Votes at Goochland County School Board meeting: clerk appointment, course approvals and committee appointment pass; website move fails

At its regular meeting the Goochland County School Board conducted several formal actions and recorded votes on procedural and action items.

Key outcomes at a glance: - The board convened a closed session under Virginia Code §2.2-3711(a)(1) to discuss personnel matters; after the closed meeting the board certified by roll call that only matters listed in the motion were discussed. - The board appointed Mitra Harris as interim school board clerk (motion moved and seconded; voice vote recorded as “ayes”). - The board added two action items to the agenda (gifted advisory committee appointment and placement of immigration information on the division website) and approved the amended agenda. - Consent items were approved as a slate. - The board approved a slate of new course offerings (including Advanced Chamber Ensemble (Honors), Advanced Game Design and Development, Chemistry 101, EMT 1/2 stacked and Advanced EMT 3, Engineering Drawing and Design, and revised middle-school science pathway titles) following staff presentation and discussion. - The board appointed Bettina Burns to fill a vacancy on the gifted advisory committee. - A motion to remove the immigration-information tab from the division homepage and leave it only under Family Resources failed on a 2–2 tie.

Votes and tallies: where the transcript recorded a numeric tally or roll call those counts are included; where the minutes record only a voice vote the result is summarized as recorded in the meeting.

Procedure note: several motions were described as “moved and seconded” without named movers/seconders recorded in the transcript excerpts. The board’s roll-call certification of the closed session recorded individual responses of “ISO certified.”