001The June 9th, 2025 Robertson County School Board meeting will now come to order. If you would uh please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. And as you join me in a moment of silence tonight, I would ask that you remember uh school board member Scott Rice. Thank you. Um, I guess I'm going to click prepare to do Oh, okay. Dr. Oh, I'm sorry. I did not see you. I'm an old hat. Just attention. Salute. Pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. Um, Dr. Weekes, would you please read our mission and vision statements? Our mission is to ensure that each student is prepared to
002succeed in life. And our vision is that Robertson County Schools will enable all students to reach an and exceed high academic standards and career standards while empowering them to live in a culturally diverse and technologically advanced society. Okay. Thank you. Uh board members, you have before you some items on the consent agenda in your packet. I assume that you've had time to look over those, ask any questions if you needed to. So, what is your pleasure? Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Mr. Jeff White, second by Mr. Josh White. All those in favor of approval, make it known by saying I. I. Opposed. No. Motion passes 40. Uh, next item is recognitions. Board members. Tonight I would like to recognize Miss Michelle Galuzi who would like to share some recognitions and honors for our grow
003your own programs. Galuzi, good evening. Thank you so much for letting us um share some wonderful news. There is a group of ladies who uh finished the requirements with Ball State as their first part of their journey through the grow your own program. They graduated from Ball State on May 9th, but they started their May prior to that with Austin P. And next time uh next year at this time, they will be preparing to be classroom teachers. So, they're already at Austin P and they will finish that up next summer and they will be teachers for us. So, I would like to honor the following people and if you'll just come up to get your certificate. Jalia Barbie. [Applause] Jamie Kleiner, [Applause] Jessica Tucker, [Applause] Lauren Orbeth Wilson, [Applause] Madison Harren, [Applause] Tamara Leonard, [Applause]
004Wendy Hadley, [Applause] Tiffany Hester, [Applause] Samantha Mada [Applause] I do want to read the names of the people who couldn't be here tonight. Uh they are Audrey Kleiner, Claire Henley, Courtney Foster, Hannah Panter, Jennifer Sanchez, Kylie Blackburn, Margaret Bradshaw, Savannah Valines, and Brandy Vito. Oops. and Shelby Heatherly. Will you guys please give them a great round for members? Our next recognitions tonight, Mr. Josh White, I'd ask if you'd help me uh recognize our employees of the quarter. Our first employee of the quarter from our school nutrition program is Mr. Nathan Potty. Nathan began his career at school nutrition, Miss Gregory, if you bring Nathan up, please. Uh Nathan began his career in school nutrition as a part-time employee at Springfield High School in 2019. Because of his dependability, commitment to excellence, and attention to detail,
005he's quickly promoted to a full-time position. Nate was involved in working and providing support for the emergency feeding program in 2020. He transferred to White House Heritage in 2022 where he's currently assigned. And again, we thank you for your work, Nathan. Uh there are positive things that can be said, but the most important is his work ethic. Without exception, he always comes to work, follows all procedures for time clock documentation, holds a level one certification in school nutrition, and is a positive influence to everyone around him. Thank you for serving White House Heritage and our students there. [Applause] Mr. Heinman, if you would bring with you Caleb Gonzalez and from our transportation department. Uh Caleb joined our team in 2024. He's been with us a year now. Caleb's proven himself to be a dedicated, positive,
006and servant-hearted team member with a smile that brightens a room and a spirit that lifts everyone around him. Caleb is quickly earned the respect and admiration of drivers, attendants, and the leadership. While answering the phones, supporting routes, assisting staff, and jumping in wherever he's needed, Caleb serves with excellence. Not just lip service, but with his actions. He's never too busy to help. Attitude reminds us all what true teamwork is like. He continues his studies in business management. Caleb is demonstrating a work ethic, humility, and a drive of a future leader. He represents the very best of our mission. Caleb, thank you for your work with student transportation. We appreciate you. Next, we would like to rec recognize our coordinator of fine arts, Mr. J.R. Baker, who has several presentations from our music department. Uh, good
007evening board members. It's my privilege to be here tonight and give you some updates on some happenings in the world of visual and performing arts and to recognize some students on their achievements. Uh, first, I'm pleased to announce that Robertson County schools have been named one of the best communities in music education by the Nan Foundation. Uh the NAM Foundation is the charitable arm of the National Association of Music Merchants, which is a global trade association representing music product manufacturers, retailers, and educators. This national recognition is awarded to districts that demonstrate a strong and consistent commitment to providing music education to all students. Uh to qualify for this, I completed an assessment of our music programs covering items like funding, access to music classes, and community engagement. Um, the best communities for music education program
008recognizes school systems that prioritize music as a core part of our student learning. Over a thousand districts and schools across the country were selected this year, and we were one of only 10 in Tennessee that were selected. This is also the third year in a row that we've earned this distinction. This recognition highlights the work of our music educators and the ongoing support from this board, school leaders, families, and community partners. Also, you may recall that during the 2022 2022 school year, we participated in the Tennessee State study. This initiative was designed to help districts like ours assess, strengthen, and expand arts education programs. Uh the study has given us datadriven insights into where we are and where we can grow across all of our visual and performing arts. We're proud that Robertson County was
009among the districts selected to participate in the initial statewide landscape analysis and we're starting to see some real investment and results because of that work. As a result of that uh participation in the study, we've been selected by the Mr. Holland Opus Foundation to receive a major donation to support and expand music access for our students. This was in your May consent agenda, but I wanted to highlight it for you tonight. Uh from the Mr. Mr. Holland Opus Foundation and the Country Music Association Foundation. Uh in collaboration with the Tennessee Department of Education, uh we're receiving 86 instruments and 60 mouthpieces uh with an estimated retail value of approximately $260,000. Uh we had all of our band directors complete needs assessments and we put together a list of the things that they felt like they
010needed most in their programs. Uh so this donation represents more than just instruments. It's an investment for student opportunity, equity, and long-term program growth. Uh these resources will directly support students who otherwise may not have had access to high quality musical instruments. So excited about that. Uh, and then finally, I'd like to recognize a couple accomplishments in some of our schools or specifically at White House Heritage. Um, so our theater program at White House Heritage participated recently in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center Spotlight Awards. I believe that this is the first time one of our schools has participated in this. It's an annual program that celebrates high school musical theater in Tennessee. It recognizes achievements in performance, technical excellence, and creativity through professional adjudication and teacher nominations. culminates in an awards ceremony at TPAC uh
