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Wappingers board votes 5-3 to cast district’s BOCES ballot for Mark Fleischauer
Summary
The Wappingers Central School District Board of Education voted 5-3 to cast the district's single vote for Mark Fleischauer to fill a vacancy on the Jefferson County Board of Cooperative Educational Services for the term beginning April 23, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026; the district clerk was authorized to certify the ballot.
At a meeting of the Wappingers Central School District Board of Education, the board adopted a resolution to cast the district's vote for Mark Fleischauer to fill a vacancy on the Jefferson County Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).
The resolution, adopted by a 5-3 vote, reflected the district's single permitted vote for the component school district seat for the term beginning 04/23/2025 and ending 06/30/2026. The resolution also stated that the district clerk may certify the board's choice by completing the ballot and the certification contained on it.
Board members offered no extended public debate on the item during the recorded portion of the meeting. The meeting transcript contains the resolution language: "the district clerk can certify that a board resolution has been adopted by completing the ballot and placing a text next to the name of the candidate for whom a vote has been cast and further by completing the certification contained on the ballot." That language was read as part of the resolution text but not attributed to a single speaker in the record.
The meeting record shows the final tally as 5 in favor and 3 opposed. The transcript lists several board members by name during the roll-call-style reading of votes, but the mapping of each name to a yes or no vote in the transcript is not fully clear. The board named the candidate as Mark Fleischauer and recorded the final numerical result.
The resolution also noted that "each component school district by resolution may have one vote for this agency." The board directed that the district clerk carry out the certification steps described in the resolution.
Later in the meeting the board moved, seconded and unanimously agreed to adjourn to a special meeting at 7:34 a.m.; that procedural motion was recorded separately.
The action fills the district's role in selecting a representative to the Jefferson County BOCES for the specified short term; no further details about the candidate's responsibilities, background or subsequent reporting requirements were provided in the recorded discussion.
