Moore County School Board Work Session 11-9-26

Moore County Schools Board of Education combined work session and regular business meeting, November 9, 2026. The board received the FY 2025–26 audit, which received a clean, unmodified opinion; the general fund’s unassigned balance was about $2.34 million, and the school nutrition program reported a $149,640 operating loss. First-quarter legal fees were $119,382, about $22,184 below the same period a year earlier. Procurement items included fuel-oil requisitions totaling $372,750 for listed schools and a recommendation to award North Moore High School’s LED athletic-lighting project to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, Tommy Lawrence Electrical Contractors, Inc., for approximately $421,000. The project is supported by a county allocation of more than $600,000; staff agreed to investigate available Duke Energy rebates before proceeding, with the item subject to further consideration through the consent process.

Staff also presented a recommended three-year APG website hosting and content-management contract totaling $88,775 ($33,975 in year one and $27,400 in each of years two and three), noting it would host recruitment and enrollment sites and save about $1,500 annually. The listed fuel requisitions and website contract were also directed toward the consent agenda; the transcript does not clearly establish final approval votes for these procurement items. County commissioners offered to fund generators at no cost to the district at North Moore, Pinecrest, and Union Pines high schools, which could serve as emergency shelters. The meeting also included a review of student discipline, a field-trip request, school-improvement plans, and discussion of school support organizations; no purchasing decision was identified in those discussions.