Oak Park board approves $299,834 furniture purchase, appointments and bylaws; adds censure consideration to agenda
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Trustees approved a furniture purchase for Oak Park Preparatory Academy not to exceed $299,834 using bond funds, appointed two directors to the MAISL Joint Management Trust and approved OCSBA bylaw amendments. The board also voted to add a proposed censure of Trustee Don Corcoran to the agenda for future consideration.
At its Dec. 8 meeting the Oak Park Board of Education approved several routine and governance items and voted to add a censure consideration to the meeting agenda.
Trustee Clark moved and Trustee Madison seconded a resolution authorizing Oak Park Preparatory Academy to purchase student and staff furniture from HPS "not to exceed $299,834" using available bond funds. The board conducted a roll-call vote; recorded affirmative votes in the transcript include Trustee Madison, Trustee Scott, Trustee Tyler, Trustee Rogers, Trustee Herman Caines and Trustee Clark. The chair announced the motion was approved.
The board then approved appointments to the MAISL Joint Management Trust. The motion, as read, appointed Andrea Farr as director and Pat Greer as alternate director; the motion was seconded and passed on a roll-call vote recorded in the meeting packet.
Trustees also approved proposed new and amended resolutions and bylaws for the Oakland County School Boards Association (OCSBA) as incorporated by reference in the meeting packet. Trustee Clark moved the measure, it was seconded, and the roll call recorded affirmative votes.
Late in the agenda President Madison moved to amend the agenda to add an action item to consider censuring Trustee Don Corcoran. The motion to amend the agenda was seconded and the roll call recorded several affirmative votes; the board added the censure item to the agenda. The public record at this meeting shows only the vote to add the item to the agenda; no substantive censure discussion or disposition was recorded during the open meeting.
In an earlier closed session the board approved a personnel action report covering new hires, changes of status, resignations and terminations; the action was moved and seconded and the roll call recorded affirmative votes.
No public comment was offered on these items during the meeting. The board adjourned at 8:23 p.m. and scheduled its next regular meeting for Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, at 6 p.m. in the administrative building boardroom.