School Board · Meeting · Jun 1, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGiyiZYlYYI HCBOE June 2026 School Board Meeting - June 1st, 2026 15:1915 minutes, 19 secondsmy hearing aid so I could hear it. 15:2115 minutes, 21 secondsAll right, welcome everybody to our June board meeting. We'd like to congratulate welcome our new director of schools, 15:2715 minutes, 27 secondsMarcy Tibble. It's her first day and uh want to thank Dr. Anderson for all the work she's put in since she's been here since January. 15:3715 minutes, 37 secondsSo, we'll get started. Uh I don't have anybody on the list to talk, so we'll have a moment of silence. 15:5215 minutes, 52 secondsThank you. 15:5715 minutes, 57 secondsI aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under 16:0716 minutes, 7 secondsGod, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all 16:1616 minutes, 16 secondsthe agenda for you. I'll make a motion we approve the first. 16:2316 minutes, 23 secondsWe have a motion. Do we have a second? A second. Have a second. All in favor say I. 16:3016 minutes, 30 secondsWe have a motion for the meetings of for May 4th to approve those. 16:3916 minutes, 39 secondsThose. Okay. Have a motion and a second. I'll second. 16:4516 minutes, 45 secondsOkay. All in favor say I. I Well, so I need a motion to approve the special call session on May 7th. 16:5316 minutes, 53 secondsMake a motion. And do we have a second? Second. 16:5716 minutes, 57 secondsHave a motion. Second. All in favor say I. 17:0117 minutes, 1 secondAlso need another one for a special code meeting on May the 21st. I'll make a motion to approve it. 17:0917 minutes, 9 secondsSecond. Motion and second. All in favor say I. I. 17:1417 minutes, 14 secondsSpecial recognition. Employee of the year is Papa Gibson. 17:2717 minutes, 27 secondsBrandon, I want to put your stuff. 17:2917 minutes, 29 seconds[laughter] 17:3017 minutes, 30 secondsSorry about that. 17:3117 minutes, 31 secondsThat's okay. So, this is a recommendation for blank. I'm not want to say it just yet. For employee of the year. [clears throat and cough] It is with great enthusiasm and pride 17:4017 minutes, 40 secondsthat I write this letter to recommend blank for the Hickman County Schools employee of the year. Serving as the 17:4817 minutes, 48 secondsoffice assistant for both the transportation and maintenance departments, she holds a uniquely demanding role in our district and she 17:5717 minutes, 57 secondsexecutes it with unmatched grace, dedication, and joy. Managing the logistics of one school district department is challenging enough, but 18:0618 minutes, 6 secondsshe seamlessly balances two. She is the central hub for our bus drivers, maintenance crews, and administrative 18:1418 minutes, 14 secondsstaff. Whether she is handling urgent rallying adjustments, processing work orders, or managing daily office chaos, 18:2218 minutes, 22 secondsshe does so with a level of efficiency that keeps our entire district running smoothly behind the scenes. While her 18:2918 minutes, 29 secondswork ethic is undeniable, what truly sets her apart is her incredible character. She possesses the absolute 18:3718 minutes, 37 secondsbest personality, no matter how stressful the afternoon bus runs, uh, get on or how backed up the maintenance 18:4518 minutes, 45 secondsrequests are. She greets everyone with a genuine smile and a contagious contagious positive attitude. She 18:5218 minutes, 52 secondsdoesn't just do her job, she genuinely cares about the people she serves. 18:5718 minutes, 57 secondsdrivers, technicians, front office staff, and administrators all know that when they call upon her, they will be met with kindness and a helping hand. 19:0819 minutes, 8 secondsShe is always the first to step up when something needs to be done. She rout routinely goes above and beyond her 19:1519 minutes, 15 secondsdaily duties to ensure our students are transported safely and our facilities are wellmaintained. 19:2219 minutes, 22 secondsI guess I can say it now. Tanya Williams embodies the very best of Hman County School. I can think of no one more 19:2919 minutes, 29 secondsdeserving of the honor of employee of the year. 19:3619 minutes, 36 seconds[applause] 19:4019 minutes, 40 seconds[applause] 19:4519 minutes, 45 seconds[laughter] 19:5319 minutes, 53 secondsThank you. 19:5819 minutes, 58 seconds[applause] 19:5919 minutes, 59 seconds[cheering] 20:0120 minutes, 1 secondThe next one is friends of education. 20:0420 minutes, 4 secondsThis is one of the that we always look forward to. People have gone out beyond to help us at this time. Turn over to our market table. 20:1520 minutes, 15 secondsThe Friend of Education [clears throat] Award is presented each year to a community member or organization that has a history of supporting the students and programs of Hickman County Schools. 20:2520 minutes, 25 secondsThe past and current recipients of this award along with many other individuals and organizations in our community do not do this for accolades or notoriety, 20:3420 minutes, 34 secondsbut out of a genuine love for Hickman County and the people who live here. 20:3820 minutes, 38 secondsThis year's recipient is the Continuing the Good Foundation, an organization whose roots run deep in 20:4620 minutes, 46 secondsHickman County. Over the past several years, the Continuing the Good Foundation has provided grants for academic programs, CTE programs, library 20:5520 minutes, 55 secondsupgrades, extracurricular and athletic programs, just to name a few. They also have provided multiple scholarships for 21:0221 minutes, 2 secondsstudents to continue their education beyond high school. Their desire to support and provide opportunities for others goes well beyond the school 21:1021 minutes, 10 secondssystem in Hikman County. Hikman County Schools would like to thank the Continuing the Good Foundation for all they have done and will continue to do for our school, students, and community. 21:2021 minutes, 20 secondsTonight, we present this award to Janet Blackwell from the foundation. Thank you for being a friend of education in 21:2621 minutes, 26 secondsHickman County. [applause] We have graduate school started last year. Wonderful. 21:4021 minutes, 40 secondsCan we get a picture? Thank you. Thank you. 21:4621 minutes, 46 seconds[applause] 22:0022 minutesNext before us is the consent agenda items. Anybody have any looked over those or have any problems with any of them? Now we get a motion to approve a 22:0722 minutes, 7 secondsmotion to approve the consent agenda items. We have a motion. Do we have a second? I second. 22:1322 minutes, 13 secondsWe have a second. All in favor say I. I any opposed? I items require board option. East Techn High School football overnight count. 22:2422 minutes, 24 secondsAnybody represent? I'm going to stand over here that way. 22:3222 minutes, 32 secondsAll right. So, um I'm Billy Sawer. Uh just recently became the head coach over at East Stickman. Um, so what I was 22:4122 minutes, 41 secondscoming to ask you guys about was in the past prior to 2024, we have done football camp overnight in the high school. Um, after 2024, uh, when Mr. 22:5422 minutes, 54 secondsMullins was here, he said that that was a no-go for him and we had been going to Camp Marba for the last two years. Um, 23:0223 minutes, 2 secondsproblem with Camp Marba is one, it's a great place. don't want to talk about about at all, but for a football camp it doesn't need all the needs that we have. 23:1123 minutes, 11 secondsUm, one, it costs about $70 per child to go there and that covers literally the bed that they sleep in. We get no food. 23:2023 minutes, 20 secondsThere's no staff besides our coaching staffs that are there. Um, the last two years we've went and mowed the field for them because it's out of season for 23:2823 minutes, 28 secondsthem. We paint the field, which is not a big deal painting wise, but the field itself is the kickball field. I don't know if you guys are familiar with the 23:3523 minutes, 35 secondscount, but it's only it's barely 50 yards long and barely 50 yards wide and we need a little bit more space. Uh 23:4423 minutes, 44 secondsregulation fields at least speak to three yards. So those three yards count a lot and u so we have limited space 23:5123 minutes, 51 secondsthere. We also miss out on having all of our amenities. So no weights. We have to carry any of our equipment. So, uh, 24:0024 minutesblocking dummies, things of that nature 24:0224 minutes, 2 seconds[clears throat] 24:0324 minutes, 3 secondswith us up there. And then the other part is when there's inclement weather. 24:0724 minutes, 7 secondsSo, we have the heat index rule where if it reaches 105, we're done for the day. 24:1224 minutes, 12 secondsSo, normally if we're at school, we can go into the gym or in the grand hallway there because it's wide enough for what we do. Or our weight room. We don't have 24:2124 minutes, 21 secondsthat there. the uh space inside for their gym and their uh cafeteria all it's just not a big enough space for 50 24:2924 minutes, 29 secondskids to be in at one time. So basically if heat index happens we're done for the day. We can't go back out at night 24:3624 minutes, 36 secondsbecause there's no locks. So we hit that at like 2:00. We basically don't get to practice the rest of that day. So we're 24:4524 minutes, 45 secondsdone there. And then if there's ever storms or anything, same idea. We have nowhere to go. So, what I'm asking um is 24:5224 minutes, 52 secondsjust to do go back to having permission to stay overnight at the high school uh as we had done in the past. One, it 25:0025 minuteswould cut the camp cost, which this year at $70 a kid, not counting an increase from Camp Marba, that would run us about 25:0725 minutes, 7 seconds$3,500 just for a place for our kids to sleep. 25:1225 minutes, 12 secondsThen you add on our food cost, which averages somewhere between $15 to $1,800 per year. uh just depending on what we do. We try to get the big meal 25:2125 minutes, 21 secondssponsored, but that's getting them breakfast, lunch, and a couple of dinners because we usually do supply those. So, um but just looking to cut 25:3025 minutes, 30 secondsthat cost because I know in today's environment like we're all trying to cut costs as much as we can. So helping our program out there, but also ensuring 25:3825 minutes, 38 secondsthat we have all the things we need because we would stay in four rooms at if you guys are familiar with the high 25:4525 minutes, 45 secondsschool there, the English history hallway that's uh over [snorts] next to the drive as you come around to the back 25:5225 minutes, 52 secondsof the school. We would stay in my classroom and then my other coaches. Our classrooms are all right there together, including Coach Hunt, the baseball 26:0026 minutescoach. Um we would divide them up into those four rooms. we would only be using that exit that comes out of the English department that goes right down to the 26:0826 minutes, 8 secondsback of the cafeteria which is also where our wait room is and where our fieldhouse is. So our only traction in the school would be that one section of 26:1726 minutes, 17 secondsthe hallway. Um Miss Bolton has said that she would be okay with that pending your approval that she doesn't have a problem with that. But um that is that 26:2626 minutes, 26 secondsis kind of what we're looking at just so that way like I said inclement weather happens we can still get done the things we need to get done. Heat index we can 26:3526 minutes, 35 secondsget done and then we still have the ability to watch film to work out to be in our fieldhouse have all our supplies 26:4326 minutes, 43 secondsthere not have to load it up travel worry about forgetting making trips from centerville back to east to try to get things. So so that's what I'm asking for 26:5126 minutes, 51 secondstonight is just permission to go back to having our overnight camp. I think that's perfect good idea of saving you money and saving trips and everything else. I need a motion to 26:5926 minutes, 59 secondsI'll make a motion that we let you return football camp to East Higman High School. That's and we have a second. All in favor say I. 27:0627 minutes, 6 secondsI thank you guys very much. Thank you. 27:1427 minutes, 14 secondsApprove change of order. 