Have your attention, please. I'd like to welcome everyone to the. Thursday, june 18th, 2026
regular board meeting for wilson county schools. We're going to start the meeting off with a moment of silence. We'd like to recognize we did have a couple former wilson central
grads that unfortunately passed away. So we keep their families in your thoughts and your
prayers. So we're gonna take a moment of silence and just think about those out there that might need some, you know, need some attention or some prayers. Airway provide some
comfort. So everyone take a take a moment, please.
and. All right. Thank you everybody. Up next, I'm going to ask the
state champion, west wilson middle school warriors baseball team to make their way to the
front to lead us in the pledge. So if everyone can, please stand. Gentlemen, whenever
you're ready. Under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Great job.
super. I think it was the fastest pledge that we've had here in a while. But that's
efficient. I like efficient, right. Okay. So I need a motion to adopt. Adopt the agenda with
five items of new business. Motion. Second. Motion and a second. Miss sherry ready to
vote.
motion passes. Unanimous six zero. Moving on to. Special recognition and presentations.
I have mr. Chuck whitlock. Sir, if you could please take the. Take the stand, sir. The floor
is yours, sir. Just really excited. Where we can brag on our kids and our folks. So this
is always one one of the favorite times of year. We've got a couple of state champions,
quite a few. And we also have some athletic directors to recognize first. Ladies first.
we have a group of four girls. We've got jordan wilkerson. Come on up when I call your
name, please, if you don't mind. She's not here. Okay. Up, up the grove. Leah phelan and
katelyn bacco. Come on up right here. Let me tell you what these girls did. We do not have
an eighth grader in this. This is sixth and seventh graders in 50.38 seconds. They ran around
the university of tennessee knoxville track and handed it off three times 50.38 seconds.
I. I challenge you to put a timer on your on your phone at 50.38 and see how far you go
and not even have to hand it off. So amazing, amazing, amazing. And again, just want
to recognize our state triple a state champion for by 100 team. Awesome. Yes. Hey mister shop,
will you mister chuck, will you take a picture? Your track coach, if you come take a
picture with mister. Mister chuck up here. Mister whitlock, you come, sir. There you go.
west. Wilson. Yes, ma'am. West. Wilson. West. Wilson. Middle school. Yes, coach. Good deal.
amazing guy. He's amazing. That's fast. Thank you. I bet they they might have said the
pledge a little bit faster than the boys. All right. My next set, they went to the beauty
shop. I guess before they went to state, they all got matching hair color. West wilson. Middle
baseball. Okay. They they had some challenges this year, especially in postseason,
because we're trying to do some great things for their for their property. Dominant is the
word. Dominant is the word. Their last loss was in march. Middle middle school, state,
state postseason. There's no double elimination. You lose. You go home. They marched
through their district, the county, the district, the region section and capped it
off with a run rule in the state championship game against west collierville. So again,
dominant. Really excited. I'd like for all the boys to come up. I'm not sure. Come on up.
now. How many how many eighth graders do we have here? Any eighth graders? Raise your hand.
okay, so we still got some. Okay. A lot of eighth graders. All right, all right. And coach,
coach coit could not be here. So I ask you, enunciate your name so we can hear it. Jordan
bird. Okay. Sentence colin gardner, ben. Hayden. Johnson. Helm. Ryland. Flanagan. Trey.
sims. All right. Oh, we got a couple. Come on in. Dj lewis, bryce mcclure, lucas o'brien.
okay. Again. Yes. Get that picture. All. Okay. Again your triple a state champs. Great
job in middle school. Thank you guys. Congratulations. We should yes we need to check the
water over at west wilson. They're doing something right over there. You know. And just to make a quick comment hey everybody out there. If if you get a chance to go watch one of
their events, whether it's baseball or track, go support your middle school athletics, because those are, they're a very low cost event you can go to. And it's, it's just so it's
impactful. It's amazing to watch and support these student athletes. So thank you guys so much. Congratulations. Yes. And we've we've got a lot of things that are right with education
based athletics. We've got a lot, a lot to be proud of. I also want to bring up three
individuals. We we want our kids to grow. We want our coaches to grow and develop.
but we also need to lead by example. We've got three athletic directors who have
achieved national certification as certified athletic administrators. I'd like to
bring them up one by one. So we'll go. Who's closest denise to fevers? Come on up. Denise
to fevers is a long time. She's part of the fabric of mount jewett middle school. She's
coached multiple sports and leads, doesn't manage leads the mount middle athletic program.
so, denise, the fevers from mount jewett middle. Miss denise. I think he called you
old miss denise, I think I think he called you old. No, no, no. He said impactful. It was
impactful. Impactful. Missy hunter. Missy hunter is is athletic director for
gladeville middle. I'm not going to say long time again, experienced teacher, coach,
athletic administrator. This past year, she completed the first ever national cohort of
middle school athletic directors she met once a month with with athletic middle
school athletic directors from across the country sharing and learning from others. She is
now going to be a mentor for athletic director, middle school athletic directors
across the country, and I believe miss denise is going to also participate in that. So
again, growing and leading by example, missy hunter, global middle. And michael berardi
from mount juliet high school. Michael berardi has the unenviable job of being a full
time administrator. With all that we ask, all the duties that we ask from a from an
assistant principal, but also is is leading again, leading, not managing a six a athletic,
a storied six six athletic department with all the challenges, all the
opportunities, all three of those, all three of these individuals, they love our kids,
they love their community. And we're just, again, thrilled that they are leading by
example by attaining this difficult certification and growing themselves
professionally, which in the end helps us to support our kids, our family, and our staff.
thank you. Congratulations. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right. I think up next,
speaking of amazing and impactful individuals, I think mr. Shane, mr. Shane cook, miss,
we're going to recognize miss frances, miss frances steering, the incomparable, the impactful,
the amazing. Sir, the floor is yours. I wasn't planning on speaking tonight, but. But I
gladly will for miss steering. Here she is. She is a true gem after 49 years of. Of service
for the students and transporting the students, mainly the special needs students of wilson county. She has chosen to retire. So this year she managed to get
nominated and accepted to the tennessee school bus driver hall of fame, one of only 26.
one of only 26 people in the state of tennessee. She will be very missed in transportation.
we can't say enough good about miss frances, and we hope you enjoy your retirement and know
we know we'll miss you. I'll let you speak. Yes, I've enjoyed working in wilson
county schools and I love my students and I'm going to miss them. But it's time for me to
do another change in my life. So thank you for all you've done and I appreciate everybody.
thank you so much, miss terry. God bless you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Okay, moving on to
section five, statements from guest delegations and speakers. Is there mr. David b rust, sir,
if you please, step up to the podium. Mr. Rust, I'm gonna read a short disclaimer before
you start, sir, please identify yourself and the subject of your presentation. Please
address your remarks to the chair. The board reserves the right to terminate remarks that
violate board policy. 1.404 the board has no obligation to respond to your remarks at the
conclusion of your. At the conclusion of your remarks, the board and the director of school shall have the privilege to ask questions or respond. Your remarks will be limited to
three minutes. Miss sherry will be keeping the time. I believe she'll be putting it on the
screen. You agree sir? Good evening. I'm david frost. I'm an attorney here in town. I
represent, without going into any specifics at all, I represent a student whose discipline is up for review tonight. On behalf of my client. I just simply asking that the
board modify their discipline to allow a fresh start for next school year, or in the
alternative, at least, grant the opportunity for another hearing before you all. And
that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you for your time, sir. All right. Up next, the
statements from guests and delegations is closed. We're moving on to item six to approve the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? Motion? Second. Motion a second. Ready to vote.
