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Santa Rosa board unanimously approves multiple construction contracts, policy items and personnel actions
Summary
At its March 11 meeting the Santa Rosa County School Board approved a series of contracts, change orders, budget actions and personnel items, including awards for kitchen and innovation-center work, a resolution for the Innovation Center SREF deviation, and ratified tentative labor agreements.
The Santa Rosa County School Board on March 11 approved a slate of contracts, construction change orders, policies and personnel items in a series of unanimous votes.
Key approved items included: awarding the T.R. Jackson Pre-K kitchen renovation contract to Joy Gordon Construction (amount shown in the meeting materials as $2,282,003); approving Joy Gordon as the low bidder for the Center for Innovation construction package (low bid reported as $2,225,282), contingent on approval from Triumph Gulf Coast; approving a change order for Soundside High School that revises the courtyard, extends a cable tray and adds interior wall covering; approving change order #1 for Laughlin Building 1 for $18,333.51 to add interior painting per the district maintenance request; and authorizing the bid process for a 2025 athletic services safety rehabilitation project that will piggyback Escambia County’s general paving and drainage pricing agreement.
The board also approved discretionary procurement items: a request-for-proposal (RFP 24-13-SSP) for fabricated shade structures; a number of direct-purchasing ODP change orders as presented; and a declaration of surplus property so the district may dispose of listed items.
On personnel and labor agreements the board ratified a tentative agreement with the Santa Rosa Professional Educators unit that provides a 3.25% raise (reported as a ratified tentative agreement), approved a tentative agreement for the Santa Rosa Education Association representing school-related employees, approved administrative and nonunion support salary schedule adjustments for 2024–25, and approved multiple administrative appointments and routine HR items noted on the agenda.
Financial and administrative approvals on the agenda included opening an internal funds bank account for the Dillon Center, approval of December and January monthly financial statements and a budget amendment for December; the board heard and accepted an update on the district’s self-funded medical plan and the third FTE “third calc” funding presentation (discussed separately). The board also approved several curricular and program items presented on the consent and administrative agendas, including early terminations, alternative placements, the Northwest Florida articulation agreement and a Head Start grant synopsis.
Two procedural items noted at the meeting: the board authorized advertising for a public hearing on proposed school board policy updates and agreed to add a board workshop on April 10 to review those policies; and the board elected to table the human resources procedure manual update so hyperlinks and full text can be provided to members prior to final action.
Votes shown on the meeting record were presented by motion and carried by voice vote; meeting minutes record the actions as approved at the March 11 session.
