001stand for the invitation and please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. Heavenly Father, as we come to you tonight, thank you for allowing your son to be left from the cave and walk out of the holy burial ground and for the sins that we all commit that he has washed us of. Thank you, Lord, for everything you've done. Thank you for blessing this state. Thank you for blessing this nation. Thank you for blessing this school system. May tonight as we go through this meeting, may your spirit run through us like a river and everything that we decide and everything we do, Lord. Thank you for everything you've done. 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,
002with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Is there anyone in the audience tonight that would like to uh just uh not if you're on the agenda or anything, but anyone else that would like to uh uh just tell the board anything at this time. Okay. We do have some items on the agenda. If you're on the agenda, you do not have to sign up at this time, but if you would like to address an item that's on the agenda, uh, please come up at this time, write your name down, and when we get to that item, I'll let you, uh, speak. Okay. Next is our approval for tonight's agenda. Of course, I wasn't here Tuesday night. I know we all went over everything. Uh, do I have a motion to approve tonight's agenda?
003Motion. Have a motion by Miss Penny. Do I have a second? A second. Motion by Miss Penny to approve tonight's agenda. Second by Miss Bod. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. Motion carries. We have our set agenda for this evening. Next is our consent agenda. Please look over each item. I know y'all went over them on Tuesday night and Clint and I went over them the week before. If you see anything on there that you would like to have pulled to discuss further, we'll move it to new business. So, please look over each of those items and uh see if you see any that need to be moved to new business. I'm assuming all y'all are here from La. I don't think so. Y'all is in the
004consent agenda. So, well, that's a highlight. Okay. So, that's where they're I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Okay. Okay, I have a motion by Miss Petty to approve tonight's consent agenda. I second it. Have a second by Mr. Atwood. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. Motion passes unanimously. All right, school district highlights. I believe it was about this time last year, the FBLA came and spoke with us and did an awesome job. I'm glad to see so many of our students here. I remember that young lady from last year. I don't know if she's the only one back from last year, but Miss Huff, we're going to turn this over to you and you just you do whatever. Okay. You've got prepared. And I'm
005actually going to let uh the students leave. That's right. That's great cuz that's what we're So I didn't want to embarrass anybody, so I thought I just call on they are prepared to to talk about it. That's great. Guys, y'all want to go all the things the slides All right. Being business leaders, I'm sure y'all. Hello, my name is Zoe Vaughn. This is Alex Pedru, Faith, Kaitton, and Landon Satderfield. We are with the Future Business Leaders of America, and we are advancing to nationals this summer. Um, this is my finalist plaque that I decided to bring and show you guys. Now, that's from last year. Nope. This is from Oh, this year. Okay. Yep. Earlier this month. Okay. That's the states and then you're going to the national state. I made first place in international
006business. Very good. Y'all y'all say what what places you scored and what you competed in. Uh, I also got a plaque for fourth place in sports and entertainment management. Oh, I got first place in supply chain management. Sorry. Supply chain management. Supply chain. Yes, sir. I made fifth in advertising. Very good. That was great. Congratulations, Donald. Do you know how to do the slideshow? Click on There you go. You can click on Okay. Well, I think this is a lot of just a lot of pictures. This is all of us together. I believe there were 16 people at state, 16 students. Um, a couple seniors, but a lot of f a lot of juniors and a couple freshmen. Um, there on the top right corner is me and Emily. That's me. I'm the president and
007she's the vice president. Um, and then the the picture on the top in the middle is all of us with our certificates because even if you didn't get a plaque and go to nationals, you can also get a certificate if you are a finalist for through eighth place. This is everybody with a certificate. All our names. And this is our trip to the aquarium on the last day of state leadership competition. I think that the aquarium up there is incredible. I heard where y'all Chattanooga. Chattanooga. I've heard that. Yeah. So FBLA, I think for me, I love it the most because it really it's super flexible for anything that you want to do after high school. So it's not just if you want to go and major in business or economics or anything. I actually
008want to be a teacher. And the first thing that I competed in last year, which was my first year, was organizational leadership. And I figured that would be super helpful. And then international business, I think that that is you can apply that to so many careers and they have just so they have extra opportunities. You can also compete in health science paths and it's really amazing. Mine I take a test over international business the concepts and then you go and give a speech. my speech is improv in front of a lady and she gives you a prompt and you have 20 minutes to write your speech and prepare and then present it and they give you great feedback. She writes it down and she grades you on a rubric and it is just so helpful.
009Uh for me, I had the opportunity to go last year. I was a part of FLA but I didn't actively participate. I decided not to go and this year I was just kind of like why not? And so I just picked what I thought would be most interesting for me, which was sports and entertainment management. And then I figured out how to take this and I was like, "Oh lord." And so we had to do like practice test. And I was like, "Okay, you know what? We'll just we'll see what happens." So with the practice test, you in order to be able to like actually compete, you had to take the practice test. And I took the practice test and I I did it in network networking as well. And I made third in sports
010entertainment management. And then I made my fourth in networking. And I had no business in networking anyway. So I was like, we'll just go with entertainment management. And when I went to the competition, I was nervous. And most everybody knows that my dad was like a businessman. And for me, this is just kind of this is just kind of something I was, okay, whatever, you know, who cares? But I actually enjoyed it a lot. It taught me a lot of things. It gave me like a lot of helpful tools. And for me, part of my competition was again I took the objective test and then I had a role play which is where they gave me a sheet of paper and I had to figure out a plan for like an establishment to help their
011like use most of the capacity of it which and I had to talk in front of two judges and it was a little nerve-wracking but I ended up doing 88 out of 100 which was pretty good and I learned a lot from that experience because not only at the uh convention in Chattanooga. You get to do your test. You get the competition. They do give us like an activity night, but they also do like little seminars. I kind of felt like a little adult there, you know, seminars. There was one about like brain germs and stuff and I learned like a lot of stuff that I didn't like think I know. I was I didn't want to go. I didn't want to go at all. But they made us go and I'm actually really happy
012that I went because it was really educational and it helped a lot. Sounds like you really got a lot out of it. Yeah. Overcame a lot of fears. And I just want to just let you know how proud I am. Like we took 16 and I believe what 12 of them talked to was top 10 or above. I mean that's an amazing percentage of students. Our chapter has over 50 members. We were one of the, you know, collectively there was only about 20 chapters that got that out of the whole state. And these are schools that have 12 or,400 students that we are, you know, we are matching, replacing better than. I'm so proud of them, especially for the two that stepped out of their comfort zone and did those role plays because it is
013nerve-wracking, you know, when you are standing in front of people with something you were just handed. So, I'm just super proud. They've worked very hard this year. And I think another thing to note too is we were talking to chapters from other schools, some with 2,200 kids, and we brought more kids to state from little old Trousell County than Mount Juliet High School or Portland High School. And both of those schools have well over a thousand students. So I think what we're doing here, what these kids are doing is is fantastic. Now, how many will go to California? We'll have four who go to California. Okay. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you. I think y'all will do well. Who's next? I guess it's me. Um, when I went I thought it was really cool because I'm personally
014I'm very shy. I don't know if y'all I literally forgot my subject earlier even though I told so many people but I get really shy talking in front of a bunch of people and I really wish I did the role play because I just had to take an objective test about supply chain management and I did a bunch of practice quizzes following that subject and I really wish I did that to set my um get myself out of my comfort zone but you said the seminars it was really fun because they did a lot of like you know you get to introduce yourself to so many people and I did not want to go I really didn't I agree with you I was really was fighting with myself with that one. But you know what?
