Pittsford board approves year-end transfers, tax levy process and transportation contract

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — The Pittsford Central School District Board of Education on Aug. 12 approved multiple year-end financial actions, set the district’s tax-levy and tax-collection process for the coming school year, and awarded the district’s student transportation contract for 2025–26.

The board voted to approve year-end budget transfers connected to the district audit, including a transfer for a career-award accrual as of June 30, 2025, and a transfer covering the district’s local share of the 2024 summer school special-education program. The board also approved a year-end transfer into reserve funds intended to keep the district within the 4% real property tax cap guidance.

Those approvals were presented by district staff and carried on voice votes after routine motions. The board also moved to approve the tax levy and the tax-collection process for the upcoming school year.

In other fiscal actions, the board approved the student-transportation contract with Transpo Bus Services LLC for the 2025–26 school year and approved a tax-certiorari settlement with JPMorgan Chase Bank concerning its property assessment. The board likewise approved the sale of surplus and scrap food-service equipment and adopted a resolution approving change orders related to the district’s ongoing capital project, which the board discussed in association with a $69,000,000 capital improvement plan.

All items were taken as part of the consent and action agenda and passed by majority voice vote. No additional public discussion or amendments were recorded on the motions.

Why it matters: These routine but consequential actions set the district’s near-term fiscal posture, lock in transportation services for the school year, and affect reserve balances the district may draw on during the fiscal year.

Details and context: The career award accrual transfer was dated as of 06/30/2025. The summer-school local-share transfer related to the 2024 summer special-education program. The board emphasized the reserve transfer was to maintain compliance with the real property tax-law guidance for financial planning in the 4% range. The Transpo contract was described as covering regular school-year transportation; the motion named Transpo Bus Services LLC. The tax-certiorari settlement was identified as involving JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPMorgan Chase Bank). The board reviewed a list of approved bids since the last meeting that were placed on the consent agenda for review.

What didn’t change: The board did not alter tax-cap law or state policy; the district’s actions were internal budget transfers and contract approvals to implement the coming school year’s operations.

Motions and outcomes: Motions to approve the budget transfers, tax-levy/collection process, transportation contract, tax-certiorari settlement, surplus-sale declaration and the capital project change orders were each moved, seconded and passed by a voice vote. Specific vote tallies were not read aloud on the record.

Next steps: The actions put transportation and fiscal arrangements into effect for the 2025–26 school year and leave capital project change orders to continue under the existing project oversight.