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. This evening, mister Vaughn is in charge of our prayer and pledge. Alright. If everyone would join me in a moment of silence, personal reflection or silent prayer. And also at this time, I would ask the community and the school system to be in prayer for doctor McPhee and his family at the passing of his lovely wife. Please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. I'm glad to wait.
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. First up, we have the approval of the agenda. Give everyone just a second to look at this. Yes. I'd like to call everybody's attention just to number 11. I think I've spoken just about everybody individually. We did add an item based on conversations today. We have a county commission budget meeting going on at the same time tonight.
And so in order for to be able to move forward with the McFadden properties, instead of utilizing fund balance, we're going to request to use fund one eighty nine. We have some money available from the former Church Street property that we can utilize instead of fund balance. So we did have to add that this afternoon because it's time sensitive because budget is meeting at the same time. Okay. Thank you. Move to approve with the changes. Thank you, miss Rosales. Very good. Thank you, mister Ball. All in favor say aye.
Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next, we have the approval of the consent agenda. Move to approve. Thank you. Thank you, mister Rosales. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. We have no guest speaker tonight. We do have one person for public comment. When I call your name, please come up to the podium. We have Karen Coblio Harrell. Good evening. Thank you for allowing me to speak. I'm Karen Cablio Harrell. We live in the Chartersley neighborhood in Rockville. I'm here tonight representing more than 20 parents from our neighborhood who have signed a
formal request asking the board to consider a small amendment to the rezoning plan. I understand the board has already voted and I respect the work and community input that went into that decision. Our request is not to reopen the entire plan. It is a small targeted amendment affecting our Rockville neighborhood. Next year, this change would impact a dozen students. Our children have Rockville addresses and Rockville identities. Yet under the new map, they would be moved out of Rockville for middle school into Murfreesboro schools only to return to Rockville high two years later.
That disruption doesn't make sense, especially for our students like my daughter who has an IEP and my son who receives intervention services. Stability matters, relationship with teachers, support staff, and most importantly their peers matter. I'm also here on behalf of six or seven middle school boys from our neighborhood who showed up at my home after learning they were being moved out of Rockville schools, and asked me to fight for them to stay. In addition, we have three middle school band students in our neighborhood, and moving them at this very early stage of their musical journey would be incredibly detrimental to their
growth and continuity in the program. We are simply asking the board to consider an amendment to keep Rockville address children aligned with Rockville Schools so our kids are not uprooted twice in two years with no educational benefit. Thank you for your time and your service to our families. And I brought this visual. This is where we are. Would you like that? Sure. Do you wanna keep it? That's fine if you wanna hand it. I actually brought the for this formal request. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, guys.
Number seven. Alright. Number seven is a resolution supporting expanded financial literacy instruction. As we talked about at our work session, local boards across Tennessee are being asked to partner with the Tennessee Financial Literacy Commission to strengthen financial literacy education for students of all ages. Currently, Tennessee requires financial literacy instruction at the high school level. However, there's no comparable requirement in elementary or middle school grades. This resolution affirms the board's commitment to prioritizing financial literacy instruction at earlier grade levels in Rutherford County Schools. Research and best practice show that foundational financial literacy skills or financial skills such as
budgeting, saving, and responsible decision making are most effective when introduced before high school. By adopting this resolution, the board expresses its interest to ensure that Rutherford County students receive age appropriate financial literacy instruction by the end of fourth grade and again by the end of eighth grade, creating a continuum of learning that prepares students for high school post secondary education in adulthood. And just so it's on the record, I did not read this on Tuesday, but for Thursday today. Resolution to promote financial literacy instruction. Whereas the Tennessee Financial Literacy Commission has identified a critical need to improve financial literacy
across all age groups in the state as outlined in the Tennessee financial wellness scorecard, and whereas early exposure to financial concepts significantly improves long term financial behaviors and decision making skills, and whereas the commission provides free high quality resources and professional development to educators including digital tools, lesson plan, training opportunities that support the integration of financial literacy into classroom instruction. Now for now therefore be it resolved that the Rutherford County Board of Education affirms its commitments preparing students for lifelong financial well-being by the end of fourth grade, fourth
and eighth grades. Be it further resolved that the board encourages schools and educators to identify and implement age appropriate financial literacy touch points that align with local curriculum and instructional goals. Participate in professional development opportunities offered by the Tennessee Financial Literacy Commission. Incorporate TNFLC provided resources into classroom instruction to enhance student engagement and understanding of personal finance and share implementation strategies and outcomes to support continuous improvement and collaborations across schools. So that is the resolution. Thank you, mister Collins.
