Broken Arrow board approves $334,824 roofing contract, $10,000 Best Buy donation and multiple finance items

Broken Arrow Public Schools Board of Education members on a regularly scheduled meeting approved a $334,824 roofing contract, accepted a $10,000 donation for Wolf Creek Elementary, and cleared a package of finance and procurement items, voting unanimously on each measure.

The board voted to award a bid for roof repairs at Spring Creek Elementary and Options Academy to Prestige Roofing for $334,824. A district presenter said the work covers one cafeteria at Options Academy and approximately half of the roof at Spring Creek; the projects will be paid with bond funds and the bidding followed the Oklahoma public competitive bidding act and board policy.

In separate votes the board approved a $10,000 donation to Wolf Creek Elementary from a Best Buy “Score with Intel Core” award. District staff said the Tulsa Hills Best Buy store won the award and the store’s general manager, whose daughter attends Wolf Creek, selected the school; the award takes the form of an in-store shopping allowance. "I am here tonight asking for your approval for a $10,000 donation to Wolf Creek Elementary School," a district representative said during the meeting.

Board members also approved general-consent items (Nos. 11–59), annual sanctioning renewal applications for student activities and club organizations, parent-teacher association sanctioning, encumbrance reports totaling $1,667,742.07 and a set of change orders reflecting a net decrease of $28,727.41 in previously encumbered construction funds. The board approved a purchase of classroom BINQ panels for Rosewood Elementary to match recently added classrooms and noted the district will repurpose older panels on mobile carts for other sites.

Financial reports presented to the board covered first-quarter activity. The activity funds report, for the period ending Sept. 30, showed receipts of $1,739,000, disbursements of $867,000 and an activity-fund cash balance of $5,235,000. The treasurer's report listed district assets of $101,103,000, total investments of $88,950,000, collateral pledged of $26,939,000, collateral required of $7,607,000 and an available balance of $19,331,000. District finance staff said the general fund budget stands at $195,000,000 and the fiscal-year 2025 fund balance is just over $35,000,000; staff flagged that the midterm state allocation is pending and that projections near $68 per student are not yet budgeted.

Several items were informational and returned for later action: the board was given a compiled set of Board of Education policy revisions and told the documents were available in Basecamp for review prior to a future vote.

All recorded roll-call votes on the formal actions were unanimous in the affirmative. The meeting adjourned after completing the agenda.