22nd 2025 work session miss Clark please call the role board member McKisik here board member Garcia here board member Porter here board member Murphy present board member
Love here board member McKini here board member Williams board chair Coleman here you have seven in the firm thank you we do have a quorum please stand for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing for a moment of
silence of the standy thank you may be seated we are now on to Spotlight on the Arts this month's spotlight is on Central High School awardwinning jazz
ensemble [Applause] and this awardwinning director Dr ali Liddell we also want to recognize Lian Torres our world language teacher of the year from Germantown High School
first we will have a performance by the Central High School's awardwinning jazz ensemble and its award-winning director Mr ali Liddell this jazz ensemble is the current recipient of the Winon Marcellus
Essentally Elegant Award led by Dr ali Liddell the Jazz Ensemble was selected as one of 30 jazz ensembles worldwide to attend mr dr liddell excuse me is one of
the district's bestkept secrets he pours his passion for music and excellence into all his students at Central High School his jazz ensemble is one of the best this country has to offer we are happy to have Dr liddell the 2024
country music educator of the year and our presence again for leading his students and our community into greatness and this is in district one by very own board member McKis district we have a presentation for
them please please show the presentation attached while the students are playing [Music]
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Hey hey hey [Music] happy birthday [Music]
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[Music] [Applause] [Applause] I do stand corrected this is the Central High School [Applause] please accept my apology to the Central
High School and thank you Dr liddell i just had to put my two cents in does anybody else feel like they went back to the Cotton Club in Harlem or something that was amazing thank you all so much district one the Central High School and we would also like to thank
Principal Maples from Central High the Am I right eps I'm sorry Principal EPS from the Central High School now we are proud to announce to honor the following
teachers lillian Torres our world language teacher of the year from Germantown High School come on up miss TZ won this award at the
University of Memphis Language Fair held in March of 2025 she was selected by her peers for their wonderful award thank you germantown High School germantown High School
yeah yeah we would also like to highlight the following teachers these social studies teachers won teacher of the year from the TCS conference held in March the TCS stands
for Tennessee Council for Social Studies our teachers took home three awards one in each grade band trina White Somerville and Elementary social studies teacher at Scenic Hills are you here with principal Jamie Fowler
White principal okay come on congratulations awards came from the social studies department under director Maples congratulations our next award winner is Eddie
Wash a middle school social studies teacher at Grizzlies Prep with Principal Wear and last but certainly not least board member McKisic Central is showing out tonight amy working a
Central High School the Central High School social studies teacher with principal eps congratulations we want to celebrate all award-winning teachers and their students accomplishments greatness grows
here we are now on to the approval of the agenda are there any amendments in Superintendent Richmond yes board chair Coleman we'd like to add to the discussion tonight the Excel Center uh and the Robera clause for uh
Promise Hollywood so we're adding 9.24 board members there being no further amendments to the agenda is there a motion for the approval and a second motion motion second
motion by Vice Chair Love second by I heard a lot of voices board member OT tonight in the chair's Oh I'm sorry roll call vote board member McKisik i board member
Garcia i board member Porter hi board member Murphy hi board member Love hi board member McKini hi board member Otay hi board member Williams hi board chair Coleman i you have nine in the
affirmative thank you that motion passes to the chair's report and there's a statement that I would like to make on this evening and it goes I would like to take the time on behalf of the board to address the recent social media comments
made in a private online chat between board member Tana Murphy and a community member this is in line with our board policy which includes steps for addressing violations made by board members and the actions we can take as a
board policy 0023 states as board chair I am responsible for initially having a private conversation with the board member which I have done the second step is for the full board to discuss the item in public which we plan to do today
the third and final step is potentially issuing a censor by this body if there is another infraction as duly elected members of the Shelby County Board of Education we are held to a higher standard of decorum
and professionalism at all times sometimes we fall short board member Murphy made comments no board member condones in an environment where immigration issues and immigrant students and families are fearful of
deportation her comments as she has publicly acknowledged were insensitive and inappropriate on behalf of all members of this board I want to publicly apologize for the hurt and frustration
this may have been may have caused the community to feel we also want to assure the public we will continue to such we will continue to such ma to see that such matters seriously and hold each other
accountable we want to further assure that we all remain committed to serving the people to whom we answer our constituents with the highest standards of dignity professionalism and respect
this is not the time this is not the time for the community of board members to be divided with all the work we must do to educate our children we are committed to being partners with the community in all things