motion was approved. Unanimous six zero. Moving on to item 7.1 district contracts. I will make
the motion to approve the district contracts. We are going to approve the district
contracts, but amending the amount or the cost of contract number 5ixl learning quote. It
should read 21,225. Vice 18,922nd motion a second. Any discussion? Yeah, I just have a
couple of quick questions on the difference between that paxton patterson and the path.
if miss catherine, if. Absolutely. So I'll give you a quick overview of both of those
items. The paxton patterson, our career and college or career exploration labs, we
implemented those last summer in two of our middle schools, west wilson middle and mount
juliet middle school. It is funded by the innovative school models grant. We're moving into
the last year of that grant funding, and so that's to put labs in. I think, carol oakland
tucker's. And you have gladeville middle school in watertown middle school. You'll
have south side finalizing theirs. And carol oakland should be be coming to us
waiting on an additional grant notification to be able to create equal opportunities for all students in our middle grades for career exploration. As far as path full, one of the
components of perkins five, the legislation that helps to support career and technical
education is a component that requires we have a student aptitude career aptitude
assessment, and this is a platform that we are exploring. So it's actually a three year
contract with path full. In reality, this is a far reduced price for what this platform
traditionally costs. We've partnered with middle tennessee state university to receive two
of those years free. Normally, one year of this program costs upwards of $60,000, but I've
been able to negotiate it down to 30 for three years. But really, two of those are
covered under a grant with mtsu and their agriculture education department. Excellent. Thank
you. I think one of the and some of the research I did, it looked like part of the path
full curriculum is to tie the students in with outside. Correct. They have a very
extensive. And one of the the most robust platforms to allow for students to engage in a
virtual job shadow with real industry experts and those industry experts have been
vetted. And it's a session that teachers can book and schedule in class for them to have the
opportunity to interview careers that may be not necessarily be available in wilson county, but we can also get some of those wilson county employers to participate in
that as well. The other benefit to path is they're located right here in tennessee.
there's no problem with the students talking with these outside people. Is that all
correct there we correct. There's not the teacher actually has to book and
schedule that the teacher is present. There's not going to be any outside live sessions,
one on one with a student individually with an employer. No, that will not occur.
perfect. Thank you. No thank set up. And then individually on the on the paxton careers
labs is there is it have to be on a on a per school setup or can we do it? Is it is it
better to do a district wide contract with them, or does it have to be structured
individually by school? Well, the way the innovative school models grant was set up when
the legislature passed that in 2021 session, it allocated $1 million per high school and
$500,000 per middle school. So by the rules of the grant, I have to show that those dollars
were spent at that campus. So you might notice that some of your k eights have fewer
modules selected, and part of that's because they have less funding available. When we after we wrapped up those greenhouse construction projects, some of those
required digging up a parking lot, which of course had more expense than those campuses that may not have. So one of the goals that I've had is to, to finish out the labs from
those k eight schools that may not have had ample funding in innovative school models with either perkins reserve or perkins so that they can build and have the full experience
available to. So I guess that that may be. Answers your question. As for why it's different in per school, it's a different. The same grant, but a different grant per campus.
we have to show where we've allocated those funds to that school. No, we can't take funds
from tucker's and give it to mount juliet middle or vice versa. Very helpful. Thank you very much. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Any other discussion? If not, we are ready to vote on
district contracts.
motion passes. Unanimous six zero. Moving on to item 7.2 school contracts. Do I have a motion to approve? Second. Motion and second. Any discussion? If not,
we're ready to vote while we're voting just to bring up one contract in here. It's pretty
cool. Nissan is actually donating a vehicle to green hill high school, so it's a pretty cool program that they have going on.
motion passed unanimous six zero. We're going to move to item number nine.
we're going to skip over. Legal was a it was a copy that I had made a mistake on. So we're
going to move to number nine. A report from county attorney sir. Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, thank
you. And members of the board, I don't have anything that needs to be voted upon tonight
or really discussed. Any questions for the. Mr. Jennings, I will say, because everybody
else has said it, but I haven't. Congratulations to mr. Luttrell on his retirement, and we all
know where to find him if we need him. All right. I have a motion to accept the motion to
accept second motion, a second ready to vote.
motion passes. Unanimous six zero. Reluctantly moving on to item 10.1, which
will be our director's last report. Sir. What is yours? Thank you, mr. Padilla. You do
have my report in front of you. Report cards were finalized and been published. They were
published on june the 2nd, so everyone ought to have their grades included. A summertime
event. You know, one of the biggest misconception about this business that we're in is
that everybody takes summers off. You can see beginning from june the 1st, all the way till
right up to first day of school, all that will be going on with teachers. Administrators wanted
you to have that. And I would encourage you. I know we're all busy this summer and we take
vacations, but there's several events. You know that new teacher orientation be a great
event for you to attend to, let you see what our new teachers learn. We bring them in here,
we get them ready to go to the classroom. You've got a opportunity for restoration
night at rutland in the district. We have over 50 languages spoken. It's a great
event to attend and just to see what we do for for those students and those families
that are coming into our district. And there's other multiple ones. So I would
encourage you, if you get an opportunity and want to, to stop by as a board member and
just observe and see what's going on. Personnel update carol oakland, assistant
principal, has been named miss kristen mcfarland would like to welcome her central pike
elementary assistant principal. Principal has been named miss brooke neves mount jude high
school assistant principal. Miss brittany booher, educator, effectiveness supervisor. Miss
laconda mckinney and secondary supervisor doctor bethany wilson. We have. That is the
most current personnel update. Some of those hires are within county, I think, and so
there'll be some backfilling of positions. I do want to thank everybody in the last few weeks
transition. Mr. Mayfield was a part of this process. And as we went through that and he will
be making the filling those positions for to replace some of these people within the
district. Doctor cauthen, do you have anything for academics? Mr. Mayfield you want to give
us a update on operations? So in regards to central pike elementary there finishing the
site work, fencing, seating, straw, certain areas, they still have some sod to put down
around the playground. The sewer line is in progress. I think yesterday they were about
300 zero feet completed. So they will continue the tdec operating permit, which allows
us to use the force main to pump to. The connection point, has been approved and we have
received it. So everything is good to go to operate once it is in place. Roofing projects.
