001um finishing out their 4 day week. Just to give you some background about A+ um the purpose of A+ they designed their curriculum to increase rigor and engagement for all students and they they seek to increase access to AP and instructional rigor for underrepresented students. They train, support, and equip teachers on quality instruction and they empower administrators to be strong instructional leaders. In the spring of 23, we applied for and received a grant to be part of the MSTIP program, the middle school training incentive program. And that's designed to increase student achievement and rigor for middle school students to help them get ready for AP courses at the high school level. And in turn, we have seen that impact our data. Um, our AAP scores, I'll talk about in just a second, but we've seen
002that affect us now, and it's been a great thing. Our teachers attend a four-day training in the summer. Some went in July, some went in u some are going today, some went in June. Uh, they get four days of training. During the year, they do vertical team meetings, instructional rounds, they go to fall workshops, and they implement and analyze student surveys. By doing that, they al also get incentives and stipens from A+. So up to $500 they can earn just by doing that. In the fall of the seventh grade year, we administer the PSAT 89 to seventh grade students. That's the baseline score. And if you're familiar with the PSAT, it's part of the College Board program, which the National Merit program is part of. So this gets them into the College Board network to
003get access to resources um so that when they get to high school, they they're ahead of the curve when it comes to National Merit qualifying. So last year we our eighth graders fell just a little bit short of our growth goal. So we set out to meet it this year. Our growth goal was 60 points. That's one year's growth. We surpassed that with a 70 point school growth um indicator this year. And because of that we were named an A+ school of excellence will be recognized at a state board meeting this fall. Our teachers earn an additional $500 because we met our school growth goal. All students who either met the growth goal or benchmark in both reading and math earned a $50 Visa gift card. We had 120 students to do that. So that's
004$6,000 that A+ is going to provide. Just to give you some some more information about the grant in year one, our teachers earned in their pocket $11,450 from the grant by doing the the vertical rounds and the vertical team meetings, instructional rounds, and the trainings. This year with those incentives and the $500, A+ will be giving $31,450 to our teachers. That is in pocket. So over two years, that's $42,900 that the grant has awarded in pocket to our teachers. On top of that, they provide classroom supply funds. So every teacher who does the four-day training and signs the LOA gets an additional $300 of classroom supply money. Science teachers get $400. So in two years they've also provided $20,400 in classroom supply funds for our teachers. So for teachers to have access themselves directly to
005that 63 $64,300 in two years that the grant has provided. On top of that, the grant pays for the registration or covers the registration for the training. training is $1,000 a person. So in two years, that's $63,000 that the grant is covered. In addition, when they do the fall workshops, the grant pays for the subs for the teachers to go. So there's another $7,500. So in total, with all of that and the student money, in two years, the grants provided over $140,000 to our school. The growth is also reflected in our AAP scores. When we got them back this year, we were very excited to see growth in both reading and math. We saw um our math, we have over 100 students that are level four now. 100 students over a level four. So, we're
006very proud of that. Our weighted growth proficiency is over 100%. And so our projected um report card score for this year, we're looking to go up anywhere from three to five points from where we were last year. And all this is tied together. So I I really believe in A+. It is who we are. It's a unifier for our school. It's a common vocabulary that our school that our faculty talks about. It's about good teaching. It's about good rigor. And I really do think it also had a a very important part in us being named a school of character both at the state and national levels. So, I want to thank you for your support of this partnership. We've got one more year with it. Then we'll talk about being a partner school after that
007if that's a possibility, but thank you to the board for supporting this initiative. And um we're looking forward to another great year of it. Yeah. I just want to thank you for your leadership at that school and for applying to be a part of the A+ program. and it's just been just heartwarming to see the direction that Northridge Middle School has been going the last couple years. Um, thanks to you and faculty like Miss Thomas and everybody pulling the ship the same direction for however that term goes. It's just been I just thank you for everything you put into that school. Thank you. I'm very proud to to be a Jags. Thank you. Yeah, Dr. I mean, your your leadership and vision at that school has made a huge difference in a short period of
008time. And I mean, we see it obviously not only smaller things, but the big things like these awards that y'all are winning, but it's the small things that matter, too. And and we see those as well. And we're we're very proud of your work at at Northridge Middle and just keep it up. Thank you. One thing to do is student body keep pushing the envelope further. So that's what I like to encourage you to keep. Thank you so much. Thank you. I want to say thank you. But my part to come is you know we send people to go to a lot of different conferences conference school. How do we take this that's happening in my school and come together and help train other schools and other middle school teachers and principles how to move
