001Go. All right. At six o'clock, we're going to call this meeting to order. Mr. Childress, would you mind leading us in a word? Let's pray. Most gracious heavenly father, Lord, we thank you today for the sunshine. Lord, we thank you for the rain that we've had, but please don't sin no more. Uh just watch over all of us. Guide us and direct us. Lord, be with our schools uh district. Be with our students. Be with our teachers. Be with our city leaders. These things we ask in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. The pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, roll call. Miss Baker Chris here. Here all right, we're all here. Next item on the
002agenda is the approval of the agenda. So moved. Second. All right. Miss Hallebertton with the motion. Dr. Compton with the second. All those in favor? I opposed. There are none. Next item on the agenda is the public comments. We received three comments or or comment slips. Please forgive me for the name. One of the names I cannot I'm not sure I'll pronounce it and I don't mean to disrespect you. Uh during this time we'll ask you to state your name, address, and sorry name, address, and then the topic. So the first person is Dale Ko CJ A. That way I don't mispronounce. I'm very sorry. I'll certainly ask you how to say your name. Kosa. Cosa. Mr. Cosa. Okay. You grab this. Sure. He's gonna pass down a piece of paper or hand you a
003stack to pass down. Sure. My concerns with my granddaughter goes to Milton. First state your name address and then 10232. Okay. So my concern is we spoke with uh Mr. on March 31st about my granddaughter was u hearing threatening comments from a younger student out there 9 10 years old. This picture that you're getting is from two years ago that we got off of social media. All right. So the answer from the board and the superintendent was that everything is being taken care of. this student. Again, this is uh all on social media. I can find some comments by the mother. Just in short, the student was having problems at Lucy Elementary doing the exact same thing he's doing at your school. He's running out of the classrooms. He's um punching kids in a lunchroom.
004That's on video that the Mr. Neil, they never looked at the video. Uh my daughter teaches there. You'll hear from her in a minute. So, the solution was would just put it underneath the rug like everything else, right? And um speaking with my to my granddaughter and having her hearing these that we're going to pull the guts out of the teacher, we're going to stab students. Um the child runs runs the hallways. It's all on video. And we talked to Mr. McNeel or is it McNeil? All right. So, I'm here because I'm disgusted with the board. Every one of these people, these children in these schools deserve, you know, not to hear that they're eight, nine years old, but we have kids in Memphis today, they're bringing knives to school in fourth grade. This is
005third grade. How long are you going to wait to take any action against specific students before you let something happen? Are we going to look back? So, not my daughter, my granddaughter is getting therapy for these threats because they you all said you would, you know, we'll talk to her, which you did, but what are you going to say to her? What you said to her is we're going to make sure you're safe. When we talked to Mr. McNeel, he said that he would move my granddaughter to a different hallway where he's she's not exposed to this student. And it's just ridiculous. So, a couple of the things I give you some notes on the thing. The student went to Lucy Elementary. The mother was continually getting called. This would be in 2023. I'll I'll
006present this to you with social media. I'm not going to mention the student's name. Before you let your child attend Lucy Elementary, I'll put into consideration how they treated their students. All right. The mother goes into saying that kids run child runs the hallways. He has an IEP and so is my granddaughter, right? Well, you can't treat one person with IEP and just let him run the hallways because that says it is, you know, he can run to a safe place. So, the mother states that the IEPs I'm going to submit this to you all. All right. Um he also she also states that the child um has hit kids, violated other students and this was 2023. Let's see. Parent states she hardly hears from his teachers. I never get replies. I get told by
007his folder at the end of the day how horrible it was. To me that's the same forgetting. My daughter presented this to the school on March 11th and it's been going on since. Today she'll speak and she got an answer and it's pathetic. I'm just going to submit this to you. I think my two minutes is up, but you'll get the point. Read through this stuff and you all haven't done anything. So, we'll see where it goes. Thank you. Maybe we'll see you next month. Make sure to bring a lawyer. Next on the list is Nicole Williams. Good evening. My name is Nicole Williams, 8525 Mala Road in Millington. I'm here on behalf of my daughter who is a third grader at Millington Primary. It follows the same topic of discussion that uh Lucy's grandfather
008has brought to you. Um I have been dealing with this and have about 16 pages worth of documentation on communication between myself and administration between myself and Mr. Neil. We had a meeting on March 31st. After that meeting following, I felt comforted that my daughter is going to be removed from a situation. Whereas, of course, I don't want her moved from the teachers that she's built those relationships with, but the problem is still sitting in the room. And I don't acknowledge that any child should be without an education, but I do think that there needs to be proper accommodations and implementations to make that behavior that you're seeing that's coming across stop. Right. Yes, Lucy Elementary has is not a part of this, but as just proof that's been happening for two and a half
009years. The same behaviors are being witnessed in the school. I keep asking for what the policies are, where they are. I understand that as I am not that child's parent, I cannot be privy to that information, but all I ask then if I can't have those consequences laid out, there is no student handbook posted on any Millington website. I've looked for policies through a student handbook. It says under construction for this school year coming soon. We're 36 days away from the school year being done. I still have nothing to reference. Okay. Therefore, I asked that my daughter be removed. Mr. Neil and I had that discussion on March 31st with all the documentation I presented him. He agreed that that would be a a way to kind of alleviate my concern. I also teach at
