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Johnson City board approves budget amendment and revises athletic job requirements 32:21

  • The Johnson City school board adopted a report, the encumbrances and Amendment 2 to the budget. 28:05
  • After discussion of overnight field trip requests, the board approved items C and D, and a staff member said both the forms and a spreadsheet would continue to appear on the agenda. 33:50
  • The board approved the assistant athletic director job description with a bachelor's degree required and a master's degree and administrative endorsement preferred. 49:23

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Item by item (15)
  1. Opening and agenda adoption 0:54
    • The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance. 0:54
    • The presiding officer said no one had signed up for public comment. 21:48
    • The board adopted the agenda. ~21:39
  2. Liberty Bell Middle School update 2:11
    • A student described the school's new specialized CTE classes for 8th graders, clubs, sports and fine arts programs. 3:07
    • The school's principal said the school has 1,009 students, 68 teachers and 126 staff members, and 48% of students are involved in a performing arts program. 5:54
    • The principal said the school was using grant money to finish building a kitchen for a culinary arts program and was in the beginning stages of planning 2 outdoor spaces for students. 5:54
  3. Student and staff recognitions 11:27
    • A district staff member recognized students who placed at a science fair, two high school seniors, two teachers honored as mentor teachers and students who placed in a PTA Reflections contest. 11:58
    • The superintendent presented a certificate of achievement to the student board member for a year of service on the board. 19:24
  4. Construction projects update 22:00
    • A presenter from the city said rain slowed work at Town Acres and concrete slabs were scheduled to be poured the next day. 22:14
    • The presenter said Market Street School had passed city and state inspections and the architect would next inspect for substantial completion. 23:13
    • The presenter said the Indian Trail door frame had arrived, and more than $200,000 in uncommitted funds from the original project approval was available for central office vestibule design and construction. 24:33
  5. Monthly financial and sales tax reports 26:36
    • A district staff member reported general purpose school fund revenues of $10,406,000 and expenditures of $9,439,000 for April, and a net increase to the fund of $8,240,000 through April. 26:52
    • The staff member said PEP account deposits for April were $263,000 from the city and $163,000 from the schools, plus a $500,000 annual payment from Washington County. 28:12
    • The staff member said a Town Acres bond payment was incorrectly transferred from the PEP account and should be transferred back in May. 28:12
    • The board adopted the financial report. ~28:05
  6. Encumbrances and school activity budgets 28:52
    • A district staff member said the Internal School Funds Manual requires the BOE to approve open purchase orders that may not be liquidated by June 30th. 29:00
    • The staff member presented each school's internal fund budgets, including general, site-based and restricted funds. 29:34
    • The board adopted the encumbrances and the internal activity fund, site-based fund and Educare ECLC budgets. 29:24
  7. Second budget amendment 30:24
    • A district staff member said the amendment increased general fund revenues by $2,482,000 and expenditures by $1,822,000, reducing the use of fund balance by $660,000. 30:29
    • Asked whether the district came in over or under budget, the staff member said revenue should come in above budget and expenditures under budget. 31:48
    • The board adopted Amendment 2 to the budget. 32:15
  8. Superintendent's year-end remarks 32:23
    • The superintendent thanked students, staff, community members and the board for a first year as superintendent. 32:23
  9. Consent agenda 33:13
    • A motion was made to approve the consent agenda with items C, D and G pulled for separate discussion. 33:24
    • The presiding officer announced the consent agenda was adopted. 33:47
  10. Overnight field trip requests 33:50
    • A board member said one group's requests would have students out 5 of 16 consecutive school days and asked school administrators to keep track of missed school. 33:50
    • A district staff member said tournament travel is usually limited to 2 or 3 days per season and some of the trips involve missing only 4th block. 35:33
    • A district staff member described a new spreadsheet that will list all overnight field trip requests and show chaperones once they are vetted, and said both the forms and spreadsheet will continue to appear on the agenda. 36:56
    • The board approved items C and D. ~40:38
  11. Assistant athletic director job description 40:47
    • A speaker said the listed qualifications might narrow the field of people who might apply and asked to reconsider or discuss them. 40:47
    • A district staff member said the current expectation for a full-time athletic director is a master's degree in educational administration and that the staff member had no issue with listing qualifications as preferred. 44:51
    • The motion kept the job description as written except making the master's degree and administrative endorsement preferred and a bachelor's degree required. 49:23
    • The board approved the job description as modified. 49:38
  12. Hearing board and conferencing team appointments 49:51
    • A district staff member presented recommendations for members of a hearing board for the 26⁠-⁠27 school year. 49:59
    • A district staff member presented a recommendation for members of the collaborative conferencing management team for the '26-'27 school year. 50:51
    • The board approved the collaborative conferencing management team. 51:15
  13. July meeting schedule 51:27
    • A speaker asked what needed to be accomplished between the budget meeting and the August meeting. 51:54
    • A district staff member said the district usually receives TISA numbers the first week of July and would likely have something for the board in September. 53:02
  14. Proposed calendar and annual agenda 54:01
    • A speaker noted the August meeting falls on the first day of school, and a staff member said to give principals a pass. 54:16
    • Kathy Hall said the September meeting falls after Labor Day and board policy calls for meeting on Tuesday unless the board votes otherwise. 55:56
    • One board member said a Thursday meeting was their preference because of work travel and moved to hold the meeting on the 10th. 56:15
    • The motion received no second and failed, leaving the September meeting on Tuesday, September 8th, at 6:00 PM. 58:24
  15. Legislative update and communications 58:24
    • Paula Treece said Senate Bill 2247, House Bill 2532 took effect May 7th and requires the Department of Education to allocate additional funds to an LEA for the '27-'28 and '28-'29 school years if its TESA allocation drops based on losing students to vouchers. 58:47
    • The presiding officer said the Tennessee Religious Freedom Act takes effect July 1st and will allow school boards to open meetings with a non-denominational prayer, and that the board has not made a decision. 1:00:55
    • The presiding officer said the budget approved by the board included a raise for staff and teachers. 1:02:39

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