education we look forward to working with all partners to move our school system forward on behalf of all children and families at this time board member Murphy would like to make comments thank you Madam Chair i would like to
start by taking full responsibility for the manner in which I responded to a community member during a private online chat i acknowledge that such behavior is unacceptable and I sincerely apologize to my colleagues and to the community at
large i understand that as an elected official I represent all constituents and it is my obligation to do so with respect and professionalism even especially when confronted with disagreements or
criticisms from the people who I have the privilege to serve i am committed to using this experience as a valuable lesson in my journey towards my personal goals to lead with professionalism and compassion i look forward to working
together to make our school system the best it can be for all of our students and our families without unnecessary distractions and with full focus on the important mission of educating our childrens with respect dignity and
professionalism thank you again and I apologize for my actions thank you thank you now we will have this interpreted foreign Professionalism personal thank you thank you we're now on to the
superintendent's report in Superintendent Richmond I don't have any report tonight we are now on to the agenda of the staff action items the first item 9.1 approval YMCA of Memphis and
the Midsouth in superintendent board chair has recommended the Shelby County Board of Education approved the contract for the YW.CA CA of Memphis and the Midsouth for summer learning academy before and after child care services in the amount not to exceed 1 million
$399,000 for summer 2025 9.2 approval clinical affiliation agreement between the University of Memphis Psychology Program and Memphis Shelby County Schools board chairs recommend that the Shelby County Board of Education approve a year affiliation
agreement with the University of Memphis Department of Psychology at a no cost to either program to assist in the training and recruitment of licensed school psychologist to address the staffing needs of MSCS 9.3 approval department of exceptional
education technology refresh laptops board chair does recommend that the Shelby County Board of Education approves the purchase to Avery Jones Educational solutions in the amount of $597,541.75 for computer hardware and Unisar Sparkco Computers Inc for device
deployment and asset tag tagging in the amount of $11,830 for exceptional educational classroom teacher services provided and central office staff laptop devices the total cost of this initiative is $69,371.75
seeing no lights 9.4 approval insignia software court it is recommended that the Shelby County Board of Education approves the contract with Insignia Software Corporation for a library automation system to enhance the district's resource management
infrastructure pursuant to the request for the proposal 011725LB the three-year term cost for the Insignia Library Automation System is $338,100 seeing no lights 9.5 approval k12
science textbook textbook adoption yes board chair it is recommended that the Shelby County Board of Education approves the K12 science textbook identified for adoption by the Memphis Shelby County Schools Science Textbook Committee this approval will ensure the
district science textbooks are aligned with the state approved textbook list to ensure high quality science instructional materials are being implemented across MSCS no cost seeing no lights um excuse me board
member Hu Garcia I apologize no problem on the on the slide it said for implementation in the 2024 2025 school year these are So will the textbooks once adopted the will students be using the textbooks
starting in the fall yes we've budgeted to purchase textbooks for the fall science what is the total cost and will that come as a separate item on or is it approved just through the budget or we already I think we've allocated $10
million for text thank you very much 9.6 Six sheffield High School desktop computers and laptops yes board chairs recommend the Shelby County Board of Education approves the purchase of Avery Jones Educational Solutions in the amount of
$96,3345 for computer hardware and Unisar Park Sparkco Computers Inc for computer hardware deployment and asset tagging in the amount of $13,853 for Sheffield High School for the computer devices and deployment of
the hardware the total cost is $19,88645 seeing no lights 9.7 approval tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services nonrecurring infrastructure grant contract amendment board chair is recommended to
Shelby County Board of Education approved the amendment to contract 20240751 with the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services this amendment changes the contract end date from June 30 2025 to
June 30 2026 with no change to the award amount of $236,98 vice Chair Love I have a question for you superintendent yes how many students will this Uh Dr white Law thank you all K through
12 district schools are impacted so we will be out working with all of our schools but we have highlighted and I can send you their information schools with the highest number of crisis and emergency responses we have a list of those schools and also we have a list
with the schools with the highest number of trauma focused therapeutic sessions so we do have that list available i have another question for you um are all the students drug
users not all the students are drug users because this is a traumas based uh program so we will be definitely working even though it's under the mental health and substance abuse services this one deals with exactly to cover the cost of
12 months of clinical supervision and a two-day training in in the trauma focused cognitive behavior therapy so he could but it's really focused on the trauma focused and board chair let me also emphasize uh at some
point uh my team and I will come before you all and talk to you all about the multi-tered system uh of support i think it's important for you all to uh see how at tier one tier two and tier three uh students are supported again uh tier one