009forward on these things so we can do some of that internal training how well I do I know that's something you know Dr. Dr. all y'all working in the principal means but we just got everybody needs to have can't be the exact same mindset and every middle school can't be the same but some of the good things we need to bring those things so that we can help our system like that's what I think we can do so I've had convers I've had conversations with Dr. Atkins and Miss Peoples and we want to spend more time with each other and we want to share back and forth and it's something we've talked about in my midyear and annual reviews and um it's something that we do want to take to others. We actually have some
010teachers that have gone this summer and are being asked to be trainers for A+ going forward. And so um we we can have some discussions about what they have to offer. Uh I believe that the grant is open. It's it's every year they have threeear cycles and so the grants open so it could be something to consider for other schools to apply for. Um that's where the incentives come in but it's also open to schools who want to do it on their own. And so um I'd love to to find ways to partner with our middle schools because it really is about good teaching. Miss Thomas uh went back in June and she's just been going on and on and on about the training she got and it was it was more about they actually
011spent time with sixth through 12th grade to talk about what we're preparing them for because that's something else we don't do enough of is we teach what we teach but do we know what we're getting them ready for and so we want to do more vertical team meetings with us in Northridge High School um also with the middle schools but it's really about good teaching because it's the same standards for every classroom in the It's how you present it and how you teach it, whether or not you're connecting with your students. And that's one of the first things we want to do is get to know our students and build relationships. And then when we have good teaching to go on that, this is what happens. You know, just with, you know, choice being a
012big issue in the state of Alabama, we just have to figure out how we can make those things so that our system is a system of choice. No matter where we go, we sharing that information and that's going to be important for the future of our system particular way is going here in the near future, right? That we got tighten the buckles everywhere, but we really appreciate the wonderful job you Thank you. very very proud of our faculty and staff and our whole community. Thank you, Dr. Rainey. Thank you. Congratulations. Item number six is public comments. No one has signed up tonight. Item seven, sir. Item seven,formational reports. 7A will now receive the 2024 to 2025 endofear athletics report from Mr. Herd. Good evening, sir. Good evening, Mr. Chair, board members. It's always a pleasure
013to be here and especially when we're talking about athletics. Whenever we start talking about athletics, the number one thing when we talk about winning with me, it starts with academics because we want to make sure that our kids are taking advantage of every academic opportunity that we have. The next thing we talk about is character. making sure that our kids understand how important it is to do things the right way all the time. And I always feel like if we take care of one and two, that athletic component will take care of itself. I think um let me um thank the board for the support for athletics because typically the way that we do things here in the Tusca City Schools is not done in a lot of districts. So the support for athletics is
014unbelievable. and we want to make sure that we're being good stewards of what you're giving us and that we are producing good student athletes on the field. We'll start here with our athletic report. And I want to say we had a good year. Um, and we were very competitive in some areas and other areas we were not as competitive. And that's the one thing that as an athletic director when you look at things, um, of course we want to win championships every day. But sometimes programs eb and flow, but we want to make sure that our student athletes are competing and that they understand how important it is that every time we go in go out on the field or the court or whatever that we're competing. We know that we are in a tough
015situation because typically a city this size, you don't have three 6A programs competing against each other, but competition is good. We're fortunate to be here. We're going to go ahead and start here. Um, on the cover of our report, we see Bryant boys basketball, which is the, you know, 6A high school state champions. And it's amazing how we started that process and how we ended going into that game as an underdog. and the way that we played in that championship game really showed the true character I think of Tusca City Schools and Bryant High School. We'll touch on our learning targets here. Um I won't go through everything, but I'll touch on those points and highlight those points that are important here. Um athletics year review, of course, we'll talk about the high school programs
016and middle school programs, our numbers and where we are as far as participation, how we're competing. Of course, we'll talk about how we've competed in the Special Olympics, which we kind of had a flip-flop this year, but we're very competitive with that. We'll deal with the current state of where we are now, what we have in place, and look at what we going to have in place for 2526 and then look at those future enhancement enhancements of what we want to do down the road. Starting with Central High School here, um we're up two athletic scholarships. We will have eight athletic scholarships awarded this year. And it's very important to understand that now when you have athletic scholarships awarded to high school students. But the way that the landscape is with college athletics, you don't
