001and Board of Education, it is called to session. If you so choose, would you bow your head with the invocation? Heavenly Father, we're grateful uh for another good day, a beautiful day, great weather, all the blessings that you have poured out upon us. We're grateful, Lord, as we head toward the end of the school year that uh we're looking back and see a spectacular year, a wonderful year for our students, teachers, administrators alike. We're grateful for all the blessings we've enjoyed. And Father, as we enter into the business time of our meeting, we ask that you give the board, superintendent, and all that attend uh wisdom and encourage to always do what's right in your sight, and that may everything we do tonight be pleasing. Amen. >> Amen. >> If you would, stand for the
002pledge. Salute. Pledge. >> 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. >> Ms. Nethery, if you don't mind, would you call the roll to establish a quorum? >> Mr. Watts. >> Here. >> Mr. Spivey. >> Here. >> Mrs. McCall. >> Here. >> Mrs. Shaw. >> Here. >> Mr. Spivey. >> Here. >> Very good. A quorum is established. Next is approval of the agenda. Board staff before you. Now, do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> None opposed. The agenda is approved. The next item on the agenda is the approval of the
003minutes from the April 14th regular meeting and the April 30th special called meeting. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> Aye. >> All right, it is approved. We will move quickly and to our favorite time of the meeting, recognitions. Uh I would like to invite Merrick Wilson, our executive director of communications, to come forward to present tonight's recognition. >> Thank you, board members and Dr. Maddox. As you can see, we have a packed house. We're very excited. This is a great representation of what they look like in schools right now. Um family here, so thankful for you to be here. We know that it's a little squished. Once
004your children are recognized, you are welcome to stay for the board meeting. But after your children are recognized, if you might leave, please uh go out that back door right there and uh you're welcome to meet your kids out in our lobby. I'd like to start with our very first grade. This is our uh chess team. If we can have all of our kiddos to come forward and and as they come up, I want to brag on them a little. You can come all the way over here. You can sit next to me. So, right over here. SO, TONIGHT AS THEY'RE COMING IN, I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE bit about the students that we have coming out. We're proud to recognize our students who participated in chess, through Chess Kids Nation. These students dedicate
005countless hours to practicing, competing, and representing their schools throughout the year. And we want to also recognize uh coach uh Balaji for all that he does for his support of our students um and helping them win these amazing trophies that they have. Um we also, because we have so many awards right now, students, I want your help so we can show all of our guests how great you did. They competed in the 2026 Alabama State Scholastic Chess Championship in Huntsville. And we had our students win multiple awards. We had state championship, individual honors, um and they were competing against top students from across the state. So, if you were part of a team that earned a state championship, please raise your hand when I call out your school. So, we have Trace Crossing earned FIRST
006PLACE. CONGRATULATIONS. GOOD JOB ART. AND THEN WE ALSO HAD RIVER Chase Elementary won first place. If you were part of the Berry Middle School team that won first place, will you RAISE YOUR HAND? AND THEN OUR ROCKY GAP INTERMEDIATE students who placed in second in the state championship. ALL RIGHT, AND TO OUR STUDENTS WHO UH had individual state winners, please raise your hand when I recognize your school. Do we have anyone with Trace Crossing who won an individual state? THERE YOU GO. HOW ABOUT ROCKY GAP? ROCKY GAP? ROCKY RIDGE ELEMENTARY? RIVER CHASE ELEMENTARY? AND HOW about our Berry Middle and BUMPUS MIDDLE STUDENTS? WELL, STUDENTS, I TOLD YOUR COACHES A FEW MINUTES ago that I am going to be walking over to one of our schools one afternoon and for you to teach me how
007to play chess. I know there's a lot of trophies up here and you guys have done an amazing job this year learning, competing, and working together to to practice your skills. We're very proud of you. And now I want you to all squish together so we can get a really good photo. And families, don't worry. We'll be uh sending these pictures to your principals to share with you as well. Everyone, push together. Push Push together. >> Make sure you can see me. Okay, make sure you can see me. Okay, everybody can see me. I think everybody I can see the young lady right here. There we go. Okay, everybody look right here. Okay, ready in 1 2 3. Ready in 1 2 3. That's big smiles. Beautiful. >> And families, you're welcome to stay, but
008if you also We also understand this is a busy time of year. And as our students are are going out, I'd like to ask a very special guest to please come forward. And as many of us know, Brian Phillips. So, I'd like to have him to come stand up here so I can embarrass him for a little bit while we >> One time a year. >> Well, tonight, everyone, we are really proud to represent the Brian Phillips Agent of Change Award. This honor was established to recognize the legacy of our very own Brian Phillips, who served as Hoover City Schools Chief Technology Officer for over a decade. Brian left behind a legacy of innovation and an deep commitment to education educational technology. And this award honors those who embody his spirit, pushing boundaries, and driving
009lasting improvement in digital learning. This year, our winners also serve as our district's official nominee in the Alabama Department of Education's Help me with that. Shakira Marbury Technology Innovation Award. It is my pleasure to announce that Hoover will be represented at the state level with these following individuals. Brian, I'll let you bring them up. So, join me in congratulating our elementary school teacher, Adia Gardner, Title One AT ROCKY RIDGE. ADIA, IF YOU CAN STAY UP HERE FOR JUST A MINUTE. Uh we'd also like to recognize our middle school teacher, Maya Brett, who's a social studies teacher at Berry Middle School. She's not able to be with us uh today with all the school activities that we have, but we wanted to recognize her for winning this at the middle school level as well. And then
010at high school teacher, Chrissy Rowe, Spanish teacher at Spain PARK HIGH SCHOOL. >> OKAY, LOOK RIGHT HERE. READY IN 1 2 3. 2 3. >> Uh our school administrator, Brad Hayes, WITH DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION. AND THEN OUR TECHNOLOGY COACH, Sarah Carpenter, with Shades Crest, Brock's Gap, and Shades Mountain Elementary. AND SO, TO ALL OF OUR WINNERS, I want to say that when I think of Hoover City Schools, innovation is one of the things that comes forefront to my mind, and that is because of all that Brian Phillips helped set up and all the work that you do at schools. I'm just blown away every day and I think that each of you are able to accomplish and motivate our faculty and staff to do it. So, we just want to say congratulations. Um we are
011so excited to be the representative of the state All right. >> I THANK I THANK Y'ALL THE SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR ALL THESE years that we've been uh in congratulations. I'm proud of both of you. >> Thank you. >> We're going to get a good photo. Everybody in. 1 2 3. 1 2 3. >> So, Brian, we have a meeting each month. You're welcome to come back. >> And next, I'd like to ask Everly to please come forward and stand with me. She is with Greystone Elementary School. Everly, you can come stand next to me. I want to tell you a little bit about Everly and her great accomplishment this year. She was selected as a winner Uh Everly was selected as a winner in the Father Goose Poetry Competition sponsored by the Alabama Writers Forum
012and the Alabama State Council of the Arts. Everly was honored TO BE CALLED ALABAMA State Poet. Awesome. Which was chosen as one of the competition's winning entries for students across the state of Alabama. As part of this As part of this recognition, the poem will be featured in the All Across Alabama Student Art Exhibition at the Alabama State Capitol, where student artists and writers from across Alabama are going to be celebrated during a special opening reception. Have you already done that? Did you get to do it? See your work displayed? Awesome. Well, we are so proud of Everly for her creativity, um for being brave and taking her work and sharing it with others. And we are so excited that it will be displayed in Montgomery for everyone to see. CONGRATULATIONS. I NOW WOULD like
013to ask, uh, Hoover High School Color Guard to please come forward. And as you guys line up, we're proud to recognize our outstanding accomplishments of the Hoover High, uh, High School Varsity Color Guard, um, on their national stage at the 2026 WGI Color Guard World Championship. They competed in the highly competitive Scholastic A classification, which is the largest division in the nation, and the team advanced through the preliminary and semi-final rounds to earn a coveted place in the championship final. Out of more than 150 Scholastic guards in their division and hundreds of programs nationwide, Hoover finished 18th in the nation, placing them amongst the top Color Guard programs in the country. That is really amazing. A lot of patience and skills and being able to go up on the national stage and do as well
014as you did. That is so awesome. We're so proud to have you represent Hoover High School and Hoover City Schools. All right, and we have our Hoover High School boys and girls tennis to come AND JOIN ME. >> THE AWARD FOR THE TENNIS TEAM AT HOOVER HIGH, THEY WERE named our 7A state runner-up this year. And our girls won the 7A sportsmanship award, which was voted on by their peers, which is truly amazing. Uh we also have Susanna and Matthew here. Susanna and Matthew also won single championships at the state tournament as well. And they are led by uh coach And I also, after I get my chess lessons, I'm going to have them also help me in tennis. We were talking about earlier how I really, really struggle with this. But coach, can you
015tell us a little bit about uh your team this year and how well they did? >> I think this year, like just thanks for everybody for recognizing tennis and everything. Thanks for coming out. Uh Just this was a really good group of kids. They matched really well. People think of like tennis as an individual sport. And I felt like this group right here really matched as a team. They were never alone on the court together. They always were right there yelling for each other, cheering for each other. And that really starts with the seniors this year. They really set the example. They set the bar high. And they were a great example for all the future tennis players at Hoover High School. >> It's a lot of you guys. Make sure you can see me.
