001County School Board meeting will now come to order. If you would please silence all your cell phones and electronic devices and join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. Would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag? Board members, we have uh students from White House Heritage Middle School with us tonight. They'll be leading us in our pledge. Attention salute. 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. You all may be seated. Thank you. We do want to take just a moment and let these students be recognized for being here and helping us lead tonight. We're going to give each of you a chance. We'll just pass the microphone
002down the line. If you'll tell me your name, first and last, and your grade level. Uh my name is Blaine West and I'm an eighth grader. My name is Emma Evans and I'm an eighth grader. My name is Maline Brown and I'm an eighth grader. Belly Canard, eighth grader. My name is Arya Moore and I'm in seventh grade. My name is Addison Tyson. I'm in seventh grade. My name is Lexis Vincent and I'm a eighth grader. My name is [Applause] Always Dr. Julie Dorsch. Thank you for being here supporting your students tonight. Julie is an assistant principal there at White House Heritage. Thank you. Thank you guys. Okay, Dr. Weekes, would you please read our mission and vision statements? Our mission is that we ensure each student is prepared to succeed in life. And our
003vision is that Robertson County School is enabling all students to reach and exceed high academic and career standards while empowering them to succeed in a culturally diverse and technologically advanced society. Our focus this year has been on climate and culture as we refine our relationships, respect traditions, and recognize excellence. And we focus on teaching and learning as we're raising expectations, reestablishing foundations, and removing barriers. Thank you. Board members, you have in your packet uh some items on our consent agenda. I am sure that you have had time to look over those to find out any answers to questions you might have. So, what is your pleasure on those? items. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Mr. Jeff White. I'm not sure who Mr. Mr. Mr. Okay. Second, Mr. Ays. Okay. Any questions or discussion? All
004those in favor of approval, make a note by saying I. Opposed? No. Motion passes 5. See, I'm used to saying six. All right. We'll move on to our middle school student achievement recognitions. Board members, as you know, each year we have a a extremely large group of middle school students who have achieved an accomplishment either at the district level or above and principles have invited those guests to be with us tonight for you to be able to recognize them for their achievements. We know this is an achievement both that the students and the schools have accomplished together and so we're pr proud to have their parents who are family representatives with many of them and we will be recognizing them by school this evening. Mr. Walling is going to be calling names and Mr. Joshua
005I'm going to ask if you would help us with our first group of students please uh from Coopertown Middle School. [Music] [Applause] We do have several students from Coopertown Middle we want to recognize tonight uh in the uh representing our volleyball team there. Uh Miss Nava Farley and Chloe Lion. [Applause] Give Mr. White a chance to catch up. representing our boys basketball team, Claude Chambers. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Devin Turner. [Applause] [Music] and Braden Williams. [Applause] Recognizing for all county in boys basketball, Brendan Jones. [Applause] in girls basketball all tournament. Jontasia [Applause] Gardner. Congratulations for Midstate band ranked 20th out of 210 across the Midstate. Rihanna Escobar [Music] [Applause] Perez and the 2025 Carson Scholar Satie Dean. Give us one more round of applause for Coopertown Middle. [Music] [Applause] Coopertown parents, if you want to participate
006in a photo opportunity next door, you are more than welcome to join them. We'll be recognizing students from East Robertson Middle next for all tournament girls basketball, Miss Addison Connor. [Applause] And continuing with Greenbar Middle School. We have students here from Greenboro Middle. Uh, first representatives of the girls basketball team who were district champions this year, Miss Camille Savage [Music] Miss Emma Coffee. [Applause] and Skyla wrote. [Applause] Now, we're going to continue with the Greenburn Middle School cheerleaders. Now, pay attention. I got a lot to say here. First place UCA UCA camp game day state runners up spirit program top five UCA Huntsville regional competition both game day and traditional routines top three UCA Lexington regional competition both game day and traditional routines received a bid to and competed in UCA nationals in both game
007day and traditional routines. So, we have several representatives of the Greenburn Middle cheerleading squad, starting with Miss Khloe Maddox, [Applause] Carly Jenkins, Maddie Slate, Katherine Miller, Avery [Applause] Stratton, Emma May, Aaliyah Carile, Larkin Meyers, Aniston [Applause] Freeman, and McKinley Slate. Next up, the Greenbar Middle School dance team. [Applause] These ladies were runner up in the state competition and received a bid to and competed in UCA nationals in the spirit program. First, Miss was Nev Murphy. [Applause] Murphy, Harper [Applause] Murphy, Chloe Brown, [Applause] Kana Pettis, [Music] [Applause] Halo Harris, [Applause] Camila Ayala, [Applause] Gracie Smith, [Applause] and Angelley Parish. [Applause] [Music] Next up, members of the Greenbar Middle School [Applause] band. First two received first chair for their instrument in the Robertson County Honor Band. Uh, Mr. Malcolm Preett on tuba. Preston Smith for [Applause] percussion.
