Madison City Board of Education Packet Summary — 2026-08-13
Meeting title: Board Budget Hearing
Agenda: 26-15
Scheduled time and location: 5:00 PM, Central Office Board Room
The agenda identifies this as a school board meeting that includes the first budget hearing. Presentations, public comments, business actions, personnel action, and comments from the superintendent and board are also scheduled.
Budget Hearing and Public Participation
- The board is scheduled to hold the first budget hearing.
- The packet does not provide proposed budget figures or supporting financial details.
- The agenda includes separate opportunities for presentations and public comments.
Key Items on the Agenda
Consent Agenda
The board is scheduled to consider a consent agenda covering:
- Minutes #26-14 from July 28, 2026.
- School field trips.
- Facility-use agreements.
- Fall and winter sports schedules and contracts for officials.
- Architect agreements for the Bob Jones High School tennis courts and restroom pavilion and Madison City Schools Central Office Phase I.
- Bid #2026-04 for repairing, replacing, and re-keying campus doors at Bob Jones High School.
- Contracts for transcript-management services, an educational audiologist, and an interpreter for a deaf individual.
- An agreement for behavioral support, consultation, analysis, and assessment.
- Bob Jones High School Dance Team Camp.
- Fall and winter high school band schedules.
Additional Business Actions
Outside the consent agenda, the board is scheduled to consider:
- A bid for an Information Technology Department warehouse.
- Madison City Schools’ June 2026 financial and bank-reconciliation statements.
Personnel Action
- The agenda lists the superintendent’s contract as a personnel action.
Upcoming Meetings
The packet lists two meetings for September 3, 2026:
- A Finance Committee meeting at 4:00 PM in the superintendent’s conference room at Central Office.
- A school board meeting and first budget hearing at 5:00 PM in the Central Office Board Room.
Why It Matters
The agenda combines a budget hearing with proposed actions affecting facilities, campus security work, student services, extracurricular activities, technology operations, district finances, and the superintendent’s contract. Because the packet provides agenda descriptions without financial amounts or detailed terms, the meeting may supply important context about the scope and cost of these items.
What to Watch at the Meeting
- What budget information will be presented during the first budget hearing?
- What costs, scopes, and timelines accompany the architect agreements, door project, and Information Technology Department warehouse bid?
- What terms and service expectations are included in the listed student-support contracts and agreement?
- What details will the board review in the June 2026 financial and bank-reconciliation statements?
- What action, if any, will be proposed regarding the superintendent’s contract?
