1 00:01:34,770 --> 00:01:45,770 Thank you for all being here this evening for our regularly scheduled regular board meeting for February 7th, 2023 for the Murray County School Board. 2 00:01:45,930 --> 00:01:51,030 This time we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order and I'll ask Ms. Kinzer if you would call the roll. 3 00:01:52,550 --> 00:01:59,810 I'll be happy to do that. I have a question. We all absolutely love these and would love to thank the school that brought them. 4 00:01:59,810 --> 00:02:05,610 And we've gone through all of them and precious that they are, we don't know what school to play. 5 00:02:06,110 --> 00:02:11,150 So, if any of you are, any of you teachers are watching, we absolutely love them, and thank you very much. 6 00:02:11,610 --> 00:02:12,970 Thank you. 7 00:02:13,470 --> 00:02:13,990 Our mission. 8 00:02:14,430 --> 00:02:14,910 Present. 9 00:02:15,390 --> 00:02:16,670 Ms. Kinzer's here. 10 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:18,890 Ms. Brown's not here, Mr. Fulbright. 11 00:02:19,950 --> 00:02:20,430 Ms. Nett. 12 00:02:20,890 --> 00:02:21,830 Ms. Arwin. 13 00:02:22,490 --> 00:02:23,110 Mr. Sam. 14 00:02:23,270 --> 00:02:24,150 Mr. Hipper. 15 00:02:24,890 --> 00:02:25,430 Mr. McGee. 16 00:02:26,210 --> 00:02:26,770 Mr. Lindsey. 17 00:02:27,710 --> 00:02:28,290 Mr. Carter. 18 00:02:28,590 --> 00:02:28,890 Yes. 19 00:02:31,550 --> 00:02:33,030 Thank you very much. 20 00:02:33,230 --> 00:02:37,170 Is there anyone from Battle Creek Elementary School here with us this evening? 21 00:02:37,990 --> 00:02:43,310 If not, then we'll go ahead and join together with the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence for prayer and reflection. 22 00:02:43,610 --> 00:02:44,430 If you would rise. 23 00:03:18,940 --> 00:03:19,860 Thank you very much. 24 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,660 A couple things I'd like to mention before we get started. 25 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,220 I know we've got a couple of folks with leadership Murray here tonight that are observing the meeting. 26 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:34,080 So we'll try to put on our best face for you this evening. 27 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,020 And I believe, Michelle, you had something you wanted to mention. 28 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:39,800 Yeah, sure did. 29 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,040 I wanted to take a minute and just say thank you to the All-Marie County Band that performed 30 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,440 this past Friday. 31 00:03:46,940 --> 00:03:52,020 We have received an invitation to go to that and the students worked really hard on that performance. 32 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,020 And it was just amazing to go to and to see it. 33 00:03:55,140 --> 00:03:55,760 So it was all. 34 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,300 It was the middle school and it was from all the different schools within the county to 35 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:06,460 students and we're brought in and they performed an incredible day and so they worked really hard 36 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:14,320 Thursday and then came and spent all day long on Friday. So from early that morning, 37 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:20,720 eight o'clock until six o'clock practicing. So endurance is something they learned that day. 38 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,540 They were sore. They retired and worn out and pushed through and the performance was just amazing. 39 00:04:26,540 --> 00:04:33,100 So congratulations to them y'all did an amazing job and it was really appreciated. Thank you very much for sharing that 40 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:40,220 All right moving on we need to adopt our agenda hopefully you've got a chance to look through it and see what we have here 41 00:04:40,820 --> 00:04:45,000 I'll accept a motion from Mr. Carter seconded by Mr. Hooper 42 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,820 Any discussion on the approval of the agenda 43 00:04:49,550 --> 00:04:51,910 Seeing none I believe we're ready to vote 44 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:10,800 Okay, our agenda passage unanimously the next item on our agenda is our consent agenda 45 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:22,060 You see that it runs through 3.1 all the way down to 3.319. 46 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,820 Is there any discussion or any items that need to be discussed from the consent agenda? 47 00:05:30,020 --> 00:05:33,060 If not, I'll accept a motion to approve. 48 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,240 Motion from Ms. Kinzer, second from Ms. Schill. 