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Hatboro-Horsham board approves IU budget, bond financing parameters, multiple policies and 2025–26 calendar; one abstention noted
Summary
The Hatboro-Horsham School District board approved the MCIU budget, final bond financing parameters for the Keith Valley Middle School project, five policies and the 2025–26 school calendar at its Feb. 24 meeting; one abstention was recorded on the bond resolution.
The Hatboro-Horsham School District Board of School Directors approved a package of routine finance, facilities and policy items at its Feb. 24 legislative action meeting, including the 2025–26 Montgomery County Intermediate Unit budget, a bond-financing parameters resolution described as the final borrowing for the Keith Valley Middle School project, multiple policy adoptions, and the 2025–26 school calendar. Board member Maggie Kisner recorded an abstention on the bond financing parameters resolution, citing a conflict with her employment.
Several motions were taken by the board; most passed by voice vote with no roll‑call tally recorded in the meeting transcript. When provided, the meeting record lists the mover and the member who seconded each motion. The meeting did not include contested roll-call tallies in the transcript.
Key approved items and formal actions
- Approve meeting minutes (Jan. 27, 2025 legislative action and Feb. 10, 2025 work session and committee minutes). Motion: David Brown; second: Theresa Brown. Outcome: approved by voice vote.
- Consent agenda (general fund checks, budget transfers, capital and bond fund reports, food services, medical, payroll, student activities, scholarships, tax collector, treasurer reports, contracts and conference attendance). Motion: Theresa Brown; second: Tara Connor Halston. Outcome: approved by voice vote.
- Facilities: Approve Keith Valley project purchases, including two mobile lifts for the new Keith Valley Middle School (presented earlier by CHA Consulting). Motion: DJ Schultz; second: David Brown. Outcome: approved by voice vote. District materials list total cost for the two units as $44,750.
- Finance: Approve 2025–26 Montgomery County Intermediate Unit (MCIU) membership services budget. Motion: Theresa Brown; second: David Brown. Outcome: approved by voice vote.
- Finance: Approve bond financing parameters resolution (described as representing the final borrowing for the Keith Valley Middle School project). Motion: Theresa Brown; second: David Brown. Outcome: approved; the transcript records an abstention by Maggie Kisner due to a conflict of employment. No roll‑call tally was provided in the public record.
- Finance: Other finance items approved by the board included acceptance of a donation of gift cards, approval of tuition expenses for district residents attending other educational facilities in accordance with state law, approval of tax assessment stipulations for properties listed in the agenda, approval of a revised lease agreement for student devices, disposal of obsolete technology equipment, and authorization of student activity accounts and signatories. Motion: Theresa Brown; second: David Brown. Outcome: approved by voice vote.
- Human Resources: Approve routine monthly human resources action items for administrative, professional and support staff. Motion: Tara Connor Halston; second: Maggie Kisner. Outcome: approved by voice vote.
- Policy adoptions (second reading and final adoption): Policy 308 (employment contract/board resolution, revised); Policy 805 (emergency preparedness, revised); Policy 823 (opioid antagonist, name change from naloxone, revised); Policy 829 (whistleblower, new policy); Policy 918 (Title I parent and family engagement, revised). Motions and seconds were recorded individually in the meeting record; all five policies were approved by voice vote.
- Special Services: Approve a settlement agreement (motion by Tara Connor Halston; second by David Brown). Outcome: approved by voice vote.
- Other action: Approve the 2025–26 school calendar. Motion: DJ Schultz; second: Tara Connor Halston. Outcome: approved by voice vote.
The board also approved facilities- and finance-related reports and routine consent items listed on the agenda. Where the transcript recorded a single "Aye" voice vote, no individual yes/no vote counts were recorded in the public minutes. The transcript did record one abstention: Maggie Kisner abstained from the bond financing parameters resolution (item noted as Finance B) because of a conflict with her employment.
No motions failed or were tabled in the publicly available meeting transcript for Feb. 24.
