Board approves consent items, personnel actions and policy updates in unanimous votes

The Limestone County Board of Education approved a set of routine and policy items by unanimous vote, including a consent agenda, personnel actions, several policy changes required by new state law, and a price change for employee and visitor breakfasts to comply with federal regulations.

Motions passed without recorded opposition. Board members voted in favor of the consent agenda, authorized personnel actions that included new instructional assistant positions designated to support English Learner (EL) students at schools with more than 60 EL students, set graduation dates for the 2025–26 school year, increased the breakfast price for employees and visitors to $3.15 to comply with federal regulations, approved a settlement agreement (details not specified in the public discussion), updated the student handbook to reflect the state FOCUS Act rules under the technology section, and adopted Limestone County Board of Education policy 5.12 (paid personal leave).

Financial and staff items noted in the meeting: - Miss Hubbard reported financials through May (eight months into the fiscal year). Local revenues were listed at $25,700,000 (about 83% of budgeted revenue) and expenditures at $93,400,000 (about 66% of the annual budget). The fund balance was reported as $51,000,000, equal to roughly 4.17 months of operating reserves; $4,000,000 has been moved to the capital projects fund to date. - The board discussed EL instructional assistant positions described as new positions to support schools where EL teachers carry caseloads of 70–90 students.

Procedure and voting specifics recorded in the meeting transcript showed motions offered and seconded by named board members for each item; the chair called for a voice vote and announced each motion passed unanimously. Where the meeting transcript did not include the full text of a motion in the record, the agenda item name is used here and the transcript is the source for the unanimous outcome.

Items approved (meeting language): - Consent agenda (motion offered by Mister Young, seconded by Miss Kilgore) — approved unanimously. - Personnel actions, including new EL instructional assistant positions (motion offered by Mister Hilliard, seconded by Doctor Herring) — approved unanimously. - Graduation schedule for the 2025–26 school year (motion offered by Mister Young, seconded by Mister Hilliard) — approved unanimously. - Employee and visitor breakfast price change to $3.15 (motion offered by Miss Kilgore, seconded by Mister Young) — approved unanimously; stated reason: compliance with federal regulations. - Settlement agreement (motion offered by Mister Young, seconded by Doctor Herring) — approved unanimously; settlement details were not discussed on the public record. - Student handbook updates reflecting the FOCUS Act (motion offered by Miss Kilgore, seconded by Mister Young) — approved unanimously; updates placed progressive discipline rules under the handbook’s technology section. - Addition of Limestone County Board of Education policy 5.12 (paid personal leave) (motion offered by Miss Kilgore, seconded by Mister Hilliard) — approved unanimously. - License agreement allowing Limestone County Commission limited access to district-owned property near the bus shop for site evaluation (motion offered by Mister Young, seconded by Miss Kilgore) — approved unanimously.

The board concluded with the appointment references: the new principal at Clemens (Marty Bennett) is set to start the next day, and Miss Brooks was acknowledged as an incoming assistant principal at East Limestone; the board did not record a separate vote on those specific recognitions within the public discussion captured in the transcript.