49 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:41,980 We're ready to vote. 50 00:05:54,660 --> 00:05:56,260 Consent agenda passes unanimously. 51 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:03,400 moving on to item 3.4 other business. 52 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:10,560 Let us ensure take this, I think this is something we've discussed in the past and our meetings, but we have something for another. 53 00:06:11,380 --> 00:06:16,660 Good evening, and I will ask Mr. Willover to jump in here at any time he feels necessary. 54 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:25,680 This is the MOU that we have worked with the City of Columbia to return our EA Cox fields and surrounding land. 55 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:36,220 Back to us, I think some of you will recall that when I first took this position, you know, this was a conversation that I kind of jumped into. 56 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:45,860 So we've worked really hard with the city and the city has graciously agreed to return all of our land less seven acres. 57 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:56,880 The 3.5 that the fire hall currently is on and 3.5 for future use for probably either a police precinct or an ambulance bay. 58 00:06:59,370 --> 00:07:02,830 Okay, I'll take a motion and second, then we can have discussion. 59 00:07:03,650 --> 00:07:07,550 Second, I mean, motion from Mr. Lindsay. Second, for Mr. Sims. 60 00:07:08,390 --> 00:07:10,330 I'll open the floor up for any discussion. 61 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:14,260 Well, I have one. 62 00:07:14,260 --> 00:07:20,380 Um, we had it one time talked about asking for some money for some funds to help her 63 00:07:20,380 --> 00:07:20,760 coop. 64 00:07:21,020 --> 00:07:24,720 Some of the main that's on the field was that included in here, did that, is that something 65 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:25,480 that didn't fly? 66 00:07:28,420 --> 00:07:29,620 We mentioned that. 67 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:36,960 It's a possibility that was fairly quickly kicked back as a non-starter. 68 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:38,320 Okay. 69 00:07:40,580 --> 00:07:41,840 Any other comments or questions? 70 00:07:48,050 --> 00:07:49,570 All right. Then I believe we're ready to vote. 71 00:08:20,650 --> 00:08:20,830 All right. 72 00:08:20,910 --> 00:08:22,050 That passes unanimously. 73 00:08:25,790 --> 00:08:28,950 Moving on to new business. 74 00:08:28,950 --> 00:08:40,430 The first item of new business is a very small budget amendment, when I came on board, we noticed 75 00:08:40,430 --> 00:08:47,870 that there was no line in the superintendent's budget for food supplies. This is a $1,500 76 00:08:47,870 --> 00:08:54,750 amendment, it's not exorbitant. However, my request would be if we have found this money in 77 00:08:54,750 --> 00:09:01,790 other areas. My request would be that you approve this. This is for things like, for example, 78 00:09:01,850 --> 00:09:09,670 when I hosted the state legislatures. You know, I had several senators and House of Representatives 79 00:09:09,670 --> 00:09:15,850 and several representatives and wanted to provide a meal for them. This also includes the teacher 80 00:09:15,850 --> 00:09:21,690 of the year banquet. It's actually also one of the budget amendments that you already approved, 81 00:09:21,690 --> 00:09:27,970 I believe is a check that came in a donation that someone had given us towards the teacher 82 00:09:27,970 --> 00:09:33,390 of the year banquet and we realized we really didn't have a line for this. 83 00:09:33,390 --> 00:09:40,830 Okay, I'll have a motion for Mr. Lindsey's second for Mr. Sam's. Any discussion? 84 00:09:45,420 --> 00:09:52,680 This does take care of the revenue plus expenditures, both sides of the ledger I guess. 85 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,700 Okay. Seeing no lights, I believe we're ready to vote. 86 00:10:10,990 --> 00:10:14,670 Item 3.5.1 passes unanimously. 87 00:10:15,590 --> 00:10:19,750 Item 3.5.2. Grandstands, it's Spring Hill High School. 88 00:10:20,710 --> 00:10:25,990 And I have asked Dr. Pots, the principle of Spring Hill High School to be here. Should we have any additional questions? 89 00:10:26,230 --> 00:10:29,790 And I think Mr. Perryman and I can speak pretty eloquently about this. 90 00:10:29,790 --> 00:10:36,450 The grandstands at Spring Hill High School are the original grandstands for when the school was built. 91 00:10:37,550 --> 00:10:40,550 They are not in great shape. They are dangerous. 92 00:10:41,930 --> 00:10:47,590 And we would request that we take money from fund balance to replace these grandstands immediately. 