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Votes at a glance: Guthrie Public Schools Board, May 12, 2025
Summary
The board approved a series of contracts, handbooks, appropriations and personnel actions at its May 12 meeting; this summary lists each item, the motion outcome and the roll-call votes as recorded.
GUTHRIE, Okla. — At its May 12 meeting the Guthrie Public Schools Board of Education approved multiple routine and contract items, adopted handbooks and took a series of personnel actions. Recorded roll-call votes are listed below. All listed motions passed by board vote unless noted.
Summary of actions and outcomes (motions approved):
- Consent agenda: Approved (roll call: Gerard, Husky, Plagg, Pearson, Schroeder, Davis, Smedley — all yes).
- Approve minutes of April 14, 2025 regular meeting: Approved (all yes).
- Approve teachers, aides and administration for 2025 K–6 remedial summer school: Approved (all yes).
- Renewal of National Purchasing Cooperative interlocal participation agreement (Buy Board) for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Contract renewal with Sodexo Inc. for Child Nutrition Services for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Amendment/renewal agreement with Clearwater Enterprises for third‑party natural gas for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Temporary appropriations for 2025–26 (general fund, building fund, child nutrition fund, gifts/endowment, insurance/casualty): Approved (all yes).
- Agreement with Alcohol and Drug Testing Inc. for student and staff testing for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Student substitute staff placement agreement with ESS South Central LLC (one-year): Approved (all yes). See separate summary for discussion.
- Agreement with Oklahoma State Department of Education for 2025 Summer Food Service Program: Approved (all yes).
- Accept bid for lawn services (Hudson Lawn Care): Approved (all yes). Board discussion noted low bidder turnout; administration explained local market and staffing dynamics.
- Approve elementary student handbook for 2025–26: Approved (all yes). Board noted potential future handbook revision following new device policy (SB 139).
- Approve Guthrie Upper Elementary student handbook for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Approve junior high student handbook for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Approve Guthrie High School student handbook for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Approve Guthrie High School course description handbook for 2025–26 (includes new course "Launch into Aviation"): Approved (all yes).
- Approve Favor Alternative School student handbook for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Approve transportation department employee policy and procedure handbook for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Approve school bus riders handbook for 2025–26: Approved (all yes).
- Executive session held under 25 O.S. § 307(B)(1) and (7) to discuss personnel matters; board returned to open session and stated no votes were taken during executive session.
- Action on personnel reports (rehiring and employment recommendations, resignations, transfers, FMLA requests as listed): Approved (roll calls show unanimous yes on each personnel motion recorded in open session).
Each approved item above was recorded on the transcript and passed by roll call with the following board members recorded as voting yes in nearly all instances: Gerard, Husky, Plagg, Pearson, Schroeder, Davis and Smedley. The transcript shows repeated roll calls with unanimous yes votes for the items listed.
Details and provenance: The board packet referenced individual pages for handbooks, bid tabulations and contracts; the transcript records motions, seconds and roll-call votes for each item on the May 12 agenda. Items that were discussed at length (for example, the ESS substitute staffing agreement) are summarized in separate articles rather than repeated here.
