White County School District board meeting, Sep 10, 2026
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- John SmithMember
- Lisa OfficerMember
What happened
What happened at this meeting
White County board approves policy requiring Ten Commandments, founding documents displays in schools 1:39:58
- The board also adopted the consent agenda, approved a social studies textbook committee, and approved out-of-state and overnight travel for the golf team and a culinary class. 1:17:08
- The board passed on second reading Policy 4806, which requires each school to display the Ten Commandments, part of the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the United States Constitution in a prominent location. 1:40:29
- A district staff member presented information on possibly changing the policy on attendance of nonresident students, saying a tuition formula used in Putnam County would come to right at $2,000 in White County; the chair said the policy would come up at a future meeting. 1:49:31
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Item by item (14)
- Work session review of consent items 4:34
- The chair called the work session to order and said consent agenda items are adopted unless there is an objection. 7:12
- A staff member said the complaints and grievances policy was changed only to add a line on Title VI and civil rights, and the other two policies were for informational purposes. 11:06
- Asked about foregoing second reading on the policy, one board member suggested the board do so and make the correction. 11:35
- Budget report 15:20
- Lisa Officer reported that for the fiscal year ending June 30, cumulative revenues across all school funds reached $49,333,126 and expenditures and encumbrances totaled $50,048,603. 15:42
- Lisa Officer reported that for July and August, revenues reached $3,331,932 and expenditures and encumbrances totaled $6,944,778. 18:35
- John Smith asked why the general purpose school fund year-end figure of $17,528,890 differed from the beginning balance of $15,507,942, and a speaker said the difference was essentially outstanding purchase orders at year end. 21:35
- Facilities, budget amendments and personnel reports 22:52
- A staff member said a septic pump repair at Cassville would cost $25,000 to $30,000. 23:26
- A staff member presented budget amendments from August and September, including $94,307.92 in McKinney-Vento funding and $161,004.82 for a special education preschool grant program. 26:10
- A staff member said the district could always use bus drivers and still had some support staff positions to fill. 31:33
- Fundraising and field trip requests 33:08
- The chair described a middle school choir fundraising request for November and consent agenda field trip requests for a Beta Club convention in Nashville and a baseball tournament in March. 33:08
- A staff member said two more travel requests, for golf and culinary, had been left off the consent list and were placed under new business. 35:34
- Regular meeting opening and agenda 39:18
- The chair called the regular meeting to order, opened with prayer and the pledge, and welcomed new board members, who introduced themselves. 39:18
- John Smith, Lisa Officer and Chandel Thorpe each said they had no conflict of interest with the agenda. 1:12:44
- A staff member asked the board to move a recognition from item 13 to earlier in the agenda. 1:14:09
- The chair announced the motion to approve the agenda passed. ~1:16:01
- Consent agenda 1:16:10
- Response to Intervention spotlight 1:17:08
- Textbook committee approval 1:28:41
- District update 1:32:22
- A staff member said White County is part of a state pilot on reducing testing but there will be no reduction in state TCAP testing, and the district may drop out of the study. 1:33:10
- The staff member said the district is in good financial standing but expressed concern about rising costs and decreased enrollment. 1:34:26
- Student representatives report 1:36:02
- Historical documents display policy 1:39:29
- The chair said Policy 4806, passed on first reading at the last meeting, requires each school to display the Ten Commandments and passages from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. 1:39:58
- John Smith asked whether the image in the packet was being approved, and a staff member said the board would approve the policy and the mockup could be adjusted. 1:42:34
- John Smith moved to accept the policy as written and task the director with ideas for the display within the policy's guidelines. 1:47:56
- The chair announced the motion passed. 1:48:25
- Nonresident student attendance policy 1:48:41
- A staff member said a Putnam County formula dividing local funding by average daily membership comes to almost $4,000 there and would be right at $2,000 in White County. 1:51:21
- A staff member said the current tuition is $500 a year and about 9 families, maybe 10 students, attend under hardship conditions. 1:53:15
- The chair said the policy would come up at a future meeting, probably next month. 1:59:50
- Public comment and travel requests 1:58:33
- The chair said no one signed up for public comment and there was no old business. 1:58:33
- The board considered golf team travel to a tournament in Alabama and a culinary class overnight trip to Dollywood from September 27th through September 28th. 1:58:33
- The chair announced each motion to approve the travel requests passed. 2:01:40
- Chairman's comments and adjournment 2:02:40
- The chair said the next meeting will be October 8th at central office, with a work session at 5:00 and the regular meeting at 6:00. 2:02:40
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