015I'm really glad it went. It cut me out of my comfort zone, like I said, and I just really I just like it really helped me. And also, I learned from the objective test that a lot of stuff about supply chain management because I have recently thought about going into something like that, but I'm not really sure about it. But it does help me get like an idea of what I want to do in the future as well and how to get to that point. And I just feel like it was really fun. Um, let's see. There's a lot of experiences. I'm so sorry. Um, oh, when we went um to the um what was it called? The award ceremony. When we were there, it was really fun cuz I got to see so many
016other people as well and see what they achieved. And I feel like it also encouraged me to be like, you know, I've made it to first and I feel like I can like I don't know. I just feel like I can improve myself with that and I just feel like it's a good opportunity. And it made me like know that, okay, I'm actually good at something, you know, I'm actually I can actually like work on myself and I can actually achieve one of my goals and I just feel like that really encouraged me to do a lot more and I feel like that helped me step up with my confidence a lot more. That's great. You've done an awesome job right there. Well, the only thing the only advice I can give you and I
017know you're uptight, but slow down talking. That that was like chasing a rat. Okay. I did. But you did a great job. You did you did a very good job. But just in future reference and when you go get a job, slow down. He's that will come with experience and nerves. All right. Well, you got this. So, when I went that the leadership academy, which is the little seminars they were talking about, that was really it put you out of your comfort zone. They would have you arrange like mix up seats and sites side people you wouldn't normally like you don't know you really got to meet a lot of different people and you learned about different ventures that they were doing I know one person we talked to was some dog bandas for charity
018so there's a lot of different uh businesses and business ideas that help you in your entrepreneurship that will uh help them click in your mind. So, very good. The time you all put into this, too, because these are life lessons and life skills that they will need on down the road no matter what they do. So, thank you for the time you all put into this and we love it. I just want to say that personally watching the growth and it especially Zoe and Landon in the because Zoe was with us last year and she probably would have never done a role play and so the growth is and then Lannon has been with me as a student since last year and so just to watch him stand up here and talk to y'all is
019an amazing hearing because she wants to do yes a more uh public approach that has just blowing my mind right now so yes we're very proud of you and your teachers have done a great job now Zoe is our representative next year correct yeah okay Zoe talked to us last year was very very impressive I remember telling her that. And you other three have been very impressive also tonight. And good luck. Can't wait to hear how you do. Y'all's future is very, very bright. It is. Enjoy California. Thank you. Now, who's international again? International business. Oh, international business. That's me. So, you can explain tariffs to us. Anybody? I just want to look at the chart. I'm just kidding. And for the sponsors, thank y'all. It's uh it's just, you know, we we'd love to
020have as many organizations as possible in our school system. And that takes sponsors. And y'all have done a tremendous job. But I want y'all to know each of y'all, we appreciate it very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good job, guys. All right. Thank y'all. Well, looks like y'all's principles have abandoned you. Demetrius, you didn't get the Oh, was Demetrius. Oh, okay. I bet she snuck in on me. I didn't see her. She was hiding over there. Miss Drew, looks like you're it good as No, it's hard to follow that. Yes, it is. Well, it's not as I don't have as many exciting things to say, but I will say we are uh 99% finished with ELA TECAP at the elementary school. We have one kiddo left to do our ELA assessments and we
021will be finished. We are about 95% finished with math. So we have about five or six students to complete math and tomorrow we are doing science in grades three through five and makeups and makeups on Monday, Tuesday and hopefully we'll have everything done then. Um our teachers and our entire building has just they worked so hard to get everyone finished. We have the stomach virus going on. It's just it's been rough. So, everyone just pitched in and did what you needed to do to get it done. And hopefully Monday and Tuesday we'll finish it up. This year we took a different approach with TECAP. We did not do a whole lot of hoopla around it. It's just been another day and there were not bouncy houses and ice cream. It is it was just another
022day to show what you know and our kids have been very focused and it has we are super proud of them. Um we have this this year has just flown by and we are getting ready for our Ames web universal screener after our TCAP. We will do our third grade first while they're in that testing mode and then we will do the rest of the building May 5th through the morning. We have our singers club concert coming up and say it's the 8th. It could be the 9th but it's at 6:30. I have it over there. And we have EMS day. The kids really enjoyed that last year. getting to see the fire trucks and the ambulance and the police cars. They just it's very well organized. It's just a they get to walk through
023and see those um first responder vehicles and it's it's really just a good community building activity and they have great questions. It's always nice to hear the kids ask me. We are um Mr. McCall and I we're we still have a little bit of planning to do, but we're going to try something different this year. Um the senior walk and we will hammer out those details, but that is scheduled for the 15th. And we are also doing our fifth grade celebration. And it's just a recognition of our students. We don't give awards. We don't. It's just a time to celebrate. So, I am I'm excited about that and I'm sure I'll have some help. Sure. I'm sure I'll have some help. Like a lot of help. When is it? The 15th. Okay. Here you go.
