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DeWitt board approves consent agenda, labor contracts, bond loan application and water main easement
Summary
The DeWitt Public Schools Board of Education approved a consent agenda that included minutes and hiring, passed a preliminary school bond loan fund application resolution, approved a water main easement with the city of DeWitt, and ratified three personnel contracts; it tabled the forest stewardship plan.
The DeWitt Public Schools Board of Education voted on a series of routine and business items during its meeting, approving the consent agenda, several labor agreements and a preliminary school bond loan fund application. The board also approved a water-main easement with the city of DeWitt. Separately, the board tabled consideration of an updated forest stewardship plan following a presentation and public comment.
On a motion recommended by Superintendent Kevin Rebidek, the board approved the consent agenda, which the superintendent described as accepting minutes, the treasurer’s report for June 2025, and several personnel actions. The consent agenda included the hiring of Kelly Corbett as director of human resources and Noah Hanson as communications coordinator; the board welcomed Hanson at the meeting.
The board approved a preliminary application resolution for the School Bond Loan Fund. The board also approved a resolution authorizing a water-main easement between DeWitt Public Schools and the city of DeWitt; district staff noted the easement allows the city access to maintain or install water infrastructure on district property.
The board ratified multi-year labor agreements covering the 2025–26 school year: the DeWitt Education Support Personnel Association agreement for the period July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, and the DeWitt Administrator Association master agreement for the same dates. Discussions during the Administrator Association item referenced a letter of agreement for off-schedule payments, described by staff as part of the negotiation process. During contract discussion a board member raised questions about health-insurance plan language and longevity-pay language; staff said corrections would be made to ensure references to specific health plans (McLaren Health Plan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan) were consistent across documents.
A separate amendment to previously approved closed-session minutes was discussed: the board corrected the statutory basis cited for entering closed session to MCL 15.268(1)(h) (attorney-client privileged communications) rather than the subsection previously listed in the minutes.
Votes recorded in the transcript were by voice; where the transcript records only a voice vote, no roll-call tallies are available in the record. The meeting concluded with the superintendent’s report that district enrollment stood at "a little over 3,100," with kindergarten enrollment reported at 208 and Young 5 at 40.
