Votes at a glance: board approves consent agenda (minus several contracts), sets budget hearing, authorizes bond resolution and multiple change orders including

At its March 10 meeting the Waukee Community School District Board of Directors took a series of formal actions across consent, finance and capital-projects business.

Key outcomes

- Consent agenda: The board approved the consent agenda with items 11, 15, 16, 17 and 18 removed from the consent contract section for separate consideration (motion passed).

- Budget public hearing: The board approved and set the proposed budget (house file 718 taxpayer statement) for a public hearing on March 31, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. (motion passed).

- General obligation bonds: The board approved a resolution authorizing issuance of not-to-exceed $29,710,000 general obligation school bonds, Series 2025A, and levying a tax to pay them (motion passed).

- Pay rates and staffing: The board approved miscellaneous seasonal pay rates for fiscal year 2025-26; approved FY2024-25 and FY2025-26 position listings as presented (motions passed).

- Capital projects change orders: The board approved multiple change orders across projects. Notable items included: • Waukee High School Fine Arts addition and renovation — Change Order No. 2 for $53,256.44 (design-deficiency storm sewer work) — approved. • Waterford Elementary — Change Order No. 7 — credit of $12,330.21 — approved. • North Middle School — Change Order No. 8 for $47,682.78 (camera card reader and locker change) — approved. • Wilk project — multiple change orders approved, including an elevator-shaft item ($12,619.20), sidewalk improvement ($511.83), metal-panel/trim work ($7,864.02), card readers ($46,845.17), trim/pegboard ($2,124.08), and a solar-panel installation Change Order No. 24 for $210,424.35; board discussion included a presentation that the solar installation “will pay for itself within 10 years.”

Votes and procedure

Nearly all motions were followed by the standard roll-call-style voice vote recorded in the transcript as “All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes.” Individual board members were not named in the transcript for each motion, and individual vote tallies were not recorded in the meeting minutes transcript provided.

What was removed from consent: at the start of the meeting a board member requested that contracts 11 (HBS InformaCast), 15 (carrier access, Dona Ma migration), and 16–18 (Heartland Business Systems items) be pulled from the consent contract section for separate consideration; the remainder of the consent agenda passed as presented with those items removed.

No motions failed or were tabled in the record provided.