001education to order at this time. Would everybody please stand for prayer and then remain standing for the pledge. Please bow. Dear holy father in heaven, come to you this evening. Father, thank you for all of your many blessings. thanking you especially for your son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Thank you, Father, for forgiving us of our sins and blessing us with the opportunity to gain our salvation and a home in heaven with you. We especially ask you, Father, that you continue to bless this school system. Please keep our students, teachers, parents, all our schools safe. Um, bless us to do the things that we need to do to accomplish that safety aspect and bless us to make base our decisions on what's best for the students, teachers, and staff, Trizle County Schools. For it's
002in Christ's name we pray, dear Lord. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance 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. Be seated. [Music] So, as I can look around and see, there's not no public here to do a public comment, and there's no one here to speak to any item on our agenda that's not already supposed to speak. So, do I have a motion to approve tonight's agenda? Motion. Have a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Do I have a second? Second by Chris. Uh please look over it right quick if anybody if no one has anything to add. Uh all those in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose please say no. We have
003our agenda for tonight. Next is the consent agenda. Please look over those items. We did go over those uh pretty good the other night. And uh if there's something that you see that needs to be moved to new business, please let me know so that we can uh so that we can do that. Hold on. Hold on. I am on the wrong meeting. Hold on. Let me uh That's July. Yeah, for some reason. Give me another technical difficulties. I am so sorry. You know, I don't know why that is going on. I'm sure it's an operator error. I've got to get back in this. And BLA is going to have a beauty contest. Wants to have a beauty contest. Well, that's what it says here. Oh. Oh, I clicked the wrong one. Let's see. Join
004me. Can I get that first? Rachel made the motion to approve tonight's agenda. Okay. And Chris seconded it and it passed unanimously. Second. Okay, Mr. Kerr. I'm back on track. Okay. Yeah, we're we're up to speed. We're Yes. Anyone have any uh uh thing under consent agenda? Any of the items that want to move over to new business? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda? I'll make a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda. Motion to approve by Miss Bod. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Rachel. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say no. The consent agenda is adopted. Principal report Mr. recall by the process of elimination. Looks like you're first. I think I saw Matrix. She's coming. We'll go ahead and hear
005from you. I'm sorry. I don't have a lot. Uh sort of hit on our current enrollment numbers. Uh right now we're sitting at right at 397. Um, when I was looking at these numbers, you know, the 12th grade class when I spoke to you last week with that they're going to be about 82. It's down to 77. Um, I got 86 in the 11th grade and then we roll the big hundreds. And that's I've been thinking about this especially this week. Our parking lot is really empty. If you drive by the high school right now, we've got about 30 less drivers than we had last year, it seems. Uh, and this is probably the last class that we have there under 100, but 72 77 right now in the truck class. Got 24 new students.
006We had 26 transfers. That's sort of as we got into school. Other states have started, we sort of see those numbers clear out because we were up to 412 earlier in the Are you pretty comfortable that you know now who's lit? Yes. Yes. I think today we uh got our last student in our SIS and power school. So, we should pretty much be locked in from this point. We're waiting on records from a kid from Oregon or Washington. Other than that, we're we feel like this is where our numbers going to be the rest of the year. Um but Mr. Go tell you those numbers are over 100 all the way 678. So, it's this is going to be one of the last years where it's sort of comfortable. You know what I'm saying? Uh,
007it's been a great start to the year. Hadn't really had really, you know, obviously last year we had a lot of changes, but this year has been very similar in terms of how school started, routines, procedures, um, changes we have had here in the last few weeks. Um, and a lot of these are based on that uh, school security assessment we had this summer, but we've had some speed bumps. Uh I didn't sniper speed bumps is what people call them because uh Mr. Scrugs did them there. They have to wait I think 30 40 days for the oil to go out of them. So people under there so they asked coach C David Cer and they're called sniper. That's what I call them. He called me he text me because you had to slow down
008why not somebody could see them. You don't see them they're black. Okay. The pavement they're the same color as the pavement. So if you roll in there, I see. And you don't expect them, they they get you the job. And one day, Coach Catherine text me, he's like, "Hey, I really enjoyed those sniper speed bumps you put in." So we're going to paint them here in about 2 3 weeks. Uh we got a new gate in the cafeteria, similar to the one we had the middle school, but when we're doing that that security system, they talked about do you uh when somebody rents your building or part of your building, they have access to the entire building. Well, for the rest of the high school, if you were in the gym or you're in an
