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Board approves audit contract, calendar, remodel and multiple student trips
Summary
The Ontario School District Board approved a package of routine and operational items including awarding audit services, approving the 2025–26 school calendar, accepting a kitchen remodel at May Roberts Elementary and authorizing several student field trips.
The Ontario School District Board of Directors approved several routine operational items and contracts during its meeting, including selection of a new auditing firm, the 2025–26 school calendar, the May Roberts kitchen remodel and multiple student field trips.
The board voted to award audit services to the audit firm identified in the staff recommendation; board discussion earlier in the meeting noted three proposals were received and the selected firm scored well on the review and was the lowest bidder. The board approved the suggested 2025–26 school calendar. Trustees also approved purchase and contract awards related to the May Roberts kitchen remodel and approved annual contract renewals and nonrenewals.
The board approved a series of student travel requests: a sixth-grade outdoor-school trip to Rockaway Beach (Twin Rocks Friends Camp), an Eastern Oregon University preview day, a Washington, D.C., high school trip, the Latino male summit out-of-district trip, and the Ontario Middle School overnight field trip. Motions for these items were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote as recorded in the meeting minutes.
Why it matters: These approvals set the district’s operational plan for the coming year, secure a contract for the district’s financial audit, and authorize student experiences that district staff said are funded through grants, district funds or families (depending on the trip). The board discussion and staff reports included timeline and funding notes on the audit work and calendar planning.
Votes at a glance - Award audit services to the recommended audit firm (staff: "three audit firms proposed; selected firm scored well and was lowest bidder"). Outcome: approved. - Approve 2025–26 district school calendar. Outcome: approved. - Approve May Roberts kitchen remodel and related equipment purchase. Outcome: approved. - Approve 2025–26 contract renewals and nonrenewals (staff list). Outcome: approved. - Approve sixth-grade outdoor-school trip to Rockaway Beach (Twin Rocks Friends Camp). Outcome: approved. - Approve Eastern Oregon University preview day (one-day campus visit). Outcome: approved. - Approve Washington, D.C., high school trip for juniors/seniors. Outcome: approved. - Approve Latino male summit trip (high school). Outcome: approved. - Approve Ontario Middle School overnight field trip (OSU-based activities and Tillamook agriculture trip). Outcome: approved. - Approve policy removals/first/second readings as listed on the agenda. Outcome: approved.
All outcomes reported in the minutes were voice votes with chairs calling for "aye"; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript excerpts.
Ending: The board chair closed the business portion after the approvals and moved to adjourn.
