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Board hears finance, staffing and safety committee reports; Kings Mountain gym bid recommended to board
Summary
Committee chairs updated the board on interim state budget conditions, health-plan rate changes and safety work; Safety & Operations recommended and the full board later approved a bid to replace Kings Mountain High School’s gym floor and bleachers.
Committee chairs briefed the full Board of Education on finance, personnel, safety and capital projects during the Sept. 8 meeting.
Finance and Personnel Committee chair Aaron Bridges summarized an Aug. 27 committee meeting in which Rob McDaniel presented a state and federal budget update and staff noted the state had not adopted a full budget; the district is operating on an interim budget. Dr. Jennifer Wampler shared a staffing update for the 2025–26 year. Eric Lamanna briefed the committee on 2026 changes to the state health plan; the committee was told employee premiums are shifting to be salary-based and that employer costs will increase. The committee discussed substitute pay for long-term teacher leave, and no changes to current substitute rates were recommended.
The Safety & Operations Committee chair, Walter Sperling, reported that the district purchased an additional walkthrough weapons detector to use at Turning Point Academy and that the committee discussed a community-proposed resolution to safeguard children from vaping and nicotine products; the committee supported forwarding that proposal to the full board for consideration. Safety staff reported attending regional safety and bomb-training sessions and discussed procedures for athletics events.
Capital projects were reviewed: the committee discussed applying for the state’s needs-based public school capital fund grant and agreed priority projects would be the Beth Ware and Kings Mountain Middle addition and renovation projects based on the district’s capital improvement plan. The committee also reviewed bids to replace the gym floor and bleachers at Kings Mountain High School (damage attributed to hail and roof leaks) and unanimously approved recommending acceptance of the qualifying bid from Linter Construction; the recommendation went to the full board for approval.
The board later approved the Kings Mountain High School gymnasium project and the Shelby High School surplus item (a nonoperational UTV) in the consent portion of the meeting.
