001ation to order. At this time, would everybody please stand for the invocation and the pledge of allegiance. Let us bow. Dear most holy heavenly father, come to you this evening, dear Lord, thanking you for all your many blessings. We thank you especially, dear Lord, for blessing us with a safe school year. We ask that when we come back from spring break, you continue to bless us to have a safe rest of the year. Uh to be with our students, teachers, and staff, anyone that's traveling during this off time, keep them safe during this time. And please bless all of our people to enjoy their time off, get rested, and come back ready to finish up the year strong. Just be with each one of them, dear Lord, and bless them uh during this time. Father,
002we also want to thank you for your son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and all the blessings that you sent him here to do for us. We're so thankful, Father, that you loved us enough to have your son come here with us. Dear Lord, please be with us, guide us, and direct us. For it's in Christ's name we pray, dear Lord. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated and we do hope everybody has a enjoyable spring break and a safe one. Uh, well, I'm going to say it anyway, but is there anyone here that would like to uh make any public comments to the school
003board at this time? Anybody next? I would also like to invite anyone in the audience that would like to address any item on the agenda to please come up at this time and sign in. We think it's a good touch that you at least looked out there address. That's true. They don't know. Uh next is our approval of the agenda. Uh is there any board member that like to make any changes, additions or corrections to the agenda for tonight? If not, I would accept a motion to approve this agenda. Make a motion to approve the agenda. I have a motion by Miss Bod to approve tonight's agenda. I have a second. Mr. Woodard second that. Any discussion or questions? All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? Please say no. We do have our
004agenda set for this evening. Next is our consent agenda. Please look over those. We went over those uh Tuesday night during the work session, but if anyone has any further discussion, questions, or any needs more information about any of those items, please let me know which one it is, and we'll move those to new business for further discussion. All right. Hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda? Motion. Have a motion by Miss Petty to approve tonight's consent agenda. Uh, do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Wood. Any questions or any last minute discussion? Okay. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. Does pass unanimously. Of course, we have excused our principles for tonight. They're all at their own schools attending parent teacher conference.
005We hope those things are going well. Uh hopefully they've been attended well and gotten some good information over to the parents and and uh let them know what's going on with their students at in our school system. We're ready for our board representative. Okay. So for athletics, softball baseball season has started. The girls started March 3rd with a win against Beach and then the boys started March 6th with a game against Christian Community High School. They won their game this past Tuesday and they play again tomorrow. For academics, February 28th, we announced relatives. And then while we did that, we also recognized two of our seniors, Austin Spangler and Christian Dalton, who will be receiving their state FFA degrees. This is the highest honor bestowed upon Tennessee FFA members. And then last week, Wednesday the
00612th, we had the senior banquet where we honored superlatives, scholars, and honor graduates. Pictures for them will be April 10th. And then this past Tuesday, the juniors took their ACT. And then optional spring pictures for the very next day. March 7th, we had our beauty pageant where Aubrey Dansby was crowned Miss Cha 2025. And then next week is spring break, but as soon as we come back, the FFA has their annual plant sale Saturday, April 5th from 8 to 3. And then April 3rd, there'll be a meeting with Joins where seniors will receive their cap and gowns. And then of course we have prom April 4th. And then because of parent teacher conference, Elizabeth couldn't be here, but I do have a note from Matt that last Thursday's potato soup he particularly enjoyed. So they
007have to take a soup for lunch sometimes. They did last Tuesday or last Thursday. And is that the first time this year? I think so. I like to take a soup. You my f. Did you get some? I do. I appreciate his updates because I have a senior boy who never tells me things. So I appreciate the dates. You do a great job. And I I like about the uh the food, you know, now with all this stuff with the feds and stuff and people are out concerned about the the lunch program and all the all their programs and all that kind of stuff, you know, it is a confusing and time, you know, time with all of that. Uh I mean, nobody can really say anything for certain. I mean, right, y'all. You hear
008so much on both sides, but it's a it's good to know that the lunch staff is I believe I saw that satisfying him. Yeah, I believe I saw that he tell him we're glad he's happy. I think Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, he he I saw his mom put on Facebook, you know, Matts about him being Mr. Stepping Stone and maybe he's in the top 10, too. I think he looked like the only Oh, Mr. Stepping Stone. Yeah. Well, Owen was in the top 10, but Owen Oh, maybe Owen's the only one. Owen's theme for senior year is Owen Zaransky, not pictured. Okay. Okay. We missed him the other day. Anyway, yes, because he was supposed to have somebody fill in for him at work and that person got sick and so he chose to
