STPPS Board Meeting – 11/12/26

The STPPS Board meeting on November 12, 2026, approved a consent agenda that included accepting the low-base bid for infrastructure coordination, renovations, and additions at Mandeville Elementary School, and the apparent low-base bid for a cafeteria addition, ADA restroom, and stage alterations at Pearl River High School. The transcript gives no vendor names or bid amounts. The consent agenda also authorized an amended lease-related agreement for the Lion Elementary parking lot and approved revisions to suspension and expulsion policies, a resolution concerning school board properties, and employee compensation-related agreements. The board separately approved a revised salary schedule and final revised budgets for fiscal year 2025–26; monthly financial statements were deferred to the following month. No specific budget totals for the school projects were stated.

The board gave preliminary approval to issuing general-obligation school refunding bonds and applying to the State Bond Commission; a board member cited estimated savings of approximately $700,000–$800,000 over 10 years. Public comments focused on the cancellation of Renaissance Festival field trips and concerns about student safety and staff oversight at Lion Elementary; the transcript ends during public comment and records no board action on those concerns. The meeting also noted Covington High School’s $345,000 award from a T-Mobile competition, not as a board procurement decision.