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Board approves consent items, personnel hires and routine contracts; several community bus requests granted
Summary
The Alba Independent School District board approved its consent agenda including finance and activity reports, hired five teachers on one-year temporary contracts, approved a summer lawn-care contract and granted bus-use requests to local churches and a speech team travel request.
The Alba Independent School district board approved a package of routine items and several specific actions during its regular meeting, including personnel hires, a lawn-care contract and requests to use district buses for outside groups.
The board voted to approve the consent agenda covering minutes, finance and activity reports, purchase orders and other routine items. That motion also included approval of declared surplus items, board policies and the child nutrition report.
The board approved one-year temporary certified contracts for five applicants for the 2025–26 school year: Jessica Smith (part-time Title I), Kylie Gilling (Longfellow third grade), Jordan Penner (Lincoln fourth grade), Barrow Hamilton (middle school social studies) and Morgan Cook (high school math). The board also approved a change to summer reading academy staffing after a previously scheduled teacher became unavailable.
On facilities and operations, the board approved a contract with DT Spring and Water Care Club to provide mowing and grounds services during the summer months; trustees discussed and set parameters that the contract would be capped through August and any work beyond the capped amount would require board approval. The board approved continuing the Association (AEA) contract for the 2025–26 school year, granting an out-of-state travel request for the speech and debate program to attend a workshop in Springfield, Missouri, and approved several community uses of buses: College Hill Church of Christ for a July camp and First Baptist Church for transport to Falls Creek in Davis, Oklahoma.
Votes recorded during the meeting show trustees voting to approve each item when called, with roll-call affirmations recorded in the minutes.
The board also announced it would convene an executive session to discuss hiring the high school head baseball coach for 2025–26 under the cited Oklahoma executive-session statute.
Items approved at this meeting will move forward as routine district business; the board chair said staff will complete follow-up steps such as contract execution and scheduling.
