Votes at a glance: Huntington board approves routine minutes, treasurer’s report, calendar and personnel items

HUNTINGTON — The Huntington Union Free School District Board of Education conducted a series of routine approvals at its Feb. 10, 2025 regular meeting. The items below reflect motions made from the board packet and the recorded voice votes in the meeting transcript.

Votes at a glance

- Motion to open the meeting — mover: Bill; second: Annie; outcome: approved (voice vote: “all in favor” recorded).

- Approval of minutes from the Jan. 13, 2025 board meeting — mover: Theresa; second: Kelly; outcome: approved (voice vote: unanimous).

- Approval of the December 2024 treasurer’s report — mover: Bill; second: Michelle; outcome: approved (voice vote: unanimous).

- Approval of warrants certified for payment on Jan. 15, 2025 and Jan. 29, 2025 — mover: Theresa; second: Tom; outcome: approved (voice vote: unanimous).

- Adoption of revised Board of Education meeting dates (move March 24 meeting to March 25 to permit attendance at a district event) — mover: Michelle; second: Bill; outcome: approved (voice vote: unanimous).

- Approval to submit an APPR independent‑evaluator undue burden/hardship waiver to the New York State Education Department and authorize execution by the superintendent and board president — mover: Tom; second: Theresa; outcome: approved (voice vote: unanimous). The board’s presenter described this as an annual authorization allowing trained district administrators to perform required observations in lieu of hiring outside independent evaluators.

- Adoption of the Huntington Union Free School District calendar for 2025–26 (including two superintendents’ conference days before Labor Day and contingency days noted) — mover: Annie; second: Theresa; outcome: approved (voice vote: unanimous).

- Approval of CSC/CPSC submissions as presented — mover: Tom Kelly; second: not specified in transcript; outcome: approved (voice vote: unanimous).

- Approval of personnel schedules (schedules 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 16 and 22) including probationary appointments and retirements — mover: not specified in the transcript; outcome: approved (voice vote: unanimous). The board acknowledged the hiring of a new school psychologist (Taylor Collins) and a probationary special‑education appointment (Nicole Sekular), and noted multiple retirements scheduled to be honored later.

- Acceptance/recognition of donations listed in the business agenda, including materials pledged by student Christian Wandike for high‑school food‑pantry shelving and hand carts (Eagle Scout project) and a donation of photo printing paper to the high‑school art department (approximate value $500) — mover/second: not specified in the transcript; outcome: accepted (administrative acknowledgment recorded).

Procedural notes and missing details

Where the transcript did not record a second or explicitly name a mover, the article lists the information as “not specified” or leaves mover/second blank consistent with the meeting record. Every item above is recorded in the meeting transcript as approved by voice vote with the meeting’s recurring phrasing of “all in favor” and “that is everyone.”