001Good evening. I would like to call this regular meeting of the Muscle Scholes School Board of Education to order. 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. And Mrs. Bifflin, if you would uh do the roll call, please. present here. Here uh Dr. Holden, we have a forum. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. The first item on our agenda tonight is the board member code of conduct and affirmations. So, I'm going to pass these to each one of you. You'll just pass those down. Tonight is the first meeting of the new board term. And so, uh our officers have taken their new role. So, we
002congratulate Mr. King and uh Mr. Wood on being the board officers for the next year. Look forward to working with you guys in that capacity. But as you know, the Alabama State Law, the governance act as it's called, I think it was passed in 2012, just requires board members in the state of Alabama to understand what their roles and responsibilities are and sign that they understand that and will uh conduct themselves in a proper way according to the Alabama code of conduct. So, if you would just print and sign and today's the 24th of June and then when you have you can pass those back to me and we'll be sure that those are on file here in the central office in your personnel file. Same thing same thing and you can keep the top
003copy. I really just need the signature page. So, if you want to keep the and we appreciate that. All right, moving on, Mr. President, to the agenda. I recommend approval of the agenda tonight as presented. All right, board. Our first um order is to approve the agenda as presented. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. Thank you, Mr. Wood. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. Um, we have a motion and a second. Do we have any discussion? All right. Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Hearing none, the agenda has uh been approved. Thank you, sir. And then uh in your packet, you have the minutes from the May 20th, 2025
004annual meeting as well as a special call meeting on June the 11th. And so with that, Mr. President, I recommend approval of those meeting minutes. Thank you, Dr. Holden. Uh 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. Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Thank you, uh, Dr. Davis. Dr. Davis. Sorry. Um, all right. We have a motion in a second. Uh, do we have 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. Thank you. Moving on to our business action items for the consent agenda tonight. The board has been furnished with background
005material 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 me 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 documents that are provided by our CSFO, Miss Langley. Each month, the May 2025 financials, as well as the 2526 salary schedules, and that does include the activity and athletic supplement schedules. should be able to present names to go along with those positions at the next meeting. Also, we have a transportation purchase with uh our ENT that's the advancement in techn and technology funds provided by the state. Uh we want to buy two buses. Much needed our transportation department is it's a
006much needed a addition to our transportation department. So, does any board member wish to pull any of those things out and vote on them separately? Hearing none, Mr. President, I recommend approval of the consent agenda as presented. Thank you, Dr. Holden. The superintendent has recommended the approval of the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? President, I make a motion to approve agenda. Thank you, Dr. Davis. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Alman. Um board, we have a motion in a second. Do we have any discussion on the discussion? Excuse me. Uh we've called a vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed. Dr. Holden. The motion carries. All right. Thank you, sir. The next three items relate to the new law passed by
007the Alabama legislature back in the spring called the focus act. And it requires us by July the 1st to adopt a new cell phone policy. They call it a cell phone ban, if you will. And so it is requiring us to update our policy. Uh but it also requires us to update our internet and safe uh policy use of technology. Very minor addition or edit to that policy. The cell phone ban which is 6.20 is is more detailed and more involved. But we'll vote on each of these separately. Once you approve B and C, which are the cell phone policies and communication, then I will present the handbooks to you and we'll vote on those similar to the way we do the consent agenda. We'll do them all together unless somebody has any that they
008want to pull out and vote on separately. So, we'll start with item B. That is an amendment to policy 4.09. That is our internet safety and use of technology. And I recommend we have a recommendation from the superintendent. Uh do I have a motion? I move. Thank you, Miss Alman. We have a motion. Do we have a second? A second. Thank you, Mr. Wood. We have a motion and a second. Uh any discussion? Right. Hearing none. Call the vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. None. So motion carries. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Now item C. I recommend the amendment to policy 6.20. That's the electronic communication device in accordance with the focus act of 2025. Right. Board. We have a recommendation to uh amend policy 6.2. 20. Do I
