001two, please bow your heads for the invocation. Dear God, we thank you for a beautiful day of weather outside. I thank you for the work that is set before this board. I pray that you grant ethos wisdom and courage to the level needed to fulfill our responsibilities today. We ask your blessings upon our graduates that we'll celebrate tonight as they walk across the stage and head out into the next phase of their lives. Pray you guide their steps and lead them all in to a very fulfilling future and one that honors you. Thank you for allowing us to be part of the work you are doing in the world and here in Amen. Stand for the pledge. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One
002nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Matter, will you call the role to establish the or the forum's been established? Board members, you have the agenda for this afternoon's meeting before you. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? Second. All in favor? I. The agenda is approved. All right. Board members, you have the meeting minutes before you for our special called meetings. Let's see. You got April 8th, 2025 regular meeting, April 11th, 2025 and April 25th, 2025 special called meetings and May 12th, 2025 work session. Do I have a motion to approve these minutes? I have a second, sir. All in favor? Any opposed? All right, the minutes are approved. All right, we will now move to recognitions. Merrick Wilson, you ready? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, board members. Dr. Maddox,
003May is such a special time in our school system. I think we have all enjoyed this month of celebrating the many achievements of our students. We've seen tremendous growth this year and it has just been a wonderful and busy month of getting to be in our schools and see all the great things that our students have been able to accomplish. But I think we all know that that would not be possible. Our students do not have the resources that they have to do great things if it wasn't for a great board, amazing administrators at the district level, our school level, and our faculty and staff. And so today, I'm extremely honored to get to recognize some of our amazing administrators and faculty and staff members. So I would like to ask for first of our
004recognition to ask Cara, Dr. Cara Schaw to please come forward. Dr. Cara Shaw, our South Shades Crest Elementary principal, was named the 2025 Alabama District Distinguished Principal Finalist for District 4 by the Alabama Association of Elementary School Administrators. So, not only is this an amazing award for Dr. Schol for her her school, and for our school system, but it is also something that our students are very proud of. So, I took the opportunity of asking them what they love about their principal. and uh lots of energy when you go into a classroom and you ask students this, especially when you only have a couple days after school. But what I loved hearing is that my principal is smart, kind, and helpful to all of us. I love my principal because she makes sure that she
005squeezes fun into everything we do, including learning. So learning so much, but this was my favorite. My principal is very brave. I had follow why why do you believe the principal is brave? because one time she put her desk on the roof and she wasn't scared at all. There's there's a great story. But Dr. Sch, we are so proud of you this amazing recognition, but also we are thankful for you for being so smart and brave. [Applause] Also, this month is mental health mental health awareness month and we are very fortunate in our school system to have nine incredible mental health counselors who work each and every day to support our students um their emotional and social well-being by providing counseling, teacher support, and coping strategies to help them succeed not only academically but socially
006in and out of the classroom. So, I'd like to ask um our district mental health coordinator, Katherine Stewart, and her team to come forward so we can recognize all that they do each and every day for our students and ultimately our faculty and staff and our classroom. So, I'll turn it over to Miss Stewart. Thank you so much. So, um like Mary said, May is mental health awareness month and today we proudly recognize the incredible work of the Hooverse School's mental health counseling team. Mental health challenges are a growing concern for children ages 6 to 18 with nearly 20% experiencing mental, emotional or behavior disorders. Among the most common diagnosis are anxiety, behavior disorders and depression. Early intervention is critical. Half of all lifetime mental health conditions begin by age 14. We are truly fortunate
007in Herbert City School to have a dedicated team of nine licensed mental health counselors serving our district. I'm just going to introduce you. This is Debbie Wilburn. She serves high school. Elena Keluca, she serves um all elementary schools in our district. Melissa Edwards High School. Casey Kane, Bane Park High School. Lyanna Hurst and she serves the Berry Middle School and all the um theater schools. Brian Rogers, he serves Crossroads School and Winnie Davis serves Simmon and all the theater school. Then Lauren Palina couldn't be here today. She's bought us all the theater school. I'm honored and grateful to be a part of this hardworking, compassionate team. Each counselor brings a wealth of experience and a deep commitment to supporting the mental health and well-being of our students, families, and staff. This year alone, our team
