School Board Casts Key Votes

The Sumner County School Board met last night and made the following votes:

1) Voted to accept the $623,000 added by the County Commission to fund Adult Education and E.B. Wilson Night School. All members voted in favor except for Vanessa Silkwood.

2) Voted NOT to delay the outsourcing of custodians.
Voting FOR proceeding with outsourcing: Silkwood, Brewer, Hale, Long, Daniels, Cox, Dunn

Voting AGAINST proceeding with outsourcing: Wise, Duncan, Gregory, Brown

3) Voted AGAINST using textbook funds to save jobs

Voting for using textbook funds to save jobs: Daniels, Wise, Duncan, Brown, Gregory

Voting against using textbook funds to save jobs: Dunn, Silkwood, Brewer, Long, Hale, Cox

4) Unanimously voted to ask the County to take on the responsibility for the Adult Education program

5) Ted Wise and Will Duncan proposed and voted for a measure to eliminate the Chief Administrative Officer position. The other 9 members voted against.