District seeks multi-year Sarah Reed placements and therapeutic seats; board committee advances contracts
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Summary
The district moved letters of agreement and service purchase contracts with Sarah Reed Children's Center forward to the May board meeting, including a five-year agreement for residential services and eight therapeutic classroom seats priced at $26,000 per seat per year for 2025'26.
Millcreek School District committee members advanced multiple agreements with Sarah Reed Children's Center to the full board, including a five-year service purchase contract and a separate contract to secure eight seats in therapeutic social-emotional learning classrooms.
Administrators described one contract as a five-year agreement to provide educational services for residential treatment clients on the Sarah Reed Ridgefield campus for the 2025'30 window; district personnel will assist residential clients as needed. A separate line item described the purchase contract for eight seats in therapeutic classrooms (referred to as T-cell classrooms in committee materials) that were priced at $26,000 per seat per year for the 2025'26 school year.
Committee members voted to move items 3.14 through 3.17, which included the Sarah Reed agreements and related letters of agreement, to the full board meeting at the end of the month for final action. Administrators noted these contracts provide placements and resources for students requiring residential or therapeutic supports and would be brought to the board for ratification.