Board approves budgets, contracts and multiple consent items in single vote series

The Midland County School District Board approved a set of consent and action items covering curriculum purchases, service contracts, personnel items and the district’s proposed 2025–26 general fund budget.

Key approvals included: - Final proposed general fund budget for 2025–26 totaling $100,763,398; board members recorded a roll-call vote and trustees said the budget reflects no tax increase. - I-Ready Classroom Mathematics as the core K–5 mathematics resource under a six-year contract (2025–26 through 2030–31) at a total cost of $335,665.41; Title I funds were designated to cover $214,311.84 of the purchase via a front-loaded consumables buy for grades K–3. - A five-year pupil transportation agreement with Price Transportation Inc., covering July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030. - Approval of Metz Culinary Management as the food-service management company for the 2025–26 year (contract renewable annually up to four additional one-year periods by mutual agreement; a full RFP is required every five years). - Personnel and position actions, including a head nurse job description submission and the approval of an assistant girls basketball coach pulled from the consent agenda. - An MOU with the Midland County Education Support Professionals Association (MCESPA, PSEA/NEA) to increase hourly pay for paraprofessionals and HRAs during ESY and K Camp to their normal hourly rate instead of a $15/hour contracted rate. - A bench naming sponsorship agreement between the River Valley Visitors Bureau and the district for one bench at Kishbank Fields (Donald M. Chapman III Stadium). - Multiple capital projects disbursements approved, including a dishwasher purchase for Lewistown Intermediate School ($45,327.47) and a partial roof replacement at East Derry Elementary (cost not to exceed $110,000). - Substitute teacher service agreement with STS for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. - A recommendation to allow newly hired teachers to be paid supplemental work in June–August 2025 to attend trainings prior to the start of the 2025–26 school year.

Most items were approved by recorded roll-call votes. For curriculum and larger contract approvals trustees asked procedural questions about funding sources and renewal schedules; staff said Title I funds would be used to front-load consumable materials for I-Ready and that the food-service contract will be subject to a five-year RFP process. The board also approved the Midland County Academy of Science and Technology budget ($3,972,232) as presented.

Ending — The board completed a broad slate of routine and higher-cost approvals that set programming and contracted services for the coming school year; several items will require annual monitoring and future RFP processes as noted by staff.