Welcome to the May 11th, 2026 work session for the Rutherford County School Board. We'll be opening the meeting with a brief moment of silence or prayer and a pledge of allegiance to the United States flag. No one is required to participate or be present for any of these and being in this portion of the
meeting is completely voluntary. Tonight's prayer and pledge will be led by Mr. Caleb Tidwell. >> If you could bow your heads. Father, we're just so thankful to have a room full of people and a lobby full of students that we're able to celebrate. Uh you've taken us all the way through
this year with many accomplishments, uh many goals met, and we just thank we're just so thankful for the privilege to honor those that have achieved so much. We ask, Father, that you'd be with us, that you'd give us wisdom as we make decisions for this county and for the school system. Pray that you'd be with
us in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. 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. I have everyone take a moment and look at the agenda. See if you have any questions, comments, anything you'd like to add, take out. If not, we move on to the approval of the consent agenda. Take a careful look
at that. There is a lot. >> Yes, Dr. Sullivan. we have anybody else come in between now and then. I may add a couple because it's our only meeting between now and June which starts our beginning of um summer sports. So I'll let you know if we add anybody.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> No public comments and uh next we'll move on to the RCS difference. >> All right. So we have um the national winners with career and technical service organizations and we have our
career and technical education coordinator Dr. Tyra Pilgrim and her team here to present the national student winners from our schools from the various career and technical service organizations. So one of our favorite nights and Dr. Pilgrim take it away. And this is a lot of kids which is a great celebration.
>> It absolutely is. Thank you so much for letting us come tonight to showcase our career and technical student organizations. We have this is just a small number of the ones that we have. There's other award shows tonight and there's other things that they had to do
tonight. So, we have we are only recognizing the ones that are actually here. And so, we are going to go through the list and we're going to have them come up by school. And so, all of the students that are here
tonight are going to go on to nationals. So that so it's our state qualifiers that that are going to nationals and so that means uh some summer travel. Our adviserss are going to be here and there's over a hundred Rutherford County students that are going to nationals for
to represent the state of Tennessee and our CTSOs which is an amazing thing. We are so proud of them. And so without further ado, we have our first student that's going to come up. She's in the Blackman TAPS program which is teaching as a profession. and her teacher is Mrs.
Mertz. >> Hi, I'm Ally Barry representing Blackman High School FCCLA and I competed in the state leadership conference in Chattanooga and I play silver in the family consumer sciences level and I will be moving to nationals in
Washington. Okay, next we have Riverdale Skills USA. Good evening board, community members, and supporters. My name is Sarah Medley. I teach criminal justice at Riverdale alongside Miss Kayla West and Miss Rachel Starret. >> Good evening. My name is Danielle Clark
and I placed gold in our state competition for Skills USA. I competed in action skills where I demonstrated how to lift fingerprints. >> Good afternoon. I'm Dylan Schmidz and I competed in appellet argument for Skills USA.
I >> I am Charles Tedar and I also competed in a pellet argument for Skills USA. My name is Mia Kirk. I also competed in a pellet argument mock trial for Skills USA and we won second in the state.
I'm Alexis Pulk and I placed first at state for career and techn technical educator and will be going to nationals in June. >> I'm Abigail Jones and I placed third for first aid and CPR. >> Good evening, guys. I am Derek
Pickleheimer. I'm a digital arts instructor and I'm here to represent the arts and entertainment pathway uh at Riverdale High School. I have my co-teers Gail Mlanahan, digital arts and Chris Martin, audio and visual production. >> Hello, my name is David Baker.
>> My name is Andrea Rodriguez. And my name is Limly Ton. And our adviser was Miss McClanahan. and we placed gold at our state competition for promotional bulletin board. Hi, my name is Grace Rich and I competed in extemporaneous speaking at a state
level and I won bronze. Uh, my name is Tyler Pilgrim and I got gold at uh, Skills USA and I'll be representing us at nationals doing um, digital cinema production. >> Hi, good evening. My name is Lorie Pitman. I teach STEM biomedical sciences
at Central Magnet School and I'm also one of the HOSA adviserss. >> Good evening. My name is Ruchette Sawate and I placed first in the biotechnology event at the HOSA state leadership conference. My name is Chuck Woody Obi. I place
first place at personal care at the Hosta State Leadership Conference and I will be representing us at internationals. Next we have Oakland Good evening board members and district leadership. My name is Dr. Levy and I'm one of the proud administrators at Oakland High School. And tonight we will
be recognizing several of our students. I recently had the opportunity to attend Tennessee um FFA state convention and it was truly inspiring to see the hard work that our students put in each and every day in the school building, but to see them compete in action. Um I actually had the opportunity to witness one of
our students win a state office. So, it was truly inspiring and um important to remember how it is for us to advocate for them back in the school building to make sure they have all the resources that they need to be able to compete on the level with their peers. So, I'll let our advisors come up now.
Hi, my name is Leandra Green and I'm a business and marketing teacher at Oakland High School and uh I had the privilege of traveling with our students to our uh DECA chat um state conference in Chattanooga and I will let them speak
for their accomplishments. >> Hi, my name is Mara Reed. >> I'm Jasmine Stevens and I'm Ann Wy. We competed at the state level in franchise business plan for DECA. >> Um so basically we developed a business plan to open the garage franchise in the
avenue. >> We placed second at state qualifying us for ICDC in Atlanta. >> That's our award. >> Thank you. >> Hi my name is Tomas Guzman. I competed in accounting application series which basically was using accounting to uh
solve financial business problems and I got fifth place to qualify to nationals. >> Good evening. I'm Bridget Vaughn, one of five agricultures agriculture teachers at Oakland High School and FFA adviserss. I work alongside Gina Stewart, Caitlyn Law Liberty, James
Scott, and Sam Lucer. We had several state winners that will be moving on to nationals in this fall and I'm going to let them introduce themselves. Hi, I'm Abby Deberry and my partner Kennedy Lewis and I were able to place first in state for our agricultural
research project the social systems division 6 project focused on the public perceptions of food banks. We were able to conduct a scientific research paper as well as a survey to analyze the public's perceptions of food banks in the state of Tennessee. and we are
excited to go to nationals in October. >> Hi, my name is Emma Gooff and I competed in Agra Science Fair in the food products and processing systems division 5 where I did a project that compared the sensory qualities and also the cooking qualities of alternative protein sources. This has been a project that
I've been building off for three years now and I'm hoping to represent my chapter and state at the national level this coming October. Good e good good evening. I'm Emilicanin and I had the opportunity to compete in several contests at state convention. I was awarded the state I was awarded the
state winner title in employment skills and aggra and aggra science fair and I had the opportunity to research project on the public perceptions and their their based importance and concern of national farm security issues as well as the employment skills contest where I
had the opportunity to interview for a job and I will go on to represent Oakland FFA at the national level and I was also recognized as the state star in agri science and this was an accumulation of the five research projects that I completed throughout high school and also my leadership
experience not only at Oakland FFA but also throughout the state. Hello, I'm Sarah Wheaten and I got to the opportunity to do a research project in environmental natural resource systems division 5 where I won first in the state for my research project over
the effects of different soil microbes on degrading chemical pesticides and fertilizer pollution. So it was a really interesting research project. got to write the whole paper, but also I was able to be in the floral culture career development event where we got to learn
about the floral industry and compete in a lot of flower arranging and stuff like that. And our team won first in the state and now we're headed to nationals. So, I'm really excited. My name's Lexi Bosman and I was also on the state floor team.
My name is Zoe Yung and I was also on the state floor culture team, but I also competed in an aggro science fair project uh with my partner Faith Lynn in plant sciences plant systems division six. Our project was about how different water temperatures in a hydroponic system can affect nutrient uptake,
dissolve oxygen levels, algae growth, root growth, and leaf growth. Hi, my name is Addison Brinkley and my partner Sophia Cazray and I competed in the Aggra Science Fair Plant Systems Division 4. Our project was assessing post-h harvest treatments in hydrangeous
liies and sunflowers which we basically studied different preservation methods to improve the longevity in cut flowers and the overall floral industry. >> Good afternoon. My name is Samuel Johnson >> and I'm Melissa King. We competed in the animal systems division six in our aggra
science project. >> Our project was a comparative effect of oral gel selenium and injectable bose on blood selenium status, growth performance, average daily gain and a comparative in cost effectiveness.
