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Board approves FY27 budget calendar, elects officers and approves personnel actions after executive session

Pickens County School Board of Trustees · November 18, 2025

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Summary

At the Nov. 17 meeting the board approved the FY27 general-fund budget calendar (workshop and reading dates), elected Randy Robinson as chair, Carla Kelly as vice chair and Betty Garrison as secretary, and approved superintendent personnel recommendations and the posting of a Director of Literacy position following executive session.

The Pickens County Board of Trustees concluded routine and governance business at its Nov. 17 meeting, approving a budget calendar, electing officers and taking post–executive-session personnel votes.

Administration presented a proposed FY 2026–27 general-fund budget calendar that reserves five budget-workshop dates (Jan. 23; Feb. 20; Mar. 20; Apr. 24; May 22) and schedules the three required budget readings: first reading March 23, second reading and public hearing April 27, and third reading May 26 (adjusted because of Memorial Day). The board moved and approved the calendar by general assent.

In officer elections facilitated by board staff, initial ballots for board chair narrowed to two candidates (Randy Robinson and Carla Kelly) with an initial count of 4–2; subsequent final balloting resulted in Randy Robinson elected board chair. Carla Kelly was selected vice chair and Betty Garrison elected secretary; the facilitator announced the results to the board.

The board voted to enter executive session for personnel, property, contractual, school-safety and legal matters and then returned to approve the superintendent’s recommendations for leaves, hires and separations and to approve student-services recommendations for two students identified in the agenda as students 'b' and 'd'. The board also approved the posting of a Director of Literacy position.

The meeting adjourned after those approvals. Actions were recorded by motion, second and assent; most routine votes were passed by general consent and recorded as such in the minutes.