Dearborn board approves routine contracts, awards and personnel items in omnibus vote
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Summary
The Board voted to approve an omnibus set of action items including warrants, several contract awards, personnel approvals, financial statements and donations after a roll-call vote; trustees asked a question about E-Rate reimbursements before proceeding.
At its Jan. 12 meeting, the Dearborn Board of Education moved to approve all action items on the agenda in a single omnibus motion and carried the motion by roll call.
Trustee Mezep moved to approve the slate and Trustee Petlyakov seconded. Before the vote, a trustee asked for clarification on the district's E-Rate reimbursements; a district representative explained the federal E-Rate program reimburses a portion of eligible telecommunications and connectivity costs, with discounts determined by free-and-reduced-lunch metrics and subject to regulated bidding and filing windows.
The clerk read the action items approved: approval of warrants (board report 25-82); ratification of a contract to Stafford Smith, Inc.; awards to Amcom, Inc. and to Riddell; approval of an award to Jill Choco Consulting LLC; approval of non-instructional and instructional personnel items for P–12; approval of the financial statement; and approval of donations previously acknowledged.
The roll call was taken aloud on the record; trustees responded individually and the clerk announced the omnibus motion as approved. No individual agenda item was pulled from the omnibus motion during the meeting.
The board did not debate the merits of the contracts or personnel actions at length during the public meeting; any bidder, vendor or contract details beyond the award names were not discussed at length in the transcript. The board will consider other agenda items (policy updates and informational presentations) in future meetings.