##VIDEO ID:ox1KUu1r1Fc## e e e e e e e e e evening welcome to the January 28th 2025 special call meeting at Memphis Chevy County Schools Miss Clark please call the role commissioner Garcia present commissioner Porter here commissioner Murphy present commissioner love present commissioner mckenny present commissioner o present commissioner Williams present board chair Coleman present you have Aiden the affirmative thank you we do have a quorum and we want to announce that board commissioner mckisic had other obligations for the tsba today she is over our Charter come back but she had uh obligations with tsba the purpose of today's special call meeting is to discuss the approval Charter renewal recommendation City University School of Independence please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for a moment of silence thank you may be seated now we'll refer to our interim superintendent Dr Rob Richmond uh board chair Coleman and uh Vice chair love uh and other board members uh and the listening public uh I'm recusing myself from participating in the City University School of Independence discussion during the special call meeting today I have relationships with people within the organization and it may give the appearance of a conflict of interest for me to participate in the discussion I have asked Mrs Parker who's the director of our charter school program to lead the administration's discussion and recommendation for this Charter School discussion and the final decision thank you thank you we are now on to public comment in accordance with the state statute the board shall reserve a period for public comment during business and special call meetings only those members of the public who submit public comment cards to the board chairman prior to the commencement of this meeting shall be permitted to address 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 available 30 minutes prior to each applic meeting and will be closed at the start of the meeting this sign up is located at 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 proceed speakers may offer objective comments about school operations and programs that concern them speakers 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 vergal language the chairman should have the authority to terminate the remarks of any individual who is disruptive and does not adhere to board rules Dr SCH would announce the number of speakers and the time allotted per speaker we have four speakers this evening three minutes each thank you Dr Schulz your time is projected on the screen to your right and directly behind the board when you hear a bill your time has expired tonight we have Latasha Griggs Erin Pernell Damian Curry moris Anthony Coleman good evening yeah thank you good evening my name Latasha GRE my address is 1095 B Mr Richmond that's your name Dr Richmond um I don't know you so I can't judge a book by as code when I ain't never open and read so I'mma say that to you now everybody else minus three I don't trust none of y'all I don't trust your far as I can give you my checkbook and ask you to balance out my account I don't trust you you know you all want to give these uh go on the news and ask us to trust y'all y'all want to say it's about the children the children the children y'all didn't give the children a chance why should we give y'all a chance y'all didn't think about us why should we think about you are why now Dr Richmond I you know right now you the superintendent so I'm going trust that your judgment shouldn't be based on what your colleagues around you want you to do I B I would hope that you would come in with a clear conscience and run this board according to what you see fit because some of your constituents up there they have their own personal agenda and like I said minus three to your right over here they are right with me with the rest of them threw them in the garage wi Irwin Perell 8037 water forl 38125 good evening to the board I have a few questions regarding the ongoing decisions being made that I believe the public deserves answers to First who was paying for the services of the Carter Malone group PR firm are we the taxpayers funding this how much is this costing the district if someone else is footing the bill who is it and what do they expect in return what strings are attached second who is paying for the outside legal services of attorney Spence is this coming out of taxpayers dollars or again is someone else covering this cost if it's not us who is it and what do they have to gain I also want to know why were decisions made without including all board members why are we seeking while what we are seeing is such a lack of a transparency and communication among you all you claim that communication is a priority yet it's clear that there is very little of it happening collectively among this board and even less with the community finally let's be honest do you think the community is blind to what's going on do you think that we're stupid we're not we see the manipulation and we're tired of the games enough is enough we the people are speaking out and we're not backing down next is now Dam Curry moris 1529 Dunmore Road Memphis Tennessee 38114 I pride myself on being a man of compassion peace but when you playing people's faces especially the people that are voters in this community because this is deeper than you all realize when people are crying out for certain things and you took an opportunity some of you all took an opportunity to just play tonee to what the citizens wanted shows a lack of Integrity shows that you don't listen to your people what you were elected to do a fiary opportunity things don't never have to turn violent they don't never have to be a threatening manner I have not said one negative thing about this whole process but I can say this it was not right Dr figas with all due respect Dr Richmond should be sitting where you're sitting right now now you can hate me all day long cuz the only person I got to answer to is the god you can make up stuff about me you could talk about me call my family members and anything you can do I can sit quiet but also I can bite like a pitbull we're not going to sit here and pretend that this wasn't corruption at the highest level we're not going to pretend that we got backdoor deals going on I'm plating to everybody's Integrity somebody need to stand up and tell it tell it for the people tell it for yourself this is on your conscience Dr Richmond I have a bone to pick with you but the the level