Thank you, mister Rosales. Before we vote, I just wanted to add a little information. And so this is like the resolution said, it was a scorecard because they didn't have it all on Tuesday where we're discussing. But one of the reasons why they're pushing so much for this is because here in Rutherford County, our homeownership isn't as high comparable to what the state. And so they believe that affordability begins with financial literacy. So they're making a big huge push in trying to teach the children to lay
down this foundation in budget management and money management, that starts at an early age and wanting to start with the formative years. And that's where they identified grades fourth and eighth grade, specifically for elementary school and for middle school. Since we already have it for high school, it's required. They wanted to push it down to that. So I just wanted to add a little bit more context of why I proposed this resolution, and I'm so in favor of this. And if the board so chooses, it will be a good thing for our kids.
Okay. Thank you for that context. Any other comments or questions? Okay. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next, we have number b. So on Tuesday, we had a presentation from the Nashville anti human trafficking coalition. And so the based on the conversation, the I think the next step would be to review parent and student programming for potential use. We could do it in the spring. We actually did do some, parent meetings last year as well and with a different
group. And so if was the board's intent after getting the materials we can look at that for the spring or definitely the fall. Okay. We can do it this spring as well. Okay. Wonderful. Any comments or question? Yes. Move to approve. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Rosales. Thank you, Mr. Vaughn. Any other comments? I obviously think this is a wonderful program and like to see us move forward as quickly as possible. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next. Next is the RFP request for bus contractor insurance. I think mister Vaught had some information earlier.
To kinda give y'all an update, I ended up running into, Ed Elam at a meeting the other night. And they are already operating under that assumption that the if you all remember, we passed or recommended or instructed the director to send a letter, both to Merrickar and the County Commission back in May or June to ask them to include the RFP. And if I remember correctly, at that time, we tried to do a six month
deal and nobody would take it, but they are under that auspice. They are working on it right now, but it it so it will be included in this year's, whatever you wanna call it, insurance bid. And so I don't think there's any action that we need to take tonight. I just wanna make sure the reason I brought it up though, and I wanna make we're that we were all still on the same page, but I don't think there's any reason to send it to the county commission again. And would you mind would you mind forwarding that to me and the rest of the board just because I you have it in writing from health?
The follow-up, what I'm reading right here is is, Susan McQueary sent me the documents of where the, you know, the letter and all that kind of stuff. So I'll I'll forward this to, doctor Sullivan and he can forward it to all well, I I don't know. I'll get it to all y'all. It's it's just it's a two or three page letter that Susan was kind enough to send to me yesterday afternoon after Ed and I just happened to run into each other the other night. So no harm, no foul. I think it was good discussion the other night. Yes. Mister Tibb.
Yeah. I'll just second what mister Vault has said. I did talk to, Ed Elam today as well, not knowing that that conversation had already been had. And, everything that he just mentioned, it was the same thing that was told to me that it happened back in May. So we should be good to go. They are gonna put out for bid. It does it's not a guarantee that it's gonna get picked up, but at least the county commission is doing some due diligence and putting it out there for bid. So we'll know more later. I think he said we'd know something in April as to whether or not there was anybody that accepted it back or not.
So we'll just move on then. Okay. Number eight. Instruction. And this is we discussed on Tuesday, the twenty twenty six charter review committee as required by policy. We have doctor McCann here if you have any questions. Who is our school choice coordinator? I'll entertain a motion. Move to approve. Thank you, miss Chitbull. Thank you, miss Sharp. Okay. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next nine, legal. Transfer student under discipline. The board's been requested to admit a transfer student from another school system under discipline. The student was expelled for possession of THC.