I sent you guys by email. Two of the construction updates for we a right and south side
elementary. So those are going on. West elementary will be finished next week provided
they don't have too much rain between now and then. I will tell you that mr. Sebastian
applied for a state grant related to construction projects for high growth areas,
which we are a high growth area. The grants for approximately $500,000. And in the narrative,
we have to say what we're using it for. It will be put towards a roof at carol oakland
elementary. I feel like we have a good chance to receive that grant, and mr. Sebastian will
let us know when it comes in west wilson middle school. So we have had a situation
involving the football bleachers. The general contractor had initially they
whenever they bid the job, they put out. Requests for their subs. Sturdy steel, which is
kind of the number one bleacher manufacturer in middle tennessee, didn't bid the
project because the timeline was too aggressive in their means. And so bisque
construction awarded it to a different sub. They were actually out of florida, but they said they could complete it on time, and they had given updates. Three of them, I
believe, along this progress that they were good on the timeline. And then all of a sudden they said, we need a we require a deposit. And they went back and forth with bisque
until finally they said, we're done. We're not, we're not going to complete the project at all. They completely pulled out bisque and construction has pivoted and they have
contracted with sturdy steel to provide us the bleachers. There is an additional cost which
they will absorb. They will not try to pass on any cost to wilson county schools. It will
delay when those football bleachers come in, the rest of the project will be completed
later in june. The original deadline was july 1st. But then you also factor in the rain
delays that we've had since march. So right now that project is the due date would
be july 23rd or 24th. They will have all the site work, the sidewalks, the the batting
facility for baseball, softball and the press box area. The ticket booth for the press
boxes are for baseball and softball, and then they'll have the the ticket pavilion. All
that will be in place. The plan. And they have this from sturdy steel. They will leave the
bleachers as is on the football field until football season and soccer season is finished,
which will be in early october. I think it's october 4th. They will come in then and move
those bleachers that are on kind of the home side to baseball softball. They will be
ready to go for baseball and softball season. Then they will pour the pad for the new
bleachers. Those are set to arrive february 1st. I'll make sure I'm correct. February 1st,
and they will begin that installation project, and then the press box will be delayed a
little bit. But they say it will be here for sure by march 1st. They'll take two days to
set that and then that will be complete. And the at that time it turns into a soccer field
for boys soccer and it will be complete. They have a deadline estimated completion march 1st,
so there will be no additional cost to wilson county schools and everything but the. The
football bleachers slash soccer bleachers will be in place. So that's the latest on that
project. They have. They they regret of what took place. The timeline that we initially put
out was probably one of the bigger factors. But regardless, they are willing to eat the
additional cost for the bleachers. So the only other construction information I have
is once the contracts, if they're approved tonight for lakeview, we will schedule a
meeting with the administration at lakeview and the general contractor and the architect to
make sure we have safety plans in place. And those will be communicated out to the
lakeview parents and constituents, so they know what we're doing. And those will also be monitored and adjusted as needed throughout that project. So the student safety
will be a number one priority when it comes to that project. Again to go. So any questions
just just so everyone knows, it's maybe watching or listening or when will the
portables be moved from gladeville? Or will they be or have they been? Yes, they are
dismantled and ready for pickup by box. That's the name of the company box rentals. They were
originally scheduled to go out last week, but due to the rains earlier in the year, where
they're going had a delay on construction. They asked if they could pick them up next
week. We approved. There's no additional cost to us while they sit and wait for their
trucks to come in and dismantle and take those out, but they will be gone by the 1st of july.
we will have no portables in the in the district for students at that time. We're
going to touch on the watertown, the transportation. Yes. I sent you guys an email. One thing
that we were trying to come up with ways to improve our transportation system. Whenever
we change bell times. A few years ago, we moved watertown to a 730 start so that they
could also service primarily lebanon, but maybe some southside or wilson central
routes. But all three watertown schools start at the same time, being 730 to 330. So the the
early the morning hasn't been the issue for those three schools, but it's getting to that second run at lebanon high school and the other schools that they might service.
currently, mr. Brown at watertown high school has been allowing busses to unload at
650 because busses typically arrive a little bit before the usual dismissal off the bus at
7:00. In working with transportation, the sooner we can get those students unloaded
and then off to the other schools, the better our service will be for primarily lebanon,
but also potentially wilson central and south side. So I plan to reach out and gather
information from the watertown community as a as a whole about this potential change, what it
would mean if we started watertown high school at 720. We wouldn't have to start the
bus routes any sooner, but they could dismiss. And then those busses would go and drop at
either the elementary or middle, and then they switch. And they do that because neither
watertown elementary or watertown middle school can accommodate all 12 busses in
their student drop off or load area. I'm not sure if you guys know where that those are
located, but it's very tight quarters. So what that would allow to do is in the afternoon,
if watertown high school dismisses at 220, they load the busses and they'll be at the
elementary or middle school by 230, which will save us time on getting those busses out in the
routes and then back to lebanon high school. So but before we make any changes, I wanted to
let you know, and I also want to gather information from the community. Watertown community, have a I have a basically a two question survey and then an opportunity, if they want to
provide me feedback, they can do that, that I plan to put out next week to the parents. So,
so, so in essence, you're wanting just to start the high school at 720. Correct. So ten
minutes earlier and then at the beginning and then make it ten minutes earlier at the end. Yes,
yes. That's all it would do is a shift and we wouldn't start the we wouldn't go pick up
anybody any earlier than we currently do, if that makes sense. Okay. Because the busses
have been getting to watertown high school at about 650 already. So that just gives us
those. It saves us ten extra minutes in the afternoon is where the real savings comes in.
that's a lot. That's a lot. That's a that's a big chunk. Sometimes those routes. Okay. All right. So thank you, sir. And I plan to bring what information I get from the
community back at the next board meeting in july so I can let you know. Mr. Mayfield,
would you share how many drivers we have in training right now? We have 21 drivers
in training currently. I think a huge part of that is bart barker putting that message out,
because we got a lot of traction right after that. So currently we have eight open
routes, but if we can get even 15 of those drivers through and ready to go, the start of
school will be in much better shape than we ended the year. So I don't want to be too
optimistic yet. We need to see how it goes and get them through training first. But we
have potential to make a huge improvement. Okay. Mr. Adams, do you have anything? Yes, the
student disciplinary report is attached. These are the annual numbers. Since school is out
for this year. I do want to say thank you to all of our employees, because when you're
dealing with student discipline, everyone is involved with that. But those numbers are there.
don't want to go too specific into anything. Trying to protect student privacy. I will
say thank you also to our administrators came in last week for additional training.
with all departments and continue to learn, continue to train, especially with law
changes. State department policy changes. We want to make sure we stay knowledgeable
about everything that's going on. So we have the correct implementation process also to
the threat assessment data is you do have that report as well too. One of the things that can
be confusing with the threat assessment data, with all data, I guess I should say. But try
to keep in mind that when you do see the numbers, that means our schools are taking action.
