##VIDEO ID:DG6sm6sT4GE## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e we will not have Interruption during our meeting we have business to take care of for our district please be respectful now this is the last time we're going to ask to please be respectful of the process they can start security security they can start being placed out we have plenty more that would love to come and sit in here we're not going to be disrupted it's just no way we're going to conduct business in a disruptive manner ladies and gentlemen good evening welcome to the January 21st 2025 board business meeting of Memphis Shelby County Schools Miss Clark please call the rooll commissioner mckisic present commissioner Marcel present commissioner Porter present commissioner Murphy present commissioner love present commissioner mcken present commissioner Otay present commissioner Williams present board chair Coleman present you have nine in the affirmative thank you we do have a quorum Pledge of Allegiance tonight's posting of the colors is presented by Germantown High School please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please remain standing for a moment of silence for Richland Elementary School substitute teachers Robert balota who passed away after collapsing during school on Thursday our deepest condolences go out to the to his family friends and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time I pledge alance 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 thank you you may be seated the question is now on the approval of the agenda are there any amendments superintendent good evening yes ma'am Madam chair there are a few amendments to tonight's agenda first we'd like to add items 12.1 which is Project Lead the Way Grant acceptance and item 12.2 which is a donation from the smid foundation for cord Cordova High School we will remove item number 11.22 for further review that's the Frasier Corning Elementary item and item 11.36 which was City University denial application Madam chair we'd also like to add a non- bus item to the agenda for discussion it doesn't require board action and that's just a presentation of the financial report any other amendments to the agenda is there a motion for approval of the agenda and second motion second roll call vote please commissioner mckisic hi commissioner Garcia I commissioner Porter I commissioner Murphy I commissioner love I commissioner mckenny I commissioner OT I commissioner Williams I board chair Coleman I you have nine in the affirmative thank you the agenda is approve we are now on to public comment in accordance with State Statute the board shall reserve a period of public comment during business and special call meetings only those members of the public who submit public comment cards to the board chair prior to the commencement of this meeting shall be permitted to address the board public comments shall be taken in the order in which the public comment cards are received a signup sheet for public comment will be provided 30 minutes prior to each applicant meeting and will be closed at the start of the meeting this sign up sheet is located at the inway table just P the security checkpoint speakers must State their name organization he or she is representing if any and subject of their comment before they are permitted to speak speakers may offer objective comments about school operations and programs that concern them speaker are asked to refrain from using names of personnel or names of persons connected with the school system particularly when lodging a complaint speakers will not be permitted to engage in Gossip make def flammatory comments or use abusive or vulgar language the chairman shall have the authority to terminate the remarks of any individual who is disruptive and does not adhere to board rules Dr Schultz will announce the number of speakers and time allotted per speaker this evening we have 25 speakers at one minute each your time is projected on the screen to your right and directly behind the board when you hear a bail your time has expired the first three speakers tonight Jay worth Casio montz and Latasha I'm sorry Griggs I do apologize if I said the last name wrong for Miss LaTasha hold on one second the mic is not on can you hear me now yes sir yes sir thank you all right my name is Jay worth I represent goldkey Productions or gkp I came here tonight on this last push M Mr worth I'm sorry we'll let your time start back but can you give your address please okay I'm sorry 3164 Bay View Drive thank you all right I came here tonight more so not to worry about the convincing of the board anymore because I think it's foreseen now that there is no convincing certain individuals on the board so I'd rather use my minute to take this time to say Dr V Dr fagins thank you thank you for your integrity thank you for your patience thank you for your tolerance thank you for your professionalism because what has happened now is your intelligence and your integrity has illuminated and irritated a lot of personal agendas up here you hit the ground running you you care about our children and unfortunately there are a few people who have put on Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles glasses and turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the things that you meant to do and the things that you are doing here we salute you regardless to what happens tonight they won't be able to say that we didn't fight even if we don't win the battle and we stand with you Dr fagans thank you y'all ready yes sir uh Cassie on mys I'm a community activist a lot of y'all might know me a lot of y'all might not but tonight y'all will uh first off say your address Mr Martz please uh 503 North fth Street so first off there's individuals on this board that I'mma first of all you got individuals over the Internet talking about kiss the cat but you're a board member you got individuals such as Miss Love who has a child that was in trouble we stood in consolidation with you s time with the commun let me stop you we cannot Lodge complaints using people people's names I didn't know that yes sir no problem so y'all stopped it at 43 I'm at 39 I pay attention goe keep going but as as I was speaking when it go back to 43 I continue let me start all over again so as I was saying we stood in consolidation with certain individuals when they was going through things in the community this lady has came here in eight months she's done more than anybody else who y'all spend numerous amounts of thousands of dollars with their superintendent let this lady do a job it sounds like it's person is looking like it's personal but I'm not a judgmental character person so that with that being said I want to see who going to vote no if y'all don't know what community actors stand for when it when Cassio montz said I'mma pull up at your house I'm going have 200 people with me and we going to protest your house I'm going to make it just as uncomfortable just like y'all doing this lady for no apparent reason cuz the grounds that y'all having y'all don't even have no grounds to stand on hey we going to stand on business about Miss F I don't need no whole minute y'all enjoy the rest of Y day in a better night good evening my name is Latasha gree my address is 1095 B my thing is I watched one of you all's board members sit up there and give us a stellar performance on how one of you all's principal was com wanted to commit suicide so I want to know who did that board member report that to that's what I want to know and then I also want to request that the feds come in and investigate this board because the County Commissioners is backpedaling money into another board's members nonprofit organization and then I also want well Iris Lewis want another board member to return all their wigs and they makeup pet have a nice day Church Marcus Randolph char Nelson no Nordstrom Marcus Randolph 2797 East Hickory Bluff I think that we've done just about everything we can do peacefully um we went to we've come here to the school board we begged and pleaded with the board we went to the County Commissioners we've been to Nashville we've talked in private a lot of y'all s up there right now us activists here have stood with you even in your trials and tribulations and we see that you won't even stand by us you will not listen to the public you don't care about the children this personal thing because we saw a a high schooler understand that this is personal this about our babies I'm so tired of Memphis taking two steps forward and 10 steps back I can't even count how many times I've done it ain't no more talking do what y'all going to do evidently you've already made your decision and seven of y'all need to be removed and we will do so the new ones political suicide how you doing tonight uh my name is Charlie Nelson 1228 uh Cordova 38 uh but I don't want to get into that you know my address but yeah I uh I come here tonight to talk I've been I Fil A lawsuit because of discrimination appli for plenty jobs I reached out to you superintendent I called you I email you you said transparency you hadn't been there with me I left the lawsuit at your office with your your staff nobody got back with me so what I supposed to do I was I was I was defending you with the new board me older and you didn't do anything with the lawsuit so you didn't try to help me enough so I think you know we need a new superintendent that could come in and fix help everybody jobs not the people that lost their jobs also help the people that trying to apply for jobs teacher to apply for jobs not getting interviewed including myself it it's not right and you know I reached out to you I call your number 41655 44 and you I never got no response so I'm I'm I'm not for you tonight I think they need to vote for somebody else because I found a federal lawsuit you didn't try to meet me at all say Mr nothing sit down and talk you didn't do nothing so my thing you let the board do what they do you have a good day God bless you hi y'all I'm Noah Nordstrom at 622 Forest Grove Drive and I'm a Spanish teacher at MCS and what's happening tonight is a profound tragedy less than a year ago Dr fagin was hired to lead mscs one of the most struggling school districts not only in our state but our country and to the Delight of many she hit the ground Runing cutting waste and demanding a level of Excellence that this board clearly isn't used to but you know what they say that no good deed goes unpunished here we are less than a year later fighting to keep her as our leader and what brought us to this point is frankly shameful we all know who's behind this agenda we know that the same PR firm that represents this board also represents the former superintendent Dr joris Ray and it's it's shameful to hear that the former board chair who was uh voted out of office is bragging about how she still has five votes on this board that is wrong to give the control of our district back to the superintendent whose staff central office with his Mistresses to give it back to the board who has voted out who thinks teachers are lazy do the right thing the community doesn't want this please do the right thing and keep Dr fakin danetta Stokes leas marel Reverend Kenneth whum Dess I'm sorry y'all ready okay uh Dr Denette Stoke 6263 pop Avenue sweet 101 Memphis Tennessee 38119 good evening I stand before you as an educator and alongside other educators of Memphis Shelby County Schools who overwhelmingly voted yes for collaborative conferencing and yes for UEA tea Nea to represent them at the table for collaborative conferencing to negotiate anou with better salaries working conditions insurance benefits bement days and French benefits it is with great concern that I bring to your attention mentioned the actions of a school board member and his wife who have actively obstructing and our obstructing our dedicated teachers from negotiating their much needed amended mou their contract with the district this is not this not only undermines the teachers rights to Fair representation but also jeopardizes the quality of Education our children deserve the UEA worked diligently to ensure teachers and teacher types had a voice at the table the election process was done with transparency and integrity uea's leadership plann for this election two years because we knew theou was ending we organized and we won fair and square we're asking this board to ensure that the school board member does not interfere with the process for collaborative conferencing so that we can start training next week thank you Miss marable we read Miss marel I'm sorry yeah there's some people Liz marable 6263 poer Avenue Memphis Tennessee 38119 as president of the largest local the United Education Association it is important that we continue to bring to the Forefront the real problems before us I have heard nothing regarding collaborative conferencing where Educators continue to have a voice and decisions that pertain to their salary insurance benefits Grievances and working conditions it is budget season we should be negotiating our salary for the upcoming year the United Education Association did our part by garnering 61% of the overall teacher vote it is the will of the teachers to continue collaborative conferencing with the district we are asking that you stop the delay as the month of January is almost over according to our mou we should be in collaborative conferencing now we have a fair and Equitable election and the teachers have spoken president Napper and I were on all communication regarding this Pekka election and we agreed on everything we are asking that you honor the results of the vote so we can proceed with collaborative confer the superintendent has named The District team and we have named our teams we want to collaborative conference now that's call worship Kenneth T whum Jr 10,000 Woodland Hills Drive who's paying the fees for outside legal counsel and PR firms is it us taxpayers or some other entity or individual if it's an outside entity why are they paying those fees what strings are attached assuming the accusation accusations you made against the superintendent publicly are true why haven't you taken Progressive discipl disciplinary action against her publicly my suggestion give Dr fagin and our school administrators and Educators 365 days from graduation date 2025 as a baseline for graduation rates Dropout rates and literacy rates if they have not improved across the board by graduation day 2026 then fire the superintendent and resign yourselves our public schools have been in a tail spin since the MCS Charter was surrendered nearly 15 years ago ironically at least two of the people responsible for the proposing the surrender of the charter are advising you sometimes in a paid capacity on what action you should take as a board why I have sat where you are sitting literally I know what it feels like to be under that pressure don't give in I have never met Dr fagans but I have been the subject of a very public very highly financed very highly organized effort to assassinate my character and fire me at the same time they failed and you will fail God's will be done Judy Brown Miss McGee and Mark Thomas good evening I am Judy Jackson good evening I am Judy Jackson Brown 5672 Tulip Hill Drive and I am a retired teacher of 31 years and a substitute teacher now success takes time with the said allegations for a firing may seem right but in the end it's just going to result in so many unforeseen problems for the district and especially for our students with their emotional health and their mental health these children it's like going through a divorce they love and respect Dr fagans do unto others as you will have have them do unto you it takes patience commitment compromise and mutual respect and time when you're in a committed marriage you don't just divorce divorce because you had a disagreement I do you no you stand to the side you work it out you talk it out and then you come to an agreement and then your one-year marriage is now 30 years we're just asking as Citizens that you would give it time like you do in your relationships your successful relationship go with Garcia's compromise of resolution because success takes time hello hello everyone I'm a little awkward I feel a little nervous my name is Kiera my last name is McGee I'm an advocate I'm from Memphis my address is 190 calwell Avenue I'm ready to start I realize why I'm here today I see a lot of miseducation and you are destroying children who are deaf and unable to hear you're trying to force deaf children to learn to lip read They're not learning how to sign and as a parent I struggle with that Dr fagin maybe doesn't realize that it's a waste of money there's not enough support for Deaf education Deaf culture this is your chance I believe in you Dr fagin that you will be successful in your role and your future but I am asking that you please think about programs that will support the disabled and all who parents there's a lot of lawsuits there's a lot of suing things with insurance because I'm trying to get what my children need thank you Mark Thomas McKenzie Ward representative Pearson your name my name is Thomas it's okay it's okay I do apologize for