009egg shop, you had access to the entire building. So, we put a gate up. Haven't got to use it yet. Um, but it's right there at the where the uh cafeteria. So, we'll probably use it for if we rent the gym out maybe league or if someone reads a tour for a beauty based gym, the cafeteria or the auditorium. Absolutely. Um, again, that's safety mount of that. And we've got a couple new cameras in the egg show. A shop's never had cameras, but we installed some this week and they look pretty good. But again, that's the most dangerous place when it comes to equipment and things like that. So, yeah, I was going to say that from a safety standpoint, you know, other than maybe, you know, what you normally think cameras are for, but
010just if somebody got hurt. Yes. that would be a great tool that we could use hopefully to defend a the teacher ourselves or whatever. So we we installed those this week and academically two big things you obviously we put a new science we adopt a new science stands this year so science curriculum across most science classes and then uh with ACT prep we changed to mastery prep and I think they finally got that rolling this week. So really not a lot going on but not a lot going on. I know Zoe want to tell you a little bit more about on the student side. Any questions? Anybody have any questions for Mr. McCulla? No. But I will tell y'all something that I got email on this evening just to let y'all know about your dual
011enrollment. Mr. Roberto Garza. Yes. He came s through the summer through a grant. As of today, he has his first trimester completed with his certification. And he's one of our students. Yes. That's great. I think that's great. He's he's fired up. I think he's going early tomorrow, I think. Oh, yeah. He's he's he said, "Can you talk to Mr. McCall?" And I'm like, "I can, but that's still his call. It doesn't matter." I said, "I'm not going to call him because that's between you and him. He come he come home this afternoon. I said absolutely. So he's going he's going to check in with us. He drive over there. Yeah cuz he I mean he came this summer did his work and I had him when I was over there at the high school. He's
012an exceptional student. He's got a very good personality. Yep. He'll do he'll do well. That's great. Anybody else have any questions or comments for Mr. McCall? Thanks sir. Thank you. So, hello. So, this is my first meeting with you guys, but I'm sure you all have seen my face before. Um, not too much is going on. We've had senior sunrise on Monday, the August 4th. It was really great. It was beautiful. I'd say about three4ers of our grade showed up, which isn't a lot. It's like 77 kids, but it was good. And then we are painting senior parking spots right now. Yes, we made we did a lot last weekend and then we're finishing it up this weekend. For the sports, the volleyball team had their first game versus Mon and they won 3 to
013one. And our senior on the team is Jasmine Dunn. For football, we've got a game tomorrow at 7:30 at Friendship Christian and it's a cashless gate. So we've got to buy the tickets online only at Goofan. And the student passes from Goof Fan are $40, which is pretty good because that's about five or six football games for just $40, but we get all the home games. Um, the seniors on the football team right now are Teeshi Santiago, Jaden Hail, and Ella Peace. And then the seniors on the cheer team are Emma Pilowitz, Evelyn Towns, and Aaliyah Ring. And then tomorrow we are having a pep rally at about 1:15 and they're going to introduce the football team, volleyball team, and the cheer teams. And then they've got a lot of fun games to play. And
014the band is also going to be playing some songs. And then for the clubs, FBLA is having their first c had their first coffee shop last Friday and that was a great success. And then they're going to the Titans Learning Lab on November 11th. And then for the first time they had like an invitation to UTK for September 11th this year and there's about seven kids invited. Um for FFA they had FFA day at Wil at the Wilson County Fair on the 18th and they had eight kids competing in a livestock competition and they're also looking at nationals in Indiana right now. That's it. That's great. Anybody have any questions for Zoe? Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Look forward to having you this year. Thank you, Mr. Padrew. Thank you, Mr. McCall, for going before
015me. I appreciate that. My child called and said, "I'm at the game. She's a ball girl." And she said, "I need money." So, I said, "Who doesn't?" So, I got right here. And so, I had to go on to the game and come back. So, thank you for allowing me to do that. Sometimes we have to do those things. I appreciate that. We are up and running at the elementary school. It has been fast and furious, but it was a great start this year. Very smooth. And a lot of that really goes back to having those registration forms starting the school year. Knowing where the kids are going, at least the correct address is huge. And I know it's an inconvenience of not getting your class placement until we have that registration form, but that
