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Board approves 2025-26 budget, instructional purchases and personnel actions; appoints KASB delegate
Summary
The Auburn‑Washburn Board of Education approved the 2025–26 budget with a 57.319 mill levy, approved several routine expenditures and personnel actions, and named a delegate to the Kansas Association of School Boards assembly in motions that passed unanimously 5–0.
The Auburn‑Washburn Board of Education on an evening meeting approved the district's 2025–26 fiscal budget, routine payments and personnel actions and appointed a delegate to the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) assembly, with each motion passing by a 5'to'0 vote.
The board approved the fiscal year 2025–26 budget with a mill levy of 57.319 and set the local option budget at 33%. The motion passed 5 to 0. The agenda item followed an earlier budget hearing and a public statement that the mill levy would remain flat compared with 2024–25.
The board also took these actions during the meeting:
- Approved business by consent, including payment of bills in the amount of $6,211,504.73 (motion passed 5 to 0).
- Approved presented instructional materials (purchase of A Long Walk to Water for an eighth grade classroom) in the amount of $2,594.75 (motion passed 5 to 0).
- Appointed Chanel Emery as the district's representative to the KASB delegate assembly scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025 (motion passed 5 to 0).
- Entered executive session for personnel, negotiations and student matters for 25 minutes; after returning, the board approved two executive-session actions: changing a teacher's status from probationary to nonprobationary for the 2025–26 school year and modifying an administrator's contract as discussed in executive session (both motions passed 5 to 0).
The meeting record shows all formal votes recorded as unanimous 5 to 0. The meeting also opened and approved the published agenda and approved payment of bills by consent; those procedural votes likewise passed 5 to 0.
No roll-call vote names were read into the public record in the transcript excerpts provided; the motions and outcomes are recorded in the board minutes as indicated above.
