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Board approves multiple consent agendas; members raise concerns about athletic-uniform decisions
Summary
The Pascack Valley Regional Board approved policy, education, human-resources and finance consent agendas on July 16; a board member asked that students and coaches have a greater role in future athletic-uniform selections after a recent change in merchandise across schools.
The Pascack Valley Regional High School District Board of Education approved multiple consent-agenda packages at its July 16 meeting, including policy, education, human-resources and finance items, and then voted to enter executive session with no further public action scheduled after the closed session.
Board members carried votes on a number of consent agendas by roll call. The minutes for the June 9 meeting were approved after a late motion; the roll call recorded affirmative votes from most members with at least two abstentions recorded. The policy consent package (three items), the education consent package (four items), the human-resources package (19 items) and the finance package (38 items) were each approved by roll call during the meeting.
During the finance-consent discussion, a board member asked about an item identified as a donation and whether it funded a specific sport or general uniforms at Pascack Hills. A board member raised concerns that, during the schools' recent mascot transition and related orders, one school's uniforms were printed with the mascot name ("Broncos") while the other school's apparel used the school name alone ("Valley"), and that those orders were placed without stakeholder input. The board member said the district may be approaching a uniform-replacement cycle and asked that when new orders are placed, student athletes and coaches have a say in jersey wording and designs.
A district representative said she would find out whether the donation covered a specific sport and indicated she would follow up. Board members discussed that uniform cycles typically last about three years and that coordination between both schools and stakeholder input would be appropriate when the next ordering cycle begins. The transcript does not show any formal policy or procurement change was adopted at the meeting; the remarks were discussion only.
The board then moved to executive session; a board member stated that the board did not expect to take action after the executive session and closed the public meeting.
