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Votes at a glance: Yorktown Board of Education meeting, June 16, 2025
Summary
Summary of motions and votes taken by the Yorktown Central School District Board of Education on June 16, 2025, including personnel approvals, contracts, a tax warrant for $87,787,000 and a trip authorization to Wisconsin.
YORKTOWN, N.Y. — The Yorktown Central School District Board of Education took multiple business‑agenda votes on June 16, approving minutes, personnel actions, contracts and financial items. Below are the motions recorded in the meeting and their outcomes as stated in the public minutes.
Votes at a glance
- Approval of minutes (June 2, 2025): Motion to approve the minutes carried by voice vote (recorded as approved).
- First readings: The board conducted first readings on policies 3120 (duties of the superintendent), 4311.1 (display of the flag) and 4321.8 (impartial hearing officer appointment and compensation). These items were presented for first reading; no adoption vote was taken.
- Personnel resolutions (Personal resolutions A–C and the personnel agenda including certified and classified appointments, extra‑duty, summer assignments and retirements): Approved by motion and voice vote.
- Tax warrant notification for the 2025–26 school year: The board approved a tax warrant to the towns of Yorktown, Cortlandt and Somers (as reflected in the agenda) in the amount of $87,787,000.
- Asset disposal (e‑waste): The board approved the district’s e‑waste disposal proposal for 2025–26.
- Transportation agreements: Approved additional transportation services for field trips, excursions and athletics with Chappaqua Transportation, Hudson Valley Charter Service, J & R Tours and Red Carpet Coach for 2025–26.
- Vendor contract amendments: The board approved listed vendor contract amendments for the 2025–26 school year.
- Yorktown High School trip to Oshkosh, Wisconsin (UAS STEM competition): Approved; board authorized up to eight parents of team members to accompany students to comply with Wisconsin lodging rules.
- Rental contracts (French Hill School space) amendments for 2025–26: Approved as presented.
- Capital reserve funding and unassigned fund balance resolutions: Approved.
- Insurance renewals (property, general liability, auto, storage tanks, environmental, additional cyber, student accident): Approved; the board added additional cyber coverage.
- Budget transfers: Approved.
- Professional proposals (Yorktown Congress of Teachers) for 2024–25 and 2025–26: Approved.
- Special education placements and instructional services agreements for 2025–26: Approved as listed in the meeting packet.
- Payment toward independent educational evaluation: Approved payment of $5,500 toward an independent neuropsychological evaluation for student #4775; business office authorized to pay evaluator upon invoice.
- Gifts, grants and donations accepted with gratitude: Multiple donations were accepted, including $4,074 (mobile book organizers) at Brookside PTA and $7,901 (outdoor reading station) at Mohansek PTA, among others.
- Adjournment: Motion to adjourn carried.
Motions were generally moved, seconded and approved by voice vote; the transcript records approvals as “Aye” without roll‑call tallies. Where the transcript omitted roll‑call numbers, the record here states the outcome as recorded in the meeting (approved or first reading).
