Cullman County Schools board approves routine consent items, okays Fairview roof repairs and conference travel; names officers

Cullman County Schools’ board met in a routine session to approve consent-agenda items, authorize maintenance work at Fairview paid largely through insurance, approve conference and out-of-state student travel, and confirm nominations for board president and vice president.

The board opened with awards and recognitions for schools that received a sportsmanship incentive introduced in recent years. Speaker 2, who presented several items during the meeting, said the district “have a small, incentive for schools that get the sportsmanship award … we appreciate y’all,” and invited principals from Coal Springs, Good Hope and Holly Pond High to be recognized.

The board approved the October 16 minutes and then moved through a consent package that included personnel (items 2–8), school requests (9–14) and financial items (15–16). Each item was recommended by the presenter, a motion and second were recorded, and the board approved them by voice vote.

Maintenance item 17, involving roof damage at Fairview, received brief discussion. Speaker 2 said the insurance company is “paying for the repairs to the roof on the backside, and they’re paying to reshingle the backside of this roof,” and that the district decided “to go ahead and shingle the whole thing because it was in need of that,” adding the district will be ‘‘reimbursed for a big portion of this.’’ The board approved the maintenance item by voice vote.

The board then approved transportation item 18 and out-of-state field trips listed in item 19 following the presenter’s recommendations and voice votes.

Items 20 and 21 authorized staff and support professionals to attend the Cullman County Education Show Association conference; Speaker 2 noted the associations or organizations involved are covering substitute-teacher costs for attendees. Both items were approved by voice vote.

During the organizational portion of the agenda (item 22), the presenter said Wayne was nominated for board president and Shane was nominated for vice president during the work session; the board voted to approve those nominations.

In the superintendent’s report the presenter listed calendar dates — noting one week until Thanksgiving break and roughly three weeks after the return before the end of the semester — and congratulated area cross-country athletes. The transcript contains two spellings for one school’s name: Coal Springs appears earlier and “Cole Springs” appears later; the presenter congratulated that school’s girls team on winning a state cross-country championship and the boys as runners-up, and singled out Weymouth High School for individual and record-setting performances.

Speaker 1 announced the next regular board meeting for Thursday, Dec. 18, with a 3:30 p.m. work session and a meeting immediately following, then the board approved adjourning the meeting by voice vote.

The meeting’s actions were routine approvals and scheduling; no contested motions or roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the transcript.