The Rowan County School Board approved routine business and consent items, voted to delay a decision on how to make up three 2024-25 snow days and approved a technical correction to the 2025-26 school calendar.

Board members voted on the meeting consent and regular business items at a special meeting Feb. 13, 2025, with Chair Mr. Hood presiding. The board approved previous meeting minutes, payment of monthly claims and the personnel report, passed a consent agenda that included an agreement with the Rowan County Sportsman's Club for a high school trap team and a memorandum of understanding for the Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) program, then discussed calendar changes.

The calendar discussion focused on three unused snow days for 2024-25. Miss Sargent, presenting the amended 2024-25 calendar, told the board that a stakeholder survey was split: 46.6% favored using part of spring break and 45.3% favored tacking days onto the end of the school year. She said the board could wait on a final choice while a state bill moves through the legislature that might allow districts to add minutes to the school day instead of making up full days.

"It was very divided," Miss Sargent said of the survey results. "It will be up to the board, Mr. Rowe and the board, to decide how we make up those additional three snow days."

Board members moved and seconded a motion to postpone final action on how to make up the three snow days and to determine the option next month; the motion carried by voice vote.

Separately, the board approved an amended 2025-26 calendar to correct a technical error (the district will have 170 instructional days rather than the previously stated 171), which moved the last student day to May 21, 2026. That calendar change also passed by voice vote.

Votes at a glance

- Approve previous meeting minutes, payment of monthly claims and personnel report (regular business items 2A–C): approved (voice vote). No mover/second recorded in the minutes excerpt.
- Approve consent agenda (includes agreement with Rowan County Sportsman's Club for high school trap league; MOU for JAG program): approved (voice vote). Second recorded as Mr. Scott for one motion; Miss Brenda seconded another consent motion.
- Defer final decision on how to make up three 2024-25 snow days (motion to postpone and revisit next month): approved (voice vote). Mover and seconder recorded as present; exact names of mover/second not specified in transcript excerpt.
- Approve corrected 2025-26 calendar (170 instructional days; last day May 21, 2026): approved (voice vote). Motion had a second; names not specified in transcript excerpt.

The board recessed other business and adjourned after a motion to adjourn carried by voice vote.

Context: The board referenced a pending state bill identified in the meeting as House Bill 241 that, if enacted, would allow districts to add minutes to school days as a way to recover lost instructional time rather than using full make-up days. The presenter said that bill was in committee and expected to reach the floor soon; the board elected to await clarity before finalizing its 2024-25 remedy.

The meeting record shows these motions passed by voice vote; individual roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript excerpt.