the disruption my my name is Mark Thomas hold on the mic right yet that's the mic thank you my name is Mark Thomas my address is Austin P Highway good evening members of the school board my name is Mark Thomas and I'm a proud third grader at GTW I'm here to share why it's so important for you to approve the renewal recommend for our school Martin Luther King Jr once said quote the function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically at GTW charter school this is exactly what our teachers do for us every day at GTW we're not just taught facts we're taught how to think deeply and solve problems our teachers Inspire us to believe in ourselves and to try our very best and to know that failure is not an option they remind us that skills that we learn today especially reading and understanding what we read will shape our futures please approve the renewal recommendation for Granville T Woods Academy of innovation charter school so that students like me and the ones who come after me can continue to grow learn and Lead thank you for listening and supporting the future of Leaders of Tomorrow my name is McKenzie Ward my address is Austin P Highway good evening members of the school board my name is McKenzie Ward and I'm a proud third grader at GTW charter school thank you for giving me the chance to speak about why it's so important to renew our school's Charter at GTW our teachers Inspire us every day to do our best and remind us that failure is not an option they tell us that the skills we're learning now like reading and understanding what we read are the foundation for our future as a third grader I know how important it is to be a strong reader a reader is a leader and I intend to be a leader one day please approve the renewal recommendation for GTW charter school so more students like me can keep learning growing and preparing to become the leaders of tomorrow thank you for listening and supporting our school in our future I'm Tennessee state representative Justin J Pearson um 40 sou4 Street 3103 look um I'm here uh because I am supporting 100,000 kids I'm here because I'm supporting the future of our district dist I'm ensuring that young kids who grow up want to be a superintendent and to do things in our school district might see somebody like themselves who's educated who's well prepared who's well equipped and be treated with respect and dignity and that has not happened here this has been an unfair and an immoral process I lost my job to something similar to this a kangaroo court of people who had personal agendas but did not have a true plan or proposal that they wanted to put forward in front of the public this is wrong you might think that your reasons are right or self-righteous but this is wrong because this ain't how you do things and this ain't how you treat people and we all know better more allegations come every meeting yeah more new information comes every meeting this is not how you govern and when you operate in this way it leads to other people in other positions of power like state legislators to do things to to strip away the power of our community your actions have repercussions and the way that you have went about doing this to this woman who is leading this district has done nothing but send a signal that we don't know how to self-govern thank you I fought alongside a lot of these people two multi-billion dollar corporations to thank you uh chairwoman to stop a billion dollar Corporation from building a pipeline through this community and do you know the two people that they hired Miss D Malone and Robert Spence thank you the same people that this board has hired to continue this unjust inaction I'm almost done thank superintendent Fagan's going to land on her heels somewhere in a district that respects her and that sees the value of what she has done but we will face the repercussions of the unjust actions but somebody wrote truth Crush to Earth will rise again thank you and you all need to know that this community will continue to rise and up thank you thank you I'm fine I got you I got you big do I got you I got you listen this is not some authoritarian dictatorship this is a democracy the Su the chairwoman has already told me that I'm over time y'all are not the gapo so look I got it this ain't my first time being here but step back I need I really do need you officers to step back this is a democracy ain't got no gun ain't got no knif ain't about to kill nobody a about to do nothing don't treat me like that and don't treat none of these people like this represent the peers go ahead step back Auntie step back I'm put the mic down so somebody else can continue speaking but y'all go ahead step back ain't ain't no threat to nobody ain't hitting nobody ain't said nothing like that this is a democracy whether people want to act like it or not so don't treat anybody including me this way thank see how that work okay thank you chairwoman and board members and thank you superintendent Dr fagin Carmen Flynn Pastor TR Martin Cheryl cite Carmen Flynn they Pastor TR Martin well I want to make sure I'm heard let me start off by saying I looked up the name Michelle and it means kind like God I looked up the name Fagan and it meant Ardent one mean enthusiastic passionate what got me up to come here was when I saw those children dancing with her the passion that she had with the children is this about the children or our Personal Agenda our children looked at her with hope something I never saw our superintendent when I was in school I can't even tell you his or her name I can't even tell you where they were from but if it took the board two years to get it right and you telling me now you got it wrong so that mean you incompetent good evening Sheryl piggy K 856 Faxon Avenue district one thank you for offering yourself a public service I do understand that this is a tedious job and I thank you for stepping up however it appears that the work you represent is not reflective of the work that we hired you to do your decisions are to be reflected of the public that you serve if you are not communicating with the public us about your decisions then you are making decisions on your behalf we do realize that some decisions will not be favorable however even the teeth and tongue fall out we the public is spending an enormous amount of unnecessary money our money for a superintendent for our school system and yet Johnny still can't read good evening board uh I apologize there was holding me up outside I could not get in my name is Carmen Flynn I live at 6939 Blue Sky Cove Memphis 38133 as a community member a former educator a former business owner in the community I am here to say I support Dr fagins but with that being said I want us all to reflect that she is human just like we are we all make mistakes is Dr fagin perfect absolutely not but I think we should consider the positive that she has done in uniting this community not only the students the teachers but even across racial lines I'm born in Brad Memphis this is a long time coming for the 901 I I I ask that that that we look at it in light of her accomplishments of hello neighbor involving the students through Legacy Learners from what I'm understanding from various schools in attendance has been on the increase because of come and win so I'm here to say give her the same Grace that you would want Mary Webb eron hovo Mary web mallerie Heights area that I represent address 160 South Hollywood I am a retired Sergeant MPD I did 32 years at service came over here I am one of the school resource officers thank you Dr Fagan for everything that you've done I've been in some of the schools when she came through and she talked the whole day without breaking going outside with the kids interacting with the kids having lunch with the kids doing everything when I walk in my neighborhood and I see a a child that usually don't speak to a officer but turn around and want to know how his superintendent is doing what's going to happen and I tell him and I tell the rest of them pray like your grandmother told you like your mother told you this is our superintendent you are wonderful Miss Wonder habber uh CJ Davis Dr Fagan y'all are wonderful thank you for coming to our city I live at 1451 woodston Road Memphis Tennessee 38117 and my name is Aron idrovo but my students knew me as Miss Wendell students in my nth grade English class knew that they had to have reasoning logic and evidence behind the arguments they made students in my classes were more composed osed and wrote more cohesive arguments than the disperate ones that some board members have tried to string together over the last month the teachers I supported as a school administrator and now support as a nonprofit District partner know that in order to achieve student outcomes you must first recruit develop and retain excellent teachers and leaders Dr fagins was selected to lead this District after a rigorous interview process with overwhelming student teacher and Community Support in her short time as superintendent she has been Resolute in making bold choices with student achievement and teachers at the Forefront the community stands behind her and we are asking you to substitute your initial resolution with board member hu Garcia's substitute resolution which calls for proactive repair on the side of the board and the superintendent to regain focus on the main priority of educating students instead of infighting please retain Dr pagin also Bettis Ashley Pettis Kevin Durham do I have to introduce myself I haven't been able to watch these yes ma'am say your name and your address please and the clock will start after you finish saying that great Ashley Bettis 864 North Graham Street Miss McKenna said something that resonated with me last week while describing why she supports the immediate termination of Dr Fagan she said in critique of Dr Fagan's this reactive approach raises serious questions about the superintendent's commitment to datadriven decision making I too believe leaders should o avoid overly reactive approaches approaches that are not datadriven with that in mind I made a survey and collected data from teachers parents administrators community members most of whom are District 2 it may not represent the gold standard of scientific polling but it does represent almost 300 respondents of which over 100 School teachers most of them in District 2 who were willing to put uh who are willing to put their name oh shoot who are willing to put their name next to their responses um Do You Believe Dr Fagan should be fired was one of the questions and do you trust board member mcken was the other question of the 282 respondents 280 said no Dr Fagan should not be fired thank you don't worry my husband's coming next Austin Bettis 864 North Graham of the 282 respondents uh 280 said no Dr Fagan should not be fired Mr btis you cannot call people's names okay okay say superintendent you can't call the names oh excuse me um of the 280 respondents 280 said no the superintendent should not be fired only 5% said they trusted board member umeni you can't say her name I didn't say her name um we have many added additional Thoughts with written comments some of those comments will be read tonight if there's time we ask earnestly if you would consider the thought that a vote to immediately terminate the superintendent might be actually an example of a hasty decision not supported or driven by data I'd ask I'd also like you to ask uh if you would like a copy of this data expected that any over here on the right side you can bring it and give it right here to this to her she'll get it to us to M to you can bring it Miss Bettis and give it to the her right here may I finish this last 5 Seconds since it was interrupted a couple you can do your 5 Seconds thank you um one more quote that we agree with uh from one board member is as elected School Board of uh members we carry a heightened responsibility to our students parents teachers School leaders staff superintendent and the larger Community we ask that you consider uh Your Role tonight thank you thank you Mr Durham Kevin Durham if he's in the Overflow Julia harwitz I'm Julia herwitz at 1843 Hunter Hill Drive I came to tonight to ask that we please keep Dr fagans we need her Memphis needs her the students need her I know it's hard to listen I often have trouble listening too when I'm trying to make a point I recommend we bring in a Communications expert to remind us all how to listen and I recommend we postpone big decisions like this until that is happens I know the students go to school every day and they listen every single day I think we can too thank you Michael Pleasants hi um my name is Mike Pleasants I live in 767 Hawthorne streets and my teacher of Manasses High School um I came down here for the December 7 1th meeting and I was confused at uh just trying to figure out what was going on with the complaint against Dr fagin I uh just heard a lot of things that sounded like things I've heard every year like every superintendent has had those kind of problems the one that really caught me though was board member OT mentioning that can call names I'm sorry that's okay the one that caught me was uh that uh uh the head of social studies has not been replaced yet I've T social stud my whole career and uh we always get last pick you know we always have to wait I I don't even know what a new head would do because he's not going to get any budget and I I just don't understand like like it doesn't seem like the information that is coming across is what's actually happening and just where I can speak where I know I I don't understand like why these complaints are only coming with one set of contexts and I hope that we're going to listen to the context of all the people we keep coming here to try and offer thank you did Kevin Durham come in hey I'm Kevin Durham 291 with l Road M Tennessee 38109 uh I was just came to say come to say I never been in one of these rooms and nothing like that but I'm I'm I'm 100% of fully support of Dr faken she done a great job it been eight months uh as I hear the kids been doing good the teachers the teachers and the principal got raises uh she just trying to get all the Corruptions out that's all cuz there been a lot of it the past years I inan uh 100 Point support Dr Fagan go Dr Pagan okay notoria carpenter notoria carpenter 1637 Briton Street I have two question questions I want to know who paying the pr firm the de Malone caror Malone group and I want to know who paying outside councel since the if it's under $75,000 y'all don't have to bring it before the board but I think the community need to know who paying this money because if it if y the taxpayers plan we need to know the amount thank you the question the question is now on the approval of the minutes from the the following meetings approval of the minutes of the December 3rd 2024 business meeting approval of the minutes from the November 19th 2024 work session approval of the minutes of the December 17 2024 special call meeting are there any corrections there being no conne Corrections do we have a motion to approve these minutes motion second roll call vote please commissioner mckisic I commissioner Garcia I commissioner Porter I commissioner Murphy I commissioner love I commissioner mckenny I commissioner OT I commissioner Williams board chair Coleman I you have nine in the affirmative thank you the minutes are as listed are approved we are now on to committee reports 8.1 the board chairs report again we would like to celebrate our very own ran Drinkin who celebrated his 30th birthday on January the 13th happy birthday ran we would like to wish the one and only commissioner Sable OT a very happy birthday this Thursday today for do Dr sh will you serenate them please please join me ladies and gentlemen happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Sable happy birthday to you and and many more and we already sang to him special Rec vice vice chair love would like to recognize Mr Mario Bradley for his work in the ridge growth Community is Mr Bradley in come on up Mr Bradley he's raising his hand the reason I want to celebrate Mario Bradley because he has done Pur down put position to become a person only respect round Vice chair love would like to recognize Riley Egypt High School track and field the coaching staff is being recognized for their prompt response and unwavering support and Leadership during a trying time when one of their student athletes collapsed during track practice and passed away Cornelius Perry was a 15-year-old student at rale Egypt High School an exemp student with a 3.2 GPA and recently crowned football homecoming Prince for his 10th grade class Perry played football and baseball and wanted to run track let's keep his family in our prayers on January 18th 2025 co-chair nalie McKinley of the B of the policy governance and legislative board committee and I had the opportunity to meet with chair Mark White of the House Education committee to discuss critical Pathways to provide our education system forward to move our education system forward during our discussion we focus on what representative white identified as some of the district's most urgent educational priorities including