017find many schools actually signing kids to four-year colleges. So, we're up two here at Central this year from six last year. Girls flag football again has been consistent um advance to the playoffs. And I don't know, want to make sure everybody understands when we started flag football four years ago, we had the very first young lady to sign a scholarship in flag football at the state of Alabama. She went to Florida Florida Memorial College and she's doing well there. Um track boys and girls track at Central is progressing. We've we had we did a good job at the state championship meet. One person to note, Marica Trone is our 6A individual champion in the out indoor and outdoor shot. So she is a double champion and she dominated that. She actually signed this year. Uh
018Northridge High School 14 athletic scholarships. We're down from 20 last year but we know how that goes. boys um track 6A track runner up this year which were really close there. Um William Nundam is the person indoor and outdoor state championship in the pole vault. Whenever you can do it indoor and outdoor that's always special. Of course uh Mr. Stevenson is 1600 meter mile relay I mean mile champion. Of course um we had the four girls 4x100 relay championship team and you look at the teams that advanced to the playoffs very competitive at Northridge High School. So, we want all our programs to be very competitive. Paul Bryant High School, we're up from four to six athletic scholarships awarded this year, which is really good. Of course, we'll reiterate the boys 6A um region champions
019and state champions indoor and outdoor track competed very well. Also, another double champion, Jamar Bankhead, 6A state champion in the discus and the shot. And of course in terms of the state basketball, Javeen Williams was the 68 state tournament MVP at 55. That's why I tell people size doesn't matter all the time. We had a 55 point guard who was the state state MVP and King Larkin of course was a regional MVP. Our middle schools were very competitive. We had Northridge Middle winning four city county championships. Eastwood Middle won the seventh grade boys basketball championship. And of course, the Westland girls were the runners up in the city county basketball tournament. So, we have representation from all of our middle schools. We're continuing to get better. And one thing I talked to my middle school
020ads about and coaches about is that we have to do a little better job of recruiting our halls because we want to increase our numbers participation at the middle school level. Now, with our Special Olympics this year, we had a little bit of a flip-flop because last year our basketball team won first place and this year they won second place and our volleyball team won second place last year, but this year they won first place. But I think the beauty of this is how we host the number of student athletes for Special Olympics here. You can look at the numbers, 75 gymnastic athletes and over 420 track and field athletes. And of course, participation is very important and that is something we always talk about participating Special Olympics where we gave out ribbons to everybody
021who competed. Looking at the numbers here and the one I want to look at here and I'll touch on percentages a little bit. You'll better here. Um when we talk about academics this year we were really we improved in academics and our senior athlete GPA this year and that's the number one thing we talk about when our senior athletes can have the type GPA that we have here. Also, we're looking at the number of scholarship recipients there for in talking to local a ads around the state. Typically, the numbers for districts of about less than 20 receiving four-year scholarships. So, we're above the curve there. I think we're down from two two or four last year, but to have high school seniors signing fourear scholar scholarships are that that's really something that's great at this
022point. And we'll talk a little bit about how we're trying to improve and getting better with that. So in terms of percentages here, we're right at about 49.93. So we're about 50% half by students are participating and the national average is about 40 45% of the number of students who participate in athletics. So we've been for the last year we're right at about 50.1. So we're right about five out of 10 students participating in athletes. We would love to have more students involved in athletics, but five out of 10 right at about 50%. We're in good shape there. again those GPA. Uh team honors are things such as regional champions, area championships. Uh Central was the only team that did not have a team honor, which is that's kind of how I look at the
023state champions, region champions, area champions. And the percentages of our student athletes who our senior athletes who are receiving scholarships there, but 49.93 is really above the curve in the number, the percentage of students who are participating in high school athletics. Here's a breakdown here of the by gender. We're looking at the number of male, female, and total student athletes. Again, our numbers are in good shape there. Um, in terms of our high school participation, and even our numbers are up when I get to middle school. I'll kind of talk a little bit about that. our middle school programs here. If you look kind of give you a look at the numbers again, I'll talk a little bit more about percentages, but our number we need to kind of we're right at about almost 30%
