I >> believe it's 5:30. We're going to call this meeting in order. Can we have a roll call, please? Miss Demetus. >> Yes, sir. >> Please say present when I call your name. Harvey Walden, >> present. >> Shane Barnes, >> present. >> Jason Compton,
>> present. Andre Darnell, >> present. >> Debbie G, >> present. >> Glenn G, >> present. >> James Johnson, >> present. >> Andrew Given Moore, >> present. >> And Marsha Moss. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. Please, Mr. Greg.
>> Tonight's color guard is presented by the Southside Navy, JOTC. Carrying the American flag and leading the color guard is Cadet Selena Jones. Carrying the Tennessee State flag is Cadet Aiden Stairs. Carrying the US Navy
flag is Cadet Joe Reagan. They're under the direction of Chief Ivan Henderson. >> Guard present colors. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Colors right face forward march.
Thank you so much, >> Miss Andrea. Will you please do the invocation, please? >> Gracious Father, I want to thank you for allowing me to be here tonight along with all my other staff.
We'd like to ask you to continue to pray for our school system and support us in our words, our thinking, our livelihood, and all that we do for the children in this school system. May we stay safe, strong, and do what's in your will. In
Jesus name I pray. Amen. >> Thank you. Mr. P, will you do a mission statement, please? Sir, our mission statement is providing equitable options and opportunities in a safe, caring environment to maximize student potential. >> Thank you, sir.
>> Okay. Uh, I guess we go down to the approval of the agenda minutes. Do I have a motion on the agenda? >> Make a motion that we approve the agenda. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Say no.
Motion passes. The ne the next is a consent agenda. This is what we know went over Monday night out of state travel and all of our policies that we is there um I have a motion we approve these. >> Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to approve by consent agenda.
>> Second. >> Do I have any comment? Any comment? All in favor say I. >> All post say no. Motion passes. Yes. Then also too, we uh I have a
motion to approve the uh July board minutes. >> Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to approve to approve uh July general board meeting. >> We have a second. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> All post say no. Motion approves.
Passes. Then we have the emergency budget amendment. That is what again what we went over Monday night. Uh do I have a motion to approve? >> Mr. Chairman, make a motion to approve the two emergency budget amendments uh regarding summer learning camp.
>> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All say no. >> Motion passes. The last is the contract with Rainey Kaiser River and Bill engagement agreement that we went over
Monday night. All in favor say I. >> Mr. Jim. >> I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Do we have a motion to approve? >> I have a question. >> Yes, sir. Before I would make the motion on the uh the fee for services on the second page uh on the number three um
sub letter A uh with the firm agrees to give a minimum of quarterly accounting uh number of hours uh expended toward the uh annual retainer to the superintendent. My question is can we make that available to the uh board also? Oh >> we >> all right
>> coming back up. Do we have a motion to approve? >> Mr. Mr Chairman, I would like to make a motion to approve. >> A second. >> Second. >> Do we have any any comments? >> Any questions, >> Mr. Chairman? >> Yes, sir. >> This being the first one I've looked at. I guess I would like to know if there's
any significant changes compared to previous contracts. >> It's a 2% increase. Okay. >> The only change. >> Thank you. Any other question, comments? >> All in favor say I. All >> oppose say no.
>> Motion passes. Do we have any comments from the superintendent? >> I think uh we have a couple of new members in the audience. So I want to talk about our first week of school uh first two weeks of school which is a leadership conference. If they'll go ahead and play that for us, Daniel,
[Music] >> this summer Jackson Madison County schools came together for a week of bold ideas, shared growth, and unmistakable community. JMCSS Leadership Conference 2025. We kick things off by welcoming
over 100 new teachers to our new teacher orientation. >> Uh-huh. >> Uh-huh. >> Oh yeah. >> Oh yeah. >> More than 25 of these new educators are JMCSS alumni now returning home to make
a difference where it all began. Thank you very much. >> The leadership conference continued with their annual Admin Institute trip to the Bluff City. Bridges USA in Memphis is where principles and senior leaders stretched themselves through team
building and deep reflection. Together they committed to bold leadership in pushing past limits. On day two of the Admin Institute sponsored by West Tennessee Healthcare, Dr. Vincent Wendro challenge us to
unsubscribe and disconnect from patterns that hold us back. Leading with a fresh perspective and purpose should be our goal. >> Then came the big event, EdgueFest. Part professional development and part
family reunion with music, line dancing, live performances by our own staff, and even a threeon-ree basketball tournament, Edgie Fest was a celebration of who we are. We connected and we laughed and yeah, we ate. We ate good.
