001Good evening and I I would like to call this meeting regular meeting of the Muscle Shows 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. Mrs. Wolf, would you do a roll call vote, please? here. Here Dr. Hodm, we have a quorum. Thank you, Madam President. I recommend approval of the agenda as presented. Board, our first order of business is to approve the agenda as presented. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? I make a motion. Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. I have a motion to approve the agenda. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you,
002Dr. Davis. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Call to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Dr. Holden, the agenda has been approved. Thank you, Mrs. Alman. I have no correspondence to report tonight. So, our next item is item E, approval of the meeting minutes. And in your packet, you have the minutes from the March 18th, 2025 regular meeting, and I recommend approval. Four. The superintendent has recommended approval of the board meeting meeting minutes as presented. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? So move. Thank you, Dr. Davis. We have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. King. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor, call to vote say I. I. Any opposed?
003Hearing none, Dr. Holden. The motion carries. Thank you, Madam President. Moving on to to our business action items. Item A is an emergency declaration. Uh on or around February the 19th, we had a uh condensing coil in an overhead heating unit at McBride Elementary School gymnasium burst and spilled water onto the floor for several hours before it was discovered. And in the days that followed, the moisture level of course was elevated, caused the floor to buckle, and an insurance adjuster and the floor manufacturer have deemed the floor irreparable and it will need to be replaced. So under the law, we can declare an emergency on this situation since it is necessary obviously and poses a a safety uh threat, I guess you could say, to students and and so we do need to get that
004fixed. So at this time, I recommend that we declare an emergency related to uh that event on February the 19th. Board, you've heard the recommendation from the superintendent. Do I have a motion to approve this recommendation? So moved. Thank you, Mr. King. Have a motion to approve this recommendation. Do I have a second? A second. Thank you, Mr. Woods. We have a motion and a second. Call to vote. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Hearing none, Dr. Holden. The motion carries. Thank you, Mrs. Alman. Uh, next is the consent agenda. And for the consent agenda, the board has been furnished with background materials on each item or has discussed the item at a previous meeting. Consent agenda items will be acted upon with one vote without discussion. And if a board member wishes to
005discuss any item, it will be pulled from the consent agenda and voted on separately. For tonight's consent agenda, we have the financial statements for March from CSFO Langley's office. We also have the audit and findings from the uh report that you heard during the work session. Uh also we have a uh a request to declare surplus items from the technology department. You have the uh bids that we accepted. Item five, the bids that we accepted for the gym floor repairs. You see the two bids we received and I'm recommending the lower bid. And then finally, item six is the plumbing upgrades and renovations. It is a DCM project. You see the reference number there. Uh we accepted or open bids on that uh just last week and uh I recommend that we proceed with that
006project as spelled out in your packet. And with that, Madame President, I will ask, does any board member wish to pull anything from the consent agenda and vote on it separately? Hearing none, I recommend 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 presented? Madam President, I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented. Thank you, Mr. Wood. We have a motion to approve the consent agenda. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. We have a motion and a second. Call a vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Dr. Holden. The motion carries. Next item is the personnel report. Madam President, and I recommend the personnel
007report as presented. Thank you, Dr. Holden. Board, the superintendent has recommended approval of the personnel report. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel report as presented? I'll make Thank you, Dr. Stoddard. We have a motion to approve the personnel report. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Dr. Davis. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Call to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Item present. Item. Okay. Hearing uh Dr. Holden, the personnel report has been approved. All right. For the benefit of the audience, the personnel report consists of the following. It is a lot tonight. So if I misspeak, board members read along with me. Make sure you correct me because I want to I want to say all these correct. Uh under resignation or
