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Board reviews IT and facilities requests: Cisco licensing, Incident IQ change, lab upgrades and handbook updates
Summary
The board heard requests for a five-year Cisco enterprise license, a trimmed Incident IQ subscription, a high-school digital lab refresh (23 iMacs), Project Lead The Way Dell desktops/monitors, and iterative updates to student handbooks (including water-bottle guidance).
Dr. Patel asked the board to approve a five-year Cisco Enterprise Agreement to manage network traffic and support hundreds of access points, citing an annual payment negotiated to approximately $41,760 and alignment with a planned access-point refresh. IT staff recommended trimming the Incident IQ subscription by removing an asset-management add-on (remote-deployment features not used), lowering the contract cost; staff reported a revised subscription cost of $5,820.37.
The board also reviewed a proposal to upgrade the high-school digital lab with 23 new iMacs to enable current Adobe features and AI integrations for digital-arts courses, and a separate quote to outfit a Project Lead The Way lab with 18 Dell desktops and 27-inch monitors to support CAD and design software. Mr. Cole presented iterative student-handbook updates to align language across the shared secondary campus and to add guidance on spill-resistant, school-compliant water bottles.
Board members asked standard clarifying questions (which classes use the new machines, prior vendor partnerships) and raised no objections during this meeting; staff indicated contracts and purchases would proceed according to the district procurement process.
