GRETHEL – The Floyd County Board of Education praised its award-winning schools during a meeting at Stumbo Elementary on Monday along with making short work of a lengthy agenda filled with various consent items.

Supt. Henry Webb started the meeting with a moment of silence for Zachary Sturgill, a 16-year-old student at Betsy Layne High School who died recently.

At the meeting, the middle school at Stumbo Elementary and Betsy Layne High School received checks for $500 as awards for winning the statewide High Attendance Day competition in early September. Board Chairman Jeff Stumbo made a motion to match the funds, which was unanimously approved by the board.

Also at the meeting, board members presented May Valley, Duff, McDowell, Stumbo, Osborne and Betsy Layne Elementary with banners commemorating the schools inclusion to the Century Club, which means that the schools scored an index of 100 or over on the recent No Child Left Behind assessment.

The board also approved an out-of-state trip for the football team at Prestonsburg High School to Matewan High School in Matewan, W.Va., a school-wide fundraiser for Allen Central Middle School and Duff Elementary, one classified school-home-community liaison position at Allen Elementary and a final payment application for the Betsy Layne High School Renovation Project.

As part of the consent items, the board also voted to declare a vault door door and old safes at the central office as surplus items, and declared obsolete textbooks as surplus property.

The next meeting of the Floyd County Board of Education is scheduled for Oct. 26, at Allen Central Middle School.