008has provided over 8,000 services, including individual and group counseling, parent and teacher support, collaboration with outside resources, suicide and threat assessment, and many more vital services. These numbers reflect the ongoing and meaningful impact our team has across the district. A heartfelt thank you to Dr. Maddox and board members for their continued support and recognition of the importance of mental health in our schools. With your backing, we can continue to make a difference in just real quick. Um, Catherine Stewart is wonderful and well, I mean, I've met with you more than once about, you know, something in the community. How can we help our kids? How can we help our parents? and and it's passion and you can see it in everything you do and and you have a great team and I hear great things
009about the mental health things we are trying and anxiety and depression alone it's just so rampant but anyway I appreciate y'all I think what you was fabulous and thank you [Applause] well next I am excited to uh get to intro introduce and I use when I say introduce um someone who has left a tremendous impact on our school system. We are always looking uh for different ways to uh acknowledge the great work that our administrators and our faculty and staff members do each and every day in our schools. And so we are excited this year uh to introduce the Brian Phillips Agent of Change Award to honor visionary leadership in educational technology. Um, as I say, I introduced Brian Phillips. As we all know, he was our chief technology officer for New York City Schools
010for over a decade, and he has left a legacy of innovation, leadership, and a deep commitment to educational technology. So, I would like to ask Brian to come forward and tell us a little bit more about this award and the amazing individuals who received it this year. So, I'm excited to introduce and honor to bring up It's hard to sit through um um the awards based off of people who were willing to try things that were outside the box and do things a little different um and lead in the district. I really honor them attached to it. It's really about honoring the people that did all this for 20 plus years. uh for the boards, this board and the boards 20 years prior I worked with. Thank you superintendent and superintendent before that people work
011in this building. You're amazing. That team can't say can't say enough about they're amazing. I do miss all of you, but it is a good thing I'm doing. I get to see a lot more kids and talk to a lot more people. So, it's fun. Um but we're here to celebrate two individuals today. Um both are amazing. Um they are not so both do amazing things and they're willing to take those risks and do things in the classroom and outside the classroom in the district which is exactly what we want all our educators to do. U we'll start with teacher Misha Brown. I'm so honored and humbled for this. Um, I go to work for my little people as I just to do what I do for them and to see that they've grown as
012much as they have, it makes you feel so great as an educator. thankful for my colleagues, my administrators, and just my family, my daughters. They were here. Um, I do my call my little people too because I work hard to make sure that I lead by example. So, thank you. [Applause] The second honore is administrator district. Administrators in this district don't always get the praise that they deserve. Um, I've worked with them for 20 plus years. So, I feel really honored to be able to give this award to someone. There are many people who are deserving. This one is deserving more than others because he was willing to try some of the hair brain ideas. Just I didn't have to ask. I could walk in and say, "Hey, we're going to do this." And he
013was always with it. I'm really thankful for that. I'm thankful for his friendship. [Applause] This first award I've gotten this year that didn't have these old turning 50 the longest running principal in the district. But um I'm excited that it's my I'm part of the reason Brian had to wear a suit today. So that's actually that makes me happy. But we we stand on the shoulders of giant in this district. Has so many great people and great ideas that I learned from so many of them. And the most important lesson I learned was to to give the people the resources and get out of their way. Uh that's truly Brian's philosophy and I'm trying to follow that. So I feel honored just to be associated with him. Appreciate [Music] it. I'm not sure if there's
014a correlation between retirement and and kind of a youthful appearance. But but Ryan, you look younly missed you. Um, Kelly has done an amazing job trying to keep it in the in the road between the lines, but uh, your legacy lives on and it's an honor to have you returned to give such prestigious award. So, thank you for coming back. Now, I'm excited to introduce some of our amazing administrators who are going to be joining our team this year. I'm gonna start with Miss Andrea Forom, who is a Buffett Middle School principal. I am introducing her although she is very familiar with the city school because she is a proud proud graduate of our district and so I'd like to ask her to come forward and introduce her family and faith. Look at her wearing
015her. Thank you so much for having me today. It's an honor to be here in person and get to see you all in person. Um I have my little family here with me. my daughter Kinsley, she is eight, she's really boss. Um, and my husband Nathan. So, um, thank you all for inviting my family today as well. It's truly an honor to be here. I'm so excited to get to work at Bogus. I cannot wait to get through the doors and it be my home for a very long time. Um, just to share a small story with you, uh, I did a training several years ago, um, for character education. A part of the training was to get in the classroom and have your students tell you something good that happened to them that week,
