April 20, 2023 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 2023 Educator's Hall of Fame Inductees, Mr. Edwin Alexander and Dr. Josh Wandell. 

6.B. Recognition of Steve Hopland for his generous donation to the EHS Aviation Program.

6.C. Recognition of the 2023 TSBA SCOPE Attendees from Elizabethton High School.

7. CONSENT AGENDA

7.A. Minutes of Regular Meeting: March 31, 2023.

7.B. Approve General Purpose Fund Financial Statement, March 31, 2023.

7.C. Approve Federal Projects Fund Financial Statement, March 31, 2023.

7.D. Approve School Nutrition Fund Financial Statement, March 31, 2023.

7.E. Approve Josh Boatman's Research Proposal for Milligan University Doctoral Program. 

7.F. Approve Interquest Detection Canines Agreement for 2023-2024.

7.G. Approve the second reading of Board Policy 4.206, Homebound Instruction. 

7.H. Approve the second reading of Board Policy 4.210, Credit Recovery.

7.I. Approve the second reading of Board Policy 5.303, Personal and Professional Leave.

7.J. Approve the second reading of Board Policy 1.106, Code of Ethics.

7.K. Approve the second reading of Board Policy 1.107, Board Member Conflict of Interest.

7.L. Approve the second reading of Board Policy 1.806, Advertising and Distribution of Materials in the Schools. 

7.M. Approve the second reading of Board Policy 4.204, Summer Instructional Programs.

7.N. Approve the second reading of Board Policy 4.603, Promotion and Retention.

7.O. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from Travis Hurley, Principal at East Side Elementary for the disposal of a VCR that no longer works.

7.P. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from John Wright, Principal at West Side Elementary School for the disposal of a chair.

7.Q. Approve an Equipment Disposal Request from Brian Culbert, CTE Director, for the disposal of 18 outdated computers and monitors.

7.R. Approve the Elizabethton High School Girls' Basketball Team to travel to Cherokee, North Carolina for a tournament from December 19, 2023, through December 23, 2023.

8. REPORT - DIRECTOR OF SCHOOLS/BOARD MEMBERS

8.A. Personnel Report

8.A.a. NEW HIRES: Jennifer Tolley, INT Educational Assistant at HME, effective April 10, 2023; Karoline Warnick, ESP Student Leader, System-wide, effective April 4, 2023; Christopher Jarrett, Computer Specialist at CO, effective April 4, 2023; Hannah Shepherd, Educational Assistant at ESE, effective April 3, 2023; 

RESIGNED: David Campbell, CTE Teacher at EHS, effective May 25, 2023; Dorothy Noelle Jenkins, Educational Assistant at HME, effective April 5, 2023; Zack Bickford, Educational Assistant at ESE, effective April 7, 2023; Courtney Erwin, ESP Student Leader, System-wide, effective July 21, 2023 (resigning only from ESP, remaining as Teacher at ESE); Marquis Bush, ESP Student Leader, System-wide, effective March 17, 2023; Alexis Rollins, Cafeteria Personnel at EHS, effective March 11, 2023; Abigail Thacker, Girls' Assistant Basketball Coach at T. A. Dugger, effective March 24, 2023; Brian Adams, Assistant Boys' Basketball Coach at TAD, effective March 8, 2023 (resigning from coaching only, remaining as Instructional Assistant at TAD); 

TRANSFERRED: Lisa Horan, Interim Teacher at HME for Megan Howell, effective April 3, 2023; Anna Backus, Interim Teacher at ESE for Kendall Treadway, effective March 14, 2023; Rachel Darnell from Implementation Coach at CO to Assistant Principal at TAD, effective July 18, 2023; 

LEAVE OF ABSENCES: Megan Howell, Teacher at HME, April 3, 2023, through May 24, 2023; Zach Ensor, Teacher at EHS, March 8, 2023, through March 20, 2023; Kendall Treadway, Teacher at ESE, March 14, 2023, through May 24, 2023; Carl Hall, Educational Assistant at EHS, March 6, 2023, through May 23, 2023; 

OTHER: Denise Kind, Interim Teacher at WSE for Amy Ensor, March 13, 2023, through May 24, 2023.
 

8.B. Director's Update

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 FY2023 Innovative School Models Grant Application.

10. FOR YOUR INFORMATION

11. NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED BOARD MEETING

11.A. The next regularly scheduled Board Meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 16th, 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