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Board approves audits, calendar and several routine items; denies special-education open enrollment requests for 2025-26
Summary
At the meeting the board approved the annual financial audit, the 2025-26 calendar, several first-reading policies and a course proposal; it also adopted a district position not to accept special-education open enrollment requests for 2025-26 due to workload concerns.
The D C Everest Area School District School Board approved a range of routine and operational items at the meeting, including acceptance of the district's annual financial audit, approval of the 2025-26 school calendar, several policies on first reading, and a course proposal. The board also voted to deny open-enrollment requests that require district-provided special education services for the 2025-26 school year, citing workload and capacity concerns.
Key outcomes:
- Consent agenda: The board approved the consent agenda by roll call vote (all present voted yes). (Consent items included routine approvals listed in the meeting packet.)
- Annual financial audit (2023-24): The board accepted the audit report. Staff noted a clean review overall and two notable findings: (1) preparation of the annual financial report (a common finding because districts outsource preparation) and (2) actual expenditures exceeding adopted budget categories in places, which requires closer monitoring and routine budget revisions. The motion to accept the audit passed on a voice vote.
- 2025-26 calendar: The board approved the recommended calendar, which staff said includes a two-week winter break favored in staff feedback and preserves a buffer of district instructional days for inclement weather. The motion passed on a voice vote.
- Open enrollment (2025-26): The board voted to continue allowing regular-education open enrollment requests in line with past practice but to deny all open-enrollment requests that would require the district to provide special-education services for 2025-26. Staff said special-education workload constraints, not a refusal of regular open enrollment, drove the recommendation. The motion passed on a voice vote.
- Policies on first reading: The board approved the policies presented on first reading (voice vote). Staff indicated routine first-reading action; amendments will appear if requested before final adoption.
- Course proposal: The board approved a 2025-26 junior-high level technology/agriculture course that aligns middle-school offerings with recent high-school curriculum additions. The motion passed on voice vote.
- Motion to adjourn to closed session: The board moved to adjourn into closed session under the state's closed-session statute for bargaining, property, or personnel deliberations; the roll-call vote to move to closed session passed with all members present voting yes.
Votes summarized: the consent agenda, audit acceptance, calendar, policies (first reading), course proposal and the motion to go into closed session all passed; the district will deny special-education open enrollment requests for 2025-26.
