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Board reviews MOU for school mental-health services, sole-source vendor list and policy changes
Summary
Administrators presented a memorandum of understanding with Southwest Behavioral and OPD to provide mental-health and parenting services, reviewed a list of recurring sole-source vendors the district uses, and put a large policy packet on first reading covering multiple deletions and new regulations.
Administrator (Speaker 4) presented a memorandum of understanding the transcript identifies as between Southwest Behavioral and "OPD" to provide mental-health services, substance-abuse counseling and parenting-skills training for students and families. The administrator said the district attorney provided the MOU attachment for board review and recommended the board accept the arrangement as providing needed services for families.
The administrator also described the district's recurring sole-source vendors and cited administrative-code requirements for board approval of sole-source procurements. The transcript lists vendor names used historically without competition (examples given in the presentation include Air Max, Verizon, CenturyLink, Southwest Gas, Waste Management, Tire Technologies and the Canyon Athletic Association). The administrator read the applicable administrative-code citations in the transcript and said these vendors have been used for multiple years.
On policy matters, the administrator presented the third and final part of section G of the policy packet (page 300 in the board packet) and listed many policies slated for deletion or revision on first reading (multiple policy codes were read aloud in the transcript). The administrator said the board's recommendation was to place these policies on first reading.
Personnel items were also read: the administrator listed recommended staff appointments and extra-pay positions for the 2026-27 school year (assistant coaches, head coaches and other assignments) and indicated the staff members had applied for and were being recommended for those positions.
The transcript does not record final board action on the MOU, sole-source approvals or the policy deletions in the excerpt provided. Staff presented the documents and recommended approval or first reading as indicated; subsequent formal votes or actions were not captured in these segments.
