Bixby board approves consent items, vendor contracts, PD days and several MOUs
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Summary
At its Dec. 11 meeting the board approved the consent agenda (items 1'13) and voted to approve contracts with Midwest Sports and Under Armour, PD agreements (First Educational Resources and Advancing Literacy), a visiting-author visit, a speech-language services contract with Chatterbox, capacity limits, and MOUs with the city police, OSU IT and the Muscogee Creek Nation; the board also declared surplus items and moved into executive session on real-property matters.
The Bixby Board of Education approved a slate of routine and programmatic items at its Dec. 11 meeting, including vendor renewals, professional-development contracts, service agreements and intergovernmental memoranda.
On the consent agenda, the board approved items 1 through 13, which included several routine overnight trips and a student-teacher memorandum of understanding with ORU. The board approved a one-year renewal contract with Midwest Sports (5.1) and a single-year renewal with Under Armour for 2025-26 (5.2) after staff noted those agreements were continuations of prior multiyear arrangements.
Teaching and learning items approved on the consent or action calendar included two professional-development agreements funded with federal funds: First Educational Resources (one additional PD day on May 28, 2026, for $5,000) and Advancing Literacy (writer's-workshop training for grades 4'8 using Title II funds). The board also approved a visiting-author contract for Justin Cohen on March 23, 2026, paid from Central Elementary site media funds, and an agreement with Chatterbox Speech Therapy LLC to provide evaluations and therapy at $70 per hour for the remainder of the 2025-26 school year to cover increased caseloads following a resignation.
Operations and partnership approvals included reaffirming student-capacity limits and open-transfer allowances (7.1); approving a memorandum of understanding with the City of Bixby Police Department to support up to three potential School Resource Officer positions beginning in 2026-27 (7.2); approving a concurrent-enrollment MOU with OSU IT for 2025-26 (7.3); and approving a routine MOU with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to provide summer EBT grocery support for qualifying families (7.4). The board also declared assorted items surplus for disposal under Oklahoma statute (7.5).
Finally, the board voted to move into executive session to discuss the purchase and/or appraisal of certain real property pursuant to 25 O.S. ' section 307(B)(3).
Recorded votes on most action items were unanimous among the present members; absentee members were noted at the start of the meeting. No significant amendments to the motions were recorded in the meeting transcript.