27:1827 minutes, 18 secondsHello. Um, this evening there's some a change order for the the building, the CDE building at East High School. It's more of a just a paperwork issue. 27:2827 minutes, 28 secondsWhat issue? A paperwork. Okay. 27:3127 minutes, 31 secondsKind of a bookkeeping issue that the the architects have requested the um the 27:3827 minutes, 38 secondscontractor to submit days for those days they missed early in the year. Um, and that just extends their possible 27:4627 minutes, 46 secondscalendar. They're still looking at being done by the end of this month with that building. So, it's not going to it's not going to change anything as far as when 27:5527 minutes, 55 secondsthey feel they'll be done. It's just a on paper. They're allowed those days in the contract and they just wanted they're talking about a new date of 8:20 to be through. 28:0628 minutes, 6 secondsAgain, that's on that's on paper. That's days they are due from the contract, but [clears throat] there's their intention is to be done by 28:1428 minutes, 14 secondsthe end of this month. I was out there today. Mhm. 28:1828 minutes, 18 secondsThey got about 90% of the siding on, no roof on, no inside walls up. Part of the 28:2628 minutes, 26 secondsair conditioning on there was nobody there working except for one boy cleaning the floor. Mhm. I've been out there several days. 28:3328 minutes, 33 secondsNobody's been working. Good days. Nobody was working. Uh so I don't know what what their problem 28:4028 minutes, 40 secondsis. This is a very small project. They should have had it done. I mean, there's been some good days. One day I knew part 28:4828 minutes, 48 secondsof the crew show up, they couldn't even get sign in to get in the building because they didn't have a driver's license. 28:5328 minutes, 53 secondsSo, days like that is, you know, doesn't fall back on us, falls back on them. 28:5928 minutes, 59 seconds[clears throat] 29:0029 minutesAnd none of these none of the days requested are all weather days from January and February. I know we had some bad days. 29:0829 minutes, 8 secondsUm, you know, but there still got some concrete pads to pour. 29:1229 minutes, 12 secondsMhm. set the both the units, finish up the wiring. Looking like all the plumbing is in except for hanging the 29:2029 minutes, 20 secondsaccessories and uh cleaning up the grounds and uh a couple good dry weeks 29:2629 minutes, 26 secondsto be finished. So, we need to kind of emphasize to them they need to get this done. They're hanging around about 20 29:3429 minutes, 34 secondsschools already started, you know, and we don't need them on again. They're they're 29:4229 minutes, 42 secondshope is to be done by the end of this month. Okay. 29:4529 minutes, 45 secondsJune 30. That I know the last schedule we got a couple weeks ago, their last day there was going to be June 16th. 29:5229 minutes, 52 secondsSo So you So we you we can follow up at the next meeting and they and we should be seeing us. They're not done. They 30:0030 minutesshould have some significant progress, right? Yes, sir. They should. 30:0430 minutes, 4 secondsYeah. So, um I know that, like I said, the last schedule that we had for all their stuff to be complete was I can't remember exactly. It was either the 16th or the 30:1230 minutes, 12 seconds20th, but it was somewhere in that time frame, but even if you had some bad weather days, I think by the end of the month would be plenty of time. 30:2030 minutes, 20 secondsWell, there's they've got the materials out there. They just need to start showing up with the crew and start working 30:2730 minutes, 27 secondscuz uh it's too close to me. We ride out there around the place and you know, there's nobody there, nobody doing anything. I think they're missing some 30:3530 minutes, 35 secondsgood days, you know, to be out here working. I know they probably got other jobs, but they also have a original deadline and uh which they get done at the end of June. That's fine. 30:4730 minutes, 47 secondsSo, there's a contract contractual deadline of August 20th. 30:5030 minutes, 50 secondsThat's what they're wanting, August 20th. 30:5230 minutes, 52 secondsThey're wanting August 20th. What this is? the architect asked them to submit their weather delays from January 31:0031 minutesand February, which they're entitled to in the contract. Push it out. Yeah. And it's just it's moving that date out. 31:0731 minutes, 7 secondsI think in there it said 20ish days or something is how many they tried to get. 31:1231 minutes, 12 secondsSo, you're getting 100 or 96, I'm sorry, 96 days. 96 weather days. Mhm. 31:1931 minutes, 19 secondsAnd I don't know how they calculated that or anything, but um it seems like there would be overlap in 31:2731 minutes, 27 secondsthose certain jobs and some of it was some of it was our delays on approving 31:3631 minutes, 36 secondssome reinforcements to concrete and stuff. So and electrical plumbing there was stuff that had to be moved. So some of that was some of that was our 31:4331 minutes, 43 secondsdelays but not not all of it. But right now, we don't have any load from our issues. So, we don't they need they need to finish it up. 31:5131 minutes, 51 secondsOkay. 31:5231 minutes, 52 secondsSo, why should we approve [clears throat] something for August the 20th and they're telling you they're going to be done by the end of June? 32:0032 minutesI'm not sure exactly. The the architects couldn't tell me. They just said that they had asked for the contractor to 32:0832 minutes, 8 secondssubmit those dates [clears throat] that they were that they were allowed to submit. And is this asking for more money? 32:1632 minutes, 16 secondsIt is not. Okay. 32:1932 minutes, 19 secondsAre there liquid liquidated damages associated with our contract? 32:2332 minutes, 23 secondsI believe they are. I believe they're either 500 or,000 a day. 32:2732 minutes, 27 secondsThat may be why they're asking just to avoid liquidated damages scenario. 32:3232 minutes, 32 secondsAnd it's okay. All right. Let's hope they get to it. 32:3832 minutes, 38 secondsGet it done when because we still got if it's in August, they still got to put all the equipment in it. 32:4332 minutes, 43 secondsMhm. you know, and get everything set up like they need it. So, they'll be pushing if we got classes. So, let's hope they get done by the end of June. 32:5232 minutes, 52 secondsLike I said, if we get to the next meeting in July and this is still then it's going to be a whole new conver it be a whole different conversation then. 33:0033 minutesMhm. Right. Yes, sir. 33:0433 minutes, 4 secondsI'll make a motion we approve the change order in 11B. Second. So, so we're getting them. 33:1133 minutes, 11 secondsYeah. They're they're legally coordinated. 33:1533 minutes, 15 secondsThey're here. I mean, a lot. Yeah. Contractually. 33:2333 minutes, 23 secondsYeah. Contractually. We just we didn't I suggest next time we sign a contract, we construction, we take a harder look at 33:3133 minutes, 31 secondssome of that. But now I And that is validated. Y'all validated. 33:3533 minutes, 35 secondsThat's a reasonable extension. It was well it was validated by the contractors 33:4233 minutes, 42 secondsI mean by the engineers I'm sorry by the architects we approved it. 33:4933 minutes, 49 secondsUm but like I say it's it's a simple building and it's not it's not a comp may be able to 33:5633 minutes, 56 secondsAnyhow we got a motion to have a second make a second. All in favor of change over say I. 34:0434 minutes, 4 secondsI. Any oppose? No. Six. Yes. One. No. 34:1134 minutes, 11 secondsMotion pass [clears throat] again. We'll check check back with us in July. 34:1734 minutes, 17 secondsSee where they We do have a meeting with them when this week. So, what I'm afraid I don't want them to have three or four things going and put 34:2434 minutes, 24 secondsus on the back burner. [clears throat] Contractors have a time they do that. 34:2934 minutes, 29 secondsYou know, they get almost finished and you don't see them. 34:3234 minutes, 32 secondsWell, especially especially if there's liquidated languages involved. They're asking for more because they have another job they need to do. 34:3934 minutes, 39 secondsJust I I do this every day. I been involved and I've been involved with them stuff like this. So, I know it is. 34:4634 minutes, 46 secondsAll righty. 34:4834 minutes, 48 secondsOkay. We got U through the RJ Young maintenance agreement. 34:5534 minutes, 55 secondsAnd this is a change to our service plan agreement um that we're asking for 35:0435 minutes, 4 secondson the little the little printout spreadsheet. It's it would only save us about $900 a year, a little less than 35:1235 minutes, 12 seconds$900 a year, but it allows us to better budget um overages. 35:1735 minutes, 17 secondsUm typically we'll have anywhere from It depends. Some years were really good and we'll only have $500 in the in overage copies. And then other years were really 35:2635 minutes, 26 secondsbad. Maybe teachers ran out of materials or something and and we may be six or 35:3335 minutes, 33 seconds$7,000 over with overages. So this just this is annually. This is the part of the contract that changes annually 35:4135 minutes, 41 secondsanyway. And they and R.J. Young met with us and said that this was a 35:4835 minutes, 48 secondsit would be unlimited, but they do watch it for any significant increases. They kind of likened it to how we used to pay 35:5735 minutes, 57 secondsfor minutes on your phone and it went to to unlimited for um your phone plans and 36:0436 minutes, 4 secondsthat's that's kind of how they spilled it or expressed it to me. Um, but again, it it doesn't save us a lot 36:1236 minutes, 12 secondsof money, but it does allow for a better budgeting and a better annualized amount. 36:2236 minutes, 22 secondsOkay. Do we have a motion to approve it? 36:2636 minutes, 26 secondsI'll make [clears throat] a motion to approve the RJ Young contract. Have a motion. We have a second. Second. 36:3336 minutes, 33 secondsAll in favor say we don't have to roll those on money. [clears throat] Dr. C. Yes. Yes. Miss Harren. Yes. Miss Taylor. Yes. Mr. Tidwell. Yes. 36:4136 minutes, 41 secondsMr. Hob. Yes. Mr. Lane. Yes. Dr. May. Yes. So, yes, sir. 36:4736 minutes, 47 secondsAnd I say for this first um next one bid for maintenance department. Miss Williams. 36:5736 minutes, 57 secondsI'll do the flooring one for something else. 37:0037 minutesI helped Well, I just I helped out a lot with the flooring bid on this. 37:0437 minutes, 4 secondsOkay. Um, so, uh, we did not recommend the low bidder. 