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Board approves consent agenda, contracts, buses, chiller repair and at-risk spending plan in 4-0 votes
Summary
At its Dec. 15 meeting the Marshalltown board unanimously approved the amended agenda, the consent agenda (personnel, contracts and gifts), course and graduation business, change orders, replacement of glycol in the high-school chiller, two bus purchases, and the at-risk/dropout prevention plan and Modified Supplemental Amount request.
The Marshalltown Community School District board conducted a series of routine and substantive votes at its Dec. 15 meeting. All motions noted in the public session passed by voice vote 4-0.
Early in the meeting trustees approved an amended agenda that added recognition items and a moment of silence. The consent agenda then passed with approvals that included minutes, interagency agreements, special-education contracts, two open-enrollment recommendations and gifts: a $1,500 donation for MHS orchestra from a local string quartet and a separate $1,500 donation to MHS FFA from the Iowa Farm Bureau.
Action items approved by the board (all recorded as 4-0 votes) included:
- Approval of two revised high-school computer-science course proposals and approval of recommended early graduates pending fulfillment of graduation requirements.
- Two Franklin Field change orders (Boyd Jones date adjustment, Rams Construction site/egress/paving change order) and related project actions.
- Amendment No. 3 to finalize architectural fees for the Miller Middle School renovation.
- Acceptance of a quote and contract award to Modern Piping for replenishing glycol and repairing the high-school chiller system, $57,203.
- Purchase of a 36-passenger bus from School Bus Sales ($158,802) and a 52-passenger bus from Thomas ($165,375) to maintain and update the district fleet.
- Approval of the district's FY27 at-risk/dropout prevention plan and the Modified Supplemental Amount (MSA) request for $2,115,967; the plan budgets approximately $3.1 million for at-risk services, covering about 35.13 FTEs for interventions, credit recovery, summer/saturday school, partnerships and SRS devices.
- Policy actions: first-reading updates to policy 208 (board committees) and 802.02 (requests for improvements) with the board waiving a second reading, and deletion of exhibit 208E1.
Board members asked clarifying questions on several items (enrollment thresholds for new courses, furniture delivery timing for Miller phasing, noise mitigation during construction, and MSA accounting). On multiple items district staff committed to follow-up reporting and confirmation of numbers once bids and final accounting are complete.
The meeting recessed briefly for a closed session to follow.