016has made a tremendous impact on how we're we go and it and I can hear it on the bus radio that there's not as many questions. We still have questions, but it is it's much smoother. The 18th was the first day for all kindergarten students and that went wonderfully. Seeing all those smiling faces has just been it's been really really good. So we have had a great start to our school year. We are really feeling the impact of some of our summer PDs. We were very um strategic in where we placed our teachers and the PD that they had. Especially with our new teachers that is really helping us to jump into this new year smoothly. We are um we are getting into classrooms now. So, it's exciting to see instruction and I just had
017a feedback conversation with the teacher today from a walk through that I did and it's just being able to sit down and go over that student work. That's what we are looking at. That is it's just so powerful and it's ref refreshing to get to see where the students were and that see that finished product. So that is up and running and it's going really well. We have um we have just about accounted for every student that is on our role. Sometimes when students move or they go home school or it's hard to figure out where they are and so out west, we know that some of our kiddos moved out west. So trying to track those schools down and get them to go ahead and get those requests in. So we are just about
018there. So that is a that is a great feeling. But and I know Dr. Siderfield will go over that. From what I am seeing, our numbers are down um a little more this year than we were at this time last year from what I see. And I I do all of ours. You're you're eight less students than you were last year at this time. Yes. So that's that's better than I put all of my kids in together. So sometimes that head start and prek that kind of skews my numbers. So that makes me feel better. And other than that, it has been a great year. We are everything is moving smoothly and we're excited. Everly reports that kindergarten is going great, but she used to have a really small class and now she has a
019really large class. That is correct. But you know when she was phasing in she she couldn't she didn't understand. I used to have a really small class but oh now I have a big class but she told me well it can't be a whole lot bigger. No like she thought her phase in days you know cuz you only have a few kids about half the class. I used to have a really small class. Now it's a big class. Yes. That would be a shock when you go that first school day. She said I have lots of friends. I said, "I hope you're acting right instead of worrying about your friends." She is. We have, but our kindergarten, she's social. It's big this year. So few more than we had last year. So that's about 10
020more. So anybody have any questions for Demetrius? Good stuff. Thank you, ma'am. Questions, Dr. Sy? Yes, sir. You uh have employment notifications in front of you. Um, I guess the the couple of highlights or whatever there is, uh, we actually swap P teachers with Wilson County. Uh, they hired Tyler McKenna and then we hired Destin Gentry who has taught with us before. So, we just made a swap. We made it on the same same day, Mr. Lro and I. U, it's like a peace agreement. We just worked it out and swapped them all on one day. So, no student was out without a PE teacher. Um, our trainer, uh, Samantha Childers has informed us that she'll be resigning after football season in November. U, she lives in Koopo. She drives a little way. She just
021had a baby and that seems to seems to pertain to mothers, first time mothers. Y'all know how that is. So, we'll be we've posted the athletic training position. We're going to keep it open for a month. So, we're not in a big hurry, but we're we're getting started on it as early as we can. Uh employment notification. Oh, I did that. Uh enrollment. Uh as of the 19th when I when I took it, you can change from day to day. Uh we had 1369 students. Last year at the same time, we had 1367. That means we have two more students at the same time than we did last year. Uh Miss Drew is not as bad as she thought. Uh she was u she's 632 now. She was 640 the same time last year. It's
022a difference of eight students. That can change in a day. Yes. You know, you can get those back in a day. Middle school is where the spike was. Uh we had 325 last year on the same day. We're at 341. That's 16 more students. Were you nodding that head for? That's 16 more students than we had at the same time last year. And our high school was 402 and they're 396, which is six less. About that's about what you reported. On the academic programming side, we got our school budget u approved on July the 28th of second third reading. Uh, Miss Towns is working on getting all that submitted to the state, meeting all the deadlines. So, that was good. We've been in school 16 days and they have been very good days with without
023having a lot of problems and kids are well behaved and teachers and students are working hard, going well. We had our first power Friday. We only have two of those in the county. We have one in the first semester, one in the second. Uh, those went really well. help follow up on some PD training. You've already had the following. We've already had the following. We had that on the 15th. Okay. And that went really well. Uh we have uh already got our teacher data back from last year and we've been able to take our new teachers and make our uh Tiger stage placements. We've already got those walkthrough tools and stuff built. felt really good about we got on that early and we're already in classrooms working with those young teachers and giving them feedback.
