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Paola board approves annual KASB dues, open enrollment, rates and multiple contracts; capital outlay plan presented
Summary
The board approved membership and legal-assistance renewals with the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB), open-enrollment information and district rates and fees; it also approved a food-service contract amendment and moved forward on capital outlay and technology expenditures.
The Paola Unified School District Board of Education approved several routine business items during the meeting, including KASB membership and legal-assistance renewals, the district’s open-enrollment information for 2025–26, updated rates and fees for 2025–26, and a food-service management contract addendum. The board also discussed and approved a capital outlay general-project list and a technology list that together total roughly $2.03 million in proposed expenditures.
On the KASB renewal, the board approved both the membership dues and the optional legal assistance fund. Matt, a board member/administrator presenting the item, explained the legal assistance fund gives access to school-law attorneys and referenced training and consortium services provided by KASB. The motion on membership and the legal assistance fund carried with a recorded yes count of 5; no opposing votes were recorded in the meeting transcript.
The board approved the district’s open-enrollment information for 2025–26 (motion and second recorded) and approved the proposed district rates and fees, which include a recommended 10-cent increase in breakfast and lunch prices and an increase in related-arts fees. The food-service management contract addendum reflects a 3.7% increase tied to the February-to-February CPI for “food away from home”; the presenter said that yields an updated per-meal cost example (student lunch shown as $2.40 and student breakfast as $2.16) and a per-meal employment/transportation fee of about $0.076.
The capital outlay presentation summarized local tax revenue collected from previously levied mills and listed $1,742,500 in general projects and $287,833 in technology projects for a combined $2,030,333 in proposed expenditures. The presenter noted the district’s capital outlay fund balance and that state capital outlay aid this year was $0, leaving local tax revenue to cover projects. Board members approved the technology bid items shown on the agenda and the overall capital outlay plan; staff said spending will begin in the next fiscal year when funds are available.
Ending: The board’s approvals were procedural and budgeted; several items required vendor follow-up or implementation details, which staff will handle and report back as contracts and purchases proceed.
