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Board hears operations updates: Meadows playground plans, school renaming, summer meal boxes and geotechnical testing
Summary
Operations staff updated the Cabell County Board May 6 on a range of facilities and student-support items, including a Meadows Elementary playground project, a proposed street-address rename to Wildcat Way, a $150,000 summer meal-box contract and a $10,000 geotechnical test for a STEM lab project.
Operations staff briefed the Cabell County Board of Education Tuesday, May 6, 2025, on capital and support items ranging from a playground purchase at the district’s new Meadows Elementary to summer meal boxes and pre-construction testing for a Cabell Midland STEM lab expansion.
Director Boggs told the board that work on the new Meadows Elementary playground is progressing. The district had previously appropriated funds to support the project; Boggs said one figure in the presentation was $9,797,200 (as stated in the meeting transcript) toward the project and that Meadows Elementary had raised a portion of the cost (the transcript references $13,000 from the school) with a total playground option price of $110,200. Boggs said the district used a cooperative purchasing contract vetted through a public cooperative purchasing process.
Boggs also reported a faculty senate request to rename the new Meadows Elementary’s street address from “200 Warehouse Road” to “1 Wildcat Way,” contingent on approval by local capital 911 authorities.
For summer food service, staff recommended a $150,000 contract with Multitude Foods to supply seven-day meal boxes at four pickup locations on specified Wednesdays from June 18 through July 30 (as presented). Boggs said locations include Salt Rock Elementary, Heights Saunders Elementary, Cox Landing and Antioch Baptist in Ona; families will pick up seven-day meal boxes on scheduled Wednesdays.
On capital projects, Boggs said Cabell Midland’s new STEM lab and cafeteria expansion will include geotechnical soil testing by American Geo Tech at a cost of $10,000, which was budgeted for the project. Boggs described geotechnical testing as standard practice to confirm soil conditions before groundbreaking.
Superintendent Tim Hardesty and operations staff also flagged two policy readings in the operations update: a first reading for an embedded-credit policy (number cited in the packet as 23.70.02) and a second reading on policy 9.160 concerning public attendance at school events (the discussion included adding bingo to the list of allowable events). Boggs noted other items in the operations packet, including planned network hardware purchases (agenda items 4.16 and 4.17) for Meadows Elementary and the Woody Williams Center and an e-rate funding application that may reimburse a portion of network costs if approved.
Boggs also described a buyback/repurchase option for surplus MacBooks from graduating seniors and flagged a Project AWARE grant-funded social-worker position administered via Marshall University to cover the social work position that has been in place this school year.
Board members asked clarifying questions; Boggs invited members to review project renderings and stated sample materials were placed in binders and on display in the building for inspection.