016You can't see me, I can't see you. Okay. Let's see. I'll be looking right here. Okay, ready and one, two, three. One, two, three. Cool. Thank you. >> Congratulations to both OF OUR COACHES. AND DO WE HAVE ANYONE FROM HOOVER HIGH IN BOYS and girls track? They were hosting a decathlon today this afternoon and so they knew that it would be difficult to get here, but I do want to brag on them as well. The boys won the 7A state championship this year and our Lady Bucs brought home the state runner-up. So we wanted to make sure that we recognize them for all their greatness, but we also understood that hosting a decathlon is a mental marathon. I'm going to tell you like I know how much work that All right, next I'd like to
017ask William Henry Wright and Joseph Flynn and their RC instructors to please come join me up here. All right, so William and Joseph they're Automotive Academy students and we want to recognize them for their outstanding accomplishments in the SkillsUSA state competition. William earned first place in the Automotive Service Technology while Joseph earned first place in the Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair. And as state champions, they now get to advance to the national competition pretty soon in June, correct? So they will be representing us on the national stage. Where is our Where will they go to compete? And so as we all know our Automotive Academy is new and so for our students to have done so very well in this first year and to represent Hoover City Schools on the stage is a great accomplishment
018and we are so PROUD OF THEM. MR. MASON AND MR. OLIVER THAT ARE WITH US AS well today. Anytime I go to their their class, they are so fun. >> CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU. >> ALL RIGHT, WE CAN HAVE OUR SPAIN PARK ENGINEERING team to come up. All right, I'm going to turn it over to you guys to talk about all the awesome things that you have done because when it comes to this type of technology, I'm not going to do it justice. >> Okay, so I'm Elizabeth Brown, the part engineering academy director, and I just had to share with you guys what these two seniors about to graduate have done this year. They have created, 3D printed, assembled these prosthetic hands. They actually created, 3D printed, assembled, and were matched with someone who was in
019need of a prosthetic arm, and they went through several iterations, they perfected it for her. They she took the arm, was able to take it on a trip where she was traveling to Europe with her mother because she didn't want to take her expensive myoelectric arm, and it was just such a fantastic experience. They established the the first and only e-NABLE 3D printed prosthetic device chapter in state, and so we're hoping to continue this and then after they leave, Ace Tay is going to study biomedical engineering at UAB. Nathanael is this just combination, he's in law academy and engineering academy, and he's going to do something like that right at Alabama. So, we just really wanted to recognize all of their hard work. I've been trying to get students to start this type of chapter
020since 2023, and they actually did it. So, we're really proud of them. I get to keep it. But they actually can keep it. So, if a person has That is so awesome. >> Yeah, it is. >> I have a daughter who wants a 3D printer, and this is probably just something like that for them. I need to get >> They like really justify it, right? >> Yes. I know. >> And thank you both for coming and sharing. Thank you. ALL RIGHT, AND NOW WE CAN HAVE OUR SPAIN PARK THESPIAN Showcase group come forward. We are proud to recognize our outstanding achievements of our Spain Park High School students. Make Make sure I say your name right. Anika? >> Yes. >> Anika and Katie. Anika and Katie Campbell at the Alabama Thespian Festival. As freshmen, they
021earned the highest score in the state in the Which Which group? Do you want Do you want to do? Awesome. Um this accomplishment was out-performed by upperclassmen from across Alabama with years of experience. And that is really amazing. In recognition of their top ranking, they were invited to perform uh their scene at the festival's closing ceremony showcase. And in addition to that, uh Katie received first place in the state for playwriting with the original work "Do Believe". And that is going to be uh This is second state-wide, is that correct? Second state-wide award? >> Yes. >> Um and then following that, um that's going to be fully produced this year at Spain Park. >> In the fall at Spain Park. So that is so awesome. We are so proud of the two of you to
022be freshmen and to be able to compete with upperclassmen and bring home this kind of recognition. This is really really amazing. That is awesome. Anything you guys want to share with us about it? >> Um Um well, it was just a long process, a lot of rehearsals. And we we worked really hard to, you know, get it up there and we we weren't expect We were, you know, we were hoping to do well, but we weren't expecting showcase or anything like that. So, to get that honor of special recognition, which is something that we were really excited. And Katie, like she's won at state for her play multiple times. And that's so and she's she has more coming, too. So. >> I would just say for us the the SBE festival and state from our
023our championships. And so, these are our championships at the state level. It's really exciting for them because they're so young. Um, and uh that I think there's a misconception that it must involve a lot of talent, some kind of natural like gift, but I think without the hard work and the commitment every day to what they're doing, they would not achieve this. So, that's the important thing that I'd like to highlight. >> Today. And we congratulate them. SO, YEAH. >> 1 2 3 AND SINCE THESE YOUNG LADIES ARE SO YOUNG, we expect to see you at our next board meeting. >> Thank you. All right, and next we're going to ask our DECA creative to come up here, sponsored by James Brew. I would say it's hard. It's great. Well, we are proud to recognize
024several of our outstanding students from Spain Park DECA for their success at the International Career Development Conference. This is their international competition for our DECA students all around the world. And this year marked an historical achievement for Spain Park, and these students earned the school's first ever placement in the Corporate Challenge competition. Dallas Lewis earned first place in the um Auction Marketing Campaign Challenge and received a $1,500 award. Make sure I say your name right. Say >> Sai Vujjini. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. Um this student earned second place in the digital presentation skills challenge, and received a $1,000 award. And then, Isaac and Dallas also earned third place in the Nestle Professional Solutions Beverage Marketing Challenge. So, our students really racked up in going to this competition. In the competitive events category, Isaac placed in
025the top 10 business growth plan, becoming only the second student in school history to earn in the top 10 finish in that event. Um say Sai. Sai. Sai, why am I messing that up? Sai was recognized as a finalist in financial consulting, and earned a presentation medal, an accomplishment achieved by only a few students in the history of Spain Park. And so, we are so excited that you guys represented us on the international stage. We have had Hoover City Schools tonight clearly representing us all over the place, and this is really awesome. And the fact that you guys even brought home cash awards is so great. And so, I know our DECA teams have been uh consistently at Spain Park doing so well. This is awesome to have them at the international stage. >> Do
026you have anything to add? >> I would like to add Dallas also was a freshman. He got in the top 20 internationally, and last year he placed first, which is the first in Alabama history for any student to ever place first. So, he has helped um spur some of our other students to really try hard and work all summer long and all year long to um really be high achievers. And earn money. He he has earned a lot of money through our academics. >> That is so awesome. You guys have accomplished so much. Congratulations. All right. So, now I'm going to have our e-sports team from Spain Park to come forward. Now, I tell you guys all the time, I talk about chess and tennis, and when I say I really am going to learn