010the same school, so it's hard for me to come up and speak against where I'm working. But my daughter's safety comes first. I asked that she be moved out of that physical space of that student. It was recommended. He said he would recommend that today after I initiated five days, five school days. I initiated, hey, how's that class change coming? Because nobody has reached out. She's still been in that classroom for five days minus the inclement weather. Right? Then I finally get a response. I said, further into it. We're not going to move her. So, I'm right back to where I began. I'm supposed to be pushing all these TECAP scores, pushing all this testing for the students in my classroom, but this is what I'm sitting with concerns and getting very, you know, having
011me initiate conversations. And for that, I just want to bring that up. My daughter also has an IEP that states that distractions are supposed to be minimized. and she's worried that that student's going to walk into her classroom at any moment and that student scares her for proper reasons. So, I am just looking for a solution. I want it for all students. I don't think they should be subjected to that. But if I can't, I have to advocate for my own child. And that's where we are today. So, I disagree with being told one thing, waiting for communication, initiating, and then having been told that that's not going to happen. So again, we're back to square one. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you. Next, the third is Daryl Allen. Not Daryl. Did I
012mispronounce that? Okay. By accident. So, okay. After hearing the comments, if there's no further and we don't have any more, we'll certainly take these things under adisement and discuss. We don't normally respond to comments and questions. All I'll say is thank you for bringing it to our attention because it has not been brought to our attention. That's it. That's it. I entertain a motion to close public comments. Second. Mr. Children with the motion. Miss Albertton with the second. Next item on the agenda is the uh consent agenda. In this consent agenda, we have two parts A and B. Part A is the recommended approval of March 3rd, 2025 board of education meeting minutes. Part B is the designation that the following board of education policies in section five as listed are corrected or correct as
013listed. Entertain a motion and a second. So move. That was a tie. Okay. Dr. Compton with the motion. Miss Gray with the second. Any comments or questions? All those in favor? Opposed? There are none. Next item on the agenda, item eight is director of schools report. Mr. Griff. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Of course, want to uh first and foremost recognize our students and staff of the month. And we'll start with Miss Perkins from the primary school. Good evening. We have definitely had some crazy weather. With all of these April showers, we should have some spectacular May flowers. We had such a busy March. We celebrated National Social Workers and support staff week by showing our social worker, Miss Annie Harden, as well as our CIS specialist, Miss Dorsy, our alliance behavior leaison, Miss Hickman, with
014treats and lots of extra love. We also celebrated Mr. Jimmy for National Plant Manager Day. We have one of the best plant managers around and Mr. Jimmy and we sure hope he felt love and appreciation. We participated in fun activities and dress up days for Read Across America Week. It is wonderful to see the students so excited and engaged in reading. We smiled big for spring portraits and our kindergarten cap and gown pictures were made. I can't believe our kindergarteners are about to be first graders. Report cards went live on March 26th. Our teachers attended a day of professional learning to improve their craft and sift through data. Registration is now open for the 2526 school year. So, please be sure you register online. April is just as busy with lots of celebrations as well.
015We celebrated National Autism Awareness Day by wearing blue on Wednesday, April 2nd. We celebrated all of our pair professionals, including our preschool assistants, sped assistants, library assistant, and ICAS. They are true rock stars in the foundation to the academic work we are doing. We also celebrated our very own Miss Carico for National School Librarian Day. We have the best of the best in Miss Carico. Her love and passion for reading is contagious. We hope they all felt the love. Our yearbook committee has been working hard and making memories and our yearbooks are still on sale for $30. If you have not gotten one, you need to do so. In an effort to demonstrate the level of rigor that is required for our third grade students on TECAP, we played, "Are you smarter than a third
016grader, we included TECAP style questions in the Sunday night message, and we hope you enjoyed playing along." Now, be on the lookout for valuable test taking tips. Data meetings continue this week. Our instructional facilitator and instructional coach are analyzing the process monitoring data of our students and making changes to instructional paths as needed. We want to ensure we differentiate our instruction to meet the needs of all of our tiny Trojans. We are currently celebrating our amazing assistant principles and I have the absolute best in Miss Sha Lot and Miss Debbie Welch and our honorary prek supervisor or AP Barbie Hodgej. These ladies are literally my right hand, my left hand, my rock, my thought partners, the calm to the crazy and always willing to smile for a picture or go along with any silly idea
017I may come up with. Words cannot express the gratitude I have for their hard work and unwavering dedication to our tiny Trojans and our MPS family each and every day. Our third grade teachers are working hard to prepare our students for TCAP testing which will begin next week. Students will be testing from April 14th through April 25th. We know they have worked hard and will show what they know on the test. We are holding our second annual Donuts with third grade grown-ups tomorrow at 9:00 in the NPS library to provide updates and testing information to our third grade families. We hope you can attend. There is no school. Friday, April 18th, we will celebrate our brave and courageous bus drivers. Tuesday, April 22nd for National Bus Driver Appreciation Day. Driving a school bus is no
018easy feat. April 23rd, we will celebrate our hardworking administrative assistants for administrative professional day and our military children will be recognized and celebrated for military children's honors day. We will be hosting a popping into kindergarten where our rising kindergarten families can get some information on kindergarten readiness and meet the kindergarten team. Tuesday, April 29th, we will have a general sessions PTO meeting to nominate and vote on PTO board members for the 2526 school year. We will have a first grade program in the gym to follow. We hope you all can join us. Quarter four interims will go live at the end of the month, April 30th. And now for the reason that we are all here to honor our employee and students of the month. Our character word for the month was fairness. This new