that you displayed which is also against board policy which calls for your immediate termination you have parents who are filing restraining orders right now against you because they don't want you around their children what kind of repres what kind of representation of a child is that we keep on saying this is about out the children have you went and talked to them I have I get phone calls daily from the children and now y'all spending $500 a piece on parades when children don't have decent fool in the schools books to read buildings falling down on them the whole nine yards thank e Mr Mars your time is up thank you no sir you not doing e e e e e we are back from Recess now we will hear from Miss we are back from RE we now we hear from Mr we will now hear from Mr Anthony Coleman good evening to each and every one of you um I stand here and I'm reminded mran Mr Coleman will you say your add name and address Anthony Coleman 270 Duo Drive Memphis Tennessee 38109 as I uh stand here I'm reminded of the poem If if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blame it on you if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowances for their doubting too I commend you each and every one of you all of us have to take a stand at some time I stood before this board on August the 27th 2024 regard regarding being mishandled in that time the theme was the next is now my next never came however our transformational officer I went to him with my situation and he immediately got on to it I'm still working on my proper pay it still hadn't come but there is traction being made made so I encourage you all to keep forging ahead drown out the noise for it will continue to be and so we as Educators in this building as Citizens we have to come together as one if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowances for their doubting too thank you we have one item to address under request for Action this evening the approval Charter renewal recommendation City University School of Independence it is recommended that the Chevy County Board of Education adopts the denial of the renewal application for City University School of Independence for an additional 10-year Charter term may I have a motion in a second to approve this or any commissioner love Vice chair love motion SEC second I also want the parliamentarian to I know we have a vote in the what a yes vote and no vote is based on recommendations just so the board is clear but I second you second so parliamentarian will explain the difference thank you sure the floor will be open for debate also um voting Yes means that you accept the administration's recommendation which is for denial voting no simply means you don't do that it does voting no is not the same as as saying you get a 10-year Charter it just says we're not going to to do what this says so yes if you want to deny no if you don't wish to take that action so if you want to deny them getting a charter for 10 more years you vote Yes you vote Yes if you okay does that make sense colleague okay everybody understand any debate any discussion commissioner hu Garcia see you I just want to say to Dr Robinson I appreciated the attention to detail on the data and I know Bor mckisic uh in our Charter uh partnership Council should make sure that everything is aligned and I believe that uh Miss Parker and our Charter's office has been has been following and using the data that we had available and having the most recent data is helpful and I do know that it impacts your reputation to have the best quality out there possible um and I am looking at other considerations as well in the enrollment uh but generally the question that I ask myself is are you doing something differently than what a Memphis Shelby County school could do and so that will be how I base my vote tonight thank you commissioner Porter yeah I just want to say to Dr Robert as well that I do commend for the work you're doing over there um I share some of the same thoughts as board Garcia about um the the effectiveness of of what you've done versus what other Memphis sh County schools has done as well um I do look at the data um the enrollment is one particular issue for me and so I do wish that um that we were not at this point right now commissioner uh thank you board chair I was actually going to say what Echo um my fellow Commissioners um I do commend the work that you're doing um my question was um or concern was just you guys having a pathway forward for increasing student enrollment but you guys are I think you're doing an amazing job so I didn't want to commen you on that as well commissioner Murphy Dr Robertson I appreciate you and I I appreciate the work that you're doing with the children um I I am going to base my Bo vote off of the mere fact that those children love being there at that school and it is room for growth with that school and although enrollment is down he still has the opportunity to increase that enrollment but the children feel comfortable there the children are not bullied the children have a great opportunity to advance and move forward so I'm basing my uh decision off of that mere fact okay again to uh to vote for denial of the 10-year extension vote Yes if you don't wish to take that action vote no roll call vote commissioner Garcia yes commissioner Porter yes commissioner Murphy no commissioner love no commissioner mckenny no commissioner o yes commissioner Williams can you repeat commissioner commissioner Williams no borer Coleman no you have three in the affirmative and five NS the motion is lost so and now if you want to go the other direction I need a motion for approval of the 10-year extension a motion for the approval of the 10e yeah it is it is 10 it has to be 10 years the policy requires it be a 10 year if no one wishes to make that motion I was informed by councel that if if the denial is not adopted by this board it automatically renews but it'd be cleaner if you voted in favor of it but it's your call motion motion second this is the motion to approve for another 10 years so a yes vote from the colleagues will mean that they have their Charter for another 10 years right this one's cleaner vote Yes if you mean yes roll call vote please commissioner Garcia no commissioner Porter no commissioner Murphy yes commissioner love yes commissioner mckenny yes commissioner OT yes commissioner Williams yes board chair Coleman yes you have six in the affirmative and two names the motion is adopted there being no further business this meeting is a journ