>> Good evening. My name is Annabelle Alexis and even though I was not a state winner, I was sele selected to serve on the 2026 to 2027 Tennessee FFA state officer team as their state treasurer. This is such an incredible opportunity which I'll be able to travel across the
state with my team and represent Rutherford County in the state of Tennessee on a local, state, and even national level. Thank you all so much for having us tonight. Hi, my name is Jennifer Gilman and I am the teaching as a profession teacher at Oakland High School and I have the pleasure of sponsoring our family,
community, and career leaders of America club. We had the great privilege to go to state competition this year and I'm going to let them tell you about all of their accomplishments. Hello, my name is Lydia Dancer. I had the privilege of entering in the
Tennessee State competition for FCCLA and I did the competition of children's literature where that entailed me creating props and reading a children's book to a couple of judges and I won first place in the state. >> Hi, I'm Mallerie Grooms.
>> I'm Katherine Phillips. And I'm Chloe Traml. We had the privilege of uh competing in the story books for change level three division um and which in required us to make a book and um do all the illustrations and make the plot and
the characters and everything ourselves. Um we placed for division we placed second and for state we placed first. So thank you guys. >> Thank you. Next we have Rockville High School. >> Hi. >> Good evening. I'm Jake Wolf. I'm the
culinary instructor at Rockville High School and I'm just uh super excited about our program. We've won all three competitions this year and this young student was a giant part of that. I'd like to introduce her.
>> Thank you, Chef Wolf. My name is Rachel King and it is a pleasure to speak today. I represented Rockfell at the Skills USA baking and pastry arts division and I'd like to personally thank Skills USA. Because of this opportunity, I'm able to further my culinary experience at Nashville State
Community College as well as the Gaylord Opryland Hotel franchise in Nashville and I will be advancing to the national level in June. Thank you. I'm Ben Wel. I'm blessed to be teaching at Rockville High School as well. Uh, and here are two of my students that
also competed. >> Hi, my name is Cheyenne Carr. I'm a senior at Rockville High School. I've been doing skills for three years. This year, I competed in action skills where I demonstrated how to dust and lift a fingerprint from a crime scene using powder and magnetic boxes.
Hello, I'm Emma Conway, a junior at Rockville High School, and I competed in the Skills State Conference under mock trial, and I ran for state office where I won state parliamentarian. Through this role, I'm excited to represent Luxward County and CTE
Education and hope to expand on skills through our program of work and representing Skills USA at the national conference. Next we have Smyrna High School. >> Good evening. My name is Jennifer McLemore and I'm one of the health
science teachers as well as a HOSA co-advisor at Smyrna High School. >> Hi, my name is Jasmine Jackson and I just been elected as Tennessee Hosa reporter historian. Within that my role is to do social media and also
do a lot of records of special events in HOSA. Thank you. Next we have Stewart's Creek. Hello. Thank you guys for having us tonight. My name is Lindsay Nicholas. I'm one of the A instructors at Stewart Creek High School and FFA advisors. I
brought the best group we've got tonight. Good evening everyone. My name is Kay Miller and I'm a part of the statewinning agricultural issues forum team in which we presented an agricultural issue, the pros and cons of cloud seating and we were named as the
state champions in the agricultural issues competition in Gatlinburg this past March. Thank y'all. >> My name my name is Will Hasty and I was also on the statewinning agricultural issues team. I'm Tristan Hall and I was also on the
statewinning agriculture issues team. My name is Ty Hall and I was also on the statewinning agriculture issues team. >> My name is Jack Dunn and I was also on the statewinning agricultural issues team. >> My name is Tanner Morris and I was also
on the statewinning agricultural issues team. My name is Sai Hall and I was also on the statewinning agricultural team. >> I'm Emily Spears. I'm one of the health science adviserss and host adviserss. Great.
>> Hello, my name is Sarah Tackla and I place first at general terminology. >> Hello, my name is Brusha Bendori and I place first place in medical terminology. >> Hi, my name is Chelsea Arrington. one of the adviserss for Skills USA at Stewart's Creek. I'm joined tonight by
Ward Bates and Casey Owens who also advise. >> Hi, I'm Eva Kai Seasak and I won first place at state for job interview. >> Hi, my name is Maria Bro. >> Hi, my name is Mary Bhane.
Hello, my name is Gabriella Rogers and we place first for state mock trial at Skills USA. >> Hi, my name is Becky Lden, one of three adviserss, Darren Wilsford and Stephanie Klein at Riverdale FCC LA. And um thank you for having um our students here
today. Recognize them for their hard work. And um our students are going to um um nationals in July 6th to 10th in Washington DC. So we're excited about that. Hi, my name is Mary Pac Perez. I'm a student from Riverdale High School. I'm here representing Riverdale FCCLA and
also my partners who couldn't attend eBay and Jasmine. We competed in chapter service display project in which our project was about how food insecurities could deeply impact someone's mental health and physical health. We were able to deeply understand this when we went to the greenhouse ministry field trip during Thanksgiving. And in conclusion,
we won first place gold going to nationals at Washington DC. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Joy Zagi and I'm a sophomore at Riverdale. Me and my partner Zamadaos competed in focus on children level two. We created a lesson plan and we taught
at Boyfield Elementary and taught over 150 students. We won gold in first place. Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Amada Sierra Pos. I'm a sophomore at Riverdale High School. Me and my partner Joyce Saki competed on focus and level focus on children level
two where we not only got gold but also placed first. Hello, I am Kindra Maize. I'm a senior at Riverdale and me and my partner Addison Seagros, we competed in the chapter review, the chapter in display review and we created posters and
described to the judges what our chapter is about and we placed first and silver. Good evening. My name is Isabella Matoule and me and my partner are Alexis Nobles are from are seniors at Riverdale High School's FCCLA and we got first
place for level three of Focus on Children. >> My name is Alexis Nobles and me and my partner Isabella Matoule. We're seniors at Riverdale and we competed in level three focus on children and got first place in gold moving to nationals. Hi, good evening. My name is Ashley
Shaw. I'm one of the agriculture teachers at Riverdale High School. I'm really excited to be here with our two state champion teams for our Riverdale FFA chapter. Hi, my name is Emma Medina and I'm part of the Riverdale FFA chapter. I was a part of the statewinning food science
CDE team where we use skills that food scientists use to evaluate food. We also created and sold the product to our judges. >> Hello, my name is Carlos Pñena from the Riverdale FFA chapter and I'm also part of the statewinning FFA um food science
CD team. Hello, my name is Dana Pores and I'm also from the Riverdale chapter and we're I'm one of the state champions for the food science CDE and we'll be
competing for in nationals in October. Thank you. >> Um hello, I'm Ariana Bernardo Lopez and I am one of the champions. Uh I am part of the Riverdale FFA chapter and I'm one of the champions uh part of the champion team uh state team for uh the food
science CDE. Hi, my name is Maha Shirley and I'm a member of the Riverdale FFA chapter. I was the state champion in FFA creed speaking leadership development event. This is a contest where I recited the FFA creed and then answered a series of questions in front of a panel of judges.
and I am excited and honored to be participating in October at the state and the national level. All right, we will now hear from Leverne High School. Hi, good evening. Is it evening yet? Almost. Good evening. I am Charliss Kinslow and I'm the lead advisor, Skills
USA adviser at Leverne High School. And I'm excited to be here today to present our um award-winning a national uh placer uh Juliana Oerio who created our state pin design for uh Skills USA. So, she'll be competing on the national
level. >> Good afternoon. My name is Juliana Sorio. I won state for pen design and I'll be heading to nationals in June. I've been honored here to be
presenting what inspired me to create my pen. Um, my family and I grew up in Tennessee and so I wanted to show my love for the state in my pen design and show aspects
of music, country music and um, sorry, country music and the love that I have for art as well. I wanted to involve so many things when
I first heard about creating the pen, but I wanted to bring things that I thought were more noticeable like Dolly Parton and um sorry, Dolly Parton,
our n state butterfly, our date. I apologize. Um I today I brought some pins to bring out for everybody.
