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COFFEE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Regular Board Meeting March 11, 2019
COFFEE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
1343 McArthur Street
Manchester, Tennessee 37355
Telephone: 931-723-5150 Facsimile: 931-723-8285
TO: All Board Members
FROM: Brett Henley, Chairman
SUBJECT: Regular Board Meeting
DATE: March 11, 2019
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: NORTH COFFEE ELEMENTARY – LIBRARY
Pledge of Allegiance
AGENDA
I. Call to Order
II. Call for Intent
III. General Consent Items
(*If no objections, the following items will be considered passed when the agenda is passed.)
1. Minutes: February 11, 2019
2. 2nd Reading of Policies: 4.600, 6.300, 6.313
3. Overnight Field Trip – CHS FCCLA Leadership Conf. – Chattanooga – Mar. 20-22, 2019
4. Overnight Field Trip – CHS SkillsUSA Leadership Conf. – Chattanooga – Mar. 31- Apr. 3
5. Overnight Field Trip – CHS Chorus State Music Conf.. – Opryland – April 10-12, 2019
6. Use of Facilities – Hillsboro Elem. Gym – Hillsboro Christ of Christ – Mar. 15, 2019
IV. Agenda Items
1. Scholarship Sponsor
2. Textbook Adoption Recommendations
3. Desktop Bid
4. Student Information System (SIS) Package Adoption
5. Budget Update
V. Items for Discussion
VI. Committee Reports
VII. Student Ambassador Report
VIII. Director’s Report
Wednesday Prep Schedule
4:00 PM – CCMS Boys’ Soccer HOSTS Warren Co – Gilley Crane Hometown Sports Series broadcast on Thunder Radio
5:30 PM – CCMS Baseball HOSTS Warren Co
Motlow Lady Bucks Softball Set to Host Chattanooga State This Weekend
Haley Hinshaw of Motlow Lady Bucks softball[Photo courtesy of MotlowAthletics.com]
Motlow (2-2, 7-8) went on the road to Memphis last weekend and split a four-game series to open conference play. Friday the Lady Bucks won the series opener 9-6 before losing the nightcap 4-0. Saturday, Motlow dropped a 3-0 decision to the Lady Saluqis in the first game before capturing the series finale 8-4.
The Lady Bucks jumped out front 4-0 after two innings in the opener, but the Saluqis fought back and tied the score in the bottom of the fifth. Motlow put the game away with three runs in the sixth and two more in the seventh.
Samantha King, Haley Hinshaw and Jesse Beasenburg all homered for the Lady Bucks, while Kendall Durard drove in three runs. King got the win in the circle, pitching five innings and allowing one earned run with eight strikeouts. Autumn Davis and Heidi Durham each pitched an inning in relief.
Game two on Friday featured a great pitching performance by Southwest, allowing Motlow only five hits. Hinshaw had three of those hits, including two doubles, but the Lady Bucks couldn’t put a rally together. Jennifer Corbitt started in the circle, going five innings and allowing only two earned runs. Durham pitched a perfect final inning with two strikeouts.
In Saturday’s game one the Lady Bucks could not muster much offense with only five hits. Motlow wasted an excellent effort from King in the circle as she allowed only two earned runs and had 14 strikeouts while pitching a complete game.
The series finale featured a return to offense for Motlow. Hinshaw slammed a home run and added a double. King and Madison Hopkins joined her in driving in two runs each. Durham started in the circle and got the win, allowing four hits in four innings with five strikeouts. Davis got her first save of the season, allowing just one hit over the final three innings.
Johansen Tallies Winner Again as Preds Top Wild in Another Shootout
Nashville center Ryan Johansen
Ryan Johansen fooled them twice.
Minnesota tied it late, but Nashville prevailed in the shootout again as the Predators defeated the Wild by a 5-4 final on Tuesday night at Bridgestone Arena. The result gives the Preds a sweep of their home-and-home set with Minnesota, the second time Nashville has topped Minnesota in a shootout in as many tries.
After a 3-2 result on Sunday, the Preds returned to Nashville to host the Wild once more in a game which saw former Predators winger Kevin Fiala tally twice, including the tying goal with just over two minutes to play.
