School board approves consent agenda: vendor payments, reimbursements, policy revision and personnel items

The DeSoto County School Board on Aug. 7 approved its consent agenda, which included payments to vendors at multiple schools, reimbursement of security employees, a revision to the district's homebound instruction policy and a package of personnel actions. Officials said the board packet contained letters from Horn Lake Intermediate School, Lake Middle School and Blake Palmer High School requesting payment for commodities and services. Board presenters told members the issues had been addressed at the school level and recommended processing the payments; each vendor payment item was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. The board also approved reimbursements for three security employees whose expenses were described in the packet, and it approved a revision to policy IDDC, the district's homebound instruction program policy. The motion to adopt the revised policy passed on voice vote. On personnel, the board approved the personnel packet, which included memos to reclassify a full-time teacher assistant at Lewisburg Middle School into two part-time positions, a salary-correction memo for the 2025-26 school year, an additional occupational therapist to address student needs, and supplemental-pay proposals that the packet described as a request to "approve $50,000 supplement per section for teachers who will serve as district satellite teachers to fill current, student matrices." The personnel motions were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. Board presenters thanked finance and HR staff for assembling the packet and said school-level bookkeepers had worked to address the vendor issues. There was no recorded roll-call vote; each item passed on a voice vote of "Aye."