all right good evening we will call the meeting to order this is the April 21st 2025 meeting of the Williamson County Board of Education board members we will begin by recording attendance please do so on your devices
i could hear it but I'm not sure everyone else could there are 11 members present thank you all right we will now uh do our pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence the pledge will be led by Grayson Beasley 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 may be seated next item on our agenda is items of particular public interest which is
our public comment period we have 17 members of the public who have signed up to speak uh each person will be given a minute and a half 90 seconds for your comments uh I will call the first two people and I'll call
two at a time so the second person can be ready so um we'll start with Angela Frederick followed by Jenny Davis and the time will be on the screen in front of you so you can keep keep track of that thank you good evening board members since the last time I spoke at
this podium a lot has been discussed in the community and amongst teachers about your decision to approve a textbook that most teachers didn't vote for in the committee process i won't belabor the point beyond saying this it is disappointing that you chose not to
reconsider this vote after the mountain of feedback you received it is also disappointing that several of you chose not to respond to teachers from your districts who contacted you with concerns i want to emphasize that teachers are professionals trained in their fields who want the best for
students despite our disappointment in your decision we will use the STEM scopes textbooks that you approved we will ensure that students are taught the science standards laid out by the state of Tennessee we don't wish for there to be animosity between teachers and schoolboard members we have the same
goal in mind which is student success please work with us and seek our feedback as we move forward into the 2526 school year thank you thank you Jenny Davis followed by Hillary King Woreren
good evening um I stand before you today in front of all of these people and my two children um to tell you a story about the decision you made since your vote uh an estimated 171 community members have taken the time to email
this board including 81 teachers who who work directly with our students every day of these communications an overwhelming 148 individual people representing 86% of all of the emails received has have expressed opposition to your decision and requested
reconsideration only 25 people or 14% supported your choice these numbers aren't just statistics they represent the voices of parents educators and community members who care deeply about our students education i was particularly troubled to learn that one board member stated "We finally have a
board that is willing to reject recommendations and move forward with the schoolboard plan thank God." This comment suggests that rejecting expert recommendations was the goal rather than selecting the best educational materials for our children a board that takes
pride in dismissing the professional judgment of our educators is not serving our community well when 86% of concerned citizens including those with class burn classroom expertise oppose your decision I urge you to listen reconsider and demonstrate that you value both
community input and educational expertise thank you okay followed the next speaker after Miss Woren is Reagan Gman go ahead okay hi my name is Hillilary King Woreren i'm a licensed marriage and family therapist
as well as a mom of two um I actually attended Williamson County Public Schools from elementary through high school um I have to say I am discouraged and alarmed to hear that we have school board members claiming to know the values of the majority in Williamson
County and using that implied value system to vote against teacher recommended textbooks and curriculum tonight as we discuss AP psychology text I feel very compelled to share due to my background and life experience um for members of this board to imply that
textbooks touching on important topics such as LGBTQ plus populations do not reflect our values in Williamson County is a large misstatement we have over 200,000 Tennessee residents who identify as part of the LGBTQ plus population
this number continues to rise each year um sorry roughly 50% of those who identify in this population suffer from depression and anxiety with LGBTQ plus young people four times more likely to attempt suicide than their
peers did you know that LGBTQ young people who found their school to be affirming reported significantly lower rates of attempting and/or completing suicide the comments and broader decisions being made about certain topics such as these going against values in Williamson County is sending a
grim message to youth and their families who are trusting this community trusting schools and teachers to be a protective factor for their children should I stop please okay thank you so much reagan Gman followed by Kim Harris
i think there's going to be a theme today hi my name is Reagan Gman i was born and raised in Franklin Tennessee as a matter of fact I was born in this building that we're in i I graduated from Franklin High School and both of my parents are Williamson County school
teachers one retired and one currently we all know that we have a fabulous school system according to the Tennessee Department of Education we have the highest TCAP scores in the state we have the highest composite ACT score in the state we had 85 merit
scholarship finalist this year uh Tennessee's public school system in Williamson County has been the crown jewel as long as I've been alive and if anybody asks me why that is I can give them
2,363 excellent reasons why we have 2,363 teachers in our school system they break their backs every day to educate our youth my father who teaches AP level courses he takes time
before school after school even on the weekends to make sure these kids are successful and he is one of many teachers that do this so my ask of this board is to trust these teachers if they make a recommendation to you take it
uphold what's written in your own Williamson County School Board education philosophy that says and I quote to request the advice and support of the citizens of the community and the professional staff in a time when coming together is
so important I ask you guys to please support our teachers and be a benefit not a barrier kim Harris followed by Sarah Robinson good evening as a parent of a child in a Williamson County public school I've been deeply interested in the process of
selecting a new textbook since I learned about it last fall um from an email from my kids school so first of all I want to thank the committee that spent so many hours and so much of their energy reviewing and reading material to make a recommendation what a privilege it is
that we live in a community where teachers parents schoolboard members community members care so deeply about the future of education in our community and part of that care is demonstrated in an oath that all of the voting members took before participating and weighing
in on a recommendation the oath reads as follows i do hereby declare that I am not now directly or indirectly financially interested in or employed by any textbook publisher or agency and that I will not become directly or indirectly financially interested in any of the proposed contracts nor in any
book nor in any publishing concern handling or offering any books of other publications to the committee of which I am a member for the listing and adoption and I do by here promise hereby promise that I'll act honestly faithfully and conscientiously and in all respects will discharge my duty as a member of the committee to the best of my skill and
ability as we move forward with this selection as well as any other textbook selections that come forward I would like to request that all members of the committee both voting and non-voting board members are asked to sign and commit to this oath given that the non- voting board member of this committee
made the recommendation to diverge from the rest of the committee's selection in favor of the textbook ultimately selected we should ensure that the utmost ethical practices are followed and have that board member sign the oath as all of the other committee members did thank you sarah Robinson followed by Tony Cotto i
thought have I would have three minutes so I apologize for speaking really fast um hello my name is Sarah Robinson i was born and raised in Franklin grew up going to Williamson County Schools and currently an elementary librarian in the district i am here to voice my concerns for the changes to policy
4.403 pertaining to the addition of the mature materials list i want to start out by saying thank you to Donna Clemens for meeting with me last week to discuss the policy and my concerns i wanted to remind the board and the public of the things that WCS already has in place we've always worked to have age
appropriate books in our libraries our library collections are posted on each of our schools websites there is also a policy in place for parents to inform the librarian of the book titles they don't want their child checking out a few of my concerns are as followed if this goes into effect July 1st since librarians are not required to work over