is good first teaching we could use uh this professional development to talk to students about in general which could focus on all students around mental health and substance abuse at tier two you have more of a tailored support and then at tier three which would be
students that we're trying to uh speak to about drugs that maybe we've seen doing drugs uh or had some mental health crisis at a tier three uh level uh that would be intensive uh support so during a work session what I'd like the team to
do Dr whitelaw and I've spoken to the team about this we need to bring all of the supports that we have uh around first of all academics and then behavior that's what's meant by RTI square B response to intervention for academics
and behavior so we can talk to you all about the tiered approach as some of our teachers receive this professional development support yes sir thank you Bo McKenna i'm sorry i'm taking us back to 9.5 approval of the K12 science textbook
adoption just quickly when we had our um committee meeting on April 8th we talked about the possibility of onetoone devices and then licensing textbooks and we talked about what the law states that we have to have a textbook for each student um are we still looking into
that and the possibility that we can we can possibly save some dollars if we're um innovative about how we meet the the criteria of the law but also making sure that we have um we can license some of these books for our our students if we have one to one devices yes board member
McKenna thank you for that uh question yes we can uh as our leadership team knows there were I know there's one contract uh Canvas we had last year Canvas there was another uh contract uh in regards to uh textbooks being online
uh that we did not bring before the board and we'll be revisiting that contract along with Canvas uh around our online textbooks seeing no further lights 9.8 Approval Sandy Hope Promise and Student
Experience Stop School Violence Grant yes board chairs recommended that Shelby County Board of Education approves the nocostou with Sandy Hook Promise Foundation over a three-year period theou dates are May 15 2025 through June
30th 2028 seeing no lights excuse me Vice Chair Love Um the same question how many students would this take
uh board chair love similarly uh to uh the other item board chair I'm sorry vice chair vice chair love similarly to to the last contract we will take the same approach around Sandy Hook uh but again this is to uh provide professional
development as well and so Dr white Law do you want to add some additional context to this item yes thank you uh Superintendent uh Richmond basically we are talking about grades pre preK through 12 but our focus is on 6 through 12 so even though we're be training all
teachers our focus will be on students in grades 6 through 12 thank you seeing no further lights 9.9 approval treadwell Middle School laptops desktop teacher tablets computer carts
yes Chair Coleman uh it is recommended to Shelby County Board of Education approved the purchase of Avery Jones Educational Solutions in the amount of $18,25526 for computer hardware and Unisar Park Computers Inc for computer hardware deployment and asset tagging in
the amount of $20,313 for Treadwell Middle School for the computer devices and deployment of the hardware the total cost is $128,56820 seeing no lights member Murphy
thank you Madam Chair um will the children be able to take the laptops home or will those laptops remain in the classroom great question u board member Murphy uh we're still reviewing uh how we want to
approach the one to one uh device uh as we explained in the budget committee in the budget community meeting uh we're looking at possibly having a onetoone device in prek through eight but allowing the computers to remain at school and whereas in grades 9 through
12 where they may have online courses as well as access to textbooks allowing those students to take the one to one devices home but we're still looking at it because we want to look at what is sustainable going forward in regards to
both repairing and replacing uh our computer devices one more question follow-up question will those devices be insured all All of our devices are insured board member Williams yes is this
limited only to the school that's listed here if you you are adopting devices to be just at this school in in this content area this particular purchase board member Williams is just for Treadwell Middle School what about the other schools we we are purchasing
computers for other schools uh I want to say that this particular purchase is using uh our SIG dollars are these SIG dollars that we're using our school improvement grant dollars uh which are via our priority schools so this would replace a Is that
correct no sir this is to replace computers this is just to replace computers so it's not an instructional program at all no these are just computers laptops desktops and teacher tablets and a computer card
so I'm assuming that you have some formula where you determine where the need is for computers in schools whether they have been destroyed or taken or whatever and I'm sure there's a process that you follow to make sure that everybody has access to computers in their schools
yes sir uh board member Williams we do uh our instructional technology department assists with that and this does not replace the textbook no sir it does not no further lights
9 10 approval of Vantage Learning LLC yes board chair Coleman is recommended Chevy County Board of Education approves the contract and purchase Advantage Learning LLC in the amount of $138,695 this is a web-based writing tool that is using uh prompt driven
exercises immediate scoring and feedback to enhance student writing through frequent practice and revision it will be used in 21 of our priority schools which were labeled soup schools this past year
9.11 approval memorandum of understanding with Christian Brothers University for economics local dual enrollment it is recommended that the Shelby County Board of Education approves the memorandum of understanding between the district and Christian Brother
University for the economics local dual credit opportunity at a cost of $25 per student engaging in the challenge exam for a total of $80,50 9.12 Charter authorization initial round it is recommended that Chevy County