009have a motion? Mr. President, I recommend that we approve the amendment policy 6 electronication devices. Thank you, Mr. Wood. We have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. We have a motion in a second. Do we have any discussion? Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Right. Dr. Holden. The motion carries. Thank you, Mr. King. And next are amendments to our 2526 handbooks which as we talked about in the work session not only include the changes with the cell phone policy but also attendance and some other things that bring us in compliance with both state law and federal guidelines. So I recommend amendments to the 2526 handbooks as presented for we have a recommendation to amend the 2025 2026 handbooks. Uh do I have
010a motion? I make a motion that we approved. Dr. Tarter, we have a motion. Do we have a second? Thank you, Dr. Davis. We have a motion in a second. Do we have any discussion? All right. Hearing none, call to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right, Dr. Holden. The motion carries. Thank you, Mr. President. And now to the personnel report, and I recommend the personnel report as Thank you, Dr. Holden. Uh, superintendent has recommended approval of the personnel report. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel report as presented? I'll move. Thank you, Dr. Davis. Have a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. Thank you, Miss Alman. We have a motion and a second. Do we have any discussion? All right. Hearing none, call a vote. All
011in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Dr. Holden. The motion carries. Thank you, Mr. King. And for the benefit of the audience, the personnel report tonight consists of the following. under employment opt custodian systemwide assigned to Muscles High School. Yolita Rick CNP staff assigned to Muscle Shells High School. Under transfer or reassignments, Britney Ray Underwood, that's a CNP staff at the high school currently will be moving over to the McBride and Middle School cafeteria. And then under other part-time, supplemental or special assignments, we have four employees for an additional block of instruction for the 2526 school year. That's in health, driver's ed, welding, and health science. Health science is is kind of a we used to do that, then we had to move away from it, but now the enrollment is back up and that
012program is really growing, continues to grow. So, uh that'll be for Chad Willis, Sacm, Jacob Ayes, and Jolene Fretwool. Uh, and then adding Carrie Johnson to our summer school staff to work as needed and of course to be paid from the high school summer school funds. And I believe that is everything on the personnel report. So, moving on to my quick superintendent report tonight. Um, the heat's been a challenge this week. It has been hot as you know, and so we've been getting alerts from uh EMA about that, sharing that out with our coaches and everybody who's got students outside doing various things. So hopefully it'll cool off soon. I'm not optimistic because it's get going to get hotter as we get on into July and August, I think. Uh I do want to offer
013the condolences on behalf of the school system. A couple of Muscle Shows icons. I I I've said that passed away recently. Dr. Taff, the athletic director that that worked on our sidelines for a long time, served many years. He passed away and uh just wish his family. I know that's tough for them. I think was very unexpected, but he did a lot for our athletics program and going to miss seeing him around. He had already retired, but we saw him out recently. Um, looked good, but uh unfortunately he did pass away. And also Miss Lucy Hydornne u former teacher, retired teacher from our school system. Her husband Don Hyornne was the superintendent for a long time and uh you know just just a special lady in a lot of ways and we wish David their
014son our condolences. Uh Natalie McCabe continues to be recognized. I I hate it. We we had the storm last month and weren't able to bring all those students in that we were going to recognize. Uh but uh Congressman Adhalt came to Muscle Scholes just who last week actually to recognize her and I appreciate his willingness to come and do that. Uh we had two students from the Scholes area which I think is a rarity. uh I don't think they normally have that many spots that they can that they can do and so uh a Florence student as well as Natalie uh it's a big accomplishment for them and looks great for our school system for sure. Uh last thing I'll just say tentatively we will have a board meeting July the 1st. Uh I know
015it's on your minds as well as everyone else's about our high school principal position. Uh and so we're continue to work through that process of interviews and that type of thing, but Dr. Davis is still working. Kevin Davis is still working on his contract with Opaikica, but I think that's going to be hammered out pretty soon and uh and anticipation is that uh they will be able to get that taken care of by June 30th. And if that happens on June 30th, then we're going to turn around on July 1st and accept his resignation and potentially name the new principal of Bills High School. So that's kind of our tentative timeline on that as far as that goes. Any questions for me or comments from the board? All right, Mr. President, that's all I have.
016Thank you for that report, Dr. Holden. This concludes the uh items that are on our agenda for the meeting. Is there any further discussion? All right. If not, this meeting is adjourned.