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Kearney board ratifies stadium lighting, roofing, boilers and several vendor agreements
Summary
The board approved a set of procurement actions including ratification of four Musco LED stadium lights, an expanded Quality Roofing scope, boiler replacement with American Boiler, additional security cameras, a copier lease, and other vendor agreements; staff said bond funds and warranties informed decisions.
The Kearney School District Board approved a package of contracts and purchases covering athletic lighting, roofing work, HVAC boilers, security systems, copiers and other operational needs.
Facilities project staff and the district’s construction representatives explained each item. The board ratified a Musco Sports Lighting purchase to replace four stadium poles and LED fixtures after a March pole failure; an insurance claim will cover two north-side poles, but the district elected to replace all four to maintain uniform lighting. Staff cited Musco’s 25-year materials-and-labor warranty and a five-week delivery/install timeline to meet spring-sports needs.
The board also approved Amendment No. 10 with Newkirk Novak to oversee four deferred-maintenance projects (roof ladder access at the high school, security film district-wide, middle-school façade work, and a kitchen hood replacement at Hawthorne) and approved an addition to Quality Roofing’s scope to extend fascia/soffit work into the area tied to the Newkirk Novak project; the roofing addition was described as tying into an existing 25-year warranty.
An American Boiler contract to replace two boilers at Southview was approved; American Boiler was described as the only responsive bidder that met all RFP requirements despite not being the lowest dollar bid. The board approved agreements for additional cameras from American Digital Security for new buildings and a three-year purchase from Strike Security for LineWise filtering, LineWise monitoring and ClassWise classroom management.
Operational procurements included a five-year lease and print study with Sumner 1 that will reduce district printers from 105 to 57 at an annual cost of $92,811.60, and approval of a Thomson Reuters residency-verification tool intended to reduce in-person residency checks to roughly 10–15% of families by scoring publicly available documents.
Board members asked technical questions about warranties, funding sources (bond funds were cited for several capital projects), and whether some items could be reallocated from existing budgets. Staff responded with details about warranty terms and timelines, and confirmed several projects are funded from the 2022 bond package.