016that day, over the weekend, and um be named principal at Bonus is my tell me something good for a very long time. So, thank you all so much for entrusting me with that and I look forward to getting [Applause] and next I will introduce Tibs who is going to be our new assistant principal at Deer Valley Elementary School. Also, I say introduced but also very familiar with our school. She's been with schools for 24 years. And although I have not gotten to work with her in her previous roles, I was so excited when we started to talk hearing her talk about being able to come back after retirement, serve in our elementary schools, and find a new love and passion for our elementary students. I just as as a communications director, I thought, well, this
017is just wonderful. I cannot wait to meet you. And so, I got to run into her at one of our elementary schools just the other day. Just so glad that you were here with us. Uh, thank you to the board for allowing me this new opportunity. Um, I was a bad retiree. Retiring. I guess we're going to call it the sbatical. Um, but I did have an opportunity um to step into three elementary schools this year. and being in the middle school world for so long, uh, you forget how amazing elementary teachers are because the things that they do, the foundations that they build and create for lifelong learning is essential to our middle school and high school early. So everything that they do is how we as middle school, former and high school people
018really just push them more. And it happened, I think the date was February the 21st because people were like, why? Why are you under retired? By the way, make that phone call. That's too st like oh you want to un retire. So February the 21st I'd asked Miss Valley if I could speak to her fifth graders. I asked her if she does she do a p talk encourage them to finish strong where they are and you know kind of push them on to how to be successful in middle school and she said no. She said I'd love for you to. So, I met with them and after I did that, um, I went home that Friday and I thought, really miss this a lot. And getting to see that side of it, the perspective of
019them sending them to middle school after having lived there for so long, it just seems like it was what I was wanting to do. And, um, loved my time at each school. Thankful for those um, administrators who took me under their wing and allowed me opportunities to grow and learn in those areas. So, thank you board for this new opportunity and hello to I think I know almost [Applause] every you were very kind in saying that you know you had opportunities at at various schools. So, she was at Green Valley for part of the time, she was at Bluff Park for part of the time, Deer Valley. So when you would leave Green Valley thinking you were going back to retirement before she got your car in the parking lot, we stopped her and said,
020"Oh, by the way, that means you go to Blood Park for a few weeks." But did an amazing job by all accounts and uh really really happy to have you back with with your experience level and you definitely seem really rejuvenated and energized. So we're excited to have that as well. So welcome back. Thank you. And I would like to ask if these individuals will come up and stand next to me for just a moment. Dr. Terry K. Davidson, Dr. Michael Alber, I do not believe Mr. Singer was able to join us again. Get another obligation. Um, Dr. Bob Lowry, Dr. Donna Smiley, I could have these come forward. So, these individuals right here, I know that they do not need any introduction just like our other guests. Um, but I wanted us all to
021be able to congratulate them on their promotions and their new roles within the central office. They have worked tirelessly for our system each and every day. And so they have all they're going to be stepping into new roles whether that is this month or this summer to continue to support our students and our faculty and staff. And so wanted to have a moment for us all to thank them. Um, when you take these individuals and our our two new administrators who are are coming back to Cooper City Schools, that is a hund over 185 years of experience in education. That is truly amazing. [Applause] When I started looking over at all of our administrators who are continuing on to be these big and important roles as leaders in our school system, that is really amazing
022to see that we have got people who've got 22, 25, 27 years of experience as not only teachers, but being in a classroom, whether they've been in a kindergarten classroom up to the high school as a administrators, leaders in this office. It is truly amazing. And our students tonight as we celebrate them at graduation and we see them across the stage and we celebrate all the things that they've achieved here. It is because of these amazing administrators that we have in our system. It is because of each of you as board members, our faculty and staff. What I have seen in my eight months here has been truly amazing. It has been an honor to serve alongside each of you and we are just so thankful. I wish I could have all of our administrators
023and faculty and staff with us today, but just wanted to congratulate them on their new move on to the consent agenda. Dr. Maddox. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I recommend the approval of the consent agenda which includes personnel actions, surplus items, capitalized assets, obsolete items which are non capitalized assets and contracts. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as recommended by superintendent? Do I have a second? All right. A lot of items on there. Any questions from the board? And there's none. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I oppose. All right. The personnel actions are approved. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Board members, back in October, if you will recall, you approved for HPM to conduct a phase one study to examine student enrollment patterns and uh
