The Oneida Special School District board met in regular session and approved a package of routine and administrative actions, including creation of an artificial intelligence task force, a budget amendment for capital outlay and several personnel and facility measures.

At the start of business, an unnamed board member moved to approve the board agenda and the board voted in favor. The board then approved the consent agenda and last month’s minutes. The board recorded unanimous roll-call votes on multiple motions throughout the meeting.

The board held the first reading of a district "0 tolerance" policy submitted from TSBI and voted to return it for a second reading next month. The board also voted to create an "OSSD artificial intelligence (AI) task force," a new body the board said is intended to study AI-related issues for the district; board members were provided a copy of the task-force proposal in the meeting packet.

Other approved business included the appointment of a PE/Health CTE textbook committee, a general-purpose budget amendment that included a cited capital outlay amount of $40,000, and four fundraiser requests for Oneida High School and Oneida Middle School groups (OHS prom committee, OHS cheer, OMS bass baseball, OMS baseball). The board also approved three leave-of-absence requests for employees (Kim Maxey, Ashley Markham and Stacy Love) with tentative dates to be determined pending medical releases.

The district approved an agreement with Roane State Community College to support a speech-language pathology assistant program, a bid for construction of a metal storage building, and adoption of an RA standard mileage rate increase.

All motions recorded in the transcript were approved by roll call, with the meeting moderator naming individual board members during each vote and the minutes consistently registering 'aye' responses.

The board moved on after business to the Director’s report and principal updates. No contested votes or roll-call 'no' votes appear in the transcript.

What happens next: the zero-tolerance policy will return for a second reading next month; the AI task force will be stood up per the paperwork provided to board members.