Sep 10, 2026 City Commission Briefing

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[ Brentwood City Commission Briefing September 10, 2026 Click on Download PDF Packet above to view Briefing Agenda Following discussion of the September 14th Agenda, the items below will be discussed: School District Update from Interim School Superintendent Leigh Webb Potential Abandonment of a portion of unused right-of-way (Country Club Drive) City Hall Lobby Wall Art Presentation from Committee This informational meeting is an opportunity for the Board of Commissioners to discuss the upcoming agenda, to ask questions of staff and applicants, and to request additional information prior to the formal Monday meeting.]

IF I CAN BE OUTTA HERE AT 10 O'CLOCK, THAT'LL PROBABLY GIVE ME ENOUGH TIME THERE AND GET SET UP.

WE'RE GONNA BE OUT AT 10, RIGHT? YES.

BUT WE'RE OKAY.

I DON'T THINK WE CAN GET THROUGH WITH ERIC.

YEAH, I'M HOPING WE WERE GOING TO BE OUT AT 10, NOT WITH OUR ART COMMITTEE COMING.

AND VICE MAYOR LITTLE HAS SOMETHING THAT HE'S GOT, UH, GOING THIS MORNING AS WELL.

SO WE'LL TRY TO BE EFFICIENT.

BUT FIRST UP, UH, WE'RE GONNA MOVE, UH, DR. LEE WEBB TO THE BEGINNING OF THE AGENDA SO SHE CAN TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WILLIAMSON COUNTY AND WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW.

GOOD MORNING.

THANKS FOR HAVING ME.

IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO SPEAK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THE GREAT WORK TAKING PLACE IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY SCHOOL.

SO I'M GONNA START WITH SOME BEAUTIFUL FACES.

WE'VE HAD A WONDERFUL START TO THE SCHOOL YEAR, AND IF YOU NO LONGER HAVE KIDS IN SCHOOL OR IF YOUR GRANDKIDS AREN'T IN SCHOOL, OR IF YOU'VE NEVER WORKED IN A SCHOOL, MAN, THE ENERGY SURROUNDING THE START OF A SCHOOL YEAR IS ELECTRIC.

UH, BETWEEN THE SMILES ON THE KIDS' FACES AND THE PARENTS DROPPING 'EM OFF IN THE CAR RIDER LINE, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITEMENT TO THE START OF A SCHOOL YEAR.

UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO TO START EVERY SCHOOL YEAR IS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT OUR WORK REALLY IS ABOUT.

IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE, ABOUT THE STUDENTS IN OUR BUILDINGS, SO THE TEACHERS AND THE STAFF MEMBERS THAT, THAT FILL OUR CLASSROOMS. AND WE REMIND TEACHERS AT THE START OF EVERY SCHOOL YEAR, WE DON'T TEACH MATH, ENGLISH, SCIENCE, AND SOCIAL STUDIES.

WE TEACH CHILDREN.

AND WHAT WE REALLY AIM TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE GOOD, PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS THAT ARE WELL-ROUNDED, UM, TO BE SUCCESSFUL AS THEY GO OUT INTO THE, TO THE WORLD WHEN THEY GRADUATE FROM OUR SCHOOLS.

AND OF COURSE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THEY'RE SUPPORTED, THEY'RE CHALLENGED, NO MATTER WHERE THEY'RE STARTING IN EDUCATION, WHAT THEIR BACKGROUNDS ARE, WHAT KIND OF FAMILY SUPPORT THEY MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE IN THEIR HOMES.

WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE APPROPRIATELY CHALLENGED AND SUPPORTED IN ACADEMIC STARTS AND ATHLETICS.

UH, THAT'S BEEN A, A STAPLE ABOUT WHO WE HAVE BEEN FOR DECADES, AND WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT.

OUR, UH, THINGS THAT WE'RE CELEBRATING AS WE KIND OF KICK OFF THIS SCHOOL YEAR IS THAT, UH, AGAIN, UH, THIS SCHOOL YEAR, WE'RE THE HIGHEST PERFORMING SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.

AND PROBABLY IF OUR KIDS CAME HOME WITH A 73 ON THEIR REPORT CARD, WE'D SAY, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE THAT EVEN THOUGH WE'RE AT 73%, AND THAT IS, UH, THIRD GRADE ALL THE WAY THROUGH 11TH GRADE OF EVERY TESTED SUBJECT TO ALL CONTENT AREAS IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE STATE AVERAGE THAT WE'RE A PART OF IS 43.

MM-HMM .

THOSE ARE HARD ASSESSMENTS.

THEY'RE RIGOROUS ASSESSMENTS ON PURPOSE.

THOSE ARE DEEP STANDARDS.

AND WE ALL CROSS THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, WE'RE ALL CHARGED TO TEACH THE SAME CORE STANDARDS, UH, AND THEY GET A LITTLE BIT MORE RIGOROUS EVERY YEAR.

WE'RE ADOPTING NEW STANDARDS IN, UH, SOCIAL STUDIES FOR THIS UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR.

WE JUST ADOPTED SCIENCE.

BUT IT'S ONE THING TO GET TO THE TOP.

I THINK IN ANY BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY, YOU WANNA BE AT THE TOP OF YOUR GAME, BUT TO CONTINUE TO STAY AT THE TOP IS EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT.

WHAT WE'RE PROUD OF IN WINSTON COUNTY SCHOOLS IS NOT ONLY ARE WE AT THE TOP AND THAT WE STAY AT THE TOP, WE CONTINUE TO GET A LITTLE BIT BETTER EVERY YEAR.

AND THAT TAKES REALLY STRATEGIC WORK.

AND THAT'S THE WORK THAT WE CELEBRATE.

WE INCREASED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN 16 OF THOSE 23 TESTED SUBJECTS ALL ACROSS ALL GRADE BANDS, ALL CONTENT AREAS.

AND WE WERE NUMBER ONE OR NUMBER TWO IN THE STATE, AND ALL OF THOSE PIECES LISTED.

AND IN THE YEAR THAT WE CELEBRATE OUR 250TH ANNIVERSARY AS A COUNTRY, WE WERE NUMBER ONE IN EVERY TESTED SOCIAL STUDIES CATEGORY IN ALL GREAT VANS.

SO WE KNOW THAT IN OUR COUNTY AND OUR CITY OF BRENTWOOD, WE, UM, ARE PROUD OF OUR HERITAGE AND OUR HISTORY, AND OUR STUDENTS ARE LEARNING ABOUT THAT AT HIGH RATES.

UH, OUR SCIENCE SCORES, I MENTIONED THAT WE HAVE NEW SCIENCE ADOPTION, NEW SCIENCE STANDARDS.

WE JUST GOT THOSE BACK, UH, ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF AGO, AND WE WERE NUMBER ONE IN THE STATE WITH THOSE NEW, UH, SCIENCE STANDARDS THAT WE JUST ADOPTED THAT ARE ALSO PRETTY RIGOROUS.

UM, THERE'S TWO TYPES OF THINGS THAT SCHOOLS ARE JUDGED ON, HOW SUCCESSFUL THE KIDS ARE, THAT'S ACHIEVEMENT, AND THEN HOW MUCH THEY GROW EACH YEAR.

SO THE STATE DOES A MATRIX TO PREDICT HOW MUCH A STUDENT SHOULD GROW IN A YEAR.

AND IF YOU HIT THAT, THEN THEY SAY THAT THAT'S A LEVEL THREE GROWTH.

IF YOU HIT A LEVEL FIVE GROWTH, THEN YOU'RE, YOU'RE REALLY DOING SOMETHING.

YOU'RE TAKING A KID AND THEY'RE GROWING MORE THAN WHAT AN AVERAGE STUDENT DOES IN A YEAR'S TIME.

