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Board approves contracts, policy changes and calendar revision in unanimous voice votes
Summary
The Queen Anne's County Board of Education approved multiple procurement contracts and policy actions, rescinded two outdated policies, and revised the 2025–26 school calendar to add three instructional days, all by voice vote during its March 4 open session.
The Queen Anne's County Board of Education on March 4 approved a series of contracts, personnel reports and policy changes in a sequence of voice votes.
The board approved routine agenda and minutes items and the human-resources report before taking a set of procurement and policy actions. Julie Hickey, coordinator of food services, asked the board to allow the district to "piggyback" on HPS's Gordon Food Service contract (contract No. 546) to purchase food and food-related products; staff projected a 5.5% reduction in food-product costs, "approximately $65,000 in cost savings in fiscal year '27," and said local produce purchases would continue. The board approved the piggyback arrangement; staff stated the fiscal impact would be $1,300,000 charged to the FY27 food-service budget.
Rob Watkins, chief financial officer, presented the RFP process for the district's required external audit (citing…
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