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Bryan ISD approves $61,959.60 purchase of reach truck for Child Nutrition Services
Summary
The Bryan ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved purchase of a new reach truck for Child Nutrition Services, using excess fund-balance funds approved by the Texas Department of Agriculture; the board discussed disposal and placement of the existing unit and the competitive procurement process.
Bryan ISD trustees unanimously approved the purchase of a new reach truck for Child Nutrition Services for $61,959.60.
The purchase, presented by Kevin Besaw, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, and Sandra Baxter, Director of School Nutrition, was funded through an excess fund-balance spend-down plan authorized by the Texas Department of Agriculture, Besaw said. The district presented the purchase as a permissible use of funds after the department approved the items that could be bought to benefit the department and the district.
The truck described in the presentation is a specialized forklift — a “reach truck” — built to operate in narrow aisles and to move laterally as well as vertically, Besaw said. He said the recommended unit is brand new and that the district ran a request-for-proposal process that produced two vendor quotes; one met the district’s specifications, the other did not because it was too tall to pass through doorways at the new facility.
Board members asked about disposition of the existing unit, which Besaw said is currently in use at the CDC building. Besaw said the district would keep the existing truck at that site “as long as the district intends to maintain that building” and move the new truck to the Ruby Halliburton facility to serve pallet storage racks there.
Board member Gonzales moved approval of the purchase “as presented”; Board member Waller seconded. The motion carried with a unanimous voice vote; the transcript records the result as “unanimous” but individual roll-call votes were not recorded in the transcript.
The board discussed the age of the existing unit — described in the meeting as about 18 years old — and board members framed the purchase as replacing an aging piece of equipment rather than a discretionary or frivolous expenditure.
The purchase will proceed as approved; the transcript records no additional conditions or implementation timeline detail beyond the procurement discussion.
