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Board reviews consent agenda items, reconsiders one personnel approval
Summary
The Cannon County board reviewed the consent agenda covering minutes, coach hires and out-of-state student trips; members moved to reconsider a prior approval of an assistant coach after a board member said they had voted for themselves in error.
The Cannon County Board of Education reviewed consent agenda items at the Sept. 11 workshop, including minutes, staff hires and requests for overnight out-of-state student trips. Board members also moved to reconsider one personnel approval from the Aug. 14 meeting after a board member acknowledged an inadvertent self-vote.
Consent items listed in the meeting packet included approval of minutes from the Aug. 14 regular meeting and personnel actions: hiring Caitlin Pace as head coach for Cannon North Elementary girls basketball and hiring Jerry Strait as assistant football coach at Cannon County Middle School. The packet also listed three overnight out-of-state field trips from Cannon County High School: UTK National FFA Prep Day in Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 29'Sept. 30, 2025 (trip 4913); a veterinary-science trip to Martin, Tenn., April 17'April 18, 2026 (trip 4918); and a Hospitality Innovations trip to Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., Sept. 28'Sept. 30, 2025 (trip 4927).
A board member asked for reconsideration of consent agenda item 2.c (the assistant football coach approval) because they said they had voted for themselves in the prior meeting. "That is my fault. We had 3 at the meeting last month, and we just need to reconsider it so we can re vote on it. I did not do an indirect or direct conflict," the board member said. Board members described the process as requiring a motion to reconsider and then a motion to approve or reject the item on re-vote.
The workshop transcript does not record the result of the reconsideration or any formal roll-call vote on the consent items. No substantive objections to the listed overnight trips were recorded; board members asked a clarifying question about the Hospitality Innovations trip and were told it involves family and consumer sciences/CTE students attending industry backlot tours in Pigeon Forge.
Because the workshop transcript does not include final recorded votes for these consent items, staff should place the re-vote or formal approvals on the next regular meeting agenda if the board needs recorded action.