According to policy 6.318, the board may deny admissions of any student except those in state custody when a student transfers from another school system under suspension or expulsion. Director of schools recommendation is to admit and place into alternative school. I'll entertain a motion. I have a question, madam chair. Yes, miss. Doctor Sullivan, do we have room at the alternative school? We just started a new semester, so we've got a little bit more. So we got room? Okay. K. Any other questions? Comments? Okay. I'll take entertain a motion. I'll approve. Say again. Okay. Thank you, mister Vaughn. And thank I think Tammy okay.
Miss Sharp. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes. Number 10. First, we have Poplar Hill Elementary interior digital display board. Doctor Jason Eaton requested to install an interior digital display board. The cost for this request is 30,000 and is at no cost to the board. Engineering and construction reviewed the request and has no objections. Any comments or questions? Yes, miss, Darcy. Do I see the right thing when, on the tab, does it say that this is, like, 70 or something in total? Pull that up. There's three there's three different bids.
One is 30, one is 70, and one's a 100. Yes. Okay. That's not And I did question it because that's a big discrepancy. It is. And I quiz doctor Eaton quite heavily, and he's very satisfied that the 30 has everything they want. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Especially being in elementary school. Now I remember that. Correct. Yep. Yes. Any other comments or questions? Move to approve. Thank you. Make things miss Rosales. Thank you, mister Vaughn. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next. Christiana Middle Baseball scoreboard request.
Doctor Kyle Nicks and Christiana Middle School has been offered the existing Riverdale High School scoreboard. Christiana Middle will be responsible for relocation and installation. The cost for relocation and installation is $6,350. Engineering construction has reviewed the request and makes no and has no objections. Move to approve. Thank you, mister Vaughn. Second. Thank you, mister Tidwell. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Alright. Next we have the Maples development landscape easement request. The Maples development adjacent to Whitworth Buchanan Middle has requested an amendment to the agreement allowing them to landscape. This agreement does not change or alter our easement agreement.
The development is to enlarge the parking area and needs to make adjustments to our existing agreement. Engineering construction reviewed this agreement and has no objections. Any comments or questions? Thank you, mister Vaught. Thank you, mister Vaught. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next. Transportation contract termination pursuant to section 8.1 of the Rutherford County Board of Education bus contract. Transportation departments received an email notification on 01/02/2026 from Mindy Patterson for bus two fifty one requesting voluntary termination. Any comments or questions? I'll entertain a motion.
Thank you miss So Thank you, mister Tidwell. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes. Number 11. So we'll do the financial update in just a second. We'll approve this hopefully first. In partnership with the county finance department, this is a request to utilize fund one 189, which is our building projects. These funds are currently out of allocated to the Church Street property. And we're requesting to allocate them to McFadden School of Excellence adjacent property acquisitions and future renovations. This will replace the previously approved motion requesting the use of fund 141 fund balance
for the above purchases. Any other comments or questions? Move to approve. Thank you, miss Rosella. Second. Thank you, miss Shippen. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you all very much. And then just a quick, financial update. Just to start, we'll have the other one later. This is a quick, just two page update of where we are now that we are just about halfway through. I know that our calendar is halfway through, but school day wise, we're not quite halfway through yet. We're gonna look at revenue first. You'll see that property tax is a little bit more than half, which is actually
pretty good because we're in the January, February. So that's that's looking good. A lot of these are just miscellaneous areas that don't have a lot of revenue. The percent of the budget looks high, but they're considering our budget pretty small amounts. The main ones that for our funding locally are current property tax and then local option sales tax. You will see local option sales tax is we've collected 47,000,000 already. That's actually really good because it's a couple months behind.
Usually two months behind and we're at 45%. So that that's trending above where it has been. Yes. And it's also hitting the Christmas months. And so that's that's a very good thing as we talk about, unfortunately, whatever is extra at the end of the year goes into our fund balance. We don't just get to to utilize it. It goes into the fund balance that we didn't have to go ask permission, to utilize. Another one that is performing well above, it's gonna decline a little bit because the interest rates are declining. But investment income, this is part of maintenance of effort so it's why it doesn't
go up a ton. The revenue is controlled by county finance and they budgeted 1.5. We've already collected 1.8. And so halfway through the year, we should at least get to 3,000,000. So a million and a half over that. TISA, we're right at where we're 50% of the year, 50% collection. The we have I'm looking about almost seven or eight from the bottom, paid parental leave. We budgeted 1.2. We've only collected 184,000. We haven't submitted all of our, reimbursement requests yet.