027a lot from our students, I do want to tell you that I have already downloaded your game. I have not played yet, but I know what an off-lane is, and so I feel like I'm already a step up on on my practicing. But our Spain Park e-sports team, they were earned state runner-up in class 2 and 3 during the spring season under the leadership of Coach McKinley and Coach Dill. And this was not a game that I'd ever heard of, but anytime that we get a championship or runner-up in e-sports, I'm always just so amazed. Because that is very challenging to do. So, tell us a little bit about the team and how they did this season. >> Um well, Maddox is a senior. He's played 4 years for us, and we're really excited that
028we got to the state finals. Colin is a junior, so he's going to take over as captain. But the amazing thing was there were two freshmen on this team who had not played. And these two were great leaders to get them all the way to the state finals. So, we're really proud of that. I'm proud of the Spain Park e-sports tradition since we've been in 2019. We've won two state championships and been to the playoffs every year. So, really excited for this this team and they just worked really well together. Involved a lot of communication, a lot of thinking, you know, so and they they just really shined and represented Hoover well. >> Good job. >> How long have you guys been playing this last game? >> I've been playing since like whenever the first
029game came out, to be quite honest. >> We're on three. We're on three now. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, I I I downloaded it. I I >> I'm impressed. >> I Unfortunately, I am a gamer. I love I love all games. So, when I see a new game, my kids don't know the truth, but that's what we're doing. >> What I love about watching them play is Maddox is giving um you know, giving instructions, helping them play while they're doing it. It's really really helpful in college too, so. >> The teamwork. >> Yeah. >> Well, I'm I'm like Adam, I'm sorry. The AHSAA has done a phenomenal job, in my opinion, of incorporating multiple different games. Like, Splatoon is one, Smash Bros, Rocket League. >> Mario Kart. We've not had Madden or NBA 2K just
030yet. We're offering it, you know, hopefully in the future. Um what was the other one? Oh, League of Legends. That was our first year state championship. >> So, it's just it incorporates a lot of different abilities and talents and everything. And so, it's very you know, we're grateful. I I enjoy it. We are so proud of you guys bringing home the the esports runner-up championship for Spain Park. That's awesome. If we can get you together, we'll get a photo. >> You guys might have the coolest jerseys. >> Awesome. Congratulations. All right, we're going to bring up our Bumpus girls golf team. If you guys want to come and join me up here. Okay, we've got Coach Hurd, Amelia. All right, well, our girls golf team at Bumpus won the Metro South championship, and Kennedy Cox
031was named the Metro South tournament MVP. And Coach Hurd was named the Metro South girls golf coach of the year. So, I have one question. How'd you get all those awards in one season? >> Well, they were tremendous golfers. It's such a skilled sport. And I know this one's been doing it since she was five. And so, they really worked hard. We also had a a birdie bash tournament champion, which is just with Berry and Bumpus and Simmons. So, we had that championship, too. And so, I just attribute it to them and their hard work. I know the week before the tournament at Holland Park, I know several of them put in a lot of time to go practice at that course. And it definitely paid off at the Metro tournament. Super proud of them.
032>> And also, we are so proud of you. Congratulations, LADIES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO ASK OUR Bumpus boys and girls track team to please come forward. I love the shirt. Well, our boys and girls outdoor track teams both won their respective Metro South championships, and Coach Patterson was named Metro South girls outdoor track coach of the year. And Coach Patterson, this is not your first time coming to a board meeting. Yes, we're just we're going to keep we're going to save a seat for you. So, tell us a little bit about these students and the season this year. >> Well, yes. Well, well, first, thank you to the board for seeing us. The board has been great to us this year. I thank Dr. Fordam, our AD, Mr. Watson. Appreciate
033y'all. So, they're an amazing group and an amazing season again. Our girls track team is they won their fifth in a row Metro conference championship, and our boys won their fourth in fourth in a row. Our kids work super hard. Everyone up here is pretty much team captain for us. We always have captains. I'm going to introduce everyone. First, we have Carl Razi. She was a team captain, one of the a really good hurdler for us. Next, we have Ryan Abram, team captain. She was She actually broke the school record for 200 m, and she also was part of the team 4 by 4 team that broke the school record and the conference record for the 4 by 4 relay. Ryan Noble, team captain, top jumper in the Metro and also top hurdler for us.
034Luke Burleson, team captain. He was part of the 4 by 8 team that broke the school record. Really good long distance runner. Right here is Josh Reed, another team captain, uh, top thrower in the Metro Conference. We have Parker Nelson right here, another team captain, really good jumper. And then lastly, we have, uh, Beckham How Begger. Um, he was actually with the indoor team captain. Uh, he actually broke the school record for the mile and also was a part of the 4 by relay team that broke the school record. So, very proud of them. They worked very hard this season, so they did a great job. >> So, what was your mile time? >> Um, uh, 4:48. >> I'm talking about a minute. >> 4 hours AND 48 MINUTES. >> WELL, CONGRATULATIONS, GUYS. That is
035really awesome. Um, I think I said this last when you guys were here. I do enjoy running. Never has my wife ever seen me jog at anywhere near 4 minutes. We are really proud of you and look forward to all the great things you're going to accomplish. Congratulations. If you guys can get together, I'd like to get a photo. >> Get in close. Move it close to the van. There we go. You look right here. Ready? 1 2 3. 1 2 3. Go. >> I know we're doing a packed house, but our students, our faculty and staff, our teachers, our principals, um, we just have so much to brag about in our system. And as we are about to have graduation, I think we're about to get into this year. It was just great to
036see so many faces. Our students, our teachers, and they get to come and they want to take all the great things that they're able to do because of the opportunities they have. People come and they want to >> Mhm. >> All right. Uh, before we go any further, I want to recognize three of our favorite elected officials that are here with us tonight. Mr. Robin Schultz, city council, and ladies on the board of education, Mr. Mike Shaw, state representative that has just enough of Hoover to be legitimate with us. But but you know, just for the record, we all see her and she actually came bearing gifts. So, we want to ask her if you want to come up. It'd be great. >> Thank you so much. I I invited Mike >> Are you talking
037to >> I I I asked him to come cuz what we do for Hoover we're really trying to do for all of Hoover and it's a privilege and an honor to speak to So, and he's a great partner to work with, too. And but I do come bearing gifts tonight for Dr. Sagers and I Is it Dr. Scholl? Is it Is it Dr.? Yes. I didn't see you back there. I could Yeah, I just couldn't remember and I didn't want to be like miss. But anyway, if the two of you would like to come up, we'd like to present these to you. And I think now that the kids are gone, I will tell this story. So, I For what it's worth, with some parents and most students, I'm not very popular because I was
038the legislator who carried the Focus Act. Which is what removed our school from the But my teachers loved it and my administrators loved it and I was visiting with her at Hoover High one day and you know, asking what need do you have? And she's like, "At home, the students really keep asking me what time it is. So, I'm going to get some clocks." And I was like, "I think that's my fault. I'll cover that." So, I but I thought it was a fun story. And so, I have been able to do I think a couple other projects previously for uh South Shades Crest Elementary. And so, tonight I'm presenting you with $9,900, well, both of us are, and then $5,000 for your school and I can't remember it was Eva Adaptive Learning. Adaptive Learning.
