001e e e good evening everyone it's now 6 o' and we're going to call this meeting to order and Miss halberton is going to honor us with a word of Prayer all right let us bow our heads Heavenly Father we come before you tonight um with grateful Hearts we thank you for every blessing that you have bestowed upon each of us uh and we thank you for this opportunity to uh do the work of this school board and this school district we thank you for um the privilege that it is to serve in this community uh and we ask God In The Name of Jesus that you would allow us to use wisdom in the decisions that we make allow us to always be mindful of uh the implications uh and also keep the the
002students and the staff the teachers and all of those um who are working in this District at the top of everything that we do um and then we just ask that your blessings will be upon us all in Jesus name amen amen Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all are you ready roll call please Chris Denon here Teresa cook here Debbie Clifton here Barbara gray here Cody chis here Barbara halberton here Amanda Compton here all right everyone's here next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda we'll need a motion and a second so moved second Miss Alberton with the motion Mr childis with a second any
003comments concerns edits all those in favor say I I I oppose there AR none that item passes next item on the agenda is the public comments and we do have one public comment uh this will be from Mr Jeff Phelps so if you'll approach the mic you'll have a according to policy we have a two-minute time frame uh so just state your name address and topic of discussion and the floor is yours hello uh members my name is Jeff Phelps I'm with h flag properties and U measure fabrication I live at 476 Faith Road in Millington Tennessee and uh what else did you want me to say that's it okay um yes ma'am that'll work that'll work that you can hold it how's that how about if I just step forward there you go hello
004everybody the reason why I'm here today is I number one I want to thank everybody for their support for our company um my name is Jeff Phelps and we are in the process of purchas trying to purchase uh sanduski um I am a product of the CTE program from Florida I went through it in 11th grade and it worked out for me in such a great I made it such an impact where I came from I I went from the Marines got out of the Marine Court started work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and I became the West Coast high security welder uh for the Department of Justice I went all over the place uh building high security stuff and teaching inmates male and female inmate offenders how to tons of uh stories of
005of uh the guys and girls getting out of jail and actually getting a job and doing what I did without going to jail you know at least on that right side so we're uh in the process of trying to get this uh sanduski building it's perfect layout for us um the square footage is 76 75,000 square foot so it'll give us enough room to do our welding program um and also we building um we have an in infrastructure set up to do tiny homes um low-income housing modular style so we're going to have carpentry electric you know just like building a house except we're going to build an inside a building and I went through the leadership Millington program uh last year and when I found out that Millington school has the same program that
006we had in Florida I was thrilled and I went to talk to Mr Griffin and explained to him that if I could get my company to come from uh from Memphis down here I'd like to because I live here I'd like to uh have get partner up with you guys on the CTE program and bring your welding Department a couple days a week to the to my place and then as we go into this and we get into our production of the house is bring in your carpentry side into it too so we can get in there and let the kids have Real World Knowledge firsthand experience talking to somebody who's been there and I was just like them I was kind of didn't know what to do I went through the program and I
007got hired with grenell I'm this is we're talking 30 years ago and I was making $20 an hour as a welder they they paid for a lot of my training that I went through um and then I ended up having 15 certifications and you know later on in life I ended up getting a job with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and they recognized what I did and I got hired to be the welder there and next thing you know I'm you know I retired 26 years and 20 about 22 years of that was teaching uh male and Fe female offenders how to how to weld and become successful and you know life training all at the same time so with your support and our community support we'll be able to uh maybe purchase a sanduski
008building and we'll partner up and it's kind of we're kind of winding down the school year right now so it'll give us this summer to get the building squared away it's a lot of work we have to do to it uh but we'll be able to bring back up to code um with the updates we need to do and um we're raring to go I'm super excited that we will be able to work with you guys um God willing to uh to bring the CTE program the welding and the carpentry and and some electrical stuff to the to the school so if you guys have any questions no we do wish you well though thank you I appreciate it thank you for your time and and if you guys are interested in what we're doing
009call your board Alman and let them know that you support us to to get the building we look forward to the partnership say again we look forward to the partnership oh thank you I look forward to it too I appreciate it have a good day thank you thank you I don't believe we received any other public comments so at this time I'll entertain a motion to close public comments so move Dr Compton with the motion Miss gray with the second all those in favor I I opposed there is none that item passes next item on the agenda is the consent agenda three-part a b and c a is a recommended approval of February 3rd 2025 Board of Education meeting minutes B is recommended approval of February 13th 2025 meeting minutes C is the designation that
