001the 10th 2025 our regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting at this time I'm going to turn it over to board member Anthony mlan to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance attention salute pledge I pledge 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 board members have you had the opportunity to review the agenda and at this time I need to get an approval of the agenda motion to approve second got a motion to approve by board member aru second by board member Anthony mlan all in favor say I I any oppose like sign motion carries unanimously at this time I will turn it over to Dr Denita D Revis for our honors and recognitions good
002evening thank you chairman re so we have nearly a full house tonight and the reason is um pretty exciting stuff so miss Reed will you come on up where I saw you come in Donna Reed uh she's our Beta Club sponsor and she had bring up who you'd like M re you have another sponsor with you okay so our Beta Club um had the most students place at the State Convention back in January that they have ever had I believe in a number of categories so they're actually so many students that I'm just going to call them up by groups um please bring your beautiful plaques that the Beta Club um awarded you as you come up and be sure and Shake our superintendent Dr Griffin's hand and then we'll get some pictures in several
003groups so I'm just going to start with the beginning uh we have black and white photography pton Fox first place French ninth grade Reagan Pierce fourth place French 11th grade Isaac Bowen third place heal and PE ninth grade Bryant Fox got third place health and PE 11th grade Bo Lewis fifth place health and PE 12th grade Khloe eard second place so that'll be our first group congratulations good job guys [Applause] I thought they called his name he was just sitting back here yeah I gu congratulations awesome so some of the um competitions were individual competitions and some of them were group competitions so we have a mix here so for language arts 9th grade we have Ali Lewis who is a champion all right job and I'll ask to stand with Ally the marketing and
004Communications contestants and they got fifth place that's Kiera Aras Khloe eard Alysa jolly and Kinsley ridddle where to go job l good job good job guys congratulations all right next we have math 11th grade that's Emily Kilby she got fifth place we have mixed media D2 that's Judith Roso and she's got third place and then musicology was Taylor Brown Abby hos Bo Lewis and Aaron mlan and they are the [Applause] champions really he's in okay all right good job so our next group includes um Fifth Place May uh excuse me Maya Fluellen for on-site painting Carter pay second place for performance of Arts uh instrumentals instrumental performance I should say second place terriana Hilton for poetry awesome fifth place Paisley capito I hope I said that right Capo Pottery Capo dang I even wrote it
005phonetically for myself and still messed up sorry cap um she was in the pottery competition uh fifth place in ninth grade psychology Ames Welden excuse me oh my apology AIA and second place psychology 12th grade Aniston Chapman okay I'm gonna keep on trucking then Champion for SEC um 11th grade science Pierce Reed third grade Logan Hickerson for social studies in ninth grade he got third place good job fifth place Braden little in social studies for 11th grade awesome we go and um Carter's already up there but uh fifth place Carter Payne spelling 10th grade yeah and second place spelling 11th grade Aaron mlan [Applause] you're all winners all right one two three two good job good job okay and then we have for US History ninth grade Mason King US History 10th grade Jason D
006he got fourth place woodworking Laney bass fourth place and Abigail hos cake decorating second place good jobob good job I said I might get some lessons from Abigail [Applause] okay and then I did reserve the last for the one that maybe is the highest honor and um we'll ask Griffin ducken to come on up Griffin Mr Leo you want to come up with it come on up so Griffin was awarded um he's only one of two students Statewide who got a $2,000 scholarship from the state Beta Club it's called The Hannah Lightner college scholarship the scholarship is in honor of the First National Beta Club sponsor who was that sponsor for many years and he told me that he just got to check today so it is real all right all right so uh Griffin
007again one of two to get a $2,000 Beta Club scholarship from the state job bud great job congratulations [Applause] [Laughter] good job go so um again just to wrap the some of these students had to work independently some worked in groups some had to create something on the spot some had to perform some had to take tests and um again we're just so proud and I I kind of am want to just throw in a little personal connection I guess maybe I am really pleased at the teachers who are here who support these students and have come to see them recognize tonight thank you all for being here awesome thanks to everybody and so that concludes our honors and recognitions andless you would like to say for the business part of the meeting you may
008be dismissed at this time I just like to say first of all thank you so much we got the list of names and we're like wow we're going to have a a hard time getting everybody in here but that's a good problem to have so congratulations to you family and those of you are here to support your student uh we certainly appreciate that student outstanding job job Dr Griffin what one question kids before you leave why why don't have guys have a board me it's a significant achievement that you all have shown here and the quantity and the number of kids it's phenomenal and it's quite a testament to your parents and to your teachers and to yourselves and I think that it's also a thank you to miss Reed for your leadership and guiding
009these children through the whole process I think it'd be wonderful if we could get a whole total group picture to show the magnitude of your contribution to our community absolutely there we go let's get them up here real quick get in there put this on the front page of the TT yeah yes i' agree I'm sorry to embarrass you one for the one more for the yeah fig oh God good come on back guys CP there he is I think you're going to have two or three rows in this one f [Laughter] how you doing don't worry I'll bring yeah [Music] you don't want aall is heting oh help him Lord I don't know man [Music] sit up start charging hot here hot in here it is Freez freezing in here here good job great