008retirement. Matthew Carpenter, assistant supervisor of student services. That's effective June 1. All of these will be effective June 1, unless I say otherwise. Molly Beth Chapman, English language arts teacher, Muscle Shows Middle School. That is effective May 22nd. Jenny Lee Cotrol, math teacher, Muscle Shoes Middle School. Missy Cup, PE teacher, McBride Elementary. Michelle Horton, fifth grade teacher, McBride Elementary. Maria Kennedy, English language learner teacher systemwide. Venus Lambert, CNP program manager, Muscle Shows High School. Julie Margan, special ed teacher, Muscle Shows High School. That one is effective May 22nd. Stacy Oliver, CNP program manager, McBride Middle School Cafeteria. Pam Rooden, PAR professional, McBride Elementary. Terresa Patterson, interventionist, Howell Graves Preschool. Scotty Peoples, health teacher, Muscle Shows High School. Tim Underwood, ISS alternative school teacher. That one's effective July 1. And Kelly Word, lead school nurse, placed
009at Muscle Shells Middle School. I I did miss that one. I'm sorry. It's not on my printed one. And one late addition was Karen Knight, community ed site lead. That one is effective June 1. Thank you, Dr. Davis for catching that. All right. Under transfers and reassignments, Amy Helms from systemwide CNP assistant at Muscle Shells High School to clerical aid at Muscles Middle School. That will be effective July 23rd. Jennifer Mifflin from accounting clerk at the central office to secretary to the superintendent. That'll be effective May 1st. Drew Smith from social studies teacher at Muscle Shells Middle School to social studies teacher at Muscles High School. That'll be effective July 31st. No changing contract dates. Chad Willis from social science teacher at the high school to health teacher at Muscles High School. Also effective July
01031st. No changing contract dates. Susanna Whiteside from special ed teacher at Howell Graves Preschool, the special education teacher at McBride. That's also effective July 31st. No change in contract dates under employment. Caroline Connor, speech language pathologist systemwide to be placed effective July 31st. Ansley Hines, elementary teacher, McBride Elementary. And all of these will be July 31st unless I note otherwise. Mallerie Johnson, special education teacher, Webster. Brandy Malone, elementary teacher, Webster Elementary. Logan Nunnley, special education teacher, Muscles Shells High School. Presley Rhodess, English language arts teacher, Muscle Shells Middle School. Lane Rinks, contract principal and career technical director, Muscle Shows Career Academy, effective July 1st. Walter Thomas, social studies teacher, Muscle Shows High School. Britney Ray Underwood, CNP assistant systemwide, assigned to Muscle Shows High School, effective April the 28th. and Eli Underwood, social science teacher,
011Muscle Shows Middle School, effective July 31st, 2025. Yeah. All right. Under other part-time special appointments, supplemental assignments, and nurse substitutes, two employees to receive a stipen for leading the peer helper program at their school, Courtney Akins and Stacy Phillips. Uh, Katherine Ostein for scoring the OLSAT assessment outside of her contract time. Dwight McGee for planetarian operator field trip coordinator for April 23rd and 24th. Dylan Mashurn, Paige Mcomes, Dela Smithson, and David Weisman for the Muscle Shows Middle School band kickoff camp for the summer of 2025. Cardi Malone and Eliza Ritter for basketball season gate workers for the 2425 basketball season. Lee Waters for middle school summer school staffing. Rich Kennedy for sound technician for the Newsy's production back in March. High school summer school staffing, Zack M, Karen Posey, Holly Wade, and Amy Willingham. Gerald
012Smith for a coaching supplement for assisting with indoor track during the 2425 season. and Derek Weaver for a supplement for assembling 80 hurdles for the AHSAA track sectionals event. He did that work outside of his contract time. Uh we have one employee who has a new leave request. Of course, that's flexible with medical needs. That's in your packet. We continue to have four employees who are currently on leave for various reasons. And then you have one employee, not employee, excuse me, uh, one teacher, Jackson Phillips, who is filling a social studies leave through Kelly Services, any correction? All right, good deal. And then briefly, superintendent report. Uh, want to congratulate a few folks. um obviously had a lot to celebrate tonight from the various schools, but a few other people that we want to mention.