024There you go. Is singers club on a Thursday night or a Friday night? It is on a Thursday. Then it's May 8th. Yes. May 8th May at 6:30. I was going to help you read the day. Sorry. I didn't think you'd do it on a Friday night. No, we have so there's so much going on and we try to be mindful of all of the celebrations that are happening with graduation, which is exciting. So, um we are excited about that. and we have a third grade uh reward date coming up on the 20th. So, that week is going to be a little chaotic. We'll have our um K through two will finish up and then we will have our exams and all third graders will come on the 20th and then that's the reward day
025and we will have four third fourth and fifth graders who are taking exams. Students who have missed 17 days or more will take their exams on those days. So on the 21st we will have kindergarten roundup. So um that will last year it was kind of tough managing everything that goes on at the end of the year as well as kindergarten roundup. So we just have that one day and we will we're going to break between dismissal so that we can get the kids out and then we'll pick that up back up. So, we have a lot going on, but we are excited to see this end of the year come and have a reset and get started for next year. So, do you have any questions? That's hard for getting started for next year
026already. I know. Anybody have any questions for me? It's hard for me to believe a daughter of yours has trouble roleplaying. [Laughter] Nope. Nope. Not at all. Not at all. I hope she keeps most of it up here. I say don't use that on me. I told you that. But don't use that on me. It's okay. Hey, don't worry. She will. Ladies, we'll let y'all go before the galloping gourmet. Oh, I'm sorry. Go right ahead. Tell him to sit out. Yeah. The galloping gourmet. We got the group. Will they be here? One more thing. So tomorrow we have our lipon which is our great football fundraiser. And then last week we had softball senior night after the girls won against Klay County. It was very emotional but I pulled myself together. And then we had
027baseball senior night tonight. They play against Monroe County. And then they should have tournaments this weekend. Weather braiding. And we had prom April 4th. It went really well. Everybody had a great time. a few days later, April 10th we took. So probably the pictures around town. You'll see those if you purchase a yearbook. And like Miss mentioned, we've had EOC testing. Last week was ELA. This week is math. And then next week we'll have history and science. And I didn't realize they were going to be here to talk about it. So, I did mention the FBA attended the state leadership conference in in Chattanooga earlier this month and Alex, Faith, and Zoe placed in their categories and they're going to California later this year. So, we're very, very proud of that. And we're excited to
028see how well they do over the summer. And then Elizabeth is going to tell you about all the stuff we have coming up in May. Yes. Yeah, we needed a whole separate sheet paper for the month of May. Um, so I'm just going to go through chronologically. So May 2nd, Wilson Banking Trust is going to be holding a banquet for the top 10 superlatives. And I'm very excited about this. We're very thankful for them doing that for us. And then on the 7th, Beta Club initiation will be held at the high school at 6 p.m. Then on the 8th and 9th, the CNA test will be held. And then for the meatronics pathway students, they'll have their seaman's test on the 9th, too. And then this is I I don't know how much people have
029been told about this or not, but we'll be having our senior play on May 13th at 6:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. So, it's open for everyone who wants to come and we recommend y'all do come. So, we're very thankful for everyone who's What date? Uh May 13th. May 13th. And we're very thankful for all the parents who've helped us put that together. And then on the 15th, like Miss Patrice said, we'll be doing a senior walk at the elementary school. And then that night we'll also be doing senior night practice. And the following day, so the 16th at 5:30 p.m., we'll be um honoring, you know, seniors and all of our achievements on sorry on senior night. And then on the 19th, we'll be, this is what I'm very excited about. I almost
030skipped a line a second ago just to say this. Um, we'll be going on our senior trip to Dollywood, which we've worked very hard over the past two years to raise the funds to do this and get donations. So, we're thankful for all our sponsors who helped us put that together. And then at the very end of this, um, we are preparing for graduation, which will be May 23rd. We've got less than a month for that. And Miss Cook, Miss Cunningham, Miss April Holder are helping us all prepare and make sure we're ready for that. So, Yep. We're just calm down. Are you in the senior play? Both of us are good. I was going I'm glad we brought it back. Yeah. My grandmother and I were in our senior play. I can only imagine
031after the Flintstones went off, but we we were, believe it or not, we had that. Do you know who the Flintstones are? Yes, I do. Surely everybody knows Fred. Unless they seen a So, I just want to preface with saying uh be sub we had was good the other day. Um it was really good. But on a more serious note, um I've been been going to school here for 13 years. And I'm very thankful for all the men and women who have worked very hard to put food on our tables. We're blessed to have them and blessed to have the opportunity to to have food on the table every day. So, I would just like to thank the school system and everything y'all do for us. Wait a minute. Uh, so what's your what's your
032best memory of the last 13 years? Food wise. Food wise. No, I'm just period. Oh, probably something I got in trouble for. Definitely not the Thanksgiving. We got the biceps today. Really? So So what's your best food memory? Oh, every time I get a quesadilla, probably quesadillas. They they fix quesadillas. Yeah, they're good. They're good. Really? They're good. So y'all like them, too? I I don't eat much school lunch, by the way. I fix quesadillas at school. I always thought Friday pizza was the [Music] corn. Are y'all back next month? You going to be with them? Sure. Kind of like a year in report from our events. Well, you don't have to nothing formal, but just the 15. I have a boy who's a senior, so I know nothing. It's not practice. I think I
033think it's the week after that. They came. We're scheduled to do the board meeting on the 15th, aren't we? We moved this one. We haven't changed. Last year was the only year that Last year is the only year we haven't had one. Okay. I thought I was singing last year. I was going to say pretty sure Phil was pretty sure was I know I was Oh, I remember. I remember your part. Well, I found out like two hours before that was really That one was well done. All right. Well, thank y'all for your report. I want you to know y'all guys have done a great job. very appreciate. Dr. Satderfield, one other thing I'd like for the I don't know if you know all the teachers by name in the room, but I remember from
034your uh newsletters, but yeah, I'd like for them to introduce themselves. Introduce yourself to the board and tell them uh what you teach. I'm Caleb Schmidow. I teach at high school. I teach sophomore and junior ELA and then I'll also be one of the principles of summer learning camp this summer. after school and tutoring. Oh, I also get to use the Drew for the the fourth grade TN tutoring this year. I'm Courtney Galloway. I teach freshman and senior English. I'm Chelsea Huff. I teach all the business classes. We do a couple of dual enrollments, but I teach at the school as well. Um, we all do FLA, but we also all do Interact Club. So, thank y'all very much. Yes. And congratulations. Very good. Congratulations. I'm glad that the Interact Club is getting back in
035to the school system and stuff. I know the Rotary really was wanting to break that into Well, thank you all for everything you do. Thank you. Uh Mr. Kerr, uh you have in your packet there employment notifications. Uh that's kind of a fluid list. Uh, I think there's seven names on there and four of them are actually new hikers. So, we've spent a lot of time in the last four to five weeks. Uh, we've posted positions, we've been to job fairs, we've had people in, we've had interviews, and uh, we still have some more hiring to do, but we feel like we've got an early start. And uh we've also sent contracts out to our non-tenured teachers and uh so they made a commitment, you know, to come back. So we're really excited about staffing,
036you know, for next year. So we really appreciate that. Um our enrollment, I always try to give you a little enrollment. our for this month today you're in the numbers today elementary K5 was 653 students that's 15 students less than we had on the same day last year our middle school was at 329 that's two less students than we had at this same time last year but our high school was up to 385 and that's 11 more students than we had at the same time last year. So our total enrollment to date was 1367 students and that's six less students. So what does that mean? Well, that means that our staffing minus any programming changes that our staffing should be at a at a steady level and our budgeting minus the salary increases and those
037types of things. uh academic programming um class. Um we've got two snow days left, but I don't see any snow in the forecast. So, but we do have two days for inclement weather and we'll we'll see how that goes. Uh you heard Miss Badrew talk about TCAP. Uh we're still in the TCAP testing mode. uh she ends on next Friday and then the high school and the middle school go to like the 5th and the 6th. So they they have two more days, but she has a few less content subject areas to test as well. So the state sets all that. I think I heard some language today about our summer learning camp uh that's set for June the 2nd through the 17th. We have had our registration and we have closed registration and what
038we're waiting on is for the state to give us our revenue numbers where we'll know how to program and uh I guess if we don't get them in a couple of days, we're just going to take the numbers we had last year and pencil them in and then have to readjust them later. But we we hate reprogramming, you know, multiple times. Some thought you might already have that since they've already passed the budget. uh we have not got those numbers yet and we were hoping the same thing too and knowing knowing the state that may come in tomorrow. U so but we have we we haven't got those budgetary numbers but we do have 165 students registered and that's about where we were uh last year as well. We have had enough certified teachers to
039sign up so we're really excited about that. Uh Mr. Catherine has been working on transportation schedules. I think we've got five bus drivers committed to drive and that should be enough for us. So, we're really excited about summer learning camp and Mr. Smid talked about he's going to be one of the principles for that. So, and we I tell you what, one of the things we've done over the years that's been really good is we've taken inspiring administrators, people who are inspiring to be administrators, and we've put them in that situation where they've got to have have parents, transportation, buses, student discipline, curriculum, and instruction. And it is one of the best training grounds for inspiring administrators. So, it's something we would like to keep going for many years to come. I think it's great.
