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Somers board approves minutes, personnel appointments, summer labor side letter and collective-bargaining memorandum
Summary
The Somers Central School District Board of Education on June 10 approved routine business and several labor and personnel actions, including the appointment of an interim athletics administrator and the ratification of a memorandum reopening a bargaining agreement.
The Somers Central School District Board of Education on June 10 approved routine business and several labor and personnel actions, including the appointment of an interim athletics administrator and the ratification of a memorandum of agreement reopening a previously negotiated contract.
Board members voted to approve the minutes of the May 27, 2025 meeting and accepted standard personnel and business consent agendas. The motion to appoint an interim director of physical education, health and athletics to Tommy Albano was recorded and put to a voice vote; the board approved the appointment.
The board also approved a side letter of agreement dated June 3, 2025, between the district and the Summer School Related Professionals (SSRP) full-time unit that permits certain clerical employees to elect a shortened work week during the summer, and authorized the superintendent to execute and implement the agreement. The board then ratified a memorandum of agreement to reopen and extend the 2021–26 collective bargaining agreement between the district and the SSRP bargaining unit and authorized district leaders to execute a contract consistent with that memorandum.
Finally, the board authorized the superintendent to execute a stipulation of settlement signed on June 6, 2025, in a matter identified as student number 117. All of the motions listed on the business agenda were approved by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies provided in the transcript.
Votes at a glance - Approval of minutes (05/27/2025): approved (voice vote) - Personnel consent agenda (attached personnel agenda): approved (voice vote) - Appointment: Tommy Albano, interim director of physical education, health and athletics: approved (voice vote) - Side Letter of Agreement (SSRP summer hours, dated 06/03/2025): approved (voice vote). Superintendent authorized to implement. - Memorandum of Agreement (reopen/extend 2021–26 SSRP agreement): ratified and authorized (voice vote) - Stipulation of settlement (student #117, signed 06/06/2025): authorized (voice vote)
No roll-call vote tallies or named movers/seconders were recorded in the public transcript; motions were moved, seconded and passed by general voice vote as shown in the meeting record.
The superintendent and board president were authorized where required to sign contracts and settlement documents.
The meeting adjourned after public comment and final board remarks.
