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call the meeting to order please Mr a roll call please yes sir please stay present when I call your name Shane B pres Jason compt pres Andre Darnell pres Debbie G pres Glen G present James Johnson pres Andrea G
Moore present Marsha M and Harvey Walden present well let's stand for the pledge please I pledge allegiance to the pl of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation under
God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I'd like to ask excuse me Mr Barnes to opens up the word of prayer let us bow please dear heavenly father thank you so much for this beautiful day that
you've given us and and thank you so much for all the great things you've done for us today Lord thank you for all the people represented here thank you for all the possibilities that we have for our students and Lord please be with us on these days to come in your day
amen amen like to ask um Mr Compton for a mission statement please yes Mr chairman our mission statement providing Equitable options and opportunities in a safe caring environment to maximize student potential thank you sir moving on we
have a student with our staff and student recognition today we have Ford is here put in a check Miss Bon please thank you Mr chairman we are honored to announce a partnership between Ford blue oville City and Jackson Madison County school system through Ford's generous support of North
parkway's Green Power electric car racing team we are proud to receive a $131,400 donation which will directly benefit our students and their involvement in this exciting and Innovative program Ford's commitment to
supporting education and inspiring the next generation of innovators will provide our students with Hands-On learning experiences that Foster problem solving skills creativity and a deeper understanding of sustainability and Technology this sponsorship made possible through the Ford Good Neighbor
plan not only helps our green power team but also strengthens our broader mission to provide highquality education opportunities and encourage Student Success in stem fields we are grateful for Ford's investment in our school community and for believing in the potential of our students with this
support we look forward to watching North parkway's team achieve New Heights and continue to grow as leaders in both engineering and sustainability tonight we have Andy biano with Ford blue oval City and principal Dr Shaman Reeves and
coaches Paula Broomfield and deia Smith it's our pleasure to accept this check for North Parkway Middle School as a simple for this partnership thank you Ford for making a lasting impact on our school and for helping to shape the futures of these young minds let's give them one more round of
[Applause] applause congratulations you sir thank you before we move on to the agenda and minutes I want to do a disclaimer uh we I do this quite a bit
and the reason why we're going to move through this pretty quick and uh I know we get the newspaper here say it was a 15minute meeting well he didn't miss he missed the one on Monday it was four hours and we went through everything very detailed I promise you I keep moving
on I think the next time we supposed to be provided lunch only the um may I have a motion to approve the agenda Mr chairman I make a move to postpone and definitely um item number item F from a board action
item okay do we have a second second okay let's we just do a um I guess we should do a roll call on this so we are voting on to definitely
suspend uh number F on the board action Adams correct is that right to postpone it postpone it or PO on indefinitely it's from this agenda of order Mr chairman yes sir does this not allow for discussion yes it
does any discussion order yes sir motion has been made we going vote discussion after a second discussion after second Mr Dale I believe that this would allow for discussion you got a motion and a second
now will be appro time for discussion is any discussion yes Mr chairman U first discussion on in regarding the issue this is uh I know in this board actually in September of last year we actually
reapproved our standard policies one section one which actually contains in all of our board operations there was no change to that policy uh which would say that any new business that's being conducted by the
board would have to go through um the actual long-term committee this is a new project I served on the project uh Capital committee for the past 22 23 and this my first time hearing about it U when we asked our superintendent about it Monday night he was just hearing
about it in November uh which means that this project did not go through our normal procedure and standard our our our strategic planning for the district which would means that any new project would have to first go through the
long-term planning before we consider uh spending any type of change or money uh for that resource So based off of that policy this it would be a violation of our current policy by approving this action
item yes sir uh any other discussion I'm sorry point of clarification is this mean indefinitely mean never as far as that project basically me a later time which would allow it to go through committee and we
can discuss it at a later time thank you Mr go maybe I need education on the the proper committee process because it appeared before our Capital committee twice in the current year um the actual
project is looked at as to be completed in the next fiscal year which is subject to our budget um I don't understand how it didn't go through the proper process yes to also add to that um I know typically I I i' I've been