010the following Board of Education policies in section five as listed are correct as they're listed do we have a motion in a second so move second second Miss gray with the motion was that way down here miss cook with the second way over here all those in favor I oppose there are none that motion passes with that director of schools report thank you Mr chairman uh first and foremost would like to uh recognize our new hire with uh the mmsd family Mr Quinton Miller will be a part-time custodian uh for Millington Central Middle High School and of course want to get to the most important thing is our monthly Awards uh tonight we're going to start with Mr uh Perry we're gonna start from the high school first just to change it up a little
011bit and move forward uh for our distinguished uh students and staff of the month please yeah busy month of February on the Millington central campus uh we celebrate celebrated Black History Month with several activities we held an art contest a career fair and two different student performances we held our second semester parent teacher conference night in teacher professional development the very next day uh on that PD day teachers participated in multiple trainings uh and planned with their PLC groups Trojan freshman Sophia white earned a spot in the 4 Regional competition in mil Tennessee in February she competed against student from Seven other counties and won first place in the public speech competition with that win she's been invited to join the 4 Tennessee Congress in Nashville uh in February we administered the elpa 21 sumita
012of assessment to all English Learners on campus uh for those of you that have been around education for a while this actually replaced the weda assessment so this was year one for elpa 21 I look forward to getting those results back several students from Millington from the Millington Central Welding program competed in the Delta Technical College welding competition uh actually last Friday Aiden towns placed second and Nolan towns placed third in the junior category in the senior category Chris Hayes placed ninth Priscilla gay PL placed Fifth and Christopher galendo placed third and won $1,000 wow so great job with the uh welding program it's that time of year for the competitions to uh pop up and so great for our students to go out and uh and make a name for themselves out outside of
013uh our school walls our CTE Department sent five students to the Tennessee State Deca Career Development conference in Chattanooga again last week Millington Central had eight band students who made the University of Memphis honor band in February they performed at the U ofm Performing Arts Center on February the 8th congratulations to to Carlos Rodriguez Elizabeth Howard Ryder roas Amy cillo Reyes Ben Ward Evan Barrett Ava Ward and Steven Galindo our njrc Cadets were busy in February our Color Guard attended several community events posting the colors the njrc rifle team also competed in several competitions including this uh past weekend at the uh State Rifle championship so as soon as all those results are in uh we'll report those out Trojan winter sports are coming to an end uh the lady Trojan varsity basketball team is
014still alive they're actually playing tonight in the regional semifinals at Kirby against Ridgeway so good luck to Lady tro to the lady Trojan basketball team the Trojan wrestling program capped off a successful February by sending 12 Trojan wrestlers to the individual State wrestling championship in Franklin congratulations to zaraa White chapani Madison Jones Dalton Lopez Lee Millington Ryan Ritter Landon Anderson AJ Clark Noah Stevens Ryland Kimmy who finished sixth in his weight class James tuper who finished fourth in his weight class and congratulations to Mr Derek Balden who finished third in his weight class so a great job and that again capped off uh the way wrestling is invited if you remember last month they had the uh the team and now this was the individual so uh so they they worked hard all season so
015really proud of him I would like to uh recognize and he's here tonight so uh our Trojan senior uh Mr Jerry Lynn if you could come up here Jerry gonna get Jerry a regular spot up here so uh a little bit about Jerry as you know back in the uh fall Jerry was uh listed uh as one of of the National Merit semifinalist well we received word last week that Jerry has now moved on and he is one of the 15,000 Nationwide uh National Merit finalists and so congratulations to Jerry well done thank you um I presented Jerry with his plaque this morning and so we'll post that online but thank you Jerry for being here I didn't know if he could make it tonight so great job Jerry that's wonderful and now I would
016like to recognize some more outstanding individuals from Millington Central so when I call your name please come forward February's theme for nominating students teachers and staff of the month was uh creativity these individuals make Millington Central a better place our students of the month for February Middle School Miss Audriana smok our high school student of the month is is Miss Marissa [Applause] Briggs our student athletes for the month of January High school basketball Mr Andre [Applause] Tyler also high school basketball Miss Ayan Ransom and again she's at getting ready to play tonight uh high school wrestling Miss Madison Jones [Applause] and also high school wrestling Mr Derek Balden [Applause] our Educators for the month of February for Middle School Miss Mary Atkins seventh grade [Applause] science our high school teacher of the month Miss Joanne
017Zachary High School art and our support staff of the month for February is Mr Fred Bryant our plant manager thank you hey good evening board although February is the shortest month of the year we stuffed it with a great deal of activities and events we enjoyed celebrating Black History Month by incorporating it into teacher instruction artwork biography studies and morning announcements we also invited parents and families in during our parent teacher conferences and our recent parent night for ELA and social studies activities we also held an art showcase that displayed at least one piece of art from from every Mis student we had a great turnout we're very pleased with that March brings much of the same Busy B Vibes this week our apex program has a field trip plan to the junior auxiliary BizTown