039I knew I was going to get that wrong. But anyway, it is a privilege and an honor to serve you guys, your staff, your students, your families, and I'm so grateful that I get to work with incredible people like yourselves. So, thank you for that opportunity. Thanks for always reaching out and advocating too. I appreciate that. >> Thank you so much. >> Yeah. I'll have to let Make sure I give you the right spot. >> Yes. Awesome. >> Here, y'all come on in. Y'all come in the middle. Come on in. >> I'm going to get in the middle I'm the short one. I'll go in >> Thank you. >> I'm really, really proud of our legislative delegation that represents Hoover. I'm proud of our city council and mayor's office and the relationship Jefferson County Commission,
040Shelby County Commission. It's really, really a great relationship that we have with all of them and they have with each other and that's why we're here. This point, Dr. Manic, I'll turn it over to you. >> All right. Wow, that was a lot of fun. Um I think we may have set a record tonight. I don't know. We keep trying to break it, but that that was really, really good. Um it really shows how diverse our opportunities are across the school district. Um it it's really uh great to see um students representing all of that diversity. So, thank you, Mayor, for all that you do. With that, so board members, as you know, we've been engaged with HPM really for the past 2 years in an effort to really look at our demographics, to look
041at our facilities, to look at student assignment, um and just just to try to find solutions to some of the challenges that we face. Scott Leopold from HPM has been with us from the very beginning. Um he's had to put up with me and I apologize for that. Um he's also led our efforts this year in facilitating three community meetings with many of our shareholders in Hoover um to try to put together some options for a facilities plan. So um Scott is here tonight to do uh that presentation. So Scott, I'm going to turn it over to you. >> Great. Thank you, Dr. Maddox and members of the board. This is the agenda that we put together for this. I just want to review a couple slides from the demographic study we did last year
042that are relevant to kind of what we're presenting tonight. We'll talk about the purpose of this plan. Uh just briefly summarize the stakeholder feedback. We'll take you through a couple options and then talk about next steps and discussion and overall discussion. Uh so if you recall, we did a a cohort survival enrollment projection last year and this is kind of a universally accepted methodology for projecting enrollment. It analyzes birth data and uh how many students show up from grade to grade year to year. Um and kindergartens, which is you know, the kind of the hardest part of the projection, it is projected by analyzing the difference between current kindergartners and births 5 years previous. So we collect that data from the state and that gives us our kindergarten projection uh you know, moving forward. Uh
043so this is the birth data. Uh I just want to show you this to just kind of show you that it's it's really been very flat. Uh there hasn't been a lot of change in the birth data uh you know, regardless of the development that we had in you know, 2008 with all that housing. Uh the birth data stayed relatively stable through that time frame, too. And so uh I think the good thing with this is that it's not going down. So it's a it's a relatively good statistic to look at. Uh survival ratios, this is uh the percentage of students that show up divided by the previous year. And so, ratios that are over 100% are going to be in the relatively high ratios are going to be red, the low ratios are going
044to be blue. That blue stripe we have in 2021, that is that is the COVID stripe that we see almost in every year across the country. I think the big takeaway for this is that your enrollment tends to gain steam as it moves forward. And so, you see a lot of ratios over 100%. That means that students are coming into the system. You're You might have 100 students in kindergarten, but by the time they're seniors, it might be 110 or 115. And so, people are are obviously liking what you're selling, and I think that the recognitions that you have are case in point there. I think I broke it. Come on, computer. Keep running. Oh, there we go. There we go. So, here's the housing data. I just want to point out with this again,
045you remember that, you know, we we showed the birth data is relatively flat. This shows kind of the volatility that we've had in the housing data over the past almost 30 years looks like. So, you know, in the '90s, there was a lot of development. We had a lot of development in 2007, 2008, and then it kind of fell off. And so, we've been hovering around 400 units per year over the past 10 or so years. So, what has the enrollment done over the past 10 or so so years? It's declined slightly. And so, kind of the big takeaway from this is even though we have housing development, that doesn't necessarily mean that students are coming in from outside the system. So, there's in-migration within the system. And so, that 400 I'd almost call it
046like a basal rate. That 400 units per year is what we've been observing over the past 10 years, and I think that's what the market's going to support. Uh the only way I would really see this changing is if something very significant happens to the interest rates. But right now the interest rates are kind of holding development down. And you know, again, this is a study that we did last year. We haven't seen any change this year. So here's our overall historical and projected enrollment. And so the relative highs are in red, the relative lows are in blue. And so you can see, you know, we have that that kind of COVID recovery year, which is that big kindergarten year 2000 We went from 834 in 2021, and we came up in kindergarten to 1,005.
047And so that is kind of that bubble that we're seeing starts to turn red uh when when they get in the middle school and high school in 2027. See if I can show it here. Uh so I I the the big takeaway from this is that we're we're stable. Like we're not really going up. We're not really going down. We're going to see some fluctuation between elementary, middle, and high school, but overall, you know, we're not seeing big changes. Uh I think what leads us into the master plan is that historically we've had to address growth. And now we're really at a point where we're starting to flatten out and we can address uh you know, some of the deferred maintenance issues, aging facility, and that kind of So again, just to reiterate those key
048takeaways, the enrollment gains steam as it goes on. Uh some of the largest classes that we currently have are in high school. Uh the classes in middle school are smaller, but the current elementary school when they get to high school it'll be similar to what what now. So we might see a slight dip in high school, and then it's projected to kind of come back up. >> Scott, is it fair to say that our population shifted west? >> Yes. Um the growth and I'll talk about that in coming slides. You're just skipping ahead. >> I'm sorry. >> You're anxious. Uh and we also did a uh a housing study where we looked at every single uh neighborhood, every single subdivision, apartment complex, and condo, and we we determined what the student yields are So, we
049have the number of units that we have in each of those complexes or subdivisions, count the students, and we're able to get a student yield, which is the number of students per unit. And so, uh overall, when we look at when we look at single family, we have this broken out by elementary boundary, but overall, you can see that the average is 0.31. And I would just point out, if you look at South Shady Crest, Rock Gap, that's much higher than that average, about point, you know, half half a student per unit. And so, those are newer houses, and newer, shinier houses tend to have more kids when they're first built. Uh you know, they tend to sell they they tend to sell to younger families, and then as those families age out, those housing
050those houses are not replaced uh at the same yield they were when they were new. And so, kind of the old adage is it's never going to yield as many kids as it did when it was brand new. And so, uh to your point, Dr. Maddox, you know, South Shady South Shady Crest, this is on the, you know, western portion of the district, that growth and that development is pointed towards two high schools. And then here's our multi-family data. Uh one thing I will point out is that these yields are higher than average that you see across the country. Uh and I think that that's a that is a byproduct of being kind of a destination school district, where people are looking to get into the system and through, you know, multi-family is kind of
051the gateway to the And so, uh I think this is a very healthy yield. Um again, I think that, you know, apartment complexes are subject to the same economic forces that single-family homes are subject to. Housing value goes up, rents go up, and the same thing. Start to see declines in the moment that people need to increase the prices. Uh future developments, and so this is Oh, this isn't the older presentation. This isn't the updated presentation. That's okay. Uh so, this is uh this is the Lakeview, we got the Preserve. I think these might be close to done now. Uh Everly, when we did the study, it's got a 21,004 units. Uh I believe there were 80 students that came out of it this year, K-12. We didn't have any students last year, we had
05280 this year. Uh the total build-out for Everly is 631 students. And so, you can expect uh about half of that to be elementary. And so, we'd be looking at about 300 to 315 kids at the elementary level uh for Everly once that's completed based on those unit counts. And that's based on that 0.3 yield, so it might be a little higher initially and then settle down. Uh the US 52, that's Trigger Creek. We're looking at about 600 students at build-out. Uh the one thing that I would point out is that uh if we're building at 100 units per year, which I think is probably you know, maybe we have that We probably exceeded that at Everly this year. I think we probably had about 150. Uh but build-out at Everly would be 21 years,
053build-out at Trigger Trigger Creek would be about 20 years. And so, unless we see that pace pick up significantly from that 400, uh you know, I don't know if this is these are going to build out in 10 years just based on the total number of units that they have. The one thing that I would point out is, um we're starting to see some financing mechanisms that are subsidized by developers across the country, like they're buying down people's rates for them to sell the houses. And so, that's something we'll have to keep an eye on cuz that can have an impact on how quickly things develop as well. Okay. Oh, yeah, here's here's the right slide. I must not have picked out the old one. I picked this slide that, you know, Trigger Creek, it's
054all the same data but just on a Okay, our big takeaways, again, um Everleigh and Trigger Creek are both pointed at Hoover High uh this is not going to help the imbalance in the enrollment. So, right now, we've got, you know, almost double the enrollment at Hoover High as we do at Spain Park. And so, based on where we have that new development, we see Hoover High going up and Spain Park staying flat or maybe slightly And uh that's just, you know, one of those things we kind of went into this plan with is how do we address that? Uh so, what we did is we also looked at the facility ages. So, this is new. This is getting into the master plan stuff we did for this year. And so, this map shows us