working without superintendent for since I came on the board at going on five years and I know the way that um when it comes to approaching our County Commission our funding body he can be very uh methodical on the way that we approach that that f body when it comes
to needs ensuring that those are needs that are at our top priority and the fact that we do have a strategic plan allows us to properly fund and and plan those projects at at that time um I know we had our County that provided us with
new metal detectors for all of our schools um we did not have to submit anything they just basically provided a letter saying that they was going to offer that and if there is a conversation with that we allow our superintendent who is our Leons between the board and the County
Commission to have that conversation before board what time any other discussion Mr chairman yes sir perhaps it's appropriate to recite any communication that was had with the county whether superintendent
or otherwise could you restate that what was the question again what communication was had with the county I can tell you that I was approached by Richard Watson County Commissioner for the district that he sits in meeting was
duly held with Dr catlet and Commissioners Watson Hall and Taylor attended by Road supervisor Bart wall I attended a meeting with same parties along with chairman um
Walden and I wonder if there was any communication with the administration by chairman Taylor or any of the other parties mentioned there has been some mentioning of this project but Dr Khaled was kind
of the basic basically the lead on uh the project with the East Dr C did you want to speak to it or you have anything you want to say about it yes sir um in November uh we went out and uh visited property uh there's been ongoing traffic issue there for years
and years and was brought up uh myself and Mr Bridgeman from the district was there along with the gentleman that you mentioned uh and we met with the principal just to see what the possibilities were for um some relief
for the traffic um that was told to to get out you know figure out a way that we can make this uh happen uh make you know see what the the uh the property would take in with the I think the the T
Barker also has a similar uh Drive off of that to kind of help with congestion of the traffic then uh two or three months later we had another meeting at uh the school in which we attended that's what you mentioned and they had
some architect there uh just had a discussion on U the possibilities and then it was taken to the capital committee meeting any other discussion well see I have one one question U and I kind of brought this up during the U work
session um about how we was going to word a motion uh to move this project forward um and my question was why would we do that without asking the County Commission
first before we obligate ourselves from the project I'd rather for them to turn us down uh and basically what the when we look at the uh this project and the size of
it Dr King has been very very uh uh intentional with working with uh the county uh commission chairman and actually things like that they use to work out and bring back to us uh because of the trust factor that they've
developed with Dr King so one of the things that uh I was concerned about during the work session that's why I lab the point is why would we be voting on it before they turn us down uh with the fund with the funding and just this uh
this week in our um Ed Vision committee meeting uh was a similar um thought process County Commissioner said they that was one of the projects they were looking forward to doing so I don't understand why we're we're moving
forward of of obligating ourselves I don't even know what the motion is in I seen I don't know what the motion is what the plan of the motion is but if we make a motion um uh basically in my mind um it
shouldn't obligate us any in any f F at all dollarwise until till um we know the County Commission is not going to fund you Mr chairman yes yes sir I'm prepared to make a motion that we can have good faith debate on or we
can shut it down before we even talk about it chairman Walden yes ma'am um um this question would be for attorney uh Thomas um Robert's Rules of law state
uh in accordance with agendas uh we as board members are to also be notified of this before we meet to make sure that we have Clarity our funding body would also send information that we all would have
in order for us to be voting on something of this nature as far as doing a a project such as this so if we haven't got those things from our funding body um would that uh be in accordance with
uh Robert's Rules of law actually I think it would because what you're talking about is a totally different matter the right now the motion on the table that motion is whether to postpone this indefinitely when you guys get ready to depending on the outcome of
this motion when you get ready to make the motion if it does not succeed this motion then you would have all those discussions but you guys had notice of this because it was discussed at the work session Monday night didn't come from the County
Commission the funding body is what I'm stating to you as the attorney I'm sorry I'm I'm not understanding that particular question if they had a project like any other thing that we received we would have had notification from the funding body we
did not have that at that meeting it was not put together with our packet about this information as well when we met on Monday and again we're getting before the motion but I think the motion is going to address that particular issue