011where these students are recognized and their growth and artistry is honored. Uh this year, White House's White House Heritages production of the Adams Family Musical won several awards and was nominated in several categories. Gabe Levven received both an applause award and was named to the All-Star cast. Bella Mayo was also named to the All-Star cast. Kelsey Phil and Quinn Perka were recognized as allstar crew members. The production was also nominated for outstanding hair and makeup design and outstanding large ensemble. And then finally, Myer Peterson was awarded a rising star scholarship through the spotlight awards program. Tonight, we'd like to bring up members of the cast and crew, the Adams family uh and their teacher, Greytoff, and recognize their accomplishments. Congratulations on that. Excellent performance if you got to see that production. So, [Applause] And finally,
012I know I've been up here forever, it feels like. Um, also pleased to share that the White House Heritage High School chapter of the Triam Music Honor Society has been named the Tennessee State Chapter of the Year for the third time. Um, uh, Triam Honor Society is a national, uh, sponsored by the National Association for Music Education. It's the only national honor society for junior high and high school music students. Uh again it's a program of NAFME which is the National Association for Music Education and focuses on students who excel academically and musically while also developing leadership through service. Uh there's more than 2100 chapters in all 50 states um and over 84,000 students who contribute more than 70 uh 750,000 service hours annually um and raised nearly $1 million for charitable causes. Uh, the
013White House Heritage Chapter has 28 members who planned and led service projects throughout the year, including hosting a Halloween costume contest during the fall band concert and a school talent show, caroling and delivering Christmas cards to residents at a local rehab center, creating gift baskets for visiting honor band and choir clinicians, supporting Veterans Day local first respond responders and district music events, and raising over 33 thou or $3,300, including a $2,000 donation to Musicians on Call in Nashville. which brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients, families, and caregivers in healthcare environments. This recognition reflects their commitment to service, leadership, and the positive impact on music education in our school and community. And tonight, we'd like to recognize the chapter president Mallerie Baker, chapter secretary Cassie Nvarez, and chapter advisor Rebecca Pal for
014this achievement. [Applause] And I would tell you that there's no relation, but there is. So, uh board members also put uh on your um in your packets just a kind of a list of data items from this past school year uh just so you know some of the things that are happening in the visual and performing arts programs in the district. So, thanks so much for letting me share with you tonight. Thank you, Mr. Baker. Uh board members, our next presentation tonight, I would ask Miss Paty Gregory, our uh supervisor of school nutrition, to come forward. And um I I'm sure I I cannot imagine what it takes to earn a 100 health score uh when the health department comes and visits with us. And uh we we'd like to recognize those individuals tonight who
015not only did that once, but maintain that score all year long. So, Miss Gregory, I like to recognize your cafeteria managers. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for allowing me to do this. When I started in school nutrition in 2012, I knew it was important to check the health scores when I went into a restaurant. But my philosophy was if they had an 85 to a 90, that was a BOA maybe. And I thought that was good. Um, within a month of being in school nutrition, I learned two things very quickly. Number one, don't ever eat at a restaurant if it has a 90. Certainly, don't eat if it has an 85. That is not good. But I also learned that the school cafeteria programs in Robertson County were absolutely phenomenal in their
016health schools. Literally, we have schools that I would walk into and I would eat off the floor. They are that clean. And that fact is supported by the fact that as Dr. Wink said, we have many programs, most of our programs score a 100% on their health scores every year. And it takes a lot. It is a very detailed worksheet and I mean they check off the health inspector checks off a lot of different things. So it is not easy to do. We have a lot of our staff here tonight. They actually received their awards at our end of the year program but they are here tonight. Dr. Wicks graciously agreed to let them come and be recognized. So I'm going to call out their school and their name. I would just ask you to
017come up here and stand until all the names are called. Bransford Early Learning Center, Tanker Towns, [Applause] Chetum Park Elementary School. Angela Doris, [Applause] Coopertown Elementary School. Karen Smith [Applause] from Coopertown Middle School. We have our manager and our assistant manager here with us tonight, Misty Hayes and Katrina Evers. [Applause] Crest View Elementary, we have Debbie Bridges. [Applause] Greenbryer High School, we have Tisha Martin. And [Applause] Chrysell Elementary School, we have Cassie Ryan Nicks. Wataga Elementary School. Kelly Nice. [Applause] Westside Elementary School. Angela Maddox, White House Heritage Elementary School. Misty Settles [Applause] here on behalf of White House Heritage High School. um he didn't know why he was coming tonight but make honey. [Applause] We also have representing Reed Brier Medal Laura Jones, Cynthia Hod and Beth Mster. [Applause] And last but not least, Springfield
018High School Vicky Cr. [Applause] And I just want to say congratulations to you all on the phenomenal job you do. You are appreciated greatly. Thank you for members. Our next recommendations, our next recognitions, I should say, are for community supporters. And I'd like to start off with one that has indicated he could not be with us this evening, but would like to recognize Mr. Brandon Frank Construction Company out of Green Bryer, Tennessee. Mr. Frank has uh committed to a five-year uh scholarship for each one of our high schools to provide a CTE scholarship for a student uh that is pursuing a career and technical scholarship program and uh this is the first year of that program and that's uh we had a good response for a first year scholarship and we thank Mr. Frank and
019other businesses like him that have made contributions and scholarships available for our students and uh that's going to make a difference in our CTE program. Next, Miss Demetri White, could you help me with recognizing uh Springfield Baptist Church? I think we have representatives from Springfield Baptist this evening. Um thought so. That would be you, Megan. Okay. Sorry. Uh Springfield Baptist has been a a very generous supporter of our school system in a number of ways, but they have always made their facilities available. Uh I hate to say their pastor as one of my former students and he uh I I I mean that very seriously. He is a a regular prayer warrior for our school system and I appreciate uh him and his leadership. uh but they have made normal uh they've gone over and
020above at making their facilities available for our use. Uh they support us in other things and other projects and programs they do. So I know uh we have a a great support out of Springfield Baptist and again other facilities and other um religious facilities and supporters in our county that do that. But um wanted to specifically recognize those this evening for the work that they've done. So thank you for allowing me to do that. Is that it? That's it. Okay. If I could talk as fast as Mr. Baker, we would not be here long at all. I'm telling you, I don't know how you did it, but it was great. You did a great job. Okay, let's move on to personnel reports. Board members, in your packets, page number 65, uh, begins our personnel, certified
021personnel report, followed by the classified personnel report. Uh, you will see, as you would expect, this will be our most lengthy uh, re report of the year to date. uh you see several pages of re resignations for people that are moving in different directions. Uh transfers and assignments and the next page carried over to page 66. New hires represent all those folks that have already signed a contract to date. And then on page 67, you will see a list of non-renewals. Will, as you uh I know you you already are aware, several of these non-renewals may just have some licensing problems that are being cleared up and they have some uh uh things to take care of with their universities or with the programs that they're working in on a transitional license of some sort.
