Now that the School Board has come close to completing the Red Plan without ever once paying any heed to its policies on bidding its occurred to the Administration that its time to change all the policies they ignored over the past two years.
In a jam packed agenda for the Monday Business Committee meeting including change orders, new contracts and loads of spending they’ve tucked in changes to the bidding policy.
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Policies and Regulations
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Policies
1)
Modification of Policy 3075 – Requests for Proposals – Second Reading Administration is requesting that Policy 3075 – Requests for Proposals be modified as submitted. Recommendation: It is recommended that the Duluth School Board approve the modification of Policy 3075.
2)
Modification of Regulation 3075R – Requests for Proposals Please note that administration is planning to modify Regulation 3075R – Requests for Proposals, conditioned upon the board approving changes to Policy 3075, in order to ensure that the Regulation is consistent with the intent of the policy.
3)
Deletion of Policy 3076 – Soliciting Prices (Bids and Quotations) – Second Reading Administration is requesting that Policy 3076 – Soliciting Prices (Bids and Quotations) be deleted. Recommendation : It is recommended that the Duluth School Board Policy 3076 – Soliciting Prices (Bids and Quotations) be deleted.
4)
Deletion of Policy 3080 – Award of Contracts – Second Reading Administration is requesting that Policy 3080 – Award of Contracts be deleted.
Recommendation: It is recommended that the Duluth School Board delete Policy 3080 – Award of Contracts.
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Deletion of Policy 3085 – Quotations for Professional Services – Second Reading Administration is requesting that Policy 3085 – Quotations for Professional Services be deleted.
Recommendation: It is recommended that the Duluth School Board Policy3085 – Quotations for Professional Services be deleted.
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Policy 9105 – Official Publications – Second Reading Administration is requesting that the name of the publisher within the policy be changed to reflect changes in ownership of the Duluth News Tribune.
Recommendation: It is recommended that the Duluth School Board approve the changes to Policy 9105 – Official Publications as attached.
The meeting is Monday at 4:30 PM in the old auditorium on the second floor of Old Central. It could be interesting. The Trib will be sure to miss it because they never miss a good opportunity to cover news in the District. However, with two new school board members infected with a little curiosity the Administration might have to perform some fancy double talk to get through the meeting. As an added plus from now on all the remaining old board members won’t be able to skip meetings for fear the Administration will lose its rubber stamp.