this question is whether to even put the motion on the table or not whether to even hear the motion by what little I've been involved in this to ask to answer um Mr Johnson's question is what I this what I've been
told that the Republican the caucus met this past Monday and discussed this and wanting to move forward they're going to vote on this Monday night in their in the County Commission meeting and they feel like it's going to be they think they' got plenty of
support well it's kind of a time sensitive matter and the reason why is this if we wait and how the motion kind kind of clarify we can clarify that once we get to that point on what we're going to do because the reason why if we
decide to wait and if y'all want to whatever y'all want to do if we put this off until April they we cannot start on it until April it's got to be designed by the engineer firm and this has to be done when school is out it's like 100 foot pine trees there we can't have
equipment there when school is in session so if we can get all the all this moving Parts moving they can start on it when school is out don't it's going to fall into the next year and but that's up to the board my question is Sir Mr chairman
is if if they're going to vote on it why are we voting on it well point of order Mr chairman yes sir this is a discussion better suited for if the motion were on the floor which it is not so I move that we I moved the
previous question on the current motion to postpone indefinitely but second that that was that was part of the discuss I think we were low discussion right what I the question I asked was part of the discussion I I
think with all due respect the the question the motion that's on the floor right now is whether to actually proceed with the motion and discussion on that motion during the agenda items right now the only question is whether to hear
this motion initially or not and and that that should be the discussion at this point is whether we're going to actually hear the motion so basically we need to vote on this first and then if it doesn't pass we can step in once we get down to it we have more
discussion okay um oh yes just point of clarification on the what we're voting on a yes vote will remove it from the agenda a no vote will leave it on the agenda correct I have a parliamentary inquiry does this require two-thirds
vote given that it no it does not does not thank you Mr same bars no Jason Compton no Andre Darnell I don't forgot what the U the correct one was going to be a no is
we're not going to take we're going to have it on the agenda a yes we're going to take it off the agenda yes d g no no son yes Andrew G yes Marsh
M yes and Harvey walon no four yes no it's what four yes and five no so the motion fails motion passes no motion fails motion fails that's right no okay
all right let's go back to Mr chairman I'll make a motion we approve the agenda second second any discussion all in favor say yes yes all again say
no motion carries in the consent agenda we have two items the budget amendments policy five Personnel update do I have a motion to approve so moved a second second any discussion all in favor say I I I all
against say no motion passes uh may I have a motion to approve the February board minutes Mr chairman I'll make a motion to approve the board meetings for February second second all in favor say I I all against say no motion
passes uh moving down to the board action items do we have a um a motion to approve the new try committee that was proposed to send you a package Mr chairman yes sir I move that we approve the new policy on the chency committee I
have a second all in favor say I I all against say no motion passes do we I make a mo um on the offsite improve agreement Mr chairman I'll make a motion that we approve both the pope offsite
Improvement agreement and the popsite pope offsite Improvement agreement adendum with the county and also authorize either superintendent for the board chair to execute the documents second all in favor say I I I say no motion
passes the second the next item is the superintendent performance mric payout on both we got two with this and both them going have Del Thomas to explain are we talking about the payout or just the pay first pay payout first okay the
the payout is something we discussed at the work session uh the the questions you know is under the metric and the information that were given depending on how you interpret the
metric he uh Dr King would be entitled to either 13,000 or 11,500 on a an additional bonus depending on your interpretation I moved um me see here
can we can I have a motion to approve Dr King's bonus P based on the matric that we had in place for 20324 and the amount of his amount of the amount of the bonus would be
11,500 I'll make the motion we accept I have a second a second I have a question yes sir discussion uh I discussed this with Dr King and of course uh in in the discussion at the uh work session I tell you that he was not going to nickel and
Diamond over $1,500 and at the $1,500 is really not the issue um the issue um the bonus is that you know at least uh when we did I did had the discussion um at least one board member
had asked to change the metric uh if I'm understand that is that right uh Dale that's that you're talking about the metric for 2425 right right right not the not the metric for 23 24 right right right right
which which is was a violation of Dr King's contract that right in that the metric should have been voted on on before September of 24 okay let me get through this uh one one of the things U uh and I mention it's
not $1,500 not the not the big deal uh and of course Dr King asked me not to make it a big deal but uh I'm going to make it a little deal okay um so there was a at least um um we wanted to change uh in the in the
