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Board approves preliminary $2.2M technology capital plan; SIS replacement targeted for 2026–27
Summary
The Geneva School Board approved a preliminary technology capital plan totaling about $2.2 million, including network upgrades, firewall replacement and a likely student information system (SIS) replacement targeted for 2026–27; projected net budget impact is about $1.75 million after offsets and potential e-rate reimbursements.
The Geneva School Board approved a preliminary 2025–26 technology capital plan on Jan. 13 that packages district-wide network upgrades, firewall replacement, device refreshes and initial year costs for a likely student information system (SIS) replacement.
Mike Brooks presented the plan and told the board the total technology capital-plan estimate is roughly $2.2 million, with expected offsets and reimbursements reducing the net budget impact to about $1.75 million for the 2025–26 school year. The ed (education) fund portion of the request was described at just under $1.4 million and the operations and maintenance (O&M) fund at just over $800,000, with an estimated e-rate reimbursement figure of about $212,000 noted as provisional.
Brooks said the district is planning migrations: a business/HR system vendor upgrade planned over spring break, and a probable SIS procurement process that could lead to a 2026–27 go-live, allowing roughly a year for data conversion and staff training. "Pushcoin's unchanged," he said when asked about third-party integrations, explaining the SIS would function as the primary system to feed third-party tools.
Planned capital projects called out in the presentation included wireless access-point replacements for middle and high schools, completion of structured cabling, switch infrastructure upgrades across the district and replacement of expiring firewall appliances and services with higher expected costs (current firewall services expire July 2025). Brooks also described ongoing digitization of student records (PDFs with OCR for searchable text) as part of the ad-fund work.
Board members asked about efficiencies from a new SIS, scheduling improvements, third-party integration benefits and whether artificial intelligence features were part of vendor demonstrations; Brooks said some modern SIS candidates demonstrated AI-assisted features for scheduling and other workflows.
The board moved and approved the preliminary technology capital plan; the plan will proceed to procurement steps including e-rate bid submissions and vendor proposals before final contract approvals.
