The Board of Trustees:

• Approved minutes of previous meeting.
• Heard concerns expressed by parents regarding the safety of their children.
• Heard a report from Architect Chad Hunter on district building projects.
• Approved change orders to the cafeteria and kitchen renovations project and the middle building roofing project at Columbia High School.
• Approved the transfer of interest earnings in the amount of $20,967.98 from the Sixteenth Section Fund to the District Maintenance Fund.
• Approved the payment of accounts.
• Received the monthly reports on bus repairs/expenses and the use of school buses for special events.
• Approved requests to dispose of one overhead projector, tag #0006, one cassette/recorder, tag #1844, and one Compaq computer, tag #0046, which are beyond repair.
• Approved a request from Mr. Joey Porter, Athletic Director, for the Softball Booster Club to build two (2) batting cages behind the right field fence at the softball field.
• Accepted a gift of cash in the amount of $1,434.40 from the JMS PTA.
• Gave second approval of the Athletic Handbook.
• Approved a request for the CES Student Council to travel out-of-state to the Global Wildlife Center in Folsom, LA, April 27, 2000.
• Heard a proposal from Mr. Rueben McDowell, JMS Band Director, to purchase new band uniforms.
• Authorized Dr. Tommy Blakeney to initiate procedures to purchase six (6) new school buses (five (5) regular sixty-five passenger buses and one (1) twenty-six passenger bus).
• Gave first approval to revised district policies CGPBB, GBBA, GBRK, GCL/GDL, IHA/IHE, and IHF.
• Gave first approval to increase the graduation requirements beginning with the freshman class of 1999-2000 and thereafter, credits required for graduation shall be increased from 26 to 28 units and seniors who are in the Beta Club or National Honor Society who want to graduate with honors must take six blocks of classes their senior year. Seniors must take at least two blocks of phase 3 or 4 classes each of the four semesters and must maintain the grade requirements to graduate with honors.
• Approved the recommendation that the Adult Basic Education Program administered by Pearl River Community College be located at the Columbia High School.
• Approved amendments to the FY 2000 budget.
• Approved recommendations to place two students in the Alternative Program.
• Accepted a proposal from Nicholson & Company to perform the FY 2000 audit of the district.
• Accepted bids for surplus cafeteria equipment at Columbia High School.
• Selected Citizen's Bank as depository for district funds.
• Approved the employment of Frita Manton as a school bus driver.
• Added Samantha Fortenberry, Jennifer Butler, and Regina Stringer to the substitute teacher list.
• Approved employment recommendations for the reemployment of additional certified personnel and for non-certified personnel for the 2000-2001 school year.
• Was informed of thank you letters received from Mrs. Vicki Boone's class at CPS, 2-3, the MSBA bulletin, minutes of administrative staff meeting, and the Columbia High School summer school 2000 schedule.
• Discussed a personnel matter in executive session.
• Received the monthly financial status report.