Myster so at least some someone wanted to change it all right but we didn't want to make a change for the change maker and Dr King has been the change
maker in this District uh since day one and I've been here every day every day since he's been here all right um in discussion he said don't focus on he want to focus on the work and that's what he's been doing uh and our kids uh
which I hold hardly agree the disrict is not the money of course uh but the work is we were reluctant to do the Roundup okay again we talking about $1500 right um You might remember and some of you may not remember uh some of you you may
not want to remember that Dr King's first bonus uh of $110,000 he gave it back to the school system anybody remember that yes okay okay okay all right uh if you don't believe me you can go back and check the
some of the minutes I it actually happened um the other thing is under his leadership um this district is actually done a 360 we talk more about the good things now previously we talked a lot about the bad
things and the public did did that okay um some of the things he's done and you can't put uh uh on the metrics he developed the Jackson M County Gayla which is uh brought in thousands of
dollars uh to the district and since his relationship with the the state um he's brought in thousands not only thousands millions of dollars of grant money he sealed a deal on the pope project
that was dragged out for 30 years right Hub City Central and Melissa's Innovation Center right the Three A's Arts Athletics and academics we have created programs that we've never had in the district before and all of them are
viable uh our strategic plan and trust me um before he came we had plan we never looked at it we talked about it periodically but he doesn't let us get away from that uh our relief statement um we stay on on track and the
traction we have uh with with our strategic plan and our release statement um is received positive traction from districts all over the state okay uh community support and relationship with not only
the community but our funding body is at all-time high uh um the trust factor for the districts is all-time high teacher salaries is in the top 25% in the state two or three years ago was
in the bottom part of the state okay part uh so I I just wanted to say that um the value of the $1,500 is not the not the big deal but the value of the respect
for the level of performance is a big deal okay uh and most of the overall accomplishments cannot be captured on a matrix or Rubik so Dr King is okay with following the
metric um he not okay with with the way it was handled okay that's that's thing I got Mr chair I have one thing left to say I was sworn in in September of 2024
for excellence in this Jackson Madison County School System public schools and um it um it's really disturbing today for the public to have knowledge of the school
board um in some kind of way not being consistent with what we said we were going to be sworn in to do to stay together and do what the superintendent and his amended stration needed us to do and we're not doing that today and we
didn't do that this week and it's sadding to me because we don't want our public to know that this is happening but it's public now and I'm making it public because I'm a school board member and I wanted to work with Dr
King and it's not working right now and you're being disrespectful to him the attorney the ga the inform that works for us from one board member to change the metrics that wasn't supposed to happen I don't need to sit on the
board 10 years we know the rules and we know the law do we want Dr King to sue us before his contract States one thing and we're changing something else that's not what it states the attorney knows that I don't think we want this room to
be crowded with a bunch of parents concerns citizens because we're not making the right choices by Dr King and we know this we know this and I would like for us to be one
unit and to be better and not run Dr King off because he can get a job anywhere in any City any state so let's be mindful of what we're deteriorating here because it is public today
Mr chairman I like to say something if you don't mind about this same thing you know she's exactly right and I'm gonna say this I think it would be a shame if the school board which it voted on for that Matrix back then at 3% to dip below
3% right right and you know what I'm voting on The 3% he did not make 3% in the area I'm voting on y'all he made 2.7 2.8 2.9 that's not 3% go try to finance something that's the only thing now the
other part I I'm not really sure but changing something in the Matrix up to another vote I'm talking about the payout if these School Board everybody but me Miss Moore and Mr GF were not here I'm supporting the vote that was made last year they voted for a 3%
number if he didn't make 3% he didn't make 3% I support Dr King and I think he is absolutely awesome in this school system but I'm not going to go back against school board members that made the vote last time i' like to say two things first Mr Thomas if I'm wrong with
you correct me how we broke the contract is we didn't pay Dr King his bonus by September the 1st but what we did not realize when we put that in his contract is the information the state does not get here until December the 19th is the last information we get is impossible to
pay the bonus and we and we want to change it with the new contract we already talked about that with Dr King and he's in agreement because we got the with the make how we have it set up on on on the levels that he's made we got
