Board hears November financials, discusses $235,039.95 playground purchase and recommends new firewall
December 12, 2025 | Coffee County, School Districts, Georgia
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Coffee County district finance staff and administrators briefed the Board of Education on financials and several planned purchases at the Dec. 11, 2025, work session.
Miss Bradford, who walked the board through the November financial report, said total revenues as of Nov. 30 were $25,286,083.19 and total expenditures were $29,006,970.51; the end-of-month fund balance was reported at $28,869,422.36. Bradford told the board a tax revenue check was delayed by the holiday and will be reflected in December collections.
The board discussed a playground equipment purchase for the new school that the chair described as comparable to recent purchases at other schools. The total cited for the playground equipment purchase was $235,039.95; staff said final approval remains contingent on the fire marshal’s remaining checklist items being completed.
District technology staff recommended a Palo Alto firewall upgrade to support E-Rate and to increase network visibility and logging. The recommended vendor (recorded as Box Step Technology Group) submitted the winning bid; staff described the project as Category 2 and cited a device cost of $8,200 and a local-fund share described in the discussion as $8,201.81. Staff said the older firewall would be repurposed for internal protections.
The chair introduced proposed policy updates including a tobacco-use update tied to a federal grant to reduce tobacco and drug use and a referenced personnel-related policy transcribed as "GAMB Possession Weapons by an employee." The chair said the changes are largely clarifying; the tobacco update was presented to satisfy grant reviewers and the board agreed to place the policy items on the consent agenda and to revisit certain codes as needed.
Procedurally, Miss Johnson moved to adopt the meeting agenda and Mister Wade seconded; the chair recorded verbal assent with no roll-call tally. Later the board moved into executive session for personnel, school safety and real estate (Mister Wade moved; Mister Jowers seconded) and reconvened and adjourned thereafter.
No formal roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the transcript for the agenda adoption or the executive-session motions; the record shows verbal assent to those motions but does not provide individual yea/nay votes.
Miss Bradford, who walked the board through the November financial report, said total revenues as of Nov. 30 were $25,286,083.19 and total expenditures were $29,006,970.51; the end-of-month fund balance was reported at $28,869,422.36. Bradford told the board a tax revenue check was delayed by the holiday and will be reflected in December collections.
The board discussed a playground equipment purchase for the new school that the chair described as comparable to recent purchases at other schools. The total cited for the playground equipment purchase was $235,039.95; staff said final approval remains contingent on the fire marshal’s remaining checklist items being completed.
District technology staff recommended a Palo Alto firewall upgrade to support E-Rate and to increase network visibility and logging. The recommended vendor (recorded as Box Step Technology Group) submitted the winning bid; staff described the project as Category 2 and cited a device cost of $8,200 and a local-fund share described in the discussion as $8,201.81. Staff said the older firewall would be repurposed for internal protections.
The chair introduced proposed policy updates including a tobacco-use update tied to a federal grant to reduce tobacco and drug use and a referenced personnel-related policy transcribed as "GAMB Possession Weapons by an employee." The chair said the changes are largely clarifying; the tobacco update was presented to satisfy grant reviewers and the board agreed to place the policy items on the consent agenda and to revisit certain codes as needed.
Procedurally, Miss Johnson moved to adopt the meeting agenda and Mister Wade seconded; the chair recorded verbal assent with no roll-call tally. Later the board moved into executive session for personnel, school safety and real estate (Mister Wade moved; Mister Jowers seconded) and reconvened and adjourned thereafter.
No formal roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the transcript for the agenda adoption or the executive-session motions; the record shows verbal assent to those motions but does not provide individual yea/nay votes.
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