001All right, no break needed. All right, then we're going to go. I'm going to call the April 28, 2025 Winston County Board of Education meeting to order. Mr. Lee, would you lead our invitation? I will start with this. Our heavenly father, Lord, we thank you for allowing us to be here today. We ask that you be with us as we conduct the business for our school system. that any decisions that we make today would be uh uh pleasing to you. We ask Lord you'd be with all of our teachers and faculties and staff as a year gets closed out just uh keep them safe Lord. We ask Lord you forgive us where we failed you. We ask all these things in Jesus name. Amen. Item C is the pledge of allegiance. Attention salute. Pledge. I
002pledge 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 D is to establish a forum and I see that all members are here. [Music] Item E is the approve the agenda. Do I hear a motion we approve the agenda? I'll make a motion. right here. Second also. Everybody had a chance to look over it. Any questions, additions, or subtractions? Hearing? None. All in favor, raise your right hand. All voted for it. Item F is unfinished business. M. Scott, do we have any unfinished business? We do not. Item G is new business. I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Scott for recommendations. We have Miss Denise Olive with us. She's the audit manager and
003she's going to give us an update report on our latest audit. So, we'll give you the floor. Hi, my name is Denise Olive. I'm a manager for Winston County. Several years ago, the legislature, you know, passed a law that your we would come and present the audit at the first public meeting after it was released. uh your audit was released on March 28th and that was for the period October of 23 through September 24. The entire audit, if anybody doesn't have a copy of it, is on our website, which we're now with the legislators. We're on the Allison.leislure.state. Yes. Um we conduct our audit um in accordance with general accepted auditing standards as well as governmental auditing standards and we do that for the purpose of giving an opinion on the financial statements as well
004as determining whether or not the board complied with applicable laws and regulations. We issued an unmodified opinion on the financial statements which means that they're materially correct in accordance with governmental generally accepted accounting principles. We also noted no matters to indicate that the board had not complied in all material respects with applicable laws and regulations. And to say all that just basically means you had no findings in your audit report this year. Uh we also do a federal audit this year. We tested the title one program as well as the esser money and we also tested the Winston Career Academy and Lynn Elementary School. And that's all. Thank you ma'am. Appreciate it. So miss that'd be like in our case a perfect perfect audit. I wouldn't say good one. I would never say perfect but
005materially correct. Okay. Materally correct. All right. Thank you. We appreciate you. You can stay around or you go out the back door if you want to. Thank you. Have a good night. Okay. You too. You too. Item number two. Item number two. I'd like to recommend Mark Hastings for employment as teacher at Addison High School effective August 1st, 2025. Do I hear a motion on item number two? I'll make the motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor raise your right hand. All voted for. Item number three, I'd like to recommend Cindy Hastings for employment as assistant principal at Addison Elementary School effective August 1st, 2025. Do I hear a motion on item number three? Make a motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Any discussion? Is
006that all day or will she be half? Anything else? All in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote for it. Item number four, like to ask the board to accept the following resignations. Katie Woodard, teacher at Addison Elementary School, effective 523 of 25. Katie Woodard, head volleyball head volleyball coach at Addison High School, effective April 2nd, 2025. Kenny Gillum, teacher at Land High School, effective May 28, 2025. And Kenny Gillum, also coach Atlanta High School, effective 528, 2025. Ba Grace, cheer coach at Winston County High School, effective 425 of 25. You hear a motion on item number four? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Any discussion? Hearing? None. All in favor, raise your right hand. All voting for it. Item number five. Like to ask the board to accept the following
007retirements effective June 1st, 2025. Nancy Parish, teacher at Adelon Middle School. Nancy Pri, librarian at Meek High School. Barbara Kutcher, teacher at Double Springs Elementary School. Do I hear a motion on item number five? I'll make that motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote for it. Item number six, like to ask the board to approve a leave of absence for the following employee. Uh, Brienne Russell, teacher at Double Springs Elementary School, effective May 1st, 2025. Do I hear a motion on item number six? I'll make the motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second it. Any discussion? Hear none. All in favor, raise your right hand. I'll vote for item number seven. Like to ask the board to approve the following
008coaching assignments. Mark Hastings, varsity football coach at Addison High School. Julie Vil, head varsity girls basketball coach at Winston County High School. Adam Vil, assistant varsity girls basketball coach, Winston County High School. Lisa Sutherland, varsity cheer coach, Winston County High School. Adam Kn, volunteer assistant football coach with no board of sub supplement at Winston County High School. Do you hear Do I hear a motion on item number seven? Wait, that's fine. I'll second. Whatever. Greg made a motion. Randy second it. Any discussion? Hear none. All in favor raise your right hand. I'll vote for Yeah. Item number eight. like to ask the board to approve March 2025 expenditures. Uh payroll 2,418,60066. Accounts payable $461,882.34 a total of 2,880,483. Still hear a motion in item number eight. I'll make a motion. Kristen have a second. Any
009discussion hearing? None. I'll preach your right hand. I'll vote for it. Item number nine. Like to ask the board to approve March 2025 financial statements. Do I hear a motion on item number nine? Make a motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second. All right. Those are in our meeting. Any other discussion? Hear none. All in favor, raise your right hand. All voting for it. Item number 10. Like to ask the board to approve the purchase of a basketball shooting machine from Meek Elementary School from Alabama Athletics at a cost of $7,382 to be paid using local school funds. Do you hear a motion on item number 10? I'll make that motion. Do I hear a second? I'll make any discussion. Hear none. I'll raise your right hand. I'll vote for it. Item number 11.