but not limited to reading and math proficiency teacher shortages Career and Technical oh I'm sorry I do apologize the coaches from Riley Egypt are here with us let's come on in I'm sorry for e I'm I do apologize on I'm gonna read this one again on January 18 2025 co-chair Natalie McKinley of the policy governance and legislative board committee and I had the opportunity to meet with chair Mark White of the House Education committee to discuss critical Pathways to move our education system forward during our discussion we focus on what representative white identified as some of the district's most urgent educational priorities but not in not limited to reading and math proficiency teacher shortages Career and Technical education and Workforce Workforce credentials and facility is among other pressing concerns it was clear that we share a common commitment to improving outcomes of our students and commit communities we emphasize the importance of building productive relationships strong Partnerships with the broad array of stakeholders representative white notice as being deeply involved in and investing in addressing these challenges and seizing opportunities to deliver a world class education system moving forward we look forward to continuing these conversation with representative white and other state leaders to identify actionable Sustainable Solutions our aim remains to advance both academic and operational excellence that drives meaningful measurable and improvements in student achievement thank you 8.2 academic performance committee meeting there's no report tonight 8.3 budget audit and finance committee report yes thank you um I just want to share uh a few updates as we as we get into budget season and share some of how we're getting how I'm seeking feedback from colleagues and what we have coming ahead of us each of you have an updated budget calendar um in front of printed in front of you it is also on board Ducks under the committee report for the public who wants to view it as well we may have a few changes um coming but that it is very close to final uh co-chair Porter and I are holding one-on ones uh with on the 23rd 24th and 27th uh to hear ideas um or hear questions that we have and preparation for our February 21st budget Retreat um I've also asked and we we should have scheduled soon uh budget 101 refresher so uh particularly understanding where all of our revenues come from and all the implications sort of the uh Workshop that will be uh preceding that budget Retreat um some of the key dates that are coming up and they are within the calendar is that budget Retreat we'll get an update in early April about the budget and then our County presentation is at the end of April the board will see a final budget at the end of May with shortly after that presenting to the county again um we will have some additional committee time scheduled um as policy requires budget audit and finance to to meet and convene so we are working to make sure that those are timed uh with the drafts and and coincide with the calendar when input would be optimal so thank you thank you Charter Schools committee report thank you chair we have a meeting coming up on on uh Thursday and it is listed publicly thank you 8.5 community outreach and engagement committee report no report 8.6 evaluation committee report there is no report tonight 8.7 policy governance and legislative committee report no report but I would like the listing public to know the Tennessee General Assembly convene uh Tuesday the governor uh last week the governor Le issued a special call meeting that a special call meeting in this meeting he addressed legislators will address uh vouchers uh disaster relief programs and a legal immigrants many of our immigrants families know about what's to come I spoke to the superintendent this weekend and I am her and the board express our concerns we would like for this measure to address the Immigrant students we feel in our districts additionally I would like for the district to work with Community agents to address these concerns thank you commissioner M thank you chair as a legislative liaison as well through tsba I I've been also meeting with the legislators in Nashville and uh had a conversation with our education chair representative Mark White just earlier today and he asked me to share this with the board uh dear Memphis Shelby County School Board and I'll read it in part as chair of the Tennessee General assembly's House Education committee I would like to ask that you refrain from voting to terminate Dr Marie Fagan's contract this evening like me you have been elected to lead you have a great opportunity tonight to show the community that you are listening to their concerns he mentioned that he had uh had a meeting with the chair and he goes as we move forward I ask that you focus on things that will truly help our students such is Raising Proficiency in math and reading making sure the science of reading uh is in every K3 K through three classroom focusing on chronic absenteeism CTE and Workforce credentials uh among other items he says that I am committed to supporting our community from the state level but I need your support tonight to restore confidence in our citizens please work with Dr Marie fakin and move our mscs schools to new heights thank you thank you 8.8 procurement committee meeting um report I'm sorry all the items are on the agenda thank you 8.9 general counsel report thank you madam chair no report this evening um Finance report Miss Nan good evening board members staff and and listening public my name is Leslie Knight I'm the interim business finance officer and I will present the second quarter financial report ending December 31st 2024 as of December 31st overall the district revenues increased by 30.6 million over last fiscal year the district recognized a $3.1 million increase in local sources this is primarily due to investment income a $1.7 million decrease from Sherby County which is related to property and sales tax tax a $3.7 million increase from the state of Tennessee which is due to uh Tennessee investment in student achievement funds and 1.5 million decrease from federal sources which is primarily related to indirect cost expenditures decreased $9.4 million over last fiscal year some of the most notable variances are Professional Services decreased by $242,000 due to timing of payments of invoices property maintenance services decreased by $1.5 million due to the timing of timing of Internet and phone service payments in fiscal year 2025 next next slide yeah thank you supplies and materials decreased by 15.3 million due to the purchase of textbooks in Prior fiscal year local travel decrease by 66,000 due to staff reorganizations Capital outlay increased 577 th000 due to the purchase of security equipment and student computers for Fairly High School other charges increased $979,000 due to the rising cost of insurance other objects in debt increased 3.3 million due to payment of software renewal due to a realignment of resources Charter Schools increased by 14.6 million due to the increase in tssa allocation allowed to the the charter schools that concludes my overview of the December 31st 2024 financial report any questions board members we're now on to the superintendent's report superintendent Fagan thank you madam chair good evening everyone we'll begin this evening with our normal monthly update and we'll start with our next level Readiness metrics and so as we think about data uh overall we're pleased about where we are uh at midy year if you will and so uh the first on the list is teacher vacancies the percentage of teacher positions currently vacant has decreased has decreased by point4 percentage points while the overall number of teacher positions increased by 314 meaning we have decreased our vacancies while still having to post more positions uh the percentage of Educators holding teaching permits and unlicensed or limited license has decreased by 1.9 percentage points our current enrollment has increased by 519 overall with the bulk of that coming at our charter schools with 1499 students our prek enrollment has increased by 174 students for all schools mostly at our non-charter schools by 59 our absence rate hello to our students the student absence rate is 1.1 percentage points lower than the end of year 2024 for all schools chronic absenteeism we're pleased with our work in this area as well the percentage of currently enrolled students who are projected to be chronically absent is 7.1 percentage points lower than the end of the year last year so we look at current enrollment overall Elementary enrollment was down by 965 but Charter saw an increase of 580 students at our absence rate Charters have decreased their absence rate by two percentage points non-charter absence rate for K5 is down 1.3 percentage points our chronic absenteeism this is projected uh is down 8.7 points points for currently enrolled students compared to the end of year 23 24 in 6 through eight our current enrollment has increased by 449 students our absence rate our middle grade students have shown a decrease in absence rates with 6.5% of our middle schoolers not attending daily that's down 8% uh in comparison to the end of last year our chronic absenteeism the percentage of currently enrolled students projected to be chronically absent is 8.5 percentage points down from the end of the year last year as well our prea now this is uh a new assessment for the district uh the students predicted composite is given to us as a range and so the predicted act composite is the average of the bounds of this range and it created the variable predicted act composite of track is anything less than a 21 score and then on track is anything greater than a 21 a score of 21 and so our prea which allows us to predict where students might perform in high school it also allows us to provide greater resources and support necessary at an earlier age and so grateful to the team for getting this implemented this year and placing us on track and more alignment with the ACT given 86.7% of our non-charter eighth graders are off track to score 21 on the ACT this is a new assessment it's based on predicted scores and so you can see we have a lot of work work to do in grades 9 through 12 the current enrollment in both Charter and non-charter schools increase non-charter by 848 students are charter schools by 187 students the student absence rate remained at 9.6% of students absent daily this mirrors the end ofe absence rate for high school the end of last year chronic absenteeism 29.9% of currently enrolled students at all schools are projected to be chronically absent this is down about 3.6% in comparison to last year as we look at graduation on track and off track rate we don't have that just yet um but uh as an estimate 17.8% of non-charter 9 through 11th graders are currently off track for graduation this is simply based on the number of credits that they've earned so far this does not include semester 1 grades which will be stored uh which were just stored graduation on track off track for grade 12 29.8% of our non-charter 12th grade students are off track for graduation based on credits earned and act participation again this does not include semester one just yet as this data was pulled before grades were stored preac 89 grade n 88.3% of grade 9 students are off track to score a 21 or higher on the Act prea 10 86.7% of our grade 10 students and non-charter schools are not on track to score a 21 or higher on the act as promised to the board uh we are operating under destination 2025 we're still tracking it and what was in introduced as reimagining 901 as the initiative in 2021 and so that was the Strategic plan adopted in 2018 uh this plan focused on ensuring students achieved academic and emotional success and it had five priorities those five priorities you can see on the screen and I'll share them as we give the update as we know it right now so the third grade reading proficiency the district has not achieved the goal of 90% of third graders being on grade level in Reading we're currently at 27.5% while the district achieved its highest ontime graduation rate in recent years in 2024 at 83.4% the district was 6.6 percentage points below the target of 90% The District fell 38.8 percentage points short of the target of 100% of postsecondary enrollment for College and Career ready graduates 22.8% of grades 3 through 12 students gra demonstrated proficiency on the TN ready assessments taken in 2324 which is 37.2 percentage points below the target 59.9% of schoolage children in Shelby County were enrolled in The District in the fall of 2023 which fell short of the goal by 9.1 percentage points in 2021 the last year of available data 87% of surveyed staff and Community agreed that the then superintendent and the central office were on track to improve student achievement under reimagining 901 building on the destination 2025 strategic plan this plan or initiative addressed educational gaps enhanced Community engagement prepared students for a global future progress was driven by three cornerstones and that's reimagining education uh strengthening early K2 and continuing literacy 312 recruit retain immerse and entrench and then relevant rigorous and Equitable academics the district achieved an 83.4% graduation rate is shared outpacing the Target by 1.4% the 2023 cohort had 36.6% achieve ready graduate ready graduate status that's 1.1% points below the interim Target in 2024 26.7% of grades three through five demonstrated proficiency on the TCAP Ela assessment falling short of the Target by 13.3 percentage points math proficiency rates were 26.1 percentage points below the 2024 Target with 23.9% of 3 through 5 great three through five students achieving proficiency our facilities update we continue to post this online under our project Bill and provide this weekly uh to our board members we're down uh we had some well over 9,000 work orders I believe when we first started with this we're just over about 5,700 the team is still cleaning up their work orders but certainly a lot of work is being done and this is with the addition of several hundred as we shift uh and transition through Seasons uh with our hbac systems uh continuing to pose the greatest number of challenges for us wanted to provide an update on our real estate plan that we introduced December 4th overall the sale of the former night Road and Lester schools we discussed it last week at board work session the contracts are being developed and the items will be on the February business meeting for vote we have fielded calls of for interest in Florida Kansas elementary that's one call uh one call for Hamilton Elementary two calls for Magnolia Elementary with one tour that was completed of the building and then one call for the vacant land in the Pisa area appraisals have been received for Northwest prep at $4 million in Wooddale Middle School which is operated by the achievement School District at 3.18 million and we did add the former Bayer building at 3030 Jackson to the available list to gauge interest in the property Madam chair this concludes my report thank you superintendent commissioner mckenny commissioner Porter thank you superintendent can you um make sure I'm reading this right on Next Level Readiness metric K through 12 we have the current enrollment and so for non-charter schools which would be our traditional schools we're down you're you're saying we're down 1500 yes okay do you have any thoughts around that in terms of the decline in enrollment yes uh not at our non-charter schools yes so I mean across the district um Mr White are we seeing anything specific I know we look at this daily in terms of our Trends and patterns anything you want to lift here good evening board memb superintendent U I'm not seeing anything specific it's definitely something that needs a little more investigation as to why these enrollment Trends are occurring commissioner Porter hey Madam um superintendent what at what grade our students start preparing for the ACT in well in high schools act preparation thank you for the question uh board member reporter act preparation is throughout you know just the trajectory of the educational experience uh what we see in grade three can tell us a lot about how a student will perform in their Middle grades and certainly by eth grade uh we know the types of courses that they've taken the type of exposure that they've taken in terms of rigor uh but also the depth of learning uh we can measure by the where a teacher lands in terms of of of the curriculum um and the scope and sequence and just how far uh they get into the materials U but certainly implementing this prea allows us to get a better handle on how our students will perform when they sit for the exam uh in in grade nine 10 and 11 11 when it counts in terms of for the state so they are able to start preparing for the ACT in the nth grade like why they in school absolutely okay yeah cuz just looking at these scores I think on average in in Memphis it's alone it's what 16% and it didn't move but um it is it is quite disheartening that our children are not not just act but not seems like they're not being