I can't sit out there for a couple hours. Well, thank y'all for coming tonight. Um, I'm going to call the meeting to order and ask Mr. Demetrius to do a roll call, please. Yes, sir. Please say present when I call your name. Harvey Walden, present. Shane Barnes, present.
Jason Compton, present. Andre Donnell present. Debbie G. Glenn G present. James Johnson present. Andrew Given Moore present. Marshall present. Thank you ma'am. At this time I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Greg Ham Ham
Hammond. Sorry. Please rise for the presentation of colors by the Southside High School Junior Navy ROC. Cadetses include carrying the American flag Selena Jones. Carrying the Navy flag is Cadet Lauren Lee. Carrying
the Southside unit flag is Joe Reagan. Left rifle is carried by Cadet Cameron Weaver. And the right rifle is carried by Michaela Bates. These students are under the direction of their instructor, Chief Ivan Henderson. colors.
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. Colors.
Ready. Cut. Right. Face forward. March. At this time, I'd like to ask Miss Moss to open up open up to a word of prayer, please. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for the opportunity to serve you and
to serve our children and our community. We pray for heavenly wisdom that we might make wise decisions and we thank you so much for this opportunity to carry on your work. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. And Miss um Moore,
will you please open uh the mission statement please? Our mission providing equitable options and opportunities in a safe caring environment to maximize student potential. Thank you ma'am. Also, we have a a
special visitor here tonight. He's from Troop 115. Um, I was a scout master about 15 years. Scout means a lot to me. And uh, sir, thank you for what you're doing and thank you for coming today. Uh, now we're going to talk about our
um, student recognition. We had um, I went to scope with uh, Mr. Darnell and his wife last year and thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it. And I went back again this year and me and uh Miss Moore, we uh actually had a group of
students ourselves and with us working together, we got through it and we had a really really good time. But now I want to turn it over to Mr. Darnell about scope and the kids you took. Okay, we actually have two of our students here today. Yeah, you great. Liberty Technology High
School students, Promise Jefferson, Zamaran Carter, Kennedy Taylor, and Cruz Martinez, please come forward. These students recently participated in the Tennessee School Boards Association Student Congress on Policies and Education or SCOPE at Belmont
University. Scope is designed to give students a voice where public education issues are concerned, participating in mock board sessions. Students discuss an array of current topics like school uniform requirements and yearround
school. Board member Andre Darnell served as group leader for a third consecutive year, while fellow board members Harvey Walden and Andrea Given Moore accompanied these student delegates. We want to take this time to recognize the scope team and thank them
for making JMCSS stand out. [Applause] I see you do two. Thank you.
At this time, we want to take a moment to recognize Jaykins, Miss Basketball. She was named the Class 3A Miss Basketball. Southside's Jaden Atkins was crowned the top girls basketball player in Tennessee Class 3A, earning the prestigious Miss Basketball award. The award recognizes
athletic excellence, academics, and character. She was nominated by high school coaches and media members. She was a standout who guided Southside uh to the state tournament quarterfinals. She averaged nearly 17 points and seven rebounds per game. She was also a key
member of Southside's 2023 state championship team. She's going to continue her career at Murray State University. She surpassed 1300 career points and earned multiple honors. She's the second Southside Lady Hawk in three
years to earn the Miss Basketball award following Tama Lawson in 2023. So her legacy at Southside is now cemented in state basketball history. She was unable to be with us tonight, but her principal, Dr. Sher Baldwin, is here and will accept this recognition in Jaden's
honor. Back up. We can back up. No, no, no. You're fine. And it is now time to recognize the superintendent's ACT 30 and up club. Mr. Chairman, you might recognize Samuel Laam as the student who placed third
nationally at the Microsoft Championships in 2023. Now, a year ago, Samuel scored 34 on the American College Testing or ACT standardized test. But Samuel did not stop there. His goal was
perfection. After taking the test again, Samuel recorded a perfect 36 composite scores. The ACT covers four academic skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and scientific reasoning. The
current state average is 19. The national average is 20.3. Congratulations to Samuel Laam of Madison Academic for scoring a perfect 36. He's the second Madison student to
score a 36 this year, joining senior Micah Upton. Congratulations and thank you for making JMCS stand out. I told a young man that's the closest I ever been to a 36 perfect score. I promise you. Just standing
there. That's unbelievable. Moving on to our agenda. Approve of agenda and minutes. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? Mr. Chairman, I move we approve the agenda. A second. Second. All in favor say yes. Yes. All oppose
say no. Motion passes. The next is a consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Mr. German, I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Have a second. Second. Second. All in favor say
