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Beatrice Board approves equipment, staff contracts and 10¢ meal-price increase
Summary
At its June 9 meeting the Beatrice Public Schools Board of Education approved a consent agenda, awarded an equipment contract, renewed several special-education contracts and approved a 10¢ increase to breakfast and lunch prices for 2025–26.
The Beatrice Public Schools Board of Education on June 9 approved a series of routine motions including a $24,322.52 equipment contract, multiple special-education staffing contracts and a 10¢ increase to student meal prices for the 2025–26 school year.
The board approved the consent agenda, which included approval of the May 12 minutes, May budget receipts and expenditures, and personnel items. Treasurer Jason presented the May financials before the motion passed with unanimous board approval.
The board approved a Tech Masters quote of $24,322.52 to replace a walk-in cooler and freezer at Beatrice Middle School. The district said new condensing units and evaporators are needed to ensure the units function by August.
The board renewed contracts for speech-language pathologists Renee Lammers, Logan Spilker, Claire Pfeiffer and Chelsea Yokel for 2025–26, with specific full-time-equivalency (FTE) allocations reported to the board: Logan Spilker at 0.8 FTE, Claire Pfeiffer at 1.0 FTE, Chelsea Yokel changing from 0.6 FTE to 0.4 FTE, and Renee Lammers at 1.0 FTE.
A contract for occupational therapist Emily Zarbonycki for 2025–26 also was approved; the district said Zarbonycki will continue at 0.8 FTE and will focus on elementary students and some birth-to-3 services.
Finally, the board approved a districtwide 10¢ increase in breakfast and lunch prices for 2025–26 after staff used the U.S. Department of Agriculture paid-lunch-equity (PLE) tool to calculate pricing needed to keep the nutrition fund solvent. Board members were told the district currently has about $3,200 in donations for the school-year nutrition program and a projected $10,000 shortfall if prices were not adjusted. The motion passed.
Votes recorded in the meeting transcript were unanimous for each motion presented; the transcript records motions and the chair’s announcement that the motion passes but does not include a roll-call vote tally by name.
