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Board approves consent items, meal pricing, devices, staff additions and key facilities bids
Summary
The board unanimously approved the consent agenda, furniture purchase, Teachtown partnership, strategic plan and handbooks, a switch to Lightspeed for device filtering, student meal pricing decisions, several personnel additions, HVAC change orders, and set bid/hearing dates for Karen Acres roof and stadium video boards.
At its meeting, the Urbandale Community School District Board took a series of formal votes covering routine and major items.
Key outcomes: the consent agenda passed by roll call (5–0). The board approved a furniture purchase for Urbandale High School and a student‑vendor partnership with Teachtown Encore; it approved the 2026–27 strategic plan and the student/parent handbooks. Technology staff received approval to switch the district’s device content filtering to Lightspeed. Nutrition Services will hold student meal prices steady for 2026–27, raise a la carte milk to $0.55, and set adult lunch prices at $5.15. The board approved vendor renewals and a new bread contract for cost savings.
Personnel approvals included adding a math interventionist at the middle school and hiring a special education associate with braille/visual‑impairment expertise. Facilities actions included approval of an HVAC controls change order, authorization to set a July 7 bid date and a July 13 public hearing for Karen Acres roof and HVAC improvements, and reopening bids and scheduling a public hearing for stadium video boards. The board also approved the wage‑schedule language update to expand student worker opportunities in operations.
Roll‑call summaries and recorded tallies are included below where the transcript provides explicit votes.
