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Escambia County board approves cheer trip, curriculum purchases and several personnel actions
Summary
The board approved a cheer team overnight trip, several instructional and facilities purchases (totaling roughly $67,230), approved new pay-scale positions and completed personnel votes after an executive session.
The Escambia County Board of Education approved multiple consent and action items including an overnight cheer-team trip, curriculum purchases, facility work and personnel actions during Thursday’s meeting.
The board approved an overnight trip for the Escambia County High School cheer team to attend cheer camp at Alabama State University in Montgomery from June 6–8, 2025.
Several purchases were approved by voice vote: restroom partitions and screens for W.S. Neil Middle School from Shore Doors for $29,720.80 (paid from FY25 funds); career and life-skills curriculum from Education Associates for $27,944 (paid from an IDA/transition grant) to support students with special needs; and a Phonics First training course from Brainspring for $9,565 (Title II funds) to train 59 elementary teachers, including stipends for participants.
On personnel and compensation items the board approved the creation/placement of an accountability supervisor position (240-day pay scale) and a special-education program specialist (202-day pay scale), and approved a revision to the 2025 summer salary schedule. Several personnel recommendations were held out for individual consideration; the board entered executive session to discuss items C2, D2 and D3 and, upon reconvening, approved C2 (with one abstention recorded), D2 and D3.
A board member asked that minor sections of the code of conduct concerning dress/uniforms be removed from the packet so the remaining code could be sent to print while the superintendent drafts the replacement dress code. The meeting closed with routine updates and congratulations to Dr. Collier on being voted district superintendent.
Next steps: Personnel paperwork and procurement orders will proceed per board approval; superintendent will circulate a draft dress-code proposal for review.
