The Greene County Board of Education will consider approving several 2008-09 budgets during its monthly meeting at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, at the James W. Parham Central School Office on West Summer Street.

The agenda for the meeting notes that the board is scheduled to consider approving the 2008-09 general purpose school budget if state Basic Education Program (BEP) funding information is received prior to the meeting and a budget workshop can be held.

Other 2008-09 budgets scheduled to be considered during the Thursday afternoon meeting include the food service and federal programs budgets, according to the meeting agenda.

The county school board also is scheduled to consider approving a special course requested by Wayland Seaton, the county school system's supervisor of secondary education.

The board also is expected to consider approving a request from Chuckey Elementary School Principal Teresa Taylor to enclose the school's currently open library with concrete block walls. All costs of the project are to be paid for by the school and through donations, according to the meeting's agenda.

The county school board also is scheduled to consider approving:

* an increase in lunch prices for grades Pre-K through 3 from $1.50 to $1.75 and to breakfast prices for all grades from $1 to $1.50 and $1.25 to $2 for adults effective 2008-09;

* a low bid of $26.19 per case for copy paper was submitted by Ricoh;

* low bids of $26.85 per case for toilet paper, as submitted by Kelsan and $12.50 per case for paper towels as submitted by Ford Systems;

* a low bid of $33,574 for North Greene field house lockers, as submitted by TMS South;

* low bids for window replacement at Baileyton School for $4,545, as submitted by City Glass; $27,997 at Glenwood, as submitted by Holston Glass Co.; and $39,259 at South Greene, as submitted by City Glass;

* low bids for vinyl floor tile of $9,000 for Glenwood Elementary and $12,750 at Camp Creek, as submitted by Dockery Floor Covering;

* a low bid of $17,200 for paving at Doak School, as submitted by Brown Brothers and Weems;

* a low bid for entrance doors at Mosheim School of $16,870, as submitted by Keller Glass Co.;

* a band camp at South Greene High for all elementary/high school band members from July 28-Aug.1 at the Locust Springs Conference Center, sponsored by the SG Band Booster Club;

* an Extended School Program rates and employee pay-scale effective 2008-09 (required due to increase in federal minimum wage);

* a general-purpose school fund budget amendment in the amount of $3,550 for Milk Settlement Funds to be used in the Coordinated School Health Program;

* low bids for school and band-room furniture;

* a low bid for carpet cleaning at a cost of 85-cents per square foot, as submitted by Carpet Masters;

* a low bid for McDonald plumbing replacement for $36,235, as submitted by Midway Construction;

* revisions to a career guidance procedures manual, as submitted by the policy committee:

* a new Kindergarten Skills Report form (to match the nine-week grading period;

* the use of the National Guard program "Stay on Track" for use with sixth through eighth grade students;

* a 2008 federal budget transfer of $69,133 from the Title II program to the Title V program.

Further, the county school board is scheduled to consider approving, on second reading, various policy manual revisions.

Also during its Thursday meeting, the county school board is to offer congratulations to Chuckey Elementary School for receiving a $10,000 grant from the East Tennessee Foundation for Positive Behavior Support.

The board also is to hear an annual report from Alisha Ricker, director of the Family Resource Center at Chuckey Elementary School.

In addition, the board will offer congratulations to West Pines Elementary School for having had the highest teacher attendance rate for April (98.18 percent).