019teach there is a new teacher at NPS has exhibited this character trait for each and every one of her students. Congratulations to Miss Shelby Vaughn, kindergarten teacher, for being named our employee of the month. Come on down, Miss [Applause] Bon. All right, our preschool students of the month, Kalia Johnson. and Jarvis Mobley. In kindergarten, we have Jackson Wade and Diana Flores in first grade. Dominic Aguilar. and Addison Downey. in second grade. Grayson Ilbrank and Alani Uwandu. [Applause] in third grade. Win Fam and Samarian Rice. Hey, good morning. Good evening, board members. Been a long day. A lot of meetings today. Uh we had a a very busy March and now are working toward an even busier April as testing looms on the horizon. This week brings the last two afterchool tutoring sessions for our fourth
020graders. Students and teachers have spent many hours this year improving their deficits during this tutoring time and we're excited to see them showcase their knowledge on next week at the TCAP. This Thursday, our teacher of the year, Christy Stewart, will be celebrating at an evening of excellence in Memphis, as are other nearby teachers that have earned that award. We also will be celebrating World Autism Month this Friday by wearing blue. We want to recognize individuals with autism and promote understanding and inclusion. And then finally for this week, we also are celebrating assistant principal week. We have some that work tirelessly to support all our stakeholders, especially the students and teachers each and every day. Miss Farmer and Miss Klein are amazing and they are really the heartbeat of our school. Next week on April 15th,
021our TCAP testing begins. We've prepared and worked diligently to have our students ready and believe that they will shine brightly. That testing period continues through April 29th for us. We also will be celebrating our students that come from military families as April is the month of the military child. And to recognize that, we're going to wear all purple on April 23rd. We invite you to do the same. And then finally, we'll cap off this busy time with field trips for our fourth and sixth graders as we enter into the first week of May with fifth grade to follow shortly after. And now I'd like to recognize some very special people. Our students and employee of the month. Students, when you hear your name, please come down to accept your award from Mr. Griffin. And parents,
022you may come closer to get a pick. So in fourth grade from team 4A is Elizabeth Kerber. from 4B is Payton Black. 4 C is Winston Sawyer. In fifth grade from team 5A is Koi Fam. 5B is Kylie Cruel. In sixth grade from team 6A is Olivia Fornier and 6B is Alex Felen. Our library student of the month is Ryan Manning. The art student of the month is Ariel Wilson. Our music student of the month is Sky Kennedy. And finally for PE, Mr. Sha Lee. Thank you. Good evening. Uh we had a extremely busy month of March on the Millington Central campus. Even though we had a week of spring break, we packed as much as we could in the remaining three weeks. On Saturday, March the 1st, we held the 2025 Oscar night ceremony
023right here in the pack. Uh students dressed to impress and we had several outstanding student performances that night. Uh on March the 5th, we honored the class of 2025 Hall of Fame. The Millington Central Hall of Fame is one of the oldest traditions on campus. Uh this honor is uh given to no more than 5% of the graduating class. Teachers nominate students each year based on their leadership, community service, academics, attendance, and conduct. And the 2025 Hall of Fame members are Grace Bell, Chassity Bright, Aaliyah Fiend, Jackson Ford, Chris Galindo, Kinsey Gordon, Gabe Jenkins, Jerry Lynn, Noah Stevens, Jada Swain, and James Tuper. Great, great group. Also on March the 5th right here at the pack, uh we announced the class of 2025 top 10. Congratulations to the following students for their hard work and
024dedication to their academics through throughout high school. Number 10, Ava Ward. Number nine, Ava Jackson. Number eight, Pearla Cologne. Number seven, McKenzie Murphy. Number six, Grace Bell. Number five, Gabe Jenkins. Number four, Maline Dodson. Our historian was Noah Stevens. Is Noah Stevens. Our saludiatoran is Korsia Hibler. And the class of 2025 validictorian is Mr. Jerry Leon. The Millington Central Band performed at the WTSBOA concert assessment at West Cerville Middle School in March. They earned superior rating for sight reading and an excellent rating for their prepared selections the Liberty Bell March and Blue Ridge Saga. In March, the students completed their final case assessment and our teachers met for their final teacher professional development day for the year. Uh teachers reviewed the case results and planned uh the final push before t testing. On March the
0257th, our eighth grade students traveled to Ripley, Tennessee for a middle school career fair. They had a great time and learned about opportunities uh that are available after school. The Millington Central Fine Arts classes were very busy in March. The Trojan theater department held four performances for their spring play, The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, right here in the pack. The students worked hard and did an outstanding job. The Trojan piano classes held the their third annual piano showcase right here in the pack. 7th through 12th grade students performed various pieces. There was something for everyone. Uh we have first year beginners stu beginner students all the way uh to students who played piano their entire lives. So it was a great night uh to showcase that program. The Trojan art classes are currently holding
026their annual silent art auction. The Trojan Choir and band programs are busy preparing for their upcoming spring performances right here in the pack. Our CTE department sent five students to the Tennessee State HOSA leadership conference. Congratulations to Charlotte Griffin, Chassity Bright, Jada Swain, Michaela Wilston, and Alexis Wixs. Our NJOTC cadets were very busy in March. the Trojan NJOTC uh cadets held their annual military inspection or AMI in our gymnasium. The cadetses did an outstanding job and showcase the program to our Trojan families and our military guests. So, great job. Trojan spring sports are going strong. We have both middle school and high school boys and girls, tennis, track and field, baseball, softball, and then we also have boys soccer, middle school and high school. and then high school girls flag football in season. I would