SO EVEN THOUGH THOSE SCORES ARE EMBARGOED FROM, UM, A ZERO TO A FIVE, I'M GONNA TELL YOU IT'S A HIGH FIVE FOR WILLIAMSON COUNTY SCHOOLS.

WHEN THOSE COME, COME OUT, YOU'LL BE PROUD, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE BRENTWOOD SCHOOLS, WHEN YOU SEE THOSE, THIS IS JUST A VISUAL FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS TO BE AT THE TOP.

THAT'S THAT PIECE THAT I MENTIONED.

IT'S STRATEGIC WORK TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE EVERY SINGLE YEAR WHEN YOU'RE AT THE TOP.

WE'RE PROUD OF OUR PEOPLE, OUR TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOMS BECAUSE THEY CONTINUE TO PUSH ON EACH OTHER AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO IMPROVE EVERY SINGLE YEAR.

AND YOU CAN SEE THIS MARKER OF THAT IN OUR CORE THREE, UH, SUBJECT AREAS, THINGS THAT WE'RE CELEBRATING AS FAR AS COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS, OUR COLLEGE BOARD AP EXAMS, WE CONTINUE TO OFFER MORE OF THOSE EVERY SINGLE YEAR.

AND WE'RE INCREASING THE

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THIS PAST SCHOOL YEAR, ACROSS ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, WE HAD NEARLY 45,000 COLLEGE CREDITS EARNED BY OUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

45,000.

ISN'T THAT REMARKABLE? SOMETHING THAT WE'RE REALLY WORKING ON IS ENSURING THAT OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE NOT COLLEGE-BOUND HAVE INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS SO THEY CAN GO STRAIGHT INTO THE WORKFORCE AND BE PREPARED FOR WHATEVER WALK OF LIFE THEY WANNA GO INTO.

AND AS WE DEVELOP THOSE INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO EXPLORE DIFFERENT CAREER PATHS, WE MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE EXIT RAMPS.

SO MAYBE I WANT TO LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL AND GO STRAIGHT INTO THE WORKFORCE.

THAT'S ONE EXIT RAMP.

WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE THEY'RE PREPARED FOR THAT.

IF THEY WANNA GO INTO A TRADE SCHOOL OR A TWO YEAR SCHOOL, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THEY'RE READY FOR THAT.

BUT IF THEY ALSO WANNA TAKE THE MECHATRONICS PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE AT FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEN TAKE THAT AND GO AND GET AN ENGINEERING DEGREE, THAT THEY'RE PREPARED TO TAKE THAT CERTIFICATION AND GO GET AN ENGINEERING DEGREE AT A FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITY AND BEYOND.

SO WE REALLY HAVE TO CONCENTRATE ON THOSE PIECES, UH, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON THOSE INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

WOULD THAT PLEASE MA'AM, EXCUSE ME FOR INTERRUPTING, BUT LIKE, UM, THE DIPLOMA, I DON'T KNOW WHAT DIPLOMAS SAY NOW.

THEY USED TO SAY DIFFERENT THINGS WHEN I WAS COMING OFF.

WHAT WOULD YOUR DIPLOMAS SAY, UH, IS INDUSTRY CERTIFIED OR HOW WOULD THAT BE RECOGNIZED? GREAT QUESTION.

OUR DIPLOMAS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, THERE'S HIGH SCHOOL TENNESSEE, UH, HONOR DIPLOMA.

AN HONORS DIPLOMA, THOSE ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS, THAT'S AN ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATE THAT YOU GET UPON GRADUATION.

OKAY.

SO YOU, IN ADDITION TO YOUR TRADITIONAL HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA, OKAY.

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GOOD.

THE GENERAL INDUSTRY CATEGORY IS THAT, UH, THE TRADES, THAT IS GENERAL TRADES, ALRIGHT.

AND THERE'S, UH, DIFFERENT TYPES OF GENERAL INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS THAT A STUDENT CAN EARN, UM, AND DEPENDING ON WHICH COURSE THEY'RE IN.

AND THEN SOME STUDENTS, UH, CAN EXCEL WITHIN THAT COURSE AND TAKE MULTIPLE LEVELS, UH, OF CERTIFICATIONS.

AND DEPENDING ON WHAT CAREER THEY'RE WANTING TO GO INTO AND WHAT, UH, WHAT SKILLS IS, UH, IT VARIES ON WHAT THAT CERTIFICATION DOES FOR THEM.

THE MAIN THING THAT IT DOES, IF I'M GOING STRAIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, STRAIGHT INTO THE WORKFORCE, THAT TELLS MY EMPLOYER THAT I HAVE SKILLS IN THAT, THAT CERTIFIED AREA.

AND IT MAY NOT MEAN ADDITIONAL PAY FOR ME, BUT IT MEANS THAT I'M COMPETING WITH A, UH, AN ADDITIONAL APPLICANT.

AND I'VE GOT SKILLS THAT MAYBE THAT THAT APPLICANT WHO'S 30 YEARS OLD AND WHO'S BEEN IN THE WORKFORCE MAY NOT HAVE.

AND YOUR FOOT'S IN THE DOOR AND YOUR FOOT'S IN THE DOOR, WHICH IS KEY A LOT OF TIME.

ABSOLUTELY.

SO, CAUSE YOU CAREER READINESS, WE CONTINUE TO EXCEL THAT BLUE MARK AT THE TOP.

THAT'S THE ADDITIONAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN OUR COLLEGE, UH, AP COURSES, WHICH THOSE ARE COURSES THAT THEY TAKE AN EXAM AT THE END OF THE YEAR TO EARN COLLEGE CREDIT.

UH, AND FOR BRENTWOOD AND RAVENWOOD SPECIFICALLY, I JUST WANNA GIVE YOU A VISUAL.

I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO DIGEST ALL THESE NUMBERS, BUT THE MAIN THING I WANT YOU TO SEE IN BRENTWOOD SPECIFICALLY, THIS IS, THESE ARE THE COURSES OR SOME OF THE COURSES ON THESE SLIDES THAT WE OFFER IN AP.

YOU CAN SEE THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY AVERAGE 86 ACROSS ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS.

LOOK AT BRENTWOOD, 99% PASS RATE, RAVENWOOD, 89% PASS RATE.

LOOK AT THE NATION BECAUSE THESE ARE, THESE ARE COURSES.

THE ENTIRE NATION TAKES 66%.

AND YOU CAN KIND OF FOLLOW THAT MATRIX ALL THE WAY THROUGH EVERY COURSE THAT WE OFFER.

UH, OUR BRENTWOOD SCHOOLS ESPECIALLY ARE EXCELLING.

AND OF COURSE, YOU PROBABLY SAW IN OUR, UH, MOST RECENT PUBLICATION, US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT CONTINUES TO, TO LIST, UM, BRENTWOOD AS THE TOP, UH, HIGH SCHOOL IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT NON-MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLS IN RAVENWOOD NUMBER TWO, A HUNDRED PERCENT ON CALCULUS, I AM REALLY DEPRESSING STATISTICS AS WELL.

THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE.

HERE ARE A FEW OTHERS.

UM, WERE TWO AP AP COURSES.

WE OFFER ENGLISH.

THESE TWO COURSES ARE NEW COURSES, UH, TEACHING STUDENTS ABOUT, ABOUT RESEARCH, UH, THAT COURSE THAT HASN'T MADE YET AT, UH, BRENTWOODS A BRAND NEW COURSE.

BUT RAVENWOOD HAS STARTED OFFERING THAT NEW COURSE.

UM, BUT THOSE TWO NEW COURSES FROM AP, UH, AND YOU'RE DOING WELL IN IT ALREADY.

