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Board approves staffing reductions, AEA balance payment, registration fee increases and Chromebook purchase
Summary
The East Marshall board approved middle-school staffing reductions, authorized a roughly $19,107 balance payment to the regional AEA, approved 2025–26 registration and meal fee changes, and approved a Chromebook and license purchase to complete the district one-to-one rollout.
The East Marshall Community School District board approved a package of operational items at its June meeting, including staffing reductions at the middle school, a balance payment to the AEA for 2024–25 services, small increases to registration and meal fees for 2025–26, and a contract to buy Chromebooks and related cases and licenses.
In staffing and student-support actions, the board approved cost-saving measures at the middle school that reduce a 0.5 FTE sixth-grade staffing line and reassign existing staff to cover TAG and intervention blocks. Administrators said the district will monitor student outcomes using the FastBridge screener, RTI processes and assessment cycles in professional learning communities.
On regional services, the board authorized a balance payment to the Area Education Agency (AEA) to settle the district’s 2024–25 balance (administration described the balance as approximately $19,106.94). The superintendent explained that flow-through accounting changes and rising AEA costs could require East Marshall, as a small rural district, to reconsider the scope of some contracted services going forward.
The board approved 2025–26 registration fees, modest book fee increases and a 5-cent increase in full-pay breakfast and lunch prices; administrators previewed a future staff recommendation to use excess nutrition account funds to offer free breakfast districtwide for one year, subject to June review.
Technology purchases received board approval as well. The board approved a quote to purchase Chromebooks, Google licenses and carrying cases for incoming freshmen and to add spare devices for replacements and newly enrolled students, supporting an initiative to have one Chromebook per student across grades 1–12 by 2025–26.
Other business: the board approved the second reading of Volume 33, Number 3 of the policy primer (early legislative and agency updates) and completed a first reading of a Department of Education sample personal-electronic-device policy to be refined before a July 1 compliance target. The meeting closed with superintendent updates on end-of-year logistics and legislative budget news.
All recorded motions described above were approved during the meeting; where legal or procedural ambiguity remained (notably around AEA costs and open-enrollment policy), the board requested additional documentation and counsel.