022So, many of those will be rehired as soon as they get those items taken care of. On page 69 in your folder, you'll see uh the classified personnel report. Again, you see retirements, resignations, non-renewals, transfers, and assignments, and new hires. Any questions on the personnel report? Okay, we'll move on to expense comparison report. Page 71, item 6A in your packet. You will see the financial report up through April 30th. Uh you will see our revenues at 87% of our budget, 122 million, expenditures at 109 million or 75% of our budget. Uh showing a $13 million uh excess of revenues over expenditures, revenues and property tax at 100% of what we budgeted, $19 million, and sales tax at 90% of what we budgeted, $15.3 million. You will see uh electricity, diesel, gasoline all in the 60
023to 70 uh% electricity is a little bit higher and our salaries and insurance packages uh 63% and 85% again where we'd expect those to be detailed reports are found in your consent agenda on those. Any questions on the expense comparison report? We'll move on to federal consolidated funding allocations. Board members, beginning on page 73 in your packets 73 through 78, you will see our various federal budgets for the upcoming school year through F, um, for fiscal year 26. And so, uh, we do need to approve those. Uh, and if you don't mind, we'll take those as an entire package. On page 73, you see the consolidated funding. And I'm going to read just the the rough allocations for those. $296,000. Um the next page, title one, $1.6 million. Title three on page 75 is $44,000.
024Title three on page 76, $165,000. IDEIDA or special education, $2.9 million. And then lastly, IDA preschool, roughly $90,000. You'll see the detailed budgets that go along with each one of those. As you know, that's uh flow in money from the federal programs. Um our various CTE, special education, and federal programming staff uh manage those budgets. And so we would ask for approval of each one of those budgets and what they represent. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve? I make a motion we approve. Motion by Miss White. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Jeff White. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor of approval make it known by saying I. I. Opposed? No. Motion passes 4 Z. Next item is board policy revisions. Miss Dickerson has board policies beginning on page 79 in
025your packets. Good evening. Um, I'm coming to you this evening requesting your approval on revisions of two policies. The first policy is 2.201 line item transfer authority. The revisions noted in this policy provide alignment to the resolution the board approved in January. Essentially, school board approval of federal budgets and federal budget revisions already approved by the Tennessee Department of Education is no longer required. Do you have any questions? Okay. Second policy 4.606, graduation activities. There are simply some minor word uh revisions of this policy that provide further clarification around graduation activities. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Okay. Board members, do we have a motion to approve the two policy revisions? So moved. Motion of Mr. Josh White. Second. Second. Mr. Petri is white. I was waiting for somebody down there. Well, there's nobody. Okay. All
026right. Board members, you have any questions or discussion? Yeah, I'm still just reading over. Yeah. What did you say? No, I don't think Oh, no. Okay. I was double reading something and I didn't catch the first one. Okay. All right. All those in favor of approval make it known by saying I. I. All opposed. Motion passes 40. I'm so used to saying six. I'm sorry. Um, next item is exam exemption pilot. Board members. Last year we uh we brought a proposal uh for a pilot project to have exam exemptions in our high schools. And uh as you'll recall, we we implemented that um right before our first Labor Day break and we started that through Labor Day. And uh we've had good reports from our uh secondary administrators. Uh Dr. Puit and I have had
027several discussions about uh some aspects that may have not been very clear during that point in time. and we've worked and what you see on page 82 is a uh revision of of that document that was finalized and distributed. Again, we'd like to uh go through another year under this pilot uh with your approval. You will see that there are some clarifications marked and some strikethroughs made and if if you'd like Dr. Kurt to make any comments or um provide any updates on that, we can do that. Uh we've talked two principles about what impact that the exam exemption policy has had on attendance and um it's really the the easy answer is yes it's had a great impact on attendance uh but we've also had a a big emphasis on attendance in other ways
028and so it's hard to single this out as the only variable that has impacted our attendance and I'm going to address that a little bit later um actually in the next item uh But at the same time, uh, I think our administrators as a whole are in favor of doing this. Uh, it again, I know it's anytime that there's a firm hard line, there there's not always an easy answer to that. Uh but uh if if we're going to continue to use this as um as a an incentive for students to uh have better attendance, uh I I I'm willing to go ahead and recommend that we do that for another year under pilot program. So I'd be glad to uh make that recommendation, Miss Hogan, and then if the board has questions, either Dr.