018which simulates how ordinary citizens manage their finances operate businesses write checks and develop a basic understanding for our economic system and also this week a team from Mis um will be traveling to Atlanta to explore the Ron Clark Academy with a specific emphasis in their houses system to determine if that's something we we'd like to initiate next school year next week our students complete their final case testing of the Year teachers will analyze that data to determine what gaps students may have from this year's instruction and attempt to improve on those deficits before State Testing ramps up in April and finally the groundbreaking ceremony for new construction of the future Millington middle school will be next Tuesday at 11:30 the actual construction begins soon after and we'll spend the last day before spring break having
019our students participate in troan day this day is filled with fun activities for our students to celebrate their hard work for the entire third quarter activities include a student versus faculty basketball game and our clubs events and now I'd like to recognize some outstanding students and one employee for some prestigious Awards students when you hear your name please come down to receive your award and parents you may follow them for a quick picture here we go in fourth grade Arya Stewart [Applause] mateline [Applause] Cullum and Dylan drenning in fifth grade we have Madison Manning [Applause] and also from fifth grade is Colton garl from sixth grade Aiden Hammond and Paisley Cullum our library student of the month is Aubry [Applause] short art is Killian summer [Applause] music is Carter lemons and finally PE is Dawson
020Wilson [Applause] and finally our employee of the month is our functional skills teacher Miss Karen Chambers thank you [Applause] good evening I'm shond de lot one of the assistant principes at mingon Primary School Miss Perkins sends her regards she's sick with covid and flu and she did not want to share that with you we had a very very busy February we celebrated School counselor's week and we have the best around Miss Pam Williams and Miss uh Angela Neil Austin were recognized and spoiled all that day for all that they do for our tiny Trojans we celebrated National American Black History Month with many different activities announcements and awesome artwork and information hanging all throughout our building Miss Neil Austin SP headed a guest who game that students and faculty enjoyed our PTO had a successful
021Valentine gram fundraiser and they continued to sell some awesome chosen spirit wear if you have not joined our PTO it's never too late interims went home and we held parent teacher conf conferences as we begin wrapping up the third quarter we celebrated national school resource officer appreciation day and shed our very own officer Gibson with gifts and lots of love on Friday February 14th we celebrated Valentine's Day with our teachers and had a wonderful day of professional development to help improve their craft of teaching and learning we had a successful third grade retention law meeting thanks to miss from curriculum instruction for presenting as well as our alliance Behavior liaison Miss Hickman and our CSI specialist Miss dorsy we know that our parents left with great information to utilize as we approach the testing season
022we ended February with a night A Night at the Museum it was wonderful to see so many parents and family members join us for our second grade wax museum our PTO meeting and the Scouts came out to give information to our boys and our girls in the second grade musical performance our second grades did a fantastic job with this program we're so proud of each and every last one of them lastly we want to shout out to all the second grade teachers and glamy who helped make make the night go out without a hitch we're very busy as we spring into March this week March 3rd through the 7th is our national social worker and support staff week we will celebrate our social worker Miss Harden as well as our CS specialist miss dorsy and
023miss Hickman our alliance Behavior leoon feel free to come and shower them with some love and treats as well on Friday March 7 we will celebrate National plant manager day we have one of the best around if you haven't heard his name is Mr Jimmy please feel free to shower him with treats and extra love on Friday we will also celebrate read Across America week we will participate in fun activities and dress up days and today was our hat day next week we will have spring portraits for kindergarten caps and G down pictures report cards will go live in Skyward on March 26th there is no school Monday March 31st as teachers will be attending another day of professional learning pre through third grade registration for the 2025 through 26th school year will begin in
024March check out the information on the website Millington schools.org so you'll be ready to enroll your child when it opens yearbooks they're still on sale $30 only $30 get them while we still have them before they sell out data meetings will continue this week teachers will meet with the instructional facilitator as well as our instructional coach to analyze the progress monitoring data of our students and make changes to instructional paths as needed in an effort to demonstrate the level of figer that is required for our third grade students on teap we will continue to play this game are you smarter than a third grade it is included in our weekly message so be looking out for that now for the real reason that we are here our students of the month and the employee of
