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EBR School Board approves consent items including contracts, charter renewals and $1.85M CSRS amendment
Summary
The board approved the consent agenda (with the graduation agreements pulled for separate consideration). The package included a $138,176.17 contract with Everyday Labs, charter renewals, and a $1,850,000 CSRS amendment to develop a facility master plan; graduation venue contracts with Southern University and LSU were later approved with a recusal.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Nov. 20 approved a multi-item consent agenda that included professional services contracts, charter renewals, policy updates and a major contract amendment for facility planning.
Items listed on the consent agenda included: - A professional services contract with Everyday Labs Inc. in the amount of $138,176.17 (funded by Title IV) to provide personalized attendance intervention and engagement solutions for middle and high school students. - Charter renewal considerations for Community School for Apprenticeship Learning (CSAL Middle), The Emerge School for Autism, and South Baton Rouge Charter Academy. - A proposed contract amendment with CSRS Tillage for $1,850,000 to develop a facility master plan with capital improvement recommendations. - Policy revisions across human resources and exceptional student services, and the administration's request to authorize the superintendent to execute cooperative endeavor agreements with the Louisiana Department of the Treasury for specified awards.
Mr. Martin asked to pull Item 3 (graduation agreements) from the omnibus motion for separate consideration. After reading online public comments urging greater transparency on oversight, discipline policy language and community feedback on facilities, the board voted to approve the remainder of the consent items by voice/machine vote; the motion carried as announced by the secretary.
The board then returned to Item 3 (graduation agreements with Southern University for $132,965 and LSU for $58,000). Mr. Martin announced he would recuse himself from that item. With no public comment the board approved the graduation venue agreements.
Online commenters had urged more regular community updates on the tax plan and construction timelines and asked the board to clarify discipline policy revisions; an in-person commenter (Tanya Nyman) raised concerns elsewhere in the meeting about charter lease arrangements. The board administration said backup reports and detailed attachments will be uploaded to BoardDocs for public review.
