010their great effort, the teachers for their attention to detail in administering the test and the parents for helping ensure their children were present and on time during the testing window. We have 14 days left of school in May and they are a very busy 14 days. Career Day is tomorrow for us where local businesses will showcase their business. And then also later in the day, we'll have a senior walk as well where the uh seniors at MCMHS that uh were present at our school in middle school. They'll get to chance to come back and walk the halls one last time. We've already completed two field trips, but have two more to go this week as our fifth graders and functional skills class will be headed on each of theirs toward the end of this week.
011Our after-school clubs are winding down this week and next week as they prepare for their final meetings of the school year. A wealth of students have enjoyed afterchool activi activities this year such as course stem club, dance club, student council, art club, ukulele club, and our sixth grade band. Next week, all students will complete their I Ready end of the year testing to show their growth from the initial benchmark which was taken back in the fall. The Apex program for intellectually gifted students has an endofear celebration planned next week to celebrate their accomplishments. We also will end next week by hosting the MPS third graders. They'll get a chance to explore our building, talk with our staff, and leave with some delicious treats as they prepare to begin the next school year as fourth graders.
012The school year concludes during the week of May 9th with two exciting field days and the last MIS awards day for the year. This is always a fun and exciting time for our students who get to put away their books and their pencils for a chance to enjoy some outside activities during field day and then also be recognized for their outstanding accomplishments during awards day. And then finally on Friday, May 23rd, we'll wave our students off for the final time and wish them a safe and enjoyable summer. And now I'd like to recognize some very special people at MIS, our students and our employees of the month. Students, please come down when you hear your name. And parents, you're welcome to follow them for a quick pick receiving their award. In fourth grade from team
0134A is Christopher Carter. [applause] from 4B is Zaden Maguire from team 4C is Avery Greganti. In fifth grade from team 5A is Aureli Barrera. 5B is Jr. Gonzalez. [applause] in six. Six sixth grade team 6A is Brian Nava Perez. 6B is Lucas Ari. Our library student of the month is Naomi Tjo Mendoza. The art student of the month is Jaden Ni in in music. Nico Alafa [applause] And then finally in PE is Emma Herren. And lastly, I'd like to celebrate our employee of the month, Miss Carol Heiner. [applause] Thank you. Good evening. Uh we had a busy month of April on the Millington Central campus. Uh we celebrated the month of the military child in April. We recognized students from military families with breakfast. We had treats, certificates. We dressed up for a week and
014hosted a dinner for our military families. Uh, as a school, we were awarded the Purple Star School designation as well. In the month of April, for three weeks in April, our students took 10 ready tests. Um, we still have some AP tests to go, so I can't say those three words quite yet, but uh, we're working on it. Um, we are very near the end of testing. Uh, we had an outstanding attendance rate during testing and no major issues. I would like to thank our teachers, Mr. Zayn Adams and Miss Janet Pyland for all of their hard work to make sure that testing was smooth on campus for that those three weeks. We had two students to qualify and represent Millington Central at the 2025 Tennessee Allstate Ensembles. Uh Lewis Smith represented the Trojan Choir
015as tenor and Steven Galindo represented the Trojan band as tenor saxophone. The Trojan Choir held their spring concert in April right here at the Pack. And the Trojan Band will hold their spring concert this Wednesday right here at the Pack. So come out uh if you have uh if you don't have anything uh going to be a great night right here at 6:30 in the pack on Wednesday. In April, our juniors took the ACT while our 7th through 10th grade students on campus took a fulllength practice ACT. We're starting to get those scores back and hope to have some great data to share with you soon. We'll host a breakfast for those students who scored a 21 plus, which makes them college and career ready in the state of Tennessee. Uh and then we also
016look forward to updating our 21 plus and 30 plus walls on campus. We held the 2025 prom in April. It's uh was a great night and the students had a fantastic time. It's always nice see them to see them uh dress up and u and have a great time. We hosted a meet and greet on campus for our rising seventh grade students uh right here in the pack and then we toured the campus. We had a great turnout and we're very excited for the incoming seventh graders for next school year. Our CTE department had two students that placed at the 2025 Skills USA state competition. Jeffrey Troutman placed second in internet networking and Aiden Wallace placed third in the internet of things and smart homes. We also had two welding students that received scholarships at
017Delta Technical Institute. Cameron Alafa was awarded an $8,000 scholarship and Christopher Galindo was awarded a full scholarship to Delta Tech. I would like to take this time to congratulate Miss Khloe Bush. Khloe was accepted and appointed to the United States Naval Academy. Her yes, her scholarship is valued at over $500,000 and she is one of roughly 1,400 students who were accepted for the fall. Uh she is one of six Trojans who have attended the Naval Academy since MMSD was formed 11 short years ago. We hosted our senior awards night right here in the pack. It was great recognizing our seniors for their hard work. Depart department awards and local scholarships were awarded at the program. Last week we celebrated our seniors uh with senior week, their last week on campus. We held a senior breakfast.