>> Oh, thank you. >> So as you can see we are very very proud and the fact that we have so many state officer candidate or state officers that is not normal. So, so that is we are very proud of that. Very proud of our kids and their showing with their
teachers. So, thank you for letting us come tonight. >> Yeah. Just real quick, I think it you al you always or not always often times can hear that our kids aren't as prepared as they used to be. Um, but if you go and hear the the projects and the research that these kids are doing, um, you can't
have kids doing this type of research. And I know going just back to school, there was no way in the world that I was prepared to do any type of research like this. Uh, it is it's amazing to hear the projects and the accomplishments that they have. So, >> Tyra, Dr. Pilgrim, you guys do an amazing job as our principles and teachers do, and it's just it's an
amazing just group of kids that we have to have that many. So, congratulations. >> Thank you so much. >> How many industry certifications? I know it's not connected we have last year. >> Okay. So, right now we're at Oh, right over 10,000. >> So, that is not there. We're still doing it. So, I'm hoping to hit 12,000 before
the end of the school year. So, fingers crossed they keep entering them every day. It's so exciting. >> So, 12,000 industry certifications and we have 20,000 kids. So, you think about a kid getting almost kid getting industry certification almost um every
year that they're here is pretty pretty impressive. So >> and well it's attributed to you all um and your support and I just I thank you for that and we are very lucky to have the support that we have from you all
and very blessed. So thank you as someone who grew up here. It is just great to see that we truly have something in the last 20 years. We have something for everyone. And there's something somebody's interest can get satisfied by something we've got in our schools. And I just I think that's true.
>> Hello. >> Hello. >> Evans. >> Are you ready for me? >> Yeah, I'm ready. >> Right. So, this is our final uh strong outstanding staff awards for the school year. Again, want once again, I want to thank Allan and our friends at Sonic for
sponsoring this. They've already agreed to do again next year, which will be our third year. Uh so, we are very appreciative of that. I know our our employees have been as well. We're going to kick off tonight with the winner for principal this month, which is Miss Tina Turner. And I told her I was going to
have some walk up music for her and she said, "Please don't do that." That's okay. So, Miss Turner received several nominations, but I'm I'm going to read one of the best ones. But Miss Turner is what you would call a dedicated administrator. She loves her students,
all 1100 of them, like they were her own children. Through great days and challenging days, Mrs. Turner helps her teachers to know that she appreciates our hard work and dedication. Miss Turner, Mrs. Turner rocks as a school leader and is a joy to work in the same
building as her. So, congratulations. All right. From our central office, and I try to mix up the order every month, but from our central office is Mr. Lee Ramsey. So, I can't put into into this space the impact that Lee Ramsey has had on my life. That's always great to hear
somebody to say that, right? You hope, right, Mr. Ramsey? >> Sir, never mind. He's helped me grow into an educator I didn't know I was possibly becoming. His constant support and willingness to offer advice and resources has been beyond amazing. the time he pours into
supporting is the next level and I am beyond blessed to have him in my corner. So, congratulations. He also has a full George Washington costume that we have used many times for different things. Um, he's always willing to to loan it out as long as you bring it back clean
and dry clean. So, that's good. Okay. Our teacher tonight is Miss Shelby Kidd. Mrs. Kit had three nominations, by the way. So, but I'm going to read one of these here. Miss Kit is so willing to go above and beyond every day for her students. She works hard each and every
day for her betterment of her classroom and her students. She's willing to spend even more time to help out a new teacher like me. I couldn't have had a better teacher to be partnered with in my first year as a teacher. So, it's always great. Okay, for support staff this month, it's
Samantha Helton from Wilson Elementary School. It was from John Coleman. I I failed to say that Samantha Helton uh is new this year and jumped right in in helping with the behavior student. Not only did she provide consistency for him, but she has been able to get him to grow
academically and behaviorally. She's always willing to help with other students or anything else in the classroom. She's a wonderful audition to Wilson, but especially my classroom. So, I guess now you know who you nom who nominated you, right? Congratulations. Okay, our final one tonight is Miss uh
Ashia Curtis. She's the bus driver for bus 185. She messaged us this morning and said that she had something come up this evening and could not make it. But she had four nominations and they were all from students. And so, I'm going to read these. Okay. Uh I told her we're going to honor her anyway and we'll make
sure to get her her stuff. So this is from all four of these from a student, different students. She keeps us safe. She is the best ever. She is so kind and is the best in the world. That's one. I think uh she should be recognized cuz she's a great driver. She picks me up
all day and I love her because she drives me to school all the time. She is the best. The third one says she is kind and keeps us safe so we don't get hurt and also keeps us in our seats. And then the fourth one is she's kind of will follow the school rules and she won't
write you up right away. I thought that was I thought that was a great one to do. So, uh we'll make sure to get her stuff. Thank you all. We're going to do a photo. Uh would the board like to join us for our last the last one of the season? >> You want to stand behind? Go up.
>> Okay. Fill in. >> One second. >> One second. >> Okay. Big smiles. Congratulations. It's almost up for like two more weeks. Congratulations. >> Congrats.
>> Thank you. And just one last thing, don't forget that we have one of our own on American Idol tonight from 7 to 9, Jordan McCulla. And for the people who are watching at home, we I know he would appreciate your votes. Tonight is the
grand finale. So, Oakland alone. >> Yeah, I will. That was awesome. Next, we have the first board item, which is the Blackman Road property. >> Mr. Reed, >> as the board may remember, about August
last year, um, there was a Mr. Dismutes out in the Blackman area who offered his property for sale to the school board if we had had any interest. Um the school board, a number of the board members went out and looked and toured the property. Um there's not been any action taken with regard to the property since
then. Um and I think this be being put back on the agenda to see if the board has any interest in pursuing that. Um and if so, we would need to get a new contract drafted. Um the u Mr. Dismix actually has signed a contract um with
the board, but the board has never approved it and not taken any action on it. This is for about 85 acres on Blackman Road. Um it had a normal inspection period of 180 days with two 30-day extensions in there and then closing 30 days thereafter. Um you
should be aware that there is a planned intersection um well interstate exit exchange um planned for this property. Currently, this is part of the Cherry Lane extension, now known as the Stones Battle Parkway, which the city is
extending to connect to I24. Um that there's been a proposal for a T DOT um exchange um traffic exchange to be there on the site. Um if we do decide to move forward with it, any anything we do would be subject to potential connation
action, but T dot U for the interchange there. So that is something that does affect this property. So you should be aware of that. If you do want to move forward with it, we would need to get a new contract signed with the landowner. And again, it need would need to be subject to 180day inspection period with
some extensions in there because the property would have to be tested. We would have to get funding approval of the county commission and the usual stuff on that. So that will be on the agenda for Thursday night. >> Okay. Any conversations tonight? >> Yes, Mr. Tidore. Yeah, just to I know I
emailed you earlier, but just to update the rest of us, u the Lee Road property, where are we at on it? >> Uh it's progress progressing along. As you know, there had been a a situation where one of the landowners became killed and the person who's involved
with that um has an attorney who's been appointed who now has appeared for them. So, this that's moving forward. So, um that should be something we can move forward with in a few weeks. >> Okay. Yeah, my um my position on this is
is remained in the same spot. Um you know, we we know that the county is trying to build their jail. We know they're going to try to fight us about the high school on the Lee Lee Road property. We just purchased land or the surrounding houses for McFaten. We're
going to try to build McFadden. And then there's also been conversation up here about um expanding on our alternative schools, which we tried once and the building didn't work out. Um, but that is a need that we have. I know just from last week conversations with the principal where students that are
getting in fights that should be sent to alternative school are going to OS or getting OSS because there's no more room. So, we have a lot of challenges, a lot of things we're asking for. I know the need for this. The last time we talked about it, it was stated that it wouldn't be needed for 8 to 10 years.
And I understand being um being smart about buying something before the price goes up, but I think we just have to look at this um as a whole. Notice we got a lot of things we're asking for. The county has got a huge ask as well.
