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Votes at a glance: Northwestern Lehigh board approves personnel actions, contracts, policies and budgets
Summary
At the meeting the board approved personnel items, a Moravian University affiliation agreement pending solicitor approval, multiple policy readings and rescissions, a SIP trunk renewal, a retroactive FAPE agreement, acceptance of the audit, three external budgets, the Clear central-registration proposal and payment of bills.
The Northwestern Lehigh School District Board of Directors took a series of routine actions at the meeting, approving personnel items, contracts, policies and budgets listed below. Where a mover or second was audible in the record those names are noted; most voice votes were recorded as "all those in favor, aye" with no roll-call tally in the transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Personnel: The board approved personnel actions including resignations and tenure recommendations presented on the agenda (motion moved and seconded; outcome: approved).
- Moravian University affiliation agreement: The board approved an affiliation agreement with Moravian University pending final solicitor approval; the district noted a current student teacher from Moravian is already placed with the district (motion moved; outcome: approved).
- Policies (second reading and rescissions): The board approved second reading of policies 8-15 (acceptable use of technology), 8-15.3 (mobile device policy for employees), 8-15.5 (social media), 8-15.6 (artificial intelligence), and 2-37 (mobile device policy for students). The board also rescinded older, duplicative policies 8-15.1 (district technology), 8-15.2 (use of district network and Internet), and 8-15.415 (maintenance and authoring of district website) as cleanup following the update (motions moved and seconded; outcomes: approved/rescinded).
- Operations: The board approved renewal of the SIP trunk agreement with Ironton, the district’s telephone-over-Internet provider, with no cost increase for the term (motion moved and seconded; outcome: approved).
- FAPE agreement (in lieu of suit) — cyber program: The board approved a specific in‑lieu‑of‑suit agreement addressing provision of a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) for a student in a cyber program and approved the specific agreement retroactively (motion moved and seconded; outcome: approved).
- Financial audit: The board received and accepted the audited financial statements for the year ended 06/30/24 with no findings noted in the presentation (motion moved and seconded; outcome: accepted).
- External budgets / resolutions (consent): The board approved three budgets presented for the 2025–26 period: CLIU (district contribution $38,000.69), LCTI operating and debt service allocations (district contributions as presented), and other intermediate-unit-related allocations as read into the record (motion moved and seconded; outcomes: approved).
- Clear proposal (central registration): The board approved the Clear proposal to assist with district central registration efforts (motion moved and seconded; outcome: approved).
- Bills and reports: The board authorized payment of bills as presented and received the routine reports (motions moved and seconded; outcomes: approved/received).
Notes on voting: The meeting record primarily shows voice votes with unanimous "aye" responses and no detailed roll-call tallies for most items. Where a formal roll-call occurred (noted as a series of "Aye" responses), the transcript does not attribute each "aye" to a recorded name in the minutes text.
The board did not take any recorded votes that failed or were tabled at this meeting.
