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Votes at a glance: Southern County Board of Education meeting actions
Summary
The board approved routine agenda items and a series of consent and finance items by voice vote, including payment requests, reimbursements, the 2025–26 academic calendar and personnel recommendations; the board also authorized an executive session for personnel and student/residency matters.
At the meeting the Southern County Board of Education approved multiple routine and operational items by voice vote. The following motions were recorded in the meeting transcript; where specific individual roll-call votes were not read aloud, the transcript records unanimous voice approval.
Votes recorded in the meeting transcript
- Approve meeting agenda — motion passed by voice vote.
- Approve minutes of the Jan. 23, 2025, board meeting — motion passed by voice vote.
- Approve consent agenda (items a through e) — motion passed by voice vote.
- Approve request to pay a vendor for technology services rendered prior to purchase/issuance — motion passed by voice vote. Board packet included a letter from the director of technology and presenters said procedures were put in place to avoid recurrence.
- Approve reimbursement to an employee at Southaven Middle School for phone repair after a student-damage incident — motion passed by voice vote; the packet included a repair receipt and the board authorized reimbursement.
- Approve the DeSoto County Schools 2025–26 academic calendar, developed with input from the Teacher Advisory Council — motion passed by voice vote.
- Approve statement of revenue and expenditures for December 2024 — motion passed by voice vote; presenters said general fund revenues and expenditures were each about 3% higher than FY24 figures.
- Approve combined balance sheet for December 2024 — motion passed by voice vote; presenters reported an increase in fund balance over FY24.
- Approve statement of cash flow for December 2024 — motion passed by voice vote; presenters reported cash balances and invested amounts with named banks.
- Certify bank reconciliations for December 2024 — motion passed by voice vote; presenter said all bank statements were reconciled with no exceptions.
- Approve personnel recommendations and related items (new assignments, supplemental pay for after-school tutoring) — motion passed by voice vote.
- Approve motion to enter executive (closed) session to consider residency appeals, student matters and a personnel contract matter — motion passed by voice vote; the board then entered executive session.
Several motions recorded a mover and second orally but did not record individual roll-call tallies in the public transcript; when the transcript records only “All in favor say aye” and “Hearing none, that motion passes,” those items are summarized above as passed by the board.