024So, we uh we want to start early and do a good job and that's been helpful for us. And u staffing updates. Uh we did have a resignation of special ed assistant after we started. We've got that position posted and we'll be hiring someone soon. And then I talked to you about the athletic trainer. Mr. Curry, you might want to add uh board is working on a director of school search. We are. And uh that application window closes on August the 29th. The board is going to have a special call meeting for the purpose of looking up those resumes, making selections of who they're going to interview, of who's applied at that time. Who's applied at that time. Right. That'll be on September the 4th. This will help. Is that the fourth or the third?
025Fourth, isn't it? Is that what we decided? Third. Third. Okay. Okay. I'm glad. And all your all your applications will be available at that time, Mr. Right. Since the window closes on the 29th and you and the board is selected September or have talked about the dates of September 8, 9, and 10 to conduct interviews. We'll finalize that on the 3. Okay. And the final selection will be in the September board meeting and that will be on September the 25th. Right. Right. Okay. And then some important dates to remember is we will they've got the youth fair is for two weekends and I can't keep up which one weekends what, but I can look on the sign out front and they're posted across the county. So, but we are out of school on September the
0265th for the youth fair. No school that day. Our benchmarks will be September the 29th through October the 1st. Our senior retake is October the 8th. Does that ring a bell? Is that right? And uh report card day is right around the corner. October the 14th, report card day. Parent teacher conference be on Thursday the 16th. And then on the 17th, we go to fall break. So October 17 through October 24th, it be our fall break. And those dates are rolling up on us pretty quick. Pretty quick. And uh project updates. The board is going to work extensively here in a minute on addressing the chiller at the middle school. Won't say much about that because y'all cover that in a minute. Uh the athletic complex uh they've done made a lot of progress with
027the brick and stone this week. Done really well. Have they got the roof on it? The No, I didn't think so. And they told me for two weeks that the next week they're going to put the roof on. Right. And uh I didn't think so. That hadn't happened yet, but they said next week. But uh yeah, but they've told me for two weeks they're going to put it on next week. And two weeks has passed and I've yet to see the roof on. But they're working on it. They are correct in the steps. We've talked had a lot of conversation about the steps. They are correct in the steps on the north side and they have not touched the ones the maj major steps on the east and west side because they have to have
028fire marshall approval since we changed the tread made the tread longer. They were we made the tread longer. Okay. Cuz stairs was too steep. Well, you said too steep. I didn't know it. I just And those are the step the ones I would be most concerned about are the steps the kids go up and down. Exactly. And that's on the east and west side. And those are the ones that have not been touched yet because we've got to get fire marshal approval. Okay. And we haven't got those in. So if you go down College Street, you'll see working redoing the steps on the College Street side because the contractor made them too short. He's got to make I think it go out to like 11 and a half or 12 and they wasn't there. So,
029he's got to do that at owner's expense. And then we've got to split the cost of doing the steps on the east and west side because now we're going out to 16. Um, they are working hard inside putting the electrical conduit in. Uh, that a lot of that's going on this week. And, uh, the windows, they uh sent the long windows. They sent hollow metal window frames which was not in the contract at all and they have have reordered and put aluminum uh window frames and that's at the contractor's expense. They just sent the wrong ones. But if anybody wants the window frames, they're sitting down there. You're welcome to them. They'll give them to you. Well, we've already scrapped half of them. But if anybody wants some, they can help. I'm glad we're not