055the overall ages of our facilities. The older facilities are going to be in red. The uh newer facilities are going to be in those greens and yellows. And I would just point out that, you know, if you look Simmons, I think it's the Someone was telling me I think it's the oldest middle school in the state. Green Valley, Shades Mountain, and we have the years built for all these up here as well. And so, Berry built in 2004, Bumpus 2007, Simmons 1955. So, that is the past and future middle school. That's how old that middle that middle school So, the purpose of this plan, um we do have aging facilities that need attention. Uh we also have some non-standard grade bands at South Shades Crest and Brock's Gap. Uh those are kind of the things
056we wanted to primarily address. Uh secondarily, we've got differences in enrollment between Hoover High School and Spain Park, and it's trending in the wrong direction. Uh we've got some available properties for future school sites that have been set aside, but not forever. And I would point out that, you know, they're probably set aside for growth, and we're not necessarily growing as fast as we thought we would. So, there may or may not be the need for those sites. Um There is a need for a larger training space for teachers, and possibly even based on the tonight of the board room. Sorry. Uh this could also be an opportunity to work towards unitary status of facilities. And so, uh I would just point out because we're at a point with the enrollment that we're not having
057to address explosive growth, we're in a great point to do planning for just addressing overall eating facilities and capital Uh stakeholder feedback. So, we had uh three community meetings, and focus group sessions that were held uh with internal and external stakeholders to really discuss the data that I presented to you in the demographic study and brainstorm possible solutions. Uh the participants that we have included parents, teachers, administrators, we have some government officials, PTO presidents, etc. So, it was a you know, great diverse groups. And one thing I would point out is that they they were all kind of engaged separately, but they all kind of came to the same conclusions. So, it wasn't like we had vastly different opinions based on Uh the common themes that we had that there's not a perfect solution. Uh
058this is a complex problem, and at the end of it, you can bet everybody's going to be happy. Um we can reduce the enrollment at Hoover High School through boundary changes as long as nobody has to move. That was That was some of the feedback that we got from that. Um we could possibly move the Green Valley area into Berry and Spain Park, but one of the challenges with that is it's very close to Simmons. We like to keep those feeder patterns intact so that we don't have uh one elementary school splitting off and going to a different middle school and high school. But, we all have that all that feeder pattern. Uh we could look at something programmatic to balance it out. We could try and move some programs over to Spain Park to
059draw some kids over there from Hoover from a program pro- programmatic aspect. Uh the growth is more imminent in Everly, but based on what we're seeing, we're not going to have enough students coming out of that specific development to fill a school. And so, uh again, that's just some of that those initial thoughts and feedback that we had from those groups. And we kind of used that to develop the options that we're going to show you now. And so, our first option, and this is really to to kind of just directly address our our kind of oldest facility at the middle school level, uh just replacing Simmons Middle School on its current site. Uh it replaces one of the oldest buildings in the district. It provides a more modern layout for Simmons that is comparable
060to the other two middle schools. Uh the cost that we'd be looking at is we'd be about 67 and 1/2 million if it's built size to its enrollment. So, there's about 900 kids in the building. If we sized it for that, it'd be about 135,000 square feet. Uh if we wanted to just keep it kind of like for like, build it the same size that it is now and more modern, we're looking at around 90 million, and that would have a capacity of about 1,200 students. Uh benefits of this, it provides a more modern facility again to the Simmons community. Uh some of the challenges of this this scenario, uh it may require students to move into a swing space during construction. Uh you know, we could build the new facility kind of on the
061the ball fields of the current kind of hop between these two slides here. Uh we could we could construct a facility Clear options. See, I use PowerPoint. Um we could construct a new facility here uh while the students are still in the old building. I think there's some just challenges with the staging and terrain that we have to consider. Uh another possible option for this is if we did, you know, a potential boundary change to get some kids out of Simmons and then, you know, Simmons and Bumpus and Berry, that could reduce the Simmons enrollment and it could be possible that you could take the remaining students and put them at Bumpus with the new murals and then just raze the raze the original building and rebuild in its place. So, there is capacity in
062the district to do something like that. It's just a question of that's the road you want to go down. Uh but this again just kind of gives you an overview of, you know, what it looks like on the Simmons side. Um other challenges to this uh this this in itself does not necessarily solve the imbalance between Hoover and Spain Park, but we could do that through a boundary change uh or those programmatic solutions that I Okay, option two. Um we this started off as a musical middle school, but we could give it something more formal. Uh so, this is this is moving Simmons to Brock's Gap. And so, in this scenario, we would have to construct a new elementary school first. And so, we would have to have a new elementary school maybe either at
063the Trigger Creek site or some location south of uh 459. We would then move Simmons to the Brock's Gap building and then repurpose Simmons Middle School for for district needs. It could be uh a professional development center, it could be a new board office, something like that. Uh we'd have to redraw attendance boundaries to balance the enrollment between Bumpus and what would be the new Simmons at Brock's Gap. Uh I would say, you know, without going through the process that it's very likely that a majority of these Simmons boundaries would end up at Brock's. Like it would have to be a a shift of, you know, those boundaries between those two schools. And it could also be considered in tandem with moving that Green Valley area into Berry and Spain Park. And so what this
064accomplishes is it gets student gets Simmons students into a more modern building. It balances enrollment between Hoover and Spain Park. The cost that we would incur is about uh 50 million for a 900 student elementary building. You'd probably have to do some minor renovations uh at the Brock's Gap building but not all that significant compared to the cost of a new elementary school. Uh Simmons could also serve as a swing the existing Simmons building could serve as a swing space for future projects. So if you wanted to renovate an elementary school in the future, you could put students into that building while you have that building down for renovation uh to make it go faster and less disruptive for the students. Uh it also makes it easier to move Green Valley into Berry and Spain
065Park because they're not in that close proximity to the middle school uh as they are if they were assigned to Simmons. Just because again of the proximity between Simmons and Green Valley buildings. Uh challenges, uh takes middle school out of an established neighborhood. Um it may be difficult to find an elementary school site that already has infrastructure available. I'm sure you you got property set aside, but does it already have the roads and the infrastructure to that site to put a building on. And so that's something we would have to look at. Uh other considerations, um again, Everly is a challenging location for the new elementary school uh the infrastructure is there or it's closer, uh but in order to fill a 900 student elementary school in Everly, we'd have to pull students from south
066of 459 up there. Uh and so again, I think it makes more sense in option two to look for a site further south. Uh and again, just as a reminder, any boundary changes that we look at are going to have implications for the board. So, with that, happy to open it up for discussion and questions. >> What What would the numbers look like at Hoover and Spain Park and Green Valley? >> It is around So, at high school level, it's a swing of about 209 or 300 kids. And so, I think right now, where are we at Hoover right at? 2800 2900? 2900. So, it would drop Hoover down to about 2500, 2600, and then it puts Spain Park up around 700. >> Just doing Green Valley. >> Just doing Green >> Yep. And it
067it gets both building I mean I think it puts Spain Park at 85% of its Hoover 80% population. So, it gets them much closer to balance. >> Okay. Go go back to one of the options when you said what if we send Beth them there, if we took Simmons and you said send some of the kids >> Yeah, so >> to Brock's if they don't go on to >> I I think it it doesn't make makes a lot more sense to move Green Valley to Berry and Spain Park only if you move Simmons to Brock's Gap. >> Simmons to Brock's Gap. >> Right. >> And then do with Simmons, what we need more space to do around here? >> Yeah, you could use it for district use or swing space. >> Technology. There's lots of
068lots of options there. >> If you have to build an elementary school, you'd make South Shades Crest K-5 again. >> You have to replace the capacity at Ross Gap for elementary. If that makes sense. But I think the benefit of it is it's it's less expensive to build an elementary school >> Of course. >> than it is a new facility. >> Absolutely. >> Well, we didn't really talk about South Shade because >> No, we I mean, we could do it. Yeah. It would reduce the number of What is it? Kindergarten and first graders you can't put on the second floor. >> Okay. >> And the only other thing that I would add is that um the black non-black percentages are plus or minus between I think I think at the high school level it's plus
069or minus 3% in the right direction. And then in middle school it's plus or minus 5% in the right direction. >> Those are all Those are That's good information. >> As you said anything we attempted to do would require court action, court approval. >> Right. >> Especially the boundary adjustments, certainly building anything. >> Right, but we would I mean, we would definitely recommend engaging like with that group about how we do this. Because we had some You know, these are really district-wide focus groups. We haven't had any targeted groups specifically with the areas that would be impacted. >> Okay. What's next? >> Um I think that you know, just any any direction we definitely or we we like option one, we we don't like option one, we like option two. Um we can start to
070engage with those stakeholders that are impacted to talk specifically through their concerns. Uh and then we can work with uh you know, Dr. Maddox, uh you know, the property items, what like what the infrastructure looks like, how long that could take. >> I know um Melinda, correct me if I'm wrong. I believe in our capital plan maybe for 30 132 we have 20 million for an elementary school. Which would build a few classrooms maybe. But but not not an entire school. >> Right. >> I have a question. So on on slide five we have 2024-25 studies of the scores. >> Yeah. >> Okay, then you go to next slide. And that's it only goes to 23. And then you go to the next slide and it's 2024-20. >> Hold on. I'm trying to find it.
