2025 February Board Meeting

001e e e want anybody want to do The Pledge on no I'm I'm doing the invocation and Robbie's going must be biding [Music] people all right ready we'll call this meeting of the trial County Board of Education to order at this time would everybody please stand for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance please bow dear Most Holy Heavenly Father we're so thankful to be able to come here tonight dear Lord to to uh do the business of the uh students teachers and staff of TR County Schools please bless us to make the best decisions that we can for everyone involved father please know how much we love you how grateful we are for your holy son our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ how much we love him please bless us father

002uh to do thy will every day that we live for it's in Christ's name we pray de 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 at this time on our agenda is a Time any public comment see anybody from the public herebody else is on the agenda and they will address the agenda when we get to it so e is completed next we need approval of tonight's agenda so please look over the consent agenda see if there's anything since Tuesday night that you would uh like to pull and move to new business for more discussion if there is any anything I think we've already got the items

003that we talked about moved over but if there's anybody that wants to move something we can do so if not I would accept a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda make a motion to approve the agenda Mr Curry is this for the consent agenda yes sir for the consent uhhuh okay second okay who made that well first let's go back just a minute let's let's approve our agenda for tonight okay do you have a motion to approve tonight's agenda or does anybody have anything to add to it Mr car I need to get out of this that's do that I I skipped that one regular agenda Rachel I have a motion by Rachel to approve tonight's agenda and did you second that yes I did Mr I'm sorry no you're good you're good I'm I'm

004the one messing up believe we need to have a coup get somebody else and this is the uh approval of the agenda of the agenda okay onef who made that motion Rachel made the motion Chris sa I got you now all in favor please say I I any opposed please say no so we have our agenda set for tonight and as I was stating earlier uh just a little bit more time to do so if there's anybody that would like to pull any item under the consent agenda and move it to new business uh we can definitely do that we had time to finish looking if there is nothing I would accept a motion to approve the consent agenda for tonight make motion have a motion by Mr Atwood to approv tonight's consent agenda do

005I have a second second second by Mr wood any discussion all those in favor please say I I any oppos please say no tonight's consent agenda has been approved unanimously next is our school district highlights looks like Mr Mcall is our school district highlight for the month there's one in every grade high school girl with basket B oh Mom I got few things to say about that I just found out seconds ago uh what can I say the girls uh theyve won 20 games over 20 games first time since this I don't have 1964 I Richmond here to give me the stats but U since I believe Jim B sfi's coach for for basketball he was coaching that that was three on three then it was uh but 20 wins which is a a spectacular

006achievement for our girls basketball team we've had five seniors so I'm excited that they're getting to experience this four of them have been here for four years so they put the time in uh through a coach transition and they've done an amazing job and they tied for for first in the district there a three-way tie I think they they do it some crazy way they flip a coin so District probably finished third but I'm hoping they make some noise in the region uh going forward they play uh Friday Friday night in BO play Saturday night I think so the district starts this weekend yes sir Friday and Saturday and then regionally next what are we seated well we're tied for first but they flip coins and the way they do it you know whoever is

007the opposite of other two gets the best seat it's sort of crazy to me but so we actually finished th we play Liberty Creek who we just beat the other night and West morning got number one who we beat the first time we played them they beat us the second time and they they're playing white house hereit uh so I when is that uh tomorrow night and the boys play where are they playing at they're playing at White House Heritage White House you said that but I I couldn't remember let's see girls play :30 tomorrow night and boys play Saturday at 6 first White House Heritage um so they'll play region next week so Friday coach M and their staff and the work they put in we've had great crowds all year uh supporting our

008teams and U excited about that and very very excited about that also I want to mention this Bradley pots th000 points it's another Milestone we honored her uh at the game she's a fourth member of her family to score a th000 points for TR County Schools but that's pretty cool Miss Judy limble uh coach pots and John har so four person family do that which is her Uncle Tony L probably took a thousand shs I ask him that but proud of her and and that individual conman I want to I want to mention as well y I think she 5 500 rebounds 167 blocks that's right yeah and she's committed to play volleyball for uh Peli Community College in oxville so she's where did you say Peli State Community College in oxville getting her athletic

009career great y so that's the basketball highlight a good one yeah for sure all right principal's report uh Mr Gully we're going to start with you two or three times in a row that's lucky this all right thank you Mr K you're welcome um I guess you know we'll start off with a uh you know we're 26 days in the school that we've actually attended school since uh the start back in in the semester here if I count that up correctly um we're sort of looking at a um uh first goore over a little bit of attendance it's you know we've had some illness p we've had some things to up toate we've actually averaged uh 21 students out a day uh in those days that we've been present so that's I know it doesn't

010sound like a lot but that's uh we've got you know 330 uh 320 333 kids right now so that's a decent number of kids out day percentage wise U you know we've um we getting kids back to school a little bit better but we were I think we were starting to uptick a little bit more here just in the last couple of days so at least we've had some time out maybe this will let let's get into a good strong run in between now had Monday off and then Wednesday Thursday we only have one day hopefully they can get well hopefully they got some kids well let's very true so you know in that case some things that's that's some some pieces and there are always those those pieces we got to get kids we

011got get parents to see it's important to be back in school every day because of those days that we missed there's a total out of our of our students 548 days missed uh total kids if you think about what we're saying 548 students I guess not totally students but number of days missed um of those 45 students make up more than a week of school missed it's a lot of time missed in just 26 days U I don't think we can keep employees that miss that amount of time so it's very hard to uh employe and if it's sick as I understand but you know there's some little things that we need to get to school uh we need to be in school that's a big part of it I'll start on the negatives I

012guess and move towards the positives on the positive side of things we move towards some really good pieces of uh uh our our um our plans towards uh preparing students to get ready for the testing season you know one thing for prep is to practice and we're still going to teach in the classroom but we got to practice somewhere we run a coach program it's our it's our RTI there and we've made our transitional shift into coach something we've done for the last couple of years uh into having that coach being more of of a test prep type conversation if we're going to go over it if we're going to work items we need to have time to go over those items we've had some good uh good feedback from kids and good feedback from

013teachers on how that's moving right now uh so we made that transition early February uh so it's kind of young by the number of days we missed that piece but you know it's it's part of it uh where we are whether you can never know what that's going to do and it might have came at a time where we were needed in terms of sickness anyway so that can sometimes be very beneficial um on another uh positive note we've had you know we've had some really good conversations we sent some information home to parents uh last uh sorry the date that spped my mind it was last Tuesday when we sent home um Mid gr reports they went out last Tuesday and the date for some reason slit my mind s some information is that

01414 no 12 12th there we go yep so send them out on on the 12th there 11 or 12 somewhere at range and sent those pieces home and um u in that information we tried to focus on one piece was parent teacher conferences that were coming up going to get that information out hey if you want to schedule a parent teacher conference if you think you need those pieces we try to also you know Steer our conversation we had had a meeting with teachers you know if anybody's reaching out anybody's touching basically one of the things we want to focus on you know we're not talking about focusing on testing but we want to focus on shoting performance you know I've always said this very clearly it's educational malpractice to say kids got an A