our administrators are taking action. Every threat assessment, law enforcement is involved. An
administrator is involved in those numbers. And so we want to take every threat serious
from whether it's a five year old to a 18 or 19 year old making a threat. So but that
information is there. Happy to try to answer any questions if possible. My only question
really is just more the trend line, like from last year to this year or especially on this
threat assessment. How are you how does that look? I can I'll send that to you, mr. Homan. Be
happy to. Thank you. I don't have last year's numbers readily available right now,
but I'll be happy to send that to you. And you can do your comparison there. It's probably
yeah. Something better. Probably talk one on one with because of the sensitivity of the information. If you can send it to all of us, please, sir, just so we can, we can
definitely. And then just a question. I know you probably can't get this to us tonight,
but I'd be curious. West wilson middle school implemented a I wouldn't say a total cell phone
ban, but they went a little bit further when it came to to banning cell phones, would it
be possible to look at their discipline data and look at some of their code of conduct
and see if it was lower than the other middle schools? If not, I understand. I didn't
know if there was a way to to, to track that, to see if if that really made an impact of
them taking a stricter stance on, on those cell phones. I don't know if you can look at
that and get back with me, sir. There's there's no rush tonight. But if you can look, sir, yes,
we I can pull that data by school. Okay. But it doesn't automatically mean that it's going to be lower. It could be higher because they are enforcing more rules. Okay. So
just do keep that in mind as well too. But yes, and I guess that that I guess if you can
have a conversation with, with mr. Johnson, just see like the, the principal to see the impact
it had, because it might be a lot more minor, you know, incidences because they didn't
escalate because there wasn't those cell phones to help take it home and push it, push those
issues further. So just, just trying to look at what we did and if we were successful,
because if we can capitalize on that and maybe mirror it in other places, we can get better.
so yes, there has to be some. Other data feedback involved with that because it's not just
cell phones, it's all electronic devices. Yes. So all of that is looped in to that
data. Yeah. So any electronic device is not allowed during instructional time. Thank you
sir. Yes, sir. Okay. Miss owens, do you have anything I do? I did leave at your spot. The
last gallagher report from april. We are busy in our hiring season right now. So far,
we have hired 156 teachers are in the process of being hired. 136 are regular hires, and 20
of those individuals are licensure, rehires or retirees. So we are very busy. We do have
57 openings, but we hope that all those openings will be filled within the next month.
and mr. Sebastian, finance report. Yeah, I've got a couple items tonight. The first one is
mr. Mayfield already lightly touched on it, but earlier this month we received
correspondence from the department of treasury. They notified us that we qualified
for something called the public school construction and maintenance annual funding
program. They also let us know that there were three tier levels, tier one being the the
level that received funding first, all the way through three, we actually qualified
for tier one funding that essentially what that sta that an la will receive $25 for
each student enrolled in the lea. So the currently allocated. Once we did the. The
application looks like we received an estimate. Or are we going to receive an estimated
$510,344? As mr. Mayfield stated in the narrative that we put for the grant application,
we stated that we were going to work on a roof replacement for carol oakland. So that was a
very nice and unexpected funding there that that we received this month, so that
we'll put that to good use starting next year once we receive the funding. They did say it's estimated to come in by 630. So hopefully it does come in by the by the end of
the month. Moving on, talking about additional funding, I believe last the end of last
week, beginning of this week, we received the remaining amount for the letter grade
bonus that we had talked about last month. We received around $1.1 million. Taking into
account the new retirement rates for next year and all of that, I'm estimating it's going
to be about 350 to $400 per employee for the bonus payout. Looking at the calendar for the
county, because we do have to do this by a budget amendment, the first time we'll be able to
get the process started will be actually the beginning of august. Therefore, the bonus
that the earliest payout would be the august 30th payroll, because it's got to go through
the the first step, which is budget committee, which they will not hold when at the
beginning of july, the first one will be held in august. So going through that and then or
excuse me, getting approved here at the beginning of august, and then budget editor comes
after and then county commission. The bonus payout will be estimated at the the
august 30th payroll on that real quick. So I'm not assuming you said full time would
probably get 350 to 400. Yes. So could you part time I just want I'm sorry. I'm glad you
brought that. Yeah. So full time is 350 to 400. And the part time using the same
criteria is you all had stated would be half of that. So obviously we'll maximize it as
as much as we can. But that's a rough estimate right now is what that will be. Thank you
sir. Moving along. This kind of ties into mr. Mayfield's. But we actually at the beginning of
the year, we were awarded the public school security grant 421,000 and some change for the
weapons detection systems. Those actually came in this week. So those are delivered. So I guess they'll they'll put those into motion and put them to use. And then lastly,
looking at year end for fund our self-insurance fund. Just doing some quick estimates as
far as looking at our revenues versus expenses. At the end of the year, there's some, there's
some accounts that aren't fully spent, which basically is because we don't we're not 100%
staffed all year long. So what that allows you to do is I can fully expand those accounts.
and there's essentially a lump payment that I send to our self-insurance fund at the end of the year. So just taking everything into account, it'll leave our net position and our
self-insurance fund about $10 million, which at the beginning of this year, we started at
about 12 million. So there's about a loss of about 2 million as far as what we call net
position, which is essentially our fund balance. Second thing to that is the month of june
has been very kind to us as far as expenses. So if things hold equal, the way they're holding
right now through the end of june, we're looking at about a difference of between 1 to $2
million between our revenues versus our expenses. Our expenses will be a little bit
higher. But it's it's if it holds equal. Now, last year, june came in a little heavy.
right now june's coming in a little lighter than last year. So if it holds equal that's
about the difference we're looking at for the current fiscal year. And this is just looking at our revenues versus our expenses is about a 1 to $2 million difference if things
hold the way they are. So I'm hoping they do. But I'll I'll update you all in july. Any
questions for mr. Sebastian? If not, does getting near my report. I just want to take
this opportunity. This is my last report. I wanted to just publicly thank. Number one, our
students, all of our faculty, administrators, parents, community members. I could go
on and on county commission, each of our cities within our district. I can honestly say
the five years I've been here in this position, I've felt the support of all of those
stakeholders, a lot more support than than negativism. I just, you know, when when I
came to this county 30 some years ago to finish my college career, I would have never
thought it would end up here. It's been a very humbling experience. It's been a great
opportunity. Wilson county invested in me as a teacher and young administrator, and just
been one of the one of the great honors of my life. I won't say the greatest. I think
there's some more important things than work, but one of the greatest honors of my life has been to lead this district. And thank you. I have a motion to accept the director's report.
second motion, a second vote. One ready?
mr. Luttrell, we are excited for you. And we like mr. Mayfield, but we're still
not happy about this. Mr. Mayfield will do great, I believe that. Thank you, will
to. Okay. Motion pass unanimous six zero. We're going to move on to items. Section 11
recommendations for director of schools. Item 11.1 recommendation to approve exchange student 2026 2027 greenville high school. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second.
motion a second. Any question or discussion? If not, we'll ready to vote.
sorry. My mouse was. Motion pass six zero. Moving on to item 11.2.
recommendation to approve certified handbook. Do I have a motion? Motion? Second. Motion
a second. Any discussion? If not ready to vote?
motion approved. Unanimous six zero. Going on to item 11.3.
recommendation to approve support handbook. Do I have a motion? Motion. I'll make a
second. Any discussion? If not, I'm ready to vote. Mr. Jerry.
motion passes unanimous six zero. Moving on to item 11.4. Recommendation to approve
coach's handbook. Do I have a motion? Motion. I'll second. Okay. Any discussion? If not
ready to vote.
motion was approved. Six. Nothing. 6 to 0. Unanimous. Item 11.5.
