001May meeting of the TRA County Board of Education to order. Uh at this time, would everybody please stand for the invocation and then remain standing for the pledge. Let us bow. Dear most holy father in heaven, we thank you dear Lord for all of your many blessings, especially the blessing of your son, our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Father, we want to thank you for blessing this school system to be able to have such a safe school year. Please bless us to uh be able to finish up this school year safely. Father, we also ask that you be with our students, teachers, and staff as they go uh their many different ways this summer and keep them safe. Bless us all, Father, to base our decisions on what's best for those student, teachers, staff, and
002everyone connected to the Trael County School System. Father, please know we love you. Please bless us each and every day. For it's in Christ's name we pray. 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. think there's any reason to invite the audience to address the agenda or anything? Looks like they're all alone. Uh does anybody have anything that needs to be added to the agenda? If not, I would accept a motion to approve tonight's agenda. I'll make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Moved by Deanna to approve tonight's agenda. Second by Chris. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. We
003have our budget. I mean, we have our agenda for tonight. Wish we had our budget. Uh, please look over the items on the consent agenda and see if there's uh any that you think we need to pull and move to new business for further discussion. We went over these last night. Is there anything anybody wants to discuss further? Not me. I'm sorry. Not me. Okay. Uh, do I have a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda? Motion. Motion by Rachel to approve tonight's consent agenda. Do I have a second? Second by Chris. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. It does pass unanimously. Do we have any school districts? I do. I mean, good. You have before you a picture of all our graduating seniors and our celebration is
004this is the endg game. This is what we do all year for 12 years in a row to get our seniors to this point. This is a graduating class of 2025. I think you have 93 seniors that'll be graduating. Is that right, Mr. Pico? 92. 92. Did Did I look Did I add one somewhere? I left that picture up there. Okay. And just wanted to remind you of two things. Our senior night is this Friday at 5:30 and our graduation is Friday, May the 23rd at 7:00. That'll be held at the football stadium, weather permitted. So, we had to move it inside last year, but hopefully we'll get to go outside this year. Just want to as I was signing the uh diplomas last night after we left, I took them home and signed them
005all. And in case any that the chairman signs them all and uh I got to looking at some of the names. This was I remember this class. They were one of the last classes I had that began kindergarten. And uh it's just uh you know when you go back and because so many of these I you know I know their parents and stuff you know the limbles and pots and you know all that a lot of these kids you know you just I just knew their parents and I remember these kids being in kindergarten and it it just it just means more when you're signing those diplomas and you remember them 12 years you know later you know 13 years later that kind of stuff. Glad it all made it done well. But I don't
006think we're going to have a a report on the cafeteria. That look like our galloping gourmet has galloped. Can we make it our rails? I mean, what else have you possibly been doing? I enjoy rather have him here every night than J. I don't think I listen I want I know they did plan to be here. I'm just being right to be there. Did they know it was I thought I was asking him maybe they didn't know we moved yet. I should have told her. Yeah. Uh Mr. McCall, we're ready for principal report. You're supposed to be where? FFA Bank. It's right there. I'm going run over there after they get there. Yeah. When you get through with this, you go. Not always. I miss last week. Uh I went here last week, so we're
007talking, you know, we finished EOC testing last month. Big really big difference for me from what I've been used to. I know I told this, but at the middle school level, everybody's testing. You know, you're everybody's going the same direction. And at the high school, you're running two different schools. It's sort of crazy in the logistics of that because you got seniors that are not testing. Very few people are taking four different tests. You know, there's I think nobody doing that. So, it's sort of a balancing act. Luke's strict closing down one side of the building bails. So, that's been an adaption for me, but we did eventually 100% testing. So, I was happy about that. And also, we had our CNA test this last week. Uh we had 20 21 girls pass. We had
008one miss it by one. She's taking it tomorrow and we hope that she knocks it out. Uh Miss McCall does an amazing job with our CNA group. Uh same meronics test was Friday. I ain't got that results yet. You won't get it back probably till if you if we're lucky you will get it back maybe before graduation. Most of the time it's somewhere around two weeks because it goes to Germany. They grade it and send it back. Otherwise, Germany. Yes. They literally do it online. Everybody's test may not be the same, but it is hand looked at in Germany from Seammens and they send it back. Wow. Cuz they had trouble when they started first started. They couldn't get online and they called me and I'm like, "Have you called Eric?" And he's like, "I