to have the data from the state and that does not come in until December the last part and the second thing Mr Johnson I agree with you 100% on everything you read this has been be I just be personal I'll be honest with you this has been the hardest thing on me to vote on this tonight the reason why is this Dr King
deserves the 1500 he deserved 15,000 he has done so well in this district and helped us but the fact fact is the fact is we voted on something and put it back last year on this
Matrix now and and that's what can we change something this far in voted on we set the matric we set the uh cap of the bonus we're going to do that in June and we're not going to have this problem again we have learned and it's where the
percent percent percentage fell into place U that's all I had to say any other disc chairman sir one question so this is this 115 would be the second payment of the bonus correct what is the total bonus with this 115 uh combined with the bonus that we are have already
paid that Dr King would be receiving with his 115 I'm guessing 485 he I Just5 18,500 it's 20 the prior what happened just so that we're all clear here is all
the information on the metric wasn't available to us until chairman walon said December so the board approved the information that was available to us last year and that information we
approved at the time $220,500 in bonus earlier uh with the information that was available from the state so the total bonus payout would be $32,000 uh this year for his bonus with this 115
that's correct okay any other comment Mr chairman yes sir do you mind repeating the motion so that we know how to vote oh you know what I forgot it uh the motion is going to be that we uh approve the superintendent's payout
which we had a motion to combine both but just on the payout is that we pay out the motion based on the Matrix that was in place for the school year
2324 am I correct 11,500 11,500 that was the motion and it's for the bonus for the year 203 24 correct that's correct yes okay chairman the motion didn't anybody he didn't he didn't make a motion to to combine anything no no
that's what you said you said he make a motion to combine that was the previous motion oh my bad my bad okay okay vot on the payout we just on the payout about got on the pay any other discussion roll call please wait when we
vote Yes you're you're voting for to pay Dr King 11,500 based on that Matrix we understand we good okay Mr Matrix sh Barn yes comp yes Andre Dell yes DAV G yes
Glen G yes James Johnson yes Andrew G Mo yes Marshall Ms yes and Harvey Walden yes the next the next one is a superintendent's performance Matrix 2425 and Mr Thomas is going to Enlighten us
on this all right this is for the 2425 school year which we're well into we will be using this in June to grade for the bonus correct if we meet in June or July whenever we meet we'll be using when we get the data get all the data in
that's where be used the data from the state some of it will get in in the fall and others we we're at the mercy of the state when this data comes in last year it came in in December so uh but but
Monday night there were two uh metrics uh that we talked about one metric changed some of the categories that was the one that changed the uh fourth grade promotion deleted that and put that down into the priority
school that was the only difference in the two metrics that were presented Monday night now the the metric that was presented Monday night did have some changes from the prior metric from 2324 so I want to talk about those
changes a little bit one is to was put in ranges to eliminate the issues about whether someone hit 3% or whether they hit 2.7% so one was to address that issue and gave ranges for each one of the
categories the other was that we did change in the in the metric that was presented Monday night we did change some of the uh some of the amounts but we didn't change the categories but we changed the amounts for example ready
graduates we changed the percentages sum now I will tell you that information came from Dr King so he's the one that sent this proposed metric with those changes in the
percentages all right the other change was that we eliminated uh what we clarified the ACT score Improvement to make sure that it was clear that it was based on a percent perc of improvement rather than a raw score Improvement and
the last change was on employee retention we uh specifically clarified that it excluded retirees from that calculation the thought was that if someone worked here 30 years uh and they decide to retire then the superintendent
shouldn't be penalized if you will on the uh retention uh percentage from the metric so those were the changes in that metric and that was the metric that was presented Monday night that did not have the change in the fourth grade promotion
and the high priority schools Mr chairman yes sir I know there's not a a motion on the floor yet um but in order to make the motion easier to make um I think I'm the board member that was being referred to as the
one who changed the metric all by himself um I'm the one that did submit the suggestions as it was discussed back in our Retreat that fourth grade retention is the same as third grade promotion and therefore we needed to do
something with that line in the metric and my suggestion was putting a higher focus on priority schools I realize that's a large change at this point in the game and I'm more than willing to not consider that uh if those considerations will be made in the
future um therefore I'd like for us to just clarify that we are uh only discussing the one plan that makes the changes attorney Thomas described but makes no changes to the line items or the categories that are on the