But, in the end, the shootout worked again for the Predators, and it was No. 92 who waited out Devan Dubnyk to claim not only the extra point, but first in the Central Division once more.
“It’s nice to get two wins,” Johansen said. “They played really hard, and they are missing a few guys too, so I have to give them credit. They played two hard games, but it was nice to get four points out of the two games.”
“It was a good win for us, a good shootout win against a tough team,” Preds Captain Roman Josi said. “They’re fighting for their playoff lives, and we’re fighting to move up in the standings. It was two good games. We’re very happy with the four points.”
The Preds didn’t waste much time taking the early lead – just 1:48 into the contest, to be exact – when Craig Smith converted on a rebound to beat Devan Dubnyk and give the home team a 1-0 advantage. Before the opening period was out, Fiala beat Pekka Rinne to even the score at one all.
More than 13 minutes into the second, the Preds served up a Brian Boyle classic. The massive centerman parked himself in front of equally tall, 6-foot-6 Dubnyk and redirected a P.K. Subban shot past the goaltender – on the power play – to give Nashville their lead back.
“It’s always a work in progress,” Boyle said of the power play. “You find some chemistry and certain things that might give you a few more looks, some confidence, a little trust and watch some video on it, and then you want to execute so you can have the opportunity to go out on the power play. That’s probably the most fun thing you can do during the game, and it’s a boost for the club.”
But late in the second, another former Pred converted as Pontus Aberg evened the score once more.
As the third frame began, Eric Fehr put Minnesota on top for the first time, but Roman Josi tied things at three less than a minute later when he equaled a career high with his 15th goal of the season. Then, Viktor Arvidsson found a hole through Dubnyk and put the Preds back up by one before Fiala could tie it again.
“We didn’t want him to score, but he’s been here for a while,” Josi said of Fiala. “He can take the two goals. We’ll take the two points.”
Overtime solved nothing, and neither did the first three rounds of the shootout with the goaltenders staying perfect until Johansen waited to deke out Dubnyk for the win.
A home-and-home sweep over any club would be considered a success, but at this time of the year, and against an opponent in the division fighting for their playoff lives, well, it makes things just a bit sweeter.
“It’s big, especially against a desperate team like that,” Preds Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “You have to give them a lot of credit, they played really hard in two games and kept fighting the whole way. Our guys just kept pushing back.”
Patience, My Friend:
Across the NHL, most shootout participants try to not give the goaltenders much time to think before they fire the puck.
Ryan Johansen might be trying to lull them to sleep.
Whatever he’s doing, it’s working.
Twice in two games Johansen has pulled off similar moves – starting with speed before almost coming to a complete stop – and then making the goaltender look silly before depositing the puck into a yawning cage.
So, what exactly is going through Johansen’s mind at that moment?
“I can’t tell you what I am thinking,” he laughed.
“Yeah, I taught him that,” Brian Boyle deadpanned when asked of Johansen’s shootout wizardry.
Call it what you want, but Johansen, who is now a perfect 3-for-3 in the shootout this season, is converting, and that’s all that really matters.
“Methodical,” Laviolette said of the move. “Some guys come in and they may give it one push and make their move. I think he just tries to wait it out.”
“I don’t know how he does it,” Josi said. “I would be way too nervous to hold on to the puck for that long, but he does it every game and he’s pretty good at it.”
Notes:
Preds defenseman Yannick Weber missed Tuesday’s game due to an upper-body injury, with Matt Donovan taking his spot in the lineup.
Brian Boyle returned to the Nashville lineup after missing Sunday’s game with a lower-body injury.
The Predators will now have a bit of time to rest a recuperate before hosting Carolina on Saturday to close out their two-game homestand.
Pete Weber’s Postgame Report
3/7/19 — Melissa J. Wiser
Melissa J. Wiser of Manchester passed this life on Monday, March 4*,* 2019
at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro at the age of 64. Funeral
Services are scheduled for 2 PM, Thursday, March 7, 2019 at
Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home with burial to follow at Old Redden’s
Cemetery in Coffee County. The family will receive friends on Thursday,
beginning at 10 AM.