024student yield analysis, among other things. Um, I've asked Scott Leupold to come tonight uh to give us an an overview, an update on the progress of phase one. So, Scott, thank you for for flying in from Ohio and uh joining us tonight. And uh the floor is yours. Only for two more days we'll be flying. Where are we? Where's the [Music] lights problem exist between keyboard and chair. [Music] Okay. Uh so this is just again an update to kind of show where we are. We already talked about the projected enrollment, how it's remaining relatively stable. I want to focus a little bit on the student yield analysis. And what that is is that's when we look at the actual housing stock and how it relates to students by subdivision or neighborhood. This is a refresher
025from last time. I just wanted to throw this one up here. This shows historical housing data over the past 25 years or so. And so this just gives you an idea of, you know, kind of where we are as far as how many units per year we're developing. And we're kind of, you know, in that 400 to 500 range. Uh, but as you can see, we're nowhere near where we were like 2008, 2009, or even in the 90s. Um, this is important because I do want to just reiterate that we have been developing around 400 to 500 units a year. And even with that new housing stock coming online, our enrollment has still remained relatively stable. And so what that's indicative of is we're starting to see a decrease in our student. I think that
026historically we've had about um historically we've had about 04 students per unit and that's dropped to about 31 or.3 and what that really means is that people are staying in their homes longer. They're not selling and we're not getting those you know that next generation of family coming in at the same rates we have in the past. So what this shows us is this shows us uh you know what our single family yields are by elementary boundary. And so you can see it varies. You know we're we're starting to see in those more established areas we see lower yield rates like 2. In those newer areas uh like South Shades Crest, Brock Gap, we're seeing higher, you know, rates because we have more elementary families kind of moving in at the same time. But as
027you can see that that overall average is 0.31. Uh and this just shows, you know, I don't expect you'll be able to read all these. This just kind of shows our largest developments. And I have it this sort of descending based on number of housing units. And you can just get an idea of what those total student yields look like by the subdivision. So Chase Country Club 43 Lake Cyrus 35 uh Greystone Legacy I'm not going to read all of them but you can you get an idea we have it broken down by elementary middle and high school and then this is multif family. One thing I will point out is that multif family yields here are a little bit higher than we typically see. Typically we'll see about 0.15 and we're closer to 027
028here multif family but you can see how this varies by elementary boundary and how we do see a relatively higher yield at elementary grades 43 for sixth grades 008 for 9 through 12 and that's you know typically that's indicative of a housing apartment condo stock it's a bedroom problem you don't have as many two and three bedrooms room apartments as you do maybe one or two. And so that's why we tend to see families move into these, you know, multif family developments. They have their kids at elementary and then once the kids start to get a little bigger, they they tend to move into single family that future developments that we have. Um, you know, these are the, you know, kind of big ones that we have. Lake View, the preserve, Everly, and then there's
029that US 52 project down there. Uh, this is based on building permit information we have. And the one thing that I wanted to kind of point out here is that again, we've been building at 400 units a year. And so, this kind of shows us how long we have until build out in each of these projects based on those rates. And I I just put in a 100 units per year based on how many units they have remaining and then how many potential students we could see it build out. And so just these just these four areas um if we if we build out you know over the next 10 or 15 years we're looking at an additional 1300 or so students. But you have to kind of remember that it's not a closed system
030where every student that comes into the the district is coming in from the outside. There's some inner you know some interd district transfers internally and some churn and so that's not necessarily going to be a net ad of 1300 students. It may also be offset by a further student yield rate decline. Uh but I think the important thing to look at is the pace of development and we think that that really has a larger impact uh rather than than the number of housing industry. If we start to see an uptick as far as you know number of units per year it picks back up to 800. I don't see that happening unless we see drastic changes in lending practices uh and interest rates. I don't think anybody is giving up their 3% interest rate except
031me. So there's two of us. Um, so again, I would we're we're really not seeing a warming of the housing market. So I think we want to continue to keep an eye on how quickly these developments go. And this is a report that we got uh that really gives us everything that's in the district as far as how many units are permitted, how many have been built, and then how many are remaining to be built. And I the ones that we showed were the four big ones. Scott, can I ask a question? Sure. What what factors contribute to the reduced student yield that we're seeing? And um is is that consistent across the country or we're not an anomaly in that? No, it's it's it's you know people are having kids later. they're having teas
