001At this time, would everybody please stand for the invitation and then please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. Please bow with me. Dear holy father in heaven, we thank you father for all your many blessings. We thank you dear lord especially for your greatest blessing of all your holy son our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Bless us father to be good examples of the plan of salvation he taught us that you sent him here today. Father we'd also like to ask that you please bless the members of this board. Bless us to do what's in the best interest of the students, teachers, and staff of Charles County Schools. bless us to take this seriously and do the best that we can. Father, we give you all the praise and glory in everything we do.
002For it's in Christ's name we pray. Amen. 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. Please be seated. All right. Is there anyone in uh our audience that would like to uh speak upon any matter before the board that's not on our agenda tonight? I believe everybody here is on our agenda. Okay. Is there anyone in our audience that would like to speak to any item that's on the agenda? Of course, you're on the agendas. All right. Hearing none. Uh next, uh does any board member have anything that they'd like to add to tonight's agenda? And if not, I would accept a motion to approve the agenda for tonight. I
003make a motion to approve the agenda. Have a motion by Miss Petty to approve tonight's agenda. Second. Second by Mr. Woodard. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. We have our agenda set for tonight. We do have a very lengthy consent agenda as we went all went over all of these on during the work session on Tuesday night. Please look over those and if there's any one that you think needs to be discuss discussed further, just let me know and we'll move it to new business. It's about the longest consent agenda I can remember. I make a motion to approve the consent consent agenda. Have a motion by Deanna to approve tonight's consent agenda. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Atwood. Any discussion? If anyone has
004seen anything they'd like to move, please let me know. Okay, we do have a motion and a second to approve tonight's consent agenda. All in favor, please say I. I. Excuse me. I. All oppose, please say no. Does pass unanimously. And I've got this call. I've had it for a couple of weeks. Dan says I live, but so if I start coughing and stop, just give me a second. School district highlights. Dr. Satfield, Mr. Sir, we ask uh we're in our completing our third week of summer learning camp and like we've talked about before, we have used this over the last couple years, not only to accelerate learning for students, but also using this as a uh is a place for inspiring uh administrators and both of these uh employees either have their masters or
005be are working presently working on their masters. and this is a great opportunity for them to be both administrators from the logistical part of running the school as well as the academic part. So we thought that it would be great for our two principles, Mr. Smid who works as a high school is an English teacher and Miss Lindsay Ellis. Huh? What about that? Who is a English teacher at the girl at the middle school. So, we wanted them to give a report about summer learning camp and uh lessons learned and you'all may have questions for us. Yes, sounds good. So, I'm trying to go. Mr. Smid, I'm a firm believer in ladies first. Um, so kind of going off what Dr. Swood said, we were very um excited to welcome the opportunity to get these
006administrative roles, get some insight. Um, we've got some insight into making schedules, um, transportation, uh, communication with parents, and just overall basic even school decisions. I mean, even down to the Pepsi man asking those people if we wanted to fill the machine, we so we I mean, even those little decisions that we had to make to those. I mean, things that we wouldn't even have thought about. So, uh, beginning to summer learning camp, we currently have 129 students enrolled for 2025. the numbers a little bit down, but our student attendance on daily average has been about 95%. So, we have had great attendance with kids. We got incentives in place to try to get them there, you know, on a daily basis. So, um they get their reward for not missing more than two days
007for we're not taking a field trip this year. We're doing a um field day. So, we've got inflatables. We got some things planned for them trying to incentivize not more than two days. Um so uh teacher attendance teacher attendance has been great. So and I think that gives insight into the professional the team that we have that we've been working with. We have got we've got a great group we got a great group of professionals and they are there on a daily basis. Um and with that said we had a goal that we were going to get into every classroom within the first two weeks of school and we were able to accomplish that goal before the two week mark. And in that two weeks, we saw a lot of great um learning getting implemented
008in those classrooms. Uh teachers using that accelerated learning to get those kids comfortable with that material they're going to see the first nine weeks of school to build that confidence for them. Um as it pertains to our rising fourth graders, we have a small priority group that will be taking that post test this coming up Thursday. Um, and so to kind of give them some insight, they'll be using a Chromebook. So we have put touchscreen Chromebooks in their hands. So they're the only group at our summer camp who has touchscreen Chromebooks to kind of get them used to that. And then the post test will also be on school net. So um, they have access school net on a daily basis. So that's been implemented to kind of get them comfortable with the platform. They've