018We went on a senior picnic. We watched a great senior video and finally ended the week with senior exams. We will hold the graduation ceremony for the class of 2025 this Thursday at 7 pm on the football field, weather permitting. The Millington Central NJOTC was busy during the month of April in addition to the color guard presenting the colors at several community events. The Trojan drill team competed at the Faget Wear High School drill meet and won first place overall. [applause] They won first place in the following categories: personnel and uniform inspection, color guard, unarmed regulation drill team, armed regulation drill team, armed exhibition drill team, and Aaria Lindsay receives the top commander award at that competition. This is hot off the press. I just received this information about an hour ago, but uh the
019Millington Central NJOTC unit has been awarded the distinguished unit award for the school year 2024 2025. A little bit about that. It is uh one of the highest honors a JOTC unit uh can receive. And so um the prestig and I'll go ahead and read this is from Warren Franklin. This prestigious recognition reflects the outstanding dedication, discipline, and excellence demonstrated by our cadetses throughout the year in all areas of the program, as well as the unwavering support of the school leadership, staff, and the Millington community. Earning this distinction places our unit among the top NJOTC programs in the nation. It's a testament to the discipline, teamwork, and high standards that define the Trojan in NJOTC unit. Trojan spring sports are are wrapping up. Uh our Trojan varsity softball team has advanced to the district semifinals
020tonight at Brighton and we're up four to one in the fourth inning. Uh my last update. So if you saw that uh football field was packed as you came in. Our track and field team is gearing up for another run at the state tournament. Um, we are hosting the track sectionals uh this year and so we'll know after today who qualifies for state and track and field. The middle school track and field had their sectionals and I'd like to uh recognize Aiden Perkins and Aaron Hudson. They both qualified for the state middle school track and field championship on May 17th at Austin P. the Trojan soccer. Uh the district tournament will begin tomorrow for Trojan varsity soccer and so look for big things out of Trojan soccer as well. And now I would like to
021recognize some outstanding individuals for Millington Central. April's theme for nominating teachers, students, and staff was respectful. These individuals make Millington Central a better place and are respected on campus. If I call when I call your name, please come forward. Our middle school student of the month for April is Tatiana Fernandez. [applause] Our high school student of the month is Colin Sawyer. [applause] Our student athletes of the month for April, when I call your name, please come forward. High school soccer Yordy Ortiz. high school track Derek Balden. Unless he comes running through the door, he's over there. Also, high school track Ayanna Ransom. middle school track. Aiden Perkins, high school tennis, Ashlin Krider. Also, high school tennis, Andrew Hendren. high school softball. Brie Holsey. She's probably pitching right now. Middle school softball, Landry Davidson. High school
022baseball. Gabe Jenkins. high school flag football bats. [applause] She's coming up. I'll go ahead a little bit. This is the first year for a TWWSAA uh sanctioned uh flag football. Uh so we had a great season. Uh our flag football team finished runner up in the district. There were, I think, eight teams in this area that had a flag football team. So we were one of eight and so they did very well uh and fought right there to the very end. So uh they had a great season flag football. Now I'd like to recognize our educators for the month of April. For middle school, Miss Bland, seventh grade math. Uh high school, Dr. Smith, everything dual enrollment math. and our support staff of the month, our financial secretary, Miss Linda Lightfoot. Thank you all. [applause]
023Mr. Chairperson, I'd like to uh go over our new hires. We have two new substitutes that are on staff for us now. Miss Ashley Gurley and Britney Henderson. Um, now I would like to uh have Miss Trisha Spate come up and give an overview of HR for us real quick. Good evening. I told him if I would skip this time it would be okay, but I guess not. So, as you know, this is one of the busiest times of the year for our department. We are actively managing non-renewals, retirements, and hiring processes across the district. So, some staffing updates. We currently have nine active job postings in addition to two ongoing positions which are custodial and substitute. To date, we have successfully hired or promoted 14 individuals including several positions at the Millington um learning
