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Westonka board approves 10-year facilities plan, personnel contracts, lease extension and athletics cooperative changes
Summary
The Westonka Public School District board unanimously approved a 10-year long-term facilities maintenance plan and a slate of consent items including personnel contracts, a one-year lease amendment with Thaler Pond Management, and changes to the boys swim cooperative; most approvals were voice votes with no roll-call tally recorded in the transcript.
The Westonka Public School District School Board approved a series of consent and action items covering facilities planning, contracts, leases and athletics partnerships during its regular meeting.
At the meeting, the board approved a 10-year Long-Term Facility Maintenance (LTFM) expenditure projection and a required statement of assurances (action item 7a). Chair (speaker 1) moved the item and the board approved it by voice vote. The finance office had previewed the LTFM plan as part of the district’s year-end financial work.
The board also approved the district’s proportionate share of the intermediate district facilities revenue levy (7b) and took a separate action to approve matters involving Independent School District 277 (7c). Members approved a 2026–28 contract between the district and the educational office employees bargaining unit (7d); the chair moved the contract and a second was recorded before the board voted to approve it.
The board approved an amendment to the general lease agreement between Independent School District 277 and Thaler Pond Management Company for the pond sports center (7e). The transcript records the board adopting the same lease terms and extending the lease one year so the district can monitor building use with the new stadium in place. The amendment was moved and carried by voice vote.
On athletics, the board approved the dissolution of the existing boys swim-and-dive cooperative agreement between Westonka Public Schools and Holy Family High School and approved establishing a new cooperative among Westonka Public Schools, Holy Family Catholic High School and Southwest Christian High School (7f). The board discussed that there will be a single home-team location for competition and that Westonka will host the meets for this cooperative.
Other approved items included authorization to sell or recycle obsolete equipment (7g) and expansion of contract days for the food service administrative assistant and the technology & facilities administrative assistant positions for the 2027 year (7h). All items in the consent and action portions recorded in the transcript passed by voice vote; the meeting record in the transcript does not provide a named roll-call tally for each vote.
What happens next: the district will proceed under the approved LTFM plan and the one-year lease amendment while monitoring building usage; staff will implement the personnel contract changes and the new swim cooperative arrangement.
Votes at a glance (as recorded in the transcript): - Action 7a — Approval of 10-year LTFM expenditure projections and statement of assurances: moved by the chair, seconded, approved (voice vote). - Action 7b — Approval of proportionate share of intermediate district facilities revenue levy: moved by the chair, seconded, approved (voice vote). - Action 7c — Approval related to Independent School District 277: moved by the chair, seconded, approved (voice vote). - Action 7d — Approval of 2026–28 educational office employees contract: moved by the chair, seconded, approved (voice vote). - Action 7e — Amendment/extension (one year) of general lease with Thaler Pond Management Company (David M. Thaler Sports Center referenced in the transcript): moved by the chair, seconded, approved (voice vote). - Action 7f — Dissolution of prior boys swim coop and establishment of a new three-school cooperative (Westonka, Holy Family Catholic, Southwest Christian): moved by the chair, seconded, approved (voice vote). - Action 7g — Approval to sell or recycle obsolete equipment: moved by the chair, seconded, approved (voice vote). - Action 7h — Approval of contract days expansion for two administrative assistant positions for year 2027: moved by the chair, seconded, approved (voice vote).
Speakers quoted in this article are taken from the meeting transcript and identified by the role labels used in the board discussion (the chair and board members). The transcript does not show recorded individual vote tallies or full formal roll-call counts for these items; the article does not invent unseen vote records.
