It was kinda a fifty fifty shot. So maybe I need to get I wanna thank everyone for coming tonight. I called the meeting to order. Miss Demetrius, will you please do a roll call, please? Yes, sir. Harvey Walden? Here. Sean, Shane Barnes? Here. Jason Compton? Here. Andre Dornell? Here. Debbie Gault? Here. Glenn Gault? Here. James Johnson? Present. Andrea Givens Moore? Present. Marshall Moss. Thank you, ma'am. Will you, mister Hammond, will you need to use the color guard, please? Please rise for the presentation of colors by the Southside High School Navy Junior ROTC.
Core cadets include senior cadet lieutenant Joe Reagan, freshman Rylan Crump, junior Sawyer Renfro, and freshman Emma Holliday. They are under the direction of their instructor, retired Navy chief, and robotics coach, Ivan Henderson. I pledge allegiance 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. Here it goes. Right. Right. Right. You may be seated. Mister Johnson, will you do have an invitation, please? You bow and pray with me. Father, we come thanking you for all your bountiful blessing in this opportunity to serve serve this district of our students, over 13,000 students and employees. We pray, dear, master, that you continue to bless us. Help us to do this thing that's pleasing the hillside, and we pray for all those victims, dear, massive, catastrophes all over the country, Jamaica from Jamaica to Kentucky. We pray that you continue to cover our children, and let us remember that our
students are always first. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Amen. Mister Campton, will you do three of our mission statement, please? Yes, mister chairman. Our mission statement is providing equitable options and opportunities in a safe, caring environment to maximize student potential. Thank you, sir. The first item on our agenda tonight is actually approve the agenda. Do I have a motion? Chairman, I'll make a motion. I second. All in favor say aye. Chairman? Yes, sir. I'd like to offer a question, please. Sure. Regarding the agenda. Clarification on board item five a.
Mhmm. Just what the intent of that item is. It's not something that was on our, work session agenda. Can you go after that? Sure. On Tuesday. I think it was Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, I had an opportunity to, great. Great. If you'll pull that up. On Tuesday morning, I had an opportunity to meet with, bus drivers, who had concerns about, this salary schedule. So we kinda stepped in my office. I didn't have enough space, but look. I welcomed everybody in, and we got in some type of way.
And the what was very, encouraging is in which the way that these bus drivers and sub drivers, came to approach me to engage us in dialogue about their concerns and just talk about their concerns with the salary schedule that was adopted last month. And I assure them, that I would, speak with, executive committee and board members about bringing this item back to the board, for some discussion and some considerations.
And so that's why, the item is on, this. And in speaking with, several board members, they were definitely in for having this on the agenda. I think I received a text immediately from, mister Darnell that night. Wanna have this discussion too. So that's why. Thank you. Mister chairman. Yes, sir. Just ask is the intent to overturn the, decision made last month. Once we get the recommendation when we get there, we could, just get that. Is that correct?
Recommendation. Thank you, sir. All in favor for approving the agenda, say aye. Aye. All who don't, say no. Motion approved. Next on the agenda is a cons is a consent agenda, the things that we went over Monday night in a work session. May I have a motion to approve? Mister chairman, I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, say no. Motion approved. Next will be, the October General Board Meeting Minute. So I have a motion to approve. Make a motion to approve. Have a second? Second.
All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, say no. Motion passes. Doctor King, do you wanna read the recommendation before we do the public comments or after? I have some comments before. Yes, sir. And after and then after. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I I want you again, share with the board that that I had the opportunity to meet with, many of our, bus drivers and sub bus drivers, and they brought very, very valid concerns, to me. And what I wanted to do is make certain that they know that the the recommendation from last month with the schedule, it was not in bad intent, and on
the behalf of the board. And it was some things that we need to do to go back and do some more homework and do some more research, but also include them in the process as we look at their salary schedule. They were very they were very professional. They have very valid concerns, and I want to assure them that this board wants to do things fair across the board. And that's why this item is on the agenda, because this board wants to be fair and wants to hear from people. And so I think it's very important, as we listen to the comments, that they will be professional, but I think hearing the comments, and then I'll make a recommendation to the board regarding our discussion that we had on Tuesday.