And so that's why one of those looks lower. So that's any questions on our revenue? Overall revenue looks good. A little bit of everything. It it makes up part of our, payments of effort. So it's just the overall tax. It's been going strong since the seventies. Yes. It has. Yeah. And then on the back are our expenditures. You're gonna see month to date is not a a whole lot, depending on what account it is and based on what paychecks have run, because you have year to date in the middle and month to date to the right. We're looking really anything that would be over in the the 50%, would be a
concern. But a lot of these, I can explain if they're close. If I look at seventy two one one zero attendance, we have Skyward and Edge Annuity, which is our new one that we're doing this year. So we're we're kinda doing two of those. You look down at technology, very similar. We purchase our items at the beginning of the year so we can utilize them for the rest of the year. Director of schools, our TSBA toss fees, all of those different things come out at the very beginning of the year. Human resources, personnel, again all of our things.
Usually we're doing most of our background checks, more big hiring season is the beginning of the year. Operation of the plant, maintenance of the plant are close to 50. Those are two lines that we definitely watch. Community services is only $10,000 so we watch that line. And then regular capital outlay is 6.2. We spent 3.7. And again, those are things that come up throughout the year that we try to take care of. So overall, the percent of the budget spent is 44.96. And we're about 40 mid forties percent of the year.
So we talked to last year's budget being within about a percent of our operating budget and that's right about where we are. So Yes, mister Tidwell. So Doctor. Sullivan, revenues and everything's looking good and the budgets looking good on both ends. So both ways are trending in the right direction. Yep. That's great. So far, so good. So far, so good. Any other comments or questions? Okay. We did start, emailed the board today our budget calendar. Our budget season has officially, started.
I have not emailed that. Did I email that? Okay. I sent so many emails about budgets today. I could not remember who I emailed and who I didn't. So email budget calendar to everybody today. We will have the county's budget calendar. It's a week earlier than normal, which is just like last year. They have to have their meeting done by June 30. They are doing theirs the Monday earlier. They could have it June 29. They have their set for June 22, which pushes ours up. We have to have ours done then by June 15. So it moved us up a little bit.
And our statutory requirement to have our budget done is May 15. That's all I got. How about director's update? Nothing. That's it? Okay. General discussion? Madam chair. Yes. Mister Rosales. Thank you. I do wanna bring up one thing for discussion. I did get a request from a constituent, and she came and spoke, And it was to for to bring up for discretion the reconsideration of rezoning a subdivision in Trotters Lane that's in Rockville. As you saw on the map, that subdivision is extremely close to the middle school.
And the history of that location has been Triple Rockville, and this will be the first year they will be rezoned out of Rockville to a different school. Where it gets a little tricky tricky is that in concept one, they were actually, zoned in that for that area. But then concept two, they were rezoned out of Rockville to a new area. And so the parents and the have raised some concerns with, the kids, with their
special needs, and then just really having consistency for them. So I just wanna bring up for discussion before the board. Any comments or questions? Okay. My only comment would be I definitely, of course, understand, where our parents come from when they talk about zoning. I hate rezoning. When we are looking at these lines, anytime we start, even though it's just twelve, fourteen, even just one or two students, when we start moving kids, it has a domino effect everywhere else. This neighborhood, unfortunately, we used Windrow Road as the cutoff as I'm I've got it
pulled up right now. In Windrow Road, one side went to Rockville, one side went to Blackman. I'd have to pull it, but since Rockville Middle has been there, they probably have been Rockville Middle. Before that, they would have been Blackmon Middle, would have been my guess. And so before 02/1978, it probably would have been Blackmon. Of course, there's been a ton of growth in that area. And so that that's my if you start moving one, then you've got to start moving up every all kinds. That's the only problem here. No. No. It doesn't. So it'll be a little difficult to Yes. Yeah. Make the change?
Yeah. Yeah. Because then you're you're then you've got every neighborhood can make an argument for I need my neighborhood moving. I need my neighborhood moving. I need my neighborhood. And it's not a I think it's a valid valid argument. I know exactly where that is. Well, I tried to make the change. So sorry. Don't know whether to move forward with the motion if there's not more support for this because I don't hear anybody else saying anything. So Yeah. Mister Tifel. Thank you for addressing that, doctor Sullivan. I agree that it's a domino effect. I had a couple of little neighborhoods that were changed from what they historically were.