027like to say a big congratulations to Trojan track standout Taan Dy. In March, Taan competed in the Nike indoor nationals in New York. He was the national runnerup in both the long jump and triple jump. He earned Nike All-American Honors as well as a spot on the Nike Elite team that will be traveling to Japan this summer to compete in the Under 20 World Championship. Last week right here in the pack, we hosted a uh West Tennessee retirement teachers meeting. Um the Millington Central Culinary Class prepared lunch for the group. It was a great day to meet some veteran teachers and showcase our school at the same time. So, uh thank you Miss Gray for allowing us to uh to host. It was a great day. And now I would like to recognize some more
028outstanding individuals from Millington Central. March's theme for nominating students, teachers, and staff of the month was supportive. These individuals make Millington Central a better place. When I call your name, please come forward. Our middle school student of the month for March is Kayn SCS. Our high school student of the month is Daryl Allen. Our student athletes for the month of March, baseball, Tyler Morgan. Most of these are at actual events tonight, but there's a few here. Uh, high school soccer, Daniel Garcia. Middle school soccer, Jaden Meeks. High school softball, Haley Stevens. Middle school softball, Leila Deon, high school track. Justin Christopher, [Applause] and also high school track Jamaiah Campbell. [Applause] Our educators for the month of March middle school is our middle school social worker, Miss Latisa Douglas. high school is our high school social
029worker, Mr. Neil Boen. Our support staff for the month of March is our attendance operator, Miss Cynthia Anguano. Thank you. Hello everybody. I would like to recognize two of our employees who get uh first of all Nisha Tanisha Small. She uh achieved her level one certificate school nutrition which has taken 16 hours of classes on her own to get her level one certificate. Thanks a lot. [Applause] Uh the next one is Miss Melissa Berdette who uh got her level three certificate and that's about 60 hours worth of community um classes and stuff like that for in school nutrition. It's a great accomplishment. [Applause] Just a few more uh important dates to know about. Tomorrow uh all of our juniors will be taking the ACT and also our 7th through 10th graders will also be taking
030a full length practice test. On Wednesday, the ASVAB or the armed service adaptive patter will be given to all 10th graders and a select few 11th and 12th graders. This ASVAB is very important for military service. And just to let everybody know, I am proud to say we have had our sixth cadet in the last 11 years be admitted to the Naval Academy in the last 11 years. That's pretty impressive. Miss Khloe Bush, congratulations on that. Uh student registration is open for 2526 school year. You may go on the parent portal Skyward and complete the registration process. But remember, if you are on a shared residency, you will or must be approved through central office before you can complete the registration. Uh it's been said over and over again, it is testing season, April 15th
031through May the 3. So, uh our teachers are working above and beyond the call of duty like they do every day, but really getting ready for our TCAP test in our EOCC's. Graduation is May 8th at 7 p.m. be on the football field. Uh if you'll look into your notes, I just wanted to let y'all know we did receive two uh code enforcements from the city today just to let you know for overgrown and dirty lots at the intermediate school and also for the sidewalks and driveways at Miles Park. Just to let you know, we are in already in working on that. We have been working on trying to get this resolved the last three weeks and hopefully we'll get that by before the end of the month, but I wanted you to be aware
032of that. So, we are very aware of that situation as well, but we are on top of that as well. And last but not least, uh are there any questions? Could we get an update on the um middle school project? Yes, ma'am. We're we're right where we need to be right now. Uh they're just getting the paperwork. We should be breaking ground in June now that we've had 12 inches of rain the last three days. The ground is very saturated. So, last thing you want to do is put any heavy equipment on there. So, but we are still on on right on pace to be where we need to be to get this thing started. So, yes, ma'am. Um I may have um I may not be remembering this correctly, but I think at the
033work session you said you have a you had a um meeting set up with Dr. Richmond from uh Memphis Shelby County. Do you did you It was about the status of Lucy. Yes, ma'am. I have been in contact with him about the status of Lucy. Uh we are trying to see if uh there's a way we meet that a year early just so that we can have or actually give Mr. Leblanc some time to get it ready. Uh because as you know uh the Millington Early Learning Academy is on schedule. Uh we moved the furniture over there today. Um, also we are getting prepared for Lucy in a way that we just uh we need to know exactly what we need to fix. We know there'll be some things that has to be done and
034to have that extra year will just make it a lot easier on everybody. Uh, but I have been in contact with uh Dr. Richmond with Memphis Shelby County Schools and hopefully we'll be able to have that sit down and talk. Okay. You hadn't actually met No, ma'am. Not yet, but he has been in contact with me and looking forward to it. I know he's a busy man. I just want Yes, ma'am. It happened yet. Thank you. Last but not least, I will be out of town tomorrow at the TLAA meeting on the uh one-time transfer rule that uh passed the House by 10 to 9 vote. That could be a law which and honestly will just basically destroy high school athletics in my opinion. Unfortunately, I know y'all been a breast of this because I've
035been send it to you every week, but once again, we've got legislation going into areas that they need to stay in their lane because what they are creating is a NCAA portal situation. And high school athletics has nothing to do with NCAA. 99% of the high school athletes will never play in the NCAA. There's nothing wrong with that. But things that high school sports teaches, how to deal with adversity, how to with the team, how to put oneself and behind others will go away. If you get a one-time transfer rule, it will take all the power out of the principal's hands and and trying to mandate the eligibility rule. And I'll be honest with you, I was still a principal. I would not I would not answer any eligibility rules. They would just go and