029Puit or I could respond to any questions you might have. Do we have a motion first? I'll make a motion to approve and discuss something. Okay, Mr. Jeff White. Second. Second, Miss Demetria. What? All right. Now, let's go with questions or discussion. Has there been any issues as far as having to make a decision on excused, unexcused, absences, anything like that? There were some issues with interpretation. Some administrators usually is when there's two different people. A I tell you, we've got six or seven. Yeah. Uh some administrators were quite permissive and like if you had the flu. Oh, sure. Yes. Thank you. Because I'm sure some people listening might want to hear your side. Uh some administrators interpreted it in terms of events rather than days. So you had the flu for four days, that's
030one. Um when really it should be four. So we we've had to work through some things like that. Uh there was a question about whether it should be viewed as period by period. You know, they're they're showing up late a couple of times to your class because they're going to the orthodontist, but they're always in mine. So could they be exempt from mine and not from yours? and we've had to to work through some things like that. Uh the main thing I would say that has uh troubled me and there's a uh there's a data junket somewhere. Uh if you look at our exemption rates, they tend to be in the 50 to 60% range, which means we're making A's and B's 50 to 60% of our kids. But then you look at pass rates
031on the EOC and it's not 50 to 60%. Uh that's that's the main thing for me. Now colloquially kids are coming up to their principles in the hallway and saying I can't miss tomorrow or I'm going to have to show up here for the last two or three days of the year. So they're they're hearing a lot of that uh sort of anecdotally. Uh when you and Mr. Walling is not with us tonight. When you look at the data, high school attendance is up just over 2%. But so is K through eight and so is statewide. So as as Dr. Weekes was saying, it's hard to split some of those hairs about where the juice is coming from, if if that makes sense. Anything else? I think those are excellent points and we we've discussed
032those around our table a lot. Um, Mr. White. I I don't want to make excuses for any administrator because I you know we we did roll this out very quickly and rather quickly last year. So, uh those issues you you know we we need to be consistent in what we do across our schools. So, uh if the board approves this again, we will make sure they understand that very clearly. And of course, we had I think we had a week last time to to roll that out and get that information out. I think we approved it on a Monday night and then we implemented it on a Tuesday after Labor Day. Yeah, we don't want to do anything slow. Well, and the TSBA exemplar is incredibly wide. It's only about six lines. So, they they
033didn't get into the the nitty-gritty, which we have attempted to do uh with this revision. So, so what happens if I'm that young student that has to go see that orthodontist every few weeks to get tightened up. Yes, sir. They they didn't have, you know, Steve Moss tightened me up. He wasn't orthodontist. Uh the the the way that we landed is we are taking the late arrivals and early dismissals as a single thing. So you've got five. If you're late five times, whether that's to third block, first block, fourth block, if you total that five, you're out of the soup. Uh, but beyond that, it would be possible for you to miss Mr. White's robotics class, but still show up to Bob's algebra class. And we'll we are going to split that here and let
034those students have that opportunity. And I I think the trble is with that definition of you know where we define that and where we understand exceptions lie and u well there's some kids that have things that they they can't help it. They there are what do we do and and we try to we try to be consistent in there. We you know we have an attendance policy for our transportation employees. If if you're driving your bus every day we give you an incentive for doing that. We don't say unless this happens unless this happens unless this happens. We have an attendance incentive for our teachers. They're eligible for that by semester. If an event happens or if it doesn't, you know, I mean, there's no butifs. It it's if you have perfect attendance, you receive
035this incentive. Um, we heard the word punishing students. We're certainly not punishing anybody for that. We're we're providing an incentive for the students who are eligible for that incentive. And so, you know, we're we're providing an incentive for teachers who are are present every day. And so that's the consistency that we have sought to bring to this pilot project. Again, we will make it anything the board would like it to do. Um, you know, if if the board wants to provide exceptions to those, we can do that. We just don't want this to be overly complicated on a classroom teacher where they're keeping attendance. We don't want it to be overly complicated on administrators and office staff or trying to manage many other things. And I will share that uh overwhelmingly our executive principles like
036it. Some of our assistant principles do not. They're keeping up with it. That's it, Mr. White. Uh you know, when you're you have to do a fair amount of power school work to figure, okay, everybody who's under three excused absences. All right. Now, I do five unexcused early dismissals, excused early dismissals, excused tardies, late tardies. Okay. Now I do all my transportation only because I missed the bus and I showed up late and it can be a little harrowing for the folks who are whacking the weeds. Okay, so let me just jump in there. I was the one that used the word punishment because well I had a mother reach out to me and her child had a chronic kidney disease was born with it. Okay. uh there were times that child had to be
037absent but was a straight A student and that didn't matter. You know, to me that that's not quite fair because that child's failing with something that they can't help. Uh I don't know if there's a way to if I and I don't want to talk at y'all all night long. The state actually experimented with a code that was related to a chronic health condition, but the feds ended up squashing it, which confuses me because I thought the federal department of education had evaporated into the air. So, I'm not sure about that. However, uh if you were looking for a vehicle, Miss Hogan. Yes. Uh school nursing does have a chronic uh health condition form where a physician can sort of spell out this student may miss as many as x days per month and they
038should be excused. Again, it's another layer of recordkeeping, but we could potentially do that if you wanted to excuse. and and one of the nurses reached out to me when we were discussing this before too and she said, "Hey, we've got, you know, she started telling me a few cases that that she had at her school." And I don't know, I just there's really no way of knowing how many of those chronic cases. That's true. I don't think No, sir. And some folks will take the time to go to a physician and have it vetted and some folks won't or unable to or Yeah. But we we could use that as a standard if you folks wanted to attempt it to to have that exemption in place. I know you all be shocked to know
039I really like final examinations. I think we should just all take them. But that's that's Bob the math teacher. Go sit. Yes, sir. And you know I say that with a lot of fun. Okay. Sorry. Let's see. Where are we now? Um, let's see. We have a motion and a second to approve this exam exemption pilot. You ready to vote? Do you want to enter anything else into it? You know, you know me, I would. I would like to have that pursued. I don't know. I think we could just add some language that said something like if the student has a chronic illness form on file that we would just look at their grade and not why don't we just table that to next month we'll bring that back with that recommendation rather than that
040we have all pieces and see what else go along with that that's a good idea we're just going to table that and come back to it next month how about that there everybody in favor everybody in favor [Music] Okay. All right. Our next item is our chronic absenteeism report. And I don't bring this report to conflict with anything that we just talked about. Uh if you look at page 83, item marked 7C in your packets. Um uh we have we've broken down by school the number of students who have been absent uh absent from school. And so uh the way we're reading this chart is over in the far right these would be the number of students who have missed 10 or more days this school year. And so if you look down at the
041bottom of that column, you see 4,036. 4,036 students have missed more than 10 days um between 10 and 20 days. Actually, that's about 36% of our students. So one out of three students on average is missing one day a month. Uh we work diligently our assistant principles and our office 160 plus days. Is there um we we are working go for it. I don't care. We um cuz that really skews that number. Well, that's that is two students that have missed all but 20 days of our school. Um, and are are there any of their parents in jail? Well, we we meet we've attempted to meet with the juvenile court system multiple times. Um, but I I'm concerned not only with that 4,000, but if you take a look next to that, Mr. White, and
