Board approves summer transportation, food-service agreements and tentative labor settlement; authorizes limited construction change order authority
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The board approved the 2025 summer transportation contract, the 2025–26 food-service vending commission agreement, a tentative agreement with academic support instructors, and a district authorization allowing up to $50,000 in construction change orders with higher amounts to be approved by the audit committee.
Brighton, N.Y. — At its July 2 reorganization meeting, the Brighton Central School District Board of Education approved several operational contracts and a tentative labor settlement and confirmed a construction change-order authorization intended to accelerate summer work.
The board approved the 2025 summer transportation contract and the 2025–26 food service vending commission agreement after standard motions and seconds. The meeting also recorded board approval of a tentative agreement with the district’s academic support instructors; the superintendent described it as consistent with recent settlements and patterned to be fair and equitable relative to other bargaining groups.
Board members also discussed construction change orders for ongoing summer work in district buildings. The board authorized staff to move up to $50,000 to address change-order needs discovered during summer construction, with larger amounts requiring audit-committee approval. "This allows for up to $50,000 to be moved, in the event of a change is needed... In the case where it is above $50,000 the audit committee approves that, and that's comprised of Lou, Dahlia, and then 3 board members, myself, Larry, and doctor Lee," a board member said.
The consent agenda included multiple routine administrative approvals such as appointments to committees on special education and preschool special education, an impartial hearing officer list, field trips, fundraising activities and several gifts from community donors. Gifts read into the record included proceeds from a Little Mermaid Jr. production ($435), a TJ Sullivan Memorial Fund gift ($1,812.84), a $1,000 donation through Charities Aid Foundation for the Shelley Fitzgerald Memorial Scholarship Fund, a $2,500 David Albiano Memorial Scholarship Fund gift, and donated chatbooks for district libraries.
The board did not discuss contractor names, vendor pricing, or fiscal totals for the transportation or vending agreements during the meeting; the motions were recorded as approvals on the consent or business agenda.