And then of course you mentioned the interchange which is just a whole separate piece to the puzzle. But um my position is about the same. I think that we should hold on this for now. >> Any other conversation? Yes, Mr. and my position hadn't changed either
that you know we keep passing on some of these land purchases and once they go down the go down the road it's going to be hard to get them back. This is a tremendous buy uh for the
amount of money that Mr. Dman was asking. Uh it's in a perfect location, you know, it's in the popular her area and we've got to have a high school there. We're fortunate to I think to be able to
have this land to be able to to purchase it. And uh you know, regardless of what we've purchased or committed to purchase, to me it's just immaterial. these are these are challenges that coming at us
just as fast as we can go and if we don't address them, they're not going to be addressed. So, you know, I think uh we need to really consider um not passing on this property cuz I think I think it's as good a buy as
we're going to get. It's in a great place, you know. So, >> any Yes, Mr. Rosales. >> Dr. Sean um when RSP um spoke to us back in October and it kind of laid out the the lay of
the land of what our needs are. I was under the impression that we needed a school like right now a high school not 8 to 10 years from now. Correct. >> Correct. So this potentially could solve the issue where we brought the date we
hire someone to do a lot of data data digging and they showed us that we need a high school today not 8 to 10 years from now. So there is a huge need for high school and this will solve that issue with the high
school situation because development is not slowing down anytime soon and we are still having schools that are overcrowded. So, any other comments? Yes, Miss Darby. >> Um,
there's definitely some concern for me with this property. Um, in regards to needing a high school, we we do need a high school and we've been talking about putting that high school at the Lee Road property, which we're supposed to close on very shortly. So, I think, and I can't speak for Mr. to well, but I think
what he was saying was we wouldn't need yet another one and in that area until another 8 to 10 years if we were to build the one on the Lee Road property. Um, my biggest concern and and I have been
pushing for a long time about the need to be addressing, excuse me, our older schools and making sure that we're addressing one of those a year because realistically by the time you come back around to that initial one, it's going to be over 50 years.
And with that on top of the fact that we're trying to build a school just about every year, it makes it very difficult to purchase land in the same time when the county commission has to build the jail and we have all these other asks. I don't know that anybody's necessarily against us purchasing land.
I think the problem is when you have all of these things coming on the plate all at the same time. um if you were purchasing it at a time when you didn't necessarily have to buy a school, I think it would be easier to swallow financially than what it looks like
currently. So, my my concern would be pushing the property purchase ahead of some of our other issues. If we don't start addressing some of these older schools, we're going to end up in a bad way without options. That's my concern.
>> Yes, Mr. Bond. Yeah, >> I agree, Mr. Derby. You know, those things need to be addressed, but until we put up a we're full sign at the county line, these folks keep coming in here about as fast as you can. And we're growing and
those needs to the older schools. Uh, but there's still demand for filling the high school. Um, cuz we're just filling up schools faster than we can build them. There's nothing we can do about that. It's just the way things are.
That's the price you pay for having a great school system and a great place to live. And again, these challenges you mentioned, they are realistic. But again, to to pass on buying property
that we're not going to be the get the opportunity again to purchase uh to me is just we'd be making a huge mistake. Yes. U Jeff, where did the information come
from about T deck? Any >> T do D do D do D do D do D do D do D do D do D do DOD? I'm sorry. >> Um the city of Msboro has a long range plan for Siri Lane extension and that is from the city of Murphersboro and they've been working on kind of the layout and
um the direction of that road for a number of for some time. But have we has there been any notification official notification from T dot that you're a that you're aware of? >> I'm not of any from T Dot. I am aware from the city of Murphy'sboro. >> Okay. Well, the city of Murphy'sboro has
been working on that for 30 years. That's the long and the short of and I'm not fussing at you, but Cherry Lane has been talked about u in fact my general knowledge of it. 1995 I did an estate auction for the Walkup Farm on Sulphur
Springs Road and at that time there was a council member that had a husband that was in the development business in Rutherford County and they got the road moved. So that corridor has been talked about I know since before 1995. So that's 30 years. I have had a
conversation with the mayor to let all y'all know that when this first came up back in the fall, um, and and not to be a smart elic about it or anything, I I wish the city of Murphy'sboro the best. I really do. But there's there are
alternate locations for that fly over or interchange exit or whatever it is. for them to use this as an intimidation um on this board and also on the landowner I think is a little bit disingenuous right now. Um that's my personal
opinion. Um if they want an alternate location, they can uh simply extend Cherry Lane another half mile north, a mile north uh and dissect the Toon property and then bring it back across and tie it into Blackman Road. And
actually it would line up better cuz then they could take Blackman Road, run it around to the Batty property and actually dissect the Batty property and end up u with the road intersecting Veterans Parkway. I study routes all the time. This is my business. The reason I
know about these farms and these land that is for sale. I'm good on my side of the county. U and and and honestly Caleb is too. He doesn't need anything on his side of the county. It's Francis's district, Miss
Sharp's district, and Katie's district that needs the help. It's everything up and down the west side of I24. And every one of us has sat here, and for for two years, I have listened for y'all u to say, "Developers, bring land
to us. Bring it to us before you sell it to developers. Bring it to us." Well, Mr. Dishmukes has been good enough as a farmer in this county for many many years to give us first opportunity to buy this. And every one of us has sat here and
hate going through reszoning. And if you actually look at it, our some of our most successful communities in the county, I'm not going to pit one school area against another, but when Blackman was built as a three school complex, the K through 812,
uh K through 12, excuse me, u that had everything in one location. You could I mean, anybody that had a house house for sale, it sold over there. And we duplicated that same concept at Stewart's Creek. We have duplicated it
in other areas. Now you got the opportunity. Y'all, this board before I got here, before Butch and I got here, y'all were smart enough to buy the Batty property and build an elementary and a middle school on it. Now you got the opportunity to uh solidify it, a
community, a new community in this county, whatever you want to call it, in between Blackman and Stewart's Creek, uh to build that final piece to the puzzle as a high school there. It's a good piece of property. The soil quality is some of the best. I've known Jeff all my
life. He's a dairy farmer. He milked jerseys. We milk jerseys. There's a unwritten rule in the agricultural industry that us old dairy farmers, we take care of our land. And he has done an excellent job to doing that. Uh and
and so for us to pass on this, I think would be foolish. I understand Caleb's reluctance. He it's not affecting his side of the county. It's not affecting mine really. You know, I can sit here and keep my mouth shut and and and and not say anything. But every one of y'all has talked about this since I've been
here for the last two years. We need land. We need to tie these sites up. You got the opportunity to do it right here. It's laid right here in front of you. You know, the city of Murphy'sboro, again, no disrespect to the mayor and the council members there. One of them
lives with one of them here, Claire. I'd put you on the spot, but I understand that that relationship there. We all have to work together. The city can move the road. They've moved the road a half a dozen different times. We can't move the the middle school and elementary
school. And for us to, I think, disappoint every one of us who've gotten more phone calls over reszoning, bus route changing, and all of that. And now you got the opportunity to let these kids go from elementary through high school and graduate in that community. I
just think it would be absolutely foolish on our part. If the county commission doesn't want to fund it, then so be it. That's on them. But us as a board need to try to solidify that, create finish creating that Popular Hill community and give those mothers and
fathers and students an opportunity to go through life all the way together. Our one of our most popular schools in this county is Eagleville, right? Why do so many people talk about this? Just a minute. There's so many people we we we
complain about the voucher system. Have y'all studied where the vouchers are going? They're going to Christian schools that are K through 12 in our state. Now, why is that? I mean, it's obvious to me what parents want, and we
need to listen to the parents one time here and and finish that concept out there. I don't I don't I know I've said enough tonight, but I just, you know, you can talk about the value of it. I'll stand toe-to-toe with you. Yes, we've got a lot of
needs in this county, but we didn't cause those problems. This board has to react to those problems. We take it on the chin from the parents and the students not to have overcrowded schools, to pay our teachers well, to
give these this next generation a leg up in life. It it we're not we didn't open the gate. You know, there's there's 8,000 people a year that move to this county. 20% of them. That's 15 1,500 of them are going to end up in a school somewhere.