93 00:10:50,140 --> 00:10:51,580 I have a motion from Mr. Carter. 94 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,160 Second from Miss Kinzer. 95 00:10:56,620 --> 00:10:57,740 Any discussion, Miss Irvin? 96 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:03,860 I just have a question, more or less, what is the time frame on this and how is it going 97 00:11:03,860 --> 00:11:08,540 to impact graduations as I know that's usually something that happens on that field? 98 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,640 We will work around graduation, we've talked to them, sometimes they do graduation inside, 99 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,380 sometimes they do it outside. If you remember we were replacing the bleachers inside as well, 100 00:11:20,940 --> 00:11:28,040 so either way we will work around them as far as the demolition of the current stadium, we brought 101 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:34,480 to you tonight because with supply chain issues, we anticipate their first football game maybe 102 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:40,060 being one to two days after this project is complete. So graduation should not be impacted in 103 00:11:40,060 --> 00:11:40,800 any way whatsoever. 104 00:11:43,660 --> 00:11:47,380 Thank you. I'll say that I know this was something that was discussed and 105 00:11:47,380 --> 00:11:51,800 kind of pushed off until we knew for certain what we were going to do with the Spring Hill High School 106 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:57,400 Facility and now that that question's been answered as why it's coming up now. So you know 107 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,560 other rights, I believe we're ready to vote. 108 00:12:19,350 --> 00:12:21,890 Okay, Adam 3.5.2 passes unanimously. 109 00:12:23,010 --> 00:12:24,610 Dr. Pots, you can start running up and down 110 00:12:24,610 --> 00:12:26,410 to stairs once we get a built in their safe. 111 00:12:27,890 --> 00:12:30,190 Thank you for being here tonight, though. 112 00:12:30,270 --> 00:12:33,990 This is something that's been very well needed for our county. 113 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:41,140 Item 3.5.3, budget amendment for Spring Hill, 114 00:12:41,140 --> 00:12:44,040 Spring Hill High School Grandstands. 115 00:12:44,220 --> 00:12:46,560 Have a motion for Mr. Lindsay second from Mr. 116 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:47,160 a quarter, 117 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:55,840 and do you like to say Mr. Parammon? 118 00:12:59,380 --> 00:13:03,760 Demolition, construction, and then the support activities that would have to go around the 119 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,700 putting up of those new fields, our bleachers. 120 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:16,160 Okay. This is then for the budget amendment that gives along with what we just approved. 121 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:24,940 Okay. Any discussion on this item? This provides the funds for the vote that we just 122 00:13:24,940 --> 00:13:26,220 unanimously passed. 123 00:13:29,250 --> 00:13:30,930 So, you know, I believe we're ready to vote. 124 00:13:40,180 --> 00:13:52,680 Okay, item 3.3.3.5, point 3 passes unanimously, I am 3.5.4 budget amendment regarding lobbying efforts. 125 00:13:54,440 --> 00:14:01,200 I believe I don't even know that this has come up in our discussions here in the full meeting, but this is something that, well, 126 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:06,080 let me take a motion and a second and then we'll start discussing. Mr. Carter makes the motions. 127 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:13,340 second from Michelle. Just to give you a little background of what this is, you hopefully 128 00:14:13,340 --> 00:14:24,060 already read this. But the county commission is looking to work with some surrounding 129 00:14:24,060 --> 00:14:32,480 counties to have legislation passed allowing counties to impose fees in the same way 130 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:39,200 cities are able to impose fees designated for different things such as infrastructure, education, 131 00:14:40,460 --> 00:14:45,060 and whatever water systems. I think that's what the city of Columbia most recently did. 132 00:14:46,380 --> 00:14:52,780 Currently, counties don't have that power to institute those type of user fees. 133 00:14:53,660 --> 00:14:59,860 And this is a movement to hire a couple lobbyists. I believe this would be spearheaded by 134 00:15:01,260 --> 00:15:13,220 And for us to join with them, the county has already contributed, I've heard different amounts, but I believe 40,000, maybe 50,000 is the latest number. 135 00:15:13,660 --> 00:15:19,700 They're asking us to contribute 25,000 towards those efforts. 