009been working in there to build that confidence with that. Um, I think You wanted to talk about Dr. Satderfield's Yeah. Yes. So, Dr. Satderfield currently is teaching an evaluation class at Cumberland University. He was able to get our class. I'm currently in that class. Our class, we saw a second grade uh math class, which is different from my perspective as a high school ELA teacher. Then we also saw a seventh, eighth grade ELA classroom. We got to work with our IPG rubrics, work on feedback with teachers. We got to norm those evaluations. That was a great experience. not only for us as administrators, but we were able to bring in people from other districts, get feedback on, you know, how we do things, see how other people do things, and it was great. Um, just
010kind of going off what Miss Ellis has said, we we've been really impressed what we've seen at the summer learning camp, not only from our teachers, we've seen a lot of great instruction. It's it's hard to condense a lot of lessons into just one month, but our kids have really taken the challenge. very few discipline issues. Our kids are engaged. They're learning and they're they're really happy to be there. We've heard a ton of kids saying we've had a great time, but they've also been learning. We also did have a visit from Dr. Janice Fox from the state of Tennessee. She did give us a rave review. She's been here forever. The fox. She was she's got to be a doctor. The only person I've heard her call that. So, when I called her that,
011she was like, "Oh, please. What does the fox say? The fox say that's great. Y'all may recognize Mr. Smith. He's one of the FBA sponsors and we've been in here before for that. Just again want to tell you what a great job y'all do with that organization at the high school. We appreciate it. They're getting ready to go to California. That was my next question was how soon is that trip coming up? It's at the They leave on the 29th. Is everybody still going that plan too? We got four kids going. Miss Huff and Miss Galloway are going to be the adviserss who are That's great. And good thing is no wildfires out there so far. Lindsay. Yes, sir. What's What's the most What did you learn that you didn't really expect to learn from
012being a principal? You can be thinking this is where ladies going first helps you. I definitely would probably say the time that it takes to make a singular schedule. I feel like I have been working on that field day schedule since day one before I like I like Yeah, even before cuz we were pre-planning way before we even started. But just the time that it takes to prep things and then the plan the detailed plan of things, you know, cuz as a teacher, I want a detailed plan myself. So I think just the the time that it takes to make a schedule I think there has been very insightful. So the insight that you've gotten do you think different now about uh some of the things you've seen from your your building principles I'm not
013talking about negative when when you're the one under the gun Yeah. you you kind of Oh I see why that's Oh for sure. It definitely is inside for sure. But then as a teacher like if if you didn't give me that th those details I would be like where's my details? So I mean I see both but I but I do appreciate it. And the other good thing about this is now with someone with with training you now are a good resource for landing to use going forward. You know you what do you think that because you as you've learned at the end of the day somebody has to make that final decision for sure. And it's not easy all the time. It's not. Mr. Smith, I think the thing for me is I expected
014there to be questions. I didn't expect for there to be as many questions. A lot of them were kind of out of left field like the Pepsi man showing up and and we kind of just look at each other. We don't know cuz that's also not our building either. Or the bug man. We just had the bug man. We told him to pause this month and come back in July. So just you know try to think on our feet and come up with a quick resolution and that's been really good experience. Well, that's good. And you saw things that principal goes through. Absolutely. I mean, you can't expect them to know, oh, today's the bug guy or the dude or whatever, you know, and you just split questions like that all of a sudden just
015out of nowhere, right? Yeah. Guys, y'all got any questions or comments for our two principles? Thank you. We've enjoyed it. It's been very insightful. Very insightful. It's been a great time. That's right. We'll uh might be looking toward y'all for the future. I'm serious. We appreciate it. Thank y'all. Thank you. And thank y'all for doing that this summer. A lot of people wouldn't want to give up their summer break. We want you to know we appreciate it. All right. uh principal's report. Let's see who we got to stick with first this time. It's not going to be Gabe Brown. I do have gave me a little report. Go ahead. Okay. Yeah, he was uh I don't know what happened to my phone. Well, I may not be able to see a phone. Kind of like