036be eligible immediately because of lawsuits. And that's what's going to happen. It's already been shown in the state of Arkansas that did this last year. They are already begging their legislators to change the rule back. But this is something that will be on the House floor this week. I will go by and see hopefully our senators and state representatives again tomorrow and see if we can get them to vote no on that because it will actually destroy the true essence of high school athletics. Thank you. All right, if there's no further questions, we'll move on. We'll close the director's report. Next item on the agenda is recommended approval of fiscal year 2025 2026 annual budget. So move second. Mr. Childress with the motion. Miss Gray with the second. Mr. Tarus. Good evening board. Um, I
037will not bore you guys with the 25 20 page of presentation that I shared with you guys at the work session, but I will just highlight some information for the public that may be listening or those that are here. Um, just to let you guys know where we currently are. Again, our fund balance at the end of June 30th. Um, our general fund balance is at 18,741425. Our overall fund balance is at 21.4 million. Again, I anticipate us under spending, which is always a good thing. Um, by the end of this year, so between 950 to another million, I think we'll be able to add to fund balance. So, we'll have a healthy healthy budget, healthy um cash flow. Um, roughly 19 to 20 million in our general fund balance at the end of this
038year. Um, just want to talk speak on a couple of the investments for the 2526 school year that we're proposing in this budget. They total $2.4 4 million um 1.5 million in salary and step increases, 350,000 in retention bonuses. Um there are some new a new sped teacher position, two new sped assistant positions, two vocational teacher positions, and again those are not new. Those are positions that are moving o moving over from the ISM grant. a sped clerical and a nurse for the prek. Some additional uh dollars for the business operations due to the new prek building. 30,000 tied to the fourth and fifth grade tutoring. Another $30,000 tied to general ed health studies and a small investment of $12,000 for PD for the academic team. Again, that totals $2.4 million of new expenses to
039the budget. Um, again want to just touch on the TISA piece of the budget. Uh, with our enrollment down from the previous year, 50 students that cost us based uh, roughly $364,000. So again, just wanted to to show that with you guys, share that and to let you know how important it is for our enrollment. U, those increases or decreases really affect our budget moving forward with the new TI budget. Uh lastly on page 16, just a reminder of some future fiscal items moving forward. Again, we are ahead of the game when it comes to the state's requirement of our minimum starting salary for teachers at 50k. We're going to get that done next school year. So, uh we're moving we're ahead ahead of the state's requirement. Um, next year there should not be a
040huge investment as as since I've been here, we've invested heavily in salaries and benefits, but now we I think we have everybody structured and where they need to be as far as the different steps and lanes. So next year, you'll just see every employee just moving up to a step. There should not be 800,0001 million investment next year salaries. I think we're on par with the other municipalities and I think we have everything squared squared up. Um again, no no out of district tuition next year. So um that's will be a change for um the 25 25 26 27 school year. Also the USDA loan I mean 2526 school year, I'm sorry, the USDA loan repayment will begin in 2627. So just putting that in front of everyone. So, you'll see an increase to our
041budget moving forward because that's uh roughly a $1.5 million loan that we'll have to start paying on. And then you guys touched on Lucy Elementary. Um trying to get that a year early so we can get it prepped up and I'm sure we'll have some expenses tied to fixing that up. Lastly, after we met, um I got an email from the city regarding presenting to their their board. I wanted to present next week, but Mr. Penley asked me to hold off and come to their work session April 29th and go over this presentation with them on the 29th and then we'll answer any questions they have and we'll get them to approve it at their first board meeting. When is that work session? It's normally over at the city. Is that the work session before
042y'all's monthly meetings? Anybody want to respond to that. Is it the 29th? It's the 29th. That's a Monday. That's a Monday. So, their meeting starts at 6. Your work session starts at five. Oh, it's not. Okay. Yeah. This is simply a budget work session. I think they're presenting their budget and Mr. Finley wants me to present our budget. Yeah, they make the second Monday. So, with all that said, I'm asking the we have a Balance budget for our general fund of 33,62,1001, federal fund at1,579,828, our uh nutrition budget at 2,392,962 and a uh capital improvement budget of $822,643. a total of 37,857,535 to be approved for the 2526 year. And I'll take any questions you have at this time. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion to amend the proposed budget. I'd like to
043include up to $250,000 for repairs, remediation, and improvements to the stadium bleachers and the wait room funds to come from the $2.25 5 million surplus or next year's budget if necessary. So, we have a motion. If I agree, we'll need a second. A second. Yeah. So, we have a motion to the budget to add state that again. I'd like to make a motion to amend the proposed budget to include up to, but not necessarily up to $250,000 for repairs, remediation, and improvements to the stadium bleachers and weight room. Includes fixing water leaks, cosmetic updates, and protecting the interior. Funds come from the $2.25 million surplus from the current budget or next year's budget if necessary. And now would be the time for questions and discussions on that. If I can just respond to that real
044quick. So what that would mean would be um those funds are would go into our fund balance next year. So that would mean us going into fund balance um once this year is over and next year starts and then I'd have to bring an amendment to the board in July to say hey whatever the amount you guys agree to to dip into fund balance to add to this budget because right now I don't have another area to offset this addition additional $25,000. We have items that are on the list that we're prepaying for next year including what $100,000 for CTE spring stipens textbook adoptions all Memphis for 450. So the remaining balance for this year is the 2.25 25 million. My hope is that we might be able to get this done before our fiscal
