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Votes at a glance: Yorktown board approves routine minutes, reports, contracts and donations on March 24, 2025
Summary
At its March 24 meeting the Yorktown Central School District Board of Education approved routine minutes, financial reports, personnel actions, several contracts and numerous donations; the board also approved renewal of several fiber service orders pending legal review.
The Yorktown Central School District Board of Education took a series of routine and business actions during its March 24, 2025 meeting. Most items were approved by voice vote. Key approved items included minutes, financial reports, personnel actions, cooperative bidding participation, an affiliation agreement with Marist University, service-order renewals for broadband circuits, and multiple gifts and donations from site PTAs.
Summary of board actions and outcomes (voice votes unless noted):
- Approval of March 3, 2025 meeting minutes — approved. - Approval of the treasurer's report for February 2025 — approved. - Approval of claims audit report for February 2025 — approved. - Policies: First reads and reviews were presented; the board deleted Policy 92 55 (employment references) — deletion approved. - Personnel and personnel ratification: The board ratified a stipulation of agreement for employee number 2803 (dated 03/20/2025) and approved recommended certified and classified personnel appointments, resignations, retirements, leaves and substitute list changes — all motions approved. - Cooperative purchasing: Resolution to participate with Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES general commodities and services bids for 2025–26 — approved. - Affiliation agreement: Approval of an affiliation agreement with Marist University (02/21/2025–06/30/2025) — approved. - Broadband service orders: Renewal of service orders with First Light to provide multi-gig fiber circuits between district sites (including 10 Gb circuits between Brookside and Mohanzhik and a 2 Gb lit fiber circuit to French Hill) — approved pending legal review of terms and conditions. - Athletics: Retroactive approval of a Yorktown High School varsity cheerleading trip to the state championship (trip authorization occurred under superintendent authority and was later ratified by the board) — approved. - Budget transfers: Approval of the listed budget transfers — approved. - Curriculum/professional improvement: Approval of Yorktown Congress of Teachers professional improvement proposals for 2024–25 — approved. - Special education placements: Emotional‑related placements as of 03/24/2025 — approved. - Instructional services agreement: Approval of an instructional services agreement sending Yorktown students to special education programs in Mayapac Central School District for 2023–24 and 2024–25 (submitted in arrears) — approved. - Gifts, grants and donations: The board accepted multiple PTA grants and donations, including Brookside PTA contributions totaling $7,968 for grade-level excursions and middle school PTA amounts for field trips — accepted with gratitude.
Some motions were presented as "So moved. Second." without named movers or seconds in the public record; votes were taken by voice with no roll-call tallies provided in the transcript. Where a motion referenced a pending legal review (First Light service orders), the board approved the renewals subject to the district’s legal review.