>> You're probably focused on EOC stuff. Midweek, our educators then took a seat on the other side of the classroom as students. Pipeline professional learning day featured hands-on sessions led by curriculum associates and our veteran
educators focusing on I Ready ELA reading and math. Teachers engaged in deep discussions around expectations, student progress, and classroom excellence. Support for new educators didn't stop at orientation. The new and
novice teacher initiative launched as a year-long fellowship will provide guidance, community, and confidence to help our newest teachers succeed from day one. >> Superintendent Dr. Marlon King closed out the leadership conference by
visiting select schools to share an exciting announcement. The creation of the Lyft Network. Leading innovation through focused transformation is a bold new vision to empower schools with the autonomy to create flexible learning models that drive academic success and
move them toward their highest potential. In the Jackson Madison County School System, professional learning is more than a meeting. It's a mission and a sign of our school board's continued investment in our teachers, support staff, and schools. So, thank you for
being bold, being you, and being JMCSS. [Music] I want to thank Greg for putting that together for us in a short time frame, but we had a great two uh weeks of professional learning uh in our system.
The s second thing you know we are very I think we used to say this a lot leadership matters and I really want to give a shout out uh and she probably doesn't think think how important you know the involvement in work is to uh Miss Gaul on trans let me talk about
transportation for a while our buses have y'all received any calls from anybody about buses late so let me give you all the update uh with over 13,300 students we've transported 5,000 378 students. We began with 96 routes. We
reduced it to 81 routes with four open routes. 77 drivers covering 81 routes. You all we only had three late buses the first week of school and we only had two drivers absent for this entire year
already. Um m putting awareness and making certain that we put a stake in the ground around things is so critical, so important. And I know in leadership often times we want things to happen tomorrow and that's just not always the case. And so I really want to shoot a shout out uh to Miss G, but also to our
transportation, our bus drivers, you all from Edgif Fest to today. They have been on fire. They won the um the most spirit at our edifest. Uh but they have been really really on fire and very very committed to this work. And so I I can't
thank them enough. And I just want to just give them single them out uh for uh having a great couple weeks for us with our students. That's all I have in my report. >> Mr. Chair, have I want to add one one thing to uh Dr. King's report about transportation. Um our drivers also did
uh summer school. So they actually didn't get a break. >> That's right. >> Uh the other thing is we've got several full-time employees that substitute driving drive for us. So I want to shout give a shout out to them, too. So they're doing two jobs. I mean, two real
jobs uh for our district um doing on the same day. That's all, >> Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. >> I think I understand this to be correct and it didn't come up Monday night, but federal funding that had been held back has all been released. Correct.
>> That's correct. >> Okay. Some may not have known because as far as I know it was only discussed in committees uh late last month but we had some initiatives on hold as a result of that uh that hopefully we can charge forward with. We've met uh uh the conversation from
committee was uh once the funds would be released, we would meet to level set on our budget because I shared some things with you all about maybe the amended budget was kind of looking a little differently and we fixed that and we've cleared that up and so at our next
committee meeting we'll have all of uh the information that we that we need to move forward with uh rolling out our projects. Any other questions, comments? I would like to bring up one thing. We talked about Monday night, but I think it's
important to bring up again is about Madison. I mean, it's it's incredible. They, you know, that our school Madison here in West Tennessee is ranked number seven high school, public high school in state, Tennessee. And that includes charter schools because charter schools
are public schools. So, I mean, that is amazing. That shows that the needle is is turning. We um definitely take a win. We definitely have challenges that we're working on and um very diligently and I believe that you know in the upcoming
year we're going to see uh our scores go up in different things. So some really good things going on, some really really good things. But I'm very proud of Madison for them to get that achievement. I mean, that puts us up with Brentwood, Franklin, uh, some schools that's, you know,
that's always been really, really, um, successful. So, um, I'm grateful for that. Any other comment? Well, I'll bring the meeting to adjournment. >> Motion to adjourn. >> I'll make a motion we second.
All >> in favor? I total