By MIRANDA HUMPHREY Albertville City Schools

ALBERTVILLE – At Tuesday night’s school board meeting, the Albertville Board of Education successfully filled several critical leadership roles.

New appointments include principals for both the high school and elementary school, as well as a new head baseball coach for the high school (see story on Page B1 of today’s edition).

Steven Hudgins was named the principal of Albertville High School. Hudgins recently concluded his first year as principal of Albertville Intermediate School. Prior to AIS, he served as the assistant principal at Albertville Kindergarten and Pre-K.

In addition to his roles within ACS, Hudgins has experience as a teacher and coach at Boaz Middle and High Schools, John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham, Moody High School and Russell County High School. He also taught at AHS from 2013 to 2016.

Hudgins’s wife, Sarah, is a teacher in the AggieVision advertising design pathway at the Albertville Innovation Academy.

With Hudgins transitioning to the role of principal at Albertville High School, a vacancy has been created at Albertville Intermediate School. System leaders are actively working to fill this position, and an announcement regarding the new principal is expected in July.

Katie Holland has been appointed the principal of Albertville Elementary School. Holland recently completed her seventh year as principal of Eura Brown Elementary School in Gadsden, a two-time National Blue Ribbon Pre-K through fifth grade school.

Before moving into administration, she worked as a classroom teacher, academic coach and danceline instructor. Under her leadership, Eura Brown placed in the Top 25 Schools in Alabama for three consecutive years, including being one of four schools in the state to score a 100 on the ALSDE Report Card in 2022.

Holland’s husband, Corbin, will be teaching science at the Albertville Innovation Academy.

Reeves also presented the updated policy manual at Tuesday’s meeting that will replace the entire previous manual for its first reading. The new manual will be approved at the July 23 board meeting.

Other items approved at the meeting included:

• May’s financial report. The beginning fund balance was $54,472,269.49. The ending fund balance is $60,569,323.22. The general fund balance is $25,533,938.07. April revenue totaled $6,485,718.40. Expenditures totaled $7,050,890.40.

• School handbooks for Albertville Primary School, Albertville Elementary School, Albertville Intermediate School, Albertville Middle School and Albertville High School. The handbooks for Albertville Kindergarten and Pre-K and the Albertville Innovation Academy will be approved in July.

• Minutes from previous meetings, fundraising revenues and requests and inventory deletions

• The Fiscal Year 2025 salary schedule.

• Surplus of a 2003 GMC Sierra maintenance truck to be sold on Gov Deals.

• Out of state field trip for the AHS choral group to travel to Buena Vista, Fla., to participate in a performers workshop on Disney property March 20-24, 2025.

• 2024-2025 SRO agreement between ACS and the City of Albertville.

• Milk/dairy and bread bids for CNP.

The following personnel items were approved:

Retirements/Resignations

• Michelle Mitchell, resigning as attendance and enrollment coordinator at Central Office, effective June 28, 2024.

• Kaylaura Miller, resigning as elementary teacher at AIS, effective May 24, 2024.

• Anne Duckett, resigning as elementary teacher at APS, effective May 24, 2024.

• Molly Doyle, resigning as elementary teacher at APS, effective May 24, 2024.

• Joseph Law, resigning as special education teacher at AMS, effective May 24, 2024.

• Hannah Lowden, resigning as kindergarten teacher at AKPK, effective May 24, 2024.

• Andrew Jones, retiring as Chief Federal Programs Officer at Central Office, effective Aug. 30, 2024.

Supplement Resignations

• Marcey Duckett, resigning as webmaster at AMS, effective June 30, 2024.

• Kaylaura Miller, resigning from yearbook at AIS, effective May 24, 2024.

Transfers

• Andrew Tidmore, transferring from 10-month assistant principal at AMS to 12-month assistant principal at AMS, replacing Tori Painter, effective July 1, 2024.

• Elisabeth Smith, transferring from temporary EL teacher at AIS to 10-month assistant principal at AMS, replacing Tyler Tidmore, effective July 22, 2024.

• William Scott, transferring from social studies teacher at AHS to ISS teacher at AHS, replacing DJ Metz, effective Aug. 1, 2024.

• Matthew Lambert, transferring from 10-month assistant principal at AHS to 12-month assistant principal at AHS, effective July 1, 2024.

• Kimberly Moore, transferring from bookkeeper at AHS to bookkeeper at AIA, effective July 1, 2024.

Principal Contracts

• Steven Hudgins, transferring as principal at AIS to principal at AHS, replacing Jordan Phillips, effective July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027.

• Katelyn Holland, probationary principal at AES, replacing Candi McCullars, effective July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025.

Employments

• Holley Sparks, media specialist at APS, replacing Rachel Reese, effective Aug. 1, 2024.

• Stacey Yates, elementary teacher at APS, replacing Gina Reeves, effective Aug. 1, 2024.

• Jeffrey Wood, secondary teacher at AHS, replacing Donnie Harris, effective Aug. 1, 2024.

• Megan Humphrey, elementary teacher at AIS, replacing Kaylaura Miller, effective Aug. 1, 2024.

• Grant Fox, summer IT worker system-wide, to be paid $15 per hour, effective June 26, 2024 - Aug. 6, 2024.

• Brittney Gaither, elementary teacher at APS, replacing Molly Doyle, effective Aug. 1, 2024.

• Aaron Triplett, social science teacher at AIA, replacing Andrew Kinney, effective Aug. 1, 2024.

TEAMS Contracts

• Jemma Hood, advanced TEAMS math teacher at AMS, effective July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027.

• Taylor Bronowicz, preliminary TEAMS math teacher at AIS, effective July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025.

• Amanda Colvin, preliminary TEAMS science teacher at AMS, effective July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025.

• Corbin Holland, preliminary TEAMS science teacher at AIA, replacing Jeremy Cunningham, effective July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025.

• Mallory Landen, advanced TEAMS sixth grade science teacher at AIS, effective July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025.

• Sarah Howell, advanced TEAMS sixth grade science teacher at AIS, effective July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025.

Supplement Assignments

• Tori Painter, federal programs liaison at AIA, effective July 1, 2024.

• Marcey Duckett, webmaster at AIA, effective July 1, 2024.

• Kimberly Moore, inventory designee at AIA, effective July 1, 2024.

July’s monthly board meeting has been moved from Tuesday, July 16, to Tuesday, July 23, at 6 p.m. In addition to the July 23 meeting, the board will also meet on July 9 and 31 at 7:30 a.m. for special called board meetings.