Perry school board takes up audit, phone policy Monday at 5 p.m.

The Perry Board of Education meets Monday, Nov. 9, at 5 p.m., and the agenda carries the district's outside audit and a rewrite of the rules on student and staff phones.

Item 3.B is listed as "Discussion and possible action on the 2025-2026 Audit from Bledsoe, Hewett, Gullekson, CPAs, PLLLP." An audit is the once-a-year outside check on whether a district's books are accurate and whether its spending followed the rules. The agenda does not include the audit report itself, so the findings, the fund balance and any management letter will come out in the room.

Audit season is running across the county. The Current reported that the Durand school board heard its audit on Nov. 4, six days before its bond vote, and that Owosso's school board had an audit report on its own agenda.

Further down, item 7 asks the board to consider approval of four policy revisions: CHC Bids and Quotations, COA Wellness Policy, DEC-R10 Maternity Leave and FNG Personal Electronic Devices. The agenda lists the policy codes and titles only. It does not say what any of the four revisions change, so a parent who wants to know where the phone rules land will have to wait for the packet or the vote.

Two other action items are on the list with little explanation. Item 5 is the 2027 regular board meeting schedule — the dates and times the board will meet all next year. Item 6 is "the 2026 school election resolution for seat #2." The agenda does not name the seat's current holder or give an election date, and it arrives six days after the Nov. 3 general election.

The consent agenda bundles the minutes of the Oct. 12 meeting with four sets of encumbrances: General Fund 11, numbers 00182 through 00202; Building Fund 21, numbers 00040 through 00045; Child Nutrition Fund 22, numbers 00013 through 00014; and Fleet Bond Fund 34, number 0004. The agenda gives the voucher numbers but no dollar totals and no itemization, so there is no way to tell from this document what the board is approving in money terms. Consent items are normally passed in a single vote unless a member pulls one out.

The meeting opens with a student recognition item, followed by the superintendent's report and public comments. The agenda as posted does not list a meeting location.

What happens next

The board meets at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9. Public comments come early, under item 3.D, before the votes on the meeting schedule, the election resolution and the four policies. The audit figures and the dollar amounts behind the encumbrances should appear in the minutes of the meeting, which the board typically approves on a later consent agenda.