Votes at a glance: Yorktown board approves policies, reports, contracts and resolutions on March 3

The Yorktown Central School District Board of Education approved multiple agenda items by voice vote or consent on March 3. Most items were routine consent-agenda motions moved and seconded and recorded as approved by voice vote; the transcript does not include a roll-call tally for these items.

Key approved items recorded in the meeting transcript:

- Policy adoptions: Second reading and adoption approved for a series of policies listed in the agenda (including Policy 11-20 school district records; 21-11 school visits by board members; 21-50 filling board vacancies; 21-20.2 voting procedures; and 81-13 extreme heat condition days). The earlier public hearing and adoption for Policy 5,300 (Code of Conduct) was also recorded separately in the meeting.

- Minutes and financial reports: Board approved minutes of the Feb. 10 and Feb. 24 meetings; approved the treasurer’s report for January 2025; approved the claims audit report for January 2025; and approved the extra classroom report as of January 2025.

- Annual-meeting/legal notices and bidding: Approved the legal notice for the annual school district election and budget vote to be held May 20, 2025 (with a contingency date for a revote if necessary). The board also approved participation in joint bidding through Southern Westchester BOCES for commodities, materials and equipment for the 2025–26 school year.

- Personnel and appointments: On the superintendent’s recommendation, the board approved multiple certified and classified personnel actions (tenure appointments, part-time appointments, resignations, extra-duty stipends, civil-service appointments, substitute lists). These were recorded under the personnel consent agenda.

- Electronic voting agreement: The board authorized an agreement with the County of Westchester for use of electronic voting machines and related equipment and services for the May 20, 2025 annual meeting and, if necessary, a budget revote on June 17, 2025, and authorized the board president to execute the agreement.

- Tax refund resolution: The board approved a court-ordered school tax refund payment of $56,649.77 to RJW Group LLC covering tax years 2021 through 2024, and authorized appropriation and transfers from the tax certiorari reserve fund to the general fund in that amount for payment.

- Data privacy and procurement delegations: The board authorized participation with RIC/ROC to negotiate data privacy agreements on the district’s behalf for 2024–25 and approved a resolution to participate with other districts of Southern Westchester BOCES in joint bidding for 2025–26.

- Trips, special-education placements and gifts: Approved Yorktown High School overnight trip for Science Olympiad (dates and specifics listed in the meeting packet), approved special-education placements as presented, and accepted multiple PTA donations and field-trip gifts listed in the agenda (examples: Mohanzek PTA and Brookside PTA grants, Crompon PTA donation for 5th-grade excursion).

Most motions were announced as “so moved” and “second” and approved by voice vote recorded in the transcript as “Aye.” The transcript does not include individual roll-call votes or vote counts for these items; where a specific dollar amount was referenced (the RJW Group LLC refund), the transcript provides the figure $56,649.77. Where agenda items referred to numbered policies or agenda documents, the transcript relies on the printed agenda language rather than reading full ordinance text aloud.

Ending: The consent-vote sequence closed with the board moving on to board comments and public adjournment.