37:1037 minutes, 10 secondsIf you look through it, it was there was a substantial difference between the low bidder and the other two biders. Um, I 37:1737 minutes, 17 secondsspoke with that low bidder and I just don't feel confident that he included everything that was necessary to do the 37:2437 minutes, 24 secondsjob and I know we could he submitted the bid so we could hold him to it, but I don't feel comfortable doing that. Um, 37:3237 minutes, 32 secondsand and wouldn't want somebody to do that to me. So that's kind of why I'm recommended the second 37:3937 minutes, 39 secondshighest or the Yeah. the second highest bidder. Second lowest bid. 37:4637 minutes, 46 secondsSir, who bid you wanted? What company? Um we're recommending Malard flooring. 37:5337 minutes, 53 secondsThe old the offer porch was the low bidder, but I don't feel comfortable with that bid that they submitted. 37:5937 minutes, 59 secondsThat's way too much difference. Um 38:0038 minutes[clears throat] 38:0138 minutes, 1 secondand and I I just feel he didn't include some necessary things. 38:0938 minutes, 9 secondsOkay. 38:1138 minutes, 11 secondsAnd and I did give you a breakdown of the with furniture removal and without. 38:1738 minutes, 17 secondsUm I spoke with Bill about the furniture removal and and he said that he thought we could save that money. Um so 38:2738 minutes, 27 secondswe could we could move stuff oursel and think so quite a bit of money. I mean if I call them up for flooring in my house they move furniture and put it back in. 38:3538 minutes, 35 secondsI don't turn floor. 38:3838 minutes, 38 secondsWhich floor? This is the flooring bid for four different well three different schools. Okay. 38:4738 minutes, 47 secondsIt was for carpeting. 38:4838 minutes, 48 secondsThis is the libraries or this is the front office areas at at East Elementary. You've got the front 38:5738 minutes, 57 secondsoffice area and the library. They would they would go in the office areas with luxury vinyl and then the and the uh 39:0639 minutes, 6 secondslibrary they'd go back with carpet and then the other two east intermediate is the office area which was from the flood which we did receive from some funding 39:1439 minutes, 14 secondsfor uh from the insurance company and then the third location is the east middle school office area. So, it's it's 39:2339 minutes, 23 secondsoffice areas and and um library. And there will be another one 39:3139 minutes, 31 secondsdone at East Intermediate from the flood at the library, but they're going back with a a hard surface, an epoxy coating instead of carpet, 39:4039 minutes, 40 secondswhich that's not part of that would be a separate company altogether in the library. 39:4439 minutes, 44 secondsMhm. [clears throat] And they want something a little more easier to maintain and clean. 39:4939 minutes, 49 secondsSo, what kind of floor are they putting down exactly? Which one in the library at the East Intermediate Library? 39:5539 minutes, 55 secondsThey're going to do they wanted to do an epoxy, which is what we did in kitchen and bathrooms. Um, it's just easy 40:0240 minutes, 2 secondsmaintenance. They can put down they'll put down rugs on top of it for comfort for kids. 40:0740 minutes, 7 secondsWe're painting concrete ceiling essentially. It's It's a little harder than paint, but yeah, but that's not part of this vid, right? 40:1440 minutes, 14 secondsIt's not. It's not. I was just letting you know that there was another flooring project too. 40:2140 minutes, 21 secondsAnd problem with epoxy. 40:2440 minutes, 24 secondsThere's epoxy that you and I can use Mhm. 40:2640 minutes, 26 secondswithout a problem. There's boxes you got to have a respirator. Mhm. 40:3040 minutes, 30 secondsAnd and it's a whole lot different price. So that which one are we getting? 40:3540 minutes, 35 secondsThat would be a bill question. I'm not sure which one which one it [clears throat] is. 40:3940 minutes, 39 secondsWe getting the cheap one or we getting the good one. The cheap one won't if unless you strip the floor down with concrete and 40:4940 minutes, 49 secondsclean it thoroughly. No paint or epoxy will stick to it. 40:5340 minutes, 53 secondsAnd and that's the key to it. U so bear in mind if this comes up or starts 41:0141 minutes, 1 secondtearing up or scratching up then they're in their contract they come back and fix it. 41:0741 minutes, 7 secondsOkay. So because unless like I say unless it's clean and there's basically one way of cleaning up stuff to get it 41:1441 minutes, 14 secondsdown clean and I don't know and that's one of the other uh bid items that we opened up tonight is that number three. 41:2241 minutes, 22 secondsYeah, it's it's on there. We going to get to it. All right. 41:2641 minutes, 26 secondsSo are we going to knock the furniture removal out of these? Well, there's one with and one without. 41:3541 minutes, 35 secondsSo I say we approve. You pick which one. Yeah. 41:4141 minutes, 41 secondsThe 34,278 is without. 41:4541 minutes, 45 secondsSo I make a motion that we approve the flooring bid from Malard Flooring without furniture removal. I second it. 41:5341 minutes, 53 secondsMotion second. Roll call. Miss Harren. 42:0242 minutes, 2 secondsYes. Miss Taylor. Yes. Mr. Tidwell. Yes. 42:0442 minutes, 4 secondsMr. Hobs. Yes, Mr. Lane. 42:0642 minutes, 6 secondsYes, Dr. Maze. 42:0642 minutes, 6 secondsYes, Dr. Coup. Yes. 42:0842 minutes, 8 secondsThank you, Fire alarm. 42:2342 minutes, 23 secondsWe have three bids for this. 42:2642 minutes, 26 secondsAmerican fire protection, active energy services, and state systems fire protection. We are recommending state systems as overall their bid was the lowest. 42:3942 minutes, 39 secondsThey also have worked in our system before so they kind of know our facilities. 42:4742 minutes, 47 secondsWe got to have it ready. 42:5042 minutes, 50 secondsThat's something monitoring and service and repair replacing. You got to have it. 42:5542 minutes, 55 secondsYeah. They'll check the dates on them and everything. 42:5942 minutes, 59 secondsYeah. I don't want fire marshall down on us. Yes, we got to keep. All right. 43:0443 minutes, 4 secondsI'll make a motion to approve 11D2 fire alarm monitoring service repair and equipment replacement. Yeah, we have a second. A second. 43:1143 minutes, 11 secondsHave a motion second. Roll call, please. Miss Taylor, Mr. Tedwell, yes. Mr. H. Yes. Mr. Blaine, yes. 43:1843 minutes, 18 secondsDr. Ms. Yes. Dr. C. Yes. Miss Aaron. Yes. Motion passes 7. 43:2443 minutes, 24 secondsNow forward coding. Anything else to add to that or two bids on that and we are going recommend to go with garage floor 43:3243 minutes, 32 secondscoating of Nashville. They are the lowest bidder and they have done work in our schools already. They know our facilities and they do prep our floors. 43:3943 minutes, 39 secondsThey are professional at what they do. Do they have any warranty with this? It's a lifetime warranty. How much? Lifetime. 43:4743 minutes, 47 secondsLifetime. 43:4843 minutes, 48 secondsDefine lifime. [laughter] I'm in the building. 43:5743 minutes, 57 secondsBut I think they've done work at East Middle School, the concession stand, Jim Lonnie area there when we had spring flood [clears throat] a few years ago. 44:0444 minutes, 4 secondsIf you've seen that flooring, um they've done I think it's East Middle. I don't know, Pickman Middle. I think they've done some work there in the concession stand areas. 44:1444 minutes, 14 secondsAll right. If y'all feel good about them, need a motion. 44:2044 minutes, 20 secondsI'll make a motion that we accept garage door in Nashville's bid for the epoxy pool. 44:3044 minutes, 30 secondsI'll second. We have a roll call, please. Miss Taylor, yes. Mr. Tidwell, yes. 44:3844 minutes, 38 secondsMr. Hobs, yes. Mr. Lane, yes. Miss Mazize. Yes. Sorry. Dr. May. Dr. C. Yes. Miss Heron. Yes. 44:4544 minutes, 45 secondsI started with Taylor. Yes. Okay. Annual paving and patching. 44:5244 minutes, 52 secondsTwo bids on this one. We're recommending sessions. They were the lowest bidder and they have done some paving and patching work for us in the past. 45:0245 minutes, 2 secondsOne has been doing it for years. Yeah. Do we have much that we plan on doing? 45:0745 minutes, 7 secondsWe have a I didn't see a price looked over it. 45:1245 minutes, 12 secondsI'm not sure what our capital projects be doing. It's just we [laughter] need them. We got them on point. 45:1945 minutes, 19 secondsYou know, actually, I don't think we did any patch it because of that. All right. So, we need 45:2545 minutes, 25 secondsa motion to uh award this if we do any if we two sessions. 45:3145 minutes, 31 secondsI make a motion we approve sessions for annual paving and patching. Do we have a second? I'll second. 45:3845 minutes, 38 secondsA motion. Second on call. Mr. Tidwell. Yes. Mr. Hogs. Yes. Mr. Lane. Yes. 45:4445 minutes, 44 secondsDr. Ms. Yes. Dr. C. Yes. Min. Yes, Miss Taylor. Yes. All right. 45:5145 minutes, 51 secondsAnd the next one, ceiling and striping. 45:5545 minutes, 55 secondsWe did get three bids for this one. We recommend American Stripers where they were the lowest bid. They they also got it last year for the annual one and they 46:0446 minutes, 4 secondsdid some work for us um last year. So, they're returning as our lowest bidder. 46:1346 minutes, 13 secondsSo, what does that consist of? 46:1646 minutes, 16 secondsThey will prep the area to clean it of any debris, make sure it's ready to be sealed so that the surface is a smooth 46:2546 minutes, 25 secondssurface and striping whatever the lines we may need for parking lots or for So is that a certain that we're going to do parking that we're going to stripe parking lots? 46:3446 minutes, 34 secondsIs that an annual thing or is it as needed? 46:3746 minutes, 37 secondsYes, we kind of mix it up between schools schools as needed. whatever the need may be. 46:4246 minutes, 42 secondsThen getting us on that maybe price, you know, maybe we'll get some money, maybe we don't. [laughter] But something I've heard I've had I've 46:4946 minutes, 49 secondsheard being around AE basketball and and traveling around the different high schools, we go to different high schools where seniors get to paint their spots and I don't know if that would help. 47:0247 minutes, 2 secondsWe're not on board with that. 47:0447 minutes, 4 secondsOh, okay. I was at Franklin High School and the principal hired some boys and they 47:1247 minutes, 12 secondsbought signage and they went out and scraped them and painted them themselves and he paid them for the summer and they did it did a nice job. 47:1847 minutes, 18 secondsYeah, because this can be expensive but it's uh you know it's it's a it's a job. A lot of markup. [clears throat] 47:2747 minutes, 27 secondsIt is. So we'll have to wait until we get money but we need to approve it. So I'll make a motion that we approve the 47:3647 minutes, 36 secondssecond annual sessions payment company. 47:4647 minutes, 46 secondsI'm sorry you said that while ago session that was the patch and pavement. Okay. All right. Have a second. 47:5547 minutes, 55 secondsI second a motion second. Roll call vote. Mr. Hobs. Yes. Mr. Lane. Yes. Dr. Mazize. Yes. Dr. Yes. 48:0348 minutes, 3 secondsMiss Herren, yes. Miss Taylor, yes. 48:0548 minutes, 5 secondsMr. Tidwell, yes. 48:0748 minutes, 7 seconds[clears throat] 48:0848 minutes, 8 seconds7. Concrete pouring in schools. 48:1348 minutes, 13 secondsThere's only one bidder for this, the BJB Construction Company. Um, this is just an annual. If we need if we choose 48:2148 minutes, 21 secondsto do any concrete work at any of our buildings or facilities, we recommend BJB. They were the only bidder. 48:3048 minutes, 30 secondsWe didn't do any last year. I think the year before that. So, I don't know what we got to do this year, but it's always good to have in case we need something. 