009can't find him." I said, "Call Mr. Sans who's in Mcmeble. He's over it all. And I know him. I said, "You call him." And they got it all fixed up pretty quick. But yeah. Wow. Excited about how they did. Um we had a blast right here. Wilson Bank Trust uh hosted our top 10. Our super nice of them. Kids loved it. Enjoyed it. Uh this week, last five day week been very busy. We had our senior play in school Monday. I think it was the first time since since co kids loved it. It was great. We did our public show last night. Had a bunch of parents there. It was really fun. Been doing class tournaments. Like I said, FFA Bank tonight. Tomorrow we're starting a new new tradition uh with Miss Padru with our
010senior walks in the morning. So, I'm really excited about the seniors are fired up at the end of the day. I talked to them and they're just super excited about that. We're going to leave here at 9 or school at 9:15. Be there at 9:30. Uh we got senior lunch tomorrow, class tournaments. We've got senior day practice at 2:45 and senior day Friday at 5:30. So just an action-packed week. Uh Monday, our seniors are going to Dollywood and then we're having exemption day for everybody else. We'll be testing Tuesday, Wednesday, and hopefully we'll have a graduation practition at 7 on the football field, Lord willing, next Friday with no rain for those 92 or 93 seniors. I'm going to check that list here in a second. Uh, athletics had our sports physicals this last Saturday.
011Uh for the high school, I think I had estimated 167 kids took physicals on Saturday, which is awesome for our trainers. Knocked out. That's all the sports I'm sure. Yeah. Wow. That many had 75 at the high school. Appreciate Dan, Carrie, and M coming in that morning helping us out. All our coaches came in. We sort of platoon that with our middle school and high school coaches, and it went really well. Um, got a new basketball coach, Miss Courtney Haynes. Uh, she'll be here next year. We're really excited. She's coming here from Whit, Tennessee. I think she told me she's trying to close on a house this week. Her and her husband Chris, right? So, very excited about them being here. He's going to be here for triyouts next week and we'll start camp in
012June. Uh, baseball softball season concluded. Uh, Lady Jags finished second in the district, lost Monday in a crazy rain day, rain game at Watertown. Um, last thing I was going to mention, uh, we did, we've been doing some signings at school and we had one, two, three, six kids commit to play athletics at the next level. Very excited about that. Involved with a lot of parents on those signing days and it's been a really cool experience. We got Jana Ponte playing basketball at Rome State. Kelly Dunn playing softball at Bethl. Ray Pots's playing volleyball at Pellissippi. Presley Clark at Pellissippi playing basketball with Sarah Link is playing softball. And we're doing a signing tomorrow at 1:00 with Sam Cook going to Rome State. So proud of those kids for getting going to the next level
013representing our school. Any questions about any questions for Mr. McC I'll stay I'll stay young lady. Why is he looking back like I'm not young? I'm young. I'm young. I would I would never tell that. Yeah. Especially when you follow an old man that much younger. This is true. Actually, I think I'm older than you. Well, I've got a lot more gray. We had a webinar today. All I can see these gray streaks from there. It is humbling to get on the webinar cuz the real you is right there. Yeah. So, we have been busy. I follow Mr. McCall by saying I'm just trying to survive from day to day to day. We have things going here there and trying to be mindful of this schedule and that schedule. There's just so many celebratory events
014and we want to honor them all. So, we've been busy at the elementary school. We finished up with our Ames Webb testing. Of course, I did the TECAP summary last time. This time we have finished Ames Web and then the fun began. Our kids have been working, they have been working so hard all year long. So, we started with we call it EMS day, but it's first responders. They come, they bring the trucks, the fire trucks, the ambulance, our um police, our SRO parks out there. The kids get to go through, they get stickers and just really get to see those trucks up close. So, they love that because many times we just don't think about those things, but kids don't get to see them. So they love them. We are we call it our
015field week. We typically we've had field day and it is a mad dash to do all of the activities and it's rushed and everybody behavior is just because we're all out of sorts and it's just this year we did something different. We spread those activities out over activity so that or during our related arts class so that it doesn't it's not too much of a disruption and it has been the kids get to do something every day and our grade levels get to enjoy their students as well. So they are having some dodgeball tournaments or kitball tournaments, things that maybe aren't appropriate for kindergarten that are more appropriate for fourth and fifth grade. So that way we can tailor the activities to the grade level without it being too much of a a diver across