030doing that. Hollow. I mean, we had them in other fields and they just rust away. About 20 years they'll be rusted out, right? Yeah. Never wanted those monthly maintenance report. I did put that in your packet on uh Tuesday. On Tuesday. So, you got that. And then uh the elementary lettering. Listen to this. You've got to hear this from me. So, we want to get the same lettering that we have at the high school on the uh where you come in where it says Trous County High School. We wanted to do that on the new building and then we also if we're going to replace it at the elementary school, we wanted to use the same lettering everything about on the sign out front. Yeah. Which says Charles County Elementary School. So, anyway, we had
031the contractor. We asked a contractor, who's the sign company that you're working with? can you give us their contacts and let us talk to them. This week I called them and this lady named Mary. She said she's like 85. She's it's a company in Franklin. And uh she said, "Oh, Mr. Southfield, I know exactly the letters you want. We're the ones that made them for your high school what 25 years ago." And she said, "Is Margaret ODM still around?" I said, "She is." And Hershel Wales. I said, "I hadn't seen him in a while, but she said, "Yeah, we used to go out to dinner with them and stuff." But she said, "I made those letters for the high school." She said, "I can get you exactly what you want." So, she she'll be working
032on that. So, that's all I have. And if you got any questions, you said something once about your sign out front. Is it going to cut? I saw it scrolling or something. That's good. The spotlights were not working. Oh, the spotlight fix. Oh, okay. I thought it was something about the No, that is working the on the sides of it. You have the jacket pieces. Okay. I understand. The interior lights were out as well, but Okay. And I thought we said that you want to have that dress code thing on new business. I should have called you and forgot you didn't have your phone off. I don't want to ask. You know, I tell the land line. I know. I It's not hard. You don't answer either one of them. I actually do answer my
033landline if I'm in the house. Um I actually do not want to discuss it at this time. Okay. Well, I didn't know and I didn't want to move on without Okay. when I saw it wasn't down here. Anybody have any questions for Dr. Satan? All right. We'll move on to old business. Under new business, what we have is the uh uh chiller for the uh middle school. Uh one of the things that we do have now in your packet is the uh report from PDA that the load study that we had requested and if you have thumb through that you'll see that they have recommended a capacity of 150 tons and of course we know that train who we're planning to go with only makes a 140 and a 160. So, uh, I think it's
034good that we talked the other night about the 160. We certainly don't want to cut 10 tons off. I wouldn't think so, would we, Mr. Edward? No. And but going 160 gets even more. No problem. Well, I got to mention that. I don't know if y'all seen that. I mean, I've looked at all If you look at this page back here, we qualify for some incentive money and and uh $200 per ton. we're going to get back. So, we're going to get back $32,000. I understand uh from TVA uh for you know for purchasing a new unit and stuff and that number is actually about 40,000 because the study was what 7500 and Tri County and TVA are eating that for us. Okay. So in all say I was talking to the the TVA study
035was I think 70 7500 or something right and they're paying for it and they're paying for it. So we're they're actually giving us around 40 grand. You know what I'm saying? So and 32 of it's going to be in our pocket. Just think of all the stuff we're getting from TVA here in the next little while. of a a free load study, $32,000 rebate, and then an implosion on on a cooling tower that's probably going to draw people from different states if they get out there. And then we're going to have a uh whatever in Cheton County. Got it going on down there where they're putting in I'm sure that's the reason they're doing it. I don't know. I figured they'd either put in a gas fired plant or one of those uh miniature nuclear
036plants and uh maybe even they shut it they shut county down the next day. They said well they contacted blow it up. They contacted who did oh one of those country music contacted Trump and he called Trump. So yeah, we may have to get that dude up here. do a song or two. So, uh, our new business item is, uh, uh, the middle school air conditioner, the chiller. Uh, as Dr. Satville talked to us on Tuesday night, it takes about, what is it? 16 to 19 to 20 weeks to build that thing. So, that would if everything went right, and that's a big gift a lot of times. uh uh may might get it in January and we definitely want to make sure that it's here and installed in March because as we know there's
