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Votes at a glance: key actions by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors (Jan. 30, 2025)
Summary
The board approved multiple administrative, personnel, finance and corrective‑action items at its Jan. 30 meeting. This roundup lists motions, outcomes and vote tallies for items that received formal board action.
The Milwaukee Board of School Directors approved a series of routine and substantive items during its Jan. 30 meeting. Below are the actions taken, movers (where recorded) and roll‑call tallies as recorded in the public transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Approve reports of independent hearing officers (motion moved by Director O'Halloran): Passed, 9‑0. - Approve balance of standing committee reports (motion moved by Director Seemson): Passed, 9‑0. - Accept monthly personnel matters (classified/certificated appointments, leaves, resignations): Passed, 9‑0. - Approve recommended administrative appointments/promotions/reassignments (LTE contracts over 60 days): Passed, 8‑0‑1 (Director Zomber abstained). - Approve job description for Director 1, Title IX and Student Protections (administrative position): Passed, 9‑0. - Place Resolution 2425R‑7 (financial analysis concerning scanning equipment) on file (Director Ferguson): Passed, 9‑0. - Approve monthly finance matters and accept monthly finance report (new format): Passed, 9‑0. - Approve awards of exception to bid contracts and professional services contracts: Passed, roll calls recorded as unanimous where noted. - Approve monthly facilities matters (awards, change orders): Passed (roll call recorded as unanimous where noted). - Approve second corrective action plan (CAP 2) responding to DPI concerns about timeliness of financial reporting (moved by Director Jackson): Passed, 9‑0.
What the CAP 2 vote means: The board approved a second corrective action plan produced with the Department of Public Instruction to address late financial reporting. Administration reports the FY 2023 ACFR was issued before the winter holidays and the single audit was issued Jan. 17; external fieldwork for the FY 2024 audit was scheduled to begin the week after the meeting.
Several other routine motions (personnel confirmations, contract exceptions, professional services, grant acceptances and donations) were approved by roll call in the usual manner; the transcript lists the roll calls for each item and shows the administration as the moving party in most finance/facilities items.
The board also took the three items that were deferred earlier in the meeting into closed session at the end of the agenda: pending/probable litigation and negotiations, school resource officer implementation matters tied to Act 12, and a special report; the board voted to retire to closed session under multiple provisions of Wis. Stat. § 19.85 and then recessed.
