February 21, 2022 at 5:30 PM - REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. MOMENT OF SILENCE

3. PLEDGE TO THE FLAG

4. APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA AND REGULAR AGENDA

5. TIME FOR CITIZENS TO SPEAK

5.A. No citizens asked to appear before the Board.

6. SPECIAL RECOGNITION

6.A. Recognition of the EHS State Qualifying Swimmers.

6.B. Recognition of EHS Student Karisse Dickison who placed 2nd in a National Billboard Design Competition. 

6.C. Recognition of the EHS Football Team.

7. CONSENT AGENDA

7.A. Minutes of Regular Meeting: January 20, 2022.

7.B. Approve General Purpose Fund Financial Statement, January 31, 2022.

7.C. Approve Federal Projects Fund Financial Statement, January 31, 2022.

7.D. Approve School Nutrition Fund Financial Statement, January 31, 2022.

7.E. Approve the Director of Schools to travel to Nashville, Tennessee for the 2022 TOSS Legislative & Learning Conference on March 22-24, 2022.

7.F. Approve Ricoh Master Lease Agreement and Ricoh Master Maintenance Sale Agreements to supply copiers for ECS.

7.G. Approve Elizabethton City Schools to enter into a contract with SchoolKit for Early Literacy services in the amount of $80,000.00 to be paid with the Early Literacy Networks Grant and to be paid over a two-year period. 

7.H. Approve an Affiliation Agreement between Elizabethton City Schools and The University of Akron.

7.I. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from Travis Hurley, Principal at East Side Elementary School for the disposal of 200 metal chairs and 40 metal padded chairs that are broken. PTAC will be purchasing new chairs. 

7.J. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from Travis Hurley, Principal at East Side Elementary School for the disposal of a wooden cart that's broken, to be thrown away.

7.K. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from John Wright, Principal at West Side Elementary School for the disposal of two black top tables.

7.L. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from Beth Wilson, Finance Director at Central Office, for the disposal of a Risograph Machine that is no longer functional.

7.M. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from John Wright, Principal at West Side Elementary School for the disposal of 25 School Dictionaries by Macmillian Publishing Company and 20 of The World Almanacs, World Atlas and Webster's American English Dictionaries, to be donated.

7.N. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from John Wright, Principal at West Side Elementary School for the disposal of five battery operated walkie-talkies.

7.O. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from John Wright, Principal at West Side Elementary School for the disposal of fiction and non-fiction books that are beyond repair. Those in better condition will be donated to the Betsy Book Bus.

7.P. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from John Wright, Principal at West Side Elementary for the disposal of books that are water damaged, molded, or damaged beyond repair.

8. REPORT - DIRECTOR OF SCHOOLS/BOARD MEMBERS

8.A. Personnel Report

8.A.a. ADDITIONAL POSITION: Jason Holly, Golf Coach at TAD, effective January 19, 2022.

NEW: Karen Martin, Educational Asst. to the Teacher at EHS, effective January 20, 2022; Cassidy Brown, Educational Asst. to the Teacher at EHS, effective January 20, 2022; Regina May, Sub LPN, Systemwide, effective January 26, 2022; Jessica Hayes, Interim Biology Teacher at EHS, effective January 31, 2022, through May 2, 2022; Shawnee Markland, SPED Assistant to the Teacher at WSE, effective February 1, 2022; Cassie Jones, ESP Student Leader Systemwide, effective February 7, 2022

TRANSFERRED: Carrie Matherly, from PT to FT Special Ed. Asst.at WSE, effective January 19, 2022; Ellie Phillips, from Substitute to Interim Teacher at EHS, effective January 27, 2022; Kaylee Ingram, from ESP Student Leader to Educational Assistant to the Teacher at ESE, effective February 7, 2022

RESIGNED: Christopher Derr, Custodian at EHS, effective January 19, 2022; Michayla Miller, Educational Asst. to the Teacher at EHS, effective February 11, 2022; Tamara Street, Cafeteria Personnel at WSE, effective January 28, 2022; Bethany Isaacs, Educational Assistant to the Teacher at EHS, effective January 28, 2022; Lucas Gentry, Tn All Corp Instructional Assistant at TAD, effective February 4, 2022

RETIRING: Mitzi Phillips, Bookkeeper at T. A. Dugger, effective February 15, 2022. 

LEAVE OF ABSENCE: Tammy Markland (REVISED), Assistant to the Principal at WS from March 7, 2022 through May 31, 2022.

8.B. Director's Update

8.B.a. Dustin Hensley to report on the $10,000.00 Grant received supporting paid internships this summer to help collect and document the history of the Douglas School for the EHS Archives in the school library.

8.C. Board Member Reports

8.D. City Council Liaison's Report

8.E. Student Liaison's Report

9. REGULAR AGENDA

9.A. Approve the 2023-2024 Elizabethton City Schools Calendar.

9.B. Approve the ESSER 3.0 Public Plan-Federal Relief Spending Addendum and Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services Plan Addendum.

9.C. Approve the award of Bid Number ECSS 2021-2022-02 for Pool Deck Resurfacing and Locker Room restoration for Elizabethton High School to be awarded to High Tech Industries, Inc. in the amount of $29,572.00.

9.D. Approve 2022-2023 budget request letter from Elizabethton City Schools to the City of Elizabethton.

9.E. Approve on first and final reading Board Policy 2.806 Bids and Quotations, as revised. 

9.F. Discussion of potential dates for Capital Projects and Budget Workshops.

10. FOR YOUR INFORMATION

11. NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED BOARD MEETING

11.A. The next regularly scheduled Board Meeting will be held on the 17th day of March 2022, at 5:30 p.m. in the Mack Pierce Board Room in the offices of the Elizabethton Board of Education, located at 804 S. Watauga Avenue, Elizabethton, Tennessee.

12. ADJOURN