Adam Stephens

The Obion County School System's mission is to provide a safe learning environment that fosters academic success, promotes good character, and prepares students for future challenges, thereby contributing to the community. Its goals include ensuring all students reach their full potential, staffing with highly qualified personnel, maintaining safe and well-equipped learning environments, fostering parental, business, and community involvement, and promoting the development of responsible citizens.

The meeting agenda includes recognitions for Building Level Teacher of the Year, RISE program participants, and systemwide achievements. The board will review monthly reports covering personnel, substitute teachers, and financial business. New business items include consideration of overnight trips, the consolidation of middle school football programs, and amendments to board policies regarding attendance, promotion and retention, and background investigations. Additionally, the 2025-2026 school year calendar will be discussed, followed by a director's update.

The meeting agenda includes a consent agenda encompassing the monthly personnel report, substitute teacher report, and financial report. New business items consist of the 2024 LEA compliance report, approval of overnight trips, a bid for a ballistic screen, and the TISA accountability form.

The agenda includes the election of the Chair, Vice-Chair, and Pro Tem. Consent items cover the approval of personnel reports, substitute teacher reports, assignment of board-owned vehicles, and financial reports. Business items include the recognition of school support organizations, the ESP annual review, the appointment of members to the Ethics Committee, and the election of members to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Additional considerations include bids for tires and the OCCHS gym roof, the FY25 ESSER 3.0 application, an overnight trip, an updated agreement for complex tennis courts, and an amendment to the board policy regarding the grading system.

The agenda includes an evaluation and contract review for the Director of Schools. The board will address several administrative items, such as the appointment of a member to the Athletic Advisory Committee and the formal opening of the Obion County Virtual Academy. Additional business items involve the declaration of surplus assets, including a school bus and a vehicle, the approval of overnight trips, and multiple contract actions, such as school bus bids, lease renewals for staff devices, and multi-year service contracts for filtering and monitoring software.