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Butts County board holds training plan, approves multiple consent items including grants, security upgrade and student travel
Summary
The board held item 7.1 (board education training plan) for later review and approved consent items 7.2–7.8, including a CTAE Perkins budget, an application for a USDA equipment grant for a combi oven, an Illumina contract (not to exceed $100,000), a Syntegix security upgrade estimated at about $200,354 for expanded coverage, facility use requests and multiple student travel approvals.
The Butts County Board of Education on Sept. 10 skipped item 7.1 — the board education training plan — to allow more time for review and approved the remaining consent agenda items (7.2–7.8) by motion.
In a summary of consent items, the superintendent said the CTAE (Career, Technical and Agricultural Education) budget for 2025, supported by Perkins funds, will require a local match. The board approved moving forward with an application for a USDA equipment assistance grant to replace a combi oven at Daughtry Elementary School; the superintendent said the oven cost would be "around $2,500, between $5,000, pardon me," and that applying is a requirement of the grant.
The superintendent also described an Illumina contract for evaluations of exceptional children for 2024–25 that "will not exceed $100,000" and is expected to be paid in part through Medicaid reimbursement (estimated about $1,800 per evaluation). Board members were also told of a Syntegix security and camera upgrade to expand coverage to the performing arts center and add a geofence for quicker response time; the superintendent listed the cost as approximately $200,354 for a three‑year contract.
The board approved facility‑use requests (including a Mary Michael productions rental of the performing arts center in November), a surplus property and textbook disposal list, and multiple out‑of‑district student travel and extracurricular participation requests, including band travel to Disney World in March 2025 and a JROTC trip to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade in Honolulu in December.
Motions to approve the consent agenda and to approve minutes and personnel items were recorded and seconded during the meeting; the public record in the transcript does not include detailed roll‑call tallies for each motion.