016the board. So we have done that. We have we've done pop ice during recess and We're they're getting ice cream during lunch and we were able to find some bouncy houses. So, they don't know, but they're getting bouncy houses on Friday. That was a struggle finding um what we have found is the insurance that bouncy house people have to have on the bouncy houses has just gone out the roof. And so everyone is getting out of that and finding someone who it's reasonable. And now we're looking at when we could get bouncy houses for $900. Now it's like $3,000. And that's a lot. And Biller getting out of the business right there. Everybody everybody the people who we used last year, they're no longer. I mean, I think because of especially when they're outside, they
017can blow away and it it's just that was how it was explained to us that people are just insurance has gone through the and that is what it is. It's the insurance and so we were just lucky that we were able to get some. So, it won't be as elaborate, but it's they will still be excited. And our big thing is the clothes party. Tell me about it. They love the glow party and we get everybody the glow. They have the bracelets or the necklaces, the glasses. I you just name it. There's glow sticks everywhere. So, they love that. We dance and that will be on the 19th. Which brings us to when is the last day of school? Well, it depends. It just that's really it depends. So for K1 and two it is
018the 19th. Um so they will end their their school year with the glow party and then on the 20th our third grade all third graders will come in and they'll have their reward day for working. So it's an additional they have worked so hard on this decap. So we have all sorts of things planned for third grade. So, um, and a big shout out to our PTO who is doing gift bags for our third graders as well as our fifth grade. So, uh, I'm very grateful for them reaching out. We've had some, um, secret sponsors that have done some things and we have some people who are coming to help. So, we're just excited for everything that everyone does for the community does for the school. And then on the 20th and 21st, we have
019exams for our fourth and fifth graders. For uh the students who have missed 17 days or more, they will take exams on the 20th and 24th. 20th and 21st if you're in fourth and fifth grade. And then on the 21st, we will also have our third grade retake. So if students were not proficient on the third grade reading TECAP, they will retake that portion on the 21st from 8:30ish to 10:30. And we will also have kindergarten roundup. So a lot going on that day. And then we're finished. So, we know it's it's a lot, but we are excited. We have senior walk tomorrow and transition day for our fifth graders. And each year, usually we do the recognition or last year we did the recognition, fifth grade recognition before transition day. So, they got their
020t-shirts the night before and then they could wear them. But tomorrow they will we have them all t-shirts that say promoted to JSMS. So they'll all get to have their little t-shirts and wear them over to the middle school and then they'll come back. So we're excited about that and we'll have our um fifth grade recognition tomorrow night and we are super excited. that our fifth grade teachers have been working really hard to put together just a sweet little celebration. And we're not giving awards. We are just celebrating our fifth graders. We are celebrating everyone. Um they're we understand they're not graduating. They are being promoted. But we just want to honor them, celebrate them. This is a milestone and they're moving to the next level. And we just want to encourage them to just
021go and be wonderful. And we had a great teacher appreciation. We had people did everything for us. And we are just so grateful for all of the food and support. It's not that it's expected, it's just appreciated. So it's it's nice to be appreciated. So I think that's everything. Can I have any questions? What's a scene walk? Is that something I should know about? Is that something been going on a long time? This is our first one. Oh, so this is our first one. Elementary. They're going back. That's That's awesome. That is awesome. So going back to back to where all the kids doing it tomorrow. I have some students that are gra graduating early and I had to ask the same thing you did. I said, "What are you doing?" And they told me
022what they were. I thought you were going to bring all the kids out. All of our kids are going to come out and each We tried to figure, you know, how could we do this? We can just line them up. We have a lot of kids. I don't think that people realize how many kids. And they're like, "Why don't you just line them up in the hallway?" And that's what I told the kids. They're like, "Where's kids?" That hallway was a mile long. So, how you going to line them up? She's got a map. I do. I I a unload the buses on the San Beasley side. They will walk in. They will go down the fourth grade hall which is when you come in it's to your left. So they'll go down. The students
023will be in the hall and the seniors will go they'll be lined up on either side and the seniors will go down one side and they'll circle around and come out and we practice. We are going to do air parts. We can clap air high fives, but we practice so that we're not high-fiving all 90 two and a2 seapp I understand but the half I'm just wondering 93. So then they will go up the hall to the first grade and they'll do the same thing in the first grade. And then they will go up to the third grade, do the same thing, cross over at the gym, go through the second grade, come out, go through the front office. Well, the four out there so they can see the front office staff and into the