016J Brown. He's stuck in a softball allar game. But I said, "Well, give me just text me a little something to tell the board." And uh here's what he said. Graduation went great. Beautiful weather and a great crowd. I will also add that I think we practically filled up the home side. Mhm. Sure did. Franklin filled that up. That was massive. Probably the biggest crowd we've had in at least four or five years. Yes. And at least and that side of the stadium seems 3,300. So I would say you're close to 3,000 for that event, which is excellent. Uh he said, "We've turned the building over to Miss Vicki and she's cleaning and waxing all the floors and they're starting to to refinish the gym floor tomorrow." Uh you know, Kirby Supply does that. She
017said, he said that we're finishing up our summer practices before the dead period begins next week. Teams have had productive summers, reminding reminding everyone we have new coaches in baseball. girls basketball, volleyball, and cheer. And all of them have done a great job acclimating themselves and getting to know the coaches. And he said as of today, he he is fully staffed. Oh, wow. And Dr. Stricker and and he are working on next year's master schedule. And currently he has five new students. That's pretty good text report there. Mr. Conley. All right. Thank you, Mr. Report. Pretty simple. Uh had a really good finish of the year. um worked through, got everything to our uh our building ready to get cleaned. Uh and uh you know, I'm going go through that here in a second. On
018on the cleaning, we've certainly um got that going in a great direction. Our custodian staff, of course, Miss April retired. She's been in that building as long as I've been in that building. I you know, there's been there a while. And and one thing you know about Miss April, she loved that building and loved the cleanliness of that building. Got a new lady hired, Miss Janet Reese. they she's come right in and come straight to work. Actually, they uh we made a I'm a scheduler. That sounded like it was a good thing. Uh I've even got a map that I sent coaches of here's where we'll be each week with the cleaning and that plan we did with our our custodial staff. And they're running about a week ahead right now. So, it's we're actually
019waxed, all the uh uh uh equipment back in them, all desk, all all the furniture back in ready to go. So, they're they're running really well. that team is she just took right in. Was a cons not a concern but a worry. You know, somebody's not done this. It's it's a lot in that month of gym to get everything in that building cleaned up. They've done a great job together. I definitely want to give them a shout out for working well together. She came straight in, went straight to work. So, it's been it's been really good. We've had Mr. Ty Cawan over there with them as helping as well. He's done that the last couple years elementary as well. And I think he uh he's done an outstanding job. I can promise you that. Always
020working, always moving. So, uh you know those pieces there. We've got the U building back ready uh in a in a pretty good place. It is the one good thing about it is it's never slowed down this summer. It's still got sports in and out all the time, which is an awesome thing. You hear you hear a little noise. The building's not quiet. It is dry all this weather. It is dry. That's for sure. That's one good thing about school. And as we continue on, uh, our athletics have had a really good start. We've got some new coaches in some places. Uh, I've got volleyball coach, Miss Chelsea Jones. Miss Elkins took over at the high school volleyball position. Miss Chelsea Jones had been her assistant a couple years. She did the U position some
021years ago as coach. Sure. Yeah. Went back this year to coach. Make sure everybody's all right. Keep rolling. Yeah. Well, you know, make sure everybody's already um basketball coach, Miss Shelby Denham. Uh you might know Miss Shelby as Miss Petty in the past doing our u our um basketball, middle school girls basketball, and that's they are working hard. Those kids are having a really good some really good camps. Um our basketball as well. We still got coach Steven Cook who is non-emp employee um but has been with us. This is Coach Cook's fourth year to be with us. He has done an outstanding job with our guys. Really, really respect what he's done with our guys and really trust them the individual around our kids. Does a really good job works hard. He's just he's
022he's like all you coaches, they want to coach every day. They want they want the kids in front of them with them every day. And it keeps our kids busy as well in a lot of those places. The one thing you speak on those sports and those new co those those pieces, we had a very strong interest this uh year in in interest level of trying to try outs. Our triyouts were full. Uh, I can assure you full, you know, when you're when you're putting 18 spots most basketball, volleyball, um, and you've got 45 to 55 on the court trying out, it's it's a good sign. It's tough to have those negatives that are going to come on, but it's it's also good for kids to learn. Hey, I've got to go practice, get a
023little better at this, and maybe I can make it next year. So, those are good pieces. Uh, finishing out our coaching staff, our football coach, u, we've hired coach Carson Hackett. Carson will be working in in our building. He's our PE teacher. Uh, Coach Hackett is um he's he resides just a little bit to our east. We'll just leave it at that. Uh, and but he is doing a really good job rolling in. He's got uh Mason Bassford uh working with him as an assistant and they are they are together doing an outstanding job. Uh even though they're both new to our school and our program, uh Dustin Maher has been a volunteer coach for us for a couple of years and he's been with that program the whole time. He's been able to get
