001Please. >> Thank you, sir. 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. If you all join me in a moment of prayer. Um, dear heavenly father, Lord, we want to start off by giving you thanks, Lord. What a privilege it is to stand in this new facility you've blessed us with. I want to give thanks to uh the leaders, the teachers, and the community members who whose support made this possible. We ask that you guide this board of education with wisdom as they continue to make decisions for the good of every student. May this space be filled with creativity, learning, and unity. And may the gifts you've given us be used to
002bring great joy to others. In your holy name we pray. Amen. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> At this time, we will call our meeting to order. Roll call. Here. >> Here. >> Now we'll have the approval of the agenda. >> So move. >> Second. >> It has been moved and properly. Second that we approve the agenda as printed. Are there any items to be added? If not, it has been moved and properly that we accept the agenda as printed. All in favor? Let it be known by saying yay. >> Yes. >> Okay. The approval of the minutes move. >> Second. >> It has been moved and properly second that we accept the minutes as printed. Are there any discussion to the minute? >> None. Therefore, it
003has been moved and properly second that we accept the minutes as printed. All in favor? Are there any discussion to the minutes? None. Okay. All in favor, let it be known by Yes. >> Yes. >> Madam Chairman. Yes, sir. >> Could I um extend a little bit of or ask for a little bit of grace. I know I was outside >> and so I appreciate Mr. Kaden Turner doing the prayer tonight. >> Yeah. >> Um he did a wonderful job and u the reason I asked him to do that was because the first lesson that the students had or the first class that they had in here, they brought their instruments in, the band was seated and Kaden stepped forward and said, you know, is it all right if I say a blessing over the
004room? And so I just kind of felt that it was fitting to ask him to say the the prayer tonight, but also put the jazz band uh just on the spot just for a second. I asked them to do the national anthem if that's okay. So can we stand? I know y'all already >> had the pledge, but I would love to hear the them do that. And so and then we will release them because I know they're going to all places uh everywhere. [Music] [Applause] Wow. Awesome. >> Thank you, student. >> Excellent. >> And the band director. Thank you, ma'am. >> Thank you, M. >> Thank you. >> Beautiful. >> So, seniors through 8ighth grade in the jazz band. >> Yes, sir. >> 12. >> 8 through 12. >> Wow. Is that not amazing? >>
005Awesome. Awesome. >> They sound wonderful. Thank you for all you do, don't they? >> Wow. >> They sound very good to be a young group. >> Guarantee they they really do. >> I'm sorry, but I that was worth the wait for, sir. Thank you. >> At this time, do we have any public comments? None. Thank you. Okay. Now we will have our Jasmine City School 2526 proposed budget second reading. Mrs. Blunt. >> Thank you. Dr. Barber, do you want to tell them to go ahead where they need to go? >> They're waiting on Miss Street. >> Go through the requirements tonight. This is the package that I gave everyone last week. And Miss Watson, if you didn't get one, we've got one for you. >> Miss Carl emailed me one. Thank you, Miss Carl. >>
006All right. The first page of the requirements for the budget hearings. These are set aside by the Alabama State Department of Education and all school systems in Alabama are required to follow these requirements. The next page is a glossery of terms which provides some excellent information about fund types and expenditure types. It's all good reading if anyone wishes to read it and if anyone has any questions I will answer. >> Um the next after those three pages the next page is the preface. All of these documents are provided by the state department of education and they're part of their required u package as part of the preface. We have our mission statement which is to prepare all students for a successful life. Also included in that we have to include the information on um number
007of of enrollment. Currently at Kittystone in K through six we have 9005 and grade prek we have 30 students at Jacksonville High School in grades 7 through 12 we have 736. We also have to uh calculate the average teaching experience which this year is 14.78 years. We also have to calculate the percentage of teachers with advanced degrees. This year that's 62%. We're required to include all salary schedules for all positions and that's included. It's asked to be inserted here but it's included at the back. The next section is called the introduction. Again, it provides um good information on what the state department of education expects. Um part of that is that the minimum salary schedule, the state matrix has to be used, branch benefits are calculated, leave allocations are calculated. Uh the state provides us
008with u teacher ratios. They provide us with instructional support funds. They provide us with the foundation and the capital project. They provide us with student transportation funds. And then they require insurance and bonding on all school facilities and all personnel. Um and then it has requires career tech expenditures and then federal expenditures have some of its own constraints and you can read those there. The proposed annual budget includes two documents. The P1A and the P2 these are the proposed annual budget of revenue and expenditures and the proposed budget of extend expenditures by school or cost center. and we'll get to those in just a minute. This is not a required The next page is not a required item in the package, but I always put it in there because I feel it's beneficial >> to
