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Winston County Board of Education approves routine personnel, budget and program items
Summary
At its March 17, 2025 meeting the Winston County Board of Education unanimously approved a series of routine personnel actions, financial reports and purchases — including grant-funded classroom VR equipment, extension of child nutrition contracts and multiple field trips — by voice vote.
The Winston County Board of Education on March 17, 2025, approved a slate of routine personnel changes, financial reports, equipment purchases and program participations during a meeting called to order with an opening prayer.
Mr Scott presented the board’s recommendations and asked members to accept several resignations, including one listed in the record as “Becky cob Bary, girls basketball coach at Winston County High School,” effective March 17, 2025. The board moved, seconded and approved the resignations by voice vote. Mr Scott also recommended approval of Floy Gillan as a volunteer softball coach at Meek High School (effective March 17, 2025) and a leave of absence for “Maddie rise, teacher at Addison [school],” effective April 28, 2025; both measures were approved by the board.
The board approved January and February 2025 accounts payable and financial statements presented by Mr Scott. The transcript contains fragmented numeric lines for some expenditure line items, so specific dollar totals could not be unambiguously verified from the record and are reported here as not specified in the transcript.
The board approved a number of purchases and program expenditures. Members voted to: - Purchase a floor/cleaning machine for the lunchroom (transcript shows $7,257.12) and to sell certain Child Nutrition program items and two generators as surplus; - Approve grant-funded purchases for the 21st Century after-school program, including class sets of virtual reality goggles and Zag Active Learning platforms for multiple elementary and middle schools (Mr Scott noted these are grant-funded and must be used in the specified classrooms); - Extend Child Nutrition supplier contracts for the 2025–26 school year (vendors named in the record include Coca‑Cola and Purity Dairy, plus produce and bakery suppliers); - Purchase an auscultation trainer class pack for Winston Career Academy for $839 (funded by the Foundation); - Approve multiple overnight activities and field trips, including regional leadership conferences and competitions (locations and dates such as the DECA International Career Development Conference in Orlando, March and summer conference dates in Montgomery and Mobile, AL, and softball tournaments were listed in the record).
Board members also approved the proposed 2025–26 payroll dates after brief discussion about timing around holiday pay dates. Several items were introduced by Mr Scott and approved with motions and voice votes; the transcript records the board’s voice confirmations with the repeated phrase “all in favor raise your right hand; all voted for.” Specific individual vote tallies and the names of motion-makers and seconders are not recorded in the transcript.
The meeting ended with no additional business and the board adjourning; no future meeting date was set in the transcript.
What the record shows and does not show: the transcript explicitly names Mr Scott as the staff presenter and records the actions listed above. Several employee names and numeric expenditure lines appear in the transcript but are spelled inconsistently or are fragmented; where amounts or spellings could not be unambiguously verified in the transcript, this article notes that the transcript is unclear rather than asserting corrected figures or spellings.