the summer as 10-month employees there will not be a list for parents to review to make an informed decision for next school year i ask if this is passed to please allow us to have this year to start a list if any and then to place it on Skyward next year as an opt out in order for parents to make an informed
decision lastly the wording mature is very misleading it makes it sound like we have R-rated materials in our library please allow the librarians to determine a better suited word as WCS educators we strive on not only building relationships with students but with families there is and will always be
open communication and transparency between us and our stakeholders our goal as public school librarians is to get books in the hands of our students and foster the love of reading thank you for your time after Tony Caldwell is Ashley Webster
all right good evening i asked to speak today primarily regarding your vote for science textbooks at last month's meeting let's be very clear about the facts the majority of the board decided that your knowledge and judgment are better than that of our professional educators the fact that you did not seek
to understand our teachers recommendations or have a rep from the board at all or even most committee meetings demonstrates either incompetence or a willful disregard for the committee's recommendations as I do not choose to believe you are incompetent it is clear to me that the
majority of you very intentionally decided to ignore what our professional educators recommended and further you decided to impose your personal and/or partisan ideologies on our students my ask is simple please represent the voices of the vast majority of
Williamson County parents please work to seek out our voices not only those of a very small but loud minority groups we do not want you to ignore the recommendations of our professional educators we do not want you to tell our librarians how to do their jobs or to
ban more books we do not want you to make more books harder to read by imposing opt-in requirements for selected books instead of allowing opt out options for the minority of parents who want to limit access to books for their kids instead we want you to show
trust and respect for our teachers our professional educators by listening to and showing proper difference to their recommendations and we want you to trust our librarians to do their jobs and to let our kids read books that teach them about the diverse world that we live in
thank you for listening is Ashley Webster here okay we'll we'll move to Amy Cook followed by Vivian Cook so so far we're at 100% because we have two more coming in with the same agreement uh but I'm actually here today
to talk about uh the fine arts for elementary school this time so I thank you guys so much for all your attention for the middle school fine arts and now I want to just focus on the elementary so this year my daughter has had the opportunity to be in a school play Willy
Wonka and she's on the yearbook staff the run club and inspire crew and lastly the choir that y'all heard today sorry I'm loud and I just want to say we have the best teachers in the world and they just don't get paid what they're
supposed to get paid so I'm just going to go off script because I only have 48 seconds left but Miss Napier she is the most amazing human she's probably your best employee in Williamson County Schools and she makes about $2 an hour when it's all said and done on the
yearbook staff it is just ridiculous to me that we could have middle school and high school yearbook staff making more than the elementary kids who Vivy's great but she's not going to be able to do all the different things that the high school students could do on the
yearbook yet they get paid the least amount i don't think that's fair but I also want to say most importantly our teachers they did not have to sit on that committee they did not have to review those books they did that because they know the best interest of our kids
and I have two middle schoolers now that are going to be taught from a curriculum that none of my kids teachers wanted to speak on so thank you good evening members of the school board my name is Vivian Cook and I'm a fourth grader at Milk Creek Elementary School first I want to say thank you for all
the support for your fine arts supplements for middle school teachers now I need to talk to you guys about the elementary school this year I had the incredible opportunity opportunity to be in the school play Willy Wonka i'm also in the yearbook staff in the run club
and inspire crew and lastly the choir i have the best teachers in the world and they put so in so much time they do so much for our school and I want to make sure they are treated like superheroes they are i know firsthand how much time I spent participating in these
activities and I know they spend almost the same amount of time if not more outside the time they've spent with us to prepare for instance I've spent approximately 20 hours for the yearbook but our director has spent up 574 hours
and come to all of our school events which is a lot of time this equals $2 an hour that's not okay i also hope that you will listen to our teachers when they are on committees because they know what's best for us they inspire us every day and it's important that they feel
supported we trust our teachers thank you for our your time thank you so much uh the next two Carrie Bernard and Genevie Pos good evening members of the board my name is Carrie Barnard i am a resident of Franklin and mother of two
school-aged children my husband and I moved our family to Williamson County for the impressive public schools six years ago we have grown increasingly concerned with the school board's actions as of late last month in an entirely unprecedented move the majority of you voted to override the science
textbook selection for our K through8 students i would like to thank Eric Welch and Melissa Wyatt for voting with our teachers and ultimately for the students while I recognize that many of you have teaching experience and advanced degrees not a single one of you
is currently teaching in the classroom i find it astonishing that after learning that the science textbook committee which I would add is significantly larger and arguably more qualified came to a different decision than some of the school board members that many of you continued with your vote our teachers
are fantastic and the decision to override what they view as the best way to help our children to succeed is irresponsible and I urge you to reconsider your vote not only did many of you vote against our teachers you also ignored Williamson County School's leadership to quote Dave
Allen "Curriculum having additional technology resources doesn't mean that it doesn't have the resources without the instructional technology." The most telling data in this entire discussion is that our middle school teachers who only teach science not a single one reference stem
scope science as their choice your vote to replace the teacher's top recommendation with their least recommended text is a slap in the face to the teachers of this district in closing I urge you to reconsider your vote your decision will have lasting consequences on teacher and staff morale
in our schools hello mine my vibe is going to be a little bit different up here but all right per Tennessee state standards schools must teach students to develop explanations that are based on evidence and free from bias as well as consider trade-offs among possible solutions when
making decisions about issues for which there are competing alternatives while we actually do support the decision on stecopes because I thought we all wanted less screen time for our kids and to pick a curriculum that was actually proven successful and I know our people aren't here but trust me there are a lot
of people that also support that decision to reduce screen time for our kids all right um what we are concerned about a bit is the extreme bias that was in all of the curriculum that was available to choose from um examples of that would be global warming is a fact all green energy is good all fossil
fuels are bad evolution with no possibility of intelligent design all vaccines including mRNA safe and effective human impact on environment and population growth inherently bad eating meat bad with no discussion of sustainable farming gender ideology
promoted we are not asking that these topics not be a part of the curriculum but that the competing alternative is also presented the only way that we'll be able to do that is through supplemental materials our goal is to ensure that these materials that counter the extreme bias taught in our
classrooms make it there um we should be we should be encouraging a love for science and not creating activists for globalism with the president's recent executive order ending radical indoctrination in K through2 schooling we believe this falls in line with
federal guidelines as well as state standards thank you oh don't be rude let's please let's please respect every speaker um the uh next two speakers Robert Jackson and Emily Paisley about there uh thank you
chairman members and superintendent Golden my name is Robert Jackson and I'm a teacher of United States history and economics at Centennial High School i am here today to speak in favor
of what has um we we have done since 1982 but has recently somehow at the state legislature come up for question again uh our 14th amendment to the United States Constitution is absolutely
clear that all persons are entitled to equal protection of the law it's not yet before you and I hope it never comes before you um but should the state pass this measure which would give school
