Baldwin County Board of Education Packet Summary — 2026-08-20
Meeting: 08/20/2026 - 04:30 PM BOARD WORK SESSION Work Session
Location: Central Office Satellite, Loxley, Alabama
The Baldwin County Board of Education work session agenda includes presentations on student support programs, district updates, senior staff reports, a June 2026 financial update, and a review of agenda items. The packet provides detailed supporting material for the financial update; the other listed discussion topics do not include substantive supporting text in the packet.
Key Items on the Agenda
School Counselor / Social Worker Curriculum
The agenda includes a presentation on the School Counselor/Social Worker Curriculum by Sherry Rainbolt. The packet identifies the topic but does not provide additional curriculum details, proposed changes, or a recommended board action.
Peer Helpers Program
The board is scheduled to receive a presentation on the Peer Helpers Program from Allison Moore with the Jennifer Claire Moore Foundation. No additional program description, funding information, or proposed action is included in the packet text.
GRITC Update
Jeremy King is scheduled to provide a GRITC update. The packet does not provide additional details about the subjects expected to be covered in the update.
Letters of Commendation and Senior Staff Reports
The work session agenda also includes Letters of Commendation and Senior Staff Reports. No substantive supporting information is provided for these items in the packet.
Agenda Items
A general "Agenda Items" topic appears at the end of the work session's discussion list. The packet does not specify which individual agenda matters are expected to be reviewed under this heading.
Major Financial Items
June 2026 Financial Update
Chief School Financial Officer Shane Martin is scheduled to present the June 2026 financial update. The supporting materials include the June financial report, a one-percent sales tax report, legal-expense reports, and unaudited FY 2026 financial statements.
The General Fund had an ending balance of $115,765,720.58 as of June 30, 2026, compared with a June FY 2025 balance reported as $113,568,499. The FY 2026 General Fund began October 1, 2025, with $94,641,379.37 and recorded a year-to-date excess of revenues and other sources over expenditures and other uses of $21,124,341.21 through June.
General Fund Revenue and Spending
Through June 30, General Fund revenues totaled $389,494,507.61, while expenditures totaled $298,903,965.54.
The financial update compares activity with a 75% fiscal-year target through June:
- State revenue: $197.36 million, or 78% of the amount shown in the update's budget comparison.
- Local revenue: $191.02 million, or 79%.
- Other revenue: $1.11 million, or 142%.
- Total revenues: $389.49 million, or 79%.
- Total expenditures: $298.90 million, or 70%.
Instructional services represented the largest General Fund expenditure category at $181.69 million through June, followed by instructional support services at $57.58 million.
Property Tax Revenue
The update reports approximately $93.3 million in Ad Valorem revenue received through June 30, representing about 98% of the estimated budget. The detailed report lists $93,256,957 received against $95,471,881 budgeted.
The packet also notes that 10 of 12 mills are not available for use because of State Equity Funding.
One-Percent Sales Tax
Year-to-date one-percent sales tax revenue through June 2026 totaled $47,153,818, compared with $45,168,056 through June 2025 and $42,555,635 through June 2024. June 2026 monthly revenue was $5,589,439, compared with $5,356,555 in June 2025 and $4,954,634 in June 2024.
The packet states that penny-tax revenue is calculated on a modified cash basis to provide more accurate year-to-year comparisons.
Local-Funded Staffing
The financial report identifies 857 staff positions budgeted with local funds for FY 2026. The listed positions include:
- 381 teachers
- 16 counselors
- 44 assistant principals
- 35 other certified employees
- 92 teacher aides
- 44 clerical employees
- 66 technical employees, including IT technicians, nurses, and social workers
- 94 maintenance employees
- 59 bus drivers
- 26 other administrative positions
The report also notes approximately 370 individual extracurricular and athletic supplements across multiple district programs.
FY 2026 Legal Costs
The packet reports $464,746.36 in FY 2026 legal costs in the legal-cost history provided with the June update. That total consists of $417,428.11 in regular attorney fees and $47,318.25 associated with open-records-request attorney fees; the report lists no FY 2026 costs in its other-special, arbitration, settlements/hearings, or capital-project legal categories.
The firm-level breakdown attributes $399,038.11 of regular attorney fees to Adams & Reese, with additional regular fees of $7,065 to James D. Sears and $11,325 to The Gallini Group. Adams & Reese is also listed for the $47,318.25 in open-records-request attorney fees.
Districtwide Financial Snapshot
The state financial reports included in the packet show $464,491,641.86 in total revenues across governmental fund types and expendable trust funds through fiscal period 09 and $469,173,511.99 in total expenditures. After other financing sources and uses, the reports show a combined year-to-date deficit of $1,914,691.28 and combined ending fund balances of $416,793,056.83.
Within those totals, the packet reports ending fund balances of:
- General Fund: $115,765,720.58
- Special Revenue: $44,876,462.73
- Debt Service: $21,540,838.23
- Capital Projects: $232,010,576.97
- Expendable Trust: $2,599,458.32
The financial statements are identified as unaudited June FY 2026 financials. The state-generated reports state that their information has been reconciled to the corresponding bank statements.
What to Watch at the Work Session
The packet indicates that the financial update is the most extensively documented portion of the work session, with detailed information on the General Fund, property and sales tax collections, locally funded staffing, legal expenses, and districtwide fund balances.
Several other topics — including the counselor/social worker curriculum, Peer Helpers Program, GRITC update, senior staff reports, and agenda-item review — appear on the work session agenda without substantive supporting material in the packet. The packet therefore establishes that these subjects are scheduled for the work session but does not support conclusions about what changes, recommendations, or next steps may emerge from those presentations.