045year. So, we would not need to dip into fund balance. We would use this year's budget. So, we would need a detailed list of what we're asking to get done. Um, and again, I don't know the details of if that'll be uh supplies and equipment that we'll need here to get done, but all that work would have to be completed by June 30th if we're using this year's dollars. Yes. And I just know that I I don't know if it's possible, which is why I'm wording this surplus or next year's. So, if you're pl if you're wanting us to find dollars this year, that would not be an amendment to our what I'm proposing tonight. What I'm proposing tonight is just a balance budget for the 2526 school year. I think this would be another
046I don't know if now is the time to have this discussion. So, there are two things. If you're wanting to use dollars from this year, we can discuss that. But I that that's that's not tied to what we're doing right now for 2526. If your proposal then is to go into a fund balance, then that's something we can discuss and then I'll plan to do that in July. But again, I I'll turn it back over. I'm not sure from the parliamentary procedure perspective if I've done this correctly, but I would like to there's there's two parts. Um one is if you're looking to utilize funds that's not next year, then that motion wouldn't stand. If you want to pre-make the motion for this budget to include that 250,000, then your motion would stand and we
047would vote to increase this budget. We vote to accept that amendment to increase this budget and it would not impact his ability. But let me change the way I just said that. that would not free up for him this year that money. We would still have to make it would go into fund balance and then come out. Okay. Then I'll amend my motion to say that it would be part of next year's budget. So the the motion as it stands, read that out to make sure. We want to make sure we do amend the proposed budget to include up to $250,000 for repairs, remediation, and improvements to the stadium bleachers and wait room. Mr. Curry, could I ask one question? What just go would you go back over what the fund balance is for for
048this year and then proposed for next year? So current at the end of 2024 our general fund balance was 18,741. Okay. Um there you know there are other uh departments that the that have fund balance. So your nutrition has a fund balance of 1.4 which we can't use right now and the capital is 1.2 but overall 21.4. Again I anticipate us coming under somewhat. Um so I do see that increasing for for 24 25. So 21.4 for our overall fund overall fund balance but I think these items would need to come from general fund which is 18.7 million or the capital at 1.2 general fund was 18 okay I know that we've discussed this in a work session on the issues that we've got over there you going to enlighten us on that Mr. Leblanc
049board if you excuse me just for a minute I'd like to uh address Mrs. amendment. You're wanting to use some money to renovate the football stadium and have it done before August for our football 100 year. No, I I don't have a timeline in place. I mean, I would not say renovate. I would say remediate. Remediate and and understand that. So, the surplus funds that are used that are in this year's budget u those if we was to use that that project would have to be done like Mr. Curry said by June 30th. And that could be done. Now, if you go to use uh next year's funds, do the year amendment and put it on next year's budget, you'll have to come in front of y'all in August after we we start the budget,
050and you'll have to approve the amendment, and we won't be able to start work until after that, which brings us into the fall football season, stuff like that. So, you won't see work on the stadium uh until probably late spring, which is track, and we won't be able to do it again next summer. So, it's that particularly you would like for us to get before June 30th. There's some things we can accomplish before then. So, uh then I need some assistance with how to make a proposal for that. Well, I mean, you wouldn't have to. Now, this is something you could have a discussion with your board and and the CFO outside of this amendment. This is the 2526. We can take care of that with the 2425 uh budget surplus. So would that be
051in the context of a work session and then at the next meeting we bring it? Correct. Okay. So our our biggest uh need not necessarily want but a need over there is the uh leakage from the stadium down into the weight room. Is that correct? Correct. All the expansion joints on the 70 plus year old stadium is uh needs to be redone. We need completely rip them out and redo them and make it watertight. Any idea on a time frame what that might take? It would be three about three to four weeks on that just for that part. Right. Great. Okay. Thank you. One other question because I know part of the discussion with this has been grant money that we're waiting on potentially. If that grant money came in in two years, we could
052use that for other projects later. Correct. Not ear. No, ma'am. Not if it's earmarked. However, I have I have written the grant to where it is also in academics as well so that we can if we need to be able to move money into general funds so that we can take care of some of those problems. Uh unfortunately with what has happened at the federal level, everything's been put on stop and that's my biggest concern. This is a grant that we've been I know I've been working on for the last three years that I have been told that it is in the hopper and it is coming, but most of those grants don't come till late May, early June consistently. So hopefully we'll have that. And if that money does come, we do have things
053not only for uh the football stadium, but also for other student athlete activities as well as academic areas as well. Uh if it pleases the board, I'll get a list and a for some of the elements needed for the the stadium. Uh we've already got asphalt fencing and I've already got some quotes for the expansion joints to be replaced and some uh epoxy coating on the stadium itself and give you some timelines on that as far as work. Mr. Blanc, I think we talked some about this at the last work session and I remember something about um some renovations to the fieldhouse or something. That was kind of one of the proposals. What and I mean I think we talked about getting some lists and stuff together at that point. Yes, ma'am. There's a lot
054of lists we need. I mean, we have the stadium which you're talking about just the struct the stand structure with the weight rooms up under it and some lock rooms up under it. Then you're about the fieldhouse which is a separate uh building right down at the north end. Uh yes, we have lists for both of them. Okay. It's quite long. But we we can address some of those issues u and some of the money that we have could go toward that right now instead of having to wait till next year. And then some of the funds that uh the superintendent has done for the grant. Usually they do come in toward the end of the fiscal year uh when the county sees what they have left over to kind of give it to us.