024from middle school in terms of participation. Three out of 10. Last year we were about four out of 10. So we dropped just a little bit, but we want to work to try and get to at least 40%. Four out of 10 students at the middle school level participating in athletics. So right here percentage-wise the number of middle schoolers who participate in athletics we're right at about 22.94%. So we need to kind of raise that a little bit eb and flow sometimes with middle schools in terms of the number of students that participate but our coaches are actively recruiting the halls to to raise those numbers for middle school. Um current state here these are some of the things that we have in place here now for this year. Of course, we have the upgrade
025I mean upgraded equipment and we have the video boards and the lighting. Um, we've added some more technology to our field houses. The thing that I want to talk about a little bit is that we partnered with Miss Wallace at UA to make sure that our student athletes are nut have nutrition and are eating better in terms of our spring and and fall sports. We want to make sure that our student athletes are nutrition is eating the right nutrition so that they can maximize their performance. I remember being an athlete and sometimes we didn't always eat the right things to maximize our performance. So, in terms of pregame meals, in terms of, you know, the types of smoothies and things that they're getting now in our spring nutrition program partnering with UA, it's really helped
026our program and our coaches are really thankful for that. Also, um if you've ever watched NFHS, you kind of know how that camera is all over the place. So, we want to thank you guys for helping us with that. um the focus cameras from huddle which are really tight and they are give you a better picture. So this is the biggest thing with the with the huddle focus camera as a football coach I remember spending hours and hours of breaking down film and doing things like that. Now, when that football game starts, this huddle focus cameras cuts those clips. So, by the time that coach gets in the locker room after the game and pushes a button in 30 minutes, he has all of his breakdowns, all of his statistics done so he can spend
027more time with his family and at home. So, we want to really make sure we had those coaches really enjoyed those this year. Also, with um Go Fan, we were able to to start our uh digital where you can take cards at our concession stands now. So, that's a part of our GoFan package and all of our high schools actually participated in that this fall. Okay. For 2526, we're looking at continuing to upgrade our technology here. We talked about NFHS is coming in to redo all of our cameras in the next couple of weeks. And I I asked, tell me what the difference in the NFHS camera. They said it's going from like a iPhone 12 to iPhone 16. So, even our NFHS subscribers who are watching from the NF NFHS perspective will get a
028clearer view with that camera. One of the things that we'll have this year that's already started in the spring, the TCS instructional coaches clinic, um had a good friend Grady Brown, who's a defensive back coach for the New Orleans Saints, came in in June and did a clinic for our football coaches and that was really informative for them. they got a chance to really pick his mind and he he'll dealt with all six of our um football programs and we started with football but I want to bring in somebody every year to do an instructional clinic for our coaches to ask questions so that we can continually get better. That that was good for us and of course um I've been looking at possibly um with the digital ticketing system right now it's moving forward
029with now being able to get money percentages back for number of tickets sold. So, there's a couple of companies out there that are giving you 15% back if you sign up for a district. We're giving you $1 back for every ticket sold. Moving forward, we're looking at how can we make money for our digital ticketing system. So, I'm looking at that possibly moving forward. Some of the long-term enhancements we had, um, one of the things that I get some complaints about is sometime our technology at our stadiums is not where it needs to be. So, if we're going to improve in technology, we need to make sure that we have the type Wi-Fi and we can assess everything at the stadium. So, we're looking into a plan to really just implement a Wi-Fi capabilities and
030increase our network reliability at our stadiums and our GMs to make sure that if we're going to use a digital ticketing system and you show up with your phone that we're able to access and get you in the game without having the issues that we're having. And that's something that we're looking at doing. Of course, um we have to refurbish Central Track, but also we're probably have to touch up some other some of the other tracks as well because track and field is one of the sports that we really get much better at across the board. I mean, we really had a lot of participation at the state meet and we actually are getting better at that. Um, of course, we got a um grant in to help replace the bleachers and these some of
031the things. of course, our high school stadium. At some point, we we're going to go back and revisit the video boards for our for the football stadiums because we know that that is a true revenue generator and that's something that we want to make sure we get in place. So, I partnered with a young lady in terms of the fundraising development for that and we kind of tailed it because of the situation that we're in this year, but we're looking at going full forward to make sure we can have our video boards up at the high school football stadiums. Um, that's all I have. If there any questions answer, I have I have a couple, you know, one, if we go back to the, u high school program and everything. You know, for years, uh,
