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Thomasville City Schools board approves special-education contracts, budget amendment and grounds service contract
Summary
The board authorized two special-education contracts (including a school psychologist and hearing-impaired services), approved Budget Amendment No. 8 and a CTE-linked grounds/lawn-care contract totaling $48,075 annually; votes were taken by voice with no roll-call tallies recorded.
The Thomasville City Schools Board of Education approved multiple operational items, including special-education service contracts, a detailed budget amendment and a grounds/lawn-care contract during its regular meeting.
Dr. Flowers presented two contracts exceeding $30,000 required by the district—s special-education program: a contract to provide school-psychologist services (to meet timely evaluation requirements under state indicators 11 and 12) and a verbal-communication/hearing-impaired services contract. Flowers said the district—s compliance on evaluations has risen since his arrival. When asked whether the psychologist contract covered a single individual, Flowers named the provider (Kirk Knight) and said the vendor has been working through the summer to complete evaluations to meet 90-day timelines.
Mr. Kevin Hinton presented a CTE-linked grounds/lawn-care contract with an annual total of $48,075 to cover mowing, shrub mulch and other district grounds services; athletics facilities were noted as funded from a different source. A board member asked whether the contract included track and field; Hinton said athletic areas were included but have a separate funding line.
Chief Financial Officer Wanda Iasi presented Budget Amendment No. 8 and a continuing-interim appropriation resolution authorizing the CFO to continue paying salaries and ordinary expenses at current (2025-26) levels, not to exceed those amounts, effective July 1, 2026 until adoption of the 2026-27 budget, citing NCGS 115C-434. The budget amendment packet referenced local, state and federal adjustments, charter enrollment and Finch Auditorium utility costs. Board member Mr. Dayton asked a clarifying question about a small line-item referenced in the packet (transcribed as "$29"), which the CFO located in the budget pages for the board to review.
The board approved the following by motion and voice vote: the exceptional-children contracts; detailed Budget Amendment No. 8; the CTE program plan; the CTE grounds/lawn-care contract; and consent approval of meeting minutes. Votes were voice votes with "aye"/"no" calls and no roll-call tallies provided in the transcript.
The meeting moved into a closed session for attorney-client privileged matters and confidential personnel matters pursuant to cited statutes.
Officials and vendors mentioned in the discussion included Kirk Knight (service provider), Finch Auditorium and references to DPI and statutory citations for appropriations and closed-session authority. The transcript did not record numeric roll-call tallies for the motions; outcomes were recorded as approved by voice vote.