48:3848 minutes, 38 secondsSo, we need a Since they're only bidder, I guess we need a motion to pass that. I'll make a motion to accept BJB. 48:4648 minutes, 46 secondsAnd we need a second. [clears throat] Second. Motion second. Po. Mr. Lane. Yes. Dr. Maze? Yes. 48:5448 minutes, 54 secondsDr. Key? Yes. Miss Aaron? Yes. Miss Taylor? Yes. Mr. Tidwell? Yes. Mr. Hobs? Yes. 49:0149 minutes, 1 secondAll right, gym floor service. 49:0649 minutes, 6 secondsThree biders for this one. Scout Sports Floors, BJB Construction, and Bam Flooring. Bam Flooring is who we 49:1349 minutes, 13 secondsrecommend. They were the lowest bidder and they have had our they've done our gym floors for many years. 49:1949 minutes, 19 secondsSo, he doesn't know our facilities very well, and he was our lowest bidder. Is there been any more talk about the floor 49:2849 minutes, 28 secondsat the high school at East patching it or that we're waiting on to see what they were going to do? Patch it or replace it. Be more talk about that. 49:3649 minutes, 36 secondsHe's not given us a quote on that yet. I do know he's coming into our buildings to start looking at our gyms sometime this month and we're hoping that we'll get feedback from him on that. 49:4649 minutes, 46 secondsOkay. So, maybe we'll know that by July. Yes. Okay. 49:5249 minutes, 52 secondsAll right. Need a motion to Pass this. 49:5649 minutes, 56 secondsI make a motion we approve bam flooring for gym floor services. Second. I'll second. 50:0450 minutes, 4 secondsMotion second. Roll call. Dr. May. Yes. Dr. C. Yes. Miss Harren. Yes. Miss. Taylor. Yes. Mr. Tigaw. 50:1350 minutes, 13 secondsYes. Mr. Hobs. Yes. Mr. Lane. Yes. 50:1650 minutes, 16 seconds70. Thank you. And the next one, KVAC replacement repair and annual service. 50:2650 minutes, 26 secondsFour biders for this one. Lead company, NHS Mechanical, Matrix Mechanical, and SM Lawrence. SM Lawrence did come in 50:3450 minutes, 34 secondswith the lowest bid and that's who were recommended. 50:3850 minutes, 38 secondsHave we done any work with these people before? 50:4050 minutes, 40 secondsUm, I know we had Matrix last year. 50:4450 minutes, 44 secondsWe had matrix. Yes. currently Mr. Van Kite I do believe is he is that's Van Kit's group. 50:5150 minutes, 51 secondsYes. And he's with I think we did work with him when he was with National, right? 50:5550 minutes, 55 secondsIt's been a few several years back, but this is his group. All right. 51:0451 minutes, 4 secondsAll righty. We have a motion to uh use them for our evac systems, 51:1151 minutes, 11 secondsHVAC for repair and annual service. Um, one question about annual service. 51:1851 minutes, 18 secondsAnd I mentioned this before, years ago, we did annual service. Our staff did people did clean coils, change filters, 51:2551 minutes, 25 secondsand then we got away from that. And that cost us about $1,000, $800 to $1,000 to come down and clean a set of coils on 51:3251 minutes, 32 secondssomething or to service an ice maker about $1,000, which require us cleaning it, putting water filter on it, watching it recycle. 51:4251 minutes, 42 secondsuh somewhat we need to get back doing that. That cut away our cost down. Mhm. 51:4751 minutes, 47 secondsWe're spending way too much money and I know I see the tickets and the bills and it just shocks me knowing what we're 51:5651 minutes, 56 secondspaying now for this service and some way we need to start back doing a lot of this ourselves. I know we get anything heavy we're going to have somebody in that's trained to work on these systems. 52:0652 minutes, 6 secondsBut a lot of this is um can go back to the maintenance people they used to do it. I think we need to really look and 52:1352 minutes, 13 secondssee about them doing it again. And uh because we got a bunch of units and it cost us a bunch of money throughout the 52:2052 minutes, 20 secondsyears to do this and if you failed to do it then it leads to a failure in the system and then we got a bigger cost. How did we get here? 52:2852 minutes, 28 secondsHow did we get here to where we have a we outsource that one our my last maintenance supervisor did that? He put it out on little bit. 52:3752 minutes, 37 secondsThey been changing air filters and had a company to do that. Reasoning? It's been several years since he left. 52:4552 minutes, 45 secondsThat's been So, what was his reason? Three years. Huh? What was his reason? I have no idea. 52:5352 minutes, 53 secondsThey also check the belts. They check our gases to see if anything has to be topped off and to make sure that 53:0053 minuteseverything is in proper working order so that it's doing its best of its ability so that when we begin the next year. 53:0853 minutes, 8 secondsThey're currently working on the summer service right now as we speak this last week and this week going forward. 53:1353 minutes, 13 secondsThey're they're doing our services right now for the summer pre PM work. They just try to make sure that our units are 53:2053 minutes, 20 secondsworking and everything is good with them as far as gases, belts, filters, the coils. 53:2753 minutes, 27 secondsIt is it is a lot. 53:3053 minutes, 30 secondsThere's a lot of units as you said. So they said there are gentlemen out during the summer months and we get this taken care of in a couple of weeks where they 53:3953 minutes, 39 secondscan send a larger crew than what our our our four guys can do. 53:4353 minutes, 43 secondsI'd love to see us hire an HVAC specialist. 53:4753 minutes, 47 secondssomething to consider because it would cut just like we hired electrician that cut our cost down. 53:5453 minutes, 54 secondsYou know, if we find somebody specializ in this that will work for us and take care of all those things, it would make a it would we do try to cover any work that we can 54:0354 minutes, 3 secondsdo the guys can do themselves before we do call in the HVAC companies to to do a repair. 54:1054 minutes, 10 secondsThey'll try to troubleshoot to the best of their ability. All righty. So, we need a motion. 54:1854 minutes, 18 secondsI I make a motion we approve um SM Lawrence for HVAC services. 54:2554 minutes, 25 secondsI'll second motion second. Roll call vote. Dr. C. Yes. Miss Aaron? Yes. Miss Taylor? Yes. Mr. Tidwell? Yes. Mr. Hobs? Yes. 54:3454 minutes, 34 secondsMr. Lane? Yes. 54:3454 minutes, 34 secondsDr. May? Yes. [clears throat] Motion pass 7. 54:4154 minutes, 41 secondspainting of schools. 54:4454 minutes, 44 secondsWe did get three bids on this BJB construction offer porch and arts house of painting. We acknowledge that the 54:5154 minutes, 51 secondsoffer porch did come in as the lowest bidder, but we act we request that the award be given to Arts House of 54:5954 minutes, 59 secondsPainting. Our recommendation is based on the fact that they are a local contractor and they've got an established history with us in our 55:0655 minutes, 6 secondsfacilities of doing some really good paint jobs that our our school principles administration is h very pleased with. They know the workmanship 55:1455 minutes, 14 secondsthat we ask of them since they are a local company. They can complete a project very quickly for us. Whether 55:2155 minutes, 21 secondsit's a painting of a hallway or just a quick touchup, they are able to mobilize a lot quicker than since they are very local. 55:3255 minutes, 32 secondsWhat was the price difference? I can't find that. 55:3955 minutes, 39 secondsIt is kind of broken down over several aspects that were bidded out. Um, but for them to even a minimum job for them 55:4855 minutes, 48 secondsto even come out is 200 where the other biders were like 390 just to even come out to even do a job or $2,000 to even come out to do a job. 56:0056 minutesSo that so since they are local, they were able to keep that cost down for us. 56:0756 minutes, 7 secondsThey're what they pay by the hour for their painters. what they would charge us is $30 an hour compared to 61 or $80 an hour. 56:1856 minutes, 18 secondsAnd who's the group you recommend? Arts House of Painting. 56:2456 minutes, 24 secondsArt House. Okay. 56:3556 minutes, 35 secondsNeed a motion to approve. 56:3856 minutes, 38 secondsI like using a local company. I make a motion we approve arts house of painting for the services. Second have a motion second. Roll call vote please. 56:5056 minutes, 50 secondsMiss Heron. Yes. Miss Taylor. Yes. Mr. Tidwell. Yes. Mr. Hobs. Yes. Mr. Lane. Yes. Dr. Mazize. Yes. Dr. C. Yes. 56:5956 minutes, 59 secondsAll right. And that's last. Thank you. 57:0457 minutes, 4 secondsAll right. We have a list for us for the next school year budgets or next school meetings for 2627. 57:1257 minutes, 12 secondsUm, anything on that? 57:1757 minutes, 17 secondsUh, no. It I think if you're like me, you might have seen October 19th. That's because the Monday um the first Monday 57:2557 minutes, 25 secondsin October that's right after a break we usually try to stay away from. So, um, so that one's a little bit later than 57:3357 minutes, 33 secondsthan what we would typically have, but otherwise it's very typical with what we've done. 57:3857 minutes, 38 secondsOkay. Need a motion to approve this at schoolboard meeting dates. I'll make a motion to approve the dates. 57:4557 minutes, 45 secondsHave a motion. Second. Second. All in favor say I. I. 57:5257 minutes, 52 secondsAnnual agenda for 26.7. That's different. 57:5957 minutes, 59 secondsSo you the only thing that I've changed that you don't normally see is um moving the personnel decisions and 58:0858 minutes, 8 secondsplacement report to the July meeting just because we're still working through our budget and making some of those 58:1558 minutes, 15 secondsdecisions. So I've moved that into July 2026. 58:1958 minutes, 19 secondsUm otherwise everything else is is the step the same that you see each year. 58:2658 minutes, 26 secondsAny questions? 58:3558 minutes, 35 secondsNeed a motion to approve this? 58:3658 minutes, 36 secondsCan I do have a question trying to figure out how to word it? Would we Is this would being new? 58:4258 minutes, 42 secondsCorrect me if I'm wrong, but would this be a place where we would put any coordination with county commission on budget if we want to do that on a monthly basis? 58:5958 minutes, 59 secondsUm, I suppose if you could. Yes. 59:0559 minutes, 5 secondsI don't know what that would look like, but in conversations that I've had, it's a I don't really I'm not familiar with the school budget like I am the other 59:1359 minutes, 13 secondsdepartment's budget because I see them monthly and I see y'all yearly. So, we can change that. Maybe you should at least put something in February of 2027 59:2359 minutes, 23 secondsto maybe come together with the budget committee of the county commission. Okay. 59:3059 minutes, 30 secondsAnd the school board to start budget talk. 59:3459 minutes, 34 secondsYeah. Because we have budget discussion in there. So we just add with county commission. 59:4259 minutes, 42 secondsI think that would Yeah, because we're the largest piece of their budget and we're always in May presenting. I mean, we should start earlier. 59:5059 minutes, 50 secondsYeah. If we can get them involved in it. Yeah. 59:5459 minutes, 54 secondsHave a retreat and have a sit around discussion on this cuz we definitely there's a lot of them really don't understand. 1:00:021 hour, 2 secondsThey admit it. Yeah. 1:00:041 hour, 4 secondsYou know, they don't know they they don't see what we see, you know, every month. 1:00:091 hour, 9 secondsSo, an invitation for county commission school board retreat. Retreat. Okay. February. Okay. 1:00:171 hour, 17 secondsGot it. We need a motion to do that. 1:00:231 hour, 23 secondsI make a motion that we approve the annual agenda as amended. 