Lancaster board approves teacher tenure and multiple personnel motions
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The Lancaster Central School District Board of Education approved a slate of tenure recommendations for multiple teachers and carried several routine personnel and contract motions during its meeting, recognizing teachers in attendance and noting several tenure recipients.
The Lancaster Central School District Board of Education approved tenure recommendations for multiple teachers and carried a range of routine personnel and contract motions during its public meeting on 2025-06-09.
Board members moved and seconded motions approving tenure recommendations for a number of staff. The board chair recognized teachers in the audience by name, including Samantha Audino, Amanda Nolan, Erin Rush and Alex Sherry, and later noted Jessica Losal. The board recorded the motions as passed: “All those in favor? Anyone against? Motion carries.”
The board also approved tenure for Erin Gannon and recognized her work in special education leadership. In remarks about Gannon, a district speaker said, “She performs at an incredibly high level, as in her role as assistant director of special education. She displays an impressive work ethic and successfully handles, an incredibly large workload with multiple demands for her time and expertise.” The speaker noted Gannon’s work on MTSS and inclusive instruction, her communication with parents of students with special needs, and that administrators and principals regularly seek her advice.
Other personnel business recorded as carried in the meeting included motions on the Committee on Special Education and the Committee on Preschool Special Education, acceptance of multiple contracts (for example with Lolli Consulting, Eastern Herondequoit Central School District, Buffalo City School District, and others listed in the agenda), payment of bills, surplus equipment and books, club creation, construction change orders, amended AIA contract for field turf, and several contracts for behavioral and educational services. Each of these items was presented as a motion, and the transcript records the board response as “Motion carries.” The transcript does not include roll-call vote tallies or the names of movers and seconders for those motions.
Discussion vs. decision: most items in the business and financial section were presented as motions with no recorded substantive debate in the public transcript. The meeting record shows formal actions (motions carried) rather than detailed discussions for these agenda items.
The board announced its next meeting for June 23 at 7 p.m. and moved to executive session to discuss the superintendent’s year-end evaluation.