boards the ability to ban a child or charge tuition because of a decision that their parent made when they were just a little kid to bring them here and now they are undocumented that is unconstitutional
it's immoral and it's against our traditions if a teacher were to punish a student tomorrow because of what they thought that their parent did that night before you would fire that teacher in the same
our state should not punish students for what their parents did and I hope that question never comes before you and I hope the state does not pass that measure good night is Emily Paisley here after Emily we'll have Otis
Halbreight hello board emily Paisley here um I'm here to discuss the 4.403 policy review request first I think that all the library material points probably need to
um be tabled or continued there's a lot of information there to uh go over and divulge uh but most importantly well not most importantly but one of the things is when filing complaints about library materials it was already established in 2022 that it was unnecessary to include
all 265,000 residents of Williamson County as potential participants to file a complaint about a library book okay our I understand about taxes and everything i get that taxpayers i'm a taxpayer our
school faculty and employees are already bombarded with the complaints from people who actually are connected to the schools this request is a mere attempt to open the floodgates for a political campaign to modify and mold learning materials into something that should be
offered at selected private schools or homeschool programs not in our public schools which brings me to the 2025 adoption of the AP psychology materials it is my hope that this time the board will
acknowledge the time effort and intellect that has gone into the selection of the committee members this is a college course with college age material there is no basis to limit or change the suggested materials which provide the necessary knowledge required
to obtain a psychology degree okay know that you have to have this information to get a psychology degree like my son is getting from the AP course he took time thank you the problem with going this late is
everybody takes your stuff which is really rude like I had a list okay so real quick I'm Otis Halbreight i'm the one who sends you the really long emails with the cited links uh for ease of use and junk like that i was on the site
textbook committee it was unanimous and the reason was frankly simple as most of you read uh it's the only one that aligns with the national standard the new exam it changed that's why we're having to do it on an accelerated pace that's why it's 80 it's frankly not that interesting this is the same book I used
in 2009 okay during the Bush administration when we I first tried to register and I had to get weight listed as a senior it is very old it is not that interesting several of you have responded back to me it's not that complicated a lot of y'all are concerned
allegedly about some community values which is represented here there are some um currently a minority but it is what it is i would remind you that the state has already got a law on these alleged controversial things they have to opt in over the two or three years I think I've
had less than five kids opt out of couple hundred uh not exactly a large amount wilson County is currently referencing us in a kind of negative way i don't want to be beat by William Wilson County like we're Williamson County we win we're the better W County
um and if you need help on parliamentary procedure I noticed a bunch of you all talked about that i do Yig one of my other YIG people is in here if you need the motion to reconsider the question I have Dr jones from Vanderbilt he when he
died seated me his Robert's rules of order and I'm happy to give it to you let me know if y'all need anything thank you our last two last two speakers Carolyn Brown and Becca Ripley hi I wanted to thank you for providing
some transparency in the curriculum review process it sounds as though there's a step missing where the board could talk more with the committee that made the decision you know the teachers recommendations because there's a disconnect there however this process
also needs to be improved because curriculum decisions are costly that necessitate a multi-year commitment and should allow for an enhanced communication during the public review process this year's curriculum contains materials that are no longer being
pushed such as gender theory and dire effects of climate change instead a common sense approach where differing scientific theories and opinions are encouraged to be tested and discussed the new science and psychology
curriculum ought to reflect this approach recent data shows appears to show that anxiety and depression in our youth is skyrocketing genders dysphoria neurodeivergence and econ eco anxiety
which is a new term I just learned about are common concerns being addressed by clinicians and teachers in our classrooms for example the Lancet volume 5 issue 12 states is a research team we were disturbed by the scale of emotional
and psycho psychological effects of climate change upon children of the world the number who reported feeling hopeless and frightened about the future of humanity we wish these that these results had not been quite so devastating i would encourage you to
implement supplemental materials that are optimistic thank you thank you Becca Ripley our final speaker [Applause] well first um I didn't just because I didn't sign up to speak about the
ongoing textbook stuff i just want to because we got a minute 30 tonight um say thank you to all my fellow speakers tonight for spelling out what the vast vast majority of all of us
parents employees etc are feeling um about how things went so thanks everybody for saying that for me i am a parent of two WCS students and I'm here out of concern about the repercussions of HB793 and
SP 836 which seek to seeks to disenroll students without acceptable residential documentation i respectfully request that y'all adopt a resolution or otherwise proclaim that you will not eject students from our
Williamson County schools or charge them tuition if this bill becomes law which obviously we hope it doesn't um undocumented Tennessans pay over $900
million in taxes disenrolling an undocumented student is not going to result in any decrease in funding for our LEA but then they can turn around and charge a disenrolled student $7,000 to read them to what was once a
free a free education to which they were entitled oh it went really fast um so all students do have a right to free and appropriate public education and it would be a devastating mistake not to show continued support for all students how can we teach our students the important of kindness acceptance and
inclusion if the adults in leadership position promote hate and divisiveness this is the time to show our community demonstrabably believes in unity and compassion and education thank you all right i want to say thank you to all
of our speakers um especially to Vivian thank you for your courage and speaking to us all right we will move on with the remainder of our agenda um the next item is to approve the agenda for this
evening can I get a motion and a second we'll do this by voice vote it's already there okay we got a motion and a second all in favor say I any opposed agenda is approved
next item is approval of the consent agenda uh we'll handle this the same way you see the items listed on the consent agenda um any motion in a second thank you any
discussion all those in favor say I any opposed consent agenda is approved and with that vote let me read off the items that are approved as part of the consent agenda approval of the March 17 2025 schoolboard meeting minutes board policy
for second reading 4.206 homebound instructions approval of facilities use fee schedule approval to replace casework in the reception area at Crockett Elementary approval to replace
basketball lockers at Fairview High approval of Mil Creek Middle softball storage shed approval to replace the monument sign at Oak View Elementary approval to install a lighted sign on the wait room at Page High
approval to install exterior lights at Page High approval to install bleachers at Ravenwood High and the recommendation for field trip fee requests next item on the agenda communications to the board uh
superintendent report mr golden thank you Mr chair and I want to reiterate what you shared in thanking our public speakers uh there's a lot of value every month in hearing from our public speakers and the diverse thoughts that they have in our community and I'm going
to reiterate what you what you uh mentioned uh regarding uh Vivian and and her sharing with us uh Vivian and some of her classmates actually sang before the board meeting and we don't actually start the broadcast uh while we have
those student productions but very much thank our students and the excellent job they did uh with that we are in late April and this is a time for testing time for TCAP time for end of course tests and the AP courses
are coming in just a little bit uh and that is a big deal but I want to mention to you all as a board in the audience one of those items that I mentioned at the work session which is really just some specific comments about our excellent teachers and you all as a