Board of Education adopt a denial of the following charter applications dream Catchers Charter School Hillrest High School Kip Memphis Creative and Performing Arts Elementary Kirby Middle School and Steel I Rise Academy
board member Hu Garcia will we will we get a I know we had a brief presentation about it i have some a few specific questions about the organizations behind some of these but is this the best time to ask them or are we going to get a more okay um and it
and where's Miss Parker and if this if this answer is in in my packet of which I'm trying to find it um I think my questions are mostly around the new start schools um Dream Catcher Charter
School and Still I Rise academy are both sponsored by organizations I'm not familiar with is there a background is there background information about what who those organizations are and what their mission and purpose is
yes board member Garcia Miss Parker please yes good evening everyone um there is background information in your rubric in the governance section which should be section 2.1 it outlines uh maybe some information that could
provide you uh some answers to questions that you may have uh related to those particular applications additionally uh although those are two separate sponsors for those two new start schools I will say that there is a connection uh to
those two organizations that's very helpful so I between now and our board business meeting I will do some further research but um generally I think I am very concerned about the number of students that we are
proposing in these um I know this is the first round um but looking at the work that we are doing to consider both our footprint and the educational environment of our existing schools the fact that there are some ASD
transition schools in here Um I will I will say that I do not plan to approve any schools in this first round and I hope that those who are considering an application look very uh hard at the feedback that we are giving because
these are um the case you need to make is that you you can do this work better than Memphis Shelby County Schools and we are looking at the data board member Murphy clarity question now um we have three steps of doing this
correct yes ma'am there go ahead my apologies go ahead yes ma'am that is correct there are three opportunities for an applicant uh to uh get approval two at the local level and then one at the uh appeals level with the commission so if they don't get approved at the
local level then they have to start over how does that work no ma'am so this is our first round if they get denied they get an opportunity to shore up their application correct any deficiencies they resubmit the application we review it then I bring back recommendations our
team to you uh in July then the decision is made if the decision is to deny in July so then they can appeal to the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission and then with that decision from the commission that decision is the third uh and final uh decision for the
applicant thank you board member McKenna thank you um thank you for this robust package very thorough may I make a suggestion for consideration i know that we had you and I want to thank staff
publicly today for um staying with us on April 8th for what five hours and going through going through all of these documents and all of our questions long hours yeah well that's the work that's the work anyway um when you if this does
not pass and we it comes back in July that we have a very we're clear and have a a good um because I know you're ready we just that was a long time um presentation so that everybody is clear about what the process is because many
for many of us this will be the first time that we're going through the process of um looking at charter applications so that would be very helpful dr richmond yes ma'am thank you thank you Miss Park board member Otai
thank you board chair Coleman miss Taylor thank you so much for the information uh just for clarity because I know that you and I did have a conversation regarding the charter schools and um the reason for the denials were because there was a gap in information correct and Yeah go ahead
sorry yes ma'am that is correct correct so many of them were submitting the applications but they weren't fully fulfilled and so they're going to need to resubmit or can you just give clarification just so we can have that on the record yes ma'am so if the applications are denied in this initial
round um they will have that opportunity to clear up any of those deficiencies uh just because they do have that opportunity um you know we can't say for certain that is going to happen but at the end of the day we want to make sure that we give them the opportunity uh to provide uh the information that is
needed for a very strong application because those applications are binding documents on the district absolutely and one other thing just for the record I know there's a presentation on board docs that has uh the guidelines it shows where there are deficiencies for each school that's correct okay
awesome thank you thank you we move on 9.13 approval nutrition services cafeteria computer workstation replacements yes board chair Coleman recommended Shelby County Board of Education approve the purchase order for the cafeteria
computer workstation for Arya Jones Educational Solution in the amount of 184,680.75 for 175 computers this includes the initial purchase of 87 computers and deployment services for
$92,676.75 the additional $92,4 is for 88 computers these computer deployment services will be provided by Unisar Sparkco Computers for $4,356 9.14 purchase approval Diligence Corp
it's recommended Shelby County Board of Education approve the purchase order utilizing the Diligence Corporation contract 20250243 by increasing the total amount not to exceed $210,96 this includes the original
amount of $89,460 plus an additional amount of $120,636 to complete services for the rest of the 2425 school year 9.15 purchase approval nutrition
services warehouse Wi-Fi infrastructure yes it is recommended Chevy County Board of Education approves the purchase order for Zo Education utilizing the contract with Educational Network of America