136 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:26,520 And like I said, this is a conglomeration of several counties coming together, trying to get this past. 137 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:31,700 a lot of the counties around Nashville are experiencing some of the same growth pains we are. 138 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,880 So that's what's inspired this effort. 139 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,520 So we have a motion in a second. I'll entertain any comments or questions. 140 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:40,540 Miss Nutt. 141 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:45,960 Yeah. So the commissioners already approved this. 142 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,280 And it would be to pay for professional lobbyist. 143 00:15:51,060 --> 00:15:56,040 I kind of see this as my husband is the only one that voted against it because we do have a 144 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:04,820 representative that's his responsibility to do, so I personally also feel that last meeting, 145 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,860 I had brought up needing to do a strategic planning retreat and was told that there 146 00:16:09,860 --> 00:16:17,440 were that it would be roughly $30,000 and here's $25,000 we just found and I think that 147 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,740 we could be better used towards something like that. 148 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,060 Thank you very much, Miss Irvin. 149 00:16:26,380 --> 00:16:32,120 So I think we had briefly discussed and just want to see, have we talked to our commissioners 150 00:16:33,260 --> 00:16:40,460 or whomever about in this effort, this push for lobbying, should this come to be like, 151 00:16:40,460 --> 00:16:45,820 are we going to be guaranteed or is there going to be like a standing percentage that will come back to the schools? 152 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:48,740 Or is it going to just go to the county at large? 153 00:16:50,820 --> 00:16:52,220 in all the time. 154 00:16:52,340 --> 00:16:53,260 You all had no your head. 155 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:53,880 I'll let you talk. 156 00:16:53,900 --> 00:17:00,160 In the conversations that I've had with various commissioners and with Mayor But, 157 00:17:00,940 --> 00:17:04,020 there is no there is no promise of a percentage. 158 00:17:04,340 --> 00:17:10,240 There is no promise that this this money would be used for capital projects of which 159 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:15,020 they realize with our population increase that that we would have several. 160 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:24,100 I believe Jake and I have Mr. Oliver and I have that spoken and we would present this 161 00:17:24,100 --> 00:17:31,860 check with a letter basically saying our expectation would be, but I don't think we can 162 00:17:31,860 --> 00:17:37,100 legally bind them in any way to a percentage point. 163 00:17:39,950 --> 00:17:43,650 And I will continue to say that my personal stance on this as well. 164 00:17:43,650 --> 00:17:49,090 I definitely appreciate, you know, your position, Kristen and I agree. I also know a lot of our local... 165 00:17:49,090 --> 00:17:58,390 That's Laura. By the way, Laura. I'm sorry. I know. I was sorry. I'm so, so, so sorry. I've just, that's been that kind of day. But anyway, 166 00:18:00,650 --> 00:18:07,250 I know the benefit to our people of getting these impact fees. I mean, we've worried about tats and creases. 167 00:18:07,250 --> 00:18:15,250 It's a way to target the new growth which is continuing to happen and you know kind of take it off the you know the burden 168 00:18:15,250 --> 00:18:24,550 So I feel like it's needed I know which $25,000 but in hindsight, I think that's a drop in the bucket if we could get it 169 00:18:24,550 --> 00:18:29,430 And if we've got somebody that's dedicated to the calls that can you know execute it and get it done 170 00:18:29,430 --> 00:18:33,410 And I think it would be worth the investment that's my personal take on it 171 00:18:33,410 --> 00:18:34,950 Okay, thank you Mr. Carter 172 00:18:34,950 --> 00:18:41,430 I just want to kind of add to that and say that I've been fortunate enough to work with our representatives to pick you quite a bit throughout my time 173 00:18:41,430 --> 00:18:47,730 involved in this and other issues and he's just one man up there and he wants what's best for us 174 00:18:47,730 --> 00:18:51,010 And he's been working his tail off for this, but he alone just can't do this 175 00:18:51,010 --> 00:18:52,690 I mean that's one man fighting to say of 99 176 00:18:53,210 --> 00:18:58,810 So in that I think