009go to work instead of go to his banquet. Owen Zaransky, not pictured. Wow. It really bothered him. I know. No, I know it didn't bother him. I'm getting it right. He didn't care. He's happy to go to work. He likes to work. But you know, in 20 years, you could have that folk, you know, that stuff changes over time. We're planning our 55th class reunion and you know when when the numbers are getting slack and that kind of you think about things more like that. I don't know that anybody even does reunion much anymore. My around my age. Is that right? We couldn't have our 50th because that was a co year. Oh yeah. So we're having a 50. That's good. That's good. All right. Uh Dr. Sati, we got to me fast. Did we
010did this be a record? First of all, I just like to highlight our parent teacher conference. There's a lot of work that goes into that. packaging up the u as web screeners uh the the benchmark screeners and getting that information to parents and u you know communicating we are a little bit well I'll talk about that in a minute but but anyway u but there's a lot of work that goes into that I went around to our schools a little bit today and u I think from what I heard that all the appointments was full at the elementary school and at the middle school, which is awesome. I also heard Miss Padrew talk about if you know it's a little cool, the weather's changed a little bit. sometimes it keeps people inside and she said
011it doesn't matter if they they they come or they're not. We'll call we'll call them, you know, so they're on the agenda, you know, we'll call them and if their student is on the threshold of maybe being retained or, you know, something's going on, they're going to call them anyway. So, I thought that was great uh to hear. There's uh two big things that's going on in addition to our parent conferences is as we speak right now they're having an eighth grade parents meeting at the middle school and uh they've done a a really good job. Uh Miss Catherine and Miss Cunningham and Mr. McCall has worked up a PowerPoint presentation. We do this every year and talk about, you know, what that preac means and kind of the pathway that you need to be
012looking to when you go to high school. And Miss Cunningham has been working with those has been going to the middle school, 8th grade, and working with those students about making those decisions about what pathways they want to get into the when they get in high school. And then on Tuesday, uh, April the 1st, when we come back to school, we're going to have our what we call our career exploration day where our eighth graders go to the high school. We bust them over there and they go into each one of those CTE programs, including the math and science program, talk about what those requirements are, what they have to do, and then all that precedes uh, freshman registration. So really trying to get them on a good pathway and so they're having that eighth
013grade parents meeting tonight and then at 7:30 looks like unless we have a long board meeting I'll be able to attend that one. I think you're in good shape. Um is our third grade uh literacy law meeting with parents. We have that in the fall and we also have that in the spring. So uh worked on that PowerPoint. Miss Border and M Drews worked on a really good presentation really tried to simplify it so parents can think about what they need to do in preparation for the TCAT and then the options they have post TECAP based on the results of what those students do. Let me ask a question. So the kids are off tomorrow and all next week and the following Monday. No, no, I'm just saying that that Well, you said they come
014back on Tuesday. I I'm I'm sorry. We come back on Monday the 31st and then on the 1st when we come back on the when we come back on the Tuesday is the day where we're going to have the career expiration date with our eighth graders. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, no, no. I just misunderstood. But Monday will just be a regular day and then Tuesday we'll work with our eighth graders. Um employment notifications. Uh you have those in front of you. We could probably got more resignations than anything. Uh Tai Catherine has been working with us in our after school program for quite some time and uh I think he wants to spend a little time in the dugout with his dad and his granddad a little bit in addition to mowing some yards
015and he's a senior this year so he he wanted to experience that a little bit. He's he's a great young man. has got a great future in Bernie, but he's going to take a little time off and I hope he works with us this summer. He's been doing it the last couple summers. Does a really good job. Um, and then, uh, uh, Crystal Gregory has resigned as high school volleyball coach. Paige McKenna has resigned as the girls basketball coach. Synthia Hope uh is having some illnesses and she had to step down as Cook. And then Abby Johnson, the same has a stepping side to be one of our school nurses at the elementary school. As you know, we've got two nurses at the elementary school. And Miss Kathy Atwood and I have talked and we're
016going to try to get through these last six or seven weeks without trying to hire another nurse. Oh, she's not finishing out the year. She's I I think she it uh she gave us two weeks notice. Okay. So, the idea is by the time that we post it and run it and interview and background check, the school year almost be over. So, our idea if we can hold on, we're going to try to make that a something we do during the summer. Hopefully, we'll get a good pool of applicants and be able to screen and make a really good decision. That's what we're planning to do. Whether that takes place, you know, I don't I don't know yet. Uh from we are in from the employment side, we are full go on screening and taking
