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Votes at a glance: Waterbury Board approves budget transmission, unified sports award and consent contracts
Summary
At its Feb. 20 meeting the Waterbury Board of Education approved consent calendar construction contracts, authorized an award agreement supporting unified sports, and authorized transmission of the 2025–26 proposed school budget to the mayor for $158,375,000.
The Waterbury Board of Education on Feb. 20 approved multiple routine and budgetary items, including construction contract awards on the consent calendar, an award agreement to support unified sports programming, and transmittal of the district’s 2025–26 budget request to the mayor.
On a voice vote the board approved consent calendar items 10.1 through 10.4, which the agenda described as: approval of Amendment 2 to the Ferguson Mechanical Company Inc. construction contract (RFP No. 7858) for HVAC replacement at Kennedy High School; approval of a construction contract with Union Flooring Installations LLC for gymnasium floor replacement at Tinker School; and committee items concerning use of school facilities by school organizations, city departments and outside organizations or waiver requests. The motion to approve the consent calendar passed on a voice vote; no roll-call tallies were announced.
The board also approved an award agreement with Special Olympics Connecticut Incorporated and the Connecticut Association of Schools “for support of unified sports programming” (agenda item 12.1). That motion was moved and seconded and passed by voice vote.
Separately, the board authorized the superintendent to transmit the Waterbury Public Schools’ 2025–26 budget request in the amount of $158,375,000 to the mayor (agenda item 12.2). The board approved the transmission by voice vote; discussion was not recorded in detail in the public minutes.
Other routine notifications and superintendent items were placed on file as part of the meeting’s procedural actions. No roll-call vote counts were provided in the meeting transcript for these items.
