MSCS Board Business Meeting

The Memphis-Shelby County Schools Board Business Meeting on October 28, 2026, approved several procurement and funding actions. The board accepted a Tennessee cybersecurity grant of approximately $865,500 to fund 16,000 CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR licenses for staff devices and critical systems. It approved the purchase of 146 laptops for White Haven High School totaling $152,317.42: $150,419.42 from Broadway Typewriter Company and $1,898 from Unistar Sparkco Computers; the devices carry a four-year warranty. The board also approved a $375,000 Tennessee Department of Education turnaround grant for three Hamilton feeder-pattern schools ($125,000 each), a separate $125,000 year-two grant for the Hamilton High School turnaround partnership, and $25,846 in board strategic school fund allocations.

The board approved four-year regional custodial contracts totaling $31,534,156.99 with ServiceMaster Clean and H Facilities LLC, selecting two vendors rather than four. Administrators projected savings of about $3.5 million annually, or $14 million over four years. Board members questioned the RFP scoring, vendor performance monitoring, transparency, and potential effects on employees; the administration described ongoing evaluations and reporting. The contracts were approved. The board also approved policies 0000 and 622 on second reading; no other procurement-related action was identified in the transcript.