The school board on a voice vote approved $12,910 to cover repairs and replacements to fire-enunciation (alarm) systems after the district's annual inspections found multiple failed devices across several schools.

Board members heard from Mr. Grassi, a district staff member, who told the board inspectors identified failed smoke detectors, strobes, power supplies and batteries in seven of the district's 11 school buildings and that “this work has been completed already.” He said the district normally budgets for routine inspection repairs but that this year's $12,910 bill was an “anomaly” compared with a typical annual range of about $4,000–$6,000.

Board members asked whether power fluctuations had caused the failures. Mr. Grassi replied the systems use battery backup and that some failures were age-related — "these devices are 30 years old" — and that outlying schools that experienced frequent power outages had batteries and power supplies that were vulnerable. He noted one site that had repeated outages over the summer and has no generator.

The board discussed budget impact and then moved to approve Mr. Grassi's request. A motion and second were called and the chair put the question; the board voted in favor by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tally in the minutes.

The approval covers completed work; the district did not adopt additional capital budget authority beyond the one-time appropriation. Board members asked staff to consider whether infrastructure (generators or other power stabilization) or a longer-term replacement plan could reduce future failures, but no formal direction or motion to fund such projects was recorded.