anything we can do to help that to help Murray County and yes, it's $25,000 177 00:18:58,810 --> 00:19:02,150 But we're over if not right about half of the county's budget 178 00:19:02,150 --> 00:19:09,230 So I think it is fair for us to contribute me about half of what they are to this effort because while we may not have a written guarantee 179 00:19:09,230 --> 00:19:13,470 It's gonna come back and help us eventually. So I think it's in the best interest of Marri County schools 180 00:19:15,670 --> 00:19:16,630 Mr. Lewinsey 181 00:19:16,630 --> 00:19:18,510 I'll concur with 182 00:19:18,510 --> 00:19:26,390 Mr. Jackson and and and to add to that not only we have their budget we're probably 98% of the dead that the county hooch 183 00:19:29,410 --> 00:19:31,050 So I think it 184 00:19:31,690 --> 00:19:39,430 The biggest cost that we as a society has right now are our construction of schools. 185 00:19:40,150 --> 00:19:45,650 As population increases, we're going to continue to have that need. 186 00:19:47,390 --> 00:19:53,090 And I think it's just the right thing for us to do at 25,000. 187 00:19:53,770 --> 00:19:56,550 When we look at the big picture, it's a drop in the book. 188 00:19:57,070 --> 00:19:59,170 It's something that we need to do. 189 00:19:59,790 --> 00:20:04,590 Okay. Thank you. I'll just want to add a couple things to some of the things I've heard. 190 00:20:06,590 --> 00:20:11,410 I think I said early on when I heard this that it was a good idea, but I wanted to have some sort of 191 00:20:11,410 --> 00:20:19,330 guarantee that the schools would get a fair shake and otherwise I wouldn't vote for it and I have not seen anything 192 00:20:19,330 --> 00:20:24,270 and writing. It memorandum of understanding I think would be what I would most likely expect from 193 00:20:24,270 --> 00:20:29,730 And even though that's not anything that's ironclad enforceable, it is a good faith measure. 194 00:20:30,970 --> 00:20:36,190 And I say that because the first time this came up, during the conversation I was 195 00:20:36,190 --> 00:20:39,510 having, it was said that this would go all towards schools. 196 00:20:40,470 --> 00:20:41,430 We have all that need. 197 00:20:41,630 --> 00:20:42,710 It's all go to schools. 198 00:20:43,550 --> 00:20:47,130 Well, the next conversation I had, it was a lot of it's going to go to schools. 199 00:20:48,110 --> 00:20:51,970 And I don't know if either of you went back and watched the planning meeting from the county 200 00:20:51,970 --> 00:20:56,970 commission, which was really well done and a lot of great ideas came from it. But I 201 00:20:56,970 --> 00:21:01,370 can't only five or six different things that this money was going to pay for 202 00:21:01,370 --> 00:21:08,410 on their plans. None of those were schools. And they had a lot of good plans and 203 00:21:08,410 --> 00:21:13,670 the county has a lot of strong needs. But without something as far as a 204 00:21:13,670 --> 00:21:19,650 memorandum of understanding, I can't contribute that kind of money to this. I 205 00:21:19,650 --> 00:21:25,890 Do you see that representatives of picky needs more than just himself fighting it? 206 00:21:26,390 --> 00:21:29,190 Obviously he tried it last time and it didn't go anywhere. 207 00:21:30,730 --> 00:21:34,470 It did pass in a Senate quite easily, but did not in the house. 208 00:21:34,710 --> 00:21:36,410 So I think this is to help him out a little bit. 209 00:21:36,950 --> 00:21:43,370 And I'm like Ms. Nuts said, as long as there's teachers that are having to buy supplies 210 00:21:43,970 --> 00:21:48,890 and scrape here and there, I'm not spending $25,000 for anything that I can't guarantee 211 00:21:48,890 --> 00:21:51,230 if what's going to happen at the end of it. 212 00:21:51,330 --> 00:21:53,410 So that's my soap box, listen up. 213 00:21:53,730 --> 00:21:56,150 Yeah, I just wanted to clarify, um, 214 00:21:56,150 --> 00:21:58,410 so everyone understands, they already approve this. 215 00:21:58,410 --> 00:22:02,250 They're just asking us to donate some money towards it, okay? 216 00:22:02,630 --> 00:22:04,110 They're already going to do it. 217 00:22:04,150 --> 00:22:05,650 They already approved it. 218 00:22:05,870 --> 00:22:08,570 So this would just be out of our good will of doing it. 219 00:22:08,590 --> 00:22:10,110 It's not going to prevent them from doing it. 220 00:22:10,130 --> 00:22:11,590 They already approved that. 221 00:22:11,770 --> 00:22:13,010 Just wanted to clarify that. 222 00:22:13,010 --> 00:22:14,170 Yeah, I appreciate that. 223 00:22:14,170 --> 00:22:16,490 My only fear is that if we don't do anything, 224 00:22:16,630 --> 00:22:18,750 then we're not going to get anything down the road. 225 00:22:18,750 --> 00:22:23,150 I do think that that's probably an unfounded fear, like you said. 226 00:22:25,210 --> 00:22:29,970 So I wish they would have, or maybe we could ask for a memorandum of un... 227 00:22:30,780 --> 00:22:49,320 If this doesn't pass tonight, if it doesn't, then it doesn't matter. But that's going to where I stand on it. Mr. Lindsey, I think we better be really careful and make sure that we're being a good partner because in about two and a half months, we're going to be asking them for a lot more than $25,000. 