A native of Coffee County, she was the daughter of the late Hoyt E. and
Nellie Evans Adams. Mrs. Wiser was a nurse and retired from St. Thomas
West Hospital. She loved her occupation and being able to help people. She
enjoyed listening to gospel music and reading. Her favorite times were
spent with her family, especially her grandchildren. She also will be
greatly missed by her Dachshund, “Brisco”.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by brother, Winfred
Adams.
Mrs. Wiser is survived by her loving husband, Eddie W. Wiser of Manchester;
daughters, Angela Jones and her husband, Jerry and Heather Wiser, all of
Manchester; brothers, Raymond Adams and his wife, Carolyn and Robert Adams,
all of Manchester; sister, Linda Adams of Manchester; grandchildren, Ashley
Reiben Goodrich and her husband, Jonathan of Murfreesboro and Eleasah and
Missy Jones, both of Manchester and many nieces, nephews and friends.
DAVES-CULBERSTON FUNERAL HOME IS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS
3/5/19 — Birthdays
Birthdays:
Madison Lowrey, 21 — Pizza Winner!
Joe Roybal, 61
Amy Vogle, 48
Duck River Electric Membership Corporation Receives Large Grant
Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC) has announced their receipt of a grant award totaling over $2.14 million dollars from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for DREMC’s east fiber loop and smart grid fiber communication project. The project will deploy smart grid improvements that in turn can be used to form the backbone of a gigabit-speed fiber broadband network.
“This project will help enable their Internet service provider (ISP) partners to provide affordable broadband access to 1,202 businesses and 2,876 households in Franklin, Coffee and Marion Counites, three DREMC- served counties that are also in the ARC footprint,” reported DREMC Key Accounts Coordinator Teresa Sampson. “While DREMC does not have plans currently to become an ISP, we do want to be part of the solution in helping get high-speed broadband access to our service area.”
DREMC received the largest POWER grant for the current funding cycle of 33 awards in 9 states supporting projects ranging from recovery-to-work programs, broadband development and workforce training.
Coffee Co. Sheriff’s Dept. Asking the public to Increase Awareness Concerning Utility Trailer Thefts
Picture is that of similar stolen utility trailers.
If you have any information in regard to any criminal activity, please feel free to notify the Sheriff’s Department at 931-728-3591.
TN Group: Process for Getting Disability Benefits “Broken”
In 2017, it’s estimated that more than 9,500 Tennesseans died while waiting for their Social Security Disability benefit appeals to be heard. (Courtney Keating/Getty Images)
An investigation of more than five years of data revealed that some doctors who speed applications through the process are making big paychecks. As current and former personnel speak up about what they call a “cash-register” system, advocates for people with disabilities are expressing concern for those whose claims have been denied.
Brandon Brown, executive director of Empower Tennessee, one of six Centers for Independent Living across the state, contended that the “pay-by-case” model isn’t working.
“At the end of the day, you’re dealing with people’s lives and livelihood,” he said. “There seems to be a system in which profit is gained from the health or lack of health of other people.”
Tennessee doctors denied 72 percent of all disability claims in 2017. The Tennessee Department of Human Services, which oversees the disability program, released a statement that said, “We have no reason to believe that doctors that average faster reviews are more prone to have errors in their reviews.”
The investigation found seven high-volume doctors who each billed for more than $1 million between 2013 and 2018. It found that more than half of all contract physicians in Tennessee outpaced the federal standard of one-and-a-half cases per hour.
Brown, whose organization is part of the Disability Coalition of Tennessee, said the system is broken.
“Certainly [we] want to make sure the people who are eligible for those services and need those services receive those services, and we also want to make sure that those who are not, do not,” he said. “Seeing that there is a per-case rate doesn’t seem like it is set up for the well-being of the people who are applying.”
Whistleblowers in the initial investigation included Dr. John Mather, a former medical consultant for the Social Security Administration. Mather said he was terminated in 2017 after he questioned why some doctors were reviewing a high volume of cases.