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Board approves five-year PepsiCo contract, 2025–26 food-service budget and personnel actions
Summary
At a July meeting, the Midland County School District board approved a five-year PepsiCo beverage contract, the 2025–26 food-service budget, an interdistrict Title I services agreement and several personnel actions, including a 10-day suspension and the hire of an autistic support teacher.
The Midland County School District Board of Education approved a five-year beverage contract with PepsiCo, the district's 2025'026 food-service budget and several personnel actions during its July meeting.
The board voted to approve a district-wide vending and beverage contract with PepsiCo covering July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030. The contract was presented by district staff as a school agreement for PepsiCo beverage sales across the Midland County School District. The board also approved the food-service budget for the 2025'026 school year.
The board approved an interdistrict agreement to provide nonpublic Title I services with the Matt Newman Area School District for the 2025'026 year.
On personnel items, the board approved a 10-day suspension without pay for employee A-07242025 and separately approved the hire of Megan E. Smith as an autistic support teacher at Lewistown Elementary for the 2025'026 school year at a salary of $54,055 (step 4, bachelor's plus column as listed on the district's salary matrix). Two other personnel items were pulled for separate roll-call consideration earlier in the meeting; one new hire (Megan T. Smith) and a 10-day suspension were handled by separate roll-call votes as recorded.
Most roll-call items were approved by the full board. For the PepsiCo contract, food-service budget and the interdistrict Title I agreement, the motions were moved and seconded and carried on roll-call votes. The personnel actions described above were moved, seconded and approved on recorded roll calls.
Items taken as part of the consent agenda (discussed earlier in the meeting but not requiring separate roll call at that time) included recommended authorization of several supplemental transportation vendors to provide athletic and activity trip coverage when regular contractors are unavailable (Melvin Park LLC; Coontail Adventures LLC; Bollington Trailways; VIP Limousine; Repcode Boston; Lawler Brothers) and the recommended approval of Linda K. Wagner and Rebecca L. Kohler of Christ Transportation as district drivers. The consent agenda also contained a $500 stipend recommendation for Frank Miller for supervision in a pre-K Counts classroom and other routine personnel and operational recommendations; some items were pulled for separate roll-call votes as noted above.
No new ordinances or statutes were cited during the votes. The board asked that one policy (previously presented as a first read at the prior meeting) be deferred from approval tonight and be placed on the August agenda for a second reading.
The meeting record shows motions, seconds and roll-call votes for each roll-call item; the official minutes will contain the verbatim vote tallies and the confidential personnel item's identifying code was recorded as A-07242025 in the public minutes.
Ending: The board concluded its business after hearing a staff update that federal funds previously withheld (Title 234) totaling approximately $524,000 had been released to the district; staff said the money was released late Tuesday evening and that the district had been informed. Public comment periods produced no substantive agenda-related comments.