uh yes. Yes. All oppose say no. Motion passes. Uh the April board minutes. Do we have a motion to approve the April board minutes? Mr. Chairman, make a motion to approve the April board
meeting minutes. A second. Second. All in favor say yes. Yes. All oppose say no. Motion passes. The board items we have tonight uh one is FY26 budget amend amendment
and also the budget amendment addition year in and both these Mr. Cton is going to take care of that for us. Go ahead sir. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Um, after dealing with county budgets for seven years and now school budgets for three, I can attest that when you think you're
done with the budget, you are in fact not done with the budget. So, uh, I know Dr. King had sent each of you a email this morning that was had information on what we're voting on tonight, but I I just want to kind of touch on it just
very quickly on what is happening. So yesterday after the county uh budget hearing that we had at the county finance meeting um it was caught that there was an error in the spreadsheet that county finance sent over uh to us
and it did not subtotal the capital outlay uh items which at the end of the day caused a a huge increase in what our draw potentially would have been on fund balance. Uh so Dr. Watkins and her team
and Dr. King got to work and made a few adjustments and double checked the entire sheet I think by hand uh making sure that everything added up and was correct. So at the end of the day there have been a couple changes to the budget
that we uh approved last week and the only items that have changed are in the capital outlay uh at the at the end of the budget. Uh so the $4 million that was allocated as
basically a placeholder in case we lost those ESSER funds have been removed as I know there's a good feeling that we will receive those dollars. Uh but if we don't we will have to deal with that at another time. but instead of keeping a placeholder in there, that $4 million
got removed. And then there was an additional $4 million that was in capital outlay only. 3 million of that was some improvements to the interior of Omen Arena with floors and sound. So out of the four, 3 million was Omen. And
then there was a list that was sent that had some red items that also are items that were cut. And those items were school level capital items. Um, and you could see those as some flooring at Lane, Arlington, and Rose Hill, the
intercoms, um, concession stand at North Side, parking lot repair at North Side, JCT stage, gym lighting at, uh, Arlington and Alexander just was a few of those. Now, the roofs are still in the budget
and a lot of the items are still in the budget. Um, but that's where that 4 million. So, it's a total of $8 million basically in capital outlay that got cut. Um, and again, the majority of that was 3 million out of Omen and 4 million
from the placeholder that's there for ESSER funds. Uh, nothing else was cut, nothing else was touched. But I do also want to mention that this now puts us at right at a $12 million draw on fund balance, which will
still leave us with right under $30 million in our fund balance. Now, we have revenues that we know we are going to receive next year that are unbudgeted. So, like this year with our fast growth and our outcomes, we don't know what those amounts are going to be,
but we are going to receive additional revenues. So just because these school level capital items got cut out of this budget, it doesn't mean that they can't and won't be done next year. When we receive revenues coming in, we can simply make a budget amendment and add
these items back. And as far as I'm concerned, you know, at least for this board member, they were on the list. So to me, they're next on the list. So whether we get them done within the FY or they will be the first ones back on the list in our next year's budget. Uh
but to limit the drawing fund balance to leave us with the $30 million. Uh I think that uh this was a good move and still an outstanding budget moving forward. Uh so with that, I will make a motion that we approve the budget the
budget addendum uh as written. Oh, I'm sorry. There is one more thing, Mr. Chairman. the uh county commission uh budget committee yesterday approved to add $700,000 to 177 um education capital
to go towards the east drive parking project. So they approved that to put in so because they put it in we would have to approve it anyway since they added it to 177 they're going to put it in their FY26 budget for us to use to move
forward with that project. So, it is now we are putting that in this so that we go ahead and approve it since the county allocated $700,000 to go towards the project. So, with that, I have a question for you. Make a motion. Yes. On the uh
um strategic plan ABC report um year one and year two. the year two that included in this uh fiscal year's budget and the only things that were cut
were the items that were in red on the list. I I don't I didn't go match up year one, year two, I know that Dr. King and uh Dr. Watkins went through and removed those. You know, Dr. Watkins because one one of the things I asked Dr. King, he was going to check and I guess he's not here tonight is that I want to make sure that the prek
transportation was not one of the items that was cut. It is not. Okay. Okay, with that and we can still have more discussion, but at least to get the motion on the table that I'll make a motion that we approve the uh budget addendum that is uh been submitted for
us to approve and send back to the county. Uh I'll make that motion. Second. Second. Any discussion? We all good? Okay. All in favor say yes. Yes. All oppose say no. Motion passes.