Fortunately, that's part of growing. We've had a lot of these discussions. But if we make an exemption for this particular pocket after we went through everything that we went through, then I'm sure we'll all be getting emails about our own zones and our, you know, what neighborhoods would like to be exempted back out. So do doing our best. Trying to. We did the grandfathering thing. I wish it wasn't this way, but as long as Murfreesboro, Rutherford County continues to grow at the pace that it does, and we continue to build schools, we're still gonna have to rezone. We're just trying to spread that out as much as possible.
But I do appreciate the parents showing up tonight. Yes, miss Darby. Yes. Doctor Sullivan, is there any, consideration given to those with IEPs or five zero four plans in that regard? Anytime you have, five zero fours or students with disabilities, those change of placements are all handled through the IEP process instead of through a county zoning process. And so they all students are general education students first. So that's how we identify all students.
And then if it is a different placement, they can request that through an IEP placement. An IEP. And so so a parent with a special needs child can address the rezoning issue through their IEP? Historically, it's that's not usually an approved reason. There needs to be a since most of our schools have the same academic programs, but that would be the the reason if you're a parent wants to say special education services are gonna cause a a significant learning issue for my child with rezoning, the IEP process will be the way to go.
Okay. Miss Maxwell? Chastain, anything you wanna add to that? Sorry. Sorry. Just a moment. I did just wanna reiterate what you said about the fact that our schools offer these services. I mean, we take that very seriously at whatever school the student is zoned for. So it would have to be a case a pretty extreme case that we would all agree that they would need to stay at that same placement. And it it has happened, I believe, once or twice. But as a general rule, we have good programs across the district. Mister Tidwell? Doctor Sullivan, can you speak to the fact that there you know, there's 15 exemption
seats at every school, and those deadlines are coming up. I don't know if James or doctor Sullivan, whoever wants to tackle that. But letting the people know that if they are looking toward that, there's a timeline. Yep. Absolutely. And doctor McCann's here as well. He's our choice school coordinator, but either of us can speak about this. We have been advertising pretty heavily that there is a deadline to apply for the choice lottery seats. There are at least 15 in every zone school. We're taking applications through the thirty first. This is part of a state law that says anytime we have open seats we
have to advertise those, take applications for at least thirty days. We do we do more than that, and then we'll hold a random lottery to decide who gets those. And so that's the process. That'll be decided in early February by, doctor McCann's office. And then any remaining seats, we typically will hold another round of applications to do a second lottery. Is that correct? What about the, eighth grade grandfather and that deadline is this Friday? It is a week from tomorrow. Friday. It's the sixteenth. Sorry. There's no harm in getting it in by tomorrow, of course.
But it's a week from tomorrow is the deadline. We've pushed that out several times, and and over this next week, it's gonna go out every single day. The schools are also trying to make sure that parents know there's a a one's form that's unique for the district that we're using so that we can, make sure the process is uniform. It's suitable. And then the 30 is the deadline for all the other choice seats in general. Yes, sir. Two important deadlines in January. One is for the eighth grade grandfather. That's the sixteenth. Yep. For the choice school lottery applications and all of your magnet schools and those types
of applications, that's the 30. Alright. Thank you. I don't remember if it's doctor McCann or James the who has the spreadsheet of all the, eighth grade grandfather and miss Powers has that. She's been sharing. That's right. I'll get the numbers from miss Powers. Yeah. That's right. She's our most that's right. I I assigned that. You're correct. And she's been singing out multiple times to us to first principles and the rest of us. Any other comments or questions? Yes, miss Sharp. Jazz Fest. Mark your calendars. We're back at the fountains. You know, there'll be if there's a rain day, we'll be back at Oakland Middle,
but May. So we've got the whole venue, and it's gonna be a great two day event. So get ready. Mister mister Vaught. We're under other discussion. Is that right? Yes. Part of me says don't do this, and part of me says do. So I I wanna give every every one of y'all an observation. We all sat through the joint budget and health and ed meeting the other night, and I kinda got tickled a little bit listening to the questions and the dialogue.
