001meeting with every middle school student to talk about suicide prevention, including risk factors, warning signs, and resources available for those in need. At the high school level, our mental health counselors and peer helpers are sharing these same critical messages with students, continuing the conversation in a way that is both informative and impactful. Our greatest hope is that no one ever feels that suicide is the only answer and that together we are prepared, we are educated, and we are compassionate enough to recognize the signs and respond with fear. A heartfelt thank you to Dr. Maddox and the board for recognizing the importance of both awareness and meaningful action in suicide prevention. Your continued commitment to supporting mental health helps save lives and ensures that every individual feels seen, heard, and supported. So, thank you. >> And
002I would like to thank Miss Stewart and her team for all that they do, not only in supporting our students, but supporting our faculty and staff and helping our students and our families. They do so much for our community and uh without them our teachers and our staff would not be able to be as successful as they are. And so we are so thankful for what they do for our system. All right. Now I would like to brag a little bit on our high schools. If I can get Dr. Esinger and Dr. Sers if you two will come forward and let me talk about you for just a little bit. Um we are very excited that both Hoover High and Spain Clark have been ranked among the nation's best in the 202526 US News and
003World Report um as our best uh high school rankings and this places them in the top 40% in the nation. So I wanted to brag a little bit about the class of 2025 because we had a lot of all-time highs in our high schools this year. So, we had a 98.5 graduation rate, which is the highest ever in our district. Nearly 59% of our seniors in the class of 2025 were off offered scholarships, and that is the most since 2021. Of those scholarships, they average more than 68,000 per student, which is also a record since 2021. And our college and career readiness indicator reached a 95, which is another district record. And so for these two individuals, they are representing not just our high schools, but really all of our amazing faculty and staff in
004our district because we do not have two of the best high schools in the nation um without what starts at the very beginning all the way up. And so we just want to congratulate our high schools, but really to all of our faculty and staff, all of our administrators in here um for this amazing recognition. And then for our last, I'm gonna ask our CMP director, Melinda Bonner, and then our um wellness coordinator, Melissa Kubar, to come forward, and they are going to help us celebrate our America's healthiest schools for 2025. >> Good evening. Good evening board members um and Dr. Max. Um the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a nonprofit organization that supports schools in promoting healthy school environments to empower children in developing lifelong healthy choices. The alliance recognizes and awards schools
005for implementing these practices that support nine health related categories. And those are nutrition and food access, physical education and activity, school health services, staff well-being, family and community engagement. There's 1 1,120 schools in 34 states across the nation that have received this recognition for 2025. 14 of those are in Hoover City Schools. So, I'm going to call um and if one representative from the school will come forward, Melissa will give you your banner to hang in your school. And first off is Barry Middle, Love Park Elementary, Rock Intermediate, Middle Dear Valley Elementary, Green Valley Elementary when elementary [Applause] school high [Applause] Trans Crossings Elementary. The next three uh awardees are considered allstar awardees because they earned eight or more of the nine different categories. And first off is uh Rocky Ridge [Applause] Elementary School. Everybody
006gets to twe together real quick. Um Those that have other members, y'all can do group photos in the lobby. >> Squeeze it. Like I tell the kids, like you like each other. Perfect. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Right. Before we move on, I want to recognize a couple distinguished guests with us here tonight. Uh, Miss Kelly Mooney from the state uh, school board of education is with us. And she draw her lesser hat. My good friend, state representative Arnold Mooney with her as well. And I believe Arnold may have a presentation for us. >> I've got educational grant check. the people's money comes back to >> give it to him. He'll spend it. >> Well, I'll give it to her. I'll give it to whoever you want me to do. >> Absolutely. We greatly