metric yes sir Mr chairman just a question too but in in looking at those changes that are proposed by with the ranges rather than just the percentage and also with getting rid of the retire um part and then also making the
percentage change rather than the raw score change on the ACT if you if you looked at those things and would have done that this year's metric all of those are in favor of Dr King and do not go against Dr King on in any of
those categories it actually makes it easier to obtain I would say it makes it more clear to obtain but in the range in the range we're going from 2 point the ranges go instead of it just being 3% it's now
that number is now to it starts at 2.5 2.5% that's correct okay M chairman I have a question yes sir uh two two questions uh Dale those changes um first of all has Dr King approved those yes he
he's the one who sent me the the metric and then I changed to make sure that we had ranges he's the one that proposed the ready graduates change which is an increase from the 2324
because we had met those targets so he increased those in that proposal uh and so it did change that part but that came from Dr King the what I changed whenever I looked at it was more in the clarification mode and that
was to put ranges and also to clarify the ACT score was a percentage instead of raw score and also clarify that it excluded retirees on the employee retention okay second thing Mr chairman is doing the retreat I think we when we discussed
this issue uh concerning metric I think uh uh the decision was made that uh we would the board entire board would meet and discuss some issues with with Dale not one person I think that was that was
a issue I think that uh uh we didn't we didn't follow up on well I guess we need to have a get a motion then we have discuss discussion some more um do we I move to adopt the 2425 bonus Matrix as presented by Mr D
Thomas do I have a so moved a second second any discussion just do a roll call again so we are voting we yes sir can we just clarify we're talking about the one plan the one plan and if you vote Yes
you are saying that you want to go to Matrix that Mr Dell had just um described to us a no we don't want to do that Mr Matrix Shane yes Jason compt yes Andre
dnell yes d g yes l g yes James Johnson yes Andrew G Mo yes Marshall Ms yes and Harvey wal yes the next is the East Elementary traffic
relief project Mr chairman yes sir I move to approve East Elementary property improvements based on engineering plans that accommodate more vehicles on the property with funding from the M from Madison County expended first before
using jmcss jmcss funds if deemed appropriate in fiscal year 25 I'll second that any discussion discussion um going back to this project
I'm not sure if all of our new new board members understand our process when it comes to um our position and roles as board members versus superintendent uh in the areas of the facility the superintendent is actually
the one who would determine if there's a need for fiscal SP spending in the district and would bring that information back to the board for approval uh the board does not um find locations or determine
spending that will be used that that is all done by our superintendent that we hire we do not go out and find projects we also have committees that we make sure that each and every board member is aware and as I stated previously about this this new project it is actually
jumping ahead of a lot of our previous uh capital projects that are already in process through the district uh this is something new uh we have we already have been informed about the new soft cost expenses on our current project um as
well as with the stadium the expenses that could come with that and now we're about to add a new project that will be jumping above all of our projects violating our policy our long-term policy as well as our country contract
and our duties as board members by pushing this uh before we allowing our superintendent the time to do the thorough research and bring it back to the board for um more consideration as board members we are to approve and
adopt we do not do anything else point of order speaking and let's make sure that we M we maintain under our Robert rules as parliamentarian uh we do not speak while other board members are speaking without addressing our chairman but uh that's all that I will say on
that um on that topic Mr chairman discussion go ahead go ahead thank you for the opportunity to expand on the motion that I made and put before the board uh just now
the need that's described was brought to us from the community in the form of County Commissioners members of our funding body uh approaching both board members and the administration Dr catlet uh and
Mr Bridgeman specifically uh who was involved in this process from the beginning I assume under the offices of our superintendent um there's a safety issue and it can be addressed many ways in the short term but in the long term there
will need to be property improvements at East Elementary School if we continue to use that facility uh to facilitate safety for car riders Walkers parents and students as well as staff the motion as it's formed takes into account what
we all know informally which is that the county is willing to contribute to the planning cost of the project and once the planning is done we will at least have the information on what needs to be done in order to Abate
traffic with a solution that's on our property not constructing or widening any County Road or other County property not taking anyone's private property in order to create a solution simply constructing an
improvement on uh school system property if the county does not approve a payment on the planning the ball remains firmly in our court to prioritize this how we will as it relates to any other project projects
