Hoover City Schools board approves consent agenda, business actions, uniforms bid and two policy revisions

The Hoover City Schools Board of Education approved its consent agenda and several business actions at its recent regular meeting, awarded a bid for middle-school athletic uniforms and adopted two policy revisions.

The board approved the consent agenda, which the superintendent recommended and which the board said included personnel actions, contracts, field trips, obsolete items, noncapitalized assets, surplus items and 2025–26 extracurricular supplements. The motion passed by voice vote with no recorded opposition.

Melinda Buck, chief school financial officer, presented the financial overview included in the board packet and reported that, for nine months of activity, general fund expenditures stood below the full-year budgeted amount and special fund expenditures were near budget. Buck told the board that current reserves were “at 12 0.14 months” and that the district would continue to see the reserve decline until ad valorem tax collections increase in October. She also reported June cash disbursements of $7,009,165.94 and a July 25 payroll figure reported in the packet.

The board moved and approved “business actions” as presented by staff; the motion passed by voice vote with no recorded opposition.

On procurement, the board voted to award the bid to supply uniforms and equipment for Berry Middle School athletics to BSN Sports LLC, with products from Nike, UA and Adidas to be supplied through that vendor. The motion to award the bid was approved by voice vote with no recorded opposition.

The board also approved revisions to two board policies: policy 4.09 0.4 (Internet safety and use of technology) and policy 6.17 (electronic communication devices). Chief Administrative Officer Dr. Cowry told the board these were the same recommendations provided at the prior meeting and that the state had supplied additional clarity on the Internet safety component. "It's more of an assignment. It's 4 modules of good discussion. These modules are about 30 minutes long. They go ahead and take a full exam after each module, and then they have a 20 question exam at the end," Dr. Cowry said. Trustees approved the policy revisions by voice vote with no recorded opposition.

Board members asked no substantive follow-up questions on the bid or the policy changes during the meeting. No roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript; all votes were taken by voice with the chair calling for opposed members to speak and none doing so.

The board did not take action on other items beyond those recorded above.

Ending — The board moved on to other matters after approving the listed items.