board know that when we have these conversations we talk about our teachers knowing the standards uh and knowing those standards in depth and having the capacity to work together as teams to teach those standards and the complexity of those standards uh and when we talk
about testing we don't panic and worry ourselves when it's time for testing because our teachers have been doing that work all year uh and preparing our students and more especially we've been focusing on student learning rather than
teaching in other words when teachers present an excellent lesson and the students not every single student understood that standard they're going to spiral back they're going to make sure that those students have that opportunity to to learn especially those standards that they're going to need to build on as they grow and I just gave
you a very very short synopsis of Williamson County success right there the combination of our teachers and our students working together so uh thank you parents uh for coming to Williamson County uh because of that excellent reputation but we know it's more than
reputation and it takes that constant effort every day uh by our students um related to that this is also a time of the year for celebrations and tomorrow night I wanted to remind everyone uh in on the board we
are having our shining apple awards which is our thank you to our volunteers of the year from each school uh each one of our schools selects a volunteer of the year now I'm going to mention something that I typically mention at
our Shining Apple Awards i'll usually tell the volunteers who are in the audience an approximate amount of dollar value that we get from our volunteer work uh and it's incredible and I'll mention that tomorrow night at least as close as we can get right now Rachel
without actually receiving those financials yet this year but I'll say something along these lines but we can't measure the time we can't measure the effort uh of our volunteers of our parents and our grandparents and our
corporate support uh without what accountants call inind uh support to help us be successful we could not be as successful as we are uh without the help of of our volunteers uh in addition to that celebration tomorrow night of
course graduation is coming up in a month and I know you all as board members uh have have committed uh to to uh to those opportunities you have to to attend those graduation ceremonies it's a practical impossibility for us to be at every single one uh uh but but those
are those are great times also next week uh we have a thank you scheduled to our graduating seniors who have committed to the US military and I felt like it was worth mentioning this again from our work session
uh last year we were notified by 36 of our graduates that they were had committed to the US military this year so far we're aware of 39 uh based on the data that we've seen nationally and a percentage of our
students who are committing to the US military we are operating at about twice the national average of our students committing to the US military the military itself is substantially less than 1% of our total population in this country uh the World War II is the most
modern example of the highest percentage but now it is substantially lower uh and it reminds me of that old quote from Winston Churchill in a different context never have so many been thankful to so few and I
grossly violating his quote uh and so I encourage you to look that up uh if you don't recognize the way I butchered that quote uh Winston Churchill actually had one American parent and one English parent uh never in the course of human history have so
many oh something like that uh but uh but we have we have a very few number of Americans protecting us uh in that substantial way we very much appreciate those folks and again we
will be thanking our students uh for that commitment to take care of us uh here here at home uh with that I want to transition to some more celebrations that are coming uh Carol Birdong every
month shares with us state and national awards for our students and our faculty and Carol will now share that with us for April superintendent Golden and school board members spring is certainly a time for celebration especially here
in Williamson County schools so we have a lot to celebrate and a lot of it this month is based on the performances of our career and technical education students and through their student
organizations so not many times are we able to honor our middle school students because they don't have that many opportunities to compete at the state level but let me tell you about Paige Middle School and
the Tennessee State Future Farmers of America they have been named the state superior chapter under the guidance of Tommy Green out there and then we have the aronomy state champions Sebast
Sebastian Abrazo Parker Darnell Preston Lauder and Luke Mundy and the highscoring individual in the state for FFA junior high aronomy Sebastian Agrazo
again and we have the state champions at page middle of the quiz and this is you these are your quiz team members harper Green Killian Carrie Toa Lamoda and Jack Piva and high-scoring individual in the
state quiz winner Harper Green so now we're going to go across the road to Paige High School and their advisor is Shana Butler and they have been named the superior the state superior chapter
for the state of Tennessee ffa and then FFA state degrees y'all this is the highest achievement you can get at the state level and these students earned it kinsey Anderson Cila Castro Aiden Flot
Jeremiah McDonald and Greer Quick ffa state champion in poultry production proficiency yes that is alliteration abigail Bernie all right now we're going to go to DECA the
Distributive Education Clubs of America and guess what the Britwood High School chapter DECA chapter under the direction of Lisa Montgomery is the chapter of the year also in duo and individual awards
Cali Constantine and Elena Fields earned first place in entrepreneurship team decisionmaking allison Hul and lodging management series lucy Wyatt I believe you all might know her in human resources and
management series and then we have Anna Riley in marketing communication series we have male Jacobson in personal finance literacy nicholas Lam Masters principles of
entrepreneurship from Franklin High School in DECA we have Taylor Grant and Dorsa Tihiri in first in roleplay for financial services team decisionmaking justin Anderson is their advisor izzy Bitterman and
Katherine Reva David first in roleplay for hospitality and tourism professional selling also from Franklin High School Maline Carico first in roleplay for principles of business management and administration did Williamson County
Schools win everything there it does seem like it over at Paige High School and the DECA competition Khloe Lee and Mahi Nandre integrated marketing campaign service paige High School again sam Ross
uh retail merchandising series did I mention Tristan Brown is their advisor if I didn't I did and if I did I did it again so we're going to go to Ravenwood High School this is Shirinat Nara Andi
Adia Praep Koshik Satan Kar and they are your business growth plan winners their instructors are Brian Stuck and Jennifer Do in the category of business finance
series Hansa Donna Doula and Vivon Rakon Lee and in business services uh marketing services Jeanvi Vashita and in business
solutions project Akos Ashwin Vhambusa and Sean Humar and also continuing on from Ravenwood in buying and merchandising operations research Rahan Kileroo Shakar
Kusimancha and Chi Whoops sorry flipped too fast cheetah Nyingala and then in entrepreneurship series uh Ana Vic and now one more from RA a
couple more from Ravenwood actually financial literacy project sashakumar and Samuel Michael in integrated marketing campaign event you see what I mean about I think we won every every one uh Manushri uh
Classic Ashley Kvala and Savannah Pointer and in international business plan Isan Kana Arno Ma and Yang Patel and in quick serve restaurant management
series Arian Chatanya and now in health occupation science association this is a tricky word for me folks patho physiology Joshua find Franklin High
School I hope that was correct Emily I'm not even sure what that is but Emily Orbison uh is the instructor there and I'm sure she has taught Joshua Fine quite well so in medical spelling we have Tom's Furl
and in pharmacy science we have Liam Witcop all from Franklin High School then we go to Paige High School and this is Sophia Smith who earned first place in behavioral health and the Page advisor is uh Sarah
Statseno and then in dental technology we have Arushi Mouri in clinical specialty we have Lily Espell and also from Paige High in
clinical nursing we have Ella Orangino and in biomedical debate Alen White Monacoic Ally Hamilton and Bailey Whit over at Ravenwood High School in HOSA Health
Informatics we have Sean Kumar michael Gerlock is the adviser there now we're moving on to something that I absolutely love and that is the National Speech and Debate Association uh state champion winners and they will
go on also to the national competition all of the career and technical students also get to go on to national competition um over the summer but this is uh Wally Sedar and Joseph Johnson Brentwood High School they won in public
forum debate their coach is Matt Grimes from Nolanville High School jonathan [Music] O'are coaches Brandy Weaver and Eve Frell this is Armen from Summit High
School one in Lincoln Douglas Debate christina Crutcher is their uh the coach at Summit another thing I love is the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and here are your state
