HUNTINGTON ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥” Cabell County Schools will consider selling several of its surplus items and buses during a regular meeting Tuesday beginning at 4:30 p.m.
The meeting will be hosted in the Board Office Meeting Room, at 2850 5th Ave.
According to the agenda, Superintendent Tim Hardesty is asking for permission to sell scrap/surplus equipment, including school desks, school chairs, filing cabinets, office desks, office chairs, kitchen equipment and cafeteria tables.
The items may either be sold directly to an institution that qualifies as a 501(c)(3) agency, sold by public auction or scrapped.
The auction service of choice is Ashton Auctions LLC, based in Cabell County, which would take care of advertising and fee collections. Ashton Auctions would receive 20% of gross sales to compensate for promotion, advertisement and conducting the auction, and $250 would be added to cover advertising and expenditures.
Net proceeds would be turned over to Cabell County Schools at the conclusion of the auction.
Hardesty is also recommending liquidating 10 buses through public auction or salvage. The auction service of choice is Public Surplus, an internet-based auction service.
There is no listing fee, but there is a fee of 10.5% of the selling price when the buses are sold, which is added to the sale price as a buyerÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s premium and paid by the buyer, according to the agenda. Public Surplus would take care of collections and submission of the West Virginia sales tax.
The board will also consider several contracts, including:
- For workers compensation insurance through Encova to cost an estimated $630,833 for the 2025-26 school year
- With TrackYourFunds to provide accounting software for individual schools, including one-time training, to cost a total of $18,980 paid for through the general current expense fund
- With Givebacks, Inc. for the collection of electronic payments for individual schools, including one-time training and implementation costs, to cost a total of $3,250 paid for through the general current expense fund
- With PowerSchool for managing student data for the 2025-26 school year to cost about $65,574 from the general current expense fund
- With Droplet for countywide digital forms to cost $5,5000 from the general current expense fund
- With Khan Academy for the 2025-26 school year to cost $22,100
- With Makemusic Cloud for the 2025-26 school year to cost about $14,709
- With Brandon Terry Paving for paving projects at several schools, including the Barboursville bus garage and the transportation complex to cost $235,452 from the general current expense fund
Hardesty will also recommend approval to acquire approximately 0.308 acres of land adjoining the existing Ona Elementary School. The property, located at 169 Howells Mill Road, Ona, will be used to construct an access road for the new Ona Elementary School to be built at the schoolÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s current site. The property would cost $40,000 from general funds.
Hardesty will also recommend the board approve an interagency agreement with Mountain Health Network and other member hospitals to provide an opportunity for LPN students enrolled at the Cabell County Career Technology Center to acquire clinical experience through the 2025-26 school year.
In other business, Treasurer Drew Rottgen will give his treasurerÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s report for May 2025, and the board will consider approving 2025-26 salary schedules.
The board will also consider rescinding the reduction of 31 professional personnel positions which were cut alongside several other positions on April 21.
During the special celebrations portion of the meeting, several students across the district who competed in spring sports for the county champion title will be recognized, including the girlsÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™ track team at Milton Middle School, the boysÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™ track team at Huntington Middle School and the golf team at Barboursville Middle School.
The Cabell Midland High School Lady Knights softball team will also be recognized for winning their first ever Class AAAA softball championship in the state.
The complete agenda may be found on the Cabell County Schools website under ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œboard agendas.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
