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Millcreek board committees advance dozens of contracts and budgets to June 22 meeting, including $87,750 phone maintenance and $468,986 insurance proposal
Summary
Committees recommended moving multiple action items to the June 22 board meeting, including a $87,750 VNet phone system maintenance contract, a $468,986 commercial insurance proposal, capital budgets, and write‑offs totaling $57,637 tied mostly to student devices.
Committee members at the Millcreek Township School District meeting on June 8 voted to advance multiple contracts, budget items and administrative recommendations to the full board meeting on June 22.
At the Finance & Operations Committee, administrators presented a proposed five‑year maintenance/hosting contract for the district phone system from VNet with ongoing monitoring and support priced at $87,750; the committee approved forwarding the contract to the June 22 board meeting. The committee also approved forwarding a commercial insurance proposal from Hub International (Utica underwriting) with a 2026–27 premium of $468,986, which reflects a reported 9% increase tied to higher assessed property values.
Finance staff reported recommended write‑offs of student accounts no longer enrolled totaling $57,637, with the largest categories related to Chromebooks, iPads and unpaid food service balances. Finance counsel and staff explained the per‑student averages are small and that pursuing collections for most accounts could cost more than the likely recovery; the committee approved moving the write‑off recommendation to the full board.
Other items the committees advanced for board action on June 22 included cooperative purchasing agreements, recurring vendor renewals (Assessment Evaluation Inc.), capital projects and capital reserve budgets (capital projects revenue $2,323,144; expenditures $4,610,649; capital reserve revenue $290,000; expenditures $13,000,705 reported), rate approvals (Knox law rates) and a proposed switch of the district’s long‑term disability vendor to Madison National to save an estimated $3,000 annually. Several conference and field trip requests and curriculum items were also moved from committee to the full board for consideration.
In committee discussions, district staff outlined health‑plan rate projections and savings tied to a prior vendor change: brokers’ estimates of claims increased recent projections to $4.5 million; speakers said that had the district remained with the prior insurer the projected figure would have been around $16.5 million, and that the district realized an estimated $1.7 million in savings from an earlier plan change. Those projections were presented by administrators as broker calculations.
All items described above were forwarded to the June 22 board meeting for formal approval; committees treated most of them as motions to move the items forward rather than final approvals.
