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Votes at a glance: Cleveland County Board of Education, Sept. 8, 2025
Summary
Key motions and roll-call outcomes from the Sept. 8 Board of Education meeting, including unanimous approvals and one failed motion to table board compensation.
This summary lists formal motions, recommendations and recorded vote outcomes from the Cleveland County Board of Education meeting on Sept. 8, 2025. Tally counts are taken from the public meeting record.
- Adopt agenda — Motion to adopt the meeting agenda. Moved: Board member (record says "I'll make a motion to adopt"); second: Mister Humphreys. Outcome: passes, 7–0.
- Approve minutes (08/11/2025) — Motion to approve minutes. Moved: Mister Bridal; second: Mister Grigg. Outcome: passes, 7–0.
- Approve personnel report — Motion by Mister Bridges; second by Mister Humphreys. Outcome: passes, 7–0.
- Motion to table discussion on board member compensation — Moved by Kenneth Ledford (asked to table until full board with absent members present); second: (not named in the record). Vote: in favor 2, opposed 5. Outcome: motion failed (table denied).
- Kings Mountain High School Gymnasium Project — Committee recommendation to accept the qualifying bid from Linter Construction for gym floor and bleacher replacement (insurance-approved). Full board vote recorded in consent: Outcome: approved, 7–0.
- Surplus declaration (Shelby High School UTV) — Committee recommended declaring a nonoperational UTV surplus for disposal and sale via govdeals; full board consent vote: approved, 7–0.
- Cleveland County Schools five-year school-based mental health plan — Committee recommended approval; full board vote: approved, 7–0.
- Nomination of “My Home Library” project for NC School Boards Association Champion of Education award — Motion to nominate and seek board chair signature; full board vote: approved, 7–0.
- Motion to enter closed session pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-318.11 (personnel exception, subsection A6 as recorded) — Motion approved, 7–0.
The meeting record did not list individual roll-call votes by name for all items; where names were spoken, they are recorded above. For the failed motion on compensation the meeting transcript records the mover (Kenneth Ledford) and a two-to-five tally but does not record a named second or a full roll-call of how each board member voted.
