Oneida Special School District board approves contracts, budget amendments, textbook adoption and personnel actions

The Oneida Special School District Board of Education on an evening vote approved a slate of routine business including solicitations for construction and service bids, memorandums of understanding, budget amendments, adoption of science textbooks and a series of personnel and fundraising requests.

The items approved by roll call included permission to accept bids for the OES gym project; authorization to advertise bids for a tractor and an animal trailer; solicitations for garbage pickup, pest control and janitorial supplies; purchase of a van through a state procurement contract; surplus and donation of stage lighting to Spartan Christian Care Center; surplus/trade of a 02/2019 Dodge Durango; and several memorandums of understanding and service agreements with external partners. The board also approved general-purpose and cafeteria budget amendments, adopted science textbooks, accepted multiple letters of resignation, approved several school fundraising requests and authorized signers for a new interest-bearing account at UCB Bank.

The board voted to nominate Scott Gilbert for the Tennessee School Boards Association volunteer recognition award and approved the personnel recommendations and resignations presented by the administration. The consent agenda and the meeting agenda were also adopted by roll call.

All motions called during the business portion of the meeting were approved on roll-call votes. Board members recorded on roll calls in the transcript are: Dr. Nancy Lamson (appearing also with variant spellings in the transcript), Kevin Bird, Dr. Danny Cross, Dorothy Watson and Mark Matthews.

Votes at a glance (as recorded in meeting roll calls): - Approval of board agenda — approved (5–0). - Approval of consent agenda — approved (5–0). - Permission to accept bids for OES gym project — approved (5–0). - Authorization to set bids for tractor and animal trailer — approved (5–0). - Authorization to seek bids for garbage pickup, pest control and janitorial supplies — approved (5–0). - Nomination for TSBA school volunteer recognition (Scott Gilbert) — approved (5–0). - Permission to purchase a van via the state procurement agreement — approved (5–0). - Surplus and donation of stage lighting to Spartan Christian Care Center — approved (5–0). - Surplus/trade of 02/2019 Dodge Durango — approved (5–0). - Approval of memorandums of understanding/service agreements (including State of Tennessee benefits administration, Odatta Nursing and Rehab Center, Tennessee College of Applied Technology, Capturing Kids' Hearts) — approved (5–0). - Approval of budget amendments (general purpose, cafeteria and other accounts) — approved (5–0). - Adoption of science textbooks — approved (5–0). - Acceptance of letters of resignation for multiple staff (list provided to board) — approved (5–0). - Approval of multiple fundraising requests (middle school cheer and middle school girls soccer events) — approved (5–0). - Authorization of signers for the district account at UCB Bank (account created in March 2025) — approved (5–0).

The meeting transcript shows each of these items was presented in sequence and carried on unanimous roll-call votes. No motions failed or were tabled during the business portion recorded in the transcript.

Board action notes: motions and vote totals are reported as recorded on the transcript; specific mover/second names were not consistently identified on the record for every motion, and where not specified the meeting log lists the motion and a second followed by the board's roll-call approval.