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At-a-glance: Board approves financials, personnel resolutions, buses, air filters and AHERA compliance; adds middle school restructuring
Summary
The board approved the consent agenda and multiple motions on March 3, including retiree resolutions, participation in a state bus purchasing program, purchase of seven buses, an air-filter contract, AHERA compliance designation and approval of a middle-school restructuring plan.
At the March 3 meeting the Chippewa Valley Schools board voted on a series of consent and action items. The items below summarize the motions that were moved, seconded where recorded, and approved by the board during the meeting. This section lists each recorded action, the stated motion, and the outcome as recorded in the meeting transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Approve financial records (motion made and approved by voice). Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
- Personnel/resolution recognitions (retirements): resolutions honoring Hilda Trebbiano, Dorothy Hodges, Amy Satterlund and Judy (Judy Pisick) were read and adopted as board resolutions. Outcome: Adopted (read into record and included on consent/resolution list).
- Proclaim March 2025 as Reading Month in Chippewa Valley Schools (resolution). Outcome: Adopted by voice vote.
- Participate in Michigan School Business Officials (MSBO) bus purchasing program (resolution to authorize participation in state purchasing program). Outcome: Adopted by voice vote.
- Purchase of seven school buses from Hoagstra Transportation: six Thomas 77-passenger buses at $148,125 each and one Thomas 65-passenger bus with wheelchair lift at $53,698; total purchase price cited as $1,042,448 (funding from 2018 bond fund). Outcome: Motion made and approved.
- AHERA (asbestos) designation: resolution to designate the executive director of auxiliary services to ensure AHERA compliance. Outcome: Approved.
- 2018 bond issue change-order summary report (January–February 2025): motion to approve the report showing change orders and contingency use. Outcome: Approved; staff said report had been reviewed with the Building & Site Committee earlier.
- Air filter purchase for maintenance department (Aero Filter): motion to approve districtwide air-filter purchase in the amount cited at $59,886.30. Outcome: Approved by voice vote; funding from general fund budget (2025–26 referenced).
- Amendment and approval of middle-school curriculum restructuring plan (added to agenda as Item I-1 and then approved): motion to approve the restructuring plan and proposal endorsed by K–12 Curriculum Council. Outcome: Agenda amended to add item; restructuring plan approved.
Notes and context
- Several motions were moved and approved by voice vote; explicit roll-call tallies were not recorded in the portion of the transcript provided for many items. Where vote tallies were not read aloud, the transcript records the maker of the motion and voice approval.
- Funding sources were identified in some motions (for example, bus purchases were funded from the 2018 bond fund; air filters cited general fund budget). The transcript did not include detailed line-item budgets for every approved procurement.
