The Pleasant Valley School District is still getting furniture for the middle school music room, just not from the company voted on last month.

Business Manager Tammy Smale explained that the change is due to a deadline.

“Premier Environments could not guarantee delivery by June 30, 2025, which is the deadline to spend the grant money,” Smale said.

At the school board‘s meeting on March 27, the board had approved the purchase $22,467.81 worth of furniture for the middle school music room from Premier Environments. That purchase included 105 music chairs, 25 music stands and 69 pieces of furniture including podiums, chairs and maneuverable stands.

In all, the school board had approved purchasing $935,824.60 worth of furniture from Premier Environments for various uses in the middle school. It was using a Ready-to-Learn grant of more than $3.5 million to pay for furniture. The caveat is that anything purchased with the grant money has to be in the possession of the school district by June 30, which is the last day of the fiscal school year.

At the school board meeting on Thursday, members approved the new music room furniture purchase, right after rescinding the one with Premier Environments.

The new purchase order is with Wenger Corp. in Minnesota for $25,979.19. It is $3,511.37 higher, but it also will be covered by the Ready-to-Learn grant.

The new purchase is similar to the first, but minus 24 pieces.

“The district had to move to Wenger, but made some adjustments to quantity to stay within the budget limits,” Smale said.

The new order includes 105 music chairs, 25 music stands, 30 tablet arm chairs and 15 other pieces of furniture including podium and carts, and a conductor’s chair and stands.

In other business, the school board also rescinded the original amount and adjusted the rate it would pay for teachers, health room technicians and paraprofessionals for the 2025 PV Cub Academy.

At the March 27 meeting, they had approved a per day payment amount. This was changed it to an hourly rate that is in align with the supplemental contract. The changes are:

• Teacher — was $92 per day, now $35 per hour (the former amount would be $23 per hour);

• Health room technician — $72 per day, now $23 per hour (the former would be $18 per hour);

• Paraprofessional — $72 per day, now $23 per hour.

The school board also approved to keep Whiston’s Nutrition LLC as its food service management provider for the 2025-2026 school year. Whitsons will continue to provide breakfasts, lunches and after-school snacks. The cost of their program will be reimbursed by a subsidy from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Education.

According to the contract, it anticipates the school district will bring in $232,102 in revenue from lunches. The federal and state reimbursements would be $1.9 million, and the total income from sponsor-to-sponsor agreements would be $22,000. This would give the school district a total revenue of $2.239 million. Total expenditures for personnel, maintenance and supplies would be about $2.214 million, leaving a profit of $25,000.