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Board approves consent agenda, accepts donations and hires Academic Search for HFC presidential search
Summary
On Oct. 13 the Dearborn Board approved action items 1–26 (consent agenda) including donations, awards, change-order approvals and a contract with Academic Search for an executive search for the next Henry Ford College president; roll call recorded five 'Yes' votes and two members absent.
The Dearborn Board of Education approved the listed action items at its Oct. 13, 2025 meeting by roll-call vote.
The motion to approve agenda items 1 through 26 (as presented) passed. The chair called for roll-call votes, which were recorded as follows: Trustee Eljami—Yes; Trustee Bazzi—Yes; Trustee D’Ambrosio—Not present; Trustee Petlichkoff—Yes; Trustee Sobe—Yes; Trustee Amrazar—Not present; President Moses—Yes. The motion carried.
Items enumerated in the meeting summary included approval of warrants, awards to instructional vendors (eg, Cengage, iReady, IXL, Imagine Learning), awards to service providers (Berhane Therapy Services PLLC; Stepping Stones Group), multiple personnel items (instructional and non-instructional), recognition of donations (including a $20,000 donation for districtwide robotics from the Dearborn Education Foundation in partnership with Ford Motor Company), and approval of a contract to Academic Search for executive-search consulting services for the next Henry Ford College president (agenda item 26).
Trustees discussed several change orders earlier in the meeting (items 6–9) after questions from Trustee Ojani about why scope changes were not included in original budgets. Administration explained that contracted ancillary staffing (for special education and other niche roles) can produce fluctuations and that contracts above roughly $30,000 must be board-approved under state law; administration said it would work to improve budget estimates and consider multi-firm blanket approaches to reduce frequent change orders.
No individual vote tallies were read aloud for every listed vendor or personnel recommendation beyond the roll-call approval of the full action list. Where specific contract details were not presented in the meeting, the board packet or board office should be consulted for complete award documents.