Thank you, sir. At this time, I believe we have four that'll be speaking tonight. The first is a miss I believe it's Eden Monroe. Correct? Please come on up. We we got a timer. It's, you have three minutes to speak, and I'm looking forward what you have to hear what you have to say. I'm sorry. I thought I would be further down the line. Yes. My name is Enon Miro. Let me start by thanking you all for having the time and the patience to hear us out this morning. So we're here this morning to talk about stipends. The definition of a stipend is a fixed additional payment received for doing extra duty.
This is separate from our base pay. As bus drivers, we receive $18 a stipend for performing any extra runs outside of our assigned route. Now $18 doesn't sound like a whole lot of money until you look at it, from the fact that we're we're covering full routes. We have a lot of open routes still. So there's a lot of us that drive two full routes every day. And then on top of those full routes, we have outside programs.
We have the McKinney Vento program. We have boys and girls clubs. We have transfers. We have, everybody gets a ride to school, so we're going back to pick up kids who've missed the bus. And sometimes their driver can't go back and get them, so somebody else has to go get them. So these are all extra duties that we do on top of running more than run route every day. Okay? On average, I personally cover. Oh, I left my paper. Chris, can you bring my paper?
On average, I I personally cover between, twenty and thirty runs a week. I meant to make copies. I really apologize. That is a copy. That is, the back of my time sheet. That shows exactly what I do every day. Now every one of those listings is representative of a siphon. It is an extra one that I've done. I'm sorry. I'm very nervous. If you look at the very first one, that is an open route. K? If you look at the activities, it'll tell you the bus number and things.
So, there's no driver for that route, so I cover that every day, and I have covered it since the beginning of school year. The second one is the McKinney Vento. That is a displaced, student who is out of the school zone. This is a state run program, but we go out of our way to make sure that we go get that child and bring them to the school that they go to. K. The third one on the list belongs to, one of our wonderful teachers who has
graciously volunteered to run a bus route for us because we are short of drivers. Now, in the AM, he can't run his elementary route because he'll be late for his class. Thank you. Thank you. Time is up. Three minutes. Mister chairman, may I ask one question? Sure. It's it's Sure. To help me out a little bit because I was on the transportation committee at the time these decisions were made. And the only question I have is we were all in good heart supporting the raise for the bus drivers of our public safety for thirty years myself, and I
know how this means to y'all. I've had to work overtime before too. My question is, during that time period, when you work the stipends, how many days did you go over six hours that you were originally paid for? It's just a question. I I constantly go over six hours, but I usually do maybe fifteen to thirty minutes over six hours. A lot of us, including myself, have changed the way we run our routes so that we can get our times down. If you look at our times from last year to this year, there's a significant,
improvement. So and that has a lot to do with the incentives that we're giving our drivers to to pick up these extra routes and get them done. Thank you, ma'am. I appreciate y'all very much. Thank you so much. By the next is mister Charles Douglas. Good evening. Good evening. I'm here somewhat because of the bus route, but my my position is is a sub. And, go ahead. My position is a sub. So as you here, she was talking about these vacant routes, and that's where we
come in at. But over the last, three years, we felt like that we wouldn't appreciate it because I just learned a few months ago that we weren't even included on the $3 raise that was done three months three years ago by doctor King. And I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting, and, that never did come. But saying that, our responsibility don't change. We still have to do go to school. We still have to do our, physicals as well as the bus other other drivers. So, we should be compensated in that way.
Matter of fact, we act behind because when we get on the route, we don't know where to go. We don't know the kids. And so our job becomes a little bit even harder. But we had a meeting here, about three months ago when I found out I do. We really really wasn't included in the raise, which I thought was, I wanna use the right word, unappreciated. And it was kinda told to us that way that we wouldn't couldn't be counted on. When I told her that we for about the last three years, I worked eight months in a row.