Doctor Sullivan, nothing against you, but if I would have closed my eyes, it felt like it was forty years ago. It felt like 1986 all over again. Those were the same questions, the same dialogue that the Commission of 1986, nineteen eighty eight, nineteen ninety had for the school board at that time. I really thought maybe we were beyond some of that. But some of the dialogue appeared to me to be that maybe what this board
asks for sometimes and what we firmly believe that is in the best interest of the students and the teachers and the parents is not always taken literally. I guess that would be a fair statement. And and so where this is leading me is the documentation. I have told all of y'all since I've been here the last couple, what, eighteen months now that I am so impressed with the data that Rob and his staff put together. If we would have had that four years ago, I I don't know that schools
would be in different locations than they are now, but maybe we could have seen into the future better than than we did back then. But, I I listened to some of the dialogue, and it was almost to the point that some of the commissioners, I don't think they believed Rob. I hate to say it that way, but it was just it was like, are you sure? You know? And and, you know, he is very methodical in what he goes through. So leads me to this. And I I sent his email to, doctor Sullivan back before Christmas, and we haven't had the opportunity to talk about it.
There is a firm. I don't know if we wanna pursue it. I I think it would be valid. There's another firm called Market Graphics. And they chart all of the residential building in probably about 12 states. Most of us in the real estate business, most banks in Middle Tennessee subscribe to their service. The guy's name is Edsel Charles. He's been doing it about thirty years now. And Pinnacle is always good enough to take me along when he does a once
a year presentation, you know, in Middle Tennessee. But he this guy has got a staff and they really get down deep, I think, as much as Rob does, but they do it on a multistate basis, multicommunity basis. And they're looking at it from just the sheer numbers for real estate agents, for real estate developers, for the big the track builders that are producing all the housing in The United States or a lot of the housing in The United States right
now. So my suggestion to y'all to y'all, if if you would, maybe get on their website. It's called Market Graphics. They're based here in Nashville, I think over Brentwood. Mister Charles Edsel is a fine fellow. His staff is great. They have been very helpful to our company, our industry. Anytime I've asked them for something, they can pinpoint. But it dawned on me the other night sitting there, with some of the dialogue between the commission and you, Doctor. Sullivan and Rob, that, okay, do we need to take the position of, you know,
Ronald Reagan always said trust but verify? Would it be prudent for us to subscribe to another consultant? Here's the question I'm asking my fellow board members. Would it be prudent for us to subscribe to another consulting service that that showed similar data but not exactly the same data for a different reason? You know, Rob's doing it specifically for us, for schools, for projection. Edsel is doing it for the real estate industry. Well, that's what's driving our growth, right? So it kind of made a little sense to me.
I thought I'd bring it up for discussion. It's not very expensive. I think a year's subscription to it is about $10,000 or less. You know, we can and they could tweak it for us. I did talk to one of their, I guess, salespeople that I'm familiar with and told him why I was wanting the data. And he said, you know, we've never thought about that market before, but you he said, well, this this may be something that we could help you guys with. So I'm throwing that out there for y'all. I don't know if you want to talk about it more, if you'd like to talk to me one on one, if you want to call them, if you want
to bring it up at the next board meeting. I know it's an expenditure. I hate to spend any money. But with us traveling down this path of, you know, we're going to build, you know, dollars 500,000,000, dollars 600,000,000 worth of schools in the next ten years, I guess. And so I think any data that we could get that solidifies, that helps the Commission. This is really I mean, I think we all believe it. We all see it firsthand. Maybe the commissioners don't see it firsthand like we do because they've got other fish
to fry. They've got a jail to build. They've got solid waste to deal with. They've got law enforcement to deal with. You know, we're very focused on schools here. That's our job. And so maybe if we did that and we had this extra data, maybe it would calm the waters a little bit between the dialogue between us and the Commission. I don't want to say we have bad dialogue. I'm just saying that that that, you know, listening to the dialogue the other night, there were some questions. I don't know. Anyway, that's my 2¢ right now. Thank you, mister Vahr.