024kindergarten. Cross over through the cafeteria so they can see the cafeteria workers. Cross over through the cafeteria. go back down the hall to the fifth grade, which when you come in, it's to the right. So, they'll go in the fifth grade wing and then go back out the same. That's awesome. Thank you for doing. That's great. So, we're excited. We'll see how And we don't know. It could be a flop. It's not going to be a flop. It will be It will be the greatest thing you've ever seen. Yeah, you hear this organization y'all got going. We're going to video it so it'll be part of their their senior day thing. So, and we'll make adjustments to make it better, but this is just our first It will be it will be great. I'm just
025telling I'm glad we have one elementary school. I saw Hendersonville kids go to they go to the school where they came from. Oh my gosh. You know, like how many Yes. So, all the seniors go to the school. So, be glad we just got one. Yes. So, and I am grateful. Thank you for being willing to to do this. I heard you mention the PTO. You know, they usually are in here. I haven't they been anybody. So, they're doing they're still very active and well at all schools water for us, the water the hydration station. They did. We did the truck. That's great. I'm gladiation. Oh, yeah. They're dropping. I just haven't seen any of them in a while. And so, I'm just really glad. they reached out, one of that reached out and said,
026"How can we help for your third for your fifth grade?" And I said, "Well, if you could do little baskets just or little gift bags and the same for third grade as well." So, they created every single student has little gift bag that we'll be able to give to really a great job. Yes, that's right. That's right. Part of it. Thank y'all. Thank you. Mr. I've got a report for Mr. Go. Oh, okay. You said they're you're gonna video and show it to I'm like this is number five for me. I'd like to not cry. Could you ease up on that? I know there I can see some getting emotional. You might get me. I'm pregnant. We still got another 20 years before we get through all the kids that you had for kindergarten. Well,
027I had these in kindergarten. So, all the ones from there up and made it a year back. Yeah. Yeah. I have put a stain on this. I think he had me in kindergarten. Take decades to get He was the principal at some point in time. No, he was middle school when he was born. He was a teacher. I did too. I had two. Who's that? The lady that does is my uh assist my dentist. I've had quite a bit of dental. I'm missing a tooth right up here. You got to have a bridge. And her husband, I had her husband. I was his principal. And she talks. He said I said, "Does he talk bad about?" He said, "No, he loved you." I said, "Well, obviously something's wrong." You might be differing opinions. Well, they
028all look after you're gone. That's right. They're there. That's right. They forget a lot years. That's right. Sorry, coach. Oh, no. That's fine. Uh, Mr. Billy sends his regards. He's working with the county commission that I couldn't be here, but he given a little report to uh to report. He said all the sports se the spring sports seasons have wrapped up and said all the teams had a very successful year. Uh he said they've had tryyouts for all the fall sports and all the rosters have been picked and they got that in motion going forward. Uh it said all the coaching assignments for fall sports have been made and the coaches are eager to begin practices. Uh end of the year assessment only from a former math teacher. Would you get this? But 99.7% of
029all students completed their TAP. So that's almost 100%. Uh he's they said they did so well they've been promised them a reward week if they did well and they've been playing kickball games, ultimate frisbee. don't know quite about what do you know what frisbee is. Okay. Well, they've been playing that and then they've had individual and team games in the gym and just been having lots of fun this week as a report. Um said however that in classrooms they are continuing to do classroom work after testing. They haven't shut down on learning yet and said they're still teaching grade level standards u in in classrooms. He also talked about the transition day being tomorrow and they're looking forward to having the fifth grade or next year's sixth grade to come over and said that they
030they uh give them a syllabus and they also tour and get acquainted to the school because some of the kids haven't been in the school even before. and uh said they are preparing for finals the last week of school and he expects to have about 90% of the students to be exempted which means that 90% of the students have missed 16 or less days. So that's a good accomplishment. And then for me uh I want to you have before you in your packet uh employment notifications. I think this has come up already. Uh Courtney Hayne has been hired as the head basketball coach. Mr. Call talked to you about what they're doing. And you approved several fundraisers that they're working on on getting ready to go to camp and stuff. Uh Madison Mlache, the elementary