008These students also all made the Robertson County Honor Band for clarinet. Marian [Applause] Knight, Isaiah Meny, Laura [Applause] Biggs, and Haley Ays. [Applause] saxophone. Brooklyn Bradley, [Applause] Isabella [Applause] Clemente for trumpet, Jordan [Applause] Turnage and Ethan Martin. [Applause] for trombone. Grace Present, [Applause] Jonathan Moles, and for percussion, Matthew Mitchum and Keegan Barnes. [Applause] One more round of applause for Green Bar Middle. Quite a bit going on [Applause] here. Parents, those of you from Green Bar Middle want to step next door for pictures, you're more than welcome to join them. But wait, there's more, folks. That one's mine. [Music] I'd like to recognize students from Joe Burns Middle School. Uh [Applause] for participation in honor band. Paisley [Applause] West representing the volleyball team. Michaela Van Dyke and also from volleyball, Ruby [Applause] Richards. Being recognized from
009the girls basketball team, Miss Macy Garrett. We also have several Junior Beta Leadership Summit winners. These folks are moving on to a national competition in Orlando later this year. uh for out of the box, Aniston [Applause] Ganes and also Elise [Applause] [Music] Ays for collaboration connection. Paisley [Applause] West and Kendall [Applause] Kinley and also for project proposal, Autumn Edwards. Allison [Applause] Yates and Jesse Hajdu. [Applause] Joe Burns Middle School. Give them one more round. [Music] And you may recognize this group. This is the same group of folks that were up here a minute ago leading the pledge, but now they're back to get some recognitions. We'll start with Miss Emma Evans. Emma is an eighth grader at Heritage. She is on the high the high school girls wrestling team. This is her first year wrestling
010and she is the first eighth grader in school history to qualify for the TWSAA state tournament. [Applause] We have several Junior Bader Club Convention winners for 3D design. First place, Lexi Spinson and Blaine West. for eighth grade social studies. Second place, Bentley [Applause] Canard for fifth place in speech. Blaine West. [Music] [Applause] Making it work here, Miss Connie. and we'll see if you're paying attention. All right. Uh, also recognizing for all county boys basketball and all tournament boys basketball, Blaine West [Applause] for Robertson County Honor Band in seventh grade. First chair tenner sacks. Aria Aria Moore. [Applause] Seventh grade clarinet. Addison [Applause] Ty, eighth grade clarinet. Mackenzie [Applause] Wilson. And the next group won the middle school robotics build award at the Battle of the Bots earlier this year. This award recognizes a well- constructed
011robot built with attention to detail. Uh we're recognizing tonight Miss Adelaide Brackett and Lexi [Applause] Spinson. And our FFA state winner in the Agra Science Fair contest social science division 1, Miss Maline Brown. Oh, you got the wrong one. You had one job. [Music] That's That's right. That's right. We're getting everybody steps in. Give it up one more time for the students from her doing double here tonight. They don't let me do my Thank you. It's her. I don't even know where we are now. Yeah. Let me see if I can find where we are. I'm telling you. [Music] We'll wait and let them all. Okay. Are we ready now? I think. All right. Let's move on to excuse me, our personnel reports. Board members, if you'll look under page uh 34, item marked 5A
012in your packets, uh we would like to draw your attention to the certified and classified personnel reports. We would announce the retirements of the following individuals. Uh Miss Sherry Hutcherson, Greenber Middle School language arts teacher from IIA, Mr. Warren Corbin, who's an assistant principal, and from Crest Elementary School, principal Lorie Smith. So, we congratulate each of those three on their retirements and their service to Robertson County Schools and proud of the work that they have done here. You will see several resignations, a few transfers, leaves of absences which have been approved and we've started doing some new hires for the upcoming school year. So, you will see those assignments on page 35. On page 36, you see our classified employees. Uh you see leaves of absence on the top two retirements from our leaves of
013absence. Miss Sarah Arms who's a clerk at Coopertown Middle, Miss Melanie Jernigan, a special ed assistant at East Elementary, Yvon Jones, an attendance clerk at Crest View. And Miss Sonia Leonard, an attendance clerk at Woodall. So we'll have a lot of training to do in the attendance department next year. Uh we have resignations. You'll see those transfers, new hires, reassignments, as well as volunteer coaches for our next school year. Okay, any questions on the personnel reports? Okay, we'll move on to our expense comparison report. Page 38, item labeled 6A is our expense summary report. You will see the full detailed report under your consent agenda and it's uh you can read the details of each of those funds and the fund balances there. Uh but as of February 28th, you'll see our revenues are 98.6