042other board members, uh, starting with that number 603. So, if you add up 63, 222 all the way across there, uh, I did some rough math and that's roughly a thousand students. So roughly 20 or more have missed 20 or more days. And again um you'll know by your policies we have meetings with those parents. We send at least three to five letters to each of those parents. We request meetings with those parents in our buildings and then um we we refer them to social workers. we refer them to other agencies and ask for their assistance in helping them understand the importance of being at school. And um again, we are um we're we're trying to receive some assistance from the court system, but uh the last meeting we have, we were told it would
043take between three to six months to receive any type of intervention for these students and their families. And um it it is a challenge. It's challenging enough for our teachers to teach students on a day-to-day basis. Uh when you have a thousand students that miss 20 or more days of school. Uh that's about 30 or that's you know when you say a thousand that's so about 10% of our students are missing 20 or more a month of school. And um it's hard to be successful when when students are not there. Uh some of them are very capable of making their work up and do a good job of that and their families and and again we know families there are some families with chronic problems and chronic absenteeism uh chronic health conditions that prohibit them
044from being at school every day. Uh but to have a thousand students that are missing 20 or more days of school um is completely unacceptable. It's not something that we can do something about without some outside assistance. Uh we're trying to be as creative as we possibly can. Um but it it is concerning to me. Excuse me. When we said that it's going to take up to three months to do something about this, did I hear that right? That's what we were told by the court system. Okay. And I'm sure y'all met with the court system a couple of times on this. Uh we met with them at least three times last year and we've attempted to meet multiple times this year. We had a meeting about a month and a half ago. Okay. Out
045of that number, is it easy to see to pull a report just of like the ones that have been out 20 or more just to see what their grades look like? Yes, ma'am. It would be I mean, we can we can look at those and I I'm sure, you know, most of these again, some students can easily make that up and easily do their work. Uh but the most of them are probably you know falling behind whatever it happens to be particularly at the at the lower grades. Um and you can look school by school to see where where some of the issues are. Uh you do have to put those numbers in perspective consider the size of the school when you see some of our elementary schools have the same number of for instance
046I'm just reading down the the 30 plus column. So students that have missed 30 or more days of school. uh you know when you look at our large schools like Springfield High 27 uh but then you see some elementary schools uh that have in the 20s as well in those columns. So uh it is concerning. Um I I certainly don't look for blame on anywhere. We look to try to be problem solvers. This is not a school problem. Um you know we we have people that work attendance and do attendance work every day. uh we have u social workers that are out knocking on doors and visiting homes and trying to intervene and trying to provide uh supports where support is lacking. Uh but again there there's you know we're trying to provide incentives to
047students to be at school. Uh but but there is what what else can we do as a board other than try to do incentives and stuff like that? I mean, is it time and I know they certainly have no reason to have to come here to talk to us, but could the board set up a time to talk with with some of those judicial people and and try to come to some kind of understanding of what we're doing now is not working. I'd be glad to to ask them, invite them to do that because we uh we've we've met and we've we've expressed that we do need some help in doing that. And uh again, it's uh I think it's worthy of that discussion and you know, if we could establish that time for for
048a representative to to be here, maybe they could tell this board something that they would like to see us do. And I would, you know, love to be able to help them help us. Well, and at the end of the day, it's it's about having students being in school. And you know, we again, it's it's hard to help someone be successful when they're not here. And again, we're not talking about the exceptions of people that uh do have those chronic medical conditions, but uh you'll you'll see again even, you know, just if you looked at the 90 column, you know, there's uh 15 kids that have been absent more than half the year. So, just wanted to share that data with you. That's one of those things that keeps us awake at night. I do
049appreciate the work that our schools are doing. uh to get a packet prepared to go to court is probably in the 15 to 20 pages range by the time they print out all the reports and things they do to do that. And uh you know I know there's some folks that are discouraged that that their work is you know they're doing that work expecting something to happen from that. So again that's that may be an opportunity for us all to learn. Miss Granny I'd love to see us try to set some work session up. Okay, just to sit and talk. All right, we will do that. Anybody have anything through with that? Not much else to talk about there. Okay. Um, next item, item 8A in your packet, uh, page 84. Uh board members, you
050had asked uh and directed our offices at our last meeting uh to come up with a roughly a timeline on construction of a new middle school. And uh actually we had two two middle school projected in there. And uh we worked with our construction management firm, Hillet Spencer, to come up with the document that you see on page 84. and uh their recommendation is uh if we started and we backward planned this so uh we anticipated if the board wanted to open a new school in the fall of 27 uh where would we need to be? Um we're already behind. We we are very close to being behind on a White House school and we are behind probably on a Springfield school if that's the goal. Uh we need a if we plan on opening
051in August, we know that we need that school at least a month ahead. So we give principles time to get in, teachers get their room set up. So you see in July of 27, we would assume occupancy. Uh they are saying at best if we have a wellplanned designed school, 16-month construction is reasonable for that school. Uh four to five month design time. So you see that backs all the way up to November of 25. uh September and October of 25 would be times for planning and programming that school and they suggest an architect selection in August of 25. Um, and again, this was the easy one, the easy schedule to come up with because we we have talked about um I know the sport's not taking any official action, but if if we were
052to to do so at the White House Heritage High School property, u the very back of that property that's on Pinson Road, I know we've looked at the footprint of what a building might look like there. Uh we've tentatively talked about a three-story building that would house six, seventh, and eighth grades, one grade per per level. And uh so that's kind of what we talked about. Um let's hold on the architect selection for one second. Uh at Springfield Middle or for a Springfield City middle school, uh is not as easy because we do not have properties. We've we've looked and you Spencer, you directed them at our last meeting to look at the property uh that we had discussed. They are doing some drilling on that property. Uh I think you've allocated up to $16,000
053for some testing, some geotech work on that property. They have not uh finished that yet, but they're working on that. Uh there was a question about property at Springfield High School. Um, I guess as long as I've been back, everybody talks about there's some land up at Springfield High School that could potentially hold a building. We've walked that property with Huelet Spencer and looked at geotech lines and looked at the topography of that and um there is no land there that can be useful for a school. So, we've checked um if you think about that property as a circle over on the left, you're looking at the baseball softball fields. It just basically drops off there at the back by the soccer field. Uh it's almost a straight drop off there over behind the football
