Board Prez Dave Mullins was back up front Monday March 9th during the Clayberry School Board meeting. When Boardster Cheryl White entered the room, she walked over and hugged Mullins. From the other end of the table, Boardster Dave Pierson yelled out, Watch out, she just came back from a cruise ship!!. Laughter was heard around the room.
  Before the meeting got underway at 6pm, there was discussion on the licensing and safety of using charter buses instead of school buses for out of county trips.   We've been down that road before with Dave Mullins leading the charge on using extra duty school bus drivers for those long trips. Back during those exchanges, the Pentagon  felt charter bus use was actually cheaper and just as safe as local drivers.
  Now for the meeting.
  The  peanut gallery was packed with high schoolers just back from the We the People contest where they placed first for the 6th year in a row. Teacher Phil Dobbins (pic below) brought in the winners for a victory lap in front of the Board. He and the kids were there seeking $$$ to attend and compete in the national level competition.
  From Dobbins: 16 students are in the team; they have worked hard; this is 6th year of winning for CHS on the state level; they have raised $8500 so far for the nationals; that competition will be held April 24 thru 28; the corona virus is a big concern and maybe cancel the competition; and, finally, Dobbins made assurances, "I will make sure it's safe."

  To date, the Pentagon has brought in $1,419,315.67 from tax collections. That's $70K more than this time last year.
  From the agenda
  Approve Clay County Public Library funding for 2020-2021 in the amount of $11,337.00
  Brian Collins resigned from Asst baseball coach duties at Clay Middle School
  Pam Haynes retired from cook duties ate H E White Elem
  Goldie Woods retired from Summer activity bus and Handyman Duties.
  Andrea Helmick was hired to be the Secretary at Big Otter Elem
  Clay Elem Asst Principal Jesse Stephenson retired
  Next meeting will be held on March 23rd, at the Pentagon , beginning at 6pm sharp.

  Outside the meeting hall, a Team Morton was working to relocate the wawa line near the old maintenance building. The site work is needed before building a new gym for the Middle School. There was no update on this project nor any other project mentioned during the regular
  21 minutes into the meeting, it was time to get down to real business and go into secret time for a personnel matter.
  We left.

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