032and that being coupled with kind of that empty neester syndrome where they stay in the house and they don't move and we don't have other families coming in to fill in those houses and just overall just the lack of is the uh the move toward more 55 and over communities as part of those doors those units is that part of the issue that could that could be part of it as well but I mean it's not it's not one thing I think it's a combination of many But again, there are very few districts in the country that are seeing explosive growth like they did 10 or 15 years ago. Um, again, the only thing I really wanted to point out is that the two largest developments that we have, Everly and that US2 project are
033both pointed at Hoover High School. Uh, and that's not going to help in the balance of enrollment that we have between Hoover and State Park. So again, Hoover is poised to to grow, whereas Spain Park is more likely to remain flattered in line. And so our next steps, uh, we're going to kind of spend the summer developing some strategies to to address short-term and long-term growth needs. And we'll work through that, you know, internally, and then we'll share findings with, you know, broad and the broader community engagement process in the fall. So that's where we are. Any other questions? So the this because I'm one of the one of the empty nesters. Yeah. Um so could we attribute the reduction in sheet population at Spain Park to empty nesters in Riverchase and Greystone and other
034communities that feed Spain Park potentially? Yeah, I think it's it's empty nesters and it's people not wanting to give up their 3% interest rates that they all refinance in 2021. What what are the what are the what maybe what's a scenario that can create chaos in in that world if the Fed drops the rate 3% tomorrow which I don't see doing yeah 6.75ish but again I mean this isn't you know that's that's an unpreent That's an unprecedented change. Right. Right. There are there are metrics that we can look at so that we can see something coming. We look at the building permits. We look at first data to really see what's happening to get an idea of what the enrollment trends are going to look like. And this is I mean this is something we
035look at every year. we can look at how those yields fluctuate by neighborhood because there are some neighborhoods that are going to be less resistant to that empty neester effect because they're, you know, entry level homes. And so we can look at those to see if are those going to remain relatively consistent over time or are we starting to see the changes impact that? Okay, any questions from any other board members? Well, thank you so much for coming. We look we look forward to uh the progress that we're making and hearing back from you in the fall. Great. Hopefully, I'll be more. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Our business actions are next on the agenda. I'll call on our CS or CSO M. Good evening everyone. I'd like to start
036this evening with the April 2025 payroll. We were at 13,896,443 and our March dispersements for accounts payable 4,114,417.33 attached for your review and board approval. [Music] So included in your packet are the summary general purpose financial statements for the month ending March 31, 2025. As of this state, 76% of budget revenue has been received. As noted last month, schools receives the majority of its abolum tax revenue between October and March. These receipts will begin to taper off as we move into spring and summer. The financial results reflect six months of activity. At this point in the fiscal year, we would expect to have spent approximately 50% of the budget for refrain expenditures. General fund expenditures are currently aligned with that benchmark at 50% of the budget. The general fund reserve remain strong at 12.4 months.
037In March, payments were made for the RC3 automotive wing and ongoing HVAC projects. Special revenue fund expend March total 14.5 million, representing 64% of the budget. The majority of these funds are expended during the school year with reimbursement requests typically submitted on a one month delay. And if you have any questions, I'll be happy to address those. All right. Thank you, M. Yes, sir. Uh, no questions from the board. Do I have a motion to approve the business action items? Do I have a second? Second. I have a motion and I have a second. All in favor? Oppos? business action items are approved. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank you, board. Okay. We'll provide an overview of the fiscal year 25 budget amendment. Thank you very much. The FY25 budget amendment or budget reflects updates
038based on actual year end data and additional appropriations received after the original budget was adopted. The original FY25 budget used a projected FY24 ending fund balance of $135 million60. However, the actual ending balance as of September 32, 2024 was 149,335.94. No, sorry, 1 million4 is 149,335,194. a $ 14.3 million increase primarily due to incomplete capital projects. This amendment also incorporates the carryover of unspent federal grant funds ensuring they're available for continued use in FY25. In addition, New City schools receive 2.8 million in new state and federal appropriations, including a K12 capital grant for the elementary school HVAC phase three project and as well as funding for special education, career tech education, and reading and math camps. With these amendments and assuming all other factors remain unchanged, the projected ending fund balance as of September 30,