009the reader to see this year's foundation allocation. See last year's foundation allocation and see the change. And as you can see, our um ADM went down by 39 students, which is a result which resulted in us leaving losing 3.74 positions. The next page gives you the units per category, per school for Kitty Stone and for Jacksonville High School. The next page is the B1A, which is the same thing as the P1 except it summarizes it into a more concise form. And to me, it's easier to read. It's easier to understand. The next page is just a worksheet that I use to calculate some of the information that's already been highlighted. You can see I have degrees listed, I have experience listed. So, I have to total all of that up to come up with the
010average uh experience and the percentage of advanced degrees. And I have that broken down by grade at Kitty Stone and by teacher category like subject category at Jacksonville High School. All right, the next page is a required page and it shows the um state allocation and then you have at the bottom the number of teachers paid by state earned funds, other state funds, federal funds and local funds and that's the total for the entire district. The next page is just uh the career tech director allocation that we received. The next page is kindergarten I mean is Kittystone which is kindergarten through six. You have the um teacher state earned units, other state units and federal units and local units. Total of 102.7 total units including support at Kitty Stone. The next page is um Jville
011High School. Again, you have the state earned units, other state units, federal units, and local units for a total of 78.10 total units, including support at the high school. And then the pages that follow that will be the required reports, the P1 reports and the P2 reports, and they go on all the way to the back until you get to the salary schedules. And as I said the other night, I took the time to take each one of them and shrink it to one page because you have to generate each one of these one page at a time and it generates two pages. So I'm like I'm tired of this. I'm making it one page. So that took that took some time, but it also decreased the the bulk of the package and saved some
012trees. Um again that same information is summarized in the B1A but this is the presentation that's required for the proposed budget. And um at this time if anybody's got any questions be glad to answer them or if there's anything else that you'd like for me to cover glad to cover. >> What members do you have any question? None. None. Okay. At this time, um, superintendent, if you would give us a motion. >> Recommend the board approve the Jacksonville City Schools 2526 budget. >> Okay. >> Second. >> It has been moved and properly second. Are there any discussion? If not then all in favor let it be known by saying yes. >> Yes. Yes. >> Next item is uh the capital plan and uh should have been given a a copy of that and so before
013I make that recommendation let me just say uh this building was part of the capital plan and uh I just want to commend the board um your leadership. I wanted you to be here tonight to hear music in your band room, in the band room of our students. And thank you. >> I appreciate Dr. Weights and his staff and of course our staff coming over. They gave me the sunny side and so um but it is just uh it is a beautiful facility. And uh >> so going through though um I was able to take some of the things that you had on the capital plan off because this job has been complete um or completed also. Uh we have uh things like the bowler u all of that we were able to take those
014things off. So um we have uh though added of course the things that we've talked about and through our capital planning committee um we were able to add some things on there but a lot of focus on uh Kittystone and the playground u facility out there also. Um parking is on there. So I know you have all that. I'm just saying that for those who may be streaming and and watching us tonight. So, but I do recommend that the board approve the Jacksonville City Schools 2526 capital plan. >> Move. >> Second. >> It has been moved and prop excuse me properly second that we accept the motion to approve the 2526 capital improvement plan. Are there any discussion? >> I'm just um excited. Can't wait to see that Kitty Stone playground. >> Yes. >> Taken
015care of and equipment put out there for the children and the handicap accessible so all of the children can have access to the playground. There plenty of room, plenty of space. That's wonderful. Appreciate that. and we had uh person or snout uh looking at some of the equipment Friday and some that we can go ahead and install and so I'm excited about that because it's not in an area that will be impacted. So >> Oh, that's great. >> Yeah. And so um it's already been delivered and uh so we can start moving forward on that. So >> wonderful. >> Um >> great. Any other discussion or comments? Thank you Dr. Barbara um for your oversight of ensuring our children have a nice playground. We appreciate that. At this time, it has been moved properly second.