recommendation to approve substitute handbook. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion a
second. Any discussion? If not ready to vote. Motion was approved. Unanimous six zero.
moving on to item 11.6. Recommendation to approve transportation handbook. Motion
second. Motion a second. Any discussion? I have a quick question. Something caught my
eye in this. On page nine it says school busses should only be washed on a quarterly basis.
can someone explain that? So the reason that was put in there is to limit the number.
we pay our bus drivers. They're on the clock to wash the bus. Some would wash the bus every
day if given the opportunity. The bus really doesn't need to be washed every day, so that's
understood. Thank you. Any other discussion? While we vote? I know mr. Ed might not like
this, but. And we're ready to vote. Miss sherry, if can you explain the this the referral
program real quick so that we do have a referral program where our employee, our
transportation employees can earn extra money for recruiting additional drivers for us. And
that's paid $250 when they get them to apply. And then another 250 whenever they complete and
they're on the road. So we have numerous drivers that do take advantage of that and, and make
some extra money and also recruit drivers for us. So that is one addition. You'll also
notice there's a change in the attendance bonus. Bonus is going to be new. I brought this
up before, but it's an opportunity. In the past we've done it quarterly and it was
based on perfect attendance. Well, sometimes life happens. We have bereavement leave. That
needs to happen. You have a medical situation and the driver would not be able to get
the bonus. In looking at our total program and what we really need is we need just
better driver attendance as a whole. So my recommendation was, let's make it. If you get the
full bonus, if you have a 97% attendance rate, basically from a driver's perspective, they
could miss six days for bereavement, illness, family illness, whatever the case may
be. That's six days that you can miss and you'll still get the full bonus. And now it's
not, it's not after that. You miss seven, you don't receive the bonus. But I really feel
like that will make a big difference. I've also put this out to the drivers before I
ever proposed it, and the majority are in favor of it. Matter of fact, I didn't really
have anybody speak out against it, so I do think that will help. Number one, our drivers,
but also encourage better attendance because just because they have to miss one day
doesn't mean in the past it doesn't matter. I can just go ahead and miss 4 or 5 more. It
doesn't matter. That won't be the case now. So I really feel like it'll help. The bus
drivers here are happy about that. Saw some some gestures out there, so that's a good thing. Motion passed unanimous 6 to 0. Moving on to item 11.7. Recommendation to approve on
first reading policy. 5.605. We're going to bring that back for second reading next month.
are we trying to approve that this month? What was your this is the $200 gift in our
handbook. Do we need to break? It needs to be first and final because that's the information
that's in the handbook. So that's the reason I asked to be first and final so that our
handbooks and our policy matches. I'm sorry I missed the final part. So I'm going to make a motion to break the rules. Amendable motion to suspend the rules. Suspend
suspend the rules. I'm sorry. I like the motion to break the rules. We can break the rules.
suspend the rules. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'll second that. Yeah, a little brevity, whatever it was.
so we have a motion to suspend the rules. And a second. Okay. That's in order to approve this
policy on the first reading. So trying to figure out who robert is and why he's so important to
follow. But. Suspension. Yes, ma'am.
miss williams. Okay, I heard her. I heard her clicking. I was like, she's going to.
motion passes. Unanimous six zero. Okay, so now on to approve on first and final
reading policy 5.605. If you'd like to speak on that or I'll make a motion to approve.
second motion a second for clarification. Did you say that that's what's in the handbook
and we're just making this match last year. Was the two a typo. So we changed the
handbooks because all the handbooks were due at this meeting. So it there was a
change on the finance part where it said 200. And in the hr section five it said 100.
and so when we were going through the handbooks, we realized that there was a
discrepancy. And so we changed the handbooks to show 200. We talked. The executive team
talked, discussed it. So we wanted to make sure that it's everywhere. It's 200. And so
that's the reason that I ask that it be done on first and final so that the handbooks,
everything says 200 and there's not 100 in 1 place and 200 another. But this is going to
say, oh, this is going to say 200. Okay. Yes. Gotcha. Correct. Correct. So everywhere it will
say 200. A quick question after it specifies 200, then it says gifts amounting to less than
100 will not require such approval. Is that should that be 200. Still 100. The
threshold for that. Should be a two gifts amounting to less than 200. That should also be a
two, right? Okay. We've suspended the rule so we can change it. There we go. All
right. We have a motion and a second. We do. We're ready to vote. Motion passes six zero.
moving on to item. 11.8. Recommendation to approve 20 2026, 2026 to 2027. Yeah. Esp,
csea handbook fee and calendar. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Motion a
second. Any discussion? If not ready to vote.
motion passes. Unanimous 6 to 0. Moving on to item 11.9. Recommendation to
approve 2026 2027 tlc parent handbook. Motion to approve. Second. Motion a second. Any
discussion? I just want to note and thanks, mr. Luttrell. Mr. Sebastian, miss jo beth.
there's no rate change this year. No rate change. Awesome. All right. Ready to vote? Mr.
motion pass six zero. Moving on to item 11.10. Recommendation to approve 2026 2027 parent
student handbook. Motion to approve. Second. Motion a second. Any discussion? No
discussion. Ready to vote. I do need to say thank you to miss mcgee for being the board
member with helping out with this process. She attended all the meetings, was very involved
with great questions and feedback as well too, but also all of the code of conduct
committee as well. Thank you for all those that served and helping with this handbook this
year. All right. Motion passes unanimous six zero. Moving on to item 11.11. Recommendation
to approve addendum to aba contract to include the new transportation building. Motion
to approve. Second, that a correction that should be a b m, which is our current cleaning
company. So that's a typo. A b, m a, b, m as I, which we are currently under contract with.
and all this does is show the rate for adding the new transportation office, which
will be the old bta building that is currently under renovation and is scheduled. We
will use that move in in july. And how many more years do we have on this contract with them?
this this upcoming will be the final year. We'll have to put it out for bid right around the
turn of the year. I have no other discussion. We are ready to vote. Mr. Jerry. A b m.
motion passes unanimous six zero. Moving on to item 11.12, a recommendation to approve
construction contract for lakeview elementary to approve. Second. Motion and a second.
any discussion? Yeah. Do we have a. Do we want to discuss the summary of the total for
these. Or how do we want to. If you'd like to know sir. Yeah we can we can do that. It's up to
you, sir. Yeah. Just question to see what what the all in contract was for these. Hang on.
let me pull that. Up top of my head. It's 2020 million for what you're asking. Total
number. Yeah. Total was soft. Yeah. Because the and I talked to mr. Mayfield a little bit
about this before. Just the handout we had was for the the some of the soft costs and the
and the building costs, which was. 18 and some change. And then we had architect and then
some allowances beyond that. So just for transparency, just trying to get a total, the
total contract for rg anderson for lakeview elementary. $18,474,000. So that is just
for that's the rg anderson contract. The architectural and civil fees are separate. That
is. Correct me if I'm wrong. 1,100,066 $166,070. So that's for the fees now in the bid or
the bond documents that we sent to the county commission, the total project cost was
$21,440,070. In addition to the rg anderson contract and the architectural and civil fees,
we as a district do not include furniture and equipment in the general contract so that we can
save money, in essence, by bidding that work out ourselves. In addition, the the technology
and low voltage. We pull that out as well. So those numbers are included in the bond. Those
were included whenever we did the presentation last month for to approve the contract or the
projects by board approval, and then it was sent to the county commission. That's helpful.