037some that's when you starting your end of March 1 of April. Uh now this does not have anything to do with the installation. Just make everybody aware of that. This is just the chiller which would be purchased from train Uh, as we talked about on Tuesday night, $150,000 56537. Yeah. Everybody remember all this? Okay. And again, no installation. So, there's going to be uh installation of the Right. Right. Just wanted to make sure everybody's aware of that discussion. Mr. Ker, may I add? Sure. that we can also add a we can go from a it comes with a two-year warranty. We can add three more. We can increase that warranty to five years by adding $7,159 for warrant for parts, refrigerant, and labor, which would be a total of 1636 if the board chose to
038add the the extended warranty to it. Robbie, is that worth it? That's less than 5%. Look, all I need from you is this or I believe yes. I agree with him. I mean, it's less than 5% of the product. I know nothing about that. Two parts are cover, you know, he's our man on that. I think we could definitely easily, like Chris said, recover our money quick. Okay. with one failure. So clean. That's my opinion. This is the Omni Partners. You're buying it from Train in Nashville off the Omni Partners collaborative bid. So they do the bidding nationwide for us. So, we're picking back in that bin. And then if you add the warranty, you're voting to to purchase the uh60 ton chiller for 163696 and a fiveyear warranty. And a 5year warranty. That includes
039a 5year warranty. And remember, like you said, that this does not include installation, but we do qualify. I talked to Tammy Dixon today. She had and I highlighted his name, Money Maker. She got him on the phone. We had a three-way call. Uh they told us we would qualify for that grant and it's a reimbursement grant. We can we we we won't apply for it until the chiller has been installed. Once it's been installed, then then we can make the application and we get $32,000. And she told you that Bransford and Bransford is a certified installer for for that type of unit. Money maker said that on the phone. And of course I mean so we do have someone close that's certified. Not that they've automatically got that. I mean we'll have to bid that
040out and stuff won't that type stuff. But Bransford's no longer Bransford. So they're not they've been bought out. Yeah. Really? I didn't know that. So let's let's get biz from multiple people. Oh, sure. And make sure we have a collaboration of work. Yeah. You know, and but no, they no longer exist. Okay. So glad to know. It's good. Good stuff to know. All right. So, do I have a motion or any other discussion? Do I have in a motion from someone for Well, they moved it down on me. 160. I make a motion to buy the children. I don't like this part. No, those are those are the other codes. I understand, but I don't want that part. No. In the motion. Those are just the other options that you have. I make a motion
041to buy the children at 163696. Second it. So, I have a motion and a second to buy the train chiller plus the 5-year warranty on the Omni uh whatever that was called, collecting Omni Partners bid and and I have a second from Mr. Wood. Discussion. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say no. has passed. Uh the only other thing that I want to just and this is just a reminder at our next meeting in September uh is September is the month we elect officers. And so I just want to remind you that all of the officers that need to be elected at that time. And if any of y'all want to Oh, is that where I'm your backup that thing? Yeah. And you can be number one. No, you can be
042number one. She can still be number two. I have no ego to stoke. I don't mind going back to you. Sit over here next to me. You got the time. I do have the time and I don't mind doing it. But I It does not hurt me knowing somebody wants to be chairman. Believe me, our middle school's getting paid already. How much? 60 to nothing. Well, you better hurry up and get down there. Well, all I make a motion on a lighter note on everything lighter note. We talked about it. We need a food critic again. Oh, you do you know what he's talking about? Who was that graduating? I don't need another one. We need another one. Do you have a way? You know what? I think I could find one. I got a
043couple of mine.