031teacher. Janette Reese will be a custodian at the middle school after Memorial Day. April Stafford is retired. So, she's told us she's retired and she gave us plenty of time to to post that position and we've got a continuous continuity. She was there when I was there, so she's been there a good point. And I I think I think she's excited about retirement and we wish her we wish her well. Uh Shelby Petty uh was hired as the new middle school basketball coach and she will also more than likely assist the high school at some point in time. Uh Dave Cthrine has uh resigned as the head baseball coach. I think I let you know that in the newsletter. However, he plans on not leaving the district. I mean, or the the team, but he
032was he wants to be in assistant and said he would still take care of facilities and stuff, but um he wanted to give those gift responsibilities to someone else. We've got that position posted and uh we'll be addressing that as time comes. And then Miss Milild Harper has resigned as cook at the believe she's at the high school. So, those are the employment notifications. And then for enrollment, I always give you a an enrollment report. And it's not much different than it has been for the last two or three months. Our elementary school is at 654 students. That's 14 less than it was at the same time last year. Our middle school is at 329. That's two less students than we had last month and at the same time last year. However, our high school
033enrollment is up at 385 and we're running on about 11 students more than we did this time last year. And overall across the district, we have 1368 students and that's about five less than we had last year. I think what's important here is that our enrollment presently is stable. Some districts are actually losing students which affects state funding but we have been we haven't gained anybody but we had lost anybody and I think or we had lost numbers and I think that's important for us as we plan and budget and going forward on the academic programming side. I don't want to uh uh echo anything that they've said, but our summer learning camp, we've been spending a lot of time getting ready for summer learning camp. And uh that's going to be held June the
0342nd through the 17th. Last month I talked to you, we hadn't got our allocations. We got our allocations in the last 10 days. And it's exact same amount of dollars that we had last year. Minus we don't have the esser or the federal stimulus money anymore. So we've got to be strategic about how we build our budget. But uh presently we built our budget and work within budget. So we're excited about that. We've had two organizational meetings with our principles which is going to be Mr. Smid and Miss Lindsay Dice and we've been working with them to get everything ready. I know the principles. I know Mr. Drew has been heavy with that planning because it's in her building. Uh we have built a transportation schedule. We have five bus drivers and uh we we're
035going to have our big teacher training day on Tuesday, May the 20th. We have 165 students registered. We sent out a acceptance letter to parents on May the 7th. And for all the students who applied within the January February window, all of those students have been accepted. So we determine if you register and register on time, we were able to accept every student. So that's that's I think is important. uh anybody listening. What's really important is even though we accept we sent those acceptance letters on May the 7th that our teachers are personally going to call families and answer any questions that they may have and talk to them about transportation and they're going to do that on May the 22nd or May the 23rd. So families should be expecting a call on one of
036those two dates. uh summer camp schedule runs from 8 to 1:30 and then we also have a stream after school care that runs from 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon. So is that 5 days a week? Five days a week, Monday through Friday for 20 days for the whole month of June. Uh next is budget and finance. You know, last month we passed our preliminary U 141 school budget. we had to by law submit that to the county commission by May the 1st. Uh that was done. Uh however, they are not going to hear that budget until Tuesday, May the 20th. I I've tried to communicate that with you and I will continue to do that. And then so the important dates for us going forward with the budget is the budget finance meeting on
037May the 20th and that's held at the community center and then the May county commission meeting which will be on January I mean excuse me be on May the 27th. uh important dates. Uh they talked about senior day, exemptions, final exams, kindergarten roundup, third grade retake, third grade reward day. You covered that. Employee appreciation lunch. We talked about our teacher appreciation. Many moons ago, the board wanted to have a board appreciation for all the employees, all the employees that worked over here. That lunchon is on May the 22nd at 11:30. We've had a lot of registration. We did some pre-registration on and uh we got well over 110 120. Is that not the It's the 23rd. 23rd, is it? Friday, the same day. Is it a Friday? That's right. It's the 23rd. It's the same
038day of graduation. I'm sorry. Okay. Yeah. The 22nd is our admin day. Okay. All right. And then um One thing that wasn't covered was that uh and you all did a an equipment death position on this is we take our Chromebooks. They've got a little age on them four years or so, but they're getting toward the end of the life book. They sweep them. So all the seniors that complete their facet, all of them that make a application with any post secondary institution get a free Chromebook. So you'll pass those out next Wednesday, I believe. So, we repurpose those and we sort of give them to them as a graduation gift from the board and for kids who are leaving home and don't have a a tablet or one to one device and they're just