202310009 in the amount not to exceed $18,99457 to purchase network access points routers and switches for the nutritional services dry and frozen warehouse seeing no lights 9.16 approval Andrews Technology
yes board chairs recommend the Sher County Board of Education approves the award and contract Andrews Technology for $1,15940 i'm sorry 1,159,400 for the biometric automated time and attendance system this initial
service term is for three years in the amount of $943,720 with two additional one-year options of $17,840 this was based on RFP12224DM vice Chair Love
this contract locally owned uh Mr langston or someone for procurement thank you Dr richmond thank you uh Vice Chair Love this is not a locally owned contract this is a districtwide RFP that went out to
replace our timekeeping um contract um I do for you and I'm happy to serve with the board the um the ballot or telling of the RFP and the submissions from all of the the people
who bided on the contract and then the wide variety of features we were looking for again it's not locally a local contract but it is um it is this is a five-year contract again it's for our 1,638
um nutrition services uh workers who clock in and clock out and this is a biometric system to keep their tracking of their time and their payroll as well next question does this meet um minority
vendors the threshold so uh so this funding is for from the USDA for federal funding if you remember we talked about the computers one of the well we're now in our economic economic
opportunity office going away for minorities and gearing towards small businesses now however when you're using federal funds you can't gear it towards minorities because it's federal thank you Bocky
dr richmond I think um Mr langston brought up something that would be very helpful as we move forward with our procurements if we could get those scoring so that it it's it's transparent and public not only to the public but also to us so we can we'll spare you
some of those questions because we can see it and um and that would be helpful if we can do that yes thank you board member McKenna um that's one of the things under my administration that I've talked to staff about doing uh what I would like for us to do would possibly
be to set a threshold uh because a lot all of our items over $25,000 are bidded on so uh we may want to set a threshold i know of maybe uh three uh things that are bidded on that I know we're going to bring before the
public uh so that it's extremely transparent as we make make selections seeing no further lights 9.18 approval 9.17 approval icms applicant tracking system
yes board chairs recommended that the Chev County Board of Education approves a one-year subscription renewal extension to ISIMS for a total cost of $220,79.95 effective September 1 2025 9.18 approval of Classic Collision Bartlett
it is recommended that Sheper County Board of Education approves the contract with Classic Collision Bartlett in the amount of $175,000 for collision and mechanical repair to district and third-party vehicles when applicable this shall be in accordance with
RFP012825 MT board member Porter thank you board chair um how was this work getting done before cuz I think I was reading where it says we didn't have any service agreement with any auto body shops how was um the auto body work getting done
before yes Mr langston or is that you councelor Bailey thank you inter superintendent and thank you for the question jared Miss Rudolph uh with our risk management team can answer that question uh so yes thank you for your question
Commissioner Porter um we were having the work done um not under contract and so we wanted to make sure that we were protecting the district with a contract okay yeah because um my previous question was answered but I do think we'll be transparent if we get because
what what u funding um body is is this money coming out of the federal dollars or it's uh general fund general okay yeah yeah so we can get the RFP to see who bid it on it and I know we keep saying keep it local now I know it's going to to Bartley I'm assuming because the name of the company but now I want
to keep it local in the city but that's all yes sir and I can actually answer that question for you we actually only had one respondent okay and we sent it out twice right thank you 9.19 approval devices rapture
yes board chairs recommend the Shv County Board of Education approve the equipment purchase of 172 devices in the amount of 12,745.72 for each location within NS MSCS to have a designated device for the use of the Raptor visitor management
system vice Chair Love what all comes with the web system uh thanks for that question Vice Chair Love Mr langston or uh Mr barora please
so uh thank you Dr reman thank you Vice Chair Love so again the Raptor system is just a is a system that we use to monitor our visitors when they come into our school system or even the district it is going to scan to see if they have
any um deficiencies for as far as sexual in nature because they can't be around students if they do so so if it's flagged that they do then they they're not able to visit or go inside our schools or in our district location that's what the rapture system um I know
what all the rapture system includes uh is a computer yes ma'am so this this is just replacing uh so all every school uh location has a computer that the raptor the raptor software are they working ma'am are they
working this all of them are working but they're extremely outdated this is replacing everyone that's at our school locations because a lot of these uh computers are 9 10 years old this purchase replaces everyone at our school at the school
location question yes ma'am and also board uh vice chair love we also use it as a way uh for employees to sign in when they're visiting schools so if ever we need to go and verify if an employee was at a school that they were
supposed to be at a specific time we can use Raptor for that board member Porter yeah just a quick question so So when I was in the district we did we use refurbished computers to upload the software to um upload the raptor
software to the computer so now this agreement is saying that we're going to spend money to buy new computers new computers to and upload the software for for rapid computers am I correct yes um in working with our schools being that this is somewhat of a district uh