024academy, early learning academy. This year, we've continued to focus on building a strong pipeline of educators and support staff. As part of those efforts, I attended my first job fair at Freed Hardman University to begin early recruitment. It was a great opportunity to connect with aspiring educators, and I'm excited to explore more of these events in the coming years as we expand our reach and grow our team. As far as employee recognition and celebrations, this year, we've been intentional about recognizing the dedication and impact of our staff. Teachers of the year, principal of the year, and supervisor of the year have been honored. We will recognize our newly tenured employees. Most importantly, we are celebrating our retirees whose service has shaped our district in countless ways. We also love celebrating joyful personal milestones. This year,
025we've had six new babies welcomed into the Trojan family with one more on the way. As part of our tradition, each family, courtesy of Mr. Griffin, receives a monogram burp cloth and a pack of diapers as a small token of love and support from the district. Ed advisory committee highlights. Our ed advisory group held three purposeful meetings this year. Their accomplishments include finalizing the 2526 instructional calendar and beginning work on the 2627, creating a subcommittee of compensation and retention which explored strategies to support and retain faculty and staff pending the city budget approval. We're excited to implement the following employee compensation updates. 5% salary increase for teachers, allowing us to meet the state's $50,000 minimum salary requirement a full year ahead of schedule. Those eligible will also receive their step increase. Teachers on step 19
026will receive the 5% raise and an additional personal day, which will roll into sick leave if unused. All employees will be granted a Trojan day, which is simply an extra personal day. If unused, it will also roll into sick leave. Part-time employees must use it during the year. Employees with 10 consecutive years of service will receive a $1,000 longevity bonus to be distributed in June for those meeting the requirement in either the current or prior school year. We are deeply grateful for their continued commitment to Millington. Our final ED advisory meeting of the year is scheduled for next week where we'll wrap up committee terms and outline transitions for new members. This year I introduced eight with spate visiting schools each quarter to provide a space for staff to ask questions, raise concerns and receive
027support on issues like lure, insurance and HR related matters. While I may not have had every answer immediately, I always followed up and I hope these sessions were helpful to our team. And ending, I want to give a note of gratitude. None of this work would be possible without the dedication of Miss Robin and Miss Dana. Their behind-the-scenes efforts are critical to the success of our department. These roles often go unrecognized or misunderstood, but the reality is they are essential to supporting our employees. I can confidently say I would not have made it through my first year in this role without them, though I'm not quite through the year just yet. We're proud of the progress we've made this year and excited for what's ahead. And thank you for your continued support. Yes. And parents,
028I know it's getting late. If you need to take the kids, get them ready for uh dinner and everything, you're more than welcome. or you can stay for the rest of the meeting. Bye. I'm definitely always honest. Uh now I want to look at uh Miss Debbie Clifton, board member, asked some questions uh that was sent to me this week. Uh number one, can we get a brief synopsis of the budget meeting at our uh at our board meeting tonight? I'm curious if the schools were included in the city's upcoming budget. They of course are still committed to the city is still committed to the $500,000 that they provide for schools annually that is budgeted in their general fund budget. Also, additionally, the city funded for deferred maintenance for MMSD is available in the city
