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Show Low Unified School District board approves routine personnel, policy and finance items; sets October meeting date
Summary
At its regular August meeting the Show Low Unified School District Governing Board approved routine financial and personnel items, adopted model policies on second reading, renewed a memorandum of understanding and approved a set of administrative and program items. The board also set its October regular meeting for Oct. 2.
The Show Low Unified School District Governing Board on a series of unanimous or voice-vote motions on the district's August agenda approved financial reports, personnel actions, policy adoptions and several administrative items, and changed the district's regular October meeting date to Oct. 2.
The board handled a broad slate of routine business in a single session, approving payroll and payables for the close of fiscal year 2024–25 and the opening of fiscal year 2025–26, a series of classified and certified personnel recommendations, and multiple program and contract items. Several items had brief staff presentations; most passed by unanimous voice vote with no roll-call tallies recorded in the transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Approve agenda as presented: Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve July meeting minutes as presented: Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve financial agenda items (payroll and payables for FY24–25 close and FY25–26 opening): Motion passed (voice vote). Presenter: Miss Davis. - Approve classified personnel actions (including resignations, terminations and transfers): Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve certified personnel employment actions (including one reported teacher resignation and hires/extra-duty stipends): Motion passed (voice vote). Presenter: Doctor Farnsworth. - Ratify athletic coaches and extra-duty stipends for FY25–26: Motion passed (voice vote). - Adopt model policies and procedures on second reading (listed in transcript as 5-217, 5-217A, 5-217B): Motion passed (voice vote). - Renew Legacy Learning memorandum of understanding (MOU) to continue services for one student: Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve audit engagement services with DRS CPA for the FY24–25 audit (third year of a three-year contract): Motion passed (voice vote). Presenter: Miss Davis. - Approve Show Low High School Studio Art Club (SLHS SAC) as a student club: Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve food-service bad debt write-offs required by ADE audit corrective action: seniors $605.55 (FY24–25) and inactive students $4,039.40 (FY24–25); motion passed (voice vote). Presenter: Miss Davis. - Amend general stipend list to include the high school lead counselor stipend (ratification): Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve sole-source vendor for WMI school services, paid from grant funds: Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve monthly school property disposals (items to auction, including an older bus and other vehicles/equipment): Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve $5 replacement fee for lost student bus passes (transportation ID badges): Motion passed (voice vote). Presenter: Doctor Farnsworth. - Approve junior high student council fundraising activities (multiple events through the school year): Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve gifts and donations from local businesses (including Safeway, Step Propane, Cattleman’s and individual donors): Motion passed (voice vote). - Change regular October board meeting date from Oct. 9 to Oct. 2: Motion passed (voice vote). - Approve annual regular board meeting dates for the 2025–26 school year (second Thursday schedule with adjustments as needed): Motion passed (voice vote).
Notes on votes and procedure
Most motions were approved after the maker moved and another board member seconded; the transcript records voice votes ("Aye") and the speaker who moved or seconded in many cases but does not include roll-call tallies or individual member votes. Where the transcript shows a specific presenter (for example Miss Davis for finance and audit items, Doctor Farnsworth for personnel, transportation, and the superintendent report), that presenter is noted above. The transcript records no motion failures on the items listed.
The board’s actions were procedural and administrative: approving required fiscal and personnel items, renewing a limited MOU to provide an instructional placement for a single student, adopting model policy changes on second reading, and approving routine program and extracurricular requests. Several items—most notably the food-service bad debt write-off and the transportation pass replacement fee—included brief staff explanations that clarified funding sources and operational intent.
