School board member Peter Downs made a motion at tonight’s administrative meeting to have the superintendent look at cancelling the district’s contract with controversial maintenance contractor Sodexho.

By a vote of 4-2, the board voted to add to next week’s regular board meeting agenda a resolution to ask Superintendent Creg Williams to come back to the board by September with a plan on how to bring the services currently being performed by Sodexho back in-house.

Voting against the motion were board members Robert Archibald and Ron Jackson. Joining Downs voting in favor were Donna Jones, Bill Purdy and board president Veronica O’Brien.

O’Brien voted against Down’s original motion to have Williams come back to the board with a plan in one month. Williams said that he needed more time to review such a large contract.

Board member Flint Fowler left the meeting early and was not present at the time of the vote.

Get more on tonight’s meeting at STLSchools.org