mandate uh we've decided to purchase at least one computer system or one computer device for those schools instead of the schools having to purchase it and it's um so the is it going through the AR Jones company or is through how how are the what what
companies is are we purchasing computers from is it off the catalog okay yes what's the time frame for having all these in our schools uh Mr barora can you give us a time frame for when the devices should be
back oh I'm sorry Dr elliott it's okay good evening board members um so we plan to have it for every school based on the need to have it before school starts um so we're going to start off with the schools who computers are not working efficiently and then we're going to go
through a list so we have a list that we're going to go by to make sure all the schools have them thank you thank you Dr elliot no further comments or questions 9.20 20 approval of Holland and Knight LLP
it is recommended that the Shelby County Board of Education approves an amendment to his contract with Holland and Knight LLP uh for legislative consulting services extending the contract period from June 30th 2025 to September 30th
2025 with no change to the previous approved total cost of $18,000 9.21 approval Richland Elementary School ABS Engineering Incorporated yes it is recommended that the Shelby
County It is recommended the Shelby County Board of Education Board to contract to ABES Engineering Inc in the amount of $163,500 for the drainage system design of the Richland Elementary School site
shout out to Richland Elementary board member Huitt Garcia thank you uh interim superintendent I understand that um we put a temporary solution out there and they were actually testing it by flooding it so um and that they were
working out some things do you know if the temporary solution is in place while we get the design underway and get the permanent long-term fix is that working i know Miss is Miss Stewart here yes board member Garcia Miss Stewart's
not here uh this evening but I think the temporary solution uh is working okay uh one temporary solution we used during the the storm a couple of weeks back was using a lot of sandbags that worked it didn't work to perfection but but I
think it worked well and now we've actually put another uh intervention in place yeah I think what we they were actually they dug a temporary trench and and have had movers out there and sort of uh a short-term version of what we're
trying to do here and then a professional design but I just wanted to make sure that we're keeping our schools dry yes ma'am thank you Board Member McKini i just want to say thank you Dr richmond and team for um
getting something done that I think you made us aware that this has been an issue for administrations and um so thank you for um getting that done yes ma'am thank you all 9.22 donation acceptance John Roberts
estate to Central High School yes it is recommended that Shelby County Board of Education approves a donation of $26,595.82 for John Roberts estate award to the Central High School to be used for track scholarship program yes
okay i got to say it the Central High School okay Chief Langston d Central High School board member McKisen thank you Chair i just wanted to thank the Roberts family for that generous
gift he uh coached and taught in Memphis City Schools for 35 years and uh so we're just we're appreciative that in his state that they would remember and he would remember Central High School in our school district so I just want to say thank you to the Roberts family
9.23 donation acceptance Craigmont High School marching band booster club to Craigmont High School yes board chairs recommend that the Shelby County Board of Education approves a one-time donation of $27,783 from Craigmont High School's
march and band booster club awarded to Craigmont High School to be used for band transportation bocky I just want to um say on behalf of myself and board member love thank you
to the um marching band booster club for this generous generous donation of 27,000 i'm just going to keep boasting about that band that band is phenomenal and um I want to again I can't say
enough about the school leadership and his band director who has built that band to hundred marching 100 right and so I want to say thank you and um for that donation to the Craigmont High School
oh Lord congratulations to the Craigmont High School did I do it right 9 point moving right along i've gotten all my D's correct 9.24 grant acceptance
Shriners International yes is recommended that the Shelby County Board of Education approves the grant acceptance of $17,433 from the Shrine School's benefactor Shriners International to be used for the purchase of furniture for
the conference room and multi-purpose room at Shrine School on behalf of Shrine School the Shrine School which is in district 9 we thank you
we had two items added for discussion 9.25 the Goodwill Excel expansion expansion I'm sorry yes 9.25
yes uh board chair Coleman and board members uh I wanted to bring this item for discussion as you all know we had some discussion in our recent committee meeting and I think we also had some discussion during uh last month's work
session around Goodwill Excel uh and the reverter in regards to uh Hollywood Promise uh and so I wanted to bring that before you all one reason the top reason is for our students who are at Hollywood Promise uh those students need uh to
know if their school is going to be open or not uh and one of the things is that that particular building uh is under contract to be sold to uh Goodwill Excel uh but all of those things are interconnected as it relates to Goodwill
Excel purchasing the building from Hollywood Promise those students possibly being reassigned to another school uh and Goodwill Excel uh being approved for uh two new zip codes 38134 and 38108 and so I wanted us to
just have that discussion and so at this time board chair I turn it over to you and the uh board members board members board member McKenna just to be clear so this is in district two to be clear we're going to be talking we're ask you're asking us for
