Chilton County Schools board approves financial report, personnel and consent items; hears innovation center update and courthouse dedication invite

The Chilton County Schools Board met in regular session and approved the agenda, a monthly financial report and routine personnel and consent items before moving into executive session.

The district's finance presenter told the board the monthly statements for the period ended March 2026 show year-to-date revenues at 52.08% of budgeted revenues and expenditures at 39.22% of budget. Accounts payable stood at $2,499,876.42 and gross payroll for the month was $6,214,261.69. For March the district reported revenues over expenditures of $589,061.99 and an ending general fund balance of $61,070,764.08, described on the record as 7.97 months in reserve. The board moved, seconded and approved the financial report by voice vote; the transcript does not record who made the motion or how individual members voted.

Board members then voted to approve personnel items A through K and a consent agenda of items A through G. Each action was made, seconded and carried by voice vote on the record; specific movers, seconders and roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript.

Earlier in the meeting, a visitor invited board members to a courthouse dedication scheduled for June 29 at 10:00 a.m., and asked that the superintendent and the board be included in a time capsule to be buried at the event. The visitor described plans to collect first-grade signatures and senior sponsors' items for the capsule and requested a photograph of the board and superintendent for inclusion. The visitor said the old county courthouse would close prior to Memorial Day and the new courthouse would open for business in early June.

Superintendent remarks focused on the district's career innovation center. The superintendent said a revised construction timeline was distributed to board members and said staff are conducting weekly check-ins "every Monday and every Friday" to monitor progress; the superintendent said any adjustments to the schedule will be communicated to the board.

The board announced it would enter executive session. Outside counsel James Hilliard of the Hilliard Law Firm introduced himself at the start of the closed-session record, saying, "All right, good afternoon, y'all. My name is James Hilliard with the Hilliard Law Firm. Based on my knowledge of applicable law," before the transcript ends where the executive session begins.

The meeting record includes routine procedural votes but does not include named movers, seconders or roll-call vote tallies for the motions recorded on the public transcript. No ordinances, resolutions or budget adoptions were adopted on the public record during the portion of the transcript provided.