0392025 is $119,797,150, reflecting an increase of 12,150,844 from the original projection. Recurring revenues in the general fund continue to exceed recurring expenditures, and the $ 29.8 $8 million decrease in general reserves is largely attributed attributed to the planned capital project totaling 30.9 million. The amended FY25 budget including revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balance is hereby submitted for your review and approval. Upon approval, this amendment will be forwarded to the Alabama State Department of Education in accordance with reporting requirements. That's a mouthful. Thank you, M. K. Any questions from the board? All right, Mr. Vice President, I recommend the approval of the budget amendment for the fiscal year 2025 as presented. All right. Do I have a motion to approve the fiscal year 25 budget amendment as recommended by Dr. Maddox? Do I have a
040second? Any other questions? Okay. I have a motion to second. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. The budget amendment is approved. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. and the board for fiscal year 26 capital plans. Next thing on the on the agenda, I'd like to ask Matt Wilson to join this m at the podium. Um, M. Would you please please provide an overview for the proposed capital plan? Yes, sir. Thank you. I recommend that the board approve the fiscal year 2026 capital plan as presented for review and consideration. This required five-year plan outlines projected maintenance, construction, and renovation projects and has been extended by an additional three years through FY33 to incorporate the design and construction of the new elementary school. Notable updates since the April 8, 2025 presentation. The inclusion of two previously rejected group
041projects, win and Brock Gap, approximately 2.8 million. the addition of athletic fields upgrades at Hoover High School and Spain Park High School approximately 1 million and then the reduction in projected advancement in technology funds of 1.8 million. As a result of these changes, the FY26 reserve balance is adjusted from 9.13 months to 8.9. The projected reserve in FY33 is revised from 6 months to 5.83 months. And that is all. Very good. Any questions? Have a motion to approve the fiscal year 26 capital plan as recommended by the superintendent. I have a second. Second. All right. Any questions from the board on this plan? Seeing there are none. All in favor? Any opposed? The motion is approved. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank you, board. Next, we have the 2025 2026 salary schedule. Miss McCabe, please
042provide an overview of the recommended changes to the salary schedule for 2526. I recommend the board approve the 2025 2026 salary schedule for all HR employees as presented in a summary of the proposed changes for 2025 2026 include the reduction of one work date for most employees. The addition of a salary schedule for an assistant superintendent position. Increase in the daily rate for substitute teachers and substitute aids to $130. Increase in the hourly rate for teachers supporting summer programs to $50. And an increase of $3 per hour for student workers assisting the operations and the technology department projects. Conclusion of those changes. Mr. Vice President, I recommend the board approve the 2526 salary schedule changes for Hooters school. Do I have a motion to approve the 2526 salary schedule as recommended by Dr. Maddox? Second.
043Okay. Other questions at this time? All right. Have a motion, a second. All in favor? Opposed? Seeing there are none, the motion is approved. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank you, board. Next is a purchase of property. As you know, board members, we've been working for several months to secure a new another uh operations facility. Operations and transportation currently share a facility at 1,070 Buccaneer Drive. Our transportation department needs additional space. They need additional bays to service their buses and equipment. With the purchase of this facility, transportation will be able to expand to encompass the current operations area. As a reminder, in April, you approved a sales contract to move forward with vetting the property located at 20 2195 Parkway Lake Drive, which contains approximately 21,400 square feet, including warehouse and office space, the combination
044of which seems to be difficult to find in Hoover right now. At this time, I would like to recommend the purchase of 2195 Parkway Lake Drive for the price of 3 million $265,000. Um, Matt, do you have anything you like to add about the facility or or how it would will serve your department? Um, there's a lot of advantages to location 65 right now high school. So, it's hard to get in and get out. Uh from a facility standpoint, it does become plenty of warehouse space. There's plenty of open areas that we can maintain our shop and supplies and then office space. Office space is more than I need, but I think down the road, but it will serve very well for what do we have there that that you don't currently have? The biggest
045thing I don't have is a mechanic bay. Um that would be to add that as part of recreation as far as outside that it has more space. It has more usable space for our trucks and has got you know exterior park on the back side is kind of isolated and contained and secure which is very beneficial. And Miss McCay do you mind providing the funding source for the purchase of this facility? So we both include it in our FY25 budget and it is 3 265 I think is the total that we have in the budget. All right. Any questions from the board? Is it just uh your department or will other folks be joining? I think at this point right now it's just my but once we build it out there'll be more office bas.
