Votes at a glance: Dallas Center-Grimes board actions, May 5, 2025
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Summary
The board approved routine agenda items, accepted bid records, awarded contracts (roof replacement and device refresh), approved the FY26 certified budget and committed fund balance, approved daycare agreements, approved graduations and retirements, and approved personnel actions including termination for cause.
At its May 5, 2025 meeting the Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District Board of Directors approved a series of motions, including capital and operational contracts, the certified FY26 budget, and personnel actions. Key outcomes are listed below. Motions recorded in the public minutes were carried by voice vote except where a roll call was requested.
Votes at a glance
- Approve meeting agenda (motion carried by voice vote). - Approve minutes from prior meetings (motion carried by voice vote). - Close public hearing and accept that no objections were filed for Dallas Center-Grimes Elementary School roof replacement (public hearing closed; no objections filed). - Accept into record bids for Elementary Roofing Project 2025 (motion carried by voice vote). - Award contract for Dallas Center-Grimes Elementary roof project to Academy Roofing, $1,398,000 (motion carried by voice vote). - Accept into record bids for FY26 student-device refresh (motion carried by voice vote). - Award low bid for FY26 student-device refresh to Sterling Computers (motion carried by voice vote). - Approve committed fund balance for FY26 in the amount of $545,000 (motion carried by voice vote). The committed amount covers new staffing requests (including a secondary Spanish teacher) and a $400,000 curriculum-cycle allocation. - Approve certified budget for fiscal year 2025-26 (motion carried; roll-call Aye votes recorded: Director Baker Curtis, Director Dickinson, Director Fiala, Director Malmberg, Director Carpenter, Director Vander Velde; chair noted roll-call completed). - Approve daycare agreements for summer 2025 (motion carried by voice vote). - Approve contract for Director of Custodial Services and Buildings, Travis Donahue, $115,000 for 2025-26 (motion carried by voice vote after board discussion). - Approve student early graduations and the full Class of 2025 graduation list (motions carried by voice vote). - Accept retirements/resignations (Teresa Sandstrom and Joe Edmonson) and present appreciation for service (motions carried by voice vote). - Termination of employee NB for cause (motion carried by voice vote). - Approve financial statements for March 2025 and sale of surplus items on GovDeals (motions carried by voice vote).
Where the transcript records a roll call
- Certified budget (FY26) roll call as requested by the chair: Director Baker Curtis — Aye; Director Dickinson — Aye; Director Fiala — Aye; Director Malmberg — Aye; Director Carpenter — Aye; Director Vander Velde — Aye. The chair recorded the roll call and motion carried.
Procedural notes
- Many motions were approved by unanimous voice vote; where the transcript contains a roll call it has been noted above. The district reported no written objections filed for the roof project public hearing.
For more detail: the public meeting minutes and the district contract files contain the full text of motions, bid tabulations, contract documents and any attachments referenced during the meeting.
