Clark County School District Packet Summary — 2026-08-27
Meeting: Regular Board Meeting - Aug 27 2026
Scheduled start: 5:00 p.m.
The Clark County School District Board of Trustees is scheduled to consider a packet that combines major capital spending, personnel and purchasing items, a school-facility regulation amendment, a districtwide attendance and discipline update, Board governance discussions, and two public hearings on negotiated agreements.
Key Items on the Agenda
- $90.0 million in capital improvement contract awards: Staff recommends approval of three facilities-related awards totaling $90,013,683.44, dominated by work at James Cashman Middle School.
- Attendance, discipline, and student connection: The Board is scheduled to receive and discuss district results and initiatives tied to the Strategic Plan's Safe and Supportive Schools priority, including attendance, discipline, connection-building activities, Student Code of Conduct work, and behavioral-support systems.
- School Facility Replacement regulation: The consent agenda includes a proposed amendment to CCSD Regulation 7112, which governs how the district evaluates whether aging facilities should be renovated or replaced.
- Collective bargaining revisions: Two public hearings are scheduled on proposed changes to 2025–2027 negotiated agreements—one involving police administrators and another involving the Clark County Education Association.
- Board governance and apparel: Trustees are scheduled for separate discussions about Board governing policies and protocols and whether guidelines for Board members' apparel during meetings should be incorporated into governance policies or the Board Handbook.
Major Financial and Facilities Items
$90.0 Million in Capital Improvement Awards
Staff recommends approval of $90,013,683.44 in capital improvement contract awards. The package includes:
- James Cashman Middle School contract award: $89,186,502.44
- James Cashman Middle School professional services agreement: $629,256.00
- Rancho High School contract award: $197,925.00
The Board is also being asked to authorize the Chief of Facilities to act as its designee for signing the related documents.
Purchasing and Purchase Orders
The consent agenda includes:
- Ratification of purchase orders totaling $4,965,177.06.
- Purchasing awards for goods or services with an estimated total value of $3,228,050.00.
These items are presented as recommended consent-agenda actions rather than separate major discussion items.
$99,473 Change in Service
Staff recommends ratifying a $99,473.00 increase to an architectural design services agreement for the Lee Tate Transportation Center. The packet categorizes the increase as resulting from unforeseen conditions and identifies the Governmental Services Tax fund as the funding source.
$1 Million Settlement
The consent agenda includes a confidential settlement recommendation totaling $1,000,000.00 in the matter identified in the agenda as M.S., by and through his parents Vanessa Valladares and Michael Saavedra.
School Facilities and Capital Planning
Regulation 7112 — School Facility Replacement
Staff recommends amending Clark County School District Regulation 7112, School Facility Replacement. The regulation establishes the framework for deciding whether an aging or deteriorated school should be renovated or replaced.
The proposed language ties that analysis to the district's Capital Improvement Plan and calls for decisions to consider a facility's physical condition, age, ability to support curriculum, and the comparative cost and feasibility of renovation versus replacement.
The process includes annual assessments covering 20 percent of the district's facility portfolio. The resulting Facility Condition Database is intended to help screen facilities more than 40 years old or those requiring extensive repairs. The regulation also calls for consideration of officially recognized historical significance when evaluating replacement versus renovation.
Student Attendance, Discipline, and School Climate
Safe and Supportive Schools Update
The Board is scheduled to receive a presentation and discuss acceptance of the district's Attendance and Discipline Results, Connection-Building Activities initiatives. The presentation is tied to the 2026–2031 Strategic Plan and its goal that students learn in schools where they are known, valued, connected, and ready to thrive.
The packet frames the work around several Safe and Supportive Schools strategies, including welcoming schools with community-based support, stronger student connections, and safe, respectful, and consistent school environments.
Student Code of Conduct and Behavioral Supports
The presentation also outlines continuing work on the district's Student Code of Conduct and schoolwide behavioral supports. The packet's timeline anticipates:
- Community-partner and district-partner input meetings in October 2026.
- Presentation of a proposed updated Student Code of Conduct to the Board in February 2027.
- Professional learning for schools on implementation of the revised code beginning in March 2027.
- Additional school leadership training in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and other Tier I social-emotional-behavioral practices beginning during the 2026–2027 school year and continuing into 2027.