017applications for next year's teaching positions. We've been to two job fairs. We've had a couple of interviews already. We have more set up, some during the spring break and more afterwards. And so we're really starting to work on that. We've got some good looking candidates and we have some spots that we're going to have to fill as well. So, it's uh it's a and I'll say this, what you did tonight, and I know it's in the consent agenda, but what you did to address teacher salaries, uh this evening will help us immensely going forward. And I know that all of our teachers appreciate what you're doing, helping with their salaries and everything. So, thank you very much for that. Um enrollment, we're about what we were last year. Uh we have four less students than
018we did at the same overall than we did at the same time last year. So we're about 16 students less at elementary. We're about three less at the middle and about up 16 at the high school. So that that's good and that that helps on budget. You know you might get surprised but you know we have to budget off those trends and those trends have been steady. So I feel confident as we go into budgeting time about those numbers. academic programming. Hopefully, we don't need them, but we do have four snow days left in our pocket, but we can also use those for inclement weather as well. Uh, I said report cards, we have we've had to move our report card date to Tuesday, April the 8th. And the reason being is because when we
019did our Q3 benchmarks last week, they've got to send them to Master Connect. They got to get them graded. That takes some time. And then Miss Anita is going to be two week two days out during that time. She has to put finalize all that in Power School. So, we're just telling our parents tonight that report cards come out on Tuesday, uh, April the 8th. Uh, spring break, everybody's got that down. School resumes on Monday, March the 31st. Uh, Miss Bod, you might add to this the PI network, and I don't think that's a food Mhm. Right. Yes. Oh, should I ask? Network is coming to the elementary school on Wednesday, April the 2nd. We'll have about 50 visitors in the school that day. Would you like to mention anything? Yeah, this is a network
020of um individuals who fund and donate to literacy projects around Tennessee and SCORE is bringing them potential donor. Yeah, score. Well, score is bringing them. So, so, um, they want to showcase, uh, good literacy work in Tennessee and Charlesdale was one of the choices. Charlesdale and Metro. We're going to go to two, um, classrooms in Metro. We're going to come and see Charlesdale and they asked me to come. We would probably be open to an adoption program. So, they wanted to adopt. I like up for adoption. But I do get to um to come uh and showcase the work here in Charleston County. So that's exciting. I was I was really honored to be asked to do that. So our team has been working on that. Miss Catherine pretty much is is getting all that
021set up. I think she's talked to you some along the way and we moved tables and chairs today to the little gym. I think that's where we got to eat lunch and have meet. So yeah, they're excited about having having them in our It's a real honor to have been I mean there was two schools, you know, chosen in the state of Tennessee. Us and Metro. Us and Metro. So what does Trasdale and Metro have in common? They're not the two opposite ends. I was going to say it's I think that's the point of it. Yeah. But and then our when we come back from spring break, it's all hands on deck preparing for TCAP again, of course. So, we'll have about three weeks to uh practice and prepare before we start TCAP testing on
022the 14th of April. Uh you've got a flyer in front of you. Uh Hannah talked about the FFA uh plant sale on Saturday, April the 5th. I have a few extra ones if you want to take some home and share them with your friends. But we've also got that posted on our website and we'll continue to advertise that more as we get closer to that date. Did you get one of the cheese? Have you seen Not yet. Not yet. But we're going to uh get some that we get some free publicity out. I think so. What's better than publicity? Free publicity. Um the summer we are in the midst of planning for our summer learning camp uh this summer that'll be held June the 2nd through the 17th. We will offer that for students in
023rising kindergarten through the 8th grade. We've had about 165 students sign up. Uh actually we had 168 this time last year. So, we thought the numbers might drop off, but right right now it looks about the same. Um, we have also had enough certified teachers to sign up to fill our staffing needs. A lot of districts don't have teachers. They use aids and volunteers. And so, that that's one of the things we think we do a really good job with our summer learning camp is we put high quality teachers in there to work with the students who need that help the most. Um the work David and Amanda are working on transportation schedules, see where who needs a who needs transportation and then plotting all that out and fixing those bus routes. I think last
024year we had we ran four buses, but we normally run somewhere between four and five buses. So, we'll see how that goes. And uh the biggest thing we're waiting on is the budget amounts from the state to tell us how much money we going to get or how little we're going to get so that we can plan programming around that. Just to add to it, we had a school safety visit. It was not a surprise it was announced. We knew they were coming uh from the Tennessee Department of Education, Department of Transportation and Safety, and uh they went to all three of our schools, and they were just looking at our safety procedures that we have in play. And um she left and was quite impressed with got a SRO that's there all the time.
