# Birmingham City Schools' Board Meeting ~ November 10, 2026


**Body:** Birmingham City Schools
**Date:** November 09, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Education, Construction & Infrastructure, Regulatory Compliance, Physical Infrastructure


At the Birmingham City Schools Board meeting on November 10, 2026, the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts presented its audit for fiscal year 2025. Findings relevant to purchasing and contract oversight included fitness-training expenditures above board-approved amounts and missing executed contracts with the vendors. The audit also found that $534,485.14 in federal COVID-19 education stabilization funds was spent on construction contracts without documented Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage clauses or required certified payrolls. Other findings cited insufficient documentation and controls for school purchases, reimbursements, receipts, ticket sales, concessions, and fundraisers. The board received the audit presentation; no procurement-related corrective-action vote is recorded in the transcript.

The district reported a combined year-end deficit of about $16 million, attributing it primarily to board-approved capital projects whose spending is continuing into the current fiscal year; officials said the newly approved CTE school was not part of that reported overage. Operations also presented a multi-vendor safety-officer approach involving Birmingham Security and Associates and Allied Universal Security Services, but the transcript does not show a vendor award or approval vote. The board approved the 2026–27 strategic-plan goals. No new procurement award or bid approval was identified.

**Source:** Birmingham City Schools