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Votes at a glance: OPS board approves consent agenda, excuses absences, enters closed session
Summary
At its April 7 meeting the Omaha Public Schools Board approved routine items on the consent agenda, excused two board members' absences, accepted audit reports and voted to go into closed session for legal and real-estate matters. All motions carried by recorded roll calls.
Here are the formal actions taken by the Omaha Public Schools Board of Education at its April 7, 2025 meeting, as recorded on the meeting transcript.
1) Excused absences Motion: Excuse the absence of two board members (Mister Tulin and Miss Fall). Mover: Mister Smith. Second: Doctor Holman. Vote: Recorded roll call showed 7 ayes. Outcome: approved.
2) Consent agenda (routine approvals) Motion: Approve the consent agenda presented to the board. (Board members may pull items; a listed abstention was recorded on a specific claim item.) Mover: Mister Holman. Second: Mister Smith. Vote: Recorded roll-call approval showed 7 ayes; doctor Holman verbally noted he would abstain on Item I-8 Claim C for his role with a hospital foundation. Outcome: approved (with abstention noted for the specific item).
3) Acceptance of audit reports Motion: Accept the annual audit reports for Douglas County School District 0001, Educational Service Unit 19, and KIOS-FM. Mover: Mister Smith. Second: not specified/record unclear on the floor. Vote: 7 ayes, 0 no. Outcome: approved.
4) Legislative committee report and position change on LB682 Motion: Approve the legislative committee report and change the board's position on LB682 (as amended, AM566) from "monitor with research" to "opposition." (Committee recommendation.) Mover: not specified (committee recommendation). Second: not required. Vote: 7 ayes, 0 no. Outcome: approved.
5) Closed session Motion: Move into closed session "for the protection of the public interest and for the prevention of needless injury to the reputation of individuals to discuss with the superintendent, secretary to the board, chief of staff, and legal counsel, real estate and legal advice." (Motion by Vice President Snipes; second by Miss Magnuson.) Mover: Miss Snipes. Second: Miss Magnuson. Vote: Recorded roll call showed 7 ayes; the board entered closed session at 7:21 p.m. and returned to open session at 7:45 p.m.
How to read these votes: the transcript records roll-call votes with named board members and the clerk recorded the voice roll calls. Where individual abstentions were spoken on the record, they are noted above.