SO BRENTWOODS LOOKING, OFFERING THOSE IN THE FUTURE ABOUT.

AND THEN, UH, IN THE ARTS AND IN THE LANGUAGES, AND SOME OF THOSE COURSES, WE DON'T TEACH CHINESE.

SO, UH, THOSE ARE TYPICALLY STUDENTS WHO ARE DOING THAT INDEPENDENTLY OR THEY'RE NATIVE SPEAKERS.

SAME WITH JAPANESE.

SO JUST WANNA GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE GREAT WORK THAT'S TAKEN PLACE AT YOUR BRENTWOOD SCHOOLS.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THAT WE JUST OPENED AN INNOVATION CENTER.

THIS INNOVATION CENTER IS LOCATED WHERE THE OLD ANIMAL SHELTER IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, UH, USED TO BE.

SO WE WERE ABLE TO WORK AT MULTIPLE LAYERS OF, OF FUNDING, STARTING WITH A GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.

HE GAVE US A, A CHALLENGE ACROSS THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.

THEY HAD MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, I THINK A BILLION DOLLARS AS A MATTER OF FACT, THAT THEY WERE WILLING TO GIVE ANY SCHOOL, ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT, WILLING TO LOOK AT HOW WE EDUCATE STUDENTS AND PREPARE 'EM FOR THE WORKFORCE IN AN INNOVATIVE WAY.

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SO THE GOVERNOR OFFERED A GRANT, UH, 500,000 TO EVERY MIDDLE SCHOOL, A MILLION DOLLARS TO EVERY HIGH SCHOOL.

IF YOU CAN COME UP WITH AN APPLICATION OF HOW YOU CAN DO THINGS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY TO PREPARE OUR STUDENTS FOR THE WORKFORCE THAT, UH, IS RIGHT THERE IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY.

UH, SO WE PULLED OUR MONEY TOGETHER, UM, AND MADE AN APPLICATION TOGETHER WITH ALL OF OUR MIDDLE AND HIGHS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY.

AND WE SENT IN OUR APPLICATION, AND WE WERE GRANTED THAT, THAT MONEY.

SO THEN WE WENT TO, UM, THE COUNTY COMMISSION AND TO THE MAYOR AND SAID, HEY, WHAT ABOUT THIS PROPERTY RIGHT HERE? WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH THIS ANIMAL SHELTER? WE PROPOSED OUR IDEA TO THEM, UH, AND THEY APPROVED TO ALLOW US, UH, TO HAVE THE, THAT PROPERTY.

AND SO THE MONEY, THE PROPERTY, IT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF WHEN WE'RE IN SYNC WITH WHAT WE WANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR STUDENTS OF WHAT WE CAN MAKE HAPPEN.

SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNEW THAT THESE ARE THE, THE, THE FIRST FIVE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE OFFERING, UH, WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF THIS PROGRAM.

ADVANCED POWER MACHINERY, UH, IS A THOMPSON CATERPILLAR.

AND SO OUR STUDENTS, WE RECEIVE MONEY NOT ONLY, UH, FROM THE GRANT, BUT ALSO ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM CATERPILLAR.

AND WE'RE WORKING WITH, UH, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN ADDITION TO THE TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF APPLIED TECHNOLOGY, SO THAT OUR STUDENTS CAN HAVE CREDITS AND CERTIFICATIONS WHEN THEY LEAVE.

UH, EACH OF THESE FIRE MANAGEMENT IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF FRANKLIN, AND WE'RE PRODUCING FIREFIGHTERS THAT CAN GO STRAIGHT INTO THE WORKFORCE UPON GRADUATION.

UH, AND ACTUALLY WE HAVE SOME, UH, STUDENTS WHO ARE WORKING WITH THE LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT FROM OUR PILOT LAST YEAR.

UM, WE'RE LOOKING TO EXPAND THAT.

SO IF THE CITY OF BRENTWOOD, UH, WOULD LIKE TO EXPAND THAT FOR THEIR FIRE, WE'RE LOOKING TO EXPAND THAT IN THE UPCOMING YEAR.

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM, YOU CAN SEE OUR INFORMATION THERE.

AVIATION IS OF COURSE, COURSE OUR MOST POPULAR.

UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF PARTNERSHIPS, UH, THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.

AND, BUT THE BIGGEST ONE IS WITH MTSU AND THEIR AVIATION PROGRAM, UH, WORKING WITH THEIR PROFESSORS AND UNIVERSITY TO ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE THAT GREAT AVIATION EXPERIENCE AND ACTUALLY HAVE FLIGHT TIME.

SO THEY, THEY'RE LEARNING NOT ONLY THE INS AND OUTS OF DRIVING THOSE SIMULATORS, UM, BUT THEY'RE EARNING COLLEGE CREDIT.

UH, THEY'RE LEARNING ABOUT BEING, UH, UH, DRONE PILOTS, UH, AS AN EXAMPLE AS WELL.

AND THEN IN CYBERSECURITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, UH, THE INSIDE OF THIS AVIATION, UM, AND INNOVATION CENTER IS DESIGNED AND SUCH SO THAT THE, THE PROGRAMMING CAN SHIFT BASED ON THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY.

HOW DOES THIS WORK? I MEAN, IS IT A SEMESTER OR A QUARTER OR IN THE EVENINGS? GREAT QUESTION BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT A LOT OF 'EM, YOU HAVE MORE APPLICANTS THAN YOU HAVE SPOTS GOING UP, YOU KNOW WHO'S GONNA BE LOCKED DOWN.

THAT'S RIGHT.

SO IN OUR FIRST YEAR, WE DO HAVE LIMITED SEATS, UH, FOR THE FIRST YEAR.

BUT HIGH INTEREST, THESE, THESE PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED TO EVERY STUDENT IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS.

UM, SO WHAT WE DO IS THAT EVERY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IS OFFERED SIX CLASSES FOR CREDIT AND A STUDY HALL.

UH, SO THEY CAN USE THE STUDY HALL AS TRAVEL TIME.

UM, SO MAYBE THEY START THEIR DAY AT THE INNOVATION CENTER, USE THEIR STUDY HALL TO TRAVEL BACK TO BRENT ONE HIGH SCHOOL.

UM, AND MAYBE IT'S AT THE END OF THE DAY, MAYBE THEY START AT BRENT ONE HIGH HAVE THEIR STUDY HALL TO TRAVEL TO THE INNOVATION CENTER.

BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE ARE STUDENTS WHO WANNA SPEND TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY OR HAVE TWO CLASS PERIODS HERE.

SO WE ALSO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO CHOOSE TO TAKE AN ONLINE CLASS THAT'S ASYNCHRONOUS, THAT THEY CAN COMPLETE ON THEIR OWN TIME, THAT GIVES THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE FLEXIBILITY WITHIN THE DAY.

OUR VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH IS A COMPLETELY ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL, HAS A ROUGHLY 130 STUDENTS WHO TAKE A MAJORITY OF THEIR CLASSES, IF NOT ALL ONLINE.

SO WE'VE PARTNERED WITH THE INNOVATION CENTER IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS WITH VANGUARD.

SO IF A STUDENT NEEDS TO TAKE AN ONLINE CLASS TO PROVIDE MORE FLEXIBILITY WITHIN THEIR DAY, EVERY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, WHETHER IT'S RIDING ONE OF OUR BUSES, BUSING THEM OVER OR DRIVING THEMSELF, HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THEIR LICENSE.

WHAT'S FIRE MANAGEMENT SAY THE CLASS IS AN HOUR.

HOW MANY TIMES A DAY IS IT ALL WHAT, JUST ONE TIME? WELL, IT DEPENDS ON THE COURSE ITSELF.