032in U high school athletic association do not count Chile as a in odd numbers, you know, when you're doing percentages of uh girls and boys, particularly in the middle school. Did we count? What did we do? Well, we we don't because I've had conversations with the hospital association, although we support cheerleading. It's not considered a sport because they don't compete week in and week out. And we've had that conversation many times. And I know that the cheerleaders say that they are a sport, but in ter in terms of the NFHS and the hospital association, because there's not a true competition level that they're not a sanctioned sport through the Alabama Hospital Association. So their numbers are not included in the numbers when you girls, right? Their numbers are not included because the hospital association does
033not sanction cheerleading as a sport because of the competition level. They say of course they compete at the end of the year but they define competition as week in and week out competition within the sports that they actually sanction. Yeah. You know and you know just you know when you look at that percentage and you look at the percentage of girls you know that would really boost our numbers in a different way. You know it'll be interesting to know even though you can't officially do it. What would that percentage number be? Well, I that'll definitely raise our percentages. Um, we have a number of children. I know we couldn't use that as far as athletics, but I just like to know that we have when when you look at that 22% in the U middle
034school, you look at the percentage of, you know, the girls, you put that percentage in there and that number changed tremendously. And I know we can't, you know, we got Well, I I think what I can do is I can put an aster I'll put the cheerleader numbers in there and then put an asterk that although it's not a sanctioned sport in terms of the number of females who participating that's something that I can do that won't be a problem and we'll boost those numbers because boost the numbers but then you know we know what we're doing and and because you know there are only so many sports that we do that have female you know you have the track you have the have the flag football and everything, but um it's going to be
035hard for us to change some of those numbers, right? Because of your ladies, but it shows that we do have to participate because my daughters was a chili. My daughter was a chili and man, you're still a parent. You got to go a weekend. It is a sport. It's just not sanctioned by social. you raise just as much if not more money for them as you do for a regular athlete. So that whole thing is not you know but then I know athletic association we're going to the conference on the 21st to the 25th so they always will kind of let us know what new sports are coming out and one thing that I'm always looking for is what female sports can we possibly add because we know at some point title nine is going
036to come back down the pipeline. So, just like with black girls, black football, whenever we have an opportunity to add a female sport, that's something that we look to do to kind of balance off those numbers. Absolutely. Yes. Well, actually we kind of do club swimming through Northridge. So, we actually have swimming, but we need to find coaches who are in place to offer that at the other two high schools. So, it's something that we can do. The thing is to make sure that we have practice facilities and we typically will compete on the road, but we need to just make sure we have some things in place with coaches and then how we're going to practice and how we're going to move forward with the other schools. We all can do a club situation
037in swimming now is kind of what we do and compete through your school. Sort of like an unattached situation. How we compete in swimming right now. And I'm lean and I'mma lean forward and look that way and throw another stone. You know, I still think that bad fishing is got to get in there sometime another because I looked at the scholarships that those kids that are n Our cities are making you think they work. What what is that? What we paying? What that you call pay football players? N man they they they on fishing is making just about as much as some of them jokers doing. Well, actually in our ads meeting we talked about bass fishing and we do have Northridge is very interesting. So, we're looking at finding coaches and sponsors for the
038other two schools that we can possibly look at adding that as a sport because it's already sanctioned by the association and we have some people who want to do bring it up. start talking about them boats. enough people in town that can donate us and we have we really have opportunity to do bass fishing but we just need to find the sponsorship but also just we've added girls wrestling which you know we need to make sure that we can get the participation in girls wrestling and I think um we're looking at making sure we can really populate the sport but I think that's one of those sports too at the middle school level sometimes it's tough for them to start at the high school level. But we we do have it in place. We got
039to do a better job of recruiting young ladies to to be involved in girls rather than at the high school level. Can I ask one last Go ahead. I'm sorry. Say something. Uh one last question. Um, you know, these LED boys sponsors just flop out on our two refreshment vendors. It just didn't work. I'm asking that question. Did they just go Well, um, one thing that I did, I brought in a young lady to help us with that development part. So, we're actively looking to find more sponsors who can can help us with, you know, the things that we need with that. So, that's something two big ones we plan. Yeah. Right. So, I think that'll be improved this fall because we are working actively to find more sponsors for that. Yes. Okay. All right.