I mean, almost the whole school year. And and I just think that we need to be compensated as a regular driver, you know, because we have the same responsibility as they do. We don't get no we don't cut no carriers on there. Thank you for your time. Thank you, sir. Thank you. The next is a Emmanuel, Hughes, I believe. Did I pronounce that right? Emmanuel Hughes? Hodge. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Good evening, sir. It's much a surprise to me that It's probably gonna take two of them.
But we do quite a bit of substituting the routes, and we have to make up for a lot of, like you said, two and three routes even though we only supposed to do for, three hours, but we have to do over. We're able to kinda compact it because we all kinda work together, and we're able to get things done a lot faster. So by by by removing the stipends, just relying on everybody to do their job, it does it's gonna do a grave, misjustice to to your your busing schedules because
unhappy drivers, we have a lot more than just drive the kids. I have I'm responsible for being safe on the road as well as 60 misguided dysfunctional kids each and every day. So if you can kinda put that on your on your agenda while we're getting the the the pay. It's it's it's it's okay. I enjoy the work, but again, taking away the stipends the way you had it before, I think you're gonna do a great it's justice.
Mister chairman. Yes, sir. Are we still within three minutes? Just a question. How much over your six hours that you're paid for on the regular salary do you do in stipends, or how much work extra over six hours do you accomplish normally? Probably within fifteen minutes. If we raised if we if we eventually make staffing on buses and everybody's accounted for for every route, what would we do if the stipends disappeared based on staffing? If if we had every bus route covered based on staffing.
I don't know. It has it hasn't had it yet, so I don't I don't know. I've got a lot of questions about that. Thank you. Thank you, sir. The next is, I believe, miss Anderson. Good evening. I would like to start by actually thanking y'all for taking this time to listen to us. Our concerns based on our pay range. The meeting was held just last week to tell us that the stipends were now no longer available to us. This change impacts us heavily on a daily basis. I'm a single parent without help outside help. My daily pay rate plus my stipends combined is how I take care of my
household, feed my kids, and make sure that any unexpected, expenses that I have can get met. Their birthdays, Christmas, anything that I feel like we may need. Because, again, I don't get outside help. We have other drivers that have children who have medical expenses that are not taken care of by the insurances that we have, but the stipends help cover that. We do thank you for actually increasing our pay. That's showing us that y'all are paying attention to the work that we're doing and
saying, hey. You deserve this. But at the same time, we still have summer and everything else that comes up. And not only are the taxes taken out of our base pay, also the insurance is taken out of our base pay, as well as that paycheck that we get in this summer. So, yes, a lot of us overwork and work for the stipend so that we can still make sure that our bills are taken care of and come back here in August to make sure that this job is a priority. Being able to earn more money is how we are providing for our lives.
Yes. Sometimes it does only take fifteen minutes. Some of us work an hour. Some of us are here until five and six in the evening because there's drivers that are out sick that can't make it to work. We're covering them as well to make sure not only that these kids are safe, because we're not just drivers. We have to be the mediator. We have to be the safety coordinator. We have to stop all the fights and the violence. If children are coming to us and talking to us, we sit and we listen. We take these same concerns to our garage. They listen to us.
If they say, hey. We need you to talk to the school. There's plenty of counselors that know me by name. Office staff that come and talk to me, have my personal cell phone and say, hey. What happened with this child? And we have a conversation about it. I'm willing to meet with parents that have concerns about things that are going on the bus so that they're not getting angry calls to you guys or calling our office and saying this driver is inadequate. We have also have staff members who take the time outside of what they do. It's called the Impact Committee. They do things for the community. That's not something that's funded by anybody else but our extra statements.
We're like, Hey, we got a little extra. We can go ahead and donate to this. We show up in time. We are taking time out even on weekends for our families to make sure that these field trips are covered. Yes. We are getting paid for it. But on top of it, we understand that our office is saying we appreciate you. We're paying you for this work. We're here to do the work. I've been here only three years, and we have been down drivers all three years. But all three years, I have asked the questions I needed. I understand that's my time. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Ma'am?