025We've got our security vestibules. All our doors are closed. work really well. We've got all our windows and doors uh identified and u but she said we she thought we were doing the right things. So that was good. We had a drug dog today and u and his nose does work. Yeah, he found one vape today. So we got got we did find a vape and Mr. McCall will I'm sure discipline students accordingly. Um, just some important dates to remember to remember is the FASA application is open through April the 15th. That's soon to close. I know the guidance department has been working really hard and u I'll let Mr. McCall tell you next month, you know, give you an update of where they are, but I think think they've been doing a lot of
026good work and hopefully we'll see some improvements there. Tapping in the course is April the 14th through May the 2nd. We cannot stress enough about families about the importance of being at school during those times. Our final exams are on May the 20th and 21st. Our third grade retake is on May the 21st. So our third graders do not really get exempt. Uh the state tells us that they can't tell us their scores until the 20th of May at the earliest we get them. So, we've got to get our third graders there at school, wait for the scores, and then say, "Hey, you need to take a retake." Now, if you don't have to take a retake, you don't have to come next day. You know, you can be exempted. But we just got to
027hold tight on that. But that's a whole lot better. That retake is came like around Memorial Day and then we had to bring kids from home and then the parents had to bring them. So, the idea of being able to do that retake before they go home for the summer, I think will help all of our students all the way around. Uh, last week, uh, I mean, last month, I talked about the elementary roof. We still had two leaks. Uh, the A alert did come and address them and, uh, all the rain we've had, we've showed no leaks. So, even at that 4 in we got even after the 4 in. That's a pretty good test. That's I thought that was a good test and I'm about to pay them their retainage and close the
028books on on that project. Uh our fieldhouse project or we've talked a little bit about in our work session. Uh I think the I know the gold is we've got to have a good foundation. Everything starts with a good foundation and we've had a lot of water. Uh so that's froze. It's compromised the compaction of those soils. uh the architect is working with the construction uh people to be sure that we do the right things to fix that. And no matter what I've told my people, I don't care how long it takes, we're not going to compromise the integrity of the structure of that building. So if it takes another extra month or two or we have to wait for a drought, we'll do it. But we've got to be sure that that foundation is
029right from the beginning. So that's the uh the last thing is that uh we are looking to uh take one of the biology labs. There's two biology labs and we're looking at retrofitting or converting one of those to a nursing uh classroom. Mr. Chris, you might know talked to Jonathan Smallwood. He's applied for a grant of some type. We got so many going, but Yeah. Right. But it's a it would put an LPN program in our high school. See, right now we've got a CNA. All we got is a CNA program. But if approved, then they would have money to put in an LPN program while we're in high school. Of course, we'd need another classroom and we're going to be using those labs for storage if you've been out you've been out there before.
