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Burrillville school committee approves warrants, bid, policies, personnel actions and transportation mirror resolution
Summary
At its May 13 meeting the Burrillville School Committee approved minutes and warrants, awarded a $143,644.37 audio-system bid, accepted a principalresignation, approved two policy readings and a mirror resolution on school transportation; several other routine votes were taken.
The Burrillville School Committee on May 13 approved a series of routine and policy items, including the district—s April warrants, an equipment bid, personnel actions and a mirror resolution on school transportation.
The committee voted to approve the minutes of the April 8, 2025 regular meeting and to approve the fiscal year 2025 warrant number 10, month of April dated May 13, 2025. The warrant total was read during the meeting as $1,291,158.51, with a grand total expenditure of $2,974,951.72.
The committee awarded a bid of $143,644.37 to ATR Treehouse for an audio sound system at Burrillville Middle School. The motion to approve the bid was made by a committee member and seconded; the motion passed.
On personnel business, the committee accepted the resignation of Catherine Lord, principal of Burrillville Middle School, effective June 30, 2025, and received and filed subsequent appointments as presented.
On policy and budget items the committee voted to receive and file fiscal-year-2025 budget updates and related rent budget reports. The body approved the second revised readings of Policy P4320 (purchasing / budget finance) and Policy P7314 (school wellness). The committee also approved a $0.10 increase in school meal prices.
Other votes included approval of homeschool applications, approval of a SkillsUSA overnight field trip to Atlanta, and approval of a motion to prepare and file a mirror resolution supporting changes to passenger-van capacity and out-of-state driver certification reciprocity that had been submitted earlier by the North Smithfield School Committee.
All of the listed motions were presented and approved during the May 13 meeting; recorded roll call at the start of the meeting noted that all regular members were present except one member with an excused absence. The meeting adjourned following the votes.
Notes: the transcript records each motion, the mover and seconder (in most cases motion made by Donison and seconded by a named colleague), and the voice voting outcome as "Aye." Individual roll-call votes by name were not recorded in the meeting transcript.