024some good insight into the kids already. That kind of thing. They're uh they finished up their last practice today for June. I guess all of our June except there's a couple tomorrow or finished except for cheer and um I think one basketball practice tomorrow. So everything's finished up for the month of June. They'll start back in July on the 7th and roll from there. That that goes through our our biggest pieces there. We've had some really good uh camps, some really positive things coming from our coaches in those camps this summer. They've gone to a couple different basketball's gone to a couple camps. Been some really positive uh views from these this next group of kids. We graduated a large group of kids that are pretty strong in athletics and looks like we're going to
025keep that thing moving. So, um gym floor, I think our gym floors are are going to get started tomorrow as well. Sometime after 3 tomorrow, they get started on our gym floors as well. Get those nice and clean. It makes that building look good. It's a centerpiece. It's where we bring people into most of the time. I appreciate that we get those done. everybody's number nicely. Um, uh, going back through staffing a little bit, as I said, Coach Hacket will be working in middle school PE. Um, we've got we've hired two positions. I was able to talk to Dr. Sfield, one uh, two one one new position. Uh, Mrs. Nicole Dean, uh, will be in ELA extend. Uh, we're kind of larger this year. Uh, we had 109 leave us. We've got 125 right now
026coming to us. And I think there's six on my board at the moment. So, uh, and that's pretty early to already have six on the board. So, uh, you know, we've got two large classes. Our sixth grade and seventh grade are pretty large. Sixth grade's at 123 when we left. So, 7th grade now 123 and we got 125 coming to us in sixth grade. So, little larger. Um, so and and one of those things that we we had done last year, we had put that um ELA extend in our fifth grade last our sixth grade last year to try to balance out those numbers. It's hard. I I spent 13 years in the classroom. It's hard to have 30 plus in every class. You really know it and it's hard to know your kids in
027those cases. So, we've got Mr. Holding going to work in Ela Extend and we got Mr. Gabriella Grove going to work in math extend. We're going to run a math extend this year as well. Got a really good plan worked out there. Uh that will also take part of our have part of our RTI and that plan those pieces. So, really I think we've got a really good plan. Miss Catherine's uh you know got a little bit of experience in in EL. I got a little bit of experience in math. I think a really good plan for our kids uh to build those things up. I mentioned Miss Janet Reese. That's our that's our full new staff to the building at this time. Um and uh pass that. That's kind of where we are. Any
028questions? Anybody have any questions for Mr. Cody? Thanks, sir. Thank you. Mr. Group. Well, we had the end of the year and again it was fast and furious. Um, we finished up report cards and with the third grade it's very difficult to just send all the report cards. We have to each one has to have a different label on it. So, it it was it's a nightmare to navigate, but we made it. Uh, I was able to talk to all of my third grade parents who student were not proficient on our TCAP. So, I was able that took a little bit of time and kind of over overlapping with summer learning camp and those phone calls. So, it's just but I try to talk to every single parent. I just feel that that's important and
029those conversations last anywhere from 25 to 45 minutes depending on how many questions the parent has. So, I spent a lot of time chatting with our third grade parents kind of explaining the process and uh working with our fourth grade parents as well. After I did third grade, I wasn't finished. I had to go to fourth grade because all of those students who were in our tutoring are Tennessee all core tutoring. I had to chat with them just to kind of explain the process and and talk about what's to come. So, made it through all of that and all of our closing out the end of the year. So, it was a a good push. Uh summer learning camp. I need to say that they're doing a phenomenal job because I have I hear staff
030I hear from the students. So I try to work my hours around the summer learning camp because when I come in all of the kids Mrs. Andrew and they want a hug and they want and I want them to know that those are the administrators of the building. So I want them going to them not to me not thinking that I am going to I want them to know that those are the administrators of the building and they have done a phenomenal job. So, if you see me at late at night, that's what I I'm just trying to go when they're um already gone just out of respect because I want them to have the true feeling of being an administrator in the building and not waiting for me. So, learning to make some of
031those decisions and you're doing a great job. Thank you. And as far as u my big project for this summer is I'm really looking at a schedule audit just going over all of the things because we continue to get new legislation that dictates our schedule. However, the school day does not extend. So trying to make sure that all things are that are required by the state that are in is in our schedule. So that's the we're almost there. Not quite yet. There's still a couple of grade levels that I'm toying with, but we will have that all worked out and our schedule will be nice and tidy. And as far as staffing, I've had a little bit of a shuffle. I had two teachers who went back home and uh Miss Barrett, Amanda Barrett in
