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Votes at a glance: Bixby Board approves consent agenda, construction GMP amendment, Khan Academy pilot and several operations items
Summary
At its Jan. 16 meeting the Bixby Board of Education approved the consent agenda, a GMP amendment adding the 9th-grade gym, a Khan Academy pilot and supplemental tutoring contract, an amendment to custodial services for new spaces, a banquet activity account for Child Nutrition, and declared certain items surplus.
BIXBY — The Bixby Board of Education recorded several formal actions during its Jan. 16 meeting. All motions listed below passed by recorded vote unless otherwise noted.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda (items 1–15): Approved (unanimous). No substantive exceptions were recorded during the meeting.
- Guaranteed Maximum Price Amendment No. 14 (agenda item 5.1): Approved (unanimous). Motion to increase the district’s GMP by $4,836,181 to add the 9th‑grade gymnasium and related items; to be paid from 2024 bond funds. The amendment includes a $150,000 contingency and a $12,000 return to the maintenance-building funds.
- Khan Academy pilot (agenda item 6.1): Approved (unanimous). Contract to participate in the Conmigo/Khan adaptive-assessment pilot at no cost to the district; includes three adaptive assessments and an 18-month license.
- Khan supplemental tutoring contract (agenda item 6.2): Approved (unanimous). Supplemental contract for student tutoring services for $3,455 to be paid from general funds; seed funding from foundations reduced the per-student cost for this offering.
- Amendment to custodial services contract (agenda item 7.1): Approved (unanimous). Motion authorizes amendment to statewide custodial services contract to add cleaning scope for new facilities associated with the new academic building; net nightly rate adjustments were presented in the board packet.
- Banquet activity account for Child Nutrition (agenda item 7.2): Approved (unanimous). Board established a banquet activity account to support Child Nutrition fundraising and special events.
- Surplus declaration (agenda item 7.3): Approved (unanimous). Board declared various items (cabinets, pallet jack, other equipment) surplus for disposal under Oklahoma statutes.
- Other: No human-resources approval items were presented for board action at this meeting; the meeting adjourned after new business.
Board votes were recorded as aye by all five voting members present (Julie Prox, Amanda Stevens, Matt Dodson, Justin Cheatham and the board chair). Where specific seconding members were not named in the transcript, the motion was recorded and the board’s roll-call vote was taken.
Meeting staff noted that several items (GMP amendment, custodial amendment) are funded from bond proceeds related to the district’s 2024 capital program or have general-fund impacts as noted in the board packet.