that this board uh and this Administration would propose to conduct in fiscal year 26 and so I'm simply asking that we formalize all of this informal talk into a goal that the board I hope can get
behind uh and that we can keep firmly in our grasp in the planning of it and uh I would appreciate a yes vote on this Mr chairman yes sir once again we a vote would be going
outside of our long-term committee uh policy which clearly states to provide a sounding board for new ideas to upgrade uh education systems and that each board member have an opportunity to follow up on suggestions or proposals in which he
or she might desire actions taken in regard to Future planning uh this is part of our policy um this new project that is being presented actually SK long-term planning which should go through long-term planning for this
discussion uh before we just immediately bring it to the board for a vote I have a question goad goad Shane I'm sorry point point of discussion yes sir I agree on the committee part with Mr Darnell one thing I want the board to know on this whole issue is one thing
I've learned about being on this this board is we have so much red tape in committees and time and time of is is is of essence on some of this and I'm going to tell you one thing that doesn't work with the telephone and phone is time from law
enforcement standpoint to constituent standpoint my phone is ringing off the wall about Pope or not Pope excuse me well Pope is too on no humble but that'll be change soon but is east east is a traffic Hazard I'm telling you from a law enforcement experience it's a
traffic Hazard somebody is going to get hurt now should we follow this or make a point Dr King is aware of this several constituents here with us are aware of this the board members phone the County Commission is aware of this our
legislative funding body is opening the door for some help here and I think we really need to do something about this problem out there I'm afraid somebody's going to get hurt and it really could affect students and the whole area out there on ashport road chair i' ask ask again attorney
Thomas uh I want to recognize that uh Mr Darnell is U um a member of the state board of directors and he knows the rules he
knows how we supposed to follow at school board would this be in accordance attorney Thomas if we do something before it goes to the right procedure and protocol would we be doing what we're supposed to do or would we be VI
ating I'm going to respond in two ways in true I thought it was just yes or no in true attorney in true attorney fashion one is I tried to pull up the long range planning committee policy and I could not get it to pull up but uh I
know that not everything that comes to the board goes through every possible committee that it could go to before it comes to the board I know know that's historically been the case I also know
that the board has the authority to suspend any rules that it wants to suspend at any time uh so you know that those are two things that could happen now should this have gone through I mean
I guess somebody could argue it could have gone through long range planning it could have gone to Capital it could have gone to budget it could have gone to a lot of different committees uh but I'm not sure that failure to send it through every potential committee
violates policy so would you be telling us that in good faith I would be I don't I don't speak unless I'm speaking in good faith I mean that that's a good faith opinion so as a new board member do you think we
should make major decisions like that attorney Thomas I'm I'm not sure I mean what do you mean oh you guys make major decisions all the time we don't have a proper training and we solicit something like this is that
being where we need to be as board members still in training you understand I I'm not sure I do I'm sorry I'm not sure I it's probably me that I'm not understanding the question not just in
orientation but Robert's Rules of law state many things our board is to do many things in accordance with what we are hired elected officials by the community to do and if we don't do what
we're in accordance to do and we start making rules of our own how we're going to vote on things is that how this board is supposed to be ran is not the understanding that I gotten Roberts Rules of Order only talk about procedural matters this is a procedure
if you're wanting something to go and that's not in accordance with how it should be going through the Committees correctly if it should have went through long range planning it should have went through long range planning we shouldn't be cutting the chase on that and and that way all of us have an understanding about that attorney Thomas I'm just
asking you because you're her for us and we want to do the right thing moving forward not what we did in the past we want this board to be excellent we don't want to have confusion and chaos but if we're not getting the right information from our our attorney so we can make the
right decisions on this board we're not doing the correct things with this board we're not learning correctly in an ideal world would every motion or every idea go through every committee that it could possibly fall under
yes thank you Mr chairman yes ma'am I just wanted to mention that I I certainly see U Mr arnell's point and I think he's valid point there but one thing I don't understand is that if this
has been such a major problem apparently for an extended length of time why are we just now talking about it and why hasn't it been on the long range planning any other discussion Mr chairman just to also add um each and
