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Votes at a glance: Cherokee Public Schools board approves contracts, policy updates, travel and surplus items
Summary
At a regular meeting the board approved the 2024 audit, several annual contracts, an updated parental involvement policy, a copier lease proposal, surplus of old Chromebooks/charging carts, FCCLA student travel and a set of annual vendor contracts; the meeting also recorded executive-session personnel actions.
The Cherokee Public Schools Board of Education took a series of routine approvals and updates at its meeting.
Among the board actions recorded in the meeting minutes and taken by vote:
- Approved the districtfinancial audit for fiscal year 2024 as presented.
- Approved annual vendor contracts (agenda item 9, contracts a through c) to continue services for accounting software and federal-programs support.
- Approved an updated parental involvement policy that expands procedural detail for parental requests and timelines; the policy was presented as coming from OSSBDA guidance and was adopted by the board.
- Approved a lease/purchase proposal from RK Black Incorporated for district copiers and associated service; the proposal as presented would place new copiers on a 60-month lease with service and supplies, and the vendor is on the state-approved contract list.
- Authorized surplus of older Chromebooks and two charging carts that are no longer in regular use (the items were reported not to have been purchased with federal funds). The board directed staff to identify disposal or recycling options.
- Approved travel for the district FCCLA students to attend the national FCCLA convention (the meeting referenced the national convention location as Orlando and timeframe as July).
- Approved a slate of annual contracts for the 2025-26 school year for services used in teacher/admin evaluations and federal-program reporting (vendors listed in the agenda were OKTLE and Barlow Education Management Services among others).
- The board met in executive session to consider employment of school principals and a custodian for the 2025-26 school year; after return to open session, the meeting minutes state the board discussed and then approved hires for a junior-high/high-school principal, an elementary principal, and an elementary custodian (names as recorded in the executive-session minutes and subsequent motion are in the meeting record). The board acknowledged the executive-session minutes in open session.
Votes on routine consent and agenda items were recorded in the minutes with affirmative responses from board members; the transcript records roll-call affirmative votes for several items (for example, approval of the parental involvement policy recorded as "Goodwin? Yes." "Gibson? Yes." "Collins? Yes." "Carter? Yes.").
