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Board approves fitness court MOU, vendor contracts, salary increases and field bids
Summary
The Portage Township Schools board unanimously approved a retroactive MOU for a Miami Park fitness court, awarded a 2025 waste-and-recycling contract, approved multiple software subscriptions and adopted retroactive salary increases for educational support staff; the board also authorized advertising for baseball/softball field improvements.
At its Nov. 11 meeting, the Portage Township Schools Board of Trustees approved several routine and project items by voice and roll-call votes, as summarized below. All vote outcomes reported reflect the roll calls recorded in the meeting transcript.
Retroactive MOU — Miami Park fitness court: The board approved a retroactive memorandum of understanding with the City of Portage for a fitness court at Miami Park. The chair read key terms from the agreement: Portage will lease school property described in Exhibit A to the city for 30 years for the amount of $1, and the city will identify Portage Township Schools for liability that occurs during construction or use. Board members described the ribbon-cutting as well attended and praised the city–school partnership.
Waste and recycling contract (01/01/2025–12/31/2025): Administration reported two bids (Waste Management and Homewood Disposal Services) and recommended awarding the contract to Waste Management as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder for calendar year 2025; trustees approved the recommendation.
Portage High School overnight travel (cross country state tournament): Trustees granted retroactive approval for overnight travel for Portage High School boys and girls cross-country participants for the Nov. 2 state tournament; the meeting included brief recognition of individual athlete results.
2024–25 educational support staff salary increases (retroactive): The board approved increases retroactive to the start of the 2024–25 school year for positions identified by administration (behaviorists, alternative-school coordinator, PTS attendance officer, Title I coordinator, middle- and high-school deans).
Advertisement for bids: The board authorized advertising bids for competition baseball and softball field improvements. The administration detailed the scope (demolition, underdrains, new turf, perimeter concrete, fencing) and listed alternates including batting cages, bleachers and press-box alternates; bid due date is 01/27/2025 with a pre-bid meeting on 01/06/2025.
Contracts and subscriptions: Trustees approved a set of contracts and software subscriptions: IT Level data real-time reporting software ($6,737, 07/01/2025–06/30/2026, education fund); Tinker software ($29,900, Title IV); a Portage High School pathway subscription ($9,008); Curriculum Elevation ELL platform ($7,000); and a personal-development subscription ($6,500, Title II).
Board consent items and minutes: The superintendent’s consent agenda (personnel, donation, facility-use reports) and the board consent agenda (meeting minutes) were approved by roll call earlier in the meeting.
Votes at a glance (roll-call results as recorded): The transcript records affirmative roll-call votes to approve each of the above motions. The roll call entries in the transcript list Trustee Finley, Trustee Maleta, Trustee Vasquez, Trustee Wilkie and Trustee Smith as voting yes on multiple items.
