001I'd like to call this uh regular meeting of the muscles school board of education to order. Would everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge 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. >> Miss Mifflin, would you please call the role? >> Here. here. >> Here >> Dr. Holden, we have a quorum. >> All right, Mr. President, I recommend approval of the agenda as presented. The first order of business is to approve the agenda as presented. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> I'll make a motion that we approve the agenda. >> Thank you, Mr. Wood. We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >>
002Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. Board, we have a motion and a second. Do we have any discussion? All right. Hearing none, call the vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Holden. Motion carried. >> All right, Mr. King, I appreciate that. I do have some correspondence tonight from the Alabama Association of School Boards. Uh, first of all, a certificate that just says that our board is in good standing with their membership. Also, that we've completed all the training requirements as a board. Also, you guys as individuals have completed the training as required by the school board governance act. I know we were here just a few weeks ago to do our whole board training for the coming year and and I thought we had a a good meeting, a good discussion. It
003was focused on um data, testing data and the the accountability report card that that we all know about. And so I appreciate Dr. Jennifer Gray being with us that day. But I do need to give you the certificates from the Alabama Association of School Boards. It's Dr. Stoddard, Dr. Davis, Miss Alman, Mr. King, and Mr. Wood has his. just basically signifies that you guys have completed the required training as as required by law. So, congratulations about that. And before we move on to the next thing, I did want to recognize some students who are here with us today representing the high school. Uh some ambassadors, they look nice, don't they? Uh that we've got Hudson Jones and Ethan Ray and Diamond Egleston representing Muscle Shells High School and their ambassador program. I think the ambassadors
004are going to have some representation at all of our meetings this year. So, there may be opportunities for us to if we want some student input on something that we're talking about, we may be able to ask them uh or if we want them to participate in some other way in our board meeting. So, I I appreciate their presence tonight. Thank you'all for being here. All right. The next item is approval of our minutes. In your packet, board members, you have the minutes from the August 8th and August 4th special called meeting as well as the July 22nd regular meeting. and I recommend. >> All right, board. The superintendent has recommended approval of the board minutes as presented. Do I have a motion to approve? >> I make a motion. >> Thank you, Dr. Stoddard.
005We have a motion. Is there a second? Thank you, Dr. Davis. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor say, I >> opposed. Right. >> All right. Moving 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, you have the financial report for July 25 as well as the check registry and those have all been reconciled as well as a recommendation from our transportation supervisor, Mr. Daly, a surplusing
006bus 0101. You have the information about that vehicle in your packet as well. Does any board member wish to pull any of those things and vote on them separately? Hearing none, Mr. President, I recommend approval of the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Dr. Holden. Board, the superintendent has recommended approval of the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as a >> Yes. >> Thank you, Dr. Davis. We have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Alman. Uh any discussion? All right. Hearing none, call the vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? All right. Golden here. All right. Next item is the personnel report and you have that information in your packet, Mr. President, and I recommend. >> All right.
007Board. The uh superintendent has recommended approval of the personnel report as presented. Do we have a motion to approve the personnel report as presented? I move to re uh to accept the personnel report as recommended. >> Thank you, Miss Alman. We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> I second. >> Thank you, Mr. Wood. Uh any discussion? All right. Hearing none, call the vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? All right. Dr. Holden. Motion carries. All right, Mr. President, and for the benefit of the audience, the personnel report tonight consists of the following. Under employment, Summer Mcclanto, Secretary Bookkeeper, Muscle Shows Career Academy. under transfer or reassignment. Velvet Black from school counselor at Muscle Shells High School to school counselor at the career academy. Christy Mitchell from school counselor
008at Highland Park and Webster a shared position to school counselor at Muscles High School. Kelly Marorrow from aid para profofessional that's in the STEM media uh line uh to coordinator of our community ed program. Also under other part-time supplemental contract special assignments, we have Becky Jacob, interim coordinator of our community ed program through the end of the semester. Also afterchool tutors for McBride, Mackenzie Kelly, Hi McCroy, Hannah Vincent, Susanna Whiteside also shows middle school afterchool tutors, Heather Foster, Candy Hester, and Michelle Woodis. Also e tutor that will serve students at the high school and the middle school on a contract basis. Maria Johnson, website manager for the middle school, paid for middle school funds, Danielle Canut. Uh, also assistant coach of indoor track for Muscles High School. Andre King, color guard activity supplement that was
009previously approved will be split between Mr. C and Miss Crummy at Muscle Shells Middle School. Assistant football coach, high school, Scotty Peoples. Additional contract days that was mistakenly left off the supplement schedule previously. Also, middle school assistant coach for junior high football, Cohen Young. That'll be paid for by football. Everything else is for your information only, not for board action. These are uh various positions, people that'll be filling positions through Kelly services and or medical leaves that you kind of see that we have going on right now or upcoming. So, All right. Next item is item C, board action, board policy action. We discussed these during our work session, Mr. President. And for these board policy actions, you've been furnished with background material on each policy change or we've discussed these at a previous meeting.