UM, WITH FIRE MANAGEMENT, THE, WE HAVE FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE ACTUALLY TEACHING, UH, THAT CLASS.

SO IT'S, UH, LEVEL ONE IS OFFERED ONCE A DAY.

LEVEL TWO IS OFFERED ONCE A DAY, AND LEVEL THREE WILL BE OFFERED ONCE A DAY.

UH, AS THE PROGRAM GROWS, AS INTEREST GROWS AND AS OUR PARTNERSHIPS GROW THIS, THESE ARE JUST YEAR ONE NUMBERS, WE HOPE TO EXPAND THESE IN THE FUTURE.

OKAY.

SOUNDS GOOD.

YEAH.

SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ENROLLMENT.

I KNOW THAT'S AN INTEREST OF YOU GUYS.

UM, THIS, THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, WE WERE ROUGHLY 40,500 STUDENTS, AND THAT WAS ABOUT A HUNDRED STUDENTS BELOW OUR PROJECTION AND ABOUT A HUNDRED STUDENTS BELOW WHERE WE WERE LAST YEAR.

AS, UM, THE SCHOOL YEAR HAS PROGRESSED, UH, WE'VE DROPPED A LITTLE BIT, UH, EACH WEEK.

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MOST OF THOSE ARE THE ELEMENTARY GRADES.

WE SEE A, UM, ABOUT A 1200 STUDENT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR SENIORS WHO GRADUATE, AND THEN THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE NUMBER OF KINDERGARTNERS THAT COME IN.

UH, AND THAT NUMBER, THAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GRADUATING SENIORS AND THE KINDERGARTNERS HAS GROWN A LITTLE BIT EACH YEAR.

UH, SO WE CONTINUE TO SEE SOME, SOME DECREASES IN OUR OVERALL ENROLLMENT, UM, AS WE'VE KIND OF ENTERED INTO THIS WEEK.

SO I'M THINKING ABOUT LAST WEEK'S TOTAL ENROLLMENT.

SINCE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, WE'RE PROBABLY ABOUT 300 TOTAL ELEMENTARY STUDENTS, LESS THAN WE WERE LAST YEAR, ROUGHLY 150 STUDENTS, MIDDLE SCHOOL WISE, LESS THAN WE WERE LAST YEAR.

HIGH SCHOOLS PRETTY FLAT.

UM, AND, BUT WE DO SEE THOSE BIG DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OUR GRADUATING SENIORS IN ELEMENTARY.

THAT SAYS TO US A FEW THINGS.

ONE IS THAT SOME OF OUR COMMUNITIES, AND WE CAN SEE JUST BASED ON THE COMMUNITIES THEMSELVES, NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, WE CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE AGING OUT AND NO YOUNG FAMILIES ARE MOVING THERE.

SO THAT TELLS US THAT THEY'RE AGING OUT AND THEY'RE STAYING.

YEAH.

UM, WHICH MEANS THEY'RE HAPPY LIVING IN OUR COMMUNITY, WHICH THAT'S GREAT.

RIGHT? UM, WE ALSO SEE THAT AS NEW DEVELOPMENTS ARE HAPPENING AND, UM, AND ARE OPENING, WE'RE NOT HAVING AS MANY ELEMENTARY STUDENTS MOVE INTO THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, WHICH IS ASSIGNED TO US, THAT MAYBE YOUNG FAMILIES ARE HAVING TROUBLE AFFORDING SOME OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.

WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE ARE STUDENTS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, YOUNG STUDENTS WHO DON'T GO TO WILLIAMSON COUNTY SCHOOLS.

THEY, THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES CHOOSE OTHER OPTIONS.

ONE OF OUR INITIATIVES THIS YEAR, UH, IS TO HAVE A COMMITTEE THAT LOOKS AT INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO EDUCATION TO ENSURE IF THERE ARE WILLIAMSON COUNTY FAMILIES THAT ARE NOT CHOOSING WILLIAMSON COUNTY SCHOOLS, THAT WE KNOW WHY.

AND ARE THERE THINGS THAT WE COULD DO DIFFERENTLY, OR THINGS THAT WE CAN OFFER A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THAT MAY MAKE WILLIAMSON COUNTY SCHOOLS THE PLACE THAT WE WANT TO BE ULTIMATELY IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.

IF THE STUDENT LIVES HERE, WE WANT 'EM TO CHOOSE US.

WE WANNA EDUCATE ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AND, UH, GIVE THEM A GREAT EDUCATION.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE WORKING ON THIS YEAR.

SO I'M GUESSING IN THAT ENROLLMENT CONVERSATION, THE WE IS WILLIAMSON COUNTY AS A WHOLE FOCUS, WE'VE GOT THE BRENTWOOD AND SPECIFIC THINGS.

I'M REALLY CURIOUS 'CAUSE I'VE, I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF CALLS FROM PTOS AROUND THE, THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL IN THE BRENTWOOD AREA, SAYING THAT THEY'RE HAVING A HARD TIME HITTING THEIR FUNDRAISING GOALS BECAUSE THEIR CENSUS IS SO FAR DOWN.

AND I WASN'T SURE IF THE BRENTWOOD SPECIFIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ARE SEEING IT MORE THAN COUNTYWIDE AND IF, IF IT'S 300 STUDENTS COUNTYWIDE, IF THAT'S SPREAD EVENLY.

YEAH.

I'M ALSO CURIOUS HOW VOUCHERS AND SOME OF THIS OTHER STUFF INTERACTS.

THAT'S RIGHT.

WITH, UM, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN VOUCHER INTO WILLIAMSON COUNTY SCHOOLS FROM DAVIDSON COUNTY OR WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN TERMS OF THE DISTRICTS BROUGHT AROUND BRENTWOOD SCHOOLS.

SO YOU MAY BE GETTING INTO THAT WITH THIS.

YEAH, THOSE ARE GREAT QUESTIONS AND I'LL TAP INTO SOME OF THOSE PIECES.

SO, LARGELY SPEAKING, YES, THE, THE ENROLLMENT DIFFERENCES HAPPEN ALL ACROSS THE COUNTY, BUT WE ARE SEEING GROWTH IN SOME AREAS OF THE COUNTY, AND THEN WE'RE SEEING STAGNATION IN OTHERS.

AND THEN WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME CHARTS, AND I CAN SEND THOSE, UH, TO YOU ALL IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE, UH, WHERE WE LOOK AT EVERY, UM, AT ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS WHO THAT HAVE BEEN PULLED FOR DEVELOPMENT.

UH, SO NEW DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE PLANNED AND THOSE THAT HAVEN'T STARTED YET VERSUS THOSE THAT, UH, ARE ABOUT TO START, UM, WITH THE ADDITION OF, UH, HOW MANY HOMES AND HOW MANY FAMILIES, UH, DO THEY PLAN TO, TO HAVE.

AND THAT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS ALREADY HAVE READILY AVAILABLE AS WELL.

BUT WE PULL THAT AS A COUNTY, UH, 'CAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MAKING PROPER PREDICTIONS.

SO THE NOLANSVILLE COMMUNITY, AS AN EXAMPLE, WHEN I LOOK AT THE NOLANSVILLE MAP OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN PULLED TO DEVELOP HOW MANY FAMILIES THEY PLAN TO, TO, TO HOUSE SINGLE FAMILY MULTIFAMILY TOWNHOUSES, IT IS ASTRONOMICAL THE NUMBER OF FAMILIES THAT ARE LIKELY MOVING INTO THE NOLANSVILLE AREA IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

UH, NOW GROWTH WISE, UM, THEY'RE SEEING A LITTLE BIT OF GROWTH.

THEY'RE NOT SEEING THE DROPS.

