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Mustang Board approves bond authorizations, technology lease, construction and telecom contracts
Summary
The Mustang Public Schools Board of Education on a motion-and-voice vote approved a package of fiscal and operational items, including authorizations to sell multiple general-obligation bond series, vendor selections for bond advisors and counsel, a four-year lease for 1,100 staff laptops, a guaranteed maximum price amendment for Mustang High School expansion, and a districtwide radio system contract.
The Mustang Public Schools Board of Education on a motion-and-voice vote approved a series of fiscal and operational items, including authorizations to sell multiple general-obligation bond series, vendor selections for financial and legal bond services, a four-year lease for 1,100 staff laptops, a guaranteed maximum price amendment for the Mustang High School expansion, and a districtwide radio system contract.
The board re-elected Dr. Ader as board president and named Todd Lovelace vice president, Travis Helling board clerk and Toby Thompson deputy clerk during the reorganization portion of the meeting; those officer elections passed by voice vote.
Key formal actions approved by the board (voice votes unless noted): - Approve BOK Financial Securities Inc. as financial advisor for the district's general obligation bonds (business item 1) — approved. - Authorize sale of general obligation building bonds, Series 2025A, in the amount of $19,300,000 (business item 2) — approved. - Authorize sale of federally taxable general obligation building bonds, Series 2025B, in the amount of $4,080,020.25 (business item 3) — approved. - Authorize sale of general obligation combined-purpose bonds, Series 2025, in the amount of $159,000,000 (business item 4) — approved. - Approve selection of Terry Hawkins of Phillips Merritt PC as bond counsel (business item 5) — approved. - Approve lease/purchase for 1,100 staff laptops from Traferra (Lenovo ThinkPad) with four-year ADP warranty and white-gloving, $268,281 per year lease (four-year total listed as $1,073,124) and $1 buyout at end of term (business item 6) — approved. - Approve the 2025–26 temporary appropriation application for the Canadian County Excise Board (business item 7) — approved. - Approve Guaranteed Maximum Price Amendment No. 2 with Timberlake Construction for Mustang High School expansion (business item 8) — approved. - Approve contract with Stoltz Telecom for purchase and installation of a districtwide digital radio system (business item 9) — approved. - Consent agenda and financial consent agenda items (G1–G7; H1–H6) — approved. - Following an executive session, the board voted to approve employment recommendations listed on schedules A, B and C, approved items related to the purchase/appraisal of property at 1016 South Snyder Avenue, and authorized the superintendent to seek land for future sites.
Many motions were approved by unanimous voice vote with no roll-call tallies recorded in the public transcript. Where the board asked clarifying questions, staff answered but no changes were recorded to the motions on the floor. The board chair opened and closed each vote verbally ("All in favor? Aye. All opposed?"), and minutes record the motions as approved.
Votes recorded in the meeting text were procedural voice votes rather than recorded roll-call tallies; individual yes/no counts and member-by-member votes were not stated on the public record during the meeting.
