With four of the five members of the Cannon County Board Of Educationpresent for their regular monthly meeting, the board unanimously approved
Kirkland’s Pest Control to be the new Pest Control Company to take care of
the School System’s Pest Control Needs. After opening the bid process,
Kirkland’s submitted the lowest of five bids received by the Central
Office. The bid beat out the company the school’s had a contract with
previously in the McMinnville Sherill Pest Control. that company
submitted the highest of the five bids.
In other action the Board approved McMinnville Fire Extinguisher Company
to continue to provide and service fire extinguishers for the schools.
The Board gave the green light to allow MTV to come to Cannon County High
School for a possible casting call for their TV show”Made” It was pointed
out however that MTV may not come to the campus but approval was given in
a 3 to 1 vote. Voting against allowing MTV to visit was board member Mike
Mayfield.
Teachers in the Cannon County School System now have approval to apply for
grants totaling less than $2500 without having to have board permission
first. In the past schools may have missed out on some various grants due
to deadline issues conflicting with School Board meetings. All money
received from grants would run through the school books unless it’s a
stipend which then must be approved by the Director Of Schools and then
run through payroll. Items purchased through grant money will be
considered school owned and would need to be inventoried as such.
The Board upheld Director Of School Barbara Parker’s decision to deny the
release of an Eastside student to a virtual classroom situation through
Union County Schools.
If approved, the Cannon County School System would have to foot the bill
via a BEP deduction to pay for the virtual classroom. The costs would be
over $5500 a year.
Once a student is enrolled in the virtual classroom, the school system
would have to pay each year until the student graduates.
Director of Schools Ms. Barbara Parker announced that the Woodbury Grammar
School received the Thinkfinity Grant from Verizon Wireless. The Grant
will be officially awarded to the school in January.
She also updated the board about the heating and cooling situation at
Woodbury Grammar School. So far there are 5 rooms that have heating
issues. In three of the rooms, neither unit is working, in two of the
rooms only one of the units is working. Ms. Parker stated that she
emailed an attorney to see what can be done about getting out of their
contract with Trane who has been providing inadequate service.
The next Board Meeting Workshop will be at the Central Office on Tuesday
December 6th with the next regular board meeting on Thursday December 8th
