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e let me call the uh meeting to order a roll roll call please yes sir please stay present when I call your name Shane bares present Jason compt present Dell pres
pres pres James Johnson Andre G Mo Mr Greg please rise for the presentation of Colors by the Liberty technology Navy junor Roc Air Force Junior Roc core Cadets
include Tamar Bowers daa Douglas Nia Morris and Jada stall Mark Tom Mark Tom left light H present
colors I pledge allegiance to the fight the United States of America and to theic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all order
calls Mark Tom Mark Tom left you can be seated D will you please open us word of prayer let us by here dear heavenly father we thank you for this day Lord we thank you for this great opportunity of sitting on this board to serve over this
city for the good and for the betterment of this district and this community Heavenly Father we ask you to keep your guidance over our superintendent over each and every teacher each and every student Keep Us Safe Keep Us under your hand and your guidance and these and many other blessings we ask in your name
Heavenly Father amen amen Mr go our mission please our mission is providing Equitable options and opportunities in a safe caring environment to maximize student potential thank you sir we're having our staff and student recognition and we are
uh happy to have both our Mayors here today thank you for coming and um Greg please city mayor Scott Conger and Madison County mayor AJ Massie are here to present a resolution in honor of school board appreciation please welcome
them as they come forward we usually don't get applauses when we come plac we'll be back next week um want to say thank you all for what you do for our school system for our children our teachers our staff and uh you know just because it's School Board appreciation month we're recognizing you all um I
appreciate the the open dialogue we're able to have the working relationship that we'll able to have and then uh we've had several conversations about uh Pope School construction and so you should be getting an email Dale Dr King tomorrow or tonight about a good faith opening for phase one approval for the
permit so start working on that only for the school board appreciation those kid we want those kids in that school thank you thank you that's what I get for letting you go first you get you get to tell the good
news that's right no uh just on that point I will say uh no one no one really knows with the exception of uh chairman Walden and maybe Dr King uh the amount of of Good Will and effort that went into making sure that happens and it really was a three-part effort City
County and school system coming together uh it was a great opportunity for division and for fussing and fighting and that's not what happened so I think you need to be proud of your city and your county leadership and your school system being at the table and never not being at the table to figure out how we can work together where we all uh we all
maybe don't get everything we want but we get close to it and I think that's a sign of equality in negotiation is we get as close as we can to everybody being there and just on a personal note you know it wasn't that long ago I was behind those those seats uh I did not have an airbrush photo behind me though so I don't know if that's punishment or
a reward I'm not sure what that is but it's nice y'all look nice and I've said it before working in finance and working with the school system uh there are two things that people go from zero to 100 emotionally and that's if you mess with their money or you mess with their children and uh you guys are in one of those areas and so I just say thank you
for what you do and I appreciate uh taking the slings and arrows that you do and the hard decisions that you make and as a father of two children in your public schools I appreciate you and as a husband to a wife that's in your public school every day I appreciate what you do I'm going to read this Proclamation here uh Proclamation says whereas an
excellent public education system is vital to the quality of life in Tennessee's communities and to the economic development of the state and whereas Schoolboard members represent a tremendous Resource as local decision makers and diligently work to overcome the challenges of a CH changing World while providing students with the
services and opportunities needed for a quality education and whereas school board members strive to ensure that every student graduates high school prepared for a career Andor college and whereas the men and women of our local school board are elected by the people to make decisions most appropriate for
our community and deserve recognition and thanks for their countless hours of service to public education in Jackson and Madison County Tennessee now therefore we Scott Conger mayor of the city of Jackson Tennessee and AJ Massie mayor of Madison County Tennessee to hereby Proclaim February 27th 2025 as
school board appreciation day we got to take a photo [Laughter] yeah that's mayor Conger soua High School class of 01 and mayor AJ Massie jcm class of 2000
the 2024 2025 theme for Tennessee Schoolboard appreciation week this year was leading with vision serving with purpose School Board member appreciation week was January 26 through February 1st jcks and Madison County schools kicked off the celebration of honoring our
Schoolboard members by placing signs of recognition at their homes throughout the week School Board member spotlights will shareed on social media Outlets that help tell the story of each of our members including their school memories fun facts and a few of their favorites
also chairman Walden was featured a featured guest on the weekly District podcast for the district we hope that each of you enjoyed the slideshow presentation earlier reminding all of us of the work that our members do and have done and will continue to do for the