039getting started in college, it's it's a big help to them. So, we're we're glad to do that. Uh the last thing is uh our report cards. We're we're on a tight timeline, but the state guarantees us that we will get TCAP in the course scores by the 20th of May. So, we've got to get those in a tight turnaround, average those with the grades, get those on report cards, but the idea is that we would may mail our report cards no later than Saturday, May the 24th. I don't know how long the US Postal Service takes, but we promise we'll get them in the mail by Saturday the the 24th. High school credit recovery is June the 9th through the 20th. Miss Cook will be doing that. And my last thing is our project updates
040is our fieldhouse. The U subgrade plumbing is being completed, inspected. Uh we've they were pouring over half of the flooring today. However, they can't pour the other half until sometime next week because their concrete people got to go to another job. But we've got the mezzanines poured. We've got over half of the flooring poured and we talked about this at the work session. Yes, the steps have to be redone. So, they're going to have to cut them out, tear them out, and redo them at the owner's ex. I mean not at owners at the construction matters construction manager expense. So Mr. Kerr that's all I have. Y'all got any question? I'll be glad. Anybody have any questions for Mr. S? Oh one other thing Mr. Kirk is that we put this on our website and
041we sent this out on social media and this is just there's a lot like the principal said there's a lot going on this time of year and then we gave them a list a one pager that would be very useful if parents are trying to figure out what's going on in the last days. That's good. All right. There's no old business. So we'll move right on into our new business. 7A is the fiscal year 26 the food service budget. Uh Kathy talked a little bit about that last night and stuff. You know that this is where they take bids and stuff. We're in a conglomerate with some other counties and and we all kind of bid together and stuff and that way we're uh we're not bidding as just a small county. We're bidding as
042a group and we're able to get better pricing and stuff. And uh but we of course since it is spending money we had to approve that. Dr. Sappu, you want to mention anything about that or I cover it pretty good. Yes, sir. Uh but the the bids for the products that we're going to purchase on the collaborative purchasing that'll be ready for next month. This is just the budget. Oh, just budget. Just the budget. This and but the uh the food service bids will come to you next month. Okay. So this is the budget for the poop service. Any discussion about it? We had to do it like this because we're spending, you know, approve. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Motion by Mr. Atwood to approve the food service budget. Do
043I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Woodter. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say no. Does pass unanimously. I've got I've got to fix that. Hold on. The motion was by who? Robbie second by I didn't put him back on the roll when he came, so I can't make it. I'll have to do it manually. Okay. And the second was who? Chris. Okay. Okay. We're good then. I can do that. Okay. And next 7B is the uh budget for the summer learning camp. Uh any discussion about the we talked about that last night? We're able to get by using all the state funds and stuff like we've been doing. If if there's no discussion, I would accept a motion to approve. Motion. Motion by Rachel to approve the
044summer learning camp budget. Second. Second by Mr. Atwood. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say no. That also passes unanimously. And then last night, we talked about the TSBA uh superintendent search service. We talked about the uh and I asked to have it put on new business so we could just discuss it again tonight. This is the one where for a $3,000 fee, they will post and and the job for us and it would go to that whole list of of places. Did you get a copy of that? Uh just practically all the organizations and everywhere around the state, the state of Tennessee, not the country, but the state. And it'll also be on the TSBA website. And then when that portal opens on June 30th and and runs
045this month, then the whoever applies will be applying through TSBA. They will gather all of that information, all the applications, all the uh different um items that people may want to upload like degrees and you know experience and all that kind of stuff. and they'll make us a packet on each applicant and then at the end of the uh uh window for to to apply, they will provide us with the packet on everyone that apply. And so that saves this office from having to do all that and everything. And for $3,000, I I personally I think that's a pretty good bill. I agree with you. But, uh, discussion, I mean, that's that we just, you know, I put it down here for new business so we could think about it today and see if that