1:00:281 hour, 28 secondsI'll second that. Motion second. All in favor say I. I. 1:00:371 hour, 37 secondsWe have a job sharing. 1:00:421 hour, 42 secondsSo I think you have the information in your packet. This is just two uh job shares at Centerville Intermediate School. Um these are both interventionist positions. 1:00:531 hour, 53 secondsWe've done these before. So I'll make a motion we approve the job shares. 1:01:001 hour, 1 minuteA second. Do we have a second? 1:01:041 hour, 1 minute, 4 secondsWhen you say interventionist, what does that mean? 1:01:061 hour, 1 minute, 6 secondsUm these are teachers who work with small groups of students who need extra tiered supports. So tier one is our regular education where they're in the 1:01:141 hour, 1 minute, 14 secondsclassroom and they're getting their standard instruction. And then students who um you know through testing we see that may need extra supports, we pull 1:01:231 hour, 1 minute, 23 secondsthem out into small groups and they get what we call like tier 2 or tier three instruction which is just intensive instructions based on what exactly that 1:01:311 hour, 1 minute, 31 secondsstudent needs and these interventionists do that work. 1:01:341 hour, 1 minute, 34 secondsOkay. So Okay. So it's not like a a therapist type role, it's teaching type role. Okay. 1:01:401 hour, 1 minute, 40 secondsIt's academic intervention. I can do. We have a second. We have a second. 1:01:491 hour, 1 minute, 49 secondsOkay. All in favor say I. Post. All right. Next one. 1:01:571 hour, 1 minute, 57 secondsResolution to grant authority that comes up every year. Designated preserve director of schools. This happens uh end 1:02:051 hour, 2 minutes, 5 secondsof each school year. So we grant them authority to finish up the school year. paperwork. 1:02:131 hour, 2 minutes, 13 secondsSo, we just need we have to go through this. Do I need a motion? Second to approve this. 1:02:201 hour, 2 minutes, 20 secondsI'll make a motion to uh approve resolution 26-2. We have a second. 1:02:281 hour, 2 minutes, 28 secondsI second. Have a second. All in favor say I. I. 1:02:351 hour, 2 minutes, 35 secondsAnd also the next one. I grant the executive committee authority to close out fiscal year again to director of 1:02:421 hour, 2 minutes, 42 secondsschools and uh we need a motion and a second for that. 1:02:491 hour, 2 minutes, 49 secondsI'll make a motion to grant executive committee authority to close out the fiscal year. 1:02:541 hour, 2 minutes, 54 secondsI'll second motion second. All in favor say I. 1:02:581 hour, 2 minutes, 58 secondsOpposed seven. J 2627 differential pay plan. 1:03:051 hour, 3 minutes, 5 secondsOkay. I believe you have this in your packet as well that most of these are this are similar to last year. Um we did 1:03:121 hour, 3 minutes, 12 secondschange our hard to staff um differentiated pay instead of saying that we um will offer signing bonuses. 1:03:221 hour, 3 minutes, 22 secondsUm it was changed to say that we may offer some of these hard to fill bonuses depending on the need. Um should we find 1:03:301 hour, 3 minutes, 30 secondsthe need that we are going to need to offer a signing bonus for some of these um positions because we just can't find people to come, we would offer that sign 1:03:381 hour, 3 minutes, 38 secondssigning bonus, but it would be a director's discretion whether or not we do. So, not automatic, but just a discretionary if we find that we really 1:03:461 hour, 3 minutes, 46 secondsare going to have to use that extra bump in pay to get someone to fill a position. I don't need any information on that. 1:04:041 hour, 4 minutes, 4 secondsApologies for that. Um the other change was um we put in uh stipens for tutors 1:04:131 hour, 4 minutes, 13 secondsif we decide to do some type of either after school or before school tutoring. 1:04:181 hour, 4 minutes, 18 secondsUm, this year we have been offered by United Way and I want to say it's called Raise Your Hands. I think that they may 1:04:261 hour, 4 minutes, 26 secondshave presented to the board. Um, so they've offered to help us pay for tutoring this year, but we've included 1:04:341 hour, 4 minutes, 34 secondsin our differentiated pay a stipen because if we do partner with United [clears throat] Way to do that, we would then have to pay. We're not I think we 1:04:421 hour, 4 minutes, 42 secondsdon't have to, but it's encouraged that we would pay for those teachers planning times. So, we put that into the 1:04:481 hour, 4 minutes, 48 secondsdifferentiated pay as well. Um, but yeah, I'll wait until you get your copies. 1:04:581 hour, 4 minutes, 58 secondsThe rest of the stockings, I believe, are the same. Those were the only two changes versus what you all would have seen last year in the differentiated pay plan. 1:05:131 hour, 5 minutes, 13 secondsHave a motion made Are you wait? 1:05:181 hour, 5 minutes, 18 secondsYou want to wait till you see he gets his paper back? Yeah. Yeah. 1:05:371 hour, 5 minutes, 37 seconds[clears throat] 1:05:541 hour, 5 minutes, 54 secondsAnd I'll put it on the gas. 1:05:591 hour, 5 minutes, 59 secondsBut me and you both have to sign down here. And this is where we take it. 1:06:561 hour, 6 minutes, 56 secondsThat's to close up, but I can close up. 1:07:311 hour, 7 minutes, 31 seconds[clears throat] 1:07:371 hour, 7 minutes, 37 secondsHey there. 1:07:471 hour, 7 minutes, 47 secondsYou guys are probably already done. 1:08:241 hour, 8 minutes, 24 secondsperformance by Mrs. St. 1:08:421 hour, 8 minutes, 42 secondsEverybody gets flipped over. Somebody will come up with a motion and we'll go from there to approve this. Make a 1:08:491 hour, 8 minutes, 49 secondsmotion we approve 11J 2026 27 differentiated pen. 1:08:551 hour, 8 minutes, 55 secondsI'll second roll call. I just don't know where we stopped. Dr. 1:09:041 hour, 9 minutes, 4 secondsCoup. Yes. Miss Heron. Yes. Miss Taylor. Yes. Mr. Tidwell. Yes. Mr. Hob. Yes. Mr. Lane. Yes. Dr. May. 1:09:111 hour, 9 minutes, 11 secondsYes. 1:09:131 hour, 9 minutes, 13 secondsAll right. Next one before us is the Tennessee School System for Equity last year. Uh I kind of question about this 1:09:211 hour, 9 minutes, 21 secondsand Mr. Davis came and talked to us about this. We've been paying this since about 1:09:281 hour, 9 minutes, 28 secondsFirst of all, when we started the small schools clean back years ago and uh comes up every dude, they're kind of the lobby system for those of you who don't 1:09:371 hour, 9 minutes, 37 secondsknow what they're for. And u small schools needs all the help they can get. I guess we're rough right now. 1:09:471 hour, 9 minutes, 47 secondsThey're they're not back too well as far as what's going on up there. 1:09:521 hour, 9 minutes, 52 secondsSo, we need a motion to approve payment of this. 1:09:561 hour, 9 minutes, 56 secondsI'll make a motion we approve the um Tennessee school systems for equity payment. Make a second. 1:10:051 hour, 10 minutes, 5 secondsSecond. A motion. Second. Any roll call vote? Miss Harren? Yes. Miss Taylor? Yes. Mr. Tidwell? Yes. Mr. Hobs? Yes. Mr. Lane? 1:10:131 hour, 10 minutes, 13 secondsYes. Dr. Maze? Yes. Dr. C? Yes. Pass seven. All right. 1:10:211 hour, 10 minutes, 21 secondsNext one, please. 1:10:361 hour, 10 minutes, 36 secondsOkay. Last month you all approved the change to the OPED uh retirement plan 1:10:411 hour, 10 minutes, 41 secondsthat we have. um you have it on your screen, but I wanted to give you a hard copy that highlighted the changes that 1:10:501 hour, 10 minutes, 50 secondswe did to the resolution that was done in 2019. It was resolution 1902. 1:10:581 hour, 10 minutes, 58 secondsAnd so what's highlighted in here are the changes in language. Um and so you'll see uh for instance there on the 1:11:061 hour, 11 minutes, 6 secondsfirst page C uh all we changed in there that this would include all other support staff employed on or before June 1:11:131 hour, 11 minutes, 13 seconds30th, 2015 and employed as of May 22nd, 2026. The reason we put that date in there is 1:11:221 hour, 11 minutes, 22 secondsbecause you all did approve the plan to go prior to the end of the school year. 1:11:281 hour, 11 minutes, 28 secondsSo if we were having any supports staff retire u had retired since then they 1:11:341 hour, 11 minutes, 34 secondswould still be included in this. And um we also made sure that uh we included in 1:11:401 hour, 11 minutes, 40 secondsthe um uh resolution that they must meet the state of Tennessee requirements to enroll in the state of Tennessee retiree 1:11:481 hour, 11 minutes, 48 secondsplan. And then we also included on the Medicare uh portion uh the same language that 1:11:551 hour, 11 minutes, 55 secondssays support staff benefit um will be equal to the dollar amount provided 1:12:031 hour, 12 minutes, 3 secondsuh for licensed staff. Uh that was what you all uh voted on. And then we included in that also on the following 1:12:111 hour, 12 minutes, 11 secondspart of section 4 to make sure those dollar amounts were what was being done um instead of the percentages because that could lead to some confusion. 1:12:221 hour, 12 minutes, 22 secondsAmanda and I will develop some internal control policies that go along with that. That will be put in our um 1:12:291 hour, 12 minutes, 29 secondsprocedural books. So down the [snorts] road when either of us are here and someone else is doing, they won't have as many questions or confusions as we do 1:12:381 hour, 12 minutes, 38 secondsfrom time to time. So um but hopefully that encompasses so if you can look at that that encompasses I think what you 1:12:461 hour, 12 minutes, 46 secondsagreed on and voted on and make a motion we approve the P&L OP resolution 26-03. 1:12:551 hour, 12 minutes, 55 secondsSecond roll call. Yes, Miss Taylor. 1:13:031 hour, 13 minutes, 3 secondsYes, Mr. Tidwell. 1:13:041 hour, 13 minutes, 4 secondsYes, Mr. Hobs. 1:13:051 hour, 13 minutes, 5 secondsYes, Mr. Lane. 1:13:061 hour, 13 minutes, 6 secondsYes, Dr. May. Yes, Dr. C. 1:13:081 hour, 13 minutes, 8 secondsYes, Miss Aaron. 1:13:091 hour, 13 minutes, 9 secondsYes, Miss Taylor. 1:13:121 hour, 13 minutes, 12 secondsIt's been a long time since we've been working on. 1:13:161 hour, 13 minutes, 16 seconds[laughter] 1:13:251 hour, 13 minutes, 25 secondsAll right, policy time. Yeah, we just have a few up for review this evening. 3.200 to 3.212. 1:13:331 hour, 13 minutes, 33 secondsYou have any questions? These are for up for review. 1:13:411 hour, 13 minutes, 41 secondsYes, sir. 1:13:421 hour, 13 minutes, 42 secondsWe need a motion to for up for review for 3.20 to 3.212. 1:13:541 hour, 13 minutes, 54 secondsI make a motion we approve board policies 3.2000 through 3.212 for review. 1:14:021 hour, 14 minutes, 2 secondsSecond. 1:14:041 hour, 14 minutes, 4 secondsI just had a question before we Yes, ma'am. 1:14:071 hour, 14 minutes, 7 secondsUm so on um let's see 3.204 1:14:151 hour, 14 minutes, 15 secondsthe risk management and threat assessment team. Um, line three says the board shall designate a professional staff person who will be responsible for 1:14:231 hour, 14 minutes, 23 secondsthe promotion and development of a prevention and safety education program for students. And so now I know Mr. We 1:14:311 hour, 14 minutes, 31 secondsdon't have Mr. Dunlop anymore. Are we do we have a professional staff person that's going to do that or we have that 1:14:391 hour, 14 minutes, 39 secondsin the works? Yes. not hired yet, but we are we're going to um 1:14:461 hour, 14 minutes, 46 secondsmy hope is to be able to offer a stipen for school safety. 