015and their their projections are sitting around a one or one Min that's that's if you're doing that in your class you're either an unbelievable teacher or there's something miss a line for the parents in those cases I like to have clear conversations with our parents on those pieces and we had those conversations with our teachers just you know as parents are reaching out like hey do I need to come do I not need to come here's some things we want to be clear on where our levels of you know levels of performance where kids scoring the levels of performance we always have heard ABCDs and those things it's hard to get our mind wrapped around the changes that really roll in that but you got a one two 3 four is what we're scored on

016you those those levels things so we really try to focus on that side with our teachers and our communication pieces on a on a positive note I guess another positive note we're about we've kind of had a jsms had a little l in in sports right now but it's time to really get back kicking off I think our softball is not going to play Saturday I think there's they're supposed to play in their opener uh at uh this one's at uh Beach I think it's at Beach Middle School where they were supposed to play satday I think that tournament is not going to happen for us it's a little cool uh but anyway it's about to kick off next week our Boe baseball first game at Friendship Christian Monday night so we're back in the

017sports run back having fun with our kids ought to have another good season with our our Middle School we got some great kids fixing head over to the uh to the high school next year really Aid to our uh the enjoyment of school is what those things AE to it's good to get kids to have a reason to be there sometimes Sports can be a good reason for them to enjoy the day I'm looking forward to Middle School softball y'all play uh we play greenb home and home my great granddaughter place for greenb I think they're at greenb next Saturday for an opener like a tournament know about that I think there's a tournament next Saturday at Green as well that we're you okay because I've got the regular season games on my calendar I

018didn't know about I think there's a uh weekend uh tournament we were going to do two weekends in a row this one was supposed to be at Beach next one's at green bar I'm 99% sure that so maybe another game happen there I'm going to be in Winston Salem watching no G take on weight forest in basketball understood good reason to make my brother me and my brother and one of my sisters are going uh his two daughters attend weight Forest so I'm going to get uh holler that pretty good CU we're p boys basketball pathetic is really you know not girls though football season was decent moving on any other questions for me I just want to make a comment talk about test prep and I know all of y'all do that that's one

019of the biggest things I think we've really improved on since I first became principal and over the years you know is because I used to always say that I've always thought our kids were as smart as any other kids around the country we just had to teach them what the question was asking if you don't understand the question you're just guessing at the answer and so test prep is one of the key things that we have really improved on over the last 10 15 years or more and leading to that conversation as you as you're talking about you're really talking about you not you're not I know people think test prep we're teaching to a test we're teaching kids how to analyze a question and what is this question asking a child to do and

020that's life what am I being asked to do on this task and you know people that want to be negative say you're teaching the test but that's really not easy that's correct we're teaching a standard and we're going over that standard and teaching kid how to read what's in front of them interpret what they're being asked to do and answer it appropriately right those are those little things that we have to do well thanks sir you sir m p i will say from the Elementary School attendance we're we're facing the same thing I have tons of kids who are sick and they're little kids and it ranges from the flu to projectile vomit they've just been sick and unfortunately it's just one of those things so um Forest I just don't do it academics finished

021up our benchmarks the big thing for us is our a web and I have spent a lot of time making phone calls and I still have a stack that I'm trying to read through as parents have questions it is of course the third grade reading Law and just to call it that has put a lot of mandates and extra work on to districts and trying to make sure that we are following the state timeline and getting out information to parents that then begins to um bring on other questions uh we at parent teacher conference we had a meeting and we tried to explain this is what in third grade this is what it looks like this is the timeline and this is when you will receive things and not everybody attends that even though we

022send it home home with those who did not attend just to make sure parents know when parents ref receive notification at the end or at the beginning of the school year after our second uh Universal screener there is mass panic sits in that oh my goodness my child what do you mean my child is in danger of being retained so well these are the things that we have been TR to prepare you for so just making sure that I I try and reach out to all parents that have questions and explain all of the reports that have been sent down sent home so that um parents understand what they're looking at so that's where we've been spending a lot of our time and we're trying to anybody that is in danger we're just trying to

023make sure that we are notifying them so that they're not shocked at the end of the year when things have maybe not gone as we have hoped so we're trying to get all of our students on a pathway to fourth grade all of our third grade students so we've also had a lot of attention from the national report of the opportunity makers and schools wanting to know what we're doing for our coherence piece so that has been um has been eye opening just to see that we are on the front side and so many people have not yet made that shift so other than that I just want to say on a personal note thank you all it's amazing I know in this community we don't get everything right but what we do well is

024in the time of a crisis we all pull together no matter what the person looked like no matter where the person comes from and I can say that I have felt the love in the passing of my husband um the community has just surrounded me surrounded my children and I appreciate everything that you all as and that's across the board have done for me whether it was bringing groceries to my house stocking my refrigerator flowers phone calls pillows sitting with me and crying whatever it is just loving my kids checking on my kids taking my kids or picking my kids up from school and just giving me the space to do what I need to do I just want you to know that I am forever grateful and I I appreciate all that you have

025done and continue to do for me and my family so I just I just want to say thank you this is a a a I have a bond appreciation for this community and um every if I haven't spoken to you thank you please know that it did not go small town we all love each other whether we fight or not we all love each other and I felt it I felt it I have I have felt it so um I appreciate and I I promise every time that somebody did something even if it was outside of when it was just fresh it was at a time in my wife that I needed it or that day was a rough day or we just we needed we needed something so I just I just want to

026say thank you all you're very welcome just know we love you we love all our people students teachers the whole community and I will say I I was struggling with am I coming back on this day and when I I almost called and said I just can't do it and my brother I called him and he said hey he said go in today and then just you can take off tomorrow and when I walked into that building and it was the prepay class those kids were so happy to see me I am a booh hooing because every one of those babies had to hug me and tell me how much they missed me and at that moment I said this is this is exactly where I need to be true it has been it has

027been one those children at that age don't have nothing nothing everybody said to me she saw me that afternoon Miss P came back to school today yes they were T up they were about it yes they did and so I just I I loved it I walked into the cafeteria and I promised every it it was just it was phenomenal so thank you all Mr mcau all right sort of Mr G H on the attendant you know I our attendant back to last week we a between 20 and 25 out all week very similar numbers maybe not as big of impact just because we have a few more students but been pretty consistent uh not as many many Extended Stays but the big thing I've seen this year is just extended sickness you know even

028when kids come back they're coughing you know they come back for there and they leave again I think that's sort of been the theme for this year just extended illness uh had our legislative visit on the 24th I thought it went great I know I we had a couple board members there but just really proud of my teachers for representing our school and our our uh our district Miss story uh Miss Smith Miss C coach sleeper I thought did a great job um generally when we have businesss like that there's a major focus on academics uh so this one is a little different because we sort of focus on things not just razor focused on academics we talked about vouchers we talked about we informed them about t play one time transfer and bills they

029really weren't aware of uh we talked about Vape usage in cell phones in schools and things like that but it was a it was good I think it was insightful for them and the big thing when we get uh people like that in front of us we want to maximize that time to see if we can find things that can impact our community and the voice of our community and I thought our teachers did a great job of articulating that um academically know had the pre with the sophomores the fourth me gr reports went out it's been a very fast uh first four and a half weeks uh coming forward we got the ACT coming up for our our uh our Juniors March 4th uh last week we did our we our pep rally and

