April 2020 Meeting of the Smith County Board of Education

April 15, 2020

The Smith County Board of Education met at 5:00 p.m. on the evening of Tuesday, April 14, 2020.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, board members were permitted to participate in the meeting by electronic or other means. The public did not have physical access to the meeting, but the meeting was streamed live on Smith County Insider’s Facebook page and is archived on Smith County Insider’s YouTube page.

You can watch the full meeting below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLwMQzIRXc

Board members Robin Moore and Ricky Shoulders attended the meeting virtually via the video conferencing platform Zoom.

During the meeting, the board voted to extend the contract of Director of Schools Barry Smith until 2024, approved several policies and policy amendments, and scheduled a budget work session for 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, 2020.

Before the meeting ended, Barry Smith gave an update on the school system’s response to COVID-19 and the free breakfast and lunch program and discussed potential athletic training agreement proposals.

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The Smith County School Board meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 5:00 p.m. at the Smith County Board of Education, located at 126 Smith County Middle School Lane in Carthage, Tennessee.

The next School Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

All meetings are open to the public and streamed live at https://www.facebook.com/smithcountyinsider/.

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