0146 million which is 70% of our budget. Expenditures 60% of our budget at $86.9 million and currently we're showing an 11.6 million excess of revenues over expenditures. Our revenues from property tax are 96% which is an excellent collection at 18.2 million and our sales tax again we were concerned about that number and why that remains in the 70%. We were a little aggressive at budgeting for sales tax for the current year uh but 12.2 2 million. That's about a half million dollars less than last year. So, we'll continue to watch that and monitor that number uh particularly as we finish this year as well as while we go ahead and look at budgets for next year. The expenditures that we track most uh and some of the largest items, electricity, $1.6 million, 69% of our
015budget, diesel fuel at 326 or 448% of our budget, gasoline at 89,000, 50% of our budget. Salaries 39.8 8 million 50% of our budget and insurance 12.8 million 67% of our budget. Again, we would ask for your approval of those so that we can carry those to county commission. We don't usually vote on that. That's correct. We do not just looking at the next item. Okay. Well, now you ready to we can move on. Uh our next item is a 202425 general purpose school funds budget amendment. On page 40, you will see a fund transfer or fund budget amendment. Uh this is balanced budget amendment. We're taking $300,000 from our capital outlay or placing that in capital outlay from our fund balance. So $300,000 moving from fund balance to capital outlay. This will help us
016in finalizing some expenses uh that we're wrapping up in IIA and some changes that have been brought uh to us from the contractors and the construction company there. Uh we don't need all $300,000 of that. Uh but in consultation with uh county finance, they suggested we just make this one-time move of those dollars. Uh if we do not spend all of those dollars, those will come back into fund balance. So would ask approval of that. Do we have a motion to approve that? Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Rice. Is there a second? Second. I'm sorry. Okay, Mr. Josh White. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor of approval make it known by saying I. I oppose. No. Motion passes. 5 Z. Uh we will go down now to under transportation and facilities. We
017have an application for a campus construction project. Board members. As you know, anytime our our administrators or someone from the schools approach us with a change to uh the the facilities there on their campuses, we ask that they bring that to you for your approval. On pages 41,42, and 43 in your packets, you will see an item or an application from Joe Burns High School. Uh they're asking to build a decorative barn as an entryway to the football field there. Uh this has been reviewed by our buildings and grounds department and signed off on approval from there. Principal is in recommendation for that and on page 42 uh I would have fixed my signature as recommending approval of that project. Uh the project is to be constructed from Joe Burns funds. It will not cost
018the district anything. There's no no anticipated cost on the district's behalf. Uh total cost of the project $1,000. You see that on page 41. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve this? Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Rice. Is there a second? Is Mr. A second administrators? Okay. Now, any questions or discussion? All those in favor of approval make it known by saying I. I. Opposed? No. Motion passes. 5. Pretty sure they didn't even put the school name on there. You'all just would have known when it said barn for the football field. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, with artificial smoke, right? Artificial smoke. Okay, moving along. Our next item is approval of bid number 1567 for ceiling and striping of asphalt, parking, and driveways. Board members, you'll see the uh bid tab located in your
019handbook. It is page 44. Uh Reynolds Ceiling and Striping is the low bidder on those two schools. We're be doing some work at Toburns Elementary and at Green Bear High School. Uh total bid amount is $56,000 and we would ask for your approval on the low bid 56,000 rental ceiling and striping for those two schools. Okay, heard that request. Do we have a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Ayes. Is there a second? Second. Second by Mr. Jeff White. Any questions or discussion? Sure is awful. Big difference between those numbers. Does that scare you any? Have you got good recommendations? We had discussion of that at the uh county budget and finance committee. We uh we shared this bid tab with them when it was open. Um we did have positive recommendations
020and positive references on on on the bid. And so u this will be the first time I think that they've done this large amount of work with us. But we feel very comfortable with that. They did have positive references, so I feel comfortable on giving them a try. Sounds great. Thank them for the business. Okay, any other questions or discussion? All those in favor of approval, make it known by saying I I opposed. No. Motion passes 5. Next item is approval of landscaping contract for central quadrant. Miss Kleiner, could I ask you to come help me with that? Uh, please. Uh, as you will recall at our last board meeting, we had approved landscaping or mowing contracts uh for our vendors and uh our landscaper that had won the central contract bid was unable to
