{"id":479551,"date":"2026-10-28T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479551\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:23:01","slug":"what-new-spending-did-fwisd-managers-ok-in-october-copiers-insurance-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479551\/","title":{"rendered":"What new spending did FWISD managers OK in October? Copiers, insurance and security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fort Worth ISD\u2019s Texas-appointed board of managers approved nearly $3.3 million in spending in October, with the largest expense tied to districtwide copier and printing services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest item was nearly $1.4 million in annual spending authority for a five-year agreement with Datamax of Texas for copiers, printing services and related equipment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Managers also approved $1.2 million for student-device insurance and $728,100 for security patrols at campuses and administrative buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three items passed 8-0 as part of the consent agenda. Manager Jay Stegall was absent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s what was approved:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew Sgroi is an education reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/10\/26\/what-new-spending-did-fwisd-managers-ok-in-october-copiers-insurance-and-security\/mailto:matthew.sgroi@fortworthreport.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">matthew.sgroi@fortworthreport.org<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/matthewsgroi1\" rel=\"nofollow\">@matthewsgroi1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disclosure: FWISD manager Pete Geren leads the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, a financial supporter of the Fort Worth Report. FWISD manager Laurie George is a member of the Report\u2019s reader advisory council. At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/about\/fort-worth-report-editorial-independence-policy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fort Worth Report is <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2024\/08\/25\/fort-worth-report-achieves-global-trust-certification-heres-what-it-means-for-our-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative<\/a> for adhering to standards for ethical journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Republish This Story<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793211781_121_cc-by-nd-4.0.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republishing is free for noncommercial entities. Commercial entities are prohibited without a licensing agreement. Contact us for details. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Sgroi is an education reporter for Fort Worth Report. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University and has worked as a reporter\/anchor for TCU360 and TCU News Now, TCU\u2019s student media organization&#8230;.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/author\/matthew-sgroi\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Matthew Sgroi\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth ISD\u2019s Texas-appointed board of managers approved nearly $3.3 million in spending in October, with the largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,8257,117],"class_list":["post-479551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-isd","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}