071>> It's slide number six. I I mean I have my glasses on but I could be wrong. It looks like that data only goes to 2023. >> Oh, the birth data. Is it the birth data slide? >> Yes, it. >> Housing data. Housing data. >> Yeah, okay. Housing data. Slide six. >> Sorry, this slide number doesn't have numbers. >> Um sorry? >> No, it's not your It's the slide that has the housing data. >> It does have lots of good information. It's 20 >> This one? >> Yes. >> Yeah, this this is this was just the last two that they had in the database. 2024 wasn't finalized yet. I can get the update like I can get this data updated. Uh but this is this is what we can send to you last year for
072data. >> Yeah. >> So yeah, we can have that updated. >> I I would like to see that data first. >> Sure. >> Um to keep everything >> Yeah, absolutely. >> 24-25. >> We have the money right now for an elementary school. We just it dwindles each year. >> Well, we have 20,000 in the capital plan and we we have we have fund balance. We would if we did that we would not be at 5 months reserve in the capital plan. >> If we did it today. >> I thought we had 45 to 50 set aside for >> Well, we have a plan we have 20 million set aside but we do have other than investment so we got other areas that we wanted to use that for. >> I think that's what we're going
073to do. What what's important? What are we all across what are we wanting what are we wanting to do? >> I want to spend some time to look at this and study and talk some more. There is a plan already that seems to make sense. >> Yeah, I mean I would you're you're not busting at the seams from growth anymore. And so we have the opportunity to be viable. >> Well, if you're talking about shifting people around option one doesn't help any of that. No, it's just a new school. Check the box. >> Yeah. >> Okay, option two means Green Valley has to move which means people there have to go on the drive which means they're not going to corporate school but they're not going to neighborhood school. >> And then we go back
074to square one. >> I would say this I my kids for a long time drove just as far as most of Green Valley is driving line. Your kids drive further than they would drive to Spain Park from your house. A lot further. >> I'm not worried about the folks in Corporate Square but they want neighborhood schools and Green Valley one of the areas not a neighborhood school. >> I know one of the things I like about option two is Hoover High School needs relief. I mean Dr. Sayers and her team are doing a great job managing. Very creative, very flexible. You know, lots of teachers that that really don't have a home. They're they're moving around on carts or other other methods of sharing classrooms. That's not optimal. That's really not how we operate in
075any of our schools. So there's there's some things appealing about it. There's a lot more work to do lots of two. Because of the re-zoning involved. >> I'm sorry, boundary. >> Boundary adjustment. >> Um well, I I I did not realize how good positive yield was a Green Valley movement. I mean, that that is actually that's got my attention. >> The one thing I will point out is that's if it happened today. >> Right. >> And so, you've got to remember this is one of those things where you got that growth forever. You got that growth in the decree. We could do that change and then be back at 2800 at Uber in 5 to 6 years. >> But if we don't, they'll be at 3100. >> Right. >> But we can project if we
076pick the target year, we could project that year. >> Correct. >> This this is good. Want to want to discuss, want to think about um take time, look at it, think about it, talk about it. Um nice to have options to see it on paper. >> That's good. Anything else? >> Anything else, board members? >> No. >> I know you have a flight, Ken. So, uh And and you have to drive to Atlanta on top of it. >> I drive to Atlanta. >> Uh well, that thank you. You did you did a phenomenal job leading leading the group conversations and uh really it was it was fun to engage and it it was interesting how so many came in with kind of a thought and an opinion about something and then once they heard all
077the details, they're like, "Oh, now I understand why that's more complicated than I thought it should be." Yeah. So, thank you so much. >> Yeah, there's I wish that there was a better solution. It's it's complicated. And the the one thing that we did we did ask the groups, like if you could start over, how many high schools do we have here? All the groups had three. But, we we we can't put the genie back in the bottle. So. >> Now, but I do think we need to be real careful about saying out loud what's going to happen if this this little neighborhood goes to that. >> Yeah, we got to make sure that we >> We got to make sure that this has got to be a really thought out. >> We got to
078talk through and talk out. >> What would it have never made a decision on something like this? Right. What would a Spain Park size high school with facilities project today cost wise? >> 145. 150 or 145.6. >> They're doing they're doing a high school in Atlanta and I think it's about 100 it's a combined middle school and high school. What's the Druid Hills budget? 180 to 200. 200 million? That's that's different. I mean, I would say I'd say in the range of 130 to 130. For another Spain Park. But, I I wouldn't even go there. Never going to happen. Okay. >> Well, thank you so much. We appreciate you guys. >> Absolutely. >> We'll be back in >> Yeah, absolutely. >> All right. Next item is the consent agenda. >> All right. Thank you, Mr.
079President. I recommend approval of our consent agenda. Which includes personnel actions, contracts, educational and athletic field trips, and obsolete non-capitalized assets. >> Very good. I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent. >> Second it. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All right. Any discussion from the board? Seeing there is none, I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. The consent agenda is approved. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for your work. We'll move on to the action items. Miss Black, if you don't mind coming to the podium. >> Okay, so I can run it in 5 54 miles. About 4 minutes and >> I don't know. It was 4:48. >> I'm really sorry. 4:48. I can't run that in
080Um but I will I will talk about the facts here. >> Okay. >> So then um in your packet are the summary of your financial savings for the month ending March 31st, 2026. As of this date, 7.2 million of city revenue was received. As noted last month, the receipt of city schools received the majority of the ad valorem tax revenue between October and March. These receipts begin to taper off as we move into the spring and summer months. The financial reserve The financial results reflect 6 months of activity. At this point in fiscal year, we would expect to have spent approximately 50% of the budget of reoccurring expenditures. General fund expenditures are currently aligned with benchmark at 48% of the budget. The general fund reserve remains strong at 11.2 months. March disbursements include payments for
081the HVAC projects and renovation of the new operations building, as well as finalized payments for the boiler replacement project at Trace Crossing and Bluff Park Elementary. Special revenue expenditures for March totaled 14.5 million, representing 63% of the budget. The majority of federal funds are expended during the school year with reimbursement requests typically submitted 1 month in arrears. The cash disbursement total for March was 3,850,000 $980.44, and the payroll for March was 14,948,013 and 56 cents. Any questions? >> Any questions for All right. Do I have a motion to approve the business action items? >> I make. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> Aye. >> All those opposed, the business action items are approved. Mr. President, >> Um Look
082at here. >> Yes, I see it. >> Belinda Bourne, you mind coming up, please? Mr. President, next we have a bid um for the CNP cafeteria serving line at Bumpus Middle School. Um would you mind giving us a a rundown on that, Belinda? >> Yes, uh Bumpus was built in 2007. The design just does not fit um the servicing needs of our students now. After COVID, we had to flip the serving lines around and serve the students. It was designed to be all self-serve. Um and then with the growth of Bumpus, we just need to replace so we can serve >> So, it's a completely different design. >> Yes. >> Layout, everything's different. >> Open open concept and flow. Right now, they're they're on top of each other the way they have to come in
083and turn a a complete U-turn, be served, and turn and go out. So, they're running into each other. This would do an open concept and it would flow much better. >> Any questions? >> Timeline? >> We are going through Atlanta Custom Fab uh direct, so they have promised to get the bid installed by August. >> Any others? All right, Mr. President, I recommend awarding this bid to the lowest responsive bidder, Singer H&R, for a total bid award of $223,943. >> Very good. I have a motion to award the bid for the CMP cafeteria serving line at Pumpus Middle School Singer H&R as recommended by the superintendent. >> Second. >> I have a second. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I. >> None opposed. The motion
084passes. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, board. Uh we have a second. Um next we have a bid for the CMP cafeteria serving line at Love Park Elementary. So, talk to us about that. >> Um the serving lines at Love Park were from the 1990s. Uh we tried to find them all and bring them back to and we got someone to come out and they just They're again do not meet the needs of our many new students so that we serve our students. And also there's a big difference at Love Park. Um the students drop their trays the way they have to go through the line. They have to carry a tray to get to the next area of food if they want to receive. So, um we um redesigned as well another
