Athens City Board of Education executive committee approves district internet, connections and managed services contracts

The Athens City Board of Education Executive Committee on March 26, 2026, approved a set of contracts intended to provide district internet and related services for the 2026–2027 year. The committee met at 8:15 a.m. at the administration building, 943 Crestway Drive in Athens, Tennessee, according to the meeting minutes.

The minutes list three approved items: a one-year Internet/WAN contract with four-year extension options for a 10 gigabit-per-second WAN with IA from United Data Technologies (UDT) for $93,000.00; Internal Connections and Licenses from Central Technologies, Inc. for $38,305.00; and Managed Internal Broadband Services (MIBS) from Central Technologies, Inc. for $7,500.00. The minutes state that “The Executive Committee approved the following” and then itemize the three contracts.

The minutes do not record a mover, a seconder, or an individual roll-call vote; they present the approvals as actions of the Executive Committee. A line for a later “reaffirmation made by the Athens City Board of Education on” appears in the document but the date is not specified in the transcript.

The document identifies the acting body as the Athens City Board of Education Executive Committee and lists the Director of Schools and a chairman on the signature lines of the minutes. The minutes do not include discussion text, conditions attached to the approvals, sources of funding for the contracts, or next steps for implementation.

The approvals as recorded in the minutes constitute formal committee action on the listed contracts; the full board’s reaffirmation date and any subsequent implementation steps were not specified in the provided transcript.