With the costs of food expected to rise Cannon County Schools Food Service Director Jennifer Insell addressed the Cannon County Board of Education during their regular monthly meeting Tuesday night at Auburn School to ask permission to join a buying group made up of 12 school districts and over 75 schools. The buying group will give buying power to the participating school districts, keeping prices low on food. The Board voted unanimously and gave permission to join the buying group.Director of Schools Barbara Parker recognized the recent spelling bee winners Katie Hoskins, Braden Strange and Jake Hoskins all from Eastside.
At the recent Beta Club Convention, Hannah Freeman, a sophomore at Cannon County High School, placed second place in the pencil sketch of the art competition. Hannah will now go on to compete at the National Convention in June.
Ms. Norma Lewis a teacher at Cannon County High School was named State Sponsor of the Year. Ms Lewis has been involved in the Beta Club for 34 years.
The 4-H grade level public speaking contest took place recently. First place in 4th grade was Emily Nave from Woodbury Grammar School. First place in 5th grade was Valkyrie Rutledge from Westside. 6th grade public speaking contest winner was Leah Hyatt from Woodland. 7th grade winner was Taylare Campos from Westside and the 8th grade winner was Megan Braswell from Short Mountain
One notable item on the consent agenda was the approval of the recommendation of the math textbooks as presented by the textbook committee
The office is in the middle of the bid process for the cooling tower for Cannon County High School. The pre-bid meeting will be held Thursday with the bid opening slated for 2:00 Thursday afternoon March 17th. Director Of Schools Barbara Parker suggested to the Board to recess the meeting until March 18th for the purpose of approving the bid of the cooling tower as the system needs 8 weeks to order the cooling tower equipment and would like to have that in place ready to begin construction May 31st. Board Member Shannon Davenport made a motion that the decision would be approved in a executive decision instead of by the entire board. The executives are Board Chairman Randy Gannon and Director Of School Barbara Parker.
The motion passed.
Board Chairman Randy Gannon, along with Board Members Kathy Hyatt, Shannon Davenport, Chris Blackburn, Mike Mayfield Student Board Members Jeran Tenpenny and Tyler Stone along with Cannon County Director of Schools Barbara Parker were in attendance.
The next Regular Board workshop will be at the Central Office on April 12th at 6:00 p.m. with the next regular board meeting Thursday April 14th at 6:00 at the Eastside School.
