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Finance committee debates moving purchasing agenda to full board amid budget questions
Summary
Committee members pressed staff for top-line 2025‑26 budget context before approving renewals and blanket orders. Staff and others said many items are baseline renewals and can be expedited to the full board when time-sensitive; the committee voted to send the purchasing agenda to the full board.
Committee members spent the bulk of the May 27 finance meeting discussing whether the purchasing agenda — a package of software renewals, curriculum licenses and blanket purchase-orders — should be forwarded to the full Grand Rapids Board of Education before trustees had seen top-line 2025‑26 budget projections.
Miss Cribbs, who presented the purchasing agenda, said the first six items are contract renewals with July 1 renewal dates and that staff brings them forward now so payments can be processed on time. “As we're ending our fiscal year 24‑25, we…
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