025the month our character word of the month was tolerance this teacher has exhibited this character trait with Grace care and compassion for not just one but for each and every one of her students we want to congratulate Miss Ashley Michael for our employee of the [Applause] month we will now recognize our students of the month in prek we have Julia [Music] Norman Mila [Music] [Applause] Coleman we're the tiny trence be patient with us and kindergarten we have brighten bakes [Applause] and winter vincon winter vincon okay and first grade we have Cameron Hayes [Applause] Haley Garcia in second grade we have Mauna [Applause] Otis and terel [Applause] Barry and third grade we have Hannah Emerson Shamara Smith [Applause] thank you so much let's give our boys and girls another round of applause thank you so as
026director Griffin makes his way up uh this weekend this past weekend our Trojan Elite youth program which is a new club program they actually sent some kids to State and we have a state winner the first year so uh Mr Isaiah Taylor won first place in his first year at the state championship in 2025 wrestling in wrestling yes this is a Trojan Elite breest so big shout out to Isaiah Taylor and uh they're being coached by JJ Yates and a host of former wrestlers so it's fantastic Monday through Thursday they in the gym absolutely once again parents I know it's getting late and it's dinner time so if y'all are more than welcome to stay if You' like but if you need to leave we understand and just want to say thank you again for
027giving us your most prized possessions every day thank you all so much I wish we all could go to work like this this last Bunch they are so excited we can learn a lot from them um couple of quick reminders uh we have the groundbreaking want to reiterate on March the 11th at 11:30 this is some a long time coming a lot of effort for a lot of people and this is definitely a one Millington event that took a lot of people to have this happen so March the 11th at 11:30 if you're around please come by also want to remind the board that we have our follow-up legislative meeting that Tuesday as well at 5:30 and as always please check your students websites and parent Square for the latest information of your student or
028students uh happenings at their school as Mr Perry said earlier uh spring has sprung and spring sports are full speed now and we're finishing up our winter sports as well and just want to say thank you to all the teachers staff and everybody that had something to do with the uh extracurricular activities none of that could be done without all the support and especially from the parents as well so thank you that's my report Mr chairman fantastic thank you for that next item on the agenda is the recommended approval of the fiscal year 25 budget amendment six General Federal and nutritional funds will need a motion in a second so move second Mr childis with the motion Miss gray with the second it's all yours thank you Bard good um good evening um the these
029are the amendments we discussed at um the last work session but there have been some minor adjustments to them um um the general fund amendment of an increase of $63,800 is from the tuition we've collected that's not that hasn't changed from our work session and we're just asking to increase our budget so we can use those dollars for some additional repairs and things around the campus um the federal funds you see some increases and some small decreases you have an increase of title one of $1,934 an increase to title two for $229,300 increase to title four $877 increase to idea Part B $2,936 increase to Ida preschool $322 and then some small decreases to the math implementation Grant $226 small decrease to the Esser 3 Grant $550 and a decrease to our fiscal Prem monitoring
030support Grant um and I think that told totals a small adjustment of an an increase overall of $5 51,470 to our federal um grants and I'll put a pen in it there if guys have any questions regarding any of the federal stuff is it a typo or is it title three or title two um number two or number three well you said title one and then you said title two no no that's title three title three I thought you heard say title two okay thank you so how much longer do we have S this is it thank thank goodness this is finally it it's a wrap it's a wrap y okay um lastly our nutritional um increase I mentioned at the U work session was $153,000 the Beats came down a little lower um so
031we're only increasing the fund balance Now by 103,000 $370 um so Vicki can make some purchases for the um preschool anyone have any other questions or comments you said it was a decrease yes uh we in initially we brought the fund fund balance um increase of 150,000 but after the bids came in the bids came a little lower than that okay so so we're still we're still getting what we need yes sir okay that's a good news yeah absolutely thank you all right if there's no further comments or questions roll call please Barbara halberton I I Amanda Compton I Chris Denon I Teresa cook hi Debbie Clifton I Barbara gray I Cody Childress I that motion passes next item on the agenda is the recommended approval of the adoption a budget calendar need a motion
032and a second so moved second Miss halberton with the motion and that was a tie but we'll give it to miss Clifton with the second all right um real quick this is just um suggested dates um I think we're I think we should be able to um to meet these deadlines and and not have a problem um the very first one is just to meet with the budget and finance committee I remember um Miss halberton was on there last year I don't and I think Mr mcgoverin was but now he's not longer on here so I'm not sure who else is on that committee M cook okay and Mr Denson I believe awesome yeah so I'm I'm available any day next week to work um we don't have to discuss it now but I can
