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Board reviews multimillion-dollar tech and facility purchase requests including Chromebooks and laptops
Summary
The board considered purchases to support STEAM and district equipment replacement: 340 Chromebooks ($228,680), 609 staff laptops ($727,146), and other safety and facility items including an emergency radio amplifier ($137,373) and operations facility work.
The district presented purchase requests to support a new STEAM elective and refresh staff devices: 340 Chromebooks and 10 carts (not to exceed $228,680) and 609 staff laptops (not to exceed $727,146) on a five-year replacement cycle. Administrators said some funding will come from capital-project allocations and cited a staff survey (472 responses) used to inform device specifications.
Officials also described a safety purchase: a bidirectional amplifier at Eastern Middle High to improve emergency responder radio frequency coverage, budgeted not to exceed $137,373. The board packet included smaller items — a video projector package funded by the foundation and several operations facility bids (total not to exceed $62,994.20) — and administrators said these come from a mix of capital accounts and foundation funds.