1:14:511 hour, 14 minutes, 51 secondsSo, somebody that's already here and then just add Yes. Yes. 1:14:571 hour, 14 minutes, 57 secondsSo, do we have someone picked out? Can you tell us about their background? 1:15:021 hour, 15 minutes, 2 secondsUm that work here. She picks Yeah. 1:15:061 hour, 15 minutes, 6 secondsbackground check. So, well, I just want to make sure that they know something about safety and safety school. 1:15:131 hour, 15 minutes, 13 secondsI Well, let me say this. I can assure you they do. [laughter] Yeah, I don't want to say anything just 1:15:201 hour, 15 minutes, 20 secondsyet because I haven't finalized that decision. I'm looking at a couple of things just to make sure that I can go that route. But yes, that is definitely 1:15:281 hour, 15 minutes, 28 secondssomething that I weigh before even thinking about this person. So, yeah, that's the only question I had just because we lost that. 1:15:371 hour, 15 minutes, 37 secondsWhen you say a stipen, it's just basically going to be like a part-time role that they addition to get they're already within the school system, right? 1:15:501 hour, 15 minutes, 50 secondsAny other questions? 1:15:531 hour, 15 minutes, 53 secondsIs that sufficient though? I I don't know about risk assessment and how much time that takes. Well, think about like so our 1:16:021 hour, 16 minutes, 2 secondsprevious uh employee was also doing other roles besides safety. So most school systems have a person who does 1:16:091 hour, 16 minutes, 9 secondsthat as part of their work and then also has other duties. So yes, that's very common. 1:16:141 hour, 16 minutes, 14 secondsIt is that yeah the person we had before he did truency attendance 1:16:221 hour, 16 minutes, 22 secondsand about nine jobs a lot of different responsibilities. So, it's hard to get everything 1:16:301 hour, 16 minutes, 30 secondsto where you should have been. That's kind of why we were kind of late on doing this. 1:16:331 hour, 16 minutes, 33 secondsYeah. You kind of set someone up for mediocrity like Okay. 1:16:401 hour, 16 minutes, 40 secondsOkay. It's a very important position. 1:16:461 hour, 16 minutes, 46 secondsI know. I just feel like it's a I always want to realize I don't know what I don't know and I'd like to hear somebody else speak 1:16:541 hour, 16 minutes, 54 secondswho does this. to get input from them to hear about what's needed, what that job description is to truly have a good safe 1:17:031 hour, 17 minutes, 3 secondsplan. And I don't I don't know that I feel I have that. 1:17:071 hour, 17 minutes, 7 secondsWell, uh, you want to leave that one out and vote for the rest of bring us back in July and we can have that done and 1:17:151 hour, 17 minutes, 15 secondsget somebody or I get somebody or she can get somebody down here. 1:17:211 hour, 17 minutes, 21 secondsI don't know that it would impact this policy. She's going to name somebody either way to be full-time or it be a stipen added to other. It's not going to impact that. 1:17:311 hour, 17 minutes, 31 secondsThere's going to be somebody there, but it will explain that part. 1:17:361 hour, 17 minutes, 36 secondsYes. But if you want somebody to explain further about those duties unless you get involved in it a little bit, it get confusing, you know, as far 1:17:451 hour, 17 minutes, 45 secondsas what that I just brought up because I just knew that he was going. So, I was trying to make sure we we were [snorts] covering that. So 1:17:541 hour, 17 minutes, 54 secondswe can definitely get somebody to upgra us on all of us on that. But that means I attended the last safety meeting that 1:18:031 hour, 18 minutes, 3 secondsthey had and that was part of it talking about a little bit about it. So So we have a motion and we have a second. 1:18:111 hour, 18 minutes, 11 secondsWe do. 1:18:131 hour, 18 minutes, 13 secondsSo you leave it in there and have a motion through all just review come back up again. All right. 1:18:221 hour, 18 minutes, 22 secondsSo, we motion we have a Dr. C made a motion and the second was Miss Taylor's. Okay. Mhm. All in favor say I. 1:18:311 hour, 18 minutes, 31 secondsAny oppose? Pass seven. Okay. Thank you. 1:18:381 hour, 18 minutes, 38 secondsBudget amendments. 1:18:411 hour, 18 minutes, 41 secondsThere's three budget amendments in your packet. Um, but before I go over those, just to uh remind you all with the 1:18:491 hour, 18 minutes, 49 secondsresolutions that you passed, we'll be doing cleanup budget amendments during the month. They will be approved by the 1:18:561 hour, 18 minutes, 56 secondsexecutive committee and then we'll show all of those to you at the July meeting and sometimes even in July, uh, we have 1:19:061 hour, 19 minutes, 6 secondsto do some cleanup as the books are closed out by the county. So, uh there will be additional budget amendments. Uh 1:19:141 hour, 19 minutes, 14 secondsthese were some of the ones that uh we know and uh actually um need to get to 1:19:221 hour, 19 minutes, 22 secondsthe county commission uh or budget committee a little early. So, budget amendment 36 is one that will go before the county commission in the budget 1:19:311 hour, 19 minutes, 31 secondscommittee. um it's to address um some expenditure overages in our contracts 1:19:391 hour, 19 minutes, 39 secondswith private agencies in our sped programs. And so we have moved some dollars from those places. Uh in 1:19:471 hour, 19 minutes, 47 secondsrelation to that, we've had uh the reason that one reason those line items are running a little bit high this year is uh we did have some staffing issues. 1:19:581 hour, 19 minutes, 58 secondsuh won't go into details on that, but we did have not losing staff, but we did have some staffing issues, so we had to 1:20:051 hour, 20 minutes, 5 secondshave some more coverage in that uh uh for some of those contracts. And so, um um you see those line items there. Also, 1:20:141 hour, 20 minutes, 14 secondsuh our the bottom four on there are homebound teacher. Uh we've had more in 1:20:221 hour, 20 minutes, 22 secondsthe regular ed site this year than we've ever had in the past. And uh so that line item uh has gone beyond what has 1:20:301 hour, 20 minutes, 30 secondsbeen there in the past. So uh also our substitutes has run a little bit under. 1:20:371 hour, 20 minutes, 37 secondsI'm not sure that it's going to be over budget, but as we uh are getting the dollars [snorts] in from the end here, 1:20:441 hour, 20 minutes, 44 secondswe wanted to put that cushion in to make sure and uh just to uh do that line item that way. So that's budget amendment 36. 1:20:521 hour, 20 minutes, 52 secondsAny questions on that one? 1:20:561 hour, 20 minutes, 56 secondsBudget amendment 37 again is some cleanup stuff along with a few other things. Uh other contracted services. Um 1:21:051 hour, 21 minutes, 5 secondsuh and you see the uh information in that. The first one there was to cover the consulting contract approved by the 1:21:121 hour, 21 minutes, 12 secondsboard. So uh we moved some dollars out of uh the workers comp insurance line item. Uh we're also in the process of 1:21:211 hour, 21 minutes, 21 secondsbuying some of our textbooks and instructional supplies uh with this year's dollars for the beginning of next 1:21:281 hour, 21 minutes, 28 secondsyear so we moved some uh unused equipment dollars into the textbook line items so we could start those purchases. 1:21:361 hour, 21 minutes, 36 secondsAnd then also we had some small uh other contracted services over in uh our instructional support. Uh it was about 1:21:451 hour, 21 minutes, 45 secondsnine is a $16,000 line item that was about $900 over where we had to put something in. So we pulled that out of 1:21:521 hour, 21 minutes, 52 secondslibrary books and media line item. Um that one does not have to go before the county commission. Um budget amendment 1:22:011 hour, 22 minutes, 1 second38 uh is additional revenues in our summer learning camp. uh we're budgeting uh the 1:22:091 hour, 22 minutes, 9 secondssecond portion of our TCAT revenue uh so that can be dispersed uh used and dispersed. And then our summer summer 1:22:171 hour, 22 minutes, 17 secondslearning camps, we normally have this in May uh but they did not open it to where we could get the stuff in in time for 1:22:241 hour, 22 minutes, 24 secondsthe May meeting. So this will begin our summer learning camp and the expenditures that are going to be there. 1:22:311 hour, 22 minutes, 31 secondsUm, also in relation to that, uh, something we learned at a fiscal conference this year in the past, if we 1:22:391 hour, 22 minutes, 39 secondsdid not use all this, uh, for summer learning, we had to turn the money back in. We will now be able to use what is 1:22:481 hour, 22 minutes, 48 secondsnot expended in summer learning for tutoring during the school years. Um, now what they said is that does not mean 1:22:571 hour, 22 minutes, 57 secondsyou can underbudget your summer learning camp. So they will be paying attention to those things from year to year, how 1:23:041 hour, 23 minutes, 4 secondsyou budgeted from year to year. But that is a benefit of dollars because we do not we do not always spend the dollars 1:23:111 hour, 23 minutes, 11 secondsthat are there. So those are the three budget amendments that are there. 1:23:211 hour, 23 minutes, 21 secondsMake a motion to approve budget amendment 36 37 38. We have a second. 1:23:261 hour, 23 minutes, 26 secondsA second motion second. All in favor say I. I. those. 1:23:331 hour, 23 minutes, 33 secondsWe should be doing a roll call. We'll do roll call then. 1:23:361 hour, 23 minutes, 36 secondsI think you're going to do roll call on that one. All right. 1:23:391 hour, 23 minutes, 39 secondsAll right. Miss Taylor, yes. Mr. Tidwell, yes. Mr. Hob, yes. 1:23:421 hour, 23 minutes, 42 secondsMr. Lane, yes. Dr. Mazize. Yes. Dr. Coup. Yes. 1:23:461 hour, 23 minutes, 46 secondsMiss Herren, yes. All right. Budgets for 2627. 1:23:551 hour, 23 minutes, 55 secondsLike it's been on our agenda quite a while. 1:23:581 hour, 23 minutes, 58 secondsYeah. Nothing personal, but I've been spending more time with you all than I have my wife. She's getting a little bit 1:24:031 hour, 24 minutes, 3 secondsmad. So, uh, just so you know. So, um, not necessarily our fault in that, 1:24:111 hour, 24 minutes, 11 secondsbut that is kind of where that's at. Uh, do you want me to speak to first as far? 1:24:171 hour, 24 minutes, 17 secondsOkay. So, uh, what is before you is based off of our meeting the other night, and Miss Ted and I talked about 1:24:251 hour, 24 minutes, 25 secondsthis based off the meeting that we had at the, uh, county commission. Um, we 1:24:311 hour, 24 minutes, 31 secondshave put in there the 2 cents and the 3.1 million for the local option 1:24:391 hour, 24 minutes, 39 secondssales tax. That was what their recommendation was and that was for lack of a better term was their gripe the 1:24:471 hour, 24 minutes, 47 secondsother night. Uh so that is what's before you. If you want to make adjustments to that, you'll 1:24:561 hour, 24 minutes, 56 secondshave to amend it. But I'll make a motion we approve this budget. 1:25:051 hour, 25 minutes, 5 seconds110. I second. We have a motion and second. 1:25:141 hour, 25 minutes, 14 secondsAny comments? We need a roll call vote. 1:25:211 hour, 25 minutes, 21 secondsMr. Tedwell, no. 1:25:271 hour, 25 minutes, 27 secondsMr. Hobs, yes. 1:25:311 hour, 25 minutes, 31 secondsMr. Lane, yes. 1:25:321 hour, 25 minutes, 32 secondsDr. Maize, yes. 1:25:341 hour, 25 minutes, 34 secondsDr. Coup, yes. 1:25:361 hour, 25 minutes, 36 secondsMiss Herren, yes. Miss Taylor. 1:25:381 hour, 25 minutes, 38 secondsYes, I'm 61. 