013Congratulations to the McBride robotics team for placing first at the University of Alabama robotics competition. They're led by Allison Roberts and Jill McCabe. Uh we had you see those student names listed there. Uh they will be of course in the minutes and the record. Other students, we had McBride Alabama D award winners. We had a first place winner and the Southeastern Regional winners. Uh lots of students at McBride are obviously busy and doing lots of great things, but all those names are listed there in your packet. We do want to congratulate uh Dedra Brewer and we will continue to do that at a at a future ceremony, but Miss Brewer is the library media specialist. She serves both Webster and Highland Park, but she was nominated this year as our as the elementary teacher of
014the year by our district and has recently been informed that she is one of eight elementary finalists, 16 total, but she's one of the finalists for Alabama Teacher of the Year. And that's a that's a phenomenal accomplishment for her. Uh it's been a lot of years since we've had one make it this far. And uh I think Dr. Hal Horton did. And was it Missy Cup? It was Missy Cup. Yeah. So that that's two that that some folks older than me could remember uh before I arrived. We'll just leave it there. I'm trying to be nice here. Uh but I know Dr. Horton and and Missy Cup are excited for Dedra Brewer. We'll be going down either the Thursday night, May 7th, or maybe the next morning. I'm not sure which ceremony we're supposed to
015attend, but uh they have a they have a some things planned for them and all the finalists and and we appreciate Miss Brewer representing our school district. I will I do want to remind you about the retirement te that's May 21st. It'll be from 2:00 to 3:30 obviously with the long list of retirements that you had tonight and last month. Um, that's going to be an interesting uh retirement team this year and how we can do that in a in a relatively respectable amount of time, but also give these folks the their due time and and kudos for all the work they've done because it's it's a lot of folks and a lot of experience is is going to be leaving us this year. And u and you know with that I will say you
016know we've also filled a lot of holes tonight and with the new hires and the transfers but there are still holes to be filled. So with that, I I will say there will probably be a need for a special called meeting in a couple of weeks because with some of the transfers that we did, we created new holds. And I really don't want to wait till May the 20th to to try to plug all those cuz I mean these folks, some of them are in the room tonight have been interviewing. We're so glad that we uh they decided to to choose us. uh we chose them, but you know, they also choose us because there are lots of opportunities in education these days, especially with the teacher shortage and the mass retirements that we've seen
017across the state. And so to all of you out there who are going to be joining us brand new, we're so glad to have you in the Muscle Shows family. We're excited for you and and definitely look forward to working with you. But with that being said, maybe two weeks from now, I'll get with you guys and see about a maybe a quick board meeting. could be an early morning or afternoon or whatever. Likely would only be personnel unless something else came up and it would be a quick meeting. And then we'll have our regular monthly meeting May 20th. That is our annual meeting that we have to have each year. You'll be electing new board officers. Say amen to that. Amen to that. Uh you guys will be electing new board officers that that
018night and that type of thing. So um just a lot going on. We got we got lots of athletics still. Some sports have sort of are winding down. Others are still playing soccer. Uh first time in long time or ever that we're hosting. Long time. So you heard Dr. Nichols sort of plug that earlier. We're super excited for them and and just appreciate all the work that these guys are doing because it's it's a busy busy time of year for sure. So with that, Madam President, that's all I have. Well, before we adjourn, yes, I do want to recognize or the board would like to recognize and present Mrs. Lori Wolf with uh today is administrator or tomorrow is administrative professionals day. Reminder, right? And uh so in addition to that, I think this might
019be her last board meeting that she'll be here with us. And so we want to present her a gift and just tell her how much we have appreciated such great and she opens it. Absolutely. Let's give her a hand. She died. Yeah. We'll adjourn the meeting when when doc Miss Alman is ready and then uh she can open the gate. Okay. How about that? Thank you, Dr. Holden. This concludes our agenda for the meeting and if there's no further question, this meeting is adjourned.