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Board approves consent items: budget amendments, honors humanities course and new $10 poultry-club fee
Summary
During the Feb. 27 business meeting the Germantown Board approved amendments to Title and IDEA allocations, renewed an honors humanities special course, and added a $10 fee for a student poultry-hatching club. The board also voted to remove an Education Freedom Act resolution from the agenda for further drafting.
The Germantown Municipal School District Board of Education approved its consent agenda during the Feb. 27, 2025 business meeting, accepting budget amendments for federal grants, renewing a special-course application and adding a new club fee.
Why it matters: the consent approvals complete routine but required steps so staff can apply funds, run programs and operate new extracurricular activities. The board removed a separate resolution about state teacher bonuses (Education Freedom Act) from the agenda to allow additional revision and discussion.
Votes at a glance (items approved in the consent agenda) - Budget amendment #19 — Title funding (consolidated funding application): board staff reported small final adjustments to federal Title allocations, including adding $858 to Title II in-service staff development and $303 to Title III instructional supplies; outcome: approved as part of the consent agenda.
- Budget amendment #20 — IDEA (Part B and preschool): staff reported a final allocation increase of $25,159 for IDEA Part B to be added to contracts with private agencies (speech/vision/etc.) and $370 for preschool indirect costs; outcome: approved as part of the consent agenda.
- Special-course application — Honors Humanities (Houston High School): the board approved renewal of an existing honors humanities course the district has taught for years; staff noted the course is typically offered to 10th–12th graders and runs as a year-long, one-credit elective; outcome: approved as part of the consent agenda.
- New club fee — Poultry Hatching Club (Houston High School): the board approved adding a $10 club fee for a proposed poultry-hatching club; staff said chicks have been hatched in classrooms previously and the club intends to follow local ordinances about keeping poultry; outcome: approved as part of the consent agenda.
Procedural votes and agenda changes - Motion to remove agenda item 10(a) — “Resolution to meet requirement for teacher bonuses under Education Freedom Act”: motion by Board member Curry, second by Board member Hendricks Jr. The board approved the motion to remove the item from the agenda (roll call: Hendricks Jr. — Yes; Curry — Yes; Ellis — Yes; Strain — Yes; Chair Griffith — Yes). The chair clarified the removal was to allow more drafting time and did not change the board’s intent to pay state-provided bonuses if the law applies.
- Approval of agenda as amended (with item 10(a) removed): passed by roll call (Hendricks Jr., Curry, Ellis, Strain, Chair Griffith — all Yes).
What’s next: staff will apply the budget increases and implement the approved course and club fee rules. The removed Education Freedom Act resolution will be revised and returned to the board for further consideration at a later meeting, per board discussion.
