Votes at a glance: Brookings School District board approves consent items, handbooks, agreements and personnel-related wage action

The Brookings School District 05-1 board took multiple formal actions at its July meeting. Key outcomes recorded in the meeting transcript are listed below; where the transcript did not give a named vote tally the item is recorded as approved by the board.

Votes and formal approvals recorded in the meeting record

- Approve agenda as presented — motion moved and seconded; passed (voice). - Enter executive session (personnel, South Dakota Codified Laws §1-25-2(3)) — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve bills for July — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve financial report — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve minutes of June 9 and June 27 meetings — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve supplement to the 2024-25 budget (special-education extraordinary-costs transfer of $30,000 from the general fund) — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Administer oath of office to newly seated/re-elected board members Terry Johnson and Cassie Juba (ceremonial) and convene the 2025–26 board. - Elect Deb (Debbie) Bates as board president and Terry Johnson as vice president — nominations moved and seconded; unanimous ballot cast and approved. - Approve preliminary budget presentation (final budget adoption scheduled for Aug. 11) — presentation accepted; final adoption pending. - Approve consent agenda (annual renewals, calendar, personnel report, activity pass and meal prices, etc.) — motion moved and seconded; roll-call voice votes recorded as ayes and motion passed. - Approve July donations (community donors for track team and others) — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve board subcommittees for 2025–26 (performance oversight, facilities and construction, policy and governance, school finance, ad hoc appointees) — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve longstanding agreements for pick-up/drop-off locations with Elkton School District and Oldham-Ramona-Rutland School District (use of Little Hall in Aurora and Casey’s General Store on Sixth Street, respectively) — motions moved and seconded; passed. - Approve South Dakota State University facility-use agreement for Brookings High School football (new rental fee $2,000 per game noted) — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve memorandum of understanding with South Dakota State University for kindergarten services — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve hiring ELO CPAs & Advisors for the 2024–25 audit — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve custodians’ request to withdraw the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) as their negotiating agent — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve 1% wage increase for facilities workers and custodians for 2025–26 — motion moved and seconded; passed. - Approve classified employees handbook, preschool family handbook, elementary, intermediate, middle and high school learner handbooks, learner activities handbook, and approval of student activities advisors for 2025–26 — motions moved and seconded; passed (high school handbook included device-use procedures and a pending recommendation for an interim assistant principal noted in the staff directory). - Approve Project SEARCH participation and related MOU with SDSU for student transition programming — motion moved and seconded; passed.

The transcript records voice votes and roll calls for many items but does not provide detailed vote tallies for every action. No votes recorded in the public transcript indicate any item failed; all listed motions were recorded as passing during the July meeting.

Administrative and follow-up items

- Final budget adoption and levy-setting scheduled for Aug. 11, 2025; staff were asked to return with final figures once enrollment and federal allocations are clearer. - Administration to proceed with planned communication and implementation steps for the high school device procedures, and to report back to the board on rollout.