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Votes at a glance: Gravette School District board approves personnel actions, calendar, bids and athletic sponsorships
Summary
The Gravette School District Board approved the consent agenda, financial report, a superintendent contract, multiple personnel actions, calendar option 1 for 2025–26, contracts and bid authorizations, a Hall of Honor initiative and a sponsorship agreement splitting $11,000 between scoreboard and activity accounts.
At its meeting, the Gravette School District Board approved a series of routine and action items including personnel moves, capital bid authorizations, fiscal approvals and athletics-related agreements. The board took votes on motions listed below; where the transcript recorded only a voice vote the board confirmed approval by an "aye" call and no roll-call vote was recorded.
Key outcomes approved by motion:
- Consent agenda acceptance (routine items) — approved by voice vote.
- Monthly financial report for January 2025 — approved by voice vote. The finance report presented year-to-date receipts of about $15.5 million and noted operating fund expenditures 3% over budget year to date; the district held near $6 million cash in January with property-tax receipts low for February and March.
- Superintendent employment contract with Jeff Gravatt, Grava(t) Public/Gravette Public Schools, for the period 07/01/2025–06/30/2027 at a salary of $140,000 and a 245-day contract — approved by voice vote.
- Approval of 2025–26 administrator employment contracts (list of administrators named in the packet) — approved by voice vote.
- Multiple personnel hires, resignations and retirements, including: • Hire: Suzette Miller, cook/cashier at Lindepe Elementary (step 21, 180-day contract, prorated) — approved. • Retirement: Steven Bennett, maintenance and transportation, effective end of 2024–25 — approved. • Resignations: Paul Mayon (maintenance/transportation), Megan Roach (special education paraprofessional, effective 02/10/2025) — approved. • Retirement: Jenna Hargrave, GMS teacher, effective end of 2024–25 — approved. • Additional personnel approvals and step/lane changes as listed in the packet — approved by voice votes.
- Adopted Option 1 as the school calendar for the 2025–26 school year — approved by voice vote.
- Contractor agreement with Eliza Jones for $6,000 covering work from 07/01/2025 through 06/30/2026 — approved by voice vote.
- Authorized Build Architects to seek bids for a roof overlay above the practice gym, pack and north wing at Gravette High School — approved by voice vote.
- Authorized Build Architects to seek bids to overlay Eighth Street and pave the gravel lot behind Gravette Middle School (civil/engineering work to be determined) — approved by voice vote.
- Authorized solicitation of bids to seal and stripe GHS parking lots and transportation drive/parking lots — approved by voice vote.
- Approved creation of a Hall of Honor (Hall of Fame) and a Hall of Honor board; directed funding for a Hall of Honor display and a community display to come from the athletic department activity account at $3,500 per year — approved by voice vote. The board discussed whether committee membership should be public; board consensus favored not making a nominating committee anonymous to the public.
- Approved the McLarty/McLarty-Danner (transcript spelling varies) sponsorship agreement: $11,000 total commitment split into $4,000 to the scoreboard/signage account and $7,000 to the activity account to support athletics — approved by voice vote.
- Approved overnight trip request: HOSA state competition — approved.
- Approved a letter of direction updating bank account signatures at Legacy National Bank — approved.
- Authorized the Grama food service department to solicit grocery and paper goods bids for the 2025–26 school year — approved.
- Approved the second reading of the ASBA Winter 2025 model policies (policy packet review to continue with staff and committee input) — approved.
- Approved replacement lockers at the GMS Maccabee Field House to be built and installed by the Arkansas Department of Corrections — approved.
The board concluded by adjourning. Many votes were taken by general voice vote; individual aye/no roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript for most motions.
