Votes at a glance: Rutherford County school board approves routine contracts, job descriptions and program purchases
June 05, 2026 | Rutherford County, Tennessee
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The Rutherford County Board of Education handled routine business and approved a slate of motions by voice vote during its regular meeting.
Key approvals included the agenda and consent agenda, a new full-time bus-driver job description for special-education buses (positions to be posted), an updated Safe Schools director job description, and a proposed athletic supervisor position. The board approved a clinical agreement with Lipscomb University for nursing-student clinical rotations and renewed the Stellar Therapy Services contract for Medicaid nursing reimbursement (administrative fee stated as 20% of total revenues).
Instruction items passed included approval to purchase the Wayground student-engagement platform for $249,900 using general funds and submission/approval of the FY27 consolidated funding application to the Tennessee Department of Education (title I, IDEA allocations and related federal funds). The OH4M risk-avoidance program for grades 6–8 was approved as compliant with cited Tennessee code sections.
Capital and facilities actions included approval of a $25,624.58 deduction final change order for Poplar Hill Elementary (final contract amount submitted for the contractor's portion was cited as $48,391,375.42), CTE storage barns for Rockville High (not to exceed $35,000, funded by a Tennessee Innovative Schools Model grant), and project closeouts or fund transfers for Riverdale, Oakland and Smyrna high-school projects with remaining balances noted and approved to be moved toward La Verne High where applicable.
A request to admit a transfer student who had been expelled for possession of THC was denied under policy 6.318. Most motions were approved by unanimous voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies in the public meeting record.
The board recessed later in the meeting to allow staff and counsel time to review a separate personnel-hire request; that item remains under review.
Key approvals included the agenda and consent agenda, a new full-time bus-driver job description for special-education buses (positions to be posted), an updated Safe Schools director job description, and a proposed athletic supervisor position. The board approved a clinical agreement with Lipscomb University for nursing-student clinical rotations and renewed the Stellar Therapy Services contract for Medicaid nursing reimbursement (administrative fee stated as 20% of total revenues).
Instruction items passed included approval to purchase the Wayground student-engagement platform for $249,900 using general funds and submission/approval of the FY27 consolidated funding application to the Tennessee Department of Education (title I, IDEA allocations and related federal funds). The OH4M risk-avoidance program for grades 6–8 was approved as compliant with cited Tennessee code sections.
Capital and facilities actions included approval of a $25,624.58 deduction final change order for Poplar Hill Elementary (final contract amount submitted for the contractor's portion was cited as $48,391,375.42), CTE storage barns for Rockville High (not to exceed $35,000, funded by a Tennessee Innovative Schools Model grant), and project closeouts or fund transfers for Riverdale, Oakland and Smyrna high-school projects with remaining balances noted and approved to be moved toward La Verne High where applicable.
A request to admit a transfer student who had been expelled for possession of THC was denied under policy 6.318. Most motions were approved by unanimous voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies in the public meeting record.
The board recessed later in the meeting to allow staff and counsel time to review a separate personnel-hire request; that item remains under review.
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