040It's got to be a little better than they just hand you the keys and tell you to go to it. Is that is that is that the training you received? That's the training I received. Yeah, we tried. And then I got your keys. We got your keys and somebody said go to We try to do a little better than that these days. I think there's some important dates to for everybody to keep in mind. We've already talked about TCAP. It of course goes through May the 2nd. uh final exams Mr. Mad Drew talked about is May 20 through 21st. If you miss uh less than 17 days, 16 or less, you get exempted. If you miss 17 or more, you get to come take an exam. So, uh put that on your calendar. Uh third
041grade retake is a big day for us. That's May the 20th. And uh we talk about our summer learning kit. Uh our online PreK and kindergarten registration is currently open. Want to encourage families to register online and also put that date of May the 21st. Right. For kindergarten round up, what are you looking at? Retake. What? What did you say? The retake is May the 20. Is that No, 21st. Okay. It's May the 20 or 21st. Mr. and I will convene on that. We want to get that. Okay. We want to get that right. Okay. Uh tomorrow our eighth grade field trip to fall state. So we're excited about that. Taking three buses of eighth graders and and Miss Drew talked about the Ames web third grade uh AS web universal reading test. Uh, oh,
042one other thing is our employee appreciation meeting is Friday, May the 23rd at 11:30. I'll put that in your newsletter and I'm not for sure it's not already there, but I can write that on your your notes to make plans for that. Mr. Kerr, the last thing that I have is project updates. Just I'll quit saying it, but we're awful proud of it. Our roof is doing outstanding and it's come a lot of rain and we hadn't had any leaks and we've uh paid off a alert and uh we're just enjoying the the new roof. We had a little snafu in the uh fifth grade wing, but it's cause of a gutter that's full and they're working on getting that fixed, but that had nothing to do with the new roof that we put on.
043And then the fieldhouse is starting to move. We've gotten dry weather. They've gotten all the compartments filled with gravel and got all that compacted. They're trying to keep that covered up. They are working with putting the subgrade plumbing in now. The sewer lines and stuff. And he thinks weather permitted he get done with that by the end of next week. And as soon as that get that gets done, they'll be able to pour the concrete. And he said, you know, we'll talk today. Amazing. Once I get that concrete floor, you're really going to see this place move. So, that's all I have. Mr. Chairman, does y'all have got questions for have any questions for Dr. S? I have a question. I don't know how to Can you come here just a minute? I just need
044you to clarify one thing before we get started in anything else. That's today's cuz I couldn't find it any field day. We do a different field day. We do it throughout the week and here to here. We did a percent $2500, but we do they love the party and so we'll do action. [Applause] But I mean it's just in house. Y the PI visit went very well. The what? The PI visit. Our PI network um all our literacy people from around the nation um who came in and was I thought it went really well. Really well. They were very interested um so before they came they got an opportunity to look at Trousa on paper, right? Um and ask a lot of questions. They were real interested in like our journey of uh adopting curriculum,
045what that looked like. and then um brought them in, walked them around schools and they were very impressed. And the biggest takeaway that um I got from it is that um the sense of belonging. I was like, "Hey, there's a report on that." But um the sense of belonging that they saw and and you know, when we hear that word, we think like, "Oh, that's like warm and fuzzy, but no, what that really means is students feel like they belong here, that they're learners." And we saw evidence of that. We saw kids pushing other kids to do great things and so it made me super proud to You got it. Thank you. I did from Eric. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to show it to me? Yeah. You just cuz it's pretty neat how they
046made it. Yeah. So we took a picture on the stage. I was telling everybody I was like when I was a little kid this used to be my gym which in my mind it was such a big place but it's really a little little room now. Um but yeah, they took a picture of all of us and he just said, "Thank you for your generosity and sharing work um in Charlesdale and now at TNTP. Um I know our group especially appreciated you leading our classroom visits and debriefing conversations." And then he just shared that he grew up in a little town in Wisconsin which he shared with me. And so it was just it was a good proud moment for me. You know, it felt like coming back to my roots. So it was good.
