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Fox Board approves 2024–25 budget, switches Fox High testing to ACT and updates property‑insurance limits
Summary
At its Oct. 24 meeting the Fox Board of Education approved the 2024–25 budget and a multi‑item consent agenda that included a change to require the ACT (not the SAT) at Fox High, several property‑insurance coverage adjustments, approval for Physics Day travel to Six Flags Over Texas, and the hire of a substitute teacher.
The Fox Board of Education approved the district’s 2024–25 budget and a multi‑item consent agenda at its Oct. 24 regular meeting at the superintendent’s office.
Vice‑President Otto Young moved to approve consent‑agenda items #4–14, and Clerk Stacie Fletcher seconded. The package carried on recorded votes (Clerk Stacie Fletcher Aye; Member Carolyn McConnell absent; President Joey Rodriguez Aye; Vice‑President Otto Young Aye; Member Twanna Owens absent).
The consent agenda bundled routine and substantive items. It included approval of the minutes from the Sept. 19 meeting, the 2024–25 budget, and the annual call for election for Office #5 (five‑year term). The board approved the annual student remediation report and a $45.22 transfer from the Class of 2024 account to the vending account in the activity fund to close that account.
The board also approved Fox High School’s recommendation to use the ACT rather than the SAT to satisfy the testing component required by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The minutes list this as a consent‑agenda recommendation approved by the board.
Members approved several changes to property‑insurance coverage: the upper elementary and the old gym buildings were set to "debris removal only" with limits of $125,000 each; the band room to debris removal only at $20,000; the agricultural kitchen to debris removal only at $10,000; a reduced pressbox limit of $50,000; and added playground coverage at $75,000.
The board authorized out‑of‑state travel to Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington for Physics Day on May 2, 2025, and approved Travis Waller as a substitute teacher for the 2024–25 school year. The minutes also record motions approving purchase orders, payroll P.O.s and payments in the ranges listed in the minutes for the general and building funds.
The meeting record shows the motions authorizing these actions were moved and seconded by board members as noted, and each motion was recorded with a vote tally in the minutes. The minutes do not list further discussion on these consent items.
