Ringgold board approves routine consent items, hires and curriculum purchases

The Ringgold School District Board unanimously approved a slate of routine consent items and personnel actions at its meeting, including acceptance of the treasurer's report, ratification of recent hires, and purchases and agreements intended to support students with special needs.

The administration asked the board to accept the treasurer's report, which was included in the board packet; the motion passed on a roll-call vote recorded as 7–0. The board then combined agenda motions 2 through 4 and approved the combined actions by the same unanimous margin.

Personnel actions approved included ratification of hires made under superintendent authority since the Dec. 17, 2025 meeting (names listed in the board packet were ratified pending documentation), the employment of Leslie Williams as a paraprofessional at $14.50 per hour, and acceptance of several resignations. The board also accepted retirements from Ross Schulz and Tommy Thompson. The administration moved to terminate employee number JA2601 (identified in the motion as Cliff Baker) for job abandonment; that motion was moved, seconded and approved.

The board approved several agreements and purchases intended to support student services. The district authorized entering agreements with external providers, including the day school at the Children’s Institute and SPHS behavioral-health and care-center agreements. The board approved participation in a WestEd reading apprenticeship for academic literacy learning and approved purchasing the Job Ready Life / Project Discovery transition curriculum for individualized transition goals, to be paid from IDEA access funds; approval was noted as subject to fund review by the solicitor and administration.

The board also authorized the board president to sign the 2026 spring repository sale consent form allowing the Washington County Tax Claim Bureau to sell certain delinquent parcels that administration described as "of little or no value." Another motion directed the district solicitor or special counsel to send a second letter to a contractor’s surety demanding the surety perform under a performance bond for an identified project.

All motions recorded in the provided transcript excerpt passed on either unanimous roll-call votes or by the affirmative votes recorded in the minutes (most recorded as 7–0). The meeting packet contains full lists of individual hires, resignations and other personnel details; the board’s approvals were conditional in several cases on receipt of proper documentation and solicitor review.

The board scheduled facility use hours for community groups (Sundays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., from March 3, 2026, through May 31, 2026) subject to fees in district policy; that motion also passed by recorded vote.

Next steps: several approvals (notably the Job Ready curriculum purchase) are contingent on fund review by the solicitor/administration and routine administrative follow-up.