047But but I was really proud um you know the students and the teachers and what they were able to say. So good stuff. Sounds good. We appreciate this the three taking them at that time of the year. I mean, I know it's hard on you, but we appreciate you. [Music] Very, very proud. You probably are responsible. If we're ready, we'll move on to new business or All right, Miss Patty. Yep. Where's my new? Oh, here she goes. Okay. [Music] Okay. All right. All right. So, thank you for adding me to this agenda. I know it was a little quick for me because I wasn't expecting to be added added on here that quickly, but um I'm here to address the reasoning as to why bus drivers are no longer receiving compensations for sick personal and
048inclement weather days. Um when our pay was increased to $100 a day, our sick personal and inclement weather days were eliminated. I don't and didn't understand the reasoning behind it increasing our I mean I understand the increase in our pay. Yes, it's an you know incentive to keep bus drivers or to get them in but I don't and didn't understand eliminating our previously paid sick personal and snow days. Okay. We don't have any control or nobody has any control over the weather, you know. So, it's up to Dr. Sadfield or whomever is going to be the director of schools to say we're not going. I mean, it's not up to me. It's not up to the other 13 bus drivers that we have. Um, if we did, we probably have 70° weather, you know. No
049humidity would be lovely but it's hot on that bus. You know it's not possible for that. Yes. And it gets very hot on the bus. So, you know, we don't have the only air conditioning is the special bus. I mean, when anybody says, "Do you have air?" I say, "Yeah, 27 windows." You know, it does get a little hot on there. But the majority of us drivers rely on this position to support our families. Every employee except 12-month employees get increment weather days. Cooks, EAS, teachers. Um, I would like to understand why they were taken away. Um, as you may or may not know, this money is allocated in the budget for us as drivers. So, this year we've been out eight days for inclement weather. That is we make $114.606 per day per driver
050and there are 14 of us. That income would have helped our family's you know livelihood but instead we have received nothing for those days. The cost of living has gone up tremendously. So, some of us desperately need that money um returned to us so that we can continue to afford to work here. If I didn't have both the EA job and the bus driver, there's no way that I could stay. And I enjoy working here. I enjoy my jobs. Um I wouldn't I would not be financially able to stay. Uh, I have enjoyed working here, like I said, for 17 plus years. So, I would like to propose that our sick personal and inclement weather days be permanently reinstated as well as being reimburse for those eight days that we missed this school year for
051inclement weather. Since that money is already in the budget for us, you're not having to go into fund balance to pay us. you know, you're not having to pull it from anywhere else. It's already in the budget for us. You know, we get 180 days. That's what we're supposed to be paid. But, you know, I've never known of going any other job that says, "I'm going to give you this, but I'm taking something away from you." Nobody deserves that. Now, who who's taking anything away from you? What do you mean? Who's taking anything away? We're not getting any sick or personal. And I know I know you said somebody's taken away. You go work and somebody's going to take something away from you. That's right. But if Yes. But if you don't work, you don't
052get paid. But if But it was taken away from us to begin with. We already had it. But y'all the school I mean all but one school bus driver agreed to it. Correct. Right. And you was one that agreed to it, right? No. Yes, I was one of the ones that agreed to it, but eventually it would have went to the, you know, with um I'm just making sure. Okay. But but the thing about it is we all go into a job agreeing that's what we're going to make, but later on No, no, no, no. We I wasn't here during that time. I understand that. But they they raised it from 73 to 100, right? And all but one bus driver agreed to it. And you were one of Yes, I was agreed. I did
053agree to it. That's all I That's all I need to let Miss Scrugs finish. Then since I'm the only board member that was on at the time, I'll try to explain the the process that we went through when we did this. Go ahead, Miss P. I mean, no, that's basically just thank for your time for letting me speak to y'all. Okay. Does anybody have any questions for Miss P? Okay. again is the only board member that was on uh the board at that time and you have a copy I believe if you'll find this of the board minutes from that meeting correct when we actually passed it but uh I just wanted to kind of tell you about like during the work session and stuff some of the the thought process that that went through
054was she's 100% right the driving force behind this was to be able to uh keep you know to retain train bus drivers to encourage more people that might want to become a bus driver and stuff. So that was that was the one of the driving forces behind this. And so uh Dr. Satell and Mr. Cthridge presented to the board a plan. I called it a deal so to speak. And and when you're doing a deal, at least the way I've always thought about it, both sides got to get something out of it in order for it to be a good deal. So, what was the good deal for the bus drivers? The bus drivers got over a 25% pay raise. Largest percentage pay raise in Tral County history. They went from uh what $73 a
055day to $100 a day. And and at the time that was, you know, I mean, let's face it, 20 really, it's over 25%. Uh and that's pretty good pay raise. Now, what was the good part of the deal for the for the school board? The part of the deal for the school board was was that they were going to only get paid on days that they drove that you actually drove. So, yes, this the inclement weather days were were no longer paydays, sick days, all of that. As she stated, exactly right. That was the part of the deal that was a good deal for the board because it was used as an in as an incentive to to try to uh help the bus drivers want to drive all of their shifts and that type
056of thing. And from what I understand uh I understand that's been successful that missing shifts and stuff has has dropped drastically since we went to that place. Right. So that's the two parts of the deal was was they would get a huge percentage pay raise and the part that was good for the board was was the board got an incentive plan for the bus drivers to to uh you know to drive more you know not miss as much and uh uh as you can see there this is I'm reading I'm going to read from the m from the minutes of that meeting. Uh, a new bus driver compensation beginning with the 2122 school year shall include $100 per day for each school day that drivers transport students to and from school. No bus driver leave
057days are available, sick leave or personal leave. Drivers are not compensated for school days that are closed for inclement weather, but drivers shall be paid for stockpile days set aside for professional development. There are some stockpile days that we use every year for for you know like we get 13 we only use 10. The other three are used for trainings and things like that and they still get paid for those three you know and that was the that was the deal that uh was presented. Uh as as Robbie uh said, uh this was presented to the bus drivers. Uh those that wanted to accept the the new compensation plan signed a uh agreement and those that didn't didn't have to. You know, nobody was uh uh made to to have to take that. You could
058stay under the old plan. One lady actually did stay under the old plan. I can't I don't remember her name, but uh she did stay under the old plane. Not for long. And so that's that was the the thinking behind it that night was to one help our bus drivers. They could they could get they could uh get paid or miss every you know even if they got paid for every snow day that they had all 10 of them they're still making significantly more money per year than now than they were then you know by getting paid for. So and that was the that was the reasoning about it was give me question of that what's that that they're going to be making more money. Yeah, I do cuz I worked it all out right
059here. Yeah, it's up here. That's not what I'm working out. Okay. So, well, do you mind if I speak right now? I don't mind a bit. So, in 2021, 73 a day, 56 days, two personal days. That's 100. We set our calendar on 180 days. That's seven personal days. If I divide the $13,7710 by $187, they make $24 and43 cents an hour. Would you agree with that? If that's what you think, we No. No ma'am. I mean, I don't know. She's just saying she had never divided it to the hour. No. So then after what Mr. Curve red right here. It was up to $100 a day unpaid snow leave, no sick leave, no personal days. Total possible salary for 180 days is $18,000. Okay. Minus 10 sick days takes it to our snow days
060takes it to 17,000. If I take the 17,000 and still add your seven personal days, which is 197 days, you're making 3330 an hour. If I come to today's rate, which at you would be making 20, 638.80, 80. Okay. All 10 school days you subtracted, you would make 1949220. If I divide that number by 197 days min divided by the 3 hours that you stated you work that makes you making 3474 an hour for the from 21 to 25 that is a 42.5% increase that is 10.625 625% a year. You're 3474 with the same days that you're getting that you don't see that you're getting equal to a teacher that gets the same days that you're trying to compare it to. They make 3472. They won't after this year. Yes, we will. That's $50,000 this
061year. Next. Starting next year. Next year. Starting next year. That's their salary for Yes. 50,000. Go ahead and do the math, sweetheart. 50,000 puts them at 3472 an hour and you are making 3474. And we're also driving a bus with passengers that we're paying for everything for. What are you? I don't understand. 3 hours for 3474 is pretty good rate. Yeah, but we would eventually with our uh raises that we're getting from the county, we would eventually What raises are you getting from the county? What do you mean what raises are we getting? Tell me what the county when the county gives their c their employees raises. They include non-certified personnel in that only if we ask for. That's for the county. That's not for the school board, sweetheart. Yeah, we the county gives it
062to the school board and that's what they only if we ask for it only. Exactly. But that's where our races come from. No, it's not. Yes, it is. The school board controls it all. But it comes from the county. No, ma'am. Well, you're kind of right. The county funds us, but your pay raise actually comes from the school boards. But it's but the but the money comes from the county. Through the state through the county. I don't think any of our money comes from the state as a non-certified personnel. No, it doesn't. Yes. That $7,000 a year paid for part of theirs. What's that? What's $7,000 per student? Not buses. It pays for ELA's. Don't come in. But I'm not asking about ELA. I'm talking about bus drivers. PLA doesn't have anything to do with
063what I'm talking about tonight. Well, okay. Right. Then then let me ask you a question. If this is such a contentious point among bus drivers, why are you the only one here? Cuz nobody else knows I'm here. No, you came Thursday night. You said I'm the only one that's coming to stand up for. But nobody knows that I brought this before the board. Okay. And in the past, no sir. I have always been the one to stand up for bus drivers. Well, I understand. But I mean, how many bus drivers do we have coming? 14. And we have one out of 14. Two. Two out of 14. M. You still driving? I'm still at it. I can't believe that. We couldn't do it without I can't believe Miss June is still going. Almost 50 years.
