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Board approves consent agenda, financial statements, audit and personnel actions; sets May 27 as makeup day
Summary
The Siloam Springs School District board approved the consent agenda and several financial and personnel items, accepted the annual audit, added May 27 as a makeup instructional day, and authorized staff to negotiate after-school and behavioral-health provider agreements.
At the April meeting the Siloam Springs School District board took multiple formal actions: it approved the consent agenda, accepted the March financial statement, accepted the annual legislative audit, amended the 2024–25 calendar to add May 27 as an instructional makeup day, authorized negotiations with an after-school care provider and with ChanceLight Behavioral Health Therapy & Education, and approved multiple personnel resignations and hires.
Key outcomes and recorded motions:
- Consent agenda: Motion to approve the consent agenda carried (motion/second recorded; result: all in favor – “Aye”; no opposing votes recorded). (Transcript: motion and vote recorded.)
- March financial statement: Motion to approve carried (unanimous “Aye” recorded). The finance director reported unrestricted revenue at roughly 66% of projected for the year and anticipated a large property tax deposit in May; teacher salary funds and debt-service payments were discussed.
- Annual audit: The board accepted the legislative audit report. The finance director summarized a clean audit: no material weaknesses, no significant deficiencies, compliance with major federal programs, and a “low risk auditee” determination. Motion to approve carried by voice vote (unanimous “Aye”).
- Weather makeup day: The board amended the 2024–25 calendar to add May 27 as an instructional student day to make up the district’s sixth missed instructional day. Motion to approve carried (unanimous “Aye”). The superintendent and board discussed the district’s minutes-based calendar that had five banked missed days and noted the district missed six days overall.
- After-school program negotiations: The superintendent asked for authority to negotiate with a third-party after-school care provider (companies operating similar programs in neighboring districts were cited). The board authorized negotiation; before any contract is executed, the superintendent said he would return to the board for contract approval. Motion carried (unanimous “Aye”).
- ChanceLight Behavioral Health negotiations: The board authorized the superintendent to negotiate with ChanceLight Behavioral Health Therapy & Education to provide therapeutic education services to high-need students, with the superintendent committing to return for board approval before any contract is signed. Motion carried (unanimous “Aye”). Board members emphasized behavioral needs have risen statewide and praised the initiative to explore data-driven therapeutic supports.
- Personnel actions (executive session actions reported in open session): The board accepted multiple licensed resignations and approved licensed hires, certified hires and classified hires for the 2024–25 and 2025–26 school years. Motion/second and unanimous voice votes were recorded for each personnel slate; specific names were read into the record.
- Adjournment: Motion to adjourn carried; meeting adjourned.
All motions reported in the transcript recorded standard “Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? Aye.” phrasing; no roll-call tallies naming individual aye/no votes were recorded in the transcript.