055So, uh, hopefully that some of that could go toward that also. Wouldn't this be more out of capital improvement or you said capital or you said it'll be capital? I I thought I was hearing general fund, but capital capital improvements. Okay. But now the surplus is a general fund surplus. Okay. Hey, so I'm sorry, one more thing. So, correct me if I'm wrong. I think Miss Compton was referring to the wait room being expanded off of the fieldhouse because we talked about that being less expensive. So when you're doing one of your many list, if you could just include that and so we can compare that is what I was remembering. Timeline prices. Yeah. The to that'll take a little bit longer if you're looking at a building to extend off of the fieldhouse itself.
056Yeah. When we were talking about a metal building, remember and stuff like that. That's a little bit longer, but I can get a rough estimate for you on that. And maybe that would be more because I know it's important to Miss Hallebertton. She pointed out we've got to make it available and opening to like all teams. Correct. So maybe that would be, you know, that would solve that problem. To kind of keep the confusion down, there's a wait room under the stadium now. So when you hear people say wait room, that is the weight room that is under the stadium housing. the fieldhouse is what y'all want to expand and have a wait room on the fieldhouse. Okay. So, that's where I don't want anybody to get confused right now. Well, I I I'm still
057confused a little bit because I'm I'm not um totally sure of what the difference is between the stadium and the fieldhouse. I guess that terminology is escaping me a little bit. Um, and so I'm trying to figure out um, when we talk about the word remediation, there are things that you mentioned around leaks that need to be repaired. So I'm thinking remediation is around repairing things that maybe because it can cause safety issues um, and other structural damage that we want to make sure that we try to shore that that stuff up. And then I'm also hearing things around expansion, which is not remediation, that's enhancement. And so we're talking about two different things, which is why um we talked at the last work session and I'd requested a list of prioritization to say what
058are the things that we absolutely need to have done versus the things that are are wish list items because we need to be able to determine if the list is as long as you've said, which I'm sure it is because the stadium is old. Um we need to be able to to determine what things off those lists make sense to do. If that means it's a a phased plan where we do some things now, some things later. We need to figure out what those buckets look like and how much money we're talking about in each of those buckets. Um I am uncomfortable pulling fund balance money for things that are wishlist items. Um, and so I think it I would be much more comfortable having a conversation where we can actually see numbers, project items,
059and be able to make some informed decisions about what we want to fix, when we want to fix, when we want to enhance or expand. Couple of different conversations that I think need to happen outside of this conversation, which is supposed to be about next year's budget. Correct. And that list is in the process. started that breaking everything out each element of your the remediation for the the uh things that need to be taken care of and also now the the want list pretty much what we have. So you're absolutely correct and when this conversation go back to my seat so so we're going to reel this back in and I if I can just address um board members how's point and I'm daily looking at where we are for those projections as soon as
060gets that we can start looking at things to say, hey, what can we afford to pay out of this year's budget and what's too big and we probably need to just hold off later, but we're going to work together on that. And so for this for this vote, the discussion is or the vote is forget the discussion. If there's more discussion, we can have that. But if we did a call to order, uh we would just vote on this amendment to add 250 to next year's budget. It's a flat yes or no or or you go ahead and state the the motion can be withdrawn. The motion can be with I withdraw the motion. Perfect. Perfect. Because it makes sense for us to leverage what could be left over to do remediation that is immediate
061and needed right now. And then to Miss Hallebertton's point and to Miss Cook and I believe Miss Clifton has the same desire. We definitely have, we call it a wish list, but we have a desire for our athletes, all athletes, not just our football team, to have a facility that will encompass what they need for exercise and for gathering out of the elements to lift weights and do other things. And I know that Phil is working on that. I know his Bo is. But I don't believe that should be a vote part of our budget tonight. So with that, Sounds like Miss Cook has withdrawn that motion. So, we're right back to the budget as presented. And the budget as presented is the onepage list that we I believe we have. That is the adopted
062budget, a balanced budget as Mr. said, Mr. All right. Roll call, please. I that motion passes. Thank you for that discussion. We certainly want to look at the future as well. There's nothing wrong with party discussion. Next item on the agenda is the recommended approval of the MMSD BOE resolution which is 2025-01. Need a motion and a second. So move second. Miss Gray with a motion and Miss Cook with a second. Any discussion or I should read this, shouldn't I? If everyone is in agreement, then I'll read this resolution. Uh, this resolution is directly tied to the Education Freedom Act. So, I'll take a few minutes, if you guys are comfortable with this, to read it out. to be written. Uh, this is the Millington Municipal School Board of Education resolution 2025-01, a resolution of
063the Mill Municipal School Board of Education expressing the required affirmation that MMSD Board of Education would like to participate in section 4 of the Education Freedom Act of 2025. Whereas the Tennessee General Assembly passed the Education Freedom Act of 2025 during the first extraordinary session of the 114th General Assembly. And whereas section four of said law provides that the Department of Education shall award a one-time bonus in the amount that is no less than $2,000 to each teacher employed in a pre kindergarten through 12 public school in the state for the 2425 school year. And whereas the aforemention aformentioned law provides in section 4 that teacher that's in quotations has the same meaning as existing educator as the term is defined in TSA code annotated 49-3-104 and whereas section 4 of the law said al
