June 19, 2017 at 6:30 PM - GMSD Board Meeting

Amendment to Agenda:

To add item under Board Action Items, 10.H Miscellaneous FY 17-18 Budget Amendment # 1

STAFF RECOGNITIONS

The HMSTAs is an awards show, modeled after Broadway’s Tony Awards, that works to recognize excellence in all areas of musical theatre throughout the Mid-South. From the thirty-three schools participating, shows and performers are nominated for various awards and, in the week preceding the show, come to the Orpheum to put together fantastic displays of talent for the evening.

Houston High School garnered 15 nominations, the most of any other Mid-South high school.  Win after win, they walked away with the following awards from the star-studded event:

Outstanding Featured Dancer: Tim O'Toole, Houston High School 
Best Supporting Actress:  Sarah Cate Melton, Houston High School 
Outstanding Choreography:  Leah Beth Bolton, Houston High School 
Best Dance Execution:  Houston High School 
Outstanding Chorus:  Houston High School
Outstanding Student Orchestra:  Houston High School 
Outstanding Overall Production:  42nd Street, Houston High School 

It was a truly incredible, celebratory night, and we at GMSD are so proud of the work by theater teacher and director of the production, Mrs. Kell Christie.

STUDENT RECOGNITIONS

Success is a trademark of Houston excellence in all areas from academia to athletics to arts. For two decades, Houston Athletics has cemented its reputation as “The Best of The Preps,” when it comes to interscholastic athletics.  This excellence was especially seen this spring with seen with the athletes here tonight.

We are proud to honor the following young men for capturing the state title for Houston High School and Germantown Municipal School District

In BOYS TRACK…

Colin Jones won the 800-meter dash giving Houston it’s 56th Individual State Title in school history, and teammate Keaton Jones was within arm’s reach at the finish line.

Our 4x800 Relay Team also took the state title and we would like to recognize Colin and Keaton Jones, along with Charles Parker and Sorre (Soar-ruh) Bah.

Congratulations and thank you for your hard work and effort this school year.

Congratulations to Kevin Vaughn (Collierville School Board Member) on winning the 95^th House Seat.  Working in the fall as school begins to connect with our legislators for school visits and items important on our Agenda:

Most importantly – No Vouchers (in finance sub committee in House) – 2 years ago this happened – but had to work quick to defeat.

Other items – more budget for BEP items as well as testing

The 111^th Session will reconvene on January 9, 2018. 

TSBA Legislation Still Viable:

·       Voucher bill held over in Senate and House Finance committees

·       RTI Funding: sent to the BEP Review Committee and Summer Study along with other legislation impacting the BEP.

·       Use of the ACT/SAT Suite of Tests: was not presented to the subcommittee.

As we wind up the school fiscal year, several of our board members participated in the 2017 TSBA Legislative Update Webinar. Ms. Eoff attended TSBA School Board Academy and Ms. Parker, Ms. Landers and myself will be attending TSBA Summer Law Institute along with our attorney.

Tonight we have the second and final reading on the federal, capital, cafeteria, health insurance and OPEB budgets. Last meeting we had the final reading on the general fund budget. I want to thank Mr. Jones and the staff for their work on preparation of the  2017-18 budget.

FM 2.400 Revenues, Gifts and Bequests

IP 4.2013 Family Life Curriculum

IP 4.600 Grading

IP 4.700 Testing Programs

The following amendment was made to Policy FM 2.806 Bids and Quotations;

Verbiage was corrected from " low and best bid" to "low and/or best bid" in Page 1, Line 17 and Page 3, Line 28