At its regular August meeting Thursday night, the Alexander City Board of Education approved the resignation of a Benjamin Russell High School assistant principal to accept a principal’s job and a number of additional personnel actions and accepted an award from a contractor for achieving more than $1 million in savings through the use of cost-saving controls and timers.
The board also heard a report on its annual audit, termed “absolutely the best we’ve ever had,” by Chief School Financial Officer Rhonda Blythe.
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