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Board approves consent calendar after questions about multi‑million dollar contracts and CTE funding
Summary
The board approved the consent calendar 5–0 after questions about a CTIG grant of $8,484,009.67 for CTE, contracts totaling $63,000,002.27 for services to students with exceptional needs (with an instructional-aid subset of about $8,000,000), and an ELOP bid with an estimated not‑to‑exceed $32,500,000.
During discussion of the consent calendar, board members raised questions about several large funding and contracting items. Member Lopez asked whether the CTIG grant request for $8,484,009.67 would be distributed equally across CTE pathways; staff responded that funds supplement CTE programming across all high schools and will not be distributed equally because some schools have larger pathway programs. Staff offered to provide a detailed breakdown of allocations.
Board members also discussed a proposed batch of contracts for nonpublic agencies and nonpublic schools—referenced in the report as an aggregate $63,000,002.27—with $8,000,000 of instructional‑aid funding identified in the current batch. For the ELOP bid (2627‑002), staff said the $32,500,000 figure is the not‑to‑exceed total and that individual provider contracts for each site will be presented to the board on Aug. 5. The board voted to approve the consent calendar with a noted exception on specific items for Member Lopez; staff committed to provide the requested breakdowns.