fully prepared for all the tests and so I just want to really see just since I'm just only focused on act right now how can we just really you know just hone in on those resources where have more act per classes and I know it's in the district but it seems like it's not strong enough it's just not working so I'm just really trying to figure out what's the disconnect between the study time and the taking the test yeah so I appreciate the the deeper question when we think about preparation for any exam any type of prep is really reactive um it is um not the proactive approach right and so we're really just drill and kill for lack of better words uh what what the best preparation is strong instruction uh a quality curriculum and so when the results uh when the report from the curriculum audit comes you'll see teachers and staff have lifted a lot of opportunities and gaps uh in terms of choosing a curriculum and sticking with it one that is research based and is supported uh the time that is necessary to understand the curriculum uh and then certainly the supplemental material materials that are necessary to support it and so uh it also goes along with scheduling we get more of our students able to take Algebra 1 in e8th grade and just really rolling back some of the opportunities and access to our advanced classes that stands to to support a student better as well and so it's really about scheduling curriculum preparation more than prep ACT prep classes that are taken you know in your high school years okay yeah definitely love to advocate for more resources for ACT prep whether it's before school after after school absolutely commissioner love uh Madam superintendent I have a question about ACT prep um um a couple of years ago I donated funds to um a school in Nat's district for the ACT prep um in Middle School you have some thoughts about that about results from that or rolling back the ACP prep in Middle Schools instead of high schools oh absolutely uh and certainly as a companion to uh our courses uh earlier you offer the access and the exposure the better uh it's it's equivalent to tutoring so for any class that you have that offering uh and certainly taking a look at it just that way uh is the best way to do it um I think that if it's not called act it's certainly double blocking for our students uh when they take a math class just double blocking and allowing them additional time in those respective content areas I have another question um um attendance rates have went up what do you give that to um what would I attribute the attendance rates increasing I think you know when we rolled out come to win I shared that I believed that that would be uh one initiative that we'd be able to hang our hats on um that that was something that students could get excited about I believe that we provided a clear on day 20 day 4 if you're here this is where you are in terms of being a champion a participant being able to track and monitor that uh getting our our our partners involved with celebrating that as well throughout the year uh I think that's what our students have shared uh that have encourag them and then they have forced their parents if you will uh to have them on time as well for those who are are transported by their parents um but a general excitement about what it means to uh respectfully uh make school cool again and fall in love with the joy of learning thank you yes ma'am commissioner hu Garcia commissioner mcken mckisic I'm sorry and then commissioner mckeny thank you on the destination 2025 chart where it says the target third grade reading proficiency 90% are these aligned to the Tissa accountability report metrics or in in my it feels different than what I'm looking at or so these uh were not aligned I think the Tissa accountability metrics uh were just developed in 2023 it was just last year or 2023 Mr White I know they're just fresh yes superintendent the first school year for the Tissa accountability metrics was 2324 so these definitely predate they they predate dat not only the Tisa count ility but Tisa itself I know we've talked about literacy Investments and and what we the foundational resources 90% I don't even in 2020 looking at the current rate and the most aggressive literacy growth imaginable 90% uh I I didn't I don't know that we had a path there so I think as we work to set our new strategic plan and priorities thinking about what is ambitious and feasible think about what are the resources we could invest uh and double down on so literacy as the foundation but if it's not 90% that's not a indication of our kid the belief in our children but it is the the amount of resources we need or often multiple years uh of remediation and and support so I I want that to be a big part of our ongoing budget conversations absolutely yes thank you chair um Madam superintendent I just want to illustrate to my colleagues to the community yes we do need ACT test prep but if we really want to make a difference because with test prep it's just simply a matter of how to uh learn the tricks of taking a test but you must start at prek if you really want to see good scores on ACT test prep it has to be prek through third grade having three sons who graduate from this District who also took advantage of test prep um it's certainly if I had depended on just waiting till they were in 10th Grade or ninth grade or eth grade um goodness knows that it would not have materialized in them going off to college I don't think um because just it's a slow drip and so that's where this budget season I'm going to be focusing on um our what we're putting into our our budget for that prek through third grade how our County Commissioners are going going to partner with us how I'm excited to say the city of Memphis for the you know first time in a very long time giving money to our budget um to ensure that we are assisting these students I just want to clarify that for the listening audience that test prep is ideal but uh there is basically it's just a the tricks of the test and we have to focus on that prek through third grade so that's where I'm going to focus on this budget season thank you thank thank you um I want to get back to enrollment cuz this looks like a much lower number than we've seen in previous meetings so I'm looking at October and I'm seeing the mcsk12 enrollment at 10 and something year to date 2024 2025 I'm looking at the chart and then I'm looking at all schools um and I don't know if this is all schools or if this is just Ms just um the non-charter schools so even if I'm looking I'm adding non-charter schools and Charter Schools it's 50, 932 but in October I had 10 something thousand here can can we get can you help me with that or maybe it's something you all need to look at later because I'm concerned we're going in the budget and I know for our 2425 budget season we had a project enrollment and our our money our Tissa funds are based off of our last year so our Tisa funds for this upcoming fiscal year will be based on this particular um enrollment so I'm just wondering U Can somebody help me with the numbers it looks like we've gone down Bo board member mckenny um and superintendent and board members um I appreciate the question I I don't have the data to which you're referring in front of me but um what I will say is January is typically an odd month um what you will typically see at the around the holidays is a lot of movement of students after that first semester and during the holidays um so that's one thing that I think whenever we report January data we have to keep in in mind but could you just repeat for me one more time because I'm trying to visualize it in my head so I'm looking at a report that says mscs K through 12 enrollment and it's aund and something thousand I can see these things very well but it's 10 something thousand here and then I'm looking at this report saying January 2025 is 50,9 32 so um that's what I'm asking that's a big gap to say that in I think this is October I can look at it October we were at 100,000 and then we've lost 50,000 my math may be not math but yeah I I do think and I apologize to the board that that all schools row is perhaps incorrect because that should be our 100% total enrollment and I apologize that that was not caught earlier we're going to need to go back and look at that and that made me very nervous yes I can see that now and I am I am so sorry about that because I can understand why that would make you nervous right okay um I believe we've got you know either a typo or just a transfer problem with some of the data um or maybe or maybe we're not looking at the right slide because go back it's okay okay the current enrollment board member mcken while there might be an error on that slide is 10534 students for all schools again this is absent of of prek uh and then non-charter schools is 85,681 19693 uh coupled with our all our prek that 105 304 and that 5,089 then that gets us to that 110,000 plus uh so we can own the error on the slide that we have not lost ,000 I'm sorry superintendent let Mr it's okay I'm so sorry but these are by grade band these slides so if you look at this slide that is the K12 okay and that other slide was one of the grade bands yes it should say though it says K12 that's where the error is and I apologize this is K5 I believe I think that's right yes ma'am this is 68 yes ma'am it's the it's the heading that's the problem k five and then the next was 68 all is well thank you commissioner Williams meia when you have for instance on page 11 where you have mathematics and you have high schools as a course but you have 66.6% of the students were proficient in math what are you talking about what what is that reference to I don't know which Math course they're taking in this 12th rate they don't take the same Math course which one board member we thank you for the question page 11 and you're talking about Ela and then you're talking about math at the very top of that and you giving the percentages of people who pass the test the subjects are different in high school they're not take not all taking the same math they're not all taking the same um language courses so I don't know how you what how how those measures coming up what are you measuring and what text are they using are we specifically talking about everything on page 11 at the top that says grade it says proficiency rate this is the cont of the course it just gives the course by subject such as Ela such as math it doesn't identify them any more definely than that and it tell doesn't tell you which math so I don't I'm not sure that these oh he's in the report numbers are he's he's in the report Mr way I think I'm here it's okay Mr board member Williams I thought you were on the slide I was just give me one second for example the very first thing says just science it says appendic science and it says grade three um so you want to know specifically in high school for sure which science which yeah what is the science they're taking which math are they taking it's just all under Ela or math okay this is our end of course I don't know what they're measuring and what they're being taught what we what we do when we report by sub by subject area and not end of course test uh board member Williams is we combine the EOC test so when we say mathematics for high school that would be Algebra 1 Algebra 2 geometry combined so how would you know that looking at at this chart which bth it is uh I guess we would need to be a little more specific in our chart or maybe add a footnote or something but that's the way the state also does it so we just mirror the process of when you report High School mathematics it includes the end of course assessments for math that are available for high school students out how do we know then that the curriculum is is they're measuring what they're teaching what other things do you have in this curriculum to support passing the test and do we have curriculums in all of these courses do they have proper information in books and so forth well I want to make sure I understand your question board member Williams you want to know based on how the data is reported in terms of who is successful and who is not how do we know that we have the actual curriculum that is aligned yes from the courses because they're not all taking the same course that's correct meaning Algebra 1 geometry well these are not that spec specific it just says El it says Ela then it says math that's all they have here is course is math and La yes sir they don't say what they are but they just they do give a number indicating who's doing well or in each grade band uh the percentage of proficiency I think that's a fair list you'd like to see it by content area is that fair yes okay yes sir we'll take care of that thank you proposed 9.1 proposed re policy second reading 5013 promotion and retention 5023 Family Life Education 6047 school fees and debts 6060 school day thank you madam chair good evening Commissioners and superintendent for second reading and approval tonight we do bring six policies with proposed revisions to align to statutory and Regulatory revisions the polic policies are 53 promotion and retention 5016 limited English proficient 5021 Library services and collections 5023 Family Life Education 6047 school fees and debts and 6060 school day we do respectfully recommend approval of these proposed revisions thank you we have a motion in a second please motion second commissioner mckiss did you have your light on for a question no I was just going to motion okay commissioner mckiss uh motion first and commissioner McKenna second roll call vote please commissioner mckisic I commissioner Garcia I commissioner Porter I commissioner mky I commissioner love I commissioner mcken I Commission commissioner o i commissioner Williams I board chair Coleman I you have nine in the affirmative thank you the motion passes we are now on to the consent agenda are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda okay Madam chair as a reminder we removed item 11.22 which was the Frasier Corning Elementary School foundation repair we removed item 11.36 which was the denial of corner City University consent agenda items 11.1 contract approve approval AT&T emergency and security service in the amount of $624,500 11.2 contract approval Renaissance Convention Center event rentals MCS graduations 2025 in the amount of $ 28,42 and8 80 11.3 approve of science textbook selection committee 11.4 approval cwell guthy Library core collection in amount of 10946 35 11.5 approval Snowden K8 Knowledge Tree Furniture $1 165,166 11.6 approval Memphis tiphany or orchestra $82,400 11.7 contract renewal mansvi Oil Company $4 million 11.8 purchase approval bottled water filter purchase WW Granger $2,356 11.9 approval ManUp teacher fellows Incorporated 11.10 contract approval study.com practice support $138,800 11.11 approval mou between Memphis Shelby County Schools and the Shelby County Health Department for HIV T HIV testing 11.12 purchase approval American Paper and Twine paper $587,500 11.13 approval project aware Grant external evaluator contract 95,000 11.14 approval special course applications for 2526 11.15 contract approval Cordova Middle School civil and pavement Paving project Beasley's Paving service is incorporated $ 72,5 192 11.16 Cordova High School civil and Paving project V Vulcan LLC 2 million6 2 milon 6,139 70 11.17 contract approval Ridgeway High School civil and Paving Improvement projects Vulcan LLC 94,6 15 11.18 contract approval Snowden School civil and Paving Improvement projects Vulcan LLC $ 47,1 16754 11.19 contract approval over to high school civil and Haven Improvement project Vulcan LLC $75,900 11.20 contract approval crom Stadium track resurfacing A&B Construction Company $630 $63,750 11.21 contract approval kingsberry Middle School and High School underground gas line replacement Damian Marcus Incorporated 421,000 11.22 REM is removed 11.23 contract approval razel Elementary School foundation repair APS facilities maintenance $248,500 project Barnes and Bri Incorporated $443,900 11.25 contract approval Bolton High School sports field lighting project ik IO LED lighting incorporated $464,500 5470 11.26 South High School sports field light project Barnes and Brier Incorporated $379,999 40 11.27 Kingsbury High School sports field lighting project ambb construction Incorporated $416,500 11.28 contract am Amendment at Cromwell Elementary School Norris achievement Academy and Shrine School agback upgrades no dollar just Amendment to the dates no dollar amount 11.29 approval administration building and Sheffield high school fire alarm upgrades 1,239 3875 11.30 approval three land purchase sale agreement termination notices 11.31 mou between Shelby County government and Memphis Shelby County Schools exceptional education on behalf of incarcerated youth what's the 11.32 contract approval comp Tia $138,700 11.33 approval career safe OSHA 10 97,7 198 11.34 approval internet Creative Education videos 17672 11.3 35 approval Charter renewal recommendations Leadership Preparatory Power Center Academy Elementary hicker heel and Grand VT Woods Academy of innovation these are for approval only okay that's it the other one Motion in a