The Brookhaven School District Board of Directors met Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 6 p.m.

• Approved student readmission after expulsion.

• Approved carpentry class and Skills USA to sell handmade woodcrafts through the school year.

• Approved Teacher Academy and Future Educators Association to sell pom poms.

• Approved BHS ping pong club to conduct a car wash.

• Approved varsity cheer to sell window decals.

• Approved out-of-state travel for the speech and debate team to travel to Lafayette, Louisiana, to compete in a tournament.

• Approved out-of-state travel for Flynn Phillips, a speech and debate student, to compete in Fairfax, Virginia, at Emory University and at Harvard University.

• Accepted donation of $875 from the Gridiron Club for an ice machine.

• Approved three student transfers into the district.

• Approved the advertisement of bids for timber sale on three 16th Section lots.

• Approved firelanes, roadwork, boundary lines and burning on 16th Section land as needed.

• Acceptance of new and updated board policies. Ben Cox, BSD superintendent, said Stephanie Henderson, deputy superintendent, has been working her way through the 138 board policies to make sure they are up-to-date with state code or new legislature.

• Approved the financial reports for August.

• Approved the deletion of five computers from Mullins School, which are now obsolete.

• Approved the final amended budget for 2013-2014, leaving the school with 21.3 percent fund balance.

• Cox informed the board of the Mississippi Department of Education’s certificate of achievement given to Suanne Foster, Mississippi Student Information System coordinator, for her timely monthly data reports for the school year 2013 – 2014.

• The board ended with an executive session in reference to a student matter.