district tonight is our formal recognition event for Schoolboard appreciation our school board is not only appreciated by students parents teachers and leaders of the district but as you just heard from the city mayor Scott Conger and the county mayor AJ
Massie you are also appreciated by the government through school board appreciation proclamations now we know that the job you do is not easy and there's often times not a lot of Spotlight however you should be assured
that your work does not go unnoticed thank you as a small token of our appreciation we have some gifts to present to you we will begin with recognition of appreciation from the office of superintendent so what you'll
see in these bags are a backpack cooler personized luggage tag framed posters and uh Dr King's giv you business cards so in addition our schools and central office teams have collaborated to honor and support you all with personalized
baskets of some of your favorites and posters of encouragement you'll see their signed below please come down when your name is called chairman of the school board Harvey Walden if you would all come down Shane bnes Jason Compton Andre jell
Debbie G Glen G Andrea Michelle gim Moore James Pete Johnson and Marsha Moss we appreciate each of you and all that you do to make jmcss stand out and be the best by any
measure than you if y all would squeeze in with your bag squeeze in all right big smile two one all right [Applause]
okay I'm moving on to the approvals of the agenda and minutes I have a motion to approve the agenda so moved do I have a second second any discussion all in favor say I I all opposed say
no okay the next is the consent agenda I have a motion to approve it so moved second second all in favor say I I I all opposed say no uh the next would be the uh January
board meet uh board meeting minutes I have a motion appr B Mr chairman I make a motion to approve the minutes have a second discussion all in favor say I I I all oppos say
no the next is uh board action items the first is the policy section four a instruction service up Andrew update do we have a um motion to
approve make a motion to approved a second second all in favor say all in favor say I I I all oppos say no so move the next would be the charter the Ethics Committee appointments chairman yes sir
I'll make a motion that we approve the Ethics Committee appointees I have a second any discussion all in favor say I I all opposed say no next is Charter review appointment I
have a motion to approve Mr chairman yes sir can we make sure that included in that is also the chair yes the chair the chair Mr chairman I make a motion that we uh approve the charter review appointment list as uh presented by Dr King with Dr Williams as chair second
second second I have any discussion all in F all in favor say uh all in favor say yes yes yes all oppos
any oppos motion passes um the next would be the uh academic calendar of 2526 you have a motion to approve Mr chairman I'll make a motion to approve the academic calend as is I have a second second I have any discussion Mr chairman I would like to make an
amendment that we move that uh August 29th date to the September 19th date second second all in any discussion on that chairman yes sir I would just
comment that uh I respect the recommendation that was put forth by Miss cor and would be in favor of leaving it as is without amending discuss vote we voting yes to change it no to
leave it this you're voting yes on the amendment on his amend on the amendment and then depending on that you'll need to go back and vote on the original number but right now if we vote yes we're saying that we're going to change it we're saying if we vote no we're going to
leave it Mr chairman I will say I mean I I do recognize the recommendation that came from the committee but we did ask for public comment and if we're going to ask for public comment I think our public needs to be heard in those comments let's do a roll call please yes is saying that we are going
to change V second V on what Jason yes is the amendment yes is the amendment to change the date right no is to not approve the amendment we would still have to vote on
the original motion after after that after that yes yes no no no
yes no no no back to the original any um comments on it we already have a first second
correct any discussion chairman I call for a question yes sir question means proceed to vote okay all in favor say yes can't do that
yes yes all oppose say no motion passes all right um looks like that's it and there was two minutes late Mr Compton but we I've got a police escort by uh board
member Barnes over to Liberty so I'm good the only other thing I have we need to sign this um we need to sign this Jason you want to sign this I've already done you already done okay the conflict of interest yes yeah I've already turned it in okay got you got yes one anoun sure
sure sure PR uh online registration open March 3rd so I want to make sure everybody's aware of that publicly and that the first the first required and first um um uh event registration event which will be here at
central office will be March the 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. thank you sir thank hey one other thing too we saw where uh Dr King sent out in a Chronicle yesterday about the uh flag football for our girls we got
got so many good things going on in this District they getting these kids involved in it it's not just about flag football it's about getting them involved getting the parents involved getting them in school so we can get these transy numbers down and I do so
appreciate the um uh Dr King and his staff and the board members on how we are working on doing that and we makes this a really good Headway today is a good day can I have a motion to adjourn no move second
second so moved second I guess we are journ e e e e e