actually state and regional uh winners and this uh is Sophia Andrews from Brentwood High School one in two categories y'all best fiction and best photographer and they compete uh not only in the state of Tennessee but several a couple of other states as well
sloan Ashworth is Sophia's teacher and also David's teacher and David won in best animation and special effects at Franklin High School Vashe Rubenoff won for best commercial and Carrie Thompson uh is the teacher over
at Franklin at Fairview High School Anakah Crow and Asaya Brown won for best public service announcement rob Gregory is their teacher for best editor Garrett Pevor uh at Independence Matt Ballser is
the teacher at Indie and for best non-fiction Kaden Powers at Page High School Dave Halt is their teacher and you thought we were done but we are not because we have won first place in the
state science bowl y'all this is Ravenwood High School's team at Gabrielle Lada Alexandra Jenna uh Collus William Ryland Hoskins Aiden Young and Brain Young and then as far as student
spotlights go spotlights go this is Shayla Carrera from Franklin High School and she won the Tennessee Association of School Librarians uh bookmark contest for the state so we are just well represented all over the
place so now we have a few staff uh members that we want to recognize this was Matt Grimes um and he's over at Brunwood High School and he was named the Tennessee District National Speech and Debate Association Assistant Coach of the Year uh and then in sports uh
this has been out there a minute but it's time that we recognize uh as the board Will Hesser I know Will appreciates the photo uh is showing him in his true form he was named the 6A head coach of the year from the Tennessee Football Coaches Association
uh Wills over at Ravenwood and then Sean Temple uh won from Page High School won the 5A assistant coach of the year uh from the Tennessee Football Coaches Association woo y'all I'm done congratulations to
everybody thank you Carol and Mr chair u I do want to thank a number of our principles who are here tonight josiah Holland Robert Bour Julie Sparrow Drew Perry Trent Satderfield Chris Butler Jen Schwarz Pam Vaden Amanda Fuller Paula Weights Lynn Sawyer Katie Hill Shane
Pantal Shelley Kofall and Sarah Lamb thank you all for your commitment to your students may better to say which one they're not here is that it that is my report thank you okay thank you and congratulations to all of those who were recognized um tonight
okay we will move on to a board chair report the only thing I'm going to mention is what I mentioned at the work session on Thursday which is um and this is mostly for the benefit of the the community um those who are here and listening the uh Jason and I have
decided to form a technology uh screen time committee um we'll be rolling that out starting hopefully with our first meeting in May to look at um issues surrounding how we're using technology in the district uh the use of personal
devices cell phones etc screen time all those things that members of the community and the public have been raising as as concerns and members of the board have been raising as concerns so that comm that committee will be made up of parents u members of the
administration teachers faculty um so it'll be a well-rounded well balanced committee that will get input from a cross-section of our stakeholders so more to come on that all right we'll move on to unfinished business and this is the approval of the
AP psychology textbook adoption committee's recommendation Mr golden thank you Mr chair uh this is uh uh the un unfinished business item from last month and I want to especially thank Dr allen and Ashley Flood for a really good presentation with a great detail at our
work session especially related to the changes in the AP test for this particular course and the formatting of the particular textbook that is the recommendation of the textbook committee uh which is the Meyers textbook uh so uh I just wanted to make sure you all just
had that reminder um certainly open to any discussion you may have related to that thank you we have a motion and a second so we uh the floor is open for discussion questions comments all right i see none and I I'm taking it Mr golden that based on your
comments that you and the your team recommend the committee's recommendation yes sir i do recommend approval okay we can proceed to a vote the vote is 11 yes zero no okay the recommendation is [Applause]
adopted and thank you to the work of that committee item number seven new business uh we have several items that we'll be voting on that are related to the budget first item is approval of general fund
this is for 2024 or 25 the current budget approval of general fund amendment atmos donation of $4,000 mr golden thank you Mr chair this is a donation from Atmos Energy Corporation to support our literacy volunteer program do recommend approval
can we get a motion and a second on that thank you any questions or discussion all right let's proceed to a vote the vote is 11 yes zero no that item is approved item number two approval of
general fund resolution 05.25 25 letter grade bonus in the amount of $4 million mr golden thank you Mr chair this is a letter grade bonus that we've received from the state uh we've actually already received it in this budget year so this is actually a move
from the from one line item to the other for accounting purposes but I did want to specifically mention that Senator Johnson told you all at your meeting just before the legislative session that he was going to find a way in the current budget year to mitigate some of the impact of the fiscal capacity
indicator that nets out to Williamson County schools well Williamson County as a whole sending more funds to the state than they receive back so I do recommend approval and thank our legislators for their work all right we have a motion and a second
any discussion all right we're ready to vote [Applause] the vote is 11 yes zero no that resolution is approved item three approval of general fund resolution
05.25 reclassification due to new account code $10,119,750 mr golden thank you Mr chair this is a an as stated an accounting uh change based on the state recoding some items uh for our instructional coaches
uh so that is a required line for accounting purposes i do recommend approval all right we have a motion in a second any discussion okay we're ready to vote the vote is 11 yes zero no resolution is approved item number four approval of
central cafeteria fund resolution 05.25 25 Central Cafeteria excess fund balance in the amount of $2,80,92752 mr golden thank you Mr chair this is the resolution related to excess fund balance more specifically the
federal rules are that our central cafeteria fund cannot have a a an account um total in excess of three months at the end of its fiscal year we have actually not raised uh prices for our school lunches since
201718 if I'm not mistaken 1819 uh so the intent is to use these funds uh to uh to do some renovations and some improvement in our cafeterias do recommend approval thank you we have a motion and a second any discussion
mr galorth Mr chair um brought up a couple of months ago and just wanted to um to ask you to revisit with these uh with
these excess funds as we have them um an updated um POS system and the ability to um to address the the allergens and the um and
the notification to outward of our our menu items outside of of the of the food line um so the reason why we have such an excess balance is because our kids buy all the alle cart items and
um and so that's that started um and it kind of overfunded everything during um and I did I figured it out during co when everybody was getting their their lunches for free but we still had these like astronomical revenues and it's
because people are buying all of the whole grain Pop-Tarts and all the other stuff and none of that all that stuff shows up as snack on the um on the POS system if you ever look and see what you paid for it says snack um and nobody
knows what so a parent has zero visibility in what their kid is buying with their money that they just swipe they put in their number and outcomes of you know an endless supply of um of stuff and and I and I get that it's not
it's not all ne it's like healthy junk food um but it's not it's if if parents knew what their kids were buying or had the ability to control it um they would they might they might do something different with their uh with their money
um but I really think especially in light of you know having these large um amounts of of excess funds I would really appreciate us looking into um ways to make that more transparent and just as a safety perspective to um to
keep kids with allergies from being able to uh to consuming something that might be harmful to them thanks thank you for that thought Mr galborth and we are constantly look looking for ways to communicate with parents just that little bit better uh and we are working on that um there are also from time to
time some changes uh at the federal or state level for example there's a bill right now related to a particular red diet that's in some foods um uh etc so we will continue to work on that thank you any additional comments
okay we're ready to vote the vote is 11 yes zero no that resolution is approved item five approval of capital projects fund intent to fund
