001Good evening. I would like to call this regular called meeting of the Muscle Shaw School Board of Education to order. Uh would everyone please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance? I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Uh, Mrs. Langley, would you please call the RO for us? >> Here, here, >> here. >> Thank you, Miss Langley. Dr. Holden, we have a quorum. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. President. I recommend approval of the agenda as presented. Right board, our first order of business is to approve the agenda as presented. Do we have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? I'll make I'll make a motion to approve
002the agenda. >> Thank you, Mr. Wood. We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. We have a motion in a second. Any discussion? All right. All in favor of approving the agenda as presented, say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Say nay. >> All right, Dr. Holden. The agenda is approved. >> Thank you, Mr. President. and I have no correspondence tonight. So, we'll move right on to item E, which is approval of the meeting minutes from the August 26, 2025 regular meeting. And you have those minutes in your packet, and I recommend >> All right, board. The superintendent has recommended approval of the board meeting minutes as presented. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? >> I make a motion to approve the minutes. >>
003Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. Uh, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Dr. Davis. U board, we have a motion in a second. And is there any discussion? All right, hearing none. Call to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. All right. Uh, Dr. Hold. The motion carries. >> All right. Moving right into our business action items tonight for the consent agenda. The board has been furnished with background material on each item or has discussed the item at a previous meeting. Consent agenda items will be acted upon with one vote without discussion. If a board member wishes to discuss any item, it will be pulled from the consent agenda and voted on separately. For tonight's consent agenda, we have the financial reports and
004check register as presented by CSFO Langley for August 2025. We also have the FY26 5-year capital plan which was presented at the last work session. Mr. Pearson was with us and you all have had a chance to review that and ask questions about it. Also, we have the textbook selection committee for 2526 for social studies. Those names are in your packet. As well as I'm recommending that we accept DCM project number 2025628, which is an HVAC upgrade in the indoor athletic facility. We opened bids on that project just a few weeks ago. And in your packet, you have the four biders. and I'm recommending the lowest bid meeting specifications which would be JK Johnson. So, uh, does any board member wish to pull any of that out and vote on it separately? Hearing none, Mr.
005President, I recommend the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Dr. Holden. Uh, board, the superintendent has recommended approval of the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? >> Mr. President, make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Dr. Davis. We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Alman. Uh, we have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? All right, Dr. Holden. The motion carries. >> Right. Next item is the personnel report. And you have the personnel report in your packet and I recommend it as presented. >> Thank you, Dr. Holden. Uh, board. The superintendent has recommended approval of
006the personnel report as presented. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel report as presented? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Miss Alman. We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Wood. Uh, we have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? >> All right. Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? All right, Dr. Holden. The motion carries. >> All right. For the benefit of the audience, the personnel report tonight consists of the following. Under resignation, this is a robotics club sponsor supplementon position at McBride. That's Jill McCabe. Also under employment, Kimber Peeles, school counselor. That'll be a shared position between Highland Park and Webster. Effective date is to be determined. Also under other part-time supplemental contract, special
007assignments. This uh supplemental compensation professional development program for central office administrators Mallerie Concincaid, Richard Templeton, and Taylor Darden. Also, robotics club sponsor appointment for McBride, Allison Roberts. Uh Michelle Woodis, teacher, MSMS. This will be an unpaid leave. You've got the dates there that she's asking due to an extraordinary circumstance. Also, Kelly Word will serve as a nurse mentor to a new nurse at McBride. And then Tamara Counts and Holly Wade will be providing PSAT tutoring at Muscle Shells High School. This was approved a year ago. uh they did the same thing during the uh last school year and they'll be doing that this school year and we appreciate their willingness to do that. Also under for not for board action just information only a couple employees there requesting a new medical leave. Uh, of course
008those will be flexible according to their needs. And then we also have a uh community ed extended day uh aid for 2526 Caitlyn uh trepower. That'll be systemwide. I'm just noticing on here, Miss Langley, that says board hired. I wonder if that should say Kelly Services. probably need to check with Miss Mifflin before we >> Yes, >> I should say Kelly Services. >> She a Kelly. >> No, if she's serving as community ed, then she would be a board hired. >> Okay. It's under the not for board action. So, we'll just make a note that that is a board hired community headed employee. And if that's different, if it's not board hired, we'll fix it at the next board. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> All right. All right. At this point, Mr. President, we are
009ready for budget hearing number two. So, I'll turn it back over to you and Miss Langley. Okay, Mrs. Langley, whenever you are ready. >> I think I have the microphone on. Okay, perfect. As Dr. Holden said, this is the second budget hearing and I am going to give you a very brief uh review this week. It won't last as long as the previous one because there were not very many changes. Um, our state revenues continue to be $24 million. Our federal is where our changes went into effect. We ended up getting our title 2 money. It was $102,131. That's a decrease from last year, $21,888. So, I've worked with um Dr. Concincaid and helped her try to maneuver those monies since this is her first maybe two or three weeks of being here. So, we