That's when that's the reason we end up building a school every year. It's not going to change. Not until there's some heavy duty impact fee put on it. And so if we don't take the opportunity to buy these sites when we have the opportunity to do it and do some long range
planning, the previous my previous board member, Mr. Young and and the mayor before uh Mr. Katherine, Mr. Burgess, they were prudent enough to lock down the site at Walter Hill. Now, that site's not going to be used probably for
at least another five or 10 years, but they were smart enough to do it. This board needs to be at least that smart and buy this property and be done with it. >> I and I just want to interject uh different kind of perspective, too. We have signaled the last 20 years that we want to do the three school concept.
We've done it at Steuart's Creek. We've done it at Blackman. We've done it at Rockville. talking from someone whose high school isn't in the three school concept. It has severely hurt Riverdale High School. Have they overcome it? Yes, they have. But it is something that
people look at when they move to this county. They want their kids to all stay together. And the fact that there was never a Riverdale middle school built in close proximity has hurt Riverdale High School. And we've got an opportunity. We need to think long and hard. We have
signal when we sit when we build a an elementary school and then we build a middle school, we're signaling that the high school's on the way. And if we pass on land and then 10 15 years from now there isn't anymore there, we've hurt that school. I just want you all to
think about that from someone who's got a high school that has had to try really really hard to overcome the fact that they aren't in the three school concept and eventually they're going to lose Christian elementary middle school rather is going to go to when we put a new high school
out there and then what's Riverdale going to do? Just think really long and hard about that because I sure have. >> Yes, Mr. D. >> Yeah. So, I mean, I've sat here and we've debated lots of different things and there's been a lot of different
changes, but I've voted for whatever is best for the county, not just for my zone. I think I got a long history of that. Um, but if you look at our 5-year plan, we put that together based on the needs that we have. And we have to balance our needs with the funds that we
have access to. So, in our 5-year plan, we need to build a high school first, but that's what the Lee property was for, which is why I asked for an update on that. Here we got a property at $100,000 an acre for $8.5 million that might have an interchange potentially going through it. Sean Wright from the
city council called me today and said that the the city planning commission just voted that through last week. So this isn't like it may be 30 years down the road. I don't know. I can't predict the future, but it certainly sounds a lot closer on his end than that. Um but
in our 5-year plan, we got a high school and then we got a middle school. And according to what we've seen from RSP and what Dr. Sullivan's mentioned is a middle school does need to go on the south side down there where the growth is happening. And we at the Burgess property that was sold where they're about to have a huge amount of
development on the south side. So we do all have needs and I tried to look at that in a perspective that makes sense for me. What doesn't make sense is to not balance those needs with the funds that we have at this time. Just because we're asking people to bring their property to us doesn't mean we're going
to agree to every term that they ask for when they bring it. That we just ask that they do that so that we can look and see if that makes sense. For me, it doesn't make sense yet. >> Any other conversations? >> Yes. >> Yes, Mr. Vaughn.
You know, I was uh fortunate enough to be heavily involved with the uh Blackman concept, the three school concept that Blackman uh it's the greatest decision in my opinion that Brother County Schools has
ever made because uh that concept of having all those schools right there together, it is just, you know, to have the progression and to to be able to communicate with
each school and develop each school. And I know when I was principal middle school, we would have a transition program where we would go and uh to the to the high school and you know the kids would get to
became part of the high school. And so when they transitioned there, they were already a part of it because they had that black one on their shirt and had black one in their heart and it
just the what it the community that it created got Dr. Gary Nixon was there, you know, and boy, just the academics there has continued to be topnotch. And it's simply mainly because
of the communication between schools. If there's a if we had a group of kids that didn't perform every very well, we would evaluate them, find out why. we'd communicate with
the elementary school or if we had the problem with some of the kids high school, they' communicate with us and we'd evaluate what we did to be able to improve on that. And to me, I don't I don't know of any greater concept anywhere in the country and I've been to
a lot of places and looked at them, but I've never seen anything any better than that concept. So, >> yes, Mr. Rosales. Thank you. Um Jeff Stan said that this whole conversation about the interchange has been going on
for 30 years and then um he and Tidwell said that the city councilman voted to pass the um to move forward with the interchange but there's still the other piece that's missing out of the conversation is the funding and that
funding is going to come from the state. Correct. the funding for an interchange usually would come from the state, >> right? So, the the state has already approved the budget for the fiscal year that we're in, right? I think it was approved,
>> I don't know, April or sometime in April. So, it's not going to happen this year. So, there's still a lot of work that's got to be done for the state side to even get the funding for the budget for that. So, if anything, are the
lawmakers or even is there any signaling from the lawmakers that are going to be making decisions on the for the budget that they're going to be supporting the wish of the city to bring this interchange? >> I can't tell you where the state is on
their funding for the project. I can tell you I think the alignment of this road has been worked on by the city for a long time and is honing in on the final I think the final alignment I think is what has been proposed to go through the disputes property. Um but um
again T dot would have to fund the interchange for an interchange to get built. >> So it's still up in the air. >> I can't tell you how up in the air it is. has been a project the city of Murphy'sboro has been actively pursuing and right >> very far along with u
>> on the city side but I'm talking about is still up in the air because there's still the budget the funding for is still a big question mark right >> the state would have to provide funding for the interchange >> right and so we're going to have a new governor coming next year anyways
they're going to have different priorities themselves so there's no telling when the budget is going to come for the fun there's no telling when the funding is going to come for something like this is the point I'm trying to make. Yes. >> Yep. Stan is once. Yes, Mr. Block.
>> I was going to make a suggestion. I mean, this it appears right now that a lot of this is hearsay. Jeff, could you mind reaching out to our elected representatives, Mr. Rudd, uh Charlie Bone? Who else is on that side?
Mike Sparks. Don White, >> Dawn be the senator on that side of the county. The three of Do you mind reaching out to them to see if there's any funding if it's on the radar with T DOT? My understanding the people that I talked to at T dot 3 months ago, this
was not on the radar and the in and the information I got at that time that that this property was too close to the 840 on and off ramp. I don't want to say Stan said it because I I think we need to verify this if this is critical with
the rest of the board. Uh we need to verify if you a simp I think a simple phone call maybe a letter or something from them. Uh those three or four that would be involved on that side of the county. Does that sound fair to everybody? >> Clear this. >> Okay. >> I'm glad you do that. I'll do that
report. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. So any other conversations? Okay, we'll move on then to instruction. >> All right, next we have Dr. Supan who is
here to present. So Holloway High School, as you know that Dr. Supan and we also have Drayton here as well as our current Holloway High School principal. And so we have combined those, not really combined them, but um Dr. Supan's going to be running both schools since they are on the same campus. Um, but
she'll be running both schools, but we have a kind of a rebranding and renaming request that they have been working on. We all know that our enrollment hasn't been where we would like for it to be, so trying that's one of the the issues we've been trying to work on. So, trying to reimagine that space. So, turn it
over to you. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, good evening. Thank you, school board, for allowing me to speak tonight. For those of you that may not know me, my name is Jessica Supcon. I currently serve as the principal of Rutherford County Virtual. Next year, I have the honor of serving as principal
of both virtual and hallway. Thank you to Dr. Sullivan for trusting me with this honor. Tonight, I'm also joined by someone who means a great deal to me personally and professionally. Miss Drayton, the current principal. She's been a mentor, a friend, and someone I deeply respect. I want to publicly thank
her for the leadership and the heart that she has poured into Holloway as her uh term as principal. This opportunity is especially meaningful to me because I graduated from Holloway in 2000. So, Holloway is home to me. Um, getting the
opportunity to serve as principal brings a lot of joy and a lot of excitement to me. As I began preparing for the transition to become principal next year, I spent a lot of time thinking about what has made Holloway special. And honestly, the answer wasn't just a program or a building. It's always been
