Board adopts enabling resolution formalizing administrative authorities and district practices
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Summary
The Walla River School District Board adopted enabling resolution 20252026.001, which delegates routine administrative authorities—check signing, meeting schedules, designation of depositories and auditors, investment and trustee designations, insurance agents, and personnel delegation—at the July 10 business meeting.
At the July 10 business meeting, the Walla River School District Board of Education adopted enabling resolution 20252026.001, a housekeeping measure that formalizes a suite of administrative delegations and district practices for the 2025–26 year.
The resolution, read into the record by a board member, lists specific delegations: authorization for the clerk or deputy clerk to sign district checks and pay salaries (signature or facsimile may be used), designation of the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. as the regular meeting date, designation of a named bank as depository, appointments of Brown and Brown Northwest as insurance agent of record and Holly Rogers & Company, PC as auditor, designation of the superintendent as executive officer/clerk and budget officer, and naming the chief financial officer as purchasing authority. The resolution also designates an official newspaper for public notices, authorizes routine bill payment by the clerk or deputy clerk, appoints legal counsel for district business and for personnel matters, authorizes participation in the Oregon State Investment Pool, and names Computershare Corporate Trust as trustee for the district's limited tax pension obligation bonds.
Other provisions set substitute pay rates and meal prices for the coming year, established the district's adoption of the "offer versus serve" approach for federal school meal programs, and adopted public contract rules per the Oregon Attorney General's Public Contract Rules (OAR chapter 137, divisions 46–49) and portions of DAS rules for contract exemptions. The resolution also designated which employee positions are confidential and excluded from bargaining and set mileage reimbursement at the current IRS rate.
Board members had no further discussion after the resolution was read; the motion to adopt carried without objection. The enabling resolution will govern routine administrative authority and procedural details for the 2025–26 year.