046is still something that, uh, you know, last night we thought it's something we might want to do that we could discuss it again. So, discussion anyone, I think it would be a good idea just to keep it out of somebody here in this office having to sort through it. The only thing I have is how how will we see? We wait until it closes and then we get like stacks. Yes. If there's 10 applicants, we'll get a packet on all 10 applicants. If there's one applicant, we'll get a packet on one. I mean, you never know how many is going to apply and stuff, you know. I mean, you just can't, you know, forecast that or anything. But uh uh and one of the things that you know I mentioned this last night u it
047to me it takes away that thing of you know everybody seems to think no matter what you're doing there's there's some always some little inner workings and some little things going on and stuff and we're not going to be we're not going to know anything see anything or anything like that until the windows closed and we get everybody's packet at one time. Exactly. And so I just think it it it uh takes I don't think any thing would would be going on through this office, but I it just eliminates that. I don't think there would be any going on here. That's I don't think I don't that's definitely not going to happen. People don't say anything. I don't want to worry that way, but I can say that it definitely takes us out of takes
048it out of our hand. Right. And we are when we're dealt with the cards, we got to make a decision. Exactly. So, if we didn't do that, who would who would be the one putting all this together? Well, it would be everybody here. It would come in the applicants would come in on on our uh uh they would put it on our website. Yeah. They would uh we have an application board. Yeah. they would fill out our application process and stuff and then someone here would have to uh uh collate all of that information and make a packet for us and and it's they'd have to do it but instead of doing it here they do it down there. Mr. We have we here have an online uh platform all the applications come in for
049our certified people. what we talked about several months ago was doing that and actually I gave you a copy of what that looked like that that electronic application look like and uh that would come through our portal but now we will have them go through the TSBA portal and then so that'll go through the TSBA portal and then they will like Mr. Kers said at the end of the application window then they'll give you all the applicants. One other thing Mr. I'd like to add sir is also remember that every application is subjected to the open records act. Exactly. So once you get it, it's also open to the public as well. I mean it's it's open to press. Yes. You know uh when all of our meetings are going to be open public meetings
050we can't have a secret meeting and and shouldn't and so the press could be here. Head channel two could be here. You know, there you go. You never know. You know, hey, 17 tonight bring in their crisis in education fun stuff. It always hurt me that they named their education thing crisis in education and stuff, you know. Yeah, that's drama. Just create, right? Just make it into a drama thing. But, u So, what does everybody think? I make a motion to pass it. I'm I'm all for it. You know that. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Atwood to uh uh to hire TSBA to run this process for him. Have a second by Mr. Woodard. Any other discussion? I'm checking it the other way. Do we have to do we have to state in the
051motion that I get what you're talking about? We can. I didn't know if it had to be more specific or not. I mean, because I didn't tell y'all about that plan when you went. Correct. I mean, didn't we think it was going to be a No. I mean, they were like used car salesman. They were tell they were wanting to sell us that Cadillac. That's what I'm saying. I want to make sure we get we we get the One thing I know $3,000, not Cadillac plan. They're not going to pay. What if we get the Cadillac plan for the price of plan? For that price. Well, let me change that motion. I am making a motion to support plan one. Yes, that's what they called it. How's that? I made a recommending motion. Is that
052okay with you, Mr. Atwood? Yes, exactly. There we go. So, we have Robbie makes that motion and Chris has seconded that motion. The amendment is any uh any other discussion. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. Does pass unanimously. Anything else to come before the board tonight? All right. Do I have a motion to adjourn? Motion. We're so you counted these. There's 93. There's 92. Huh? There's 92. Uhoh. I said 93. How How do we get a half? I mean, I was probably the half in my in my graduation class. I'll just be honest with you. But this Well, that packet that packet of diplomas I took signed yesterday last night. It had another 100 on it. So, I was thinking No, they're waiting. We bought them. We got extras.
053I didn't get extra. We had extra diplomas. I didn't sign any. We We asked for a little bit of overage, but he You didn't sign any overage. the every diploma that we order has to be a counterpart and if we don't use it, we have to return to the state. Okay. I knew there was a name on everyone outside. Yeah. But this mess up. Oh yeah. Yeah. Hold on. That one went from 92 to 100 93. That's what was written on the outside of the package. I would do what I'm saying. They got your name on there twice. Do they preach your name? No, I I practice. I was warming up, you know. So, I wrote, you know, I was practicing before I threw it down. Hey, uh, did you use it? Happy song.