030we uh presented our Rank and average for the year uh our honors we had 22 students in the honors category 23 in the scholars and we announced our top 10 I'll go through them right now number 10 was mmore had a TI for not Malia Morgan Mary lville eight Owens sansy seven Alexis smitley our food critic Matt Baker is not here six and Matt is the top boy in in this class him and him and Owen uh F Marley Dalton fourth Chris N Miss Hannah Tucker third Our soran Miss Elizabeth de and our Val Victorian Kylie Corman I will say this uh I know it's not uh cons solitary to Miss Tucker but it was razor thin with those top three I mean it was so close uh so very rather those students and you

031know I tell kids when you get once you leave Middle School get high school you start over you know one thing I did today I look back at where some of these kids finished uh when they got into High School from eighth grade it's really interesting to see those that maintained Excellence those next four years some of those sort of dropped down those some of those that that picked it up but it really is a true reset and very proud of those students a strong academic class uh and that varies you know year to year Mr G you have classes that very top end some that are not but this was a very strong class um and very proud those those ones we're in the top 10 as well those honors and Scholars we suppes

032coming up here in the next few weeks uh the 12th we'll do our senior recognition night where we we uh present our honors and Scholars to parents I believe superlatives the same night we do uh the dual enrollment uh night I think we'll have uh come on there and also uh teap I think we tried they I guess I'm we I'm part of them but they try to do that back to back it gives me and parents dealing that one night I think we'll be send a letter out next day we have school which will be Monday uh last big thing with 19 days till spring break is uh our Q3 bench mark which is a comprehensive bench mark get the idea where we are and sort of drives our instruction until we get to

033our eoc's after spring break any questions I was really proud of your students the day of the legislative visit you know we we talked to adults but your students really shown and it was interesting because it's a group of students that we might not have always talked to went to teat um and the students there came and spoke you know very intelligently about the programs that they were working on um and then saw some of your students um you know in that that program in the megatronics classroom at the high school it was really impressive well that that's the big thing is diversity you know that's the I could say the big things that I've seen change since I was in school is the diversity of options we have for our kids and a four-year

034degree is not a measor of success or a ceiling there's so many opportunities and and T gives us a major opportunity to do that and our CT program with uh Governor Le has been a big push for him I was really impressed with that I sat beside Stricker during our legislative visit and I saw her notes and Miss jelly Cook's notes regarding the voucher and after their conversation with Heather Smith I really took a step back at my own opinion about vouchers based on what they taught me that day and their passion for education in charell County was really impressive and I would like to know what your average is I think it was like a 98.4 so congratulations and you I think it's 9810 so ow at number conratulations 98.8 so I mean a

035smart group they have been congratulations that is an awesome accomplishment and it's great for y'all to be here and we're really proud of it then someone that was grandmother's class she would be very very proud I had her too I graduated with her did you yes I was in her class yeah she was my teacher too she's the only she helped me because that's pitiful didn't cheat but she wouldn't let you but she helped me a whole lot yeah thank you Mr M and I've got baseball s SC ladies so for athletics Mr call of it [Laughter] had a great basketball I know I enjoyed going to all the games being in the stud section and they get to go to districts uh and then they'll be playing Friday and the boys will be playing

036Saturday and then uh we have that pep rally Valentine's Day on Valentine's Day so Valentine's Day themed and the sophomores one that's mainly it we're going to start the next sport of course that'll be basketball or not basketball that'll be baseball and softball um that's mainly it um and then like they said report cards went home last Tuesday the 11th and then as M Mall mentioned at our Valentine's Day pep rally we announced honors Scholars and top 10 and then for the end of this month we had the FFA field trip February 25th and then the fbaa is hosting a community yard sale on March 8th with the entry deadline is February 27th it's a great opportunity for spring cleaning and to make money off of items you no longer need there's going to be

037shopping vendors and food truck set up and then for next month we have Juniors taking the act the 18th and then we have senior recognition 9th to 12 and then March 5th and 6th and then 7th and then 10th and 11th are spring clinicals with class and then what I'm most excited for we have our pad March 7 and we'll have our running Queen Miss Mia Mitchell to Crown the new are you in it no are you no really neither one of give ladies a chance come on y'all should hey y'all got the brain and y'all got the beauty okay so when I was the class sponsor I always thought the Senor class junior class one of the most I as a sponsor yeah I enjoy all right Dr s thank you Mr CER ladies

038congratulations that's super honored we're so proud of you so proud that you're do a student rep as well graduating top 10 it's great although tell our young man that we miss him yes where where is he he said he was coming back it's been too cold to C well more to be War okay you have in front of you our employment list for February uh four of them are just positions that are like extra like we appointed lindsy guys and Caleb smid is going to run our summer be the principles of our summer learning camp and then U we're paying both the principal yeah I have I have two principles for summer learning Camp you've had that for some time yes sir since it's onet uh one of them specializes kind of in math don't

039they and the other one does you me speak on that yes sir uh so we since the onet that's been in two positions for that that run I thought you were the principal so I think people thought that way that it was always ran as two Mr Kelly Porter and I did it the first year and we I took the math and SC I guess math side of things it's not science it's just math in La U I took the math side and she took the LA side in terms of classroom movements and um what teachers we worked with on that part you've got you know seven or eight teachers per round there and that way so it kind of ease that part up to make sure because there was a lot of new pieces

040coming their way in that part up front um and then there's it's a lot to I'll just be straight up with you it's a lot to start school and end School in four weeks so I think it is a very needed movement of that part but no we hold on movement what do you mean I'm a very hold on a very was you the principal and she was the principal no we were both principal idal same so it's not a movement it's the same thing there we go correct it is a very good choice let me use a better word there in this case to keep that as the two shared positions I think what you're saying is the importance of one being able to concentrate that I'm just trying to make sure and the

041other the ELA part they both of y'all were paid the same being principal to my that position pays the same as a teacher yeah but both of y'all principl and just like another teacher in yeah that well one of the good things about what we've been able to do with our summer camp is giving some people some leadership opportunities some inspiring principles or want to get into administrative roles to give them an opportunity to run that four week summer learning camp and sometimes that leads them into Administration and sometimes it leags them out the other way don't but we we you know have a we have a an interest you know we like to have somebody who's taught in it before and uh we have an interest letter that we sent out and uh these

042people show that they interested in maybe being taken on administrative role one day I know that Mr smto is working on his Masters in cuming as we speak and then Miss D already has her endorsement as for and then um Jessica hail uh Middle School CDC assistant that actually replaces Miss Ruth christon who went from that position into Mr gully's office um and then our volunteer coach Mr Justin Hull and then our substitute teacher Scott Rivers he work with our summer I mean our youth football program and he's available on all Fridays and some Mondays he what he said all Fridays and some Mondays and then miss Winfrey is going to do our after scho detention at the elementary school right M corre did she reti and now she's going to do this no no