040Well, how do we get them out? And these are children. So you can identify right how do we turnach But but you I think that you you're on to something which is what we discussed in the AD meeting. The landscape of PE has changed at the middle school level. But what one thing that our coaches and our ads have to do at the middle school level is we have to start competing and doing those type of things at the middle school level. Those those sports and then having the skill test and our coaches have to identify those kids who have potential to get them in the mix because we know you can't really play sports until the seventh grade at the middle school level. But we need to in PE, our coaches need to be
041actively watching those kids to see who has some potential and to kind of recruit them in so that when they get to a point where they can't participate in the middle school, we need every kid who has some ability to participate. And one thing I always say, a lot of kids don't want to play sports initially and some of our best student athletes have never wanted to play, but until we as coaches start saying, "Hey, tried. you know, you have some ability, come just come out and just see if you like this and then get them interested in it. But at the middle school level, our PE, we have to kind of change things up a little bit because you said a lot of kids don't really participate in PE anymore. So we a lot
042of times we can't see those athletes, but we have to get them participating in PE so we can identify them. And I said, our coaches, you have to recruit your schools for every athlete who has potential to play. So you're absolutely right. There are a lot of athletes walking around. A lot of them claim they don't want to play. But you know what? Sometimes as coaches, we know what's better for you than you do at this point. So, we have to convince them to give just give it a try. And once that competitiveness gets in them, they see that that's something they could possibly be good at, then we probably can increase those numbers and get the visibility and see those kids and get them recruited before they get to the seventh grade to be
043interested in those middle school athletics. And also we partner with the Y so we can get them involved at the Y participating so we can get them participating and then when they get to seventh grade then we can pull them up and they can participate at the middle school level. Yes sir. Yes sir. and and and the one thing about athletics is that whenever I have my meet with ads and coaches is that we can never get comfortable because it's always about getting better every and to me it's like when you win you want to win more you want to get better so every year we have to compete and get better and I said you can't get comfortable we have to compete we have to get better every year the traditional sports most of
044the kids play but there are a lot of kids who would be good traditional sports as well. Thank you. Any other questions? All right, Mr. Herd. Thank you. Excellent report. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. 7B will now receive the financial reports for October 1 through April 30th from our CSFO, Mr. J. Duke. Good evening, sir. Yes, sir. Good evening, Mr. Chairman, board members, superintendent. appreciate the opportunity for another tour up here to go over the financial statements for the month of April. This is the seventh month of our fiscal year and we will start with the tax reports. Property tax is winding down and you see a low number there in April which is expected as most of the property taxes are collected in the fall and January and February. But we um
045are going to be close to our budget and probably over. Car tag tax was slightly up this month compared to the same month last year. And again, we are on target to hit our budgeted amount in car tag tax. We'll go ahead and go to sales tax because I want to spend just a couple minutes on sales tax tonight. And uh so here's our sales tax report. is um slightly down almost the same $3,000 down on $1.8 million compared to the same month last year. But you see that flattening off. And what you also see if you look down there at the bottom right where the you see the arrow it says compare. We've now drifted below year to date same period last year. That's going to tie into this next slide or two I