second please commissioner M Kenny motion to approve the consent agenda second by commissioner hu Garcia thank you roll call vote please commissioner mckisic I commissioner Garcia I commissioner Porter I commissioner Murphy I commissioner love I commissioner mckenny I commissioner OT I commissioner Williams I borer Coleman I you have nine in the affirmative thank you that motion passes we have three items that request for Action Project Lead the Way super attendant thank you madam chair first item 12.1 is Project Lead the Way for Douglas K8 the recommendation is for the board to approve the grant acceptance of $50,000 from Project Lead the way this is to help purchase equipment supplies and cover the expenses incurred for the Project Lead the Way core training at Douglas K8 optional school year one will be $25,000 and year two is $25,000 for a total of $50,000 again this is to support stem students at Douglas K8 optional School Motion in second please motion by commissioner McKenna second by commissioner huitt Garcia roll call vote commissioner mckisic I commissioner Garcia I commissioner Porter I commissioner Murphy hi commissioner love hi commissioner mckenny hi commissioner OT I commissioner Williams I board chair Coleman I you have nine and the affirmative thank you that motion passes the next one is 12.2 thank you madam chair item 12.2 is donation to from the SMI foundation for Cordova High School the recommendation is that the board approve a one-time donation of $335,000 from the Smith Foundation that's Harbor Freight Tools for Schools this was awarded to Cordova High School to be used for the automotive program this will provide students in the maintenance and light repair program at Cordova High School with the tools equipment resources and experiences to improve their career Readiness in automotive trades motion second motion by commissioner OT second second by commissioner Murphy roll call vote commissioner marisic hi commissioner Garcia I commissioner Porter I commissioner Murphy I commissioner love I commissioner mckenny I commissioner OT I commissioner William I boy CH Coleman I you have none in the affirmative thank you that motion passes now we on to our strateg I'm Excuse me our yeah Memphis um board member strategic School fund commissioner mckiss you need to add I absolutely absolutely do thank you uh I would like to add uh $3,640 for BTW Booker T Washington they are taking the ath3 class to go see Hamilton so I'll will be supporting them in that endeavor so can you give me the amount again 3,6 oh if they were going to New York I would be a chaperon for sure no they're going to go see Hamilton at the Orum uh $3,640 and this will cover the price of uh tickets we can do as a big supporter of the Arts and then who doesn't love Hamilton I know right we will make sure it's added thank you so our total was 7,746 2016 and we'll add $3,640 to that and we'll have it reflected in our minutes is there a motion to approve this item in a second second I move second R roll call vote please commissioner mckisic I commissioner Garcia I commissioner Porter hi commissioner Murphy hi commissioner love hi commissioner mckenny hi commissioner o i commissioner Williams boarder Coleman I we have nine of the affirm okay thank you that motion passes there being no further business this meeting is adjourned I got to go to hold e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e 2025 special call meeting at Memphis Shelby County Schools Miss clar please call the role commissioner mckisic present commissioner Garcia present commissioner Murphy present commissioner love present commissioner mckenny pres commissioner Williams commissioner Porter pres board chair Coleman present you have Aiden affirmative thank you we do have a quum the purpose of tonight's special call meeting is to discuss board members staff plans and community members the purpose of the special call meeting is to discuss the potential termination of superintendent Dr Marie n Fagan's contract with the Memphis Shelby County Schools Board of Education if the board decides to terminate Dr Fagan's contract we will appoint an interim superintendent this step is necessary to ensure continuality in the operations of the school district thank you for joining this special call meeting today you have already heard my explanation for this resolution as well as the response from from superintendent fagans please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for a moment of silence flag United States stand indice thank you you may be seated we are now on to public comments in accordance with State Statute the board shall reserve a period for public comments during business and special call meetings only those members of the public public who submit public comment cards to the board chairman prior to the commencement of this meeting shall be permitted to address the board public comments shall be taken in the order in which the public comment cards are received a signup sheet for public comments will be available 30 minutes prior to each applicable meeting and will be closed at the start of the meeting this sign up is located in the entryway table just past the security checkpoint speakers must State their name organization he or she is representing if any and subject of their comment before they are permitted to speak speakers may offer objective comments about school operations and programs that concern them speakers are asked to refrain from using names of personnels or names of persons connected with the school system particularly when lodging a complaint speakers will not be permitted to engage in Gossip make def flammatory comments or use abusive or vulgar language the chairman shall have the authority to terminate the remarks of any individual who is disruptive and does not adhere to board rules Dr schul would announce the number of speakers and the time allotted per speaker we have 27 speakers at one minute each your time is projected Ed on the screen to your right and directly behind the board when you hear a bell your time has expired leas I have called the first three speakers Excuse Me Miss leas Marble Austin Bettis Ashley Bettis Liz marille 6263 popular Avenue Memphis Tennessee 38119 as president of the largest local United Education Association the members of the United Education Association of Shelby County are committed to making the 901 the best place in which to live teach and learn we remain focused on the goal of ensuring students have the resources they need clean and safe school buildings trained Educators in their classrooms and well-rounded curricula that support the growth as future citizens UEA also issued the superintendent leadership survey where we asked the Educators over 6,000 strong to answer two questions the first question was if the teachers wanted to retain Dr fagans as superintendent 88 3% of your Educators said they want to retain Dr fagin I don't need the rest of the speech I don't need the rest of the speech I've been in 121 schools I dare say that all of you combined have been in that many teachers feel heard and seen they want to retain Dr fagans at 88.3% I don't know where you found the 11.7% uh Austin Bettis 864 Graham uh this is not planned I actually have some data as well mine's more homemade but just wanted to reiterate that the data we collected about 3 respondents um ours was about 98% that um said that they wanted to retain this is a mix of uh community members uh teachers administrators um staff um I would like to read a comment if I have time but first of all if you'd like to participate in the survey if you're streaming on YouTube this QR code will go directly to that survey oops and you can join make your voice heard so I'm just going to hold that for a bit if you're streaming on YouTube and um a few comments from our survey will be coming up next Ashley Bettis 864 North Graham um if you didn't see it before it was being covered please please I want to hear your voice they should want to hear your voice that is a responsib ability as a board member to listen to their constituents please do it please share um one of our favorite comments came from a teacher um from this survey that you have all the responses I desperately wish a certain board member would consider the negative impact an immediate termination of fagans would have on our students in schools as a mscs school teacher for almost the last decade I have seen firsthand the negative impact of dramatic abrupt changes on schools she has not even been serving as superintendent for a year nothing presented in the board meeting warrants an immediate termination I was so excited to vote this certain board member in and another one out I was practically skipping to the polls her behavior these last few weeks has been both an embarrassment and a Devastation to me our students deserve consistency and someone to change thank you ourr Clark Britany thoron Christopher schaffers hey I'm uh rre Clark uh 2159 Clayton and I just pray that the board the men and the women of the board do the right thing and just listen to the students and Community cuz we the ones that voted and y'all hear the community voice and concern but to Dr uh our superintendent you a woman of class and digity to sit there to knowing that you've been betrayed by your colleagues you are a woman of class and I want to give you a word of encouragement to know Jesus knew he was going to be betrayed so with that being said I pray for you and your wellbeing and to our city that we can't get involved can we please I'm saying this from my own can we please call Dr Willie Harrison back in office yes ma'am I'm sorry thank you thank you chairwoman um commissioner Bry Thornton 160 North Main Memphis Tennessee 38104 um Dr fagin I want you to know that I was right before your appointment we met and I said to you as long as you keep the support of the people you're going to be all right when I said this I never thought that the majority of the board would hijack these elected seats to go against the will of the people the will of our teachers our parents our school leaders our students unimportant to our local electeds though the five voting members of the board may win the fight to terminate your contract tonight trust me we will win the war for it has always been and always will be our B our battle to fight far more than any accusation made against you Dr fagin your public persecution has opened our eyes to see our own Puppet Masters to every person who has you have relied on that has betrayed you sabotaged you left you defend for yourself and cost you your peace may they all continue to be revealed because if they aren't Dr Richmond how will you be successful ever since December 17th superintendent I cannot tell you how many individuals have spoke spoken to me in confidence saying oh she's out of here we already got her replacement thank let that sink in we already Christopher okay my name is Christopher saers they at 3210 EST district 7 which would be Miss Murphy so what I'm asking today that the chair stand with the superintendent I'm asking Miss Murphy to stand sir you can't call her call names just say stand with well I'm asking her that she stand with the superintendent and don't go against her cuz she hadn't been to the principal in mid high school or been over to high school at all so I'm asking her to stand with the superintendent don't go against her at all give her a chance I she want is a chance to make things right in the city it seem like y'all just want to tear it apart why y'all want to tear it apart y'all don't want kids learn how to read right spell they already don't do cursive in school what what what's going on can we get it together do the state need to come in and do it do y'all want them to do y'all want them to come in and audit y'all cuz they really do need to come in and audit y'all and they need to have his fagans right there that's what they need cuz y don't don't look at me crazy just do the right thing and I'm asking the CH to do the right thing too just do the audit I want the audit done just open the books Let's open the books and see what's going on let's see where the money going thank you let's see I want to see all the cont thank you my name is faren Johnson 1490 Lydia Street I'm one of over 500 Seas for this district one who along with others had an issue with Dr fens my issue was communication untimely notice of us possibly losing jobs I didn't care for the fact that she was an outsider and I like so many haven't cared for SCS and it's dealing since Harington left but y'all messed up and hired a whole Messiah she wasn't hired for this job she was called to this job she did exactly what y'all said she couldn't do she fixed the problem and she communicated with us thank you and congratulations Dr fagins they have given you the nation's attention locals don't come out for locals but here we are in the cold Memphis hasn't seen a public lynching since 1939 now I'm ashamed to say that cat wants to help lead the mob in lynching the best leader our children have seen in decades thank you Erin Pernell Danica wils Damian Curry Morris win Irwin Pernell 8037 water for Place Memphis tennessy 38125 good evening I'm speaking as an alumnist of this district and a proud product of Memphis City schools superintendent I want to start by saying I thank God for the blessing that you are to this District to this city and to our students to the board I urge you to give this superintendent the time allotted in her existing contract what we are witnessing here seems oddly strange a majority of you seem committed to moving forward in terminating the superintendent showing little interest in collaboration or reconciliation the concerns and complaints you all have presented predate her tenure and anyone who has done their research would see that quite frankly all of this feels like a peculiar personal Petty perplexing pathetic plot Galatians 6: 7 reminds us be not deceived God is not mopped for whatsoever a man or woman Seth that shall he or she also reap so for those of you who want to get rid of the superintended you might consider this a victory tonight but know this you will reap what you sow every action has consequences what you sow today you will surely reap tomorrow thank you good evening my name is Nia Wilson I'm at 900 Dickinson Memphis Tennessee 38107 and I just want to say that for elected officials that the community has chosen to represent given blazing disregard for what the community overwhelmingly says they want is truly disheartening Dr fagin in her few short 9ine months being here has created revolutionary change that we have not seen from previous or prior leadership and given less than 9 months to give this decision or make this decision like this is irresponsible governance so we stand in solidarity as a community against parts of a board who will be on the wrong side of History thank you Mr moris Professor Damon Curry Morris 1529 dunore Road Memphis Tennessee 38114 and I just want to say for the record that this is the highest level of corruption I have ever witnessed in all my years of living in Memphis Tennessee and I've been through the Tennessee walks and I a see this kind of corruption so what I'm trying to say is I don't think you read clearly that agreement that we had in that lawsuit because ain't none of this supposed to be going on but just as lawsuits have been settled they can be reopened okay boy remember you said you want you want the lawsuit we'll take it I give it to you like the Brad say I give it to you and there's many more did we ain't think of nothing about the children this ain't got nothing to do with the children at all at all you got board members threatening folks and and all kind of foolishness going on in this community I would my own board member threatened me so I'm trying to tell you hey you want to go to war let's go to war cuz I'm going to war okay he it ain't over it ain't over to the fat professor says I'm Latasha Griggs Angela Rogers Sherl kite good even my name isasha GRE my 1095 Dr F I support you got my utmost respect I was always taught a h dog holl and every time a camera come on a dog holler every time I turn around a dog on a camera now I I name people according to way I and and there's honey bun and then there's r m that's how I see them cuz that's how I see them when they on the camera every time I see them they on the camera they got to give a statement but I'mma tell you something for somebody to be a disbar lawyer and they want to give you a low suit I would I prefer that you include everybody name that had had your name in their mouth in that lawsuit and I wanted to be defamation of character and emotional damage good evening my name is Angela Rogers and I ran 4033 naor Road I ran for school board commissioner for District 3 I didn't win and I'm okay with that I'm not a politician um but I did learn a lot about politics while when I ran and so I um I was asked about whether I would run again if the opportunity presented itself and honestly I really don't know but what while I don't know I I ran because I love kids that's that's why I ran and so while I don't know much about politics what I do know Dr fakin is had I won you would certainly have my vote to