Awesome. The next is the budget amendment addition year end. Okay, Mr. Chairman. So, one more thing that came from the county yesterday is I know uh Diane in uh county finance uh got with Dr. Watkins uh in the midst of trying to
get all the budget cleared up. Uh we also have a few more budget amendments uh for a closeout and basically all of these are aligning e- plan and munis to make sure that we close everything out correctly. Um all of these amendments
and I I'll go through them but none of them are drawing on fund balance. None of them are changing anything to do with maintenance of effort for the county. And actually there are a couple of these that are giving a credit credit back to fund balance. And but I I want to be
careful with the way there is roughly $2 million $2.1 million total in a couple of these amendments that are going to fall back to fund balance. But those are go those are coming out of a cost center with these grants. So that money is is a
committed fund balance that will go back to that same cost center next year. Um it's not falling to the uncommitted fund balance like the majority of our money is. It will stay committed, but nonetheless, it is going to fall back. We do not have those funds budgeted
right now. So it's just additional money that we can go and do more in the school improvement grant, which I think is fantastic because the more we can do with it, the better off we're all going to be. Um, but just to kind of run through those real quick, we do have a budget amendment uh from call center
6190, the school improvement grant. Uh, it is for $823,82062. And this is one of the items uh that has a credit going back to fund balance to be allocated back as a budget amendment in FY26. And that credit is actually $81,420.
The second amendment is cost center 6180 state sped education prek grant. This is uh for $3,400 and it's aligning e-plan and munis in cost center 6340 the sig 2.0 grant again aligning uh e-plan and
munis for $4,211. Cost center 6850 public school security grant $67,19487. Again, just uh correcting the revenue code for this grant. Uh and and that was the extent of that amendment. Cost center 6740, the ISM
grant. This is a budget amendment to align Plan Amunas. And there is uh this is another one that has a credit falling back to a committed fund balance. And that credit of that committed fund balance will be [Music]
uh one 1 million427,227.35. Then we have 72510 physical services. This is a line item transfer to clean up end of your closeout of $4,600. 72710 transportation. Uh this is
a budget amendment to move the expenditure to the correct line of 140,7 or $434 and then 713 801 Carl Perkins. This is a nine item transfer to a line munice with e- plan of
$1,000. That's in 142. We have another 142 which is uh the resilient schools community grant. This is just a budget amendment for year in closeout for $1,310. In 142, we have 71100 tag 4.0 to
align e- plan with munice of $7,749. And then hopefully the final budget amendment of this year will be in 142 902 for IDAB again aligning e- plan with munis uh for closeout of
$764,434.35. And with that I would make a motion to approve these budget amendments and send them along to the county. Have a second. Second. Second. Any discussion? We all good? Okay. Excuse me. All in favor um of passing the budget amendment additional
year end uh please say yes. Yes. All oppose say no. Motion passes. And Mr. Chairman just s one more. Uh just want to thank Dr. for Watkins and his and her team for last couple days of scrambling to get all this done so that we could get this done tonight and not have to
come back in at 9:00 on a random morning in the next couple weeks to get all this stuff done. So, very much appreciated. Thank you, ma'am. Also, now we are needing to set a date in June to go over Dr. King's evaluation.
Um, I spoke with uh Dale earlier and we have some dates. It's it's a lot of dates there in uh June. We can uh one I was looking at was on June the 17th. The reason why it's not we don't have anything going on that week as far as us
having to be somewhere to do something. Uh we got some more dates. U I know everybody looking at your calendars and kind of see it. Dale is very flexible. The only thing he had to worry about is making sure we could have the u boardroom coffee and donuts.