two things one is to wave the right of rever reverter for um promise to sell the um the building to Goodwill yes okay and then the second one is to expand Goodwill's um zip code by two 38107 and
381 whatever you said 313 108 okay so that is what you would like for us to um and I think we had that discussion um during the board committee and I think that we were all on board with that i think um so I would
just recommend that we put it on for um the board meeting or if we needed to do it do we need to do it sooner because or do we is Tuesday sufficient i think at this point Tuesday would be sufficient unless the board is prepared
to hold a special call meeting this week okay we'll add it to the agenda for the regular board meeting they're connected okay so that's my recommendation is that we put 9.25 and 9.26 on for Tuesday
board member Hwitt Garcia thank you i know we've had a lot of discussion around I know we both in a budget context but also thinking about our partnership and and notifying P you know families and and staff were working
in these schools uh but for me it's ai continuing to educate adults in Shelby County benefits children when you have educated adults who have opportunities in the home this is it's our obligation to invest in this
and so I would enthusiastically ask my colleagues to support this um and I I would really like to learn from what we're doing here and and how that is impacting economic and social mobility for adults and how that impacts our
students so what we can learn here and improve this and improve that partnership i'm excited to support this board member Murphy thank you Madam Chair i agree with Commissioner Garcia that if we educate parents our parents are able to um help
with our children and this is a good thing so I'm with um Commissioner Garcia with with that that we this is a good thing that we need to do um Commissioner McKenna had already answer my question so we'll just put them on for Tuesday thank you board member Oay
thank you chair my question was answered as well and I I echo uh board member Garcia definitely to support our parents uh the more support we can give our parents the more they can support the children thank you okay so the first thing that we have
to talk about is if we are willing to sell the building that would be our first discussion item we have this is two-part okay so I'm just breaking it down that's what we said and then the second part would be
the the expansion right okay so we'll bring those up Tuesday okay add those to the agenda item for Tuesday okay okay on Tuesday right on Tuesday general Council Bailey thank you Madam Chair
just as a point of clarity the the the questions before the board are not to whether to sell the building but it's whether whether to wave the reversionary clause in the deed um for the sale um so if you recall there's a clause in the the deed that allows the property to
revert back to the board um what uh Goodwill what Promise Academy and Goodwill will excel are asking us is to wave that reversionary clause so that they can retain possession of the building and then sell it to Goodwill Excel yes sir okay
we're now on to board items 10.1 resolution approval of teacher bonus provisions board member Hu Garcia thank you thank you chair uh we talked about
this in committee um in your on the board docs for the public to see uh is is not only the resolution but accompanying language from the Tennessee Department of Education um I would I will go ahead and read this resolution uh and then we had I believe board
member Otay wanted to sign on to this as well i don't see her name on it oh I wanted to sign on to uh Amber okay oh there we go we both wanted to sign on would anyone not like to be on this resolution okay I'm going to read the most popular resolution into the record
tonight so a resolution of the Shelby County Board of Education affirming intent to participate in the teacher bonus provisions of the Education Freedom Act of 2025 whereas the Shelby County Board of Education hereafter referred to as the board is responsible for governing the public school system
and ensuring the well-being of all students under its educational directives and whereas the board has consistently expressed opposition to school voucher programs and the redirection of taxpayer dollars intended for public education to private institutions and whereas despite
widespread opposition from local education agencies or LEAs the Tennessee School Board Association and many Tennessee residents the Tennessee General Assembly passed the Education Freedom Act of 2025 during the first extraordinary session of the 114th
General Assembly and whereas the act includes a provision granting a one-time bonus in an amount that is no less than $2,000 to each teacher employed in a kindergarten through grade 12 or K through2 public school in this state for the 2024 2025 school year and whereas
section four of the Education Freedom Act of 2025 stipulates that a local board of education must first adopt a resolution affirming that the LEA would like to participate in the provision of the act providing teacher bonuses therefore be it resolved that the Shelby
County Board of Education affirms its intention to participate in section 4 of the Education Freedom Act of 2025 for the sole purpose of securing these one-time payments for public school teachers this resolution is strictly limited to section four of the act and
should not be interpreted as an endorsement or approval of any other pro provisions within the legislation sponsored by board member Amber Huitt Garcia District 8 board member Natalie McKenna District 2 board member Stephanie Love District 3 board member
Keith Williams District 6 board member Sable Otay District 5 and then I Board member Michelle McKiscich District 1 board member board member Tana Murphy District 7 board member Joyce Dors Coleman
District 9 i just did y'all like to sign on to this resolution board member Porter District 4 we all we can't struggle in unity here but we got uh the full board
is supporting this and we'll see it on the consent agenda next week thank you thank you 10.2 to resolution approve excuse me implementation of a comprehensive facilities plan board