If anybody wants to ask me a question about it, I'll try to help them with it. Mister Tidwell? Yes. Mister Vahr, of course, I appreciate you bringing that before us. My question was gonna be about the price point, but you included that in there, which is not insignificant, but in comparison, maybe a useful tool to, like you said, verify the results. Would it be possible, since since you already have a relationship with them, to ask them to come present before the board when board meeting? And that way, they could kinda deliver it to the public as well so that we're making the case. I'm a big lad for example. It seems like that the organization Mhmm.
Yeah. If you're good with it. The sooner, the better. Yeah. Thank you, missus. I was just gonna say, motion that we moved down that avenue, but Okay. We're doing that. So Okay. What do we have on a sec? Miss Dart. Okay. I I agree with mister Vaughn. And there still seems to miss Darby and I were talking, there still seems to be a north and south end situation going on. And, listen, Katie and I drive up there all the time. I think some of our school, county commissioners need to come up to the North End and see and look at all the property that's available up there, because there's
still probably thousands and thousands and thousands of acres, but every time I go down Old Waldron Road and go the back way to Cool Springs, every day there's a new house built. Every day they've broken ground. And that area up there, it's it's the North End, but that area up there is it's hot. It's hot. I agree. I think that would be a good suggestion as well. Maybe we should invite them to lunch and put them in the van and everybody go drive around there and see what's going on because I truly don't think that
they know. When we talked about renovating our older schools that really hit home when they got to see for themselves because a lot of them had not been to some of these older schools in years. So I think that's a a great idea as well. Yes. Doctor Sullivan. Yeah. I think That's excellent. I think that would be helpful because ultimately, that hurts to hear that there's the same conversations, in the same tone, because it's when I go back to the relationships we've built with our county commission, I know the relationships are good, but we've worked really hard to build trust the last three or so years.
You know, we've we haven't had an audit finding in two years. We're as transparent. We open our books to everything possible. And so you you hope those conversations and that trust becomes reciprocal at some point. So anything you have ideas to to help because I'm I'm fresh out of them. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. And in case, I know someone will watch just so I was bringing it up because he did not go over his background. But in case they're watching, I know we know this. In Tennessee, I know he works we got his information from TSBA in Clarksville Montgomery.
And so then we used him. I know Lebanon Special uses him across the country. Lincoln County, which I believe is. I don't know which Lincoln that is. But some real big ones, Kansas City Public Schools. You've got Lawrence Public Schools Kansas. You've got Des Moines, Iowa. Bismarck, so you're a lot of them in the Midwest. So you've those are some big school systems. So it's not just somebody that we picked out of nowhere. And so it's I mean, it's we just pick somebody. And we were trying to do that to to show data. And so when you're showing data and then it's that's tough.
But I appreciate those comments. Okay. Miss Rosales. Yes. Anything that we can do to help to get our counter I know they understand it, but just to verify the data that I'm all for it. I wanted to go back to number 11 that we were talking about, moving the funds. So and then, within the motion within the recommendation is to use those funds to hopefully buy purchase the five properties on McFadden.
With the funds and that, that we're allocating, is there enough for purchasing all five homes? Yes. Okay. That's what I wanna verify. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? You'll give me just a second. I'll tell you exactly how much is in it. Okay. Because we don't when we talk about trust, we don't have access to run fund one eighty nine. It has to come from the county, so we got it last night. I appreciate Michael Smith working this with us. Yes. Thank you. $2,458,962.44.
So I'll repeat it again just so everybody knows. $2,458,962.44. And so basically, that assignment, how it's assigned in this, instead of saying Church Street property, Westbrooks Woods, we'll say McFadden. I would word it. School of excellent, adjacent property acquisitions, and future innovations is how it'll say. And how much is the total purchase price for all five of them? Excuse me. I got my voice, but One. I was teaching today. Yes. That sounds right.
$1.07. I'd have to go back in the minutes and look. It was 1 or 9. It's over little bit over 1,000,000. I'd have to go back in the minutes and look. I thought it was, like, 03. +1. +1. Yeah. +1. Between 13 and 14. What is it? Between 13 and 14. Yeah. Between 13. It it it was less than a million 5. I think it was a million 3 Yep. 350 is what I remember. Thank you. Yep. Okay. Any other questions or comments regarding anything tonight? All in favor? Move to adjourn. Thank you.