the people, the relationships, and the family atmosphere. um the way that students are truly known at Holloway and cared for in a smaller setting is something that was there even when I was a student in the 90s. That part of is something that we absolutely want to preserve and then also continue building
on. But at the same time, I also felt like the school needed a renewed focus, an identity that better highlights what makes it unique and then also help to attract students and family who will thrive in the hallway environment. As I
refle reflected on my time there as a student and then also as a teacher over those 11 years, one thing that kept standing out to me over and over again is the creative way that teaching and learning happens in the building. Students are given opportunities to think different, learn different, and
express themselves in meaningful ways. All due to our smaller nature and size. The creative spirit has always been a part of the school's DNA. Honestly, when you think about the different programs we offer, some of our newer CTE and fine arts pathways that we're looking to
implement, they truly capture that innovative way that Holloway stands out. Pathways give students the opportunity to create, collaborate, problem solve, and connect those real world uh passions and careers. So, tonight I'd like to share a little bit more about that
vision and the direction that we believe can help highlight strengths moving forward. So, I'm sure all of you all know about Holloway. Um, we're hoping to increase the enrollment to fill the building roughly about 160 students, but
it's always been a choice school in Ruford County, even back to when I was a student there. Okay. Um, a little bit about us. What sets us apart is that small scale um that allows for stronger relationships,
individualized support, a student centered culture where belonging, growth, and personal success are prioritized was even, you know, it was even a part of the school back when I was a student there. Because it is a nonzone school, families do provide their own transportation. However, there
are two buses that come uh from the Smyrna and Leverne area for families that need that. There's advanced learning options at Holloway in place and we hope to strengthen those into the future by expanding our dual enrollment opportunities with MLOW, MTSU, and TECAT
which two of those are already in place and we just hope to expand it. Honors and AP classes are already a part of what Holloway does and then we hope to add in KIPP testing in all of our subjects next year. Um that creative learning focus is a
part of Holloway. It's a part of the DNA already. Um but those five programs that we plan to continue on and then add next year. Art and business are already in place and then we're going to add in music, design, and agriculture. Um
there's a brand new greenhouse that just got built on the campus and we're really excited to add those classes in. and a little saying down at the bottom, hallway students do not just learn about the world, they learn by doing. Project-based learning is something that's been going on at Holloway for a
long time, as well as experiential learning. Um, so really, like I said, it's a part of the Holloway DNA. We just hope that the name of the school continues to highlight those core values. Uh, wondering about adding
in creativity as part of the name. Well, we believe it's a skill that can be taught, practiced, and developed. So, a student that's interested in Holloway doesn't necessarily need to consider themselves creative or artsy because we build on that skill. It also prepares
students to think, adapt, and succeed in a changing world. And creativity thrives through those hands-on learning, real world experience, and uh diverse perspectives that have been a part of Holloway through um different place-based learning. We, you know,
those are uh field trips. We've always capitalized on those at Holloway due to the smaller scale of the school and then also getting in a lot of um guest speakers with different areas of uh knowledge those pathways. Music is one
that's going to be new next year. We're using our music teacher that is currently at the virtual school to utilize him at both schools. So, he'll not only teach virtual students, but also hallway students. He's going to be able to add two classes with hallway students next year. The first one class
guitar and he's a, you know, excellent musician. So he can teach students who have never picked up a guitar to those advanced guitarists. Tonight he actually is having a fine arts performance at Patterson Park for the virtual school students and he's done amazing work with
them. And then also modern band and so that's um like band on a smaller scale. So, with Holloway being smaller, if you have any interest in a musical instrument, whether it's drums, which he will have a set in his classroom, guitars, ukuleles, you name it, he knows
how to play it. And I'm really excited to offer that next year. Art is already in place at Holloway with a fantastic art teacher. So, that will continue to be offered. She does a great job with art, drawing, painting, painting. She adds pottery into her
classes. And I'm really excited that some virtual school students will have the opportunity to take an art class on campus next year. Um, as well as Holloway students. Business is a class that I taught when I was at Holloway. It's a skill that
connects all areas of employment. So, it's definitely very important. Um, those classes offered computer applications lend really well to those industry certifications in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Um he also teaches computer science, career exploration,
entrepreneurship and then all of those wonderful students that got up here and presented at the microphone that CTSO DECA is something that he also uh capitalizes on with his students. Design is a new program that we're going to be offering and I'm thrilled about
this. It lends itself really well to those creative students. So um Smyrna High School is the only other school that offers uh fashion design and interior design. So, I'm thrilled to be the second now school in the county to offer that as well as some floral
design, capitalizing on that greenhouse, agriculture, like I mentioned that fantastic greenhouse, we're going to be able to offer horiculture, agrical design. Fun fact about Holloway, um because of our small scale, we are able to do an
activity period every day. So students can take um part in pickle ball and basketball which are part of that great campus that we're on with Murreey'sboro parks and wreck having those courts right on our campus and it allows students to have that brain break in the middle of the day. So we are thrilled to
be able to continue that on every day for every student. This is something that we believe in. We create from the inspiration that our students give. So we need them to be exactly who they are. That was true when I was there. It's true now. A lot of
students find their people when they get to Holloway. And that's really my presentation. I'm going to let Miss Drayton talk a minute. Good evening. Miss Drayton was not planning on talking. She was planning on being a support. But
I feel like a a proud mom today because Dr. Supan is more than just a coworker. She's like a daughter and I'm so happy that I can leave Holloway in her hands. I know she loves this school and I'm not
worried about it. And if when she talked about what can we do to bring more students, the name change together, that's something that we're both in agreement with. Um, the biggest thing that we battled that I battled for 14
years is that's that alternative school, isn't it? And it was down to where don't say the a word around us. You know, every teacher at Holloway has an elevator pitch to tell you we are not an alternative
school. We're an alternative to a comprehensive high school. And this is just another way we hope so people will learn what Holloway is and what it's not. And I I'm excited and
I'm, you know, in full support. And, you know, Holloway is not what it was when I started in 2012. It doesn't look the same. We're not doing the same thing. I took it to a different level and I'm handing it over to Dr. Supan who is
going to take it even further. and I'm excited about that. So, >> congratulations. >> I I think this is fantastic. Um I'm overjoyed that the emphasis of on fine arts and agriculture and business and it
and the collaboration of the virtual school. I bet you you have some kids that are in the virtual school. They're like, "No, I'm coming back indoors for this." >> I do have two that are going to come all the way next year. That's the first thing I was thinking is they're going to want to come and take a part of this and you all are going to be able to grow
this school and under your leadership Mr. you've done a tremendous job and Supercon you're just going to take it to another level and I am just thrilled that we are that this is such a great collaboration and I just want to thank you all for having the the wisdom and
the foresight to do this. This is tremendous. Anybody else have any conversations or >> miss Mr. How long have you been at Holloway? um 14 years. >> 14 years. >> 14 years. >> Uh and and as I'm sure most of the board members, if not all, have been up there and been to one of your sitdowns and let
the students present and it was such a unique I still remember it today of some of the experiences that uh has helped some of these kids along. So, thank you for that and thank you for your service to the >> We have an eclectic group of kids and we have the concentrated version. And I
know that these kids are everywhere, but we have the concentrated version at at Holloway. So, >> well, I think you're leaving it in good hands. >> Absolutely. >> I think so. Thank you. >> Thank y'all. >> Next, we have legal.
>> All right. Wilson Elementary Technology request. Principal Angela Barnes is requesting to enter a partnership with Wilson Bank and Trust to purchase five USAIC boards and carts for classrooms. Wilson Bank and Trust will donate 15,000 in exchange for a 5-year marketing agreement.