064I believe a good Lord. Unreal. Unreal. And it's been hard. So, we got two out of 14. So, okay. Any discussions? Cuz if I'd have asked anybody else, they probably would have came anyway. And that's their right. That's no knock on that y'all at all. Finish Mr. Edward. Yes, sir. Ladies, y'all have any questions or comments? My comment would be related to the inclement weather days. I mean, I budget how much I make versus how much I spend. If you think you're going to make x number of dollars, and you can't control the weather, then that makes it difficult when you go without $800 at least. Okay. So Ford shouldn't have gotten any good part out of it at all. Good deal. I don't really So what do you what do you do to your
065workers when they don't when Oh, so you keep paying them through inclement. They haven't used all their days, right? Then they can choose to use their banks. And that's fine. And I treat everybody the same. If you work there, you get my point is we came up with a plan that had good points for both sides. So if you do away with the good only good point that the board had, it's no longer a good say it wasn't a good point. But you also with the increase that they make I mean or that has been made. I've said many times nobody makes enough money a year and I know everybody agrees with that. But there has been a substantial increase in what we spend every day, what we have to spend to live, our cost.
066Correct. So, and we're moving our teachers to 50,000, which puts them at 3472 an hour, and we're going to pay our bus drivers more, two cents. That's right. Okay. Well, we already are paying them more. There's they're not that's not a change in the hourly or day rate. We're already We're going to pay them more no matter what. The The question here is personal sick and snow days. No, if you take Hold on, hold on. You said 3472 for a teacher and Hold on. Hold on now. That's at 197 days, not the 180. That's giving them all 197 days. That's paying for all 10 snow days that don't exist because we only had across the the period of the rays is only seven days. That's an average. That's paying them for all 10 snow days,
067five six days, and two personal days. You had to subtract. That's 197. So you're paying them. Well, he just did it by the hourly. If they paid if they worked all of those take out the sick and take out the sick person 150 then your salary be much higher but it's not a matter but we can it's not a matter of an amount for me it's a matter of not being able to control the weather and being able to go to work and make money. They were able to control their salary. They didn't have to accept it. They didn't have to. I wasn't a part. I made Nobody has to accept I make nobody has to. When you go somewhere and work, you don't have to accept it. But later on in years, you go
068and ask how long you worked here? 17 plus years. Okay. And you signed it in 21. I That's the year. Did you sign it? Yeah. Okay. Everybody's I mean, when you go to work for somebody, if you sign something, you can't I mean, does it started. But doesn't it hurt that? But we were already 17 years and this happened in what 21. All right. So that's four years ago. Correct. So I was here 13 years. Correct. And I was getting my sick and personal and snow days. No, you were getting sick and personal and snow days for 13 years. Yes. Yes, we got snow days. It says five sick per two personal. There's no snow days in that. No. Yes, we had snow days. We had snow days back then. I'm just telling you it's
069it's not on this paper. That's We've always had snow days. Later on. I mean, since I've just I'm having to deal with what I'm put with right here. What's on that paper's correct? Okay. So, they didn't get no snow days. Yes, we did. In in 2021, prior to 2021, then bus drivers were paid for inclement weather days. Well, he started this to this. Did you ever I know, but it don't say. It says I'm dealing with 187 days. It don't say nothing. Well, you did it. You That's why I said I did because they didn't come here. So, they didn't me the sick and the sick and personal is not as crazy, you know, as the snow days. Okay. I wasn't here on Tuesday. These are questions I would have asked on Tuesday. I'm sorry.
070I had a job. We had to change this week. So, just got to work with what I've got. Before 21, how long had it been before we gave bus drivers a raise? I I I don't know. Pretty good. From my understanding, you know, it was a pretty good little amount of time. We try, you know. Yeah. Just like any other time when we can get a an increase from the county commission or whatever. Yeah. You know, it might be 3% 4%, 2%, some years, none. It was a percentage rate. What do other counties bus drivers make? Do we have any idea? This is something I would ask on Tuesday. I the lady at uh Mon County said that we make more that drives a bus that she works at Grecian. But they differentiate their pay.
071They do. I know they pay 10 years and he makes $80 a day. Yeah. She told me we make But that's Megan. We don't That's the only one I know. I just happen to know this guy that's been driving a bus there for 10 years and he's just now started at $80. And and I will say, you know, when you hear those rates, you think, how many hours does a bus driver drive a day? Roughly three on average. So I mean, I just some short rides are short, some routes are probably a little longer. I mean, you know, we're trying to keep employees, too. You know, we've got to keep our buses running. Sure. That's why we did this. That was the whole thinking behind this. Last year we gave bus drivers um insurance. Insurance.