010job good J congratulations job always Lind congats great J proud of brother for oh yeah she was waving at me hey she was waving at me she was waving at me that's my wife don't know [Music] now there's five all right that let them we have reached the the point in the meeting um for public comment okay we have no public comment this evening so the next item on the agenda is um board members if I could get your approval on the consent agenda what is the pleasure of the board motion to approve second got a motion to approve by board member Anthony mlan second by board member Aras all in favor say I I any oppose like sign carries unanimously the next item on the agenda is our financial report with Miss Sharon mafy
011[Applause] good evening good evening um as we reported in the um um work session uh 57% of the month of the year is complete excuse me 67% of the month is complete and we have uh used 64% of the budget so we are still right on target 67 of the year or month I'm sorry of the year I think all the picture taking we take yours no thank you okay let me get my budget amendments out here we have two uh budget amendments this month um the budget amendment number seven was for um a little additional money that was put in classroom teachers and budget amendment number eight was a c that was a state budget amendment and budget amendment number eight was for um Capital outlay it was uh for the lease purchase of
012um school buses and also adding the air conditioning project for Stony Point Elementary School I might say um just give a little explanation of the lease purchase of of buses when we get a new school bus the school system pays for the first bus and once we have that bus then the state purchases the replacement buses for uh the routes and they do it as a lease the state um pays the lease on those budget buses and then we Rec record that lease payment in our books which is really interesting because no money ever changes hands but it gets recorded on their books so that's all the interesting facts for tonight appreciate that Andre got tickled Andre Andrea makes fun [Laughter] all right the next item on the agenda is our human resources Report with
013Dr CL board members if I can before Dr CL before we turn it over to you we need to get a motion to approve appr budget amendment number seven and number eight I'll make a motion second got a motion by board member oxentine and a second by board member Degen Hart all in favor say I I any opposed like sign carries unanimously thank you Dr Clover now the floor is yours right thank you you have before you the Personnel agenda do you have any questions regarding that board members you have in your uh packet the information um can I get a motion to approve motion to approve second motion to approve by board member Aras second by Vice chairman degenhart all in favor say I I any oppose like sign okay thank you thank you
014the next item on our agenda is the superintendent's report and I will turn the floor over to Dr Griffin great thank you so much chairman uh just a couple of things uh this evening we covered a lot during our work session uh last week I just like to to state that we had the battle of the books our Middle School Battle of the books was on Wednesday February 19th and West Alexander Middle School was the winner of that battle um I was able to to go to the battle of the books and really enjoyed watching our students uh participate and and compete with one another uh it's just amazing I think they said they had read 15 books in the able to pull out you know small Snippets uh from that book uh and answer
015the questions it was really amazing also had our elementary Battle of the books on March 4th and Bethlehem Elementary was the winner there so congratulations to to those schools and all of our schools for participating and the team that they had their outstanding job uh last thing is just some dates for upcoming events that we're having on Thursday the 13th uh we're going to have Dr bill daget will be at Alexander um Central gymnasium at 6:00 I'd love to invite and have a big showing from our parents and community members any of our business partners and constituents from around our district uh he is a phenomenal speaker and I think he'll be very very pleased with some of the things that he has to say and ultimately he's just giving us kind of an update
016on on what we consider the future of Education uh some ways and trends that we see that he seeing in his line of work and research of of what may be to come in the future so it' love to to have you participate on that and everybody's open and welcome to to come to that event and it's free so there's really no excuse it's absolutely free and we'll high five you at the door when you come through um on the 14th is a required work day uh Alexander Early College will be on a regular schedule we'll have a work day uh for our our traditional schools uh and also during that work day um Dr daget will be speaking to our faculty members um the 14th ends the uh is the end of the third
017quarter uh the 17th an optional work day and then uh Alexander Early College spring bre break begins March 17th through March 21st so uh times flying by it seems like we just began the year just a a while ago and we're we're nearing the end at this point yeah I'd also like to bring to attention of the board uh that I propos moving our June 9th board meeting uh to that of June 16th there was a conflict there on the schedule and I'd like to get that out uh to our public and and ahead of time and give people time to plan for that so looking to move the June 9th board meeting to June Monday the 16th just back it up a Monday and that's all I have at this time okay thank you
018Dr Griffin AB the next item on the agenda is um proposed Board of Education policy revisions with Miss Sharon maffy [Music] we have three policies that are up for second reading tonight board member compensation and expense technology responsible use and employee travel and other expense reimbursements um these policies have uh stood for two times now and so I would request um approval on second read board members you have heard um from Miss Sharon mafy what is the pleasure the board make a motion got a motion to approve by board member oxentine second by board member Anthony mlan all in favor say I I any oppose Lo sign okay thank you um we have two policies up for first reading tonight registered sex offenders and reporting to external sources uh or external agencies we'll let these
019stand for another month and bring them back okay thank you CH thank you you Sharon thank you okay board members this concludes the Open Session part of our meeting I need to get a motion that we close open session and go into close session motion to close open session and enter into close open session and enter into close session okay got a motion to approve by board member Ares second by Anthony mlan all in favor say I I any oppos like sign okay we will now enter into session