Board approves consent agenda including leases, purchases and construction items; asks for more detail on some service contracts
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Summary
The Muscogee County School District board approved the consent agenda covering personnel reports, a lease with the Zion Foundation for after-school literacy programming, multiple purchase exceptions and construction change orders; board members requested more provider background for outsourced services and clarification of some funding reallocations.
On Dec. 15 the board approved a broad consent agenda that included personnel actions (new hires, vacancies and resignations), a lease agreement from facilities to allow the Zion Foundation Inc. to operate an after-school literacy enrichment program at several elementary schools, competitively bid purchases and purchase exceptions for textbooks, software subscriptions and specialized services, and construction items including a change order for Connette Stadium and sanitary-pump/ sewer repairs at Double Churches Elementary.
During discussion, board members asked staff to include more background materials for outsourced-service providers that appear on purchase orders (for example, resumes or service summaries and approximate hourly or per-service costs) and sought clarity about whether previously approved amounts had been spent or whether the board was authorizing an increase to be available if needed. Staff said the increases authorize funds "up to" the listed amounts and that in some cases providers had not yet delivered services; staff agreed to provide additional attachments and provider information in future materials.
On one specific consent item, a purchase-order increase for diagnostic and consulting services (TrueScope Diagnostics Consulting) was called out and board members asked for supplemental information. The board also discussed COF (consolidation of funds) budget adjustments that provide schools more flexibility in spending federal funds and asked for clarification of a $636,000 reclassification.
The consent agenda was approved on a motion by Doctor Chambers with a second by Miss Buckner. After the vote, the chair moved to go into executive session for a student-discipline appeal, which the board approved by hand vote before adjourning for the holiday recess.