Cabell County Schools presents array of contract renewals and interagency agreements for new fiscal year
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Summary
Board heard about recurring interagency agreements, vendor renewals and expanded early-admit partnership with Marshall University that will affect career, special education and library services across the district.
Cabell County Schools officials on July 1 presented a package of interagency agreements and contract renewals that the district said will support career‑center programs, special education services and library and safety systems for the coming fiscal year.
District staff said the agreements cover clinical placements and services for practical nursing and medical assisting programs, audiology and vision services for students with disabilities, speech and hearing partnerships with Marshall University, transition‑to‑work agreements with Goodwill Industries and software and training renewals for library management, student safety training and online credit recovery.
The contracts were described during the agenda item on vendor agreements. "4.05 will apply to our practical nursing program, which is our adult program. It will also apply to our medical assisting program at the Career Center," said Heather Scarberry during the presentation about interagency agreements. Scarberry identified Marshall Health, Valley Health, Encompass, Woodlands, Cabell Huntington Healthcare, the VA, Madison Park Hospice, Mitchell Bateman, Lifeline and River Park as partners for clinical placements and services.
Special education director (identified as Miss Stevens) reviewed multiple contracts that provide audiological exams, orientation and mobility instruction for visually impaired students, and discounted speech services through Marshall University’s speech and hearing center. "Per policy, we have to provide what they need in an educational environment whether it’s hearing aids or some type of FM system for the classroom," Stevens said when describing the Professional Hearing Solutions contract.
The board also heard about Title I purchases at several schools. Staff described Securly, an electronic hall‑pass system for student iPads used at Huntington East and Huntington Middle, which tracks student out‑of‑class time and can flag high concentrations of students in the same area. "It tracks how long the student's out of the classroom," a staff member said; Huntington East and Huntington Middle requested Title I funds to continue the service.
Other renewals discussed included Follett Destiny (library management), Vector Solutions (safe‑schools mandatory training management) and Imagine Learning/Edgenuity (credit recovery and summer school). The board packet lists these as recurring annual or multiyear renewals.
The presentation also highlighted a memorandum of understanding with Marshall University tied to the district’s Cabell Commitment early‑admit program. "Our first year that we did this, we had 3 students. This year we had 142 students," Scarberry said, describing the process by which student applications are processed by the district and sent to Marshall as direct admits.
Board members did not debate the general purpose of the contracts during the presentation; staff said many of the vendors and interagency partners are recurring and were previously vetted. No formal vote on the contracts was recorded in the discussion segment excerpted in the transcript.
District staff said some contracts come from Title I or other restricted funding sources; specific dollar amounts for the individual contracts were not stated during the presentation.
The board packet will include the individual contract documents and pricing for review before any contract execution, per routine procurement and board approval processes.