keep doing what you're doing keep showing up with Grace and dignity in spite of everything that is happening around you and so I I do know that and so I just want to encourage you tonight uh to keep doing exactly what you're doing we appreciate you we thank you for how you show up and how you represent Memphis you were an amazing choice and I believe that God has sent you good evening again Sheryl piggy C 856 Faxton Avenue district one again I say thank you for offering yourself with public service I do understand that this is a tedious J and I applaud you for stepping up again however it appears that the work you represent is not reflected of the work that we hire you to do your decisions are to be reflected of the public that you serve if you are not commuting with the public us about your decision then you are making decision on your behalf again I say we do realize that some decisions will not be favorable even though the teeth and tongue will fall out let me get this straight you the board said Jarvis Ray kept playing with the staff you spent money you the board said Tony Williams wasn't qualified you spent money you the board say Dr F does how to get along with others but you the board are still spending enormous amounts of monies for a superintendent for our school system and yet we have a high level of homelessness food insecurity representative Pearson Rachel sprigs Danielle ANZ representative Justin J Pearson 4 sou4 38103 look the problem is this is an unfair process it isn't about the decision just the decision that you're choosing to make it's how you came to it giving somebody 24 hours notice before you show the entire public that you want to fire them is wrong and immoral and if it hadn't been for just one vote she would have lost her job in December and so now people are complaining about the fact that the public has something to say about an unfair process that you all put forward when in effect you could do this you could slow down you could decide we may have made our move too soon as my Grandmama used to say and we need not only to have Grace in this process for the superintendent but Grace in the process for yourselves as newly elected officials and leaders of this community to put together a proper performance Improvement plan and to then hold her accountable at Future meetings for the metrics that you set forward by not doing that you are continuing to se distrust in this board and distrust in our community that's why I stand in support of a fair process for Dr fagins thank you before you start my time um board member chair chair coeman um I just want to state that people can say superintendent fagans or whatever your name is and you can correct me parliamentarian as long as they're not casting a complaint and so you keep on stopping people from saying people's name when they're not casting a complaint so just want want to make that clear Rachel sprigs 440 north mcneel um Justin I want to start off by apologizing uh for you having to experience much of what we've been experiencing for some time despite having a majority black board serving a majority of black students in a majority black City there is still not much difference Happening Here than at the state capital but the people are clear our children are going are not going to the highest bidder the board can simply not be trusted at this point we have endorsed we have endured Decades of corruption from the board but can't give our super intended more than nine months you've barely gone through orientation I realize that there are folks on both sides and their concerns deserve to be considered but where is the middle out of all of the folks that I have spoken to with grievances no one felt termination was just how do you hold her accountable and Grant the grace that you all all desperately need yourself or is that even a desire I notice Martavius in the back and many others who surrendered our tter are also in cahoots with firing our superintendent thank you Danielle AZ 158 Vans Memphis Tennessee 38103 Madam chair members of the board tomorrow the students will walk out after night's vote to destabilize our district our principes and teachers will be forced to face your voters during this week's state of the schools addresses people from all walks of life will flood your inboxes will text your phones and we'll talk about you like a dog online and then on Monday the governor's special session will begin and let me be clear we will be in the Battle of your political careers because people will fight to keep your elected seats but they will not fight to keep you in them you are unfavorably rated by voters you will be the very first thing that your advisor sacrifice vouchers special school districts and school construction money are all up for discussion andless less than a week and y'all are playing politics or chess but y'all are playing with God's children what's decided tonight matters next is now this moment is what that phrase means in closing don't let anybody think that you can't change your position you absolutely can change your position up until the very last second you can always choose to do the right thing thank you Audrey Audrey Royal Noah Nordstrom Otis thread kill Audrey Noah norstrom hey y'all I'm Noah Nordstrom 6220 Forest Grove Drive and I'm one of the 88% of teachers who support Dr fagans um so as teachers in this District we are expected to do our jobs with Excellence we're expected to be well prepared be impartial and be adaptable to feedback from our boss and to ensure this we are regularly observed by Administration so tonight is y'all's observation this board is not well prepared you keep piling on accusation after accusation that are irrelevant to the resolution to terminate Dr fagin yall are pushing deer Malone's agenda yes the derer Malone who tried to bring an oil pipeline into our community that would have poisoned our water and you're putting her agenda above the kids of this district and you're refusing to adapt to the people's input we are bosses so do the right thing and show us tonight that you are worthy of the positions you've been elected to we have been out here begging for you to listen to us listen to the teachers if 88% of teachers support Dr fagin that should say something thank you all right good evening my name is Otis thril 82 267 bright leaf place 38016 um today I'm going to be speaking in support of Dr fagin um I think from the beginning Dr fagins has demonstrated a um clear um commitment to the children right so um as it's been previously mentioned there's been serious issues with the process um so I won't really get into that however today I want to ask the the members of the board uh to do one thing and that's do the right thing um we we all know the potential effects of making the wrong decision today um as a veteran I've had the experience of experiencing multiple um school systems across the country as well as abroad right so the one thing that I found that these school systems have in common is putting the children first right so with that um I want to say again board let's do the right thing and put the children first thank you did Audrey Audrey Roy Philistine Terry Glenda Hicks nitria Ren good evening hi I'm Philistine Terry 319 9 Sher Road Memphis Tennessee uh the reason I'm here is for the children I understand as a teacher of 34 years that curriculum drives instruction instruction drives achievement right now our district needs an academic Focus we need to focus on academics right now we have no structure that's got to be our first first thing doesn't matter if we keep superintendent or we get a new one we need to focus on academics okay uh I hear um that the learnings had growth right now our learnings are defun I'm asking you all to please bring those learnings back I know that the summies are part of the third grade commitment so therefore we need to reinforce Summer Academy with our fall spring and winter academies and our cies have been reduced to a packet okay uh packets for children that can't supposedly can't read uh our teachers need support uh we have new teachers who have just begun thank you Miss CH thank you good evening Glenda hick 608 Gillies advocate for the community I'm here this evening I've never met Dr Fagan I don't know her personally however I have dear concern at the very base of this board's actions it concerns me that the concept of team did not exist in these actions that we are facing this evening if the concept of teens had existed this entire board would have known about the meeting that was called before minutes of that meeting so the very bases of your actions your motives do not come across as pure that is a deep concern in the best interest of actions that teach our children how they need to interact and settled oppositions this action does not support that so consider your actions your motives and do the right thing for the children the Tria Ren 9695 man view Cod um Cordova Tennessee 38 018 I stand here in support of Dr fagin um I want to talk about time and consequences you have been given Dr fagans time to do her job you haven't given Dr fagin time to really make a difference you haven't taken the time to truly prove to your constituents that she has done these alleged infractions we know that this we know this because you release the resolution and then days later you come back with more alleged infractions now let's talk talk about consequences we don't know the consequences of terminating Dr fagin we don't know what type of financial impact that's going to have we don't know what type of legislative consequences that we'll face if you do if you terminate Dr F fagin and understand that your voters your votes will have consequences we will Lobby our state legislative body to change the laws and like I said the last time I was here we're going to get each and every one of you out of those seats and you can step that Sean McKenzie Sarah Carpenter candy Smith good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is sha McKenzie I live at 1425 de Lake Drive Cordova Tennessee 38016 uh so I want to come here tonight to address obviously the issues that we're having Dr fens I want to thank you you've been incredible Riverwood Elementary has gotten a new principal since you joined um we've seen a lot of positive change and I'm getting a lot more information directly from the district than I did last year as we all know as parents that's something that we're very concerned about communication so ladies and gentlemen the board tonight you have a historic CH choice to make do you decide to maintain progress for Memphis and Shelby County Schools or do you potentially hand over control of the largest school district in Tennessee to the state that a decision you need to make here tonight thank you Sarah Carpenter 2100 Curry Avenue 38108 um I wasn't going to say nothing tonight but I y'all we got state representatives in this room we got the people that voted for you in this room we got Sher County Commission in this room we got children in this room y'all city council people in this room we got a former miror first black miror clapping up we got dark holiday in this room y'all y'all we got people in this room that's telling y'all what we want y'all ignoring us so I I keep my ears to the street y'all know that right I heard that some more allegation going to come up on Dr F but it ain't nothing none of y'all can tell us about about Dr F cuz we feel like it's a witch on at this point I see people on Facebook talking about who mentoring them I'mma tell you something some of your mentors need mentors some of the people that y'all putting on Facebook I hear State representing the Senators up there talking about the people we should have been thrown out of this boardroom when they stood with white people in Nashville they didn't tell them to throw them out I'm talking about lond the M I'm calling thank you we Ain been talking but you still got a chance Dr Fagan whatever happened tonight I'mma ask you this one thing don't leave this city too quick don't leave I'm asking you not to leave don't leave it cuz I promise you I promise you I promise you candy Smith candy candy Smith it's candy Smith available Stephanie psyo hello um I'm Stephanie sacko I'm a kindergarten teacher with MSS and I'm at 1778 Tutwiler AV um 38107 uh I was thinking to myself I feel like I haven't gone home from work yet because I feel this is just as import as what I did today with my students and myself the teachers with whom I work the parents and families support Dr Fagan she's raised our pay she's sent surveys to me for the first time anyone has asked me questions about what I think she subbed at my school for a whole day um the cause that you keep naming is changing all the time teachers don't care about Mastery connect being gone SP advisers weren't there because they went back into the classroom or they quit and central office was turned into something that felt imaginary and foreign to me into now having someone at my school who's in my PLC every week I'm waiting for my survey from the board and holding fast in the face of public outcry or even remarking that peaceful protesters need to learn when to shut up um in my kindergarten class we talk about listening with action which means you show that you are listening by responding and no one hears of the five show that they're listening and it's really sad but thank you D candy Smith our last speaker is K darel Cowan hi my name is Candy Smith I live in on 8124 Blue Lagoon in Bartlett Tennessee I uh am a product of this system I worked in Memphis JY County schools for all of my 35 years as a teacher and then counselor and I just wanted to say that a good politician knows that they need to listen to their constituents and I don't feel like that's happening here at all all I hear yes I'm retired but I still in touch with many of my colleagues and all I'm hearing from them is they're hopeful they're encouraged they feel like things are finally going to change for the better after many many years of the same old thing that we've had all these years I think part of the problem is some of the uh politicians on the board have been there long enough that where maybe they owe some favors to some people and now they're trying to push those favors through and uh I don't think the community is going to stand for that and so so I hope that you will use good Common Sense listen to your constituency and keep Dr fagin here thank you madam chair Madam superintendent and our illustrious board members my name is korel cow address is 3385 Airways Boulevard 31 6 I don't even know but I want to say this I want to say this um when I when the community interviewed Dr fagans I did ask her three questions the questions that I have for Dr fagin first of all are you a gang Bank in other words does your sorority or fraternity take presidence over the children her answer was no asked Dr fagans I said are you willing to shake up some things in the central office that need to be changed since I was a student in MCs she said yes I said Dr fagas in doing so understanding that you're going to make a lot of people upset are you willing to still take on their charge she said yes so I stand here to say this today on the day that after we celebrate Dr King's birthday in Memphis Tennessee my final statement is this that an injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere so it's time for us to let's give us some Grace and make an opportunity to make this right when we're talking about conflict resolution our children are paying attention to how we're responding I'm not saying that nobody's perfect but what I'm saying is there is a way that we can work together and let's find a way to make that happen tonight thank you so much we have three items to address under request for Action this evening the first one is 6.1 outside General Council report outside councel good evening um Madam chair uh Board of Commissioners and superintendent up pull your mic up a little bit several weeks ago my Law Firm was engaged to perform an essential function and that function was to ascertain the facts the facts because there was in this community a disbelief of the facts and that is what we endeavored to do with respect to the termination resolution was it based on fact people are entitled to their own opinions but they're not entitled to their own set of facts and so that's what we did earlier today point of order chair point of order I I just I'm just I thought we were presenting with facts and not editorializing by the board attorney so I just want to say that for the record he's getting to his point a lot of Preamble there he's getting to his point to attorney Spence keep going keep going earlier earlier today I presented to the Board of Commissioners the facts here are the facts and and the question that should you all that is most please be respectful and allow him the opportunity to speak or the S we the room fact reveal what do the facts reveal with respect to the three items set forth in the resolution the facts irrefutably reveal that they are all true they are all true it is a fact that Dr fagin misled the board with respect to the allegation that employees of this District misused overtime to the tune