228 00:22:51,660 --> 00:22:59,560 We took in last month over $200,000 in excess, just in sales tax, what we took in last 229 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:00,880 year. 230 00:23:02,340 --> 00:23:06,440 And then if we really want to get down the nuts and bolts of it, Ms. Ventura didn't 231 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:12,320 have to bring this to us. She could have cut a chick for it. The only reason it's coming 232 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,780 for us and not because she's asking to take it out of fun balance. When in reality, this 233 00:23:16,780 --> 00:23:20,320 really not even our call. The only reason we're voting on the night goes coming out of 234 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:27,340 flim ballots. But I would caution everybody, be very, very careful. Politics is about 235 00:23:27,340 --> 00:23:33,800 relationships and they're asking us for $25,000. We're going to be asking them for 236 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:39,660 tens of millions of dollars in a couple of months and I would hate for there to be 237 00:23:39,660 --> 00:23:41,840 animosity over $25,000. 238 00:23:44,220 --> 00:23:47,520 Okay, thank you. Any other comments or questions? 239 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,660 So you're not, I believe we're ready to vote, 240 00:24:18,270 --> 00:24:21,190 that passes, am I right on that? 241 00:24:22,070 --> 00:24:24,450 Okay, my math is not the sharpest. 242 00:24:25,030 --> 00:24:28,910 That passes on a six to three to one vote. 243 00:24:30,610 --> 00:24:33,090 We don't need to worry about MOUs or anything like that going forward. 244 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:47,200 So that was 3.5.4, moving on now to FYI, 3.6, 0. FYI, this fincher. 245 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:54,340 I just wanted to take a minute and show you all that the City of Columbia does let us utilize. 246 00:24:54,520 --> 00:25:03,000 I know most of you are aware of this, but some of the new board members may not be aware that some of our schools do not have adequate facilities for fields. 247 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:08,280 So this is an MOU that I signed with the City of Columbia to let us use their city parks. 248 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:16,460 And I think it it just it partners with them giving us the land back. I'm I'm hoping that we are on the path of 249 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:18,760 Goodwill and 250 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:24,800 Hope to move forward in a positive direction with the city. Thank you very much 251 00:25:29,550 --> 00:25:31,910 Yeah, I'm telling the look place where I'm not forgetting anything 252 00:25:33,790 --> 00:25:37,430 Just while we're on this section the next section is announcements and communications 253 00:25:37,430 --> 00:25:43,730 I did just want to give a shout out. It is a school counselor's week and it is love the bus month 254 00:25:43,750 --> 00:25:50,890 So please love a bus driver, thank a bus driver and thank a school counselor. 255 00:25:50,970 --> 00:25:51,470 Okay. 256 00:25:51,690 --> 00:25:52,790 Thank you very much. 257 00:25:53,210 --> 00:25:56,210 A couple items coming up from our planning purposes. 258 00:25:56,310 --> 00:25:58,850 We have a work session scheduled the 21st of February. 259 00:25:59,670 --> 00:26:09,690 And we have planned a border treat for March 4th, which we'll find out more. 260 00:26:10,030 --> 00:26:12,750 We'll get more of the details in the agenda as we get a little closer. 261 00:26:13,310 --> 00:26:23,590 One of the things that the work session that I'll be coming up is what director Ventura and I put together as far as suggestions for a evaluation form. 262 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,320 Is there anything else that needs to be brought up? 263 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,640 I just have a quick question for you. 264 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,920 I heard, I mean, we've had a shortage of bus drivers. 265 00:26:38,420 --> 00:26:39,520 How is that coming along? 266 00:26:39,540 --> 00:26:42,200 Because I know that that's been a really big problem. 267 00:26:42,940 --> 00:26:47,260 as far as buses running late in students getting to school late. 268 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:48,640 Mr. Perryman, do you want to take that one? 269 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,020 We right now are driver-wise around 20 short. 