043no no no she retired and then she uh within four weeks after school started she unretired and came back so she's back we were glad that she made that Deion I never thought about under our enrollment for this time we did our survey uh on the 18th which was two days ago our our elementary school was K5 to 656 as 17 last year we had at approximately the same time last year uh we had 327 middle school students that's a little it's about four less than we had at the same time last year and our high school is at 391 and that's about 13 students more than we had at this time last year and so our total enrollment as of the 18th was 1374 students and actually that's just about three less than we

044had so our enrollment is is holding steady our academic programming you heard our principles talk about the Benchmark window that's coming up March the 10th through the 14th that's the last Benchmark we will run and our teachers will get the results of that and plan their teaching strategies as they go into teap one of the things I heard you talk a lot about was the uh was the benchmark assessments of what it does but one of the big things it does is a formative assessment it kind of gives us a snapshot about where we are this time of the year instructionally and then teachers know after they take that and they get that data back about what they need to work with students the most on to prepare them for teap and end the course

045uh you heard our principales did I say something wrong okay need got get home thead should we go now heard I wouldn't want my kids driving on the road you heard our principes talk about their preparations for parent teacher conference and that'll be on Thursday March the 20th one thing we failed I failed to bring up at the work session was that that parent teacher conference is also our board meeting and I and I'll send out a a questionnaire and the newsletter or something do y'all want to continue to have you board meeting that night we've done that before or if you want to do it move it up to last year we just excused the principal because they'll be they'll have other things they need to be doing and should they need to report

046anything they could just do it at the middle school yes do what he he speaks at the the preac 8 grade T night I can I can see whatever last Jennifer J J Jessica and then uh our spring break I know I think you heard a little overtone about getting ready for spring break uh it'll be March 21st through March the 28th our school comes back on March the 31st and at that time when we come back on the 31st then we're it's almost teap prep you know we've got two weeks before we start teap and everything's focusing on on your on getting ready for State assessment snow days AKA stockpile days we have used six we have four remaining after tomorrow uh I think that's in a good shape of a lot of our

047friendly our friends our districts to the East are out of inclement weather days and they are talking about how to do virtual days the state law allows you to have two virtual days per semester uh principes we're going to have a meeting tomorrow and that's one of the things that we'll talk about is like having a a virtual plan in our Hip Pocket in case we need we run out of incent weather days but that's something that we'll be talking about tomorrow parenty listing is save the date summer learning Camp is June the the 2nd through the uh 17th and our registration is available it's the 27th a it's June 2nd through 27 and our registration is open online on our website until March the 7th so if you haven't registered your students be sure

048to do that soon in closing with academic updates is our fasta application stays is open through April the 15th encourage our parents and families to complete their fast by application teap window is April 14th through May 2nd and I say that we're you know try not to plan any long trips or anything during that window and our final exams are May the 2020th through the 21st two days and Miss Padre we need to keep reminding our parents of the third grade retake opportunity which is on uh May the 21st uh project updates last month I reported that the elementary roof was completed and it was working good and it was and then with the last rain we had we had two leaks we had one in the sro's office and we had a small one

049in the cafeteria now I didn't get up on the roof but I think it's where we've got some penetrations like rooftop units and hoods and things like that but we have talked to the uh roofing company and they were actually going to come back today but obviously weather would not let them so they're just schedu that for next week and we are withholding their final payment as well so uh we'll get that fixed the Fieldhouse project the foundation walls if you go by have been completed and all they have to take a like a concrete stress test like every time that they bring a load of concrete they fill it in a t Tu you know this Mr wood they fill this in the tube and they test it on like day seven 14 and

05021 and the concrete has all has they said is like super strong it's done like really well so it's pass the test every time uh what we'll see next is they'll take those walls and they've got to put bracing out around them and they're going to fill that with gravel I think it's like 50 truckloads of gravel is what they're anticipating and once they get it up then they'll pour the the floor and they'll tie the walls together and they'll remove the bracing um the sealing joist have been delivered and the brick is on order and we just need to get out of the mud if we can get out of the mud we can move but that's what we're waiting on and Mr C that's all I have have any questions anybody have any

051questions for Dr s thank sir yes uh we have no old business so we will jump right into our new business first item under new business is the resolution requirement for the education Freedom Act teacher bonuses you see the resolution in your packet U we uh discussed this Tuesday night and uh I was talking with Dr safield yesterday uh and about and I could be wrong but it seemed to me what I understood the majority of the board was talking about was U giving this to our teachers and wanting to know how many teachers had not qualified am I correct in that assumption yes Dr do you have that number did I work with Miss Angie Williams since we since our work session and to the best of our knowledge is there's only four teachers

052that would not be covered with State money and that would be our two prek teachers because the tea Bill said it funds K through 12 doesn't do pre nothing in the teas of uh language that says anything about pre and then we have two Ida or special ed teachers that are funded through federal funds so you're looking at only a toal total of four teachers that we would have to make $8,000 $2,000 two okay $2,000 per teacher okay no it's totally so we're looking at a total of $8,000 if that's the right now if if you have some other questions about other Personnel or anything but I just remembered us talking about that and so I asked Clint to get with angre and see how many teachers uh were not included so uh the course

053is a resolution requirement which is required for us to pass in order for us to give our teachers the $200 uh supplement bribe whatever you want to call it money it's money for our teachers and I want all our teachers to get as much as they possibly can and I know y'all do to discussion are we able to fund the 8,000 for the other teachers to have the bonus or we split it we can't we need to close the doors okay in my opinion then I make a motion that we pass the resolution requirements for Education Freedom Act teacher bonuses Chris did you have a comment yes I I have a problem passing that or the resolution but we need to make add to it that we're going to pay those other teachers in that

054motion in that motion no she didn't oh I'm okay my bad okay so I want to make sure that the four teachers not covered with State money in the education Freedom Act teacher bonuses are covered and they all these four get their $2,000 bonus in addition to pass this resolution requirement in addition to who is covered we find the $88,000 to pay them okay so if I could restate Rachel is making a motion to approve the resolution for the uh education Freedom Act teacher bonuses and she's including in that motion the four teachers not covered under the state guidelines for it I will second that motion I have a second by Mr wooder discussion hearing none all in favor please say I I any opposed please say no does pass unanimously and uh I think

055our teachers would have certainly earned that and much more next on our agenda is the high school softball field trip and that comes with a student fee request and U I know we had uh I asked Dr safield to talk uh with either coach link or Mr Mcall about that and uh so who I I guess you're you're the one to address that yes okay please do a specific question I mean uh I guess that's question well let me question okay well let me just kind of bring him up to speed I think that there are some parents of some softball players that has contacted some board members in opposition to this Tri I don't know the specific oppositions to it or anything but uh and and so uh Rachel asked that we discussed at

056the work session and and so we discussed that and I thought it would be a good idea to give Coach ly the opportunity to discuss his P trip request and that type of stuff and just for us to get more information it's not important to be here you know so please um I guess there are some questions about the requests on Chron and things like that I don't know do did you say I do have specific one specific question the student fee Hotel fees is each softball player responsible for paying their individual Hotel fees or have they fundraised so they have they have fundraised uh a lot you know what I'm saying that was one thing uh that coach link has done really well when he's got here um and my conversation today obviously he's

