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Board approves minutes, calendar, policies, personnel actions and agreements; trip approvals and donations accepted
Summary
At its April 7 meeting the Yorktown Central School District Board voted to approve routine minutes and calendar items, adopt and delete specified policies, approve personnel actions, accept donations, authorize a FAFSA/TAP data-access agreement and approve a Yorktown High School overnight trip to ISEF.
The Yorktown Central School District Board approved a slate of routine and program actions at its April 7 meeting. Major items approved included minutes, the 2025–26 board meeting calendar (subject to later amendment), policy actions, personnel items, interdistrict instructional agreements, a FAFSA/TAP data-access agreement and a student overnight trip to the International Science and Engineering Fair.
Votes at a glance (actions taken on April 7):
- Minutes: Approved the March 24, 2025 meeting minutes (motion: so moved/second; vote: all in favor).
- 2025–26 Board calendar: Adopted the calendar as presented (motion: so moved/second; vote: all in favor). Board members discussed possible amendments and agreed to revisit dates before the next school year.
- Policies: Approved second-reading adoptions of harassment- and bullying-related policies, admission of nonresident students, and traffic/parking on school property; deleted older discrimination-related policies as consolidated into new language (motions: so moved/second; votes: all in favor).
- Personnel: Approved certified personnel tenure appointment, part-time and temporary appointments, extra-duty compensation and additions to substitute lists; accepted resignations and unpaid leaves as listed (motions: so moved/second; votes: all in favor).
- FAFSA/TAP data‑access agreement: Approved the district’s agreement with the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation to receive completion-status lists for FAFSA, Dream Act or waivers so counselors can track which seniors still need to file (motion: so moved/second; vote: all in favor). The district will not receive parent-submitted financial data, only lists of students who have completed an application.
- Yorktown High School overnight trip: Approved overnight travel to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Columbus, Ohio, May 10–16. Two Yorktown students qualified for ISEF this year; the board approved the trip (motion: so moved/second; vote: all in favor).
- Special-education placements and interdistrict agreements: Approved listed special-education placements as of 04/07/2025 and an instructional services agreement sending students to Hawthorne, Cedar and Knowles Union Free School Districts for the 2024–25 and 2025–26 school years (motions: so moved/second; votes: all in favor).
- Gifts and donations: Accepted items from Mohanszek PTA including $750 for a third-grade assembly, and various smaller donations and assemblies for grade-level activities (motion: so moved/second; vote: all in favor).
The meeting closed with routine forward comments and adjournment. Individual votes were recorded in the meeting transcript as ‘‘All those in favor? Aye’’ with no roll-call tallies included in the public minutes.