1:25:421 hour, 25 minutes, 42 secondsThis has been a hard job. Our thought case, uh hopefully next year will be better. 1:25:491 hour, 25 minutes, 49 secondsWe've said that many times. Every year we said next year better, but it's got to get better. We know what's down the road if we don't. So, 1:25:581 hour, 25 minutes, 58 secondsit's uh maybe we move it up and the uh the plan put in place, you know, for the meeting and the the in February. Well, 1:26:071 hour, 26 minutes, 7 secondswe'll have some new commissioners on board, right, that need, right, and a lot of things. So, maybe so maybe there's something to be looking 1:26:161 hour, 26 minutes, 16 secondsup and uh and then we also have a plan, remember, to try to reach and to rec try to reach the what approximately 600 1:26:241 hour, 26 minutes, 24 secondsstudents that are not attending our school, right? And that's a 4 something million dollars at the base. And so, you 1:26:331 hour, 26 minutes, 33 secondsknow, we can do you you all can do your due diligence there, too. 1:26:381 hour, 26 minutes, 38 secondsI feel like we did what we could this year to try to advocate for ourselves. 1:26:421 hour, 26 minutes, 42 secondsYeah. I Yeah, I will will say that. I think it was good that the effort was put forward. 1:26:501 hour, 26 minutes, 50 secondsWe could drag this out for two more cents and still be dragging it out, right? 1:26:541 hour, 26 minutes, 54 secondsAnd they would have to give us 72 cents to fill the budget gap until we So, we're not going to get 72 And so 1:27:021 hour, 27 minutes, 2 secondswe're talking about two cents, right? So yeah. I think it's approximately 72. 1:27:111 hour, 27 minutes, 11 secondsAll right. 1:27:151 hour, 27 minutes, 15 secondsAnd that's uh that was for them when Thursday, I guess. Is it for them on Thursday? Yeah. 1:27:231 hour, 27 minutes, 23 secondsI'm used to looking at you back here. 1:27:251 hour, 27 minutes, 25 seconds[laughter] 1:27:281 hour, 27 minutes, 28 secondsOh, last one. Capital projects. So just be and the reason we did this as two 1:27:351 hour, 27 minutes, 35 secondsseparate line items is they are not part of the budget and that can get a little confusing the way we did it last time. 1:27:451 hour, 27 minutes, 45 secondsSo, um you should have in there that original list that you approved in May and that keep in mind that they will 1:27:521 hour, 27 minutes, 52 secondsvote on this separately from the budget and not even during our part of the presentation is my understanding. 1:28:031 hour, 28 minutes, 3 secondsUm I I not there's one thing on here that's not We've got the tennis courts roof repair 1:28:111 hour, 28 minutes, 11 secondsplayground fence baseball was that if and that's a big word uh about the 1:28:181 hour, 28 minutes, 18 secondsEastman High School gym floor if they can patch it for what has been uh offered 1:28:271 hour, 28 minutes, 27 secondsor if we have to replace then we're looking at a whole bunch more. Yeah. And so at that 1:28:331 hour, 28 minutes, 33 secondspoint in time on on the part if I think this is how it would kind of proceed on 1:28:401 hour, 28 minutes, 40 secondsthe part with um if we just repair it because we've received some insurance dollars that we would 1:28:471 hour, 28 minutes, 47 secondsdesignate or assign that those insurance dollars specifically to that in the um 1:28:551 hour, 28 minutes, 55 secondsuh fund balance and would proceed that part if we just went that way. Now, if we have to go back and replace the whole 1:29:041 hour, 29 minutes, 4 secondsfloor or you all decide that it's better to replace the whole floor, then we will have to do a budget amendment in July or 1:29:121 hour, 29 minutes, 12 secondsrequest a budget amendment or ask them to fund it. Uh once we know what that 1:29:201 hour, 29 minutes, 20 secondscost is and I'm also looking at the high school gym floor. It's about the last time that it 1:29:281 hour, 29 minutes, 28 secondscan be. It's got doesn't have any more sanding left on it. 1:29:331 hour, 29 minutes, 33 secondsSo, yeah. 1:29:351 hour, 29 minutes, 35 secondsSo, we got a little looking forward to that, too. 1:29:391 hour, 29 minutes, 39 secondsSo, this is $45,000 worth. 1:29:471 hour, 29 minutes, 47 secondsI know you guys can go in and ask for more. 1:29:501 hour, 29 minutes, 50 secondsAll right. Any um need a motion to approve this for this request? 1:29:571 hour, 29 minutes, 57 secondsI'll make a motion to approve the capital projects request. Second. I'll second. Roll call vote. 1:30:071 hour, 30 minutes, 7 secondsMr. Hobs. Yes. Mr. Lane. Yes. Dr. Ms. Yes. Dr. C. Yes. Miss Herren? Yes. Miss Taylor? Yes. Mr. Tidwell? 1:30:141 hour, 30 minutes, 14 secondsYes. 70. Thank you. Thank you. 1:30:221 hour, 30 minutes, 22 secondsRecognition for Dane Gilbert. Seeing him more here this year. celebrity here. 1:30:361 hour, 30 minutes, 36 secondsThe board of education would like to recognize Hickman County High School junior Dane Gilbert for his performance during the 2026 tennis season. Dne 1:30:451 hour, 30 minutes, 45 secondscompeted in the TWSSAA state tennis tournament in boys singles after winning both district 12 and 1:30:521 hour, 30 minutes, 52 secondsregion six boys singles titles. Dne finished in the top eight players in class A and finished the season with a record of 16 wins and three losses. 1:31:021 hour, 31 minutes, 2 secondsDne's participation in the state tournament established two milestones for Hipman County. First, he is the first boys tennis player from the county to participate in the state tournament. 1:31:121 hour, 31 minutes, 12 secondsSecondly, he is the first athlete from Hitman County to participate in state championships in three different sports. 1:31:191 hour, 31 minutes, 19 secondsWe also want to recognize coach Ben Bentley for his leadership and work with the tennis program. Beyond the season success, Coach Bentley has been 1:31:261 hour, 31 minutes, 26 secondsinstrumental in promoting the sport within our schools and building interest among our students. We congratulate Bane and Coach Bentley for their dedication 1:31:351 hour, 31 minutes, 35 secondsand for the impact they have made on Hippie County athletics. [applause] 1:31:461 hour, 31 minutes, 46 seconds[applause] 1:31:511 hour, 31 minutes, 51 secondsWhat did you get? 1:32:001 hour, 32 minutes[laughter] 1:32:001 hour, 32 minutesThank you Dane for all the good work. 1:32:021 hour, 32 minutes, 2 secondsYes, thank you for your represent the school system. 1:32:061 hour, 32 minutes, 6 secondsAnnouncements have approved fund list request 1:32:131 hour, 32 minutes, 13 secondsfundraisers looked over and we need approve for it. Well, that's just announcements today. 1:32:221 hour, 32 minutes, 22 secondsThat uh regular board meeting for July 6. 1:32:281 hour, 32 minutes, 28 secondsIt's coming up and discussion day for board retreat training. Talk a little bit about that. 1:32:361 hour, 32 minutes, 36 secondsSo, one thing we haven't talked about, how many people's going to the September meeting? It's going to be at EO Coffman. 1:32:431 hour, 32 minutes, 43 secondsOne, two, three, four, five. You want those just pickles? 1:32:511 hour, 32 minutes, 51 secondsWe be carry bag. [laughter] Oh, maybe I know you got this will be in September. 1:33:011 hour, 33 minutes, 1 secondSo, it's a school board retreat in our district and uh it's at the coffin middle school this year and we have to be there usually about 5:00. 1:33:121 hour, 33 minutes, 12 secondsWell, this starts early so we would have to leave. I I've been to Yel Coff Middle School, but I'd have to look it up to find out how to get there now. 1:33:191 hour, 33 minutes, 19 secondsI've already 43 all the way down. 43 all the way down. You take a couple back there. 1:33:241 hour, 33 minutes, 24 secondsOkay. Dinner a couple years ago, but that's sound like you got designated. Yes. 1:33:301 hour, 33 minutes, 30 seconds95 a.m. [laughter] I'm usually working. 1:33:361 hour, 33 minutes, 36 secondsIf you haven't already sent your uh registration in, need to manage it'll get it in for you or you 1:33:431 hour, 33 minutes, 43 secondscan do it yourself online and uh we get that out of the way. Uh also any other thing just want to bring up again is our 1:33:501 hour, 33 minutes, 50 secondsannual conventions November. If you haven't looked over yet, uh need thinking about that. We like to have as 1:33:591 hour, 33 minutes, 59 secondsmany people as we can to go for the last few years. This has been three of us. 1:34:041 hour, 34 minutes, 4 secondsthere's Jane myself and uh when you go up there and you sit and talk to people and the whole board's there year after 1:34:111 hour, 34 minutes, 11 secondsyear with members you know we kind of think gosh I wish you know but I know people's got jobs I know people's got things to do and u me I'm retired so I 1:34:211 hour, 34 minutes, 21 secondscan lo I want to go and uh but it is it is if you never been it's something worth to see it's it's a very 1:34:291 hour, 34 minutes, 29 secondsinteresting thing so think about that and uh check on that uh closing 1:34:351 hour, 34 minutes, 35 secondscomments. Start with Mr. Fitel. Did you can I say something about our strategic plan? So um our strategic plan currently is out of date. Yes. 1:34:471 hour, 34 minutes, 47 secondsUm we have been given a an extension to a deadline. I believe that might have been May 31st. 1:34:561 hour, 34 minutes, 56 secondsUm but we but I asked for an extension since I was brand new. Today is my first day. So I asked and got July 20th as as 1:35:041 hour, 35 minutes, 4 secondsthe the extension for our strategic plan to be submitted. So sometime in 1:35:111 hour, 35 minutes, 11 secondsI was thinking July, could we set a date or time to meet to to kind of create and 1:35:191 hour, 35 minutes, 19 secondsgo through that strategic plan? I've been talking to a couple of um folks who are trained to kind of go out and help 1:35:271 hour, 35 minutes, 27 secondsboards and school systems develop that strategic plan. So, we could do that all together. Um, one specifically that I talked to um I believe she is with TSBA. 1:35:401 hour, 35 minutes, 40 secondsHer name is Oh, goodness. Sharon, I believe. No, Tammy. 1:35:461 hour, 35 minutes, 46 secondsUh Tammy. It's Tammy. Yes, her name is Tammy. Yes, stand. And she would do it, but she they will only do it during a 1:35:541 hour, 35 minutes, 54 secondsweekday. And I know that would be difficult for a lot of you. Um and then that cost is $2,500. 1:36:011 hour, 36 minutes, 1 secondUm she did give me two dates of July 7th and July 14th to look at if that's something we wanted to do. Um and then 1:36:101 hour, 36 minutes, 10 secondsanother um option that has been proposed to me, this too would have a cost, but I don't know what the cost would be. uh would be um 1:36:191 hour, 36 minutes, 19 secondsa team of I think one that is a retired school superintendent that would come but again it would be like a day of 1:36:261 hour, 36 minutes, 26 secondstraining slash meeting to kind of flesh out this uh strategic 1:36:341 hour, 36 minutes, 34 secondsplan. So we really we've got to kind of make that a priority because it's due July 20th. 1:36:441 hour, 36 minutes, 44 seconds[snorts] 1:36:481 hour, 36 minutes, 48 secondsIt's the 20th. I would My tendency would be earlier. 1:36:511 hour, 36 minutes, 51 secondsYes. Yes. Me too. Me too. Because that way we could come up with something and then we could all take it back and maybe make some it would just give us time to 1:37:001 hour, 37 minuteskind of work through it. I think maybe it would just be one day of coming together, but then maybe we could approve it, you know, at like maybe 1:37:101 hour, 37 minutes, 10 secondswhoever get it typed up and then get it back to us and go, right? 