010like to ask the board to approve the purchase of the following uh using 21st century afterchool grant funds. Uh training kitchens at Addison Elementary School $17,474.80. Double Springs Elementary School $17,7563 and Double Springs Middle School $16,383. and oh, sorry. Uh, also drone race kits uh from Rocket Drones at Double Springs Middle School, $23,245 and Lynn Elementary School, $21,995. Do I hear a motion on item number 11? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Any discussion? What's a training kitchen? It's above me. I don't know what that is. I'll be honest with you. I need to know if they need a volunteer taste tester or something from edible education. Elementary kids. I don't know. We'll see. They have all kind of stuff. Where does it go? After school program that located after
011school. It'll be somewhere where they have that after school program. All right. So, that's where it got. Yeah. Yeah. All this is involved with those grand funds that have to be spent on that program. So raise kids. Okay. I might get in on those. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor raise your right hand. I'll vote in item number 12. like to ask the board to approve the purchase of a 2014 Chevrolet Traverse Jasper Auto uh for $11,000 and this will be offset by $5,4026 from insurance proceedings. Do I hear a motion in item number 12? I'll make a motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second it. Any other discussion? You may say, but the other part of that is just coming out of my general plan. should get should be driving car.
012Any other discussion here? No. All in favor? Raise your right hand. All the report for item number 13. Like to ask the board to approve a field trip for the Meek High School exceptional inclusion students to Chattanooga, Tennessee on May the 1st, 2025. a motion on item number 13. I'll make that motion. Do I hear a second? I'll second it. Any other discussion? Hear none. All in favor raise your right hand. All voted for it. All right. One question. Usually this time of month, we do away with all contracts, don't we? We'll do that next meeting. All right. Anything else? One one quick thing. Uh Carol Smith, long time teacher at L is got to go. He's uh they given three units of blood this weekend. He's in the hospital. So he's going to go
013to a GI specialist to try to That's I meant to tell you today um where it's going. He don't keep Mark Ragsdale. What about his uh I don't know the ranks but yeah Mark Ragsdale passed away you know didn't know about teacher driver made for passed away Saturday lunch time I think I got more soon as I find out the arrangements I'll I'll shoot and then Carol is where's he got go. No, not yet. He's going to go to a GI. He's he may have got to come home today. Where was he at? Winfield. He was at Winfield. Okay. At Winfield and uh continue to remember Greg Penley's family because his father passed away. He buried last week. All right. Is there anything else? Hear none. Do I hear once we set up the meeting,
014but we'll probably have a meeting before the third Monday in Bill. because between May May we'll probably have two or three meetings and August we'll have two or three in there too. So we want to start that set meeting in June. That's going to be like the first month to start that. Well, if we do on the 15th that's a Thursday. So that's kind of what we said a minute ago. I'm talking about May. Yeah. Look at it once we got once they get some more stuff in and everything. We'll figure out what day we need to meet. And like I said, if you know if it's convenient to y'all move that following Monday in May instead of the 15th, but we'll look at it. They're they're going to change from time to time. There's
015just no way around. All right. Do I hear a motion? We adjourn. Do I hear a second? Second. All in favor raise your right hand. I'll vote for it. I declare the meeting ajourned. Thanks everybody for coming.