CorpusRecord 86681

Board Meeting: April 14, 2026

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Source
YouTube / Winston County Board of Education
Date
2026-04-14
Location
Winston County, AL
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,022 words · about 6 min
Collected
2026-06-13

Transcript

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001Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you, dear God, for your son, Jesus. Thank you, dear God, for giving us the opportunity to serve on the school board as we uh uh serve our students and our faculty and staff. We pray, dear God, that you'd be with us as this school year is coming to a close. That you continue to watch over us and bless us and keep our students and staff safe. Be with us as we conduct this business. For it's in Christ's name I pray. Amen. I'll receive the pledge of allegiance. Attention. 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. Item is to establish

002the quorum. I see all are here except Mr. Payne, and she may have missed tonight. Item E is to approve the agenda. Do I hear a motion that we approve the agenda? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Everybody had a chance to look over it? Are there any additions, subtractions, or changes we need to make? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. Item F is unfinished business. Mr. Scott, do we have any unfinished business? No, sir. Item G is new business. I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Scott for recommendation. I would like to ask the board to approve the March 2026 financial statements. Do I hear a motion item number one? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? Second.

003Those are our packets. Any questions? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. Item number two. I would like to ask the board to approve the March 2026 expenditures. Accounts payable $486,281.62. Payroll $2,472,263.66. For a total of $2,958,545.28. Do I hear a motion on item number two? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. Item number three. I would like to ask the board to approve the sale of a 2021 2500 HD Chevrolet to Alabama schools for $45,000. Do I hear a motion on item number three? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll

004vote in favor of it. Item number four. I would like to ask the board to accept the summer feeding supplemental grocery bid in partnership with West Alabama CNP Consortium. Item number four first. Oh, sorry. I got ahead of myself. I would like to ask the board to approve participation in the summer feeding program from May 28th to July 30th of 2026. Do I hear a motion on item number four? I'll make a motion. So, I'm getting over the shoulder coach. I understand. I can't read my writing. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Sitting here taking a walk. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. Item number five. I would like to ask the board to accept summer feeding supplemental grocery bid in partnership with

005West Alabama CNP Consortium. Do I hear a motion on item number five? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. Item number six. I would like to ask the board to approve the renewal of the CNP bids for from the 2026 school year through the 2027 school year. Do I hear a motion on item number six? I'll make a motion on item number six. I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. Item number seven. I would like to ask the board to approve proceeding with the Lynn Multipurpose Facility Project using a self-performed general contractor approach with a

006total project budget of $700,000. Do I hear a motion on item number seven? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Any discussion? I'll accept the self-performed general contractor. Nobody can do it any quicker. Wait, they couldn't use other school contractors. Contractors. Any other discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. Item number eight. I would like to ask the board to approve the retirement of Tanya Riddle, teacher at Addison High School, effective June 1st of 2026. Do I hear a motion on item number eight? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. Item number nine. I would like to recommend Tyler Bond as a

007volunteer coach at Lynn High School. Do I hear a motion on item number nine? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote in favor of it. That's everything. I guess we need to do number 10. Oh, yeah. We can do number 10. I don't know why I forgot about that. Item number 10. Item number 10. Uh this time we're going to recognize the Polly Winston County Career Academy HOSA members. And before we do that, I just want to say to all you ladies, I know this doesn't happen by chance. It takes a lot of commitment, a lot of dedication, and a lot of hard work. And not only did you represent yourselves well, well, but your families, your teachers, your

008school, and the entire Winston County Board of Education. And we just want to thank you before we honor you at this time. So, the first one I would like to honor will be uh Miss Tennyson Gilbreath. If you'll come over, Miss Tennyson. Tennyson was our first HOSA uh state vice first HOSA state vice president and secretary for the 2025-26 school year. You want Keep them all up. Keep them all up through uh English I believe. Our next is a leader of this group. I would like to recognize this time Miss Teresa Hamby as the HOSA advisor of the year. I should have done this first. Thank you, ma'am. Well, I thought Miss Payne was first. Sorry. Okay. So, we'll do it again. Thank you, Miss Hamby. All right. This time we will be recognizing Kate

009Barton as our HOSA member of the year. And last but not least, we would like to recognize Miss Aubrey Sanders as our HOSA state president for the 2026-2027 school year. First time that has happened. I think I can have them done by then. If you want to stand. Sorry. Here we go. You're not ready yet. Well, how do you think? I think I can do it. And I will take a couple more and then I'd like a picture with all the board members in it. Mr. Wright. And if I guess Okay, let me take Mr. Wright, wants you to come up and be in this one, too. Sure. Here we go. All right, we're done now. Now, all board members, y'all gather in. Then you going to get one with Russia. I'll get that from

010the chair. Stand right there, right in front of me. Jeff God, I'm just There you go. One. Just make sure we can see it, buddy. Okay. One, two, three. All right, one more. One, two, three. Thank you. Thank y'all so much for what you did. Thank y'all. You can do as far as the meeting and then you get in it. Thank y'all. Anything else? Don't need to go. All right, our next meeting will be April 23rd. It'll actually be two meetings. We'll have a meeting at 6:00 at May. We'll have a meeting at 7:30 at Madison. So, if there's nothing else, do I hear a motion that we adjourn? I motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, raise your right hand. All voting is for it. I

011declare this meeting adjourned. Make sure there's some refreshments back there.

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