every board member each person here today you can go right online you go to Jack s Madison County School system.org our our website and you can click on policy and under that policy you can go to section that has board
operation and you click on that and you look in that first section it has long rang strategic planning committee uh policy 13012 and one of item six of that policy it states well just just to get to as I
stated before item three to provide a sounding board for new ideas to upgrade the education system to provide guidance input and suggestions for the formulation of the board's strategic plan uh to provide each board member an opportunity to follow up on the
suggestions or proposal on which he or she might desire action items to Reg in future planning and number six to bring forward items after committee discussion for the agenda which to require the
board attention that's the last statement on that policy um so this motion will be in violation of policy uh 13012 CH that's what I was asking you attorney th Mr chairman I make a motion that we
do not add this point of order already a motion on the table that's right sir yes sir we can't just remove a motion it either has to be disposed of or dealt with in some way in accordance
with Robert's Rules of Order we already voted on that once tonight I resend it I resented my previous previous thing for this item is action item is there a motion to Mr chairman yes sir attorney Thomas was about to speak before I'm sorry I'm
sorry all I was going to say is when Mr Darnell made his motion I was just going to say that there was already a motion on the floor so Mr chairman yes sir I address Mr Thomas yes sir I think you were going to comment on the reading of the policy in regarding the committee
and I was and and my my point is I think those tell you things that the long range planning committee could do and they certainly can bring these things ideas to the board but I'm not sure that that's the only way that new ideas or
new motions or new uh suggestions come before the board there are many ways other committees can bring things before the board as well it doesn't it's not just the long range or strategic plan that does that and which policy is that
stated well I think in all of the policies it says that you can bring things before the board right I'm not AR there just when it comes to uh planning on any upgrading I mean I don't see it any change from Mr chairman
yes sir I mean if you also look at our Capital Improvement committee which this project did go in front of I think multiple times it says that the capital committee is to study and make recommendations regarding District Capital Improvement needs including new or Renova facilities to study and make
recommendations regarding plans and costs associated with approved Capital Improv projects to study and make recommendations regarding status of any ongoing Capital Improvement so according to our Capital committee policy recommendations can be made at a capital committee to the board as well and this
project did go in front of capital I believe two times this FY any other discussion uh just to note that uh superintendent did mentioned that he was just hearing of this in November so so let me share this I think uh it's very important
that we let the focus uh remain on kids and I think the question we have to say is is this best for students um does this pose a threat to students and I think when we answer those questions we know the
answer um knowing about this I've delegated this this project to uh Dr catlet and I trust his judgment on what they
discuss uh while I was not directly involved in this what I do know is that I want what's best for these kids so we can discuss this for another hour and I have no problem with that but my
recommendation to the board is make the decision on what's best for students not on protocol because we've seen on protocol with my
metric that's an example but it's okay but we got got to make decisions on what's best for kids so I'll leave at that thank you sir any other discussion for clarification I going ask Mr G to read his motion again
and then we will vote on it Motion in question is to approve East Elementary property improvements based on engineering plans that accommodate more vehicles on the property with funding from Madison County expended first before using jmcss funds if deemed
appropriate in fiscal year 25 we'll be voting on a yes vote is saying that we will proceed with his motion a no we will not M Demetrius a roll call again please yes
sir Shane waren yes Jason compon yes Andre dnell no dve g yesen g yes J James Johnson yes Andrew G Mo abstain
Marsh M no and Harvey waler yes yes pass motion carries the last one on our action out tonight is getting a motion to approve our new trcy committee do I have a motion to approve it Mr chairman I make a motion we approve the
new trcy committee second second all in favor say I I all opposed say no motion carries you have any comments sir I guess we go into spring break next week uh some will
be off some will not be off um but uh of course the superintendent office will still be moving so if you need me let me know but uh I want to thank all of our administrators and our teachers for the hard work they have put in we know coming back after spring break it is
just crunch time because it's going to be preparing for testing so I just want to take this time on behalf of the board and Office of the super intended to just send a shout out to our teachers and our leaders for the amazing work that they do every single day so thank you day thank you sir do I have a motion to
adjourn so move a second second second we are adjourn