Director of Schools says CTE grant funded barns and horse trailers used in training

During new business at the April 20 Robertson County Commission meeting, Commissioner M. Dorris asked whether the county was "in the horse trailer business," prompting Commissioner Stubblefield to request that Director of Schools Danny Weeks come forward to explain. Weeks told the commission that the school system had received grant funding for high school Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs.

According to the minutes, Weeks said East Robertson and Jo Byrns have built barns to support cattle-management training as part of the CTE program and that horse trailers were purchased with those grant funds. The minutes do not list the grant names, award amounts, specific vendors, or purchase costs; they record only that the expenditures were associated with the CTE grants.

The exchange was recorded as part of routine new business; no formal action, expenditure approval, or follow-up directive appears in the minutes. The discussion clarifies that the trailers and barns were purchased by the schools using grant resources rather than being a county general-fund procurement.

Speakers on this item were Commissioner M. Dorris (who raised the question), Commissioner Stubblefield (who made the procedural motion to hear the schools director), and Director of Schools Danny Weeks (who provided the explanation). The minutes contain no quote-by-quote transcript for this exchange and do not specify dollar amounts, grant identifiers, or whether district-wide approvals were recorded elsewhere.

Next steps: The minutes do not record any further inquiry, formal vote, or request for documentation during the meeting. For those seeking procurement amounts or grant identifiers, the school district’s finance office or the county clerk’s office would be the appropriate sources to request detailed records.