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Votes at a glance: Brush School District board approves governance documents, facility repairs, tech purchases and audit firm
Summary
At its regular meeting the board approved retreat outcomes/governance documents, meeting dates, a revised hourly/classified and bus driver salary schedule, chiller repair and gym refinish quotes, declined a wind/hail buy‑down, approved desktop PCs and Chromebook licenses, selected an audit firm, and changed secondary campus administrative titles.
The Brush School District Board of Education approved a slate of action items on roll-call votes. Key outcomes:
- Governance documents (team norms, superintendent role, communication agreement): approved on roll call.
- 2024–25 Board of Education meeting dates: approved.
- Hourly classified and bus driver salary schedule (agenda item 7.3): approved; staff said the plan preserves a 7% annual increase and may cost roughly $140,000 to the general fund.
- Brush secondary campus chiller repair (agenda item 7.4): approved; staff explained refrigerant leaks and the needed steps (reclaim refrigerant, locate and fix leaks, repressurize and test controls) to restore capacity.
- Secondary campus gym floor resurfacing quotes (agenda item 7.5): approved for the two main gyms (not the auxiliary gym); staff will schedule work to fit breaks.
- Property insurance wind and hail buy‑down (agenda item 7.6): board voted to decline the buy‑down.
- Desktop PC quotes for staff (agenda item 7.7): approved.
- Chromebook licenses (agenda item 7.8): approved.
- District audit firm (agenda item 7.9): approved engagement of R Farmer accounting firm after districtwide outreach found limited auditor availability.
- Brush secondary campus administrator title changes (agenda item 7.10): approved changing titles from director to principal and assistant director to assistant principal.
- Visionary Educational Consultancy (VEC) scope of work (agenda item 7.11): approved a biweekly August–October scope to support curriculum and Unified Improvement Plan work.
- Student/staff building handbooks and personnel report (agenda items 7.12–7.13): both approved; handbooks to be cleaned to replace individual names with roles where appropriate.
All motions called for roll-call votes and recorded unanimous passage with board members answering affirmatively during roll call. The superintendent and staff will follow up on implementation timelines and budget reconciliation where applicable.
