Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Board Votes topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Votes at a glance: Board approves 2025-26 budget, BOCES administrative budget and multiple routine resolutions
Summary
At the April meeting the Ballston Spa Board approved the 2025-26 school budget and a slate of resolutions including the WSWHE BOCES administrative budget, BOCES board elections and a new combined home/hospital policy draft; most votes were unanimous and recorded without roll-call tallies in the transcript.
The Ballston Spa Central School District Board of Education on Wednesday approved a series of resolutions, including the district's 2025-26 school budget, the WSWHE BOCES administrative budget and the election of six members to the WSWHE BOCES board.
Key outcomes recorded in open session (as read on the record):
Steve Grandin, Lynn L. King, Thomas Roach, Cheryl Smith, Peter Thomas and John Reager were voted to fill six seats on the WSWHE BOCES board (Resolution 459). The board cast individual aye votes until the district's maximum of six approvals was reached and the slate was declared elected.
The board approved the district's 2025-26 budget (Resolution 460) and the property tax report card (Resolution 461). It also approved the WSWHE BOCES administrative budget (Resolution 458).
The board rescinded two earlier draft policy resolutions (Resolution 439 and Resolution 440) and then approved a combined, updated policy draft for home and hospital instruction (Resolution 462) to allow a 28-day review period before final adoption.
Other resolutions passed on the consent or regular agenda included budget transfers (463), a boys and girls track field trip (464), award of bid (465), disposal of obsolete equipment (466), placements of students with disabilities (467) and placements of preschool students with disabilities (468). The meeting ended with a consent-agenda bundle (Resolutions 469 through 480) approved collectively.
Most motions were moved and seconded on the record; the transcript records voice votes ("Aye") and the chair's announcement that resolutions passed but does not include detailed roll-call tallies for each vote in the public transcript.
Why it matters: The slate of approvals implements the district's fiscal and operational plans for the coming school year and confirms local representation on the regional BOCES board. The rescission and redrafting of home/hospital-related policies establishes a review period before the district adopts final language.
Full list of recorded actions and outcomes (as read on the record): - Rescind Resolution 439 (Homebound instruction draft): passed (rescinded) - Rescind Resolution 440 (Home hospital tutoring policy draft): passed (rescinded) - Approve Resolution 458 (WSWHE BOCES administrative budget): passed - Approve Resolution 459 (Election of WSWHE BOCES board members): passed (Steve Grandin; Lynn L. King; Thomas Roach; Cheryl Smith; Peter Thomas; John Reager) - Approve Resolution 460 (Adoption of 2025-26 school budget): passed - Approve Resolution 461 (Property tax report card): passed - Approve Resolution 462 (Board policy manual file 8470 home/hospital combined draft; 28-day review): passed - Approve Resolution 463 (Budget transfers): passed - Approve Resolution 464 (Field trip: boys and girls track): passed - Approve Resolution 465 (Award of bid): passed - Approve Resolution 466 (Obsolete equipment disposal): passed - Approve Resolution 467 (Placement of students with disabilities): passed - Approve Resolution 468 (Placement of preschool students with disabilities): passed - Approve Consent Agenda Resolutions 469 through 480: passed
Board members and staff present read motions aloud and recorded aye votes; the transcript does not provide per-member roll-call tallies or recorded no votes for the listed resolutions.