046have. in this SSU conversation that we've had before and we'll continue to have. And there's another agenda item related to that later on in tonight's board meeting, but that's the simplified sellers use tax. I'm going go over the terminology just again to refresh you. That's the online sales tax. Uh simplified sellers use tax. Again, online sales tax, internet sales tax, if you will. And so I took the SSUT tax that the city government gets and the county government gets, not this, not the school systems because we don't get anything. But I took their growth rate in SSUT tax versus the previous slide that you just saw on sales tax. In other words, our brickandmortar sales tax. That's all we get. We don't get internet sales tax. You can see that gap there. That gap. Let
047me translate those. Those are percentages up there. That translates into about $5 million a year that we are not getting. I'm gonna say that again.$ five million a year that we are not getting because we are not getting anything from the SSU tax. Chris, if you'll go to the next slide. We get zero from internet sales tax. Um th this will get to a um I think the state superintendent I think he used the word at some point this will get to a crisis level for some systems because we are not right now uh mechanically or legally or legislatively we're not in the arena on simplified sellers use tax. I'm gonna keep moving for now, but uh we'll continue to talk about this SSUT for some time until we can get that rectified for our
048school system. Our general fund management report um our targets 58% on our expenditures. We're below that. So you see the 58.3% um expenditure target and you see 54.71 percentage uh spent. That's good in the red there. That 54.71 I do highlight there. You see the two little school buses there. Uh we fully expected that. You've heard me talk about it. I think when we did the March financials, we bought 49 school buses in about a 60-day period. So in March and April and uh that that was a lot of money. So that was some of those. There you see that $3 million figure compared to to the number um to the right of it. The prior year's number was 611,000. So I wanted you to know why there was that big jump from 611,000 to
0493 million. That's a big set of school buses that arrived. I'll keep moving on to the next slide. This is our um monthly financial statement that we are required by law to send to the Alabama State Department of Education. This encompasses all of our funds and um so this is kind of a comprehensive look at the entire system. Again, we are slightly under budget on our expenditures at this point. So that is a good thing. Again, this is through April 30th, seven months into our fiscal year. So, I will pause there and be glad to take any questions members. Any questions for Mr. Duke? Thank you, Mr. I say this, you know, it gets better and better when you present this finance in the way you all do because it's understandable way you you all
050present and you know at one point when I first start on the board I hated this board you know because they be calling them numbers out and running through it so fast, you know, and even when we get the reported or in the computer, it's always in. I really appreciate that because u am I right? I appreciate that. Thank you. All right, moving right along. Item number eight, introductions of motions, resolutions for a first reading, of which there are none. Brings us to item number nine, the consent agenda items 9 A, 9 B, 9 C. Board may have a motion to approve. So move. Second. All in favor? I. I. Anybody opposed? Those items will be approved. Item 10, regular agenda items are final adoption. 10A, approved superintendent recommendations regarding changes in personnel. Dr. Cameron,
051good evening, sir. Good evening. Have the superintendent's recommendations regarding changes in personnel. Also have a supplemental list. I will go through both with you. Starting on page one, you have one retirement, five resignations, two new certified personnel, two transfer of classified personnel, four reassignments, and three summer learning. On the supplemental list, you have six resignations, six new certified personnel, one declination, three new classified personnel, two rehire of certified personnel, one rehire of administrative personnel, and 10 part-time extended day tutors. Okay, board members, are there any set aides for a separate vote? Last call for set aides. Hearing none board. May I have a motion to approve? Second. Questions, discussion by number, please. somebody else. Uh they said it's for personal reasons for the health of a family member. They're having to unfortunately decline the position.
