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Votes at a glance: Port Jervis board approves consent agenda, personnel and policy items on Oct. 14
Summary
At its Oct. 14 meeting the Port Jervis Board of Education approved the consent agenda (minutes, grants, treasurer reports, donations), multiple personnel appointments and motions including adoption of district goals and a PJTA MOA amendment; several policy items were advanced on first readings and others approved on first-and-final reading.
The Port Jervis Board of Education voted on a series of routine and policy items during its Oct. 14 meeting. Most items passed by voice vote; the board recorded "Aye" with no recorded opposition on roll calls shown in the transcript.
Key actions taken or advanced at the meeting include:
- Consent agenda approved (item g): included minutes from the Sept. 16 meeting; committee on special education recommendations; athletic equipment disposal; district treasurer's financial reports for September 2025; a Jarvis Education Foundation grant to the high school (Alicia Collins); and a Lowe's Hometown Hero Project donation for HBE. The motion was moved and seconded and approved by voice vote.
- Personnel employment agenda approved: retirements, resignations, terminations, leaves of absence, appointments to department chairs, co-curricular and coaching positions for 2025-26, probationary cleaner appointments, provisional administrative aide, deputy internal claims auditor stipend appointment, temporary leave replacement teacher, and substitute staff appointments. The motion carried by voice vote.
- Adoption of PJ CSD district goals for 2025-26: motion moved by board members identified as Joe and Jeremy; approved by voice vote.
- PJTA memorandum of agreement amendment (Article 14 b 3) approved: motion carried by voice vote. The amendment changes sick-leave notification language so that employees who retire on dates other than June 30 must notify the district five months before retirement rather than by Feb. 1 (clarifying notification timing for retirements outside the June cycle).
- Capital project allowances and change orders (item c) were moved and seconded and approved.
- Policy work: the board advanced a set of policies on first reading (5515, 7213, 7511, 7512, 7513, 7522, 7670) with a motion to bring them to the floor, and approved a separate set of policies on first-and-final reading (1140, 7518, 7520, 7521) and deleted policy 7225 per staff recommendation.
Votes were recorded by voice ("All in favor? Aye. No opposed. Motion carried."). Where a mover or seconder was announced, the transcript captured the names (for example, "Joe and Jeremy" for the district goals motion). The meeting did not display roll-call vote tallies in the transcript; actions were passed by majority/voice as recorded.
No contested motions or defeats were recorded in the transcript excerpt.
