Votes at a glance: Raytown board approves calendars, policies and several purchases

The Raytown Quality School District Board of Education approved a number of routine and contract items at its Feb. 10 meeting, including academic calendars, a bundle of policy adoptions, technology and phone-system purchases, a bus-driver contract, and approval of summer school.

Key outcomes recorded during the meeting (motions were made, seconded and the board chair declared each motion passed):

- Adoption of the 2025–26 academic calendar and the 2026–27 tentative calendar. Motion on the record: “Board of Education approved the 2025–26 academic calendar and the 2026–27 tentative calendar as presented.”

- Adoption of a policy described on the agenda as “Prohibition against illegal discrimination, harassment and retaliation” (motion moved and seconded; board chair declared motion passed).

- Approval of a package of board policies on first- or final-read items, including BBBB-2 (school board ballot issues), BDC (closed meetings records and votes), DFI-2 (setting tuition for district programs), GCBA (professional staff compensation), IC-2 (academic counter), IGBI (homeschooling), IGCD (virtual courses), IGCD-A (full time MOCAP courses), JEA (compulsory and part-time attendance), JED (student absences and excuses) and JHDF (suicide awareness and prevention). The motion was moved and seconded and declared passed.

- Approval of the district’s 2025 computer-rotation bid and equipment purchase: a motion recorded on the floor was to award the 2025 computer rotation bid to C E W G (transcript spelling) and to approve equipment purchase totaling $787,000; the chair declared the motion passed.

- Approval of a phone system purchase from Allegiant for $471,258.02. The motion was moved and seconded and declared passed.

- Approval to purchase robes for Raytown South High School from Cousins Concert Attire for $26,150.

- Approval of a contract with First Student for five school bus drivers at a daily rate of $488.66 per driver, totaling $158,814.50 for the remainder of the 2024–25 school year. On the record, staff clarified that the amount is the vendor cost the district will pay to First Student to supply drivers amid a labor shortage; the board declared the motion passed.

- Approval of District Summer School for pre-K through grade 12 at the listed locations.

- Approval of a revised 2024–25 academic calendar as presented.

- Acceptance and acknowledgment of multiple donations from local organizations and individuals (donations for school lunches, student books, winter clothing, school supplies and other in-kind and monetary gifts were read on the record). Examples included a $300 donation for student lunch debt from William and Marie Mulholland to Southwood Elementary, a $500 donation for student books from Ascension Lutheran Church to Northwood Elementary, and in-kind donations from local churches and businesses totaling several thousand dollars.

Why it matters: The package of approvals covers the district’s near-term operational needs — calendars, staff and classroom technology, phone infrastructure, transportation and summer-school programming — and includes district partnerships and donations that support students.

Votes and roll call: The transcript shows the board used the routine verbal roll-call prompt “Miss Bobby?” with an explicit affirmative (“Yes”) recorded multiple times, and the chair declared motions passed. The meeting transcript does not contain a full itemized roll-call tally for each motion; where specific votes were read back, the transcript records only the response from Miss Bobby. The board’s on-record actions were moved, seconded and declared passed on the items listed above.

Implementation notes: Several purchases are vendor contracts or vendor awards (computer rotation vendor, Allegiant phone system, Cousins Concert Attire robes, First Student transportation). The transcript did not specify the district budget line or fund source for each purchase during the discussion recorded on Feb. 10.