029CIP budget of $250,000. So, they have made a step forward in that as well. But, as um city manager Frankie Dacin stated, this is an open an open check. The district still has to provide the deferred maintenance request to the city. So we'll be working hand inand with them on that. Miss Clifton also asked for the out of district numbers from 22 23 23 24 and 2425. Those numbers are in front of you. Uh in 22 23 we had 402 out of district uh students. In 232 24 we had 338 and this past year we've had 388. Number three question for Miss Clifton was, "I've been made aware that there are 2,300 military children associated with the NSA staff in Millington. Uh, how can we find out if those families are living in the city
030limits? I'm curious if they are indeed our students. Are they attending Millington schools? If they are not attending MMSD, where are they attending? And most importantly, why aren't they coming? And how can we get them enrolled as students in our district?" We have a tremendous relationship with the naval school liaison, Miss Jennifer Lundy, and uh getting accurate numbers for the Navy is kind of tricky due to all the restrictions. Uh however, u the primary data you have before you um not quite 2,300 military kids that I know that doesn't show in the other public school data, but this is the most accurate we can get. So that's available for you to review as well. Also want to uh also in your folder you will see uh the the non-renew contracts as of 5525 as uh
031mandated by policy 5.201. That's in your folder as well. And we want to get to our tenure list. What's that? Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, it's on the agenda. My fault. I didn't look over the agenda. My fault. Okay, that's next. Okay. And uh last but not least, it's a very busy time. Graduation is this Thursday at 7:00 on on the football field, but we are ready to uh handle any weather conditions or related to Just remember uh seniors are limited in their tickets to get into the gym if we have to uh go inside, but the performing arts center will be made available with live streaming of the event as well for all the extra people that want to see that. Uh, and always check your student school website for all the up-to-date information. And
032like, uh, Mr. Brown said, there's 14 days of school left, and it's going to go fast. But, uh, just please check in with them if you have any questions. That's my report. Thank you very much. Anyone have any other questions before we close this section? No more questions. Okay, we'll move on to item eight, which is the recommended approval of MMSD teachers eligible for tenure status. So moved. Second. That was quick. Dr. Compton for the motion. I want to make sure I got that one in and Mr. Childress with the second. We're not going to vote yet. We'll listen. Okay. Um, what I'm going to do is just read the list and then I think collectively you can vote for approval and then at that time we'll call them one by one for their certificate
033unless you somebody um those eligible for tenure tonight is are Elizabeth Balm, Rachel Stevens, Nastasia Stevenson, Lauren Stout Moss, Yolanda Johnson, Candace Armstrong, Andrew Bryant, Amy Hume Nlette, and Madison Taylor. So now we'll take a roll call for those that approve or disapprove. Cody Childris, I. Barbara Hallebertton. I Amanda Compton I Chris Dson I Teresa Cook I Debbie Clifton I Barber Gray I that motion passes now. You want to hand that out Miss Griffin? We'll call them up. These should be in order. First up, Elizabeth Balm from Millington Primary. Rachel Stevens, Millington Primary. Nastia Stevenson, Millington Primary. Lauren Stout Moss, Millington Primary. Yolanda Johnson, Millington Intermediate. [applause] Candace Armstrong, Millington Central Middle High School. Andrew Bryant, Millington Central Middle High School. Amy Hume Nollette, Millington Central Middle High. And last but not least, Madison Taylor,
034Millington Central Middle High. Congratulations all you newly appointed tenur teachers. All right. The next item on the agenda, item nine, is the recommended approval of FY25 budget amendment 7. This is the general and capital funds. I need a motion and a second. So move. Second. So if I got that right, I believe Miss Hallebertton made the motion and Miss Gray made the second. Close eye, but we're going to go with Miss Gray. Mr. Torres, thank you. Good evening, board. Um one change that I mentioned um from the work session we were fortunate to find and get the um summer learning camp allocation from the state. So that is why you see the u increase to the general fund that is in the amount of $298,938. And then as we discussed the increase of $1.8 million
