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Board approves budget resolution, contracts, tuition rate and retention bonuses
Summary
The board approved changes to school calendars for election days, purchases and contracts (including a three-year software license for $203,362.50), a FY25–26 tuition rate and multiple recruitment/retention bonuses, and authorized sole-source professional-learning and tutorial services.
At its Sept. 8 meeting, the Edgecombe County Public Schools board approved a package of action items covering school-day schedule changes for election sites, software and curriculum purchases, a tuition rate for out-of-district students, the initial fiscal-year 2025–26 budget resolution and several personnel-related payouts.
Key votes and approvals:
- Change of regular school day to a teacher work day on Oct. 7, 2025, for specified schools serving as Board of Elections voting sites — motion approved by voice vote.
- Change of regular school day to a teacher work day on Nov. 4, 2025, for additional election-site schools — motion approved by voice vote.
- Approval of a three-year purchase for site licenses (math, ELA, science and social studies) in the amount of $203,362.50 (total across three years); motion approved. The superintendent noted some prorating and funding would come from textbook and Exceptional Children funding and recommended pending final contract review by the board attorney.
- Approval of the FY25–26 tuition rate for students residing outside the district; the motion recorded a tuition rate of $1,794 for the fiscal year pending usual administrative processing.
- Approval of the initial FY25–26 budget resolution to adopt state, local, school-lunch and special-revenue budgets, with the board noting expected addenda and carryover items to be added at subsequent meetings.
- Approval of a sole-source curriculum extension (Savas Fusion math) for JW Parker Middle School in the amount of $16,720 to maintain continuity of instruction.
- Approval of multiple comprehensive-support-and-improvement (CSI) recruitment and retention bonuses for eligible staff at DS Johnson, Fairview, Baskerville, JW Parker and Stocks elementary/middle schools using ESEA/CSI funds; payments are contingent on submission and verification of staff lists for payroll.
- Approval of sole-source tutorial services for Southside Academy (private-school equitable services) with a not-to-exceed amount of $11,441.58 from Title I basic grant funds, and approval of a professional-learning sole-source purchase with Crucial Learning (via vendor SmartDLC) for $29,679.50 to provide training and up to 100 district licenses.
Most motions passed by voice vote; the transcript records "aye" for each motion and does not include roll-call tallies by member name. Several motions (notably CSI bonus payments) require submission of staff lists and verification before payroll disbursement.
The board also moved into closed session to consider personnel and student-record matters and later returned to approve closed-session personnel management items. The meeting adjourned after approving fall extracurricular activities.