030So, we're going to look at I don't think it'll cost a lot. So would they go to the LPN program and then those that want to go on would go to the I think some of them can go straight in don't have to they wouldn't have to go to the CNA program they can go directly into the LPN program. Okay. I didn't know if it was like you took this before you took this you know that not quite sure but I think you know with the right scores and stuff they go directly into the LPN program. That's good. That is really good. But the but Mr. Smallwood tells me we've applied for the grant. Uh, I don't know when we're going to hear. You know, it might be August. It might be December. Is that
031a state or federal rate? I do not know. I I don't know. I would assume. I hope it's a state. Yeah. Most most of his are state grants. Really? I can't tell you about that particular one, but a lot of them are and are based upon contingency of what you're doing in the particular program, right? and it's all about writing, right? And he does a pretty good job of that. That's good. I just the confusion going on in the federal government right now, I would hate to be relying on a federal grant or anything from there. But Miss Catherine and Miss uh Gregory and Mr. call have looked at that classroom and they think they can do a conversion, you know, very reasonable. But it's something that we would want to put in our budget
032for next year, right? To maybe get started on it during the summer and whenever that grant comes available, then we could, you know, move into that program whenever it comes. So, we have kids that could be eligible to go into that classroom starting this fall. That's what I understand. Good. That's what I understand. And, uh, Mr. Chairman, that's that's all I have. Does any questions? Anybody have any questions for Clint? Okay. Thank you, sir. We have no old business and we have one item under new business, the behavioral consultant position. This is for the next school year, the 2526 school year. We talked about this a good bit Tuesday night. This is a uh behavioral position that would be uh located at the elementary school working primarily in the lower lowest grades. uh helping with
033uh the way I would characterize it is trans helping to transition students from home to school and and how to uh navigate that that transition and how to learn to to uh be successful in school is kind of the way it sounded to me like the other night. If you have any questions about the position, feel free to ask Dr. Sadfield about it. Only question I had was I can't remember when, but we had a new person with Tennessee Voices as a behavioral a behaviorist. Is this replacing that? No, no, no. This is in addition to So we have two at the elementary school. No, no, that position is at the high school. The behaviorist is at the high school, right? The Tennessee Voices for Children behaviorist is at the high school, right? Her last
034name is Phillips. No, that's Ariel. She's at the elementary school. That's right. Yeah, that's right. I just signed. She She's a behaviorist as well. That's so mask and so we'll have two. Yeah. Okay. But they they they are and that was like Ariel. Yes. It's per it's 100% paid for by Tennessee Voices for Children and the one at the high school is as well. Okay. And to be honest with you, Miss Py, they work more as in like a guidance counselor would be if that makes sense. This is going to be for early age children who have acting out severe behavioral issues. So the others, the ones you classify kind of as more like a guidance counselor, works with families and the kids and that kind of stuff. The upper grade. So and teachers and
035stuff. And so this position would work on specific needs of specific children. Is that the way I understand? Yes. And their families. They would also do some training in the school to work with our teachers about how to handle address dos and not dos and don'ts about their behavior. And again, this one, this position that we're talking about is for early grades, which would leave Ariel Moore to work with upper grades. And it's a different certification. This is a behavioral consultant. It's a Is that correct? I'm pretty sure she's the uh she uh Miss Lurch calls it a behavioral consultant, behavior analysis person is what she calls it. That's the name that she gave me. Now I kind of I'm sure she knows the technical title of it since she's in that field, but uh
036I would just say old school behavioral specialist is what I would classify it as. wish we' had some back when I was. We could have always used them. And I think it's also important to note that if everything goes our way, then we'll be able to pay for all the all this position except for the health insurance through IDA, which is federal money and u and title four funds. So that's great. And talking to Miss Padrew, I think she s relief to unders when she heard that we were actually trying to help with this and and she might be a person you might want to talk to about some of the challenges that they're having at the school but it M Drew says it's taken a lot of her time behavior does yeah always has
037nice to have someone trained in that area right you know because most of the time I was guessing you know, you do you try to do what you think's right. It's a difference in putting a band-aid on a problem and then really getting to the core and trying to support that kid so that they can um navigate as normally as possible. But with the board's approval, we can go ahead and get this position posted and then take applications. All right. Anybody have any other questions for Dr. Sville about this uh position? As we know, only the school board can create a new position and uh and that's what we're being asked to do this evening is to create the this new position of a behavioral consultant position for the 25 26 school year. Any discussion
038or questions? Do I have a motion? Make a motion to create the behavior consultant position for the 2526 school year. Have a motion by Miss Petty to create this position. Do I have a second? I second that motion. Second by Miss Bodie. Any other discussion or questions or anything? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed, please say no. Does pass unanimously. Thank you. So hopefully we can find someone to command that position. Does any board member have anything else to come before the board this evening? Well, I hope all of y'all enjoy your spring break. If you're getting one, getting out early tonight is our spring break, right? Wait till you retire. You're on permanent spring, right? Make a motion to turn. I speak to that. You read my mind. That's dangerous. She
039is motion by Miss Penny. Second by Mr. Woodard.