035from the city of Millington is tied to the MIS project. Um and that's just to get things working from now until June 30th. Any questions or comments from Mr. Taus? Okay, thank you. Roll call, please. Barbara Hallebertton, I. Amanda Compton, I. Chris Densson, I. Teresa Cook, I. Debbie Clifton, I. Barbara Gray, I. Cody Childress, I. The eyes have it. We'll move to the next item on the agenda. That's item 10. recommended approval to purchase science curriculum for grades K through 12 from Tennessee Book Company in the amount of 547,313.71. Funding has been identified in the general fund budget. We'll need a motion and a second. So move second. Miss Gray with the motion, Dr. Compton with the second. It's all yours. Good evening. This is the adoption of the new science curriculum curriculum for K12
036for the next eight years from a variety of publishers all from Tennessee Book Company, but there are variety of publishers. That's one of the changes, right? It's now eight years. It's now eight years. So, it's it's been eight years since we adopted Science before. Or is it six? I think it's been about six. Okay. Right. I knew we talked about that. Right. This is the first adoption that's going to be for eight years from here on out until they change it again. Thanks for clarifying. Current statute is eight years. Yes. Anyone have any questions? Well, just for the benefit of anybody listening, this curriculum was recommended by the teacher advisory group as I understand it. Not the advisory group. We have a teacher group um and parent group as well that looked at all of
037the choices. They filled out work and they came to the conclusion of what they wanted to it's their choice as to what they want to adopt. Good. Very good. That that makeup of the committee is dictated by law of Tennessee codes. Yes. You good? Thank you very much. Roll call, please. Amanda Compton. I. Chris Densson. I. Teresa Cook. Hi. Debbie Clifton. Hi. Barbara Gray I Cody Childress I Barbara Hallebertton I the eyes have it. We'll move to item 11 recommended approval to contract with advanced therapy to conduct service evaluations and provide individual students with therapy in the areas of speech, language, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. The services contract period will be from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028 at the cost of $65 per hour. Funding has been identified in the fiscal year
03826 and will be identified in the fiscal year 27 and fiscal year 28 general fund and federal budgets. We need a motion and a second. So move. That was a tie. Mr. Childress with the motion, Miss Gray with the second. The floor is yours. Three years for that price, the $65 instead of just one. So, it's three years locked in at that. Okay. And what were we paying? 60. Well, we had two contracts actually. Advanced was 65. Grind City was 60. Okay. And we'd had Grind City for what, seven years? several years, but I believe in your packet you'll see the breakdown of the cost of each one of the bids. Anyone have any questions or concerns, comments? Excellent. Thank you. Roll call, please. Chris Densson, I. Teresa Cook, hi. Debbie Clifton, I Barbara Gray,
039I Cody Childress. Hi, Hlebertton. I Amanda Compton I the eyes have it. Next motion motion. Next item on the agenda is item 12. Recommended approval of the release of out of warranty student Chromebooks to graduating senior students upon successful completion of all graduation requirements. This initiative would allow graduating seniors to retain their assigned devices for personal use after graduation. I need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Dr. Compton with the motion. Miss Hallebertton with the second. It's a good one. It is. Yeah. Instead of disposing our Chromebooks for zero dollars, which we currently do, uh this will allow us to wipe the Chromebook, release the Chromebook from our enterprise management consult and give it to this graduating student after four year periods. And uh hopefully if y'all vote for this then every every
040year after that we will be able to do that in in consecutive terms. I think this is a out of the box move thinking out of the box. I think it's a great idea and uh a lot of students may not have the ability to have a laptop. So I think this is kudos to your department. Thank you. Yo. Yeah. Thank you for bringing that to us because as Mr. Children said, what a fantastic opportunity to provide our graduating students moving forward with the devices they've had all the way through so they can start in whatever avenue they want to at the end of the year. I like that a lot. Anyone else have any comments? I think Okay. What's this? Roll call, please. Teresa Cook. Hi Debbie Clifton. I Barbara Gray. I Cody Childress.