072That's right. That's right. So I guess so insurance is you know we didn't mention insurance but I already had I mean I already had insurance through the EA. If you're if you're an employee like we've got a couple people are employees and they already had insurance and so it's really just for our people who are just drivers. What? Well, she was an EA for a long time. almost 25 years. Right. Right. But they didn't pay hardly nothing because I had my insurance was over $600 a month just on me. Yeah. And the insurance has changed since then. We require pay more of the of the you know are we asking are we paying more of it or I don't have insurance. Yeah. cuz I'm You don't have to though. Medicare. We don't have to, but
073we're doing it to get to get retain to get and retain employees no matter what the deal. And that's what this whole thing was about was to try to come up with a plan to pay our bus drivers more so that we could retain and hopefully attract new you new driver. And can I say something else though? Sure. when you know you say you know you know people don't you know which we did it so they wouldn't take any days off you know well we've had them like I said the other night we've had them take a week off to go get a bull had them take a week off to go on a cruise had them take 10 days off to go to the Middle East so I mean it's it's not been a
074deterrent it's not exactly But all you can do is have to pay for that, right? They I understand. But but the thing about it is though, if you go out of the country, you shouldn't be able to use a sick day anyway. They got to pay somebody else to drive the bus. Yes. That's what I'm saying. But the way it stands right now, we mean you're still paying somebody. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't. So it's the same amount. You know, I try I try to drive every day. Lord, there's times you've come to work that you should not have come to work. No, I mean, but unless there's a ball, cuz I take ball trips. Unless there's a ball trip that, you know, if if just so happens agreed if there's, you know, if everybody's driving
075that day, then I can get the subd driver to drive, then Patty can take and take the ball trips, you know, leave her. And I think maybe two or three days I've had to do that, which that trip helped pay for the time I was off the bus. So, you know, it is my opinion that the snow days are a different story than sick days. Um, yes. I mean, I just feel like that's already in our budget to something we do for our employees. But, um, I mean, I think the giving of the sick days makes sense for that and and in the you know in the long run that saves us as a school district. We're just, you know, we're we've paid for this many days of bus drivers. We're not losing any money
076by giving them back their service. It's not a matter of losing money is that we presented a deal that had incentives from both sides, right? So, why would the board in the future ever want to do that again? What's a new deal? Be a new deal. That's right. I have anything Okay. So, there's no more questions, no more discussion. So, we will move on to the next item. We don't make a motion. I see anything else. Okay, I'll make a motion. So, what happens if we don't make a motion? We move on to the next item. Okay, I'll make a motion then. My bad. Okay. So, I'm going to make a motion that we reinstate the snow days or in weather days for bus drivers. Okay. I have a motion on the floor to reinstate
077inclement weather days for for bus drivers. Can I clarify? Sure. That's next school year. I think it has to be 25 26, right? It's whatever your motion is because I did ask for reimbursement for these eight days also since it's in the budget. I would say 25 to 26 moving forward moving forward that we let the inclement weather days. So I have a motion on the floor. Let me see if I can state this correct to re for the next school year to u to uh reinstate inclement weather days for as paid days for bus drivers. Did I state that correctly? Yes, sir. All right. Do I have a second? I second that motion. Okay. So, we have a motion by Miss Petty, second by Miss Bodie to uh reinstate inclement weather days for the
0782526 school year. Any discussion? I How do we vote with an even number? You just vote your conscience just like you always would. There's tiebre. Okay. Are we ready to vote? You got your question? Yes. Okay. All right. All in favor, please say I. All oppose, please say no. No. No. Motion fails for lack of a majority. Hand that one in the bag. So, we'll move on to the next item on the agenda. That was a good little learning experience for our students. Look, see when we had that discussion and we're all going to smile and be when you say new deal has to have three votes to pass. So there was no majority. That's why I said we move on to the next item on the agenda because it did pass. It failed for
079lack of a majority. So y'all learning stuff there. Nothing table. No, it it didn't pass because No, I know it wasn't. Yeah, it's not going but it's not going to because we we're nothing. We're on the low end of totem pole. Well, I don't know what to poll you're on, but it didn't pass because of the lack of majority. Okay, next item on our agenda is the homeschool athletic participation fee. Uh, you know, we discussed this. Mr. uh, Mosan was in uh, was it two months ago or just last month? Last month. And, uh, talked to us about this. And at the time, we instructed Dr. Satfield to uh meet with or talk with PWSAA and to talk with our school board attorney, Miss Deborah, about this. And uh Dr. Ser, would you give us
080your findings? I will. I thought I had that in a sheet of paper. Uh I know I do. I just don't know if I can find it. Um, but I did send it to the board and it's in your electronic attachments as well. And if I can't find it right quick, yeah, I got it here. We passed this in July of 2024. We when we did it is our uh not our attorney but Chuck Kaggel at a training was talking about at some time in 2024 that schools could charge a participation fee for homeschool students. I introduced that to the board and that was passed in consent uh unanimously in July of 2024. However, when we started to implement it, then uh ball teams had already had their triyouts, you know, so the football teams
081had already been selected, the basketball team, they'd gone to camp. So, we just said, "Look, we'll just wait and be sure we tell everybody on the front end." So that's when we started getting ready for this year after basketball season and we got ready for spring sports, you know, and getting ready for fall sports next year. We let really work with our coaches and principles to let them know to give parents on the front end. Well, then Mr. Boston and some others questioned this, which it came the question came to the board and the board charged me with looking into it. and uh for which I did. So I talked to the executive director Mark Reed with TitoA and uh basically he said that uh there's nothing in statute he said that that addresses participation
082fees. Now that's going to become important in a minute because he said there's nothing in statute that addresses. When you say statute you're talking about TWA no Tennessee code. Okay. He said there's nothing in statute that addresses it. He said there's nothing in TWWA bylaws that speaks to it as well. But he said our bylaws used to say used to say the LEA may impose a participation fee for each sport in which a homeschool athlete participates. Such participation fees not exceed the cost and fees charged or borne by other students enrolled in a school and shall be paid in full prior to the beginning of the first regular season contest. So what he said then he said I suggest that you consult with your legal counsel to determine how they recommend that you proceed. That's
083when we turned it over to them. So my conversation with TWSAA is that there's nothing that prohibits it. And uh so I took it to the attorney and the attorney says, "You're right. There's nothing in T's doubleA rules. Used to say it, but there's nothing in T's doubleA rules that says it's prohibited, which means it's not permissible." That's what that's what the attorney said. Since it's not prohibited and it doesn't clearly state it's permissible, it's not permissible. So the attorney, you know, said this in the last paragraph in her response to me, neither the statute nor TAA rules permit a fee charged exclusively exclusively to homeschool students for eligibility to participate in intercolastic programs. The only fee that would be permissible to charge those students would be a fee that is paid by all students
084who participate. For example, if other students who participate in a team must pay a must pay a fee to attend awards ceremony or some other event, then homeschool students can be required to pay the same fee. So homeschool, what she's saying is homeschool students cannot be paid cannot be asked to pay anything that the regular students are not asked to pay. But if you had everybody paid the $75 participation fee, then the homeschool students would be require required to do that. So that is the attorney's uh advice to us that it is not no longer permissive. And did she have a recommendation? Yeah. For us not to do it for Well, we have we have a policy that's over. It's easy. It's easy to do when you ain't buying equipment. Right. Right. Yeah. But her