thank you. So can you just set a time frame on that when that would be completed? Do we. July
of 28. Okay. And mr. Mayfield, you said you'll go ahead and email it to us as well. That
total list. Yes I will. I will send you that to you shortly. Thank you. Thank you sir.
that's a major minute. Let's vote.
motion passes. Unanimous six zero. Moving on to item 11.13, which I'm sure our
director is happy about this one. Recommendation to approve construction contract for the
new watertown middle school. Motion to approve. Second. Motion and second. Any. Any.
any. Discussion. Other than the same. Can you send the same question? Same materials or.
yeah. Can you go over the cost real quick, sir? Yes. So for watertown middle school, the
general contractor contract is for $54,787,000. In addition to that, architectural fees are 1
million, sorry, 2,100,000 $139,350. I'm going to send you this document just here in a
few minutes. I'm saving it right now. In addition, we budgeted a what we call f, f,
and e furniture, fixtures and equipment at 1,150,000. And our technology slash low voltage
package at $2.4 million. That gives you a total of $60,276,350, and completion
date july 2028. July 2028. Perfect. One thing about that project, in the event it
finishes early, we can move in early because we are not rezoning a new school or
anything like that. So if with the state of watertown middle currently, the quicker we could
move into that building at a good transition period. I think we need to move on that, but
we'll know more once we go through the first year of construction. All right. Any
more discussion? Ready to vote?
motion passes six zero. Moving on to item 12. Old business. Do we have any old business to
bring up? If not, we'll move on to item number 13. New business 13.1. Miss kimberly mcgee,
policy 1.402, ma'am. Thank you, mr. Chair. So I put this on the agenda because I had community
reach out with some confusion with some of the language in it. But when I reviewed it against
state statute, it pretty much mirrors state statute. So I just put it on the agenda to
see if anyone had any additional thoughts, especially around there's a section where
we say that notification will be posted on the official district website. I didn't know
if anyone would consider perhaps making that more clear, as in the district website, and
give specifically maybe the school board calendar or the school board page or something
to that effect. And I also wanted to point out that there was a question about who we
notified. And I just want to say again that that actually mirrors state statute. And so I,
I feel that we've left the president of the local education association in there
because that statute. We have a procedure for this because I was I had the same questions.
and as I was listening to you, I was just thinking really where we put it, that would be
under procedure, but I'm not sure if there's a procedure for this policy. So maybe that
would be the answer is to kind of further define exactly where in a procedure, would it be
appropriate to have mr. Mayfield get with miss heider myself and for the next board
meeting, have a procedure where it'll list a little bit, a little bit more specific and
how that transaction goes. Or what are you guys looking for? I think that would be great.
thank you. Is that something that we could come up with a procedure. So if if you're not
there and miss pam's not here and I have to do something, I can know who I got to go to or
this is how we do, and this is where it will be placed. Is that okay? Are you okay with
that, mr. Mayfield? Okay, sir. Thank you. All right. Is there anything, anything else, miss mcgee? No. Thank you. Okay. All right. I'm gonna bring up item. I have a new business item. So
I brought up the nutrition policy, but this is. It has something to do with this policy. But I'm not trying to change this policy. I just use this as my placeholder because
I'd like to make an amendment or I'm sorry, I'd like to make a motion to I'd like to make a
motion to remove all caffeinated drinks that are over the recommended american
pediatric levels in, in our schools. So that's a motion that I'm making. Is there a
second? Second. And, mr. Mayfield, I know we've discussed this. And real quick
I'll mention why I brought this up. You know, we had contacted by a couple parents where.
sitting in a 504, you know, or an iep meeting and the kids are jittery in class. And she was
wondering, she was wondering why do we have these highly caffeinated drinks in our
schools? And then we're having meetings trying to combat something that we're actually giving them access to. So common sense will hopefully prevail. We'll get together.
and you know, mr. Mayfield, sir, if you'd like to to to speak on that, sir. So I did a little
research in the american pediatric society, I believe it is, recommends that teenagers
have no more than 100mg of caffeine. We do have energy drinks that meet the school
nutritional guidelines because it's caloric intake is what that's really based on. They do
not moderate caffeine. Some of these energy drinks that we have in schools have close to
200mg of caffeine, which that's not really it's not recommended for teenagers. So if you wanted
to amend it, my recommendation would be we limit it at the the guideline that's recommended of
100mg in. In essence, I did a little research. You could still sell a diet coke or I'm
sorry, diet pepsi. Even diet mountain dew meets it. But there are certain drinks that
have made it into the vending machine that have 12 calories. So it meets the nutritional
guidelines, but it has 200mg of caffeine. So okay. So, so my language with the recommended
american pediatric, should I say 100 is meaning that you should limit it. I think 100
should be the limit if that's the direction the board would like to go. I think that makes
sense in regards to the the recommendations we have from the american pediatrics. But
but we got that from american pediatrics. So if they change it, are we going to have to
change it. So if we say american pediatrics, then it'll stay with whatever their. I would say we're 100, 100. Okay. So I'll, I'll, I'll pull back my motion and I'll make a
motion to remove all, all energy drinks that are over 100g of milligrams of caffeine.
yeah. I'll second. Second. Okay. Any other discussion? And those are only at the high schools
right now. Yes. So the the middle school in elementary guideline middle school can
sell water and water only. So it's not an issue at the middle school. And the elementary
doesn't even have any kind of vending machines available for students. So it's really just a
high school issue. Okay. Any other recommendation? Also, if you're going to put it in
policy would be under that, the one you referenced 6.411. Yes. There is a section under
commitment to nutrition. And in that section, second paragraph, all food, including vending
machines, fundraising items, concessions must meet guidelines set forth by the
healthy hunger-free kids act 2010 smart snacks in schools. And then I would add the
sentence. In addition, the wilson county board of education limits. Drinks to
only those with 100mg of caffeine or less. Okay, I wouldn't name specific energy
drinks because they'll always create a new one. Gotcha. Just give me a second. Yes, miss.
jamie, where are you going to? I'm just spreading. I'm not against this. I don't think the
energy drink should be in there. I think coke should be. It's high school kids. They were
raising. Their parents are raising adults. So it's if they have a coke, they have a coke.
just want to point out an eight ounce cup of coffee is 95mg of caffeine. And we do have
culinary that does coffee and things like that in the morning. So are we being a little bit of
a hypocrite here? So that's, that's what I'm kind of fretting with. I don't think
the energy drinks need to be in there. I'm with mr. Mayfield. Some of them are 200mg. That's
too much. It they might have palpitations and things like that. But I just kind of I
don't know. I'm okay with saying like energy drinks or something like that, but maybe
if we're getting down to the nitty gritty of exactly how many milligrams. I won't vote
against it. Well, we could limit the size of the coffees we sell out of the culinary
arts. I don't want to get that restrictive. I think that's what I'm trying to say. Like, I
don't want to get that restrictive. These are high school kids. If it was elementary. Yes. Do you want to say energy drinks with more than 100mg of caffeine? I won't
vote against this motion. I just I just think we need to be conscientious of how much we
restrict high school. I think this is I think this is a good start. I think that that we can
look at other. This is going to open up other doors. I think, besides coffee too, there's
going to be some other things that are going to be brought up, but I think this is a good
start to at least limit this from the vending machines and the drinks, the energy drinks.