Very similar to what we do with signs. This just is for views instead. >> Next, transfer student. >> The board's been requested to admit a transfer student from another school system under discipline. The student has criminal charges according to policy 6.31. The board may deny admissions of
any student except those in state custody when a student transfers from another school system while under suspension or expulsion. Director of school's recommendation is to deny. >> Thank you. Next we have number three policy adoption. >> So this is a recommendation on Thursday
for first and final reading. This is from our spring policy meeting. Below policy changes are recommended on the first and final reading as notice must be given to bus contractors in writing at least 30 days prior to implementation of any revised policies that explicitly pertain to buses. This policy change
3.400. Student transportation management adds language for payment of insurance premiums and rules for leasing or rental of buses by contractors. And then we had a policy meeting back at the end of April. Um it will be recommended to you'll see there's two motions. First is
to suspend the board policy requiring two readings and then second recommendation is to approve it on the first and final reading so we we can go ahead and give them 30 days notice. >> Okay. Thank you. Any conversation, comments? Okay. Next, engineering and
construction. >> Blackman Elementary Wilson Bank gym floor agreement. Principal Lori Gober is requesting to enter into agreement with Wilson Bank and Trust for gym improvements not to exceed 10,000. The current request is to sand and install a new floor with a logo at a cost of 7,200. The request is at no cost to the
board. Engineering construction review the request and has no objection. >> Any comments? Okay. Next, we have number two. >> Yet another storage building. Blackman Middle football storage building request. Dr. Jessica Jackson's requesting to purchase a 10 x6 foot storage building to be utilized by the
football team. Cost of the building is $3,5.17. will be funded through football funds at no cost to the board. Engineering construction has reviewed the request and has no objection. >> Anything? >> Yes, Mr. Bull. >> I just wonder, Mr. Le, you can probably
answer this question. Where about they going to put this sign? >> They got a lot of room. It's going to be near where they keep their football field. >> Where about >> where they practice football? Yeah, it I guess my only concern it's so isolated up there
that you know um football I don't know what they're planning on putting in there but boy oh boy I tell you what football equipment is so so expensive and man to put something up there
there's no way really to secure it up there you know >> we're working with the school to add additional cameras that that'll be able to see all the way to the uh softball baseball fields and the concession stands. >> Okay. >> So, we're working on the security over
there. >> Okay. >> Okay. Any other questions, comments? Okay. Moving on. Number three, Seagull High Baseball. >> Seagull High baseball field naming request. Principal Steven Wayne's requesting to name the baseball field for the current baseball coach Craig Revvice. Coach Revis has been the coach
since the school opened in 2003 and has 634 wins. He has more than that now in numerous districts and state championships. Engineering constructions reviewed the request and has no objections and he's going for another one hopefully next week as well. But we have some other teams still there. So we're >> Yes, we do. >> We're in regions right now. Know Riverdale's there as well.
>> Yes, they are. >> That's I mean like say coach Rivas if you ever seen his teams play >> I've never seen anybody that any team is anywhere better coached. He was so
>> welld deserved. Moving on. Number four. >> Number four, and I verified first. So, Oakland High School, um, and I'll go over this in just a second. Oakland High greenhouse installation request. Dr. John Marshall is requesting to reconstruct the greenhouse removed from Lever High in the campus of Oakland High. This greenhouse was disassembled
and relocated to Oakland High with coordination of both schools and the engineering department. Cost for reassembly connections to appropriate utilities is estimated to be 10,000 will be funded through various school funds at no cost to the board. Engineering Constructions reviewed the request and has no objections. Lever High School is changing their program and moving to
barns and or is getting a barn um with animals and so they're just changing their program. >> Yeah, I was conf confused. I was afraid why are they getting rid of it? But they're going on to on onward and better. Okay, number 12, financial matters. >> All right, so now we move into financial
matters. This is the exact same thing we did last year. And so just to give the board a reminder, we have quite a few things that are paid for out of 141 that are part of the centralized cafeteria. And so we call these indirect cost. And
so this fiscal year 2526 centralized cafeteria fund amendment increases 99100504 indirect cost and decreases 34570 restricted fund balance in the amount of $2 million to budget for indirect costs that are accumulated in fund 141 being
reimbursed by fund 143. Indirect costs are incurred for the benefit of multiple programs, functions, or other cost objectives and cannot be readily identified as having been incurred specifically for the school food service program such as water, electricity, all those different things that you can't just specifically say this was by the
cafeteria. Indirect cost rates are calculated annually by the Tennessee Department of Education and child nutrition programs. Uh use the unrestricted indirect cost rate for the 2425. Unrestricted indirect cost rate for RCS is 11.19%. So that's what that is calculated and
that's where we have $2 million in which again basically 143 is going to reimburse 141. That gives us $2 million extra in revenue. >> Okay. >> Any questions? >> That'll make a little bit more sense. It should be 2526 not 2425. Yep. So that should be 2526 on that fiscal year.
>> Yep. >> Everyone okay on that? Okay. Next number two. >> All right. Next. We just received our summer camp grant allocations on Friday and so they make it tough because you get your summer camp allocations right
before summer camp starts. So this is another fund 141 fund balance amendment. This amendment is to increase fund 141 budgeted revenues and expenditures in the amount of 5,556 or $5,556,938 to recognize the awarded summer camp
grant for the fiscal year 2526. Just as a reminder, on January 22nd, 2021, Tennessee General Assembly enacted the Tennessee Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act to address the learning loss of students due to CO 19 related school closures. Through this law, all Tennessee school districts are required to offer learning loss
remediation, summer programs for students in rising grades K through 8. And then that law has been enacted several different times. Um these funds will be used to fund summer work for principles, teachers, education assistants, secretaries, uh and transportation. There is no local match
required for this grant. Transportation is included in this. Correct. So they used to do transportation and this separate. They are all connected together. And so this is for our summer. It's the exact same amount as last year. Isn't that correct? So they just reallocated the same amount.
So in order for us to start summer school June like 3rd, 4th, whatever that date is, this is where we start. >> Okay. >> So those are the two amendments for this year. And that two million that was above is going to come in handy here in
just a minute when we get to 141 for this upcoming school year. >> Okay. Number three. >> All right. Number three. If you all will go. So we worked on this on Thursday and I told you we'd have some revenue numbers and so if you will go to the
fund 141 revenue and expenses summary. It's the highlighted sheet that you have. We will we got new revenue numbers from Mr. Smith today at the county finance and just so everybody is aware as a reminder we don't set revenue and so
that's a strange world to be in but we don't set revenue just as we talked about this revenue these revenue numbers very well could change and so revenue as we talked about last Thursday is based on our weighted average daily rates so historically the
city is about 15% of the county enrollment we're about 85 right now we are 86% in the city it's 14%. And so that may not seem like a lot but as a district our size when you're looking at sales tax and property tax it is a huge it's millions of dollars you're talking
about. So that is the city has asked for a recalculation which I would too in their uh situation and so that that very well could uh if it get gets recalculated but right now that is our rates from the state department. Second,
this is a reappraisal year and so the county finance department won't get tax rates until June. So if something goes crazy, we may have to come back and revisit some of this revenue. It could go to the positive as well. So it may not be a negative. We also could get
additional revenue. So we may have to come back, but we have a statutory requirement to pass a budget by May 15th. So we have to go with this. >> Yes, Mr. on >> up on the very first thing. Current property tax. If you look at the projected
>> Yep. I'm going to go over that. >> Golly. I mean, how can it go down? >> Oh, boy. All right. So, we're going to Let's go over property tax. All right. If you look at the first page, everything in yellow is
maintenance of effort. And so, uh, if you will look all of these in yellow, the how the county finance department decides to give us maintenance of effort is totally up to them. The main pots of money they go to are going to be
property tax, that first one, and then local option sales tax. And so, you'll see that property tax declined, but local option sales tax went up over 6 million. And so, that's how they balance the number. So, the good news in this is
this is 3.6 million over maintenance of effort, which is a huge increase from where we were on Thursday. Uh, that's going to be a battle to get through commission, but there's a couple reasons. One, we're opening a new
school, and so opening a new school usually has a $3 to5 million cost. plus to keep up with inflation. Um the county was at about a $10 million deficit at a $200 million budget. I don't think they have a budgeted deficit anymore. When you control revenue, that's pretty easy
to to do. And we instead have 3.6 million, but we greatly appreciate that portion. Um but you'll see if you flip to the second page, we know on Thursday we were at a 13,576,000
deficit. We are now at $9.9 million deficit which is pretty in line about an average where we've been the last couple years. And so couple caveats to that. One, we have decreased and these are this is
good news. We've decreased our textbook line item by $2 million. that $2 million is going to come back in play for that indirect cost that you just we talked about just a second ago so that we can go ahead and start
purchasing some of the textbooks before June 30th um because we have additional revenue in this year's funds. Second, that allows us to get to a 2% raise. So this 9.9 deficit gets us to a 2% raise for all
staff. So that was the offset. So, we got 3.6 million additional dropped us from that 13.6 to right at 9.9. I told you guys the other day that it was about 1 something
million to get an additional one or additional.3% raise. That's where the textbook number came from. So, Brian and I have been running numbers non-stop. I'm working with Excel non-stop trying to make uh the numbers work. And so, that is where we are as of right now.
