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Votes at a glance: Hoover board approves personnel actions, bids and contracts; rejects two roofing bids
Summary
At its May meeting the Hoover City Schools Board approved personnel actions, hired a new CSFO, awarded multiple construction and equipment contracts, and rejected two roofing bids that exceeded budget.
The Hoover City Schools Board approved a slate of personnel and procurement items at its meeting, including personnel actions, several construction and equipment contracts, awards for athletic- and building-related projects, and approval of the 2025–26 athletic and extracurricular stipend schedules. The board rejected two roofing bids that exceeded available budgets.
Key outcomes (motions were approved unless noted):
- Personnel actions: Approved (motion to approve personnel actions as recommended by the superintendent).
- Hiring of Melinda Buck as CSFO: Approved (see separate article for details).
- Program consulting services for restroom and locker-room renovations: Approved. Superintendent recommended a program consultant proposal in the amount of $49,250 for consulting services related to restroom renovations at Hoover High School and locker room renovations at Spain Park High School.
- CME food-service equipment: Awarded to Singer H & R (lowest responsive bidder) for $72,745. The board approved the award to the recommended bidder.
- Network electronics: Awarded to C Spire for $1,287,485.76 to upgrade Cisco-based network infrastructure across the district.
- Bumpus Middle School athletic field lighting: Awarded to Titan Electric Inc. for the sole bid of $359,550; the dollar figure includes a $10,000 contingency and a unit-price allowance for rock excavation.
- Green Valley Elementary parking-lot expansion: Awarded to Duncan and Dearman Building Company LLC for $278,749 (lowest responsible bidder; two lower bids rejected due to unreasonable unit-price allowances).
- RC3 (Riverchase Career Connection Center) parking-lot expansion: Awarded to Duncan and Dearman Building Company LLC for $599,226 (eight bids received; lowest responsible bidder selected).
- Brock’s Gap Intermediate School roof replacement: Bid rejected because all six submitted bids exceeded the available budget.
- Riverchase Elementary roof replacement: Awarded to Roofing Solutions LLC with a base bid of $1,891,400; board discussion noted insulation/energy-efficiency and code-related concerns as part of the rationale to proceed.
- Gwynn Elementary Phase 1 roof replacement: Bid rejected because all six submitted bids exceeded the available budget.
- 2025–26 athletic and extracurricular supplement and stipend schedules: Approved. Changes from prior year include the addition of a high-school assistant robotics coach and a district-level coordinator of student services.
Most of the procurement motions were presented by district staff with brief discussion and voted on by voice; recorded vote tallies were not provided in the transcript for these items. Where staff supplied project budgets or contingency allowances, those figures are noted above as presented at the meeting.