so you go ahead. Yeah. Would this extend to like after school activities to like
concession stands, things like that? Or is it just strictly to the vending machine? I mean,
what I would say after school, their parents can be there and let their parents parents did
of us. Yeah. I think the main thing is during school hours, because that's where they're
going to be in an instructional instructional time, because you're going to have football games, baseball games they can sell. You're going to have food trucks that are coming. So I
mean, it's, that's going to be, you know, dependent upon the parents to, to, to regulate those. The main concern has been the vending machines in the schools. Yes. Yeah. No, I
just want to clarify. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. So because this is here's what we're going
to do and make sure everyone's okay with this because this is going to be a policy change.
this is going to be the first reading, right. I think that we're going to put this down in
that policy, and we'll bring it back for a second reading at the next board meeting. Is that
okay with everybody here? And it'll be before school starts. So we'll still be able to make
sure we knock those out. Is that is that appropriate? Because if not, we're gonna have to suspend the rules because this is, you know, this is the this is the first
reading. Is everyone okay with that? Yeah. Okay. So we're voting on the first reading. Sherry. Yes. I just want to make sure I have the wording. So are we doing are we saying
energy drinks to remove all energy drinks from our schools that have over 100mg of caffeine? Yes. Okay. And once again, that's going to be where we're at. If we figure out
between now and the second reading, we want to change that language or something else. After you do more research, we'll do that. So yes, ma'am. We don't have a second yet. I'm
greg. Greg, I second, mr. Holmes. Yes. Okay. I'll say that I hadn't done any research
on this, but ai tells me that red bull has 80mg, 8.4oz monster, 16 ounce can has 80mg
rockstar 16 ounce 80mg. So it sounds like 100 is not going to be too restrictive. So that's
fine. Well, that I think yeah, the size of them as well. You know, how much is in there. So
yes sir. The rise is 200mg 200. Yes. That's and for, for, for comparison, mountain dew is
about it's somewhere between 5050 and 60. But mountain dew zero is 63. Okay. I haven't
looked that up recently. Okay. Is this is this policy? Is this going to be sufficient enough?
miss sherry policy can be sufficient enough to because we're going to be amending a
policy six point yes. Okay. I will before the next meeting. We'll have that language
included in rent. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that's what we're voting on. And then this will
come back for us for second reading in july. Okay. All right. So ready to vote. And I
will say, even though this is something that we're looking at, ultimately, a lot of this falls on your parents, you know, so parents, please, I know you reach out and we'll do as much
as we can in our school and what we provide. But at the end of the day, it's a parent's
responsibility to tell your kids what and what they can and can't have. But we also have a
responsibility to let parents know what we have in the schools as well, so they know
what they can, tell their kids, what they can and can't have at the same time. Motion pass
unanimous six zero. Like I said, this will be coming back before for second reading. So everyone
that's watching are out there that wants to make a comment or reach out to your board members.
please let us know how you feel. All right, so we got some more items of new business. Let's
get through these. We have first, we have to approve a ai implementation monitoring report that's due by july 1st. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second. Motion a second. Do we
have discussion? If not ready to vote?
motion passes. Unanimous six zero. On the next new business item, we have a
memorandum of understanding from vanderbilt university medical center and the wilson
county board of education. Do I have a motion? Motion. I will second any discussion. If not
ready to vote.
okay. I'm sorry. Motion to motion pass unanimous 6 to 0. Next new business item.
we have to approve two trips. Do I have a motion? Motion. I'll second. Any discussion if
not ready to vote.
motion passes. Unanimous six zero. Next new item of business. We
have two contracts to approve. Blossom and public consulting group. These are both sped. Do
I have a motion motion? Second, any discussion? Second contract it's blossom and then public
consulting group. Public.
yes, ma'am.
motion passed unanimous six zero. The next item is we have two disciplinary reports
that each of you received packages on. The first disciplinary report is going to
concern the student with the earlier letter in the alphabet. And these are going to be a
motion based off of these three conditions. So based off the review of the enclosed record
the board we are going to either affirm the decision of the hearing authority, modify
the decision to a lesser penalty if the contact is not a zero tolerance offense as
defined by board policy 6.309 or c grant a hearing before the board. Do I have a motion
motion to affirm second motion and a second. We cannot discuss. So we're ready to vote.
motion passed. Unanimous six zero to affirm the next disciplinary
report is by the student with the. Lower initial in the alphabet. Need a motion to
either affirm the decision by the hearing authority to modify decision to a lesser penalty. If the conduct is not a zero tolerance offense as defined by board policy 6.309 or to grant
a hearing before the board. Do I have a motion? Motion to affirm second motion and a
second. We cannot discuss. Please vote when ready.
to vote against. It marked one of you as not present at vote. So I
raise the vote if you don't mind. If you don't need to vote. Sounds good. All of you are
present. Of course, I don't know what happened here. That's where we broke the rules. It's
not okay. Do you? Would you like to do a roll call vote? Sure. Mr. Honan, mr. Hillman.
yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, yes. It's unanimous. Six zero. All right. Do we have any other
items for new business? I don't know if this is really new business. It's more of a public
service announcement. If I can say this now, I understand that things come up, but I just want
to remind everyone that we have a policy that states that in order to be on the agenda,
items need to be in a week prior to the meeting so that they can be on the agenda. And
I believe I think mr. Jennings has left. But he was saying something about maybe the law
has changed as well, and that we we need to be cognizant of adding things to the agenda
after it's been published to ensure that we're not only following our policy, but also
following the law. I agree, and that's one of the reasons that we went to two meetings a month
so that if that deadline was missed and it wasn't urgent, it could just go to the next
meeting. And I know sometimes that those things will come up there will be urgent, but maybe
we need to look at doing that more. And I think we've we've done that. We've been lax with
that. But I think maybe if it's not urgent, we probably need to start pushing that to the next
meeting. So it's public. No. Absolutely. And I'll say some of this stems from trying to
get finance for, you know, having to make other meetings. So I'll apologize and I'll track that more to make sure it's something that is justified and that we can't
hold off, and that there is a reason that it has to be pushed. But you guys are exactly right.