007appreciate I mean all of us. I mean, everybody's checks from their education fund. get them back where they can appreciate when we put together. Should we go to the middle? >> I will say I'm so glad to see my dear friend Christy Sers back in education and at Hoover High School. Wonderful, wonderful lady. Served in my district for many, many years. Did a great job school there. So glad to have her as well. >> Thank you for letting me bring you by. >> Kelly, thank you for being here tonight. >> Okay, moving along. The next item on our agenda is the consent agenda. Dr. Maddox. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I recommend approval of our consent agenda which includes personnel actions, field trips, contracts, 2025 2026 other extracurricular supplements and the LEA teams contracts. All
008right. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent? >> Do I have a second? Second. Are there any questions from the board? Seeing there are none, I have a motion and a second. All in favor? All right. The consent agenda is approved. All right. Uh, moving on to action items. Our business action items are next on the agenda. And since she hasn't talked enough to us today, I'd like to invite Miss Buck back to the podium. >> Thank you. Included in your packet is a summary of general purpose financial statements for the month ending July 31, 2025. At 25, we received 101.6 of the revenue that has been received for the month ending July 31, 2025. Remember, Hubert City Schools receives the majority of taxes between October through
009March. I do not anticipate collections to increase significantly in August and September. The results of operation represent 10 months of activity. Accordingly, we would have anticipated spending about 83% of the budget for reoccurring expenditures. At this time, general fund expenditures are 81% of the budget. For the 10 months of activity, the current loans reserve is 11.5 months. We will continue to see this decline until tax collections increase in October. We will also see this decline with the transfer of our debt service payments that we made in August and we'll see the transfer of payments made for our capital projects. In July, we will continue summer maintenance. We continue summer maintenance projects at our local schools such as painting, pressure washing, and paving. We made payments related to a locker room upgrades at Bus Middle, Simmons
010Middle, Spain Park High School, restroom renovations at Grand Valley Elementary School, Hooper High School, parking lot expansion RC3, and the playground upgrade at GR Middle School. Special revenue expenditures for 10 months of activity are 16.4 million or 88.5% of the budget. The majority of federal funds are expensed during the school year and requests for reimbursements occur one month in a year. The total cash dispersement for July were 5,253,726 and August payroll was 13,799,6185. [Music] >> All right. Very good. Thank you, Miss Buff. Are there any questions from the board? Do I have a motion to approve the business action items? So, do I have a second? >> Second. >> Motion and second. All in favor? >> All right. The business business action items are approved. Matters. The next item on the agenda is the 2026
011fiscal year budget. I recommend approval of the budget as presented. Heard it twice. So, do I have a motion to approve the 2026 fiscal year budget as recommended by the superintendent? So, do I have a second? Right. Are there any questions from the board? All right. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> All right. The fiscal year 26 budget is approved. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, board. And congratulations. First one check. I'd like to invite Dr. Bob Lowry, chief administrative officer, to come forward and share the proposed policy manual updates as recommended by AASB. Thank you, board. Thank you, Dr. Maddox. The suggestions that are going to be presented for your consideration were recommendations from the AASB policy pipeline have also been reviewed by our um you have them
012in front of you. policy 4.02, the safe school policy. Um, there was a new section that has been added regarding vape awareness, including complaint reporting and investigative procedures. Um, likewise, you'll find the introduction of the vape, tobacco, and alternative maintenance complaint form is exhibit 4.02e. As a result of that addition, um, all of the subsequent sections underneath tobacco have been reumbered, which is why you see all the red markings there, just to keep order. Um, I'll continue to go down the list. If you guys have questions, please stop me. Policy 5.10 employee leave uh section 510.12 has been added specifically to address the Alabama public employee paid parental leave act. You will also find forms regarding the paid parental leave act as exhibit 5.10e 5.11 the family and medical leave act section 5.11.7 has been
013adjusted to reflect the relationship between paid criminal leave act to FMLA policy 6.01 admissions and attendance. This section has been adjusted to reflect the most current list of excuses or absences by the state and also references the code of conduct policy 6.15 student suspension. There were adjustments made for clarity uh uh and also the referencing of the code of conduct. Um, it's been also modified to state that suspensions are considered excused absences and that makeup work would be accepted by students unless the listic exceptions apply. Policy 6.17 student expulsion. There were adjustments made for clarity and the addition of referencing the code conduct. Policy 6.25 mental health opt-in services. There was an age adjustment from 14 to 16 years old and there were also two additions regarding exclusions which were indicated as number three for