016All in favor, let it be known by Senate. >> Yes. >> The next item is uh not a voting item, an active item, but it is a proposed policy that meets all the requirements for the paid parental leave. That policy will need to sit before you for a month before you can approve it. >> Right. Then moving on to D. Recommend uh recommend the board approve uh federal programs coordinator job description. >> Can I get a motion? >> Second. >> It has been moved and properly second that we approve the federal program coordinator job description. All in favor let it be known by yay. >> Yes. >> Okay. Next item is to surplus three riding lawnmowers at Jacksonville High School and remove them from inventory. >> Okay, motion has been made. Can I get a
017motion? First, >> second. >> It has been moved and properly second that we surplus the Ry Lone Mall at Jacksonville High School. All in favor? Let it be. >> Well, I just had just a sorry discussion. >> I thought and I'm totally confused. I guess I thought we contracted a service. >> We do. These are older mowers um >> that are out of service and so they've been stored some under >> they haven't even been used. >> No, ma'am. We have um couple of mowers. I think one the motor's actually blown up on. They've been kind of taking up some of the storage space that we could use. And so um we're looking to surplus those so that we can kind of move move that out. >> Any more discussion? Okay, it has been moved
018and properly second that we surplus those items. Lawnmowers writing lawnmowers. All in favor? Let it be known by Yes. >> Yes. Motion carried. >> Next item is to recommend um really to revise the lead nurse job description um to a 10-month position. and that's 202 days. Um it was a 12 month >> then it went to a 9month >> and though um we looked at that and um we really need it to be a 10-month and so we're still picking up two months there but uh that will help us meet some of the needs of our system as well and so um especially during summer school to kind of oversee portion of that >> and uh so that's the recommendation. >> Thank you. >> Can I get a motion? Second. >> All in favor? Any
019discussion to that? Personnel. So, we're moving on. Okay. All in favor, let it be known by Sen. Yay. >> Motion carried. Thank you. >> The next item is our personnel and I recommend the board approve personnel items A through D. >> Move. >> Second. >> It has been moved to accept the personnel items. Uh, all in favor, let it be known by Van Y. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Okay. Motion move to accept the personnel item. The next item which is 10 is to confirm our next meeting date. We have scheduled 10:29 because we will be in a retreat uh with the leadership team and so we're looking at doing the meeting at 4:00 p.m. >> Before we dismiss, could I say one thing? I just want to um tell you about an event that our
020Kittystone singers sang at yesterday and that was u the celebration of the Trailblazers. >> Yes. >> And not necessarily being new to Jacksonville, but new to some of the history of Jacksonville. And I'm just more I find out about the Trailblazers, the more impressed I am. Uh not only with the students that in 1965, September 7th, 1965, entered into the doors of the Jacksonville City Schools. >> That's good. um but also their parents. Um and that was an emphasis on the program yesterday, but um and and the school system in the community. And so I'm just so proud to be a part of uh a school system where >> I think we may have been the first school system in the state. And so the more I learn about that, I'm just >> um aruck.
021>> Yeah. And so I just wanted to say that we um encouraged the the trailblazers to come and speak to our students and be a part of their school system yesterday. And so but I just want to brag on the the singers and brag on Miss White and uh and that that group because they are representing us very just in a spectacular way just like the jazz band tonight. they're going out and any opportunity they get and so they've asked that uh maybe in November they could come to a board meeting and maybe sing for you. >> Awesome. >> Yeah, >> that's that's it. >> Thank you, sir. Board comments. I thank want to thank Sarah and her staff for once again u all the hard work through Sigma as well and Jennifer I'm sure
022you assisted as well. So thank you Miss Watson. Thank you Mrs. Blunt uh for a great budget. Um we we know that you're going to always give 100% our budget and know that we appreciate your service. We do appreciate you, sir. >> I just want to say this room been a long time coming. >> I believe it. >> And it's just it's fantastic. >> It is. >> Uh I know Miss Street, Mr. Renda is going to do a fantastic job. They already have been jazz bands already playing well. So >> I'm real real proud of it. New chairs, new stands, all the stuff. >> I'm glad you mentioned that. in the tubas. >> I was getting a tuba lesson from Dr. Weights here. I hear that he's a decent tuba player, but um I had
023a little bit of a history there with the Southerners. Um I I learn every time I get around and I'm just But the Tubas are the purchase of the board also. I love the the new stands and the chairs and the kids came in and just really having an opportunity to experience this. Um, and then, uh, of course the former band room is, uh, turned into choir and theater, and they love that space. So, we're doing some things in there. >> Is not going to be here. >> They're over there. They have more space over on that side, and they can do, um, stretch out, and that was their preference. And so, um, that has become more of the jazz uh, location. >> So, that's great. and our tech group. They're finishing up a few
024things in here, but also working on that room where the theater and um the uh the coral group will be. >> Wow. >> Well, and I I pointed out we were >> nosing around like we usually do. >> I pointed out that the drums that they have here, the marching drums, uh I purchased >> Wow. >> in not my last year. They're probably 16, 17, 18 years old. >> Okay. >> They need some drums badly. >> So, we need to get with uh the street and find out what she needs and we need to get them some drums quickly. >> So, I just want to put that bug in everybody's ear because they need them because those things are old. They're old like me. >> Well, the office furniture for um our folks. Uh it's
025on its way and so it has and so we're getting there. But yes, sir, we'll get with her and she's new because uh the kids when I was here had a habit the seniors would go in and sneak in my office and sign the underside of the desk. So it's wherever that desk is, it's got a lot of >> signatures. Yeah, >> it's signatures. Okay, no more comments this time. Can I entertain the motion to adjourn? >> I make a motion we adjourn. >> So move second. >> Second. I mean, okay. 30. >> All in favor, let it be known by yes. >> Yes. We see you October 29th.