things still may change by Thursday, but we will send this if unless anybody has something that they want us to look at, we'll send this to Michael to put into the spreadsheet tonight and then it'll be come back to you all >> hopefully as soon as possible. Um, so it'll be in the format that you were
used to seeing, okay? >> Instead of this strange format, okay? But you will see that the big changes on the revenue were property tax went down but sales tax went up, wheel tax went up, business tax went down, mixed drink
tax went up, and then state revenue TVA went up a little bit. And so that's kind of where the the revenue portions went to. Again, this could change in June. We will also have to approve our salary
scale on Thursday knowing that if the revenue goes down, we will have to back off of that 2% raise and come down and we'll make that clear to employees as well. If something happens to revenue and it goes down, we'll have to go back to our 1.9, 1.8, 1.7 depending on what revenue is. Um, but that's kind of our
update of where we are. I don't think anything else has changed. 143 has a 2% raise included as well. Yeah, 143 I put 2% in that and it only raised or put us in the deficit only about $28,000 more. So it but like I said, we have an
abundance of fund balance in there, too. So we'll be fine. >> Yes, M. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. But this includes us absorbing the extra cost for the insurance. >> Half of Yeah, like we've been doing the last. So we're covering about 5 and a half% of
it. >> Okay. Thank you. of an 11% increase, which is more than we've been covering. A lot more. >> Okay. >> And it includes includes us still covering the amounts like we have for the um stone crest and that type of stuff. It didn't include getting rid of
any of those changes at all. I know that's always an option the board can consider. This includes us keeping everything else status quo. >> Yes, Mr. I don't know if it would be uh in fund 141 or not, but we had had discussion at the budget workshop about the increase
in cost to our bus contractors. Is there anything in here >> that has the 4,000 still in here plus the 2.5% for next year? >> So, if there's anything else the board needs to to look at that would need to need to know pretty soon to include
that. Okay. Uh well, when do we have to have that information by Thursday or >> Yeah, it probably need to be on the floor on Thursday probably because then we can always get that to
Michael um on the floor on Thursday. >> Okay. Well, I'd like >> got some ideas of what you would like for us to do, then we can have different if there's different dollar amounts, maybe $500 or $1,000, something like just a couple options, then I can have those both presented into the different
numbers. Yeah, I mean I just think that's something that we need to look again. We we can circle back around a thousand times and say that, you know, we none of us wants to be here. We'd rather be back on county insurance, but where we're at, I just don't want to run into any of the situations that we ran into earlier this year. So,
>> I don't I don't have an idea that I'm just willing to throw out just yet. I'd like to have some time to to figure that out, but maybe we can have some conversations and by Thursday we can have something y >> that would help them out. Even if it's just a little bit, >> that would have to be after July 1st, though. The 4,000 would be before that
other amount would have to be after July 1st. >> Yeah. And I think that would be understood, but it's still something. Yep. >> Yes. Miss Darby, >> Dr. Sullivan, from what I've heard, and I don't know, Mr. M, if you can weigh in on this maybe, but from what I heard, it
seems like the majority of the increases on the umbrella side, which is not as expensive. So, if we had an idea, do we have any idea of what that average looks like? I mean, I know it's probably going to be a little different for everybody, but do
you have an idea of what that average looks like? >> You want me to >> Anybody? >> I I I'll be glad to address it. I've asked a dozen of them to send me their their projected binders, you know, and and one of the insurance agents and I talked
or exchange emails today. It it it appears that the umbrella has gone. Most of them is somewhere between $600 and $800 a year, which is that million dollar, right, Jeff? It's that million dollar additional umbrella that we
required. And most of them have gone up to somewhere $1,400 $1,600. So what Caleb Caleb had said, a 50% increase, it what it is a 50% increase in that one part of the insurance, not the entire
insurance. So it's it's, you know, $500 to $800 or something like that. They're, you know, two and a half percent increase is going to yield them somewhere around 22 $2,400. So, you know, Butch made the statement the
other night, you know, it's kind of the cost of doing business. I hate it, but my, you know, my insurance has gone up, your insurance gone up, every one of these people sitting in this room's gone up. Is is I don't know. So I that was one reason I thought we built the you know increase
into the contract. But yes to answer that question somewhere $500 $800. >> Dr. Svin, could you look at maybe what it would look like if we did I know you said it might be doable to do like a few hundred dollars or something
along those lines. Um I know they're getting the two and a half% increase. We're also doing 2% for >> all of our other staff. Um, and we're also covering half of their insurance increase as well. So, I wonder what it would look like if we tried to do
something similar. >> $500 roughly be about $175,000. >> Yeah. >> At 350. >> What's What's a penny y? >> Don't know yet because we don't have tax rate. We don't have tax.
>> No, but I mean >> generally >> some somebody knows something somewhere. >> I wish I did. >> Well, Michael hadn't told us it. No. >> I got revenue today. Mr. Bond,
>> he doesn't give us that information till he sends us tax rate information. >> All right. All right. I'll buy I'll buy into that. I just >> Okay. If you could get that >> okay >> specific number and maybe where we might be able to find that for Thursday for
the board to discuss. I think that would be good. >> I'm looking at you. I need a teacher position. >> We'll discuss later. >> Any other comments towards that? Okay, let's go on to director's update. >> Yeah, just a reminder, graduations start
tomorrow. Um, of course, budget meeting is 3:30 on Thursday. So, 3:30 on Thursday. That's all I've got. >> Okay. I have something to bring up in general discussion and I'm going to try to remember to do it on Thursday as well. Uh I'm in the process of dropping
off the applications uh high school age special education students from 14 to 22 camp that I started prior to coming on the board with Discovery Center. It's going to be at Riverdale High School this year. Uh it's going to be July 6th through the 10th. Uh I'm in need of uh
some special ed teachers and some EAs to help us because we would like to have at least 20 kids this year. We had close to that last year. And uh I'm in the process of dropping them off at the schools themselves. I've dropped it off at two or three high schools and I'm going to finish them this week. Uh we
also put a QR code. Uh Discovery Center helped us put a QR code on the Camp Wonder Facebook page. So if you're a parent or uh uh someone that needs information regarding that, you can look and you can also apply to this to the
camp uh at the QR code on camp wonder is the name of the uh Facebook page. And so we would love to have uh the kiddos. This year we are going to celebrate America because this is our 250th birthday and we're going to talk all about patriotism and the history of this
country. So, I'm even kind of dabbling with the patriot of the day. And Mr. Ramsay got my brain going when he said he could draw dress up as George Washington. I think George Washington needs to take an appearance at Camp
Wonder. I think the children need to meet our first president. So, I will be talking tomorrow. >> I think I think that I think that outfit look really nice on you. Uh but anybody else go to ajourn? >> I've got one thing.
>> Oh yeah, one thing >> and just so and this is just on one thing. I was just running the number somebody asked about shared penny. Last year shared penny was 1 mil 1.5 mill almost 1.6 million. Um unshared was 1.3.
just that 1% of kids on every penny um looks just on the penny is almost $26,000 per property tax penny and then you add in sales tax the weighted factor it it's
millions upon millions of dollars so that's why that weighted factor adds so much >> sorry >> yes ma >> I got to make a point talking about No you talking about revenue You did and I guess I'm living in caveman era or
something. Did y'all know that there was a 15% liquor by the drink tax in the state of Tennessee and half of it half of it goes to education. I did not know it was allocated that way. I knew it was pretty
high, but that is in in addition to sales tax. >> $650,000. Yes, sir. >> Yeah. >> Yes. It's going up this year. >> Yeah. I I I had never thought about it on a percentage basis and how much that that's one of those great sin taxes, right? They talk about I guess that's we
don't have a state income taxes because we have those taxes. >> It's going up $15,000 projected. >> Yeah, I believe it. If you go up and down Medical Center Parkway on a Saturday night, you can't get in a restaurant. I would believe it. So anyway, just a fun fact right there.
Well, if that's all, we're adjourned. >> I want to show you something.