057allocated uh you know 3 or 4 ,000 to this trip uh I think the goal was to have more but he's had to sink a lot more into the facilities to get them back on part where they need to be uh so I think his last conversation with parents uh mass communication was there would probably be some type of fee uh he told me you know with the the whole terms it might be $100 um I think this is not mandatory you know what I'm saying I think coach link was trying to give our kids an experience that they have not had before any ball player that wants to go is welcome to go any ball player that doesn't want to go is is not required to but my only thing is the fee is

058not mandatory you just heard him say it so I think what I heard him say was that it's $100 but it's not has has come up with $3,000 why don't you like he's going to pay the first 3,000 and the kids are going to come in on top of that and pay the rest or I may be wrong about that I think determined on how many kids are going you know he'd allocate his funds to pay for what he could you know what I'm saying okay um I don't know I don't have a perfect answer you know what I'm saying well until you know how many's going you wouldn't have a perfect answer right because he may have fundraised enough to pay I think he I think he would had plenty of money if if

059he had put put so much money into the facilities you know what I'm saying I mean uh a lot of when how much did they raise 20,000 I don't I I don't have numbers in front of me I wish he was here to fight for himself but well he realized there was an issue until I called him last night because it's obviously already passed so I don't think he realized there was an issue not a single parent has said to him that there was a conflict I've had one and the issue to me was raised was the amount of games that literally we've been talking about this since September and that was the only issue that was raised to me and I get that and I me ask question how many parents do you think

060how many families do you think will go I would estimate at least half the kids at least one parent would okay so that would be 10 yes parents so there's 20 but on here on here we have eight plus families this is this is I said when I fed this out because Dr and he said uh it says plus it says eight plus sets of parents that's 16 people I put eight plus plus they don't say set yes it does eight plus sets of parents will attend oh okay my bad I think the key to this is coach link had fill this out Mr mall I'm sorry I F this out did y'all understand what I just out coach Lyn did not fill this out principal so when I F out I put my wife

061M told me to go so I'm going coach link his two his daughters so that'd be for you know volunteer coach or three staff members and then when we were talking about when I put four plus I Met Myself and the three coaches and then he asked me about well there was a conversation about how many was going and the question that I was asking is is what was the who who who give me their names because if they're our employee then they they have a background check if they're just a parent that's not our employee and they're going to go to Florida for a week then we've got to run a background check and you had a list of four of our employees Tuesday night that's right I don't remember the names right off

062hand okay but they were four of our employees who have already been background checked which doesn't include Mr Mcall or three the three coaches the coaches the three coaches that are Co but all the three coaches all were our employees exactly that's what I'm and what I said so you've got a total of seven and what I said that's if we need more chaperon people like the Wilsons uh the scrubs the holders could be Alison cam could be S there will be more School faculty there that have background check that could be in supervised capacity if we needed more people and it's hard for you to know that right now because you don't know the exact people that are going right yeah we're in the middle of the basketball basketball not over so he's not

063got to reconvene other questions right you take 100% responsibility for this trip I take 100% respons principal is responsible no matter what whether he's there or not he's respon those three right there are responsible for whatever goes on in their school just like the dude sitting back there is responsible for whatever goes on in his school district you can't get away from that no matter how you might want to like I said it's your decision you know what I'm saying I just you know his big thing to me was his experience with the kids the two School playing or higher level schools great fiction and it's a bonding experience for the kids and my question if I any I'd like to answer the question my question to you as a parent as a principal uh

064and as a someone who who you're you have an athletic background so things like this you you handle the before yes sir uh per what do you think of the trip is it beneficial for our kids and stuff and and do do you recommend that we approve this trip you know my thing is if we were talking about going to Knoxville or going to like when I in 98 we went to lexon cathol we went on forward I think it'd be more palpable probably if it was closer I don't think we'd be talking about this if it wasn't Florida um and I've talked to I feel like more games would make it more worth the the trip he's only got two games I think he can get us in now where there can be more

065games but again that's a cost he'll have to occur if he gets us into some type of tournament but I mean I'm support my coach because he's supporting our kids okay other questions from Mr M okay thank you Mr M any questions for coach on this coach you have I I just would add and you've got it in your packet that this field trip was approved in November correct but under circum it was different circumstances and what's brought it back is their mode of transportation and the one in November it said they were going to be taking a school bus now they're saying that they're going to take their individual cars and that's why I said it had to come back to the board because the mode of transportation changed correct that's how we got

066here now well I make a motion not to pass it okay and I want everybody here to understand why if something happens and there is a lawsuit and it comes back to this one piece of paper right here and it specifically says we have eight plus sets of parents that are going to chapero okay we've already heard there's not going to be 8 plus CS so it's all going to come down to the details if somebody's hurt period when attorne get involved they are going to every word that you got and this is the people piece of paper that has been submitted to the board so I say for to cover the board no that's my opinion Okay so we had a motion on the floor to deny the trip to me as far as

067the eight plus sets of parents is again an old school sponsor we had three of us take every senior that wanted to go on the senior we did y times have changed uh they have quite changed but I I just wanted to make that point we have sponsored many many trips with much fewer people than I agree I agree 100% I was on one of them but times have changed dramatically in 30 years I'm not thatly right it's all now down to the Fine writing and this and that so okay that's my opinion and okay y'all can go from there so we have a motion on the floor to deny the trip uh now we can have some discussion if anybody would like to discuss something or if anyone would like to make a saf

068discussion okay hearing no discussion uh no I want I'm sorry I'm looking no you're fine I'm reading this okay okay sure take your time and I've read it before take your time uh the only thing that we talked you talked about the senior trip we've talked about everything we do every time they did it we had some type of bus driver Tak we're talking about individual here I and I'm not I don't have a problem with the individuals that may be going or what that is a liability that we're saying it's okay for them to to go in individual cars to go down there well we don't that liability doesn't fall on us that's on the well we would be sanctioning it if we if we approve it we would be sanctioning that to happen

069but that doesn't mean we're the individual liability who's driving a car again that could be two different things it could be some blowback on something we don't we're worried about blowback we can't we won't be well I know but I mean that's reason we brought it back up because it understand you're right you're right I mean that's that's that's what I'm seeing with it right Mr Curry if I sure can I ask a question why we change from bus to no bus why we I know we had proved this before we were taking a bus why are we not taking a bus now do we know sh I I my son is just the ease of travel I mean I just don't think that's I mean you're speaking for him so tell us the truth

070I mean I wouldn't want to drive a bus 400 miles I going Drive I say coach link was going to drive a he has a CDL yeah he has CD now I would I would add that I if it was again if it was in Tennessee Kentucky so he was he was all four to begin with and then he bailed the second go around I'm asking you I just think the feasibility the gas you know we're not it's a non- revenue sport so you had to pick up gas bill on that you wouldn't a driver but I just think again that just Cur more cost yes sir I would say I speak for my Transportation director Mr David coffin uh he's glad that they're taking cars he's worried about if it breaks down he's got

