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Bullhead City School District board meeting, Oct 8, 2026

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Bullhead City board votes aye on $89,375 cooling tower engineering bid 1:26:57

  • A district staff member told the board over $400,000 had been trimmed from the budget and the bottom line was $17,864,000 as opposed to $18,310,000. 40:08
  • A speaker asked what a rigor walk chart was meant to show, and staff members explained that classrooms are chosen at random and the results are used to find campus trends for professional development. 1:06:30
  • The board took up a cooling tower engineering bid of $89,375 and a resolution to transfer residual bond monies. 1:26:41

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Item by item (14)
  1. Workshop on board survey 2:42
    • The board held a workshop to talk about the board's survey. 2:42
    • A district staff member said the district requires background checks, including at least one by phone, plus fingerprint and FBI background checks. 6:12
    • One board member said teacher recruitment from Arizona is not necessarily a weakness because the teachers are not there to be hired. 20:41
  2. Workshop review of school visitors policy 25:28
    • A district staff member said the policy advisory on visitors to schools recommends deleting the regulation because it was incorporated into the policy. 25:40
    • The staff member said the district wants parents to come observe in its schools. 27:40
    • The workshop was adjourned. ~29:18
  3. Regular meeting opening, recognition and agenda 34:59
    • A district staff member announced a Spotlight Award for a bus driver who combined stops and kept students calm during a recent storm. 36:03
    • A motion was made to adopt the agenda with administrative reports, personnel, and school facilities and preventive maintenance pulled from the consent agenda. 38:25
  4. Superintendent's report on budget 39:35
    • A district staff member said the budget bottom line was $17,864,000 as opposed to $18,310,000, after trimming over $400,000. 40:08
    • The staff member said enrollment is down about 100 kids and that insurance went up 7%. 45:38
    • The staff member said about $60,000 was cut from the capital budget. 48:34
  5. Bus violations and bus monitors 53:44
    • A speaker asked whether the district has bus monitors, and a staff member said only on the SPED buses. 54:41
    • The staff member said the district would reach out again about veterans possibly volunteering as bus monitors and would want to provide training. 55:28
  6. Consent agenda reports and personnel 1:00:16
    • A district staff member explained that rigor walk classrooms are chosen at random and observed for 10 minutes. 1:06:34
    • A staff member said a Fox Creek PE position has been posted and PE was taken out of the specials rotation for this quarter. 1:19:45
    • A staff member said the School Facilities Board requires an annual report verifying regular maintenance checks. 1:22:06
  7. Deletion of Section G policies 1:24:12
    • Fred Rushton moved to delete the policies presented for second reading. 1:24:47
  8. Tabling of policy revisions 1:25:09
    • A motion was made to table the policy revision for BCB regarding board member conflict of interest to next month's meeting. 1:25:24
    • Dr. Sheila Barnett moved to table the policy revision for DGD regarding credit cards until the next meeting. 1:25:51
    • A motion was made to table the policy revision for GBEAA regarding conflict of interest until the next meeting. 1:26:18
  9. Cooling tower engineering bid 1:26:41
    • A district staff member said packets went to 10 vendors and the district received 2 bids, one for $128,000 and one for $89,375. 1:26:57
    • The staff member said the cost would be covered from the school plant and Civic Center budgets rather than the capital budget, and that the bid is for engineering, not construction. 1:26:57
    • Fred Rushton moved to approve the measure as presented. 1:31:14
  10. Annual financial report 1:31:45
    • A district staff member said the annual financial report shows what the district actually spent and includes all grant funding. 1:32:25
    • The staff member said the report must be submitted by the 15th. 1:34:31
  11. Agreement with city for school resource officer 1:35:55
    • A district staff member said the safety grant pays for the school resource officer at Fox Creek and 4 counselors, and recommended approval. 1:36:09
    • Fred Rushton moved to approve the intergovernmental agreement. 1:36:46
  12. Transfer of residual bond monies 1:37:11
    • A district staff member read a resolution directing the county treasurer to transfer a residual balance of $2,472.90 from the debt retirement fund to the operating fund for the reduction of school district taxes. 1:38:29
  13. First reading of school visitors policy 1:41:29
    • The revision of policy KI on visitors to schools was presented as a first reading for information, with no motion needed. 1:41:29
  14. Upcoming events, meeting date and adjournment 1:42:02
    • Sheila Barnett said they would not be able to attend the next meeting but could join by phone. 1:42:32
    • A district staff member listed a Title I math night on November 4th at Desert Valley. 1:43:14
    • The board discussed November 12th as the date of the next meeting. 1:44:49
    • The meeting was adjourned. ~1:46:01

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