033um send you guys an email with some proposed times and dates um next week and if you guys let me know which whichever works for you for next week and I'll send those over tomorrow morning guys just let me know what works for you guys that'd be perfect okay um after that um we'll have a full presentation of the entire budget general fund Capital Federal and nutrition and discuss at our work session on March 27th um following that we will have present to you to the board on April 7th um a balanced budget for the 2526 school year um April 14th scheduled to present to the city of Millington for the 2526 budget and then by June 30th well make sure to get it before June 30th we have to have it submitted to the
034state and approved by the state I normally try to get that in by the end of May fastic sounds and just for FYI we just received our first uh estimates from Tissa on Wednesday of last week so I know it it's it would be better if we can get this done earlier but we literally got the U our first estimate less than a week ago so it just makes it tight on us very tight tight line to get these dates in that happened last year too didn't it yes sir um we we've um and our district and others have reached out to the state to see if we can get the estimates a lot sooner it's just you know our hands are tied we have to wait for the state yes sir yeah yeah for
035sure does that um allow enough time to turn it around for the committee meeting yes because there's a a little bit of couple weeks in between that and the work session some need to push I was kind of I I had come up with my own estimates and um after I got the actuals um last week we're in same ballpark so I I've been working on this for the last month or so so no problem we'll be good for the committee meeting all right that's good any other questions concerns comments all right roll call please thank you Amanda Compton I Chris Denon hi Teresa cook hi Debbie Clifton I Barbara gray I Cody chis hi Barbara halberton I that motion passes next item on the agenda is item 11 recommended approval to contract with singer
036equipment H&R to purchase kitchen equipment for Millington Early Learning Academy for a cost of $13,300 funding has been identified in the fiscal year 25 School nutrition budget we need a motion and a second so move second Dr Compton with the motion Mr Childress with the second hello every so this is our equipment for the Millington prek Academy um we I gave you the floor plan last the work session this our bids came in that initial price we were talking about before was just an estimate um and then when the bid came back a little bit lower which is great yay it'll free up just we don't have in there like just pots and pans and small wear so that'll help that so that's what it is so we're going to once we get it approved
037and we'll get our purchase order and they have to start um ordering some of the stuff because some of our tables have to be custom cut to fit in the room can you repeat the statement that you made about small Wares we still have to buy some small Wares like pots and pans but that's not okay you know we usually go to LIT or from Hotel restaurant and buy that it's not going to be a lot of money okay thanks well it's good that it went from an estimate of 150 to 103 370 so that's always good we coming in under any other questions or comments well done thank you uh call please Chris Denon I Teresa cook I Debbie Clifton I Barbara gray I Cody Childress I Barbara halberton I Amanda Compton I and
038that motion passes that brings us to item 12 recommended approval of modification of Board of Education policy it says in one reading we've had quite a bit of discussions and work sessions this is 6.24 student TR first we'll need a motion and a second motion second so that's Miss clipon with the motion Miss gray with the second and uh I have one comment before we open up for uh comments we had had a request to modify line 17 that was item one that said first priority shall be the children of individuals we of course added the additional verbiage but one of the other comments was for us to make some amendments should there be a a tuition and this is directly attached to Tennessee annotated code we got a a definition of that we cannot
039we have to if there is a tuition we have to charge it to them too you can't wave that by TCA you can't by code so I I wanted to let you guys know that cuz we had you know we we wanted to give some concession but right that that that would be a a law violation we won't do that so and just to be clear you're speaking about the outof county piece for students that are out of County or I mean it's any tuition but the fact that this policy is addressed I just needed to say any just in general yeah because it just says any tuition applicable the law doesn't determine whether that's in County out of County or whatever else you might charge tuition for um so okay thanks for that information
040that's good I stated that correctly right okay and just for the record we're not as of right now we're not charging for out of County tuition correct according to this uh according to this no I believe the current policy is that anybody out of District No I'm talking about yeah but you're saying this this revision the revision for the time being correct has no two isue correct and I think uh Tipton County charges that was a thousand a thousand okay okay correct so as we've learned we can um modify this year to year so this is the decision now we all know that there was some additional within put from the administration building administrators there was additional requirements Mr Neil and and Mr Griffin helped facilitate those to add a little more stringency to the
041requirements and I think that is well received so there there were a few changes we good right so just just to be clear for those who are listening this is a revision to the policy that will remove the tuition that is currently in place for the next school year for this yes this upcoming school year all right any other comments or question roll call please Teresa cook hi Debbie Clifton I Barbara gray I Cody childis hi Barbara halberton I Amanda Compton I Chris Denon hi that motion passes the most difficult motion of all this is item uh that's to it adjourn do I have a motion in a second so move so move Alberton with the motion Miss gray with the second all those in favor I I all those opposed there are none thank
042you very much everyone have a good