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Board accepts $20,000 donation; consent items approved with one abstention
Summary
Trustees thanked a donor for a $20,000 gift to the district's scholarship fund, approved multiple consent-agenda items, and recorded one abstention on item 7.08 from a trustee who said they work for the company involved.
A trustee announced a $20,000 donation to the district from the Captain Merrill Mason and Mason Memorial Scholarship Fund; board members thanked the donor and noted it augments the foundation's regular scholarships. "It was very generous of them again to donate $20,000 to the school district," a board member said.
The board approved items 7.01–7.07 by motion. Item 7.08 was taken separately and carried 6–0 with one abstention; a trustee said, "I'm just abstaining...because that is the company that I work for." Additional consent items 7.09–7.19 were approved after trustees commented on the donation. The transcript records motions, seconds and the chair announcing motions carried; names of every mover or seconder are partially recorded (motions noted as "Motion Kyle" and "2nd Kelly" at points in the transcript).