of $1 million that is not true and point of order of let him speak the executive summary would be read into the record this is editorializing and the tone of your voice is commission as if it's a trial I'm embarrassed ain't nobody no slave we ain't no slave in here now he has his own tone superintend excuse me you you may finish speaking colleagues we will not we will not we will not get out of order go ahead board chair point of personal privilege could we take a brief reset to reset please no he can go on we're going to keep going people are going to be respectful we always want to talk about what the children it's time for us to do the adult thing listen we can clear the room we can clear we can clear the we can do we can take the vote now and be done with it y'all want to do the it is it is hold on one second it is clear the room we just going to clear the space and we we'll finish that's fine that's fine that's fine we we can clear it out clear them out Madam chair it is also a fact that in the responses that Dr Fagan provided to this board on January 6th and January 14th that they were untruthful with respect to the allegation she made that impune the character and the Integrity of employees of this District it is also a fact it is also a fact that Dr Fagan accepted the $45,000 donation without board approval it is a fact and that particular fact is established by her own email dated July 21 2024 it is further a fact that when Dr Fagan was asked this question by this board that she was untruthful that is a fact it is also a fact that when Dr fagin responded to this allegation in her letter of January 6th and January 14th that she was again untruthful those are facts it is a fact that Dr fagin failed to encumber and obligate a Federal grant for over $300,000 that is a fact it is also a fact that get her out please we're not going to have this chair chair chair this is a public meeting chair and what is happening here is this is our board hired attorney is acting like out of order you know what out it's not for you to say Michelle you out of water chair I'm talking to the chair not the board member who's been here three months chair this is not a courtroom and the board hired attorney is acting as if he is in a courtroom he was he was instructed to read the executive summary he was instructed to read the executive summary Michelle if you let me thank when you left out he's doing what the other part of what he was instructed to do now I am not going to sit here and augue back and forth and scream with anybody go ahead highly inappropriate this whole process a lot of This is highly inappropriate a lot of things have been highly inappropriate chair point of personal privilege once again may I respectfully ask that we call recess we can call a five minute recess thank you madam chair hold on we taking a five minute recess to get it get it regrouped hold on for me keep you you you we we G we G to end this cond if we're asking if you're going to please have a seat have a seat please attorney Spence you may continue I'd like to move to adjourn the meeting attorney you may continue based on our review of The Facts we established that with respect to the three allegations that appear in the termination resolution that Dr fagin violated her employ Employment contract no less than eight times and deviated from board policy on at least nine separate occasions we also concluded that with respect to Dr Fagan kandor and truthfulness it was absent Dr fagans in responding to the allegations in the termination resolution exhibited a pattern of untruthful statements those are our findings and those findings appear in this report is we provided to the board and I'm available for questions where's our parliamentarian chair Dr Schultz I mve to adjourn this meeting what is the status of that chair Dr Schultz I I will suspend that I wanted to end this but um it is now that you have ended his report I I recall my suspension of of the meeting you li commissioner McKenna commissioner McKenna commissioner mckiss commissioner huitt Garcia if please you all cameras gonna have to move over so people that are s can see please don't stand in front of people if you're standing please have a seat point of order where are we on which one we'll wait if you have questions for Council that's where we are if you have a question for the council at this point you turn your light off commissioner McKenna okay commissioner mckiss no question for the council I'm just waiting to comment thank you thank you now any board member that has a comment or question well a comment no questions can I speak now chair that's what my light was on for yes I'd like to speak on the report okay you up thank you and just officially for the record just want to share what I think of this report this report was handed to the board at least to some members of the board just barely an hour before our meetings began a report that's the as thick as a phone book for those who remember that and there's no way for me to review all of that copy in that time but what I can tell you of those policy violations um whatever rules or that supposedly were broken nine policies I believe it was mentioned there are 200 policies so nine out of 200 is what we're talking about here and to address the other allegations brought forth we keep talking about a $45,000 check $45,000 out of 1.8 billion and it's not like it was deposited into her personal account just as there was an error earlier this evening regarding enrollment numbers a clerical error that's what we're talking about here so the violations and and we keep talking about like the board the board the board no it is not the entire board the communication has been wide open for as much as I can recall I'm addressing the points that were brought up throughout this so-called report board members across the state are looking at this we are grasping at straws here no one is infallible you've heard the community speak about no one expects the superintendent to be perfect nobody is perfect this board in and of itself may very well have violated policies and state laws namely the Sunshine Law also in terms of violating policies there are some members of this board who've come in and haven't even had their new board member orientation mandated by the state that happens next week so to come onto the board and make allegations and you yourself don't have all the aptitude to really do this job no matter how much expertise you may think you bring there is much to always learn that only time can give but certainly bare minimum the board member orientation this community has been through emotional trauma over the last last month plus I will continue my comments please give me a warning when I have my remaining Time Dr Schultz thank you thank you commissioner Murphy I move to the previous question commissioner mckenny I would like to suggest that the board um I'd like to make a motion to um make this a transparent report and to post it so that the community can see the full report I'd like to move that we post this full report second all in favor oh root Roop vote I'm sorry commissioner mckisic all right so you can see that it's a sham oh God commissioner Garcia hi commissioner Porter hi commissioner Murphy I commissioner love hi commissioner mcken I commissioner o i commissioner Williams I commiss board chair Coleman I you have nine in the affirmative thank you that motion passes this will become a public document give us a couple of days to get all of this scanned in and it will be online okay yes I have one more comment okay commissioner mcken mckisic I'm sorry thank you chair regarding this report and uploading it and letting the public see it within the next few days that is emblematic of this entire process it has been completely off it will be a moot point in a few days if a vote's taken tonight so I just want to say that for the record this report it was supposed to be delivered in a neutral manner just simply stating the facts without all the Perry Mason editorializing and it's clear from some of the questions in the private meeting that some board members had access to this information prior by the way the questions were being asked that was my observation in some form or fashion so that's just want to say that for regarding this report that was delivered um I believe the superintendent was told that her attorney could not be present to respond um so um thank you to the public for coming out to hear about the report you can go online in a few days and read it but we're going to move forward with this meeting tonight thank you commissioner hu Garcia thank you for Bor mckisic uh articulating what I meant by my sign what we expected was reading the executive summary and I've been you know I think of as Council in general any Council to be fairly a presenting fact there was a clear point of view uh I I feel embarrassed I feel embarrassed to sit up here um board members this is not a trial what I The Substitute amendment I plan to introduce on the next item on the agenda is really do you still want to work with Dr fagin and the question is if you're incapable of making progress with adults why should we trust you to make decisions for the progress of our kids I you will have to live with and accept the consequences of the decision tonight the public is watching they've made that very clear but this is I have additional remarks I want to share before I introduce my resolution but I can tell there is one colleague up here who knows better I I can see the stress I see the faith that she is weighing and I've got your back if you want to be on the right side of History that's all motion to amend by substi okay 6.2 resolution terminating Employment contract she she's getting ready to do her yeah the motion is now the commissioner Huey Garcia I'm sorry point of information or order um is it already on the floor is the motion for the resolution terminating employment contract already on the floor it is on the floor so it's been uhhuh okay call for the question I can't commissioner h Garcia uh board mckisic would like to make a comment and then I will go no you can't okay okay I move to amend by substitution with the following language which all have copies in front of you titled substitute amendment to resolution terminating employment contract but before that I want to address the public directly thank you for showing up and taking a stand I remain steadfast in my position tonight like the night of December 17th I believe there are five colleagues who initially set out to terminate Dr fagans that may still do do so tonight still I will not surrender my optimism or hope your vote is your position tonight but I also want to share something deeply concerning I have knowledge of a drafted bill that while primarily intended for Memphis Shelby County Schools could have significant Statewide implications on school boards and let me be clear I believe Nashville is using this as an opportunity not an excuse I know what happens in Nashville is not a direct consequence of what whatever happens tonight but it will inform the severity of their response I don't and none of us should favor duding this elected board with individuals not chosen by our constituents or allow them to gain control of our facilities and Beyond we've seen State intervention before in the achievement school district and we know the results it has not benefited our students or families nor improved educational outcomes yet even as we understand this history I take no solace in any future ability to say I told you so or look what happened there's no world where I am successful as a board member and my colleagues fail because we all bear the repercussions of the decisions that we make tonight and our kids do too I'm urging you to take a different path tonight I'm asking you to sort my version of this resolution together let's do the hard work required to ensure stability of our district and let's give Dr fagans more time and let's demonstrate to our community and beyond that we are willing to defend our autonomy this is our chance to act decisively in favor as what favor is of what is best for our students and what our teachers want and for Memphis Shelby County Schools I will read my resolution do I is it okay okay substitute amendment to resolution terminating employment contract whereas the board considered the resolution terminating employment contract at the special call meeting on December December 17th 2024 this resolution serves as a blanket substitute amendment to be referred to as resolution to retain superintendent Dr Marie fagins and whereas superintendent Dr Marie fagin has served Memphis Shelby County schools for the past 8 months garnering and maintaining overwhelming Community Support since the 18th month search process and during a time of continued challenges and transformation for the 110,000 plus students seeking an education for success in learning leadership in life and whereas Dr fagin has made difficult decisions set in motion before her arrival in April 2024 to re restructure the district's administrative offices reallocating resources to prioritize students in classrooms while ensuring fiscal responsibility efficiency and continued use and strengthening of data on ms's three priorities strengthening literacy recruiting and retaining the best talent and creating rigorous Equitable academic choices to ensure students are prepared for the global Workforce and whereas both this board and superintendent have Professional Standards for their roles through professional organizations and an internal mscs policy which should guide the board and superintendent on a critical analysis of the needed professional development and continuous Improvement that is done together and separately including one TCA 492 203 a15a requires the board to conduct performance evaluations for superintendent fairly transparently and with evidence-based criteria ensuring decisions are rooted in accountability and the best interest of students in the community two the school superintendent Association names 12 standards of the educational leader including maintains the standards and seeks to improve the effectiveness of the profession through research and continuing professional development three Memphis Shelby County Schools policy 1013 superintendent code of ethics States I will endeavor to fairly represent the entire educational Community under the offices of Shelby County Schools at all times four the Tennessee Schoolboard association's board member code of conduct includes but is not limited to relationship with the director of schools or superintendent which states I will hold the director of schools or superintendent accountable for working with staff and requiring them to work within the framework of policy set up by the board five the Center for Public education's eight characteristics of an effective School Board includes effective School boarders are accountability driven spending less time on operational issues and more time on policies to improve student achievement six Memphis Shelby County Schools policy 00004 board officers and duties describes the statutory and additional chair duties of the chair including one confer with the superintendent on crucial matters which may occur between board meetings and subsequently inform the board and to bring before the board such matters that may require the attention of the board whereas the board has the opportunity to demonstrate strong governance and communicate the desired improvements to superintendent Dr Marie Fagan so that she may have additional time to remedy the root issues outlined in the prior resolution calling for termination upon the examination of the resolution and the public comments it's proposed the following topics be addressed outlined and their progress reported on one stronger internal controls Dr fagin must continue to use the Tennessee comp troller internal control and compliance manual and school support organizations procedurals manual to audit improve and strengthen all Memphis Shelby County Schools internal controls including but not limited to enhanced staff training adhering to the grant management process including deadlines and rfps evaluating employees who work excessive overtime to address workload pressure and implementing robust donation acceptance processes and controls the superintendent must continue to address the areas outlined in the prior to termination resolution bring additional recommendations for areas of focus and outline the necessary additional resources if any to the board such as the need for any additional headcount two communication Improvement as stated in Dr Fagan's contract the board and superintendent must establish and follow a communication protocol three human capital analysis Dr fagans will continue to the analysis of ms's human capital needs using the district's priorities to ultimately increase student achievement this includes completing a compensation analysis and a review of the credentials and skills of those executing the work against the evolv ing changes of the district four board governance training the board must complete all required training described in the State Board of Education rules and regulations