071a lot ways to go yeah I Mr may may I also may I also add and you've got this in front of you I mean this is just for your knowledge and it maybe help you make decisions but if you'll look on the second page of our board policy number six it says these groups must be accompanied by at least one regular staff member and others from the school who are appropriate for adequate supervision and shall be responsible for student conduct while away the request certainly meets that there there are employees there there they've been background check and then the last sentence says there must be at least one female and one male chapero if it's a mixed group and we definitely meet that all requirement number six and then the last one number 12

072at the very bottom it says that regular school buses are referred over private cars I mean just just I'm just scaming that you thank you sir the only discussion I'd like to make about it is now let me ask hold on hold on can you come back up here just a second we J I mean we went from number six to everywhere else let's look at number seven it says the school must have TBI FBI background check child abuse check vulnerable persons registry on file for parent par s or Guardians to attend off campus field trips or school activities is that what it says exactly do you have that for all these parents not for the parents but for the shepher well I I we can't control who shows up at a game it no

073no no no no this is Guardians we have eight plus families and it says right here we must have a registry on file of parents and guard Guardians yes to attend off-campus field trips and school activities and if they're serving in the capacity of a chaperon and they're responsible for our students it says eight plus sets they would have to be background check that's the reason I'm voting against and this is just to attend against what number seven say it doesn't say to to drive it says field trips and excursions to attend where does it say to attend it says there registry check on file for the parents or Guardians to attend off campus field trips and or school activities no and number let's go to number seven a school must have that's what I'm

074reading vulnerable persons registry on file for parents and Guardians for field trips and where do what do you see attend right here right there to attend off campus field trips Andor school activities that's the same thing no attending and supervising are different are different oh oh it's different now how's that different so we we're all for somebody to a 10 and we got to have this criteria but the chaperon they don't have to have this criteria no that's not what I'm saying then what are you saying I'm trying to figure it out mrw what I think we're trying to say is if they if we if this parent has volunteered to be a shaon they're going to supervise our kids way correct then they've got to go through that background I agree 100% so it

075says eight plus sets of parents well if if they would give us the names and tell us these but we don't have the names right now so I that's that's what I'm telling you it's too loose here guys it's too loose well that's my opinion if come back with eight ever how many chaperons it is you know if it's 16 or whatever and they're not all uh I mean qualified Clint's not going to let them go anyway I put teachers in charge you got the thir two links me and the Sweeny there really don't need to be other names on it I mean that's what I it's said teachers in charge let me give you a little bit of example Miss PW can help us on this one this is helps a little bit we're

076going to the Hermitage Home Elementary we do a reading lesson on the presidents and the Hermitage and we're going to take a field trip to the Hermitage and we got a lot of Elementary parents that want to go but they don't get to chaperon the only people who chaperon is our teachers who have been through it so if a parent wants to go then a lot of times they follow the bus and there's a lot of parents that the bus and it looks like a parade it does but again they're not in charge of our students but we can't keep them from going to a public place like the Heritage and buying their own TI and we had some but we don't put them in a role of supervising absolutely not the only comment I

077was about to make a minute ago was is our principal has recommended the trip and stuff and I'm going to try to support I think that you know we have a new softball coach and I feel like he's trying to bring some positive to this community and to this sport um I think this being the first time you know he's put together a big trip here in tror County look there's a lot of Hoopes to jump through and bumps and who's going to do this and who's going to do that I think the logistics um feel a little you know rough to us um and so that makes me a little uncomfortable and especially knowing that there's not a lot of parents that seem real excited about this you know if there was a lot

078of community support on the other end of we really want our kids to go we really want our kids to go I should encourage those parents to contact the principal he said only one I think that is a big problem they need to BU to the person in ch that goes back that goes back to the coach you know when I approached him like last night and the day about it he's like I literally agree and I haven't either you know what I'm saying mine make a decision mine's a friend who I talk to frequently just going to P you I oh I agree 100% and that's why I'm saying I hate that we're not supporting our softball coach because I feel like he's trying to do something good for this I just I can't

079feel good about sending a bunch of kids off to another state when there's just it just feels so loose and there's already some opposition from parents and I just it doesn't feel good to me but but I agree with you 100% And every parent that I have talked to I have encouraged them to talk to their coach he can't get any better princip I agree but I mean even the even J brim but I would have talked to my coach before I went telling telling on them to their boss we want our softball coach to get better we got to talk to that softball coach if you have a problem with a teacher you talk to a teacher if you have a problem with a softball coach you talk to a softball coach he can't

080do any better or get any better or solve these problems if we're not willing to talk to him and that's the only thing I feel bad about is that we're not supporting him or I shouldn't say we but I'm not supporting him it just feels too loose to me but I I just think coach link has been hit with something that Jay BM wrote down here he didn't write down that eight plus been here to JY I mean I tell you right now his principal filled this out okay so but I'm going to tell you right now I Haven I'm not with them I hadn't heard any complaints against him all I've heard is praise and when I drive by that softball field I green I love it we have not had a coach that

081has that field looking in the shape it is I I love it I support him 100% but when it comes to lawyers and it comes to you know you're going like de said you're going out of state you know you have this rope down if I know Gordon was had issues down there if we were to have one of those and it comes back back to paperwork this is what it says and that's not the truth and I can't I can't lay on it okay have a question I just can't do we have time or an opportunity to put this off no but this right herez that's what I was looking at on my phone I was looking at something else I was looking at if there's like a schedule or a list of what

082kids are going with what parents and are these parents responsible and that's a lot to put on parents that's not our job that's his job okay job his job can he not provide us with that list before we approve it or not what the next Bo meeting is what's the date of the event after 10 days after I mean I'm I'm being trying our board meeting would be the the night of the parent teacher conference which spring B starts that next week oh Monday the next day actually don't it okay I don't know when they plan on leaving but uh uh or we could we could move we could move the board meeting up with with everybody's it would be a great experience for the kids not dis that and I know you're not and

083I hate to take that away from them it's the organization I'm comparing this coach to our other coaches who I know would be here tonight or who would have contacted half of us to get their stuff I think we're reading a whole lot into that well I'm if I'm going to approve it I'm putting my signature on all these kids all these kids names that's right we don't know that Mr mcau didn't tell him that I've handled this for you is that what you told him I did okay then I'll be I me I just I didn't get have a good feeling that and I hated for him to come out here blam some guy for something none of this is his fault first out of state the B that's what I said he's the

084boss your first we're not blaming anybody trip as a negative about we're not saying anything excuse me go this your first out of state trip as a administrator or principal with planning and approving and all the things yes there you go I don't know they don't know he didn't know he didn't know what the RO STS today first I know and that's scared me it do do we have time to fix it so that these kids can take their trip or the coach we can schedule our meeting whenever we want to I would be willing to do if he's willing and the coach is willing to do whatever to make it feel for us to feel more safe or give us a second opportunity to feel safe CU currently I this is our second opportunity

