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Board Meeting - February 2025

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Source
YouTube / Muscle Shoals City Schools
Date
2025-02-28
Location
Colbert County, AL
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,274 words · about 8 min
Collected
2026-06-26

Transcript

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001good evening I'd like to call this regular meeting of the mus show board of education for order would everyone please stand for the pledge of Alle I pledge ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the repu which stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all you do a roll call V please here here have thank you madam president recommend approval of the agenda as present for a first order of business is to approve the agenda is presented do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented M president I make a motion to approve the agenda thank you Mr wood we have a motion to approve the agenda do I have a second thank you Dr starter we have a motion and a second any discussion

002hearing none call to vote all in favor say I any opposed he none Dr the agenda has been approved thank you madam president the next item on the agenda is a resolution commending the muscle shell high school competition cheerleaders uh cheerleaders and their coaches were with us during the work session tonight there's no objection I would like to include that resolution in the minutes he no objection those will be included in the minutes thank you I have no correspondence tonight uh so our next item to vote on is the approval of the meeting minutes from the January meeting and I recommend board superintendent has recommended approval of board meetings minutes as presented do I have a motion to approve minutes thank you Dr stter we have a motion do I have a second thank you

003Dr Davis we have a motion and a second any discussion hearing none call to vote all in favor say I I any opposed he none motion carries all right Madam president next is our consent agenda under business action items and for the consent agenda the board has been furnished with background material on all of these items or have discussed them in a previous meeting and uh this vote will be without discussion and if any board member wishes to pull anything to the consent agenda we can do that at this time on the consent agenda tonight we have the January financial report as well as the check register we also o have a recommendation to purchase and replace the camera and door access control systems throughout the district as well as approving the sale of used

004Chromebook devices you have the information on each of these items in your packet does any board member wish to pull anything from the consent agenda and voting separately here done Madam president I recommend the consent agenda as presented thank you Dr board the superintendent has recommended approval of the consent agenda do I have a motion to approve the consent cons agenda as presented thank you Dr Davis we have a motion to approve the consent agenda do I have a second I second thank you Mr wood we have a motion and a second call to vote all in favor say I I any opposed hearing none Dr B motion Carri thank you Miss alond uh next is an emergency declaration I recommend that we declare a State of Emergency due to multiple campuses sustaining significant storm

005related damage from severe weather that occurred on around February 15 2025 and in your packet you have a list of all the things that we at least know of at the present that were the result of that storm that came through I has recommended approving of the Declaration of emergency um do I have I I have a motion to approve that Declaration of emergency Madam president I made a motion that we thank you Mr Woods we have a motion uh do I have a second second thank you motion and a second call vote all in favor say I I hear it none motion carries I thw that one in you did throw that uh next is the Personnel report and you have a Personnel report and I recommend all right thank you Dr gold the

006superintendent has recommended approval of personnel report don't have a motion to approve personel report as presented I make thank you Dr St we have a motion to approve the Personnel report do I have a second thank you Dr Davis we have a motion and a second any discussion hearing none call to vote all in favor say I any opposed personel has approved thank you and for the benefit of the audience the Personnel report tonight consists of the following uh nothing to report under resignation retirement transfer employment that's kind unusual we have no movement there but we do have some uh some items recommended under other part-time or special appointments we have a styen for the grd iron gals vice president that was approved by the GD iron gals back at their August meeting also we

007have two employees who have requested unpaid Le due to substantial hardship or extraordinary circumstances you see those employees names there in packet also for information only really not the board action these are various leads that uh we have various employes taking two new le two new medical Le requests you see those and then beneath those are just various ones that we've approved over the last several board meetings and so we're trying to keep those on the list because we have so many employees that are that are dealing with various things medically kind of keep those of mine but also yours and then under Kelly Services we have Eli Underwood that will be filling a par of position at They Ride for the remainder of the school year all right and then for my superintendent report

008uh just first of all I want to congratulate a few students and Fa member um and and I look forward to I think was it last April that we had the academic recognitions and we talked about maybe doing that again maybe making it an annual thing some of these students I expect will be uh at that meeting in April when we recognize those academic achievements uh but Davis wood and Caleb pritet uh were both announced recently as National mered fist so we're excited for them their families and look forward to recognizing them at the April board meeting also daviswood is uh going to be the Bri Jordan scholar athlete Region 8 nominee he'll be up for uh the state wild board and that's an April banquet and so congratulations to the Wood family I know

009yall are super excited about that very very good also recently had some busy weekend at the high school when they have the beauty pageant and the coronation lots of things going on there a little M Trojan but Diamond Eon was crowned M Trojan Beauty at the uh at the beauty pageant over the weekend and Leila aberna is the Junior M tro Beauty I think that was on on Saturday and then corination um had a host of great students that were involved in coordination was there and was glad to celebrate that with the families but Jack Anderson and Kenley Wyatt were crowned Mr and Miss Muscle shs High School and we congratulate them as well as Matt Carpenter she was here with the the cheerleaders earlier uh will represent the high school and the show scholar

010dollar Student of the Year program uh and that b will be that's in April also also want to congratulate Coach Jill green she recently achieved her 500th career win as a softball coach1 say it again1 501 now that's right 5 saw that on Facebook and wanted to include that in my so we congratulate Co green for that February is the month that we recognize school resource officers uh we did that across the district back in February the 14th U having SRO with us one of our our new sro's this year Lieutenant West doing a great job at weder but we just thank the principles for for loving on your sro's a little bit we know they do a fantastic job and having one at every campus is just I me it really makes me feel

011better I think it does the the community of the parents they really appreciate it and we thank the sr's for all the work they I want to say something here we got in a hurry at the last board meeting give board appreciation and I think we left and didn't even acknowledge that so I do appreciate my board members that I've served with but I also want to thank your administrators for the gift baskets because right after that I went to see my kids and grand kids and they L it SMI it's always fun to see the cards that the little ones make um special so thank you for that and then MCA I think we represented here but they also okay uh thank you for the gift card that you sent for that so it's

012always nice to be acknowledged and appreciated and so we also knowledge and appreciate it that's right and Mr mad Dr Conor thank you all for the Career Academy staff thank you for your hospitality tonight it's always been to be with you the Career Academy we know you are doing great things and preparing our students for college career along with what they they learned at the high school and um just lastly board members don't forget a ASB conference is this weekend um Friday and Saturday it's in Florence thank goodness we don't have to travel for conference this week but I know they've got the poverty simulation on Friday so must be volunteering kind of helping with that over there and then um with that that's all I have M pres all right thank you Dr Oden

013this concludes our agenda for the meeting if there's not further discussion this his J

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