HOOVER CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
MARCH 22, 2011      5:30 pm
DRAFT AGENDA  
 
I.                 CALL TO ORDER
                   PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY SIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Farris Hejazen, Erin Nation, and Sarah Grace Looney  
 
II.                ADOPTION OF AGENDA
 
III.               RECOGNITION
                   A.                First Place in the State Superintendent’s Art Competition/Hoover High Student Shirley Fung  
                   B.                National Achievement Finalist for the 2011 National Merit Scholarship/Spain Park High Student Alexis Jackson
                   C.                United Cerebral Palsy’s Life without Limits Inspiration Award/Spain Park High Student Joseph Mote
                   D.                2010-2011 Gatorade State Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year/Spain Park High Student Brandon Hazouri
                   E.                National Federation of State High School Associations 2010 Alabama Coach of the Year for Girls Track and Field/Hoover High Coach Devon Hind
                   F.                Participant in the U.S. Army All-American Marching Band/Hoover High Student Forrest Schaffer
                   G.               2011 Local School Communicator of the Year by the Alabama School Communicators Association/Jean Ingram                                                            
 
IV.              ACTION ITEMS
                  A.                Minutes from February 15, 2011 Regular Board Meeting and February 24, 2011 Called Board Meeting
                  B.                Personnel Actions
                  C.                Business Actions
                                     1.                Monthly Financial Statement – January 2011
                                     2.                Payroll – February 2011 -$6,805,180.05
                                     3.                Cash Disbursements – February 2011 - $2,413,559.57
                  D.                Textbook Adoption Committee Appointments
                  E.                Obsolete Items
                  F.                Bids
                                     1.                Grass Cutting Bid from Vision Landscapes, Inc. in the amount of $69,826.00
                                     2.                School Bus Bid                    
 
V.                PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
 
VI.              INFORMATION/REPORTS                    
 
VII.             NEW BUSINESS  
 
VIII.            DATE OF NEXT BOARD MEETING
                   Next regular Board meeting will be on Monday April 11, 2011 at 5:30 PM  
 
IX.               ADJOURNMENT
 
So reads the Agenda.
 
All members of the Board were present except for Mr. Cooper.  Mr. Bolt called the meeting to order at 5:32 pm.
 
Those present included Hoover City Councilor John Greene, Mr. Hulin, Mr. Shaw, Mrs. Barber, Mrs. Antee, and Mr. Gasten.
 
Media coverage was provided by the Birmingham News.
 
No fine arts program was featured at this meeting.
 
Action items were completed fairly quick, with the exception of Item F 2, the school buses.  There was much disussion about them.
 
Mr. Bolt skipped over Public Participation, but came back to it after Information Reports.  The main issue there was what the realigned schools would be called (names).  It was determined that Bumpus Middle School would retain it's name at their new building (even though they would technically be a Junior High School with 7th and 8th grade only).  A new name would need to be given to the current Bumpus facility, as well as for the existing Crossroads facility and the existing Old Berry campus.  
 
During Public Participation, one member of the public asked that the Board release Hoover City School's official stance on the Bluff Park Community School, as there are many rumors floating around.  Once received, the speaker said that it would be posted on the Bluff Park Web Site, as well as any other sites that wish to post it.
 
During New Business, Mr. Bolt pointed out that Mr. Craig's yearly evaluation would be started at the next meeting.
 
Before adjourning, one member of the public asked if he could be heard.  Mr. Bolt allowed him to speak.  The gentleman, a parent, compalined to the Board that they Board had not given sufficent notice on the realignment plan before voting on it.  He indicated that he was caught by surprise and requested that HCS do a better job of notifying the public about impending issues.  
 
Please feel free to add any comments/statements to this that I may have missed.  To the Board or members of the public that spoke, please feel free to add your own comments if I erroneously took any of your statements out of context.