so we'll make that happen. It happened with me too. It's just not something that we were like,
really. And over the summer, sometimes we get things late and then the changeover just it's just there's no, there's no excuse and we're going to fix it. We'll make it work
though. Okay. Thank you for bringing that up, mr. Mcgee. Thank you very much. Yes. Any other items for new business? Okay. What about the summer? No, I got I got a new business. Oh,
you got more? I got one new business. The last item for new business. We have a we have a
resolution honoring director of school jeff luttrell. Upon his retirement and recognition of extraordinary service and leadership. Whereas jeff luttrell, director of schools,
has decided to retire effective july 1st, 2026, after completing five years of
outstanding service to wilson county schools. And. Whereas, director luttrell has served
students as a teacher, coach, principal and human resource supervisor with wilson county
schools before accepting the position as director of schools. And. Whereas, director luttrell
began his career in education in troutdale county before making the move to wilson county, where he would spend most of his time at watertown high school as a teacher, coach
and eventually principal. And whereas mr. Luttrell earned numerous, numerous academic
honors and awards during his time at watertown high school, where under his leadership,
watertown saw significant gains in both graduation rates as well as atc scores. And whereas,
prior to becoming director of schools, mr. Luttrell accepted a position as human resource
supervisor. And whereas, beginning his career as director did not come without
its challenges, having lost two schools to the may 2020 tornadoes and the global covid
pandemic. And whereas, despite being faced with those challenges, director luttrell
was effective in making sure wilson county schools continue to excel by exceeding the state
average in both graduation rates and act scores in the 2021 2022 school year, along
with seven schools achieving reward school status. And whereas, wilson county, under
direct elections leadership, continue to exceed state averages in performance and
achievement, earning the district a composite level five designation and seeing an impressive number of 15 reward school status distinctions. And whereas, under director
directorship, wilson county schools has had a significant advancement in school building
program, including the reconstruction of stoner creek elementary and middle schools.
and whereas, also under the director luttrell leadership to meet the needs of wilson
county's rapidly growing community, two new schools have been constructed. Legado
elementary, which opened in fall of 2025, with central park elementary set to follow in
fall of 2026. Additionally, construction will begin soon on new watertown middle school,
and renovation of lakeview elementary will begin soon. And whereas director luttrell has
been recognized both locally and statewide during his time with wilson county schools,
including being named 2019 middle tennessee principal of the year by the tennessee
association of secondary principals and selected as 2023 superintendent of the year by
the professional educators of tennessee. While most recently honored as a 2024 wilsonian of
the year by the mount juliet chamber of commerce. Mr. Luttrell also holds multiple degrees and certifications in higher education. Whereas in his retirement, mr. Luttrell is
looking forward to spending time with his family and working on his farm in watertown now. Therefore, be it resolved unanimously by board members on this 18th day of
june 2026, that the wilson county board of education does hereby express its appreciation
of director jeff luttrell for his distinguished service and invaluable contributions to our
community and for his many years of service to teachers, staff and students, and does
hereby commend director luttrell for his lifetime of accomplishments and his dedication to public education. Signed wilson county board of education. Motion to approve.
second man.
well, we're. Well, well, well, while we're here, I'd like to give each board
member a few moments to please make some comments about mr. Luttrell. We'll start with with mr. Homan and we'll go through and I'll finish the comments and no pressure. Yeah. Thanks,
joe, but no, honestly, thank you for for being really transparent, very
straightforward. I think I one thing I appreciated most is that I knew where you were
going to stand pretty much on most issues, but your research in, in your availability of, of
staff to answer questions was amazing. And, and thank you for always picking up the phone
when we years here, it's been, it's been an honor to, to work with you. Thank you.
well, it was a great day when we met at collaborative conferencing. And then when
this position came available for me, your being here was one of the reasons I was like, yes,
I would. And people would ask me, who do you want for director? And they're like, she
likes that. Mr. Luttrell from watertown. So it's been a good ride. I wish you much happiness
on the tractor. Mr. Luttrell. We hadn't worked together long, but I've enjoyed every bit of
it. I think you're a great administrator. To those that don't know, mr. Luttrell is out
driving the school. The roads earlier when we got bad weather to see if we're going to call
schools or not, and he'll send us pictures and texts from all over the county whenever
anything goes on at any school. He lets us know so that if we're asked by parents, we
already know what's happening. So thank you very much. I also appreciate one thing he did is
he gave me a tour of the bowels of watertown middle school, and I felt great tonight about
voting to approve $60 million to build a new school based on the places he took me in that
middle school. Thank you very much. Mr. Luttrell. I want to express my gratitude for your
service to wilson county and public education. The impact you made is great. You will.
you will be missed. I am so thankful for your professionalism, your
dedication, and your service to our students, our employees, our parents, and the community.
I wish you and your family the best in your retirement. Mr. Luttrell, I think that you're
one of those people that has the unique ability to bring everyone together and make
everyone feel heard, and I think that's been obvious over the past few years, and I am
incredibly thankful to have had you at the helm the past few years. When we've gone through
some rough waters. I'm thankful for your leadership. While my children have been in the
school district, and I'm thankful to have served with you, and I wish you the best.
sir. I've almost been on the board for four years, and I'll say this you can judge a man by
his heart, and no one has a bigger heart than the gentleman I'm sitting next to. With that
being said, I'll let everybody know that within my first eight days of being elected, me and
mister, me and mr. We went toe to toe in front of one of the elementary schools where we
almost thought it was going to come to blows. Okay. Now we were professional enough and we
came to an understanding, but that just showed how much that that he cares and that I cared.
and I promise you, the four years that I've grown as a board member, this gentleman
here has played a huge, huge role in that, in that growth, one of the greatest things I'll
ever know about this man is the time that we woke up, okay? We had a hurricane hit the
northeast corner of this state in parts of north carolina and virginia, in the tri state, the
tri state area. Remember that hurricane that hit right and dumped all that water? I mean, we woke up, I can't remember if it was 1 or 2 in the morning. And we drove out there and we
had trailers full of stuff, and we went to 2 or 3 different locations and had great
discussion there. But the main goal was getting stuff to those people. So not only does he
care about his students and the people that are here in his area, but about those people
that were there as well. And there was if there was ever a prototype built to be a
director of schools, this is who it would be. You are. You are great. We, we, we
appreciate your leadership. We look forward to mr. Mayfield. And this is bittersweet because
we know you're going to go and do great things in the next season of your life. So thank
you so much. We are so appreciated. And we. Mr. Actually, mr. Bill sebesky, sir.
mr. Bill, he's going to come forward. The board got you something put together.
hopefully you can remember all the trips. We asked you to have a couple of the new schools on
there as well. But the board got you a it's a it's a cutout of all the schools. And so says
in honor of mr. Luttrell for his dedication and wilson county schools. So this is
something that we got for you guys. So guys, we can all get together and take a picture
real quick, if you guys don't mind. We get in front of this thing. Should we get in front?
let's move in front. Sorry. Let's go in front.
mr. Bills is actually actually one of our bus driver transportation. That
made me so. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Mr. Getting in front of us. That's the price you
guys want to be. We're good along the way. Perfect. That's it for me. So the official. You
built this for us. Here we go. Thank you, thank you. Good job, good job, good job. Yes. I
gotta make sure you get everybody's signature on this resolution before we leave, please. Yes, sir. Okay. Other any other items for new business? Okay. If not
communications from the board, we have summer law. July 16th through the 18th. We also have
our next board meeting. July 23rd, 2026 at 6 p.m. Is there any other communications from
the board? If not, I need one more motion. Motion to adjourn. Motion