046Yeah. I'm confident it will contain at least two departments. gives us a little bit of flexibility to do some other things. I think that's correct. It does one big thing the district does have there in the middle. Sure. Super. Okay. All right. Uh Mr. Vice President, I would like to recommend the purchase of 2195 Parkway Lake Drive for 3,265,000. All right. Do I have a motion to approve the purchase of the property at 2195 Parkway Lake Drive as recommended by the superintendent? Second. Second. All right. Any other questions before we vote? All right. All in favor? Opposed. All right. The motion is approved. Thank you. Next are the new and adjusted supplements. Um for 2526, Miss McCain will provide an overview of the recommendations. Dr. For the 2526 academic year, I recommend approval of the
047following supplement changes. The addition of a new girls wrestling coach supplement to support the growth and development of this emerging sport. The addition of a new strength and conditioning coach supplement to support yearround athlete development, injury prevention, and performance enhancement across all sports programs. The addition of a local school communication share supplement can be about $1,500 annually recognizing the growth importance of school level digital communication and content management in alignment with districtwide efforts. I also would like to share with you there is a decrease in the elementary and secondary web master supplement from a combined total of $18,000 to $8,000 reflecting a realignment of responsibilities now partially supported through the newly established communication share role each school and then finally addition of new supplements including instructional athletic and program support student and family support operations
048and logistics support and business and administrative support each not to exceed $40,000 annually as determined by the superintendent to address evolving district needs in these key areas. All supplements will continue to be reviewed annually as part of the broader evaluation of athletic and other extracurricular supplements. And that is for the changes questions. Mr. Vice President, I recommend approval of the 2025 2026. All right. Do I have a motion to approve the 2526 new and adjusted supplements as recommended by the superintendent? Second. Do I have a second? Second. All right. Any other questions at this time? And there none. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. The motion has approved. Good work. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank you, board. Next, we have a bid. Um, the next item is a bid for uniforms and equipment
049for Spain Park High School athletic teams. U, Mr. May, would you like to speak to the bid? Really, the only thing I would like to share with you is there were five invitations to bid and only one individual company did on that project. It was disappointing. Last year, we sent out five invitations and we actually had three people participate. So, I anticipated three this year. I did not get any communication back. So I am surprised that it's just the one, but it's one that has worked with Park very well over the years. So I feel confident in recommending it. And currently both high schools use BSN, right? Yes, sir. Any questions for me? All right, Mr. Vice President, I like to recommend that the bid be awarded to BSN Sports LLC, which are Nike Products.
050Do I have a motion to award the bid for uniforms and equipment for the Spring Park High School athletic teams to BSN Sports? Have a second. All right. No other questions. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. The motion is approved. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank the board. The next item in the agenda is the bid for Hoover High School theater upgrade. Um Matt, would you like to speak to that in terms of the scope of work? Yeah, this is really 90% of the work is cosmetic upgrades. It's replacing the carpet, replacing seats, paint wall, ceilings, new soundboard materials, new light fixtures. There's nothing really technical. It just makes it a more pleasant use, but has not seen it built about 30 years. So this time and
051they do want to use it for smaller amounts that justify using that small space. Just can't stay out of the cannot back my roots. Exactly. Any questions for board members. All right, Mr. Vice President, I recommend board award the bid to Curtis Thompson General Contractors LLC in the amount of $345,454. Good. Do I have a motion to award the bid for Hoover High School Theater Upgrade to Curtis Curtis Thompson Contractors? A second. Second. All in favor? All right. None approved. Thank you, Mr. Vice President Board. At this time, um, I would just like to take an opportunity. Uh, it is the end of the school year. It's been a, it's been a great run this year. I go back to, uh, institute, if you guys can remember back that far. Um, institute was phenomenal and
052it has been, u, it has been a fantastic school year. And it's fantastic for many reasons. It's fantastic because we have wonderful teachers and staff members in the district. We have great administrative leadership. We have fantastic and supportive parents and PTOs, PTAs. Um we have phenomenal students who come to school and work hard each day and and make us proud. Um it's just been a fun ride this year. It's gone by very very quickly. It has been a fun year. We have learned a great deal. We have celebrated lots and lots of awards um from students and staff members. Most recently uh the Alabama State Teacher of the Year. So, we have so many things to be proud of. Um when I asked Merritt to compile, uh a brag sheet, it was pages and pages.
