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Brockton trustees approve bus purchase, reading contract and series of hires in unanimous votes
Summary
At its Oct. 9 meeting the Brockton School Board approved multiple routine items — including a $332,500 replacement activity bus, a three-year $64,084.30 Success for All reading contract funded by Title I, several classified and extracurricular hires, a substitute pay increase to $17/hour and contracts for gym refinishing and a procurement-card program. All motions passed unanimously.
The Brockton School Board on Oct. 9 unanimously approved a package of purchases, contracts and personnel actions including a $332,500 replacement activity bus and a three-year reading-intervention contract paid with Title I funds.
Among the actions, trustees approved a quote from Harlow’s Bus and Truck Sales for a 2024 Freightliner activity bus, to be funded partly from the district’s Bus Depreciation account (authorized use: $100,000) and the remainder from Elementary and High School Impact Aid. Superintendent Josh Patterson presented the purchase recommendation; Trustee Wilfred Lambert moved the motion and Trustee Rae Jean Belgarde seconded it. The motion passed unanimously.
The board also approved a three-year contract with Success for All Foundation to implement targeted reading interventions for kindergarten through sixth grade. The program will provide professional development, instructional materials and an online subscription with interventions scheduled for 30 minutes Monday–Thursday beginning in late October or early November. The board recorded year-one program fees of $30,084.30 and year-two and year-three fees of $17,000 each, for a total three-year contract amount of $64,084.30. The recommendation was presented by Superintendent Patterson and approved on a unanimous vote (mover: Wilfred Lambert; seconder: Olivia Johnson).
Other approvals included: adding District Clerk Cheri’ Nygard as a signatory on Brockton student accounts at Independence Bank; a $6,475.20 contract with Western Sport Floors LLC to refinish the gym floor in summer 2025; authorization for a procurement-card (P-card) program agreement with the Bank of Montreal; and a resolution to advertise and dispose of obsolete district property (including a 2007 motor coach), consistent with Mont. Code Ann. § 20-6-604. All passed unanimously.
On personnel matters the board accepted the resignation of substitute teacher Jennifer Boxer and approved several hires: Andrew Dethman (sub bus driver), Mikayla Yuzicappi (elementary paraprofessional) and Carrie Fisher (SPED paraprofessional), along with student workers Rayaunna Track and Ava Lone Bear. The board approved multiple extracurricular sponsors (the senior sponsor position was tabled). Motions were made by Trustee Wilfred Lambert and seconded by Trustee Olivia Johnson; votes were unanimous.
The board also approved raising the substitute-teacher pay rate to $17 per hour after comparing rates with nearby districts.
The board entered executive session under § 2-3-203(3), MCA, to discuss two out-of-district enrollment requests; after returning to open session trustees approved the nonresident enrollment requests on a unanimous vote.
The meeting adjourned at 7:25 p.m.