270 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,740 So the buses running late are double-ups. 271 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:01,840 We have a lot of folks who are working and driving twice as far as they are supposed to be driving. 272 00:27:03,020 --> 00:27:09,320 That has actually strained us in that our bus driver population is an aging population. 273 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:16,680 and many of them physically cannot take driving five to six to seven hours a day and that's 274 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:21,300 what we've been asking lots to do. So while we've been able to hire new drivers because 275 00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:27,150 of increased wages off of the salary study last year, we have seen about the same rate 276 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:32,960 leave us and most of it has not been for being unhappy. It's just been because circumstance 277 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:38,840 does not dictate what they were capable of doing. So we're pushing forward. We met yesterday 278 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:44,440 and executive and had a long talk about drivers and how to maybe try different things to 279 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:49,380 then we have in trying to get them in. Please note that the drivers that are driving now, 280 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:56,640 most of them are running additional routes. We are trying our best to let parents know as far 281 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:04,500 in advance as we can. Unfortunately, sometimes when we find out is at 530 in the morning on a 282 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,740 We have four to five more people out that day than we thought we would. 283 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:14,920 And normally we have a full fleet staff of drivers and we have 12 full time subdrivers 284 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,320 to cover those outages. 285 00:28:16,940 --> 00:28:21,900 None of our subdrivers are our positions are filled plus we have the large outage. 286 00:28:22,420 --> 00:28:27,680 So we're trying as best we can and we just ask people to be as patient with us as 287 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:28,000 we can. 288 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:30,940 But we will get everyone home every day. 289 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:37,360 We call, we make sure people know what we're doing as quickly as we can as just a real strain right now 290 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:43,440 But to answer your question, it's kind of been a wash and it is not uncommon 291 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:51,020 with the counties around us. I know Williamson at one point was down 50 five drivers and it just was a real strain on everyone 292 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,680 Is there anything we can do 293 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:57,280 to assist in 294 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,720 finding more drivers? Is there something 295 00:29:00,460 --> 00:29:04,080 Honestly, I mean, what could be done about this? 296 00:29:04,220 --> 00:29:08,700 Honestly, as we talked yesterday, before you get to finances, is just word of mouth. 297 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:15,300 We hire most drivers off of other people mentioning that this is a full-time job, even though 298 00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:19,380 you only are supposed to work 20 hours a week, you receive full-time benefits. 299 00:29:20,140 --> 00:29:22,220 That means your health insurance is there. 300 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:27,400 You have options to vision if you drive for five years, then you have state retirement 301 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:33,240 that you can become part of. Lots of really positive things that are in that job that I don't 302 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:39,580 think people understand. We also are looking at maybe hiring people who just drive in the morning 303 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,940 and people who just drive in the afternoon and starting to team them up. So before and I know 304 00:29:44,940 --> 00:29:49,460 Ms. Ventura was going to mention some specifics we've talked about but the biggest thing that we see 305 00:29:49,460 --> 00:29:55,100 is just anyone who says something that you think might be willing to or be good at it, 306 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:59,980 talk to them about it, have them reach out to us and we can find some really positive things. 