RGSD Boardroom's Zoom Meeting

The Riverview Gardens School District Board meeting on September 9, 2026, addressed budget pressures and several education-related funding and purchasing proposals. Staff reported that the projected deficit had been reduced from about $23 million to $8–9 million and presented community feedback favoring expanded grants and business partnerships, protection of classroom instruction and staffing, and reductions to administrative or non-instructional costs. The superintendent said recommendations based on the feedback would be brought to the board. The board also approved the action items as a package without opposition; the transcript does not clearly specify each item’s individual vote result or the amount of the electric-bus grant.

Proposals presented for action included Amplify Tutoring for $87,668.70, funded through an HB2 general revenue grant; extended-learning extra-duty pay totaling $212,540 across four schools; Solution Tree services totaling $85,200, including a $17,040 non-refundable deposit; and a $4,600 AVID membership and virtual fee for Gibson Elementary. The district also presented an Ameren electric-school-bus and charging-program grant to add a third district-owned electric bus and support charging infrastructure. Separately, staff clarified that the previously approved UNMB tax anticipation note would not require changing the district’s depository bank; depository services remain governed by a separate process, with an RFP planned. Enterprise Bank was identified as the current depository.