Filmore named DBOE president

Angelia Filmore and Ricky McLin were unanimously elected president and vice president, respectively, of the Daleville Board of Education at the DBOE meeting May 19.

Also at the meeting, Debra Latremore was given a plaque of appreciation for 10 years of service on the school board. “Our board is an anomaly,” said Daleville City Schools Superintendent Dr. Lisa Stamps, thanking Latremore for her service. “Our board is known throughout the state as one of the boards that works so closely together and we have been so richly blessed in the system because not only do they work together but they do what’s best for kids—and that is just the bottom line,” Stamps said. “I can’t say how much I appreciate that. Ms. Latremore, your many years of hard work and dedication and being a fighter for what’s best for kids means a lot to me.”

In other business, Stamps told the board that as a token of appreciation for “the people on the front line at every level,” Tuesday, June 1, would be a “virtual day” for school personnel. “They will finish up their work on Friday and get Monday and Tuesday off,” she said. “We just wanted to show them appreciation.”

In unrelated business, Stamps told the board that she has had a request from incoming board member Lynne McWilliams for “some technology, for a computer and a printer.

“I am just going to bring that to the board and ask what your pleasure it,” Stamps said. DBOE member Steve Kirkland noted that some boards have gone to electronic and digital communications. “We haven’t accepted any in the past and I don’t think we need it now,” he said. “Some boards have gone to computerized minutes—we have paper.”

“Most people have internet at their house, on their job or through the library,” said Latremore, questioning the need for school-supplied electronics.

McLin said that he and Stamps had discussed the request and that she told him that the school system had an extra computer. “If it isn’t taking away from the kids—I don’t know what you’d need it for—but I don’t have a problem with it,” he said about McWilliams’s request.

DBOE Attorney James Tarbox said that if there is a board consensus about providing electronic equipment for the board’s school business use, the board would have to make a request for such equipment to the school system. “And if it is the wish of the board, it can be a line item in the budget.”

After discussion the board voted to approve a motion stating that if there is unused computer equipment that belongs to the school system, it could be checked out from the school system by board members, if needed, and ultimately returned to the school system.

The board also approved a request from the Boys & Girls Club of Daleville to use Daleville City school buses for one field trip to Fort Rucker in June and one in July. The club will pay for the bus gas and bus driver.

The next meeting of the Daleville Board of Education is Wednesday, June 16, at 4:30 p.m. in the central office conference room.