Board approves consent and personnel items, tweaks financial procedures manual and moves to executive session on school safety
Summary
The Tuscaloosa City Schools board approved the consent agenda and personnel set-asides (with a few abstentions recorded), discussed minor updates to the financial procedures manual including raising a bid threshold, and voted to enter executive session for a school safety update.
At the meeting, the board handled routine governance matters and several formal votes.
Consent agenda: Speaker 5 called for a motion to approve consent item 10a; the motion was moved, the board answered 'Aye' and the consent item was approved.
Personnel and supplemental lists: Superintendent recommendations and supplemental personnel items were presented by Doctor Cameron. The board moved and voted to accept set-aside number 6 on the main list and on the supplemental list. On one motion the clerk recorded one abstention by Miss Grama; on the supplemental vote Speaker 5 noted that Mister Simmons would be abstaining and the transcript records Mister Lucas as the second on a motion.
Financial procedures manual: Mister Duke (Speaker 7) described minor updates to the TCS financial procedures manual, noting it had not been updated since about 2017 and that state law raised the bid threshold from $15,000 to $40,000; he said the district would hard-code $40,000 in the manual and review the document periodically, perhaps annually.
Executive session: Speaker 5 moved to go into executive session for a school safety update; the motion was seconded and the board voted 'Aye' to enter executive session.
The meeting then proceeded to the executive session; no further public actions were recorded in the transcript.
