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Fox Board of Education retains officers, approves contracts and audit filings, and holds executive session
Summary
The Fox Board of Education on Feb. 20, 2025 kept its current officers, approved several routine contracts (including E-Rate vendors), authorized audit filings for activity and financial reports and purchase orders, approved a field trip to the Frank Buck Zoo, and entered an executive session on personnel before adjourning at 8:03 p.m.
The Fox Board of Education met in regular session Feb. 20, 2025, at the superintendent’s office and retained its current officers: President Joey Rodriguez, Vice-President Otto Young and Clerk Stacie Fletcher.
Vice-President Otto Young moved to keep the officer positions as currently constituted; President Joey Rodriguez seconded the motion, which carried with three yes votes and two absences (Carolyn McConnell and Twanna Owens).
The board approved its Jan. 16, 2025 regular meeting minutes as part of the consent agenda and tabled Item #5. The consent agenda also included a set of routine contracts: approval of the OKTLE contract for the 2025–26 school year; a standard dishwashing-machine agreement with Auto-Chlor; an E-Rate contract for funding year 2024 with Greenwoods Computers; and an E-Rate contract for funding year 2025 with OneNet Oklahoma Research and Education Network.
The board approved travel for "3-YEAR-OLD - 3RD GRADE STUDENTS" to the Frank Buck Zoo in Gainesville, Texas for an end-of-year field trip and approved the athletics fundraiser listed on the agenda.
On financial items, Board Clerk Stacie Fletcher moved (seconded by Otto Young) to file the activity fund financial report and the district financial report for audit. The board also approved that listed purchase orders, payroll P.O.s, payments and change orders be filed for audit, including general fund P.O.s 191–195; general fund payroll P.O.s 50000–50044; general fund payments 595–674; building fund payments 91–103; municipal tax levy P.O.s 25012–25013; and municipal tax levy payments 8–12.
The board voted to enter executive session under 25 O.S. § 307(B)(1) to discuss employment-related matters (employment, hiring, appointment, assignment, promotion, demotion, disciplining, or resignation of district employees or volunteers). The meeting was later reopened to the public on a motion by Stacie Fletcher, seconded by Joey Rodriguez; an executive minutes compliance statement was read.
The meeting was adjourned on a motion by Otto Young, seconded by Stacie Fletcher, at 8:03 p.m.
Notice and posting: the minutes record that notice of this regular meeting was provided to the Carter County clerk on Jan. 15, 2025, and that public notice was displayed at least 24 hours prior to the meeting and posted at the superintendent’s office on Feb. 19, 2025.
No substantive debate or public testimony is recorded in the minutes; the actions taken were routine approvals, personnel executive-session matters and administrative business.
