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Board approves budget revision, field trips, contracts and school events; awards $826,369 fire-alarm contract
Summary
Farmersville Unified trustees voted unanimously on a slate of routine approvals — including multiple school trips and events, personnel actions, a budget revision and a high‑school fire‑alarm contract awarded to MTech Telecom for $826,369 — and took no action on closed‑session labor and personnel matters.
The Farmersville Unified School District Board of Trustees on a unanimous vote approved a long list of routine and capital items, including a budget revision, several field trips and student events, multiple memoranda of understanding with partner colleges and agencies, and a contract award for a high‑school fire‑alarm upgrade.
The board voted 5‑0 to award a contract to MTech Telecom to upgrade the Farmersville High School fire‑alarm system, a contract listed in the meeting backup at $826,369. The board also ratified a Johnson Controls Fire Protection quotation for purchasing approved fire‑alarm devices and approved the final project cost statement for the high‑school central plant HVAC chiller upgrade (project no. 80‑08160).
Why it matters: the fire‑alarm and HVAC items are capital projects that affect high‑school safety and campus infrastructure and carry material price tags; budget and procurement approvals authorize district staff to proceed with awarded work and purchases.
Key actions and outcomes
- Approval of regular board meeting minutes for March 11, 2025 (motion carried 5‑0). - Approval of release forms (listed backup amounts included $691,144.97 and other smaller amounts as printed) (motion carried 5‑0). - Ratification/approval of numerous school events and field trips, including: Freedom Elementary Invitational Track Meet (04/03/2025), mother‑son dance at Farmersville Junior High (04/25/2025), fifth‑grade trout release at Slickrock Recreation (04/10/2025), Migrant Education math/STEAM trip to CSU Fresno (04/05/2025), theater‑arts field trip to Saroyan Theater (04/04/2025), FFA incentive trip to San Luis Obispo (May 22), AP Spanish/World Language Fair trip (04/26/2025), youth challenge team presentation trip to Tulare County Office of Education (03/26/2025), and other extracurricular travel (all motions carried, recorded as unanimous where shown). - Approval of program and partnership items: memorandum of understanding with Fresno Pacific University; Tulare County CCGI partnership agreement (no. 250894); MOU for dual enrollment with Kern Community College District; approval of K‑3 schools designation for Hester and Snowdon; approval of A–G completion/improvement grant program acceptance (motion carried, unanimous where recorded). - Personnel actions: certificated and classified personnel approvals, extracurricular/coaching personnel, and a revised job description/MOU for bus driver/utility worker (all motions carried 5‑0 as recorded). - Business and facilities: approval of Budget Revision No. 4; approval of a transportation plan with state/county reimbursement component; travel authorization to the Caswell Conference (April 2025); award of the MTech Telecom contract for the high‑school fire‑alarm upgrade ($826,369); ratification of Johnson Controls quotation for DSA‑approved devices; and adoption of the revision to the 2025–26 instructional calendar (motions carried as recorded). - Student discipline recommendation: the board moved and approved recommendation for expulsion (item listed as STU2) by recorded motion; the motion carried 5‑0.
Matters tabled or moved to closed session
- The Act V debt‑safety platform agreement (listed backup dated March 14) was discussed and the board agreed to table the item for a future meeting or to consider it in closed session at the request of a board member. - The board adjourned to closed session to discuss labor negotiations (GC 54957.6), public‑employee discipline/dismissal/release (GC 54957) and anticipated litigation (GC 54956.9); the return to open session recorded “No action taken” on those closed‑session items.
Board procedure and votes
Most motions were moved and seconded on the record; where roll‑call tallies were recorded, the minutes show unanimous 5‑0 votes. The meeting record lists trustees participating as Alice Lopez (president), Merced Zamora, Freddy Espinosa, Sabrina Gomez and John Alvarez; where the record shows a 5‑0 outcome it is recorded as “motion carried 5‑0.”
Ending: The board took no reportable action in closed session and adjourned after the listed business was completed.
