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Board approves routine procurement and annual authorizations including utilities, contracts and supplemental staffing
Summary
The board approved multiple routine but high-value authorizations for 2025–26—utilities (electric, gas, water), fuel for transportation, referee payment system, supplemental custodial and nursing staffing contracts, legal services, and other annual agreements—and approved a student orchestra travel request.
The Shawnee Mission School District Board of Education approved a series of routine procurement authorizations and contracts for the 2025–26 fiscal year.
Superintendent Schumacher presented consent and action items the administration described as customary annual purchases and renewals. Items approved by the board (motions carried by recorded or voice vote) include estimated authorizations for electricity (Evergy; estimated $7,200,000), water utilities (Water District No. 1; estimated $400,000), natural gas (Symmetry Energy Solutions and Kansas Gas Service; combined estimates), transportation fuel (multiple vendors; estimated $600,000), referee services (ArbiterPay; estimated $297,000), and continued administration of Raptor and camera monitoring described earlier in the safety presentation.
The board approved contracting ATS Facility Services for supplemental custodial staffing (estimated not to exceed $2,476,000) to backfill about 70 unfilled custodial positions and noted contracted labor will be funded from general funds freed by unfilled positions. The board approved a contract with Sunburst Workforce Advisors to provide nursing and supplemental school staffing on an as-needed basis (estimated not to exceed $1,500,000), funded from special education operating funds; presenters said the Sunburst contract consolidates multiple vendors and removes prior buyout penalties.
Other approvals included legal services panels (several outside counsel firms), authorization to purchase referee services for athletic officials, and authorization to permit Shawnee Mission West Orchestra students to travel to San Francisco in April 2026 (estimated expenditure not to exceed $279,109; no district funds to be used).
Administrators told the board that most of these items were budgeted and that final expenditures depend on market costs and usage. Board members thanked staff and noted the timing coincides with budget planning for the upcoming year.
