Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:39 pm
By DAVID PENNER Lexington Clipper-Herald editor
LEXINGTON — After nearly 30 minutes of discussion Monday night, the Lexington Public School Board decided to upgrade its copiers and printers districtwide.
The bids came down to Eakes, a Canon distributor and LaserTec, a Xerox distributor.
LaserTec won with a bid of $122,213, which includes a five-year lease and is for 82 or 84 new machines.
One of the biggest reasons for the upgrades was because the school district was looking for a secure way to print from mobile devices such as iPads, which the school district is switching over to as part of the One-to-One initiative.
Included in the LaserTec bid was a $4,900 print mobile upgrade to all of the new equipment. Although LaserTec’s bid was a few thousand dollars more than Eakes, the print mobile option was not included in Eakes bid.
Several board members said having to install the print mobile upgrade on the new system would drive the cost much higher because of the labor costs.
Kristi Jergensen, Lexington Public Schools director of technology, gave the Technology Committee’s recommendation for choosing LaserTec.
“We tried to cover all of the bases during this process,” she said. “It was a very tedious operation.”
After passing the agreement, new LPS Superintendent John Hakonson, in his first school board meeting, said he was awed with the amount of work Jergensen and her committee put into the project.
“I’m really impressed with the Technology Committee’s thoroughness,” he said. “I think you did a very good job.”
In other business:
- The board approved hiring a dual-language math teacher at the recommendation of new Lexington Middle School Principal Scott West. He said the addition would help keep classes at optimum size. He hopes to be able to add a dual-language science teacher, too.
- The board approved the student/parent handbooks for all elementary schools, LMS and Lexington High School.
- The board also passed the LMS/Community Recreation Center site plan and floor plans as presented at the special board meeting June 25.
- During the board comments section of the meeting, each of the board members gave their deepest sympathies to the family of LHS alternative education project leader Tom Ward and his wife, Malena, whose son, Camden, 10, died in a single-car accident in Kansas last week.
“I spoke to Tom tonight before this meeting,” Ray Ehlers said, “and he wanted to say thank you for the prayers and to keep them up.”
http://www.kearneyhub.com/news...cf-001a4bcf887a.html
Original Post