Thank you. Do you have any questions for me? Mm-mm. Well, I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate you. Doctor King, would you wanna read the word for us? So my recommendation, to the board okay. My recommendation to the board is to resend the newly adopted transportation salary schedule. And here's the recommendation. It is recommended that the board resend the newly adopted transport transportation salary schedule and revert to the previous prior salary schedule with one modification. The change pertains to specific specifically to the method of payment for substitute drivers. Under the revised structure, credentialed substitute drivers will be compensated as bus driver pay rate.
Uncredentialed substitute drivers will continue to receive compensation at the previous substitute rate. The rationale for that is the recommendation ensures that fair compensation aligned with driver's qualifications maintains operational consistency with the established pay structure prior to the recent schedule change. That's my recommendation to the board. Mister chairman, it's good. I have a parliamentary inquiry. This is a motion to rescind a previous board action. What does that require in terms of board's vote?
Mister Dale, will you please answer that? Yeah. I it's my understanding that would still just require majority vote. My understanding is that it would require a two thirds vote since it wasn't announced prior. So I'd just like to make that noted that it would be a roll call vote requiring a two thirds majority in favor. And I'll tell you, I'd I do not have my Robert Truals in front of me, but, that may very well be right. If you if somebody has a copy of Robert Truals, I could check it real quick. God bless you. Quite a few minutes. Who's chairman?
Yes, sir. She's gonna get that. I just like to, make a comment before we before we vote. So I think previously before we changed the, pay schedule, the current schedule we had, was included in in the budget. Was it not right? Was it included in the budget? The the the old one of the Old one. Old one was in the budget, not this one. Right. Right. Right. And the other thing I wanna, make clear is the fact that, we have, posted all of our all of our buildings, that all employees have the right to, come
to supervisors, principal, superintendent, those things with issues, and we listen. I think this is one of the cases where, we should listen. We've listened, because this is one of the things that, I've got calls about is the fact that without the stipends, and after we made right after we made that that, vote last month is the fact that if we didn't have that incentive, a lot of kids will be getting home, late, four, five, 06:00 in the evening.
And as a matter of fact, I I checked with the supervisor, and, actually, he's getting calls about that already. So I know that's it's happening now because of stipends takeaway. So I think that, one of the things that we need to look at not just to pay, but we need to look at kids. Now students getting home, safely and then safely, but, in a reasonable amount of time. Mister chair. Miss mister chairman, point of order. We need to get a motion and a second on the floor before we continue any more discussion. Correct? That's probably good.
Let me do this. While we're waiting on Dale, let me say this. I'm talking to bus drivers. First of all, we appreciate you. And I wanna tell you thank you for tonight how each the ones who spoke, how respectful you was. Because I know this is something that affects your family, and I would you have to look through your eyes, how would I feel? I appreciate that. And I want you to know this. When we voted on this last time, we truly thought we were helping the bus drivers. We did. In saying that, that's the reason why what your motion is talking about is carrying
it back to the transportation committee. And I and doctor King mentioned it. It's not just gonna be us. We want some we want to hear from you if this passes tonight. And the next thing is I'm speaking for myself, not the rest of the board, is that my recommendation will be whatever because this this probably gonna happen before spring break. But my recommendation will be that this no matter what the outcome of that meeting, it will not start until the '26. That way, it's nothing in the middle of the year that changes things in the
middle of the school year. That would be my recommendation. Mister Dale, have you Yep. Got the answer for us? Page 61 of the, the rules of parliamentary procedure that the board's adopted. If previous notice is not given of intent to make a motion to rescind so that members are not alerted ahead of time to the fact that the motion will be made, adoption of the motion requires either, now there's either, two thirds vote or the vote of the majority of the entire membership of the voting body.
So it would require two thirds vote or the majority of the entire membership of the voting body. There's nine members of the voting body. Majority would be five. And it goes on and says whichever of these is a smaller number at the time. Mister chairman, I make a motion that we accept to rescind, the newly adopted transportation salary, recommended by doctor King based on, some discussion, of course, and some other things later, but I think we need to rescind this. I said second. Second.