085her advice to us is not So we have a policy stating that we do. So we need to address that policy. You need to resent. You would need to. And that's what the motion be. You if you wanted to, you would resend the you would see the action. You, you know, somebody don't like it, they can always sue us. That's right. And they'll win. I don't know that they would win. You're I hadn't I hadn't never I mean, I love Deborah, but she's against everything this board ever goes for. So, well, her job is to I'm not I'm not saying I'm not saying that. I mean, TWSAA has done told you flat out and you know, you got some attorney in Memphis against it. So I I you know that's my opinion. Well the way
086I look at it is TWWSAA just took it out. Pressure got on the TWWSA from all the homeschool students and stuff which has taken over the whole state government to to not do anything like that. And uh so they took it out. And so uh Deborah's job is to give us as current legal advice as you know as she can and and uh and and her job is to you know give us that and to keep us out of a possibly losing situation. So but Rob Robbie's exactly right. We don't we don't have to resend that policy. We can do it. We can charge it and let the chips fall where they may. I personally plan to follow legal advice. Okay. Anybody else have as far as my budget is concerned? Well, I mean this
087will have to be like any other or we would have to someone would have to make a motion to resend that policy. Somebody would have to second it and then it just like the other would have to Let me make I'll make a motion. Well, you're a motion in little thing. I am. I'm making a motion we resend our policy regarding the $500 homeschool athletic participation fee whenever that was made. I don't know. Well, before we answer a second, we never Deanna never got or didn't take a chance to speak. I know this is shocking to you, but I'm going to be quiet. I know that was very shocking to you. Okay. So, do I have a second? I'll second that motion. Okay. Sorry. I'm not going to be quiet. So, I have a motion
088to I don't have the policy number right in front of me or anything. It's not a number. It was a action by the board. So, you rescending the the action of July of 24. Okay. So, I have a motion to resend the action from the board uh decision back in 2024 uh to charge a participation fee for uh homeschool students to participate in TRA County athletics and I have a second by Miss B discussion. Okay. Yeah, I know you want me to talk about yoga, too. I mean, I it's one of those things that it makes sense, you know, that athletics cost money and, you know, our students that go to school here, you know, there's funding through the school for them, it made sense to do, but it is not a legal, you know,
089and so I just think following our even though it's makes common sense, you know, to do that. And I appreciate I appreciate the homeschool families that put a lot of time and effort into fundraising and so forth, you know, but I mean at the end of the day from our school system, we've got to take money out of the school system's budget for students. And so I mean it just made sense to charge the fee, but it's not it's not illegal. You know, it's when Deborah says don't do it. I feel like how do you how do you know Deborah's right though? That's what I want to know. Because anytime you go to court, there's two attorneys and there's one judge. I mean, I just feel like that's not the hill I want to die
090on. You know what I mean? Like $500 for homeschool family, that's not the heel I want to die on. I just I mean, I just don't feel like that's I don't want you to die on any heels, but you know, I mean, but if I am, it's going to be a real important one. And I just I just feel like that that's not um something we want to get in trouble of. I say agree with Robbie. I think that we should uh be able to charge it. Uh I think that the state government has just pushed all of this stuff from homeschooling and all of this stuff down TWWSA's throat just like they have every other throat that they can. And but I'm, you know, do I want to go to court and move it?
091If I go to court, I want to win. Yeah, I think they all voted unanimously to put it in place. We did. Yeah, it was unanimous. Yeah, but we felt like I I was legal at that time. That's right. It was legal at that time, but the main thing it's still legal at that time. We thought it was fair. You're you're basing you're basing it. It's still legal this time. TWS to TWWSA told you it's legal. They say it's not in their It's not in their now. Now you're Now you're dealing with an attorney which deals with variances everywhere. No, I agree with Robbie what you're saying. legal until you're dealing tells us it's not legal. That's right. You're dealing with the policy. You're dealing. I just don't want to go that far for a
092judge. Say what somebody else said. I'm fine with going that far. I have no problem with it. None whatsoever. But Rocky's right. It's legal until a judge. I'm telling you, it's legal right now. But I mean, there's two attorneys in every court case. It's true. You know what I'm saying? And until the judge says yes or no, nobody knows. But was is our attorney going to stand beside us whenever she told us? I don't know if she would I don't know that she'll stand beside us for us not to do it. Right. Right. I don't know how much she'll stand beside us. But as long as we pay her, she will know about that one. I know. So maybe if we have one here, it might. But I don't know about that one. So okay.
093Well, again, we've got a motion on the floor. Let's go with to resend to resend that board action and it has a second. Any other discussion? Motion. Second. Yeah. Right. Motion by Rachel, second by Deanna. Any other discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. I. All oppose say no. No. So the motion passes 3 to one. Okay. So the yays was curve. The yays were easy and curved. I got you. Yeah. Reluctantly curve. I think reluctantly all of us cuz I think we all realize that that what we was trying to do was fair, you know, and hopefully now if you were to run up on a another district that still does this and stuff and has a let you know. I would. Yeah, I'd like to I'd like to change things. Y'all
094worry about an attorney. We always put it back in. I know, but y'all worried about an attorney. I'm not worried about an attorney. I'm about if I go to court. I know, but if somebody else is doing it, that's not going to do anything. Not money. Okay, guys. Let's rock. Cuz I think they should pay. I know they should pay, but All right. Uh last item on the agenda is our uh general purpose school budget for fiscal year uh 2526. As we know uh we're required by state law to present the county commission a preliminary budget by May 1st, which is a week from today. And in order to uh get the budget that we present them as accurate as possible, uh we've made decisions as to on things to do like uh we want
095to try to raise the starting teacher salary to $50,000 next year. We're required to do it the year after, but in order again, as I've said often tonight, retain and keep retain and attract uh teachers as we were bus drivers, we're going to try to do that this year in this budget, which would also raise all teacher salaries the ex the same amount. Uh and u so that's in there. And uh we we've got a schedule in there to uh uh teachers aids and other non-certified uh payraises and things. And then we also have in there a schedule for raising the uh our coaching supplements uh from both high school and middle school. And uh so it's it's my understanding that um you had a uh uh item there in your packet. Y'all went over
096this quite well Tuesday night. Uh if uh if we want to put everything that we've talked about in our budget, then I'm going to need a motion from someone to adopt a preliminary budget to pass a preliminary budget. Uh if you see a three there which is on the original column there in your right here that has all the things that we discussed in the preliminary budget and we would send that to the county commission and obviously uh if we don't get the funding to uh to provide for all of that then the budget will come back to us and then we could make whatever changes we have to make in order to uh uh you know to do that to have a you know to pass a budget. I'll make a motion to pass
097budget number three. Okay. Have a motion by Mr. Atwood to uh pass the budget here that's in front of you with the three there at the column. I'm sorry. Second. Have a second by Miss Petty. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? Please say no. Does pass unanimously. Dr. Satfield. Okay. Does anybody know when those meetings are yet? No. Uh May. Hold on. He said May between May and May 5. May all that week and then 12 through whatever. But they haven't give us the No, they have not they have not set dates. They've set the two weeks that all hearings will be held. And but we don't know yet if it's going to be schools night or night. Exactly. Yeah. It's those two weeks of May are going to be
098all meetings. May 5th and the 12th May 5th through what's 5 days? 10th? No. 6. Why you got to be so complicated? Well, by y'all are discussing that. Uh is there anything else to come before the board tonight? So, I'd like to again congratulate you teachers and tell you how much we appreciate you. 12 students, uh, y'all do a great job. You've not told that near enough probably. I want you to know it again. And in case I don't get a chance next month to forget it, I'm old. I forget things. We will really appreciate y'all coming all year and presenting those reports and everything. Y'all done a great job and we look forward I believe here next year. Yes, sir. We look forward to a year with Zoe just as good. So, we appreciate
099y'all. Anybody have anything else come to We are ajour. Excuse me, M. We out of here. Thank you. You know you ain't going to get it with me, sister. My first