001of education for Thursday, January 22nd, 2026. At this time, we will have our invocation by Miss Margie Murphy's followed by the pledge of allegiance. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for the opportunity to come together as the board. Dear Lord, just always be in our decisions that they may be pleasing to you and what is best for our school system. Dear Lord, we just thank you also for the teachers that are present here. Uh it is just wonderful to be able to honor them. And dear Lord, just always be with our faculty and our staff as well as our students that um they may be safe. and dear Lord we just ask you to be in all we do in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amence to the flag of the United States of America and
002to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. At this time, could I get a motion to approve the agenda? >> Motion. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded that we approve the agenda as printed. All in favor, let it be known by I. >> Opposes, same sound. Eyes have it. Motion carries. We've all had a moment to uh review the minutes of our December 18th meeting. Do I have a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> Is there a second? >> Second. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the minutes of the December 18th, 2025 board meeting. All in favor, let it be known by I. >> Oppose. The same sound. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Um, we all have our financial packets that
003um, Miss Bethany sent out to us earlier as well as a copy in our folder. If you have any questions, please contact uh Miss Waters. All right, at this time we'll turn it over to the superintendent. >> This is always an exciting day and night for us as we recognize the teachers of the year from each school. We appreciate everything that all of our teachers do for the students and their fellow their fellow teachers at the school. So, it's awful nice to get to recognize school. Right now, I'll recognize the uh teachers of the year from each school from we middle school. Caroline Meds and she couldn't be here tonight. She sent me an email today. Randolph Rono Career Technology Center. Whitney Bfield get a picture holding in my hand. Rob Mills Junior High School.
004Carol Hoff. Congratulations Woodland High School. Cody Whitfield. Congratulations. Thank you. Randolph County High School. Jayla Benfield. You go ahead. Then we'll turn and get one stick. Get one. I turn this way. That one stick. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Dr. We elementary school. Chastity marble. Congratulations. >> W High School. Allison Tremble. CONGRATULATIONS. >> You want to get it? >> Never mind. >> Woodland Elementary School. Britney Kennedy. Let's get get a picture of everybody before we announce the final thought. Everybody come up. Let's get a picture of everybody. I'm call >> me and Cody. >> Yes. >> One, two, three. Thank you. Now, I'd like to present our 2026 2027 teacher of the year, Allison Trump. CONGRATULATIONS. >> OKAY. It's always a hard decision to make because all all the teachers of the year for the
005respective schools fill out a packet and we have a there's a team is of people from central office and the schools and from the board that look through the uh application and it was very close this year. A lot of good applicants. So I really think we uh represent your schools very well. So I appreciate every one of them. January is also school board appreciation month. So I'd like to recognize our board members on a it says certificate of appreciation certificate is proudly presented to for exceptional service and commitment to the Randolph County Board of Education. LANCE DANIEL AND ALL OF our board members, they receive they get a lot of phone calls during the week. Sometimes they we might have two or three meetings in a month depending on if we're hiring. So, I
006really appreciate everything that they do for this board, how they support me and support our central office staff and our teaching staff. So, I really appreciate them. JOHN HOW our leader tonight MARGIE MURPHY LAST BUT NOT LEAST, TR I'll jump down to number nine, my superintendent report. The uh want to recognize Widow Elementary School. Uh they were recognized by the legislative school performance recognition program for improvement in overall annual rankings on their scores. I know they've done a lot of excellent work over at the elementary school. appreciate Miss Karen and and her group for what they did. So, congratulations. Also like to recognize RCHS band. The RCHS band will perform at the February Alabama State School Board meeting in Montgomery. That's a fine honor for the for the band here to go down. And I'd
007like to recognize from Wadley Jquz Wilts with the 1A back of the year this year. So we're proud of Jquz and looking forward to War Eagle on uh Saturdays next year. Uh just for your information too, the curriculum and instruction building technology is complete. We haven't had the final yet where we can start moving things in. That's on February the 4th. But that's going to be a tremendous help to Kayn and Miss Braden for all the things they have to do. Any questions from the board? What number 10? We send out we send out four different calendars for each school year and we let the teachers, the faculty, staff vote on them. Now, I don't really know which number it was that one. I want to think it was option two. >> Option two. >>
008So, I'd like to recommend uh to approve the 2026 2027 Randolph County School Calendar. >> Okay. We've heard the recommendation of the superintendent for the 2627 Randolph County School Calendar. Do I have a motion to approve? >> I so move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the school calendar for the 2627 school year. All in favor, let it be known by I. I. >> Opposes, same sound. Eyes have it. Motion carries. >> Number 11. I'd like recommend to approve the following out of state field trip approximately 45 RCHS track players to Franklin, Georgia for a track meet on February 27th and March 5th. And that will should be 2027 with Jacob Hicks track coach. >> 2027 or 2026. >> I guess it is 26. >> I
009guess the teacher of the year was 2627. That always throws me off. How did you do that? >> All right. So it is correct. >> We've heard the recommendation of the superintendent for out of state field trips. Do I have a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> Is there a second? Second. >> It's been moved and seconded that we approve the out ofstate field trips to Franklin, Georgia on February the 27th and March the 5th, 2026. All in favor, let it be known by I. >> I. >> Oppose the same sound. Eyes have it. Motion carries. >> Number 12. I'd like to recommend to approve the personnel action sheet. >> Okay, we've heard the motion of the superintendent. Do I have a motion to approve? >> Motion. Is there a second? Second. It's been moved
010and seconded that we approve the personnel action sheet. All in favor, let it be known by I. >> I. >> Opposes same sound. Eyes have it. Motion carries. And with no other business, we are adjourned.