The presentation also identifies community partnerships as part of the district's approach to student connection and support.
Public Hearings and Employee Agreements
Police Administrators Agreement — Deputy Chief Position
The Board is scheduled to hold a public hearing and consider revisions to the 2025–2027 Negotiated Agreement between CCSD and the Police Administrators Association of the Clark County School District.
The proposed revision adds Article 33 — Deputy Chief. Under the proposed language, an employee selected as Deputy Chief could be released from that position at the will of the Chief of Police. If that employee previously held another CCSD Police Department position, the employee would be entitled to return to that position with previous rights and benefits restored.
The packet states that the amendment would have no immediate fiscal impact. Any Deputy Chief's salary would be negotiated with and agreed upon by the Superintendent.
A second public hearing concerns revisions to the 2025–2027 Negotiated Agreement between CCSD and the Clark County Education Association.
The proposed changes revise Article 37 governing extra duty pay. The packet says the revisions would:
- Require employees to receive notice about details of extra duty pay.
- Establish rules for prorating that pay when necessary.
- Establish rules for adding activities or clubs not already listed.
- Add activities and clubs to the approved list.
- Restore an athletic stipend computation table that had been inadvertently deleted.
- Set pay for ticket takers at $20 per hour.
The packet states that the revisions would take effect upon approval and signature and would have no immediate fiscal impact.
Transportation for Students in Foster Care
Staff recommends a five-year interlocal cooperative agreement with the Department of Family Services addressing transportation for children in foster care who remain at their school of origin.
Under the agreement, CCSD and the county would share transportation costs equally. The packet explains that federal and state requirements make the child welfare agency and local education agency jointly responsible for these transportation costs when remaining at the school of origin is determined to be in the child's best interest.
Board Governance Items
Governing Policies and Protocols
The agenda includes a discussion and reminder to a Trustee regarding Board Governing Policies and Protocols under Governance Policy GP-2, Board Conduct, Ethics, and Operational Protocols.
The underlying policy emphasizes the Board's Balanced Governance Model, including informed oversight rather than operational micromanagement, consideration of the interests of the entire school community, collective Board authority, and limits on individual trustees directing the Superintendent or staff.
The reference material also addresses trustee communications and social media. Among other provisions, it calls for trustees to avoid communications that disparage the district, other trustees, district personnel, or Board decisions and describes progressive responses for communications considered inconsistent with the policy.
Board Members' Apparel
A separate discussion is scheduled on Board members' apparel during Board meetings. Trustees are expected to consider whether apparel guidelines should be added to the Board's Governance Policies or its Board Handbook.
This is listed as a discussion item; the agenda does not identify it as a proposed policy adoption at this meeting.
Other Consent Agenda Items
The Board is also scheduled to consider a series of routine or administrative matters through the consent agenda, including:
- Minutes from the July 1, 2026 regular meeting and work session.
- Ratification of warrants and inclusion of July budget appropriation transfers in the official minutes.
- Licensed and unified personnel employment.
- A five-year foster-care transportation agreement.
- The facilities contract awards and Lee Tate Transportation Center change in service.
- The proposed Regulation 7112 amendment.
- Appointment of Xavier Antheaume to the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Board of Control for a term running from August 4, 2026 through June 30, 2029.
The agenda states that consent items are normally considered in one motion unless a trustee successfully requests separate consideration of an item.
Several reports are included for information rather than identified as Board action items. They cover:
- Gifts received by district schools and departments.
- Unified personnel separations.
- Licensed personnel separations.
- Support professional and school police staffing.
- Unified personnel promotions and transfers/reassignments.
What to Watch at the Meeting
The largest financial decision in the packet is the proposed $90.0 million capital improvement package, particularly the $89.2 million James Cashman Middle School contract award.
The attendance and discipline presentation is also positioned as a significant districtwide update because it connects current results with longer-term work on student belonging, discipline practices, the Student Code of Conduct, and schoolwide behavioral-support systems.
The two negotiated-agreement items will provide formal opportunities for public input before possible Board action. Separately, the governance and apparel discussions could shape how trustees interpret and apply recently adopted Board conduct expectations, although the packet does not present the apparel discussion itself as a proposed policy adoption.