041I Barbara Hallebertton. I Amanda Compton. I Chris Densson. I definitely the eyes have it. That's a good one. Item 13, recommended approval of modification of board of education policy in one reading 6.204 student transfers. We need a motion and a second. So move second. Miss Gray with the motion. Miss Clifton with the second. Either it's a toss up. We'll take you both. So we're asking to amend the policy a little bit and include kindergarten screening for out of district transfers. We would provide them with a screener throughout the summertime before they enroll and are approved for transfer. We're looking at the 25th percentile is what we discussed during the work session. Very good. We had that discussion, but if anyone has any questions. Oh, fantastic. Thank you for the explanation. Roll call, please. Debbie Clifton.
042Hi. Barbara Gray. I Cody Childress. Hi. Barbara Hallebertton. Hi. Amanda Compton. Hi. Chris Denson. Hi. Teresa Cook. Hi. The eyes have it. Next item on the agenda is the public comments. You guys will see a screen come down I think. So the way public comments work is you'll approach I'll call out this is no specific order. It's just the way it was handed to me. Here it comes. This is screen above us. He was asking uh the screen will have the time. You'll have two minutes to discuss your topic. When you approach, just say your name, address, and then you'll start on your topic. So, we'll start with the first one is Miss Lacy top. Okay, that's enough. Taupe or top? I may have missed top. Wow. I had a stroke last week. So I
043am going to read instead of um say what I need to say. Okay. My name is Lacy Talk. I 7174 W drive Millington. Um I just want to say first that uh my 10-year-old just hit a home run the game playing. We will have another children playing baseball. Um I also have a note here from him. Same student. Um I see how big Millington is in sports. Um so this is from said student that just hit the home run. Um declaring uh how he feels about Miss Williams who I believe has been addressed at least once here at a school board meeting. Okay. Please bear with me. I see I've got a minute. So we're gonna make this. All right. My name is Lacy and I'm a proud homeowner in Millington. My family is deeply
044rooted in this community. We attend church here and my husband coaches youth sports including many of the children who have been posit positively impacted by Miss Williams. I'm also the parent of a child whose life was severely changed because of her. Uh during his time in the first and second grade at Millington Primary, my son was severely bullied. The situation escalated to the point where another student urinated on him. We were never even called. My son was sent home on the bus in wet clothes in a plastic bag with his wet clothes in a plastic bag. We were devastated and felt completely failed. We made the difficult decision to leave the school. But later we gave the school another chance and that's when we met with Miss Williams in third grade. Miss Williams didn't just
045teach my son. She restored his confidence and gave him a safe, welcoming place to learn. For the first time in years, he looked forward to going to school. He smiled again and he believed in himself again. As a parent and a community member, I've seen firsthand how deeply Miss Williams cares for her students. Firing her would be a painful loss for many families. Please, I urge you to re You're welcome, too. Okay. I can't make out the last name, but I'm going to try. It's Hannah Ballas. Baker. Baker. Sorry. I It was a a toss up. A K or an O. I'm sorry. So, same same rules. Okay. My name is Hannah Baker. I live at 5893 Lrod Loop in Millington, Tennessee. Um I'm a parent in this district. I'm here tonight because I'm deep
046deeply concerned about the recent dismissal of Nicole Williams after this school board, after this school year, who many of us know, not just as a teacher, but as a mother who spoke up for her child's safety. On multiple occasions, she raised concerns about her child being harmed by another student, yet nothing was done. When she finally brought these concerns to you publicly, she was told she was going to be let go shortly after. The district's explanation was that it was going in a different direction. But too many of us watch and it looks like the direction is away from transparency and accountability. Let me be clear. No parent or teacher should have to choose between protecting a child and keeping their job. If a teacher can be removed for advocating for their child, what does
047that say about how we value our educators and the safety of our students? We tell our kids to speak up when something is wrong. We should expect the same from our educators and protect them when they do. I urge this board to take a hard look at what this situation communicates to staff, families, and community. And I ask that you do what's right, not what's easy. That's it. Thank you. All right. Next is Paul. Landry Paul Landry 590 Palmwood Cove Millington. I just want to let you know board policy 5.201 and re and uh for non-renewals is not being followed. And I'll read you under non-renewal line 31 and 32. The principal is responsible for discussing deficiencies as part of the evaluation process with the non-tenure teacher and providing assistance for overcoming these deficiencies. Person
