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Board approves appropriations, transfers, Head Start items and supports girls flag football; policy 3.401 passes first reading
Summary
The board approved the meeting agenda and multiple routine financial items (appropriations 1a'h, transfers 2a'j, four preschool budgets 3a'd), approved grouped Head Start submissions, supported a girls flag football organization, and approved policy 3.401 on first reading; the director's annual evaluation was presented.
During the business portion of the meeting the Anderson County Board of Education handled multiple routine and programmatic items by voice vote.
The board approved the meeting agenda after a motion by a board member (speaker 2) and a second; the consent agenda (minutes, human resources reports, student services report, field trips, the 141 expenditure report, and the legislative report) was approved by voice vote following a motion and second. The board approved appropriations 1a through 1h, then approved transfers (2a through 2j) after a motion by speaker 2 and a second. Four preschool budgets (items 3a'd) for fiscal year '27 were taken together and approved.
The board approved multiple Head Start submissions (grants, delegation plan, two additional budgets and selection criteria, community assessment) as a grouped package (items a through l) after a motion and second. The board also voted to support a girls flag football sport support organization at Thames County High School.
On policy, the board conducted a first reading of policy 3.401 (school bus transportation), which clarifies parental notes to drivers and allows a designee; the policy was approved on first reading following a motion and second.
The director's annual anonymous evaluation was reported: members gave Dr. Perrett an aggregate score of about 2.998 out of 3.0. The board reported Dr. Perrett declined a contract extension and any salary increase; those items were informational, not action items requiring board approval.
All votes described in the meeting were voice votes; the transcript records "all in favor, say aye," with no roll-call tallies recorded in the minutes provided.