085it is but the first time they were taking a bus and they were all together so and we were we we all voted together can I can I say that this is not like we're not like this don't sound sarcastic but it's not it's just an analogy I'm getting we're not going to the moon this school districts do this all the time you know what I'm saying but we have not Department to Louisville Kentucky understand the apprehension I mean I get it 100% but end of the day it's about we're not sending six teachers to a conference in California you know this is about the kids and opportunties that other districts around us do you know what I'm saying West does something like this every year Mak does Station Camp that's my point or last

086week he did everything he was supposed to do J Brown filled out all the paperwork and everything and and obviously thought the trip was worthwhile or he wouldn't have approved it he had approv his you know his signatures down that's like and like said I mean that's 100 the the a plus that's 100% on me you know what I'm saying I put 8 plus cuz I expected at least eight parents to go you know what I'm saying so says 8 plus that's 16 where you see how many times we got to go through this parents or eight sets of parents will attend look right here the two different forms eight sets of parents I don't have that form well I can't help that this is the form I have yeah I know it just says

087there's two I guess going forward I want to know what teachers in charge huh this 11 oh is that what it is okay this 111 and it says after we've had this discussion and I'm being honest with you now you know me I'm straight up after you had had this discussion do you still feel confident that we should do this and I'm asking your personal opinion since we've had conversation tonight I'm and I'm not trying to put you on the spot but I'm asking you do you still feel comfortable with this my big thing i' ask the coach to try to play more games if you're going to make the trip and make it worthwhile we need to do more than two games and I don't think we've actually said talked about that but the

088cost verse the two G and I know there's a bonding aspect to it but to me as a parent that's a long drive and I'd want to see more games they're going for a week to play two games is that I think it's I think they're only going days not a full thing so that's what you got to understand Monday to Thursday we went strictly against the superintendent's voice he he he told us straight off B you don't you don't do this and we voted for it right but now the criteria has turned into M POTUS and I understand why Dr safield says what he says and I'm just that's where I stand right now all right anything else do we have an appetite to want to uh move next month's board meeting to where

089you could get more information if so speak up we can look at a calendar do we not need to B on this motion we will I'm just asking we make a motion you do have it and we got a second no not have a I thought you said we no no you did not have a second you have I think it had been that's why I'm asking and and I mean we're still in discussion right do we have did you have a question about that no just what m p had that we still had we had a motion on the table right uh do we have an appetite or a desire to look at March's calendar and and and set a a board date for more information I've heard a couple say something about more

090information is that what the board wants to do I'm not opposed to that but I to to persuade me or convince me that this feels like the right thing to do I need to hear parents say oh we want to go like this is really important to us or people don't jump up and say or something they let you know if they're against it and maybe that's true maybe that's true maybe we're just hearing from people who are speaking loudly you know against it but to certain people obviously not the principal or the coach no I agree I just my frustration is this this this never would have got to yall if we had heard opposition to agree so I mean I feel bad it your time has being spent on this trival issue when

091it could have been fixed prior to being here y'all didn't have the opportunity to fix it because the complainers didn't complain to the people that could fix it I never heard any opposition well obviously some have I haven't but obviously the ladies have the the latest we could actually have a meeting over this again according to what this timeline is and me looking at the calendar would be the 14th of March we would have to do something by or before that date is that a Thursday that's EX on Friday okay so be I'm counting 10 days and that's counting the weekend I'm basing everything off of well the date the date right here on the thing I mean I'm not telling you 13 actually give them another day if if but look if we're just

092putting this off to to oppose it later I'm I'm agreeing with you I'm just stating the fact right here of what we would have to do if we did that okay I haven't heard anybody say they want to do that yet all right nobody has spoke up I had a motion on the floor do I have a second can you repeat the motion please the motion is to deny the field trip second have a motion in a second to deny this field trip any other discussion all in favor please say i i y oppose please say no no okay I 3 to two Mr wood and I voted no the other three voted yes I just hope that in the future the complainers will go to the people that they need to go to and

093the motion was to I would like to say it makes me feel really sad to hear that these kids fundraised to fix the facility I just that makes me sad to think that we're putting this much money in a field fix the softball field for these kids every but I don't know why that fundraising wouldn't go to go chores do you or the kids having to pay the hotel fees or that's right I agree with kids having to afford the food to pay for themselves for three or four days or however long they if if this would have been presented in a better package I that it would have been a different situation for me I don't I don't know Dave coffin's raised money for 20 years D con presents his packages a whole lot

094different than any other for his facility I know I just I'm saying he also takes shame us I'm not arguing that I'm not saying saying shame on us I'm saying shame on us us tell you right now it's all itemized 100% I'm just saying ask to do that my reason for no is student fee Hotel Fe is how many students parents seniors let's say have the extra money to pay for a hotel in Alabama for four nights along with food etc etc etc etc if especially if they can't go I mean somebody else can probably pay the gas I would if I was a parent and back in the fall when it was brought up I said I can't afford it I wouldn't wait till two or 3 weeks before the and nobody has said

095to me they can't afford it this is my own assumptions this is my own my own self as a parent trying to look at all different options for this trip do I think baseball would have ever presented us with a student fee of Hotel fees when Da when Dave and went up there and toured the up facilities and stuff was there a fee involved in that I cannot recall no no I I didn't remember I really don't think so I think it would have been 100 100% And and see and this wasn't there wasn't any kind of student oh it was shoot it was Hotel well my bad for approving it before because this says student fee hotel accommodations back in November and I'm sorry I voted to approve it before I've seen their fundraisers

096we've approved their we've approved their fundraisers every month almost so why do they not have enough to pay remember this when other people come in to do the same thing not just I I just I have a real problem succumb to fers who won't go through the proper chains as someone who's a principal for years I can't fix something I don't know nothing about and now let me say this this was approved last board be so the coach had no idea there was an issue I know that's I've heard some things against coach Lincoln he was told he didn't have to come yeah I'm and I'm sorry I didn't the hotel accommodations being on this it was there before too and I I overlooked it I guess because I feel like I shouldn't have voted

097to approve it then if a parent was required to pay for hotel so that's I mean I spoke up last time and and did vote Yes for but I spoke it makes me uncomfortable one more thing that we don't do I don't realize that these other districts charge kids to play you know what I'm saying you play softball for Station Camp there's a $1,500 feet you know what I'm saying if you play at Walter J they charge you to play sports we pay for our kids all right I coach track here most of my budget went you feeding kids after games all right our kid we do more for our kids than other schools do you know what I'm saying most places don't even provide transportation County never has provided transp except foot may they

098jump in cars and and come all right who can uh 7c the new director of school selection timeline okay so uh we discussed this at Tuesday night uh uh I I talked with uh coach yesterday I emailed this to everybody hopefully y'all saw this and stuff and basically what this is is is is this is just a proposed timeline because the dates I mean you know if we vote on July August September October November there's a potential timeline that we could go ahead and hopefully approve in accordance with that particular date so I think we all agree that the uh onboarding date is the most important date because everything kind of falls back after that if that makes sense uh discussion well I am 100% against January 1st I I do not think about here

