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Committee approves gifts, grants, accounts, transfers and policy reviews in bulk
Summary
At the Sept. 24 meeting the Finance & Facilities Committee approved a slate of routine motions: acceptance of multiple gifts and grants, authorization of student activity accounts, two budget transfers, and several facilities-related policies under review.
The Beverly Public Schools Finance & Facilities Committee approved a series of routine but consequential business items on Sept. 24, including acceptance of gifts and grants, authorization of student activity accounts, two budget transfers, and the review or approval of several facilities policies.
The committee accepted multiple gifts to schools covering different months: $16,904.87 (May gifts, district-wide and a Beverly Education Foundation portion), $30,769.50 (June gifts, including Beverly Education Foundation and Hannah School PTO support) and $5,511.97 (July–August gifts, including North Beverly PTO). The committee recorded unanimous approval of each gift acceptance.
The body accepted a package of state and federal grants totaling $2,738,021, including entitlement allocations. During discussion, staff highlighted a $12,139 “first jobs” grant that funded student summer placements with buildings and grounds, BevCam, the YMCA and other local partners; staff said the program gave students experience with time cards, new-hire paperwork and workplace skills.
The committee approved the annual authorization of student activity (revolving) accounts and separately approved the high school and middle school account listings as presented. Members also approved the annual review and acceptance of the district’s FY25 end-of-year audit materials and authorized two budget transfers to reconcile FY25 accounts: budget transfer #2367 (year-end closing transfers) and budget transfer #2387 ($164 adjustment). Both transfers passed unanimously.
On policy, the committee marked several facilities-related policies as reviewed or approved. Changes noted included substituting “school committee” for generic “committee” in some policy text, adding “guardians and caregivers” in family-language updates, and a district-specific clause allowing the committee the option to vote on a facility-naming proposal in the same meeting it is presented. The committee also reviewed a policy on retirement of facilities with no changes. All policy motions passed on unanimous voice votes.
Most actions were routine and carried on unanimous or voice votes recorded by the chair; formal roll-call vote lists were not provided in the public portion of the transcript.
