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Votes at a glance: Lake Wales Charter Schools board actions, Oct. 20, 2025
Summary
A compact summary of motions and roll-call votes taken at the Oct. 20 work session and business meeting, including chair ratification, vice chair appointment, adoption of FERPA and the financial manual, minutes and personnel approvals.
Key motions and roll-call outcomes recorded by the Lake Wales Charter Schools Board of Trustees on Oct. 20, 2025.
- Ratify Board Chair: Motion to ratify Lori Hutto as chair carried (roll call: Blair yes; Marburg yes; Hutto yes; Stewart yes; Johnson yes).
- Vice Chair: Motion to nominate Trustee Andy Blair as vice chair carried (roll call recorded as unanimous yes).
- FERPA policy: Motion to approve the updated Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act policy carried (moved by Trustee Andy Blair; seconded; roll-call vote unanimous yes).
- Financial Policies and Procedures Manual (including procurement and Buy America language): Motion to approve carried (moved by Doctor Johnson; seconded by Andy Blair; roll-call vote unanimous yes). Trustees requested future edits (remove ambiguous "verbal quotes" language and propose device-standard policies).
- Approval of minutes: Work session minutes (Sept. 22) and board meeting minutes (Sept. 22) each approved on motion and unanimous roll-call vote.
- Financial report (September): Motion to accept September financials carried on unanimous roll-call vote.
- Personnel changes: Motion to approve two personnel changes (Vianney Marilia — Janie Howard kindergarten; Shante Holmes Benton — Bach North Language Arts) carried on unanimous roll-call vote; both hires listed as out-of-field on HR paperwork.
- Nomination for seat 7: Trustees recorded a motion and vote nominating Dr. T.J. McKeehan for seat 7; chair announced motion carried by roll-call vote. Board counsel later advised the board that the appointment must be posted for public comment and ratified at a later posted meeting to comply with open-meetings requirements; staff will post ratification on the Nov. 17 agenda.
Ending: Board staff will circulate candidate résumés and the agenda language required for ratification; counsel requested procedural posting to permit public comment prior to final seating.