Now any discussion? Yeah. Mister Dale first. Just, again, a point of order. There's a motion to rescind, but I also understood that doctor King's recommendation included some additional items in addition to what was previously, the board. So you really got a motion to rescind plus another motion to add these other recommendations. Is it separate that or does it separate what I think That's what he can say. I put it all in one Based on doctor based on doctor King's recommendation on
the to ascend that. Yes, sir. It's motion to rescind, but it's also to add. To add whatever doctor King put on the sheet. I just wanna make sure we're clear on that. And this a second on that, just to clarify? Second. Or it was already done a second. Well, just to make just to clarify to make sure. That's fine. All right. The, is there any discussion? Mr. Chairman? Yes, sir. I am appreciative of our bus drivers, and I think it's unfortunate we're in the
situation we're in because my difficulty is with whether, and we've heard the words of drivers tonight, attest to this as Mr. Barnes asked clarifying questions, whether it's ethical or even legal to make a base salary and then make a stipend on top of the base salary within the amount of hours that are, that an employee is expected to work.
And so there's a lot of questions, and I'm sure this is what's in front of us is well researched on the administration's part. But having passed this approximately one month ago, obviously having these concerns brought to us earlier this week and not having any notice personally, until I received this agenda that this would even be on the agenda tonight. I would favor delaying the implementation so that drivers and their families can know what
to expect, at least through the end of this year. But there are serious questions, in my opinion, as I've already referenced and potentially more, that this board cannot neglect to look at. And that's why rather than rescinding, I would be in favor of delaying. And, of course, at this point that depends on the majority of the board, voting this motion down. But it's I think everybody is in agreeance that we need more time and we need more study. And that's what a delay would do while keeping on the table the fact that
we've got some reform that needs to be done. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Mister chairman. Mister chair. I think I heard here first. Miss miss Moore, go first. I'd like to say to the transportation, drivers, we do appreciate you wholeheartedly. I am the policy committee chair, and I just wanna take a few minutes to read to you what our obligation as school board members and the policy committee chair is obligated to do. Number one is to setting direction. The board plays a crucial role in steering the district's direction and ensuring that the
policies align with the community's values and priorities. Number two, establishing structure. Boards are responsible for establishing an effective and efficient structure that supports the district's vision and empowers the professional staff. Number three, providing support. Board members support the superintendent. Board members support the superintendent and staff as they carry out the direction of the board, ensuring the district is run well. Ensuring accountability.
Boards are accountable to the public for the performance of the community schools and establish systems and processes to monitor results and evaluate progress. Number six, providing community leadership. Board members advocate for schools, for children, the district, and public schools as a whole, ensuring that the district's policies and programs are in alignment with the community's needs and expectations. We want you to note tonight, coming from me, board member Givens Moore, that our
duties and our job is never to take anything away. Anything that has been given to you, as far as stipends or anything, we wanna make good on whatever doctor King, we support him wholeheartedly as one unit. And this board is still one unit. And I wanna make sure that you know that whatever he's promising you, we as one unit, we're gonna make it happen. It may not happen tonight, but it's gonna happen for you. And we wanna apologize for any mistake that we made as a board last month
with our, okay in this to be approved. We had no intention of taking anything away from you bus drivers. We want you to know that, and I want you to hear it from me. We had no intention on taking anything away from you all. We know that you're the first person that the children see and the last person that they see. You see things that the teachers and administrators don't see. We appreciate that, and we don't take it lightly. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Who's next down here? Somebody's yep.
Mister Barnes. I agree. And as being on the transportation committee at the time, and we looked at the pay raise, after further studying, I'll tell you right now, in Tennessee, right now, bus drivers make nineteen to twenty five dollars an hour. That's the split across the state. And, still probably not enough, but we're so stuck on the six hours. And that's something we're gonna have to look at over the next six months. And one thing that that occurred to me, no matter what we do, we had a budget. And we had a budget to handle the original salary plus the stipends.
This will give the committee time to sit back and look at that. And, you know, there's some oversight. I think we all can agree that there's some oversight that that needs to be done. If there's not enough routes on somebody, maybe they need more routes, not cutting their stipends, but there needs to be some oversight and look at this from a long term event. You know, this came about during COVID. COVID's over. The pandemic's over. So let's look at this futuristic. If we need to do something to raise the pay because if stipends disappear, you don't wanna be stuck at $20 an hour.
