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Board approves consent calendar, several MOUs, bylaws alignment and technical resolutions
Summary
At the meeting the board approved the consent calendar, accepted gifts to the district, adopted technical resolutions declaring certain school items obsolete, aligned board bylaw language for officer terms, approved two school-year calendars, and ratified multiple memoranda of understanding with universities and the teachers' association.
The Benicia Unified School District Board of Trustees approved a package of routine and administrative items during the open session. Key actions recorded in public session included:
- Approve agenda as written (voice vote).
- Approve consent calendar and accept gifts to the district, including monetary donations to Benicia High and Robert Semple, and an in-kind donation (a bass guitar) to the Venetia High School band (voice vote/roll call recorded on consent items).
- Adopt resolutions declaring obsolete items for Venetia High School and Benicia High School (resolution Nos. 25-26-18 and 25-26-19) (roll-call votes recorded).
- Approve resolution authorizing signatures for childcare documents and related CCTR items for the 2026—2027 fiscal year (roll-call vote recorded).
- Approve language alignment to Board Bylaw 9100 to standardize two-year officer terms (voice vote).
- Approve 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 school-year calendars (motion passed by voice vote; trustees asked staff to return if administrative corrections are needed).
- Approve memoranda of understanding for student-teacher placements with Dominican University and Saint Mary's College, and a speech-language-pathologist placement with San Jose State University (motions and voice votes recorded).
- Approve Benicia Teachers Association memoranda addressing a freshman baseball coach stipend and TK—3 assessment release days for teachers (motions and voice votes recorded).
- Approve a technical correction to developer fees (Resolution 25-26-20) to reflect the state-authorized commercial fee of $0.84 per square foot; staff notified one applicant and reimbursed the difference (roll-call vote recorded).
Most actions were approved by voice vote or roll call as recorded in the meeting. For items recorded by roll call, trustees answered individually; for example, on several resolutions the clerk called trustee names and each answered "yes." Where the transcript captured a roll-call sequence it shows trustees present answering in the affirmative; the board did not record any dissenting roll-call votes in the public record for those items during the meeting.