052Number four on supplemental. I think she's going to the University of Alabama. with the access program. Okay. Any other questions or discussion? Call for a vote. All in favor? I. Anybody opposed? Those will be approved. Thank you, Dr. Cameron. Yes. 10B. Discuss approve 2025 2026 CNP faculty staff visitor meal increase. Fortelling the bear bearer of bad news. Um, we need to go up on our prices for our employees for breakfast and lunch and for our visitor um prices for breakfast and lunch. This is due to the expected increase in values with commodities and therefore the increase uh with reimbursement rates. But we think if we do this with this amount perhaps we want to come back next year and do an increase as well. Remember last year we we came back at the same time
053did increase. We're hoping this fixes at least for a couple of years. Thank you Dr. Cameron. Board may have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Questions or discussion? Call for a vote. All in favor? I. Anybody opposed? Be approved. Thank you, Dr. Cameron. Tennessee discuss approve student participation in the Ronald Reagan All-American Leadership Program. Dr. Pope. Good evening, sir. Good evening, board. So through um our partnership with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Semi Valley, California, we were afforded the opportunity to send three of our students to participate in the great American leadership um academy at Pepperdine University. So this um discussion approval is asking basically for our students to attend um this weekend starting July 12th through July 15th. We're sending one student from each high school to attend. all um expenses paid
054for and they'll get a chance to do simulation activities. They'll go through um listening to different speakers, but the whole part about it is learning history and learning how to be um kind understanding um great citizenship and it's just a great opportunity for our students. Any questions? Board may have a motion to approve. Questions for Dr. Pope? As of now, um, no one. I meet with the parents on Thursday at 11. Um, the kids and the parents and from that meeting will to make a decision on who will go with them or if anyone will go with them. I want to find out is this their first time flying, those different things. So, Thursday around two, we'll know where we're going. They leave um Saturday morning u from Birmingham and then they come back on
055Tuesday and it's one for each high school who's going this year. Um the selection they first um called me and they gave us two slots but since we have three high schools I asked for a third um slot as well. Well, Northridge um person um had to back out for personal reasons. So only Central High School and Bryant High School we represented this year. Next year we'll have all three but because of short notice they were doing something with debate. Um she had several different things events going off in Northridge. So when she called that um student was not able to fulfill the obligation because of personal reasons. So we only sending two sounds like an incredible program. I'm glad that we're participating. Yes ma'am. Was there not a way to find a replacement? Well,
056she was looking for one and then the travel agent contacted me last Saturday to get everything booked and the deadline approached and Northridge could not find one at the time. So, all right. Any other questions? Call for vote. All in favor? I. Anybody opposed? That'll be approved. Thank you, Dr. Poe. Thank you. Item 10D, discuss approved resolution authorizing attorneys for the city board of education to file legal action. Yes, sir. Board members, this resolution is pretty self-explanatory. Um the the request is for the board to approve this resolution so that the board's attorneys can file suit on behalf of the school system specific to SSUT. And this is in collaboration um with the the legal team in the city of Tuscaloosa. Um this would just be the first step in initiating um legal action regarding
057SSUT. May I have a motion to approve? Second. Questions or discussion? any other municipal municipalities or board of educations doing anything similar? I I don't have a direct answer on that yet. I do know that Mayor Maddox is hosting a seminar, if you will, and inviting um citizens, superintendent, and others from across the state to kind of educate and inform what we're doing here and the impact um that the action Mr. Duke just talked about earlier. So, I don't know the answer to that yet, but we should know that in the next short period of time. No. And I've u I've had a good bit of experience in Montgomery with some of this and I've had an opportunity to talk to some folks in Montgomery and some folks here that are involved. And I think
058the the first point is that the city of Tuscaloosa is moving forward with this with or without us. And our participation here to make sure that win, lose or draw that we will have a seat at the table. So, um I I think it's something we definitely need to do. Whether or not it'll be successful, I don't know. It's it's a very very complicated issue. It has to do a lot more with the statuto construction of how these funds are collected and distributed. And it may not be as simple as filing a lawsuit. I know this is a very very down and dirty discussion of it, but it may a lawsuit to bring the attention to it and then lobbying work and then something done at the legislative level if it's not successful. This is
059certainly the first step and I think it's the correct step to take and I think the city's going to be involved and we want to see the table. This is something we definitely need to pursue. All right, call for a vote. All in favor? I. Anybody opposed? Resolution will be approved. Item 11, unfinished business. We have none to attend to. General announcements. Student hearings next Tuesday. Okay. And so the next regular board meeting will be two weeks from tonight. July 22nd. Any board member have any general announcement? Who's who? Yeah. Who's Arnold and who's Danny? My question. All right, stand. That was an important announcement though. That may be the loudest I've ever slammed that gavl.