085solid flow with a tray slide from the minute they receive their food until they check out. >> Any questions? Will be done in time for >> Yes. The Atlanta Custom Fab direct. >> Perfect. Any other questions? All right, Mr. President. I recommend awarding the Love Park serving line bid to the lowest responsible bidder Singer H&R for a total bid award of $158,393. >> Very good. I have a motion to award the bid for the CMP cafeteria serving line at Love Park Elementary Singer H&R as recommended by the superintendent. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> None opposed. It is approved. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, board. I can award All right. So, Mr. President, up next we have the middle school concession and vending bid. Um Melinda, um this is
086something that we do every three >> This current contract is a three-year with the right at the third within the end of the automatic renewal. So, it was a five-year contract. >> The generally, um it's between Buffalo Rock and Coke. And so, Coke submitted a bid Buffalo Rock bid, right? Um but this is something that we do routinely. Right. >> They still have the same um the contract or the bid had the same three-year contract with the right automatic renewal on year four and five. >> So, the current one is in the second auto renewal year? >> Yes, it's the second year. >> Oh, well, second Yeah, fifth year, but >> Yeah, that's already the second auto. >> Okay. Any questions? All right, Mr. President, I recommend awarding the concession and vending middle school bid
087to the sole bidder, Coca-Cola Bottling Company. >> Very good. I now have a motion to award the bid for the middle school concession and vending to Coca-Cola Bottling Company as recommended by the superintendent. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. Motion passes. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, board. Um Melinda will bring you back um to talk to us about the budget amendment. >> Okay. So, tonight I would um presenting the budget amendment for FY 2016. While our original original budget was our best estimate at the start of the year, this amendment serves as our official true-up. It aligns our financial plan with the actual results of the at the end of last year and accounts for new revenue we received since that that time. We began the fiscal year October
0881 with the total estimated balance of 159.3 million. However, the actual ending fund balance at September the 30th, 2025 was 161.6 million. This was 2.3 million higher than we originally projected. To put that in perspective, the extra cushion is largely due to the timing of our major capital project money and the set-asides that were not yet spent by the institution this year. This amendment also allows us to officially claim and put the work specially strained funding that we've been awarded into our original budget. We are incorporating 409,518 dollars in unspent federal funds from last year. These dedicated These are dedicated specially to programs like Title I, Title II for teacher training, Title III for English language learners, and special education. Other carryover funds include the numeracy act funding, ATLAS, gifted education, the AED and school
089finance, along with the carryover money from advancement in technology for our capital project, transportation fleet renewal. These funds were obligated under the FY25 25 budget, but during um due to order constraints and production lines, the budget did not actually come in until the FY26 budget. We've been awarded an additional 1.8 million in new budgeted funds. This money is working directly for our students, supporting CTE coaches, career tech ready indicating grants, career tech um operation and maintenance for supplies, special education high needs grants, summer reading and math camps, robotics grants, funding to cover paid parental leave, uh Alabama reading initiative, fine arts commission, college and career ready grants, national board supplements, special arts specific grants, just to name a few. In addition to our daily operations, we are staying we are staying committed to our facilities
090by utilizing approximately 2.5 million in reserves, we are able to fund 11.1 million in planned capital projects across the district to ensure our our schools remain top-tier environment for learning. So, where does this leave us at the end of the year? With these adjustments in place, we project our ending fund balance for September 30th, 2026 to be $155,965,999. For the board for the board and the public, the most important takeaway is this. This ending fund balance represents roughly eight months operating reserve. This is a very healthy position that exceeds the state requirement and ensures the long-term stability of the Hoover City Schools. The The amended 2026 budget is now submitted for your review and approval. Once approved, I will forward this updated plan to the Alabama State Department of Education to meet our reporting requirements.
091I'm sorry. I'm happy to answer any specific questions you may have at this time. >> Any questions for her? Okay, good. So, doing the math, it looks like a new elementary school would would probably consume about four months of our operating reserve. So, if we were to build one tomorrow instead of eight, we would be at four. Essentially. Any Any questions, board members? All right, Mr. President, I recommend approval of the budget amendment for the fiscal year 2026 as presented by Ms. Byrd. >> Very good. Do I have a motion to approve the fiscal year 2026 budget amendment as recommended by Dr. Maddox? >> I did. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All right. Any questions? Comments? Good. All right. Have motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. None opposed? Motion
092is passed. Budget amendment is approved. All right. Let's just praise the city board. Um next on the agenda is our capital plan. If you remember, uh last month we actually introduced your fiscal year 2017 capital plan. We did not make any changes to it. Um Ms. Buck is here. Did you have any questions about the capital plan? I just had one. >> Okay. >> Under new construction renovation, I see two line items for Spain Park tennis court resurface with crack repair. Uh and then it says track resurface. Um but do you see do you see those on there? Is this a misprint? >> No. So, there are cracks in the in that surface and so this would be one part to redo that and then there's the other to resurface. >> Okay. So, the first
093line is crack repair Well, they both say resurface and crack repair. >> Well, you can ask here, David. We did the We did the property and or the inspections at the school and they were >> There's a quote for the track at the clay park. It's about 10 years old and we're repairing it. But there's also a a quote or a number for the tennis court to fix the cracks in it and resurface it. >> Okay. So, is the second number for both jobs? Or is this a mis-type? You have $100,000 in here for tennis court resurface and crack repair. Then you have $150,000 in here for tennis courts with crack repair track resurface. >> And you'll let me um get with Matt on that to look at those projects. >> We'll look at those
094numbers. It sounds like something may have been mis-typed. Track was 100,000. >> We have track and then we have tennis. So that may should have been track. >> Yeah. You don't mind let's let's get that resolved and send out >> I will. >> Let me ask you this. You talk about the soccer Is that just the field or is it the entire complex? >> I'm not sure. >> David, do you know what the question is? >> The soccer >> Soccer. Is that just the field or the entire >> With the million dollars >> For the soccer it says soccer field but in my mind it says field upgrade. Is it the entire facility with the stands, the score boards and all that stuff? >> I'm not really sure. I'll get back with you. But I
095was working with Matt. >> What Matt? >> Sorry, English The track is you know what I mean? So >> At one time they were talking about reconfiguring the soccer field in Spain Park. So I'm not sure where we landed with that. >> And I'm not sure either. >> Okay. Any other questions board members? Those are good ones. We'll get answers to you on those. All right, Mr. President. I recommend approval of the fiscal year 2027 capital plan as presented. >> Yes. Knowing that this plan is generally generally very fluid and changes at any time. We're going to go ahead and move forward on this one. Uh Seems like I'm trying to find my place. Here we go. I have a motion to approve the fiscal year 2027 capital plan as recommended by the superintendent. >>
096So moved. >> Do I have a second? All right. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. It is passed. All right, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, board. Uh the next item on the agenda is the 2026-2027 salary schedule. Um Melinda, would you like to say a few words about the salary schedule? >> Sure. We did uh you know, we we did have a legislative um 2% raise that will go across um the district for all employees. Um and so, we didn't do much of any change to our salary schedule. There were a few things we wanted to increase the daily rate for our substitutes for teachers and our aides to attract um to attract those substitutes. We increased it by $5, which is a little more than the 2% um than the teachers or
097our faculty received. We're also looking at increasing the substitute rate for custodians to $90. Um we we wanted to increase the daily rate for teachers and nurses performing before and after school um services to align with summer last year. It fell back $10, and we had a really hard time getting um the nurses and teachers to do those before and after school tutoring because they were paid 50 in the summer and not the same um service. So, we wanted to make those aligned. Um we looked at uh we are looking at aligning the lead district nurse to align with the regular daily rate of the RN position at her 270 or 207-day um schedule for her service. That would That would put her in line of where she is currently um with that supplement they
