Board approves June 2025 financial report; considers multiple procurement, property and asset items

The Lamar County Board of Education approved the district's monthly financial report for June 2025 and reviewed multiple procurement and property items on its agenda, including bids, advertising for equipment procurement and fixed-asset considerations.

A board member moved and a second was recorded for the June 2025 monthly financial report; the chair said the motion passed. Several procurement items were raised immediately afterward: acceptance of a bid from JEM LLC for a high-school project, authorization to advertise for bids on distributed firewall projects, and authorization to advertise a reverse auction for a weapons detection system. The transcript shows motions and seconds for several items; where the record does not include a recorded final vote the outcome is not specified in the supplied transcript.

The board also discussed fixed-asset treatment for Chromebooks and recorded an objection on an item that referenced EP, FFA and JPG. A board member requested additional information and asked to pull the purchases section item labeled 2b16 for a detailed breakdown; the transcript records the pull and that the item was removed from the purchases list for follow-up.

Other agenda items mentioned in the transcript included board attorney matters, land/easement matters and a residential lease agreement for a county building; motions and seconds are recorded in the supplied excerpt for some of those items but not all final outcomes are present in the provided text.

Where votes are recorded in the transcript, the article reports them; for other items the transcript shows motions, seconds or that items were placed on the agenda but does not provide a final recorded tally.