048I'm fixing to talk to you about is my daughter. She's been at this school system for three and a half years and was told, "We're not renewing you because you're not a good fit." What is not a good fit? That is an excuse, not a reason. Right here, I told her when she got cunned, give me your personnel file. And she did. There is nothing in here but one informal write up about sitting down too much. Now, I've worked. I've been a supervisor. And if I'm going around watching people if they're sitting down too much, I'm not doing my job. I'm not. I should be doing my job and not walking and prowling. How do you know every time you walk by that they're not doing something? Sitting down to do that. Now, I know
049y'all don't have anything to do with personnel issues. You do own policy. Right now, it looks like from reading your policy, name is sent to the superintendent, rubber stamps it, and it's a done deal. There is no supporting documentation in policy submitted to the superintendent to get rid of these teachers if they're if they're good. She is a three a level three. That means she comes in every day does her job. What's going on? You're letting people know, hey, we come to Millington, we're going to get rid of they're going to get rid of me if I just if I'm not a four or a five. That's not right. That's not right. Y'all going to become a training district for other school systems. I promise you. All right. Next is Sahara Garcia. Hi everyone, my
050name is Sahara Garcia 694 54 Cagebook Drive in Millington, Tennessee. And I am in Miss Williams third grade class at NPS. Miss Williams is like a second mom to me. When I have a problem, she helps me fix it. when I was getting bullied by another third grade. She taught us both how to talk and understand each other. Because of Miss Williams, my bully and I are now friends. Every day, Miss Williams tells us be problem solvers. This year, she taught me just that, to be a problem solver. She taught me that it's okay to make mistakes, but when we make mistakes, we fix them. I love her, and I'm so glad I had her as a teacher this year. Every kid deserves a Miss Williams. I love you, Miss Williams. [applause] Stay there. Stay
051there, Zane. You're next. So, next up is Zayn Sanders. Hello, my name is Zayn Sanders. I live at 5976 North Watkins, Millington, Tennessee. Tonight, I would like to speak to you about my third grade teacher, Miss Williams. She is always happy and bright spirited. The experience I have with Miss Williams is extraordinary. All of my classmates and me love Miss Williams. She always makes learning fun. I've got four pluses on winter and spring benchmark thanks to Miss Williams and won the spelling be. We also won the trophy for the fastest class in third grade because Miss Williams has enough discipline to make us take. Teachers like Miss Williams are really important because she cares for her students like they are her own. When teachers show that kind of love and support, it makes a school
052a better place to learn and grow. I'd like to thank the board for your time and Miss Williams for being an awesome teacher. Good night. I'm asking an educator to help me with this name. Former. Okay, we're gonna give this a try. The first name will work. Dale. Say it. Cassa. say thank you. I'm here last at Millington Elementary with a student. Since then, I I don't have social media. The thing I passed to you all and you're looking at me, you know exactly what I'm talking about. was found on social media. After we did this, my daughter was disciplined and released from school with no no reason other than there is no reason. I want to explain to the board that when we come up in a public meeting like this and I told
053you on recording that that was pulled off of social media and if you use that against me that's my first amendment right to supply each and every one of you with an open statement. Since then, I've heard on social media, I do not have it, that we may rebute, rebuff something I said to the board about mentioning the child's name, which I did not. But after I spoke to you about this problem and it was not addressed at all, same thing. Let's go under the table. I guess we're having the same problem at the high school. You can't hide things. These are public forums. Each of you are paid by the public standing behind me. Each and every one of you are accountable to these people behind me. We're not buddies up here. It's a
054business. So, I want to tell you right up front again, whatever I say here is my first amendment rights. Has nothing to do with my daughter. So if it comes back it, you know, we'll just have a forensic file taken of what I place for you. I heard it's taken down now. disustr. Republic. Ready. Nicole Williams. Good evening. My name is Nicole Williams, 8525 Macala Road. I'm here on behalf of my daughter and all her classmates at Millington Primary School as her parent. I spoke at the April 7th board meeting. I noted that I have gone through the chain of command starting with administration. on to the assistant superintendent meeting and then as nothing was really set into an actionable plan it was we'll just keep everyone separated. It's very hard to keep nine and