032fifth grade, who's been with us for many years, she went back home to where she went to school. So, there's nothing like I cannot fault her. There's nothing like being home. I know I'm home. So, um she's she was it was a bittersweet. She's excited to go home but sad to leave here. and I had kindergarten teacher, Miss Crystal Gammons, who is going um to be 2 minutes down the road from her school. So, I again I can't fault her for that. Just a two-minute drive. She's like, she said she can walk to school. So, but I had those two to leave. So, Miss um Chapel Carter is going to do kindergarten. So, I and she is excited about that. That will be a good a nice change. So, we're looking for fifth grade math
033and science. And we have not we knew that um Miss Ruth was retiring and moving back home. So, I'll need a bookkeeper and I have a couple of CDC EAS and a nurse. So, those are just some things that were on our books. We haven't we haven't started that interview process yet, but as everything else settles down, we'll start that next week. And but I I we are in a good place. I feel confident just the one teaching position, but I still feel confident at this point in the game. And I do have fourth grade science and social studies. That's Miss Madison Mclatchie. Miss McMillan, who is fourth grade, is going to be my full-time suber teacher. So Madison Mclatchy is going to do that science and social studies and she is coming to us
034from Tennessee Tech. She sought us out and after two years she came when she was a junior and then when she was a senior at the job fair and so she is we're excited to have her. And Mallerie McGee who's a hometown girl, she's coming back and she's going to do kindergarten. She's also both of them actually are going to do high school cheer. So, we are excited that they are back and we're looking forward to a to a great year. Sounds good. The main thing I heard it's dry. Yes. Am I not How long has it been since you had a construction project in this? You don't have one? I don't have one. I don't have one. And that is, you know, that's one of the It's taken a couple of years for us
035to master this, but uh our summer learning camp is in our fourth and fifth grade or and actually fifth grade. So, we have contained them to that hallway and all of the other places have been waxed. It's not a mad rush. We've we've had to get strategic and the first move was moving it down to last year we moved it down because those the younger grades there's just so much and so many rooms. It was a mad rush trying to get that in July and so we just had to make that switch and it has been wonderful because you can't even tell if they're looking and my custodians are really able to give the floor some some time which is that's important. And there have been years that we were right on top of open
036house and we're trying teachers were coming in two days before to set up their rooms and they hadn't been in there. So we're trying to it's not there's no way to avoid it. It's a huge building. There's a lot of requirements that we have to do and with summer learning camp we have to make sure that we do that and it's in this building. So, we've just made some adjustments and this year it was it's worked out really well. Sounds good. Anybody have any questions for the Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Have you been able to do what I ordered you to do? Dead week. Dead period. I'm taking some time. Okay. So, you remember what I told you? Yes, sir. Get some rest. Yes, sir. I am. I am the 29th. You do, Mr.
037Go. The 29th. I am going to Okay. Okay. I guess we won't have our student board reps until what? July or August? August. August meeting. Okay. Dr. Satfield, we're ready for you. Okay. I'll try not to be too repetitive what they said. Uh your employment notifications is in a separate printout. One of the things that I added that I think we've done a good job in the spring is uh trying to identify who those volunteer coaches are and to get their background checks and we're moving quite well on that and so I added those. There are one or two more that uh have to do get some things in but we're moving quite well on that. You heard us talk about summer learning camp. We're completing week three tomorrow that next week will be the
038last week. Uh I think they said that our enrollment is about 130. And uh the big thing is Thursday is the June the 19th is the post test. That's really huge for those third graders who are trying to get to the fourth grade and they need to show adequate growth over like a 19th day period which is tough. We've done some accelerate rating work there and last year I think we had like five out of 15 to show adequate growth and we're hoping to have that kind of result this year or better. But uh really uh that's really important for what's going on next week. Also, one of the things we didn't talk about is we have an afterchool stream camp that is in conjunction with our summer learning camp which keeps our students till
0394:30. So they they actually if parents work out of town or they want them to have an enrichment experience then they can add on to that. So we sometimes we lose sight that we have after have a after school program connected with our summer learning camp as well. We have a high school credit recovery program. Uh I I guess this is a positive. We only had two students and they've already completed their credit. They've already completed credit recovery and uh so it came and it went quite fast. um we have received although it's embargoed we cannot share it with the public or with parents or anything outside of our school but we have received our achievement data from in of course and TCAP so we know the students who were proficient and what levels of