010These items will also be acted upon with one vote without discussion unless a board member wishes to pull one and vote on it separately. Um, as I said during the work session, I've consulted with AEA and MSEA. They've reviewed these policies and there's no objection to these. So unless a board member wishes to pull one from the agenda together, anybody want to pull one from the voter separately, uh I recommend approval of the board policy amendments in bulk, items 1 through five as presented. Thank you, Dr. Holden. Board, the superintendent has recommended approval of the board policies as presented. Do we have a motion to approve those policy changes? >> Mr. President, I make a motion that we approve board policy changes 1 through five as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Wood. Motion. Do we
011have a second? >> Second. Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. Is there any discussion? >> All right. Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed. >> All right. Dr. Holden. Motion carries. All right. Thank you. And now for the superintendent report. Just a brief report before we do get into our budget hearing. Just want to thank everyone for the good start to the school year that we've had thus far. Uh our enrollment's pretty consistent with what it was last year. It was closer to 3,000 when we started school last year, but we ended right at 3,000 back in the spring. But our enrollment right now is around 2950. So we're we're right there in the same ballpark as we were last year. Um it's hard to believe we're almost on
012upon our first school holiday, Labor Day, just right around the corner. But uh it's actually starting to feel like fall out there, so that's a good thing. Um, we do have another Thursday night football game this week. Uh, the team will travel over to Florence to play the the river river rivalry, I guess. And I know volleyball's underway. They were playing at home tonight, so we were over there watching a little bit of that earlier. Uh, Dr. Kim Cage, good to have you. I know she's officially on duty now. She started last Thursday and she's hit the ground running. I know she's been in some of the schools having some conversations of her own, meeting people. But she and I have also been meeting with principles this week and so it's been good to have
013some one-on-one conversations for them to be able to get to know each other a little bit better and they could talk about expectations and that type of thing. I did want to congratulate Beth Anne Crowe. She was uh presented today surprised in her classroom at Muscles High School as the Scholes Chambers teacher of the month. So I don't think she was too happy that we got it. they were about to start a a writing assignment, you know, and those kids, the clock was ticking. They needed to start writing. But but uh that that was great. She's awesome and uh and I know the kids were proud of her. I do want to thank Miss Langley ahead of time. I know there's a lot of work that goes into, you know, putting the budget together and
014lots of conversations uh with not only folks out here, but in the schools, the principles, the work not only starts out here, it starts in the buildings, too. as as principles and different people that are over activities have to get things and information to her for her to do the work that she does. So, uh I just before you even get up, Sherry, we do appreciate the work that you're doing there. Uh Mr. Pearson mentioned the bid that's going to be opened on Thursday. Uh the HVAC upgrades to the athletic facility. Uh so that means at the next meeting I will either bring you a recommendation to accept or reject. Hopefully it will come in around the budget and uh and we'll we'll be able to approve that so we can move forward to it.
015But I know we have a lot to get to with the budget and everything. So, uh, with that, that's all I have with the superintendent's report. And I'll turn things back over to you. Thank you. >> Whenever you want to get started, you're welcome to. >> Comments. >> Obviously, if you do have a question, we, you know, we will, uh, try to address that with you uh, very quickly. We'll also address it at the next hearing. So, you're welcome to come back, uh, if you want to see that. It could be that some of this changes, you know, as Sherry's going to continue to work on the budget. It's not finished obviously and that's why there are some things like she said still hanging out there as far as monies that we're expecting to get
016we haven't gotten yet. Um we just want to make sure that our reserve is in a healthy place in order for us to make some of the decisions that we're going to make. Uh like like she said with the one time supplemental if that's if that's if that's possible. Um you know we did like she said you know we don't really have less staff this year than we did last year. we just have less experienced staff and uh that that you know means that our payroll did drop and of course we had several full-time positions that we did not fill that we now have part-time people contract people filling. So that's that's really put us in a position to where we might be able to consider that uh for our employees. So we're excited about
017that but we just want to be cautious. We want to proceed with caution before we uh jump out there. But I think we'll have a decision on that by the September the 11th meeting. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Miss Langley. That was uh very informative. Um All right. Uh board, this uh concludes our agenda for the meeting. So, is there any further discussion? All right. Then this meeting is adjourned.