Board authorizes laptop purchase for district and reviews board-management software option
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Summary
The board approved buying laptops for board and district use and discussed procuring board-management software next fiscal year; staff said laptops could arrive before Christmas and software requires additional training and a later budget allocation.
Caswell County school leaders moved forward with an approved purchase of laptops for district/board use and discussed a separate purchase of board-management software (Assembly/Diligent).
Board members reviewed options and training requirements for the software and emphasized that software deployment would require additional funding and training. Staff said the vendor would provide training and that the laptops could be received before Christmas if ordered promptly.
Why it matters: the purchase aims to move board materials and district workflows to a single platform, improve recordkeeping and reduce paper use. Board members discussed capital-outlay versus local-fund accounting for equipment and the need to inventory devices for asset tracking.
Quotation: "It's going to take a lot of time to sort of the directors here to get used to how to upload it," a district staff member said of the assembly/Diligent software.
Next steps: laptops to be ordered and received; software purchase and training will be considered in next year’s budget cycle and brought back to the board before contract signing.