UM, SO WE'RE HAVING TO PLAN FOR GROWTH IN THE NOLANSVILLE AREA WHERE WE SEE IN THE FRANKLIN AREA NUMBERS ARE DROPPING.

FRANKLIN SPECIAL SEES THAT.

WE'RE SEEING THAT, ESPECIALLY WITH SOME OF OUR OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, IN FRANKLIN, THERE ISN'T DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING IN THE CITY OF FRANKLIN.

AND OVERALL ENROLLMENT IN THOSE SCHOOLS ARE DROPPING.

UM, THE STATE PASSED SOMETHING TO YOUR POINT ABOUT VOUCHERS, WE CERTAINLY LOSE STUDENTS WITH VOUCHERS GOING OTHER PLACES, BUT WE DON'T HAVE STUDENTS COMING TO US WITH VOUCHERS.

THE STATE PASSED SOMETHING, UM, I THINK IT'S PROBABLY ABOUT FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO, UM, A ZONING, UM, REQUIREMENT THAT IF, IF IN YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT THERE IS AVAILABILITY WITHIN A SCHOOL, THERE'S CAPACITY.

SO IF YOU HAVE A THOUSAND KIDS, BUT THE CAPACITY'S 200, THAT THOSE 200 SPOTS, UM, SHALL BE OPEN TO ANY OTHER STUDENT IN THE, IN THAT DISTRICT WHO WOULD LIKE TO TRANSFER THERE.

SO THIS PAST YEAR, AS AN

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AND THEN I THINK FAIRVIEW MAYBE HAD THE LARGEST NUMBER, MAYBE 250, UH, OPEN ZONE SPOTS.

UM, RAVENWOOD I THINK, UM, PROBABLY HAD THE MOST REQUEST FOR THEIR FEW NUMBER OF, UH, SEATS THAT THEY HAD.

UH, AT SOME POINT THERE IS A LOTTERY SYSTEM IF THERE ARE MORE STUDENTS WHO REQUEST THOSE SPOTS.

WE HAVE AN OLD SCHOOL LOTTERY SYSTEM WHERE WE, YOU KNOW, PULL OUT NUMBERS AND MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE'RE BE EQUITABLE IN HOW THAT'S APPROACHED.

SO I'M GONNA SHARE SOME ADDITIONAL NUMBERS HERE.

AND YOU CAN SEE AT THESE ARE SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

YOU CAN SEE OVERALL, AND I THINK TOTALS AT THE BOTTOM OF THESE, THESE SLIDES, YOU CAN SEE OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, UM, ARE REMAINING REMAINING PRETTY CONSISTENT.

OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS ARE PRETTY CONSISTENT IN BRENTWOOD AS FAR AS ENROLLMENT.

I'LL GIVE YOU A SECOND TO DIGEST THIS, AND THEN I'LL SEND YOU, AND THIS IS COMPARING THE, THE END OF FIRST MONTH.

UM, AND WHEN I PULLED THIS SLIDE, IT WAS AUGUST 24TH, SO I GAVE YOU AUGUST 24TH NUMBERS MUCH.

AND THE, HERE ARE YOUR ELEMENTARY NUMBERS AND YOU CAN SEE YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN EM ELEMENTARY, YOU'VE SEEN A DROP, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST, UH, OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS.

SO YOU'RE SEEING SOME OF THAT SAME ELEMENTARY DROP.

SO THAT SUBSTANTIATES WHAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM SOME OF THOSE, THOSE PTOS EXCEPT JORDAN MM-HMM .

IT'S GROWING.

YEAH.

JORDAN IS GROWING AT AND ALL IN OWENSVILLE.

UM, THE REST OF MY DAY TODAY WHEN I LEAVE YOU GUYS IS SPENT IN ZONING CONVERSATIONS PRIMARILY IN REGARDS TO THE PAGE CLUSTER AND THE NOLANSVILLE CLUSTER.

UM, REZONINGS A HARD CONVERSATION.

PEOPLE LIKE IT UNLESS IT'S THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEN THEY HATE IT.

UM, BUT WE ARE GOING TO, WE'RE NOT OVERCROWDED IN NOLANSVILLE YET.

WE'RE NOT OVERCROWDED AT PAGE MIDDLE YET, BUT WE'RE CROWDED.

AND THE PREDICTION, UH, BASED ON THE DEVELOPMENTS, UM, THAT ARE PLANNED AND THE NUMBER OF HOMES THAT ARE COMING IN THOSE AREAS, WE ARE PREDICTED IN THE NEXT, UH, TWO TO FOUR YEARS TO BE OVERCROWDED, UH, IN THOSE, THOSE TWO, UH, SCHOOL CLUSTERS.

SO DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR, YOUR QUESTION, MAYOR? UH, FOR THE MOST PART.

YEAH.

WE'RE JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE INDICATIONS, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE DOING OUR 2040 PLAN.

MM-HMM .

IS THAT TRADITIONALLY IN BROOKLYN, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT SCHOOL OVERCROWDING MM-HMM .

BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THAT SCRIPT IS KIND OF FLIPPING TO US TRYING TO MAKE SURE OUR SCHOOLS ARE PROPERLY SUPPORTED.

AND, UM, THAT'S RIGHT.

THAT'S SOME OTHER THINGS WE REALLY NEED TO KEEP IN MIND.

THERE ARE A COUPLE THINGS THAT I COULD SEND YOU THAT MAY HELP WITH THAT.

ONE IS I CAN SEND YOU INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL BY GRADE LEVEL ENROLLMENT YOU THAT IT HELPS ME BECAUSE I CAN SEE WHAT KIND OF TRENDS ARE WE SEEING WITH KINDERGARTEN, FIRST, SECOND GRADES, IF THOSE THAT KIND OF INFORMATION'S HELPFUL.

YEAH.

THAT, THAT MIGHT BE, I DON'T KNOW IF OTHER COMMISSIONERS WANT THAT GRANULAR DETAIL.

I MEAN, JUST THE, THE SLIDES YOU BROUGHT TODAY AND THE SLIDES THAT'S UP THERE RIGHT NOW REALLY SPEAKS TO IT QUITE A BIT.

AND I GUESS SOME OF THE QUESTION IS, AS Y'ALL ARE PROJECTING OUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS UP TO THIS WEEK, CURRENT NUMBERS, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THE DEMOGRAPHICS ARE INDICATING THAT THIS IS, UH, A TREND OR THIS IS THE BOTTOM AND IT COMES BACK UP AFTER COVID OR, OR WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

'CAUSE LIKE I SAY, THERE'S, THERE'S SO MANY COMPETING STORYLINES FROM, YOU KNOW, A, A COVID DROP IN TERMS OF BIRTH RATE AND ENROLLMENT.

THERE'S THE STORYLINE ABOUT THE AVERAGE PRICE OF A HOME IN BRENTWOOD, WHICH IS HIGHER THAN IT USED TO BE.

UM, THERE'S A STORYLINE ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, BRENTWOOD USED TO BE A TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY WHERE PEOPLE WOULD COME HERE AND AFTER THE KIDS WERE LEAVING, THEY WOULD PURSUE CAREERS IN OTHER PLACES AND THE HOUSE WOULD TURN OVER TO ANOTHER GROWING FAMILY, WHERE NOW PEOPLE ARE COMING AND STAYING.

STAYING.

AND IT'S A DESTINATION COMMUNITY WHERE IT USED TO BE MORE OF A TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY.

SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT MEANS AS WE'RE DOING OUR 2040 PROCESS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND, AND, AND THE PROFILE OF THE COMMUNITY.