064misread that whereas section four of said law also provides that in order to receive funds from the department for purposes of awarding the teacher bonuses described in subsection quotations. A the local board of education for the LEA must first adopt a resolution affirming that the LEA would like to participate in section 4 of the Education Freedom Act of 2025. And whereas although Millington Municipal School Board of Education opposes vouchers, it does not wish for its opposition to vouchers to prevent the Millington Board of Education teachers from receiving the aforementioned $2,000 bonus. Now therefore, be it resolved that because the Millington Municipal Schools Board of Education does not want its opposition to vouchers to prevent its teachers from receiving the $2,000 set forth in the Education Freedom Act of 2024, the Millim Municipal Schools Board of
065Education hereby expresses its affirmation that MMSD Board of Education would like to participate in section four of said act adopted this day of April 2025. I will not read that again. That's a lot of wherefore and whereas, but the short form is this that we don't want our teachers to miss an opportunity. And so, though we're submitting for this resolution, we are in no way saying we support the voucher system. And Mr. Densen, did we get clarification of exactly what their definition of teacher is? It is tricky. I'm going to let Mr. Griffin have us. Yes, ma'am. I know there's been some discussion somewhere. Yes, ma'am. We have and that is the same definition that is in TSA code annotated 493104. However, we are still waiting to see exactly from our legislative body. How many
066of our teachers will qualify for that in a building? Because there's still some questions about that. They still have not. They just keep saying, "Well, teacher is a teacher. What is your definition of teacher? That's for the part they didn't think through. That's the part they didn't think through. Uh once again, this is uh this is the this is the offering that they gave forth on the vouchers. They did include prek which they didn't before. But once again, uh I do appreciate the language in here about how we do not support vouchers because vouchers definitely do not support public education in any way possible. So I think this is this is meeting their demands and that way we can take care of our teachers on this bonus coming directly from the state department. We have
067nothing else we can do with directly to those teachers. This is a whole lot like kissing a frog. for the for the teachers. It it'll be a positive. It's going to create a different scenario that we'll discuss at a later date once we know. And Miss Spade has been nothing but transparent with me throughout the question part because I've had questions about what is the definition. And when I said tricky, it's because we're waiting on state returns. Miss F. And we also are waiting on this will be teachers next year, not this year. So that could be a little different too. It's going to be a little difficult. Let's say we have a teacher that decides to transfer to another school district. Well, that teacher will be into that district. You do get around. There's
068a lot that y'all did that on purpose. Um, so they did very specifically say prek teachers, interventionist, school counselors, library media specialists are all included and special education as well. Anybody that's direct instruction inside a school building um and that is in 10 compass specifically staffed under school um and listed as teacher. Okay. The ones that are um absolutely off the table is administration and then it says instructional supervisor. So the only one that I question at all really in that list would be our facilitators, but they are listed as teachers. So April 15th will be when they give us that first poll for us to see each and every name and then we can It says existing educator. So, but that would be defined into the TISA. So, it's not like your normal definition
069of teacher that says principal, administrative, supervisors. It's very specific to the TISA definition of existing educator. So, they they've kind of finagled it. Um, and it is based on teachers that are in 10 compass this year. Um, and so where it gets tricky is the state is not going to give us the money until after the July one fiscal year. So where we have questions is if somebody retires and they were staffed this year, if someone um moves to another district, do we write them a check? Do we you know, we have 24 paychecks, so we could potentially put it on the July paycheck. We just don't know how that looks exactly. Now, I think that's Taurus and jump up if I'm wrong on that. Um, so there's those discussions on what that looks like
070or if a new teacher gets hired from us, um, they will like brand new coming out of college, they would not receive this $2,000 because they were not staffed into Compass this year. If they come from a neighboring district who did a resolution, they should receive that money from that district. So there's those little things that are a little bit um tricky, confusing, but that is what we know right now. Well, you've done a good job getting the information and that answers a lot of questions for me. Thank you. Y and and I agree echo what Mr. Griffin was saying about we we didn't I I can't speak for the board at large. I can only speak for myself and I really did not want the language that appeared that we supported the educational scholarship
071otherwise known as vouchers. That is not something as a public education entity we would support, but we don't want to lose out for our teachers. So, I'm very grateful for your ongoing work to help us with this. With all that said, are we finished with any questions or comments? Roll call, please. I It's bitter bill. That motion passes. Uh next item on the agenda is the recommended approval of modification of the board of education policies in one reading. 5.106 106 application and employment 5.117 teacher tenure 5303 personal and professional leave 5.305 family and medical leave 5.310 vacations and holidays I'll entertain a motion and a second so move second Dr. confident with the motion. The tie will m the any comments, concerns we went over these. All right. All those in favor? I. All those
072opposed? None. The eyes have it. Next item on the agenda is the recommended approval of the deletion of board of education policy in one reading temporary coid9 leave. Do I have a second a motion and a second? Second. Cody with the motion. Miss Albert with a second. Any comments? Hopefully we never have to go back to that. Yes, for for real. We we needed to clean this up and so this our opportunity to delete this. All those in favor? I. Those opposed. The eyes have it. This is the favorite item on the agenda. I'll entertain a motion for a journ. You have a comment. No. I just had something else on the computer that wasn't on here. Oh, teacher tenure. Did that get taken? That was at that was 5.1. Oh, that was part of
073that. Oh, my bad. Perfect. Now we'll entertain a motion in a second. I'll move again. Miss Hallebert made the motion. Second. Go ahead. Miss Gray. Miss Gray made the second. All those in favor? I guess. Not a soul. Have it. Have a good night.