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Board approves consent agenda: personnel, contracts, CCP course additions, trips and Chromebook lease
Summary
The Forest Hills board approved consent agenda items including course guide updates (five new embedded CCP courses), international and domestic field trips, appointments and the Lenovo Chromebook lease for the 1:1 program; treasurer updated cash-flow projections.
The board approved consent agenda items 8.1 through 12.1 by voice/roll-call vote. Key items included:
- Teaching and learning: Secondary course-guide updates were proposed to expand embedded College Credit Plus (CCP) offerings (English composition, Spanish, German, Mandarin/Chinese, and Engineering Design 2). District staff said embedded CCP sections will be taught at high schools by credentialed teachers (University of Cincinnati credentialing) and the district will cover CCP tuition for embedded classes. Trustees discussed the phase-out of Latin and alternatives for affected students.
- Field trips: Domestic trips (including marching band travel and a Nagel Washington, D.C., trip) and international travel (London/Paris, Belize, Germany exchange and Greece theater trip) were presented with vetting through an International Review Board and a rubric assessing educational value and safety.
- Technology: The board approved a Lenovo lease agreement to support the district’s 1:1 Chromebook program; the proposal covers device refresh for fifth- and ninth-grade cohorts and repurposing older Chromebooks for grades 1–4.
- Business operations: Resolutions were included to continue cooperative roofing procurement and to solicit bids for a facility concrete/asphalt project.
- Treasurer: The treasurer’s update noted routine low cash flow in December, general-fund pacing near expectations and multiyear forecasting; donations and permanent-improvement reporting were reviewed.
The consent agenda motion passed with affirmative voice/roll-call votes from Simmons, Wazewski, Nye, Ward and Strickler.