05510 year olds separated, right? There are there are times that they are active outside. There are times that are transitioning between classes. So, April 7th, I spoke. I was looking forward to hearing from each and every one of you or at least a representative of one of you. After speaking, nothing. April 25th, I was just called in. I was like, "Okay, maybe we're going to find something." just to let me know that my contract would not be renewed. I am a level five teacher. I have been through the all Memphis training for nearly 50 to 60 hours. I am one test away from being a reading specialist. If the district's going away from reading specialists, I'm not sure where we're heading. Regardless, as Lucy's mother, last week, there was an incident threatening my daughter's life
056on the playground where I said it would happen if there was not something actionably done. So, I tried and tried and tried to keep my daughter safe. The push back was it's heartfelt and heavy. It's been a very distressing two two and a half months for my 10-year-old have to be afraid. It took an hour after the incident for me to be called into that office and I was five rooms down. So there has now been direct correlation between my daughter and this student. [applause] All right, I have no more slips. So, we'll entertain a motion to close public comments. Your mic's off. So, move second. Before you take the vote, if you in mind um Mr. Chair to give a an an explanation as to why we do not respond during public comments in
057a regular meeting. Yeah. Um there's a couple of reasons that we do not respond and and that's why we don't respond at this point because we're out of order. Uh the order and I'll be very clear I don't normally do this but I'll do it. The order is when there is an employee issue the employee escalates as was done except for one thing. It escalates to the only employee this board has. We have one employee there he is. So it escalates to him. If an answer that is given is not satisfactory, there can be a submission for a review, but the board makes no determination for employment. We don't make any determination for recontracting. In fact, I'm going to read this. I I wasn't sure if I was going to, but I'm going to. The
058role of the board of education. This is straight from the law. To develop and adopt a strategic plan in consultation with the director of schools to adopt all policies required by state and federal law. To approve school zones to approve the district calendar. To adopt district safety plans. To approve the closure of facilities if needed. to approve an insurance provider. To approve modify the agenda at the beginning of the board meeting. Fiscal to approve and adopt the budget. To approve the purchases outside the budget on a case-bycase basis in accordance with board policy. To approve budget transfers. To adopt the district salary schedule. To approve a differentiated pay plan. to approve funding for the district maintenance plan and capital request. To approve the location and scope of new building projects, to approve bids, instruction in
059students to adopt the curriculum, to adopt textbooks, to review student disciplinary issues appealed to the board and make a final determination. to authorize or prohibit the use of corporal punishment. To approve or deny admission of students expelled from other school districts, personnel to employ and evaluate the director of schools, to grant tenure to eligible teachers, and to dismiss tenure teachers. That's the state law, all backed by Tennessee code. So, we don't respond to many things because we go straight to our one employee. That's no, we can't answer questions. You we're welcome to answer them after this is over with. You can talk to each one of us individually. So, that's why now we talked about social media. I'm going to go there because I personally have been attacked about this and and and that's okay
060because I really don't care. You talk about money and stuff. We we we're reimbured $400 a month. So if you think we're doing it for money, you're dead wrong. I've had four graduates from this school and I've got a little one in this elementary school. We take everything seriously. And you can't give us something from another school district and expect action from us. We can't. Except if you're actually submitting and writing and it goes through proper legal process. We are not judges. We are not experts in education. I read to you what we were elected to represent Millington for. We're parents. We're grandparents. We're citizens in this city. We see you in Walmart. I know many of you personally, we some of us were even family. The reality is we ain't swept jack crap under
061the rug. No, I don't care about professional. I'm answering. You wanted an answer, you got an answer. I call the question to close public comments. So moved. I call the question. So moved. Next item on the agenda is to adjourn. That's it. A motion and a second. Forjourn has already been motioned and seconded. And there you go. All those in favor? I oppose? None. Meeting's close.