040proficiency they they are in we have shared that with our schools and our schools are making decisions for next year about grouping students, matching them with certain teachers. Uh I was in Mr. Gully's school today. And I've seen this done before, but I hadn't seen it done in a while. They actually had the pictures of the students. They're actually coming to you cuz those sixth graders are matching up the faces and their test results and pairing kids. I thought it was like super, but they were doing that today. So strategically using uh achievement results to make instructional decisions. See that's why you leave your phone. That's why you leave your phone in your office. That worked until you kned the notes. Exactly. Uh but using that data for instructional and staffing decisions is paramount as
041early as we can. I think you heard principles talk about staffing updates. Um, we're looking for a fifth grade math science teacher and then we're looking for a middle school librarian and we're working on that. But other than that, our our our teaching staffing is is is full except for those two spots. We are moving to our support personnel. We sent them rehire letters and stuff about a week and a half, two weeks ago. And tomorrow, June the 20th, is the deadline for them to respond to us if they accept that employment. And I think we've got everybody but about two people. And I really think that um we we'll find them tomorrow is what I'm saying. How do they respond? Call. They call or just say they accept. But uh but what we're getting
042ready to do is have an interview marathon, aren't we? And because Miss Padrew needs an elementary bookkeeper, an elementary nurse, and three educational assistants. So Amanda has been setting up interviews for the last couple of days, and I think we're going to have a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday interview marathon, aren't we? So rest up good as we and another thing I think is good is the education freedom act aka voucher bill that part of that was a one-time bonus for all teachers if you remember not principles not superintendents not administrators but only for teachers who worked in a teaching capacity. Uh I submitted that final form today and uh it looks like from what I gather is that each teacher that's taught for 120 days or more in a year and they've it been a direct
043service to students which meets all of our teachers every our librarians count as well but all of them meet the definition of being direct service to students. So, all of our teachers will receive a $2,000 one-time bonus. And from what I understand, the state is paying fixed charges. So, it should be So, they'll clear $2,000. They should clear 2000. They should clear,000. Now, from what I read, and I want to be very careful, I've not sent teachers and email to this because sometimes the state kind of lets you down a little bit. uh that could change but uh the it looks like from everything that I know that that payment will be made sometime in July. So we're excited about that. Another thing is that uh we are working with TSBA about building a uh
044a little platform, a little advertisement about our school system that we use when we start our uh posting our director search and that goes up on June the 30th and we've been working on that communication piece and we're on a timeline to to meet that. I think you heard our coaches talk about uh the dead period which is no sports. When does that start? June the 22nd through July the 5th. So it starts Monday. Starts on Sunday. Yeah. Sunday. Yes. Start on Sunday. And u so they can't go to any camps or something on Sunday and then it ends on Saturday on like the 4th of July. That's the last day. So, uh, student registration, this is important. New, you heard principles talk about they had some new students registered. I think Mr. Gully said
045he had six. I got about six. And, uh, Mr. McCall said he had five. But all of our student registration is done online and we've opened it up for new students. That registration process is presently open and online. And then for our returning students, students who were in our district last year, they don't have to go through as an intense enrollment process is that uh online registration for returning students will open up after the 4th on July the 7th. And then there just some dates to remember. It's right around the corner. Uh our staff reports back on the 28th of July and our first student day is Thursday, July the 31st. They'll come to school on Thursday and Friday. And then our county youth fair will be on September the 5th. would like to remind
046everybody in the room and those listening that our FY26 budget goes before the county commission on Monday and would like for everybody to attend and listen in on that and we need everybody's support on that as well. And in concluding the fieldhouse project update, the foundation is done. It took all winter, but the foundation is done. They are laying block. They've got four masons on site. Uh met with the construction manager today and they estimate it take about three more weeks to finish laying the block. Uh some of the exterior brick has already started to arrive. Some of that is already on site to come. And if you get an idea, if you drive by, the wall next to College Street is supposed to be, I think, about 13 ft tall and it is completed.