and engage with a reputable third-party or organization such as the Tennessee School Board Association for an assessment of needs and must engage in additional ongoing professional development topics such as governance policy budgeting or other key leadership needs whereas the Memphis Shelby County School Board will examine the performance of Dr Fagan's raising any concerns for public dis discussion encouraging the collective ownership of our path forward and whereas the Memphis Shelby County School Board supports additional time for superintendent Dr fagin to lead mscs in addressing the district's needs and achieving academic progress for our students in schools be it therefore resolved that the Memphis Shelby County school board and the public will receive monthly updates on the progress of the improvements outlined in this resolution during the superintendent report starting no later than the February 2025 board business meeting be it therefore resolved that the superintendent Dr Marie fagin will present any budget considerations for initial resources needed to implement the improvements if any named in this resolution at the board budget Retreat on February 25st 2025 with the complete list of needs for consideration by the end of the fiscal year on June 30th 2025 be it therefore resolved that the Memphis Shelby County School Board chair will present monthly updates on the progress of the improvements outlined in this resolution during the chair's report starting no later than February 2025 board business meeting be it therefore resolved that the mempis Shelby County Schoolboard chair must share the board plan for continued professional development with the public before their scheduled 2025 2026 school year bu budget presentation to the Shelby County Board of Commissioners be it therefore resolved that the chair of the Memphis Shelby County School Board should present any budget considerations for initial resources needed to implement the improvements if any named in this resolution at the board retreat the board budget Retreat on February 21st 2025 with the complete list of needs for consideration by the end of the fiscal year on June 30th 2025 be it therefore resolved that a copy of this resolution shall be transmitted to the Tennessee Department of Education and the public to affirm the board support of additional time for superintendent Dr Marie fagin and its commitment to stability and progress in the district January 21st 2025 Amber Huck Garcia may I have a second for the motion to amend I'd like to second that please okay okay now we're in the hands of Dr Schultz um handling a resolution and a substitute to a resolution is a little complicated so without objection um I'm going to try and lead you through this thing uh Madame chairman if at any time you want it back you just take it um resolutions are divided into two parts there is a preamble and there is a resolution the Preamble is all the where ass statements they don't have a great deal of significance the meat of a resolution is in the resolving statements the way this process works in the amending is we try to perfect the two documents perfecting means to amend them in some some way to bring them together you have two items before you they are quite different what I will do is I will open up the original one first and I'm only working on the resolve section not the Preamble section go to the resolve section and the question now is would you like to make any amendments now that you see what the two are would you like to make any amendments in perfection ing the original one and the Amendments would be to clarify better language it would be to adjust the language to get more votes to get it closer to the substitute and uh I'm going to open the floor now for anyone who would like to make amendments to the original language point point of order to the original language of the original motion for termination or this particular motion that's on the floor what's up right now is perfecting the resolution terminating employment contract your original one Dr Schultz if I may so does this uh substitute Amendment which took into consideration the original resolution does this not count as the tightening up of the language what's going on on here is if you want to change anything in the original resolution this is your moment next I will go to the amendment which is referred to as substitute amendment to resolution terminating employment contract and I will allow you to make any amendments to that if you do make amendments to it then I will open both of them up when you're done making any amendments and you don't have to make any amendments I'll open them both up if there's anything the where ases that you want to do because if you change something in the in the uh the the resolve part it might impact something above it somehow I doubt that's going to happen but this is the process and we'll just walk through the process right now what is available to you is a resolution terminating Employment contract would anyone like to move perfecting language for that document since no one is we will now move to the substitute Amendment would anyone like to amend the substitute Amendment any language in that it appears not both documents are open if you would like to amend any of the other sections the whereas sections it appears not now we're at the point of deciding which one you want you're going to vote as to which one you want as your main motion currently the main motion is a resolution terminating employment contract you have an amendment suggested which is your substitute Amendment the question is do you wish to amend by substitution vote yes if you would like the substitute amendment to become the main motion vote no if you would like the original resolution terminating employment contract to remain as the main motion are there any questions there's always questions Dr Schulz if you could clarify that and is there any opportunity to make a comment regarding it Beyond just ch changing the language absolutely all right may I do that now sir actually what's before you right now since no one wanted to modify any of the language what's before you right now is a substitute Amendment if you would like to speak to the substitute Amendment this is your moment for debate thank you Dr Schulz for the clarification board chair uh to my colleagues uh first I want to apologize for raising the temperature regarding this very difficult situation and I'm again going to go back to the center of where I know that we all care for children we all care for this community I ask that we listen to our community they have spoken so clearly so eloquently tonight I can't do any more than what they have already done but I just want to point out that if this is for the children what are we telling our children that no we can't contest some resolution no we don't know how to settle our conflicts no we don't know to get along that's not the message we want to send to our children I want to co-sign on to this substitute Amendment resolution because it is fair and balance it acknowledges the fact that perhaps you don't have the same level of communication interaction with the superintendent I want to work with you to ensure that that does happen we can hit the reset button on all of this we absolutely can do this together we don't have to throw the baby out with the bathro water so please consider that and whereas I have tried to be consilio to say I I understand that you've got concerns that perhaps I don't share I just haven't heard the reverse I've heard no one say well you know what let me reconsider that well maybe maybe there's something maybe we got off on the wrong foot maybe it's because Michelle was a part of the board that hired the superintendent that's why she has a different perspective so let me take a look at that and to my veteran board members the chair and the vice chair you were at the Helm of the superintendent search during all of its bumps and bruises and restarts please let's honor that work it just doesn't make sense we have new teachers who are given more latitude than we're giving the superintendent new teachers have three years where they can figure things out it's not too much to say let's listen to our community they are begging us just to listen to them we don't always get everything right clearly yes there's something that needs to be improved but we can do this together I wrote an open letter to you where I said quoting Dr King to have a a tough mind and a tender heart it takes both of those to lead yes we've had some tough tough issues here but find that tender heart to listen to the community to listen to Children it is overwhelming they don't want this they want us to work together to move Beyond this thank you commissioner mckeny call for the question commissioner that requires a second second this is moving the previous question which would close debate stop amendment process and vote immediately on which document you want again if you vote Yes you are voting to substitute oh excuse me we haven't done this yet uh this takes a two-thirds vote of those present in voting in order to stop debate roll call V roll call vote to stop the debate vote Yes to stop debate debate and vote immediately on whether on the substitution vote no if you don't wish to do that but it will take 2third in the affirmative to stop debate and vote immediately voting yes closes debate and we would vote immediately on whether to substitute okay roll call vote please commissioner mckisic yes commissioner Garcia yes commissioner Porter yes commissioner Murphy yes commissioner love yes commissioner mckenny yes commissioner o yes commissioner William yes borer Coleman you have none in the affirmative that motion passes the question is now on the motion to substitute vote Yes if you want the subs itute amendment to become the main motion vote no if you would like the resolution terminating employment to remain as the main motion no you were voting to close debate clate repeat that again vote Yes this is the the question before you is on the amendment the motion is to amend by substitution vote yes if you would like the substitute amendment to become the main motion vote no if you would like to retain resolution terminating Employment contract to remain as the main motion everybody okay this will take five votes to be yes five votes to be adopted uh I will remind the members how to vote on a uh on this kind of thing you have four things that you can say you can say yes or something like that yay or whatever you can say no or nay you can pass if you're not ready to vote but you would like to uh have the secretary come around again and ask you again you can also vote present which means that you are not voting at this time but you would like to be marked as present during the vote roll call vote commissioner mckisic yes commissioner Garcia yes commissioner Porter yes commissioner Murphy no commissioner love no commissioner mckenny no commissioner OT pass commissioner Williams commissioner OT no Boer call me no you have three in affirmative and you have six n the motion is lost what is before you now is a resolution terminating the employment contract commissioner McKenna it is open for debate call for the question that's moving the previous question again it will require a second and a two-thirds vote to stop debate and vote immediately chair she second I said this is not debatable go ahead and roll call again it will take a two-thirds chair Dr Schulz if I may can you please uh clarify why we are closing the debate at this point because we have not heard from the Nays and I'm really I I think the public would want to hear I want to hear from from the perspective we haven't heard from the Parliamentary perspective the member was recognized and she has the right to make that motion I cannot tell you what her thoughts were on that but it is legal for her to do that thank you Dr Schultz go vote yes if you want to close debate and vote immediately vote no if you would like more debate on this issue roll call vote please commissioner mckisic no commissioner Garcia no commissioner Porter no commissioner Murphy yes commissioner love yes commissioner mckenny yes commissioner o yes commissioner Williams yes boy CH Coleman yes you have six in the affirmative and three Nays motion yeah there being three in the negative and six in the affirmative it does reach the 2third threshold and debate is closed and you will be voting immediately on the resolution terminating the employment contract yeah voting yes on this means you are in support of the resolution terminating the employment contract voting no you are opposed to it it will take five affirmative votes to adopt point of privilege as a resolution chairperson I would like to vote first please can I do that okay yes berer Coleman yes commissioner mckisic no commissioner Garcia no commissioner Porter no commissioner Murphy yes commissioner love yes commissioner McKenna yes commissioner OT pass commissioner Williams commissioner Williams turn your mic on commissioner o yes no I'm sorry good that motion passes this meeting is a okay commissioner OT would you repeat your vote yes have three n the resolution is adopted thank you this meeting is ad e e e e e e e e e e e that I am proud to announce I am proud to announce that our very own Dr Willie hariton has agreed to help us help this board so I just want to take this time to say thank you Dr Haron for your support thank you for being willing to work with us now we're on to the naming excuse me point of order chair with all due respect I'm a huge admirer of Dr Harrington but you cannot make a unilateral decision like that without including the entire board my hearing this for the first time this is unacceptable there should be other names and other parties that can be a part of this I love Dr Harrington for what he did for School District he was my superintendent I respect him to the announce that Michelle don't holler me please I'm I'm not being disrespectful to you I'm not hollering I'm speaking I'm speaking very forcefully but I'm not hollering cuz but also I would like for you to respect we talk about policies and procedures and how things should be done proper protocol you cannot announce that Dr Harrington is going to be the one to Shepherd this process I'd love to make part of he's going to shepher the process I said he's going to work with we are on to the nameing we we will discuss that we are now on to the naming of interim superintendent may I have nominations or if anybody has a nomination I would like to nominate Rod Richmond second I have the name of Ro Dr rodri Richmond has been brought to the Forefront you take all nominations first you got one yes board member hu Garcia I'm sorry I didn't see you I'd like to nominate Dr Angela White Law I'd like to second that nomination of Dr Angela White Law as our interim superintendent and I'd like to hear from both of them are there any other nominations go ahead commissioner mckenny yes it's point of order I'm not sure that's highly unusual but I'm not sure that we have that in the process or policies to hear from either one of them this is a board decision point of order so we're asking um Mr Rod Richmond and Angela White Law do you accept I I accept thanks for the consideration Dr white boy M com if you just give me a few seconds I do want to thank board member Garcia and board member mizik today cuz I'm filled with gratitude and honor for your recognition Dr White lais security clear them out please go ahead Dr White Law thank you thank you board member Coleman chair Coleman first of all let me say that let me thank board member Garcia and board member mckisic I'm here today with gratitude and honor for your Rec recogition of my work across the district for the last 3 years moving the district to a level five but for right now as we lead into this next phase to be considered for this role is an honor and I sincerely appreciate your confidence in my abilities and where I stand while I am pleased to have been recognized tonight I also recognize this is not a time for division we cannot as a district we we cannot as a community so therefore I've made this difficult decision while I my goal is to be superintended my decision tonight is to withdraw my name from consideration because I am prepared to align with and support the individual board who ultimately selects to lead our district I remain committed to the success of Memphis Shelby County Schools and will continue to dedicate my efforts to serving our students in the Comm in the community so I will follow and serve but thank you I recommend that Dr rodri richond is the interim superintendent meis Chevy County schools and no other nominations roll call vote please it will require five votes to approve hello commissioner mckisic present not voting commissioner Garcia present not voting commissioner Porter yes it's for for he said what commissioner Murphy yes commissioner love yes commissioner mckeny yes commissioner OT yes commissioner Williams yes borer Coleman yes you have seven in the affirmative and you have two present not voting thank you that motion passes Dr Roger Roger grm is our interim superintendent congratul conratulations