010we've talked about how to budget those monies compared to how we've done it in the past. The other federal money that we received was title 4 and we received $42,769. That is an increase of $10,800 and we have budgeted that for a retired teacher to assist our EL students with tutoring. Our local funds remain the same at 16 thou 16,219,031. So that was really all the changes other than the capital monies. We did budget those based on the capital plan that was presented to you at the last budget hearing. So after we provided the funds for our debt service of $642,000, the remaining $25,960 of our $848,000 capital money is being budgeted for any kind of facility upgrades or renovations that we may need to do. Also, parking lot resurfacing and stropping. So that was
011the main changes to our budget. So to give you a summary of our budget, total revenues are $45,271,560. I have budgeted some carryover funds which includes some capital money. Also includes our ENT money that we are rolling over that we received back in August. And that's 8,594,000. $8,594,000. I am utilizing a little bit of our fund balance in the general fund and that's only $435,115. That's just to help balance out the general fund. Our total expenditures are $48,596,000. Our fund balance as of October 1st of 2024 that we use going into 25 year was 11,210,000 with our current fund balance of 4.78 going into hopefully fiscal year 26. And I'm estimating that our one-mon operating cost in 26 will be $3.2 million and we will end fiscal year 26 with a 3.54month operating balance. I
012did not have any correspondence after the first budget hearing. Um, but if there are any tonight, I I welcome those from you and members of the audience. Okay. Thank you, Miss Langley. Board, uh, does anyone have any questions or comments concerning the fiscal year 26 budget proposal? Okay. Uh hearing none, I will open the floor uh for comments from the public concerning the uh fiscal year 26 budget proposal. There are any. All right. Hearing none, uh then our uh budget hearing for uh the fiscal year 2026 budget proposal is closed. Move on. >> All right, Mr. President. Thank you very much. So, two more items and these will be action items related to the budget hearing that we just completed. The first one is the uh resolution for a one-time supplement to employees. We we
013have discussed that uh during the work session as well as information has been provided to you all in advance. So, I recommend the resolution that's in your packet for a one-time supplement to employees as >> Thank you, Dr. Holden. uh board, the superintendent has recommended a resolution to provide a one-time supplement to employees uh for the fall 2025 semester. Do we have a motion uh concerning that um that recommendation? Make a motion to approve. Get the things in writing. >> Okay, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. Two seconds. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Alman. And I failed to mention, but thank you, Dr. Starter, for your motion. So, we have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor
014say I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. All right, Dr. Holden. Motion carries. >> Good deal. Thank you very much. And then next item is consideration of the proposed FY26 budget. Had two hearings. M. Langley has done an outstanding job presenting that information to us. We've had a chance for public comment and questions. And so at this point, I recommend the proposed FY26 budget as presented tonight. >> Thank you, Dr. Holden. Board, we have a recommendation from the superintendent to approve the FY26 proposed budget as presented. Do we have a motion? Mr. >> President, I make a motion that we approve the budget as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Wood. Uh, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. Uh board, we have a motion in a
015second. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose, say nay. >> All right. Dr. Holden, the budget is approved. >> All right. Thank you. Last thing I have is just a brief superintendent report. Again, I thank Miss Langley and her office as well as the administrators on their work in preparing the budget. It's a lot of work that goes into that. Takes some time and and we appreciate their work on it. I did want to mention that next month I do plan on us having our annual uh the academic road show as we call it sometimes but uh Miss Dr. Conincaid as well as our principles will participate in the work session. We'll be presenting academic information to you all. So I know she
016has already started that road show uh around the schools and she'll be doing that throughout the month of September. Uh my hope is that we present that not only to you guys next month but also to the city council. Uh that'll be the the October will be the last meeting uh for Mayor Lockheart as his term will be ending and the new mayor will be seated in November and so we'll we'll try to do that in the month of October. If not, we'll do it at early November. But I don't think they'll want us to do it on the first meeting that night. So we'll try to get that squeezed in before the end of the the mayor's term and and be able to present that information to them at that time as well. Uh
017do congratulate Shannetta Smith How Grace principal. She has been selected to serve as director and president of the Alabama Association of Elementary School Administrators with class. So I think she's been a director she's been a director before maybe for a long time been a part of that association be the president of AESA. That's a big deal. And so we we're glad to see one of our administrators doing that. We congratulate her for that. Um I did have a good experience in the the COSPA Federal Advocacy Conference. Tried to keep you guys up to date. Um there is some questions about those title funds. Thankfully we we've received the funds we were expecting this time, but um you know there's a there the the political winds in Washington are cuts, cuts, cuts, and we understand that
018and that's kind of the conversation that's going on up there. But uh you know the needs that we have that these federal funds provide services, I mean special ed, 504, our growing ill population, career tech, transportation, CNP, all of those different departments receive federal funds. And whereas I understand the political winds are to make cuts, our needs are growing. You know, our needs, we're not able to cut our needs. We have to serve these students sometimes uh even unexpectedly. You know, when parents come and enroll their child, if there's special needs involved, we have to serve them. And so, these federal funds are very important in that regard. And and we communicated that to our senators and our house members and and hopefully they'll listen. Uh I hope there's not a 21% cut as it
019is proposed in the House. If anything, hopefully it'll be level funded, but um it'd be very difficult not only for us who, you know, comparatively we don't receive as many federal funds as a lot of school system. For some systems, it's a lifeline and they can't operate without it. So, we'll see how that all shakes out. But I appreciate appreciate you guys supporting me and allowing me to go and do that work with a with that. Mr. President, that's all I have. >> Okay. Thank you, Dr. Holden. This concludes the agenda for our meeting. Is there any further discussion? All right, then the meeting is adjourned.