047So, there's no more work to do on the back wall. And then the middle wall is like 17 ft. And then the wall next to the stadium is like 23 something feet. So that it has a a slanted roof. So they've still got some work to do, but it's it's moved. The trusses are on site and uh they are supposed to be they're they're trying to get a crane and planning putting the trusses in starting on August the 1st. Mr. Edwood, I think it was you that asked about uh a bulkhead above the window. above well not only above the window right not only above the windows but across the top of the wall and what they were telling me they're do I ask about that is they take a block that's open and they
048turn it up and then they took rebar and put through it and pour concrete through it. So they're going to do that above each one of those walls. I think they call it bulkhead, something like that. But I checked in on that, but uh just wanted to report on that, but it's moving along quite well. So that's all I got. Let's get questions. Anybody have any questions for Dr. Satfield? I did actually drive by there this morning and uh it's huge. It's tall. Well, I mean, you know, we had to raise it and then I mean it it was huge. Looks like a skyscraper somewhat for hearts. No questions for Dr. Santa. All right. No business. Miss Hugley, you're first on our new business. I just want to let you know should you need to
049take a break with coffee. I understand that. I'm okay. I just I'm sorry. No, listen. If you need to walk out, you do it. Don't worry about it. You come back, take up where you left off. Okay. Okay. The floor is yours. I'm not very good at speeches. So, my name is Sheremy Hugley. Um, and I would like to address you guys about homeschool participating in marching band and color card. um without titling it a sport because y'all have the authority to just allow it even without it actually being titled as sport. However, because a lot of because the state doesn't actually allow homeschool students to like doesn't what's the word I'm trying to look for? um doesn't have any kind of law or anything that has to do with allowing students to participate in
050things like this requirements. That's what I'm looking for. Participating is this. I'm trying to make it statewide. So, this is going to go past you guys, but I would like to start here because I live here. And with that being said, I have a daughter that attends at the moment Jim Centerfields Middle School. Um, she is a second year band student as far as going in next year. Um, she is currently still enrolled because I haven't actually pulled her out yet, but she will be going to PLC by the end of July. I will try and get her into PLC learning center that's being created in Artsville recently, the new school. Um, let's see. she'll be in eighth grade. Um, I find that band motivates her to actually do her schoolwork because she has learning
051disabilities. So, with band, I've been struggling since kindergarten with this girl to get her to actually want to do school. It's really hard. And without her being able to participate, man, she is shut down. But I still think the opportunity of homeschooling her is a better option. Not because public school is bad, because y'all are number 44 in the state, which is why I purchased my house here in this county because y'all are one of the top schools minus Franklin, but I can't afford. So, um, so it's not that your education is bad. is just more structured and rigorous and you have to follow certain requirements as opposed to homeschool is more free and is able to give her that one-on-one attention that I think she'll be more able to strive for through um I
052told her to try it for at least a year even if y'all have y'all make the decision that she can't be a man before I pull her out put her back in public school cuz I think her education I think she'll thrive with that oneonone attention. Um, this is the reason why I think that allowing homeschoolers to participate in band and color guard, regardless of whether they're a non-traditional student or a public school student. Sorry, I'm losing my breath because of the coughing. Actually, if you need a break, don't worry about it. No, you're good. um is I mean the the ability to actually pull her out to put her in the homeschooling environment is great because like I said, she's going to probably thrive better with that one-on-one attention that she can't get in
053a classroom of 123 students as y'all were saying that y'all might have when you have a classroom of maybe four or three. But she really likes band. Like really likes band. And she doesn't have that opportunity anywhere in the state to play cuz it's it's not like sports cuz with sports there is an option to go in private owned football or private private soccer or something like that that's not public school related. You have that option. You don't have to participate in public school. Like for instance, there's a a private football team in Mount Juliet, Tennessee Heat. Yes, you do have to pay. That's not a problem, but you know, but it's still a private institution for them to participate in it. Marching band and color guard. Y'all don't have that. Nowhere in the state.
054You can't go and just go and pay to attend marching band or color guard in any of those options in the state of Tennessee. and marching band and color guard are considered a half credit for PE in the state of Tennessee. So, it is a sport. Regardless of whether they claim it's not or on paper, like as far as the TSA does, it's still a sport. They still are out on the field from on during camp from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. marching, playing an instrument, carrying around heavy things. They're still participating. Not only that, but educational purposes, they're learning a language. Music is a different language. And nine times out of 10, if you learn music, you can learn like Spanish or French or English or even as a second language, even if a
055person didn't know English could learn it a lot quicker quicker with music involved. And I'm going to reference the Charleston board of education boards code of conduct here because it says on number two under my relations to children it says I will seek and provide equal educational opportunities for all children not just public school children. All children. And with that I want to say that there is no other option for people to participate in marching band or color guard. Yes, they can participate in smaller versions of bands that go around and play concerts and things like that. Like you can get two or three people to learn an instrument, but they're not able to actually go on a football field and represent something, represent a team outside of public school. And by denying that access,
