The Watertown City School District Board of Education approved a package of routine budget, personnel and purchasing items at its June meeting, including the creation of a tax certiorari reserve, an increase to a workers’ compensation reserve and several contract- and procurement-related approvals.

The board voted to establish a tax certiorari reserve of $90,555.14 “for the refund of property taxes for the upcoming 25‑26 fiscal year in tax certiorari proceedings,” as presented in the business office. The board also approved establishing a workers’ compensation insurance reserve and appropriating “the sum not to exceed $500,000” to that reserve. Motions on those items carried following standard roll calls during the consent portion of the meeting.

The board approved a set of transfers of appropriations and adjustments to reserve accounts as presented by district staff. It authorized continued participation in the St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES cooperative purchasing program for the 2025–26 school year and accepted the low bid of Jacobs Land Surveying for land surveying work at Ohio Elementary in the amount of $9,600.

Personnel items in the consent package included multiple resignations, appointments and summer-school staffing lists; corrections to hourly summer-school pay rates for specified line items; creation of a special-education compliance coordinator position effective July 31, 2025, and a recommended transfer of a current special-education coordinator into that role. The board also approved tenure appointments for a list of district teachers effective Aug. 31, 2025. The board approved adjusted salaries for management, confidential and administrative staff and summer hours for 12‑month employees, including two additional days (July 3 and Aug. 22, 2025).

Other routine actions the board approved included disposal or donation of outdated library books and obsolete furniture and equipment (with Starbuck Elementary excluded), disposal of outdated science supplies and instructional toolkits from the Wiley basement storage, approval of student field trips and acceptance of several modest donations to school accounts and programs.

Board members voiced brief thanks to staff and retirees during the meeting; there was no extended debate recorded on the individual consent items. All listed motions on the consent agenda carried.

Ending: The approvals completed the board’s consent business; several of the larger financial items (notably the $500,000 workers’ compensation appropriation) will appear in year‑end accounting and future budget statements.