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Votes at a glance: Poteau board actions on contracts, personnel, finances and property
Summary
A roundup of motions the Poteau Public Schools Board approved during the meeting, including contracts for transportation software and buses, auditor engagement, facility leases and multiple personnel actions.
The Poteau Public Schools Board took numerous formal actions at the meeting. The board approved contracts, purchase orders and personnel motions by roll call. The key votes and outcomes are summarized below. (Motion text taken from the meeting packet or the motion recorded at the meeting.)
Votes at a glance
• Approve contract agreement with Sourcewell for cooperative purchasing (Collins minibuses) for the 2025–26 school year — approved. • Approve software services agreement with Transact Communication (routing and ridership/tablet) for three years — approved. • Approve minutes of the Feb. 10, 2025 regular board meeting — approved. • Approve financial reports, encumbrances and change orders as listed in the packet — approved. • Approve purchase orders and encumbrances including: PO 927 (Transact, three‑year service), PO 928 (two 14‑passenger Collins minibuses) and other listed POs for furniture, equipment and vehicles — approved. • Approve auditor engagement letter with Jenkins & Kemper for the 2024–25 audit — approved. • Approve administrators’ salary index schedule for 2025–26 — approved. • Approve lease agreement with Waite Office Machines City Corp for copiers for 2025–26 — approved. • Approve lease agreement between Poteau Public Schools and The Gathering Church for use of movie theater at 2214 North Broadway — approved. • Approve activity fund transfers for SCC groups and related accounts — approved. • Approve out‑of‑state activity trip: SCC art students to Crystal Bridges Art Museum, Bentonville, Ark., April 14 — approved. • Approve quarterly student transfer numbers and related capacity adjustments (including increasing PK capacity) — approved. • Approve surplus items including the movie theater (2214 North Broadway) to permit advertising and bids; staff to return with lease‑purchase proposals — approved. • Approve a special‑education summer para position at $15/hour (dependent on federal funding) — approved. • Accept resignations presented (including Board member Jody Thompson effective 03/13/2025; staff resignations Karen Barnes and Lacey Miller) — accepted. • Approve reemployment of certified employees and approve employment of listed new hires (high‑school teacher/coach, PKMS sixth‑grade math teacher, primary early‑childhood teacher) — approved.
Where motion wording or vote tallies were not read into the public record verbatim, the summary above uses the motion language appearing in the board packet or spoken at the meeting. The board used roll call votes for the items listed above and returned from executive session to take personnel actions.
The board directed staff to follow existing procurement, posting and notice rules (for surplus property and formal contracts) and to return with follow‑up paperwork where required.