054field. Uh there's not much property to be held there, but the only property that is there is covered by TVA power lines and um probably do some parking lot there. Uh there is a property owner on that side that there's there is some land there. It is not our property. So we'd have to inquire about purchasing property if we did that. Uh the only property that we've looked at that they said they might could do something with is um I don't like the idea but I don't know that's stand in the way. Uh but it's there there's a grassy area in front of the career and technical school in front of that u the eastern wing that used to be the old vocational school wing. Um there's a lot of property that runs um basically
055you take out that driveway and almost all the parking. And again, I don't see that that's feasible to do at that location. It gets over into there's a gully uh that would separate that and it's it would just have a lot of creativity. Uh probably nothing there. So, uh Hullet Spencer recommended not doing that. I didn't say it was impossible to do, but I said, you know, just in terms of this mysterious property that we have around the the left or the north side, there's nothing there that could be used. Uh there is some land across the street uh across Highway 76 that the county commission had approached us at one point in time and and asked us to look at that and see if we had any use at that. Again, we didn't walk
056that property, but they did pull up the the topographical maps and looked at that. And they said there's just, you know, there's there's a wet line wet line stream that's over in there. And even if you got back behind that stream, uh they said, you know, it all must be cost prohibitive when you start looking at the amount of dirt work that would need to be done on that site. So that complicates the right side of that document of not having identified some land for a Springfield Middle School property. Again, we've kind of let that be known that we might be looking for some and Hullet Spencer is doing that. Um, we've not had a discussion lately with the Vesper Village people because again, we had mentioned that to them about some possible land there
057and of course the property that we're having investigated right now could potentially be an issue. So that's um that may raise more questions on the right side of that calendar as anything else, but we'd like to go back to uh the August 25 August 25 architect selection date. So, if if this board would would like to move forward at least with with as much of this plan as we can do while we still fill in the blanks on the right side with with land in the Springfield area. uh what I um had some general conversations. I think um in the past we have u given architects that we have a good relationship with and architects that we uh value their work maybe give them a 30 minute time to come in present their ideas for
058a middle school project. um we'd like to bring them in maybe on like I said a 30-minute basis, give them um just an audience with you. So, we'd ask all the other architects to step outside during that time and let them make a presentation to you and that way we could select an architect that we would feel would do the best job uh on a White House project at this point in time. So, I don't know. Uh, we were talking in our office today, August Saturday sometimes get real busy for. So, I don't know what nights in August might be better for us to look at. Um, but if there are if there are days or nights in August that we could uh maybe start around 5:30, give each one of them probably select five
059architects to come in that have either done some work with us or have some uh good history with us and are doing good things across the state. Ask them to come in, do a 30-minute presentation. That's a couple hours, hour, two and a half hours. Give a little break in the middle there. But maybe if we could set up 5 to 8:30 one night and let them come in one by one, give a presentation to you and uh then we'd select an architect that we believe would work well with you and Spencer and then start talking to them if that's the direction you'd like to go. I've got a question. Yes, sir. Um without having land identified in Springfield. Is it still I guess take me through is it still feasible for us to to
060start, you know, the process of choosing an architect architect and everything like that? And when we arrive at a it seems it seems very cost effective that if we get a plan that we really like for say a White House school that we just duplicate it when we do find land. I mean without having land, you know, specifically laid out. I know the the the site plan may change, but the blueprint for the school can be duplicated once we've engaged that architect, right? If we want to build the same school in both cities. Does that does that make sense what I'm saying? It makes a lot of sense to me because I uh we we experienced that similar question in another district where we were we were wanting to copy a building and I found
061it wasn't wasn't quite as easy like taking a house plan and putting it on another lot. But there are a lot of similarities and there are there can be a lot of savings in doing that. Okay. uh you know getting the as you said the site work and getting those things done and maybe the entrance and how it fits on the property and things like that. But you know if we if we designed a building where we had the architects design a building that we really liked and said this is the model we'd like to have um I think that would save us a lot of money and a lot of time. I've heard Mr. Spencer talk about sometimes it's a site work that cost you the money to be able to use the plans
062that you want to use and if we choose a plan it might cost us more in site work to get the sites looking a lot like but yeah I think it's a great idea but we might save money in architect fees which would be an asset to that I think the savings would be the uh the only thing I was going to ask is you know I talked to you about the uh green plan. Why don't we go ahead and get a drawing on the green ber? We might as well see what kind of money that we're going to need to do the construction projects. We're not voting to do them, but we're voting to get the money or voting to see what it's going to cost. That's the direction we want to go. I'd
063be more than happy to do that. Do you need a motion on that or Madam Chairman? Is it safe to say that again say you know these any of these projects are are not done at the same time say they're stepped out or however they're done. Should we decide to select an architect in August? Do we have that same presentation again for each project or would we say we're riding with this we've got these large capital projects coming up. We've engaged with this architect. seems like like economies of scale would make it seem that we would want to do ride with the one that we I I think particularly for these two middle schools I think I agree 100% with that you know and they start to know what you're looking for they start to
064be able to know what you like in design and uh you know particularly what we want to do in terms of um fixtures and furnishing you know we want air conditioning units that match what we have so we don't have maintenance people have to learn two systems we want uh plumbing fixtures to match what we have so that we can have, you know, one stock of those to replace those and a furniture lab. So, so if we are um we're pleased with those architects, I I'd like to do that. I I hate to I'd hate to say let's hire one architect and say that's who we're going to use from now on. But I, you know, I like the idea of getting with somebody that we do like and that does a good job. And
065so again, I think there there are four or five architects that we've had a good relationship with that that have um you know they're not just out seeing what's advertised and what's put out there, but these are people that have done some work for us already, done some work historically with the district. And um you know, I think it's worth our time to to see what is out there and what they can do and how creative uh creative they can be in their drawings as well. in that meeting in August. Would we if we do that would we want H Spencer to be in there with us at the board because they may have questions because that we wouldn't know to ask. I'd talk to them about that. So they they would like to be
066a part of that. So with not having worked with them in the past, they're actually involved in every step and they will be here every month for updates and any question. They do a great job. Good. We don't I mean I I'd like to go ahead and make a motion that we do set a meeting for a planning session for some time in August to hear from those firms to at least select one to move forward with with these projects. I second that. Yeah. Okay. Motion and a second. I think we've discussed. Okay. All those in favor make it known by saying I opposed. No. Motion passes. I will. Now, do I need to make a motion to get this the architect selection and things for Greenbr? Does that need to be done separate or
