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Votes at a glance: Hyde Park BOE approves consent agenda, capital change orders, tax actions and donations
Summary
The Board of Education carried a series of motions including approval of the consent agenda, two capital project change orders (phase 2a and 2b), the tax warrants and rates, and a golf-cart donation to FDR athletics; the board also modified the agenda to remove item 11.3 and adjourned to executive session earlier in the meeting.
The Hyde Park Central School District Board of Education recorded a set of formal motions and votes during its Aug. 14 meeting. Items that were moved and carried included agenda modifications, consent items, capital-project change orders, the tax warrants and rates and a donation to FDR athletics.
Key votes recorded in the meeting transcript:
- Motion to adjourn to executive session (purpose: promotion/discipline/suspension/dismissal and privileged legal matters). Motion carried (mover/second not specified in transcript).
- Motion to modify the agenda by removing agenda item 11.3. Motion carried (mover/second not specified in transcript).
- Consent agenda (including approval of listed personnel, donations, procurement and routine items). Moved by Trustee Tibbets; seconded by Christine. Motion carried.
- Capital project change order Phase 2a (labor). Moved by Trustee Tibbets; seconded by Margaret. Motion carried.
- Capital project change order Phase 2b (Haviland and Ralph R.) in the amount of $35,700,000. Moved by Christie; seconded by Margaret. Motion carried.
- Approval of tax warrants and tax rates for 2024'25 (see separate article for details). Motion carried (mover/second not specified in transcript).
- Donation: a golf cart donated to the FDR varsity football program (agenda item 10.1). Motion to accept donation was on the consent agenda and carried; boosters requested a thank-you note to the donor.
- Motion to adjourn the meeting at the end of the session. Motion carried.
Where the transcript recorded explicit mover/second names those are listed above; several procedural votes were taken by voice vote with the transcript recording "All those in favor? Aye. Motion carried," without individual roll-call tallies. No defeated motions were recorded in the transcript.