014suspected abuse, neglect or or exploitation and number four immediate necessity for immediate recast. In addition, there were several formatting changes as well as clarity added. Policy 6.27 has to do with withdrawal. That has to do with when a parent wants to withdraw their child. We just have something in the policy state how that works. Policy 7.03 academic standards. This has to do with weighted grades. The lang language was expanded for clarity and to include dual enrollment and honors courses. Policy 7.06 non-traditional learning. uh dual enrollment language was adjusted to follow the policy pipeline recommendations in the board establishing guidelines in accordance with ALSD for postsecary college course and high school credit. And finally for your consideration is policy 7.08 has to do with graduation and commencement. It specifically talks about validictorians and what that does
015is that removes the required a lotment of time to be enrolled in Hoover City Schools to be considered as a validictorian. It was an antiquated practice that there is not a limited number of validictorians in our school system and it's it's also driven by GPA not the highest number of students driven solar by GPA. So those are the policy recommendations for your consideration. Thank you. and we'll read them again next month. And >> yes, sir. So, they're being introduced tonight and we'll recommend them for your approval next month. >> Very good. All right. I have no public comment requests, so we'll move right on board comments. And I'm just going to go ahead and go first since I'm here. Okay. We're a month into the school year and I just want to give everyone a
016shout out and a thanks for this year getting off to such a great start. All the principles, all the administrators, all the teachers, all the janitors, people in the in the lunchrooms, which by the way, if you ever tour schools with Dr. Maddox, his favorite place to go is always the cafeteria. Absolutely. I'm just saying. I don't know what that says about him, but you know, year five on the school board, I hope I don't regret saying this. This is by far the best start we had. No doubt about it. Um it's been exciting. It's been fun. Everybody's working hard and uh we've had major changes. You think about the um the the cell phone ban folks, all those things. And um it seems like these things have been implemented well, went a lot better
017than I thought they would go. Uh so cooperation from our students and our administrators and our teachers and it seems like it's paid off very well. So congratulations everyone and thank you for all your hard work. You want to go next? >> Yeah, I just that I think there's a positive energy associated with what's going on in schools around the central office. I've talked to several folks so I've appreciated that. Um, you know, I spent the high schools are more on my radar just because of where my kids are and I'm just so impressed with both of our principles for both high schools. I think they're doing a tremendous job and I really appreciate the energy they bring for their staff and I think that percolates all the way down uh down to elementary school.
018I think as our high schools go, so goes the entire district. So, uh, I love the leadership they're both providing, doing great things both schools. And it excites me to see when we talk about the numbers that are just going up every time it's like now this number is this number, now this number is this number. uh at some point you expect to hear a plateau but I haven't yet. This is I'm into my third year so it says a lot about all of you and all the hard work you do and what it's expect >> you know he's he's talking about that very serious um part about our leadership but I'm telling you also know how to have fun. I've seen some good halftime shows and I got to participate in the homecoming parade
019uh as a judge at Hoover High School and that was a lot of fun and I really um appreciate the traditions. Um it's a fun time of year and um I just I just know how much work it takes is a group effort to have the fun too. So I appreciate being included. Thank you, >> Mr. Vice. Well, Mrs. Buck, I just want to echo again our thanks for the preparation of the budget and I know that it's no small task to pull all that together. So, not only to you and your staff, but to everyone else who had uh inputs even back in the spring and for the past few months. Thank you. I know it's a lot of work. So, thank you to you, your staff, and to everyone that are part of
020the budget planning process. >> I didn't ignore Miss Tosny. She's lost her voice. So, you wouldn't be able to hear her if she talked anyway. So, we'll give her a break tonight. All right, seeing there is no other business, this meeting is adjourned. [Music] Our boys.