WELL, I'LL MAKE A NOTE TO FOLLOW UP AND SEND TWO THINGS AND YOU GUYS CAN DECIDE IF THAT'S SOMETHING YOU WANNA SHARE WITH GROUP OR NOT.

I'LL SEND THE, OUR, OUR LATEST POOL AS FAR AS DEVELOPMENTS AND THE SINGLE FAMILY MULTIFAMILY TOWN HOME FOR YOUR AREA.

I CAN SEND YOU THOSE.

OH, WE KNOW WHAT THAT WILL SAY.

YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT.

AND THEN I CAN SEND YOU THE FAMILY.

YEAH, I CAN SEND YOU, IT IS THE NUMBER, THE TOTAL NUMBER TWO.

FAIR ENOUGH.

YEAH.

AND THEN I CAN SEND YOU THE, UM, I CAN SEND YOU THE, THE SCHOOL AND GRADE LEVEL SPECIFIC, JUST IN CASE THAT FILLS YOUR PLAN.

I, I THINK THE, FROM OUR STANDPOINT, I WAS FIRST ELECTED AS A COMMISSIONER.

WE HAD PORTABLES AT ALL THE SCHOOLS.

AND EVEN THOUGH IT DIDN'T FALL UNDER US, YOU KNOW, WE GOT THE PHONE CALLS.

IT'S LIKE, MY GOSH, IT'S OVERCROWDING.

THIS IS TERRIBLE.

THIS IS TERRIBLE.

I MEAN, FROM THE NUMBERS YOU'VE SHOWN US TODAY, THIS IS WONDERFUL THAT IT'S NOT OVERCROWDED AND THE PERFORMANCES, I MEAN, THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS I THINK ARE IMPORTANT TO OUR CITIZENS.

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SO THANK YOU.

YES.

AND YOU'LL SEE, UH, THE, UH, WE DID A PRESS RELEASE YESTERDAY.

WE HAVE THE MOST NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALS WE'VE EVER HAD IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY AS OUR ENROLLMENT HAS STAGNATED AND DROPPED 95 TOTAL.

AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THE BIGGEST CHUNK PERCENTAGE IN OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY SCHOOLS, OF THE WHOLE STATE OF THE NATIONAL MERITS.

, WE'RE PROUD OF THAT WORK.

WELL, I KNOW I'M SHORT ON TIME.

I CAN TALK ALL DAY, BUT ON THE STUFF THAT WE'RE WORKING ON, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO, I'M GONNA SAY, I'M GONNA END IN THIS.

I'M GONNA TELL YOU, UM, THREE BIG THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON THIS YEAR AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THE FIRST IS WE KNOW THAT OUR TEACHERS POWER THE PROGRESS.

THAT SUCCESS THAT YOU JUST APPLAUDED IS BECAUSE OF THE TEACHERS WHO ARE IN, IN OUR BUILDINGS.

UH, AND WE'RE SUPPORTING THEM, UM, AT EVERY TERM.

WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GIVING THEM WHAT THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

AND WE'RE REMINDING THEM THAT TEACHERS POWER PROGRESS, NOT TECHNOLOGY.

UH, TECHNOLOGY ISN'T WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN A KID'S LEARNING.

IT'S THE PERSON WHO'S TEACHING THEM.

SO WE'RE PURPOSEFULLY INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY.

THERE'S THIS BIG PENDULUM SWING, YOU KNOW, ABOUT HOW MUCH TECHNOLOGY DO WE NEED.

WE'RE SENDING KIDS OUT INTO A WORLD THAT'S DROWNING IN TECHNOLOGY.

EVEN ON THE NEWS THIS MORNING, THE DANGERS OF AI IS WHAT I HEARD ON THE DRIVE HERE.

SO IT'S A BALANCE OF HOW WE PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THAT WORLD WHILE WE CONTINUE TO TEACH THEM HOW TO THINK WITHOUT USING TECHNOLOGY AS THE BRAIN POWER AND THE PROBLEM SOLVING.

SO OUR FOCUS THIS YEAR AND OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS WILL CONTINUE TO BE PURPOSEFUL TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION INTO OUR CLASSROOMS AND REMINDING OURSELVES THAT IT'S THE TEACHERS WHO POWER THE SUCCESS OF OUR STUDENTS.

'CAUSE WE TEACH STUDENTS, NOT MATH, ENGLISH, SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES.

WE TEACH KIDS, WE CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON EVERY LEARNER EVERY DAY.

AND OUR STRATEGIES THAT WE'RE PUSHING AND TRAINING TEACHERS ON IS THAT DIFFICULT THING OF PREPARING A LESSON THAT CHALLENGES EVERY SINGLE STUDENT, REGARDLESS OF WHAT KIND OF FAMILY DYNAMIC, WHAT KIND OF BACKGROUND, WHAT KIND OF FOUNDATION THEY HAVE, WHAT KIND OF LEARNING DIFFERENCES THEY HAVE AS ONE TEACHER IN FRONT OF A CLASS WITH 35 KIDS ASSURING THAT THEY'RE ALL CHALLENGED EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE AND PUSHED.

THERE'S A SCIENCE TO THAT.

AND THERE'S A FRAMEWORK TO THE METHODOLOGY.

SO OUR FOCUS, UH, THIS YEAR AND FOR THE NEXT THREE WILL CONTINUE TO BE MAKING SURE OUR TEACHERS HAVE THE MOST RESEARCH BASED INFORMATION AND TRAINING OF WHAT THAT FRAMEWORK LOOKS LIKE WHEN THEY PLAN A LESSON TO ENSURE AS MANY KIDS IN THAT CLASSROOM GET IT THE FIRST TIME THAT IT'S BEING TAUGHT AS POSSIBLE.

AND THE LAST THING, UH, WE CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT AND FOCUS ON, AND WILL, AGAIN, THIS IS NOT AN INSTANTANEOUS THING.

IT'S A LONG-TERM THING.

IT'S ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE BUILD, THE TEACHERS, OUR STUDENTS.

IT'S IT'S SAFETY, BUT ALSO WE'RE PRODUCING GREAT CITIZENS TO GO OUT INTO THE WORLD, A WORLD THAT'S CHANGING.

AND AS I MENTIONED, IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY AND LOTS OF TEMPTATIONS TO TREAT PEOPLE IN WAYS THAT THEY SHOULDN'T BE TREATED.

UH, SO OUR EMPHASIS IS THAT THIS SCHOOL YEAR AND BEYOND, WE HAVE TIME BUILT INTO EVERY WEEK WHERE STUDENTS ARE BUILDING COMMUNITY TIME, FACE TO FACE WITH EACH OTHER.

AND DURING THAT COMMUNITY TIME, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER AS PEOPLE, THAT EVERY INTERACTION MATTERS.

SO THAT WE'RE EMPHASIZING, WE'RE DEVELOPING GREAT PEOPLE.

UM, WE'RE COUNTERING ANY KIND OF BULLYING ACTIVITY THAT TAKES PLACE ONLINE IN PERSON.

AND JUST MAKING SURE TOO, THAT THOSE RELATIONSHIPS FEEL SAFETY FOR EVERY STUDENT.

IF THEY FEEL LIKE THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING THAT'S UNSAFE, THAT THERE IS A SAFE PERSON, AN ADULT THEY CAN GO TO ON CAMPUS AND TALK TO ALL I TOLD YOU, I COULD TALK ALL DAY PRESENTATIONS.

ARE YOU LINED UP TO DO? WELL, THERE ARE A FEW.

I'LL BET.

IT'S KINDA LIKE A TEACHER TEACHING A LESSON.

I'LL BE GOOD AT IT HERE A FEW WEEKS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU, DR.

WEB.

THERE'S ONE BRAGGING POINT THAT WAS MISSING FROM YOUR SLIDES AND IT REALLY AFFECTS THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM.