05.25 asphalt roof and HVAC in the amount of $12,153,000 mr golden thank you Mr chair and if I may items 5 through 8 uh are related to uh items that we have on our 5-year capital plan that we take to the county commission for for maintenance
and renovation projects this particular one as you mentioned asphalt roof and HVAC repair mr king gave you some detail of the particular locations uh where where we propose to do those uh those projects this will upon if you all
approve go to the county commission uh to the budget committee and then on up uh as they analyze all all our requests on an annual basis okay we have a motion in a second any discussion all right seeing none do recommend
approval thank you we're ready to vote the vote is 11 yes zero no all right that is approved next item approval of capital projects fund intent to fund 05.25 for security technology in the
amount of 13,815,425 mr golden thank you Mr chair likewise security uh technology requests for our five-year capital plan that in includes uh items such as taking the next steps for uh our safety and
security with respect to access control in addition to some cyber technology protections do recommend approval thank you we have a motion and a second any discussion i think it might be useful um if we
could ask Mr king to say again what he said Thursday night about the the three-year plan for all the schools being captured in this project yeah that's a great idea thank you for context Mr king thank you Mr chair yes sir uh this is
part of a three-year project that we have actually it started before that the outdoor uh the uh access control for out all our outside doors that has been complete we've started last year into this year
um all the inside doors uh this year last year you approved phase one we'll get 15 schools done this year um if this budget passes we'll do 15 more this coming year and then the last 15
um the following year so yes it's a three-year project to get our all our schools updated and Mr chair if I may one of the comments that we um had at the work session is student safety is an ongoing
effort that will never stop uh that we will constantly be working on finding ways to to improve how we how we uh protect our faculty and students in our buildings thank you any any further comments
okay we're ready to vote the vote is 11 yes zero no okay that item is approved item seven approval of capital projects fund intent to fund
05.25 Hillsboro K through8 renovation in the amount of $3 million mr golden thank you Mr chair uh this is the first step Mr king if I'm not mistaken on um on work towards doing some renovations at Hillsboro uh it's a it's a number of
items uh to get that started we do an analysis of our building set priorities building by building and that's reflected in our 5-year capital plan all right we have a motion in a second and Mr cash thank you Mr chair uh Mr king will you give us an idea for the
viewing public uh when's the last time actually both these schools uh have been renovated thank you Mr cash for the question yes sir hillsboro uh was not built in 1981 and there's been no renovation there was
one addition of four classrooms that were done but no renovations and Grassland was uh 1986 thank you i think it's time we got busy with these schools yes sir thank you Mr chair thank
you any additional questions or comments hey we're ready to vote the vote is 11 yes zero [Music] no that item is approved the final budget item for tonight is item eight approval of capital projects fund intent
to fund 05.25 Grassland Middle renovation in the amount of $1 million mr golden thank you Mr chair likewise this is the startup for the renovations for Grass Grassland Middle mr cash uh um asked uh Mr king the year
1986 it's that's basically 40 years by the time we we get to work on that and just visualize a building that's 40 years old we have a motion in a second uh Mr galworth thank you Mr chair um it's our last
budget item and I just wanted to um I just wanted the opportunity to ask Miss uh Miss Farmer if she could um if she could just give us a an update of where we are on the on our budget gap overall
sure so un unrelated to this but kind of related to the capital project would it would it be okay if we voted this item and then had that conversation would it be okay i don't if we as long as we can is that That's fine yeah okay so hold that thought miss Farmer um any other
questions on this particular request all right seeing none we're ready to vote the vote is 11 yes zero no that item is approved okay Mr gworth I'll recognize you again if you had any further questions or if we want to just go
straight to Okay um as we have left it the last meeting we had was a joint meeting with the county commission budget and education committee and at that point in time the gap we had was right at $12 million that is where we stand today next Monday we
will have our next meeting um with the education committee and then on Tuesday we will have another meeting with the budget committee as they follow up at that point in time we will get more guidance from them um as to what their perspective is on what that gap looks like if that's something that they feel
that they can help closing uh to close or not so again $12 million gap at this point kick you in the face next month when do we expect those four intent to fund items that we just approved to be voted on by the commission um we're not
sure uh exactly when they mo might vote but representatives of the county budget committee asked us to bring these to them just a little bit earlier than we typically do so they can analyze um all those funding requests for the entire year as they're analyzing our operations
budget i will say traditionally the county commission will fund some of these larger capital projects uh through through other funding besides their traditional um uh annual revenue whether it's by
bonds or sometimes fund balance uh that the county government has um I have a I I it's possible that they might defer some of these to a to a later time but they will be voting on
our operations budget and our annual capital request they're scheduled to vote on those in June if I'm not mistaken June 20th so I would say June 20th at the earliest and it's possible some of these capital requests could be voted on a little bit
later and that raises one more question and when should we expect to be voting on any revisions to the budget um prior to them having that final vote we would anticipate that next month after we've met with the bud the budget and the education committee and get their
guidance back to us then we will come back with to you with any revision that we feel is needed and Mr chair if I may um since since this these questions came up and we talked about this in detail in our work session but since Mr galbreth mentioned that um our projections for
revenue compared to our projected expenses in that $12 million gap largely represents us paralleling an expense that county government has planned for a pay raise for their staff members um when we started this discussion many
months ago and county government made a proposal for for pay increases we knew based on our state revenue that we would need some additional help from county government to actually do that uh our projections include that uh we do have sufficient funding or will have
sufficient funding in our budget now for um the the step increases that are built into our pay scales for both our teachers and our classified staff but if we are to give an additional pay raise beyond that uh we we project that we we will need some additional funding from
county government all right anything else before we move on to the next item okay item B under new business board policy for first reading this is policy 4.202 child find and special education
uh Mr galbreth you want to share out from the uh policy discussion and and um subsequent discussions and also Miss Osbrooks if you want to weigh in sure I'll I'll start on this one um this
is basically the there's two items with child find and then the new law regarding um parent guardian notification access to certain documents that are um reflecting new um updating for new laws
um and so well the the second one is a new law the the first one miss Brooks the child find I'm not sure that that's new but we're updating it anyway right so um so as long as we're looking at the policy we kind of did a fresh look and realized that it's a good time to add
the uh the child find component um the the last section that's in green if we can if we if we're looking at the um at the at the document um there was a there's a proposed section on on service
delivery logs for for the purposes of this um of this reading um we kind of highlight it put it put it in green in parentheses and said um said that we're not we're not voting to approve um this language but we will we'll we'll
continue the conversation at our uh at our next uh policy meeting and uh for uh for a vision for for second reading all right thank you with that explanation can I get a motion in a second to get this on the floor for
discussion thank you all right any any questions or comments on this language on first reading um as has been pointed out this was discussed in the policy committee and at work session uh but we can certainly take up any additional conversation tonight if we need
to mr welch um I just want to double check so in the green is not being voted on tonight you said right okay thank you it's being moved along to the to the next policy meeting for further