You don't wanna be stuck at that. So this is a long term thing and I think we we might have made a mistake by not looking at this closer and taking a little bit more time on it. But I was all supporting the raise and support y'all. And I want you driving. I want the kids to go to school. Okay? Thank you all very much, guys. Everybody else? Mister chairman? Yes, sir. Just a question for doctor King. So in your mind, the way this would look, as we head into, this this would kinda just coincide with budget season and take a real deep dive into what
this would look like going into FY '27 and beyond. Because I agree with Board Member Barnes, this is something that we need to have a long term fix for and not just do something now that we're gonna have to change every year. We need to I mean, we have a long term plan for our teachers and our staff. We have steps. We have those. And that's what's on this schedule. And I think that's what was, you know, presented last, month was showing an increase and showing a raise, and the stipend situation really didn't get brought up into that.
And, you know, and I even made the comments last month that I didn't think this was enough, that our bus drivers deserve more. Because, again, I agree a 100%. They're the first people that our kids see, the last ones that they see. And they if if if they don't show up, our kids don't learn because they're not coming to school. And we need you guys. We need our transportation department, and we need to make sure that they're feel appreciated. So nothing we did honestly was anything to do with, trying to cut anything. I think the question was even asked last month if this would be a detriment
to any driver, and the answer was no. So, I just wanna make sure that what we're doing into the spring is how this is gonna be looked at because it's something that we can't just talk about today and then not address because it's something that has to be addressed with next year's budget for sure. So Yeah. That you're absolutely right. And what we'll do, we'll one of the things that I think that we have to have, we have to hear the voices and include some some small work teams to hear what ideas are going to, you know, work. But my my idea, just thinking right now moving forward, is we'll we'll do performance
pay, just like when we do teachers. And we'll have to think about stipend, and we can find out how do we increase the salary. But those who are performing over and beyond, let's do like the teachers. If they are performing over and beyond, we give them a performance pay, and we do the same thing for the bus drivers. And so we get you know, we don't think about stipers. We think about performance because that's essentially what it is. It's I'm doing more than what I've been assigned to do, and I think people want to be recognized. If I go over and beyond and I perform a little bit higher or better than someone else, show me the same courtesy that we do to teachers.
That's what we're gonna look at. And I definitely agree with, having some drivers on the committee on when we're looking at this because one of the things that we saw that was a raging success with Pope and a lot of what happened with Pope was because we had teachers on those committees, and it wasn't just someone making decisions for them. They were part of the discussion, and I think this is important for our department as well. Anybody else? Yes, mister chairman. Yes, sir. I I just wanna also echo, I was also not aware. I believe the entire board was not aware that it was gonna be any type
of deduction from any bus driver, that this was actually increased. And I did bring that up as well that, we need to be looking at this again in the fall to make sure that this that we increase this pay because I didn't I didn't think that it was, at the proper rate that it should be. Never nevertheless, I think there is a role that the that the community should realize that each board member has a responsibility. And that responsibility is to govern, present policies, manage the budget, adopt the budget that's
presented by our superintendent. But when you start getting into, looking into, roles and positions and how much someone is making inside central office and what they're paying teachers, you're stepping outside of your road. And I just hope that the community realize, when you see board members that are operating outside of their road, that you you go back and and make some changes in your community, because we represent the district. We represent the the our constituents, and we're not we shouldn't be in this road
to try to micromanage our superintendent who was, outstanding throughout this, community and nation. That's all I have to say. Thank you, sir. Anyone else? I would like to say one more thing before we vote. In education, normally, if you hear something all about teachers. Teachers are very important. They are they have our children all day. They're very important. But the fact is this, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers, y'all are just as as important as a teacher because it takes the whole group to make this work.
And and go back again. We appreciate each and every one of you. I'm fixing call for roll call vote, and it's gonna be for to approve the recommendation of doctor King. So a yes vote will be voting for the rep the the recommendation of doctor King. We all understand. Mister Chairman, can doctor King read his recommendation one more time so we are very clear on what we're voting on? Sure. Sure. This recommended that the board rescind the newly adopted transportation salary schedule and revert the previous prior salary schedule with one modification.