099yes sir that's that's not the onboarding date that's that's whoever we hire that will be the date they'll start that's what I'm saying I'm against it oh okay okay okay I'm 100% against it that's what I'm trying to say okay so I mean we've heard talk from Chris and everybody else you know you can't have two people in the same role you can't have this and that um you have all of that kind of stuff um I don't think you drop somebody in on January 1 into halfway through a school year and say here it is that's why the hire date would be one of these others and we've already heard that's did you hear what I say I do they they don't think people should work together that long that's what we talked about

100I do know agree with that I don't either but that's what they talked about so I show hate to do it willly nilly and just start I'm not I think their start date should be July 7th I mean they should have full range full control when they hit the ground running um I mean that's my opinion I y'all heard me say it from the GetGo I'll give you my opinion I don't agree with full Ring full control because I think we got some big shoes to feel a lot of different there's a lot of different parts that go into starting a school year to hiring your new staff to signing contracts to getting your curriculum etc etc etc um I feel and just so you know purchasing purchasing we buy most 90 something per of

101the stuff that's bought for the school year done in the summer time so I lose that's when your budget's approved I lose track of all the things that we approve or that they do but I know there's a lot that they do and starting mid school year I feel like is a disservice to whoever is going to get this position as well as Dr saterfield cuz I think he needs the time to train per se or for whoever to Shadow him are there going to be two chiefs in charge no because he's going to be in charged until December 31st and that should come out the gate at the GetGo whoever should know he's the boss he's in charge there shouldn't be any kind of confusion but I do not feel that we can wait

102until August September October November to bring whoever it is in who's going to take his place to me the earlier the better if we can find the money to fund Dr saterfield the rest of his contract and whoever else's contract the earlier the better in my opinion okay other discussion y'all heard my opinion it's only an opinion okay but I'm going to reiterate Point Blank tonight you will not find anybody that will work under the director for 6 months you will not find one and if you do it'll have to be somebody who is Green completely green and I'm being honest you will not find it you will you will find a candidate will it be the right candidate I'm not so sure I know from outside of this district and I'm talking about Char

103County they won't do it they won't work 6 months under it and that's all I can say about it so your suggestion if I'm reading you right would be one of the later dates correct okay you know I think we can have an opinion about when this person should start but given to us is that Dr saterfield is our director of schools until January 1st that was the C four of us that was the card we were dealt you know and so I feel like what is the most financially responsible is to think about on boarding a new director of schools but we're going to have to pay two people during that time and I mean I think anytime somebody starts there's a ripple so where do you want your Ripple I think that was

104determined before we got here and so I feel like six months with somebody I just I don't I don't feel like it's necessary to on board somebody that long but I also feel like there's a lot of room for you know some situations and so forth but again I don't think it's financially responsible to pay somebody that long to on board I mean I like a November on boarding I mean I like the later I think in two months you know we can on board I I don't know that I like the middle of the year onboarding it's just what was given to us and so that just feels like the most financially and the least you know resistive I I agree financially I agree financially I can agree I can agree with what you're

105saying uh the only reason I personally prefer October is because November all the holidays you're not going to get the consistency of whoever it is having time to go out and and and abew the schools and and work with Dr safield on all the little things that that come up and the old reason I'm saying is the holiday all the holiday you you get going and stuff and then all of a sudden it's Thanksgiving and we've got a week off Thanksgiving Christmas and I'm with you on that so that's five weeks if we if November was it was it that's why I was thinking October is kind of a happy medium I mean I agree I think that's just throwing that out there okay I'm not B okay I'll make a motion I make a

106motion that we follow along with plan a here and post the job in March and onboard date of July 7th with the official start date of January 1st I have a motion on the table to uh to make July the 7th the uh uh onboarding date that I call it the the date of hire a hire date okay do I have a second do I have a second according to Robert and his Rules of Order you got I got to ask that three times just letting yall know why I'm asking it again we're not hard to hear it you're just got to sometimes I lose track do I have a SA [Music] all right so uh Miss Petty's motion has failed for lack of a second uh I I would like to make a motion

107uh that the uh on boarding date of October the 6th for the reasons I stated earlier is that play de it is it is a second that motion okay so we have a motion that Plan D October the 6th would be the start date and we have a second discussion I do not agree CH I'm giving you my discussion it's not it's not enough time for anybody to learn to do that I mean I was it's not enough time I have surveyed from the bottom our staff to the very top of our staff and across the board everybody feels like even in this office the later we start the harder it's going to be on everybody in I've been in the same same discuss you I'm disagreeing whatever I have faith in our people to

108Buck up and do what it takes and I have faith that we can choose a good candidate depend on you to they don't have a choice at the end of the day they don't all right but we have a second so we got to vote on it oh yeah I any more discussion who was the second okay any more discussion all in favor of October the 6th being the higher date say I I I de I was running okay all opposed please say no no no so October 6 2025 is the higher date uh as selected by a 3-2 vote of the Board of Education [Music] tonight yeah yeah what all right so the motion motion I'm calling just make sure does that have to be a super majority no okay um you want talk

109this which one did by the way Plan D right before fall break okay there's no super majority okay and who made the motion made the motion and second and the yes votes were Kerr bod and wood and N was Mr Atwood and M P down at the bot got it okay all right I got so we have our hire date uh what I'm about to ask now doesn't really require a a a vote because a yes or no do we want to use the timeline yeah I think your timeline's fine me personally okay I was just to clear up everything as much as we could tonight so that so that uh moving forward we know that we're going to post this job on June the 30th to August the 4th and we're going to and

110this is the official timeline that we're going by that's the only reason I agree I agree with your timelines all the way to it I just don't agree with your date and and that's you know that's why we have uh five members it's like me not agreeing with the field trip thing uh it's it's it's just that's we make the best decisions when we all speak our minds and go together we one thing I do want to say is I am very proud of all of us because I think we do speak our minds uh I think we do give our opinions uh I was you know I speak for myself I wasn't and I hope you didn't take it that way trying to to anyone who listened to those parents you're supposed to listen

111they're your parents they should just speak to the people who actually can make we wouldn't have gotten this far in exactly we probably never would have had to vote on this had they told the coach in the beginning they want to go that's right we wouldn't have been forced into all of this yeah you know I think we are very good all four all five of us we all have different opinions we all fight for each other and I love it I'm sorry if everybody agrees you're not problem not I just like to say to to me it's just like when when Demetrius was talking you know I think we love each other oh yeah I love I think do a great job and y'all make me better I've been out of this so long

112that I don't you know for some reason parents won't call me I don't know why you know it's because you're a dinosaur I am a dinosaur I understand it but I got a telephone and I'll listen and if I don't agree with them I'll tell them why I don't agree with them yeah but uh uh you know but I would love to hear from from people and and and that kind of stuff you know and U but you know I they don't so nothing I do about it but I am a fossil and y'all having kids in school having uh uh still working in the school system and that kind of stuff and being in the commity I'm a I'm ail still working fossil he just realized he was about to call you a fosil

113you know I appreciate you it's what I'm trying to say I appreciate you now what was bad was when Mr spy came to the high school while I was there and I told him he was my senior sponsor and they're like what and I'm like it was my resp I'll make a motion to a Jour I have a second motion by Mr Atwood get home make sure hey don't forget about those desserts y' got to do something about those desserts if you don't do we have do you have a tog go box that I can take some in