AND THAT IS THE NUMBER ONE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DRIVER IN THIS COUNTY SCHOOLS.

THAT'S RIGHT.

IT'S NOT HEALTHCARE.

THAT'S RIGHT.

THAT'S GOOD STUFF.

YEAH.

THANK YOU GUYS FOR HAVING ME.

THANK YOU AS ALWAYS.

HOLLY'S ONE STEP AHEAD OF ME SOMETIMES GOING WITH IS AMAZING.

ALL THEY DO TO, HE STAYS AN OFFER TO KIDS.

JAY JUST GOT A TEXT FROM TOM, TONY CLIFF.

THE LETTER OF INTENT WAS APPROVED LAST NIGHT BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO MOVE FORWARD.

A LOT OF WAVERING.

.

THERE'S ONLY FIVE IN OPPOSITION OF IT.

FIVE.

YEAH.

MAYOR, BEFORE, UH, BEFORE WE STARTED, I SHARED THAT I HAVE TO GO MEET LEADERSHIP RAILROAD FOR RAYMOND MANSION.

WE'RE DOING TOUR AT 10 40.

YEAH.

WE'RE GONNA TRY OUR BEST TO BE OUTTA HERE IN A HALF HOUR.

UM, HOPEFULLY WE CAN DO THAT.

THAT, YEAH.

I KNOW JASON WARNED ME YESTERDAY, SO, UH, YEAH.

SORRY ABOUT A LITTLE BIT LATE, BUT WE'LL MOVE.

ALRIGHT.

SOMETHING I DO WANNA JUST MAKE A, A QUICK OBSERVATION AND KEN, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT ABOUT THE, UH, THE PORTABLES AND THE FACT THAT MUCH RATHER HAVE, YOU KNOW, SCHOOLS FILLED CAPACITY RATHER THAN LOWER CAPACITY.

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ABSOLUTELY.

SO KIND OF BEING AWARE OF, YOU KNOW, THE TWO SIDES OF IT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S, I I THINK TOO MUCH OR TOO FEW IS LIKE JUST A HANDFUL OF STUDENTS.

YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE TRYING TO STAY JUST RIGHT.

WELL, YOU KNOW, WE INCREASED CAPACITY SIGNIFICANTLY THOUGH WHEN WE HAD THE PORTABLES, AS YOU REMEMBER FROM PLANNING COMMISSION.

UM, FIVE OF THOSE EIGHT SCHOOLS ADDED A LOT OF SEATS, WHICH IS NOW REFLECTED IN THE KIDS THAT ARE IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL.

YEAH.

SO YEAH.

THOSE JUST BEFORE COVID.

YEAH.

I'M TRYING TO GET IT RIGHT.

BUT, BUT JUST KNOWING THAT, THAT'S THE FLIP SIDE IS YOU CAN ADD TO IMPROVE IT.

YOU CAN DRAW BIGGER CIRCLES IF YOU NEED MORE STUDENTS.

UM, WELL I DO, I THINK JACK FLETCHER, EVERY TIME I HEAR THE WORD PORTABLE , BECAUSE HE, HE, HE WANTED TO GIVE THE PORTABLES TO BE SAFE.

THAT THAT WAS HIS, THAT WAS HIS THING.

EXACTLY.

YES.

, SOME THINGS ARE JUST SO MEMORABLE.

, AJ, GREEN FLAG RACING , MR. UH, YOU DO HAVE A PROCLAMATION, UH, THAT WE'RE GONNA START OFF WITH FOR CONSTITUTION WEEK.

OF COURSE THAT HAS, UH, EXTRA SPECIAL MEANING WITH AMERICA TWO 50.

UM, SO WE'LL BE, UH, PROUD TO BE READING THAT PROCLAMATION, UH, FIRST THING ON THE AGENDA AND THE OTHER TWO PROCLAMATIONS FOR FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY.

WE JUST DELIVER THOSE.

RIGHT.

WE DON'T NECESSARILY READ 'EM.

YES, SIR.

YES, SIR.

ALRIGHT, VICE MAYOR, YOU READY TO READ COURT? OCTOBER? YES.

OCTOBER, THAT'S RIGHT.

YEAH.

YEAH.

YEAH.

THANK YOU.

AND, UH, WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING.

THIS IS GONNA BE THE REPORT ON, UH, MUNICIPAL SERVICES.

UH, THAT IS A REQUIRED, UH, REQUIREMENT OF OUR CODES THAT WE REPORT ON OUR ANNEXATIONS.

AND THIS ONE WILL COVER THE GALL PROPERTY, UH, ALSO KNOWN AS ROSEBROOK ROSEBROOK MAIN, ROSEBROOK SOUTH AND ROSEBROOK EAST, AS WELL AS THE MCADAMS PROPERTY.

TOBY PROPERTY, UH, SCALES AND SCALES.

HANUKAH AND THE ERICA PROPERTY AT, UH, 98 0 9, SAM DONALD ROAD.

JAY, WHY, WHY IS IT AN UPDATE? 'CAUSE I, I REMEMBER BEING ON PLAN WHEN WE ANNEXED THOSE AND WE HAD A PLAN OF SERVICE.

SO THE SUPPORTS CHANGED.

STATE REQUIREMENTS WE DO ANNUALLY.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

IT'S BASICALLY LETTING YOU KNOW, UH, WHERE IT IS WITH REGARD TO THE EXTENSION OF PROVISION OF UTILITIES.

OKAY.

HOW MANY BUILDING PERMITS HAVE BEEN, UH, ISSUED AND SOME OF THOSE DETAILS ON CONSENT AGENDA.

ITEM NUMBER ONE IS AN AGREEMENT WITH NEIL SHAFER, UH, OR CEI SERVICES RELATED TO OUR CMAC PROJECT.

UM, LONG IN THE COMING IS OUR, OUR CMAC C PROJECT THAT'S FINALLY GETTING STARTED.

AND, UH, NEIL SHAFER WILL BE PROVIDING CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND INSPECTION SERVICES, UH, FOR THIS, WHAT THEY CALL LOCALLY MANAGED PROJECT THROUGH TE OS, UM, UH, LOCAL PROGRAMS OFFICE.

AND I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THE DETAILS BEHIND THE CMAC PROJECT.

VERY IMPORTANT FOR US.

AND, UM, TRAFFIC MOBILITY, UH, WITHIN THE CITY OF BRENTWOOD AS WELL AS, UM, PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS AT INTERSECTION.

SO, UM, THE COST NOT TO EXCEED FOR THIS AGREEMENT IS 256,385 HOURS.

SO THEY ARE GOING TO PROVIDE THE INFO ON WHAT THE UPGRADE SHOULD BE? NO, THEY'RE GOING TO PROVIDE THE FIELD INSPECTIONS AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING IN THE FIELD IS BUILT ACCORDING TO.

THAT'S WHY I WAS CONFUSED ABOUT.

SO STAMPS WILL DO THE UPGRADES AND THEN THEY'LL INSPECT THE UPGRADES.

STAN'S GONNA DO THE INTERSECTION RELATED UPGRADES RELATING TO THE, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNAL EQUIPMENT.

BUT THERE'S ALSO A DA HANDICAP RAMPS.

RIGHT.

AND A FEW OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.

AND SO STANSEL RIGHT BEHIND THIS IS DOING THE OKAY.

ELECTRONIC TYPE WORK.

OKAY.

UH, THIS PART OF THE PROJECT IS A HUNDRED PERCENT FEDERALLY FUNDED.

ITEM NUMBER TWO AS YOU JUST MENTIONED, IS WITH STANSIL ELECTRIC.