053Um so, I'm not going to bore you with all those details, but just want to commend um everyone for the work they've done. Thank the board for your support along the way. It's critical uh for you guys to to be there to support, also to push us um and make sure that we're doing things the way that we need to do them. Um our central office staff here, you guys are fantastic. There's no way we could do what we do without you. And everyone is in their own lane working really hard and it's rare that they have to pull me into their lanes, which is probably a good thing. But um just a phenomenal school year. I'm very excited where we are. I'm excited about where we're going. Um I'm excited to celebrate all the
054seniors as you mentioned tonight at Hoover High Spain Park. This is what it's all about and we get to see um we get to see the result of all of our hard work as those students walk across the stage tonight. So very excited. I'd also uh like to acknowledge and welcome Jeremy Vice here, our newest board member who will begin uh his tenure in officially in June. Um really excited to have you on board of the board. I know you're gonna you you bring great uh diversified expertise to the board. We're just really excited to have you and uh hope you enjoy your new journey. Uh Jeremy mentioned to me earlier that tonight I think he's going to a baseball game and I said next year you'll be going to two graduations. So uh but
055but welcome aboard. We're we're so glad to have you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming. All right. So next we have election of 2025 2026 board president and vice president. Alabama law provides that a city board of education shall hold its annual meeting each year at the 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. As and as superintendent, it falls on me to preside over the election process. I would ask that Dina Neterville serve as clerk for election purposes. We will observe Robert's rules of orders modified in conducting the elections. Nominations will be taken from
056the 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 nominated for more than one office. Elections will be by roll call vote with an I vote. A majority of the full board required to elect a candidate. Are there any questions before we begin taking nominations for president? If not, nominations are now in order for president. Do I have a nomination for president? I'd like to nominate. Okay. Alan Pquette is nominated as president. Are there further nominations for president? Hearing no further nomination, I declare nominations for president closed. The clerk will now call the role for the vote on Mr. Alan Pquette for president with board members voting I or nay. Dana you will call the role please. We will repeat
057the process for the second nomination as well. Pette I shel. All right. Congratulations to Mr. Pquette for being selected as the board president for the 2526 school year. Nominations are now in order for vice president. Is there a nomination for vice president? I would like to nominate Rex Blair for vice president. Okay. Rex Blair is nominated for vice president. Are there any further nominations for vice president? Hearing none, I declare nominations for vice president closed. The clerk will now call the role for the vote on Mr. Rex Blair for vice president with board members voting I or nay. Alan Pette. Hi. Amy Tossy. Hi. Rex Blair. Hi. Shelley Shaw. Hi. Congratulations to Mr. Alan Pquette as our next board president and to Mr. Rex Flair as our board vice president. Mr. present. The gavl remains
058with you tonight as you provide presside over the remainder of the meeting. All right, thank you very much. Thank you everybody. All right, it's time for public comments. Uh we don't have any. All right, so we'll go past that. Let's go to board comments. Uh I'll start to my left. Uh Michelle, well congratulations to the both of you. Thank you for being the ones to step into leadership this year. Um it's the end of the school year and I'm very excited to see our graduates tonight. So looking forward to that and um good job I appreciate the opportunity. Um you know interesting people hear that they think it means anything other than just give you an opportunity maybe to pick up a few extra things and learn more. So I'm excited about that. But we
059all have one vote and as a board we have to be unified as we go forward. So I'm excited to just be a part of that as I continue my journey. So I appreciate that and trust. Uh just love being a part of this organization, love being on this board. It's a it's a very unique group of people who I can tell you unequivocally love this district and everything they do is about trying to make this district better. So it's really an honor to be here. Uh I had a quote sent to me today by someone from our organization. I'm going to butcher it, but just a sense of it really feels applicable to today and then the graduation tonight. So, the author of Treasure Island, which a lot of kids read, you know, when
060they're young, uh he has a quote that says something along the lines of measure your life not by the amount of your harvest, but by the number of seeds you sew. And that just feels like that's kind of our calling here, isn't it? Um yeah, we graduate them. We're not harvesting them. We're graduating them to send out the world. But it's all those seeds that were planted whether they were here in kindergarten or here in 12th grade. The seeds our people put into them. The way to try to educate the character and the engagement. That's what we're about. And as we plant those seeds, I think that's what we can put our stamp on and say, you know, we're doing our part to try to make sure the future is set because we're putting seeds
061today. Just want to thank you all for that. It's just tremendous. You want to go? Sure. Um, if you're in this room, I appreciate you. And I feel like I say this every month, but sometimes at the end of a school year, it it can feel a little daunting and you're just ready. Everyone's ready to be done. And um, I just want you to be encouraged because, hey, summer's coming and sun's going to be out and it's going to be great. And I I think you all do a great job as educators for other educators and I appreciate well I'm very grateful and um humbled that board um trust me to be the president of this board. Uh started my fifth year on this board. I've only sat under two presidents. Uh Miss Ta served
062for two years and I watched her [Music] She served through COVID and cancer. A lot of people don't know that. And she persevered. Set a really good example. And uh yesterday we sent Kermit on his way. He's become one of my best friends. So glad to be his wingman for a couple years. And now I get a wingman who's also. So, uh, I'm just grateful and I appreciate all of you and I'm looking forward to what we're going to get done this next year. All right. Um, our next board meeting is scheduled for June 10th at 5:30 right here. And this meeting is adjourned.