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Goshen Board reorganizes leadership and approves routine appointments, auditors and contracts
Summary
At its annual reorganizational meeting, the district board installed a president and vice president, swore in newly elected members and approved a slate of routine appointments and contracts including the district law firm, external and internal auditors, and other designations.
GOSHEN, N.Y. — At its July 14 reorganizational meeting, the Goshen Central School District Board of Education re-elected and swore in board members, appointed board leadership for the 2025–26 school year and approved a series of routine appointments and designations, the board said.
Tom Loftus was nominated and approved as Board President and took the oath of office administered during the reorganizational session. The board also approved a vice president by voice vote. Interim Superintendent Tom Panchovy thanked members for volunteering and noted the demands of board service.
By motion and voice vote the board approved the appointment of the district law firm as presented in the agenda; approved Nugent Hausler as the independent external auditor and Cooper Harris LLP as the independent internal auditor for 2025–26; and approved other standard district designations including official newspapers, official depositories, treasurer and deputy treasurer signers, petty cash amounts, mileage reimbursement and substitute employee rates.
The board approved continued contract services with Capital Region BOCES for a tier 4 enhanced communication specialist and authorized acting principal appointments when a principal is absent for short-term discipline and other duties as allowed by Education Law §3214.
The board set nonresident tuition rates for the 2025–26 school year as presented in the agenda and readopted policies that were in effect at the close of the previous school year. It approved an appointment of Dr. Nicholas Velasco as the district physician for 2025–26 and named John Sullivan as the district’s voting delegate to the Orange County School Boards Association with an alternate as presented.
The board also accepted donations from New York Schools Insurance (NYSIR) and voted to increase the 2025–26 budget to support the related expenditures; approved individual special-education agreements with outside providers as presented; and approved consent-agenda items including minutes, committee recommendations and budgetary transfers over $105,000 as listed in the public packet.
Several personnel introductions occurred during the meeting, including new hires who briefly introduced themselves to the board.
Most agenda items were approved by voice vote with board responses recorded as “Aye.” Where votes were not read aloud in full, the board noted approval in the minutes. For items that required more detailed action the board recorded motions as presented and authorized the superintendent to execute contracts and related documents as necessary.