Oh, will you be there? Did you come? Okay. Are you do you have a vacation in June? Okay. So, we don't want to do the early part. So, did you say the week of the 17th? The 17th. The date. The day of the 17th.
for me. I'm open that day. Yes. How about the rest of y'all? And we got plenty of dates. I mean, so just, you know, I just threw that one out there because I saw it was nothing that we really going on. What day of week? That is on a Tuesday. Um, what time? Well, that's that's
that's going to be the next question. It it's open all day. His boardroom is. And so whatever. Huh? This is the one day I didn't bring my calendar, but I think it's something going on that day. Is there a TSBA that day? No, that's on
the 18th. That is the 18th. At 11 o'clock. Okay. Wait, actually, is that one o'clock that time for some reason? Okay. No, it's 11 o'clock. All right. It's the 17th. All right. Now, let's decide what time you want to be. I mean, what's best for you? Mornings, afternoons. The donuts and
coffee will be fresher in the morning. I'm thinking the same thing. Uh 9:00. Everybody good? All right. So, we going to do it on the 17th at 9 o'clock. Just one. I'm going to ask Miss Moore to give
us a Yes, sir. I thought we talked about doing two dates because we're looking at the evaluation. Yeah, I thought we did and we were going to follow up and see how how it went that first day if we needed it. Okay. Well, I didn't know if you want to go ahead and put something on the book so that that boardroom would
not get booked. Oh, that's a very good idea. So, it need to be after the 17th. The next week we got committee meetings um just on on on Tuesday. Um, we could do it on Monday the 23rd. Is that
I know best for you Monday or Tuesday. Correct. That's fine. Because we're flexible. But what do y'all think about the 23rd on a Monday? And that would just be tentative if we needed it. Right. If needed after 1:00.
After. Yeah, that's an after. You did have that written down at Okay. So, we had to do it at uh we have still donuts, I guess. um at at one o'clock. How about that? At one o'clock. And we would discuss that on the 17th
and we may not even have to have it. We just see if we do we have a that way we have another date. Thank you for doing that. D. Yes, sir. Ma'am, immediately like the
19th just throwing that out. So have a big space of time and I I don't care whatever the rest of y'all think. The only thing is I know doing on those days I think we have some of that work.
Um we can if we need to. I mean it doesn't make me any different. I was just asking let's do this. But you said the 20 what? The 23rd that Monday. On that Monday. Yeah. The 19th will be a holiday. So yeah. How is that how is that going to be with Miss
Well, she's not here. All I The only thing I know to say if something comes up conversation with her. Yeah, I have a conversation with her. If if there is an issue and she can't, I will contact y'all and we I get it changed. Okay. But as of right now, let's meet on the 23rd. I mean on the on
the 17th. And then we are planning on meeting on the 23rd at 1:00. That's an extended date of meeting. Yes. If needed. And and and what we can do too on the 17th if something happens and we need to change some dates to see what's open then with Mr. Dale, we need to have it done by the
30th. That's correct. By the 30th. Yeah. Okay. All good. Um I'm going to ask Miss Moore to give us a motivational moment. Good evening. Good evening. My
motivational today is from Matthew 25:40, the least of these regarding Jesus' final discourse about the final judgment. And he spoke of acts of
kindness for the needy, the hungry, the naked, the poor, um in prison, the sick. And my job as a board member is to uh motivate those
people that are having these issues not just to be not clothed. Naked can be in any form. Um sickness can be in many forms. Um, imprisonment can be in many forms, but our motivation should always
be to be an inspiration to someone that's in need. And our school system is always in need for our children to have things in place and our families to have things in place. So, my motivation today is for all of our board members to
always think about those in need, not necessarily us. is not always in monies, but we can always help someone along the way, especially in public service, and that's what we set out to do. So, my um
my main goal today is to just say, please always think of someone else who's less fortunate, who doesn't have what we have, and try to strive to help them in some way to motivate themselves. If it's a child that's in need, if it's
a parent in need, if it's a team player that's an administration in need, we all go through something whether it's mental, physical, or emotional. Please always think of someone else outside of ourselves. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am.
Any other comments from anyone? We all good? Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, just uh I think real quick, graduations all next week, teacher of the year lunchon in two weeks. ACT lunchon Monday Monday. So we got a lot of things coming up and
even tomorrow I think you it's a graduation at the 10:00 in the gym. At the gym gym that's a neat ceremony. I have a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Second. Well, y'all
have a great week. Thank you. Likewise.