discussion but not being adopted anything else any further comments i do recommend approval uh to move this forward for further discussion all right thank you all right with that we will vote on this item on first reading
the vote is 11 yes zero no all right that item is approved on first reading and we will take it up again at policy meeting in May u next item is board policy for second reading uh you'll recall this was
um pulled off of the consent agenda at um at the request of a board member um this is policy 4.403 on library materials um Mr galver um Miss Osbrooks I'll turn
it over to you for comments or explanation and then we can get it on the floor for discussion so Dana if you don't mind I don't want to I don't want to leave anything out on on this one but Okay okay for um if we could Oh it's not
on the board can we move the library materials policy down on our screen to the right here okay so um board members on the second page about line 21 through 25
um there was some discussion at the work session and um during that discussion you may recall um I mentioned that there was legal guidance attorney client privilege gu guidance that had been uh
sent to you from Lisa Carson our litigation attorney dealing with um this specific provision the question has been asked whether this provision should be
removed or whether um some other language should be um placed um instead of this language as we discussed during the work session there is
a recent I believe two 2024 US middle district court case um in that particular case there was Knox County was involved and um they were
following a state law they had however um a provision in their policy that gave them some discretion and based upon that
discretion um they were not victorious in saying we are simply following state law therefore we should have the same immunity that the state of Tennessee
has that when when we updated this policy last time that lang that case existed and the language was placed in that in this policy because of
this court case um that court case is still good law as I mentioned it is the district that we are in um and so um the recommendation of Miss Carson and myself
is that this language remain in the policy as written the only change that we are recommending is uh changing the verb become it was becomes to became if I if I may Mr chair Miss Osbridge
you're referring to lines 21 through 25 on this particular page yes thank you and just for clarity the the language in blue plus the the two words in red I believe there's two individual words in red um well let me back up a
second the language in blue is what was adopted on first reading uh and is now back before us for second reading the two the two words in red are new uh to this policy b since that last since the first reading since the first
reading yes I believe um we changed I we changed those at a policy meeting i can't recall if it was during the first one or the second one but that language was agreed upon the only it may have been the first one
because at the last policy meeting we I made the change um which is an editorial change down in line 33 mature reading reading is struck through and materials [Music]
okay so for for purposes of getting this on the floor I need a motion and a second on the language as as written currently in front of us okay thank you so we're now open for discussion or questions on the policy uh as written
and as drafted in front of us currently mr cash thank you Mr chair um I've got a question uh do we anticipate state law changing because of one court case that's going on uh in Did you say in our district
uh Dana yes sir the court case it it does not let me be clear doesn't have anything to do with library books right um but yes it is in the US middle district it has
been decided by Judge Krenshaw and it is that decision that we are relying on um when when this language was drafted u the last time that we updated this policy
well when when we pass laws the legislation when they pass laws do they anticipate them changing like this um uh I don't know so I don't know that they anticipate them changing um as we have
discussed previously until or if a state statute is challenged it's deemed to be constitutional in the case that I'm talking
about there was another law that was challenged the court found that law not to be constitutional that is that's why that case is important to
us is if at some point in time the law is challenged and it's held not to be constitutional we don't want any discretion we want it clear in the policy that
[Music] automatically we won't follow that provision i will remind the board and and we may not have mentioned this Thursday night there
is not a case pending regarding this legislation in Williamson County there is a recent case that the ACLU filed against Rutherford County's school district
um so there is a potential challenge out there but not for Williamson County so so we know there's going to be challenges but what this does is immediately if there's a case against
uh a library book for instance and it goes to litigation and everything that automatically our policy is revoked yes sir if I exactly what it means if I may Miss Osbrooks is it the whole policy
or that portion it would just be that portion the um definitions in A through G would be the um would be the portion just those provisions not the
entire policy so so basically we're just going back to the old way of doing business as far as uh A through G yes sir
but only if it is struck down well we'll see what the board votes but I can't vote for that thank you Mr galbreth so Dan I So my perspective on this
is we're we came up with this language directly out of the state law and so part of our um part of our desire to like so we we could be sued from from
either side we've been sued from from either side of this argument so in order to stay um in order to make sure that we win a lawsuit which is which is my first priority so if we if we are sued like I would I don't want to pursue any
litigation of course we might not pursue it we but I don't want to go forward with anything unless we have a chance of winning and if we if we do get sued then if we've got the state law as part of our policy then then the then whoever
then the plaintiff is going to sue us and the state and we're going to one of our defenses is hey you can look at our policy that's fine but if we did this and all we were doing is relying on the state law then they're going to go to the state and hopefully get us free and clear it's like hey go go go to the
state you want you want attorney's fees if we if we end up losing like talk to them like so we we're we're not making any any determination of the constitutionality or not of this law but if it's ultimately if if Rutherford or
somebody else if they if they say that it's unconstitutional um or if they if if some judge strikes it down then what that would give us is so it immediately comes out of our policy and at our next meeting then we can go and and edit whatever they did
whatever that judge didn't like about it then it it just immediately comes off instead of taking a process or or make it and say "Well we may go back and like it's just gone and now we've got we you know in two more months we'll have the new revised wording based on whatever
they're ruling." So it's not I don't I don't think it's going to be gone forever um it's just going to be gone in a way we more than likely they're not going to strike down the whole thing and they're just going to put some put some guard rails around it or what like who knows i they could strike down the whole thing i don't know but so that's the
that's the purpose is just to make sure so if we we can just protect ourselves and we just get it kind of on the auto delete track and then we just have to finish it miss Clemens thank you Mr chair um I actually was
planning on talking about something else but since we've gone down this path I was the one who I understand the importance of this language um especially after our discussion at the work session I had just made it the paragraph I suggested
was should these provisions be eliminated or expanded you know I wanted to add not just eliminated but also expanded that no matter what we would follow the state law but at the end of the day and at the work session I realized it really this paragraph and I
apologize to my board members for bringing this up in the 11th hour i just happened to notice because the red verb was in there and changed and so um but at the end of the day this paragraph doesn't change the functionality of this policy and I think we've worked really hard on this policy
and um so that was um so my apologies for bringing that up in the 11th hour that I noticed it um but again I don't think this paragraph is going to change the functionality of this pal this policy so um but I also wanted to address because I talked to you Superintendent Golden today because um I
met with the Hunter's Bin Librarian and really oh so fun y'all need to go visit your elementary libraries they're beautiful i just had such a good time um and and I apologize i've had some family things going on but I wanted you to reiterate what we talked about the mature reading list and the the language
because in the policy it says the mature materials list can you just kind of Sure thank you that thank you thank you for that uh as we've been going through this policy with some board member recommendations for what's in the policy termed as mature reading list uh we had
