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Cohoes board approves three employee memoranda of agreement after separate vote, 4–1
Summary
The Cohoes City School District Board of Education removed three agreements from the consent agenda and approved memoranda of agreement with CSEA Local 1000, the Cohoes Teachers Association and the Cohoes Principals Association in a 4–1 vote on April 23; one board member voted no.
The Cohoes City School District Board of Education on April 23 removed three labor agreements from the consent agenda for separate consideration and approved memoranda of agreement with three employee groups by a 4–1 vote.
The clerk read the resolutions on the record as follows: approval of a memorandum of agreement between the Cohoes City School District and CSEA Local 1000 (Albany County Local 801), approval of a memorandum of agreement with the Cohoes Teachers Association dated April 23, 2025, and approval of a memorandum of agreement with the Cohoes Principals Association dated April 23, 2025. The documents were described on the record as being “in accordance with the terms and conditions herein.”
A board member requested that items 6J–6L be removed from the consent agenda for separate votes, citing concerns about a third‑party review provision for high‑cost prescriptions that she said could allow other medications to be added later and that such reviews might create barriers for individual patients. The board then moved and seconded separate consideration of items 6J–6L before taking the vote.
On the roll call for the separate motion to approve items 6J–6L, the board recorded the following votes: Mr. Jackson — yes; Mrs. Snyder — yes; Mrs. Gendron — yes; Mr. Geros — yes; and Mrs. Geller — no. The clerk announced the motion passed, 4–1.
The board then proceeded to adopt the remainder of the consent agenda (items 6A–6I, 6M and 7A–7H) in a subsequent roll call vote. Those items were adopted by the board; roll-call responses on the record were affirmative for the members present after the separate vote.
Why it matters: memoranda of agreement between a district and its employee groups govern wages, benefits and other terms of employment; board approval completes district-side ratification for these agreements as described in the board resolution.
What was not on the record: the clerk read the resolutions’ titles and dates, but the meeting transcript does not include the MOAs’ full provisions or specific dollar amounts, and the motion makers and seconders were not named on the recorded lines for the votes.
Ending: The board approved the three labor agreements by a 4–1 vote. The transcript shows the agreements were dated April 23, 2025; the clerk read them into the record and the board recorded the roll-call outcome.