1:37:161 hour, 37 minutes, 16 secondsSo, um, can we have something at the July meeting to take on? 1:37:211 hour, 37 minutes, 21 secondsWell, that would honestly that would be ideal. The two dates that we have were presented to me so far were July 7th, which I believe is the date of the next 1:37:281 hour, 37 minutes, 28 secondsboard meeting. Um, so we if we did something that if we got something done that day. Oh, is it six? Well, then never mind. 1:37:361 hour, 37 minutes, 36 secondsThat wouldn't work. Um, what I could do is find out if there are any dates 1:37:431 hour, 37 minutes, 43 secondsearlier than that. Um, and then I'll find out some dates from the other folks that do this and kind of just send it 1:37:491 hour, 37 minutes, 49 secondsout to you all. Okay. But is it is is it something that we could all come together even if it was on a date? Is that something we could all do? 1:37:591 hour, 37 minutes, 59 secondsOkay. Okay. Well, then I'll just give I'll send you some date options and we'll go from there. Okay. June wants to be in June. The fin of July, those two 1:38:081 hour, 38 minutes, 8 secondsdates right there are not not good. Okay. 1:38:121 hour, 38 minutes, 12 secondsI think you need to try for around the end of June. Okay. To see if we can't knock it out. 1:38:191 hour, 38 minutes, 19 secondsMaybe the last two weeks of June. 1:38:211 hour, 38 minutes, 21 secondsYeah. Like the week of June 22nd or June 29th, even? Yeah. Okay. 1:38:281 hour, 38 minutes, 28 secondsBecause you're cutting it awful close, right? Okay. And then we meet the 6th. It's the 20th. 1:38:351 hour, 38 minutes, 35 secondsWednesday the 20th. That's right. Okay, that sounds good. I'll do that. 1:38:421 hour, 38 minutes, 42 secondsAll right. And I'll just send those out to you and we'll we'll pick a day. Okay. 1:38:491 hour, 38 minutes, 49 secondsAny other Can you send us also a copy of the the current strategic plan just in that in that email so we've got a fresh copy? 1:38:581 hour, 38 minutes, 58 secondsI will. because we can use that to spring off of 1:39:091 hour, 39 minutes, 9 secondsmore business or comments. May I take a board? Yes. 1:39:171 hour, 39 minutes, 17 secondsAll right. 1:39:201 hour, 39 minutes, 20 seconds[laughter] 1:39:221 hour, 39 minutes, 22 secondsSo, I had a really good response last time I did this and but a lot of the next questions were, well, what now, right? 1:39:311 hour, 39 minutes, 31 secondsWell, what do we do now? What what what does the path look like going forward? 1:39:341 hour, 39 minutes, 34 secondsSo, I thought I would do a quick outlay of of what it looks like looking forward. Mr. I may need your help with some numbers here. Okay. 1:39:441 hour, 39 minutes, 44 secondsI thought again, we're talking big numbers here. 1:39:471 hour, 39 minutes, 47 secondsOkay. So, at this point, as as Miss Marcy Tibble said in the commission meeting, at this point, we've already lost 14 jobs. We've cut 14 jobs out of 1:39:551 hour, 39 minutes, 55 secondsour system. Okay? So, of the budget that was approved tonight, again, looking forward, we're talking a decimal point. Okay? 1:40:081 hour, 40 minutes, 8 secondswith with the 14 cut jobs and with a a reasonable sales tax dollars. Now we're 1:40:161 hour, 40 minutes, 16 secondsI think the previous fund balance hit was about 3 million, right? Somewhere around three. So now we're talking 3.1 1:40:231 hour, 40 minutes, 23 secondsbecause it assumed 4 cents versus the 2 cents. So we're talking maybe this red one will work. 1:40:341 hour, 40 minutes, 34 secondsSo we're talking 3 million versus 3.1 million. Then that's 4 cents versus 2 1:40:441 hour, 40 minutes, 44 secondscents. So you see the budget that was approved tonight really didn't move the needle a lot in where we need to be. 1:40:501 hour, 40 minutes, 50 secondsOkay. So the question is how do we tackle this $3 million deficit? Roughly 1:40:571 hour, 40 minutes, 57 seconds$3 million deficit. How how is that going to work out to get to to budget neutral? because over here we got a 1:41:071 hour, 41 minutes, 7 seconds$8.3 million balance in the account that we can touch. Okay, taking out 3.1 1:41:161 hour, 41 minutes, 16 secondsnext year, that's going to drop us down to 5.2 million that we can touch. Okay, so 1:41:241 hour, 41 minutes, 24 secondsthat's 25 to 26. So this will be 26 to 27 year. 1:41:341 hour, 41 minutes, 34 secondsAnd again, we're talking about costs that are in perpetuity, costs that we've increased our labor rates that we have 1:41:411 hour, 41 minutes, 41 secondsto take on every year. So this isn't a out of control spending scenario. This is these are costs that we were forced 1:41:481 hour, 41 minutes, 48 secondsto take on. So that from here on out, okay? So this this deficit not is not going to go away by itself or it's not going to we can't wait it out, I guess, 1:41:571 hour, 41 minutes, 57 secondsis what I'm saying. So if we project that out in another year, that number is going to drop down to 2.1 million. 1:42:061 hour, 42 minutes, 6 secondsAnd we and at the 27 to 28 school year. 1:42:101 hour, 42 minutes, 10 secondsSo that's [clears throat] that's nearing the absolute minimum that the state requires 1:42:171 hour, 42 minutes, 17 secondsfor us to keep in our balance. Okay. So we're two years out from hitting this. 1:42:221 hour, 42 minutes, 22 secondsOkay. So that 3 million, what does that look like? How do we how do we cut or how do we close that gap with 3 million? 1:42:321 hour, 42 minutes, 32 secondsWell, what we could do 3 million is roughly 54 jobs. 1:42:411 hour, 42 minutes, 41 secondsWell, it's about J. 1:42:441 hour, 42 minutes, 44 seconds54 jobs. Okay. So 54 jobs that is roughly a 28% reduction in our if it's 1:42:541 hour, 42 minutes, 54 secondsall teachers in our capacity teaching capacity cuz right now we have what about 2900 1:43:041 hour, 43 minutes, 4 secondskids in our school system. So is that right? Somewhere around 2,900 kids somewhere around 1:43:141 hour, 43 minutes, 14 seconds202 teachers in K through 12 I think it was the number I saw online 1:43:221 hour, 43 minutes, 22 secondswise but you have other instructional people as far as [snorts] 1:43:291 hour, 43 minutes, 29 secondsand so we've already cut 14 jobs how many of those were teaching positions do we know let me think about that I would say 10. 1:43:401 hour, 43 minutes, 40 seconds10 rows. About 10. 1:43:411 hour, 43 minutes, 41 secondsThat's what I assume. Great. So, roughly now we're down to 192 teachers. Okay. 1:43:501 hour, 43 minutes, 50 secondsSo, that cuts our ratio, student ratio to 15. Is that right? 15. 1:44:001 hour, 44 minutes15 to uh teachers or 15 students to teachers. 1:44:091 hour, 44 minutes, 9 secondsNow the Tennessee average is about 14.46 is a average classroom studenttoteer classroom. 1:44:211 hour, 44 minutes, 21 secondsSo, if we take 54 teachers away from our system, out of that 192, that's going to 1:44:281 hour, 44 minutes, 28 secondscut our ratio down to two 21.0 students per teacher. 1:44:381 hour, 44 minutes, 38 secondsRoughly 45% higher than the average Tennessee student classroom. 1:44:451 hour, 44 minutes, 45 secondsThat's if we take that route. Okay. 1:44:481 hour, 44 minutes, 48 secondsAgain, there's an infinite number of possibilities. I'm just mapping out a few. Okay, that's if we get zero funding from the county commission, us getting 1:44:571 hour, 44 minutes, 57 secondsto budget neutral, and oh, by the way, we still can't fund capital projects. 1:45:031 hour, 45 minutes, 3 secondsOkay, if if my maths wrong, type in, please. Okay, so do we really want our class sizes 45% larger than the than the 1:45:131 hour, 45 minutes, 13 secondsaverage Tennessee classroom? I don't think so. 1:45:171 hour, 45 minutes, 17 secondsSo, what if we take what if we do somehow get a million dollars from the county 1:45:251 hour, 45 minutes, 25 secondscommission next year? And I think that's something that we need to think about going to the county commission and potentially proposing a wheel tax. 1:45:341 hour, 45 minutes, 34 secondsUh, a $50 wheel tax will generate somewhere around a million dollars. 1:45:391 hour, 45 minutes, 39 secondsOkay. So, if we could take out a million dollars of this, that leaves us with a $2 million deficit. 1:45:451 hour, 45 minutes, 45 secondsOkay, the $2 million deficit is about well that'll take away 36 jobs from this 192 number. 1:45:551 hour, 45 minutes, 55 secondsOkay, 36 jobs. 1:46:001 hour, 46 minutesOkay, that will leave us with uh an 18.5 1:46:061 hour, 46 minutes, 6 secondsstudent toteer ratio, which is about 28% higher than the average Tennessee classroom. 1:46:181 hour, 46 minutes, 18 secondsThat gets us to budget neutral if we get that much in taxes to reduce our deficit. 1:46:251 hour, 46 minutes, 25 secondsOkay, 28% higher. Is that is that where we want to be? We want to be we have want to have a higher ratio 20 28% 1:46:331 hour, 46 minutes, 33 secondshigher ratio than the average Tennessee county. 1:46:371 hour, 46 minutes, 37 secondsOkay. What's another scenario we could do? Well, if we could get still get that million dollars in revenue somehow from 1:46:441 hour, 46 minutes, 44 secondsthe county and if we close two schools, which is going to be about another million dollars in savings. 1:46:591 hour, 46 minutes, 59 secondsOkay, that leaves us about a $1 million deficit. 1:47:041 hour, 47 minutes, 4 secondsOkay, that $1 million is about 18 jobs out of this 192 out of the 10 that we've already cut. 1:47:151 hour, 47 minutes, 15 secondsAnd that gives us a 16.6 6 student 1:47:221 hour, 47 minutes, 22 secondsto teacher ratio, which is about 15% higher than the average Tennessee county. 1:47:331 hour, 47 minutes, 33 secondsSo, I don't know about you guys, but that seems like the most logical route that we would have to take to get to a 1:47:401 hour, 47 minutes, 40 secondsbudget neutral scenario is closing two two schools. 1:47:451 hour, 47 minutes, 45 secondsI don't know what two schools, you know, hey Hickman people, you could come to East for high school and hey Hickman 1:47:521 hour, 47 minutes, 52 secondsEast kids, you could go to Hikman for high school. That's always we're on everything's on the table at this point. 1:47:591 hour, 47 minutes, 59 secondsOkay. So, and there's an infinite number of solutions anywhere in between, but that's what we're looking at are drastic measures just to get the budget neutral. 1:48:091 hour, 48 minutes, 9 secondsAnd we still don't have enough money for capital projects. Okay, does that make sense? 1:48:181 hour, 48 minutes, 18 secondsSo, I just wanted to map that out because I had several people ask me, "Well, what then?" Well, there's a what then? A few scenarios of the what then? 1:48:261 hour, 48 minutes, 26 secondsHow to close that $3 million gap. So, 1:48:461 hour, 48 minutes, 46 secondsThank you for that scary stereo. 1:48:491 hour, 48 minutes, 49 secondsScary. Well, I mean, I think people need to be talking about it. Exactly. Right. Right. 1:48:561 hour, 48 minutes, 56 secondsAll right. And they need to think about this motion here. 1:48:591 hour, 48 minutes, 59 secondsHuh. Need to be thinking about this thing. 1:49:031 hour, 49 minutes, 3 secondsAll righty. Any more news? Is there any more information? If not, we'll ask a motion to adjourn. 1:49:091 hour, 49 minutes, 9 secondsMake a motion we have a motion of a second. Second. 1:49:131 hour, 49 minutes, 13 secondsHave a motion second. All in favor say I. Close. 1:49:201 hour, 49 minutes, 20 secondsThank you.