multiple conversations with our librarians at different grade bands one of the specific concerns that was raised in our discussions with our elementary librarians is what an what an ordinary person might think of when they hear mature reading list uh and we shared
that with you all at the policy committee uh and the essence of what we talked about was what some what some adult outside the school system might think of as mature reading is not anywhere near what is in our elementary libraries uh and so
we discussed making sure that we and our librarians had had uh the capacity within the parameters of this policy draft to give different language that's more more detailed and more accurate a more accurate description of what
content might be on a list for the uh for for this instead of just captioning something mature reading list we might put something that has a has a better descriptor for elementary for example there's not going to be profan you know that that profanity in any of our
elementary books that's described in the policy so the key to it from my perspective is a reference back to that policy committee meeting where we we shared that detail um and Dane I'm going to use the phrase I hear sometimes from uh practicing lawyers legislative
history uh that that gives us that uh that that capacity and discretion to give a better detailed description for parents when you know when and if this board this board passes this policy can I follow up with one question i don't know i noticed my request to speak went
off um and then will since we talked about having the mature materials list um be cohesive districtwide you know for the elementary band and for the middle school band where will will parents be able to access that um on the website
where where will that be compiled um uh we will have it available for anybody to click on at any time u from from school to school now some some uh schools have particular books and others don't have particular books so those I don't foresee that they will ever be exactly identical but I know the
board had some discussion about making sure our librarians talked about common uh books uh so so that we expect to have that available for anyone another item that we talked about as we were brainstorming how to apply this uh is
again from our conversations with our librarians related to that question of optin versus opt out uh and our library leads shared with us that that was a key component of of their concerns related to an earlier iteration uh of this draft
so our plan at this point is to to to have a notification um and we're working on the possibility of having a required cell in the uh enrollment process where someone is not opting in or opting out but just saying yes I understand with
some detail that we talked about already related to the content yes I want my child to have access or or no and I'm going to add this no matter what is in the policies over and over again our librarians emphasize the importance of
conversations between parents and the librarians um they they've talked about that constantly because things can change for children uh from time to time there might be you know they might have suffered a loss for example and they they might need to have some some some
more in-depth discussions uh with uh with the professionals in in the library so I gave you a little bit more uh than your question but I thought it was important to emphasize that dr driggers my question has to do with the
timeline if we get a lawsuit and it goes to the chancellor court then it goes to the appellet court and then it goes to the Tennessee State Supreme Court what happens to our policy in the years that it takes for this to work up
through the legal system i think that's either a Miss Osbrooks or Mr cook question i mean do we suspend it temporarily waiting for a final if if if the legislation is held to be unconstitutional from the district level it's unconstitutional until it's
appealed okay okay so you're should it be held unconstitutional at district level that language will be uh removed automatically whatever is unconstitutional and the rest of it will be um if it's able to will be applicable okay okay
and that will continue all the way through all the way up to the Supreme Court should it get there oh I'm finished thank you okay Miss Wyatt thank you Mr chair i wanted to piggyback on Mr golden's comments i think the most
important thing we've discussed at policy meetings and work sessions regarding this policy is encouraging parents to reach out to librarians with their concerns um I agree with previous statements that parents know their children and their experiences best so a
direct conversation with our trained librarians is most helpful for our parents if you haven't spoken with your librarian yet your teacher or principal can connect you direct conversations are most effective against distrust and
misinformation i will vote against this policy because the protection it could provide does not outweigh my concern with limiting access to books right any uh any additional questions or comments mr beasley yes thank you Mr chair just
for clarity um we have the individual that if we do get into a lawsuit that's going to step up and stand in the gap for us our litigator has sent a email that's recommending this policy as written is
that what we're voting on now yes okay and Mr golden do you do you recommend approval of this policy i do recommend approval of this policy with two caveats one that our librarians have that professional judgment that we
talked if it's written into the policy and we've talked about at policy committee and two that it contains that language in lines 21 through 25 excellent thank you okay any further questions or comments
all right we will proceed to a vote on this policy on second reading the vote is eight yes three no all right the policy is approved i think it just
all good all right item D approval of 2024 25 teacher bonus from the state mr golden thank you Mr chair uh the state of Tennessee through the
legislative um uh branch uh passed a law that our teachers uh will get a $2,000 bonus i want to give a little bit of detail number one they don't have every detail worked out that's my detail uh
second more specifically the plan that the state has is to give a $2,000 bonus to this year's full-time teachers who are spending more than half of their time in direct instruction to students fund it in next fiscal year's budget so
they they they will still be working on making sure that they have identified every single teacher who based on the legislation ha uh um has a has a has a right to that and I and and we will be giving them uploaded information we
don't know exactly when the funding will come but we know that it will be sometime after July 1st so what that means is we will have some retirees who will receive some funds in the next fiscal year uh and and new hires for
example will not receive that uh so um I I do recommend approval of this resolution which is another required part of the process to allow the the uh
state um uh department of education and and the funding body to to fund it once they identify all those individuals thank you for that explanation and recommendation we have a motion in a second any discussion or
questions mr welch thank you um I'll be voting for this just because our teachers deserve the bonus that's rather clear but um for the record I just want to state this was an attempt at a bribe to get our teachers on board with vouchers they wouldn't do
it so now it's blackmail um either we have to sign off on this or our teachers don't get it and it's just unfortunate that we have legislators that don't care about public education in the state with the governor level and at the state legislator
level uh I will be voting for it just because I I don't really see a an alternative that doesn't shaft our teachers which I'm not going to do thank you any other questions or comments final comment Mr chair uh we are
required by state law to have this in place by June in order to receive the funds okay thank you all right do recommend approval thank you we are ready to vote the vote is 11 yes zero no the resolution is
approved our final item on the agenda tonight is um tenure recommendation of the superintendent to the school board mr golden thank you Mr chair we make this annual request of you based on the Tennessee tenure law uh starting in 2011 the Tennessee tenure
law was changed from what many of us thought of as traditional tenure which is you worked for three years and you rehired your tenur to a process by which uh teachers continue to be evaluated based on their statebased evaluations
and the key components of what constitutes tenure is actually in the memo uh that Vicky Hall our assistant superintendent for human resources included in there uh and uh I won't share all that detail because it is in writing in the board packet i do
recommend approval of the Tennessee uh um uh tenure recommendation law thank you we have a motion and a second mr galborth thank you Mr chair um there is
u there's an individual on this on this list that I can't bring myself to u to vote for but I don't want to um I don't want to vote against the um the other individuals who I'm sure are
um are qualified and and and worthy of uh of moving forward with this with this tenure so just wanted to explain my um my vote of uh of uh sorry my abstension
vote any additional comments okay with that u explanation and recommendation we are ready to vote the vote is 10 yes zero no one abstain the recommendation is adopted and that brings us to the end of
our agenda uh thank you for everyone's participation we are adjourned