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Finance committee recommends consent agenda to full board; committee approves agenda and minutes by roll call
Summary
The Feb. 26 Finance Committee adopted its agenda and approved prior minutes, and recommended a consent package of transfers, procurements and disbursements to the full board; motions passed by roll call with three committee members voting yes.
The Albuquerque Public Schools Finance Committee conducted several procedural votes and recommended a consent agenda to the full Board of Education during its Feb. 26 meeting.
Early in the meeting the committee voted to adopt the Feb. 26, 2025 agenda. Board Member Heather Benavides moved to adopt the agenda and Board Member Josefina Dominguez seconded; a roll call recorded "yes" votes from Benavides, Dominguez and Chair Crystal Tapia Romero.
The committee then voted to approve minutes from the Jan. 22, 2025 Finance Committee meeting, with Dominguez moving the motion and Benavides seconding. The roll call returned "yes" votes from Benavides, Dominguez and Tapia Romero.
At the close of the meeting the committee moved to recommend a consent agenda to the full board that consolidated multiple items discussed during the session. Board Member Dominguez moved and Board Member Benavides seconded the motion to recommend the following items for board consent:
- January 2025 grant interfunction and intrafunction transfers (routine program and salary alignments; presenters noted Medicaid and Pre‑K salary alignments). - January 2025 interfunction and intrafunction transfers for all noncategorical (operational) funds, including $397K in interfunction transfers and intra‑function transfers totaling approximately $3.1M in operational funds and additional amounts in ad valorem, facility enterprise and capital funds. - Distribution of capital improvement tax levy receipts to charter schools (item presented as necessary to align with New Mexico statute and to cure an omission in the February voter approval language). - Annual cash balance increases and decreases (truing up estimates to actual 06/30 balances). - Multiple district purchases/expenditures equal to or exceeding $500,000 (presented as individual procurement or bid approvals): diesel fuel for student transportation (vendor change to Equilon), architectural services on call (estimated $10M over four years), high‑quality instructional materials (middle/high social studies and eighth grade health), roofing supplies (estimated $923K over four years), E‑Rate Phase 5 network switches and Wi‑Fi/AP licenses and software (estimated $7.3M), manufacturer processing of USDA commodities (estimated $7M for one year), and office and school supplies for warehouse stock (estimated $1.12M). - January 2025 cash disbursements.
The motion to recommend the consent agenda passed on a roll call: Heather Benavides — yes; Josefina Dominguez — yes; Crystal Tapia Romero — yes. The committee recorded that the recommended consent items will be forwarded to the full Board of Education for final action.
Why it matters: The committee’s recommendation bundles routine budget alignments, procurement approvals and cash truing actions for board consideration, moving several operational and capital items forward in the FY26 budget process. The distribution to charter schools was presented as required to comply with a cited New Mexico statute.
No items on the consent recommendation were debated as standalone final votes at the committee; the committee voted only to forward the package to the board for action.