067can we just ask that you do that? It will be totally different. Yeah, I was going to say it. I think it's two different projects, right? Yeah, they can't use the plans for the middle school. No, we just need GM classrooms. We'll be good. And that's what I'm looking at. I don't know that we'll ever get the money to do two. See, that's what I'm sitting here thinking. We are dreaming big, aren't we? But I'd like to have the project laid out there to know what it's going to cost. And I will say this, when I got on the board, the middle school, I mean, the high school gym was on that work schedule and it's being kicked back every year because of something. I'd at least like to get some kind of document that
068says this is what we're going to build and this is what it's going to cost right now. And if the county commission says we don't have the money for it, that's fine. I know I know costs can change. We've got projects that you know projects that will come up. What's the downside to having a site plan and a and a and a set of plans for a building even if it's not an immediate I know the cost we're not going to have the cost nailed down because in five years time you don't know what. That's right. But if we've got if we you know if we know that we've got projects in the hopper that need that are going to need to be done at you know whatever date we determine. Is there a downside
069to having having some of those plans kind of in our hit pocket so we can say all right we're moving forward when we are ready. I think it just depends on how detailed the drawings you want to get. I mean it it you know I've learned again they're they're different types of drawings. So you have, you know, just the basic outsides, the elevations, what is it going to look like? Then you have floor plan drawings, and then you have uh what they call the DND, you know, which are construction documents that somebody can take and start building with. I I think that's where you start getting into the expense, those DND drawings. I I think we would, you know, I don't know whether the board I mean, that's that's quite an investment to get those
070documents. Uh, I think to have a floor plan, I think to have an elevation and a site plan, I I don't think is very expensive. Um, it it's not what you've seen, you know, I think we we had a a footprint of a building placed on the Greenbryer site just like we did the the White House heritage middle. Um, but I mean, we're talking more more than that. We're talking about, you know, what what does the floor plan look like? Where would these classrooms be? What do they look like? doors, exits, and things like that. So, you know, I think it's just I hate to say a small investment, but I I can't think of any I think I think somewhere in my office there are drawings for completion of this building to connect it
071all the way over and some things like that. May be some other drawings in there that I'm not even aware of, but there there are some things that are in there. Is that something we need a motion for to do that or do you just need to be told to do it or what? I think if we're talking about spending money to get it done, I think it best we go ahead and get the architect selection and all that moving for the Green Ber gymnasium edition. Okay, motion on the floor. Do we have a second? motion dies for lack of a second. Okay. [Music] I mean, can we discuss after the fact? I mean, we're done. We're moving on. Well, actually, uh, we were going to, um, remove and I didn't do that. I was
072supposed to at the beginning to tell you all to remove item 8B from your packet. And let me explain that board members. It's not that we were opposed to that project. That project had already been approved and just uh I think it had been delayed quite a while due to the the the school not pulling their resources together and being ready to move on with that. Um we have been assured that there are no changes in the project uh since it was given to us and uh so we're they they have our approval to do that and we're proud to see them start on that project. So okay good with that. All right. All right. Um are you going to do some communications or you doing director of schools report? Which one are you on?
073Uh little boat. Okay. Uh if you'll take two sheets, please board members, these are the numbers that we have as of this morning. um after all is said and done um from our reszoning projects and uh from enrollment as we have it right now I would say that most of our kindergarten are still projection so that's where you see the zero column uh zero is kindergarten so those numbers are projected kindergarteners uh but you'll see uh for instance the crest view numbers there 112 projected kindergarteners ers 112 currently enrolled first graders 117 second graders all the way up through fifth graders for a total of 768. You will see in about the last third the ending number of students that we had uh per per that school how many students have changed and you see
074the percentage change. So numerically you can see what that looked like. But the the graphic form that you see the little community graph I think that is one of the best things that you can use to to look and see where those schools are. Um and again just going around the county uh the Adams cluster has grown 8%. The East Robertson cluster 6%. Uh White House cluster has decreased by 5%. the Greenbryer cluster overall is increased by 5%. Uh the Coopertown and Springfields you see uh the different school zones there uh basically the same over in the west area, Coopertown areas and west side. Uh the Crest View area has been impacted by moving students in and out of there. So um I think our zoning has accomplished a lot of what you would ask
075us to do. Um but again that's that's a temporary item of keeping those students um balanced between White House and the Green Bear areas. Makes you open your eyes a little more. Don't say it does make you open your eyes a little more as to where they're going. That's true. So again, we uh I I overall have been very pleased with the zoning. Uh I think that went very smoothly for our county. Uh I know anytime that you make decisions to reszone and it's not always popular and it's not always easy for families and been in communication with a parent today that's you know just just finding out about zoning changes and things like that and ask uh you know we've been talking to them about their their situation. But uh overall again I believe
076it has helped accomplish and help will help some of our buildings run more efficiently uh through attrition of staff. We've had very little staff movement due to the reszoning which again I think is a positive. We've not had to uh make any involuntary transfers or things like that. So I think that's been positive. Uh but again, I think I think the decision that you have taken at this point in time is really going to help particularly the White House cluster and uh the Cresby Cresby Elementary School because those those buildings are getting very crowded and again just uh to take some of those students and spread those around a little more. It's going to take some work around the first of school to get people used to being in new buildings and new accommodations and
077things like that, but again that's that's something we're prepared to do. So yes, that's part of director's report, but it's also actions and items that you had asked for. Um the one piece of new business that we um I guess I failed to bring to you last meeting uh when we approved the housekeeping bid uh and and the motion was to pull the uh expendable items out of that bid. Um, we did not come back and approve the expendable items. And so I have bid tab 1573 here for you. And so in working with our vendor for housekeeping services, these are the items that that we would purchase. Um see everything different types of trash can liners, different types of toilet tissue, different types of paper towels, um different types of cleaners, and the various
078items that go along with those. Uh this item was bid in April. uh you'll see that we received two pages worth of bids and uh rather than going through and selecting each item from a vendor uh we've taken the number of items that we used when we purchased these prior to going to a vendor that that did buy them on their own. So, we're we're roughly estimating um and we've gone through and pulled the items that they would do that they would provide for us. And American Paper and Twine, which is in the first column, uh if we purchase the same amount of items at the cost or I'm sorry, at the cost that they provided and our plan is to have these items shipped to the schools. So rather than them, we will we'll
079certainly have a warehouse supply of them, but rather than being uh shipped to one location and we having to figure out how to get them there, they'll be drop shipped to the schools. Uh American Paper and Twine uh based on our estimates would be the low bidder. Um and I want to estimate uh $23,895 a month. 23895. Uh, the next lowest bidder was Kel San K L Sen, which is on page two, and theirs was $24,09. So, roughly $1,000 per month. So, I would recommend that we go with American Paper and Twine uh for the expendables that we've identified. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve? Motion. Okay. And the only question I have is did we look at the amounts of each item we would be buying? Yes, sir. And I was thinking