member McKenna thank you Chair Coleman um this is a resolution do you want me to read this in or I can summarize it would you like me to summarize it you can summarize it tonight but it has to be read next week okay okay all
righty well today I will summarize it this is a resolution reaffirming our commitment to using our facilities in a way that supports student achievement equity and fiscal responsibility it directs the administration to present a comprehensive facilities plan by
September 1 2025 informed by current building assessments and aligned with our strategic priorities to guide this work we're establishing an ad hoc facilities planning committee made up of board members local government planning experts and community representatives their charge includes reviewing and
guiding the plan ensuring robust community engagement aligning the board policies and budget planning exploring the feasibility of a joint construction authority providing quarterly progress reports the resolution also calls for a
public posting of the bureau um veritas facility condition assessment and a review of related board policies to reflect best practices finally it directs the administration to collaborate with our community engagement committee on a comprehensive outreach strategy so that our students
families and communities have a real voice in this process from start to finish um this is sponsored by myself District 2 and board member Amber Huitt Garcia District 6 do I have that right eight i'm sorry district 8 thought I
could remember it district eight board member Hugh Garcia thank you i've already I've already signed on i think one of the important things I want to make sure um once we pass this next week there is a um what
board member McKenna pointed out we've done the comprehensive facility condition assessment once we've adopted this resolution where will that information be posted for the public to access superintendent
uh Mr langston can you share where we'll post post it because I know there's a lot of pages so it's it's pretty comprehensive most of our our buildings just for the public are over 50 pages a lot of them are 60 pages we have it's
very thorough yeah we we discussed it a little today uh we're just trying to see again where we can post it with it being such a large document i was curious if they've gone board docs or so thank thank you Dr richmond uh
members of the board as as has been said stated before we're talking about over 170 assessments some over 100 pages my recommendation is we'll work with Stewart and I will work with it to
possibly do links I think that may be more efficient um than to just put pages out thereum click on links and then they can download by school level um and we can uh send out some communication of what that looks like i know people have been
asking it'll be a part of our education but as far as the landing page uh we'll give it and um if you if it meets the board's approval if you can give us next Tuesday and we can have sync where we can place it yeah certainly i wouldn't
expect it to be up before we direct direct that action but um I think just if I'm the listening public I want to know okay when when will I expect to see that and want to Okay look take a look at it and first thing I did was look at my baby school so thank you
yeah yes board member Garcia to just we we started today in cabinet uh going over the resolution and going over the timeline so that that we'll be able to meet uh the expectations board member Murphy
thank you Madam Chair um Commissioner McKenna I don't know if you got my email but I wanted to sign on i did respond but I don't know if you got it no I might have but thank you you're welcome board member
Otay Chair Coleman I'd like to sign on as well vice Chair Love um Superintendent um have you disvised the plan in each one of our districts for us
to see the plan we we have preliminarily started to look but and we've started to kind of about some timelines but we haven't totally put together a comprehensive plan because I want to align everything that we're doing with the resolution uh which
calls for us to have community uh input and so we have again started to look at facilities that may be vacant maybe boarded up uh properties that we've been bringing to you all uh schools that are underutilized some of the uh schools
with high FCIs we've started to look at some preliminary stuff but again we don't want to get ahead of the board uh and we do want to be inclusive in regards to our approach much like what the resolution has outlined i'm
asking before you put this on the internet to have a conversation with us yes Vice Chair Love we will uh and again we are going to follow the resolution if everyone is signing on to the resolution
we will uh indeed follow it to the letter uh as well as have these individual conversations with you all as board members thank you i would like to sign you sign me on board member McKenna
i just wanted to reiterate that this is just us putting um documenting our discussion during our board retreat about how we bring the community along in this process we have a lot of facilities and we have a lot of facilities that need a lot of work as
I've said before and all of us know average age of our buildings are 64 years old and I have one of them that is like nine years shy of being a hundred years old and overcrowded so we absolutely need to think about what this looks like in our community in terms of
the footprint but also in terms of how we work with community to prioritize and set criteria so I appreciate the um superintendent and administration um coming with us along with us to do the education piece as well as the
participation in how we even approach this so thank you very much and thank you to the board members that have joined on michelle McKenzie please add my name thank you both resolutions have the full support of the board
tonight samuel thought it was obvious 10.3 approve a resolution approving MSCS board member strategic school fund allocations for April 2025 we'll have those next week mr williams you got some more you want us to talk about we getting out
early i have just read by notes that the takeover measure in the state capital is dead for this year so that's what there being no further business this meeting is adjourned