UM, THIS IS FOR OF COURSE THE, UH, SIX PORTIONS, UH, OF THE, THE CMAC PROJECT.

AND, UH, WE DID, UH, OPEN BIDS FOR THIS PROJECT ON JULY 1ST AT 2:00 PM AND THERE WERE TWO BIDS.

ONE WAS FROM S AND W CONTRACTING, THE OTHER FROM STANSEL.

UH, S AND W WAS THE LOW BID.

BUT UNFORTUNATELY THERE WERE ENOUGH, UH, OMISSIONS IN THAT SUBMITTAL PACKET THAT THEY WERE DEEMED NON-RESPONSIVE.

AND SO THE PROPOSAL WAS GOING TO BE TO AWARD TO STANSEL 2,339,754.

AS WELL AS STAFF IS REQUESTING AUTHORIZATION FOR A CONTINGENCY OF $235,000 TO THE EVENT THAT THERE ARE UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO DELAY THE PROJECTS, UH, TO THEN COME BACK TO THE CITY COMMISSION.

THE TOTAL, UH, IS 510,273 AS FAR AS THE EXPOSURE TO THE CITY GOES.

UM, AND AGAIN, IT DOES INCLUDE

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ANY QUESTIONS? MOVING ON TO CONSENT ITEM NUMBER THREE.

THIS IS A CHANGE TO THE OSRD DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE GOVERNOR'S CLUB SUBDIVISION FOR A TEMPORARY WIRELESS TOWER.

UH, THIS ITEM IS ONLY WITH REGARD TO THE OPEN SPACE BECAUSE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO IT REQUIRE, UM, BY THE CITY COMMISSION FOR OSR OPEN SPACE.

UH, IT IS NOT FOR APPROVAL POWER ITSELF, THAT'S UNDER THE PERMIT PLANNING COMMISSION.

AND ANY PARTICULARS ABOUT THE TOWER ITSELF IS ALSO UNDER PERMANENT ION.

AND THEY DID APPROVE IT MONDAY EVENING AND RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THE OSRD CHANGES TO THE CITY COMMISSION.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

UM, I'M ALL FOR OF THIS, BUT IS THIS A TEMPORARY CHANGE IN THE OPEN SPACE? IS THAT WHERE A PERMANENT TOWER IS GONNA, IS ENVISIONED TO GO? I DIDN'T THINK SO.

THIS IS FOR A TEMPORARY FACILITY ONLY.

RIGHT.

BUT, BUT AFTER THAT, TEMPORARY TOWERS OUT THE CURRENT SPACE REVERT BACK TO THE CURRENT SPACE.

CAN'T HANDLE THE HUH? THE CURRENT SPACE WHERE THEY'RE GONNA BE TEMPORARY TOWER CANNOT HANDLE THE PERMANENT TOWER.

IT HAS TO BE MOVED.

OH, I UNDERSTAND ALL OF THAT.

I'M JUST SAYING, OKAY.

WE ARE DOING A CHANGE IN THE OSRD, UH, UM, UH, I GUESS NUMBERS THERE.

IT WON'T BE, IT'LL BE ALLOW FOR THIS USE WHEN THIS IS NOT USED FOR THAT ANYMORE.

WILL IT REVERT BACK TO ITS CURRENT, WILL BE APPROVAL, REVERT BACK? TODD, YOU WANNA SPEAK TO THAT? AM I'M NOT MAKING ANY SENSE EITHER.

I UNDERSTAND IF IT COULD GO BACK TO GENERAL GREEN SPACE, IT WILL.

YEAH, IT WILL.

THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT.

SO THE TEMPORARY TOWER, IT'S TEMPORARY.

THE PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVED IT FOR 18 MONTHS.

ANY EXTENSIONS HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION IN SIX MONTH INCREMENTS.

THE, YOUR APPROVAL HERE IS FOR THE CHANGE IN THE OPEN SPACE.

RIGHT.

THIS TEMPORARY STRUCTURE.

I'M GETTING THAT.

WELL, I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT A PERMANENT CHANGE IN THE OPEN SPACE OR TEMPORARY AS IT ALIGNS WITH THIS USE.

IT'S TEMPORARY.

IT'S TEMPORARY.

OKAY.

THEY ARE, THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A PERMANENT SOLUTION AND A PERMANENT LOCATION FOR POSSIBLY A PERMANENT TOWER.

THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT'S GONNA BE YET.

OKAY.

BUT WHENEVER, WHENEVER THAT IS FOUND AND APPROVED AND CONSTRUCTED, THIS TEMPORARY TOWER WILL BE REMOVED AND IT'LL GO BACK TO JUST GREEN.

AND THAT'S ALL I ASKED.

YEP.

WAS WILL IT REVERT BACK OR IS IT A PERMANENT THING? IT'S TEMPORARY.

OKAY.

IT'S TEMPORARY.

SO IF NOT, NO.

WHY, BUT YOU DID SAY IT'S NOT GOING TO, IT'S NOT BIG ENOUGH TO PUT THE TOWER.

YEAH.

THE LEASE AREA IS NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO DO A PERMANENT TOWER.

OKAY.

IS THIS TEMPORARY TOWER GONNA REPLACE? THERE WAS, WASN'T THERE SOME IDEA OUT THERE THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE ONE MONITOR ON A TRUCK? NOW SO THE ORIGINAL, THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL WAS A COW SELL ON WHEELS.

YES.

BUT THEY NEEDED TWO OF THEM BECAUSE THERE'S TWO CARRIERS.

OKAY.

SO THIS WILL BE THE ONLY THING OUT THERE THEN.

YEP.

OKAY.

THIS ONE 90 FOOT TEMPORARY POLE WITH TWO CARRIERS ON IT.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

I HAVE ONE.

WE DID, WE DID HAVE THREE PEOPLE THAT SPOKE AGAINST THIS FROM GOVERNOR'S CLUB.

THEY WERE OPPOSED TO IT.

AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE, IT'S CLOSE TO THEIR HOUSE.

THEY SAID IT'S LIKE BEING NEXT TO TVA LINES.

UM, BUT THIS IS TEMPORARY.

AND IF YOU, MY POINT WAS IF YOU DIDN'T APPROVE THIS, YOU WOULD WIPE OUT COVERAGE TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE.

'CAUSE THE TOWER'S COMING DOWN OFF THE WATER TOWER AND THERE'LL BE BACK WHAT REGULAR APPROVAL THAT WE CAN ALL LOOK AT.

BUT WE, WE NEED IT IN A TEMPORARY MANNER.

SO HAS THE HOMEOWNER HAVE, HAVE WE EXPLAINED THIS TO THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION? HAVE THEY BEEN ABLE TO SEND LETTERS TO THE, THE HOA SEEMS OR THE POA, THE GOVERNOR'S LOVE SEEMS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTIVE.

OTHER, THE EXCEPTION OF A COUPLE QUOTES.

IN FACT, THE PRESIDENT OF THE POA SPOKE OUT IN FAVOR OF THE MEETING.

SO I UNDERSTOOD, OH, GO AHEAD.

GO.

OH, JUST FOR, SO I UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY DID, BUT ARE THEY, IS THERE SOME SORT OF LETTER SAYING THIS IS TEMPORARY TO TODD? WE SENT, WE SENT NOTIFICATION LETTERS TO PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN A THOUSAND FOOT RADIUS.

OKAY.

THAT'S, YEAH.

SO THEY UNDERSTAND AND THAT'S WHY THE THREE CAME TO THE MEETING.

THEY GOT THE LETTER.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

SO CELL PHONES ARE NOT A LUXURY CELL PHONES ARE NECESSITY 'CAUSE MOST PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE LANDLINES, ESPECIALLY IN THAT AREA.