307 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:10,520 So, then today, we handle all of your training. We pay for your training. We pay for your licensure. We pay for your health card. We really try our best to make it a positive for folks. 308 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,040 Ms. Fincher, did you want to add something? 309 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:22,900 As we move into budget season, I think we have a couple of ideas. Again, I don't know. I wish I had a crystal ball, and I wish I had all the answers. 310 00:30:24,060 --> 00:30:33,020 But, you know, we've talked about different pay increases for them, we've talked about signing bonuses, incentivizing it that way. 311 00:30:33,940 --> 00:30:39,680 You know, right now our drivers drive about four hours a day. 312 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,060 I know that Marshall County pays them for five hours a day. 313 00:30:43,260 --> 00:30:45,440 So we're looking at all different pay packages. 314 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:53,380 the other issue you run into that is fortunate and unfortunate is most of these are retirees 315 00:30:53,380 --> 00:30:59,540 and there is a limit to how much income they can make. So we are also up against because we have this 316 00:30:59,540 --> 00:31:04,680 this aging population that I could not be more appreciative that they agreed to drive for us, 317 00:31:04,940 --> 00:31:09,960 but money is not always the incentive. So finding things that we can incentivize them with. 318 00:31:10,340 --> 00:31:15,320 So if you talk to anybody who's somewhat interested, find out, send them to Jennifer, send them to 319 00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:18,880 We'd love to know what they want. 320 00:31:19,780 --> 00:31:23,320 I would just say, I would have, we've been creative. 321 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,240 We have a teacher that's driving right now. 322 00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:28,720 And we're trying to look into those types of things. 323 00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:29,840 Can we make that work? 324 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,600 We're looking at, can we combine their hours with cafeteria service? 325 00:31:33,740 --> 00:31:35,360 Can we combine them with something else? 326 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:36,960 So all of those types of things. 327 00:31:37,140 --> 00:31:40,780 And I will say, usually money is not the motivation for these folks. 328 00:31:41,020 --> 00:31:43,800 I'll give you, we do have one employee who came to us last year 329 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,780 after he received his raise and he said, 330 00:31:46,340 --> 00:31:50,500 I cannot make this much money because with my retirement 331 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:52,820 and this and we actually sat down with 332 00:31:52,820 --> 00:31:54,280 in Jennifer sat down with him. 333 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,300 We figured out what he can make an hour 334 00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:59,900 and he agreed and signed that even though you're supposed 335 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:02,320 to pay me this, I only want this. 336 00:32:03,180 --> 00:32:06,840 So the real motivation for those folks is rarely the money, 337 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:11,200 but more people you can get that word out to, 338 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,360 we would be super appreciative to you. 339 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:14,800 Thank you. 340 00:32:15,060 --> 00:32:17,380 Lastly I'd like to say is thank you to all the schools 341 00:32:17,380 --> 00:32:20,760 and classrooms and principals that took care of us 342 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,600 and appreciated this during school board appreciation month. 343 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,560 We all appreciate that just as much as you all have shown 344 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,040 your appreciation for us so that makes us feel good. 345 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,960 With that being said, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. 346 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Motion from Mr. Mr. McGee. 347 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,460 I'm sorry, I looked right at you. 348 00:32:38,460 --> 00:32:43,380 Second from Michelle, all those in favor stand up and leave.