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Wissahickon board approves routine agenda items, change orders and committee reports
Summary
At its April 7 meeting the Wissahickon School District board approved the 2025–26 meeting schedule, multiple consent and committee items, HR appointments, facilities change orders and other routine motions; the board also discussed the draft budget timeline.
The Wissahickon School District Board of School Directors approved a series of routine agenda items and committee recommendations on April 7, including the 2025–26 board meeting schedule, consent items, personnel actions and facilities change orders.
Votes taken (voice votes unless otherwise noted):
- Approved the 2025–26 board meeting schedule (motion made and seconded; voice vote passed).
- Approved agenda items 11.1–11.6 as presented (board secretary consent items; motion passed).
- Approved the treasurer's report for 02/28/2025 (motion passed).
- Approved human-resources action items 13.1–13.3, which included a retirement, appointments, a change of status and co-curricular postseason pay; one appointment is an interim assistant-principal fill-in through an STS provider to cover days the prior fill-in could not serve (motion passed).
- Approved curriculum and technology action items 15.1–15.2 (motion passed).
- Approved facilities change orders 16.1–16.3. The board described two change orders related to a BlueBell project and one related to the Wissahickon stadium bleacher replacement; board members discussed the inevitability of some unforeseen change orders when site work reveals concealed conditions (motion passed).
- Finance committee reported a more challenging budget year and said the committee prepared a draft budget to be submitted to the state; the board expects to vote on a budget version at a meeting scheduled for April 28 (discussion; direction to continue preparation).
- Approved finance items 17.3–17.14 as presented (motion passed).
- Approved policy committee items 18.2–18.11 for first reading (see separate article for discussion of public-comment rules); policy 234 (18.1) was removed from the agenda as outdated (motion passed).
All listed motions that required a vote were made and seconded during the meeting and passed on voice votes; the public transcript records “Aye” votes and the chair’s announcement that motions passed but does not provide roll-call tallies.
