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Votes at a glance: Board approves teacher residency, student trips, fencing bid, instruments contract, parade buses and $61.27M in warrants
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Summary
Trustees approved agenda items including a teacher residency program (item 5a), out‑of‑district student events (5b), multiple business items (6a–g) including a $548,900 fencing low bid (total not to exceed $598,000) and purchasers/checks totaling $61,268,986.57; personnel reports 7a–b were approved with the student trustee abstaining.
At its meeting, the Garden Grove Unified School District board approved multiple consent and action items across programs, procurement and personnel.
Key approved items:
• Agenda item 5a — Teacher residency program (Alder partnership), approved by roll call.
• Agenda item 5b — Revisions to previously approved out‑of‑district student events (additional chaperone and updated participant lists), approved.
• Agenda items 6a–g — Business items approved include a 6% average price increase on listed food items (bid 2303); the first of four extensions of bid 2410 for in‑wall cafeteria tables and benches with no price increase; acceptance of a low fencing bid (bid 2512) from J & A Fence in the amount of $548,900 plus a district allowance of $58,000 for a total not to exceed $598,000 for work at Murty, Northcutt and Parkview Elementary Schools and McGarvin Intermediate School; authorization to use San Bernardino City Unified School District bid number 24‑12 for purchase of musical instruments and supplies through March 2030; acceptance of various gifts to district schools; authorization of two district buses and drivers for the 2026 Strawberry Festival Parade (May 23); and approval of purchasers and checks totaling $61,268,986.57.
• Agenda items 7a–b — Certificated and classified personnel reports were approved by roll call; the student trustee registered an abstention on the personnel vote while the remaining trustees voted yes.
Roll call results recorded in the meeting transcript show trustees and the student trustee voting on each motion; where the transcript recorded names or 'aye' responses, the board noted approval by roll call and the motions passed.