098receive, so there would be no supplement in that package. Um we are looking at um a new psychometrist that's going to be a 12-month psychometrist to finalize the uh replacement of a retired employee for some of these services. I know that Tanya or Dr. Robbins would like to know if you had any questions on that. We also increased the cost of personal days four and five um by $10. That's the They still can take those days. They just have to reimburse the district, not the total rate of what the sub would cost, but a portion of that. And we increased that by $10 to $230 for classified and I mean for certified and $90. Those were the only changes. There is no cost to the employee for taking personal days one, two, three. >> Any
099questions, board members? If not, so Mr. President, I recommend approval of the 2026-2027 salary schedule. >> Board member, I make a motion to approve the 2026-2027 salary schedule as recommended by the superintendent. So moved. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All right, I have the motion and a second. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Any opposed? All right, the motion is passed. All right, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Ms. Buck. >> Thank you, board. >> All right, the next item on the agenda is Act 2024-331. This is not before the board on the recommendation of the superintendent, but instead on the recommendation of the board attorney. So, I'll ask Mark Wortman, our board attorney, to come up at this time and present this item. >> Board members, in 2024, the legislature for
100the first time in 20 years reached the conclusion that board compensation has historically throughout this state been too low. Y'alls is zero. Ever since this board has been established as far as I can tell, all board members have taken absolutely nothing in pay. Yet, this meeting itself has gone on an hour and a half. The work that you do over the years, if you took that hourly rate, even if you were paid some type of minimum wage, it would be huge amount Thank you for your service, and thank you for donating the time to the to the students and to the education of of our youth. But, it's not good public policy. I represent two dozen boards of education, and I have made this recommendation to them 2 years ago. You need to have a
101compensation level for board members. It is not for y'all five individually, it is good public policy because people to undertake the job that you are doing have to be able to meet meet some type of compensation. Otherwise, those who work at a job where they have to lose time, which is what happens here, they need the money to replace that. Otherwise, they can't serve on the board of education. And so, it's good public policy for you to at least pay something. The recommendation that I have before you today is to pay only about half of what the Alabama legislature allows. Again, we don't want to preclude individuals from serving on the board of education. This does not require anyone to take a a a a pay. But, as long as you have some type of
102compensation, at least you're not discouraging people from applying for a very very important job. So, for public policy reasons, I urge you to do it. The Alabama legislature also reached a separate conclusion, and that was because of the requirement they imposed on y'all to have 6 hours of training a year, that you should have some type of compensation. And, if you don't get that 6 hours training a year, they're going to withhold your compensation. So, they put a carrot and a stick. Overall, this is something that can't be represented can't be recommended by the superintendent. It has to be recommended elsewhere. And so, I come as your attorney recommending that you adopt a motion to provide compensation of $500 a month to those who serve on the board. >> Thank you, Mark. Having heard from
103the board of education, may I hear a motion? >> I move that pursuant to Act 2024-331, board compensation be set at $500 a month. >> Do I have a second? >> I second. >> All right. Any discussion from the board? All right. Seeing there are none, all in favor say aye. >> Aye. >> Any opposed? >> Aye. All right. All right. It's a three to two uh ayes have it, and the motion passes. Thank you. All right. Um So, superintendent's report, Tom. First of all, um I'd like to say congratulations to uh Spain Park baseball, the voice of Spain Park baseball right here. Uh Spain Park uh is in the semifinals on Friday with uh Northridge. It's going to be a a great series at Spain Park. Um lots of students hopefully are going to
104be out. Um lots of community members. Uh just a really exciting time. And uh if they're able to move on, uh hopefully they will move on. Um you know, they will be playing a a state championship game on >> graduation day. >> On graduation day. Yeah. Great great timing. I hope that's a problem that that we have. Um but obviously they they've done a great job this year, and um just really really proud of them. So, looking looking for a big turnout. Do you know graduation is next Wednesday? I know three of three of our board members have seniors this year. Uh it's a very exciting time. Uh mixed emotions, obviously. Um and I know with with us having back-to-back graduations, um I've said to board members, you know, your priority is to your family
105on graduation day. And um I actually missed Hoover's graduation my first year as superintendent because my own child was graduating. So, that has to be the priority. Dr. Robbins has a senior as well. Um so, I wish you guys well. I know you I know it's an exciting time for you. An exciting time for all of our seniors and really a culmination of investments by teachers, staff members, community members, parents, all of us, the entire community into their experience. And uh I know for many of our seniors, they're already finished. They're just kind of waiting on graduation. Um so, really really happy for them. Looking forward to the ceremonies next week. Um and maintaining the level of uh of of decor and efficiency that that we have here in Hoover, which is awesome. Um we
106have 7 days of school remaining. Just want to uh tip my cap to everyone. This has been a phenomenal school year. I've said that so many times and um my team makes me knock on wood. I think this is real wood here. Um it's been a great year. Um our our folks have done a great job. Teachers, staff members, students, parents, administrators. Um I couldn't have asked for a better school year than what we had. And uh it seems like only yesterday, I remember we were riding around the first 2 days of school visiting schools. That doesn't seem like 9 months ago, but it was. And uh the school year just goes by so quickly and I just commend everyone involved. It takes lots and lots of great people to do all the things that
107we do here. You witness a lot of it tonight in our recognitions. There's lots more that we could talk about, um, but I'm just so proud of of where we are, where we're going. Um, we used to hashtag HCS momentum. It means something to us. We believe we're moving in the right direction. We're working hard to get better each and every day. So, really thankful for that and just looking forward to uh next week and the end of the school year. We still have quite a few programs going on, um, but it's just a really exciting time, so. Thank you, guys. All right. I'm thanking you and I'm moving on. So, this is our annual meeting and at our annual meeting we have election of the 2026-2027 president and vice president. I have a script.
108Next on the agenda is the election of officers. Alabama law provides that the C Board of Education shall hold its annual meeting each year at its first regular meeting in May. At this meeting, the board must elect each year one of its members to serve as president and one to serve as vice president. The rules generally adopted by deliberative bodies for their government will be observed in conducting the elections and the superintendent, it falls to me to preside over the election process. I would ask that Dina Netherland serve as the clerk for election purposes. We will observe Robert's Rules of Order modified in conducting elections. Nominations will be taken from the floor for both offices. Under Robert's Rules of Order, no second is required to make a nomination. Of course, the same person may be
109nominated for more than one office. Elections will be by roll call vote with an I vote of the majority of the full board required to elect the candidate. Are there any questions before we begin taking nominations for president? Okay. If not, nominations are now in order for president. Do I have a nomination for president? >> I have a nomination. I would like to nominate Alan Puckett to serve as president. >> Okay. Mr. Puckett is nominated for president. Are there any nominate any other nominations for president? All right. Hearing no further nominations, I declare nominations for president to be closed. Dina will now call the roll for the vote on Mr. Alan Puckett for president with board members voting I or nay. >> Alan Puckett. >> I. >> Rex Blair. >> I. >> Amy Cosper. >>
110I. >> Shelly Shaw. >> I. >> Jeremy Vice. >> I. >> All right. The eyes have it. Congratulations to Mr. Puckett again for being elected as the board president for the '26 '27 school year. Nominations are now in order for vice president. Is there a nomination for vice president? >> Yes, I would like to nominate Mr. Rex Blair for office of vice president. >> Okay. Mr. Blair is nominated for vice president. Are there any further nominations for vice president? Hearing no further nominations, I declare nominations for vice president to be closed. Dina will now call the roll for the vote on Mr. Blair for vice president with board members voting I or nay. >> Alan Puckett. >> I. >> Rex Blair. >> I. >> Amy Cosper. >> I. >> Shelly Shaw. >> I. >> Jeremy
111Vice. >> I. >> All right. The eyes have it. Congratulations to Mr. Blair as our next board vice president. Congratulations to President Alan Packett. The gavel is yours to preside over the remainder OF THE MEETING. >> VERY GOOD. WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS TONIGHT, so we will at this time just move on to board comments. Would any board member like to make a comment tonight? >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Congratulations to you, Rex. >> Thanks. >> Very good. >> I think that's as they say in the church house, all hearts are clear. >> All right. If that's the case, our next scheduled board meeting will be June 9th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. right here in this room. We are adjourned.