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Tacoma School Board approves multiple contracts, authorizes $320,000 for after-school transportation
Summary
At its Sept. 11 meeting the Tacoma School District Board of Directors approved a set of contracts and contract amendments covering special education services, after-school transportation reimbursement with Tacoma Creates, fleet fuel services, nutrition services equipment, and a Puget Sound ESD interlocal agreement; all items passed by voice vote.
The Tacoma School District Board of Directors on Sept. 11 approved several contracts and contract amendments that the district said will support special education services, after-school transportation, district fleet maintenance and nutrition services.
The board approved a one-year contract with Brock's Academy to provide special-education and related services from Sept. 1, 2025, through Aug. 31, 2026, funded from student services. "The deputy superintendent on behalf of the co-directors of student services recommends that the board of directors approve contract number TSD-25-206," a staff presenter said during the meeting. The motion to approve was moved and seconded, and the item passed by voice vote with no recorded opposition.
Board members also approved a reimbursement agreement between the district and the city of Tacoma/Tacoma Creates for after-school transportation for community partner programs. James Neal, the district's director of athletics and activities, said the Tacoma Creates reimbursement will cover what he described as an additional "second bus" that brings students home from after-school sites, allowing programs such as Beyond the Bell and Club B to run safely from about 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Neal said, "Beyond the Bell and Club B serves about 20,000 of our participants ... roughly about 5 to 6,000 individual kids but 20,000 participants participate in that program" and that the agreement reimburses the district for up to $320,000 for the 2025–26 school year. The board voted to approve the contract.
The board approved an amendment to a district contract with Associated Petroleum Products, increasing the contract by $3 million and raising its total value to $10,500,000 and extending the term through Aug. 31, 2027, funding the work from the general fund. The chief financial officer presented the amendment.
An amendment to a nutrition-services contract with Alexander Gao Fire Equipment (listed in the agenda as Alexander Gall/Gao) was approved to extend the contract through the 2025–26 school year; staff said the per‑service rate remains at $56,025 and that the amendment brings the contract total to $224,100 as stated in the agenda item. The board also approved an interlocal agreement with Puget Sound Educational Service District to pay an annual flat rate assessment of $3,000 to support a specialized transportation program and to cover costs that exceed the PSESD's apportionment for McKinney‑Vento students.
All listed consent and business items on the agenda were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote at the meeting; no recorded no-votes or abstentions were made on the presented agenda items.
The board's actions on these contracts were presented by district staff (deputy superintendent and chief financial officer) and discussed briefly during the business portion of the Sept. 11 meeting. Staff identified funding sources on the agenda as student services, athletics and activities, nutrition services, and the district general fund.
The district posted the monthly financial report schedule and said the next monthly financial report will be presented Sept. 25, 2025, and that monthly statements are available on the district website.
Items approved at this meeting now move to implementation by the responsible district departments, including student services, athletics and activities, and business and finance.