080that's what you was telling me, but I wasn't. Yes, sir. We know how many There's a lot of items they are low on, but there's some they're high on. There are some they're very high on. Yes, sir. Yeah. And so, um, I'll just if we just look at a couple of the first two items that we're looking at. um trash can liners. Uh for instance, in line item one, we'd buy roughly 140 of those. So if you buy 140 of those and one vendor happens to be higher than the others on that, that I'm as long as I know y'all compared the prices to what you're going to be buying. So it's American paper and Twin 23,85.38 per month. Question. Okay, questions been called. All those in favor of approval make it known by saying
081I. I. No. Motion passes 40. Now you want to do director's report. Also under director's report. just do it every one day. Would just like to draw your attention back to page 11 in your packets. This is the DHA reports. And as you know, our DHA uh handles those disciplinary situations that uh go beyond what the scope of a principal would deal with at their school because of what our policy or state law requires. And on page 10 and 11, you'll see the number of infractions uh by school. You also see the number of infractions uh based based upon the infraction code. I would again draw to your attention the first line is that uh we had 75 uh possession use of illegal drugs or drug paraphernalia of some sort. Uh 75 of those came
082to a DHA this year. Again, that represents about 30% of all DHAs. So you will see that our discipline hearing authority had 248 cases they dealt with this year. So uh again that takes a lot of time from our staff to manage those and do those but again very well worth it. Uh by your desks you will see a our summer school programming is still going on and you will see that uh our book buses are visiting our schools throughout the the remainder of the the summer. You'll see that on your desk. Uh book bus schedule. you're welcome to come out and uh spend a little time in the uh in or on the bus or around the bus and enjoy that. So, you'll see that scheduled there for you. Would also say our staff
083is busy uh either receiving some professional development or delivering or planning some for some of that. So, we're uh thankful for those teachers that are working very hard on that. Um would say congratulations to Mr. Heinerman. I think we've announced this before. Mr. Hireman has been uh elected and officially installed as the president of the Tennessee Association of People Transportation. So, he's the president of all the transportation supervisors across the state. Congratulations again, Mr. Heman, for that. On this coming next Friday, I'm sorry, Friday the Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th, uh our staff uh under Miss Gregory's leadership is going to be having a community feeding. So, we're going to be preparing uh grocery bags and grocery packages for our community as far as they as far as those who will go and uh
084that will take up most of our morning on Friday morning. And again, if you have some free hours you'd like to come uh visit and help and hand out some of those packages, we'll be here uh staged around back of this building here. So, that that'd be a great event. And let's see. I will send you some dates on planning session so we can talk about that in and architect selection dates for that. And then finally, uh I would like to say uh Dr. Britt, I think this may be your last meeting with us. Dr. Britt's going on to greener pastures and being able to take care of some family issues. Um we appreciate her service to the school system and the work that she's done. Jan, thank you. It's been a privilege to work
085with you. Thank you for all you've done. and Miss Michelle Galuzzi. Where Michelle? There you are in the very back. Michelle, I think this is She left already. Michelle, you had your chance when they asked for Springfield Baptist, right? Um, Miss Galuzi had announced her retirement. And I think this may be your last, if not the last meeting that she's going to be with us. And, uh, she's not going as far. She's retired, but retired to find something else to do as well. So, we're going to be working hand in hand. And she's Can I tell what you're doing? uh she's going to be working with the chamber of commerce which we're going to be working in partnerships of helping uh again help our community understand the importance of education working with our CTE programming
086helping get our students in more u places of business and just being that liaison u maybe that's not her sole job but we're going to we're going to keep her very busy doing all that so ladies I thank both of you it's been a privilege to work with you guys you know been a great addition to our staff and we appreciate what you've Okay. All right. Uh, do we have any old business? Anybody have any old business? I think we've already covered the new. Okay. Let's go to comments by board members. Josh, you want to start? I don't have much. I always enjoy graduation season and you know that I know that's all done for everybody but I may have said this before but um I apologize if I have but I know in in
087the news locally and kind of in my line of work I've heard time and time and again that uh you know schools and high schools, colleges, whatever turning turning young folks into the workforce that maybe uh are prepared you know academically But but they're lacking, you know, the the term soft skills, those that eye contact, firm handshake, you know, able to, for lack of a better word, carry on a grown-up conversation and interact in that way. After visiting the the graduations, I will say that overwhelmingly in in the ones that I experienced in Robertson County, I I don't believe that's the type of young folks that were turning out. I got plenty of firm handshakes, eye contact, very confident young folks. And I know that's not something that translates in the data that you guys
088are looking at uh from test scores and everything, but uh in my profession, my line of work, it's incredibly important. And I'm just proud to see that, you know, the students that were that were turning out more times than not have those skills. It's just good to see. That's all. Uh yeah, it was a great summer start to the summer rather. Um do want to point out and I understand maybe tonight wasn't the best night for me to bring up that motion, but I want you board members, I want each of you to visit Greenber High School this fall. I want you to see how limited they are on space that not another school in this county has to worry about. Every one of them has two gymnasiums. Every one of them has a whole
089lot more than what you'll find at Green Bear High School. And with a plan that that I know that has been talked about, we can easily add CTE. We can easily add more classrooms and it be done in a way in which it don't cost us all the money. So, I I encourage you to come to Greenberg High School and watch the dance team, the let me see the dance team, the cheer team, the wrestling team, and the volleyball squad, the basketball squad, how they all have to use the eating area, the commons area during football season. That's dance and cheer both trying to do all their stuff in a area that was prepared or built for serving food. And that's the reason I keep bringing it up and that's the reason I brought it
090up tonight. And I've been bringing it up since 2008. It's been on the It's been on the chart. It's been on the calendar, but it just keeps getting kicked on down the road. So, I want to encourage you all to come see what I'm talking about because you don't see it or you'd vote for it. Thank you. Well, I just want to say congratulations again to Mr. Heinerman. I know we may have talked about it, but that is so We didn't clap for him, did we? I don't think we did. Oh, man. That that that that's a big honor and that's a big job. and I don't know how you have time to take on more, but you're you're a busy man. And and I'm really proud that our county has that grow your own.
091That's that's a big deal and just so many. I didn't realize there was that many that was involved in that. And the other one that we didn't mention and but it's just I I hear that from teachers who were looking at coming to Robertson County, but the child care thing that we're we offer too, that that's huge. So anyway, just thank y'all for everything y'all do and for being here tonight. You know, Josh, you mentioned graduations. That that's my favorite time because I just love to look at their faces when they get those diplomas. But honestly, I believe we had some of the best student speeches this year that we have ever had at at all the schools. And I was so proud. I mean, you can tell they are ready to get out and
092they're they're going to do good things, great things. So anyway, that's all I forgot to say. Okay, she forgot. And Miss Galuzi, I am so excited to hear you're going to be with the chamber. That is like a winwin for Robertson County Schools. So sorry about that. That's all right. Anybody got anything else? Okay, meeting is adjourned.