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Board to consider multiple personnel actions and special-education plan at next meeting
Summary
Committee presenters read a long list of hires, substitute approvals contingent on background checks, leaves of absence, resignations and retirements for placement on the next agenda. The special education plan for the district was also presented for placement; the transcript contains an unclear date range for that plan.
The Connellsville Area School District Board heard an extensive personnel report that committee staff asked the board to place on the next meeting’s agenda. The items included conditional approvals for additions to the professional and support substitute lists (contingent on screening/background checks), multiple leave-of-absence notifications, resignations, and retirements, plus job‑posting and memorandum of understanding items for the career-technical center.
Presenters read specific effective dates for several leaves and retirements (for example, retirements with effective dates in June and resignations with effective dates in March/April), and asked the board to place each item on the agenda after noting there were "no questions or objections." The business office presenter also read a request to authorize WVU Medicine – Uniontown Hospital (and affiliated sites) to perform and submit stand‑alone drug screens for district supplemental employees in accordance with district board policies (listed in the record), collective-bargaining and employment agreements, the Public School Code and Pennsylvania regulations, and federal privacy laws.
Separately, the special-education committee presenter asked the board to place the Connellsville Area School District special-education plan on the agenda. The transcript reads the plan period as "02/2025 through 02/1928," a wording that appears to be a transcription error; the presenter’s motion to place the plan on the agenda was recorded with no objections. The transcript does not record final board votes on any personnel or plan items at this session; each was placed on the next meeting agenda for action.
Several personnel items were explicitly described as "conditional approval contingent upon successful submission of screening and background checks." One administrative item asked the board to authorize and appoint WVU Medicine – Uniontown Hospital and affiliated sites to perform drug screens consistent with board policies 3‑14, 4‑14, 5‑14 and 9‑16; the presenter also cited the Public School Code sections and Pennsylvania Code chapter references and federal privacy laws (HIPAA, FERPA) as governing authorities.
Staff will return to the board with the requested personnel actions and the special-education plan for formal approval and any required documentation (background checks, MOU language, retirement paperwork).
