By Holly Nine
Board of Education member and Vice President, Dave Mullins conducted the first meeting of May on Monday the 4th as Dr. R. B. Legg was absent due to some personal reasons. This meeting was held at the Administrative Office, so there were no honorary student board members. As normal, the meeting began with the approval of the agenda, the minutes from the previous meeting and the payment of the current bills. Kevin Isaacs read the financial report, and the bank account for the board of education only runs about $133,000. Superintendent, Kenneth Tanner thinks that they may be able to squeeze themselves out of debt by the end of the fiscal year, as they are tracking their money and spending very closely hoping to achieve this goal. The board members then decided on the plan for the “make up” of emergency closure days that may occur during the 2015-2016 school year. 180 days of school are required by law. If there are snow days before December 21st, 2015, then students would make those days up on the first few days of Christmas Break, the 21-23. If students miss 5 days due to snow, then Good Friday would then be a make-up day. There are 7 holidays throughout the year that cannot be used as make up days. Let’s hope this winter is a mild one and the kids don’t have to miss many days due to bad weather. After going back and forth several times on what they each agreed on for the make-up schedule, the board was finally able to approve a schedule.
The board meeting then continued with the transfer of Desi Facemire from Cook II at Clay County High School to Substitute Cook II position at Clay Middle School as needed for the duration of Sandy Jones’ absence. The employment of John Paul Rogers as Multi-Classification – Bus Operator/Truck Driver/Handyman for Clay County Schools (Brenda Griffin’s former position) was then approved. Then approved was the resignation of Mrs. Nada Waddell, Vice-Principal at Clay County High School, effective July 31, 2015. Jessica Sams request for resignation as teacher at Clay County Middle School, effective June 15, 2015 was then approved.
The discussions portion of the meeting was next. The High School FBLA will be going to Chicago from June 28-June 2 and the board was made aware that they may need assistance in the funding for that trip. Graduation will be May 30, 2015. The board really encourages and tries their best to support the teams and groups from the schools because there are so many talented children involved in these groups. We have teams that have won states and will be going to Nationals in Texas, California, Chicago and a team that just came back from Washington D.C. The board then looked at the expenditures they have been paying out for substitutes. There will be policies at the next board meeting for the board members to look at so they can get a policy on missing days for next school year. The board members then went behind closed doors to discuss some things they didn’t want public.