056you're actually denying a group of children an educational opportunity. And that's all I wanted to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. I'm trying to keep through my throat spark. Yes. Usually we will take what your comments and what you uh have uh asked the the board to do. We'll discuss that at some of our future meetings and once a decision is made, we'll direct Dr. Satfield to get in touch with you on that. Thank you very much. Next on our new business is the high school gymnasium scoreboard donation by Wilson Bank and Trust. We got a uh picture of that Tuesday night. Uh and uh um one we want to uh thank our corporate sponsors in this case Wilson Bank and Trust. We've had a lot of corporate sponsors step up at the last couple
057of years and help on things and and it's very much appreciated. So uh am I right in assuming Dr. I feel that we're to we need to accept this donation or is Yes, sir. You're you're changing the facility, you know, and and you're putting a sponsorship in that gymnasium. So, we I feel like we need board approval. Okay. To to do that. And Mr. Kerr, and I've got it somewhere, but I it's going to cost us $1,400 to uh pay for this shipping. uh Wilson Bank and Trust is they can't pay for the shipping nor the install. So the uh it's $1,400 to pay for the shipping and the install and then they're paying the rest of it which is around $12,000 to put two scoreboards in the high school with the commitment that they
058will do the same at the middle school for the following year. You were aware of that, I'm sure, already. Landon. Yes, sir. Okay. All right. So, the question for us tonight is, would we like to accept Wilson Bank and Trust generous donation of a new new scoreboard this year for Trto County High School? Plus, there's a monetary fee that we're going to have to accept as we will be required to pay the installation fees and the shipping fees. So, discussion Hearing none. Do I have a motion? Make a motion to approve the school board. I mean the school board and the installation. have a motion uh by Chris to uh uh accept the donation from Wilson Bank and Trust of a of new scoreboards for Trials County High School with the board taking on the
059responsibility of paying the shipping fees and the installation cost. Yeah. And the scoreboard company also said he thought he overestimated the shipping, so it could easily be less than the 14. We would gladly accept any less over I second that. Have a second by Rachel. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. Okay. And then, of course, our last item on the agenda is our fiscal year uh 141 general purpose school budget. uh as we discussed on uh during our work session uh it had to come back to us to accept some of the changes that make just some updating that needed to be done to it and it will go before the uh Trto County Commission Monday night. Uh we had given them a preliminary budget by May
0601st. No, no, May 1st, which is in accordance with state law. And as usual, once you get all of your state dollars and other things that go with that, there's always some uh updating and some things that need to be done to that. And that's that's what this is. We will actually be presenting them a more upto-date budget uh that they'll be able to use uh going forward. Uh questions or discussion? Do I have a motion to uh approve the uh uh re the new general purpose school budget for 2526? I make a motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Atwood to approve this uh updated budget. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Deanna. Get one in. Any any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Please say no. Does pass
061unanimously. Anything else to come before the board tonight? Wow, this year's flown and it's already June. We're going to be rid of him before you know it. But just to just to uh piggyback on what Clint was saying, I wanted to kind of clarify something for myself. You said y'all you're working with TSBA to how the wording of the uh advertisement and all of that and they're still going to advertise it for us and and do everything that we agreed to when we accepted that. Accept all the applications and all of that. You did the contract. We did a contract approved contract last month and now we're just working on the language and building a flyer and a website post that TSBA will do. We also connected to our website and then remember the reason
062we did this their post goes statewide and nationwide as well. So they had that big list of places that they contact right to advertise. It was a big long list. And uh just as a general reminder to people, we the members of the school board will not know who's applied until the window is closed. And they present us with all of the packets and things of anyone who's applied. Remind me when the window opens uh June 30th and closes. I don't have it. 30 days later, whatever. basically end of July the application window is open during the month of July right and then it closes then like August the 2nd then the month of August is when you'll set up your interviews you'll have a whole month to do your interviews and then you'll make
063a determination if everything goes well you'll make your determination at the September meet so you got a whole month to take applications a whole month to set up your interviews however y'all decide y'all want to do them in whatever time frame and then you would make a determination in your September. I think one of the things I'd like for you to do is add to add to the discussion at our next work session uh so we can iron out uh the calendar or not really the calendar but the plan moving forward. Timeline timeline. Thank you. Uh as to maybe when we we don't know how many applicants we're going to get. Obviously there's only three or four if you know but if there's 15 or 20 so we may need to meet look at the
064applicants begin the narrowing process that type of thing I mean right now we're just you know in the dark we don't have a clue and uh but I'd like us to begin discussion of that at our next work session so that it's not a big surprise to anyone and if any board members need like planning or something to Yeah, I need to save my days. Well, that's what I that's what I was thinking. Zooming with me and u u Does that sound like something that we would want to do at the Yeah. Okay. So, if you'll just add that to uh our our work session. Yeah. Okay. Anybody else got anything, guys? I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second. We are ajourned. That's my motion for the night. Now that now that the heat's coming
065and I heard Rachel say she likes 100° flowers. Give her a appointment with the psychiatrist. You already got one on call. John has got it on his line, too. Again, I'm I'd rather have July than January. Yeah, by far. But well, I'll be hot. I'll be what to