021fulfill that contract for the central quadrant only. And so we need to uh approve the second bidder for that group. And that second bidder was Stewarts. Stewart's Landscapers. Uh Stewart's um has done work for us before. They were the next lowest bid uh when that first vendor could not provide services. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Mr. Jeff White, second by Mr. Scott Rice. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor of approval make it known by saying I. I opposed. No. Motion passes 5-0. Um don't believe we have any communications. Are we ready for our director of schools report? Board members would remind everyone that uh we are starting the TCAP testing process this week and uh a lot of uh anxious families, a lot of anxious staff. Uh we have sent messages and
022communicating some testing tips to all of our families and we're excited for the outcome uh of those to come. It also is spring sports are uh wrapping up at the middle school level. We're having tournaments there at the middle schools for uh baseball, softball, and soccer. So if you get out, I think those began tonight. And I know that's where some of our middle school students are that would have won recognitions tonight. Uh prom season is also in in hand and so our high schoolers are beginning proms, banquetss, and other end of the year activities. Uh we are thankful that we are uh starting the budgeting process and I thank you for your time this evening as we went through uh preliminary budget numbers and have started looking at those. We'll continue to uh tweak
023and work on that and we'll share share continued updates with you on there. uh our human resources department are working very diligently as they start looking for teachers for new the next and upcoming year and our administrative staff here in this office are interviewing for some principal and assistant principal positions. So we're excited about uh the potential that that brings with that. Uh we are still uh less than a quarter away from the end of school but it is uh still a lot of work to be done between now and then and we are excited about the opportunities there. I will continue to say how much I appreciate your support and particularly as I talk with other directors of schools and other employees around the state of Tennessee. Uh Robertson County is very fortunate to
024have you sitting in those seats that you are in. So I appreciate your work each and every day for what you do as board members for this county. Thank you. Okay. Does anyone have any old business to come before us tonight? Any new business? We'll move to comments by board members. Mr. Rice, you're looking with testing and I know it's a lot of I don't use the word anxiety, but that's probably appropriate. So, just wish everybody well on that and and make it through it. Just echo what Scott said. I appreciate all the work that's gone into getting ready uh for these tests. Uh heard a story on the radio. I was sharing this with y'all on the last meeting. uh they were talking about TCAP testing and uh they they brought up that Tennessee
025has some of the highest standards in the nation for these tests. So these tests are incredibly hard. I don't know many adults that would stand up to the testing schedule we've got these kids on. Uh so uh just uh good luck. I appreciate all the hard work that went into that and uh just thankful for everything our teachers and staff do here in Robertson County. I really don't have anything to add. Did want to thank Mr. Corbin for jumping on the little mowing issue we had in White House and getting that straightened out real quickly and I appreciate it. Uh but I've I've not had anything else come up in my area. Uh to echo everybody else, good luck. Uh hope everybody gets plenty of rest over the next little bit during testing. Students especially
026um know it's a kind of a time of year where things get crazy, things start moving quickly. you know, sports things wrapping up with school. So, you know, staff, teachers, students, you'll be in my prayers. I know it's a a sprint kind of the end of the year. So, a lot going on. Um I I think what I'm going to say um I did some work with some of the school boards across the state and um I made the comment tonight to somebody out in the audience. I really like my fellow board members and there aren't a lot I I mean I'm serious. There are not a lot of school boards that can say that. And so I just appreciate you guys and what you do. Um and I do appreciate, you know, the the
027hard work that's gone into the whole year. Um we're going to see some good results. I know we are. Those those tests are going to go well. And um I do appreciate everybody's hard work. I I can remember being in that classroom and it's very nerve-wracking uh for those younger ones especially to have to take those tests, but you know they'll do well. I know they will. So u does anybody else have anything they need to say? If not, meeting is adjourned.