The change pertains specifically to the method of payment for substitute drivers. Under the revised structure, credential substitute drivers will be comp compensated at the bus driver pay rate. Uncredential substitute drivers will receive compensation at the previous substitute rate. Again, a yes vote is saying we will adopt this tonight. Any more questions before we vote? Mister Meacher, please do a real call vote. Yes, sir. For the Walton? Yes. Shane Lawrence? Yes. Jason Compton? Yes. Andre Daniel? Yes. David Gull? No. Wayne Gull? Yes. James Johnson?
Yes. Andrew Givens Moore? Yes. And Marshall Moss? No. Motion passes. The next on our agenda is the, teacher bonus appeal. I have a motion to approve this. I'll make a motion to approve the teacher bonus appeal. Second? Second. Any discussion? Mister Chairman? Yes, sir. I received an email today saying there was an additional information. Can we receive that information and what this recommendation is. Information came today. Yes. Okay.
So in the email, this was basically, information regarding the inquiry around payment to teachers and who would qualify for it. I think I sent this was it today or yesterday? I think Yesterday. I sent this yesterday so that you can have context around the inquiry that we had at our work session. Questions? Mister chairman, just to be clear, we're approving those that were presented at the work session as having been granted appeal or granted the bonus on appeal?
On appeal with eligibility based on the one page the the one time teacher bonus information that was sent out. Thank you. You know the question? Mister chairman. Yes, sir. And this would be coming from the funds that we receive from the state for the bonuses at this point. Correct? Is that the intent? Okay. Yes. Any other questions? I'll tell you what. Let's do a roll call vote on this. We're you're voting yes, you're voting to, adopt the teacher bonus appeal that's presented before you. Miss Demetrius. Harvey Walton? Yes. Shane Barnes? Yes.
Jason Compton? Yes. Andre Dornell? Yes. Didi Gull? Yes. Wayne Gull? Yes. James Johnson? Yes. Andrew Givens Moore? Yes. And Marshall Moss? Yes. Motion passes. The next item on the agenda is a twenty five twenty six student advisory committee. It's a list of, students here in your package that we discussed in the work session to have a motion to approve. Mister chairman, make a motion to approve the student advisory committee as presented at work session by doctor King. Do I have a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Yes. Yes, sir.
Mister chairman, I might have to make a also, with those same students to grab four of those students and use those as as a as our participants in scope this year. There you go. We might need all of them. Well, we can only send four students to the school so that way we can possibly grab we will grab our Liberty student, Madison student, Southside student, and JCM. I'll give you some scope for sure. That is very fun to go to. All in favor, say aye.
Mister chairman, we have an amendment to the motion. Well, that's true. That's true. That's true. Unless Well, I wasn't an amendment. Unless the original motion, the person wants to amend that original amendment. Mister chairman, I'll just add that we use, that we pull four from the in the original motion that out of our student advisory committee that we use four of those students, as our scope participants. Second, please. Any discussion on that? All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, say no. Motion passes. The next the last thing on our agenda tonight is the Art in the Dark
presentation. Doctor. King? Music and creativity took center stage at the Melissa STEM Innovation Center. On Tuesday, October 28, the Jackson Madison County School System presented Arts in the Dark, a first of its kind collaboration between the district's fine arts and innovation departments. This immersive production combined choral ensembles, jazz bands, percussion groups, color guards, dancers, and theater students. All performing with minimal light to create a visually stunning atmosphere.
Six months of planning and production led to a performance that showcased the power of collaboration and creativity across programs and schools. More than 300 students contributed to the planning, creation, and performance of this production. Through events like Arts in the Dark, JMCSS continues to champion the arts, inspiring creativity, confidence, and community pride in every student and every family.
For the district, I'm Greg Henry. Thank you, sir. Anything else? I don't have anything else. Anybody have any comments? Any discussion? Motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Second. Thank you, Houston, everyone, for coming tonight.